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Confederate Veteran
BPULISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF
CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS
VOLUME XV
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Nashville, Tenn.
1907
INDEX— VOLUME XV
A Belle of the Fifties, Pen Portrait of 155
About Food and Sleep 439
A Britisher on the South 341
A Capture in Virginia. Thrilling Account of 120
Address by Senator Carmack 299
Address by Gen. H. C. King at Mount Hope Cemetery 494
Address to Veterans by R. E. Lee, Jr 297
A Friendship that Endures 321
Alabama, The 414
Alabama Monument at Shiloh 247
Alabamians at Vicksburg 121
Andersonville and Other War Prisons 107, 161
Andersonville and Major Wirz 14
Andersonville Prisoner, Report from an 57
Andersonville Prisoners. Honor for fid
Andersonville Prison Park. .Signboards 201
Andersonville, the Other Side at 57
Andrews' Raid 469
An Old Reb at Richmond 347
Appeal to Sons of Veterans 200
Armistead's Sword, Return of 255
Armistice on Kennesaw 537
Array of Battleships at Hampton Roads 245
Attorney of Jefferson Davis 359
Autobiography of Jefferson Davis 217
Barbee, Biography of Rev. J. D 1S7
Barger, Tribute to Billy 172
Bate, Gen. William B 114
Battlefield of Murfreesboro, Visit to 263
Battle of Atlanta. Explosion Before 569
Battle of Belmont, Mo 564
Battle of the Crater. Another Story of 167
Battle of Newmarket, Va 553
Battle of Sharpsburg, Md 507
Battle of Winchester, Va 411, 566
Beauvoir 101
Birthplace of Jefferson Davis 486
Blakely, Col. A. R 61
. Blue and Gray at Vicksburg 4 4n
Bowen. Death of Senator 37S
Brigadiers and Colonels 356
Brown, John, Story of Capture of 71
Cabell, Mrs. Katie, Marriage of 342
Calhoun Statue for Washington 46S
Camp Douglas. Hardships in 565
Captain Billy's Regiment 230
Capture of a Soldier 234'
Capture of the J. H. Miller 73
Career of the Merrimac '. 310
Cavalry Fight at Lexington, Tenn. 226
Centenary of Jefferson Davis 104
Centenary of General Lee's Birth 5,65
Characteristic Letter from a Soldier 235
Character of Confederates Considered 397
Charity Fund for Confederates 139
Christmas and Result of Volunteering 545
Churchill, Gen. T. J 122
Cole, William H 543
Combat at Loekridge's Mill 24
Commendation of the Veteran 471
Commission of Ben McCulloch 504
Company B, Twenty-Seventh Tennessee, Remnant of 216
Company L, Sixth Tennessee Infnatry 544
Conerly, Buxton R 506
Confederate Ammunition, First Supply of 256
Confederate Artillery Regiments 537, 410
Confederated Southern Memorial Association 203, 294
Confederate Memorial Association 151
Confederate Memorial Literary Society 346
Confederate Battle Flag, Origin of 70
Confederate Battle Flags in Albany, N. T 172
Confederate Cannon Used in the War 121
Confederate Cemetery at Chattanooga 232
Confederate Choirs 154,304, 407
Confederate Dates, Important 171
Confederate Day at the Dallas Fair 439
Confederate Flag, First, on the Atlantic 227
Confederate Flags in Maryland 119
Confederate Flag's in Tennesee Capitol 151
Confederate Flag in Unclaimed Baggage 31$
Confederate Generals Surviving IIS
Confederate Half Dollar 507
Confederate History in Memorials 474
Confederate Matters in Florida 55
Confederate Memorial Association of St. Louis 356
Confederate Memorial Day Dates 454
Confederate Memorial Day in Washington 302
Confederate Memorial Fountain for Helena, Mont 454
Confederate Monuments 344
Confederate Monument at Camp Chase 177
Confederate Monument at Columbia. S. C 127
Confederate Monument at Linden, Tex 267
Confederate Monument for St. Louis 319
Confederate Monuments and Memorials 177
Confederate Museum at Richmond 105
Confederate, Popular 61
Confederate Records in Washington 352
Confederate Sentiment, Typical 459
Confederate Shaft at Arlington 344
Confederate Soldiers of Tennessee 534
C. S. A. Generals Killed or Died of Wounds 230
Confederate States Navy 44!-'
Confederate War Paintings 330
Confederates Buried at Brunswick. Tenn : 14
Confederates Disliked Conscription 394
Confederates Dropping Out in Georgia 172
Confederates in Washington 344
Confederates of Arlington. Tenn 556
Conklin, Miss Grace L 286
Conscription Disliked by Confederates 394
Constitution at Jamestown 255
Controversy over Hood's Campaign 425
Copperheads in Illinois, Treatment of 113
Corcoran, W. W., Philanthropy of 345
Courage of a Georgian at Camp Douglas 389
Crater Battle. Another Story of 167
Cross of Honor 41
Crosses of Honor to Seattle Confederates 307
Cut Off Days and Nights in Swamps 361
Dare of Forrest's Men 501
Daring Deed of Scouts 549
Davis. Jefferson. Attorney of 359
Davis. Jefferson, Autobiography of 217
Davis, Jefferson. Birthplace of 486
Davis, Jefferson, Centenary of 104, 202
Davis, Jefferson, Home Association 437,534
Davis, Jefferson, Monument to 198, 299
Davis, Jefferson, on Lincoln's Death 366
Davis, Jefferson, Papers in Museum 61
Davis, Jefferson, Suit Worn When Captured 222,447
Davis, Jefferson. Where Captured 438
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, Post-Mortem Statement of 42
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, and Empress Eugenie 253
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, U. C. V. Tribute to 8
Davis, Samuel 458
Days and Nights Cut Off in Swamps 361
Death of Senator Bowen 378
Death of Col. C. D. Dreaux 307
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Death of Stuart 362
Decoration of Graves. First 360
Decoration Day, General 392
i teed of Federals in Virginia 120
Dixie Alter the' War 4.".6
I leRossel ( Correspondence 538
i ilbreU'8 Old Flag U6
Pouglas's Texas Battalion 211
I ireaux, Col. C. D., Death of 807
Editorials 296. 188, 538
Elghih Virglna Reunion at Leesburg 19
Endorsement for the Veteran 243
Escaping Prison ::7s
Enlistments for the War 360
Htheridge, Ma.i. W. H 4iin
Evans's Address, General Officers upon 157
Events, Humorous and Serious 135
Execution of Two Confederates 863
Experiences between Sharpshooters 1 70
Explosion before Battle "f Atlanta 569
Failure of si: i tehood nut Decree of God ::i> t
Falsr chaif;.' against General Lies 229
(federal Tribute to Confederates 3no
held, Rev. ir. M 138
Fifteen rears' Service Completed 633
Fight at Beverly, W. Va :::.7
Fight at Fort Wayne, Ind. T To
Fight at Winchester, Va 411
Bight between Glltner and Averiil 232
Fini nan's Florida Brigade Me
First Confederate Flag on the Atlantic. 227
First Confederate Georgia Reglmenl 567
First Decoration of Graves 360
First Ironclad Naval Engagement 426
First Beenllstments fur th,' War... 360
First Supply of Confederate Ammunition 209
Fitzgerald, Bishop, on the Old South 208
Blag in Washington Artillery Hall 468
I'll-. First Regiment, South Carolina Rifles 493
Flag of tlf First Texas Regiment 417
Flag of the Twenty-Fourth Mississippi (Original)
Florida Girl's Gift 158
Food anil Sleep 343, 439
Forrest's Men, I tare of r, 111
Forrest's Capture of Ingersoll 54
Forrest's Cavalry, Veterans of 208
Forrest's First Cavalry Fight 139
Finn si Mi .11 1 in 1. ni Movement 454
Forney, Ma.i. Gen, John il 1-
I'ul ttej ;il Manassas I
Fori 1 Delaware Prison 212
Forty-Fours, The 158
Fiatiin.ii Relations between Veterans 156
Fnak ni Lightning 360
Front Fori 1 'onelson to Camp Douglas ;:i4
From Hi. Other side ,66
ftahvel from Morgan's Home
Georgian at Camp Douglas 889, 462
Georgia Rangers in East Tennessee 264
Georgia Woman's War Experiences 560
Gettysburg, Soldiers of Both Armies at 14
Gettysburg, memorable Vision of 389
General Decoration Day 392
General Grade's Furlough 127
Gordon Picture lor Alal 569
Gordon Statue :'.n:
I Jim 411
Grand At mj ol the Republic
Gen. Tom 7n
Gunboat General Taylor Failed to Gel " 8]
Hampton Monument 134
H.11. iii. in President J. T
mi. Mrs L, G., in New York :'.::!'
li.ri.isni ni Ti cans i' Vlcksburg 211
II of Walthall's Misslsslppians 366
Historical Inaccuracies 284
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I Ustory nf tin- Laurel Brigade ■' 155
Hlstorj of Prince William Cavalry 353
iingg, Gen, Joseph L 379
Hoggard, 11. C 521
Hold the Fori 393
Holliday, ('apt. Thomas C 553
Home-Coming Week for Tennesseeans 376
Home for Gray and Blue 239
1 Conor between Soldiers in Service 539
Honor Greater than Riches 313
11 1's Brigade Association 230
Hood's Campaign Controversy 425
II.. mi's Tennessee Campaign 401-404
Horrors of the Battlefield 305
Houston. Tex., Monument Contributions 172
How Fori Gregg Was Defended 505
How Richmond Was Defended 557
Humorous Stories . 127
Immortal Six Hundred at Richmond 375
Important Confederate Dates 171
Important to Every Veteran 485
Incidents ni sharpsburg 380
Enquiries 33 ...419.546
Inquiry for Alabama soldier 4.-.T
Interesting Statement of Judge Robert Ould 4:.;.
Jackson Memorial, Virginia Camp Favors 461
Jamestown Exposition 426
Jamestown Exposition Commission 1 r, 2
Jamestown Exposition Company 91
Jamestown Exposition. Constitution at 255
Jamestown Exposition, Pageantry at 376
Jamestown Exposition Piers 1411
Jamestown Exposition, statistics az
Johnson, E. S .",21
Johnson. Gen. B. R.. Burial Place Of .ir.l
Johnson's Island Prisoners 496
Johnston, Joseph E.. Estimate of a Federal 2 I I
Jones, A. M 347
Jones's Raid into W.st Virginia z\\
Kearney, Gen. Phil, Who Killed 168,264
Kmii ni' Monuments to Erect 668
Last Agony of the Confederacj 4 v
Laurel Brigade, Story of the 155
Law. Mrs. S. C 4^7
LeCand, Capt. F. J. V 4i:i
■ , Miss Mary Custls, at Charleston 21:4
Lee. Gt-n. It. E 66.
Lee, Gen. R. E„ at Sharpsburg 411
Lee, Gen. R. E., Centenary of :■
Lee, Gen. R. E„ North's Estimate of 5,106
Lee, Gen. R. E.. Tribute to 103
Lee, Gen. R. B., Stlles's Tribute to 489
Lee, False Charge Ana in si 229
Lee's Home Life 399
Lee's Readiness to Lead His Men 546
Lewis, Gen. L. M 34t;.
Lewis, Meriwether, Remains of 4.".t;
Liberty In Fatigue March r.t^
Lincoln's Assassination and ("amp Fisk 17"
Lockrldge's Mill, Combat at 24
Longevltj "i 1 "..mi il. rate Colt is 169
Loudon Park Cemetery 364
Love, Capt 11 B I
Lowrey, Gen M. P 18
I. .0.1. W ''. 601
Mansfield BattU Park Association 491
Marking r Graves In the North 539
1 'a In 11 Muse 34J
Merrimac and Monitor at Jamestown 280
. Imac, Career of the 310
1 viand Line staff Officials
Maryland Confederates at First Manassas 12
McCulloch, H<n 504
McFerrin, John B.. D.D 309
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Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
McNaughton, Gallant Tom 499
McNeill in Virginia, With 408
Medical Officers Convention 244
Memorial Church at Shiloh 319
Memorial Hall tor Dallas 329
Memorial to Confederate Women 153, 319
Memorial to Poe 72
Memories of Virginia 369
Merit of the Veteran 168
Military Titles for Women 344
Mississippi College Rifles 412
Missouri Confederate Record 453
Model of Great Gun at Jamestown 330
Model of West Point Building at Jamestown 330
Monument at Austin, Ark 173
Monument at Batesville, Ark 106
Monument at Fayetteville, Tenn 26
Monument at Jefferson, Tex ." 396
Monument at Jonesville, S. C 492
Monument at Lewisburg, Tenn 399
Monument at Morgantown, Ky 282
Monument at Okolona, Miss 393
Monument at Pittsboro, N. C 504
Monument at Princeton, Ky 14
Monument at Trenton, Tenn 283
Monument at West Point, Miss 497
Monument for the South at Shiloh 319
Monument, State, at Shiloh 62, 247
Monument to Emma Sansom 13
Monument to General Hampton 134
Monument to Gen. Lloyd Tilghman 462
Monument to Gen. Kirby Smith 356
Monument to General McClellan 392
Monument to Sam Davis at Pulaski 20
Monuments, Kind to Erect 568
Monument to Jefferson Davis 299
Moore's Brigade 493
Morgan's Death, Cause of 237
Mortality in Southern Prisons 500
Mysterious Appeal from St. Joseph, Mo 534
Navy of the Confederate States 449
Negro and the South, The 367
Negro Problem, The 8
New Home of the Veteran 92
New South, About the Term 538
Nunnally Monument 564
Object Lesson in Journalism 296
Officers in the Two Armies 533
Old Blandford Church 553
Olden Days in Savannah and Phildelphia 81
On the Field of Honor ". 228
Origin of the Confederate Battle Flag 70
Original Flag, The Star-Spangled Banner 552
Ould, Judge Robert 455
Our Women and Sam Davis .....: 119
Owen, Col. Richard 202, 252
Page, Frank, Trainer of Traveler • • ■ • 548
Palmer, Dr. B. M 92
Parthenon, The 549
Partisan Estimates 438
Patriotism of Vicksburg Women 461
Patton, Ellen Graham 9
Pelham Promoted after Death 251
Pension Declined by Mrs. Jackson 56
Pensioners, United States 491
Perilous Undertaking of Two Brothers 308
Perils of Escape from Prison 223
Peter, Walter Gibson, Executed at Franklin 551
Philanthropy of W. W. Corcoran 345
Point Lookout Prison 400
Popular Confederate 61
Portrait of Mr. Davis for Beauvoir 170
Prince William Cavalry 353
Prisoners on Johnson's Island 495
Prisoner with Fleeing Federals 233
Prison Experience at Point Lookout 400
Prison Life at Fort Delaware 212
Prison Life, Experiences in Escaping 378
Quantrell, The Querrilla Chief 238
Quintard, Works of Bishop 346
Racial Integrity of the Negro 369, 522
Reception at Home of Gen. S. D. Lee 91
Recollections of a Confederate 231
Recollections of Johnson's Island 29
Record of a Confederate and a Senator 114
Reenlistments for the War 652
Remarkable Quartette, A 540
Reminiscences of the Confederacy 173, 395
Remnant of Company B, Twenty-Seventh Tenn. Infantry.. 216
Return of Bailie Peyton's Sword ; 230
Reunion Address 297
Reunion at Franklin 419
Reunion at Richmond 293
Reunion at Leesburg, Va., of the Eighth Virginia 19
Reunion at Shreveport 491
Reunion Experiences at Richmond 397
Reunion in Retrospect 343
Reunion of Companies 556
Reunion Preparations at Richmond 53
Reunion Programme 197
Reunion Rates 400
Reunion Results 397
Reunion Sponsors Considered 152
Reunions, Rules for 392
Rhea, Maj. James A., Career of 359
Ridpath's History 424
Rock Island Prison fill, 37S
Rough Riders 175
Rucker's Company 556
Rules for Confederate Reunions 392
Schofield, Gen. J. M 460
Sentiment Rather than Business 56
Seven Confederates of Arlington, Tenn 556
Seven Days' Fight before Richmond 285
Sharpsburg, Incidents of 380
Sharpshooters, Experiences between 170
Sharpshooters with Hood's Army 123
Sixth Tennessee Infantry, Company L 544
Siler, Capt. F. C 90
Silver Service for the Tennessee 82
Singleton, Bill, Got the Flag 308
Smoke Investigation by Uncle Sam 44
Society of the Army of the Tennsesee 535
Soldiers of Both Armies at Gettysburg 14
Southern Cross of Honor 41
Southern Mothers' Scholarship 351
South, The Great 136
Speech by Al. G. Fields 555
Sponsors, U. C. V 7, 152, 200, 239
Star from Gen. J. E. Johnston's Coat 234, 356
Statue of Pocahontas 279
Stoneman's Raid on Virginia Salt Works 234
Stories of War and Prison Life 547
Story of the Seven Days' Fight before Richmond 285
Supernumerary Confederate Officers 398
Surviving Confederate Generals 397
Sword of Gen. Garnett 230
Teaching Patriotism 233
Tennesseeans in Other Southern States 568
Tennessee, A Grave or a Free Home 508
Tennessee Confederate Soldiers 534
Tennessee Private in Virginia 507
Tennessee Room at the Confederate Museum 200
Terry's Texas Rangers 498
Texans at Vicksburg, Heroism of 211
Texas Confederates, Regiment of 375
The Alabama 414
The Great South 136
The New Constellation 390
The Women of Mosby's Confederacy 257
Thrash, Captain, and His Monument 210
Qoi)federat<? l/eterar),
Tigert. Bishop J. J 25
Trainer of Traveler, Frank Page 548
Treatment of Copperheads in Illinois 113
Treatment of Prisoners 60,462
Tribute of a Confederate to a Federal 543
Tribute to Mrs. Davis, U. C. V 8
Tribute to General Grant, A Virginian's 336
Tribute to General Wheeler and Mr. Davis 32
Tribute to Grade's Brigade 336
Tribute to Lee in Alabama 5
Tribute to the Work of the Veteran 303
Twentieth Mississippi Regiment 1 6!<
Tyler, Col. R. C 237
Typical Confederate Sentiment 459
U. C. V., Address by General Officers 149
U, C. V., Aggregate Number of Camps 186
U. C. V., Arkansas Division Officers 4:: 9
U. C. V. at Shreveport 45S
U. C. V. I (cad Camps in Texas Division 546
IT. C. V. Fort Worth Camp in Richmond 303
U. C. V., History Report 31 4
IT. C. V. in Montana 233
U. C. v., Letter to Virginia Division 102
U. C. V.. Mississippi Reunion 468
U. C. V., Missouri Division, Proceedings. . . 876
U. C. V., Mode] Camp at Morristown, Tenn 28
U. C. V., North Carolina Reunion 557
U. C. V., Officers of; Stonewall Camp 230
U. C. V., Report of Adjutant General Mickle 341
TJ. C. V., Reunion "f Northwest Division 4S5
U. C. V., Reunion of the Texas Division 375. 466
U. C. V., Reunion Programme 151
U. C. V., Tennessee Division 496
U. C. V., Trans-Mississippi Department 106
U. C. V., Tribute to Mrs. Davis S
U. C. V.. Virginia drand Camp 343
U. D. C, Annual Convention
U. D. C. at Covington 210
U. D. C. at Norfolk 536
U. D. C. at Omaha 285 ,
U. D. C. at Raymond. Miss 104
U. D. C. at the Peace Conference 247
U. D. C. Building at Jamestown 329
U. D. C. Convention at Gulf port 30
U. D. C. Day at Monteagle 377
U. D. C. Girls' Chapter 140
U. D. C. in Louisiana 394
U. D. C. in Montana 288
U. D. c. in Nebraska 1 80
U. D. O, John Hamee Chapter 492
U. D. C.i Mars land Daughters 60
U. D. C, Mrs. Henderson's Letter. 6, 63, 103, 156, 201, 245, 348. 440
U. D. C, Officers of Philadelphia Chapter 0]
U. D. ('.. Prize Pa pi i . i 'nl unil da I'niverslty 441
U. D. C, R. io. i Chapter, at Houston, Tex -I'.u
U. D. c., Robert Patton Chapter 246
U. D. c . State Officers 329
U. D. C, Tennessee Division 62, 153, 30]
I ' I i. C. Welcome to Mississippi 30
U. s. c. V, Confederation News 304
U. S. C. V . Heritage to Sons of Veterans 117
U. S. C. V. In Memphis 102
Valentine, Edward V 198
Van I (urn's Holly Springs Victory 229
Vktekax Approved 427
Veterans in Norfolk 2.",
Virginia Electoral Ticket 280
Walthall's Misslsalpplan's, Heroism of 365
a .ii Experiences, Thrilling and Varied 168
War Records Wanted 266
Wetherly, Sert Da tnascus, Grave of 265
Fellow in Need Did 267
What Confederate Mothers Have Done 69
whire Mr. d.i\ is Was Captured 438
White. Col, i:. V 168
Wilcox's Alabamians In Virginia 490
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Wins Honored by Tennesseeans 239
Wlrz Monument, Location of 17
Willi McNeill in Virginia 408
Woman's Monument Design 304
Wood, l tenry K 209
Wood, James 102
Writers of the South 1 r. . .
Yoinicist Living Confederate Soldier 266
ZollicofCer, Gen. P. K 28
POETRY.
Battle Ode 238
Confederate Anthem rain
C. S. A 362
Daughters of the Confederacy of St. Louis 319
Dear Old Georgia 379
Dixie 2:;r,
Echoes of the Confederacy 502
Porrest and I 63
From Sire to Son 457
Her Father's Uniform of Gray 156
I tome of the Soul 420
in the Gloaming 356
Jefferson Davis 304
1 1 33
Lee, R. El 222
Memorial Day 240
On the March :ul'
Our Southern Mothers 454
Reunited 172
Stonewall Jackson 489
The Confederate Dead 268
The Kiss from Tennessee 281
The Old Brigades in Gray 176
The Old Sword on the Wall ..II
The Rebel Yell 4 1s
The Standard Bearer 83
The Uniform of Gray 37 7
The Veterans 377
The Veteran's Parade June Frontispiece
Whai Texas Is 2S6
Women of the < 'on 1 1 ile 1.1 o\ 93
ILLUSTRATIONS
Alabama Mom nl al siiiloh 248
I tea 11 voir March Frontispiece
Bible Pierced by Bullet
Capitol Square, Richmond, Va 27:1
Castle Lock 9
Children Hauling Davis Statue Through Richmond, Va. ... 199
Confederate Cemeterj al Madison. Wis i89
Confederate Choir oi Portsmouth, Va 164
Confederate Flag In a Michigan Business Advertisement ,., 288
Confederate Half-Dollar 507
Confederate Monument at Austin, Ark
Confederate Monument at Fayettevllle, Tenn 26
Confedei ite Monument at Linden, Tex 26 7
derati Monui t in Hollywood 24::
Confederates in Washington August Fond
Convention Hall. Richmond, Va
C. S. Steamboat St. Mary
Decorate,! Reslden© al Newport News 366
Dedication "i Jefferson Davis Monument
Erecting Davis Statue 198
Falrvlew Church 433
Flag of the Washington artillery 468
1 en, .1 M November
Four G > is Famllj 220
Qatewaj to al Chattanooga 232
General Bucknei and Members of Committee 486
General Gordon and the Raccoon Roughs 213
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General Order Xo. 9 February Frontispiece
Gens. F. D. Grant and S. D. Lee at Vicksburg 535
Glimpses of Beativoir 101
Governor Cox and Staff at Jamestown 82
Grave of Colonel Rogers at Fort Robinette 245
Jefferson Davis Monument 295
Living Confederate Battle Flag at Richmond. .July Frontispiece
Love, H. B., and Family 496
Martin House, Headquarters of Black Horse Cavalry 25S
Members of Camp at Morristown 29
Merrimac in an Engagement 449
Methodist Publishing House Building January Fontispiece
Monument at Batesville, Ark 106
Monument at Jefferson, Tex - 396
Monument at Jonesville, S. C 492
Monument at Lewisburg, Tenn 399
Monument at Okolona. Miss 393
Monument at Pittsboro. N. C 504
Monument at West Point, Miss 497
Monument to Confederate Soldiers and Sailors, Richmond. . 197
Monument to R. E. Lee 200
Monument to Sam Davis. Pulaski, Tenn ' 20
Monument to Terry's Texas Rangers 49S
Nunnally Monument 564
Officers and Crew of the Tennessee 83
Piano Injured in the Battle of Murfreesboro 263
Reunion of Blue and Gray at Gettysburg 255
Rosehart 395
Scene on Kennesaw During an Engagement 459
Seven Confederates at Arlington, Tenn 557
Soldier's Record Certificate April Frontispiece
SI ua it Monument 294
Tablet on Bethel Church 4S7
The Forty-Fours 15s
The General September Frontispiece
The Merrimac in Action 312
The Parthenon 549
The Texas September Fontispiece
Thrash Monument 211
Type of Vessel Bearing Confederate Flag 450
Typical Scene in the Best South 212
U. S. Steamer Kearsarge 453
Veterans on the Way t" 1'iiv.ilii:^ m Gcu-dun Monument.... 302
View of Jamestown Exposition 376
View of Lands Owned by Father of Jefferson Davis 486
Wade Hampton Statue 134
Warwick. Country Residence of Frank Hume 89
Washington Inspecting the Flag ' 552
Way Down in Dixie December Frontispiece
Where President Davis Was Imprisoned 266
LAST
Abbott, Dr. J. M 133
Aiken, I. M 324
Akin, Judge J. W 519
Akin. Mrs. M. fle Verderey.618
Aldrieh. Ed 24"
Allen, J. G 327
Bailey, Capt. W. W 561
Baker, Mrs. A. S 517
Barger. W. G 181
Barron, Mrs. A. S S7
Beale. J. B 323
Beard. W. J 465
Belcher, G. W 328
Benson, J. M 323
Bethell, Capt. W. D 373
liiekerstaff, Maj. J. H . . . 269
Black, B. C 129
Blanding, Col. J. D 38
Blanton, F. B 370
Bleckley, L. E 241
Blocker, M. C 372
Bohon. J. E 327
Boon, T. M 511
ROLL.
Brewer, A. C 243
Brittingham, W. H 342
Biitton, W. A 180
Britton, W. A 270
Brodnax, Dr. J. G 372
Broughton, G. H .. 464
Brown, J. Tom 273
Brown, S. B 420
Brown, Dr. M. A 36
Brown, Capt. W. F 371
Buford, T. W 178
Bunn, Hon. B. H 517
Burgess, C. W 182
Burnett, Mrs. T. S 130
Burns, J. B 328
Buster, S. H 320
Butler, H. A 463
Campbell, M. C 128
Carlisle, Judge S. S 562
Carter, S. E 518
Caruthers. Robert ISO
e'lai'kson, J. N 40
Cleburne Camp 240
Cleveland. H. W 328
Clopton, M 518
Coleman, Daniel 326
Cone, W. C 179
Cooper,' Maj. S. C 39
Cooper, M. C 37
Corn, Dr. J. S 323
Craver, James P 36
Crawford, W. S 560
Crawley, A. B 513
Crayton. B. F 328
Cross, R. G 37
Crowder, W. J 181
Crump, J. M 321
Cummings, Mrs. M. E. . . . 423
Daffan. L. A 1S4
Davis, Mrs. C. P 274
Deen, Thomas J 371
Dennis, Henry 327
Diem. F. J 375
Diggs, C. W 240
Dinwiddie, James 464
DuBose, J. R 39
Dudley. Mrs. M. E 275
Duffle, M. M S7
Dulaney, R. H 88
Dunwoody, W. M ....321,465
Dyer, Virginia 131
Easley. S. L 463
Easterling. J. B 323
Eberhardt, R. P 320
Erskine, W. W 328
Erwin, S. E 325
Evans, H. C 273
Ewing, B. D 1S1
Fairfax. Dr. W. H 561
Farrell. Maj. P. W 40
Feamster, T. L 325
, Findley, J. W 37
Finley, John G 374
Fitzgerald Camp 240
Floyd, A. G 324
Flynt, H. A 320
Franklin. J. L 328
Fuller, C. H 421
Fulton. J. H 85
Garrett, R. E 323
Gleason, T. H 510
Godwin, C. W 242
Granbery. Bishop J. C. . . 270
Gray, Balys E 272
Green, V. J 465
Grigsby, M. C 327
Grimsley, Rev. S. N 320
Halbert. Dr. P. W 320
Hambleton. Thomas E . . . 270
Hancock, R. R 128
Hancock, Thomas E 275
Harris, C. C 1S2
Harris, W. W. S 129
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Morel, Maj. P. H 84,274
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Neill, Gen. Robert 183
Noe, F. R 241
Norman, Maj. M. J 519
Norton, N. B 465
Ogilvie, O. S 132
Osborne. L. B 270
Owen. W. L 323
Onanne, John M 128
Pace, C. R 129
Pafford, J. W 511
Patrick, S. V 322
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Perry. E. A 37
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Postell. Capt John W 268
Price. Charles B 515
Price, J. L 40
Priest, Eli T 842
Puckctt, David 36
Pugh, James L 184
Quarterman, A. S 371
Raiford, B. B 56S
Bawls, J. W 374
Rhea, \V. A 511
Richardson 374
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Riley, P. L 324
Rlne, John J 327
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Robinson. J. C 240
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Smith. P. R 371
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Dodge, Urn. c. M ... .460, 586
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Ind. News 392
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Martin, D. C 168
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Scott, J. J 344
Scott, J. M 37S
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Stinson. Dr. J. B 553
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Akin, Judge John W 519
Akin, Mrs. M. de Verdery. .518
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Gary, Miles 558
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Coleman, Daniel 326
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Cozby, Miss Martha 502
Crawford, W. S 560
Crayton. B. F 328
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Davidson, J. Wood 306
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Diem, F. J 374
Dinwiddie, James 464
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Duffle, M. M 87
Dyer, Virginia 131
Edwards, J. G 304
Erwin. John A 30>9
Erwin, W. J 308
Etheredge, Ma]. W. H. . . . 400
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Field, Al. G 555
Field, Dr. H. M 13S
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Fulmore, Mrs. Z. T 80
Garrett, R. E 323
Gaul, Gilbert 247
Gray, Balys E 273
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Gurley, Capt. F. B 54
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Hambleton, Thomas E . . 271
Hames. John 492
Harahan, J. T 137
Harris, Gen. N. H 505
Hayes, Miss Lucy White. 314
Hayes, Mrs. M. H. D 219
Hayes, William Davis . . . 302
Helms. John E 35
Hogg, Gen. J. L 379
Hoggard, H. C 521
Hogin, J. E 36
Holland, A. D 420
Hood, John M 272
Hume, Frank 89
Hunt. T. T 39
Jackson. Dr. George .... 466
James, Rev. A. A 493
Joel, J. A 182
Johnson, E. S 521
Johnson, Rev. John 275
Jones, Dr. J. J 77
King, George A 34
LeCand, F. J. V 419
Lee, Gen. R. E 222 .
Lee, R. E., Jr 297
Lewis, Gen. L. M 346
Lindsey, J. W 513
Lippman. Mrs. P. P 371
Logan. George W 562
Long. H. J 421
Long, Ma]. Lemuel 1S6
Lowrey, Gen. M. P 13
Lyon, Mrs. A. E 515
Lyon, Gen. H. B 561
Marchant, H. M 511
Martin, Rev. P. T 231
Maxwell, Mrs. R. E .... 179
McCabe, Bernard 422
McNaughton, Thomas B . 499
Mock, Miss L. Byrd 439
Murphree, T. M 88
Murphy, Anthony 470
Murray. J. A 657
Muse, Mrs. Katie Cabell. . 342
Neill. Col. Robert 183
Noe, Rev. F. R 241
Owen, Col. Richard 203
Ogilvie, Overton 133
Ozanne, John M 123
Pace, C. R 129
Page, Frank 548
Page, Capt. T. G 537
Patton, Ellen Graham 10
Patton, Thomas R 11
Pelham, Col. John 251
Phillips, B. F 490
Postell, Capt. John 268
Priest, Robert and Eli... 242
Pugh, Hon. James L . . . . 184
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Riggs, B. F 7 4
Riley, F. L 32I
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SchoHeld, J. M 461
Scott, Dr. Thomas J 514
Shannon, A. H 622
Shannon, A. M 84
Shannon. Dr. Harvey .... 132
Shannon, I. N 126
Sharp, Ma]. Sam 269
Siler, Capt. Frank 90
Slaughter, S. D 510
Smith, Mrs. Kirby 563
Stephens, A. A 32*
Stewart, Gen. A. P 54
Thrash, Capt. A. B 21(
Tigert, Bishop J. J 2
Todhunter, Col. R 391
Troendle, Mrs. T. R ..301,347
Valentine, E. V 198
VanZandt, K. M 466
Walker. Wilson B 264
Waller, Virginia Stuart . 294
Walthall, Gen. E. C 403
Washington. Elizabeth W. 297
Waterman. Mrs. Alice . . . 539
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Wirz, Ma]. Henry 15
Withers, R. E 512
Wood, H. E 454
Wood, James 102
Wood, William 537
Woodward, W. J 516
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i / \ PENARY OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE'S BIRTHDAY.
i Ifficial notice has been sent out by Gen. W. E. Mickle,
Adjutant General U. C. V., in regard to General Lee's hun-
dredth anniversary birthday which contains the following:
"The men and women of any country are made better citi-
zens by the contemplation of the glorious deeds of their an-
cestry, and I" us of the South, whose leaders possessed in a
marked degret all that makes men great, this is particularly
true. General Lee was such an ideal personification ; and,
whether considered a- a soldier, statesman, or Christian citi-
zen, whether viewed in the family and social life or in the
'fierce light that beats upon a throne,' he stands out possibly
the grandest character the world has ever produced; and no
On should be lost to induce the boys and girls of the
Southland to emulate his pure and holy life.
"Gen S 11 Lee therefore urges Department, Division, Bri-
gade, and Regimental Commanders of our glorious order to
-i. ih.it proper notice i- ^enl lo the various branches, begging
their hearty cooperation in these exercises. Me requests that
the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, tin United I >.m;;h
i the Confederacy, and the various Memorial Associa-
tions of the South all join with the Veterans in thus honoring
our beloved bene lie makes no suggestion as to the form of
tin services, but requests that they In- held on Saturday, Jan
uary 10. nw", ai twelve o'clock m . and that the hymns 'How
Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints of the lord' and 'For All the
Saints Who from Their Labors Rest' be usul. thus having
Simultaneous exercises wherever services maj be held."
TRIBUTl n> Gl \ R I III i\ ALABAMA
Mrs. J. C. Lee. \ ':. in of tin Confederated South-
ern Memorial Association, wrote a timely appeal to Governor
Jclks, of Alabama, in behalf of a worthj observance of the
centennial birthday anniversary of Gen, R, E Lee. and he
issued the following proclamation:
"In view of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Gen, Kol.i ii 1 Eee, it seems proper to me thai a proclama-
tion from this office looking to a suitable celebration of the
event would be appropriate and timely. General Lee was one
of tin In -i rounded characters in the world'- history. He
was an accomplished scholar, a Christian gentleman, an im-
genius No name perhaps in all the realms
i i reading offers a finer example for the emulation of our
youth than the nami of this modern and knightly person.
"Wherefore il is requested that all of the schools in the
State celebrate January Iij. 11*17. 111 -iuh a way as may be
ted by the management of such schools or ill a way
which may be suggested by the State Department of Educa
tion.
"It is further suggest' d that every Camp of Veterans and
every Camp of Sons ill the State arrange for a recognition
of the worth and sacrifice of this heroic soul. In ihi- move
menl the Camps, we know, will have the cordial sympathy and
assistance of the Daughters.
"Other Southern States which have not made Lee'- birth-
day a holiday, it is hoped, will follow a like course, and in
future these, together with those State- which ha1
declared it a legal holiday, will, a- near a- lbe\ can, ag 1
a similar plan for its general celebration in the South''
// I I IK OF THE V IK C. PRESIDENT.
BY MKS, LIZZIE GEORGE HENDERSON, GREENWOOD, MISS
I In pe it is not too late now to correct a good manj erroi
the l hapters are falling into. In lite first place, 1 1 til l" th
President of each Division a circular calling attention to the
change in rules regulating the Cross of Honor Several let-
ters have come to me recently from Mr- Gabbett, the former
Custodian, telling of the great number of orders which are
suit 10 her in-lead of to the Recorder of each Division, as thej
should be. Louisiana, whose Division President - lit circulars
io each of her Chapter- as -oon a- -be received the circular
from me. i-. I believe, the only Stale from which Mr-. Gab
bett has not received some orders You Division Presidents,
by attending to your duty of communicating all such things
1,, your Chapters, could save an infinite amount of trouble
and expense to the General Ordei Mr- Gabbett ha- been
ill almost evei sinct she wenl out of office, and ha- been
obliged lo employ the tune of a secretary to return thi -•
order- to the I 'hapters. with instructions that -hi is nol now
the Custodian. Stamp- must be provided bj the U. D 1 foi
all those unnecessary — if the Presidents of Divisions had
don, their dutj letters returning the orders to tin (hapters.
I hope this will all In- rectified before another datl arrives,
for many Chapters must now he disappointed about getting
the crosses for January 10. If we will all. each of us, d
duty in every instance, the new rules will enable the m w
Custodian to keep her office in beautiful condition Mr.
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Crank-haw, the maker of the Crosses, is now getting prices
on a better-made Cross, and I hope we may have them for the
next distribution. They need ti> be made better. I am sure,
and you will all be glad to hear of this change.
All the decisions rendered by the President General last
year were sustained by the Convention except the one that it
is unconstitutional for the U. D. C. as Divisions and Chap-
ters to contribute to any bin Confederate work. Unfortu-
nately 1 think the report of the committee on these decisions
was brought in so late that the President General did not
think she could take the time to defend her position except
to state that she had been sustained in that decision by-
two of the Supreme Judges of her State. Every argument
advanced against it was based on the expediency of the thing
— the best thing for Chapters in certain parts of the country —
and not on whether or not it was according to our constitu-
tion. Now I have been brought up with the greatest resp ct
for the constitution of anything to which I may belong, and
I believe that when our constitution is against our doing a
thing we should not do it, no matter how much the doing of
it might benefit our Chapters or Divisions. If it is not for
us to give to other than Confederate work, let us change our
constitution so that we can do so, and not do it regardli^ of
the constitution.
The Convention at Gulfport was the largest we have ever
had. This I speak of because it shows such a real interest
in the U. 1). C. work, as we know there was nothing specially
interesting in th;- way of scenes or places of interest except
the visit to Beauvoir. And while no part of the country
could have been gladder to have the U. D. C. with them than
Mississippians were, nor could any people know better bow
to give the United Daughters of the Confederacy a real warm
welcome than Mississippians gave us. still everybody did not
know- that until they had been to Gulfport, so that to me the
great number present is convincing proof of the real interest
in the work ; for when a woman leaves her home and family
for a trip like that, there is something sh; is deeply inter-
ested in In be attained by her going. Over four hundred
registered, and I have seen a great many who did not even
know there was a register, so that there must have been at
least live hundred Daughters present.
I call your attention, Chapter Presidents, to the pamphlet
which will be sent you within the next two weeks containing
the minutes of the Convention. Take the time to read it all
carefully. You have no idea how it will help you with your
work to keep up with the new rules, by-laws, and amendments
to the constitution passed at each Convention. I append to
(his a copy of the new rules regulating the bestowal of the
Cross. Keep this copy of the Veteran where you can lay
your hands on it easily, and follow these rules strictly, for
you will observe that no one has the right to lay them aside
or change them. I find that much confusion has been caused
recently because of the ignorance of the Chapters as to the
new rule requiring all orders for crosses to be with the Cus-
todian three weeks before date for presentation. On receipt
of the statement from one Division President that she did not
receive my circular till December 16, I looked up the dates
when they were sent. I returned from Gulfport on Novem-
ber 2i. Much correspondence had accumulated during my
twelve days' absence that had to be attended to immediately.
Two new officers I felt were needing some letters of sug-
gestions from me, the old' and new Custodians had to be
written to to arrange for the transfer of the work, so that
three or four days passed before T could see my way to writ-
ing the circular. It was then written and put in the hands of
the printers. In three days the copies were ready, and on
December i were sent by registered mail to the Corresponding
Secretary to be sent out. She receipted for them on Decem-
ber 4, and I am sure she sent them out not later than De-
cember 6, so they ought to have reached every Division
President three weeks before the date on which the orders
for crosses had to be with the Custodian. If they were later
than that, I am sure it was the fault of the mails. Anyway, I
got them to you just as soon as T could. Write to your Di-
vision President and get the name of the Recorder of Crosses
for your Division, and then send all of your communications
with regard to crosses to her. Ask her for any informa'ion
you want on the subject that you cannot find in the rules.
On the new leaf which we turn over to-morrow let us put
the first thing at the top, "I will be methodical, business-
like, and prompt about my U. D. C. work," and let us stick
to that resolution all this year and see with what strides we
go forward and how much easier the work will be for every-
body. If we would just do this one year, I am sure we would
never want to go back to the old way. It is now our parlia-
mentary authority, and the next Convention will be conducted
according to it. Help the presiding officer by becoming fa-
miliar with it by the time the Convention meets. We can
transact our business in half the time, and do it much more
intelligently and leisurely, if each Chapter will get one of
these books now and conduct its meetings from now on by it.
It really is a very interesting study, and will certainly pay
for all the trouble it will cost when you are in your first Con-
vention. And remember that you are not to memorize a lot
of rules just to get up and repeat them in a convention.
Memorize them and get the real meaning of them in your
mind', so that you may know what to do under any conditions
which may arise. And I would call your attention to this
one common mistake made by so many. When you wish to
kill a motion, don't move lo "lay it on the table." If it is
laid on the table, it can be taken off the table and brought
up for consideration at any meeting during the session. Move
to "indefinitely postpone it." That, if it passes, kills it. Go
to the Convention with pencil and paper, for the standing
rules require all principal motions to be written, and the pre-
siding officer isn't going to put a principal or main motion
which isn't written. It is almost impossible to get the min-
utes correct without the written motions.
I do want very much for us to get to be businesslike in our
ways about the work. I am going to ask each of you to help
this much : that you will conduct your part of the work in
such a manner. Try this one year; and if you are not in love
with it by that time, I will let you go your own way. Mr.
Cunningham has made it possible for me to be of real serv-
ice to all of you, I hope, this year by giving the year's sub-
scription to each Chapter with as many as ten members. I
will, whenever it is possible, have an article in it for you.
Not that I believe myself so much wiser than you are, but
I have had such an active U. D. C. life ever since I joined,
nearly nine years ago, and I have given so much thought
and time to it, that I am sure I can help the Chapters and
their Presidents in many ways.
Mrs. Henderson sends the revised rules on Crosses of
Honor, which appear on pages 41 and 42.
The Veteran will supply "Robert's Rules of Order" at the
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Chapter sending three new subscriptions with $3.
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ABOIL SPONSORS FOR U. C. V. REUNIONS.
A decided sensation occurred in the Gulfport Convention,
U. I). £, by an address of Mrs. Carrington Mason, of Mem-
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asking a conference on the subject discussed, and she had coi
n pondence with Gen. Stephen D. Lee, who supplied her
with li i^ official publication on th; subject at a time when
smaller cities, patriotic as the best, shrank from the inclina-
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When Mrs. Mason concluded her address and presented the
resolutions, there was animated spirit with nearly every State
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was not a negative vote.
The Associated Press report made a sensation over it, and
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The larger cities may feel that they can afford to ignore
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cessarj fi ir the V< 'nans.
Mrs, Mason's Plea wn im Resolutions.
Being myself a Confederate Veteran, I come into frequent
and sympathetic contact with the old soldiers of the sixties.
Formerly the Reunions formed a common source of pleasant
gossip, but of late the reply has been almost invariablj : "No,
I didn't go to the Reunion. Why should [? The CONFED
erate Veteran is used only as an advertisement to bring
.1 crowd I" a city, while all till comforts, pleasures, and at-
tentions .are bestowed on sponsors and maids of honor."
\l ill- close of the war many of the soldiers were still
young men; tiny had been deprived during four long years
of all tin pli i nies of soeial life. It was fitting that our peo-
ple should tender them the gayest and most cheerful greet
nigs But now they are old men; 1 1 u ■ > no longer grace the
ballroom and boudoir. The handclasp of an old comrade
or a Story of tent and field is more to them than all the
"pomp of circumstance." It is time that the hospitalities of
our Reunions should he modified 10 suit changed conditions.
I lie following is a resolution which was carried at the
Reunion held m Xw Orleans May _'j. 1903
"Whereas the increasing expenditures made by the cm
who have united the annual Reunion to he held in their citi s
have a tcudeiio i" deter other communities from tendering
invitation^ for the future sessions, and it has I. com< desirable
that some expression of opinion shall be made by this body;
thet efon be it
Vcd, That lh( Confederate Vil ran- give notice thai
tin \ will not expect from their future hosts the splendid and
lavish hospitalit) which has been poured out bj New Orleans
at this s;ssi,,u and heretofore by other cities. All provisions
which max he made for the entertainment of Veteran
he cheerfully accepted; hut in matters of decorations and c\
penditures not absoluulj essential, we urge the great virtue
of moderation"
General Lei said there was a g neral sentiment thai this
organization was growing top-htfavy, and that there- was too
much of the spectacular. They did not want to impose bur-
dens which would make cities hesitate to invite- them To ,<
suggestion from a Daughter of the Confederacy that the Re
union hosts no longer assume the care and expense attendant
on the office of sponsors and maids of honor, General I ei
replied: "Our women have built our monuments and cared
im- our destitute comrades, ami 11 would seem ungrateful 111
us not 10 show them every honor and courtesj " We appreci
ate the gallantry of the Southern gentlemen; we are its blessed
beneficiaries. True, we have cared for our surviving veterans
and we have built monuments to our dead heroes These
monumuits are not the gifts of rich men to a sued
soldiery; they are the widows' nines, our tribute to martyrs
But our hearts have gone with our treasure, and we 1
it a privilege in contribute in an\ waj to the comfort and
pleasure of our Veterans.
Of all 'he pei pie on the earth, the Southern girl is the most
blessed and favored, Her lather, mother, friends, sweet
hearts, all combim to make her life one long holiday, and
surely she will not begrudge the old soldier his one daj in
the year. It is said that Alexander the Great once visit d
Diogenes in his tub. IK- ashed the old philosopher: "What
can I do for you?" "Onlj stand out of my light." lie replied
Let us stand out of the light and let the world see our heroes -
not like blind Belisarius begging in the streets of Rome, hut
a- war scarred veterans making a triumphal journey through
the Streets of that city which for four long years they defended
with a skill and bravery that arc still the wonder of the world.
To tins cud I offer the following resolution;
"Whereas Confederate Reunions have been of late \. u
devoted more to the entertainment of sponsors and maid- of
honor than to that of Confederate Veterans, for whose benefit
they were inaugurated; and whereas it is the wish of the
I laughters of the Confederacy that every Confederate Vet-
eran shall have the privilege and opportunity of witnessing tht
unveiling of tin Jefferson Davis monument; and whereas the
citj of Richmond will he s, , ciowded on the occasion of the
unveiling of said monument as to tax to tin- uttermost the
hospitality of citizens; therefore he it
"Resolved, That the I laughters ,,f the Confederacy, in con
vention assembled at Gulfport, Miss., request the Confederate
Veterans to dispense- with the offices of sponsors and maids
of honor at the Richmond Reunion, and that entertainments
for that occasion he such as are adapted to the aged Confed-
erate Veterans."
These resolutions were adopted Willi great enthusiasm, and
Mi- Mason was thanked for bringing up the subject, present-
ing it s,, clearly, and for the resolutions. There was not a
dissenting vote, hut with one voice the emu ntion indorsed
the order A telegram was sent to Gen. Stephen 1). Lee ap-
pi ising linn of the action.
Since the foregoing proi edings correspondence has been
I nl with several Divisions of Veterans by General Lee, and
ihe inclination seems apparent to continue sponsors General
1 .e , however, has decided to appoint no sponsor in chief, aim
issued an order that Division and other sponsors ami
their mauls are to he entertained h\ their escorts. This
1.1,1.::.. General Lee gladly pays in response to the United
Daughters, whose great work for our common cause places
everj Southern patriot under obligations to them. The Vet-
eran approves the action of the I laughters. The spoils ,1 f, 1
tme gives greai advantage t>> •innisnr. and their maids of
1' nor, and the fact deters mam worth} lovely young women
n. .in .11 Miding Let lis try a change It will enable the
o do much in. re for our c imrades m need.
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Confederate l/eterai).
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building1, Nashville, Term.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ for Asso-
ciations throughout the South an- requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
PROBLEM OF THE NEGROES.
The Veteran has been silent on this most important ques-
tion; but every phase of it has been considered constantly
and diligently, especially from the standpoint of friendship for
that thriftless but most amiable race. Antagonisms exist as
they never did before, and the neglect of white people in be-
half of these issues has been greatly to their discredit. We
all like the old negroes, and those of the fast-decaying rem-
nant of ex-slaves are still faithful and loyal to the families
of their former masters. The same instincts are much more
prevalent among their offspring than is generally realized.
While the Associated Press flashes a horrible account of a
fiendish deed by one negro, ten thousand others are going
quietly about their business as law-abiding and worthy of con-
sideration as could be expected of them.
It seems that education has been a curse rather than a
blessing to them. The editor of the Veteran soon after at-
taining his majority, early after the close of the war, took
an active part in behalf of their education. He antagonized
some of his people as editor of a country newspaper in ad-
vocacy of public schools, which required that as good facilities
be given to the blacks as the whites. He attended a venerable
divine. President of the Davidson County School Board, who,
when the movement was quite unpopular, canvassed his native
county of Bedford in their behalf from purely benevolent
motives, making the one argument that all men should learn
to read the Bible. It seems, however, that when a negro
has learned to read he ceases to work, and his idleness begets
mischief, and often of the worst kind.
There is not sufficient cooperation of the two races. Be-
sides, many whites are not justly considerate of negroes.
White people should confer with the better classes of blacks
for the common good, and they should cooperate cordially.
The separate car laws are proper, and became a necessity
because of the insolent presumption of negroes. It was quite
the rule for them to string out the length of cars, so as to
compel whites to sit among them, and every act toward social
equality has proven a tendency to insolence. The negroes
made this isolation a necessity, and they may expect its per-
petuity. With these laws in force the whites should be very
considerate and see that no injustice is done the negroes.
Again, there is a sore lack of consideration for negroes in
conversations by white people. The negro is not to blame for
his color and not wholly so for his odor ; and, inasmuch as
we declare his inferiority, we should be diligent that justice
be done him. Often are remarks made in the presence of
negroes that instinctively create hatred not only toward those
who are inconsiderate but against the white race. Every
white person should be on guard to avoid giving offense in
this manner.
At the first annual dinner of the Alabama Society (of
one hundred and fifty members) in New York near Christ-
mas day the Hon. Seth Low, of that great city, was a special
guest. This race question was the theme of the evening, and
Mr. Low, with exquisite deference, suggested that the white
people of the South consider these unhappy disturbances a;
fairly as possible, looking at the situation from the standpoint
of the negro. The condition confronts us, and the sooner we
grapple it the better. White people intend to control, and
the negro will be the greater sufferer in the end for all dis-
turbances, so that both races should do all in their power for
the friendliest relations possible. Southern whites know the
negroes best, and they should do their best to restore helpful
relations.
No more mgroes should be admitted to the army, and the
amendment to the Constitution giving negroes the ballot
should be repealed. This ballot feature is the luring one in
social as well as political strife. In compelling the negro to
keep his place the highest instincts of life should be exercised
to treat him kindly and justly in every way.
The servant problem should be solved. Many white women
succeed in making earnest friendships with their servants,
and all goes well. There is a certain way of being kind to
servants which wins. Dignity must be maintained, and yet a
kindly consideration shown to the servant that commends tli ■ •
spirit of justice.
Let us confront the problem honestly. The negro did not
come among us of his own accord, and they can't all get away.
If proper tact were exercised, it would be quite sufficient.
Lit the white people of the South revive the old rule of kind-
ness, and never, anyhow in their presence, speak ill of the
negro race.
The following will be a timely hint as to a gift for all
seasons of the year : "In thinking of a Christmas present for
some Southern friends in the Far West, I have decided on
the Confederate Veteran as probably an acceptable one."
Important Addresses of U. D. C. Officials. — Mrs. A. L.
Dowdell, Recording Secretary, Opelika, Ala.; Mrs. L. II.
Raines, Custodian Cross of Honor, 408 Duffy Street. Savan-
nah, Ga. ; Mrs. L. Eustace Williams. Treasurer, Box 55.
Anchorage, Ky.
On June 6, 1864. Captain W'irz wrote calling attention to the
inferior quality of bread issued to the prisoners, saying that
one-sixth was husks and that it was bad for the prisoners.
He then begged that the commissary be required to have
it bolted or sifted before issuing. Pie explained "before
issuing" to save the loss of issue it would entail of the food
the prisoners needed so badly. This in behalf of the prisoners.
Official U. C. V. Tribute to Mrs. Davis. — From the of-
ficial General Orders, No. 57, U. C. V., New Orleans, the fol-
lowing statement is copied: "Mrs. Davis was such a part of
the people of this section, participating in their griefs and
sorrows and rejoicing in their prosperity and happiness, and
was for so many years intimately associated with them in
every way, that an extended notice is unnecessary and out of
place. She was in every sense of the South Southerr:, and her
earnest wish was to live and die among the people she loved
so well; and what she suffered that ill health compelled her
to take up her residence among strangers, far from her own
people, is known only to those who were intimate with her ;
and, though denied the pleasure of being with them in body,
she was ever present in spirit, and delighted in dwelling upon
the heroic deeds of our incomparable armies. As an author,
as a wife, as a mother, as a patriot, as a SOUTHERN WOM-
AN, she attained a high eminence in the estimation of the
world, and died, full of years and of honors, respected by all
and beloved bv all survivors of the Confederate armies"
Qo pf edera t<^ l/eterap.
ELLEN GRAHAM PATTON.
The olden-time aristocracy of Eastern Tennessee is grad-
ually fading from memory or notice. The decision of many
people in that seel inn to side with the Union in the sixties
caused a breach that is not yet fully healed, and the most ad-
vanced and forceful men of that section moved t" other parts
of the country. Atlanta seemed the best share of those who
could not live there in peace and safety after the war. Superb
stone residences erected a century or more ago are of the faith-
ful landmarks. An interesting story of family histories might
be given which would illustrate the claim of the highest aris-
tocracy of the best type, hut in connection with the purpose of
this article reference is made to the family of Graham. Annie
Kendrick Walker, in the Birmingham Age-Herald, February
21, 1904, gave an interesting story of Hayslope. a noted home
near Russellville, some twenty miles from Tazewell C. H.,
the home of Hugh Graham. Hayslope was presented by
Mr. Graham to Ins daughter. Louise, who became the wife of
Theophilus Rogan. This place was founded by Col. Thomas
Roddy, commissioned colonel through his gallant service in
the battle of King's Mountain. Colonel Roddy had an es
teemed Servant, "Marry." whom he bought from General
Marian and whom the General had captured from a British
officer. Colonel Roddy was a devout Baptist; and when he
said "grace" at meals, the dining room doors were thrown
open, so that the blessing sought was to benefit the servants
111 ilii kitchen as well as the family. The old home is still
standing and occupied by the widow of Mr. Rogan, whos
death occurred nol long after the celebration of their golden
wedding, early iii 11)04. Another daughter, Cornelia Graham,
married Mr. \Y, II. Patterson, of Philadelphia.
During the War between the States Hayslope became quite
noted by the presence of distinguished Southerners Father
CASTLE ROCK. TAZEWELL, 11 \\
Ryan celebrated mass there. It was occupied by General
Longstrcet when his corps was camped in that vicinity. G
erals Breckinridge's and Duke's commands fought in that
vicinity. After the battle near Bull's (lap, this house was
occupied as a hospital. It is said that a Major Fairfax, Fed-
eral, granted protection for the cows at Hayslope on condi-
tion that he he furnished a gallon of milk a day for his egg-
tlOgs The Federal General Bryan made his headquarters at
Hayslope. A pathetic story is told of a young Confederate
being executed there for desertion, because he went to see his
fatherless sisters without permission A pardon reached linn
the day after the young man's death.
Hugh Graham came to this country from Ireland during
its early days at the age of fourteen. lie was successful in
business, ,in,l married the daughter of Patrick Ncnny. a man
of a noted patriotic family. While both were quite young,
Hugh Graham and his future brother-in-law wen sent to
Richmond to buy slaves for tin- large estates of William
Graham and Patrick Nenny. The negroes "enlivened the
march from Richmond by their musical singing."
Hugh Graham was an intimate friend of Andrew Jackson
and of Sam Houston. He was ardent in literature while main-
taining his large business interests, and it was said of him that
be subscribed for more magazines and papers than any other
man in the United Stales; ,111,1, while a Presbyterian, there was
a room in his house known as the "Preacher's Room" for any
gospel minister who could accept his hospitality. His draughts
from the Pierian Spring made him a secessionist, and he was
independent. Once the Federals took away all of his prov-
ender, and. calling their attention to it. he said. "Why don't
you lake all of ni\ stock?" and they did. driving away forty
mules and other stock.
The Grahams were ever splendid soldiers through many
generations Castle Rock, Mr Graham's
home, was a noted place. Tin en
graving presented herewith will give an
idea of its extent, as well as show the
dilapidation that has come to it in recent
years. A battle was fought at la/ewell.
witnessed by Mr. Graham from the uppi I
windows of Castle Rock, and that night
1h gave his bam foi shelter to Ashby's
Cavalry. The next morning he called
early to greet his friends, hut was met
tt lib the rein. 11 k, "\\ e are 11, it your
boys, but Uncle Sam's," and soon the
house and grounds were occupied bj
bluecoats, who ransacked and plundered
to 'In n content. The splendid old resi
dence was erected about [837 b> \l.u
Hugh Graham, brothel of Win. Grab. 1111.
mentioned below Dilapidation 111.11 be
•mi in in, picture, rt large porch is en-
tirely gone, and yet for its time it mill
well have been called the "great bouse"
111 .larky terms. During the disasters
of a battle at Tazewell and subsequent
marauding parties through that section
it is quite remarkable that the residence
was not burned. It was in that house
that Ellen Graham was reared, and in it
sin bid after the Federals learned of her
scheme to liberate the prisoners — by pul-
11111; .1 Tile in a peach cobbler — until she
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made her escape in the garh of a servant. Other splendid
houses were built in that vicinity, notably a fine stone resi-
dence which is yet in good condition.
Miss Ellen Graham had recently come into possession of
an estate of about $50,000, her father having died, and con-
fiscation would have been
swift and complete if the
"Home Guards" ( ?) could
have gotten it in possession.
After reaching the house of
her sister in Philadelphia,
she was quite safe. She was
wooed and won by Mr.
Thomas R. Patton, who had
acquired a fortune by that
time. She lived only a few
years after, her death oc-
curring in 1868. Since that ELLEN GRAHAM patton.
sad event Mr. Patton has never opened his house for any
public entertainment, but has lived much in retirement. The
venerable gentleman maintains a zealous interest, however, in
public matters.
It is a coincidence worthy of note here that he and his friend,
Mr. William Woodside, also a successful merchant of Phila -
delphia, made the perilous journey to Richmond in the midst
of the war period, and so deported themselves as to carry
back to their Northern homes the God's blessing of President
Jefferson Davis. While it is believed that they contributed
liberally of their own funds to needy persons in the South,
there will hardly ever be any positive knowledge.
William Graham, the founder of a large estate about Taze-
well, procured special legislation during 1840 whereby he
could liberate some three hundred slaves. He bought a town-
ship in Ohio and gave it to them, providing temporary sub-
sistence as well, and gave his bond that they would not be a
burden to that State for three years.
Story of Miss Graham's Experience.
[From a most interesting paper read by J. W. Yoe, now
dead, before the Fred Ault Bivouac at Knoxville, Tenn., upon
"Reminiscences of the War."]
I recall a pleasant little episode that occurred near Tazewell,
and I will relate it to illustrate the times and the sympathy
that the true Southern women had for our soldiers.
The Federals were in possession of Cumberland Gap, and
had their pickets and scouting parties out as far as Tazewell,
in Claiborne County. Our company was .placed in the gap of
Waldron's Ridge, on my father's farm, south of Tazewell, on
the main road leading from Cumberland Gap to Morristown,
where it was supposed the Federals might wish to reach so
as to stop supplies, etc., from passing over the East Tennessee
and Virginia road. The Federal videttes were then in Taze-
well. The fences around the farms between our picket post
and Tazewell had either been burned or torn down in many
places, and roads or paths had been made through and around
the fields. On looking out one day we saw some one ap-
proaching our videttes through the bushes along one of these
paths. It turned out to be a negro boy riding a donkey and
carrying a huge hamper — all the horses were in the army —
and as he came into the road, the vidette brought his gun
to bear on the boy and called : "Halt !" The little negro's
teeth glistened and his eyes sparkled as he yelled : "Missus
Ellen sent me here wid dese things fur de picket." He was
told to advance, as we knew that nothing ever went from
Miss Ellen Graham to a soldier but something for their good
or comfort. The contents of the hamper consisted of a big
pot pie, three bottles of pure, homemade wine, a razor, strap,
shaving brush, and soap, two cakes of toilet soap, a comb and
brush, and a clothing brush.
Learning from the boy the position of the Union pickets
and guard, and knowing the country thoroughly, we concluded
to go and return thanks in person ; so we ate the pie, drank
the wine, shaved, washed our hands and faces and brushed
our clothes, and started for Ta well. We filed down the
ridge through the paths and bus! > a few at a time until we
reached a swale at the foot from which we could approach
the Union videttes a good part of the way under cover. This
we did cautiously until we exposed ourselves, when we raised
a yell, put spurs to our horses, and charged upon the Union
guard. The surprise was complete; they fled and stood not
on the order of their going. We chased them some distance
beyond the town, and then returned. Passing along the main
street, we saw a bevy of as beautiful ladies — Miss Graham
among them — standing on my father's porch as could be found
anywhere, who seemed to be not only pleased and happy but
amused; and on looking just in front of us, we found our
way blocked by yarn strings tied across the street. Recog-
nizing this as a friendly banter and invitation to stop, John
Brooks called a halt, and we gave a rousing cheer and broke
ranks, greeting all we knew and scattering around and aban-
doning ourselves to the enjoyment of the hour; and so keen
was the enjoyment that we lost sight of the fact that we were
practically within the enemies' lines and had out no pickets ;
but Miss Graham was more thoughtful of a soldier's duty than
we, for it was she who gave us notice that the enemy were re-
turning in force, and we rode out of town as the enemy rode in.
Whether she had stationed the colored boy on his donkey to
keep watch, I never knew, but she gave us notice in some
way. After we returned to the picket post and under the in-
fluence of the occasion, the pause struck John Brown, and he
got off what he called a little piece of jingle which we sang
around the camp fire that night to the tr.:ie of "Maryland,
My Maryland," by the aid of E. W. Crozier. I have been
able to recall a part of the words as follows :
"As we came riding down the street
In Tazewell Town,
A lovely band we Chanced to meet
In Tazewell Town ;
But they had thrown across the street
A blockade so very neat
That we remained until quite late
In Tazewell Town.
Miss Ellen Graham, who lives here
In Tazewell Town,
Was on this occasion there
In Tazewell Town —
She who with such a bounteous hand
Sends luncheon to our picket band
Who on post are called to stand. Hear,
Hear. Tazewell Town !"
Miss Graham was a bright example of the typical Southern
lady of that time. She was strong in her convictions, true
to her views of right, sympathetic, faithful, and determined in
doing that which she felt right and just, yet womanly in the
best and truest sense. No soldier ever met her but felt that
he was in the presence of a noble and pure woman, who dared
to follow her convictions. Her acts of kindness and charity
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were abundant, and the lives of many were brighter and hap-
pier because of her sympathy and help.
At another period there were some thirteen prisoners
(what might be called political prisoners) in jail at Tazewell
with a guard around the jail, among them a nephew and
friends of hers. She believed they were wrongfully im-
prisoned, and continuously supplied them with food and other
comforts until they finally escaped durir.g a heavy storm
which drove the guards under shelter. She was accused of
baking a loaf and putting in it tools which enabled the prison-
ers to escape, and she was forced to leave her home in those
troublesome times. She went to Philadelphia, and there met
and married Air Thomas R. Patton and died there.
Mr. Patton is the Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. In December.
1889, he presented the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania with a
check for twenty-five thousand dollars, a little later two other
payments, in the aggregate $100,000. stating in his address:
"I am conscious of a natural desire to benefit my race and
contribute to the necessities of the unfortunate, and especially
of m> brethren in the Freemasonry, their widows and orphans
In this connection I have a controlling solicitude to leave a
worthy memorial of sacred affection to the memory of my
lamented wife, Ellen H. Graham Patton." This noble charity
was accepted by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania as a sacred
trust, and it declared that the style of the fund shall be the
"Thomas R. Patton Memorial Charity Fund." and that it shall
be used as provided by its founder: "for the relief of the
poor but respectable widows of forty-five yiars of age and
over, and whose husbands were Master Masons in good stand-
ing in this Masonic jurisdiction within three years of death."
I take pleasure in presenting to the Bivouac the deed of gift
and by-laws governing this noble charity in memory of a pure
I NOMAS R. PATTON.
and noble woman. It has been said that Southern women
were fanatics— a mistaken conception of their character
They would not have been human if they had not sympathized
with their fathers, husbands, and brothers; but they were
true, noble, sympathetic, and dared to do what they deemed
right, and every true soldier, every brave and true man will
join in saying: "God bless them!"
Ellen H. Graham Pattern's memory has been lion.. red by her
husband because of his affection for her, and yet there is
something beautiful and poetic in the thought that, after the
mantle of peace covers a united country and the passions and
hates of the war have largely passed away, the widows of
some of those who wore the blue are now being aided and
helped through a fund dedicated and founded in memory of
one who respected and honored those who wore the gray
Truly "God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to per-
form." Ellen H. Graham Patton. "though dead, yet speaketh."
Philadelphia is said to have one of the finest Masonic tem-
ples in the world, and "Egyptian Hall" has been dedicated to
Thomas R. Patton's memory, an honor that has perhaps never
been conferred on a living Mason before; and thus the sol-
diers' friends of long ago are indissolubly connected with
Masonry, the good and beautiful for all time. You will
pardon this digression, and my only apology is that I never
know when t.. quit when I begin to talk of the women who
sympathized with and aided a soldier boj
An Escort of Miss Ellen Graham in Heb G
Capt. Thomas S. Gibson, Si., wrote from Gib Station,
Va., July _>. 1898, 1.. Mr. Joshua A Graham, a nephew of Mrs
Patton as follows :
"Dear Friend: In answer to your inquiries, 1 givi
statement of what your Aunt Ellen Graham did just after the
surrender of the Southern troops in 1865. My information
was from her own lips.
"Some of the Rebel boys after the surrender who were
citizens of Claiborne County and living near Tazewell, Tenn.,
were caught up bj the Federal authorities and placed in jail.
Of these parties were Tom and Fish Miller, Daniel Jones, and
others In the latter part of November, 1X05. I left the house
of II. C. T. Richmond on my way t.. Wythe County, Y.i . aftei
some stock 1 had sent there for safe-keeping. I told Mr
Richmond of my purpose to reach John McElroy's, eight
miles above Jonesville, that day, which I did. That night
about eleven or twelve- o'clock I heard a 'hell..' I recognized
the voice as that of H C. T. Richmond, who wished 1
the remainder of 1' . night. He was accompanied by Miss
Ellen Graham, who desired to go east with me. I soon
dressed mj elf, w< nl out, and assisted \l 1 < it aham 11
ing from her horse and mi escorting her to the house
"We starie.l quite early next morning, and on our way she
told me she was accused of furnishing tool ii her
friends in jail with which they made their escape The court
convened that week, and while in session a friend 0! hers came
down to where she and hi mother were living and informed
her that she had been indicted ami that the sheriff would
he down in a few minutes I., arrest h,-r. She tohl me that she
went int.. tiie e..ok loom, when a colored woman
ing, exchanged dn . - with the negress, taking the ci
woman's old black bonn 1. which she put on ami stepped out.
and, crossing the town creek, went to Mr Frank I lotld's, and
from there to Joseph Buis's, who furnished he'l a horse and
escort t.. II t' T Richmond's, and from Mr Richmond's to
Mr. McElroy's that night, as slated She told me that die fur-
the to,,|s with which the boys made their e tp
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"We went on out of Lee County, up through Scott County,
and through Russell County into Washington County, stop-
pin- at or near what was called the Seven Mile Ford Depot.
A l"Ug train came up shortly with many Confederate soldiers
on board. At the sight of these she became anxious lest some
one from Tazewell might be on the train hunting for her.
I told her there was no danger, and assisted her on the train.
There was but one lady on the train, who divided seats with
her. She was a Virginia lady who lived near to Bedford
C. H.. Ya., with whom, she wrote me, she stayed two weeks,
and from there she went to her sister's in Philadelphia.
"I found Miss Ellen Graham to be one of the strongest of
Rel>eU. true and unspotted t<> the cause of rebellion, and a
perfect lady. She told me of many things she did for the
poor Rebel soldiers, particulars of which I did not remember."
Thomas R. Patton's Masonic Record.
In connection with the magnificent memorial to Ellen
Graham Patton by her husband, Thomas R. Patton. of Phila-
delphia, at a cost of $100,000, his fraternity will appreciate
an account of his extraordinary Masonic relations. His degree
is Thirty-Third. He was Past Master of Union Lodge, No.
121 : Past Master of Excelsior Mark Lodge, No. 216; Past
Thrice Illustrious Grand' Master, Philadelphia Council, No. 11,
Royal Select Mason; Past High Priest of Oriental Chapter.
No. 183. Royal Arch Mason; Past Eminent Commander Ka-
dosh Commandery, No. 29, Knights Templar; Past Illustrious
Commander in Chief of Philadelphia Consistory, Lodge of
Perfection, Council of Princes of Jerusalem. Kilwinning Chap-
ter of Rose Croix; thirty-three years Treasurer of Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania; thirty-three years Treasurer of Grand
Commandery of Pennsylvania; Honorary Grand Master of
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania since 1902; Representative of
tin Grand Lodge of England. King Edward VII. Grand Mas-
ter : Representative of the Grand Commandery of Canada, and
many others.
MARYLAND CONFEDERATES AT FIRST MANASSAS.
Col. Winfield Peters has written for the Baltimore papers
an account of the 1st Maryland Infantry in the battle of
Manassas July 21. 1861. He quotes from the unsent mes-
sage by President Davis : "Indeed we were saved from a fatal
deft at at the first battle of Manassas only by the promptness
of Gen. E. Kirby Smith, who, acting without orders and mov-
ing by a change of direction, succeeded in reaching the battle-
field in time to avert a disaster."
He further states : ■
"Gen. Kirby Smith assumed command of the brigade under
Col. Arnold Elzey, of the 1st Maryland, which had come
over from the Valley of Virginia. Smith, knowing the des-
perate straits of the Confederates and the need of more troops,
awaited the arrival of the railroad train which brought Elzey's
Brigade and met them as they alighted. Anxiously seizing
upon the 1st Maryland, General Smith hurried that regiment
to the support of Jackson, who received that day his sobriquet
of 'Stonewall.'
"General Smith's brigade marched five miles at double-
quick step over roads deep with dust and under a broiling sun
within an hour. There was no water to slake the thirst, and
the physical exhaustion was almost complete. But the dust
clouds warned the enemy of approaching reinforcements. The
"dds against the Confederates had been heavy.
"The Maryland Regiment, keeping in the lead, first met and
charged the enemy, drove them from the left and rear of
Jackson, pushed steadily on, and fought until the 3d Tennes-
see Regiment caught up, when the two regiments promptly
made a sweeping charge which broke and put to flight the Fed-
eral line. At this point the 10th Virginia Regiment caught up
and aligned on the left of the 1st Maryland. A simultaneous
advance of the Confederate line, extending to the right, like-
wise broke and defeated the enemy, and then began that which
has become the famous Bull Run rout. Pursuing the flying foe
being a physical impossibility, the three regiments moved to
the Henry House plateau, wdiere the battle had raged for
hours, then followed the enemy until darkness overtook them,
when they returned to the main battlefield and slept on their
arms.
"In this and other battles in which the 1st Maryland made
bayonet charges six companies carried Mississippi rifles that
had no bayonets, but the remaining companies carried smooth-
bore Springfield muskets with bayonets. The riflemen were
taught to reverse their pieces and use them as clubs.
"President Davis arrived on the battlefield about the time
Smith's Brigade did. He first assisted in rallying troops on
Jackson's right flank ; then, learning of the splendid conduct
of the 1st Maryland, he rode over to them on Jackson's left
flank, saluted Colonel Elzey as 'General Elzey,' congratulated
him, then raised his hat to the regiment. General Beauregard
also promptly appeared and dubbed Elzey the Blucher of the
day, that general, as is known, having saved Wellington's
allied army at Waterloo. This was the sublimity of glorious
victory, with the Maryland line in the forefront. But Elzey's
Brigade was subordinate, of course, to Stonewall Jackson's
and Bee's victorious troops. General Bee, upon baptizing
Jackson and his Virginians as a 'stone wall.' fell, mortally
wounded.
"General Smith, leading the 1st Maryland, fell under the
first fire from the enemy with a terrible wound, supposed to
be mortal. Colonel Elzey, likewise mounted (keeping in the
saddle through the fight), was prompt to assume command in
Smith's place. Apprehending the desperate situation, Elzey
said to Maj. Bradley T. Johnson, 'This means for me six feet
of ground or a yellow sash' (worn only by general officers).
And so it transpired.
"Recovering from his dangerous wound, General Smith in
October returned to the army a major general commanding a
division, in which was General Elzey's brigade. A parade of
his division occurring soon afterwards, the Maryland Regi-
ment sent up a rousing cheer for Central Smith, who re-
sponded in a short speech, highly complimenting them, saying:
'I hope for the honor of leading you up Charles Street, Balti-
more.' Gen. Kirby Smith was shortly thereafter ordered to
the West, where he proved himself an able commander, and
was promoted to full general and given command of the army
in the Trans-Mississippi Department, retaining it until the
end of the war, being the last to surrender. He badly de-
feated the Federal army under General Banks in Louisiana,
mar the Red River, and thereafter found no occasion to fight
a great battle.
"It is conceded that a defeat at Manassas such as was
threatened the Confederates, in the then formative condition
of their army nearest Washington, with a preponderance of
untaught, untrained volunteers, would have resulted in the
abandonment of Richmond, the newly established seat of
government, and as a sequence the collapse of the gallant Con-
federacy. And as an indication of the treatment in store for
the defeated Confederates by their Northern conquerors, it
will be remembered that the Confederates captured at Ma-
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nassas thousands of manacles brought along by 'our friends
the enemy' for the entertainment of the so-called Rebels;
likewise the real spirit of the North was manifested during the
rrcniivirnriK.ii era. The glory of the Confederate armies and
people would not have been, hut instead the South would have
been as serfs to the intolerant, heretical North, with llie
negro in the saddle boasting that 'De while man am as good
as de cullud man ef lie 'have hissef.' "
Colonel Peters was a private in tin M Maryland Infantry
(Company II. Captain Murray's) in [861-62, and participated
in the Vallej and Manassas campaigns under General John-
ston That regiment was formed largely from the Isl Rifle
Regiment, Baltimore, Col. George Piters, Eather of Col, Win-
field Peters. Colonel Peters, senior, also served (be Confed-
eracy in charge of a department in the army, lie died August
jo, [865, from the effects of such service.
1-/ V 1/ IRK PERRIN LOWREY.
BY P. W. SHEARER, VICKSBURG, MISS.
Referring to an article in the CONFEDERATl VETERAN, I have
read with sincere pleasure the just tubule of Col. W. D.
Picket) to Brigadier General Lowrey, my beloved old chief.
["here wen two Mississippi brigadiers of the same name,
though spelled differently. One is (Jen. Robert Lowry,
twne since the war Governor of the State of Mississippi, and
now the honored Commander of our State Division. U. C.
V.: the other, Gen. Mark Perrin Low n y, to whom Colonel
Pickett 50 eloquently and gracefully refers. lie was a Bap
11-1 clergyman, whose unaffected piety, gentleness, and purity
of character won the affection of bis men. while bis coinage
and skill commanded their entire confidence. The writer,
who bad tb linn.ii ,,1 serving on bis staff for more than two
years, recalls many occasions w lien the dear old General at
suitable times on bard marches during active campaigns, as
,
well as when in quiet camps, called fte brigade together and
preached to us s,, earnestly, so hopefully that only eternity
may tell the effects of the wise counsel and the good example
of this brave Christian soldier.
I am glad to be able to tell Colonel Picked something of
the Subsequent life of this useful man. Soon after tin- war
be isiablisbed at Blue Mountain. Miss., a school foi
which is now one of the largest and most flourishing col-
leges for young ladies in tin- entire South, and is now con-
trolled by the General's sons ami daughters. The eldest son,
Rev. W. T. Lowrey, D.D., is President of the Mississippi Col-
lege at Clinton. Miss, ranking high as a preacher and an
educator. All of the sons are. as Colonel Pickett surmises,
"chips of the old block" in manliness and high character.
General Low rev passed to bis reward in 1885, leaving the
memory of a life of lofty virtue and high endeavor as ., 50]
dier and citizen that places him high on the roll ol her
M. I'. LOWREY.
MONUMENT TO EMMA SANSOM
VDDRESS In MRS, X. V HAMMAN, SECRETARY U. D. C, GADSDEN,
\i \ . to Forrest's veterans.
The Gadsden Chapter of United Daughters of the
federacy was organized by Mrs Vlto V. Lee, Sr., President,
in March. 1004 It has been ib. earnest desire of its mem-
bers since us incipiency to raise funds for .1 marble equestrian
statue of Gen. N. B. Forrest and Emma Sansom to be erected
on Broad Street. Gadsden, Ma. Tins monument is about com-
pleted, at a cost of thirtj five hundred dollars, and represents
ibis brave young girl mounted on the horse behind General
Forrest showing him the old ford as thej rode undei hoi
and shell to Black Creek after Streight's Federal cavalry bad
burned the bridge. By untiring efforts this Cbapti
cured by donations of our generous citizens, entertainments,
etc., the sum of one thousand dollars, and earnestly -nlicits
aid to complete the payments
The old homestead On the hillside above the lord, now
within the environs of Alabama City, is still here, a fast
decaying memorial of Emma Sansom. the girl heroine of the
War between tin States; while in far away Texas the sighing
winds of heaven are singing their sad requiem ovet the gravi
of one of the truest-hearted and bravest women of the Con-
Eederacy. But it 1- here near the home of her childh 1 and
young womanhood, beside the bright waters of the Coo
that the Gadsden Chapter of r l> 1" would erect a -bam
ing statue that will tell to generations in come our app
tion of one of our beautiful Southland's daughters, lb.
Emma Sansom; and as we honor her memory ill giving ibis
memorial, we perpetuate the name and honor the memory,
so dear in every Southerner, of that brave and matchless
cavalry leader. Gen \ P Forrest, who rode to victorj that
day in 180? guided In a tender woman's band.
Can anj mother teaching her children ibis true storj of the
War between the States withhold a donation t.. tins me
morial fund? Our noble, gra) haired veterans who, with
their wives, sons, and daughters, have gathered here will hear
this appeal and lend a helping hand Ml are earnestly re-
quested t" assi-t ns in tins laudable undertaking Monuments
1.. women are few m Ibis kind lei ibis beautiful stall
peal to tbe gallantry of our Southern brothers an<
-isiers all over the South. We Imp, foi a It
[Contributions may be st-ni I,. Mis X. A, llamuian. 1 01
responding Secretarj ..1 thi 1 D C Chapter, Gadsden. Ma
Ibe foregoing paper comes from l\ \ 1> Dunlap, Registrar.]
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SOLDIERS OF BOTH ARMIES AT GETTYSBURG.
On September 15-17. 1906, inclusive, there was a Reunion
at Gettysburg of the survivors of the Philadelphia Brigade,
composed f ihe 69th, 71st, 72d, and 106th Pennsylvania Regi-
ments, and of Pickett's Division. One of the happiest inci-
dents of this joint Reunion was the return of the sword of
the gallant Gen. Lewis A. Armistead, who fell mortally
wounded in-ide the enemy's lines, to the survivors of Pickett's
Division on the spot where Armistead fell. At this place is
a monument on which is carved :
"Here Gen. L. A. Armistead, C. S. A., fell mortally wounded.
The high-water mark of American valor."
The sword had been carefully kept, and the presentation
address was made by Joseph McCarroll, of the 72d Pennsyl-
vania Regiment, and the response was by Capt. Thomas D.
Jeffress. of the 56th Virginia Regiment, for Pickett's men.
Mr<. Pickett, the widow of General Pickett, was present, as
was also her son, Maj. George E. Pickett, U. S. A. There
was an immense crowd, and it was a lovely evening. Captain
Jeffress stood by the monument in full view of the audience
and spoke gracefully. Concluding a suitable address, he in-
troduced Mrs. Pickett, who was standing just behind him,
and she made a most appropriate address. The battlefield was
in full view, the hundreds of monuments and statues glitter-
ing in the golden sunshine. The Confederate uniform ap-
peared side by side with the blue, and the large concourse of
attentive old soldiers and spectators marked the memorable
occasion.
On the return from Gettysburg a meeting was held of the
men of Pickett's Division present, when the sword was re-
turned, and it was unanimously
"Resolved, That the sword and the small United States flag
accompanying it be placed in the Confederate Museum, Rich-
mond, Va., to be kept in perpetuity, unless claimed by some
descendant of Gen. Lewis A. Armistead."
Captain Jeffress. of Chase City, Maj. Henry A. Edmondson,
of Houston, and Col. C. T. Loehr, of Richmond (all of Vir-
ginia), complied with this commission on September 18, 1906.
Seventeen Confederates Buried at Brunswick, Tenn. —
During the war, the hospital at Memphis being too small to
accommodate all the sick soldiers, many of them were taken
care of by the patriotic citizens of Memphis and the adjacent
country. Some of Price's men were sent to the small village
of Shelby, now called Brunswick, about nineteen miles from
Memphis on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. They were
cared for in a church. Seventeen of them died and were
buried in the church graveyard. Recently Mr. Russell Jones,
an old Confederate veteran living in the vicinity, has at his
expense caused to be erected stones marking their graves.
Fifteen small stones with "C. S. A." carved thereon were put
at the head of fifteen graves. In the center of the plot a large
stone was erected with the following inscription on it : "This
plot contains the remains of seventeen soldiers of Price's
army. Names unknown. Removed from hospital in Mem-
phis in 1862, and died in a church that was converted into a
hospital near this spot." Mr. Jones is a member of Company
A, Uniformed Veterans of Memphis. He was a member of
Company I, 51st Tennessee Infantry, during the war, and was
paroled May 5, 1865. He takes great interest in anything per-
taining to the Confederate cause. Any one wishing to com-
municate with him in regard to the above can address him at
Brunswick, Tenn.
[The above is from W. B. Stewart, of Arlington. Tenn.]
PRINCETON, KY., WANTS A MONUMENT.
The Jim Pearce Camp, U. C. V., Princeton, Ky., has pub-
lished a letter, directed to "our comrades and friends and to
the advocates of the cause for which we strove four long years
to maintain," to which cordial response from comrades every-
where is solicited. Some opposition has been made to the
building of a Confederate monument in that community, but
the Veterans and Daughters are determined to have it. Con-
tributions will be thankfully received.
"In order to commemorate the cause we so much loved and
for which we fought, we take it to be a duty to leave to our
posterity something to perpetuate the remembrance of that
cause, and we think the erection of a standing monument in
one corner of our courthouse yard in Princeton, Ky., to the
memory of our Confederate dead will be the most impressive
and most lasting heritage that we can leave them. Our Camp
and Chapter being unable to perform alone this most sacred
duty, we feel and hope that our comrades and friends will not
think us presumptive when we ask others to assist Jim Pearce
Camp, U. C. V., and Tom Johnson Chapter, U. D. C, in the
accomplishment of this great undertaking. We make this ap-
peal because we cannot build this monument without aid.
Send subscriptions to T. J. Johnson, Princeton, Ky.
G. R. White, Commander;
T. J. Johnson, Adjutant J. P. C."
ANDERSONVILLE AND MAJ. HENRY WIRZ.
BY REV. JAMES H. m'nELLLY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
There are various so-called patriotic societies of men and
women through the North, and also various so-called his-
lorians of the War between the States writing from a North-
ern point of view, who have made and are still making the
effort to link the names of Anderspnville and Maj. Henry
Wirz in a bond with eternal infamy. They charge that Fed-
eral prisoners of war were deliberately starved to death or
died of disease contracted in a place which was chosen "be-
cause of its unhealthfulness," and that the terrible death rate
among the prisoners was due to the cold-blooded cruelty of
Major Wirz, the commandant. And so "the horrors of Ander-
sonville" and the "brutality of Wirz" are emphasized to North
ern prejudice, set forth with all the exaggerations that hatred
can suggest.
As soon after the war as possible Major Wirz was sent to
his death by a court organized to convict, and ever since his
name has been held up to execration as a fiend incarnate. A
calm, dispassionate study of the facts will show Major Wirz
a man of kindly heart, who did what he could for the prisoners
consistently with his duty to his country ; yet this man was
sacrificed to the malignant, vengeful spirit of a triumphant
fanaticism.
The true history of the exchange negotiations between tht
Federal and Confederate authorities will show that the Con-
federates made every honorable effort to secure a general ex-
change of prisoners; and when that failed, they sought to pro-
tect their prisoners from the hunger and disease incident to
our poverty of resources by negotiation with the Federal gov-
ernment. It will show, too, that the Union leaders deliberately
refused every offer made to them, however generous, and left
their own soldiers to sufferings and to death under conditions
which the Confederate government was helpless to remedy
unless it should abandon its cause and surrender its dearest
rights. And one, reading the history of the time, must be-
lieve that all this heartlessness on the part of the authorities
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at Washington was for the purpose of arousing and keeping
alive the war spirit "f the Northern people by holding up the
Southern people as monsters of cruelty.
General Grant, himself a magnanimous soldier, wrote Gen-
eral Butler Vugust t8, 1864, from City Point, Va.: "If we
commence a system of exchange which liberates all prisoners
when taken, we shall have to fight on until the whole South is
exterminated. If we hold those caught, they amount to no
more than dead men. At this particular time to release all
Rebel prisoners North would insure Sherman's defeat and
would compromise our safety here." What a humiliating con-
Cession !
But how did his government treat them? How much bet-
ter were the prisons at Rock Island, (amp Douglas, Elmira,
and other places than Andersonville? If the word of a mul-
titude .'i our men who weir prisoners is to be accepted, they,
in a land of plenty, when' food and clothing were abundant,
suffered the pangs of a hunger which welcomed a diet of rats
and dogs instead of moldy bread, wormy beans, ami rancid
bacon furnished in small dos 5, endured the severities of a
rigon.n 1 liiii.ii. in ..mi summei clothing, suffered the cruel-
1 cowardly guards, who shot down many of them in
cold blood
The horrors of those prisons are seldom revealed except as
they aie 1. >ld bj some "Id Confederate who endured and
vived. I'm the figures of the compai itive death rate in No
em ami Southern prisons compiled by Federal officers (.. ,
be neither explained 1101 revised away. Out of 220,000 Con-
federate -(.Idiers in Northern prisons, -'(1.5,36 died; out of 270.-
000 Federal soldiers in Southern prisons, 22,756 died — in the
Northern prisons over twelve per cent; in Southern prisons a
little over eight pi cent.
All this sad record might have been left to the page- ,.f -..m,
future historian as the story of an era of strife and passion to
be deplored and forgiven, but the United States government
has purchased land and inclosed a national pri-011 park and
M \ I ill NRY WIRZ.
i From tin hy Mrs. J. S.
placed monuments with inscriptions false and slanderous and
insulting to a brave people who are unable to protect them-
selves against such petty malice. 'Phis park is quite adjacent
to the United States National Cemetery, and Northern State5
have erected magnificent monuments therein.
The proposition of the Daughters of the Confederacy to
erect a monument to Major Wirz seems to have stirred the
indignation of the Grand Army of the Republic, and they pro-
test agam-t u a- an insult to the loyal sentiment of the North-
ern section of the Union
There is m the South a deep feeling thai the execution ol
Majoi Wii was an injustice perpetrated against an innocent
man. thai he was the victim of a spirit oi revenge, and that
the inscription- in Andersonville Prison Park which perpetu-
ate the injustice to the memory of Majoi \\ irz are believed
lo be false. It seems ucvci to occur to the Northern people
thai these inscriptions are an insult to the South.
Xo one objects to lie monuments scattered over the South
io honor the courage and devotion of the brave soldiers who
fought honestly against us; hut when a monument is made
simply a mean- of dishonoring our cause and slandering our
soldiers, then we can'l be expected to be quiet under the re
pi oach.
The Daughters of ihe Confederacy, noble guardians of tin
memories of the sixties, -lung by a sense of injustice done to
the name of one who suffered death and obloquy for the Con-
n derate caii-e. feel that the time has come to rescue bis name
from the undeserved odium which has been heaped upon it foi
more than a generation.
The charge which has been made and repeated in ever}
form i'i exaggeration 1- that Major Wirz willfully starved
Federal prisoners "f war to death and was guilty of tin
grossest brutality in the treatment of them. The facts are that
he was a physician of kind heart, who tried in every way to
relieve the severe conditions to which the prisoners were sub-
jected by re. 1-011 of the slender resources of our country. The
prisoners received the same ration that was issued to the
Confederate soldier in the field. It is true, the rations were
small. It could not be otherwise when the land from which
we drew our supplies was devastated by our enemies with the
confessed purpo 1 to starve us into submission, Our fields
were desolated, our crops destroyed, our stock wantonly
slaughtered, our mills and factories burned, medicines made
contraband, and our coasts blockaded. The effort was to shin
up heaven, earth, and sea against us General Sheridan could
boast that he left the fertile Valley of Virginia so bare that
,1 ,iow flying Over it would have to carry its rations. General
Minn, an could well report that on his much-glorified yet un
hindered "march to the sea" his braves destroyed one hundred
millions of dollar-' worth of property of the citizens of Geor
gia. lie said, "War is hell," and he did all he could to make
i 0. [The popular song. "Mar. lung through Georgia," glori-
fies (?) as terrible a record of vandalism as was perpetrated
l,\ \lva in the Low Countries. Yel Southerner- have nevct
protested against ibat song of praise to brutality.]
1 If course our soldiers' daily ration was small— little com
dodgers and a lull, pi ee of fat bacon, with sometimes a few
black-eyed peas ..1 beans or other vegetable. If it happened to
be beef issued to us, u was so pool that it was about equal to
of twine— it was so string Y.t small and poor as it
was, wi managed to march and 1.. light on it. We didn't grow
fat. but we kept up our spirits.
I 1 me give -oiiie of my personal experiences, which were
-hand by my comrades. For the last year of the war I sel-
L6
Qor?federat^ tfeterai)
dom cooked my portion of bacon, for I couldn't afford to lose
a drop of the g.ease; so I ate it raw. Sometimes we fried
(jut the grease and crumbled up a dodger 01 two of bread in it;
and then, pouring in some water, we boiled it until the bread
was soft; and this, with the bacon crackling, made an appeti-
zing mess. We called it "cush," but the more fastidious called
it "puppy teed." It is true that three little corn dodgers and
a piece of bacon one-quarter to half a pound isn't a very
luxurious menu, but a prisoner with any genius might devise
a good deal of variety out of it.
In the campaign into Tennessee under General Hood in
1864 we often found parched corn a substitute for bread: and
meat was so scarce that in my mess each of us kept his piece
of bacon to boil on successive days as "seasoning" for the
black-eyed peas which we gathered from the fields we passed.
1 remember that my piece, from repeated boilings, became as
black as soot ; and when 1 finally ate it, I might as well have
swallowed my dish rag. Twice during the war I was literally
three days and nights without a bite to eat: once when Sher-
man came out through Mississippi and burned Meridian; again
on the retreat of Hood's army from Tennessee in December,
1864. On both occasions the country through which we passed
had been so devasiated that there was nothing left for us. 1
was in the rear guard in the retreat from Tennessee, and at
Pulaski three days' rations of meat and bacon were issued
to us. Just as we had finished cooking our bread and had
eaten our supper a band of Federal prisoners were halted by
their guard by our bivouac fires. They were captured the day
before, and had eaten nothing for thirty hours. As they asked
US for food, I proposed to my comrades that we give them our
rations, to which all heartily agreed. 1 told our men that we
could get enough to eat from our own people as we went on
tn the Tennessee River; but we were so hard pressed and the
country along our line of march was so bare that it was
seventy-two hours before we got a bite to eat. When we got
across the river, three days' rations were issued to us of beef
and corn bread. I remember that I ate all of mine at one meal.
This cry of the Confederate authorities starving prisoners
is a falsehood manufactured for a purpose. Prisoners were
fed as well as our soldiers were, and our government did the
best it could while our country was harassed by an enemy
who carried on war by reducing even women and children to
starvation and destroying the very sources of our food supply.
When General Lee went into Pennsylvania to the fatal field
of Gettysburg, he scrupulously protected private property. But
parts of North Mississippi, North Alabama, Georgia, and
South Carolina were given up to destruction by the Union
armies; and were left with only homes in ruins, solitary chim-
neys standing gaunt and bare, fenceless fields, deserted cabins,
the silence of death marking the path of the invader. Burke's
celebrated description of the desolation wrought by Hyder Ali
in the Carnatic. when he descended on that devoted land like
a cyclone of wrath, was reillustrated in parts of the South
after they had been visited by some of the Federal troops.
It surely comes with poor grace from those who wrought this
ruin to object to any effort the Southern people may make to
correct the slanders which have been current against them for
more than a generation, and especially to repel those slanders
which have been carved in stone to perpetuate the falsehood.
One of the worst features of this persistent defaming of
Major Wirz is the inscription over a spring which is inside
the stockade and which has been flowing for centuries. It is
called the "Providence Spring," and this fable is inscribed as
an explanation of the name : "The prisoners' cry of thirst
rang up to hecven. God heard it. and with his thunder cleft
the earth and pound his sweet water rushing here." This
blasphemous attempt to make the Almighty a parly to a false
and malignant charge can be palliated only on the plea of an
ignorance which will accept any statement to the discredit of
a foe. There is great profession of reconciliation between the
sections ; but the idea seems to be that we must quietly accept
the judgment of the North that we were wrong, and that we
must not offend the sensibilities of our concmerors in our
monuments to our dead. Yet the South is covered all over
with monuments to those who invaded her, and she has uttered
no protest nor cherished any feeling of resentment.
We of the South are constantly charged with still feeling
the bitterness of the war and being narrow and provincial,
while the North has magnanimously forgotten and forgiven
the past. But when a test comes up like this proposal of a
monument to Major Wirz. then the spirit of sectional hatred
is manifest in the North. I trust that the monument will be
erected.
Other Orders to Devastate from General Grant.
City Point, July 14. 1864.
Major General Halleck: If the enemy has left Maryland, as
I suppose they have, we should have upon his heels veterans,
militiamen, men on horseback, and everything that can be got
to follow to eat out Virginia clear and clean as far as they go,
so that crows flying over it for the balance of this season will
have to carry their provisions with them.
U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General.
City Point, July 15, 1864.
Major General Halleek: If Hunter cannot get to Gordons-
ville and Charlottesville to cut the railroad, he should make all
the Valley south of the Baltimore and Ohio road a desert as
high up as possible. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General.
Headquarters in the Field, Monacacy
Bridge, Md., August 5. 1864.
Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley,
it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy
to return. Take all provisions and stock wanted for the use
of your command, and such as cannot be used destroy.
U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General.
City Point, Va.. Any 26. 1S64.
Major General Sheridan. Halltown, Va.: If the war is to
last another year, we want the Shenandoah Valley to remain
a barren waste. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General.
Headquarters Middle Military Division.
Harrisonburg, Sept. 2X. [864.
Brig. Gen. W. Merrit. Commanding First Cavalry Division:
Destroy all grain and forage. You can drive oflL"*' kni
stock and otherwise carry out the instv its' of Lieutenant
General Grant, an extract of which is sent you and which
means: "Leave the }£alley a barren waste"
James W. Forsythe,
Lieut. Col. and Chief of Staff to Maj. Gen. Sheridan.
Harrisonburg. Sept. 29. [864.
Lieutenant General Grant. City L'oint: Torbett retiring by-
way of Staunton, destroying according to your original instruc-
tions to me. P. H. Sheridan. Major General.
City Point, Nov. 5, 1864.
Major General Sheridan. Cedar Creel:. Va.: So long as the
war lasts they must be prevented from raising another crop
both there and as high up the valley as we control.
U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General.
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LOCATION OF THE WIRZ MONUMENT.
The twelfth annual convention of the Georgia Division, U.
D. C, concluded its sessions at Americus on November 2.
The next convention is in be held in Augusta. This Americus
meeting is said to have been the largest held for years.
Mis. John E. Donalson, of Bainbridge. formerly Mrs. Loulie
M. Gordon, of Atlanta, introduced a resolution to reconsider
1 lie decision of the convention at the Thursday night session
upon the location of the Wirz monument, which, by a close
vote-, was to have been located in Americus. Mrs. Donalson
urged patriotic women of the South to place the monument at
its rightful place, Vndersonville. Her resolution was adopted,
and the location of the shaft will be d finitely announced at
the next meeting of the convention
Colonel Donalson made a patriotic address and paid a beau-
tiful tribute to ('apt. Henry Wirz. lie likewise thought the
monument should be placed at Andersonville amid the scene
ol I iaptain Wirz's labors and sufferings for the cause he loved.
While 1I1 above is reported, a succeeding paragraph states
that the question of location is still an open one. and will be
determined at the Augusta meeting next year.
In a personal letter Mrs. Donalson referred to (bis subject
as follows: "You see even in Americus I had to express my
opposition to having the Wirz monument there or anywhere
exc pi Andersonville. If we wish to honor Captain Wirz as
a martyr, we must bravely place the shaft to his memory
where it belongs; and if we wish to make history, we will
place it at Andersonville, is my view of it. If we place the
monument elsewhere than a< Andersonville, it seems to me
that we do so fearing vandalism that would reflect upon the
North, and it would also seem that we too are fearful. If we
haven't the right spirit about the monument, we shouldn't
have it at all; and if we build it. we should not fiar to have
it where it belongs! I honor the North for placing the monu-
ments to their heroes where they feel that they should have
them, and they will honor us more for doing the same. The
right place to put the monument is the question after deciding
thai it is right to have it at all. no matter what any section
of the country may think."
Rev. J. P Wardlaw, pastor of the First Methodist Church.
ked tor an expression of opinion. Dr. Wardlaw argued
that the location of the Wirz monument at Andersonville
would forever create a wrathful feeling against those who
erected it, and that it could almost be counted on as a cer-
tainly that every year at the Federal memorial exercises there
speeches would be made that would engender strife and open
old wounds long since healed. The VETERAN concurs in the
views of Mr. Wardlaw It would rarely ever be s, en there
in sympathizing friends
"On Monday next the committee of tin- Union War Prison-
ers' Association will have an interview with the President
concerning the proposed erection of a grand national monu
incut to 1 lie memory of the thirty-five thousand prisoners who
died in Southern prisons during the war The Association
contemplates asking from Congress the grant of a public
Square on Pennsylvania Avenue on which lo eieel the pro-
posed monument."
Such is the extract we cull from a Radical sheet Here
1- tin- exciting falsehood that thirtj five thousand prisoners
• lied in "Southern prisons during the war" What is the of-
ficial evidence thai we have, a- laid before the country, of a
i.iei ih.it we now assert? Ii is this: Surgeon General Barnes,
of the United States army and W:o Office, year before last
made a full report on tin- subject, showing these Startling
I**
statistics: that from first to last during the war the Confed-
erates captured of Union soldiers and held in Southern prisons
in round numbers 270.000 men. and that the Unionists cap-
tured 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 six thousand more men died from
alleged ill usage, exposure, and deprivation than died fi
the same causes in Southern prisons. It is a striking fact
in this regard that the average percentage oi mortality in
Northern pri 0111 was greatei because Southern pri onei wei
mostly t.iken toward the close of the war. and were therefore
the shortest time in confinement 1 '.in who is there now in the
land thai does not know, if General Butler 1- to he believed
ih.it General Grant and Edwin Stanton are dn-eetly personally
responsible1 in large pari for the deaths of Union men in
Southern prisons, and particularly for most of the suffering
and harrowing misery at Andersonville?
General Butler has Mated on the floor of Congress that, in
view of all and .\ m official responsibility attaching to bis
position as a Repn entative, a well as in view of ever] n
sponsibility attaching to his assertion as a man, alter he had
arranged with the Confederate authorities tor the exchangi
of the Union prisoners upon the fairest — indeed, upon the mosl
exacting Union terms, the whole arrangement was deflated
by the direct interposi! ion of General Grant and Mr Stanton
upon the ground that "the exchange would give to Gen ral
Lee thirty thousand fresh troops," which, it is plain thej
thought, would hazard the safely of Grant's army upon the
Petersburg line, as indeed it would have been, though not
probably with much prospect of ultimate success. Vet tin besl
military officers of the South only desired, so they say, one
additional full army corps at the back of Lie to have cut in
two Grant's great army, and thus prolonged the war in-
definitely.
We thus cut the head of this systematic Radical Hydra ofl
again, as we have repeatedly don, heretofore.
In connection with the well known fact of the cold-blooded
neglect of Secretary Stanton and General Grant to send ves-
sels to carry off Andersonville prisoners, as desired by the
Rebel authorities, without stipulation of any sort as to ex-
change, and their refusal also to provide medicines for them,
as also asked by General Ould at Richmond, it must be borne
in mind that a resolution which was introduced in Congress
to ascertain officially as to facts of deprivation and suffering
by Rebels in Northern prisons was deliberately voted down
\\ c would simply say to the rancorous and revengi fid eh-
ment of politicians that infest the Executive presence and
promise to raise monuments and do one and several other
things to prolong tin- hates of tin- war. provided that they can
get office, that a vast number of the very best men in the Re
publican party are disgusted at their efforts to tear open the
wounds that come of civil war They say: "Lei us have
peace "
I hereby certify that tin- is ,1 true copy of the editorial in
the National Intelligencer of June 2. iN(k>, page 2, column 1.
G. T. Ritchie, Library of Congress.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of Sep
tember, toot Hknry E. Tripp Votary Public, D 1
Hon. T. C. Catchings, member of Congress, wrote from
Vickshurg 10 Gen S 1> Lee on Septembei 10. [904: "I have
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yours of the 17th in St.. inclosing copy of a letter to you from
General Boynton, which I return herewith. ... It does
seem rather late in the day for a denial to be made of General
Barnes's report. We have all been under the impression for
all these years that such a report was made ; and as for my-
self, I do not doubt that it in fact was made."
Dr. J. William Jones, Chaplain General U. C. V., wrote
from Richmond, Va.. November 18, 1902, to Gen. Stephen D.
Lee at Columbus, Miss. :
"In reference to General Barnes's report on the prison ques-
tion, I received a similar letter from Dr. Lewis.
"The simple facts are :
"1. The National Intelligencer sometime in 1866, I think,
first collated the figures given in General Barnes's report and
those given in Stanton's report, Barnes giving the number of
prisoners and Stanton the number of deaths on each side, and
showed by the figures that nearly four per cent more Confed-
erates died in Federal prisons than of Federals in Confed-
erate prisons. Now at the time this editorial was written
Surgeon General Barnes was living, and, inasmuch as the
article was widely copied and excited at the time general com-
ment, it seems to me a moral impossibility that the figures
would have permitted to pass if Barnes had written no such
report and the figures were not accurately given. The fact
that there was no denial at the time seems to me conclusive
proof that there was such a report.
"2. In the great debate between Ben Hill and Blaine in
January or February, 1876, Ben Hill used these figures with
terrific effect, calling upon Blaine to send to the library, get
the reports, and correct his figures if they were not true.
Blaine had twenty-four hours in which to prepare his re-
ply, with all the clerks in the departments at his beck and
call, and yet he did not dare to deny the accuracy of these
figures, and only ventured an attempt to explain them away
by the weak statement that in the last year of the war the
Confederate prisoners came into the hands of their captors
so emaciated from hunger and want that they died from the
effects of the condition in which they were captured in spite
of the kind treatment which they received. Of course this
cut up by the roots his whole argument; for if the Confed-
erates could take no better care of their own soldiers, how
could they be expected to care for their prisoners?
"3. In the discussion of the prison question in 'Southern
Historical Papers' for March and April, 1876, I used these
figures. I had a proof sheet of a summary of what I claimed
to prove struck off, and with a personal letter sent to the
leading newspapers and magazines at the North, urging them
to correct any point which was not accurately given. No
paper, so far as I have ever heard, ventured to reply or to
question the accuracy of the figures of Barnes and Stanton.
The Nation did after twelve months make a quasi reply, but
did not deny the accuracy of these figures. I copied in the
'Southern Historical Society Papers' the whole of the Na-
tion's reply, and offered to give them line for line if they
would reciprocate in a full discussion of the matter. The Na-
tion replied that 'want of space compelled them to decline the
courteous offer.' I rejoined that I must take leave to be-
lieve that 'it was not so much want of space as it was lack
of facts and figures to put into the space,' and thus the 'inci-
dent closed.'
"4. As you say in your letter to General Gordon, both Mr.
Davis and Mr. Stevens used these figures in their books. I
used them in my 'Reminiscences of Lee,' published in 1874,
and again in my 'School History of the United States.' The
first time they were ever denied, so far as I am aware,' was
when Dr. H. L. Wayland reviewed my history in the New
York Independent and denied the percentage I gave on the
authority of the then surgeon general of the United States;
but I came back at him with the figures, and Dr. E. Benjamin
Andrews, then President of Brown University, wrote me that
my reply was 'perfectly conclusive.'
"5. After allowing these figures to go uncorrected and un-
answered through all of these years, it is too late now for
them to attempt to 'cook up' other figures ; and if General
Barnes's report is not in the surgeon general's office, it is
simply because it has been stolen or destroyed."
President Davis on Treatment of Prisoners.
Extract from a letter of Mr. Davis to Hon. James Lyons,
dated New Orleans, January 27, 1876: "To the bold allega-
tions of ill treatment of prisoners by our side and 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 Department that, though we had
sixty thousand more Federal prisoners than they had of Con-
federates, six thousand more of Confederates died in North-
ern prisons than died of Federals in Southern prisons; sec-
ondly, that 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 granted, but only on con-
dition that the cotton should be sent to New York and the
supplies be bought there. General Beale, now of St. Louis.
was authorized to purchase and distribute the needful --up
plies."
Alexander H. Stephens.
From "War between the States," Vol. II., pp. 507-610, by
Alexander H. Stephens: "It now appears that a larger num-
ber of Confederates died in Northern prisons than of Federals
in Southern prisons or stockades. The report of Mr. Stanton,
as Secretary of War, on the 19th of July, 1866, exhibits the
fact that of the Federal prisoners 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 General Barnes, of the United States army. His
report I have not seen; but, according to a statement editori-
ally in the National Intelligencer (very high authority), it
appears from the Surgeon General's report that the whole
number of Federal prisoners captured by the Confederates
and held in Southern prisons, from first to last during the
war, was in round numbers 270,000; while the whole number
of Confederates captured and held in prisons by the Federals
was, in like round numbers, only 220,000. From these two re-
ports it appears that with 50,000 more prisoners in Southern
stockades or other modes of confinement the deaths were near-
ly 4,coo less ! According to these figures, the per cent of
Federal deaths in Southern prisons was under nine, while the'
per cent of Confederate deaths in Northern prisons was over
twelve. These mortality statistics are of no small weight in
determining on which side was the most neglect, cruelty, and
inhumanity."
From Speech of Hon. B. H. Hill.
In his masterly reply to Mr. Blaine, Mr. Hill said: "Now
will the gentlemen believe testimony from the dead? The
Bible jays: 'The tree is known by its fruits.' And. after all.
what is the test of suffering of these prisoners North and
South? The test is the result. Now I call the attention of
gentlemen to this : that the report of Mr. Stanton, the Secre-
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tary 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
during the war only 22.576 died, while of the Confederate
prisoners in Federal hands 26,436 died. And Surgeon Gen-
eral Barnes reports in an official 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
..■jo.ooo ( 'c mil .li 1 .Hi , 111 I 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 hand- nvri jii, lied 1'he
ratio is this: More than twelve per cent of the Confederates
in Federal hands died, and less than nine per cent of the
Federals in Confederate hands died. What is the logic of
these facts according to the gentleman from Maine? I scorn
to charge murder upon the officials of Northern prisons, as
the gentleman has done upon Confederate prison officials. I
labor I" demonstrate that such miseries are inevitable in
prison life, no matter how humane the regulations."
Mr. Blaine's Reply.
In regard to the relative number of prisoners that died in
1I1. North and the South respectively, the gentleman under-
took to show that a gnat many more prisoners died in the
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 say that there wire a larger number of
deaths of Rebel prisoners; but that during the latter period
of the war they came into out hands very much exhausted,
ill-fed. diseased, so thai they died in our prisons of di ea 1
that they brought with them. And one eminent surgeon said,
without wishing at all to be quoted in tins debate, that the
i|in -linn was not only what was the condition of the prisoners
when they came to us but what it was when they were si nt
back. Our men were taken in full health and strength; they
came back wasted and worn — mere skeleton- The Rebel
prisoners in large numbers were when taken emaciated and
reduced, and General Grant -ays that at the time such super-
human efforts were made for exchange there were ninety thou-
sand men that would have rcen forced 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 states."
\\ii.\i 1,1 \. IV !•'. ih-TiKK Sun at Hamilton, Ohio.
We had sixty thousand or then about of their prisoners.
They bad thirty thousand of our- or thereabout. I don'l give
the exact numbers, as I quote from memorj ; but these are the
approximate numbers,
I proposed to go and exchange with the Rebel-, man for
man. officer for officer, until 1 got thirty thousand "f our men.
and then 1 would -nil have bad thirty thousand of theirs left
in my hand-. And then 1 proposed to twist these thirty thou-
sand until I got the negroes OUt of the Rebels. I made this
arrangement with tin- Confederate Commissioner This was
mi iln 1-1 of Vpril, before we commenced to mov< mi that
campaign of [864, from the Rapidan in the Jinn-, around
Richmond. At that time the lieutenant general visited my
headquarters, and 1 told him what I had done lie gave me
certain verbal directions, What they were 1 -hall not -ay.
I have hi- instructions in writing Bui 1 sent my
proposition for exchange to the government of the United
States It was referred to the lieutenant general He or-
dered me no) to give tin Confederates another man
change. 1 telegraphed bark lo him these wind-: "Your Order
shall be obeyed, but I assume you do not mean to interfere
with the exchange of tin- sick and wounded."
He replied: "Take all the sick and wounded you can get,
but don't give them another man"
You can see that even with sick and wounded men this
system would soon cause all exchange- to -top. Tt did stop.
It stopped right there, in April, 1864. and was not resumed
until August. 1864, wlnn Mr. Ould, the Rebel Commissioner,
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 an-
swer in writing was substantially: "If you give the Rebels the
thirty thousand men whom we hold, it will insure the defeat
of General Sherman and endanger our safety here around
Richmond." 1 wrote an argument, offensively put, to the
Confederate Commissioners, so that they could stop all further
offers of exchange.
I say nothing about the policy of this course; I offer no
criticism of it whatever; 1 only say that whether it be a g I
or a bad policy it was not mine, and that my part in it was
wholly in obedience to orders from my commanding officer,
the lieutenant general.
EIGHTH VIRGINIA REUNION .-IT I.EESBURG.
The last Reunion of the 8th Virginia Regiment at Lees-
burg was in some respects pathetic in interest. It was on the
45th anniversary of the bailie of Ball's Bluff.
Capt. W. E, Garrett served as master id' ceremonies. Gen.
Eppa Hunton, the former beloved col. mil of the regiment,
and Lieut. Col. Edmund Berkeley were both present. A care-
fully prepared address wa- delivered by Colonel I', rkeley,
which the survivors may publish in full.
General Hunton wa- then asked in say a word to the "boys"
if he felt able to do so. and in earnest, loving words he ex-
pressed his great pleasure in b' ing able to meet them under
such favorable conditions; and. although in the eighty tilth
year of his age. after talking for a while, he seemed to renew
hi- youth, and made a remarkably clear, connected statement
of facts touching the times of October. 1S01. which was loud
ly applauded and highly appreciated by all.
At the close of General Hunton's remarks the line of march
was formed and the Sons led the way to the banquet hall;
and on arriving there, halted, opened ranks, and with bared
heads honored the old Veterans as they passed into the hall.
Ihe Veterans were received by a committee of ladies ami ,1-
signed seats at the table, beautifully decorated by the fair
Daughters of the Confederacj and well laden with th.
stantials of life, which were by ilie-i' same Daughters and
mothers distributed among them,
The survivors of this gall. ml regiment resolved upon a more
permanent organization and t.. meet annual)} in future. Upon
General Hunton's suggestion, the organization was named the
"Berkeley Camp of the Eighth Virginia Survivors."
Mr. James M Kilgour, of Ihe Sons of Veterans, was called
.mi by Captain Garret) when the organization had been per-
fected, saying Ihe lathers would like to heat wha) ihe Sons
think of their legacy, and "right well" did he respond in a
speech full of earnest, eloquent words tnd proud appreciation
of the till, "son ..i .1 veteran of the Confederate army." Col.
John 11 Alexander wa- called for; and. while always happj
in his speeches, on this occasion In- surpassed himself in a
graceful tribute 1.. General Hunton, citing his loyalty to dutj
ami unsullied integrity a- an ideal t'"i ambitious youth to fol-
low to attain real success
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SAM DAVIS MONUMENT AT PULASKI.
Much credit is due the Daughters of the Confederacy at
Pulaski, Tenn., for their successful achievement in rearing a
monument of such proportions to the finest typical hero and
man of any age or clime — Sam Davis. (The Nashville mon-
ument in his honor is expected to be as near the ideal as
it will be possible to make it.)
The meeting of the Tennessee Bivouacs and Camps of
United Confederate Veterans was held in Pulaski at the same
time, and many thousands of patriotic people were present to
do honor to the event.
Capt. J. H. Fussell, President of the State Association of
Confederate Soldiers, called the meeting to order, and Hon.
Z. W. Ewing, who was the efficient master of ceremonies,
presented Mrs. W. B.
Romine, of Pulaski,
to make the address
of welcome for the
local Camp, named in
honor of the beloved
T. H. Wooldridge, who
was shot blind away
back in a battle of the
sixties. Mrs. Romine
said :
"My Friends: This
is a memorable day
in the annals of Pu-
laski and Giles Coun-
ty, since we are hon-
ored with the presence
of so many Confed-
erate soldiers from all
over the fine old Vol-
unteer State.
"Confederate Re-
unions will soon be
events of the past
and subjects of sacred
memories, as so many
of the men who fol-
lowed the flag of '61
are fast passing from
the scenes of this life
•to the realities and re-
wards of the life-
hereafter. Soon your Reunions will be held not upon the soil
of past battles in this beloved Southland, but in the shade of
the trees on the other side of the river. Then you may meet
not in the decrepitude of old age and maimed bodies, but in
the magnificent strength and stalwart freedom of rejuvenated
and perpetual youth.
"To us who come after you will be left the proud memory
of your heroism and devotion. We are glad that we are
enabled before the parting comes to meet you once again and
to look with tender appreciation into your faces while we re-
count your brave deeds. We are glad to be able to say to you
that we love you and revere you for what you have bequeathed
to us, and we will keep your memories green when you are
gone. As we look upon you we thank a kind Providence that
has cast our lots together, so that we may properly commemo-
rate the event of this occasion.
"As to one of the chief features of our coming together: On
ito-morrow morning we expect to see the sunbeams that have
so long and lovingly kissed the brows of the eternal hills
which girt this little town rest like our Father's benediction
upon the gleaming marble of a shaft to commemorate the life,
bravery, and death of one of the grandest characters this or
any other country has ever produced — matchless Sam Davis,
the young man
'Who died with a rope about his neck,
But at God's great judgment beck
Out of the Southland shall rise
With truth and glory in his eyes.'
"During your stay among us we wish also to call your at-
tention to another monument which has stood for years on a
breezy upland in Maplewood, overlooking the marts of com-
merce and highways of trade-, and which marks the last rest-
ing place of as true
a soldier as the South
ever had — that gallant
and well-beloved son
of Giles and twice-
elect Governor of
Tennessee, Gen. John
C. Brown.
"To me is accorded
the proud privilege
of representing the
John H. Wooldridge
Bivouac and Camp on
this occasion, and in
the name of that gal-
lant and loyal band
to welcome you to the
hearts and homes of
Giles County. I am
proud of the men who
compose this band,
but above all am I
proud of the name it
bears of as great a
hero as ever yielded
up his life on the
field of battle. It is
a grand and noble
thing to die for a
principle of one's
country; but it is a
still nobler exhibition
of heroism to sit in solitude and darkness for almost half a
century, shut out from the loveliness of this green earth, with-
out impatience, without a murmur, without complaint, a typ-
ical embodiment of physical, mental, moral, and patriotic en-
durance.
"Just forty-four years ago on yesterday afternoon, as he
was leading his company in the thickest of the battle on the
bloody field of Perryville, a fatal shot put out his eyesight
forever.
' 'Twas just as the day king sank to rest
On his couch of gold in the purple west ;
Ne'er again would his vision be blest
With the sun's uprising from the gray dawn's breast.
To the earth and her beauties his sight is congealed,
To the sky and its splendor his eyelids are sealed ;
But again will they open, and there'll be revealed
O'er the battlements of glory sweet heaven's fair fi.ld.'
\M DAVIS MONUMENT, PUBLIC SQUARE, PULASKI, TENN.
Confederate l/eteran.
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"I call upon you, citizens of Giles County and Confederates
of Tennessee, to rally around this comrade of yours in his de-
clining years and crown him with sympathy ere he passes
to the realms of eternal day, where there shall be no more
night nor darkness forever.
"But these are but true types of the Southern soldier every-
where. I see around me to-day many with bent forms and
broken with wounds who proved the truest of heroes. . . .
fl sy * ,jj HE
Hi ^H E^VHHf
MRS W, I'.. ROMINE.
I know that under those Rebel jackets beat hearts as true and
warm as ever yielded their life's blood upon the field of battle,
and I never meet a soldier of the Smith that I do not feel that
I am in the presence <>f a hero, and I think that, although
'The flag you followed in the fight
N( '( i -hall floal again.
I hank i iod it sunk t.. endless rest
Without a blot or stain '
We love that flag; ht smiles and tears
Together hold their sway.
It won our hearts in days agone;
It holds them fast to daj
"Once again I welcome yon Confidences to Pulaski —
'Pulaski, with seven hills standing as Rome of old;
Pulaski, with valleys green and fields of sunn] gold;
Pulaski, so ril ii in song and storj :
Pulaski, s,. hallowed on the page of glory.
Pulaski, whose soldiers at our country's call stand;
Pulaski, who gave the Hower of her land;
Pulaski, for four long years, man after man;
Pulaski, mother of the Kuklux Kl.ui
Pulaski, dear to my heart, O little town, you lie!
Pulaski, near to thee lei me live, and at last let me die;
Pulaski. God's richest blessings rest on thei ;
Pulaski, the dearest spot in Tennessee.'"
Pulaski had ..nee bet. .re entertained the Veterans of Ten-
Mis Romine's welcome was royally accepted.
DEDICATION OF THE SAM DAVIS MONUMENT.
Hon. Ben Childress introduced Miss Sallie Ballentine,
who organized the local Chapter of Daughters, and her ad-
dress of welcome was interrupted with cheer after cheer.
| The w. rds of Miss Ballentine's beautiful address have not
been pro ed. and the Veteran is reluctant to go to press
without i1 Those who know the gifted, patriotic woman
may well expect what she said as most fitting for the occasion;
but the delivery before so vast a multitude was splendid and
with amazing case and grace. She did honor to the Datigh-
ters of the Confederacy, who achieved so much in the monu-
ment— from Mrs. Dobree, President of the Chapter (a niece
of Gen. John Adams, killed at Franklin"), to the humblest
member of the Chapter.]
Mr. John C. Kennedy, of Nashville, related his experience
in coming with Oscar Davis, a brother of Sam Davis, to Pu-
laski to identify and carry the body home. He said he only
wanted history to record the facts, declaring that the young
hero was hanged and buried in a gray uniform.
Gen George W. Gordon spoke as follows:
"Daughters of the Confederacy, Ladies, Comrades, and
Countrymen : We have not assembled in this memorable little
city, around this sacred cenotaph, to celebrate the daring deeds
of a martial chieftain or the sanguinary victories of a daz-
zling conqueror; but to retell the brief story, recall the tragic
fate, exalt the glorious name, and honor the noble memorj of
a humble, loyal citizen, a fearless private soldier, a death
devoted comrade, and a peerless patriot martyr — the boyish
but heroic and immortal Sam Davis. On the 2~{h of Novem-
ber forty-three years will have elapsed since the occurrence
of that cruel tragedy that brings us here to-day. Perhaps
not a living soul that looked upon that solemn scene is w'h
us now to tell us how the hero died. Put if yonder silent
tins had tongues, if these eternal hills could speak, they
could tell us that he died as becomes a real man to die — faith-
ful to the claims of honor. And more, they could tell us that
his firmness, fortitude, and sacrifice once more proclaimed to
the world he was leaving that,
'Whether On the scaffold high
Or in the battle's van.
The proper place for man to die
Is where he dies for man.'
"Samuel Davis, better and more fondbj known as Sam Davis,
was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Davis, who resided
near the village of Smyrna, in Rutherford County, Middle
Tennessee', and was burn ()ri..h.i (>. |S)J. and died upon the
scaffold on yonder hill on the 27th of November, 1863, in
conformity to a decree of a Federal military commission, pro
nouncing him guilty of the alleged charge of being a spy.
"Davis inherited from a brave and honorable ancestry the
qualities of courage and the virtue of truth, and from early
boyhood manifested a tender love and filial reverence for his
I 11 1 1 < • Mother. ' Like the most of boys in farm life, his earlier
years were uneventful. His educational advantages were such
as the rural districts of the country then afforded later, in
September. 1S00. he entered the Western Military Institute,
at Nashville, where- the course of instruction in both the
academic and military departments of the institution was
\ei\ similar to that pursued at the United States Military
\. •aelcmy, at West Point, N. Y.
"The wild, stirring, and strangely fascinating days of 1861
found our future hero at the military institute at Nashville.
,m.l from the halls of which he heard and responded to the
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QoQfederat^ l/ecerap.
call, "To arms !" issued by the Governor of Tennessee. He
was now nineteen years of age. Intelligent and patriotic,
he regularly enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. William
Ledbetter's company of the 1st Regiment of Tennessee Vol-
unteers. After participating in a number of important battles,
he was transferred to the secret service of the Army of Ten-
nessee, and became a member of Captain Shaw's (alias Cap-
tain Coleman's) company of Confederate scouts.
"He was in that service when captured by Federal troops
a few miles from this city about the 20th of November, 1863,
while returning South with information of military impor-
tance to the Confederate commander of the Army of Ten-
nessee, then encamped at Chattanooga. There seems to be
a singular absence of detailed intelligence concerning the im-
mediate capture of Comrade Davis — the particular day on
which it occurred, the exact place where it occurred, and the
circumstances attending the event. All of this appears to be
wanting. After the fact of his capture, we next hear of him
undergoing an inquisition by General Dodge, the Federal
commander of the post of Pulaski at that time.
"When Davis was captured, he had upon his person, in his
boots and concealed in his saddle, documents, maps, letters,
and diagrams, containing information of the Federal forces
in Middle Tennessee, their locations, their fortifications, their
movements and probable designs. Some of this information,
supposed to be known only to a few of the Federal officers,
was so accurate that General Dodge seemed to believe that it
must have been procured through some traitor in his own
camp.
"When General Dodge had read the papers, among them
a letter from Captain Coleman, commanding the Confederate
scouts, intended for General Bragg, and the order of Cap-
tain Coleman permitting Davis to pass the Confederate lines,
he is reported to have sent for Davis, whom he took in bis
private office, told him that a serious charge bad been made
against him, that he was a spy, and from what had been
found upon his person he had accurate information in regard
to his army and he must know where he obtained it, saying
that he was young and did not seem to realize the danger he
was in. To which Davis, in a respectful and dignified manner,
replied: 'General Dodge, I know the danger of my situation
and am willing to take the consequences.'
"General Dodge then asked him to give him the name of the
person from whom he got the information ; that he knew it
must be some one near headquarters or who had the confi-
dence of the officers of his staff, and repeated that he must
know the source from which the information came. He
further insisted that he should tell him, but Davis firmly
declined. General Dodge then told him he would have to
call a court-martial and have him tried for his life, and from
the proofs he had the court would be compelled to condemn
him, and that there was no chance for him unless he gave
the source of his information. Davis replied : T know that
I will have to die ; but I will not tell where I got the infor-
mation, and there is no power on earth that can make me
tell. You are doing your duty as a soldier, and I am doing
mine. If I have to die, I will do so feeling that I am doing
my duty to my God and my country.' General Dodge is re-
ported to have then said : T pleaded with and urged him with
all my power to give me some chance to save his life, for
I discovered that he was a most admirable young fellow,
with the highest character and strictest integrity. He [Davis]
then said : "It is useless to talk to me. I will not do it. You
can court-martial me or do anything else you like, but I will
not betray the trust reposed in me.'' He thanked me for
the interest I had taken in him, and I sent him back to prison.
I immediately called a court-martial to try him.'
"We have no copy of the proceedings of the military com-
mission that tried him save a copy of the order appointing
the commission, a copy of the sentence of the commission
condemning the prisoner to be hanged, and a copy of the order
of General Dodge approving the sentence imposed by the
commission and directing that the sentence be carried into
effect between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. November 27.
1863.
"We have no copy of the written charges and specifications
made against the prisoner, if any were ever made, and it is pre-
sumed they were. Nor have we a copy of the pleas, if any
were made, by the defendant, and it is presumed they were.
Neither have we a copy of the evidence adduced against the
prisoner, except of some of the papers that were found in
his possession when captured. Nor are we informed whether
the prisoner desired or was allowed counsel to advise and
defend him. All of this, however, may be of record in the
archives of the War Department in the city of Washington,
and it is earnestly hoped that it is, as it might prove to be
an interesting and instructive, though melancholy, chapter in
the dramatic history of that untimely war.
"With the lights before us we cannot admit that Davis was
a spy as that word is defined by military usage and under-
stood in the customs of war. He was a scout. A spy is one
who in disguise or without the insignia that discloses a hos-
tile intent enters the enemy's lines to obtain information that
may be serviceable to the army or nation to which he be-
longs, and by the laws of war when captured is liable to suf-
fer death. But a scout is a soldier who operates on the out-
skirts of the enemy's army, with such concealment as the
case may suggest, but without disguise ; while a spy is one
who enters in disguise within the enemy's lines. A scout if
captured has, by usage and custom, the rights of a prisoner
of war; while a spy is held to have forfeited all rights and is
subject, in case of capture, to be executed. Both scout and
spy seek information of the enemy's whereabouts, his strength,
his movements and designs; but the one operates in his proper
uniform in the vicinity of the enemy's forces, while the other,
in disguise, penetrates his lines, perchance enters his camp,
numbers his forces, and inspects his defenses.
"Sam Davis was not in disguise when captured, but was
clad in the suit he wore in the Confederate army and in
which he had fought in battle, though not the regulation uni-
form of the Confederate army. Few Confederates wore that
complete. In addition to this, he wore a Federal military
overcoat; but not in its original blue (for then he would have
been in disguise), but which had been dyed in a brownish wal-
nut color to prevent its appearance as that of a Union soldier.
By his garb he was readily recognized as a Confederate sol-
dier, and, as far as known, made no attempt to conceal that
fact. He was not captured within the enemy's immediate
lines. There was no proof of where, when, or how far he was
from Pulaski when he received the information found upon
him when captured. Suppose he had been captured five hun-
dred miles from Pulaski by a Federal scouting party in the
same garb and with the same information upon him, would
he still have been held to be a spy? Certainly not. But his
information would have been equally serviceable to the Con-
federate commander in either case.
"Maj. John Andre, who was executed by General Washing-
ton as a British spy, had entered the American lines in dis-
C^opfederat^ l/eterap.
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guise, negotiated with Arnold, the traitor, for the surrender
of his army, and was returning with this information to his
commander when captured — information that involved the
fate of an army, perhaps thai of a nation.
"Col. Nathan Hale, who, having volunteered to penetrate
in British lines to obtain information for General Washing-
tun, was detected and executed as a spy by the British in
New York, had entered the enemy's camps in the dis-
guise of a Tory scboolmastir, obtained the information he
desired, and was about to return when detected, seized, tried,
and condemned. Neither of these is a parallel case. But
whether scout or spy, such service is honorable, and so re-
garded by the laws of war. Davis perished in the same cause
for which Lee and Forrest fought and for which Johnston
and Jackson died.
"Bul ic return to our story. Friday, the 27th of November,
1 ne. The day dawns bright and beautiful, but the hearts
of the people of this little city are rilled with terror, gloom.
and sorrow. Their youthful countryman and valiant defender
is doomed to die to-day. A wagon hearing a cofiin and guarded
by armed soldiers is driven to the jail, the prisoner is called
from his cell, his hands are bound, he is placed in the wagon,
seated upon his coffin, and driven to yonder hill, the place
selected for his execution. Arrived there, the prisoner is
on the scaffold, the rope around his neck, the open coffin be-
fore him. the grave gaping ready for him, enemies all around
him. with no friend to encourage and no kindred to console
him. Alone and unterrified he faces the scene! At this trying
crisis a horseman is seen coming. It is Captain Chickasaw,
a messenger from General Dodge. Arriving on the spot, he
hurriedly dismounts, approaches the gallows, and cries out
to the prisoner: 'It is not yet too late! Give the name of
your informer, and life, liberty, and a safe escort to the Con-
federate lines are yours!' Hear his reply, which is quick
and decisive: 'If I had a thousand lives, I would lose them all
here before I would betray a friend or the confidence of my
informer.'
"Then there was a sudden hushl The trap fell, and the
glorious spirit of Samuel Davis took its flight beyond the
stars. Ah ! what issue had been presented for that young
soul to decide! The loss of life or the loss of honor. Tri-
umphantly he met the crisis. Life perished, honor survived.
and the name of Sam Davis was handed to immortality. In
thus dying he gave to the world an example of heroic self-
sacrifice, of fidelity, fortitude, and courage that is unsurpassed
in all the annals of authentic history — an example for the
admiration and emulation of the youth of all the coming
ages, a beacon light to guide, an ideal to inspire. Every
schoolboy in the land should hear the story of Samuel Davis,
and learn therefrom the beauty of fidelity, the glory of honor,
and the grandeur of courage — courage, 'that splendid thing
that gathers up all the days of living, all the forces of one's
being into one supreme moment that is the test of all the rest.'
"If the courage of the youthful Pelham (about the age of
Davis), of the Army of Northern Virginia, who fell in a
charge amid the excitement and thunders of battle, bad justly
elicited so much praise and admiration, what shall we say of
that displayed by Davis, of the Army of Tennessee, amid the
tranquillity of a deliberate execution? Lee finely said of
Pelham : 'How glorious to see such courage in one so young!'
Be it said of Davis: 'How suhlimer still to sec it in one so
young, so tried, SO tempted, so circumvented!' So far from
the scaffold being the symbol of a ctdprit's disgrace in this
instance, it became the shining altar of a hero's immolation —
his sacrifice to truth, honor, and fidelity. He primarily died
thai another might live, but incidentally in the service of his
country. Men have perished bravely on the scaffold when that
issue could not he avoided or at the stake for the right of a
faith in the hope of salvation, but Davis died a martyr to the
obligations of honor. As the blood of the 'martyrs' inspired
the faith and the courage of their followers, lei that of Davis
animate the youth of the land with lofty sentiments, noble
aspirations, and exalted ideals.
"When the tidings of the tale of young Davis reached the
home of his parents, they secured the services of a neighbor
John C. Kennedy, who knew the young man, to go to Pulaski
and ascertain if it were indeed their son who had been hanged :
and if SO, to bring his remains home. Oscar Davis, their
little sun, was sent with Mr. Kennedy to aid in the identifica-
tion of In- brother. The distressed mother gave Mr Kennedy
a -ample of the material with which she had lined a vest that
she had made for her son, that it might aid in his identifica-
tion. Arriving at Pulaski and his mission made known to
the Federal authorities. Mr. Kennedy was allowed to disintei
the remains to ascertain if they were those of Sam Davis.
This being done, the body was uncovered ; the face was
scarcely recognizable; but a comparison of the lining of the
vest with the sample of cloth that had been furnished Ml
Kennedy established the identity, and the grewsome journey
homeward began. An incident occurred on the return at
Duck River, near Columbia, that deserves to he mentioned
The banks of the river were steep and dangerous, and it was
difficult to descend with a wagon to the ferryboat and still
more difficult to ascend the hank on the other side. There
was a Federal guard at the ferry, and Mr. Kennedy went in
front of the team to check the animals in the descent. On
learning that he bore the remains of the brave Confederate
scout who had been executed at Pulaski, and the story of
whose splendid heroism being known by them, they told him
to get in the wagon, and it was carefully taken down the
bank by those Federal soldiers, accompanied across the stream,
and aided by their hands and shoulders to the top of the op-
posite bank. Mr. Kennedy thanked them; and as he bade
them adieu, they reverently raised their hats and stood un-
covered in the presence of the departing dead — a tribute that
chivalrj paj - to courage.
"Arriving al Ihe gate of the old homestead, the father anx-
iously asked: "Was it Sam'' As the messenger answered
'Yes,' the mother threw up her hands and fell, and the
father's head was bowed in grief. They buried him in the
yard of their home near their hearts, where a modest marble
monument marks the spot where their brave bo) sleeps Long
since both have been laid beside him.
"There is a place in the great city of London that has been
immortalized by the blood of the Christian martyrs, and there
is a place in Tennessee — Pulaski — thai has been immortalized
by that of a patriot martyr. After years of patient, persevering
effort, the noble women of this city and vicinity have erected
this humble testimonial that we dedicate to-day to tell the
world where Davis died; and in the name of the people of
Tennessee, and mure especially on behalf of the Confederate
soldiers here and everywhere, we acknowledge our gratitude
to our honored countrywomen whose love and loyally have
erected this monument and thereby consecrated a hero's
fame."
John Trotwood Moore recited his poem, the first written
and published in his "Songs and Stories from Tennessee,"
entitled "Sam I >avi- "
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ro^federat^ l/eterai).
Just as he concluded the following young ladies, represent-
ing the thirteen Confederate States, unveiled the statue:
Misses Maskie Mai Blackburn, Mattie Harris, Louise Stacy,
Louise Buford Brown, Ella Sumpter, Mary Baugh, Rhyburn
Crow, Nelle Moore, Pearl Butler, Susie Mai Lightfoot,
Suzanne Nelson, Elsie Abernathy, and Rebekah Braden.
When the classic features of the young hero were first
revealed to the public view, hats were removed, and there
was silence for some moments in profound reverence.
There is not granite enough in the bosom of this continent
to build a dome too high for Davis. Pulaski is his death-
bed ; all Tennessee his monument. A place has been legally
set apart on the Capitol grounds in Nashville for the erection
of a mausoleum to the memory and glory of this exceptional
man — this patriot martyr — and it is hoped that his remains
will yet be taken there, that his head may be pillowed on the
heart of his State. Tennessee has the melancholy but hon-
orable distinction of having given to the world, in the person
of this incorruptible citizen, dauntless soldier, and matchless
man, one of the noblest and sublimest examples of patriotic
self-sacrifice known to all time and all history; and it is emi-
nently dutiful and appropriate that the State should com-
memorate his martyrdom in a manner commensurate with the
exceptional character of the sacrifice and the grandeur of the
example thereby established.
COMBAT AT LOCKRIDGE'S MILL.
Col. Thomas Claiborne — Col. John G. Ballentine.
In May, 1862, Colonel Lane, afterwards brigadier general,
commanding the Federal forces at Forts Henry and Heiman,
sent out an expedition in the direction of Paris and Dresden
for the capture of medical supplies reported to have been sen!
out from Paducah to the Confederate army, the expedition
consisting of three companies of cavalry commanded by Mai.
Carl Shaeffer de Boernstein. Col. Thomas Claiborne, with his
own and the 7th Tennessee (Col. W. H. Jackson), the whole
force twelve hundred and fifty strong, striking the trail
of the Federal expedition, immediately took it up and fol-
lowed it for about thirty-three hours without stopping, and
overtook it at Lockridge's Mill, in Weakley County. Capt.
John G. Ballentine, of the 7th Tennessee, with five companies
in advance, surprised the pickets, and with a yell Ballenline's
force, followed by the entire command, charged the Federal •;
and pursued them in a hot chase for fourteen miles. The
Federal force was dispersed and scattered in all directions.
Six were killed, sixteen wounded, and sixty-sen °n captured.
In his official report Colonel Claiborne stated that Captain
Ballentine was most of all conspicuous for his gallant bearing
and use of his saber and pistol. He fired at and mortally
wounded Maj. Carl Shaeffer de Boernstein. He engaged in
a saber hand-to-hand combat with a brave fellow named Hoff-
man, who several times pierced the Captain's coat with his
saber but was forced to yield finally. Captain Ballentine also
received blows by a carbine and was severely bruised.
In the autumn of 1861 Captain Ballentine made a recon-
noissance, under orders from General Polk, on Paducah and
other points occupied by the Federal forces. Near Paducah
he attacked a strong outpost after a fierce combat in which
James W. Fleming, afterwards a prominent citizen of Ten-
nessee, was wounded and permanently disabled. Fleming was
the first Tennesseean wounded in the Southwest. In this af-
fair Captain (afterwards Colonel) Ballentine exhibited the
enterprise, dash, and splendid courage for which he was so
often subsequemly distinguished. Colonel Claiborne, of Clai-
borne's Cavalry, after the campaign of 1802, accepted service
on the staff of Maj. Gen. (afterwards Lieut. Gen.) H. B. Buck-
ner, where he served with distinction. He was an officer of
the United States army, and resigned as captain of the
mounted rifles and offered his sword to his native State of
Tennessee. He was a veteran of the war with Mexico, and
was brevetted for gallantry at Huamantla.
[The foregoing is from "Confederate Military History," of
which Hon. James D. Porter is the author.]
A most thrilling account is given of the hand-to-hand com-
bat between Colonel Ballentine and a Federal officer — perhaps
the Major Hoffman referred to above. Ballentine, then
captain, with his command, was pursuing Federals on retreat,
and, presenting his pistol, he demanded that the Federal of-
ficer surrender. That officer, with saber in hand, smiled at
the Confederate and asked him to put up his pistol and he
would fight him. Ballentine saw that his antagonist was a
gentleman and realized that he was brave, so the challenge
was accepted. Placing his pistol in its holster, Captain Bal-
lentine spurred his horse and dashed to the side of the Fed-
eral, who was ready and skillfully warded off the blade. Cap-
tain Ballentine soon realized that the Federal was a better
swordsman, but that he had the better horse. They fought
along the road for a great distance. At one vicious stroke
by the enemy Ballentine's soft hat was shorn of its brim;
then he made a desperate and fatal thrust, piercing the side
HON. JOHN G. BALLENTINE.
of the brave Federal officer, who surrendered. Before the
Federal officer died he expressed admiration for the man who
slew him, and presented him with his horse.
Soon afterwards Captain Ballentine was promoted to colo-
nel and to the command of the 2d Mississippi Cavalry.
^or>federat^ Veterar?
V. Y. COOK,
NOT LOANABLE.
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t>
Ballentine was a student at Vale College before the war.
and one of his most ardent admirers is Hon. Thomas Cartner
Sparks, of Louisiana.
Colonel Ballentine has always Ik en a forceful, successful
man. He represented his district with conspicuous loyalty
and ability in the Forty-Eighth and Forty-Ninth Congresses.
He is now venerable and feeble. Upon his last visit to this
office, leaning upon the arm of a stalwart son, he said : "Let
the Veteran come on ; my dying won't make any difference."
is***
HI SHOP JOHN JAMES TIGERT.
Bishop Tigert, of the M. E. Church, South, was not a
veteran because he was not old enough to serve in the war.
Although born by the Ohio River, in Louisville, Ky., his every
thought and sympathy was with the South, and many inter-
esting reminiscences are treasured by this editor of the zeal
In felt in all the years of his life for "Dixie's Land." More
than from any other by him was given also plans for the
future — and they were of youthful order— to buy a home near
the Kentucky line, so as to be in nearer relation to the homes
of hi- birth and of his adoption (Nashville) through his mar-
riage with a daughter of Bishop McTyeirc. of the M. E.
Church, South, but for B
whom there might nol |f
have been a Vanderbilt
University.
Bishop Tigert was
in the Indian Territory
to bold his second An
mial Conference, hav
ing been the first
tin. sen of the bishops
elected at Birmingham
in 1906. The calamity.
from human vision,
occurred by his getting
a small chicken bone
under the tonsil, which
brought on much pain
and then blood poison,
causing his death.
The funeral set \ ic< •
A 1 re held in Nashville
November 23, all of
, , , ,. . . BISHOP J. J. THiEKT.
the Methodist mimstt rs
,ind some of other denominations being honorary pallbearers.
Bi hop 0 I' Fitzgerald, the onlj member of the Collide of
Bishops present, participated I he principal funeral address
was by Rev. <> B. Winton Editor Christian >. and
d the noble characteristics of the man.
From Dk. Wixton's Address.
Bishop rigert, 1>.1>. 1.1. I>. was horn in Louisville, Ky.,
November .'5. 1856; and died in Tulsa, [nd. T. November 21,
1906, lacking but four days of completing fiftj years of earthly
Into those fifty years he crowded much work Inherit-
ing from his p.n mik. John and Mary Van Ycghtcn Tigert. an
exceptionally robust physique and a strong, clear mind, he
likewise learned and accepted from them the principles of tin
Christian religion and the doctrines of the Methodist Church,
of which both wen devoted and consistent members.
Having completed the -indies of the municipal schools of
1 ouisville, and being determined already to give his life to
the Christian ministry, he came to Vanderbilt University for
I theological training Vfter a brief period of labor
as a pastor in the Louisville Conference, studying meanwhile
under the guidance of Dr. John A. Broadus and of other
scholarly professors in the Baptist Theological Seminary.
Louisville, he returned about leVSo to Vanderbilt University,
seeking a more thorough training in the usual studies of a
college course. These studies be carried on while supporting
himself and his family — for he bad been married in the mean-
time— by teaching some of the sub-college classes which at
that time were conducted by the University.
He had a phenomenal capacity for work. For months to-
gether he would teach all day and would study far into the
night, apparently without detriment either to his freshness of
spirits or to his physical well being; and after two or three
years as instructor, he was made full professor of philosophy.
In 1800 be was appointed to a pastoral charge in Kansas
City, Mo., after which he was made Editor of Books and of the
Quarterly Review of his (linieli. which position he held
twelve years. He wrote, he edited, he revised. He traveled
widely, as demanded by his work. He preached much and
well. He lost none of his evangelical lire by reason of his
wide studies, but took part in revival meetings with great zi st
and effectiveness. His character was indeed so simple that it
seemed sometimes to lend itself to misapprehension. There
was a -oit of artlessness about the man, a directness and a
sincerity which were 50 genuine that many people su-pected
:lr re must be something behind. He enjoyed the confidence
that the Church reposed in him; he enjoyed the great oppor-
tunities and the wide sphere of influence which the Church's
confidence gave him. He did not hesitate to make known his
enjoyment of these things. He bad a clear, strong mind, and
it was driven by a dominant, resistless will and supported by
a splendid physical constitution; it was natural for him to
believe in himself and to succeed in the thing that he under-
took. As a member of the recent Joint Commission on Cate-
chisms of the two Episcopal Methodisms, he had much to do
with the preparation of the recently published Standard Cate-
chism, now accepted as such by the two Churches. He was
Secretarj of the General Conferences of [898, 1902, and 1906,
and a delegate to the Ecumenical Conference in London, 1901.
TR1 II Ml NT OF n u R INS lb " K.
BY THOMAS SHANNON, MM 1 1 w 1 5T0NEWAL1 CAMP, TJ. C. V.
As a matter of pride in our citj government, ns efficient ad-
ministration, and its officers, and believing there is no oilier
city in ilie i nine South which honors the veterans of the Con-
federacy so much, it affords me great pleasure to give you be
lu a list of the various officers oi this city all of whom are
ex-Confederates — our comrades :
Judge of the City Court. Clerk ol tin CitJ Court, Common-
wealth's Attorney, Sheriff ..1 Citj Sergeant, Clerk of the City
Council, Chief of Police. Clerk of the School Board. Street
Inspector. Kieper of the Cemeteries, Commissioner of Reve-
nue. City Collector, Superintendent of City School-, President
of the Board of Aldermen, Keeper of the Orphan Asylum,
Sealer of Weights and Measures, and the Mayor, which office
a MH ran ha- held for twenty- four yi
Cor. ELI Taylor CONNER'S SWORD. In the battle of Mal-
vern Hill a handsome sword and scabbard on which were en-
graved both on sword blade and scabbard as follows, "Pre-
sented to Lieut. Col. Eli Taylor Conner by the citizens of
Carbon County. Pa." wa- lost, Colonel Conner being killed
in said battle. A suitable reward will be paid cheerfully to
anybody returning -aid sword to I Conner.
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT FAYETTEVILLE, LINCOLN COUNTY, TENN.
In no hearts have the fires of patriotism burned more bright-
ly than in those of the Zollicoffer-Fulton Chapter, No. 16,
United Daughters of the Confederacy, of Fayetteville, Term.
They have worked together for eleven years harmoniously and
untiringly to do honor to the cause for which their beloved
sires surrendered liberty and life. Their first few years as a
Chapter were devoted to relief work, and many an old soldier
and destitute family reaped the benefit of their loving labors.
They also sent a goodly sum to the Confederate Battle Abbey
enterprise, and contributed liberally to the Jefferson Davis,
Sam Davis, and other monuments. Later it was their pleas-
ure to contribute in some degree to the comfort and happiness
of the old veterans at the Soldiers' Home, and they hope in
future to be able to do more in that line.
About eight years ago they conceived the idea of erecting a
monument to the soldiers of their own county, the fair do-
main of Lincoln, which sent three thousand valiant men to
the Confederate army. The idea, once suggested, was never
relinquished, for to put their hands to the plow is never to
look back with the Zollicoffer-Fulton Chapter.
Mrs. Felicia Zollicoffer Metcalfe, their President since the
organization of the Chapter, November 2. 1895, has never
allowed a note of discouragement to be sounded ; but has
looked forward with the eye of faith to .the glad day when
with appropriate ceremonies the monument should be un-
veiled— a finished memorial of the love and honor of Lincoln
County heroes of the fearful sixties. The Daughters worked
with indomitable will, and their monument fund grew apace.
They were assisted by contributions from the Veterans, the
Sons of Veterans, and many interested friends ; and the corner
stone was laid with solemn rites in September, 1902. Since
then the monument fund has grown slowly but surelv until
it procured the monument, which was finished in June, 1906.
Owing to a delay in mounting the immense siege guns, how-
ever, which pre mounted just north of it, and the beautifying
of the grounds, it was not unveiled until Sepetember.
Confederate Park, the northeast corner of the courthouse
yard of Fayetteville, was given to the Zollicoffer-Fulton Chap-
ter, U. D. C, by the honorable County Court of Lincoln
County, and is a lovely, grassy square embellished with grand
forest trees which form a green, shadowy background for
the gleaming marble of the Confederate monument.
Iron and rustic seats offer rest to the tired visitors who
come to look on the sculptured face of the typical Confeder-
ate soldier who surmounts the handsome pedestal or read the
loving, patriotic words inscribed on the snowy marble. The
figure — a private soldier at parade rest with a frank and fear-
less look upon his graven lineaments — was made at Carrara.
Italy, and is a work of art. The monument was erected by-
Mr. Lewis Peach, a stone worker of marked ability and one
of Lincoln County's own brave soldiers. The monument, in-
cluding the statue, is about twenty-one feet in height, and
stands upon a slight elevation. The figure is in good propor-
tion to the base and pedestal, which are massive. The ped-
estal is of a beautiful quality of white Georgia marble, and the
base is of Bedford stone.
The figure faces the north, commanding a view of the two
great cannon. These cannon were brought from Fort Morgan,
Mobile, Ala., and the balls were from the arsenal at Philadel-
phia. In the summer the monument was flanked en every
side by handsome century plants. Two larger ones, each one
thirty years old, were the gift of Mrs. C. C. McKinney, while
the two smaller ones were given by Miss Rebecca March, now
of Texas. There is an inscription on each of the four sides
of the monument, as follows:
On the north side :
"This carven stone is here to tell
To all the world the love we bear
To those who fought and bled and fell,
Whose battle cry was do and dare.
Who feared no foe, but faced the fray —
Our g.illant men who wore the gray.
A tribute from the
Zollicoffer-Fulton Chapter.
U. D. C."
On the east side :
"Preserve the truth in history."
On the west side :
"In perpetual remembrance."
On the south side :
"1861-1865.
In loving memory
Of the three thousand Confederate soldiers
of Lincoln Countv
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Whose patriotism and heroism we hold in
perpetual remembrance.
Crest to crest they bore our banner,
Side by side they fell asleep.
Hand to band we rear this token,
Heart to bean we kneel and weep."
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
The unveiling of ibis monument took place on the forenoon
of September 6, 1906. The daj was gloriously bright, all that
could be wished, and the red, white, an.! red of bunting flags
and flowers flashed in the morning sunbeams. By nine
o'clock tin' good "Id town of Fayetteville was full to over-
flowing. There were said to be three thousand people in the
courthouse square. Veteran soldiers, Sons of Veterans, Daugh-
tei of the Confederacy, and hosts of friends, all wearing
happy faces, had come with enthusiastic hearts to witness the
unveiling.
The orators for the clay were Elder R. Lin Cave, of Nash-
ville, Rev D. C. Kelley, of Nashville, and Hon. J. J. Bean,
of Lynchburg, Moore County; and the programme was
deeply interesting To quote from one of our papers: "The
exercises were of a character that was gratifying in the ex-
treme to those who were participants in the bloody drama of
forty years ago. It was also an object lesson of most potent
influence to the young, teaching them that patriotism is the
1 1 . .1.1.-1 virtue that finds lodgment in the human breast, and
that the performance of deeds of emprise in behalf of native
land encircles the actor with a halo of glory that will never
fade, that the lapse of time can never dim."
The music for the occasion was stirring and patriotic, and
was furnished by the Sd\er Cornet Band of Fayetteville.
There were three beautiful Southern songs sung by a fine
quartet, which with their sweet pathos stirred deeply the
fountain of every Southern heart After a hurst of martial
music, tlu exercises commenced with the drawing of the cord
that relieved the fastenings of the snowy drapery that veiled
the monument by Mrs. A. N. Gillespie, the honored Treasurer
of the Chapter and its oldest member. The veil fell in grace-
ful folds just as the clock in the belfry rang out eleven times,
revealing the monument in all its beauty. Mrs. Gillespie's
address, spoken in silvery tones just before drawing the potent
cord, was as follows :
"Deaf Friends I sp ak to you <>nt of ;, past that is present
to me. while in many of you it is but the echo of a tradition,
yet we meet across the bridge of love, a rainbow' of hope and
promise that spans the river of time. In the pensive pathos
1 age I stand where the bridge meets the other shore, and
a rushing flood of memories is in the tide 1 hear. Half dream-
ily I listen to the golden laughter of yOUth on the bridge,
.Old my old heart beats in happy Sympathy with the joy of
the young world; hut loudly from the shadowy, dim shores is
born .'ii winds from the isle of inn- ago martial music from
a phantom ship 1l1.1t Boats by in stately measure, noble, grace-
ful, brave, and beautiful, the ship of the Confederacy. From
its mast waves a flag that bore a nation's hopes, a cross sym
bolic of thru- glorious endeavor and prophetic of their heart-
breaking dOOtn Stars that were the hearts of States, hut
bowed the knee to no sovereign master, flashed from that
flag a people's devotion, Starlike eyes I see on that ship that
Rash to me messages of courage, chivalry, loyalty, and devo-
tion. Ah, those four y nation' life! Full and
en 'Wiled to the brim was the cup There was many a quaff
of exultant joy for victory that followed our flag, descending
like a goddess from its folds t,, crown battles where bravery
laughed at numbers. And :d last when the overflowing cup
was -pilled by th< hand of late w e drank the poisoned dregs
with the determination to he true to the deepest meaning of
our cross and stars. This is our heritage to you. Be vigilant,
he brave, be watchful, be true. You bear in your hearts a
knowledge of the guerdon the South must keep. The purity
and privilege of a race, the race of your conquering sin
in the hollow of your hand
"1 draw the veil from a monument reared in the pride of a
people's heart loyal to the glum his memory of a mighty strug-
gle. I show you the calm, undaunted marble face, typical of
the spirit of our cause, looking steadfastly into the future.
"I show you the figure in repose, resting on its arms neither
broken nor shattered, virile and full of power, for how can
that be dead that lies in the throbbing heart of a noble,
progressive people?
"On the bridge of love I stand, not a memory slipping away
into the shadow land, but one wdio before sailing in the phan-
tom ship stretches out tbe hands of your mother's blessing
and bequeaths to you tin- ever-living cause of the South "
As Mi- Gillespie finished and the veil floated gently down
as a sea gull folds its snowy wings, the band broke into the
stirring strains of "Dixie," so dear to every Southern heart;
and. while the glad lew- rent the air. a beautiful thing hap-
pened. To quote again : "The thirteen States that furnished
troops to the Southern cause were represented by little girls
and one for the Confederacy. They were dressed in white,
and in their beauty and immaculate purity fittingly represented
the justice of the cans' and the purity of Southern motives.
They came forward and. removing their crowns of roses,
laid them at the base of the monument A more beautiful
picture was never witnessed, and it is indelibly burned upon
the mind of every one present."
Elder R. Lin Cave, the eloquent minister and very forceful
speaki r. delivered an address which made a lasting impression.
He recounted from actual experience many incidents of that
sanguinary period. His presence and speech contributed
largely to the success of the day.
As September (> was the tune and Fayetteville was the place-
selected for the annual meeting of General Forrest's staff and
escort, Dr. D. C. Kelley. who was colonel under the "Wizard
of the Saddle" and was closely associated with him, was
spokesman for the escort. No one is better prepared to speak
of Nathan Bedford Forrest and other great generals than he,
and his graphic descriptions, interspersed with anecdote and
incident, were exceedingly interesting and given with delight-
ful vigor and animation
Hon. J. J. Bean, one of our most brilliant young men. held
his audience with a charming flow of eloquence. His address
abounded in lofty sentiment as the loyal son of a Confederate
veteran. Mr. Bean was frequently interrupted by enthusiastic
applause. The speakers were introduced by Mr. James \\
llolman. one of our younger lawyers and a loyal son of the
Confederacy, who acquitted himself with credit.
After the exercises, an elegant and abundant dinner was
erved to every one present, well-filled baskets having been
brought by many who wished to make the day a success. The
interested themselves particularly in seeking in the
crowd for every old soldier, all of whom had early in the day
received badges prepared for them by tbe Daughters, anel
seeing that he was bountifully supplied with luncheon. Lin-
coln County, famed for its fine housekeeping, surpassed its
reputation on this auspicious day. After dinner, the cornet
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band gave a delightful open-air concert from their new band-
stand recently erected near the monument.
The Zollicoffer-Fulton Chapter feels justly proud of the
success that has crowned their earnest efforts, and thank all
who aided them in rearing their beautiful Confederate monu-
ment.
GEN. F. K. ZOLLICOFFER.
BY MARGARET BOYLES, NASHVILLE, TENN.
There is a nobility de jure and a nobility de facto; a no-
bility which passes from father to son through successive
generations of titled blood, and one which arises not from the
blue blood of royalty but from the infinitely better source of
the inherent worth, the true knightliness of the man. To the
latter class of noblemen belong the Zollicoffers.
To quote from the quaint old decree of Rodolphus the Sec-
ond, in 1578 ruler of Switzerland and various other European
provinces, "the several brothers and cousins of the Zollicoffer
family, by reason of their courage, bravery, honesty, loyalty,
and good deeds, were declared noble Knights of the Order of
Tournies in the same manner as if they were issued from a
noble race." From one of these knights descended the sub-
ject of our sketch, Felix Kirk Zollicoffer.
Many noble men have arisen to crown fair old Tennessee
with glory and many heroes did she give to the Confederacy —
men who poured out their lifeblood and counted it a privilege ;
men whose names are among the brightest stars which light
up the darkened past of a ruined Confederacy — and in Ten-
nessee's constellation one among those of first magnitude is
General Zollicoffer. He was a man without military training
of any kind. He began life as a printer, and edited several
newspapers in the course of his career. He held the position
of State Printer and later that of Comptroller. In 1852 he
was elected a member of Congress, where he served for four
years and where he exerted a marvelous influence, being a
man of marked personality. After the expiration of his term
in Congress, he remained a private citizen until 1859, when he
was appointed to represent Tennessee at the Peace Confer-
ence. He came home from that Conference sad, discouraged,
and dejected. He could look into the future and foresee re-
sults. His face expressed the history of the Confederacy.
But with a loyal heart he gave himself to his beloved South-
land. He was offered a commission of major general; but he-
declined it because he could not risk the lives of his fellow-
citizens of the Volunteer State through his own inexperience.
He afterwards, however, accepted the appointnicnt of briga-
dier general.
Kentucky was at this time endeavoring to maintain a neu-
tral position, and a Federal force in that State threatened an
invasion of East Tennessee. Accordingly General Zollicoffer
took his position in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky
for the purpose of defending Tennessee. About the middle
of September, 1861, he received the information that a Fed-
eral force of about fifteen hundred men was located near
Barboursville, Ky., and was threatening his position. With
a portion of his command he dispersed the Federals and drove
them toward Somerset, where a much larger force was in
camp.
After this expedition General Zollicoffer moved to Mill
Spring, Ky., and was about to go into winter quarters. On the
night of January 18 a heavy rain fell, causing a sudden flood
in Fishing Creek, a stream near the Confederate encampment
in the direction of Somerset. During the next day word was
received that two regiments of Federals had been cut off by
the flooding of the stream. Orders were at once given to
prepare for an attack upon them. By some means the Federal
commander heard of the intended attack and was reenforced
by two other regiments. These four Federal regiments were
expecting a new brigade commander to take charge of them.
After forming his men for the attack, General Zollicoffer
and several of his staff rode forward to inspect the enemy's
position and passed beyond the Federal line of battle. Dis-
covering his mistake, he endeavored to retrace his steps ; but,
on turning and proc;ding a little way, he found himself face
to face with a Federal regiment under command of Colonel
Fry. The Federals mistook General Zollicoffer for their new
brigade commander, his uniform being covered with an oil-
cloth overcoat. He saw his mistake, but rode boldly forward ;
and after the usual salutations, he started down the road a
little in advance of Colonel Fry. He had not gone far when
one of his staff fired at the Federal line. Immediately a vol-
ley was returned, and General Zollicoffer fell dead.
He was among the first who laid down their lives, but his
influence lived. His nobility, courage, and purity shaped
other men's lives, gave them ideals for action, inspired them
to noble deeds. He lived again in the lives of his devoted
men. He shall ever live as one of the heroes of our South.
GEN. FELIX K. ZOLLICOFFER.
MODEL CAMP AT MORRISTOWN, TENN.
BY J. C. HODGES, TREASURER OF THE CAMP.
The W. B. Tate Camp, No. 725, U. C. V., was organized in
August, 1895. It was named for an ex-Confederate soldier
who served as a private during the entire war, and who at
one time made a donation of twenty thousand dollars cash to
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the one-arm il and one-legged Confederate soldiers of the
First and Second Congressional Districts of Tennessee. The
Camp has an enrollment now of one hundred and thirty mem-
bers. Eighty-five of these m n are active, paying members,
rwenty-nine have died since organization, One has died
within the last year.
The Camp has never missed a regular monthly meeting since
organization, nor lias it ever failed to cause its meeting:
to 1"' opened and closed with prayei bj its own members.
We have held annua! memorial services since organization.
life at Johnson's Island
The memorial sermon in every instance except the last has
been preached by a member of the Camp, but not twice by any
one member. There has been no day since our organization
when we did not have some money to our eredit in hank; so
that, while we have not liven accustomed to lavish donations,
we have always bicn able to respond to the cry of necessity
among our members, and have always done so. We have a
regular relief committee to look after rases of sickness and
distress. Almost every member of our Camp is a member of
some one of the orthodox Churches.
We have a list of the graves of all the Confederates buried
in Hamblen County, and see to it through proper committees
that all graves of dead Confederates are decorated with
flowers and usually with Confederate flags on memorial days.
- days are always made as pleasurable as possible by pic-
nics and general social enjoyment after the sermon.
Our Commander and Adjutant arc keeping an accurate
roster of all members, and are gathi ring from time to time
such historical dala as may he found valuable in the years to
come. We see to it that every deceased member of the Camp
has a decent. Christian burial, nearlj always using on such
occasions our simple, beautiful ritual.
SOMl / < riONS 01 'OllNSON'S ISLAND.
BY ROBERT C. CROUCH, MORRISTOWN, TENN.
Since :i g 1 d al is being said against the placing of a
monument to the memory of Capt Henry Wiiv. I want tO
record something of prison
saw it.
With quite a number of prisoners I arrived at Johnson's
Island about the middle of October, 1863. So soon as we
were inside the stockade from all over the prison we heard
the cry. "Fresh Fish '" We were immediately surrounded by
prisoners eager to know who we were and what news from
the front. I was fortunate in finding friends and acquaint
ances, and was assigned to Room 19, Block 4. My roommates
were Col. M. B Locke, of Alabama: Capt. F. S. Illair, of
Wytluville. Va. : Adjt. C. T. Newman and Capt. H. H. Taylor,
of Knoxville, Tenn.; Lieut. W \l Gammon, of Rome, Ga.
During [864 Capt John R. Thornton, of Camden, and Lieu
tenant Ammonet and two other comrades, all of Arkansas
1 whose names I have forgotten), were added to our room
Johnson's Island proper is a rock raised like a turtle shell
■ nit of Sandusky Bay, in its highest part perhaps thirty feet.
I In- niek is covered with clay and soil for from two to ten
feet in depth. The prison proper is on the eastern part of this
island, an oblong square of perhaps twelve acres In this 111-
closurc were confined about thirty-five hundred prisoners.
There were thirteen blocl occupied bj the prisoners, one of
which was used as a hospital. These block houses were ar-
ranged with six on each side of the avenue, and the thirteenth
was in the center of the avenue at the eastern end. The street
letween the two rows of houses was about one hundred and
fifty feet wide, and in the center of this avenue was a row of
shallow wells from which the prisoners were compelled for
many months to draw all the water they used. The privy
vaults, immediately back of the houses near these wells and
being dug down to the rock, necessarily contaminated the
water. It was horrid stuff.
Back in my native town, Jonesboro, was a bold spring,
familiarly called "Mill Spring." from which the larger part
of the eastern end of the town had their supply of water. I
recall how that in my dreams I often was back at that old
spring enjoying the pure, cold water for which East Tennes-
1 1 is justly celebrated.
In tSo) the 1st Brigade, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Po-
tomac, General Terry in command, was sent to the island as
an additional guard. Major Thaler was placed in immediate
command of the prison, lie saw the cruelty of forcing prison-
ers to use such water, and at once had provision made for
uatci ■supply from the hike 1 think this was on the firsl day
of his administration.
Adjutant Crocker, in the November Veteran, gives the ex-
perience of every prisoner after we were placed on half rations
It was my part of the work of our mess to divide the rations.
I made a pair of balances and divided the bread almost to a
crumb; and after dishing out the small allowance of beef on
six plates each day, one of our mess would turn his back and
call out the pott ion each was i,, havi I recall that Lieut.
John D. Traynor, of Cleveland, Tenn.. who was hospital drug-
gist, made me a present of a considerable amount of garden
sage. Out of this we made tea, winch, without sugar or cream,
1 am sure, was enjoyed more than would be now a cup of
"Maxwell House Blend." Several times instead of beef would
be issued codfish. Von can imagine wdiat a savory dish was
codfish straight
! barracks, 01 prison buildings, ware large two-story
frame structures about [0X2O0 feet, weatherhoarded up and
down, eight of them with only one partition, with neither
ceiling nor plaster; heated with four to eight wood stoves;
about two hundred and fifty to three hundred men to the
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building. Wood was issued each day in winter to the dif-
ferent buildings and saws furnished to prepare it for burn-
ing. The amount was about the same each day, regardless of
the weather, and was far from sufficient. The prisoners slept
in narrow plank bunks on straw ticks, with army blankets for
covering. Every expedient was used to keep warm. I re-
member we fastened newspapers between our blankets and
nailed blankets to the side and foot of the bunk. Scantily
clad and with a lack of nourishing food, who can forget those
bitter, cold winters?
While I had no personal acquaintance with them, I always
remember Major Scoville and Dr. Woodbridge as kind-hearted,
humane men, who extended to prisoners every courtesy pos-
sible. A sergeant named Burger, who had charge of express
matter, was a cruel-hearted fellow. I never again want to
see him.
My father had sent me a box of tobacco ; and when I was
released, June 14, 1865. I sold it for a few dollars. The au-
thorities furnished us transportation ; nothing else. My few
dollars in money and kind friends on the way enabled Capt.
H. H. Taylor and myself to reach Wytheville, Va., where my
father then lived. I recall that Captain Taylor and myself
when we reached Wytheville between us had a ten-cent shin-
plaster.
NOTES FROM U. D. C. CONVENTION AT GULF PORT.
The thirteenth annual Convention of the U. D. C. was held
at Gulfport, Miss., November 14-17, 1906. The Convention
assemblies were in the pavilion on the pier, w! ile the main
domicile was in Captain Jones's Great Southern Hotel. On
Tuesday, November 13, important committee meetings were
held, principally that of the Executive Committee of U. D. C.
and the advisory meeting of State Presidents or representa-
tives. Tuesday night an informal reception was given by the
Beauvoir Chapter to visiting Daughters at the pavilion, which
was appropriately decorated with red and white bunting, with
moss and palmetto decorations on the platform. Refreshments
were served from small tables on which glowed rose-colored
candelabra. Souvenir spoons of the occasion were bestowed
on the guests.
The Convention opened November 14 at 10 p.m. with an
invocation by the Bishop of Mississippi, Rev. Theodore Brat-
ton, D.D. Greetings were extended by Governor -Vardaman,
who issued "a special proclamation;" by the Mayor of Gulf-
port, who tendered "the keys of the city;" and on behalf of the
Sons of Veterans by Hon W. Calvin Wells, Jr., who said
"anything we looked like we wanted" would be supplied, and
the Veterans offered themselves. A cordial welcome was ex-
tended from the Confederate mothers by Mrs. Sarah Eggles-
ton, and the response was by Mrs. Vaught, Second Vice Pres-
ident U. D. C. Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, National Pres-
ident, called the Convention to order, and badges were dis-
tributed to delegates.
On Wednesday afternoon Gen. I. C. Walker spoke in the in-
terest of the monument to women, and reports of the Presi-
dent and national officers were given. The delegates were en-
tertained at a reception that evening by the Mississippi Di-
vision at the capacious hotel.
On Thursday morning the annual memorial hour was ob-
served, and resolutions were read in memory of Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, Mrs. J. M. Keller, Mrs. Martha O. Patterson, Mrs.
Charles E. Hooker, and Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the service clos-
ing with the hymn "How Firm a Foundation."
On Thursday morning Colonel Herbert made a plea to the
Convention for the Arlington monument, but many of the
State Divisions were already pledged for the Shiloh monu-
ment ; and as this plea came before State reports were read,
in which "our President, Mrs. Thompson, had asked the sym-
pathy and aid of the Daughters, this was the first official in-
timation of what the Arlington Confederate Monument As-
sociation desired. After hurried conference of our delega-
tion, when we saw the Convention was not prepared to give
all we hoped to receive, as chairman of the delegation I stated
that the "District of Columbia would prefer the matter given
due consideration and not rushed." This closed debate.
On Thursday afternoon a lawn social was given at Beauvoir
by the King's Daughters. The night session was given to
reading State reports, and they were specially good.
On Friday morning there was a continuation of State re-
ports, the most interesting being from the Ohio Division, as
were those of South Carolina and the Chicago Chapter the
night before. Regular order of business was suspended to
allow a special resolution introduced by Tennessee to the
effect that there be no sponsors and maids at the Richmond
Reunion. This was unanimously passed.
One of the most interesting reports of the Convention was
that of the Custodian and Committee on Crosses of Honor,
which recommended several changes, the most important being
the creation of a new office, a Recorder in each State Division,
to whom applications for crosses must be mailed not later
than three weeks before date of bestowal. Alphabetical lists
must also be kept of all applications by the Chapter, State
Recorder, and National Custodian. A veteran losing his cross
can have another in its place.
Much interest was shown in the Wirz monument and pledges
were given from the floor to the amount of $515 in connection
with the Georgia State report. The request of the District of
Columbia for indorsement of a Confederate monument in Ar-
lington was made the special order of business Friday after-
noon, limited to half an hour. The Convention was ready for
us, and quickly responded with floor donations to $575, two
annual donations of $10 each and one annual of $25, and then
the U. D. C. subscribed one thousand dollars annually till com-
pletion of monument, but cut this year to $500 by the Finance
Committee.
On Friday night a ball was given at the hotel in honor of
the guests. In election of officers, Mrs. Hickman and Mrs.
Gabbett refused to be candidates. Mrs. Dowdell, of Alabama,
was unanimously elected Recording Secretary and Mrs.
Raines, of Savannah, Ga., Custodian. Mrs. Gabbett was made
Custodian General and delegate to all future Conventions.
Mrs. Williams, the newly elected Treasurer to succeed Mrs.
Leigh, is an efficient member of the U. D. C. and an author of
acknowledged merit. She has contributed to the Arlington
monument, through Stonewall Jackson Bazaar, $43; also eight
authentic autographs of Jefferson Davis and two volumes of
the "Blue Cockade." works of fiction by herself.
WELCOME OF THE U. D. C. TO MISSISSIPPI.
[Address by Mrs. Sarah D. Eggleston, Honorary President
Mississippi Division, Raymond, Miss.]
In the name of the Mothers of the Confederacy of the Mis-
sissippi Division I greet and welcome you, and thank you for
your presence in our midst. It makes my heart glad to see
so many of you here, and the fact that you belong to this
organization proves that you are proud of the noble heritage
bequeathed to you by your fathers and by your mothers as
well ; for the women of the Confederacy, though exempt from
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the dangers of the battlefield, bore their part no less heroically
than did the men. The men gave, or offered to give, their
lives. The women gave what was dearer to them tlian life:
they gave the men they loved,
I will give some instances to prove the spirit of those worn
en. I had a friend, a widow, who had only two sons. They
both enlisted for the war. The first one was killed in the
battle of Fredericksburg; the other was killed by the same
volley that laid low onr immortal Jackson, and this heroic
boy, with his lifeblood ebbing fast, had only breath to gasp:
"Is the General hurt?" When I was weeping with that poor
mother, she said: "Both of my boys are gone; but if I had
to do all this over again, I would not act differently."
1 knew a boy who belonged to the company that was or-
ganized in the village where I am now living. When he had
been in Virginia over two years and had been in many bailies.
his mother wrote to President Davis, using these words: "I
notice that General Lee has gone into winter quarters and
there will be no more fighting for several weeks; so if my boy
has done his duty, I respectfully beg that he be granted a
furlough, that he may come home to me, for I greatly long
to see him." Mark the simplicity and sublimity of that
mother's words: "If my boy has done his duty!"
Bishop Polk gives an instance of sublime devotion of a
Tennessee mother who gave five sons to the Confederacy.
When the first one was killed and the Bishop was trying to
nir words of comfort, she said: "My son Billy will be
old enough next spring to take his brother's place." The only
idea of dut\ that this heroic mother bad was lo give her sons
to the cause she loved as soon as liny were old enough to
bear a musket.
Such was the spirit of your mothers and your grandmothers.
I will tell you of two funerals that I witnessed — one in 1861,
tin oilier in 1865. I was in New Orleans in the early part of
the summer of l86l when I witnessed the funeral of the gal-
lant Col. Charley Ureux, who had been killed in a skirmish
in Virginia before any of the great battles had been fought.
lie was the first Louisianian who had the honor of sealing his
devotion to the cause with his blood, and among the very first
from any State. When he was borne to his last resting place,
a vast concourse of people followed with drooping flags, muf-
fled drum-, bands playing the dead march, and the tolling of
all the church bells of the city. It was indeed such a funeral
as befitted a hero who had died in defense of bis country.
Far different was it, nearly four years later, when I was in
Mobile during those last -ad weeks of the war. The enemy
wen trigorouslj pushing the siege against Spanish Fort, across
the bay from Mobile, The roar of the cannon was beard above
all the noises of the city. 1 was attending service in Trinity
Church, for while the men wire fighting the women were
praying The services were progressing, and we heard the muf-
fled tread of feet, when, li oking up. I saw <ight soldiers in their
woin and faded gray, and on their shoulders was a rude, pine
Coffin which contained the remains of a comrade who had
been killed that morning at Spanish Fort The burial squad,
taking their comrade for burial, had seen the church door
open, and, hearing the voice of the minister, had gone in,
that some prayers might be said over the fallen soldier. Slow
1\ and sadl) thej bore him down the aisle, placing him at the
toot of the chancel, thej standing reverend] about tin- coffin
Without one word the aged minister began the burial service,
u> joining in. We did not know over whom those
prayers were said; but we did know that he was the father
or husband or son or brother or lover of some Southern wom-
an, and we knew that he had died in defense of his country.
The services over and the burial -quad having removed their
dead comrade from the church, the congregation slowly dis-
persed, some of us being loath to return to our lonely apart-
ments. It so chanced that I was the last person to leave the
church ; and when I reached the steps. I saw a woman stand-
ing there. Doubtless she saw in my face the same tense anxiety
which I had noticed in hers, for, pointing in the direction of
Spanish Fort, she said in a voice that I have never forgotten :
"O, listen to those guns! All that 1 have in this world, my
only boy. is there." And 1 said: "And my husband is there
too."
During the four years of the war it was my lot to hear the
guns of three besieged cities — Vicksburg, Richmond, and Mo-
bile I saw many partings on the eve of battle. Rut seldom
did I see women weep when those farewells were taken. We
parted from our loved ones with a smile upon our lips; but
when night came, our pillows would be wet with tears.
I have told you some things that I saw. I will now tell
you what I did not see. I saw no mother trying to keep her
boys from going into battle, I saw no wife trying to persuade
her husband not to go to the front, and I saw no woman who
cried surrender. If you ask me to explain this, my answer
i- : Because we knew we were right, our cause was just.
\nd once more, dear Daughters, I bid you welcome.
Woman's Monument Project.
Mrs. Henderson, President General, in her report, recom-
mended that the U. I'. C, should indorse and join hands with
the Veterans and Sons in their movement to erect memorials
to the mothers, the true women of the Confederacy. She in-
troduced Gen. C. I. Walker, who acts for the Veterans in co-
operation with the Sons in this matter, asking him to speak
on the subject, which he did, explaining the conditions fully,
and in connection with which he presented an earnest and
sympathetic letter from Gen. Stephen D. Lee inviting the co-
operation of the U. D. C.
I In matter was referred to the committee on the President
General's recommendations, which committee on Saturday
afternoon made a report approving the movement in the fol-
lowing generous words:
"r. That the I'. D. C. cordially approves the movement, for
which the Veterans and their sons are working, to honor our
mothers, the noble women of the Confederacy, and wishes
them Godspeed in the glorious work.
"2. That the U. D. C. heartily responds to the fraternal
spirit expressed by the Veterans through their distinguished
Commander in Chief, and desire to meet the same, joining
hand- in this great work by morally supporting them in their
.(Ton. 10 honor, in everlasting form and for the good of
future generations, our heroic mothers, who so ably aided the
Cause which we shall ever hold dear and 111-t"
I lie report was adopted unanimously.
( ENTENNIA] ANNIVERSARY Of GiEN. Iv F Lee's RlRTII.
1 lie attention of the Memorial Associations throughout the
South 1- directed to the circular letter issued by the Con-
ttc Memorial Literary Society and the Lee Camp, No. 1,
Confederate Veterans, of Richmond, Va., for the purpose of
securing .1 general observance of the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth of the great and immortal Robert E. Lee,
commander in chief of the Confederate army.
I lie people of the South will unite heartily with Virginia
in celebrating one of the most important events in her his
tory. The military career of Robert 1 Lee has caused him
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to rank as the greatest military general of the nineteenth
century, and in his private and public life he has given a
noble example to the youth of this country.
Therefore, in accordance with the above suggestion and in
obedience to General Order No. 58, issued by Gen. Stephen
D. Lee, Commander in Chief United Confederate Veterans,
I, President of the Confederated Southern Memorial As-
sociation, do hereby recommend that all Memorial Associa-
tions provide in an appropriate manner for the celebration of
this important event, and that efforts be made to have the
celebration approximately simultaneous with that of the Rich-
mond Associations by assembling on Saturday, the 19th of
January. 1907, at 12 m., and that during the service the hymns,
"How Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord" and "For
All the Saints Who from Their Labors Rest," be sung;
furthermore, that the reading of Gen. Robert E. Lee's farewell
address to the Confederate army be read.
TRIBUTES TO GEiX. WHEELER AND MRS. DAVIS.
From Report of the New York Chapter at Gulfport, Miss.
by mrs. james harvey parker, president.
[This report deals with national characters so generally and
so well that it is given in full, although the substance of por-
tions of it has heretofore appeared in the Veteran. It is
addressed in the usual way to Madam President General and
United Daughters of the Confederacy.]
The business report of the New York Chapter, U. D. C.
will be as brief as possible this year, as more interest will be
centered in the terrible loss we have recently sustained than
in any account I might render of our prosperity and well-
being. The statement is therefore simply made that the con-
dition of the Chapter is perfectly satisfactory. We number
four hundred and eight} -five full members, one hundred and
sixty-two associates, making a total of six hundred and forty-
seven. We have held our five regular meetings and one
special meeting, called to consider a revision of our consti-
tution and by-laws. The entertainments were our annual
ball in December, President's reception in January, birthday-
party in March, and luncheon in April. Our first historical
meeting, under the auspices of our Historian. Mrs. Myles C.
Collier, was enjoyed on an evening in May at the home of
one of our members, Mrs. Jesse Graffe. The paper was read
by our gifted associate, Mr. Hawn. the subject being the
origin of Memorial Day.
We have contributed $100 to the Davis monument, $100 to
the Southern Industrial Educational Association, $100 to Gen
eral Walker, of Charleston, for a monument to the Women
of the Confederacy, $10 to the Solid South Room at Rich-
mond, $10 to a Texas Home, and a trunk of woolen under-
wear for stricken San Francisco. Our relief work, as usual,
has gone unceasingly forwarj, our latest charity being the
payment of rent for tight months for an aged woman withom
means. We have aided two aged applicants to move and as-
sisted in the burial of a poor Southern woman, who lay in a
cheap lodging house friendless and uncared for when the case
was brought to our knowledge. Having conferred the
Crosses of Honor upon the Veterans of the Camp, notices
were inserted in the New York Herald for three consecutive
months, in accordance with the rules of the Crosses of Honor,
after which we were in readiness to confer Crosses upon de-
scendants; but as yet have had no applications for them. We
have sustained many losses by death during the past year
both among our full members and associates.
I had the honor of sitting next to General Wheeler at the
dinner on the 17th of January, which was destined to be his
last in the social world. He looked so well, and was in such
a flow of spirits as he told of his experiences in the War be-
tween the Slates and Spanish-American War that the guests
accorded him undivided attention. My reception to the Chap-
ter was to follow on the 20th. and he promised to receive
with me, laughing like a pleased child when I told him I
would place him first in line, as I knew my Daughters would
rather see him than me. Alas ! as I stood there without him
a telegram was handed me, and this is what I read:
"It is impossible for me to express in words my apprecia-
tion of your great courtesy in tendering me the honor of
standing by your side this afternoon to meet the Daughters
of the gallant men who fought and endured under our superb-
ly brave and skillful army commanders. I wrote you, but fear
my letter may be delayed. Please let the ladies know how
disappointed I am in not realizing the pleasure I so much an-
ticipated. Joseph Wheeler."
In one brief week he had breathed his last, and North and
South mourned in a common sorrow. The funeral services
were held at St. Thomas's Church. Those who were present
will never forget the beautiful and impressive ceremony, the
chancel full of exquisite floral offerings, the solemn music, the
casket borne by men in uniform and draped with the Union
and Confederate flags, the latter our Chapter flag. It went
with him to Washington, it enfolded him even in the palace
car, where many came to look at it and all commented upon
its fitness to be where it was, and it was removed only when
the body was consigned to its last resting place. During the
services at St. Thomas Dr. Stircs. departing from the custom
of the Episcopal Church, gave a eulogy on General Wheeler
brief and beautiful, and ending with these words : "The North
gives him unstinted honor; the South, even in her grief, is
proud of her ever loyal son ; Cuba, for whose freedom he
fought, sobs out her grief across the waves ; and the whole
world pauses for a moment to declare that this was indeed 3
man, and to-day a Southern gentleman unafraid stands in
the presence of his God to receive the 'Well done' of long and
faithful service."
A heavy loss to us also wes the death of Col. Andrew G.
Dickinson, the founder of the Confederate Veteran Camp of
New York ; but the most dreadful loss of all to our Chapter
was our revered and beloved member, Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
and this loss is so great and so recent that we can scarcely
refer to it with calmness. Under orders from Gen. Frederick
D. Grant, a company of artillery from Governor's Island, ac-
companied by the post band, led the cortege from the Hotel
Majestic to the railroad station, whence the body was re-
moved to Richmond. Following the national soldiers came
a squadron of mounted police and a guard of honor from the
Confederate Veteran Camp of New York commanded by
Maj. Edward Owen, which accompanied the funeral party to
the Virginia capital.
The delegation from our Chapter consisted of Mrs. Chas. E.
Bateson (grandniece of Mr. Davis"). Mrs. Clara Kyle Crank,
Mrs. Louis Bennett, Mrs. James Harvie Dew, Mrs. Charles
R. Ruggles. It is needless to state that I went to Richmond.
I would have shown her that last token of love and respect as
my own beloved friend had I not been her President as well',
for, although we had elected her our Honorary President, she
insisted on paying her dues and continuing to be my Daugh-
ter. It is an irreparable loss to any one who was not able
to attend those solemn services in Virginia's beautiful capi-
tal, when "the South stood in stifled silence at her bier."
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Nothing mine I. cautiful in flowers can be imagined than
those which filled St. Paul's Church to the door in honor of
the Widow of the Confederacy. It was my privilege and
honor to design three floral offerings. < hie was from the body
general of the U. I). C, which was a large hearl five feel
high of crimson roses and lilies of the valley, lied across the
center with white satin ribbon, marked in red letter- "U. I).
C," and placed in full view of i lie assemblage. The second,
from the State Division of Mississippi, was a large wreath
of autumn leave- with purple orchids and palm-, tied with
purple ribbon lettered in silver, "Mississippi Division, I' I).
('.." and suspended from the pulpit. The third was the offer
ing of her own Chapter, a cross four and a half Ee t high of
white roses with a mantle of Jacqueminot rose- flung across
the arm-, tied with while ribbon, lettered in red. "New York
Chapter. U I) C." and placed nearest the hi r.
After the simple hut beautiful service, the casket, covered
with two Confederate flags, was slowly earned down the
stairs, escorted hy twelve Confederate Veterans, and placed
in the hearse, which was driven by an old negro who had
been a faithful servant of Mr. Davis. Side by side walked
the escort of Federal troops with the Veterans of her own
South: and it is stated thai it was the first time in the history
of the republic that the obsequies of any woman, however
eminent, were so honored High tribute indeed to be shown
to oui eery own' The funeral cortege, winding slowlj
through the Streets of the fair Southern city which hold- "so
much for memory to dwell upon;" the crowd- which lined the
sidewalks with bared head- and saddened faces, unheeding
the rain, which fell Steadily through the day as if nature
were one with US in our sorrow; the drifting leave- and sigh-
ing winds; the soft pattering of the raindrops upon ihe win-
dow panes; the -lopping at the open grave; the music of the
hand: the salutes of cannon and title breaking upon the still-
tiess ; the solemn lolling of the bell; and last, most touching.
most impressive of all, the bugle call of taps -formed an ex
pi i ii in e which tile mind will retain while memory la-Is.
When the grave was finally covered, the cross sent by our
Chapter was, at the request of the family, placed at the he. id
of the mound: while thai of tile city of Richmond was placed
upon the center. I In superb floral offering of orchids sent
hy President and Mrs Roosevelt was placid upon the pedestal
of President Davis's statue at the foot of the figure, and the
beautiful wreath of palms and orchids from Mississippi re-
posed m the arm- of the exquisite angel of the Winnie Davis
monument, and induced the thought that the Daughtei ol
the Confederacy was bending down to offer the wreath oi
Mississippi to the beloved mother dead at her feet Nothing
that was tender or beautiful or solemn or touching was un-
thought of; ami the stranger in Richmond could not but be
impressed bj the beauty, tenderness, and ability with which
all ceremonies and arrangements pertaining to these funeral
rite- bad been planned and carried out b\ her Son- and
I laughters alike.
Vimg under instructions from our President General, out
Chapter was invited to attend a memorial service on Sunday.
r 21, at i k in the Church of Zion and St
Timothy, where Mrs Davis latterly worshiped. Dr Lubeck,
'In rector, delivered a fitting and beautiful eulogy, and the
Services were solemn and impro--ivo If the dead know and
id heai . i an d< ad must ha\ e tx en o imfi irti d and at
Red with th< effort made to honoi her From the hotel in
the great citj whet, she died '" the quiet grave in the lovely
cit) "f the Southland where she lies at peace, thi
which crowded her sorrowful life end d, surrounded by her
loved one-, after life's fitful fever, she sleeps well.
"If 1 still hold closely to I lim.
What have I at last?
Sorrow vanquished, labor ended.
Jordan passed."
Het voici i- 'en! and we sic her no more, but in our
heart- -he dwel in everlasting remembrance.
The foregoing is bin one of many reports made at the gen
eral Convention United Daughter- of the Confederacy. It is
used as a typical report, womanlj in spirit, and in many re-
spects "i valuable historic value
LEE — 1S07-1Q07.
BY T. C. HARB M
No Stat, alone can claim the warrior bravi
111- fame the laud revere- from sea to sea.
America her fairest wreath puts On his grave.
And Honor proudly guards the name of Lei
The upright soldier and the Christian pure1
llis died- belong to the immortal year-:
Mi- 1- the fame that will fore'er endure,
Kept bright beneath the Southland's swe test tears
The sword he drew he sheathed without a stain;
Its shcl is 111-t a- bright a- mi thai daj
When, overpowered on the battle plain,
His "farewell" echoed 'mid hi- rank- of gray
Virginia's son' lie need- no carven pile,
No mightj granite lowering to the sky;
His love still linger- in hi- latest smile.
Ami in hi- wreath are star- of victor)
The fields he won emblazon history's page:
He led hi- legions when the light was on.
Vnil all the world admires the soldier-sagi
The gentle Lee of haunted Arlington
(io write to-day upon the scroll of lime
The name that echoes yet twixt sea and sea;
(in turn the pages of earth's deeds sublime.
\nd find thereon the deathless name of Lee!
Empires and kingdoms, thej -hall rise and fall.
The stars of nations shall forever sel :
Bu1 brighter still and far above them all
The star of deathless l.ee will blazon yet.
A Rebel? Nay! He heard the \"io of homo.
His Southland, calling for the sword be wore;
And when he drew it 'neath the azure dome.
' I wa- in the cause his legions Still adore.
So long a- flov. the rivers to the sea,
Bearing afar the great Virginian's fame,
So long will luster crown the brow of Lee
\nd glory wreathe his never-dying name.
rhey're marching now toward the silent -bore;
His dauntless veterans, old and Stooped ami gray,
I i' long will echo back the muffled oar
That bears the last one to In- rest away
Their fame i- ever linked to on( who |,<]
Them in their youth to victory's field- afar.
Where oft their blood they freely shed
Beneath the banner of the cross and star,
So let him rest; the centuries to conic
I pon in- blow a brighter star will -ee
And the immortal year- that laurel home
\111l land will add unto the fami of Lee!
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Capt. George A. King.
"Capt. George A. King died at his home, in Marlin, Tex.,
July 23, 1906. He was born at Annapolis, Md., September 4.
1831. His father was a soldier, and from his earliest child-
hood he exhibited a fondness for military life. When a mere
lad, he entered the United States army as bugler. He was
with General Scott in the war with Mexico, and remained
with the army until 1857, when he was honorably discharged
at Fort Stanton, in New Mexico, at which time he was chief
bugler. In June, 1852, he was married to Mrs. M. R. Dunn,
who died in 1898. Of the children of this union, five in num-
ber, only two now survive — George A., Jr., and Charles H.
King, both of Marlin.
After his discharge, in 1857, Captain King settled on a lit-
tle farm on the Rio Bonito, near Fort Stanton. At the break-
ing out of the war of 1861 Captain King was tendered a
commission in the United States army, which was handed
him at a dinner given in his honor by the commanding officer
of the fort. This he respectfully but firmly declined.
He rode from Fort Stanton to Sante Fe, N. Mex., horse-
back in order to cast his vote for Jefferson Davis for Presi-
dent of the Southern Confederacy ; and when the United
States troops abandoned Fort Stanton, Captain King, Judge
Silas Hare (the father of Gen. Luther Hare), and others who
were small farmers in that neighborhood refused to leave
and go with the troops ; but as soon as they had gone they
got together and took charge of the fort, sending one of their
number down to Dona Ana to inform the Confederates at
that point of their condition and requested them to send a
company of Confederates to take charge of the fort. A com-
pany under command of Capt. J!:nmie Walker came back with
the courier, took charge of the fort, and hoisted a Confederate
flag, made by the ladies of that little party, at the top of the
mn t where lately had floated the stars and stripes of the Un-
ion. After staying there a short while, Captain Walker aban-
doned the fort and went back to Dona Ana, and from there to
Mesilla, and there they met General Sibley and his command.
Captain King at once joined General Sibley's Command, and
was with him at the battle of Valverde, when the celebrated
battery bearing that name and so dearly loved by the Texans
was captured.
When Sibley's command returned to Texas. Captain King
came with it on that long march, bringing his devoted wife
and two small children with him. He remained for some time
at San Antonio, and there began the organizing of a company
of cavalry for service in the Confederacy. This company was
completed at Belton, in Bell County, Tex. Captain King
declined the captaincy of this company, but accepted the
place of first lieutenant. This company was attached to
George W. Baylor's regiment and Tom Green's brigade.
When the company left Belton, it camped a short while at
the falls of the Brazos, about five or six miles from the town
of Marlin, and Captain King went up to Marlin and purchased
a house and lot and located his family, and there they have
resided ever since. In 1862 he was made captain of his com-
pany, ar.d in that capacity he served until the close of the
war, adding no little to the glory of that immortal brigade.
Captain King was with his command in every engagement,
and of him it may truthfully be said "tl.. t no braver soul
on border 'sod to siege or rescue ever rode."
After the close of the war, he returned to his home at
Marlin penniless; but possessed of that same indomitable
courage that had always sustained him, and after farming
awhile, he managed to purchase a train of wagons and hauled
freight from Milliean, the then terminus of the H. and T.
C. Railroad. He later went into business at Marlin. In 1897
hi? health failed, and he retired from business.
Captain King took a lively interest in all public questions,
and never failed or feared to do his whole duty to his coun-
try. He loved his adopted ^tate, and many a time has he
been heard to declare that the happiest day of his life was
when, in 1873, the heel of the tyrant was lifted from the necks
of her people and the reins of government were turned over
to her own people. He was a Democrat of the old school.
He was the first marshal of the town of Marlin, and after-
wards served as alderman of the city for several terms. He
was one of the charter members of the Texas voluntary
fire department, and was ex-president of that organization
He was one of the organizers and a charter member of Wil-
lis Lang Camp, U. C. V.. of Marlin, Tex., and surely no man
ever enjoyed anything in this world more than he did the
meetings' of that Camp. He held the position of Commander
until he was appointed on the staff of Gen. Jim Shaw, and
never missed a Reunion of Confederate Veterans when it was
possible for him to attend. He was also a Royal Arch Mason.
CAPT. GEORGE A. KING.
In a beautiful casket covered with Confederate gray cloth and
dressed in a suit of Confederate gray he was laid to rest with
a small Confederate flag in his right hand. His grave has
the flag of the cause he loved so well floating over it yet.
[The foregoing tribute is from J. H. Swann. — Ed.]
Qopfederat^ l/eterar).
:;:»
John' EdW AI53 ' LMS.
John E. Helms was born April -. 182}, In Fincastle, Bote-
tourt County, Va., and came with his father's family to Knox-
ville about 1833. When eleven years old, he was appren-
ticed in the office of the Knoxville Argus for five years, after
which for a few terms he attended the East Tennessee
College (now the University of Tennessee) until the breaking
out of the Mexican War. when he enlisted in Company K,
■ < airy, and served one year, being one of the
youngest members of his company. After returning home, he
declined a lieutenancy in the Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment.
Resuming business in civil life, he purchased the Knoxville
Standard, and in partnership with his brother, W, T. Helms.
published that paper several years.
In 1850 the Plebeian was started by them, and it was made
a morning daily in 1851, being the first daily paper published
in Knoxville. In 1873 he purchased the Morristown Gazette
of I.. P and G. E, Speck, and retained its ownership until
CO].. JOHN E. HELMS.
succeeded by his son. John E. Helms. Jr. He continued
newspaper work until a tew months ago. He was postmaster
a: Knoxville for four years under Pierce's administration
He was the first Odd Fellow in Hast Tennessee, and that
i' hi was "I age, by special dispensation. From early
manhood he was a Mason, and was also a member of the
Knights of Honor and the A. O. U. W. He was an early
in of the Tennessee Press Association IK- was twice
married first, "ii November 17. 1847, to Margaret I.. Lones,
who died January 2, t8;8; ami h. was afterwards married to
Miss Sallie T. Van Meter, of Virginia, who survives him.
Hi- children are: John E Helms, Jr.. Mi-. S. I. Gilchrist,
Mrs C, A. rlalley, Mrs. Alice Browne, and Mrs. James fioss.
During tin- War between the States he was employed in
the executive offices of the Confederacy at Richmond for a
time, and was also located .it Nashville, Atlanta, ami
11 ill' South,
He u.i- .1 mi lulu 'i ..I the firsi Railroad I ommission of
being appointed bj Gov, James I' Porter. For
Assistant Clerk of the llmise of Rep re
sentatives .11 Washington, ami in 18-5 ami 18;; was Clerk oi
nn< 51 ' Senate.
He held various other important public position-, oil
which was from President Cleveland in Washington. His
death occurred at his old home, in Morristown, August 25,
1906. He was, therefore, seventy-nine years old. While a
positive character, he was a most agreeable man and never
willingly offended his fellow-man. He was for many years
a member of the Methodist Kpiscopal Church. South. Vmong
his papers was found the following, which had evidentlj
been recently written:
"All through life I've seen a cross
Where sons of God yield up their breath .
There is no gain except by loss;
There is no gain except by death."
A little lower on the same sheet lie had written: "So
111 ti 1 tin- believer."
Mr. Helms's grandfather, Rev. John S Helms, was .
neer Methodist minister in Virginia, being one of the first
given license to preach by the celebrated Bishop Asbury; and
the license, now in the possession of his son, is one of the
1 .lined of the family relics. This minister was not a sol-
dier of the Revolutionary War ; but his brother was the Cap-
tain Leonard Helm, who was associated with George Roger'
Clarke in the winning of what was then the great Northwest
The editor of the Veteran had a long and delightful friend-*
ship with Colonel Helms.
F. J. Manning.
Death claimed Comrade Frank J. Manning at his home,
near Charleston, W. Va., recently. A local paper, the Spirit
of Jefferson, st.it' s
"Mr. Manning was a native of this county, having been
born on the farm where he died in November, 1849. Almost
before he entered boyhood the War between the States began.
Fired with the spirit that animated the boys of his native county
at that time, he eluded his mother, and at the tender age of
fourteen years volunteered in the Confederate army, enlist-
ing in Company B, 12th Virginia Cavalry. A severe bullet
wound that rendered him an invalid the remainder of his life
attested his courage and supplied proof of his devotion to the
cause for which he fought. When the war was over, he was
sent to the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, where
he completed his education Returning from school, he took
upon himself the management of hi- large landed estate. Vin
ton, near town. In addition to his large farming operation-.
Mr. Manning engaged in raising tine stock, making a specialty
of high-bred horses. Mrs. Manning (who was before her
marriage a Miss Cowan, of Rockingham County 1. threi daugh-
ters (Mrs. S. Preston Smith, of Charleston. W. Va., Mis-c-
Delia and Antoinette Manning, at Vinton), and one - n 1 Ml
T. J. Manning) survive.
"Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in Zion
Episcopal Church, conducted by Rev. J. S. Alfriend. and were
largely attended. John W. Rowan Camp and the Jef-
ferson County Camp, U. C. V., and the Stonewall Jai
Camp, U. S. C. V.. forming an escort."
John M Rus
W. A. Campbell, of Columbus. Mis-., writes that John M.
Russell, who was a member of Company H. Muldrow's Regi-
ment of Mississippi Cavalry. Ferguson's Brigade, died in Co-
lumbus on October 14, aged seventy-six years. He was a
native of York District, of South Carolina, and was a good
soldier of the Confederacy. "I was orderly," says Comrade
Campbell, "and could always depend upon him."
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Col. W. H. Tibbs.
Col. William H. Tibbs was one of the few members of the
Confederate Congress who had survived the forty-first an-
niversary of the fall of the Confederacy. On June 10, 1906,
he celebrated his ninetieth birthday. He was until a short
while before his death remarkably alert and vigorous as well
as physically active for one of his years. He had been suc-
cessful in business after the close of the war, but died without
large means.
He was well known through the South. In 1833 a"d 1834
he was a resident of Columbus, Ga. Shortly after that he
assisted in the removal of the Indians from North Georgia,
from the same section of the State in which he lived. Later
he moved to Tennessee, and it was from that State that he
was elected to the regular Confederate Congress. He was
a firm believer in the duty of every man of proper age going
to the front in the service of his country, and he introduced
and secured the passage of the conscript act, under which the
Confederacy secured many more men.
Believing that there was a scarcity of men at the front, he
declined to make the race to succeed himself in the Confed-
erate Congress, shouldered his gun, and went to the front.
Hon. A. S. Colyar, whom he had formerly defeated, was
elected to succeed him.
Capt. David Puckett.
On the 14th of October, in Brandon, Miss., after a long ill-
ness, Capt. David Puckett, one of the "old guard," a member
of Rankin Camp, No. 265, U. C. V., departed this life, leaving
a widow and two daughters, Mrs. John A. Gayden, of Bran-
don, and Mrs. J. W. Tucker, of Cato, Rankin County. Captain
Puckett enlisted in Company A, 6th Mississippi Infantry, was
wounded at Shiloh, and on May 1. 1863, was captured at Port
Gibson, Miss., and carried to Johnson's Island, where he re-
mained a prisoner until the close of the war. While there he
was drawn to be shot under some retaliatory order, which was
fortunately rescinded. During those horrible days of suspense
he never at any time lowered his crest nor swerved from his
allegiance to the flag he loved. He was a true and faithful
Confederate; and after the war, in the fearful reconstruction
era, he stood for the rights of his people, and no man in his
limited sphere did more to rid his country of radical rule. He
was a good citizen and a true friend. He was treasurer of his
county and a member of the Legislature. In every position he
was true and faithful. He was entering his seventieth year.
James P. Craver.
The W. P. Lane Camp, Marshall, Tex., mourns the death
of another loyal, faithful, and beloved comrade. James P.
Craver was born on December 22, 1844, in the State of Geor-
gia. He entered the Confederate service December 20, 1862,
as a private in Company D, 32d Texas Infantry, and was
mustered out of service at the close of the war, in 1865. As
he was when only a boy true and faithful to his country and
her cause, so when the war was over he addressed himself
with the same unswerving fidelity and zeal to the building up
of her waste places, to the encouragement of his fellow-men,
and to the establishment of that golden rule which requires
us to do as we would be done by. At Kennesaw Mountain he
was shot through the right lung, and one rib was taken out
and carried off. He was believed to be dead, and was taken
to the dead house, where he remained all night. The next
morning he was discovered to be still living, and was taken
back to the hospital ; and after many weeks of suffering, he
recovered and returned to his command.
Comrade Craver's death occurred on June 25, 1906. at his
home, in Harleton, Tex., and the next day with willing hands
but sorrowing hearts we laid him in his grave with the usual
ceremonies in the presence of his large family and many sor-
rowing friends.
Dr. M. A. Brown.
Comrade M. A. Brown died sitting in his chair in Marshall,
Mo.. October 31, 1906. Dr. Brown was born in Albemarle
County, Va., in 1833. In i860 he entered the University of
Virginia to study medicine, and in the spring of 1S61 was grad-
uated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Upon
his return home he found his county in turmoil over the War
between the States. He at once enlisted in the Missouri State
Guard, which afterwards became a part of the Confederate
army. He was at once made regimental surgeon, with rank
of major of cavalry, which position he held throughout the
entire war. He was married in the early seventies to Miss
Mattie Waters, of Boone County, Mo. She died in 1876.
James Edward Hocin.
An independent cavalry company was organized in June,
1861, and elected T. C. Sanders captain and V. H. Allen, R.
D. Flippen, and J. E. Hogin lieutenants. It was mustered into
service of the State of Tennessee July 1, 1861.
Comrade Hogin was captured near Corinth. Miss., a few
days after the battle of Shiloh, and was not present at "the re-
organization of the company. When exchanged, he returned
to the company, and served as a private until a vacancy oc-
curred, when he was unanimously elected lieutenant.
On the formation of the 4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment
( familiarly known during the war as "Paul's People") this
company became a part of this regiment, Harrison's Brigade,
and was with the Army of Tennessee to the close of the war,
J. E. hocin.
Confederate l/eterar?
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surrendering at Charlottesville, \\ C, in May, [865. Com-
rade I login was severely wounded at Fayettevilte, N. C.
He was a brave soldier, stanch and faithful, who never
shirked duty in any phase, and had little respect for one who
did. lie was born November 1. 1833; married October 7.
1858; joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1XX5;
and dud September 15. 1906, at his home, near Gordonsville,
Tenn.. loved and respected by all who knew him. Comrade
Hogin is survived by a wife and four children, to whom he
left comforts <>f life and a heritage of integrity and honesty.
|(i ( Moore sink the Foregoing sketch.]
Deaths of Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans.
Smee his report i<> the Veteran of deaths in the member-
ship of this Camp. Thomas Shannon writes that "four more of
our dear comrades have answered the last roll and passed over
the river to rest under the shade of the lues" The) are:
James Yeale. private in Company II. 3d Virginia Infantry;
died June 14. I906.
James T. Stewart, private in Company < 1, 9th Virginia In-
fantry; died August _'_'. tooO.
James \\ Fendley, color hearer in Company (I. olh Virginia
Infantry; died Vugust 31, 1906.
Edmond Augustus Perry, private in Company l>. 61st Vir
ginia Infantry; died October 24. 1906.
M. C. Cooper.
Marcellus Carter Cooper was born in Augusta, Ga., Decem-
ber 6, 1834. On reaching his majority he left home for Mont-
gomery, Via., where he remained several years, and then
moved to Orion. At the outbreak of the War between the
States he enlisted with Pike Grays, A. P. Love commanding.
and was elected lieutenant. The companj entered the 226
Alabama at Notasulga, Via., Octobei 6, 1861, ami went into
ramp near Mobile with Gladden's Brigadi \t the battle of
Shiloh he was wounded, hut remained with Ins command, lie
was a g. ill. nil soldier, an clhcicnt officer, and served his coun-
try till the close of the war with fervencj and eal iln war
oxer, he returned to Orion, Ala., where' he was most happily
married to Miss Texas J. Farrior. and to them were born
eight children, four of whom, with his wife, survive him and
mourn their great loss For a long time he was a citizen of
Montgomery, and then removed to Meldrim, Ga., where he
died June 15, 1006. On December 24, 1900, he became a mem-
ber of Camp l.omax, No. 151, U. C. V., of Montgomery, Via.,
and after his removal to Georgia joined Lafayette McLaws
Camp, No. 59(1, of Savannah.
"Doc" Cooper, as he was known, was an excellent citizen,
;i line friend, a devoted husband and fat In r, and a Christian
gentleman. May he awake with a likeness that will satisfy!
Maj. R. G. Cross.
Maj. R. CJ. Cross died in Rome, Ga., November 6, 1906.
Winn the War between the States began, Major Cross was
engaged in the hardware business in Nashville with the firm
of Macey i\ Hamilton, The 44th Tennessee Regiment was
organized in and around Nashville. The Rev. Wiley M. Reed
was the first colonel, and he served as such until after the
battle of Shiloh, when the regiment was reorganized with
John S. Fulton as colonel; McEwin, of Franklin, lieutenant
colonel; Henry Kwin. of Nashville, rr.ijor; and Lieut. R. G.
Cross was made adjutant. This regiment was assigned to
the command of Gen. I'.ushrod R. Johnson, and remained
with this celebrated old brigade until the close of the war.
It participated in the Kentucky campaign, in the battles of
Perryville, Murfreesboro, and at Chickamauga. Maj. Henry
I win was killed in the battle of Murfreesboro After the
battle of Chickamauga, it was consolidated with the J.sth
Tennessee Regiment, commanded by Lieut. Col K B Snow-
den. Il accompanied (Jen. Bushrod Johnson's Division to
East Tennessee It was in the attack at Fort Saunders, at
Knoxvillc. at Bean Station, and in the fights around Peters-
burg, Drurv's Bluff, and at Fort Harrison, in Virginia. In
these lights Colonel Fulton, Lieutenant Colonel McEwin, and
Major McCarver wire killed. Major Cross and Colonel
Snowden were wounded and Capt. W. T. Blakemorc. V l>
C. lost in, leg. This command was surrendered at Vppo
mattox C IL In all these tights Major Cross frequently
acted as adjutant of the brigade, He was a conscientious,
gallant soldier After the war he married and settled in
Cleveland. Tenn. wlnre he remained a few years, then
removed to Rome. Ga., and engaged in ill' insurance husi-
ness Major Cross was of Scotch descent, and was m his
-e\ enty-fourth year
Mrs W. !■'. Spurlin.
Iln' loss t" our friend and patron. Col W, I''. Spurlin. in
the death of Ins beloved companion of more than fifty years
elicits the sympathy of friends everywhere. After some
months oi gi. "In, die failing health, her death occurred "ii the
morning of October 25, 1906, so suddenly that it came as a
shock i" .'" Her maiden name was Catherine Jane' Hubbard.
She was born in [836 in Livingston, Sumter County, Ala.;
but in earlj childhood removed t" Wilcox County, where, in
[855, she' was united in marriage to William F. Spurlin. Onlj
a son, Rev. W. IV Spurlin. of Demopolis, now survivi
ih. lour children horn to them. Noble tributes were paid to
her as wife', mother, and Christian. She was a leader always
among the' Daughters "i tin Confederacy, giving her turn and
labor i" the' mane good wrnks of the organization at Camden,
The resolutions passed bj ihe Chapter there speak of her as
"ow "f its most efficient and zealous members, who never
tailed in her deep sympathy and earnest work."
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Judge Walter H. Rogers.
From the resolutions passed by Camp No. 2, Army of Ten-
nessee, New Orleans, La., the following notes are taken on
the life of Judge Walter H. Rogers, who died there on April
16, 1906:
"Walter Henry Rogers was born in New Orleans October
13, 1843, and educated in the public schools of the city, from
which he graduated with highest honors. He was among the
first to respond to the call of his State for soldiers, and in
April, 1861, enlisted in the first company of Louisiana Volun-
teers under command of Capt. Charles D. Dreux, going at
once to the seat of war. He was with this company for
twelve months in Virginia, and then joined Fenner's Battery.
"Subsequently he became attached to the military court,
serving throughout the war. He surrendered May 10, 1865.
Returning to New Orleans, he took up the study of law, grad-
uating from the University of Louisiana in 1866 as valedic-
torian of his class. He became prominent in the practice of
his profession and as a man of public spirit. In the revolt of
1874 against the alien government he took a prominent part
in the struggles which led to the redemption of the State under
the leadership of the gallant Francis T. Nicholls. From 1876
to 1880 Comrade Rogers was Judge of the Fifth District Court
for the Parish of Orleans, and afterwards Judge of the State
Court of Appeals. Resigning in 1884, he resumed the practice
of law ; but late in that year was elected to the State attorney-
ship. In exalted public trusts he discharged his duty with
fidelity and efficiency.
"Comrade Rogers was a charter member of the Associa-
tion of the Army of Tennessee, of which he was President for
four years, during which time the tomb of the Army of Ten-
nessee was erected in Metairie Cemetery. He also aided in
the establishment of Camp Nicholls, the Confederate Home
for Louisiana, and served as President of the Board of Ad-
ministrators for some years.
"His private life was dominated by the same principles
which guided him in his discharge of public affairs. He was
a public-spirited citizen, ever ready to aid in beneficent enter-
prises ; he was a lover of his fellow-man, and none appealed
to him in distress without receiving aid and sympathy ; he
was a practical and sincere Christian, devoted to the services
of his Church ; he was endeared to all who knew him through
his courtesy and kindness; a faithful and loyal friend, pub-
lic-spirited citizen, to whom his State and city were indebted
for many years of wise counsel and untiring services. For
all these qualities the people of New Orleans and comrades of
the United Confederate Veterans deeply mourn because of
his death."
Mat. Frank McIntosh Myers.
Maj. Frank M. Myers died at his home, near Lincoln, Va.,
it is supposed, of heart failure. He enlisted early in the war,
and was promptly promoted for bravery to the captaincy of
Company A, White's Battalion ; and finally, toward the close
of the war, he was commissioned major of the 35th Battalion
of Virginia Cavalry. He was conspicuous as a daring cavalry
leader, and was painfully wounded at Tom's Brook while
campaigning with Early in the Valley of Virginia. He was a
member of Clinton Hatcher Camp, and warmly espoused every
effort that had for its object the preservation of the truth of
history.
Major Myers had been for some years a devoted member
of the Primitive Baptist Church. He was well grounded in
the faith and loved the brethren. He had a bright mind and
an exceptionally retentive memory. He was a writer of more
than ordinary ability, as is evidenced by his cleverly written
history of White's Battalion entitled "The Comanches." His
war reminiscences were always thrillingly interesting.
Major Myers had a kind, sympathetic heart and a character
strikingly adorned with many beautiful, lovable traits. His
disposition was almost effeminate in its retiring modesty, yet
he was brave and courageous and at all times a courtly,
chivalrous gentleman.
Major Myers was married to Miss Fannie Shawen, who
preceded him to the grave some years since. Of this union,
there are living two daughters and three sons, all of whom
are grown. One of the latter, Mr. D. C. Myers, is Deputy
Treasurer and Deputy Sheriff for Mount Gilead District.
Col. James D. Blanding.
Col. J. D. Blanding died October 24, 1906, in Heriot, Lee
County, S. C, from a paralytic stroke. Much honor was paid
Colonel Blanding's memory in Sumter, the place of his funeral.
Colonel Blanding had entered his eighty-sixth year. It is
said that no man in South Carolina was better known or held
in higher esteem that Colonel Blanding. He was a survivor
of the Mexican War. As a lawyer, he was a brilliant success ;
as a Christian citizen, he was patriotic, energetic, and generous.
In 1876, when real men were needed so badly, Colonel Bland
ing's work and brain did more for South Carolina than can
be realized.
Col. James Douglass Blanding was a son of Abram and
Mary C. Blanding, and was born in Columbia, S. C, June 26,
1821. He read law under his uncle, William F. DeSaussure,
in Columbia, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1842.
He married Lenora A. McFaddin, of Sumter County, in Feb-
ruary, 1849. He was Secretary of the Board of Trustees of
the South Carolina College from 1843 to 1852, and before the
great war he was a Trustee of the Sumter Academical So-
ciety. After the war he was a Trustee of Davidson College,
North Carolina; also of the Agriculture and Mechanical Col-
lege of South Carolina.
He was colonel of the 22d Regiment of South Carolina
Militia in the forties. He was mustered into the United States
service in 1846, and served from the siege of Vera Cruz to the
capture of the City of Mexico as adjutant, and was promoted to
captain after Colonel Butler was killed. He was mustered out
of service in September, 1848. He raised the first company in
Sumter district for State service, which became Company D,
of the second of the ten regiments raised by the State in an-
ticipation of its ordinance of secession. It was the first regi-
ment to reach Morris Island before the fall of Fort Sumter.
This regiment w:as made the basis for the organization of the
sectjnd, the ninth, and the twelfth regiments mustered into
Confederate service from South Carolina under command of
Col. J. B. Kershaw, Lieut. Col. J. D. Blanding. and Maj.
Dixon Barnes. Colonel Blanding carried the Ninth to Vir-
ginia, reaching the field of First Manassas on the evening of
the battle.
Being disabled, and yet anxious to continue in service, he
was ordered to report to the inspector general, and was as-
signed to duty as inspector of seacoast batteries from Charles-
ton to the North Carolina line and of the regiments of re-
serves on the coast. He also did duty in the ordnance depart-
ment, and so served until the end of the war.
He was an active Democrat, and for over forty years was
a deacon and elder in the Presbyterian Church. After fifty
years of professional work, he retired on account of defective
hearing, the primary cause of which was the bursting of a
shell near his ear during the War between the States.
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Maj. John T. Hunt.
\ Daughter of the Confederacy writes from Barnesville,
Ga., of the sudden death of Maj. John T. Hunt. Commander
of the Pike Camp of Confederate Veterans:
"Major Hunt was not only a brave, true soldier during the
War between the States but an honored soldier of the cross,
and for seventeen years was
superintendent of the Metho-
disl Sabbath school.
"He was born in Putnam
County, Ga., in 1X42; and died
in December, tgos lb' was
a pupil of old Mount Zion
Academy with Professor Neel,
•1 Gordon Institute, but came
in Barnesville when quite
young 1 [e enlisted with the
Hollo way Grays under Capt.
A. J. White, afterwards being
transferred to the 3d Georgia
Battalion of Sharpshooters,
who fought bravelj in Vii -
ginia, at Missionary Ridge,
and at Franklin. I lis old comrades urn- very dear to him,
and tin- deepest fount of feelings was stirred whenever he
addressed them, llis fluency 111 oratory was proverbial, and
his command of language was always ready for any emer-
gency, lie was married during the war to Miss Mattie High-
tower, a gradual, of Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. After
her death, he was again married. Mrs Addie Chambers Davis
becoming his second wife. Her heart and borne are now in
gloom.
"The Barnesville Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy,
bad conferred on bun ibe honor of presiding every year as
master of ceremonies on Memorial Day.
"Major limit bad often expressed the wish to be buried in
his Confederate gray uniform, with the cross of honor and
badgi of his I amp over his hearl I his request was of course
complied with, and on that noble heart was stamped: 'True
to his principles oi right, true to bis friends, and true to bis
God.' Gen, Clement A. Evans, the grand old soldier and
Christian gentleman, officiated at the funeral services, which
wen attended bj a large number of veterans, and in bis beau-
tiful tribute said no one was more deserving."
Major Hunt was a brother to James Hunt, whose wife, as
Murphy, is held in sacred remembrance by the Yki 1 u \\.
Both families were oi Barnesville. In a personal letter the
author of tin- sketch, Mrs. Loula Kendall Rogers, writes:
"I have been surprised thai the Camp lure did not -end an
: Major Hunt, he was so true and so devoted
comrades Out Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy,
furnished a handsome Moral design and marched in a bodj
to the church and then to the cemel
Lucien C Rickei rs.
Lucien C. Kick it-, a prominent citizen of Guyandotte, W.
\ ' a survivor oi thi 1 onfederate army, died on September
18, [906, 111 Ins sixtj econd year. He was a graduate of the
Virginia Military Institute, and a lawyer by profession, pos-
SCSSing a brilliant mind, and in bis earlier days was Considered
the ablest young lawyer in the State of Virginia. He en-
listed 111 tlie Cot army at (be outbreak of the war, and
served upon ihe staff of Gen, Albert Gallatin Jenkins, who
was also from that KCtion, He resumed bis practice after
the war, and was twice prosecuting attorney for Cabell County,
and was land examiner for the government under Cleveland's
administration. Comrade Ricketts was a member of Camp
Garnett. His wife survives him with two daughters and a
son.
Capt. James R. DuBose.
Capt. James R. DuBose, of Asheville, N. C, fell asleep on
the 29th of September, 1906 He was born in Wilkes County.
Ga., in January, 1837, and was educated at Washington, Ga.
In the Spring of 1861 he enlisted as a private with the Irwin
Guards, and in June bis company was sent to Virginia and
assigned to the Oth Georgia Regiment. "Tigc" Anderson's
Brigade. In June of that year be was commissioned by Presi-
dent Davis as second lieutenant and ordered to report to the
tst Regiment of Georgia Regulars for duty. He was assigned
to Company M and remained witb it during the war. In 1864
be was promoted to captain, and surrendered with bi- com-
pany at Greensboro on the 26th of April, 1865.
\ comrade write-: "An Upright, honorable man. a brave of-
luer, and a consecrated Christian has gone to bis reward"
S, C. Tt'LLOS.
Resolutions adopted by W. R. Plemons Camp, Amarillo,
lex., on September 16, 1006, express their loss in the death
of S. C. Tullos, an esteemed member, of whom it is stated that
be was born in Bedford County. Turn.. March 9, 1838. He
enlisted in Company F, 4th Tennessee Regiment, in May, 1861,
and participated in many battles and endured many bard cam-
paigns. Being pleased with bis gallantry and ability. Gen.
Earl Van Dorn appointed him as aid-de-camp on his staff,
which position he occupied when the General was killed. He
afterwards was detailed for the bodyguard of President Davis.
\fler tlie tall of tlie ( 'on federaey. be accepted the changed
conditions and set about to help build up the waste placi s.
and in bis citizenship reflected honor as did In- soldiership
for the Confederacy, lie was married in 1867 to Miss Josii
Robinson, who has stood by him through an eventful life to
the end on the 22d of August, [906 A son and two daughters
aie left a- her comfort 111 ibis affliction.
M \ 1 S\ 1 vest! r 1 ' Cooper.
IIh death of Mai S 1 Coopei occurred at bis home, in
Puryear, Tcnn.. on the morning of September 11, 1900. Majoi
Cooper was a gallant (onfederate an. I a splendid citizen. He
entered tlie service a- captain of Companj I', 4Mb Tennessee
Infantry, ami was later promoted lo major and commanded
bis regiment at Franklin. Of his conduct on that occa ion
1 ."\ .lames I). Porter, in bis addle-- al tlie unveiling 1 f the
Henry County monument, said: "Major Cooper wa- in com-
mand of the 46th Tennessee, and in the assault bj > >
Brigade won distinction He led 111- men up to tbe enemy's
work-, where In- color bearer. Paul Sullivan, planted bis
tlag. Cooper, by bis side, was tbe fore leader of bis regiment,
lb earned tbe 111.11 over tbe enemy's work-, where be was
shot down."
After the surrender, be lived a useful citizen For many
years be was an influential member of the County Court.
and served with fidelity in both brandies of the Legislature.
He was always on tbe moral side of all public question \
a member of Fitzgerald Camp. l\ C. Y.. be was interested in
1 onfederate matter-, and presided over it- meeting for
years.
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Col. Stephen Decatur Thruston.
Dr. S. D. Thruston, a prominent physician of Dallas, died
there in December. He had been in poor health for several
months. Colonel Thruston was born November 28, 1833, in
Gloucester, Va. His father, who was a prosperous farmer,
died when he was ten years of age, leaving a widow and five
children — three sons and two daughters. He was sent to the
academy at Stephensville, where he remained until he was
seventeen. He then attended the University of Virginia,
where he remained for three years — two years in the study of
medicine. Shortly after leaving the University of Virginia he
entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl-
vania.
Dr. Thruston settled in Wilmington, N. C, where he prac-
ticed medicine. In 1856 he married Miss Anne Everett. He
was a member of the Wilmington Light Infantry, who were
the first to respond to the call of the Governor for troops, and
his regiment was the first to throw the dirt at Fort Fisher.
Dr. Thruston was chosen captain of Company B, 3d North
Carolina Infantry. This regiment was ordered to the Po-
tomac, but arrived too late to participate in the first battle
of Manassas. At the battle of Antietam it received its first
baptism of fire. During this engagement the colonel of the
regiment was killed and Captain Thruston took command, and
it is said that ninety per cent of his men were killed. After
the battle he was highly complimented for his bravery by
Gens. D. H. Hill and James Longstreet. His next hard fight
was in the battle of Chancellorsville. His last engagement
was in front of Winchester with General Early's command,
when they were defeated by the Union army under Sheridan.
During the four years of his army life Colonel Thruston was
wounded four times. At Antietam seven bullets pierced his
jacket, one of them entering bis right lung. He remained in
the hospital for ten days, when he rejoined his command. At
Chancellorsville he was shot through the left foot, the injury
proving so serious that he was compelled to retire. This
prevented him from participating in the battle of Gettysburg,
but he again joined the regiment on its return at Orange C.
H. On May to, 1864, he was injured in front of the Spottsyl-
vania courthouse, a Yankee bullet going through his left lung.
The last injury he received was on September 9, 1864, in the
battle of Winchester, when he was shot through from hip to
hip. completely disabling him and ending his military career.
In the' year 1872 Dr. Thruston went to Texas and lo-
cated in Dallas, where he lived ever afterwards. He was
married twice. His first wife died in 1887, leaving two chil-
dren, both of whom have since died. He. was married the
second time on April 2, iS8q, to Mrs. Ella V. Chappell (nee
Wilson), who survives him. He was a member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, and was a steward in the
Church until his death. As a Church worker 1.. was untiring.
Dr. Thruston was the examining physician for a number
of insurance companies. The following is a list of the pall-
bearers : Honorary — Gen. W. L. Cabell, W. S. Kirby. Col. Will
Holland, Will Apperson, Dr. J. B. Shellmire, Judge N. W.
Finley, and Col. J. R. Cole. Active— Dr. J. M. Pace. Dr. W.
R. Allen, A. G. Wills, Duncan Culbreatb, Henry W. Jones,
Capt. W. 11. Gaston, and S. J. Hay.
Col. John N. Clarkson.
Col. John N. Clarkson, a gallant Confederate and for years
prominent in the affairs of West Virginia, died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Mollie Langley, in Charleston, W. Va.,
on October 12. 1906. He had passed his four score some years
ago. Colonel Clarkson was a native of Albemarle County,
Va., but settled in Kanawha County in 1834. He married
Miss Anna Early, sister of Gen. Jubal A. Early, who became
distinguished as a Confederate general. His wife died many
years ago, leaving a son and daughter. Colonel Clarkson was
a man of great intellect and strength of body, and was a
prominent citizen of West Virginia for twenty-five years pre-
ceding the war. He held prominent positions under both Gens.
John B. Floyd and Henry A. Wise while they were in com-
mand of Confederate troops in Western Virginia, and as colo-
nel under these generals he had various engagements with the
enemy in different places, in which he was successful. His
noted bravery, his readiness to fight whenever the occasion
required it gave him the reputation of a daring and fearless
man.
In the year 1863 the scarcity of salt in the Confederate
States and the well-known ability of Colonel Clarkson as a
salt manufacturer induced the Legislature of Virginia, at
Richmond, to pass a law taking the salt works at Saltville,
Va., out of the hands and control of its owners, Stuart and
Palmer, and placing the property in charge of Colonel Clark-
son, who agreed to make the salt and sell the same at a very
reduced price to the States of the South. He continued at
this business until the war terminated.
Subsequent to the war he was actively engaged in different
pursuits. Under Cleveland's administration he was a con-
tractor in Washington City. He carried to his grave several
bullets received in conflicts with the enemy.
Maj. P. W. Farrell.
The death of Maj. P. W. Farrell, of Blackwell, S. C. oc-
casioned much regret in his circle of friends and acquaintances
of the State. He had gone to North Augusta for medical
treatment soon after the death of his wife, and there passed
away on the 5th of October, 1906.
Before the war Major Farrell was a resident of Charleston,
and with many of its citizens served the Confederacy bravely
and devotedly for four years. He was attached to Walter's
Battery, first known as the Washington Artillery, and by its
commander, Capt. George H. Walter, he was regarded as a
model soldier and a credit to the company.
After the war he settled in Blackville, where he became
prominent and prosperous in business. His noble character-
istics won many friends, and his home was the s; at of hos-
pitality. He was on the staff of Maj. Gen. Thomas W. Car-
wile, commanding the State Division U. C. V., and took an
active interest always in reunions of Confederate survivors.
Major Farrell was arder'h- attached to the home of his child-
hood, Charleston, and his visits hack there were a source of
pleasure to himself and his many devoted friends of that city.
He was patriotic and progressive, and during reconstruc-
tion he worked untiringly for home rule. His love was given
also to his native Ireland, in whose affairs he was deeply in-
terested. He is survived by a son and three daughters.
Capt. J. L. Price.
Capt. J. L. Price, a former Commander of N. B. Forrest
Camp of Chattanooga, Tenn.. a gallant soldier, courteous
gentleman, and good citizen, died at his home, in St. Elmo, on
the 24th of November, and was buried on the following day
in the Confederate Cemetery by his comrades of the Camp.
He served through the war in Cutts's Artillery, A. N. V., sur-
rendering at Appomattox. He was much loved and will be
sorely missed.
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////: SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR.
The i<Ka i>f the Southern Cross of Honor to be given by
the United Daughters of the Confederacy to the Veterans
and descendants i f deceased Confederate soldiers and sailors
originated with Mrs. Mary Ann Cobb Erwin, Athens, r,a.
The design offered by Mrs. S. E Gabbett, Atlanta, Ga.,
chairman of the committee appointed by Mrs Katie Cab I'
i urn President U. D. C. at Hot Springs, Ark., November,
[898, to procure designs, was accepted at Richmond, Ya ,
November, [899. The members of the committee were Mrs
S. E. Gabbett, Chairman, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. ('. Helen Plane,
Atlanta, (ia.: Mrs. Mary Ann Cobb Erwiri, Athens, Ga
Upon the resignation of Mrs. Erwin, Miss Mildred Lewi
Rutherford, Athens, Ga., was appointed in her place
lh rules formulated by this committee wire found insuf-
ficient t" meet the many questions thai arose regarding the
bestowal of the Cross, so at the request of Mrs Gabbett, who
bad been appointee! Custodian of the Cross at Richmond,
t8oo, Mrs. Edwin G. Weed, President of U. D C, enlarged
the committee at Montgomery, Ala., November, 1000.
I In- members of tins committee are Mrs. Cornelia Branch
Stone. Galveston. Tex.. Chairman; Mrs, Virginia Faulkner
McSherry, West Virginia; Mrs. J. \Y. Tench, Florida; Mrs J
\Y. Thompson, Florida; Mrs. iVcde, California; Mrs. L. 11.
Kaine-. < , 1 ■ ■ . 1 ■_■ 1 , 1 : Mis Andrew Hroaddus, Kentucky
Rules tor Bestowal of Cross ot Honor.
Rule I
Seetion 1. Each State and Territorial Division shall eleel
or appoint ,1 Recorder of Cross of Honor to whom Chapters
shall apply for blank certificates of eligibility to be filled oul
bj the Veterans and blank forms for alphabetical lists to be
filled out with data from the certificates by the President of
the Chapter ordering Crosses. When so tilled out. these shall
I. int in thi Recorder of said Division for approval or cor
reel ion and forwarded by her to the Custodian of tile Cross,
who will forward the Crosses to the Chapter, The Recorder
shall apply to the Recording Secretary General, I* D. C.,
for the blank forms of certificates and blank forms of alpha-
betical lists, supply these on demand to the Chapter-, accom
panied bj an order to the Custodian, signed by the President
General and Recording Secretary General, U, D. C.
Seetion 2. The oldest living lineal descendant of Veterans
who has not received a Cross maj secure it in any county,
provided thai three consecutive monthly notices be inserted
in the city and county papers calling upon Veterans to send
in certificates for Crosses. If at the expiration of three
months there are no other applications from Veterans, tin
bestowal of Crosses upon such descendants may begin, the
same to be governed bj rules for bestowal upon Veterans.
Win re then i- no lineal descendant desiring the CrOSS, il may
In bestowed upon the widow of the Veteran who has nm re
ceived a Cross, provided she be a Confederate woman, one
who has endured the hardship- and privations of the period
from "sixtj One to sixtj five." No descendant or widow can
econd Cross, nor can such descendant or widow
wi.n He Cross The Recording Secretary General will sup-
0 tin Recorder of Cms- ,,f Honoi oi each State and
Territorial Division special blank form- of certificates for
de cendants and widow- which musl be filled oul with data
of eligibilit) of ancestor or husband.
Rule II.
Section i No Crosses will Ik? furnished by the Custodian
nnh's- thi ordei is accompanied bj certificates of eligibility
properly idled out by the Veterans and certified to by two or
more members of a Camp of United Confederate Veterans
and alphabetical list from Chapter President.
Section 2. Presidents of Chapters -hall Till out blank al-
phabetical lists from tin certificates, with all data contained
therein, and forwarded with certificates to their State Recordet
of Cross of Honor with money order for the number of
Crosses desired The Custodian of the Cross of Honor shall
keep a hook, or hooks, in which shall he kept, alphabetical!)
arranged, the names and data of all Veterans, descendants of
Veterans, and widow- to whom Crosses have been issued.
Section .?. The certificates shall be returned by the Cus-
todian to Ihi Presidents of Chapters who have ordered
Crosses, and the same be placed on file by said Chapter, that
data may be furnished when needed for historical or other
purpose
Section | Each Chapter -hall keep a hook, alphabetically
arranged, in which is recorded the name and service of ever)
Veteran and ancestor of d scendant and widow of a \
wh.. receives a Cross Each State or Territorial Recorder
shall keep a similar record Imok of all Crosses issued
Rule III.
Section I Crosses may be granted by the muster roll oi
the nearest Camp, U. C. V., and to Confederate Veterans who
are not members of a Cam]) who can give the required proof
Of eligibility, attested by two Veterans who are members of
a Camp.
Section 2. The oldest living lineal descendant may secure
the doss by giving the same proof of eligibility as that re-
quired of his Veteran ancestor, and Confederate widov
Veterans applying for Crosses must fill blank form of certifi-
cate, giving service of Veterans whose widows they are. Such
widows must have endured the hardships of the war pi
from l86l to 1S65.
Section 3 Upon the certificate of a reputable physician
■hat .1 Veteran is dying, if desired, he may receive the Cross
immediately.
Rule IV.
Section I 'The Crosses may be bestowed on the Memorial
or Decoration Daj selected by each State or Territorial Di-
vision, C D C, the birthdays of President Jefferson Davis
and General Robert E Lee (June .< and January to), and
.me commemorative day. between July I and January lu. to
he -elected hv each Slate or 'Territorial Division in conven-
tion assembled. 'The presentation shall h accompanied with
such ceremonies a- will give proper dignity to the occasion.
Rule V.
Section 1 A Veteran in good standing having lost his
Cross may have- 11 replaced once only by applying to the
President of the Chaptei from winch he received the Cross,
and he 11111-1 furnish copy of the certificate on which the ( TOSS
u.i- firsl bestowed. If a second Cross i- lost, a certificate
may he given in testimonj that such Veteran has been awarded
., Cross No descendant 01 widow of a Veteran can have a
second ( TOSS
Section 2 Chapter Presidents are urged to advise Vet-
eran- to have their name- engraved on the bar of the CrOSS
for the purpose of identification if lost.
Section 3. A Veteran having Ken awarded .1 Cross and
dying before 11 1- received, the President of the Chapter be-
stowing it may give it to the oldest living lineal descendant
or widow under provisions of Rule 1 . Section -' \ Veteran
having received the Cross may bequeath it to any lineal de-
scendant that he ma\ select.
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Rule VI.
The Cross cannot be worn in any case or on any occasion
except l>y the Veteran upon whom it was bestowed. No de-
scendant or widow can wear it.
Rule VII.
Section i. Where counties have no local organization of
U. D. C. a Veteran may receive the Cross through the Presi-
dent of the nearest local Chapter, or the President (if Chapter
in the county from which he entered the Confederate service
if so desired.
Section 2. When Chapters are not able to bear the expense
of purchasing Crosses for other counties than their own.
these may he furnished at the expense of the General As-
sociation upon the authority of the President General U. D. C.
Rule rill.
All orders for Crosses shall lie filed in the Custodian's of-
fice three wicks before the day intended for bestowal.
Rule IX.
Any Chapter departing from these rules will not be en-
titled to Crosses for presentation. Preceding the presenta-
tion of the Crosses, Rules V.. VI.. VII., VIII. . and IX. shall
be read on every occasion of the bestowal.
The President of each Chapter shall see that the Camps of
Confederate Veterans and Sons of Confederate Veterans in
her county -hall receive a copy of these rules.
-POST-MORTEM STATEMENT" OF MRS. DAVIS.
The startling announcement that a lady of the LT. D. C,
in its annual Convention at Gulfport, Miss., had a "post-
mortem statement of Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis," which it was
proposed to have read, created a peculiar sensation. Of course
all wanted to hear it — men would have bten curious as well.
The paper was a simple statement of conditions whereby Mrs.
Davis had the remains of the Confederate President buried
in Richmond. True, she incidentally explained that Mis-
sissippi did not manifest that interest in his burial place which
she felt was due, but there was neither bitterness nor ill feel-
ing manifested in it. The editor of the Veteran had read
the letter, and he had accounts repeatedly direct from Mrs.
Davis containing the substance of what appears in that
"statement." The failure to give the statement to the public
created widespread comment, as if it were a severe arraign-
ment of people in the State that she loved best. Her daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. A. Hayes, the only surviving child of those
honored parents, has been so worried over the matter that she
wrote Gen. Stephen D. Lee, a part of which letter follows :
"As to this letter of my mother's, allow me to say that it
was written some years ago, and was prompted by a desire to
justify her actions in the eyes of the Southern people, whom
she loved with unfailing loyalty and devotion. This defense
of herself, sent to a friend to be read after her death, she
wrote after numberless articles from different newspapers and
letters condemning her actions were received by her when
sin- was in failing health. If I had been consulted by those
in whose hands it was placed, it should never have been given
publicity; for only last spring, after discussing the fact of
its existence, my mother decided to recall it, and I hoped —
until I heard of its being read — that it had been destroyed.
"Whatever my mother may have been goaded into writing
at the time this letter was sent to Judge Kimbrough, when
she left this world she felt safe in the love and respect and
consideration of her own people, among whom she would
gladly have lived and died if her health had permitted ; but
unfortunately, as you know, she could not bear the excessive
heat of the South, and was very prone in become malarial
there. Then again, after my father's death. - he was afraid
to live in the country with my sister, there being no male
member of our family who could stay with them.
"Besides this, my sister had literary ambitions, and it was
her wish to live in New York, as she felt it would be a bet-
ter field for her efforts and my mother's. After the loss of
my sister, my mother received the most tender consideration
from the many friends, both Northern and Southern, they
had made during their years of residence in New York : ami
as my mother's income was not large, she stayed where she
could live in comfort and health, and most reasonably.
"I might further add that the New York World gave my
mother a handsome salary to become a member of its staff,
and this was another reason why she lived in New York, for
her far from large income made this addition a very welcome
one. Though her brilliant and graceful pen was always ae
the command of the New York World, its managers de-
manded little of her of late years, and showed her the ut-
most consideration, for which I am deeply grateful.
"I do not offer an apology for any action of my mother's,
for I feel she had a right to live where she pleased, and did
what she thought wisest and best at the time; but I must fee!
that if anything" that she wro'e gave offense to the people of
the South, particularly Mississippians, it was misunderstood,
and far from being intentionally hurtful.
"My father's remains were lovingly guarded by the city of
New Orleans, where he died, for over a year; and after much
thought and deliberation, my mother decided that Richmond,
as the seal of government during the Confederacy, was the
proper place for my father and his descendants to rest. If
Mississippi was slow in asking for my father's remains, I
am sure it was not through lack of love and reverence. Also
if Governor Lowry wrote anything which wounded my mother
at the time, I feel sure that he did not intend to do so, for I
know he was one of my father's most devoted and loyal
friends, and I heard my father express the warmest regard
for him many times.
"I urged the claims of Mississippi as above those of all
other States. It was the State which had conferred every
honor upon my father, his best beloved, and where he made
his home during the last years of his life, as also during his
youth. This State he taught his children to love loyally, and
he also taught us that no matter where we were born we
were Mississippians, as he and my mother were. He rejoiced
in the fact that I married a native of Mississippi, one who,
when little more than a child, had joined the Confederate
army, as all of his family had done.
"Let no one think other than that my mother loved and
honored the South and the Southern people above everything;
and let me assure those who may read these lines that with
all the tender letters and respectful resolutions from our be-
loved people of the South before my eyes I, her only surviv-
ing child, feel nothing but deepest gratitude and appreciation
of all the honors showered upon her memory, and I hope that
her few enemies will be silenced if not won by this explana-
tion, which is in no sense an apology.
"To the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the United
Confederate Veterans, to you. their honored Commander and
my father and mother's true and valued friend, also to the
Southern press, whom I ask to publish this letter, I offer
this explanation, and ask that only reverence and respect
shall be given to the memory of my mother, the 'Mother of
the Confederacv." "
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JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION STATISTIC S.
The Jamestown Exposition site takes in three hundred and
fifty acres of land on the southern shore of Hampton Roads
ami contains nearly two miles of water front.
Twenty foreign nations have accepted President Roosevelt's
invitation to participate in the grand military and naval dis-
play.
The grounds of the Exposition are encompassed bj a beauti
ful floral fence more than two miles in length.
"Lee's Parade" named in honor of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee,
the first President of the Exposition Cotnpanj contains thirty
acres in the center of the grounds, and is bordered bj .1 thou
sand apple trees, all transplanted. The magnitude of the
worl of transplanting these large trees is most extraordinary.
The two main exhibit palaces of the Exposition to house
the exhibits of manufactures and "liberal arts" and machinery
.•mil transportation are immense in size and beautiful in con
struction. They contain three hundred and fifty thousand
squai e feel 1 1 exhibit space each.
The various State buildings an artistically grouped along
the water front of the Exposition grounds They are all of
permanent construction, with the ide of selling them as -.11111
mer homes at the expiration of the Exposition
The grand piers, being built l>v the United S'ates govern
ment, will extend out into Hampton Roads for a distai
one thousand feet, ami will be illuminated by more than a
million electric lights. I lie harbor illuminations wall be unique
in that by a novel method of submerged lighting the water
m front i'f tbi' Exposition will have the appearance of a ea
.d liquid gold
The amusement section of the Jamestonvn Exposition wall
be known as "The Warpath." ami is to contain only high
class attractions.
Side trips l'\ excursion steamers will be made throughout
the entire period of the Exposition to the main points of his
torical interest in and about Tidewater. Ya . and such places
as Jamestown Island, mi the Janus River. Yorktown, mi the
"York River." and (lid Point Comfort will be the salient points
visited
'I be attendance at the Jamestown Exposition is expected i"
be larger than an) of the previous celebrations, based upon
the historic and modern attractions and the tact that within
a radius of twelve houi ' ride live twenty-one million people
and within twentj four hours' ride live forty-one million, or
more than half of the entire population of the whole countrj
Watei transportation will evidently bring into use practically
every craft that floats about American shores and all rail
facilities thai can he utilized.
Tin I icposition grounds are nine miles distant from Not
folk, about -in miles from Newport New-, and half a- far
om Old Point Comfort, and are reached bj three streel ca
lines, one railroad, and several ferrj hues, A beautiful bouli
vard i~ being built from Norfolk.
A throbbi re that excels all other Expositions yet
held in this countrj is the patriotic motive, and in it the Smith
is deeplj nit' 1 1 sted.
Memoranda 01 Federai vnd s i \ 1 1 Participation
I he l niled Stat'- government has appropriated $1,575,000.
Certain Siaiis have made appropriations as follows:
Virginia has appropriated in the aggregate $150.1x10.
York has appropriated for mod $70.0011 and to hecoim
B> ad.. I le mi 1007 SSo.ooo.
isylvania has appropriated outright $100,000; New Jer-
sey, $75000; ill, 0; Maryland, $65,006; Massachusetts.
$50,000. North Carolina, $.10,000; Connecticut, $26,000; Illi-
nois, $25,000; Georgia, $5:0,000; South Carolina, $20,000; Rhode
Island. $50,000; Louisiana, $50,000.
Missouri appropriated in 1005 $10,000 E01 moving exhibit,
wuli the assurance of an additional $50,000.
Michigan passed a bill appointing a commission to report
to the nest s, ssion the amount necessarj for proper par-
ticipation. Estimati d. $60,000
Wisconsin passed a hill appointing a commission to report
to the next session the amount necessary for proper partici-
pation. Estimated, $60,000
Florida passed a hill appointing a commission and pledging
the Stale to give an amount necessar) for proper pai
tion. Estimated, $5li,ooo.
Maine appointed a commission to collect $40,000 by public
. I iptions.
Delaware has a hill appropriating $50,000 awaiting action
oi the Legislature.
Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Montana are raising $50,
000 ah for joint exhibition. Legislative action is to be taken
January I.
'Idle Vermont House of Representatives has passed a bill
for $10,000, while Kentucky citizens are raising $40,000.
Western Christian Advocate, Cincinnati. Ohio; "The Con
1 1 m 1; \ 1 1 Veteran is the official organ of the soldiers who
fought for the Confederacy, and gives its space- largel) to
their affairs. The magazine has, however, a permanent his
torical value, as it publishes so much matter that pertains to
the war of the sixties which cannot he obtained elsewhere.
However, 110 element of bitterness nor trace of unfairness to
the other sale can he found 111 its handsome pagi
It will surprise many to learn that the Western Christian
Advocate is constant m making some kindl) reference to the
Veteran. Hardlj an issue fails of some accurate ami gen-
erous mention of its contents.
"The ('in S01 m" — Dr. J. (' Pitner, of Jacksonville, ill..
writes to Dr. Hamill, author .4' "The Old South:" "1 shall
treasure the book for its merits and piia ii a- a token of
friendship." Mrs. Pitner writes of it: "'The Old Smith' was
immediately read with the greatest interest. With all my
Southern blood I could say 'amen' to every chapter. While T
enjoyed ever) page, 1 think the closing paragraph as line a
sentiment as I 1 vcr read."
<,/ \ ROB1 l< I I LEE ON IK WELER M II KING
TON, I ./.. AFTER THE //'./A',
The life-size painting of Gen. R, E, Lee on Traveler. b)
Mrs. 1 Kirbj Parrish, 1- a triumph of high art It has b en
admired by all who have seen it, especially by those who knew
General Lee in life. They regard it as the most faithful and
characteristic portrait yet produced of the great commander.
His famous war horse, ["raveler, 1- here painted from the only
life photograph ever taken of him, which adds much to the
value 1 if the picture.
Photographs from this line painting are now for the first
time offered for sale. There are two sizes, one _'o by -4
inches, price $5; the other, 11 by 14 inches, price $2, Both
are mounted mi the best white card, with wide margins, read)
for framing. Prices have been increased mi account of heav)
expense in getting out pictures. Order from the Confederate
\X.
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INVESTIGATION OF SMOKE BY UNCLE SAM.
A letter of inquiry concerning the J. B. Harris Smoke Con-
sumer elicited interesting correspondence. The following let-
ter was dated Nashville, Tenn., December 21, 1906, and ad-
dressed to Prof. D. T. Randall, Engineer in charge of Smoke
Investigation United States Geological Survey, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
Sir: At the request of Dr. J. B. Harris, inventor and
patentee of the "Harris Smokeless Furnace," we have visited
the Nashville Laundry Company's plant in this city, in whose
furnaces the appliances covered by Dr. Harris's invention are
in operation, and we here give yon the benefit of our obser-
vations.
It was not our object to investigate the details of con-
struction and the modus operandi or principles of the inven-
tion, these being set forth and lucidly explained by Dr. Har-
ris in his printed circulars.
The object of our visit was to simply witness the actuai
result of the use of the appliances, and the following is what
we saw :
1. The fuel used in the furnaces was of a low-grade bitu-
minous coal, the slack or sweepings of the mines.
2. The fuel was fed into the furnaces freely in great quanti-
ties.
3. Looking into the furnaces while appliances were in use,
there was a fiery white glow all over the bed of burning fuel,
and no vapor or smoke apparent.
4. Stepping outside, so as to get a view of the top of the
large brick smokestack, there was no vapor or smoke visible
issuing from the stack or. at times, only a small amount.
The contrast between this smokestack and various others in
the neighborhood, from which were pouring vast volumes of
dense, black smoke, was most striking.
5. When Dr. Harris's appliances were shut off, their opera
tion in the furnaces stopped, then the same phenomenon ob-
served on the neighboring smokestacks, clouds of dense black
smoke, developed at the top of laundry stack.
From our observations it appears to us that there would
result from the use of Dr. Harris's invention by manufacturing
establishments, and all establishments operating furnaces, bene-
fits of great pecuniary value.
1. Bi cause of the economy of fuel, arising from the more
complete combustion.
2. The greater effect of the heat produced by reason of
its application to sheets and flues not cushioned with soot,
as in other furnaces where combustion is imperfect.
These two results it seems would be- of immense value.
And last, and not least, if net greatest, the blessing to every
community in the abolition or reduction to a minimum of
the smoke nuisance, so destructive to comfort and health of
the people.
We think this invention of Dr. Harris's ought to be thor-
oughly investigated by scientific men ; and if it is what it is
claimed to be and what it appears to common-sense observers
to be, then it ought to be introduced everywhere, for the
reasons set forth and stated above.
The letter was signed by George N. Tillman, lawyer; Le-
land Hume, General Manager Cumberland Tel phone and
Telegraph Company and President Nashville Board of Trade;
W. W. Dillon, of R. W. Turner & Co., prominent real estate
agents; Robert Ewing, Business Manager of the American;
Walter E. Knox, General Manager Nashville Terminal Com-
pany , \". H. Howe. President Howe Ice Company; Paul
Roberts, First National Bank Building; John P. Dale. Resi-
dent Agent Erie City Iron Works, Boilers and Engines ;
John D. Anderson. President Empire Coal Company ; J. S.
Walker, Assistant United States Engineer; J. O. Cheek, Pres-
ident Cheek-Neal Coffee Company ; J. W. Pentecost. Super-
intendent City Electric Light Plant ; A. W. Wills, Postmaster
Nashville ; A. B. Anderson, lawyer, ex-member City Council ;
A. M. Tillman. United States District Attorney ; Lewis T.
Baxter, prominent real estate agent; T. P. Weakley, promi-
nent real estate agent ; J. H. Bannerman, Ex-Master Me-
chanic Illinois Central Railway Company; F. W. Smith; W.
N. Holmes, M.D. ; Charles Breyer.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 22, 1906.
I am personally acquainted with the gentlemen whose sig-
natures are subscribed to the foregoing, and certify that they
are men of the highest character and standing in this city,
and their testimony is entitled to great weight.
Respectfully, T. O. Morris. Mayor.
THE J. B. HARRIS SMOKELESS FURNACE.
The Veteran commends the foregoing report unstintedly,
as it seems the great problem of equalizing the forces of
hydrogen and oxygen is solved. Its editor is interested in
the enterprise.
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accompany each order.
There is no limit to the number of books that may be pur-
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the many thousands of Southern book buyers who do not
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equal footing with those who do have such advantages. The
publishers trust that among those accumulating libraries of
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SL& Veterans
FOR
"JACKS! IX" CHARM
as Illustrated, $6.00
Write for illustrations
of other styles. List
No. 18.
S. JV. MEYER
WASHINGTON, D. C.
FARM ROR SALE
For s»'o on Account oi Death.— 100-acre Farm fully
equipped I i afcrienlture. poultrj or stock.raising,
will, an of hard of 137 budded pecan trees, choice
in bearing, « it ii plentj a « I for
buddingm grafting I 9-room house fully fur-
nished, barus, outhouses, chicken houses el
Easy unication with markets of the world
oil lately struck m adjoining parish
Very health; locality. Excellent opportunity fur
a stock i > ress De. Y. R. LkMonnibb,
m SI Claude SI Ni « Oifl ana, La.
Wanted for V.isli. Any Civil War brass
bolt buckles stamped i . S. or C. S. A., also a o
*l:ir wood canteen, ami any Sintlock borse pistol
bearing name ami date on Ink. Describe what
you have .' tu : i \ ,- your price in Srsl lei ter.
DAVIS BROTHERS, Kent, Ohio.
R 1 1 Childress, of Company I'.. 3d
gimeiil. Ivtss\ i'.ngade. now at
Ri coe, rex., want • in I.. can- sninc old
cmni.f' "Parson" Dade, of Company
< i : Dave Maph , ol i ■ impany II ; and
Jackson, "i Company I) — all of
tin' .id I t \as Jackson was captured
. in May. 1X64; Dave
Maples was captured mar Lovejoy Sta-
tion in September, 1X04. by ECilpatrick
in In- raid in the rear of Johnston's
armj Parson" I ladi was last seen
in. 11 Rome in the spring of [864, when
he helped Childress capture one of two
"Yanks" thej had bei 11 cha ing near
their lines.
Mi-- Nannie I. Greer, of Anna, Tin,
reporl 10 ise it 1 her in-
quirj ft ' h Stephens's "U ai
between the States," bul asks thai the
oltl gentleman from Missouri (who i-
t!ir. escori yeai • ami ten and has no
child 1 who "Tit red her the book will
kindl) send her his address again, as it
1' pi ced while -Ik- was ill. as was
also the .itl'li ess oi s< ime one in Tt\.o
who answered her inquiry Sin- would
like to hear from them both again. Her
a-!. In ■ is Rural Route No 1. Anna.
Dr. R. W. Douthat, of the West Vir-
ginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.,
would like lo get into communication
uilh any of the officers or men of Gen.
\ R Wright's Georgia Brigade who
were in the second day's battle at Get-
tysburg. He is making a special study
of that battle, and would be pleased to
nail an\ of 1 hem on that great field in
thf latter part of August.
Mrs, Sallie E. West, of Courtney,
I 1 \ . would like to locate a family in
Tennessee with whom were left a Bible
ami some clothes during the war. The
Bible had the name of J. II. West, and
i' was left by his brother while on re-
trial through a little place called Yan
keetown in Tennessee. Some member
of the family may yet he living and
remember the circumstance.
I'. \ 1 1,11111.1, Adjutant. Dardanelle,
\ik. reports thai at their county reun-
ion in August iiiini j even \ etei an .
members of lamp Mcintosh, No. 531,
I C V., answered to their names, rep-
re 'Hi ing t \ cry branch oi the ( 1 in fed
erate service and nearly every Southern
Matt Onlj li\i have died during the
it .11
O. W. Blacknall, of Kittrell, X C,
wants the following numbers of the
\ 1 1 1 ran to complete his file All of
1893; July, August. October. December,
1895; January, February, March, An
gust, and November, [896. Write him,
stating price asked, They must he m
good condition
J. P I ,e I ie, of Sherman, Te \.. asks
that any ci am nit of I In en I'!. I law ley,
who was born and reared at Camden,
Tenn., will write to him, for the benefit
of the widow, anything of his war record.
She thinks he was with Forrest or Mot
gan in .ii 1 ir at tin- el' ise of the w ar.
\aion A Butts, of Sedalia, Mo.,
makes inquirj for somi comrade who
1 an testify 1 to hi- service in the 1 ■ m
army, lie says he was in
Companj I >. 7th Louisiana Infantry.
ui'l' r Col IV B 1 Vim R< sponsi t" this
will 1» ip]
M. L. Jarrett, of Jarrettsville, M.I..
wishes to know if Frank A Lipscomb is
still In ing I h was a member of I
pany \. 1 -■ Maryland Cavalry, and had
Ins horse shot under him mar Falling
\\ ah 1 ill VugUSt, t St >4
Ki'l.un es of .1 O, Powell, ( ■ unpanj
II. 54th Alabama Volunteer Infantry,
may learn something of his last days by
wntmg to A Galpin, No. 536 College
Avenue, Vppleton, Wis., or to J. D.
Shaw . Warn. I ex,
The 3d Brigadi of the I 1 sea 1 >i
\ ision, U. C V., will hold a reunion it
the midway station on the mterurhan
railway, between Temple and Helton, on
July 5 and <<
The Mel.emore County Confederaii
\ ociation 1 1 exas 1 will hold its Camp
meeting for [905 at McGregor, twentj
miles west oi \\ aci 1, on the Cotton B
railroad.
('apt John W. Kennedy, ol St I ma,
Miss, needs February of 1896 and July
of 1901 to lill out those volumes of the
\ I 1 1 1; \ \ .
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Rev. A. E. Potter, of Rush, Pa., writes
of a Testament picked up by his father,
who served in Company H. 109th Regi-
ment New York Volunteers, just ah r
the capture of Petersburg, April 2, 1865.
on the flyleaf of which is: "Peter W.
Baker's Book, Company B, 5th Regi-
ment Alabama Volunteers. Peter W.
Baker was born November 27, in the
year of our Lord 1837. Now in the
twenty-eighth year of his age." "The
book evidently ran the blockade," say-
Rev. Potter, "for it is an Oxford, printed
at the University Press and dated 1863.
It is a 32mo book, nonpareil type.
I would like to ascertain something con-
cerning this man or his immediate
family."
A. V. Callen, of Cordell, Okla., in-
quires for John F. Doogan, who had
lived with him for three years up to
1861, when he enlisted in William Point-
er's company of infantry for the South.
Mr. Callen heard that he started back
to Carroll County, Ark., after the war,
but he has never seen or heard of him
since. Doogan had entered a tract of
Lun- hundred and sixty acres northeast
of Green Forest, in Carroll County, now
well improved, which was confiscated
for taxes. Mr. Callen is in a position to
help him if possible to locate his where-
abi mts.
D. F. Redding, of Mena, Ark., would
like to hear from any surviving members
of the 32d Texas Cavalry, A. J. An-
drews's Regiment. He is trying to get
proof of his service in order to secure
a pension, being old and needy. Re-
plies can be addressed to Capt. W. S.
Ray, DeQueen, Ark.
Miss .Maud Graham, of Anniston,
Ala., writes that the widow of Larkin
P. Allen wishes to hear from some com-
rades of her husband, so as to establish
her claim to a pension, now so much
needed in her old age. Mr. Allen en-
listed May 12, [862, 111 the 60th Georgia
Infantry from Walker County, Ga„ near
Lafayette, under Capt. Frank Faris, of
Lafayette, General Gordon's command,
and served a little over three years. He-
was taken prisoner just previous to the
surrender and confined at Newport
News. He died in Carroll County, Ga.,
in 1888.
Mrs. Eloise Justice, of Reach City,
Ohio, seeks information of her father's
war record, of which she knows that he
was captain of Cleburne's Sharpshoot-
ers He was Capt. W. A. Brown, of
Grenada, Miss., a West Point cadet.
In the battle of Shiloh, when his flag
bearer fell, he caught the flag, sprang
upon a. parapet, and held it aloft until
wounded near the close of the battle.
He was captured in the battle of Frank-
lin, sent to Johnson's Island, and re-
leased at the end of the war.
G. A. Braswell, of Oxford. Ala., who
served in Company C, 12th Georgia Bat-
talion of Artillery, Gen. C. A. Evans's
Division, Gordon's Brigade, Lee's Army,
wants fi hear from any survivors of his
command. Wash Johnson was captain
of Company C, under Major Buce.
They were first stationed at Savannah.
Ga.. later went to the Tennessee army,
back to Savannah, and then to the Vir-
ginia army, and paroled at Appomattox
C. H.
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Sep W.' Vbbay, of Nashville, Tenn.
(R. R. No. 8, Box 103), makes inquirj
For T. J. ( iarrett, who was a prisi m i
of war al Rock [si and and was in Bar
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"COUNTRY ESTATES OF THE BLUE GRASS."
A handsome library book, showing the far-
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BY MRS. LIZZIE GEORGE HENDERSON, PRESIDENT.
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have very few Chapters winch would not come in under that:
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strength. You are helping us greatly. I thank you for it.
RICHMOND MAKING REUNION PREPARATIONS.
Gen. W. E. Mickle, Adjutant of the United Confederate
Veterans' organization, has returned from a trip to Rich-
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next reunion. He reports that Richmond is making great
preparations, and expects a large crowd. The organizations
in that city will begin soon to raise the necessary funds. As
the Jamestown Exposition occurs next year, Richmond plans
to invite the veterans and their friends to remain five days, so
that they may see everything. They will probably ask that
the gathering commence on May 30, which is the Virginia
Memorial Day of the Confederate veterans and ladies, and
last to and including June 3.
He reports that if this plan is accepted it is intended to
unveil a monument of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart on the 30th. The
Jefferson Davis monument will be unveiled on June 3.
The veterans and their friends will be able to go about to
the various battlefields in the vicinity of Richmond, which are
reached by cars and carriages, and they can also visit the
Chimborazo Hospital, in which so many wounded soldiers
were cared for by the Confederate government. It is ex-
pected that this Reunion will be largely attended
General Mickle has a plan to have two parades. One will
be of the old soldiers entirely, and will be unique, and the
other will be composed of military organizations, Sons and
Daughters of Veterans, sponsors, and other features, and the
old veterans may witness the marching of their children.
Since the foregoing was published, official announcement is
made that the Reunion will begin May 30 and end on June 3.
While the foregoing was written as a personal letter, its
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from its untried view point. There can be no successors to
the Confederate Veterans; they arc fast disappearing from the
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will sustain it is yet to be tested." In answer to this faithful
friend the statement is made that in its fourteen completed
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FORREST'S CAPTURE OF COL. R. G. INGERSOLL.
BY COL. V. Y. COOK, NEWPORT, ARK.
Perhaps a few words about Genera] Forrest's West Ten-
nessee campaign in the winter of 1862 and the capture of Col.
Robert G. Ingersoll would be of interest to the Veteran. The
incidents attending these events occurred forty-four years ago,
and are now recounted without data. I was a boy at the time,
just past my fourteenth birthday, and had not then joined
the army; but was on a runaway from home, with a few
choice associates for that purpose, trying to get South
through the Federal lines, being closely followed by my father,
who, while in perfect accord with the Southern cause, objected
to my entering its army on account of youth.
Thus on the 18th of December, 1862, we were caught almost
in the very jaws of the two hostile forces. Having quit the
main road for a few miles to avoid a collision with a Federal
cavalry column moving southward, upon coming into the
road again we gladly, though unexpectedly, met General For-
rest's advance, composed of four companies of Russell's 4th
Alabama Cavalry, commanded by Capt. Frank B. Gurley, then
near Lexington, in West Tennessee, and which in a very few
minutes thereafter encountered the 3d Battalion of the 5th
Ohio Cavalry, some three hundred strong, commanded by
Capt. James C. Harrison, which command Captain Gurley
charged and drove rearward at a furious gait until the eastern
limits of Lexington were reached, making many captures.
There strong epaulements had been hastily erected for the
Federal artillery, with dismounted cavalry on each flank and
in support.
Here Captain Gurley formed for battle and paused for align-
ment, at which juncture General Forrest arrived with the
main body of his command, and, with an eye and judgment
equal to any emergency, ordered the position on the Federal
left carried, which order was promptly and gallantly executed
by his ever-willing and resolute Tennesseeans and with their
characteristic impetuosity and dash, which nothing in blue
withstood that day.
I sat upon my horse and stared with boyish wonderment at
what appeared an apparition, the most inspiring personage my
eyes had ever beheld. It was General Forrest superbly
mounted upon a spirited animal, which seemed to catch the
inspiration of its master as he led his battalions by our posi-
tion rightward toward the Federal left ; and soon we heard
heavy firing in that direction, accompanied by the Rebel yell,
which transmitted the result to those sturdy soldiers where
we were, and they in turn announced its significance to us.
At that moment Captain Gurley ordered our line forward,
which, coming within the zone of the Federal artillery fire,
was quickly dismounted and advanced in. splendid style.
The 7th Tennessee Federal Cavalry, commanded by Lieut.
Col. Isaac R. Hawkins, occupied the Federal left, in what was
considered a strong position ; but when the Tennessee Con-
federates advanced toward them, their line vanished like
vapor, and thus the position occupied by Colonel Ingersoll
with the nth Illinois Cavalry, dismounted; was flanked and
enfiladed, and he and most of his officers and men captured,
together with all his artillery, small arms, and ammunition.
The Federal artillerists, commanded by Lieut. John W. H.
McGuire, stood stoutly by their guns, alternating with shrap-
nel and canister; but so close was Gurley's line upon them
that their missiles flew harmlessly overhead, and not until
close quarters were reached did Gurley's line sustain any
casualties, where, after a hand-to-hand encounter and an al-
most superhuman defense of their guns, the Federal artil-
lerists yielded to numerical superiority, giving up their guns,
and those not killed became prisoners. Lieutenant McGuire,
after being exchanged, became captain of his battery.
The artillery captured here consisted of two three-inch steel
Rodman guns, belonging to Capt. Merideth H. Kidd's 14th
Indiana Battery, and formed the nucleus for Morton's Bat-
tery, and used thence and effectively by General Forrest until
the end in 1865.
Colonel Ingersoll was a brave and skillful officer; and bad
the Tennessee Federals stood well to their colors, General
Forrest might have been defeated, for his armament was very
ineffective, being a mixture of flintlock muskets, double-barrel
shotguns, and Derringer pistols, and supplied with only a
few rounds of ammunition. He was therefore in poor con-
dition to encounter such formidable equipment as Ingersoll's
men possessed.
Colonel Hawkins was in no manner responsible for the bad
conduct of his regiment on this or any other occasion. He
was a brave, conscientious, though indulgent officer, and no
truer man to his government or to his friends ever donned
the Federal uniform.
Colonel Ingersoll was captured by Capt. Frank B. Gurley,
of the 4th Alabama Cavalry, who, when commanded by Cap-
tain Gurley to surrender, said rather nonchalantly : "Is this
your Southern Confederacy for which I have so diligently
searched?" Being assured that it was, Colonel Ingersoll re-
plied somewhat facetiously : "Then I am your guest until the
wheels of the gnat Cartel are put in motion." He then
added : "Here are the Illinoisans ; the Tennesseeans have in-
gloriously fled."
Never in all General Forrest's captures — and they were
many — did he make such timely acquisitions in war material
as here or capture a foe possessed of so much wit and humor.
CAPT. FRANK B. GURLEY.
Already aware of the aggregated number of Federal troops
stationed at different points in West Tennessee and the names
of the respective commanders, and being anxious to know
whose command he had just encountered, General Forrest ac-
costed Colonel Ingersoll soon after the latter's capture with
the inquiry as to whose command he belonged, and was
promptly answered: "To Colonel Ingersoll's, if I was not
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the man myself." General Forrest knew of no such command,
and, being satisfied that it was only a detachment, was ex-
tremely anxious to strike the other portion at once before its
commander heard of the discomfiture of the Ingersoll detach-
ment ; so he asked Colonel Ingersoll from where he came, to
which the wily Colonel replied : "From everywhere but here,
and I hope to be from here just as soon as I can secure your
genial approbation to that effect." General Forrest greatly en-
joyed such an exhibition of humor, and thereupon released
Colonel Ingersoll temporarily on his verbal parole, which the
Colonel faithfully observed.
My father now put in his appearance, which had a decided
tendency to calm my military aspirations, for I was relieved in
short order of what soldier's regalia I had become possessed
of, and, like a peacock with its tail feathers plucked, started
back to my "Old Kentucky Home" somewhat crestfallen, but
resolved to again give the credulous old gentleman the slip.
General Forrest had on this expedition little less than two
thousand men, composed of the following Tennessee cavalry
organizations: Starns's 4th, Dibrell's 8th, Biffle's 9th, and
Russell's 4th Alabama Cavalry, and two companies of Wood-
ward's 2d Kentucky Cavalry, with Freeman's Tennessee Bat-
tery of four guns, with which was the gallant young Lieut.
John W. Morton, who became successively captain of Mor-
ton's Battery and chief of Forrest's Artillery, and participated
with distinguished gallantry and admiration of management
of the artillery arm of Forrest's Cavalry in all the battles and
campaigns of which that command formed the whole or a part
except at Paducah, Ky., where only the Hudson (Miss.) Bat-
tery, Capt. Edwin S. Walton, participated.
Some ten days later this force was augmented by the ar-
rival of Nappicr's and Cox's Tennessee Battalions of Partisan
Rangers, some two hundred and fifty men each, which Gen-
eral Forrest consolidated, forming the 10th Tennessee Cavalry.
Col. Thomas Alonzo Nappier, who a few days later fell, an
immolation to the Southern cause, at Parker's Crossroads
while gallantly leading his regiment to a charge in the very
face of enfilading Federal fire of musketry and artillery — a
gallant but unnecessary sacrifice and unauthorized by General
Forrest.
It was here that an old lady who chanced to live in that
vicinity lost her ash hopper, as she said, by the unmitigated
carelessness of one "Mr. Forrest and his hoss critters in
forming a streak of fight" in her back yard, which resulted
in the utter demolition of her only ash hopper and garden
fence. She never forgave the General for this carelessness.
General Forrest was absent from the army under General
Bragg on this expedition less than thirty days, subsisting en-
tirely on captures from the Federal commissariat. He had
crossed the Tennessee River going and coming, which was
almost bank full, without adequate means of ferriage, in mid-
winter and almost in the presence of a hostile Federal force
numerically much his superior and without loss or hindrance.
I He penetrated West Tennessee, then swarming with Federals
perchance twenty times his numbers, his advance going as far
north as Moscow, Ky., puncturing the Federal garrison at
all intermediate points, with his command continually under
fire. He fought two pitched battles, in both of which he was
successful, and did immense damage to General Grant's com-
munications by rail, causing frantic consternation throughout
his department and the retention of several thousand Fed-
eral soldiers in West Tennessee, who otherwise wotdd have
gone to reenforcc Rosecrans, then confronting Bragg in front
of Murfrecsboro. Returning, his command was almost con-
stantly in battle formation: and frequently, when his column
W'as in motion and his advance warmly engaged with the
enemy in front, another column of the enemy approaching
from a different direction was at the same time hammering
vigorously at his rear, and often extrication seemed impossible.
Notwithstanding these environments and that no less than
a half dozen different Federal columns, each nf which greatly
outnumbered him, were seeking his annihilation, he recrossed
the Tennessee River with more men and artillery than when
he entered Wist Tennessee, some (went) da]
with an impedimenta of some seventy-five wagons '
laden with valuable captures of hospital and medical supplies,
nearly all of which he succeeded in carrying safely through
to the Confederate army, and to the great joy of General
Bragg, who in a general order complimented and characterized
the expedition as the most brilliant cavalry achievement of the
war, a mark of appreciation manifestly due that redoubtable
cavalryman.
It was under such gallant and magnificent leadership thai
Forrest's Cavalry learned to soldier "On the Horse" and to
write the brilliant story of Ins campaigns across the pag< oi
the world's history, endowing bun with the title, the "Wi ard
of the Saddle," and as an intrepid champ'"
CON) EDERATE 1/ ITT1 RS I \ FLORIDA.
r.\ 01 N. FRED L. ROBERTSON, T.UI IHASSEE.
Thompson B, Lamar Camp. No. 161 (named aft r the gallant
colonel of the 5th Florida, who gave his life at the Wcldon
Road fight August 21, 1864), held a meeting at the home of
Ex-Governor Bloxham recently and practically reorganized.
The meeting was the aftermath of the sad gathering of
November, when the Camp buried its Commander. Judge R.
A. Whitfield. After the funeral, the comrades met and elected
T. Heyward Randolph Commander and I 'avid J. Cay Adju-
tant The meeting was well attended.
I am trying to get the hoys to organize. They are full of
promises, but somehow do not seem to realize the importance
of combination or what will grow out of it. I attribute very
much of this indifference to the teaching of the deplorable
falsehoods that have in the name of history poisoned the
minds of the youth of the South for the past forty years.
One young man said to me: "I do not think it is right to or-
ganize these Camps of Sons. The South was in rebellion
1 1 lie limed States, and it is all wrong." 1 asked him
if he believed his father would be guilty of trea on of lying,
of disgraceful conduct, and if his mother would for one mo-
ment encourage murder, treason, rapine, and such disgraceful
things? His answer came quick enough: "No, sir. My father
.1 c ntleman and my mother one of the old school ladies of
tiie best families of the South." Then I said: "I am 51
at your attitude. Your father was a gallant Confederate sol-
dier, and your mother took the carpets from her floors to make
covers for the soldiers in Virginia, the linen from her tables
for lint and bandages for the wounded, the sheets from her
beds for the hospitals, and did without comforts for these
same considerations. Do you believe she would have done
all this for traitors?" Again he answered: "No, sir." And
then he said: "You have put this to me in a new light. I shall
have to begin all over again with my history. I learned from
my books and from my teacher (a Yankee) that I ought to
feel humiliated at the way the South had acted toward the
United States and thankful that the government was so merci-
ful. I never then associated my father with the Confederate
cause or my mother with the soldiers of the South."
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Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles anil realize its benefits as an organ for Asso-
ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and lo
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
Announcement is made of the marriage of Mrs. Nettie
Smith to Capt. Thomas Preston Campbell, of Richmond, Va.,
in December, 1906. This announcement will come as a sur-
prise 10 many friends of our former traveling representative,
whose visits were welcomed each year ; but none the less will
they join with the Veteran in wishing her happiness in her
new life. As a resident of Richmond, she will be glad to greet
many of her Veteran patrons 'here next June.
RESPONSES TO A CIRCULAR LETTER.
The following letter was sent to thousands in January, 1907 :
"Dear Sir: The policy of the Veteran for fourteen years
has been to send it to any one who will ask it and to continue
after expiration of subscription, presuming that it is desir-
able. This rule will be maintained, although delays in re-
mitting often cause inconvenience and loss. It would be a
great kindness and help if every one would be diligent to re-
new, and especially a great favor if every one during January,
1907, would see to it that payment is made so as to advance
the date beyond 1906.
"This note is sent as a reminder of such request. Don't
wait for an agent. Traveling agents will not canvass as gen-
erally in future as heretofore. Local agents are wanted in
every county of your State. Please remit without delay, de-
ducting cost of money order."
The finest response ever made to any request by the Vet-
eran came to the above. The result 'has been most gratify-
ing. Only one person is recalled to have referred to it as a
"dun.'' A few thousand persons have not responded yet, but
it is anticipated that they will do so. Some will not. By
and by they will claim that they did not order a renewal and
that they are unwilling to pay for it. The patrons of the
Veteran are exceptionally good in paying, but occasionally
an ugly notification will come, whereby it is understood that
they will not pay. Let such meditate, before giving notice,
upon the harm to the cause the Veteran represents. In the
aggregate such treatment would be fatal. Let everybody
know that the Veteran is mailed with a date unless pay is
expected, and if it is not intended to pay to please give no-
tice quick, that it may be discontinued.
Officials of highest rank in all the organizations are ex-
pected to make impersonal appeals for doubling the circula-
tion at an early date. This movement was proposed and is
being prepared for public presentation. Will you cooperate?
SENTIMENT RATHER THAN BUSINESS.
An earnest expression to comrades and Southern friends is
written in the hope of a sympathetic realization of the respon-
sibility that attaches to the Veteran. The business is going
on smoothly, evidences of high appreciation are received daily,
and yet in looking at the situation as no one else can see it
the outlook depresses. Since the indorsement of the Vet-
eran is unstinted by all the leading organizations of Con-
federates, its every friend has a right to expect the highest
possible results. Our comrades and our noble women — Con-
federate Mothers — are falling asleep rapidly; the necessity ot
recording as much of the truth as possible in an acceptable
manner to those who are to be influenced thereby is the great-
est than can be imagined. The time is distressingly short ; so
that, if the Veteran is half as worthy as the indorsements of
it indicate, every Southerner should begin interest anew to ex-
tend its circulation and to furnish facts for its pages. In con-
sidering these responsibilities the founder and editor becomes
nervous, and feels like starting the race afresh and like crying
aloud and with greater pathos than ever that every friend
cooperate as never before. All can do something toward ex-
tending the circulation ; there is not a subscriber who cannot
get one other. Many could get clubs from those who don't
realize what the Veteran is doing.
A large number could add largely to the interest and value
of its reading. This plea is not for something "to fill up."
The most embarrassing feature of all is in having so much
sent that it can't be used speedily. There is, however, a way
to improve the contents and to save the editorial department
much work. In conformity with this request, let every con-
tributor bear in mind the importance of telling the most and
the best in the least space. Wlhen an article is written, let it
be revised with the determination to tell as much as possible
in the pleasantest way and that which is as strictly true as it
is possible to do it. In writing for the "Last Roll" please
remember that it is not necessary to say the comrade "was
educated in the country schools and then went to college."
Let the country school feature be assumed. It is doubtless
a fact that no periodical in the history of printing has
given gratuitously as much to personal tributes. From every
post office, North as well as South, to which the Veteran
goes send some paragraph of interest. At the North write of
some Confederate, poor or rich, and whether he is a credit to
the stars and bars under which he fought. Send a little, a
very little, about every Camp or Chapter. Tell something
they did that it would be well for others to do in like manner.
Let contributors who seek some personal benefit by publica-
tions in the Veteran realize that the actual cost for the space
of a page is from $15 to $20, and that they should in their
appreciation endeavor to make up for that expense.
It occasionally happens that when a comrade dies his family
want a long sketch of him and then stop the Veteran. A
more grievous thing occurs occasionally when some son of a
veteran becomes diligent to have published his father's record
for the special purpose of advancing his personal business in-
terests, get a few copies of that number — maybe without
charge — and then fails to subscribe.
Let comrades in far-away places see that records of their
life and zeal are made known through the Veteran. Look
well to the books advertised in its pages, and do not fail to
protest against the terms "New South" and "Lost Cause."
Pension Declined by Mrs. M. A. Jackson. — In declining
to accept a pension of one hundred dollars per month from
the State of North Carolina, the widow of Stonewall Jack-
son wrote : "I most welcomingly appreciate this patriotic and
loyal tribute to the name of my hero husband, but I do not
feel that I would be justified in accepting it. I am informed
that the laws of North Carolina limit all pensions to those
who have not five hundred dollars of personal property, and
as I do not come under the law, I respectfully request that
the bill be withdrawn." Mrs. Jackson suggests that the pro-
posed pension in her behalf be appropriated for the relief of
destitute widows of Confederate veterans. As it was her de-
sire, the bill calling for the pension was withdrawn.
Qopfed era (:<<-; Veteran.
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THE OTHER SIDE AT ANDERSONVILLE.
BY CAI'T. J. M. HRVANT, SUPERINTENDENT NATIONAL CEMETERY.
I have Ucn somewhat dilatory in acknowledging your kind-
ness in sending me the August, September, and October num-
bers of the Confederate Veteran. The two former reached
me at Lowell, Mass. ; the latter, after ray return. I thank you
for this kind remembrance. I appreciate it very much. I
found their reading very pleasant, especially the October num-
ber, which was riplete with matter relative to the "Wirz
Monument." 1 read every word pertaining to that subject,
and it app ars to me one of the most unfortunate questions
that could possibly be brought up at this stage, when amity
and good feeling between all sections of our common country
are so widespread and predominant, and when our commercial
and social relations are rapidly becoming what those between
different parts of a common country ought to he. So far as
I am able to see, nearly all the evidence favorable to Mr. Wirz,
if not all, is of a, negative character, whili thai leading to
his conviction was positive and overwhelmingly convincing
of guilt
The personal character of the officers composing the mili-
tary commission before which Mr. Wirz was tried precludes
tin possibility of an unjust verdict being reached. General
Wallace. President of the Commission, was a man of high
attainments ami of undoubted integrity; and, in fact, it would
app'.ir that special care was exerciseel in selecting the com-
mission to insure that none hut officers of unimpeachable
character were' placed upon it. The review of the case- by
hide' Advocate General Holt is full and complete; and had
improper evidence been received by the commission, Mr. Holt
would certainly have called attention to it. The credibility
of the witnesses has been called in question by some, hut it
is impossible to conceive that all could have sworn falsely
without the court rinding it out.
The claim that Mr. Wirz was offered his liberty if he
would inculpate Mr. Davis appears to be of recent origin and
unsupported by competent testimony. It appears unreasonable
to suppose that Mr. Johnson could have made such an offer —
none other could have advanced such a proposition with
power to carry it out — or would have dared to do it even if
desired. A man who could have made such an offer would
merit a fate equally infamous to that of Wirz himself. Further-
more, this claim, made, I understand, by Mr. Wirz's lawyer,
has a suspicious appearance, inasmuch as he fails to name
the officers approaching him on the subject. No credit ought
to be given to such testimony; no court could entertain it for
a moment. Had he named the officer, it could have had a dif-
ferent aspect.
While I believe Mr. Wirz had a fair and impartial trial
and was condemned justly, yet I also believe these ladies are
sincere in their belief of his innocence, and in their efforts to
erect a monument to his memory are actuatcel by pure motives.
That they are mistaken in their premises I think can be
established beyond question.
On General Grant's tomb appear these words: "Let us
have peace." The sooner we drop these questions of the
past and unite as one people (as we are now doing to a very-
great extent) in an effort to advance the prosperity and in-
fluence for good of our country, the better for us all. Let us
take for our motto: "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials.
liberty; in all things, charity." In hastening the time when
the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our
Lord and nf his Christ, we shall most surely advance our own
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peace and happiness and contribute our mite toward effecting
a similar condition elsewhere. But we cannot accomplish this
by incriminating one another. We must forgive others if we
expect to be forgiven ourselves.
I realize, of course, that we cannot always think alike, nor
is it necessary or desirable thai we should; but in spite of that
fact we can love each other and work for each other's good.
With a corrected proof of tin- above Captain Bryant
stated that it was not sent for publication, hut he had no
objection to its use, The Veteran has exceptional advantages
in placing any matter before the entire- South; and, while
ardently elevoted to the vindication of all worthy Confeelcrate
proceedings, it realizes the duty to establish the truth as
fully as practicable, and desires to treat the other side justly.
Captain Bryant is partisan for his sielc, hut certainly means
well. He is not careful to credit the unfortunate Wirz with
the small title which is certainly due. President Davis writes
of him as "Major" Wirz. Certainly he was of as high rank
as cap'ain, and was in responsible position enough to entitle
those who placed him in command to have their representative
designated above the plane of "Mister."
Attention is called to the Strang "official record" of tes-
timony published in a dozen pages containing thirteen speci-
fications of his deliberately killing or having killed thirteen
men, the name of each of which is stated to be "unknown."
He is chargcel with having shot and mortally wounded
one; of jumping upon another, stamping, kicking, and bruis-
ing him until he died, "name unknown;" of shooting with
a pistol another whose name was "unknown," inflicting a
mortal wound ; of another whose name is "unknown," put
him in stocks and so cruelly treated him that he dieel ten elays
afterwards, yel nobody knew him ( ?) ; of another who was
put in stocks and died six days afterwards, and yet the name
was "unknown;" and so on specifications being the same- of
the thirteen men — that not one of them was known. These
specifications are beyond question the vilest that ever were
framed in 'condemnation of mortal man. The trial occurred
at one of the worst periods possible, and good men believed
Major Wirz a fiend incarnate. It is not to the credit of the
mili'ary commission that such a maliciously partisan spirit
controlled. It is not to the credit of the prisoners in Ander-
SOnville to have submitted to such treatment If Commander
Wirz had been half as mean as this testimony made him, the
thirty or forty thousand prisoners owed it to every instinct
of manhood to have broken down the walls and killed every
man who opposed them. The guards were a mere bagatelle,
and the prisoners should have given their lives rather than
submit to such treatment of their fellows, and somebody
would have- known some of those murdered if the charges
were true-. Extracts from these specifications lengthily re-
iterate that "Henry Wirz, an officer of the military serv-
ice of the Confederate States, 'so-called,' while acting as
said commandant willfully and of his malice aforethought
did jump upon, stamp, kick, bruise, and otherwise injure with
the heels of his boots soldiers belonging to the army of the
United States, of which saiel stamping, kicking, and bruising
maliciously done and inflicted by the sniel Wirz died."
ORT FROM AN ANDERSONVILLE PRISONER.
TV M. J. HALEY, HELENA, MONT.
I did not know Maj. Henry Wirz except what I have heard
ami read about him. I am not from the South. Washington,
D. C. i-^ as far in that direction as I have been; neither am
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I an ex-soldier. It is simply a case of a layman intruding on
military matters. I was born in New York State, and during
the war was not old enough to enlist, but had brothers in the
Union army. One was killed at Gettysburg and another
saved the regimental colors at Chancellorsville' and was pro-
moted. During the latter part of the war he was detailed for
duty at Elmira, N. Y. It was so distasteful to him that after
a few months he applied to get back to his regiment. This
was during the "retaliatory" period, when Stanton was mow-
ing a wide swath. My brother said that a cat, notwithstand-
ing its proverbial nine lives, wouldn't live five minutes in the
Rebel prison at Elmira. I well remember my poor, sympa-
thetic mother (God rest her soul!) weeping over his recital
of the sufferings of that prison.
Even before I read the beautifully sad songs (if such a term
is not inconsistent) of Father Ryan I was convinced that
there wen- two sides to the deplorable controversy.
For forty years the North has been flooded with disterted
and false histories of Maj. Henry Wirz. the political or sec-
tional martyr — a man who was condemned before he was tried!
For years the subject, from a Northern standpoint, has been
treated in a way that reminds one of the answer given by
Talleyrand when asked concerning the court-martial and exe-
cution of the Duke d' Eughein. The great diplomat's reply
was: "O, that was horrible! It was worse than a crime; it
was a blunder."
An influential, respectable, and honored citizen of Montana,
who has held important positions in this State, an ex-soldier
of the Union army, and a prominent member of the G. A. R.,
who was a prisoner in the South for thirteen months, now
proposes to publish his side of the story. He was for seven
months at Andersonville. I will here refer to the gentleman
as Captain P. ; but his name, his rank while in the army, and
other facts will be given in full in the book.
Captain P. is nearly seventy years of age. The last posi-
tion he held in Montana was a Stale office. He tendered his
resignation, and it was reluctantly accepted. He was orderly
sergeant in a Michigan regiment when captured, and was
first confined at Belle Isl \ In the summer of 1865 he was
must' red out of the service as second lieutenant. He was
prominent among the prisoners at Andersonville to the extent
of being chosen as chairman of — as he terms it — a "relief-ask-
ing committee." He was the spokesman of this committe.-.
While at Andersonville he kept a diary, and one can see at a
glance that lie acted an important part among his fellow-
prisoners, lie has a fund of Andersonville anecdotes and in-
cidents. He waited upon Major Wirz, or "Captain Wirz," fre-
quently, and they became intimately acquainted.
Here is just a fragment of Captain P.'s story: "I liked the
man. I never saluted Captain Wirz, no matter how busy 01
hurried he was. that lie did not return the salute. 'I can con-
vince any reasonable being that Captain Wirz was humane-
and kind-hearted. He never refused a reasonable request if
it was in his power to grant it. Captain Wirz, it is true, wa>
quick-temp' red, but was good-hearted.. Twice when I wailed
on him tears came to his eyes. The last time that I saw him,
with tears i:i his eyes he exclaimed: 'God help you ; I can-
not. Wha1 can I do? Why, sir, my own soldiers are on short
rations They haven't enough to eat.' And he turned his
back. We were both crying. He was not cruel! Captain
Wirz lie '" ; ry best that he could with the scant means at
hana r .0 kindergarten to deal with! The very fact
that we to hang six of our fellow prisoners proves that.
I believe that I was the first prison; r to ask him for relief
from our own murderous thugs. One thing I am certain of:
I was of the party to whom he granted permission to organize
and try our prisoners. It was I that asked him 'to send in
timber to build the scaffold upon which we executed them. 1
saw him four or five times draw his revolver on the prisoners,
but never saw him fire. Prisoners behind his back would
throw stones and clods of dirt at him. This would make him
angry; but if you were to ask those at that time which they
hated the most, Stanton or Wirz, it is safe to say that Stanton
would be the unanimous choic . In the summer e>f 1864 we
all knew that Stanton's policy was to let us die rather than
exchange us. We realized that we were forsaken by our
own government. (The Conf derate government was anxious
to exchange.) The realization of this increased the fatality.
As soon as the prisoner, whether at Andersonville or Belle
Isle or at Rock Island or Elmira, became despondent he was
doomed. It must have been early in August when we heard
of the cold-blooded and atrocious Stantonian ukase, 'We will
not exchange able-bodi d men for skeletons;' and again, '\\'<*
do not propose to reenforce the Rebel army by exchanging
prisoners.' While I was at Andersonville (and I was there
during the latter part of it) I never heard nor never knew
that Captain Wirz ever shot a prisoner or was personally re-
sponsible for the death of a solitary inmate of Andersonville,
and I thought that I knew about everything that was going
on there. It was news to me in November, 1865, to learn that
he killed prisoners right and left. There was perjury enough
at that trial to fill a good-sized penitentiary."
The above is only a sketch of Captain P.'s story. He pro-
poses to call 'a spade a spade."
To illustrate the fact that Captain P. is not altogether an
eleventh-hour advocate, arrangements were made to have
him as a witness upon the part of the government at the Wirz
trial in October, 1865. He expected to be put in the witness
chair. The army officer, however, who acted as prosecuting'
attorney questioned Captain P. The gist of his answer was
that Major Wirz did all he could and the best he could under
the circumstances, and Captain P. (or Lieutenant P., a; he
was mustered out) was curtly told that his testimony was not
wanted. He did not testify. It has been the regret of his
life, but it didn't make any difference. Major Wirz would
have been hanged just the same.
Not allowing this man to testify was a marked exhibition
of the cloven foot. For a dozen years I have been after Cap-
tain P. for this story.
The- part your correspondent takes in this work is but li tie
more than that of an amanuensis for Captain P. tells the story
of Major Wirz and Andersonville himself, without assistance
or dictation. He requested me to obtain outside matter. The
work will embrace a wide range. Reference will be made to.
and comparisons made of, prison life in Rock Island, Camp
Morton, Johnson Island, and Elmira. Statistics have been
gathered from various sources having a bearing on this story.
We are under obligation to many in the- North and South for
valuable information. Gen. J. A. Chalaron, the efficient Sec-
retary of the Louisiana Historical Association, mailed me
last month an invaluable contribution in the shape of an ex-
plicit and full history of Major Wirz's military life, ll will
be a revelation to the North. He was twice wounded in battle
Richardson, Kellogg. Urban Spencer, and other untruthful
Andersonville authors have all referred to him as never being
a soldier nor never facing the enemy in battle.
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Captain P. says that it was well known at Andersonville
that he had been wounded; that, in fact, while he was in com-
mand (of the interior) of Andersonville prison he was still
suffering from wounds that he had received on the field of
battle which unfitted him for duty at the front.
My friend takes the high ground that these Washington
authorities primarily should be held responsible for the thir-
teen thousand graves of Union soldiers at Andersonville.
Facts will bear him out in maintaining that position.
On February I, 1862, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston forwarded a
letter of the Confederate Secretary of War to the Washington
authorities, asking for an exchange of prisoners. As to term-.
it was more than liberal ; it was generous. The closing para-
graph reads: "In the hope that your answer will be favorable
and that we may thus together take at least one step to di-
minish the sufferings produced by the war. I am." etc. (See
"Johnston's Narrative," pages 94 and 95.) General Johnston
adds: "As this proposition was not entertained nor the letter
noticed, the matter is introduced here only to show how early
in the war the Confederate government attempted to lessen
the sufferings of prisoners of war by shortening their terms
of confinement and how little of that spirit was exhibited by
the Federal administration."
Had the Washington authorities acceded to the reasonable
terms proposed by the Confederacy, there would have been
no Andersonville, Salisbury, or Milieu.
Albert D. Richardson was the war correspondent of the
New York Tribune. He was made prisoner and confined at
Belle Isle. Salisbury, and Andersonville. Notwithstanding
he pictures Maim Wirz as a monster, on page 417 of his
"Field. Dungeon, and Escape." written in 1865, he says: "The
government held a large excess of prisoners, and the Rebels
were anxious to exchange man for man; but our authorities
acted upon the cold-blooded theory of Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War, that we could not afford to give well-fed,
rugged men for invalids and skeletons." Again on page 457:
"Those five thousand loyal graves at Salisbury will ever re-
main fitting monuments of Rebel cruelty and of the atrocious
inhumanity of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, who
steadfastly refused to exchange those prisoners," etc.
Is it not singular that the thought did not occur to Mr
Richardson when he wrote the above that were it not for
St, niton's policy there would have been no Salisbury nor "Rebel
cruelty?"
The untcr would like to give here that logically interesting
editorial on this subject which appeared in the New Orleans
Times-Democrat of January 6, but he fears that he has al
ready made this too long.
In his narrative Captain P. says:
"Richardson. Kellogg, Urban, and others of our Northern
Andersonville historians refer to Captain Wirz as brutal, pro-
fane, ignorant, and besotted. This is, to give it a mild name.
willful misrepresentation. He was an educated man. lie
spoke English, French, and German fluently, and, if I am not
mistaken, Italian. I have an indistinct recollection of his con-
ig with some Italian prisoners from New York in tlmr
own language.
"The above writers quote hiili as saying. 'You Got tain
Yankees, killing 1- too goot for youse,' and similar expressions.
He never used Mich language toward tin prisoners. They also
refer to him as a 'Dutchman.' Captain Wirz was a native of
Switzerland, It is true that he spoke with a foreign accent,
but the language ab >ve quoted was not his.
"There were originally fourteen of my comrades, raised in
my home vicinity and belonging to my regiment, the 6th
Michigan Cavalry, who were sent from Belle Isle to Anderson-
ville with me. Nearly all of us had money. I had something
over forty dollars when I reached Andersonville. At that time
there were about twenty five hundred prisoners there We
agreed to remain togrther, and we bought logs and poles and
built quite a comfortable cabin sufficiently large for all of
our needs. Afterwards the inclosure lilleel up and room
was scarce. One day when there were something over thirty
thousand prisoners there a lieutenant under Captain Wirz
notified us that our cabin was two feet within the so-called
'dead line' anel that we would hav to move it. My comrades
and I told him that the place was so occupied that it was im-
possible to move it. Every available square fool was taken up.
He said then that we would have to take it down. I im-
mediately went to Captain Wirz. He heard my story. Our
cabin was neither moved nor taken down. It was one of the
very best of the modest habitations within the stockade. Hun-
dreds of prisoners at Andersonville knew of this incident, and
there are to-day ex-Union sojdiers who were at Andersonville
wdio will remember it.
"This story of Andersonville has been teild too often; but
for the purpose of vindicating a nmeli-wronged man, so far
as it is in my power so to do, is my only excuse for taking
the reader through the succeeding pages. Taps will soon
sound for us all who passed through those experiences, and
I am sure that I can feel more easj as I pass down to the
valley of death if I say what 1 can truthfully in defense of
the man who befriended me when I was in the greatest med
and when there was no other recourse.
"At the close of the war the feeling was so intense in the
North that something had to be done to satisfy the clamor,
and Captain Wirz was doomed as the victim before this trial.
In the death of this innocent man there was an odor of Stan-
tonian malignancy. It will ever remain in the annals of Amer-
ican history as a most wanton act.
"He never wore- side arms among us. One day while at
his quarters I said: 'Captain. I have always noticed that you
never wear a sword in the prison, while the other officers do.'
'The poor fellows have other reminders of the war,' he re-
plied, 'without my parading up and down with sash and
salier.'
"'Did you get your box?' was his inquiry one- morning in
August when riding through the camp. 1 saluted, and said
that I did. 'You got one before, didn't you?' 'Yes, sir.'
"It was the third box of articles greatly needed that kind
friends had sent me from Grand Rapids. Mich . which I re-
ceived while at Andersonville.
"Often when I waited on Captain Wirz .11 In- quarters he
would engage me in conversation, as if to take my mind from
our hardships. At one time I told him about a comrade of
mine losing a shoe in the mud while- we were on the march
after Fredericksburg. 'Ah, Jiniinic,' he laughingly rejoined,
'it was not the- only instance of sticking iii the mud at Fred
erickshurg Burnside's 1"-- was greater than your comrad 's.
but I shouldn't joki about this '
"There was but one perfect Mem [hat ever lived em earth.
Captain Wirz was human, and had hi- faults like the rest "t
us. He was inclined to be a martinet, a characteristic of
European military men. Captain Wirz was a stickler for
regularity in military detail. One of the gr -£ ,
patriotic characters of the American Revolutio vas a mar-
tinet— a severely strict disciplinarian In his as many of
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tin soldiers, according to historical accounts, considered him
something bordering on a tyrant. Yet this man, who was aid-
de-camp to Frederick the Great, a major general in the Prus-
rian army, and a German baron, gave up all to fight for Amer-
ican liberty, and died in poverty in a log. cabin in New
York State — the great patriot, the Baron Steuben.
"I have an idea that, were Captain Wirz in command of a
regiment, brigade, or division, he would have been disliked,
particularly by the shirks."
HONOR FOR ANDERSONVILLE PRISONERS.
There seems to be overlooked a feature of the monument
intended for Major Wirz which is recalled by a letter from
Col. George Wythe Baylor, writing from Guadalajara, Mex.
(who was colonel of 2d Texas Cavalry and commanded Bay-
lor's Brigade, C. S. A.). It relates to a monument to the
honor of the Union soldiers who were permitted to go to
Washington, D. C. and make plea in behalf of an exchange
of prisoners and in failure returned. Colonel Baylor writes
of them as "heroes of American blood," and adds: "Any sol-
dier, no matter whether he wore the blue or gray, who ad-
mires true courage and patriotism in friend or foe should
help save from oblivion the names and memories of the brave
men who went from Andersonville to Washington City to get
President Lincoln and his Cabinet to agree to exchange prison-
ers with the Confederate government; and, failing, returned
to prison, perhaps to a lingering death, which poor Dixie,
staggering under the blows given by her powerful foe, aided
by those of foreign lands (who could be bought to shed
blood), could in no way prevent. Many monuments have been
erected on the prison grounds of Andersonville by fanatics
intended to humiliate the South. Now let us see if there are
not enough Confederates still alive who will give something to
erect a monument to the memory of these brave Americans.
Their President refused to aid them ; their commanding gen-
eral, U. S. Grant, said to release the Confederates in prison
'would endanger the safety of Sherman's army;' and if the
prisoners were exchanged, the war would last until every
Southern soldier was killed."
Colonel Baylor concludes: "I stand pledged to give one
•dollar to such a monument and another to the Wirz monu-
ment. What say you, Johnny Reb?"
The original proposition by the Georgia Daufhters of the
Confederacy was to include the honored deed of these men in
returning to prison with the outlook for exchange utterly
hopeless. Those who have assailed their motives have given
no credit for this noble feature of their plans.
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS AT ROCK ISLAND.
[J. W. Minnich, of Grand Isle, La., wrote to Gen. Stephen
D. Lee in November in regard to Rock Island Prison records.]
Concerning the number of prisoners confined at Rock Is-
land, III., during 1863-65, I believe I can furnish you the
exact figures. I was an inmate of Barrack No. 47 for sixteen
months, and on the 15th of June, 1865 (three days before
being released), I obtained the following figures from one of
our boys who had been acting as clerk at Colonel Johnston's
headquarters for some time. He was to be released the next
day (the 16th) and I met hi. n the main avenue. He hap-
pened to have a paper in his h ,d. He was then on his way
to his barrack "to pack up." I stopped him to ask of condi-
tions, and, noticing the paper, asked him its nature. He
shov d it to me, and explained that, as he was to leave for
uoi the morrow, he had copied that morning's report from
that book to take home with him. I then asked him for a
copy of it. He did so on the blank half of the sheet in his
hand, and I have saved it all these years. The figures are as
follows in report of June 15, 1865: Received, 12,215; ex-
changed, paroled, etc., 4,719; joined United States navy, 1.077;
joined United States army, 1,795; released on petition, 1.424;
escaped, 45; transferred to other prisons, 71; died. 1,963;
present, 1,121. Total, 12,215.
From the manner in which I obtained this and the source
the figures are as near exact as it would be possible to make
them. The figures given in the "Confederate Handbook" are
by a misprint utterly misleading and equally unjust to our
opponents. This is a fearful record and utterly beyond all
credences, and all by the dropping of a digit. The "Hand-
book" should have been 12,484 instead of only 2,484. The dif-
ference with the figures I here present would be but 269, a
permissible discrepancy, all circumstances considered.
When I reached the prison, on February 18, 1864, I, with
about a dozen others, was assigned to Barrack 47, all the bar-
racks above having a complement of inmates, though none
were filled to their , "full capacity — 120 men." During the
summer and winter of 1864 the number was between 8,000 and
9,000 men. I distinctly remember that after the organization
of the "Seven Confederate Knights" the success of a "sortie"
by the prisoners was discussed in my presence, and it was
then argued that with between 8,000 and 9 000 men our chances
of making a successful break would be good, provided we
could rely on all to stand together. But doubts were ex-
pressed as to the feasibility of perfecting the plans, owing to
the large number of weak-kneed and spies among us. Sud-
denly the guards were doubled, and orders were issued for-
bidding the prisoners from assembling in groups of more
than "two" on any of the streets and avenues. Then we knew
that the spies had got in their work, and there was in conse-
quence a greater severity on the part of our jailers toward
us. Men were shot on the streets without warning or provo-
cation and barracks were shot into in the dead hours of night
just for fun or out of pure meanness. The 108th negro regi-
ment was bad enough ; but when the I92d Illinois hundred-
day men came, it was worse. We could in a measure find
excuse for the negroes ; but we can find no excuse for the
supposedly civilized and Christian white men — some of them
mere boys — of the T92d Illinois. For a while not a man in
my barrack would venture to the "sinks" during the night.
I saw one man murdered while returning from the sink at
night when within but a few steps of his barrack door. H«
was shot through the back without having been warned or
challenged.
Maryland Confederate Daughters. — At the annual meet-
ing for the election of State officers for the Maryland Division
of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Mrs. G. Smith
Norris, First Vice President, presided. The meeting was an
unusually large and satisfactory one, all of the State Chapters
being represented. Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, who has con-
tinuously held the office of President of the Maryland Division
since its organization, eleven years ago, having sent in her
resignation, Mrs. F. G. Odenheimer, of Odenwold, in Howard
County, was elected her successor, Mrs. Wright, on motion of
Mrs. John P. Poe, being elected Honorary President for life.
The other officers elected are: Vice Presidents, Mrs. G. Smith
Norris, of Belair, Mrs. R. Alexander Hammond, of Jessups.
Mrs. Victor Baughman. of Frederick, and Mrs. A. T. B
Fgee. of Chesapeake City: Corresponding Secretary. Mrs.
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Neilson Poe, Jr.; Recording Secretary, Miss Georgiana
Graham Bright; Treasurer, Mrs. Winfield Peters; Historian,
Miss Mary Hall; Custodian of Crosses of Honor, Miss Mary
Zollinger. Mrs. John P. Poe, Chairman of the Maryland
Room in the Confederate Museum in Richmond, gave an in-
teresting description of the work during the past year toward
the appropriate filling up of the room, which is now rapidly
nearing completion. Mrs. Poe furthermore asked for the co-
operation of the Daughters of the Confederacy throughout the
State in securing headstones for the ui. marked graves of a
number of Maryland soldiers buried near Wytheville, Va.,
the names of nineteen having already been identified by Mrs.
P6e, who hopes shortly to secure the full and correct list.
A POPULAR CONFEDERATE.
Col. Andrew R. Blakely, of the St. Charles, is not hand-
some, but he is popular. A defect in the loss of an eye tends
to his modesty. A comrade told the Veteran that he was
ramming a cannon charge when his eye was shot out. and
that dazed he ran round and round in a circular way for some
time afterwards. However, he is a hustler, and the assertion
would hardly be questioned that he is the most progressive
man in the Crescent City. He is appreciated not only hj the
public, but by the employees of the great hotel at the head
of which management he has been for years.
The New Orleans Times- Democrat of January 26 states:
"As a remembrance on his sixty-sixth birthday, the em-
ployees of the St. Charles Hotel Thursday afternoon pre-
sented to the proprietor, Col. Andrew R. Blakely, a handsome
silver loving cup. The gift was a surprise to the veteran hotel
man, and its presentation was made in a unique and fitting
manner. While Mr. Blakely was taking a drive Thursday
afternoon the cup was filled with flowers and placed upon a
center table in his apartments. Upon his return Colonel
Blakely found it and asked for an explanation. As a reply.
W. E. Harris, his private secretary, and W. P. Todd, chief
bookkeeper at the institution, stated that they had been ap
pointed a committee to present the gift in behalf of their fel-
low-employees.
"The cup is of Grecian design, and is unusually large. It
is of a size and quality seldom presented, except upon State
occasions. It is twenty-two inches high, including the base,
and has a capacity of five and a half pints. It is six or seven
inches across the top, and tapers to the base. There are three
handles, and upon one panel appears an etching of the face of
the recipient taken from his latest photograph. Under the
etching is the inscript'^n : 'Presented to Andrew R. Blakely,
on the occasion of his -1 sty-sixth birthday, from the employees
of the St. Charles Hotel, January 24, 1907.' The cup was
made by Coleman E. Adler."
ANDREW R. BLAKELY.
JEFFERSON DAVIS PAPERS IN MUSEUM
Miss Mary Ritter Shea, of New York, Donates Them.
Valuable papers bearing upon the life of Jefferson Davis,
President of the Confederate States, were presented to the
Richmond Museum yesterday afternoon by Miss Mary Ritter
Shea, of New York City, the occasion developing into a most
notable Confederate gathering. Miss Shea is spending the
winter at the Chamberlin Hotel, Old Point. She reached
Richmond yesterday morning and is at the Jefferson Hotel.
She is the daughter of George Shea, of Ireland, afterwards
Chief Justice of New York, and, with Charles O'Connor, de-
fender of Jefferson Davis at the time of his trial. His daugh-
ter inherited from her father valuable papers and letters re-
lating to the Davis trial. These, together with a Bible used
by Mr. Davis, were inclosed in the folds of a worn Confed-
erate flag, the Bible bearing the inscription in Mr. Davis's
handwriting: "To George Shea, from his friend and fellow-
citizen, Jefferson Davis."
The papers were letters giving accounts of Mr. Shea's efforts
in behalf of Mr. Davis, of his visits to Mr. Davis at Fortress
Monroe, and of the Iatter's final release from imprisonment.
The original draft of the bail bond which set Mr. Davis free
was also included in the collection.
Many members of the Confederate Memorial Literary So-
ciety and the Hollywood Memorial Association gathered to
welcome Miss Shea, together with many gentlemen. Miss
Shea, who possesses a frank, cordial charm of manner, was
thoroughly at home amid the throng of Virginia women as-
sembled in her honor, at the head of whom stood Miss Mary
Custis Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee and Regent of
the Virginia Room at the Confederate Museum ; beside her
Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson, Vice Regent of the Virginia Room
Lieut. Gov. J. Taylor Ellyson, as presiding officer of the
meeting, introduced the Rev. William M. Jeffries, D.D., who
took up the subject of Mr. Davis's imprisonment and his suf-
ferings. He declared that Mr. Shea said to his daughter, then
a child: "Mary, this is all wrong, and I must try to right
it." He told how Mr. Shea and his daughter visited Mr
Davis in prison ; how they very nearly lost their lives by a
mistake of the sentry on the occasion of one visit; how.
finally, Mr. Shea's eloquent and convincing arguments pre-
vailed with Mr. Greeley and other influential men ; how the
hail bond was signed and Mr. Davis freed.
The archdeacon, in a vivid outburst of eloquence, paid a
splendid tribute to Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. He
said he had no doubt in entering heaven that many would say.
looking at the thrones raised high above others around them:
"And. Lord, who sits here?" And tin Lord will answer:
"Robert E. Lee and Jefferson 1 They indeed have come
out of great tribulation, but the have washed their robes and
made them white in the blood of the Lamb."
Rev. Dr. James I\ Smith received the papers and other relics
given by Miss Shea from the archdeacon as the Chaplait of
the Museum and the representative of the Confedera'
morial Literary Society. His remarks in doing sc
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acteristically appropriate. Said the Doctor in conclusion : "I
put on nn- gray Confederate coat on Saturday last; and as 1
marched in the ranks of my comrades, I asked myself what
I was doing there, what was the meaning of it all, and why
I had donned the gray and the brass buttons. And the an-
swer came at once : 'Bcause I desire to show to those around
me and those who come after me that I stand where I stood
during my service in the Confederate army, and am moved
by the same hopes, principles, and desires, knowing that truth
is mighty and must at length prevail.' "—The Timcs-Dispatcli,
Richmond, Va.. January 22, 190J.
TENNESSEE DIVISION, U. D. C.
BY MRS. A. B. WHITE, PRESIDENT.
The Tennessee Division's growth is a matter of pride, it
now ranking third in membership and voting strength. Ten
new Chapters were reported at the Gulfport Convention, and
a large amount of good work was done during the past year.
Two Chapters have been organized within the last few days.
There are now four young ladies' Chapters. According to
a by-law adopted at the U. D. C. Convention at Gulfport, an
application for a charter must be sent to the State President
accompanied by the application for membership of the char-
ter members ; and unless these applications are sent to her,
the State President may not sign the application for a charter.
Many Veterans have lost their Crosses of Honor, and it is
a matter of rejoicing that now a Veteran in good standing
having lost his Cross may obtain a second Cross by applying
to the President of the Chapter from which he received the
Cross and by furnishing a copy of the certificate on which
the Cross was first bestowed. There is some misapprehension
about Crosses for descendants. Crosses are not given to all
descendants of Veterans, but only to the oldest living lineal
descendant of a Veteran, and then only when the Veteran has
died before obtaining the Cross. This is not making Crosses
common nor of less value to Veterans, because it is only the
one Cross to .which the Veteran himself would be entitled
if living that his descendant or widow may obtain; but the
right of wearing a Cross is reserved for the Veterans alone.
Every State now has a Recorder for Crosses of Honor,
from whom all information about Crosses can be obtained,
also all papers needful for ordering Crosses. This State of-
fice was created by the U. D. C. Convention at Gulfport to
lighten the work of the Custodian of Crosses. The Recorder
for Tennessee is Mrs. W. W. Baird, of Humboldt ; and all
Chapters are advised not to delay communicating with her if
they wish to confer Crosses, as she must abide by the rules
for Crosses of Honor and she must have time to look over
and have corrected any papers sent her.
The five sets of Sheppard pictures — water colors portray-
ing the uniforms of Confederate soldiers — given the State
President by the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association for
presentation to schools of Tennessee have been presented by
the State President to the following schools : The Public
School of Dyersburg, for the library established there by John
Lauderdale Chapter ; to Columbia Institute, which has given
a scholarship to Maury County Chapter ; to Franklin Female
College, which has donated a scholarship to Franklin Chap-
ter; to Chattanooga High School, for Gen. A. P. Stewart
Chapter; and to the Public School of Paris.
In answer to many inquiries about children's auxiliaries, I
will say that all children — boys and girls — under the age of
seventeen years are eligible to membership ; no application
blanks are required to be filled out and no dues. The parent
Chapter should be careful to select a judicious, purely pa-
triotic woman as director of the auxiliary, the officers of
the auxiliary to be elected from and by the children. The
director is responsible to the Chapter, and should make re-
ports to same, also to chairman of auxiliary committee, Mrs.
Carey A. Folk, Nashville, the Chapter making a report of
the auxiliary work, with all items of interest, to the State
Convention. Do not make the children do too much work,
now they are going to school, but cultivate in them a love for
Southern principles and Confederate veterans, and devotion
to the U. D. C. organization and its aims. Those Chapters
desiring a more specific outline of work should communicate
with the chairman of auxiliary committee, Mrs. Folk.
At last work is begun in earnest for a fitting monument to
the illustrious men of Shiloh. The United Daughters of the
Confederacy pledged themselves at San Francisco and re-
pledged themselves at Gulfport to this work, and will give
to it five hundred dollars yearly until the monument is com-
pleted. All the State Divisions have taken up this work and
are raising money for it, Missouri alone having raised last
year $527.
This monument, a Southern monument to all Confederates
who were in this terrible two days' battle, will be on Tennes-
see soil. The work for this monument was inaugurated by
Tennessee women — the Shiloh Chapter — and a Tennessee
woman, your State President, has been appointed Chairman
of the General U. D. C. Shiloh Monument Committee. In
view of all these conditions, much will be expected of Ten-
nessee Daughters, and it is to be hoped they will do as much
as or more than any other State for Shiloh. It cannot be built
without funds, and I ask every Chapter of the Tennessee Di-
vision to do something for Shiloh this year. Let every Chap-
ter give at least ten dollars this year. Let us all show that
Tennessee can and will do her full part in this as in all things.
STATE MONUMENT AT SHILOH.
A letter addressed to the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the Tennessee Legislature states :
"To the honor of Tennessee, the United Daughters of the
Confederacy of the State have united in an appeal to the
Legisla'ure to appropriate a fund for the erection of a monu-
ment to the Confederates who offered up their lives as a
sacrifice on Shiloh's sanguinary field, which has been con-
verted into a national military park.
"With its stately monuments to the Federal dead, its
graveled drives and picturesque forests, it is a place of sur-
passing beauty, containing four thousand acres bordering on
the Tennessee River. But above all else, it contains, dear to
every Southern patriot, the spot where fell the immortal Al-
bert Sidney Johnston. More than $200,000 has been ex-
pended by Northern States, and more than one hundred hand-
some monuments er cted by the government and Northern
States. But to the thousands of visitors who ask, 'Where
are the Confederate monuments?" we can only say. 'Come a
few years later and you shall see us dedicate one to all our
fallen heroes.'
"The Confederate Veterans, in convention assembled during
the Reunion at Louisville, 1905, passed the following resolu-
tion :
" 'Resolved, That this Convention of Confederate Veterans
respectfully and earnestly requests the Legislatures of the
Southern States to make further and liberal appropriations,
which are urgently needed, in order that the particular points
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where Southern soldiers distinguished themselves and hon-
ored th.ir respective States may be appropriately marked by
smile monumental inscription.'
"The following resolutions were reported by the committee
and unanimously adopted by the Veterans at the Reunion
held in Charl ston, S. C, in May. 1899:
'Resolved, That we trust the people of the Southern
States will take early and effective steps to erect upon these
battlefields suitable monuments in honor of our glorious
heroes in gray, who fought and died for what they belli vol
10 be right.
'Resolved, That the Adjutant General and the Secretary
of this Convention forward copies of these resolutions to the
Governors of all Southern States, with the request that the
same be communicated to their respective Legislatures.'
"May we not, without further trespass on your valuable
time, leave this whole cause to your most favorable considera-
tion, with sanguine confidence that your action will be in full
harmony with the patriotic sentiment of the State?"
I lie State Legislation Committie for the Shiloh monument is
comprised of Mesdames T. J. Latham, Chairman, Memphis;
11 S Mizner, Knoxville; Xavia Haynie, Gallatin; E. W.
< li ek, President Chapter, Tracy City; T. B. Carroll, Hender-
son; A. G. Thompkins, President Chapter, Murfreesboro; C.
C. Miller, l'uryear; S. J. Berry, Memphis; VV. B. Routine.
Pulaski; Lucy Landess Lasatcr. Fayetteville ; June J. Craw-
ford. President Chapter, Union City; Colyar. President Chap-
ter, Winchester; Benton McMillin and Reau Folk. Nashville;
Miss Anna Roane. Covington.
[| will he remembered that the U. D. C. general organiza-
tion is interested in this Shiloh monument.
INQUIRIES FOR AND ABOUT VETERANS.
HY J, W. ANDERSON, COVINGTON, GA.
I f any of the following who were members of Gen. James
I.ongstreet's staff as special couriers during the years 1863
and 1864 are still living, I should be delighted to hear from
them They are or were as follows: W. W. Gardner, of Ken-
tucky. ; Tucker and Jennings, of Virginia; J. C. Vance and
lefferson Brown, of South Carolina; Morris, Anderson, and
Hardee, of Georgia ; Spencer, McClellan, and Youngblood, of
Alabama ; and Cage, of Louisiana.
They were a gallant and fine lot of young men, and as
brave and patriotic and knightly as ever drew rein over war-
rior's steed. We parted in October, 1864, near Richmond, Va.,
and I have never seen but one of them (Morris) since that
time, and have heard of only two cr the others (Spencer and
Hardee) since the war, and do net know if they are now liv-
ing Spenci r was appointed aid-de-camp to Gen. G. M. Sorrel
after our separation, and Cage was appointed aid-de-camp to
General Hay, of Louisiana.
It is a long time since we parted, in October, 1864; but
memory goes back to the fateful two years we served together
Bt headquarters with the most cherished and pleasant recol-
lections of each, and the desire to hear from them and to
know that they are still living grows stronger even as the
years go fleeting by. I should be more than delighted to hear
from each one of them.
"If Henry Burehcr, a member of the 20th Virginia Cavalry,
William L. Jackson's brigade, and wdio was wounded in the
battle of Fisher's Hill September 22, 1864, is still living, I
should like to hear from him," writes J. W. Erwin, Adjutant
A S Cabell Camp, Charleston, Ark "He was a Virginian
like myself, both born in Lewi-. Countj and both belonging to
the same brigade. I was a private in the 19th Virginia Cav-
alry. 1 tried to take him off the field when our position was
flanked by the enemy; hut, having no help, I did not sue, e i
and he was captured. He escaped from prison, however, be-
fore his wound healed, and came to my regiment to see me
before he was sent to the hospital. I should like also to hear
of another man wounded in that fight. I don't know bin
name or his command, but he was from North Carolina. He
was standing close by me when woundi d. and I caught him as
he fell. A comrade of his was at hand instantly, and we tried
to carry him, lint could not. We hailed a man on horseback
who proved to be a brigadier general, who took the man up
behind him and said he would see that he was not captured
I'licsc incidents occurred forty two years ago, and it may tie
that all have answered the last roll call except myself; but the)
may have related the occurrences to thers who may remember
ilieni and will be kind enough to write to me."
FORREST AMD LEE.
I1V MRS. VV. II. ROM1NE. OF PULASKI. TENN.
If we search the wide world o'er.
Through countries bathed with patriots' gore,
And far and near through foreign lands
For bravest chiefs of bravest bands —
Our hearts are here, and still will be.
Rack in the Southland with Forrest and Lee.
If old Scotland stand with sword in sheath,
Telling with pride of Douglas and Keith;
If England yield her richest brood,
From Saxon worth and Norman blood —
Our hearts are here, and still will be,
Back in the Southland with Forrest and Lee.
If we climb the grape-crowned slopes of sunny France afar,
With Napoleon she adores and the white-plumed Navarre;
If we see Portugal's men in brave battle array
Ne'er faltering in duty nor fleeing the fray —
Our hearts are here, and still will be,
Back in the Southland with Forrest and Lee.
If through the streets of once imperial Rome we tread,
Where Nero boasted, where Cxsar bled,
Where Horatius from the bridge with nerve in every fiber,
Swam the swollen waters of the tawny Tiber —
Our hearts are here, and still will be,
Back in the Southland with Forrest and Lee.
If we visit the Orient, where roses in myriads swarm
About a marble Taj Mahal mid India's breezes warm;
If wdiere an Egyptian princess her very heart's blood shed
For a haughty warrior lover, who life and love had fled —
Our hearts are here, and still will be,
Back in the Southland with Forrest and Lee.
And, methinks, when at last we journey to the land of endless>
sun
And read the long, long list of hard-fought battles won
By honored patriots and heroes from every land ind clime.
Whom homeland's thrall and duty's call had stirred the soul
sublime,
High on the honor roll of heaven, surely, yes, we'll surely - e
Enscrolled in gold Nathan B. Forrest and Robert E. Lee.
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CENTENARY OF GEN. R. E. LEE'S BIRTH.
1 1 was deemed in the outset so nearly impossible to report
exercises in honor of General Lee's one hundredth birthday
anniversary that it was determined to report none direct.
There are statements in many beautiful tributes which it is
hoped will be recorded in these pages from time to time.
Extracts from eminent sources are here given, together with
some Northern press comments, which are followed by a care-
fully prepared paper by Dr. John S. Wyeth that has been held
over for some time.
The farewell words of General Lee to his surrendered army
are given on our title-page.
Lord Wolseley's Tribute to Lee.
I have met many of the great men of my time, but Lee alone
impressed me with the feeling that I was in the presence of a
man who was cast in a grander mold and made of different
and finer metal than all other men. He is stamped upon my
memory as a being apart and superior to all others in every
way, a man with whom none I ever knew and very few of
whom I have read are worthy to be classed.
Benjamin H. Hill's Tribute to General Lee.
He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a sol-
dier without cruelty;
A victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring.
He was a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without
guile;
He was a Cassar without his ambition, Frederick without his
tyranny,
Napoleon without his selfishness, and Washington without
his reward.
Thirteen Confederate organizations in New Orleans partici-
pated in the R. E. Lee memorial services January 19, 1907.
Richmond and New Orleans may be regarded as well-
matched rivals in paying tribute to the great and good man.
Dayton (Ohio) Herald: "History will deal chiefly with Lee's
military record and achievements ; but it was as a man, as a
beautiful character, of noble traits, of lovable personality that
he won the affection of his soldiers and of the entire people
of the South ; and it was because of these attributes that in
the years since the war he has taken a high and enduring place
in the admiring regard of the people of the North. In hon-
oring his memory, both as a brave and able soldier and as a
Christian gentleman and citizen, the nation's sentiment is
unanimous and sincere."
Gen. Fred Grant, in a recent article concerning General
Lee, states : "One of his greatest assets as a military leader
was his personality. Every one who met him was charmed
and impressed by his force." And again : "General Lee was
a beautiful, lovable character; he was the best typ.e of Chris-
tian gentleman. Few men have been so human, and at the
same time htld the confidence of military men."
This testimony, coming from so notable a source, is no
more significant tribute to the essential greatness of Robert
E. Lee than are the utter absence of bitterness and the in-
variable attitude of admiration which mark the expressions
of the veterans against whom he waged a glorious but hope-
less warfare. We doubt if in the ranks of the Grand Army
of the Republic to-day there can be found a single survivor
of that four years' struggle who is not ready to pay his tri-
ute of esteem and appreciation of the deeds and character of
their noble foe.
Lee passionately loved the Union, and he deprecated and
discouraged the secession movement ; but when his beloved
State of Virginia left the fold, he, like thousands of other*,
sorrowfully obeyed what he believed to be his higher duty
The Springfield (Ohio) Sun:
"Robert E. Lee was possibly the greatest military genius
to whom the Western continent has yet given birth. North-
ern orators yesterday vied with their silver-tongued brethren
of the South in proclaiming the virtues of a man as to whose
military genius and personal character there is now practical
unanimity of opinion.
"Lee's campaigns after the first year of fighting, when the
immeasurably superior resources of the North began to turn
the tide of conflict with an irresistible force, are comparable
in every way to those of Hannibal, the Carthaginian, with
the sole exception that Lee's operations were conducted in
friendly territory. . . .
"But it is in another respect that Lee compares even more
favorably with the men who are by common consent rated as
the world's greatest soldiers. The Alexanders, the Caesars,
and the Napoleons of history, for the most part, have nothing
else to commend them to the admiration of mankind than their
military genius. As men they have too frequently been lack-
ing in all the essentials of character. Unscrupulous, dissolute,
selfish, possessed of ambition and egotism which completely
choked out their finer natures, it is a relief to turn from the
contemplation of soldiers of this class to one who combined
with military genius of the highest order the manly qualities
of a Christian gentleman. . . .
"It was inevitable that he should be idolized by his soldiers.
Evenly balanced mentally, of clear discernment and judgment,
dispassionate, of undeviating honesty with himself and his
fellow-man, loyal to the truth and the right as he saw them.
it is not to be wondered at that in the long and trying cam-
paigns he endured with this wonderful army of 'Rebels' that
they should form an attachment for him unsurpassed in per-
sonal devotion in all military annals.
"We are far enough removed from the days of slavery and
secession to concede that, no matter whether a man in those
days decided to cast his lot with his State or the nation, so
long as honesty and not self-interest dictated his choice, he-
was not a traitor and did what was right, according to the
light he had. It is only with this concession in our minds
that we of the North can patriotically ascribe to Lee the sin
cerity and nobleness of mind and purpose which were cer-
tainly his animating motives.
"He was a great soldier, a worthy son of a long line of
fighting ancestors, a noble and chivalrous foe. And we of
the North only honor our "-Ives by giving freely our meed of
praise to this son of the hcuth, who, aside from all political
considerations, is a worthy type of our great Americans."
"There is no death; the stars go down
Only to rise on some fairer shore;
And» added to the luster of heaven's bright crown.
Shine on for evermore."
"There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled hour.
Though grief abide an evening guest,
Joy surely comes at earliest hour.
For God will mark each sorrowing day,
And number every falling tear:
And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all his children suffer here.
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GEN. ROBERT EDWARD LEE,
Address by. Dr. John Allan Wyeth before the New
York Southern Society.
The South may claim with pardonable pride thai it Furnished
not only the President of each of the divided sections in the
struggle for the establishment of a separate Confederacy but
the great central figure of the War between the States for the
North as well as for the South. History will accord that
Abraham Lincoln was the one conspicuous figure on the side
of the Union, and for the South none will challenge that
claim tor Lee. They were, moreover, representatives of the
wid< ly divergent classes of our section, the plebeian and lie
'patrician. The story of Lincoln might well be classed with
"The short and simple annals of the poor."
while Lee came s'raight from the cavalier; and their descend-
ants, the wealthy, cultured aristocracy of N irginia. His father.
Col. Henry Lee, better known as "Light Horse Harry." was
tin beau sabreur of the American army in the War of Inde-
pendence, and it was he who proclaimed George Washington
as "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen." Upon his mother's side he claimed the lineage
of the Carters, of Shirley. Born on January to. 1X07. his
childhood and youth were pass, ,1 in the cultivated circles of
the tidewater region of Virginia. At the age of eighteen he
entered \Y< -| Point, and, completing the COtirse of study with
out a single mark of demerit, he graduated second in a class
of forty-six. Lor several year- he served in the engineer corps
constructing coast di fenses, and for a part id' this time in
charge of the astronomical department of the government. Ill
[832 he married ihe daughter of George \\ Parke Custis, tin
adopted son of General Washington, and later was made cap
tain on the staff in the Mexican War.
Of all the brilliant reputations among the younget group of
officers which were won in that campaign, Lee's was the most
conspicuous. Upon him the commander in chief leaned as
upon no other, At Cerro Gordo he was brevetted major for
- cceptional gallantry. At Contreras and Chernbnsco he was
officially proclaimed for meritorious conduct, and on account
of a wound rec ived in the assault on Chapultepec, Septembei
[3, [847, he received his promotion 1,, lieutenant colonel. Tt
was here al Contreras, when the army was baffled thai the
quick eye of Lee discovered by a daring reconnoissance a line
of approach hidden from the enemy by which the position
• night be taken. This the commander in chief of the army
characterized as "the greatest fiat of physical anil moral cour
age performed by any individual during the entire campaign."
In his official report lien nil Scott said: "1 am compelled to
special mention of Capt R I Lee, engineer lie great
1> distinguished himself at the siege of Vera Cruz, was inde
ible during these operation in reconnoissances, as daring
.is laborious, and of the utmost value, Nor was he less con
spicuous in planting batteries and in conducting columns to
their stations under the heavy lire of the enemj " lb' Further
says; "Captain I , ■. nstantl} distinguished, also bore im-
portant order- from mi-, until be fainted from a wound and
1 in lo i of two night •' -lii i' ii tlir batti ries "
\fter the Mexican War, In wis appointed in 1852 Supet
hit 'lull til of the Military Arnlrim at West Point, and in 1855
lieutenant colonel of the 2d Cavalry, under Col Albert Sid
111 v Johnston. In 1850 he was directed bj the President of
the 1 nited States to arrest John Brown ami his followers in
their murderous invasion of Virginia, ami on March to. 1X01.
he was appointed colonel hi the United States army.
Win 11 the Southern Si.it>- wen seceding and wat seem ■!
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inevitable, upon the recommendation of General Scott, then
commander in chief, President Lincoln offered Lee the com-
mand of the armies of the Union. Virginia had not yet se-
ceded ; but Lee. looking into the future and feeling assured
that his native Slate would upon any act of aggression make
common cans- with the oilier Southern States, declined the
tempting offer.
In a letter written April ->o, [861, he made that never-to-be-
forgotten declaration: "With all my devotion to Ihe Union
and the feeling of loyalty and duty as an American citizen,
I have not In en able to make up my mind to raise my hand
against my relatives, my children, my home. Save in defense
of my native Stale, with the sincere hope that my poor serv-
ices may never be needed, 1 hope I may never he called upon
to draw ni) -word."
Winn at length hostilities began and Virginia took her
place in the Confederacy, the people of the Old Diminion with
one voice turned lo him as commander of her army. Then:
"Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright.
Flashed ihe sword of Lee !
Far in Ihe front of the deadly light.
High o'er the brave in the cause of Right.
Its stainless sheen, like a hi aeon light.
Led on 10 Victory.
(lut ..I its scabbard! Never hand
Waved sword from stain as free.
Nor purer sword led braver band,
Nor braver bled for a brighter land
Nor brighter land had a cause so grand,
Nor cause a chief like Lee!
["he story of his militar) career is practically the story of
the Army of Norilnrn Virginia, and it reads more like romance
thin history. Through four years of ihe bloodiest war known
to historj at 1h.1t lime that army, composed of the flower of
South: 111 manhood, under its matchless leader made a record
of victories never surpassed iii the annals of warfare — a record
which we of the Si unit and our children's children 10 the
remotest ages should claim a- our proudest heritage. He
assumed command of this army in June, iXtij. when McClellan
was imnieiliatcl) m front of Richmond. On June 26. with an
army infinor in numbers and equipment, he attacked the loo 1 ■
.■I McClellan in their intn nchnients. and for seven days the
bloody conflict rag d, until McClellan look refuge under the
protection of hi- gunboats at Harrison's Landing. This army
defeated. Lee turned upon a second larger than his own. march
nig upon Richmond from another direction.
By one of ihe most brilliant and daring movements in the
historj i'i ah : I''' with his able lieutenant, Jackson, rou'ed
Pope's anil)' al Groveton and Second Manassas, and drovi
him for safety under the protection of the fortification at
Washington McClellan had been removed for his defeat,
and Pop- followed in his train. Disregarding bo'h of these
defeated armies, Lei moved rapidly into Maryland, captured
Harper's Perry ami its I'M- - 111 on the way. and fought
at \iitiit:uu mi September r ;ie bloodiest bailie of the
War between the States. M 1 dan, who after Pope's defeat
had I" en reinstated in command, was again removed for fail-
ing io miliet a crushing defeat upon Lee, and Burnside was
made commander in chief of the Army "f the Po'omac.
In December of thai year this same army of Lee signally
defeated ihe arm\ of Burnsidi al Fredericksburg. Burnside
emoved and General Hooker placed in command. In
May, t8f>? Hooker marched mi Richmond, having issued
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a general order in which he said that the Confederate army
must "either ingloriously fly or come out from behind its in-
trenchmenls, where certain destruction awaits it." A few
days after this announcement was made Hooker's army was
surprised and attacked by Lee and Jackson simultaneously in
front and rear at Chancellorsville and overwhelmed, fleeing
in the greatest disorder from the field. Lee then invaded
Pennsylvania, where at Gettysburg after three days of bloody
conflict, unable to carry the Federal position, he remained
twenty-four hours in line of battle with his army in their im-
mediate front inviting attack, and then withdrew without in-
terruption to Virginia.
It was in 1864, in the campaign from the Wilderness to
Petersburg, that the star of Lee reached its zenith. Under
his leadership the Army of Northern Virginia up to this time
in offensive warfare had held every battlefield upon which it
had fought with the exception of Gettysburg and Sharpsburg
or Anti'etam, and upon these fields, although it failed to beat
the army pitted against it, it stood in battle array on each
occasion for twenty-four hours, but was not attacked and
marched away unmolested.
He was now to show that in defensive fighting he was a
greater master of the art of war than in his offensive opera-
tions. Grant, with the largest army ever marshaled upon this
continent under a single command r, with unlimi'ed resources
nf men and money, with the world to draw upon for all that
was most useful in destructive warfare, advanced upon this
army of Lee, wanting in everything but valor, and so deci-
mated that, as Grant expr.ssed it, "it had robbed the cradle
and the grave" to fill the gaps between the veterans that still
survived. There followed from May 5, 1864. in the Wilder-
ness, at Spottsylvania C. H., at Cold Harbor, and the North
Anna a series of conflicts so frightful in their havoc that the
history of this campaign might well be written in blood.
The most recent and, in my opinion, the most reliable his-
tory of the United States, written by James Ford Rhodes, of
Boston, a conscientious student, a capable analyst, and a just
recorder, says: "Grant's loss from May 4 to June 12 in the
campaign from the Rapidan to the James was 54.929, a num-
ber nearly equal to Le.'s whole army at the commencement of
the Union advances. The confidence in Grant of many officers
and men had been shaken."
At Spottsylvania Nicolay and Hay, authors of the "Life
of Lincoln," say : "Grant was completely checkmated."
That this is true is evident from the fact that, turning aside
from the direct route to Richmond, with Lee's army in front
of him, which army he announced in the beginning of the
campaign as his objective, he marched toward the James River,
which he crossed in the effort to capture Petersburg by sur-
prise. The army of Lee was, however, at Petersburg in time,
and tin re held Grant at bay for nine months of the summer
and winter of 1S64 and 1S65.
As far as the Confederates were concerned, the annals of
the siege of Petersburg might well be termed the annals of
starvation, exposure, and misery. True to its colors, the army
of Lee was starving to death. The commissary general re-
ported that "the Army of Northern Virginia was living lit-
erally from hand to mouth." Beef sold for six dollars per
pound, and flour at one thousand dollar., a barrel. At one
time, pleading with his government for food, Lee said that
for three days his men had been in line of battle and had not
tasted meat
In tie early spring *i 1865. after nine months of persistent
effort, Grant, with one hundred and thirteen thousand men,
well fed, clad, and armed, broke through the lines defended
by Lee's force of forty-nine thousand veterans, half-starved,
ragged, and most of them shoeless.
Then came the end at Appomattox, where on April 9, 1865,
the remnant of this once magnificent army, now numbering
less than twenty-eight thousand (of which only fifteen thou-
sand were carrying arms), surrendered, and the Confederacy
was no more.
Upon this world's stage no more pathetic scene, no more
heroic incident has ever been witnessed. With what pride
the generations yet unborn shall claim descent from those who,
true to their sense of duty, which Lee himself said was "the
sublimest word in th ; English language," fought under the
banner of this immortal soldier and died on those victori-
ous fields or. in s trviving, stood true to his colors at Appo-
mattox !
In his farewell a. 'dress to his army he said: "You will take
with you the satisfa tion that proceeds fron) the consciousness
of duty faithfully pe 1 formed, and I earnestly pray that a mer-
ciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection. With
an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to
your court' ry and a grateful remembrance of your kind and
generous consideration of myself, T bid you an affectionate
farewell."
Soon after the surrender he accepted the presidency of
Washington College, at Lexington, Va. He had refused large
proffers of money for his services or the use of his name for
various enterprises. He declined them all, saying he felt it
his duty to live with his people and to endeavor in educating
the youth of the South to do all in his power to aid in the
restoration of peace and harmony and the acceptance of the
policy of the State or general government.
Though war in all ages and with all people arouses that
which is worst in human nature, and though bloodiest and
bitterest is internecine war, it still seems difficult to lull :ve
even after the lapse of so short a time as forty years that for
the part this noble man took in obedience to his conviction of
duty Andrew Johnson, then President of the United S'ates,
obtained his indictment for treason. Against this unwarranted
and ignoble act the great soldier Grant arose and stayed the
hand of malice and persecution. Tt seems equally incredible
to conceive that within two months of the death of Lee, which
took place on October 17, T870. speaking to a resolution which
had for its obj.ct the return of the estate of Arlington to the
family of Lee, Charles Sumner said in his place in the Senate:
"Eloquent Senators have already characterized the proposi-
tion and the traitor it seeks to commemorate. I am not dis-
posed to speak of General Lee. It is enough to say that he
stands high in the ca'alogue of those who have imbued their
hands in their country's blood. I hand him over to the aven-
ging pen of history."
As man and soldier "the avenging pen of history" has al-
ready written this of Lee: "In nobility of character, in moral
grandeur, attested by his humanity, he lived 'the model for all
future times.' In the annals of war his place is with the
greatest."
What of this charge of treason, and what kind of traitor
was Lee? A distinguished soldier and ci'izen of Massa-
chusetts, Charles Francis Adams, reared in the New England
school of politics, himself throughout the war in the army
which confronted Lee, son of that Charles Francis Adams
who as United States Minister to England during the War
between the States probably did as much as any other one
man to defeat the cause of the Confederacy, grandson of John
Qo^federat:^ l/eterar?.
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Qiiincy Adams and great-grandson of that elder Adams who
succeeded Washington as President of the United States, a
man who so differed from Lee in his interpretation of tin-
duty an American citizen owes as between his State and the
centra! government that lie declared lie would go against Mas
sachusetts for the Union, has written this for history:
"If Robert 1-'.. 1. e was a traitor, so also and indisputably
was George Washington. Washington furnishes a precedent
at every point. A Virginian, like Lee, he was also a Briti li
subject ; he had (ought under the British flag, as Lee had
fought under that of the United States; when, in 1770. Vir
ginia seceded from the British empire, lie went with his Stat .
just as Lee went eighty live years later; subsequently Wa h
ington commanded annus in the field designated by those op
posed (,, them as 'rebels' and whose descendants now glorify
them as 'the rebels of '70.' much as Lee later commanded
and at last surrender, d much larger armies, also designated
'rebels' by those they confronted. Except in their outcome
the cases were, therefore, precisely alike, and logic is logic
li consequently appears to follow that if Lee was a traitor
W at hingti >n was also. . . .
"In him there are i xcmpliii d those loft) elements of per
BOnal character which, typifying Virginia at her highest, made
Washington possible. Essentially a soldier, Rohert E. Lee
was a man) sided man. T might speak of him as a strategist,
but of this aspect of the man enough has perhaps been said.
I might refer to the respect, the confidence, and love with
which he inspired tin's, under his command. ] might dilate
on his restraint in victory, his patient endurance in the fac
of adverse fortune, the serene dignity with which he in the
end triumphed over clef at But, passing over all these well-
WOIT themes, I shall confine myself to that one attribute of
his which recognized in a soldier bj an opponent, I cannot
hut regard as his surest and loftiest title to enduring fame.
I refer to his humanity in arms and his scrupulous regard for
the most advanced rules ■ . f modern warfare."
Denying the contention thai war must he made hell, holding
up to execration the authors ,,f the bloodiest deeds in history,
this gin. rous foe and great \111erican said
"I lejoice that no such hatred attaches to the name oi I ,,
Reckless of life to attain the legitimate ends of war. he sought
to mitigate its horrors. Opposed to him at Gettysburg, I here,
forty years later, do him justice. No more creditable ordei
ever issued from a commanding general than that formulated
and signed at Chambersburg by Robert E I.e.. as toward tin
of June. 1863, he advanced on a war of invasion. 'No
greater disgrac .' he then declared, can befall the army, and
through it our whole peoph. than the perpetration of bar-
barous outrages upon the innocent and defenseless Such
I" dings not only disgrace lie perpetratot and all eon
d with tin m. hut are subversive of thi discipline and ef
) of the army and destructive of the ends "f our movi
ment. it must b remembered that we make war only on
armed men.'
cope and spirit Lee's ordei wa- observed, and I doubt
if a hostile i"" ' • er advanced inti in 1 1 1 ntry 01
fell hack from it in retreat leaving behind le e oi hate
and bitterness than did the \nn> of Northern Virginia in
that memorable campaign which culminal d it Gettysbu
In dwelling on this theme in contrast t" lee's humanity,
may not "the avenging pen of history'' quote from "Ohio in
the War," by the Hi 11 Wl it this time Amb
dor of the United States at the Court of St James, wl
speaking of the but n
"It was the most monstrous barbarit) of this barbarous
march. Before his movement began General Sherman hegged
permission to turn his army loose in South Carolina and dev-
astate it. He used this permission to the full. He protested
that he did not wage war upon women ind children. But.
under the operations of his orders, the last morsel of food
was taken from hundreds oi de iitiile families that his sol
diers might feast m needless and riotous abundance Before
his eyes rose day after day the mournful clouds of smo
every side that told of old people and their grandchildren
driven in midwinter from the onlj roof- there were to shelter
them by the flames which the wantonness of his soldiers had
kindled. Yet if a single soldi r was punished le out-
rage or theft during that entire movement, we have found no
mention of 11 111 all the voluminou n 1 ords "f the march ?"
■1 ■ ■■ not tin- avenging pen of history which Sunnier in-
voked record that order of General Halleck, chief of staff and
militarj adviser to President Lincoln, which said to»G neral
Sherman, "Should you capture Charleston. I hope that by
s e accident the place may be di troyed; and if a lit"
should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of
future crops ,,f nullification and sei and Sherman's
reply in his dispatch of December 24, [864: "I will hear in
mind your hint a- t., Charleston, and don't think salt will be
Hi When 1 move, the Fifteenth Corps will he on the
right of 1I1, right wing, and their position will I. ring them
natural]} into Charleston first; and if you have watched tin
history oi that corps, you will have remarked that they gen-
eral!) do their work up pretty well. The truth is. the whole
army is burning with an insatiable d sin- to wreak vengi
upon South Carolina '"
\i"l ma) it not transcribe upon its pages that other order
i" hi- efficient Lieutenant Hunter: "lie [Grant] further say-
that he want- your troop- to eat out Vil n and clean
a- far a- the) go, SO that crows dying over it for the halaina
of the season will have to carry then provi ndi 1 with them?"
Of l.ee as a general. President Roosevelt, in In- "I ife of
I nomas 1 1 B nton," -a> - :
"Ih- world has never seen better soldiers than those who
followed I ''. and their leader will undoubtedl) rank a-, with-
out any exception, the very greatest of all thi iptains
1I1. 'i the English-speaking peoples have brought forth; and
Ihis although the la-t and chief of his antagonists may him
-,11 claim to stand as the full equal of Marlborough ami
Wellington."
From no -.lore capable source could higher praise l> given.
In tin "S'on of a Soldier's I ife," Field Marshal Viscount
Wolseley, commander in chief of the British leaking
of the Sex en 1 l.a\-' battle, -a\ s :
"General McClellan's splendid irmy had been
driven from the peninsula and Genet 1 1'ope had been made
short work ,,f on the Rappahannock ["he) were una'
ith General Lee's army, though ii wa- far inf rior in
h. In fact, il had won all along the
line, thanks to th mceivi d and will i aJi itlated stt
of the gr at \'ii | I the brilliant I
wall Jackson and other capabli to ih'1 sup riot
lighling qualities of their splendid and patriotic rank and file,
npaign w .s a masterpiece both in i and
nd did high honor to th, soldierlike spirit and
patriotism of the ill-shod, overwork, 1. ha.lh clothed r.»y
mental officers .md nun of th,- Southern am
h of militar History, there 's as
much instrtu h in strategy and in tactic- to be git
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from General Lee's operations of 1802 as there is to be found
in Napoleon's campaigns of 1796. Though badly found in
weapons, ammunition, military equipment, etc., his army had
nevertheless achieved great things. His men were so badly
shod — indeed, a considerable portion had no boots or shoes —
that at the battle of Antietam General Lee assured me he never
had more than thirty-five thousand men with him. The re-
mainder of his army, shoeless and foot-sore, were straggling
along the roads in the rear, trying in vain to reach him in time
for the ba'tle."
Of this visit to Lee, General Wolseley says :
"As I waited outside of General Lee's tent while his aid-
de-camp entered to tell him who I was and to deliver him a
letter from the Confederate Secretary' of War, I remarked
that it had the name of a colonel of some New Jersey regiment
printed upon it. Subsequently I referred to the fact in my
conversation with liim. He laughed and said: 'You will find
every teht, gun, even our blankets, accouterments, and all the
military equipment we possess, stamped with the United States
initials.' Every incident in that visit is indelibly stamped on
my memory. All he said to me then and during subsequent
conversations is still fresh in my recollection. It is natural
that it should be so, for he was the ablest general and to me
seemed the greatest man I ever conversed with, and yet I
have had the privilege of meeting Von Moltke and Prince Bis-
marck.
"General Lee was one of the few men who ever seriously
impressed and awed me with their inherent greatness. Forty
years have come and gone since our meeting, and yet the
majesty of his manly bearing, the genial, winning grace\ the
sweetness of his smile, and the impressive dignity of his old-
fashioned style of dress come back to me among the most
cherished of my recollections. His greatness made me humble,
and I never felt my own insignificance more keenly than I
did in his presence. He was then about fifty years of age,
with hair and beard nearly white. Tall, extremely handsome,
and strongly built, very soldierlike in bearing, he looked a
thoroughbred gentleman. Care had, however, already wrinkled
his brow, and there came at moments a look of sadness into
his clear, honest, and speaking dark brown eyes that indicated
how much his overwhelming national responsibilities had al-
ready told upon him. He was indeed a beautiful character,
and of him it might tru'hfully be written : 'In righteousness
did he judge and make war.' "
Lieut. Col. G. F. R. Henderson, professor of military art
and history in the Staff Colli ge of the British army, in his
"Life of Stonewall Jackson," says:
"If the names of the great captains, soldiers, and sailors
be recalled, it will be seen that it is to the breadth of their
strategical conceptions, rather than to their tactical skill, that
they owe their fame. We have the strategist, a Hannibal, a
Napoleon, or a Lee, triumphing with inferior numlxrs over ad-
versaries who are tacticians and nothing more."
In speaking of Lee's audacity in attacking with a force in-
ferior in numbers and equipment McClellan's thoroughly or-
ganized army in their in'nnchments in the Seven Days' battle,
he says :
"From Hannibal to Moltke there has been no great captain
who has neglected to study the cha.acler of his opponent and
who did not trade on the knowledge thus acquired, and it
was this knowledge which justified Lee's audacity. He was
no hare-brained leader, but a profound thinker, following the
highest principles of the military art. That he had weighed
the disconcerting effect which the sudden appearance of the
victorious Jackson, with an army of unknown strength, would
produce upon McClellan goes without saying."
Again he writes :
"Lee. with his extraordinary insight into character, had
played on Pope (at Second Manassas), and his strategy was
justified by success. In the space of three weeks he had car-
ried the war from the James to the Potomac. With an army
that at no time exceeded fifty-five thousand, he had driven
eighty thousand into the fortifications of Washington. He had
captured thirty guns, seven thousand prisoners, and twenty
thousand rifles. He had killed or wounded thirteen thousand
five hundred Federals, destroying supplies and materials of
enormous value, and all this with a loss to the Confederates
of ten thousand officers and men."
If, as Moltke avers, the junction of two armies on the field
of battle is the highest achievement of military genius, the
campaign against Pope has seldom been surpassed ; and the
great counter stroke at Manassas is sufficient in itself to make
Lee's reputation as a tactician. Tried by this test alone, Lee
stands out as one of the greatest soldiers of all times. Not
only against Pope but against McClellan at Gaines's Mill,
against Burnside at Fredericksburg, and against Hooker at
Chancellorsville he succeeded in carrying out the operation
of which Moltke speaks, and in each case with the same re-
sult of surprising his adversary. None knew better how to
apply that great principle of strategy to march divided, but
to fight concentrated.
In this action Lee violated both of the maxims of Na-
poleon— never to divide an army into two columns unable to
communicate or to attempt a junction in the presence of a
concentrated enemy — but Lee knew his men. He violated the
last section of this maxim because he knew Pope, and the
first because he knew Jackson. It is rare indeed that such
strategy succeeds. Hasdrubal, divided from Hannibal by
many miles and a Consular army, fell back to the Me taunts,
and Rome was saved. Two thousand years later Prince Fred-
erick Charles, divided by a few marches and two Austrian
army corps from the Crown Prince, lingered so long upon the
Iser that the supremacy of Prussia trembled in the balance.
But the character of the Virginian soldier was of a loftier
type. It has been remarked that after Jackson's death Lee
never again attemp'ed those great turning movements which
had achieved his most brilliant victories. Never again did he
divide his army to reunite it on the field of ba'tle. The
reason is not far to seek. There was now no general in the
Confederate army to whom he dared confide the charge of
the detached wing, and in possessing one such general he had
been more fortunate than Napoleon.
It is no'eworthy that Moltke once at Koniggratz carried
out the operation referred to: Wellington twice at Victoria
and Toulouse; Napoleon, although he several times attempted
it, never, except at L'lm. with complete success.
In his "History of the American War." Lieutenant Colonel
Fletcher, of England, says:
"The armies of Grant and Lee wire still in the vicinity of
Spottsylvania C. H. The former, notwithstanding his vastly
preponderating strength, was awaiting reinforcements. The
latter, with only a small and overworked army to rely on,
was expecting the arrival of troops from the Shenandoah.
"It must ever remain a marvel how this small force, ill
supplied, overworked, and harassed by continual fighting and
marching by night and by day, could hold its ground against
the almost innumerable host in Grant's command. That it did
so, inflicting losses far heavier than it sustained and creating
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a belief in the mind of the enemy of numbers far larger than
it contained, has been already shown.
"Two <>f the Ihree armies of Sigel. Meade, ami Butler had
lien forced to seek shelter behind fortified lines, the third
had been brought to a halt to await reinforcements, ami the
arteries which supplied life to the capital of the Confederacy
had been preservi d "
Of the movement to the North Anna Knar m the Wilder-
ness campaign he ^a\~: "Here Lee by tin- exercise of con-
summate generalship, foiled his opponent." And of the final
end of (ham's endeavor to crush Lee in this campaign he
says: "After many battles ami |osMs of which few wars can
afford a parallel, and which surpassed in number the whole
strength of the enemy's force. General Grant had brought his
army to a position which McClellan hail reached with far
greater ease and far less Expenditure of life two years previ-
ously."
loan the "His'ory of the United States." by the distin-
guished writer. Mr. James Ford Rhodes, of Boston, 1 quote
this concei ning I ee
"The Conf derails had an advantage in that Robert 1".. Lee
espoused theil cause. To some e'xletit appreciated at the time.
this in reali'y was an advantage beyond computation. Had
he followed the exampli of Scott and Thomas and remained
m Service under the old flag in active command of the Army
of the Potomac, how differently might not events have turned
out '
"Lee, now lifty-fonr yaars old. his face exhibiting the ruddy
glow of health, was physically and morally a splendid example
of manhood. Able to trace his lineage far back into the
mother country, the best blood of Virginia flowed in his veins.
Drawing from a knightly race all tin ir virtues, he had in-
herited none of their vices. Honest, sincere, simple, magnani-
mous, forbearing, refined, courteous, yet dignified and proud.
nevei lacking self-command, he was in all respects a true man.
Graduating from West Point, his life had In en exclusively
that of a soldier, yet he had none of the soldier's had habits.
lie used neither liquor nor tobacco and indulged rarely in a
social glass of wine, and cared nothing for the pleasures of the
table, lie was a good engineer, and under General Scott bad
won distinction in Mexico. The work that had fallen to his
lot he had performed in a systematic manner and with con-
SCientlOU cart Duty is the sublimes) word in our lane
he wrote to bis son. Sincerely religious, Providence to him
was ;, verity, and it may be truly said be walked with God.
"A serious man, he anxiously watched from his station in
Texas the progress of events since Lincoln's election. 'Think
ing slavery as an institution a moral and political evil.' having
a soldier's devotion to his flag and a warm attachment to Gen-
eral Scott, lie loved the Union, and it was especially dear to
him as the fruit of the mighty laliors of Washington. Al-
though believing that tile South had just grievances due to the
aggression of the North, be did not think these evils great
enough to resort to the remedy of revolution, ami to him se-
cession was nothing less. 'Still.' he wrote m January. t86l,
'a union that can be maintained only by SWOrds and bayonets
and in which strife anil civil war ale to take the place of
brotherly lore and kindness has no charm for me. If the
Union is dissolved and the government disrupted, I shall re-
turn to my native Stan- and share the miseries of my people,
and save in di fense will draw my sword on none.' Sum-
moned to Washington by bis chief. Lee had arrived there a
few days before the inauguration of Lincoln, and he had to
make the decision after the bombardment of Sumter and the
President's call for troops whether he should serve the na
tional government or Virginia. The active command of the
I ileral army, with the succession to the chief place, was vu
tually offered to him; but with bis notion of Slate rights and
his allegiance lo Virginia his decision, though it cost him
pain to make it. could have been no other than it was, lie
could not had an army of invasion into his native Stan . and
after the ordinance of sec -si,,n had been passed bj the Vir
ginia convention, he resigned his commission and accepted
the command of the Vii ginia forces
"Northern men may regret that I.ee did not see his duix in
the ame light as did two othei Virginians, Scott and Thomas,
but censure's voice upon [hi action of such a noble son] is
iin lud. A careful survey of bis character and life must 1 A'\
the student of men and affairs to see thai the course hi i""1
was from his point of view and judged by his inexoi tbl ami
pun conscience the path of duly to which a high sense of
honor called him. Could we share I he thoughts of that high-
minded man as he paced the broad, pillared veranda of his
noble Arlington house, his eyes glancing across the river at
the flag of his country waxing above the dome of the Cairn il
and then resting on the soil of his native Virginia, we should
be willing now to recognize in him one of the finest pfoduc -
of American life. For surely as the years go on we shall si
that such a life can he judged by no partisan measure, and wi
shall come to look upon him .as the English of our day regard
Washington, whom little more than a century ago they de
lighted to call a rebel. Indeed, in all essential characteristics
Lee resembled Washington; and had the great work of his
life been crowned with success or had he chosen the winning
side, the world would have acknowledged that Virginia could
in a century produce two men wdio were the embodiment of
public and private virtue."
"The avenging pen of history" lias placed the name of Le<
side by side with Washington. So writes the historian of
to-day. and so will the future historian prolong the noble
record. The fame of Robert Lee is si cure in that last appeal
to
"Time, the hcautifier of the dead,
Time, the corrector where our judgments err,
The test of Truth."
WHAT CONFEDERATE MOTHERS HAVE DONE.
The "History of the Memorial Associations of the South''
has received the indorsement of the Historical Committee,
Cnitee! Confederate Veterans, through its Chairman, Gen.
Clement A. Evans. Gen. Stephen D lac. Commander in
Chief of the- United Confederate Veterans, has written of it as
follows to Mrs. W. J. Behan, President : "I have carefully
examined the 'History of the Confederated Memorial \-
sociation of the South' and most cordially recommend it u>
the people of our Seuithland. Il is nicely editeel and beauti-
fully illustrated, ami tells in modest style 'of that superb.
noble race of Southern women who suffered with us in tin-
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 memcials and monuments will ever point
our descendants to the heroism, patriotism, sacrifices, ami
fortitude of their fathers and mothers, thereby treasuring tin
In roic de'' els of remote ancestry and inciting them te> like' con-
duct when occasion demands like' displays e.i heroic action.
Ibis splendid volume should have a place in the home of every-
one who loves his Southland."
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ORIGIN OF THE COX FEDERATE BATTLE FLAG.
BY CHARLES L. SHIPLEY, PIKESVILLE, MD.
In the battle of Manassas, or "Bull Run" (the latter term
erroneous), between the hours of three and four in the after-
noon of July 21, 1861, when the Southern troops had been
beaten back at various points and the fate of the Confederacy
appeared to be trembling in the balance, General Beauregard,
in looking across the Warrenton Turnpike, which passed
through the valley between the positions of the Confederates
and the elevations beyond occupied by the Federal forces,
noticed a body of troops moving toward his left. He was in
great concern to know whether they were Union or Confeder-
ate, but could not decide because of the similarity of the
colors carried.
During this terrible anxiety General Beauregard determined
that the Confederate soldiers should have a flag distinct in de-
sign. As soon as practicable he conferred with Col. Porcher
Milts, of his staff, with a view to securing such an ensign.
He decided upon a blue field, red bars crossed, with stars of
gold. The officers had quite a discussion on the subject. Colo-
nel Miles contended that the ground should not be blue, th •
bars red, and the stars gold. He proposed that the ground
should be red, the bars blue, and the stars white. Beauregard
approved of the change, and discussed the matter with Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston.
While the design for a flag was under consideration many
designs were submitted, and the matter was freely discussed.
When General Beauregard arrived at Fairfax Courthouse, he
directed his draughtsman, a German, to make drawings of all
the various designs that had been proposed. The officers at
headc[uarters agreed upon a red field, a blue cross, and white
stars. The flag was submitted to the War Department, and
was approved.
The first flags sent to the army were presented by General
Beauregard in person, with the expressed hope and confidence
that they would become the emblem of honor and victory.
The first three flags were made by the Misses Cary, of Balti-
more, Md., and Alexandria, Va., as soon as they obtained a
description of the design adopted. The making of these flags
cannot be better described than in the words of Mrs. Burton
Harrison, a distinguished authoress (at that time Miss Con-
stance Cary), who describes the event in an article in the
Century Magazine, some twenty years ago, entitled "A Vir-
ginia Girl in the First Year of the War."
In describing the event she says: "Another incident of note
in my personal experience during the autumn of 1861 was that
to two of my cousins and to me was intrusted the making of
the first three battle flags of the Confederacy. This was di-
rectly after Congress had decided upon a design for them.
They were jaunty squares of scarlet crossed with dark blue,
the cross bearing stars to indicate the number of seceding
States. We set our best stitches upon them, edged them with
golden fringes, and when they were finished dispatched one
to Johnston, another to Beauregard, and the third to Gen.
Earl Van Dorn, the latter afterwards a dashing cavalry leader,
but he commanded infantry at Manassas. The banners were
received with all the enthusiasm we could hope for ; were
toasted, feted, and cheered abundantly. After two years, when
Van Dorn had been killed in Tennessee, mine came back to
me, tattered and smoke-stained from long and honorable
service in the field. But it was only a little while after it
had beet.:' :stowed that there arrived one day at our lodgings
in lulpeper huge, bashful Mississippi scout, one of the most
daring in the arm- with the frame of a Hercules and the
face of a child. He was bidden to come there by his general,
he said, to ask if I would not give him an order to fetch
some cherished object from my dear old home — something that
would prove to me 'how much they thought of the maker of
that flag.' After some hesitation, I acquiesced, although think-
ing it a jest. A week later I was the astonished recipient of
a lamented piece of finery left 'within the lines,' a wrap of
white and azure, brought to us by Dillon himself with a beam-
ing face. He had gone through the Union pickets mounted
on a load of fire wood, and while peddling poultry had pre-
sented himself at our town house, whence he carried off his
prize in triumph with a letter in the folds telling us how
relatives left behind longed to be sharing the joys and sor-
rows of those at large in the Confederacy."-
The three ladies referred to in this sketch were considered
to be among the most handsome and accomplished of their day.
and were noted for their devotion to the Southern cause. Miss
Constance Cary, of Virginia, as is well known, married Mr.
Burton Harrison, private secretary to President Davis, and Ins
since attained a national reputation in literature as an author
of fiction. Miss Hettie Cary married General Pegram, who was
killed in battle at Hatcher's Run in February, 1865. Later on
in life Mrs. Pegram took a trip to England, where she became
acquainted with Prof. Henry Newell Martin, whom she sub-
sequently married, and who became a member of the faculty
of Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore. She and her
husband are both deceased. Her sister. Miss Jennie Cary, who
assisted in the flag-making, remained single, and assisted until
her death in aiding her mother in the management of the
Southern Home School for Girls in Baltimore. Another sister,
Miss Sallie Cary, married the late James Howard McHenry,
of Pikesville, Md. She is also deceased, but her four sur-
viving children still reside in the neighborhood of the village.
Two brothers of these handsome and talented Virginia-born
women still reside in Baltimore.
THE FIGHT AT FORT WAYNE. IXD. T.
BY THOMAS S. BARKER, YUBA, IND. T.
The battle of Fort Wayne, near Mayesville, Ind. T., was
important, as it decided the fate of the Confederacy over all
that part of the Indian Territory north of the Arkansas and
Canadian Rivers for the remainder of the war, although our
scouts made some raids and did some fighting in that part of
the Territory afterwards.
I have never seen any account of the battle, so will give my
experience just before, during the battle, and a few days after-
wards. We had retreated from Newtonia, Mo., where our
forces had a considerable combat with the Federals, result-
ing in a victory for us. I was not in that battle, having been
left sick at Pineville, Mo.
We had been quietly camped for a few days at a place we
called Fort Wayne, four or five miles from Mayesville on the
road leading to Tahlequah. Our camp was on one branch of
the Sparrow Creek. Mayesville is on the Arkansas State line,
part of the town in Arkansas, part in the Cherokee Nation,
and only a few miles from the Missouri State line.
The battle was fought on the morning of October 22, 1862.
The night before the battle I slept near the captain and lieu-
tenants of the company to which I belonged. Late in the
night the captain and one of the lieutenants awoke me with
their animated conversation over the report of a courier who
had just arrived saying that a Federal army was only about
fifteen miles distant and coming our way and that we would
have to fight them by daylight if not brrv,.
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It was reported before daylight that another courier had
arrived saying that the Federals were not more than eight or
Un miles from them, advancing rapidly, and that there seemed
to be several thousand of them. Our little army, so far as I
could see, seemed to be sleeping. Just at daylight, as the
men were starting fires generally to prepare breakfast, the
wagon train came into camp, and orders were given to load all
camp equipage quickly and form a line of battle. It was under-
stood that the Federals would be upon us in a fe w minutes,
that they were then between us and Mayesville. 1 heard the
commander tell the wagon master to take the train to the
Moravian Mission as quickly as practicable. Everything
loaded, the train started, and we were in line of battle in a
short time. For two hours or so we could not hear any more
of the Federals, when an order came to form in the road in
quick time. In less time than it takes to tell it we wen on
the mad moving south in quick time, leaving the Federals
behind, as 1 thought, but not so. When we had gone a mil
or more, the first that I knew of the nearness of the enemy
a cannon shot whizzed over our heads, followed by the reporl
of cannons quite near us. The Federals were Irving to cut
off our retreat.
I didn't hear any orders. Our armj whirled from the road
into an old field, and a terrific firing u.i oon m progress
with our forces and the Federals. Our battalion was support
ing the battery. We lay flat Oil the ground There must have
been a little high ground between us and the enemy, as not a
man of our battalion was hit, while our artillerymen and
hot i - were being mowed down. Some of our men had holes
shot through their hats. After a while the Federals charged
us. and captured our battery of four splendid guns and every-
thing belonging to the battery except two teams of horses
and tWO Caissons. We Wtre forced to run to avoid being
captured. 1 had been sick and was not able to keep up with
our retreating army, so I turned to the left and went into a
deep hollow, whir I was safe for the time being One of my
messmates, Frank Skaggs, two or threi younger than I.
said he would stay with me whatever our Fate might be We
win- in a precarious condition, and what to do was a serious
problem. Ml supplies in that part of the Indian Territory
had been destroyed in the early part of that year, and the
people had been forced to leave their homes, going either
North 01 South. When the Confederate arm) was not there,
the Pin Indians were continually making raids through the
country, killing nearly everybody and everything they came
I did not li;i\ an idea ol thi i e of our army. 1 know
we bad as much as two brigades of Indians Stand YVatie's
and Cooper's Brigades — our battalion, the artillery company.
and a few white men mixed in with the Indian regiments
The Indians were mostlj Cheroke . 'recks, and Choctaw
General Cooper was the commanding officer of that army.
Now after forty-four years it almost makes me shudder to
think of our situation; two boys in a hostile Indian Country,
behind our retreating army, in front of the enemy, and hardly
able to walk. We soon mad' our way down that hollow some
miles, where we came in sight of a regiment of Indians in
camp. Their horses wen saddled and the command was
ready to Mart, but did not know which way to go. When
aw us coming, the colonel, with several of his officers,
came in a gallop to meet us. and his first question was: "What
has happened at the fort?" 1 told him briefly that the Fed-
erals had captured our cannons and our army had left the
battlefield in confusion. He said that was the first he had
heard of the Federals being near; that they bad heard the
firing and knew that something had happened, but did not
know what to do or where to go. He then asked if we had
been surprised, and I explained that we hail had notice that
they were coming several hours before they got here. He then
asked if our train had been captured, when I told him bow it
had bem ordered soon after daylight to the Moravian Mission,
which was about halfway from Fort Payne to Tahlequah.
Remarking that "that is the way our army has gone," the
colonel said something to his officers in Indian language, who
hurried back to their men. All mounted and started in the
direction of the Moravian Mission, the colonel and a few men
remaining behind.
The colonel was a very fine anil very intelligent-looking
man and spoke English well. After his men had gone, he
gave us good advice, saying we were m a very dangerous
place; that in a few hours the country would be full of Pin
Indians picking up stragglers, lie was well acquainted with
all that country; and as our army had been defeated, he did
not thmk it would stop at the Moravian Mission, there 1). ing
nothing at the place to stop for; but that they would go on to
Tahlequah or Fort Gibson, and perhaps not stop this side of
the Arkansas River. lie gave us directions to Tahlequah.
about thirty-five miles away, with instructions not to go to
the Moravian Mission, a- the enemy would probably he there
before us, and we were to keep off the mam road until near
Tahlequah. We followed his directions, and arrived at Tah-
lequah late the n xt day. and were told that the army had
gone to Fort Gibson. Having had nothing to eat since the
battle. WS go! a good SUpp r. We were advised not to leave
town thai night, since if we were captured in town we would
be treated as prisoners of war: but if outside of town, we
would probably be killed. After breakfast the next morning
we tarted to fort Gibson, and file in thi evening pa^ed our
picket guards n< ar the town
So ended three of the most fearful clays of my life. We
had (raveled about sixty mile the two armies — be-
hind our rear guard, before the Federals through a hostile
Indian coun'ry almost without seeing any living being except
at Tahlequah. We wire told that our army had crossed the
Arkansas River, and that all Confederate supplies would be
moved from Fort Gibson next day We camped ne:u Fort
Gibson that night, crossed the Arkansas River next morning.
and were told that the army had gone to Fort Smith. Fifteen
miles farther on the road to Fort Smith we came up with the
army, to the surprise of all lhe colonel said he was expect-
ing to be attacked at any time until after our army bad p
Tahlequah. and that he elid not feel safe until after ci
the Vrkansas River.
STORY OF TOHN BROH N'S CAPTURE.
Georgi \\ > oung. a Virginian who came to Nashville early
after the war. and who died som months ago, leaving hi
widow poor in health and in -nrse — and away from all rela-
tione and former friends, making her condition most pitiable —
was interviewed by the K ishville Banner for the issue of
July I.}, tijoo. and the following is copied from that paper:
"There's a man with a history." said a friend of the re-
porter the other day as the two passed down North College
Street and at the time pointing out an old man who stood
behind a small ice stand and waite-d on occasional itomers
There was nothing particularly distinctive in t' ! man's ap-
beyond th< act that he was t->" am! slender, held
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himself as straight as an Indian, and wore long whiskers,
which had originally been of a sandy color, but are now fast
turning gray.
"Tell me his story."
"No; you will have to get it from him. I will tell you that
he aided in the capture of John Brown and witnessed the
hanging of that notorious abolitionist or liberator, as he was
wont to terra himself."
The reporter sought an interview, and he found the man,
George W. Young, very intelligent, and his story is given as
near as possible in his own words. Mr. Young is a native
Virginian, hut has lived in Nashville fir thirty-two years.
Hi- is now sixty-seven years of age. and was a soldier in the
Confederate army as a member of the gallant Stonewall Jack-
son's brigade, and during the four years' contest he saw much
fighting and passed through many an ordeal ; but his experi-
ence during those ytars, says the old man. is not comparable
to the night he spent in October. 1S59, on the bridge in front
of Harper's Ferry.
"This." said Mr. Young, "was my first experience as a sol-
dier; and the exciting evints which I witnessed then were
indelibly impressed upon my mind, and they seem just as
fresh to-day as they were two days after their occurrence.
I lived then at Charlestown, the county seat of Jefferson
County, and located ten miles from Harper's Ferry, and was
a member of Capt. John W. Rowan's company, a volunteer
military organization.
"John Brown and twenty-one of his raiders had been lo-
cated at Dr. Booth Kennedy's farm, on the Maryland side,
in the Blue Ridge, for three months past. They gave out that
they were there prospecting, and very little attention was paid
to their goings and comings. It was Sunday night, October
17. when their true purpose first became known, and came
like a storm. Cook, one of the raiders, was well known in
the community. During the three months previous to this
memorable date he made frequent visits to the surrounding
plantations, and had become well acquainted with the topog-
raphy of the country. He was a frequent visitor at the homes
of Col. Lewis Washington and Mr. Alstadt, two of the most
prominent planters in that section.
"On Sunday night the guard of the United States armory
at Harper's Ferry was surprised and captured by these raiders.
Tiny took possession of the armory, and took as prisoners
Colonel Washington, Mr. Alstadt, the guard, and thirty or
forty citizens of Harper's Ferry, and terrorized fhe rest of
the inhabitants.
"The first we at Charlestown heard of the raid was a call for
the military company, the order being brought by a courier.
Captain Rowan at once called out his company, of which I
told you I was a member, and we left Charlestown Monday
morning, went by rail to Halltown, and thence on foot to
Bolivar. Here we were told that we could not enter the town
by the Virginia side. We were then marched around through
the Maryland side and took charge of the bridge over the
Potomac River. When we arrived, Brown and his men had
been driven into the engine house, where they barricaded
themselves by closing the heavy iron-clad doors. Through
these they cut portholes commanding the bridge and street.
"The original number was seventeen whites and five negroes ;
but when our company arrived, the number of raiders had
been reduced to seven, five whites and two negroes. Some
of the raiders had been killed by the citizens and others fled.
"All during the day Monday firing was almost incessant,
and soon after our arrival Fontaine Beckham came out to
receive us. Just as he was walking on the bridge he \va>
fired upon by the raiders and killed. I saw him fall. My
father, Samuel C. Young, lost an arm also.
"Captain Rowan and the other military officers planned an
assault on the engine house; but later it was decided to wait
until Tuesday morning, by which time Col. Robert E. Lee
and Jeb Stewart, of Confederate cavalry fame, arrived with
the United States Marines and cavalry from Washington.
"At daylight Colonel Lee suit a citizen named Strider under
a flag of truce to the engine house and demanded Brown's
surrender. The raider refused, and made a proposition to be
allowed to march over the bridge into Maryland to the foot
of the mountain, a mile distant, where he promised to release
all of his prisoners, and then with his companions fight their
way out. This Colonel Lee refused to accede to, and ordered
the marines to charge and beat down the doors of the engine
house.
"The men, armed with sledge hammers, responded, but were
unable to effect an entrance. They abandoned this, and se-
cured a long ladder, which they used as a battering ram, and
at the second assault the doors gave way and the soldiers
rushed in. Lieutenant Green, of the marines, headed the
squad, and he ordered the prisoners to hold up their hands,
so they could be designated and thus protected. Lieutenant
Green struck Brown over the head with his sword, and one of
his soldiers jabbed him in the side with a bayonet. One of
the marines was killed in the charge and a number of the
raiders were wounded. The soldiers all remained at Harper's
Ferry till the raiders were tried and hanged. The first bang-
ing was on October 4, when Cook and Coppor were executed.
Stevens and Hazzlett were the next; then the three negroes.
Shields, Green, and Copeland, and the execution of old Brown
followed on December 2.
"The raiders were armed with Sharp rifles, and they had
at the Kennedy house two or three thousand spears with
which they proposed to arm the negroes as they liberated them.
The executions took place in the suburbs of Harper's Ferry,
the gallows being erected near a small apple tree. When the
Yankees came into Harper's Ferry, they dug this apple tree
up and cut it into small pieces as souvenirs. They also carried
away as souvenirs pieces of the jail where the raiders were
confined before their execution and the courthouse where
they were tried. These buildings were almost demolished by
souvenir hunters."
The Memorial to Poe. — The Richmond Times-Dispatch
of recent date states that at a meeting of the Council Mr. H.
R. Pollard, Jr., Subchairman of the Finance Committee, in-
troduced a resolution that "the Finance Committee of the
Council be instructed to provide a sum not exceeding five
thousand dollars to be appropriated for the Poe Memorial
Association, to be used for the purpose of erecting a suitable
monument to the memory of Edgar Allan Poe, provided the
said Poe Memorial Association shall raise the sum of five
thousand dollars to be placed with the amount appropriated
by the city to be used for the above-named purpose." Poe is
recognized abroad as America's greatest literary genius ; but
there is no monument to his memory, and the Northern doc-
tors did not deem that he was worthy of a tablet in the "Hall
of Fame." He was once a citizen of Richmond, and some of
the most eventful years of his life were spent here. Richmond
owes it to Poe and to her own fame to erect a memorial in
marble to Edgar Allan Poe.
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CAPl I E OF l III J. II. Mill ER
ACCOUNT OF MH WoNDERFUl \ VF.MENT BY THREE BOYS
(Johnny JoNEr, Chhrch Price, and Bennie Riggs)
ON the Arkansas Ri\ i r
l:-, B. I RIGGS, 1 0UISVI1 I B, KY.
li has not been mj pleasure at anj e to exploit my deed:
during the six'ies. When thai cruel wai was over, I sub-
mitted .in.l hushed my mouth like a little man. 1 have ac-
cepted the situation, and m> purposi ever since has been lo
make a good citizen.
li has been a long time since that war; but; as well as I
rem mber, we Ihree boys 1 El Monticello, \rk , in August,
1864, with orders (either from General McGruder, our rank-
eneral, or General Dockery) to penetrate the enemy's
country btween the Arkansas and White Rivers and 10 2
certain, if possible, whethei tin I ed rals were reenforcing Lit
tie Rock bj means of the railroad running from Duvall's Bluff,
on White River, to that place We expected to cross the
Arkansas River between I ittle Rock and Tine Bluff at Lips
comb's Bar, a place fordable in low water, If not fordable,
we expected to use a flatboal thai we knew was kept at that
When we rode out of the Pinny Hills down through
the bottoms to the river, we noticed above us a mile or so .1
steamboat seemingly aground put in the river about one hun-
dred yards from the south bank. It was being unloaded by
means of a flatboat which was being pulled hack and forth
by a line which was made fast to the hank. We at once aban-
doned the idea of crossing the river. So we concluded to ride
lip to the front of the boat and maybe lire a shol or two and
capture if, for we bad once captured a boat (the New Tago)
at Swan Lake, twenty miles below Pine Rluff. and had set il
on fire, when we bad to git away because of an approaching
Federal cavalry force.
W« were entirelj within the enemy's line, being just sin
teen miles above Pine Bluff, which was heavily garrisoned
with Federal troops commanded by Gen. Powell Clayton, who
now resides in Arkansas. We tarried but a moment, when
our minds were made up to dash up to the boat. Mr. William
LipSCOtnb, a good Southern man and as true as steel, lived
just below the boat; and we thought maybe we might see
him and procure some information. The water being low and
the banks high, with a levee extending along between the river
and the road, rather obscured us from the boat. Mr. Lips-
comb's house was back about fifty yards from the road; and
as we dashed up, we saw a yard full of people, consisting of
men and a few ladies. Several of the men were in Federal
uniform We immediately covered the partj with our pistols
and ordered then; to throw up their bands and surrender,
which they did. Wc then ordered Mr 1 ipscomb, under penally
of death, to search them, which he did. Some of them carried
pistols. Wc then ordered tin m to advance out to us at tile
front gate. The party, we found, consisted of the "Vane Tem-
pleton Opera Troupe." including the mother of our delightful
Faj Temphlon, The captain of ilie boat was Recce Pritchard,
Then there were two pilots, a United Stales mail agent, and
a Federal lieutenant in the crowd. The boat was being
lightened by unloading, 30 as to pass the bar. These people
were at Mr. Lipscomb's place eating watermelons.
The day (AugUSl l8) was beautiful. Tiny wer. taken com
pletely by surprise, and surrendered readily, begging us all the
while not to kill them Captain Joins, being the eldest and
who was our commander, asked the captain if be bad an
diers or government tard of the boat, lie answered,
"No." Jones then asked .mam and said: "Captain Pritchard,
I ask you upon your life if you have anj soldiers or govern-
ment stores aboard." Captain Pritchard then said: "Yes; we
have soldiers and also government supplies." Captain Jones
then said; "1 command you to surr nder the boat, and we will
bold you in ransom for Us faithful performance. If there is
a shot tired by any one from the boat, we will kill ever) One
1 you We are but the advance of our company, but it is
useless for you to make resistance." Pritchard then said, and
the lieutenant also, 'bat ibex would order the surrender of the
bi ial
I lie party, all of them, were now Ordered m front of us.
and we marched them around mi a^ to keep them obscured
from the boat a- much a- possible until we got righl up in
front of the boat and then out quickly lo the top of (In bank,
where w , could look down directlj upon the boat. We fired
several shots, not with a \i w of killing anybody, for that was
not our purpose row since the captain bad agreed lo SUI
render, bin simply lo frighten them. You never saw such
bustling to get inside and ofl from the deck. Tiny were
taken completelj bj surprise. Some jumped in the water and
swam to the opposite side, which was exactly as we wished
them to do, for we were very much in favor of getting i id
of as many as possible. Some ran back into the engine room,
and T am told nine of them went down in the bull of the
boat Captain Prilchard kept calling al them lo surrender
and come ashore, that they would not be hurt, and for them
not to lire a shot; if they did. it would forfeit his life and
everj one out on the bank. In a little while we had them gel
ting into the flatboat; and when the boal was loaded, 11 was
drawn to the bank by means of a bead line, which, as hcrcto-
! 1 lated. extended to the shore. When the boat landed,
we ordered one up the bank at a time, when he was searched
by Mr. Lipscomb. As soon as each was searched thoroughly
be was ordered out to stand in line, and so on until we bad
gotten all of them, as wc thought, ashore about a hundred.
Captain Jones then commanded me to go aboard of the boat.
I did so, taking Mr. I. ipscomb with me. 1 directed Mr. L. to
be careful and keep a watch for me, having so much to look
after, as 1 knew we would have lo do, in unloading the boat,
as we had agreed to spare as much as possible all private
property. The Templeton Company had begged us to spare
their property. Resides, there wire many merchants aboard,
some of whom I knew. They were good Southern nun, most
of whom lived in Pine Bluff. They bad been Fast, and were
returning to Pine Bluff with their seviral stocks of goods.
Bear in mind that the Confederates had control of nearly
all that part of Arkansas River from Pine Bluff lo its nuuilb
Above was in possession of the Federals as far up as Fori
Smith. There was a large garrison of Federals al Littli
Rock under command of General Steel, and we were between
two forces. Any good, or traffic coining from the east, say
from Memphis, had to come from Duvall's Bluff, on White
Rivtr. to Little Rock by rail; thence down the Arkansas to
Pine Bluff'. So we had to operate in a hurry lest some of the
Federal scouts would run in upon us.
I was right amused when T ordered Mr. Lipscomb to come
and go with me aboard and assist me He knew thai be
would have to remain in the Federal lines after we had gone;
and if it was known that he bad aided or abetted us in any
way, be would b made lo suffer. So when I ordered him In
said "Look here. Binnie Riggs, 1 have known you ever
since you was a shirt tail hoy. and 1 say to you that 1 don't
want you to burn this boat, and I don't wish to have anything
to do in it." But after wc had gotten off to ourselves, so no
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one could hear, he said : "Burn it, d — il ; burn it to the
water." I ordered the deck hands, twelve in number, to get
aboard of the flatboat, when it was pulled tc the main boat.
I then put them under the mate with instructions to unload,
taking off just sucli goods as belonged to the passengers. We
could show no favors ; and had we done so, those in sympathy
with the South would have been made to suffer. After in-
structing the mate thoroughly, under penalty of death for any
disobedknee, I then stepped to the hatchway and locked the
door down close and tight and threw the key into the river,
making sure that any one who might have gone down into the
hull, finding out our strength, could not come out and attack
me. I then went on the top of the boat and took down the
flag.
I went down into the passenger cabin and commenced an
examination of each stateroom, fearing that there might be a
soldier secreted in some of- them. There was none to be found,
to my great relief. I found a large cavalry saber, however.
and I swung it on to my belt, simply as a trophy, which I
wanted to carry out. I then went to the clerk's office and
examined the safe. I found it was locked. I then called to
Captain Jones to send the first clerk aboard. When he came,
I demanded the keys to the safe. He didn't want to open the
^afi. I commanded him at the point of my pistol to do so.
The safe was unlocked, and there exposed to my view I saw
more- money than I had ever seen before. It was in packages.
I don't know how much there was, nor did I care, as I re-
garded it of but little value. The clerk did not want to sur-
render the money, saying it was not government money, but
belonged to private individuals, and that the boat did not be-
long to the government. I said : "Do you pretend to deny
that this boat is not chartered by the United States govern-
ment? Have you not government stores, government troops,
and government mail?" Now I didn't wish to have another
word, and proceeded to place it all into my pockets. I re-
member that I was wearing a gray Confederate coat with brass
buttons and with two pockets cut slanting down deep on each
side. These pockets were filled with greenbacks. I found
in one of the drawers a Smith and Wesson pistol, the first I
had ever seen, as we used the Colt and Remington. I took
quite a fancy to this pistol, and placed it down in my belt se-
curely. Captain Jones had now come aboard and ordered me
to hurry.
I then went down on the boiler deck to see how they were
getting along unloading and to hurry them. We went back
into the rear and found a fine sorrel mare (said to have be-
longed to General Steel) which was being sent to Pine Bluff
to run a race. I called several deck hands back and had them
push the mare off into the water, when she was led by skiff
to the bank and out in perfect safety. After this Captain
Jones returned to the shore. (This mare was afterwards
presented by us three boys to our captain's father, Dr. J.
J. Jones, Sr., who was chief surgeon, with headquarters at
that time at Camden, Ark.) Very soon after this a Mr. Jacob
Fife, a Jew and merchant, who resided at Pine Bluff, and
whom I had always known, came aboard of the boat to make
some suggestions as to moving some of his boxes of mer-
chandise. He called me aside and said : "Ben, do you remem-
ber Jim Day. who lives in Pine Bluff and who has caused us
Southern people so much trouble by reporting and insulting
us in every way? Well, he is aboard of this boat, and I wish
you would capture him and take him out and turn him over
to your government."
This Jim Day was a blue-eyed and freckle-faced negro.
large and of great strength and endurance. I knew him and
began to hunt for him. I was told that he was in the water
under the guards. I went to the side e f the boat, and by
lying down flat I could see under the guards. I then went
to the other side, and there I found him crouched under the
hull of the boat with his head just sticking out. I com-
manded him to come out and get up on the boat. He came
nut and rose up, standing in the water with his hands on the
guard. I ordered him to get out and up on the boat. I turned
to give him way, so as to be clear of him as he sprang upon
the boat. As I turned, Mr. Lipscomb cried out : "He is com-
ing! Watch out!" As I faced him he was standing with a
capstan stick uplifted ready to strike me down. I fired two
shots. He sprang off into the water, diving off as far as pos-
sible, when Mr. Fife cried out: "O. Ben, that will do; don't
shoot him any more." The first ball had passed clear through
the neck and the second had struck him fairly in the bead
seemingly, but passed around and out. When he came to the
surface of the water, he struck off down the river, swimming
as gracefully and with as fine a stroke as I ever saw. I was
bewildered that he could swim at all after having two such
fearful wounds. Of course I wanted to kill him. The water
was reddened with the blood as it streamed from his head.
I watched him with my spy glass nearly a mile, and I could
see him as he emerged from the water over a mile away. He
lived many years after the war. He snapped a pistol at me
from ambush a year after the war at Pine Bluff.
You never saw negroes work as those deck hands did after
this shooting. They now realized that we meant business,
and would shoot if necessity compelled i'. I called again to
Captain Jones to send the barkeeper aboard of the boat. I
asked him if he had any good whisky. He said: "Of course."
I said : "Fix up a glass brimful of good whisky. Now stir
that good and you take a drink." He said: "But I don't drink."
I said, "But you must," when he took a swallow. 1 was
afraid that he might have placed poison in it. I then unit
back into the ladies' cabin to search there. After getting back
all alone, Mr. Lipscomb said to me : "Ben, I fear the Federals
are going to make me suffer for this." I replied that he had
been compelled (?) to do everything he had done under
penalty of death. I handed him out a handful of the money.
How much, I presume I will never know. I then ordered him
(Lipscomb) to gather up some of the mattresses from the
rooms and place them up beside th; bar counter. We satu-
rated these with whisky, brandy, wine, coal oil. and everything
we could find and struck a match to it. when it shot off like
a cannon, and pretty soon the J. H. Miller was a livid flame
of solid fire. We then hustled down to the boiler deck, and
everybody was gotten into the flatboat and yawl, when we were
pulled to the shore.
We had consumed now very nearly two hours, and we were
in dread all the time that the enemy would come in upon us.
We had risked our lives in consuming time merely to save
property that belonged to individuals. These goods were now
all upon the bank ; and as goods were a great rarity to our
soldiers and our pcopL, we were invited to open the boxes
and help ourselves to anything we wanted. Of course they
doubtless knew we would do this anyway if we wished; but
be it said to their credit, one and all, they seemed willing for
us to help ourselves. We opened the boxes, and we did help
ourselves. If horses were ever loaded down with goods, ours
were. Gray cloth, calico, linen, tobacco, brandy peaches, can-
teens full of whisky — we piled it on, thinking that we would
store it away, and when on our next scout we could get it.
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Just before we started we paroled everybody under oath not
to lake up arms against the Confederacy. As we had mounted
ready to Start, we saw approaching some one riding up dressed
in blue and who looked like a Federal soldier. Jones
rode out in advance and halted him, while Price and I luld
hack upon our horses. This party claimed to he a Confed
crate soldier and a Missourian and on his way to overtake
General Marmaduke's command, to which he said he belonged,
that was en route to Missouri with General Trice. Of course
h« -'lined willing I i join US. So we rode away, and had got-
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ten about a mile, going through th ■ woods, when we stopped
to hold a consultation We had ten negro prisoners thai we
were carrying out, aiming to turn them ovei to our force- to
work on breastworks, Wc concluded that we would unload
our goods and hide them away in the woods, and that Price
and Adam- would go hack to the boat or hank, where we had
left these goods, and gel another load and bring them out.
Captain Jones and I were to stay with the negroes. The
Understanding was that if Price and Adam- remained longer
than half an hour we would lake it for granted that Some-
thing was wrong and would be on our guard. The half an
Iv "u passed and Jones said to me: "Ben, I will ride out in
the Open and look down in the bottom and see what is the
matter." When he rode away, I dismounted and hitched my
horse. The negroes I had all seated a respectable distance
in front of me. Thej eemed perfect!) contented. One had
actually goni to jleep I took the sword I had gotten
Oat out from my bell and laid it down at my side \-
1 sal down I noticed that the Smith and Wesson pistol I had
al-o gotten from the boat pinched me in my belt, as I had no
scabbard to carry it in; so I drew this out and placed it right
io my front, handy, as I thought.
I then commenced to divide the money I had secured ; not
as would a man with any experience, hut was counting it
out in three piles. I would say five dollars to John Jones,
five dollars to Bennie Riggs. and five dollars to Church Price
When I came to a twenty note, I would lay it aside until I
had gotten three; then 1 would say twenty for John Jones.
twenty for me, and twenty for Church Price. I was not
giving Adams any of it. I judged that I had counted out
ahont a thousand dollars apiece, when whack! something
took me on the head. My lirst impression was that a limb or
pine knot had fallen from a tree, as the wind was blowing,
when whack! another stroke and another, when I did not re-
member anything further. The only thing I knew was when
I came to myself 1 was flat on the ground. I rose to my feet
quickly, realizing that I had been attacked bj one of the
negroes and with the sword. It seems that the negro thought
lie would kill me and get my money, ami then tlee 10 Pine
Rluff.
1 suppose from where I was Inst stricken to where I re-
ceived the last blow must have been fully thirty yards. \- T
rose to my feet I saw the negro advancing upon me with the
pistol in his hand that I had left in front of me. T can't ac
count for why he had left me and gone hack after the pistol,
null - it was when he struck me the last lick he knocked me
so prostrate that lie thought undoubtedly he had killed me.
and left me. thinking that he would go hack to where he had
first struck me and get the money that was in front of me
and the pistol, and if 1 was not dead then shoot me. Put as
he advanced toward me 1 had drawn my revolver; and ;i- 1
leveled it down on him he seemed to crouch, as if trying to
dodge the expected missile, when I fired, the ball striking him
in the head. Tie sank right down upon himself. I knew I
had killed him.
I now realized that I was badly wounded 1 expected these
other negroes would renew the attack, and in my condition
1 knew 1 was no match for any further defense This was in
a very dismal place. 1 had heard a chicken crow, and I knew
that there was a place near, so T started in that direction right
through the worst brier thicket I thought 1 had ev r seen.
1 .Mine pretty soon to a -null bayou 1 w '■ bleeding very
profusely and growing quite faint. As 1 waded across tin
little stream T took up some water and bathed my face, and
tin- s emed to refresh me. when 1 went along, pretty 50OH
arriving at the place. I remember distinctly all ahont the
little place. It was a -lory and a half log house in front, with
a frame one-story hack used simplj as kitchen. T went in
the hack way without knocking or any ceremony. The mother
and two daughters were in the house all alone. When I sprang
into the house all covered with blood, they began to scream
and run from the house. I cried out: "Don't run; I am not
going to hurt you. My name is Bennie Riggs, and I am fear-
fully wounded" Then the mother returned, pitying me.
1 told her that my father lived in Pine Rluff, that T was
a Confederate, that we had captured a steamboat down at
Lipscomb's Landing, that T had heen left to guard some negroes
that we had taken prisoners, and while guarding them I had
heen taken unawares and had h en wounded She said: "Why,
1 know your father and your mother ( >. my dear boy, is
my word you wish to -end to your mother? Von arc
hound to die. The hrains are running out of your In id "
lln- rather excited me. and T placed my hand up to the
hi ad. and I found that T had four deep cuts, besides three on
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my arm. which I doubtless received in trying to parry off the
strokes. I pulled out all the fractured bdne I could. I then
asked if she had any turpentine in the house. I had her pour
some of this on my wounds. I told her that the others were
with me, and that they had gone down to the boat to get
some more goods we had captured, and I asked her if she
would not let some one go down there and find the boys and
inform them that I was wounded. One of the young ladies
spoke up and said she would go, and pretty soon she had
caught up her horse and jumped upon him bareback and
started.
I was very much afraid the other negroes would follow me,
and I asked the sister if she could not git me out in the woods,
so that I might secrete myself: that if the negroes came to the
house and did not find me there they would make no further
search for me. The young lady volunteered to pilot me out
into the woods. She took along some bandages, a bucket of
water, turpentine, and common snot from the chimney. When
we had been properly secreted, she began to attend my wounds,
dressing them and cheering me all the time not to give up.
It seems that the young lady missed the boys, and they came
to where they had left me. They saw my horse standing
hitched, the negro that had been shot dead, and the rest of us
gone. Their first impression was that I had been cap' tired,
that in the attempt I had killed one of the negroes, and that
they were carrying me into Pine Bluff as a prisoner. So they
doubled back to the main road, and succeeded in overhauling
the other negroes and brought them on with them. They
came on up to Mrs. Ramsey's (that was the noble lady's name)
and made inquiry for me, when she directed them to where
I was.
1 shall never forget my feeling when I saw the negroes
advancing in front of them toward me. I was back in I he
bushes, and a small field intervened between where I was and
the house. I was rather at the foot of a slope, and in coming
over the top of the hill I could see the negroes some little
time before I saw the boys. I drew my revolver and handed
to the young lady the other, as I had concluded to sell my
life as dearly as possible. She said she would die with me.
In an instant I could see the boys as they came riding up.
I began to upbraid them for leaving me alone, when they be-
gan to console me by telling me that I was not so badly
wounded. They gave me some brandy and placed me upon
my horse, and I was carried to the home of my uncle, John
Rogers, a distance of nine miles, by one riding on each side
holding me to my saddle.
I wish I had space to relate the strategy that Captain Jones
used to save me from capture that night, because the enemy
was on our track by this time and had been following us. I
remained at my uncle's for quite a little time, when I was
escorted to Monticello, where I was given a nice room in a
hotel and attended until I was well. General McGruder's
headquarters were in the same hotel and right across the hall
from my room. He visited me each day. Everything that
could be done by the best and grandest woman on earth was
done for me. They would send me in linen for bandaging
my wounds and the very best of everything to eat. It was
quite three months before I was again ready for my command.
I cannot speak in too much praise of the gallantry and strategy
of Captain Jones and Church Pric", poor boy ! He was a
brave, noble fellow. We were all equally exposed.
I was born April 2, 1849. The capture of the J. H. Miller
was on the 18th of August, 1864. A line would find me at
1567 Pope Street, Lruisville, Ky.
"Johnny" Junks Whites of the Event.
Dr. John J. Jones, now of Philadelphia, complied with a re-
quest from the Port Smith (Ark.) Times last September for
a brief account of the capture of the Miller in which he states :
"When we rode up to the gate at Lipscomb's residence, un-
noticed a number of people on his gallery. These people
proved to be passengers from the steamer Miller, which we
learned was aground in the middle of the river about one mile
above the house. There were nine persons in this party, in-
cluding one woman. Miss Belle Vane, sister of Alice Temple-
ton, the then expectant mother of Fay Templeton. Fay Tem-
pleton was born the following month in Little Rock, Ark.
We secured this party as prisoners, and the writer rode for-
ward toward a point opposite the boat to reconnoiter, directing
the prisoners to follow under the guard of Bennie Riggs and
Church Price. One prisoner, a returning furloughed Federal
soldier, was picked up on the way and added to the party.
"When the writer reached the bluff bank opposite the boat,
he observed that the ferry flat was alongside of the boat being
loaded, and a large quantity of freight was seen on the lower
bank under where the writer stopped. The attention of the
officers of the boat was attracted by a pistol shot fired over
the boat and a demand made for immediate surrender. Con-
fusion among those on the boat was quite apparent when this
demand was made; and, while seemingly hesitating, the ap-
proaching party of prisoners was obscurely seen through the
underbrush as they came along a pathway near the edge of the
river. The number of this party was magnified by the excited
officers, and they consented to surrender at once. When the
people on the boat went to the lower deck to get into the ferry
flat and the boat's yawl, they could not see to the top of the
bluff bank upon which we, with the prisoners, by this time
stood, and so the deception as to numbers continued until the
boat's party came ashore into our midst. During the excite-
ment on the boat several soldiers jumped into the river on the
opposite side of the boat and swam ashore. Some negro sol-
diers hid themselves in the shallow water under the outer
deck, where they were afterwards disposed of.
"About one hundred and twenty-five persons, including pas-
sengers, soldiers in uniform and citizens' dress (the latter
being officers returning to duty after a furlough, and some
who hastily donned citizens' dress to avoid capture), and a
dozen or more negro deck hands constituted the human prizes
of the occasion.
"Leaving the prisoners under the guard of Church Price,
Bennie Riggs and the writer went on board the boat by means
of the yawl. Sympathizing with the passengers, we put the
deck hands to work and removed all their trunks and other
baggage ashore. A fine mare, said to belong to the Federal
General Steel, commander at Little Rock, was found on the
boat. We had the deck hands shove this mare overboard and
swam her ashore. The writer presented this mare to his
father, a surgeon in the Confederate army, who rode her to
the end of the war. Some Federal flags, pistols, guns, and
swords, with other articles, were sent ashore as trophies of war.
"After setting the boat on fire and witnessing its destruction,
we loaded our horses and eight negro prisoners with such
material as we thought best to take and went back of Lips-
comb's field, a mile distant, to deposit the goods- until such a
time as we might better be enabled to take them South. The
prisoners were paroled, and the freight left on the bank we
hoped would come into possession of the Confederate wives
and widows in the neighborhood. We afterwards learned that
these goods were taken away by the neighbors.
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"Leaving Bennie Riggs to guard the goods and negroes,
Church Price and l!ic writer went out for forage for llie
horses. We had not proceeded far when we heard a pistol
-Ihii in tlte direction from which we came. Rushing back, we
found that one of the negroes had attacked Bennie Riggs with
one of the captured swords and sevcrclj wounded him; but
Benni had finally secured his pistol and shot the negro
through the head, killing him instantly. We managed to con-
vey Bennie in his desperately wounded state to Mr. Harris's
ii idence, some ten miles from this place, and it was three
months afterwards before he could be taken farther South.
"I reported this capturi lo General Dockery, then at Monti-
cello. Ark . on August 23, and he gave me an order to act
Upon the frontier as a recruiting officer for the Confederate
army. While this was an irregular sort of commission, it
proved a protection to us from the charge- of being guerrillas.
1 mention this fact to offset a statement that has been made
that we were members of Jonas \\'ebb*s company, of Colonel
Wright's regiment. We never acted with this company or
command at any time. The documents now in my possession
in; rOHN 1 roi
substantiating these tact- consist of General Dockery's com-
mission to the writer, a lettei from John rempleton and his
wife (written after the war) thanking us for our kindness to
1 hem on the occasion, numerous orders from General Me
Grudei : Fagin, and Col. .1. W Rogan (provosl mar-
1 District No 1. Arkansas) ordering us on special duty,
extracts from Camden i \rk 1 and Montgomerj 1 \l.i 1 papei
and official war records, a letter from the Fed ral general at
Pine Bluff offering terms of surrender at close of war, etc.
At the end of the w-ar the writer, with Bennie Riggs and other
members of the company, was enrolled with General Fagin's
escort and surrendered at Shreveport, La., on June 7, 1865
"Church Price (native of Arkansas') died before the end
of the war; Bennie Riggs (B. F. Riggs, native of Arkansas)
now resides in Louisville, Ky."
Other Incidents Related by "Captain" Jones.
The following are a few of the events participated in by the
writer (native of Georgia) during the war:
"With Bennie Riggs, Lewis Holsenbach, and George Rowell
we captured the Federal transport, New lago, at Swan Lake
Landing, on the north side of the Arkansas River below Pine
Bluff. AfUr capturing this boat and setting her on fire, we
were approached by a large body of cavalry and fled.
"The boat's crew succeeded in extinguishing the fire, and the
boat procteded down the river. She was attacked on the fol-
lowing day mar Douglass's Landing by Maj. Walter Green-
field's command of two hundred and fifty Confederates, and
captured and burned after a running fight of eighteen miles.
We fired but half a dozen pistol shots in the process of the
capture we made With Bennie Riggs and a half dozen other
boys we burned French Town, after running in the enemy's
picket, two miles below Pine Bluff. French Town was occu-
pied by a picket guard and a large number of contraband
negroes We captured a steamer at Gaines's Landing, on the
Mississippi River, to have it rescued from us by traitorous
Confederates who were about to ship stolen cotton on the
boat. We led the enemy into numerous ambuscades, and with
few men captured and killed many times our number.
"The writer witnessed the attack made by the Minute Men
of Napoleon, Ark. on the steamer Ohio Belle, which occurred
before the capture of Fort Sumter, thus being the first -1111
of the war lie then participated in a skirmish at Monticello,
Ark., which was reported by Colonel Rogan from Memphis.
Tenn., to General Hill's maga me. called 'The Land We Love.'
published in Richmond. Va., as the last gun of the war.
"Too much cannot he said in honor of the bravery of Bennie
Riggs and Church Price displayed in these and numberless
other dangerous exploits encountered during the war."
Win Firing Occurred at Dead Angle at Nigh
T. L. Taylor. Company C, 4th Tennessee. Bailey. Tenn :
"I think I cm givi the cause of the tiring at the Dead Angli
on the night of June 30, 1864. 'The 4th. 5th. and 51st Ten-
Regiments were at the Angle, and of course took an
active pari in the firing At the angle and to the right our
videttes wire in the work-, but to the left thirty or forty feel
ami ten feet to the front we bad a vidcltc standing behind a
tree. A short whil aftei being placed on duly he came in
,,,,,l reported ih.it thi coming, when the firing com
tnenced and continued twentj or thirty minutes. A few days
afterward- some prisoners were taken, ami they said that their
commissar] wagons had been driven iiji near their line. mi.'.
they were drawing rations when the firing began Thej 1
ported tin In-- of several hundred men killed and wounded
and the lo-s of many mules and some wagons."
Hear in mind that all books adv rti-ed in the VETERAN are
by it furnished al an advantage. The price of the VETERAN
for a year or half of it is alum i invariably saved in buying
through it. Besides, many leading I onfederate histories are
furnished at greatly reduced prices.
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GEN. TOM GJtEEN.
[An address delivered by Mrs. Z. T. Fulmore, of Austin,
Tex., before the Texas Veterans in Dallas, Tex., in behalf of
the Tom Green monument.]
Veterans, Daughters of the Confederacy. Ladies, and Gentle-
men: The Roman actor is said to have won tumultuous and
prolonged applause when in the theater he cried: "I am a man.
and nothing that is human can be foreign to me." I appear
before you to-day a Daughter of the Confederacy with a mes-
sage to sons of the South which cannot be a matter of indif-
ference to those who are heirs to the glorious history of the
South, and who hold in reverence the splendid traditions of
patriotism and of valor that have made the South sacred to
all her true children and given her a place in the annals of
heroism and self-sacrifice that shall shin-.' with an undimmed
luster until Time's last chapter is written.
From the time that the spirit of Freedom began its mighty
and prolonged struggle with a myriad-handed despotism our
race has been glorified by many great heroes — men who have
concentrated in themselves the lofty passions of an age, the
sentiments, hopes, and aspirations of a people, and accentuated
them in devoted and desperate leadership upon the field of bat-
tle in heroic struggle for the divine birthright of freedom and
for all that gives a nation moral vigor and self-respect. From
the beginning the world has felt that such names should not be
allowed to perish. And so it has gathered up its admiration
and affection and poured them in an unstinted largess of
honor and devotion at the feet of such men as Leonidas, Tell,
Hampden, Winkelried, Bolivar, Washington, Joubert, Cronje.
and Gomez — men in whom the noble passion of patriotism
came to its consummate flower, and amid the rain of blood
and tears, and often amid the tempests of defeat and national
ruin, bore fruit in glory and immortality. Such men exalt our
humanity and glorify the history of our race. They were
true patriots. They loved not merely the local scenery of their
native land — they loved the people, their history, their happi-
ness, and their laws. The living ideal of freedom, breathed
into the human soul when it received the imprimatur of the
Creator's hand, had found incarnation within them. The final
and irreversible verdict of the ages, as well as the sentiment of
their contemporaries, assigned such men a place among
"The few immortal names
That were not born to die."
And do we know naught of names that shall rank with these
in the world's temple of heroes — the pages of history? Men
who came forth from our own Southland, who were inheritors
with us of all the noble traditions of the past ; men of god-
like attributes, of splendid powers, of vast capacities, and a
passionate love of freedom and of home ; men who, when the
frowning front of oppression threw its shadow across the
land they loved, arose with intrepid hearts to meet it, and
gladly laid their all upon the altar of a pure and disinterested
patriotism in a desperate and unequal struggle at which the
world held its breath in amazement and in admiration ? Yes.
in that galaxy of devoted patriots which lights up the sky
of history no names shine with a more full-orbed glory than
those of Lee and Jackson, Stewart and Forrest, the John-
stons. Tom Green, and others. In them the spirit of freedom
and patriotism found glorious incarnation. They illustrated
and emphasized in their own persons and made more hal-
lowed to us by their brilliant deeds and heroic sufferings the
sacred sentiments of freedom, home, and country. They now
belong to the ages and to the hearts of their own people.
Being dead, they sp;ak to us with an eloquence the living
tongue cannot essay ; r.or can we grow indifferent to their
mighty voices until we have sunk down into a degenerate
manhood and womanhood. They knew that
"Not to themselves alone they -were lent.
Each human soul
Must with the s'rong tides of life be blent.
The stars that roll
Their bright circl.s through the firmament
Are parts of one great whole.
Stars ! They were stars whose radiance here
Through the dark night of war
Spoke to our hearts in bright beams of cheer
None may restore.
But with wider light across time's rolling sphere
They shine for evermore."
It is especially in behalf of the memory of one of these
heroes that I appear before you to-day — a hero of three wars,
with a triple claim upon the hearts of Texans; one pos-
sessed of those qualities that make the great leader, the gen-
erous victor, the sympathizing friend ; wise in the council
chamber, skillful and prescient in his plans of battle, intrepid
on the field, impetuous in the assault ; one who to the imper-
turbable resolution of a Wellington added the brilliant fervor
and dashing enthusiasm of a Ney ; who laid all he was and
GEN. TOM GREEN.
Born January S, iSi-j; kil ed .it Blair's Landing, Ga., 1S64.
all he had upon the altar of Texas and the South and sealed
the offering and made it final with his life. I refer, as you
at once perceive, to none other than to Gen. Tom Green.
In appealing to you to-day for a just recognition of his
services to his country, and especially to Texas, and for a
proper commemoration of them above the grave where he
sleeps, I shall claim your indulgence while I briefly review his
^confederate l/eterar).
history as a warrior and patriot ami an ardent and dtvoted
champion of the cause of Texas and of the South.
General Green came of a warlike ancestry. Through his
mother, who was a granddaughter of Colonel Anderson of
North Carolina, he was a lineal desc ndant of those Revolu-
tionary heroes who, from Lexington to Yorktown with Wood
and tears and unspeakable suffering, won for us the heritage
of freedom which we now enjoy It is not surprising that
a love of battles and of heroes and of the stormy pageantry
of wars manifested itself in the child He sought out the his
tory of great generals and famous military chieftains, and
would sii absorbed in them for hours while his companions
were romping on the playground, Vnd it was not m rely the
romance of war and the imposing pageant of moving armies,
in their appeal to a young and Fervent imagination, that ah
orbed him in such literature; hut the rationale of battli .
th. sii.ii gic movements in which the acuteness and pre
of the military genius an often so brilliantly anil effectivelj
displayed charmed him no less. And when he a''1'" lo man-
hood he wa- thoroughly versed in ancient and mod rn his
tory. and had the salient features of the world's great cam
and decisive battles at his tongue's end.
I!, receii d a liberal education at Princeton College, Ken
tucky, Jackson College, in Maury- County, Tenn., and at the
-it> of Nashville. He studied law with In- illustrious
father, Nathan Green, who for nearly a quartet oi a centurj
.' i aie of the judges of (lie Supreme Court of Tennessee
It was iii the winter of 1835 thai the sound of the desperate
struggle which tin Texans were making for their ind ipendence
ed Ins ear- in In- Tennessee hom Cm there he a more
eloquent and commanding appeal to the heart of a true hero
than the spectacl ' of a handful of patriots
"Facing fearful odds
For the ashes of then- fathers
\ 1 1 1 1 the tempi - of th ir gods?
Ami for th' tender mothers
That dandled them to I est
\nd for |he loving wives that nursed
Their babies at their breast
Tom 'lie n had a heart that could not re-ist the passionate
of -ut'ii an appeal. Ills love of freedom and of
right, his scorn of tyranny and his hatred of oppression, in-
herited from his revolutionary ancestry, decided the battle
which must hav< raged "•"' I) for a time in Ins heart between
the instinct of natural affection and the instinct of lha widei
affection which feel it brotherhood with all who suffer ami
10 the rescui of all who aie oppressed. And 50, in
obedience to the large) and mon disinterested passion he ton
himself from the arm- of a weeping mother and made his way
to the land wher the "Lone Stir" w i- struggling 1" arise out
i I thi fogs and shadow- of Mexican misrule and slavery and
fix itself in th ■ bright constellation of free and independent
nations Here in deep veneration for the rights of humanity
and in sacred love ol freedom In offered hi- sword and his
life to Gen. Sam Houston for thi cau of Texas independ
is present at the memorable ami decisive ha tie of San
o, and I'm gallant conduct on the field wa- promoted to
a lieutenancy h> Gen lal Rusk, who wa- at tint nine Secretary
of War Subsequently he wa- appointed
eral Rusk, with tie- rank of major The routed Mexican army
1>cmg swept beyond 'he Rio Grande, the President of the
n Rl pill |il llldep 'll.lri - 1 ili
lished, Green returned to in- hom in fennessee, and
spent another year in the study of law. In the spring of iS,v
he returned to Texas. In 1840 he was elected to Congress
from Fayette County. In 1841 he was appointed clerk of the
Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas. These offici s he
filled with a manifest fidelity and ability and with that gentle-
manly hearing anil courteous cordiality that made lasting
friends of all who cam in contact with him and by which
In- became universally popular throughout the republic.
1 pass over Ins services to the republic in expeditious against
hostile Indians and as scout to th fated Mier expedition, and
come at once to the stirring days of annexation. 'Tom Greet
was secretary of the convention that framed the constitution
of 1S45, and no soonei was wat declar <1 than he obtained at
order from tin Governor to organize a company, which be
came a part of the regiment of t ol John C. Hays 'This regi
mem was composed of veterans who had seen s rvice in tin
former war, and was one of the most gallant that ever marched
out of Texas, h formed the van of General Taylor's invad
ing army. It was in the fori front of the battle of Monterey.
accompanied General Worth in hi- movements lo the real ol
the city, occupied the advanced position in tie' town after He.
outposts were carried, and had th ■ honor to receive the first
flag of truce under which negotiations were begun which led
to the final capitulation of the enemy. To the influence and
exampl : of General Green as much as. if not more than, to anj
other officer, wen due the unity of sentiment and of action
and the spirit of intrepidity which gave that regiment its world
wide fame and crowned he nam of the 'Texas Kane r- will
imp 1 ishable In mor,
\l lllc opening of ho-tlliti s between the Stale- 'loin (nee
accepted a colon ley in the expedition to Vri ona and New
Mexico under General Sibley. In that campaign hi- military
qualities -hom- forth with conspicuous lustet M the batth
of Valverde less than two thousand Confederates wer called
upon to dislodge an army of seven thousand Federals Gen
eral Sibley was sick, and at his order Tom Green took com
in.ind He ord red Captain Long ami Major Raguet to chargi
the enemy's cavalry, and at the same time he hurled the re-
mainder of In- force against the enemy's ar tilery and infantry;
and so spirited and del i mined wa- th,- attack that, although
the Confederates were aimed, for tin most part, with shotguns
ami charged across an 141 11 plain, 'he hallcry was -,,,,11 taken
and the infantry driven 111 confusion across the river. Mid
the whole army of General Candy would inevitably have been
Captured had not (, neral Sibley, who had resumed command
about seven o'clock in the evening, ordered the pursuit to ceasi
It is as much thi pn em of a great commander on the
field as the active play of his thought in the movement of his
1 that inspires an army and gives it the impetuous instinct
of victor} It was the estimate of Wellington's offic rs, t<
which the Duke himself assented lhal the pres nee of Na
pi Ji mi I', naparte on the field of battle wat 1 qual to
thousand men. So much for the power of personality,
eral Green was a man of commanding preseno FTi
six f et high, of strong and muscular frame and presented
a martial appearance on the field of battle. His presence in
spired In- troops with enthusiasm, and their confidence in hi«
ability as a leader assured them that thej follow d no will-o'
tin wisp when at his command they launched the thunder
I war In honor of the success of the Confederates at
this hull. .111 .null i\ company was formed of which T'.x
1 ."\ Joseph I' of Texas, was made captain, and it
wa- known throughout the war i- the "Valverde Mattery
I wish I had timi to nil you of his strategy a! Tamil.
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when by consummate cunning he saved his command and
crossed his whole army to the left bank of the river and
joined General Sibley in safety, and with what splendid ability
and heroic devotion he conducted one of the most hazardous
expeditions of the whole war — that for the capture of Galves-
ton Island. His own words in this conutction must suffice.
They flash a sufficient light upon the man and upon his spirit
and purpose. In his address to his soldiers he said: "You are
called upon to volunteer in a dangerous expedition. I have
never deceived you; I will not deceive you now. I regard
this as the most desperate enterprise that men ever engaged
in. I shall go, but do not know that I shall return. I do not
know that a single man who goes with me shall, and I want
no one to volunteer who is not willing to die for his country,
and to die now." Those are immortal words. They make
fragrant the air that bears them to our ears. They exalt our
conception of the patriot and make us proud of the humanity
which we share with the man who uttered them. It is not
to be wondered at that the people of the far past deified their
heroes. I doubt not that the demigods of antiquity were but
the historic memories of great men who had saved or died
for their nation in some great crisis of peril. The na'ional
conscience and love would not allow that such men could die
and be no more. Such power, such patriotism, such wisdom
and devotion could not disappear amid
"Festering bone and rotting limb.
In dire confusion tossed."
They looked for their return ; but as they never blessed the
earth again with their familiar presence, the grateful hearts
of their countrymen deified them, gave them a place among
the gods, and so made their names and memories forever hon-
orable and immortal on earth. It is a feeling akin to this,
though guided by a more enlightened intelligence, by which
we are impelled to rescue the names of our great dead from
oblivion and to lavish our love and gratitude upon their mem-
ories in monumental marble and mural tablet and in anni-
versaries, centenaries, and celebrations that know no halt nor
weariness from year to year.
But I must hasten to a close. I should love to follow Tom
Green in the campaigns in Louisiana, where with his brigade
he joined the command of Gen. Richard Taylor; how he made
secure General Taylors retreat from Franklin by covering
his rear; his brilliant capture of Brashear City with i's $3,-
000,000 worth of stores; how at Lafourche with sixteen hun-
dred men he repulsed an enemy of six thousand ; how he at-
tacked the enemy at Bayou Burbe-aux, who were intrenched in
superior force, and carried off nine hundred prisoners, and
put all the country above Vermilion Bayou once more in the
hands of the Confederates; how he was ordered back to Texas
to take command of the defenses of Galveston ; how he was
again ordered to Louisiana; was promoted to major gen.ral;
how he won the battle of Bayou du Paul with a greatly in-
ferior force in numbers ; how he won the battle of Mansfield,
bringing away as spoils of victory the enemy's entire artillery,
all his transportation, and about four thousand prisoners.
All this is history, and our time will allow us only thus briefly
to glance at it. It will be read by our descendants wi'h
quickened pulses when the dust shall lie thick upon our faces.
But a few days after the great victory of Mansfield the
whole country was startled by the announcement of the death
of Gen. Tom Green. He had died at his post of duty at
Blair's Landing, on the Red River. The body of the fallen
hero, accompanied by his chief of staff, Maj. Joseph D. Sayers,
and his brother, was brought to Austin, where a guard of
honor received it and where it lay in state for a number of
days in the hall of the House of Representatives. Thence it
was borne to the City Cemetery, and, according to his own re-
quest, consigned to the grave in his own family burying lot.
And there to-day sleeps the sacred dust of this great patriot
and soldier, with not as much as a simple marble slab to tell
the passer-by that beneath that grassy mound lies a hero
of three great wars — a man without fear and without reproach,
a patriot who laid his all upon the altar of his country and
sealed the gift wi'h his life.
Shall this continue? Shall we. amid all the mighty ma-
terial achievements which mark our advancing civilization
and the ever-widening activities of our social and intellectual
progress — shall we give to the world that sign of the saddest
of all decadence — a growing indifference to the great senti-
ments and principles that made our Southern history imposing
and glorious and which entitled our Southern leaders to rank
among the world's greatest patriots and which establish for
them a claim upon our reverence, gratitude, and love which
can end only with life itself? There is hope for a people as
long as their great dead are not forgotten, for from their very
urns they shall s'ill ir'pire and rule and point to nobler things
■I
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MRS. Z. T. FULMOKE, AUSTIN, TEX.,
Chairman of the Tom Green Monument Coimnitt e.
and show the way. Out of their grav s shall come a mighty
moral influence which shall quicken the living with renewed
life and purpose when depressed by misfortune or degenerate
through luxury. The grave cannot hide those great lives nor
arrest the influence of their great hearts upon the living if
we but be true to th ir memories and worthy of the heritage
which they have bequeathed us. It is true, their names have
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passed into history. There the reader of books and the stu-
dent of the past shall find them shining and reigning, secure
against assault or displacement. But this is not enough. His-
tory is not the expression of a people's love and gratitude. It
is the work of the unimpassioned chronicler of events. It is
the photographs of a people's footprints as they move across
the theater of time. History may or may not do justice and
honor to the memory of the dead, but the love and gratitude
of one's own people never fail to do both.
It is not enough that the records of great lives, great hearts,
and great achievements be written in the annals of a people.
They should speak in marble, in stone, and in bronze from our
cemeteries, our public squares and capitol grounds; they should
speak in pictures from the walls of our Senate rooms and
halls of legislation ; they should be made audible and spec-
tacular in moving pageants through our streets with music
and drums and banners. Thus shall the rising generations be
kept in vital and inspiring contact with the spirit and genius
of the past, and in times of despondency or lethargy or of
menacing mammon worship they shall cry : "Let us prove
ourselves worthy of the spirit and deeds of our fathers, and
not unworthy of the precious heritage which they have trans-
mitted to us." And thus the mighty dead, though long since
vanished in their visible presence, shall still walk in the midst
of us ; and as once they drew their swords to protect us from
an invading foe and to vindicate our chartered rights, so now
they shall hover about us in unseen presence, and save us
from those subtler foes that eat out our nobleness, paralyze
our manhood, and drag us down into a besotment of selfish-
ness which is concerned only with the questions: "What shall
I eat? What shall I drink? Wherewithal shall I be clothed?"
This is the most inspiring way of writing history. It ap-
peals to all, and by the persuasiveness of beauty and the sub-
tle power of poetry and imagination stirs the heart which the
historic page would leave unillumined and unkindled. Slow-
ly this great work is going on. One by one the monuments
are rising o'er the graves where our heroes lie sleeping. I
appeal to you to-day to help us to erect another. Let us do
this tardy justice and honor to the memory of that great hero
of Texas and of the "Lost Cause," Gen. Tom Green. We plead
for a fitting monument to mark the spot where his sacred
ashes lie. As chairman of the Tom Green Monument Com-
mittee of the U. D. C. I appeal to you to assist us in this
noble work. We are trying to raise $1,200 for this purpose.
Of this amount, $525 has already been donated, which leaves
a remainder of $675 to be raised by the 1st of December.
I appeal to your patriotism, to your pride in your history,
and in the priceless traditions of honor and valor which have
come down to you from your fathers and from your brothers
and comrades who bore themselves so gallantly in the burn-
ing front of battle. I appeal to your love for the present
generation and to your hope for those that are to come.
Ye gray-haired veterans of the "Lost Cause.'' whose whit?
heads glorify this assembly, you have doffed the gray, you
have laid down your arms, and your honor as Southern sol-
diers, untainted in defeat as in victory, is pledged to accept
the issue and to rally for the greatness and glory of a re-
united nation. But never has and never shall a blush of
shame mantle your check for the part you played in that
gigantic struggle. We may say to-day with a consistent fervor
and an unchallenged patriotism : "We love our country." From
Aroostook, in Maine, to the Golden Gate and from the Great
Lakes to the Gulf, it is ours. Wo love the North. Why
should we not ? The blood of our ancestors baptized her soil.
and beneath her green sod their ashes lie. The good, the great,
the mighty dead once were hers in living presence, and good
and true men are struggling to guide her fortunes to-day.
But above all we love the South. It is the sunny land where
"first the light of heaven blessed our infant vision." It was
at her generous breasts we drank the milk of joy. Beneath
her sod our fathers and our mothers sleep, and the ashes of
her heroic sons await the vindication of the last Assize. If to
love the South above the North, above every country of the
globe; if to revere and honor her heroes above all other
heroes; if to shrine her history and her struggles in our hearts
as the most sacred of our inheritances — if this be treason, then
your speaker is a traitor.
"If e'er to bless her sons
My hands or voice deny,
These hands let useful skill forsake.
This voice in silence die."
So I appeal to you gray-haired veterans who once stood
shoulder to shoulder with your fallen comrades amid the piti-
less peltings of death's rattling hail on the field of battle. See
to it that no meed of honor be denied your fallen comrades
Let all the world see that their graves are hallowed spots
and that their memories shall flourish in immortal grei n
Some one has written very beautifully about the grave of Gen.
Tom Green :
"Tom Green is no more; loved and honored he lies
In his home by the murmuring river.
In the soil that he saved 'neath his own Southern ski s.
Where praises from lips yet unborn shall arise
And bless him forever and ever."
But that song shall not be complete until a fitting monu-
ment above his grave shall vindicate its truth before the ey;s
of men. Then shall we be one step nearer the consummation
when of all our dead heroes it shall he sung:
"Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead.
Dear as the blood ye gave ;
No impious footstep here shall tread
The herbage of your grave,
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps
Or honor guards the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.
The marble minstrel's voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell.
When many a vanished age hath flown,
The story how ye fell :
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's Might,
Nor Time's remorseless doom
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That gilds your deathless tomb "
Savannah and Philadelphia in Days of Old. — Dr Wil-
liam Burroughs, of Brunswick, Ga., writes some interesting
historic data concerning Savannah for the Morning News
Savannah was incorporated in 1789, Governor Telfair sign-
ing the act of the Georgia Legislature, "which occurred in the
town of Augusta" on December 23. The city of Philadelphia
was incorporated that same year. Savannah had a disastrous
fire in 1820, and Philadelphia made the largest contribution
for relief of the sufferers. In 1774 John Houston, Archibald
Bulloch, and Dr. Noble Wimberly were elected delegates to
the Continental Congress. George Washington visited Savan-
nah in 1778.
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GOV. JOHN I. COX, STAFF, AND SOME FRIENDS AT JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION GROUNDS
SI LI EH SERVICE PRESENTATION.
On December 15, 1906, there occurred the coincidence of
presenting magnificent silver services to three armored cruis-
ers named for three Southern States — Louisiana, Tennessee,
and Virginia. The first was at New Orleans, the second at
Hampton Roads, and the third in the Norfolk Navy Yard.
I'i'happily, the ceremonies on Virginia waters being at the
same hour, none could attend both, although within a few-
miles of each other, so it happens that while the Veteran is
loyal equally to the interests and honor of all, the report of
the Tennessee is given, illustrating the usual proceedings.
A splendid tug carried the Governor of Tennessee, his
staff, one of the United States Senators, Frazier, their wives,
and a daughter of each, together with perhaps forty or fifty
invited guests, from Tennessee mainly. As the powerful tug
steamed by the side of the great cruiser, anchored quite cen-
trally in Hampton Roads, it seemed to be as solid as a gran-
ite island. Every condition, including the weather, conspired
to as perfectly happy occasion as could have been anticipate. 1.
Captain Berry, the commander of the ship, himself a Ten-
nesseean, and all the men under him, numbering over sev n
hundred, were on guard to honor and to serve guests in
every way. The $6,000 silver service was placed on deck in
the foreground of the picture here given. Governor Cox,
attending his fair young daughter, who had been chosen to
make the presentation address, said:
"Captain Berry, Officers, and Men of the Cruiser Tennessee:
"We are here as the representatives of all Tennesseeans
in recognition and appreciation of the honor conferred upon
our people by the Navy Department in giving to this splendid
war vessel the name of our great State.
"I assure you that we' are delighted to find our namesake
commanded by a worthy son of Tennessee. We shall claim
all who command and man the ship as sons and adopted sons
of ruble Tennesseeans, who in every conflict our nation has
hail with a foreign foe have given to the defense of our com-
mon country such devotion, fidelity, coi age, and patriotism
as to win for our commonwealth the proud and undisputed
appellation, 'The Volunteer State.'
"We gave to history the immortal Farragut, one of the
world's greatest sea c..,1* ins, who became a midshipman at
the age of eleven, and at th* age of twenty-three, in the
battle of Mobile Bay, had his body lashed to the rigging of
his flagship, so if wour.ded he could direct the fight while he
died. He gave his whole life to the navy, and died in the
Portsmouth Navy Yard in his seventieth year.
"We gave to the world the great Maury, who gathered the
observations of the ocean winds and currents and gave to us
the 'physical geography of the sea.'
"We gave to history the immortal Jackson, one of the great-
est military heroes the world has produced. These we offer
as worthy ideals for you who are to defend our nation.
"We are here amid historic surroundings. Here at Nor-
folk lived Farragut when Virginia seceded ; here in these
waters met the Virginia and the Monitor in deadly conflict.
In the Virginia was crystallized the inventive genius of the
South in its ideal war vessel ; in the Monitor was concen-
trated the inventive genius of the great North. The clash of
these monsters gave to the world its first battle of the iron-
clads. The result revolutionized naval construction through-
out the world, and made obsolete every war vessel that then
sailed the seas."
The no'able event of the ceremony was the presentation ad-
dress by Miss Mary Cox, daughter of the Governor, a bright,
vivacious schoolgirl, whose manner and whose words were
equally charming. She disconcerted those who are accustomed
to public speaking. Even Captain Berry, the commander of
the cruiser, could hardly assume his usual dignity.
The Fair Sponsor's Words.
Miss Cox, sponsor of the occasion, and a winsome young
woman, said, in formally presenting the beautiful silverware :
"From the land of our ancestral sires ; from the old Vol-
unteer State, made memorable by their march to King's
Mountain, and the victory that turned the tide of the Amer-
ican Revolution ; from the gathering place of the clan at
Sycamore Shoals, on the beautiful Wautauga, we come with
greeting and a memento of respect, love, and confidence, in
and for those who are to command and man this, our noble
namesake, 'The Tennessee.'
"Socrates was devoted to his philosophy, Wolsey to his
earthly master, Calvin to his creed, and we to old Tennessee
— but not more than to the Virginia State and this historic
spot ; this gateway to the home of Washington, to Lee, and
Jackson ; this 'open sesame' to all the nations of the world ;
this landing place of our forefathers.
"Brave men, may you ever be foremost in the fight, and
last to surrender, if surrender you must!
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FROM THOTOCRAPH or THE TENNESSEE CRUISERS OFFICERS AND CREW ORDERED P.Y COMMANDER RERRY FOR MISS COX.
"With this service we bring the benediction of the old
Volunteer State, and, in the language of the hero of Trafal-
'.•II. 'We expect every man to do his duty;' and may you,
like that celebrated hero, know 'how to love, how to fight.
and how to die !' "
MISS MARY DUX.
Senator James B. Frazicr gave a beautiful greeting for
Tennessee in which he said: "Happy am I that this mission
has brought my feet to tread upon Virginia's historic soil and
my eyes to rejoice in her beauty and her thrift. Here where
Henry spoke and Jefferson wrote and Washington fought for
human freedom, here in the very cradle of American liberty,
I hasten to render that obeisance that every American owes
to Virginia when be stands uncovered in her historic presence.
Here in Hampton Roads, made famous by the courage and
heroic fortitude of American seamen, I doff my hat to the
American navy."
THE STANDARD BEARER
BY BEATRICE STEVENS.
Look ! he has gained it, the foremost place
Tbe glory of victory covers his face.
Cheering and beautiful, over his head.
Tbe flag that he loves to the wind is spread —
Cheers for the standard bearer!
God! he has fallen! O help him! There,
Comrade, so near to him — sweet brow bare —
Up with the standard! It must not lie
Soiled in tbe dust, though ten thousand die
Brave as the standard bearer!
Rage, thou fierce torrent, fearfully red !
Hurl thy surf, crimson, above the dead ;
But all thy harsh voices summon in vain
Him who lies silent among the slain —
Beautiful standard bearer!
Honor and cherish him, land o' his love ;
Whether the raven or whether the dove
Shadow thy doorway, his like are thy gold.
Thou, mourning mother, ii ..ory art stoled —
Honor tbe standard bearer!
Dyerihurt;, Tcnn.
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Ah ! each year their ranks grow thinner-
Veterans, weary by the way ;
Soon life's sun will sink forever
On those wearers of the gray.
One by one they answer roll call,
One by one they pass away —
Pass beyond this vale of heartaches,
Noble wearers of the gray.
Capt. Louis W. McLaughlin.
Capt. Louis W. McLaughlin was born in Louisville, Ky.,
September 26, 1839. He moved to Louisiana, and in April,
1861, was enlisted in the army of the Confederate States in
Company K (Nelligan's), 1st Louisiana Infantry, in which he
was appointed third sergeant. He was promoted to second
lieutenant in December, 1861, to first lieutenant April 28,
1862, and to captain in January, 1863. He was paroled at Ap-
pomattox, Va., April 9, 1865. He served without intermission,
except when imprisoned, throughout the war, doing much
active service. He was taken prisoner once.
After the war Mr. McLaughlin moved to Eufaula, Ala.,
where he lived until his death, which occurred on September
5, 1906. Captain McLaughlin is survived by his wife (who
was Miss Belle Hart, of Eufaula) and two daughters (Mrs.
C. O. Hearron, of Spartanburg, S. C, and Miss Dot Mc-
Laughlin, of Atlanta, Ga.). Mr. McLaughlin served faith-
fully and most efficiently as tax officer for twelve years
in Barbour County, Ala., and enjoyed the esteem and confi-
dence of the people in other lines of business in which he en-
gaged. If any of his old comrades in reading this should
recollect him kindly, his family would appreciate some ex-
pression from them.
[The foregoing is from "S. H. B.," Eufaula, Ala.]
Maj. P. H. Morel.
After a short illness, Maj. P. H. Morel, aged sixty-two
years, Registrar of the City Health Department, a Confeder-
ate Veteran, and a prominent Mason, died at his home, in
San Francisco. He is survived by a son and two daughters.
Major Morel was born in Savannah, Ga. ; but removed to
California during the year following the close of the war, and
had resided in San Francisco since, and during the last eight
years he was connected with the health department of the city.
The members of George B. Eastin Camp, United Confederate
Veterans, accompanied the body to the grave.
George B. Houser.
George B. Houser died at his home, on Purgatory Creek,
Va., on the 9th of November. He was born in 1847, and at
the age of seventeen enlisted in Capt. G. W. Breckinridge's
company, and served until the close of the war. He was mar-
ried a few years after the war, and three daughters and two
sons survive him. He was a consistent member of the
Church, his life being an example to others. Never putting
himself forward in anything, he was always ready to respond
when called upon. A friend of many years writes that he
never knew of his doing a single act unbecoming a Christian
gentleman, and from Capt. G. W. Breckinridge comes this
tribute: "As his captain, I can say that a better soldier never
shouldered a musket, nor since the close of the war has Bote-
tourt County had a better or more worthy citizen."
Col. A. M. Shannon.
Col. Alexander M. Shannon, an honored citizen of Galves-
ton and prominent throughout the State of Texas, died on
the 28th of October, 1906. He was born in Arkansas May 7,
1839; but went to Texas at the age of fourteen, settling finally
in Southwest Texas, having acquired a fine ranch along the
San Antonio River. Here he was living when the war broke
out, and in 1861 he was one of the seven men in Karnes
County who opposed secession; but when his State went out,
he cast his lot with her. He joined the famous Terry's Texas
Rangers. He was first lieutenant of Company C, afterwards
its captain, and did gallant service in that capacity until July.
1863. He was then detached and assigned to command of
the secret service of the Army of Tennessee, reporting to the
commanding general ; and in February, 1865, while still in
this service, he was promoted to colonel. He was with John-
ston's army in North Carolina when news of General Lee's
surrender was received, and was then selected as commander
of the escort detailed to accompany President Davis and aid
him in getting to the west side of the Mississippi River ; but
the Confederate chieftain was captured before Colonel Shan-
non and his men could reach him. Colonel Shannon was
wounded several times during his service in the army.
At the conclusion of the war Colonel Shannon returned to
his ranch on the San Antonio, but after a short time removed
to New Orleans and engaged in business with the tropics. In
1869 he joined Gen. John B. Hood in the commission and in-
surance business in New Orleans, and in November went to
COLONEL SHANNON.
Galveston to take charge of the Texas division, the business
having grown to large proportions. In 1880 Colonel Shannon
engaged in government contracting, doing jetty work along
the Texa« coast from Louisiana to Mexico, at one time having
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under contract nearly all the work on the Texas coast. Under
him the south jetty in Galveston Harbor was carried out
about four and a half miles into the Gulf. He was engaged
nearly ten years in work of this kind. In toyo he was made
General Manager of the Galveston and Western Railway,
and in December of 1893 was appointed postmaster of Gal-
veston, lie was very little in public office, but after making
his residence in Galveston was interested in the growth and
upbuilding of the city. He was married in 1872 to Miss Clara
Viola Scott, daughter of Maj. William B. Scott, of Alabama,
and granddaughter of Governor Murphy, of that State. Three
daughters and four sons blessed their union. The Litter all
r< > ide in Galveston.
R. B. Sandiford.
Ralph Benjamin Sandiford died in Oxford July 17, 1906.
He was born on St. Helena Island, S. C., July 1, 1837. He
entered the Confederate service with the Oglethorpe Light
Infantry of Savannah, which became Company B, 8th Georgia
Volunteers, and served in the Army of Northern Virginia.
This, it is said, was the first company in all the South that
offered its services to President Davis for the war. It was
mustered into service May 21, 1861, and surrendered at Ap-
pomattox, having taken part in forty-one battles.
Comrade Sandiford received a severe flesh wound in his
thigh December 11, 1864. He refused to make known to
the surgeon the full extent of his injury, and in a short time,
with the aid of a crutch, he walked about seventy miles to
rejoin his regiment. When Lee and Johnston had surrendered,
he walked to Savannah. Mr. Sandiford would have been
promoted by one who occupied a high position in the War De-
partment of the Confederacy, but he respectfully declined
He was married April 23. 1877. at St. Mary's, Ga., to Jennie
G. Burns. After the mother of his children died, he devoted
himself entirely to the work of rearing them properly, and he
acted the part of both father and mother. He led a quiet
Christian life, knew no town gossip, was very charitable in
word and deed. He was always prompt in meeting his obli-
gations. He left a small legacy to the colored woman who had
served the family faithfully for some years.
Maj. John G. Thomas.
Maj John G. Thomas, son of John S. and Mary Bryan
Thomas, was born in Milledgeville, Ga., March 28, 1S33; and
died calmly at his home, in Scottsboro, near Milledgeville,
November 11, 1906, in his seventy-fourth year. Heart trou-
ble, precipitated by a severe cold, was the cause of his death.
He was buried from Stephen's Episcopal Church at Milledge-
ville, the Rev. W. R. Walker, of Macon, officiating.
Graduating from Yale in 1853. he studied law under J. S.
Pettigrew, Fsq., of Charleston, S. C, and was admitted to the
bar in that city in 1855; but, abandoning this profession, he
went to Florida and engaged in planting. In t86t he shoul-
dered his musket and entered the Confederate service as a
private in a Florida regiment for one year, the term of his
enlistment. After that he was assigned to duty as assistant
inspector general of cavalry, with the rank of major, on the
staff of Gen. Joseph Wheeler until the summer of 1864, when
he was appointed special aid to his brother, the lamented
Gen. Bryan M Thomas, late of Dalton, Ga., in which capacity
he continued to serve until the close of the war, when he
wended his way through the ashes and smoke in Sherman's
wake back to the land of the palmetto and the pine, and with
undaunted spirit engaged in the culture of cotton in Florida
and in Dooly County, Ga., until 1876, when he returned to
Baldwin County, his native heath, where he afterwards lived
in quiet ami at peace with the world and all mankind, dis-
pensing hospitality, charity, and good cheer to the extent of
his ability. He served as judge of one of the courts for many
years, even until bis death. "He presided with graceful ease
and ability."
Major Thomas was a gentleman of the old school, with
strong convictions of his own and the courage to defend them.
He is survived by his good wife and six children (Mrs. E.
K. Lumpkin, of Athens. Ga. ; Mrs. Alexander R. Jones, of
San Francisco, Cal. J Miss Elizabeth Thomas, now of Savan-
nah, Ga. ; Miss Martha <i. Thomas and John G. and F. Dray-
ton Thomas, of Jacksonville, Fla.) and one sister (Miss Mary
Neyle Thomas, of Milledgeville). As a husband and father,
he was gentle, loving, considerate, and kind: as a friend,
generous, unwavering, and true; and in his death the country
and community have lost a valuable citizen. He fought the
good fight, answered the last roll call, crossed the river, and
joined his former comrades in arms in their bivouac under
the shade of the trees beyond, where the bugle note disturbs
not and the war cry sounds no more.
JuncE J. H. Fulton.
Judge John II. Fulton was captain of the Wythe Greys, 4th
Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, (.rand Commander Confederate
Veterans, Virginia Division, and Judge-Advocate General
Second Brigade, Virginia Division. This distinguished sol-
dier, civilian, and jurist died at his residence, in Wytheville,
Va., on January 7, 1907, of heart disease in his seventieth year,
having been born in Wytheville. Va., July t8, 1837, within
about one hundred yards of the house in which he died
and in which he had long resided. His father was Judge
Andrew Fulton, for many years circuit judge under the old
regime.
John H. Fulton was educated at Emory and Henry College,
studied law, and was licensed to practice at an early age.
lie joined a military company, the Wythe Greys, organized
about the time of the John Brown Raid, of which be was
made second lieutenant, and he was with the company at the
execution of John Brown at Charlestown, Va. This company
volunteered its services to the State as soon as the ordinance
of secession was passed, was at once called into service, and
became one of the companies which formed the original
"Stonewall Brigade," and served under the immediate com-
mand of Gen. T. J. Jackson. He was made captain of the
company in May, 1S62, and was wounded at Second Manas-
sas, when Jackson held his lines with such obstinate valor
until Longst reefs Corps could reach them. When the am-
munition of some of the companies was exhausted, they dis-
dained to retreat; but fought with rocks, of which fortunately
there was abundant store at hand, and thus repelled the enemy.
In the battle of Chancellorsville, when Jackson doubled up
Hooker's right and compelled the withdrawal of his arm».
Captain Fulton had his thigh broken near the hip joint, and
was thereafter unfitted for active service. He was relegated
for support to Ins crutch ever afterwards.
Captain Fulton resumed the practice of law after the war.
lie was chcted a member of the House of Delegates of the
fust Legislature which met after reconstruction, and was
elected judge of the circuit composed of the counties of
Wythe, Giles, Bland, Tazewell, Pulaski, Carroll, and Grayson.
for about twenty years he filled this place with distinguished
ability, and established a reputation as an able jurist He re-
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signed his position, however, and resumed the practice of law,
bearing a reputation for ability and knowledge of the law not
confined to his circuit or section. A correspondent of the
Richmond Times-Democrat thus estimates his legal powers :
"It may be truly said that he was the Nestor of the bar of
the Southwest. He was a man of retiring disposition and
marked modest}', but with a reserved force which when
called into action was alike the admiration of his friends and
the fear and apprehension of his opponents."
While gallant as a soldier, wise as a judge, and able as a
lawyer, it was to his higher attributes as a man and a citizen
that he won the love and affection of the whole community
amongst whom his life was passed. Pure, upright, and honor-
able, kind, charitable, and benevolent, he made his record.
Judge Fulton was elected Commander of the William Terry
Camp of Confederate Veterans at the first organization, and
held the office up to the time of his death. At the hands of
the State organization he was made Commander at its session
in Petersburg in the fall of 1905, and as such he presided with
dignity and marked ability at its annual meeting in Roanoke
in October, 1906. He was Judge-Advocate General of the
Second Brigade, Virginia Division, at the time of his death.
Judge Fulton in 1876 married Miss Cynthia McGavock, of
Wytheville, who survives him with one daughter, Mrs. J.
Norment Powell, of Bristol. His domestic life was simply
ideal in the wealth of love and affection which marked his
intercourse with his family.
Judge Fulton's funeral was very largely attended. It was
held in St. John's Church, of which he was a regular at-
tendant, and was conducted by his rector, Rev. W. H. K.
Pendleton, assisted by Rev. T. S. Russell, of Bristol, Tenn.
William Terry Camp of Confederate Veterans acted as hon-
orary pallbearers with full ranks, together with a large dele-
gation of the State prganization and members of the bar from
Wythe and adjoining counties, members of the Council, the
Masonic Fraternity, the vestry of the Church, and very many
persons from other sections.
At a meeting of William Terry Camp, Confederate Vet-
erans, held in Wytheville on January 9, 1907, suitable resolu-
tions offered by Col. R. E. Withers, who was colonel of the
18th Virginia Infantry, were unanimously adopted. In a per-
sonal tribute Colonel Withers said of him : "Nearly forty
years of almost daily personal intercourse afforded ample op-
portunity to estimate his character, appreciate the high stand-
ard of morality which governed his daily intercourse with his
fellow-men, and the unswerving integrity which dominated
his life. I have known no man whose probity and honor ex-
ceeded Judge Fulton's, no man who measured up more fully
to the high standard of the 'Virginia gentleman' of the old
regime, and no higher eulogy in my judgment can be pro-
nounced."
Capt. John Henderson Pickens.
Captain Pickens was born at Marion, Perry County. Ala.,
February I, 1842; was educated at the State Military Academy
at Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and died at Mineral Wells, Tex., May
'3, 1905, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He enlisted in
the Confederate service in Company G, 40th Alabama In-
fantry, in March, 1862, and was elected first lieutenant, and in
the following May, upon the death of Capt. Hugh Summer -
ville, he was promoted to captain, in which capacity he served
with zeal and honor until January. 1865. when he was ap-
pointed adjutant and inspector general of Hol'zclaw's Brigade,
which, upon its return from Hood's Nashville campaign, was
with other brigades of that shattered army, sent to Spanish
Fort for the defense of Mobile, where he served with marked
distinction until ' ie evacuation of the fort, and at the general
surrender was paroled by the Federal authorities in May.
1865.
Captain Pickens was with his regiment in all of the hard-
ships incident to the Confederates in Pemberton's campaign
in Mississippi, and was taken prisoner with the army at
Vicksburg. After the exchange, his regiment and brigade
(Moore's) were sent to Bragg at Chattanooga, where he was
engaged in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary
Ridge, was with Johnston and Hood through the Georgia
campaign; and everywhere, in whatever posi'ion he was placed,
he was the cool, fearless, determined man and the intelligent,
efficient officer. He was keenly alive to anything that partook
of the ridiculous, and his fun of sparkling humor never for-
sook him in the camp, on the march, or in the deadly conflict ;
and he was always cheerful, making a happy effect upon his
men and upon all with whom he was associated. He was
wounded three times, and always with his face 10 the foe.
With his regiment he fought until his company was less than
a skeleton. No braver man wore a sword or carried in his
bosom a tenderer or more unselfish heart for the feelings or
sufferings of others. He was modest and retiring, and never
sought the applause of men, and in repose was as quiet and
gentle as a woman; but in action he was transformed into the
lion. All who knew him wire his friends — aye, none knew
him but to love him.
He was of the old South Carolina Pickens line of patriots
His grandfather. Gov. Andrew Pickens, was a general in our
Continental War of Independence, and his cousin, Frank
Pickens, was War Governor of South Carolina during our
Confederate struggle.
At the close of our Confederate war he was left with noth-
ing but his honor, his untarnished record, his love for his
Southland, and his hatred of oppression; and in "Reconstruc-
tion" days he left his Alabama home and came West to begin
life anew, wh< re he would be free from the annoyance of
"carpetbaggers" and scalawags, and finally located at Abilene,
Tex. In 1890 he and Mrs. Eva Polk Brigham were united in
marriage, and with hand in hand and with hearts that beat
as one they lived and walked together until death, which had
so often passed him by on the battlefield, called him to rest
in his eternal home.
He was Grand Standard Bearer in the Grand Commandery
of Texas, and was a sincere and active Christian, who filled
up his life with good deeds and in helping others, who will
bless his memory with recollections of his sympathy, his great
heart, and open hand.
William H. Harrison and William Shaw.
A few days ago I reported to the Veteran the <death of
our beloved Chaplain, S. U. Grimsley. Now I have to report
that two more have crossed over the river.
On January 3, 1907, Comrade William 11. Harrison, Com-
pany A, 19th Virginia Battalion Heavy Artillery, crossed over
the river. On January 7. 1907, Comrade William Shaw. Com-
pany C, 8th Alabama Infantry, passed quietly away. These
two comrades had about rounded out four score years. After
they laid down their carnal weapons of warfare, they both
enlisted in the army of the Lord, and we believe they were
faithful followers of their great Captain.
[The foregoing is from Thomas C. Kclley, Adjutant Har-
manson-West Camp, U. C. V., No. 651. Hallwood, Va.]
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Whitmire. — Jesse W. Whitmire, of Company H, Fifth
Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, died September 16, 1905, at
Everett, San Jacinto County, Tex. Thus another of the few
remaining me:. .hers of his old company has joined the gnat
majority "on the other side."
Barron.- Mrs. Agatha Scott Barron, wife of Cap! S. U
Ban mi. of Rusk, Tex., died July 29, 1906. In the resolutions
passeil by Frank Taylor Chapter. U. D. C, it is stated: "We
hold in grateful remembrance the many meetings of Frarlk
Taylor Chapter at t]ie home of Mrs Barron; also her untiring
efforts in collecting and making flags for the Chapter.
her great interest shown in all efforts toward the irection of
the Confederate monument."
1 Col. M. M. Duffib.
Col. M. M Duthc passed awaj at his h< > in Malvern.
Ark. September 1-'. 100(1. after a lingering lihhss ,,t •_; ncral
debility, having reached the ripe age of seventy -four war-
lie was a name of South Carolina, and graduated from
Erskine College, of that State, in [856. Soon after he weir
to Arkansas and located at Princeton. Me studied law under
Judge F. W. Campbell, and was admitted to the bar in 1858
at Princeton and to practice in the Superior Court of the State
in 1 Sim.
When the war hroke out, he organized a company of ninety-
nine men ; and, strange to say. there was hut one married man
* in the whole company. With this company he enlisted in 1 1 1 - -
Confederate army in May, l86l, joining the (>ii Regiment of
Arkansas Infantry, Army of Tennessee. He rose 1.1 variott
grades during the war, and participated in nearly all the hat
ties his regiment was engaged in. He was severely wounded
at Chickamauga, and when paroled he was lieutenant colonil
of his regiment. After the war, he returned to Arkansas and
resumed the practice of law. He represented Dallas Count \
in the State Legislature in 1868, was elected to the State
COLONEL DUFTOt
Senate in iS;o and was chosen President of that body, lie
was presidential elector in 1SS4. and carried the vote of his
State to Washington City. He was appointed consul to Win-
nipeg. Manitoba, during President Cleveland's administration,
and remained in offic< for one year afier the Republican party
came into power. He returned to Arkansas and satled al
Malvern, associating with him his son, William R. Duffle, in
the practice of law. and there resided till his death. He was
married to Miss Cook-ey in f866.
Colon 1 Duffie was a Director of ' ,ie First National Bank
of Malvern and a member of Kockport Lodge, F. and A. M .
and also of Malvern Chapter, R. A. M. He was buried by the
Masonic fraternity with the members of Van H. Manning
Camp. U. C V.
Miss \\ M Bl \( KW El 1 I'll KF.TT.
One i.t Lexington's most prominent and venerated «
died recently of pneumonia Only a few days before she
seemed quite w II and was out calling on friends. Miss Pickitt
was eighty-two years of age, her death occurring almost on
the annivirsan of her birth. Her brother, Col. W l>
Pickett, was with her Me is a widower, and, having retired
from business about three years ago, came from Wyoming
to spend his declining years with his sister. A year ago the
two bought a pretty h.nisP j„ Campsie Place, and Miss Pickett
"as ac 'Ve and happy in her household duties, being a model
"' ,,u women who grow old gracefully. She was widely be-
loved, a devol d member and worker in the Episcopal Church.
and always intensely interested in her friends and the affairs
<>f the day. \n,,|her sister of Colonel Pickett. Mrs. Isaac
Sett, died some yi ars ago The only other member of the
family surviving Mi- Pickett is her brother. Mai, George
B. Pickett, who lives at Los Angeles, Cal.
The funeral services were held in Christ Church Cathedral
Dean William T. Capers conducted the services, assisted by
Bishop Lewis W Burton, and the burial was in the Lexing
ton Cemetery.
John Riikv RmsS
John Riley Ross, ,, faithful Confederate soldier, answered
the last roll call on May 30. 1006. Surviving him are his wife,
daughter, and four sons, with a host of friends and relative
to mourn the passing of a beautiful life. He had passed his
sixty -iMh year by a few months, yet retained the vigor ami
brilliancy of youth.
( omrade R<>ss volunteered in the first year of the war.
serving under Captain Tripp in Company B, 40th North Caro-
lina Regimen, Heavy Artillery. His first service was at Fort
Hill, near Washington, X C, and from there to New Berne.
Fort Macon, Fori Fisher, and other forts near Wilmington
until Sherman's raid, when they were sent into Georgia to
tmct him. They returned to Fort Fisher, and were there when
it fell He was among the number that held the fort while the
Southerners evacuated, and escaped capture by crossing a
burning bridge which the Federals had fired at one end and
the Southerners at the olhei But he had resolved not to be
captured alive, and kept his word He was wounded in the
ba'tli of Bentonville while trying to rescue a comrade, and
surrendered with Johnston's army at Greensboro, from which
place he walked p. ins home at Washington.
He was the City Clerk of Washington. N. C. for twenty-
live \ears. a charier member of the lodge of Knights of Honor
and a member of the Confederate Board of Pensions. He wa=
escorted to his last resting place in Oakdale C me'ery In
Company G. Bryan (".rimes Can i| is.
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I M. MURPHREE.
Company G, 2d Regiment State Guards, in which all his sons
but one have served, the Daughters of the Confederacy, and
a host of other friends. He lived not for himself, but foi
others.
"Victorious his fall, for he rose as he fell ;
With Jesus his Master in glory to dwell,
He has passed o'er the sea, he has reached the bright coast,
For he fell like a martyr, he died at his post."
Thomas M. Murphree.
The following tribute comes from Rev. R. P. Goar, Chap-
bun of James Gordon
Camp, U. C. V., Pittsboro,
Miss. : "Thomas Martin
Murphree was born April
I. 1844, at Old1 own, Chick-
asaw County, Miss. ; and
died October 9, 1905, at
Pittsboro, Calhoun County,
Miss., leaving a wife and
thre: children, with a
host of friends, to mourn
their loss. Thomas Mur-
phree was a faithful sol-
dier of the Confederacy.
and no man did more for
the Confederate soldier
than did he in later years.
He was also a consistent
number of 1 he Metho-
dic Church. Peaceful be
his si ep till God shall bid him rise to life eternal!"
Dr. Julian C. Kendrick.
After a protracted iijiess and severe suffering for several
weeks. Dr. Julian C. Kendrick died on May 31, 1906, at the
home of his daughter, in Los Angeles, Cal., to which place
be was removed from hi-, home, at Downey, Cal., shortly
before his death with the hope that the change would b:-
beneficial.
He was born December 2, 1845, in Louisville, Ky. In 1863
he enlisted in the Confederate army, and served until the close
of the war as an officer on the staff of Brig. Gen. R. M. Gano,
in whose brigade the father of Dr. Kendrick was a surgeon.
In 1873 ne graduated at the Eclectic Medical College in
Cincinnati, and in 1877 he graduated at the Kentucky Medical
College. Thus well equipped for his profession, he came to
California in 1878; and after spending four years in Oakland,
he removed in 1882 to Downey, in Los Angeles County, at
which latter place he was actively engaged practicing his pro-
fession up to the beginning of his last sickness. His chief
ambition in life was to be helpful to those around him, and
many times without thought of remuneration gave his time
and services to the sick and needy. He was from early life
a most consistent and active member of the Church of Christ,
and died strong in the faith. The large attendance of his
neighbors and friends who came from Downey to Los Angeles
to attend his funeral attested their friendship and love for
him. Soon after his removal to Los Angeles County he
identified himself with Camp 770, U. C. V., and subsequently
became a member of Sam Davis Camp, No. 1280, U. C. V.
He v c »' ctive and earnest in the work of the Association
ances permitted, and especially was he an active
every musical programme.
It was resolved by Sam Davis Camp, No. 1280, U. C. V.,
that "in the death of Dr. Kendrick the Camp and the As-
sociation lost a most worthy and deserving member."
The Camp tendered to his surviving wife-, children, and
other relatives its deepest and sincerest sympathy.
The committee making report are J. E. Wilson and A. W.
Hutton.
Joseph B. Patton.
' On September 1, 1906, Joseph B. Patton ceased to live among
his fellow-men. He was born in Nashville, Tenn., August
30, 1842, and hence had pass.d his sixty-fourth year.
Mr. Pink Hood, of Nashville, writes of him: "When the
War between the States broke out. Mr. Patton enlisted as a
Confederate soldier, and served until the close. Near the end
of the war he as married to Miss Laura Bell Mclnturff, who
survives him with four children. Mr. Patton moved to Rome,
Ga., twenty-six years ago and engaged successfully in the
lumber business. He was an active and influential citizen, and
lived up to the biblical admonition that it is more blessed to
give than to receive. He was devoted to his family and
friends, and his greatest pleasure was in making others happy."
Comrade M. M. Barnes, of Nashville, writes : "I was a
member of the same battery as was Joe B. Patton, McClung's
1st Tennessee Artillery, C. S. A. This command was or-
ganized in Nashville in 1861 shortly after Tennessee seceded
from the Union, and Comrade Patton was with it from its
organization to the end of the war. He made an exemplary
soldier. This battery was prominent in the battle of Shiloh.
It was taken by the enemy three different times during the
battle, and was each time recaptured by our forces. We held
it finally, and used their own ammunition on them in the
closing events of the battle. When it was captured the second
time, all of our horsrs had been killed or disabled, and we
moved the guns on the field by prclonge. We had also ex-
hausted the last round of ammunition ; but when our forces
charged and recaptured it. which they did after being in the
hands of the enemy about one and a half hours, they had
filled the limber chests and caissons full of ammunition, and
we used it on them to good effect. After the battle of Shiloh,
the batteries commanded by Henry B. Latrobe, George H.
Monsarrat, and Arthur M. Rutledge were consolidated with
McClung's Battery. Being the senior officer, McClung took
command of the four consolidated batteries. Joe Patton's
surviving comrades will regret to hear of his death."
Col. Richard Hunter Dulaney.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch states editorially in regard
to the late Col. R. H. Dulaney, lieutenant colonel 7th Virginia
Cavalry, who died recently at Welbourne, Loudoun County,
Va. : "It is difficult to describe to the modern generation in
appropriate terms the character of a man like Col. Richard
Hunter Dulaney. It would require the descriptive powers of
Washington Irving and John Esten Cooke combined and an
intimate knowledge of the best Virginia and English society
for a century past to portray this striking character, whose
example of refinement, manliness, courage, piety, and patri-
otism has just been removed from the State, of whose best
traditions he was one of the fairest exponents. The anecdotes
of his elegance and his hospitality, of his personal prowess in
the field of sport and of his daring deeds on the field of bat-
tle, of his sufferings and his triumphs — all will be told, and
would not be in place in this notice, which is only to express
the gratification and pride of Virginians that the old State
has had such a son and their lament that his equal is not left."
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The following members of Camp James Adams, No. 1036,
U. C. V., at Austin, Ark., have died recently : Green Olive,
November 4, 1906; served in the 46th Tennessee Infantry.
C. C. Green, December 30, 1906; served in the 36th Arkansas
Infantry.
Frank Hume.
In the death of Frank Hume, nf "Warwick." Alexandria
County, Va., which occurred July 17, 1906, in Washington
City, another loyal and devoted Southern veteran has passed
awSy. Mr. Hume was the fourth son of the lale Charles and
Virginia (Rawlins) Hume, and was born in Culpeper, Va.,
July 21, 1843. His mother was a first cousin of Gen. John A.
HON. FRANK HUME.
Rawlins, (icn. U. S. Grant's adjutant general and later Sec-
retary of War. He was descended from an old distinguished
Border family of Scotland. His direct ancestor, George Hume.
oi "Wedderburn," Berwickshire, Scotland, came to this coun-
try m 1721 and settled in Spottsylvania County, Va., engaging
in land surveying.
When Mr Hume w.is quite young his father moved from
Culpeper to Washington City, having been appointed to an
important position 111 the Second Auditor's office of the Treas-
ury Department, which he held fur many years and to the time
of his death, in 1863. Here young Hume was educated at
what was then the preparatory school of Columbian College.
In the latter part of July. 1861, when he was just eighteen
• it his duty I" answer the call of his
nativi State, Virginia, he lefl Washington, ostensibly on busi-
ness, for Federal soldiers were stationed at different points
around the citj to guard communication with the South, He
crossed the Potomac at I' p Creek and hastened to Manas-
Ms, where, finding he had four cousins with a Mississippi regi-
ment, he decided to east his lot with them, and enlisted ill the
Volunteer Southrons, Company A, 21st Mississippi Regi-
ment, Barksdale's Brigade, Longstreet's Corps. He remained
with them until the end of the war, discharging his duty with
courage and fidelity. He participated in many of the principal
engagements — Seven Pines, Savage Station, Maryland Heights,
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Marye's Heights, Gettysburg
(where he was severely wounded in the hip). Chester Gap,
Chickamauga. Chattanooga, Campbell's Station, siege of
Knoxville, Falling Waters, Hunker's Hill, and others. He
was also, by general orders, detailed by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart
for scout duty. While on this duty his chief was mortally
wounded at Yellow Tavern, and lie then reported to Gen.
Robert F. Lee in person. His elder brother, Charles C. Hume,
a major in the Confederate army, had been killed sometime
before whib on similar service.
Vfter the war Mr. Hume farmed for two years in Orange
County. Va., and then returned to Washington City and en-
tered into business there. Since 1870 he conducted a large
wholesale grocery establishment with great success; he was
als,, eminently successful with other business enterprises, his
integrity, genial manner, and uprightness winning the respect
and confidence of all with whom he came in contact. He was
an exemplary and public-spirited citizen, ever ready with heart
and band to help Ins fellow-men lie held many positions of
trust in civil life and philanthropic institutions in his State as
well as at the national capital. Although in business in Wash-
ington, he maintained his residence in his native State, his
home being at Warwick, Alexandria County, Va., which was
the frequent scene of many notable gatherings of prominent
s'atesmen and of nun who had taken a foremost part in the
cause of the Confederacy. Here during the National Encamp-
ment at Washington in 1887 he entertained the Memphis Mer-
chant Zouaves and the Volunteer Southrons of Vicksburg, the
latter his old company.
Mr. Hume took a lively interest in politics as a Democrat,
and he was honored with two terms in the Virginia Legisla-
ture, representing Alexandria City and County in the sessions
of 1889 and 1899, to which he was elected both times by flat-
tering majorities. In public affairs he discharged every duty
as he did those of his home life, with constancy and absolute
unselfishness.
He bore his long illness of more than two months with pa-
tience and Christian fortitude, trusting in the power and love
of his Heavenly Father.
Mr. Hume married Miss Norris, a daughter of John E.
Norris. a prominent lawyer of Washington City. His widow,
nine children and several grandchildren survive him.
WARWICK, COUNTRY 1 OF MR. ■
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CAPT. C. FRANK SILER, HERO OF HEROES.
BY HON. W. P. WOOD, REPRESENTATIVE OF RANDOLPH CO., N. C.
Capt. C. Frank Silcr commanded Company M, 22A North
Carolina Regiment, serving four years in the Confederate
army. His courage and efficiency won him high praise from
Gens. A. P. Hill, A. M. Scales, and Cook, Cols. T. S. Gallo-
way and W. P. Wood, Major Odell, and Dr. W. H. Moore,
his chaplain. He is the only officer known to us who held com-
pany prayers. He bears five wounds — all in front — was twice
taken prisoner, and made hairbreadth tscapes. Twice he did
much to save the army. He was twice promised promotion
by his general. A. M. Scales — first at the Wilderness, when,
three color bearers having been shot down, Captain Siler
caught up the flag and, waving it aloft, led his men in a gal-
lant charge which took the ground the enemy were holding
and prevented their flank charge. Soon afterwards General
Scales embraced the Captain and said : "God bless you ! I
saw your conduct with that flag! You have saved the army,
and you shall be promoted." Next it was at Petersburg that
General Scales selected him from one hundred and sixty of-
ficers, if all were present, to take charge of his sharpshooters,
Captain Young, their commander, being absent. The follow-
ing order was soon received from Gen. A. P. Hill: "I am at
sea as to the location of the enemy ; and unless I can learn it
to-night, our army may be ruined. Send your sharpshooters
and a part of General Lane's to-night about twelve o'clock as
quietly as possible to the enemy's rifle pits and take as many
prisoners as they can, and ask them as soon as captured as
to the location of their army. They will tell the truth, just
aroused from sleep."
Captain Siler mounted General Scales's horse, and, en route
to General Lanes's Regiment for the detail of his sharp-
shooters in the darkness of the night, his horse missed the
dam used for a bridge and he and rider fell over a precipice
nearly perpendicular about fifteen feet. But the water and
mud into which they fell saved the lives of man and beast.
Having been over and exchanged papers at the Yankee
rifle pits a few days before, Captain Siler had noticed carefully
a beaten path on the margin of the woodland, in which he led
his sharpshooters. First to reach the rifle pits, their fires
shining dimly, he snatched a Yankee bayonet from his breast
before it could be used or the gun fired. They captured about
sixty prisoners ; and when General Hill learned through them
the location of their army, he ordered General Scales to pro-
mote the officer in command — Capt. C. F. Siler.
His colonel, T. S. Galloway, has stated that "Captain Siler
was not only one of the bravest soldiers, but one of the most
trusty;" and he gives the following incident as proof: "It was
at Sutherland Station that Captain Siler was ordered to take
a detail of men and hold a small piece of wood on the right.
Siler very soon charged through the woods with about seventy
men, and captured the Yankee picket line. A part of Miles's
Division, 2d Corps of Grant's army, came in sight, and their
commander, seeing the advantage of these woods, deployed a
regiment of at least three hundred to take them. The third
attack was made with full regiment and colors advancing to
within about one hundred and forty yards ; but they fell back
with loss, the gallant stand of our line making it seem that a
heavy force was there. All the time I could see Siler, with
hat in one hand and sword in the other, rushing up and down
his line encouraging his men, which so thrilled General Cook-
that he cried out : 'Who is that gallant officer in command ?'
In this way that much-desired ground was held until the ar-
rival of orVrr forces."
'J lu following thrilling incident from the Cheatham Record
will be read with admiration by all true men : "In his short
speech at the Veterans' Reunion at Mount Vernon Springs
Col. W. P. Wood said that there were just as brave men
among his hearers as Bagley or Dewey and Hobson and the
other heroes of our war with Spain. And to illustrate the
truth of his statement he cited an instance of the bravery of
one of his hearers, which he had witnessed at the battle of the
Wilderness. He said that when a charge was ordend the
color bearer of the regiment promptly started forward, but
was at once shot dead. One of the color guard immediately
seized the falling flag, and he too fell dead. Another of the
color guard grabbed the flag, but he also was instantly killed.
CAPT. FRANK SILER.
And then, although three men had been so quickly killed with
that fatal flag, this hero rushed to the fallen flag and waved
it aloft, dashed toward the enemy, calling out : 'Follow me,
my brave men !' And they did follow him to victory. This
was not the only instance of his bravery, as is attested by the
scars of five wounds which he still bears on his body. Stand
up, Captain Siler, and be seen. [Great applause]."
From the Asheboro Courier, of Randolph, we quote : "We
had the pleasure of having with us Capt. C. F. Siler, the great
hero of the South and bravest of all — justly called so by
many distinguished men, and should be by all, for he is a
noble and great man — great in many ways; great as a captain
in the war; great as a Christian gentleman, educator, and
armor bearer for his country; always kind and gentle and
trying to help his fellow-travelers to be happy and good. He
deserves to be remembered by the State of North Carolina for
his many acts of heroism in the great struggle of 1861-65.
Many prominent men have asked that the South should give
him free passes on all the railroads for life and also a salary."
The News and Observer years ago called Captain Siler "The
Hero of Heroes," while the Charlotte Observer mentioned him
as "The bravest of the brave."
Faithful to the last, Captain Siler was with his command at
Appomattox, and was just moving on the enemy when word
came down the line that Lee had surrendered. He is now a
peaceful citizen of his State, spending his declining days in
teaching the youth of North Carolina.
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THE IAMESTOWN EXPOSITION COMPANY.
BY H. ST. GEORGE TUCKER, PRESIDENT.
The Jamestown Exposition Company will give options on
the sites to he used by States which erect buildings at the Ex-
position. The option will be good for ninety days after the
close of the Exposition. This offer is made Ik cause our Ex-
position is built on land which is owned by the company, and
ii is deemed wise fur the States to have the option on account
of the much greater salvage to be obtained after the close of
the Exposition. At other expositions in many cases the va-
rious buildings erected by the different States were closed out
at a very small part of the expense of the building. Again,
the locality of the Exposition grounds and the surrounding
country is virtually a summer resort, and many of tlie build-
ings could be used after the Exposition either as private resi-
dences, summer cottages, clubhouses, etc. The price on the
water front is twenty-five cents per square foot, and the price
in the hack hits is fifteen cents per square foot. In nearly
every case the States have availed themselves of this option,
although it is not obligator)
The transportation facilities for reaching the grounds from
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and the vicinity are
afforded by trolley lines, steam railroads, and water transpor-
tation—ferries, steamboats, etc. We have every assurance
from Ihe steam railroad authorities that the rates for the Ex
position here will he the same as promulgated for the Ex-
position at Si Louis, which were exceedingly low rates.
I In invitation extended by the President of the Un ed
States through the State Department to the various countries
of the world to he represented at the Exposition by their naval
and military representatives lias been accepted by all the
countries that have received it.
'I here are one hundred and fifty congresses and national
conventions which have accepted the invitation to W with us
during the : >n, and the dales hav< already been fixed
for their visits. The numbers represent! d by these various or-
lions will reach over a million and a half people. The
population within twelve hours' ride of the Exposition is
twenty-one millions and within thirty-six hours' ride of the
Exposition is one half of the population of this country —
namely, forty millions.
This Exposition enjoys a National Commission consisting
of the Secretaries of War, the Navy, and the Treasury. No
Other Exposition has had such a commission so high in official
life. I am credibly informed that the government exhibit
at the Jamestown Exposition will surpass any exhibit evei
made by the government at any other Exposition. The gov-
ernment will have encamped on the grounds in the neighbor
hood of five thousand troops, representing each arm of the
service. The State militia and national guards at the Exposi-
tion will reach probably fifty thousand in number, at various
times encamped on the grounds. This does not include uni-
forms ranks of the Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the
World, etc.. and other semimilitary organizations.
\ great interest has been manifested in aeronautics. The
Club ipf America has formed a Jamestown Aero Con-
trerything that has been invented or created along
this line of thought will he represented at the Exposition. In
charge of this Aero Congress is Dr. Graham Bell. President.
We will have balloon airships, and airships
will compel, foi lie I ahon Cup Through
the Brooklyn Yacht Club there will he yacht races here which
will compete for the cup offered bj Sir ["nomas 1 ipton, and
i tii! cup offered bj the King of England, the K
and President Roosevelt. There are now in course of erection
ten yachts for this race, to say nothing of the many yachts of
various sizes for other races which arc owned by various
numbers of the country's yacht clubs. Automobile-racing will
be a very attractive feature of the Exposition. The aquatic
spurts, rowing, swimming, etc., will he very attractive, and
we expect for these races and exhibitions various crews from
England. An athletic field and stadium are being prepared at
the Exposition, and the athletic events will be in charge of
the National Athletic Association of America, and all pre-
miums awarded will be officially recognized
The President of the United States has given us full as-
surances of the cordial cooperation of the government.
There are only two degrees of difference between the tem-
perature of New York City and Norfolk.
The naval affairs in themselves will be an unsurpassed at-
traction, and will not be a gathering of vessels which will be
here only two weeks probably; bul there will be a congrega-
tion of vessels from all over the world during the entire
period of the Exposition. Admiral Harrington, Chairman of
the Naval Board, having arranged with the various countries
that their navies be represented at the Exposition thron
the ■ nt ire period of the celebration.
The hotels of the cities on and near Hampton Roads within
thirty minutes' ride of the Exposition grounds will acorn-
modate fifty thousand people. Within the immediate vicinity
of the Exposition grounds the hotels and cottages will ac-
commodate about ten thousand people. Pine Beach, Ocean
View, and Willoughby Beach hotels will accommodate about
six thousand people, and the regular boarding houses and
rooming houses, together with private dwellings which will
offer rooms and board to Exposition visitors, will accommo-
date about twenty thousand people. Thus Norfolk and vicinity
can take care of from seventy-five to one hundred thousand
people. The majority of hotel rooms will he from $1 to
$2.50 per day, and in rooming houses from 75 cenls to $1.50
per day. Good meals in restaurants and hoarding house
he had from 25 cents to 50 cents.
Reception \i Gen. Stephen D. Lee's Home. — A most ap-
propriate and delightful reception was given at the residence
of Gen, Stephen D. Lee, Columbus, Miss., on the Saturday
evening of the centennial birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Miss Mary B. Harrison was hostess A local paper states:
"It was fitting that a home about which the air and glory of
•ml! helium times linger should be the seen, of such an
and that within its doors Confederate colors should he lavishly
displayed. The Hags of the Confederacy and the State flag
w<ii a rich background for a wealth of flowers. Invited t"
receive with Miss Harrison were the fust officers of the Co-
lumbus Chapter (Mrs John M. Billups, President; Mis I
T. Sykes, Vice Presidun . Mis J. O. Banks. Treasurer; and
Mrs, T. B, Franklin, Secretary) and the officers
with her in her work (Mrs. \Y. B. Hamilton, Mrs. Camp!
Mi- \liln.-ii. Mr- Georgia i oung, Mi- J M Morgan, Miss
Garner, Miss Lincoln) 1 mandei of the [sham Har-
rison Camp, Col. Willi, un C. Richards, and Mr. Thomas I In
rison, Wlmtant of the same organization. The evening was
distinguished by the cordial welcome and informal charm
that insure slice 1 bei unc a notable pleasure of the
■ !JI "
Gen. R. 1 1 son. Gen. G. W. Custis Lee, and
Gen. Steplun D. Lee were classmates at West Point, and
been close personal friends through intervening years.
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ADVERTISING IN RECIPROCITY.
Many friends of the Veteran can't understand why there is
not more general advertising in it. There is no lack of zeal
in soliciting, but the conditions are not generally understood.
A concern that the Veteran has patronized for years makes
the following reply to a liberal offer:
"We are in receipt of your favor of the 15th, and we are
quite sure that we can remove the causes of the misunder-
standings which seem to have arisen in regard to your request
for our advertisement.
"While we very highly appreciate your continued favors,
you know we would not want you to place a dollar's worth
of business with us if you did not believe it was going to
bring you more than a dollar in return and, further than this,
that it was the most profitable advertising investment that
you could make. You will realize, we are sure, that we must
consider our advertising expenditures from the same stand-
point. . . . We can afford only a limited amount of money
for this, and we choose a few magazines whose circulation is
so enormous that they will gain the end we want.
"We understand that the rates in your paper are low; but
that has nothing to do with our decision that we cannot use
your publication for advertising, because if we believed that
it was the thing we should do we would pay your rates, no
matter what they were. You can understand that we have
hundreds of similar requests to yours and from customers of
long standing; and if we were to make an exception in your
case, there would be no logical reason why we should not
make it in every case, and it would be the exception no longer,
but the rule. While of course this money could not be spent
without bringing us something in return, it would mount up
to a great deal of money, and consequently affect our ex-
penditures for advertising, which we feel is more logical for
us to do and which we know brings the direct returns that we
need."
The writer of the foregoing is evidently a young man at
the desk, and he thinks he knows it all. The idea of exclusive
use of magazines having very large circulation is ridiculous.
If to supply an advertisement to one hundred thousand high-
class readers — as the Veteran evidently does with its twenty-
one thousand copies — at one-tenth the price that is required
for a million readers and the magazine of smaller circulation
is a patron upon such representation as in the foregoing all
the smaller patrons should look to reciprocal sources. An
aggravating feature in this case comes of agents of the con-
cern volunteering the suggestion at different .times that the
house would "probably advertise in the Veteran."
THE DOMICILE BUILDING OF THE VETERAN.
The new Publishing House building of the M. E. Church,
South, on the January Veteran's front page was erected at
a cost of $124,000. -exclusive of all expense for furniture and
fixtures for lighting and heating. It is built on a lot 75x240
feet, which cost seven years ago $25,000 and which to-day
would doubtless bring twice that amount. The house fronts
on Broadway, the principal street in the city. On the west
side of the building is Ninth Avenue ; in the rear is an alley,
fifteen feet wide, belonging to the city; and on the east side is
a private alley, ten feet wide, belonging to the Church. Five
street car lines pass the house. The old house and lot were
sold for $95,000.
The foregoing is from the Nashville Christian Advocate,
which adds that "the annual net sales of the Publishing House
amount to $500,000."
-LIFE AND LETTERS OF DR. B. M. PALMER."
BY REV. J. H. M'NEILLY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
Recently a book has been published which should interest
every Southerner, and especially every Confederate. It is en-
titled "Life and Letters of the Rev. Benjamin M. Palmer,
D.D.," by the Rev. T. C. Johnson, D.D. For forty-six years
Dr. Palmer was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of
New Orleans. No man exercised a more powerful and be-
neficent influence on the social and religious life of that city.
He was a preacher of remarkable eloquence, a philosopher of
profound intellect, a scholar of extensive learning, a man of
the purest Christian character. During the terrible epidemics
of yellow fever that occasionally visited New Orleans he was
the faithful and devoted minister to the sufferers of all classes,
winning the love and confidence of the whole city. But it was
during the War between the States and in the sad years fol-
lowing that he showed himself as a great leader of the people.
A South Carolinian by birth and training, he was in thor-
ough sympathy with the political ideals of Calhoun, and was
one of the ablest exponents and defenders of those ideals. So
when the crisis of 1861 came, he felt that it was his duty as
a patriot to warn the people of the danger to their institutions
and to instruct them as to the great moral issues involved.
He preached in his church on Thanksgiving day, November
29, i860, a sermon which probably did more than any other
public utterance to confirm and establish the sentiment of
Lo tisiana in favor of secession.
In the darkest days of the war Dr. Palmer was called upon
to encourage the people, and by his addresses to the soldiers
and his sermons in the churches through the South he helped
the cause. His grand address to the United Confederate Vet-
erans at Louisville, Ky., May 30, 1900, has already a place in
classic literature.
On his eightieth birthday, January 25, 1898, he received such
an ovation as is seldom given to a private citizen. Jewish
rabbis with their people, preachers and their congregations
from all the denominations of Christians gathered about him
to do him honor, bringing rich tokens of love. The Catholic
Cardinal Gibbons and the Episcopal Bishop Sessoms sent their
congratulations. Confederate veterans crowded around him
with loving words.
But I cannot do more than indicate a few of the contents
of this noble biography of a man of whom the whole South
should be proud. Though a minister of the Presbyterian
Church, he belonged to the Church at large — a man whose in-
fluence reached far beyond New Orleans to the whole South-
land. The book, an octavo of nearly seven hundred pages, is
a model biography. Dr. Johnson tells the story of the life in
delightful style, letting Dr. Palmer speak for himself in let-
ters and addresses, which are connected by an easy-flowing
narrative. The mechanical make-up of the book is excellent,
the paper white and strong, the print clear and large enough
to be easy on the eye. It is published by the Presbyterian
Publishing Committee at Richmond. The presswork was done
bv the Cumberland Press of Nashville.
The Christian at Work of December 22, 1906, prints an
amusing notice of the proposed return of a flag, "stars and
bars," by the City Council of Boston to the city of New
Orleans. Upon investigation it was found that instead of a
stained banner of the Confederates it was a "crazy quilt,"
made by an old lady of the Crescent City for her own "amuse-
ment." The motive of the generous-hearted Bostonians is
appreciated, nevertheless.
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"LYRICS OF THE GRAY."
Thousands who read the Veteran
havi enjoyed Mr. Karnaugh's poems, the
sentiment of which is ever pleasing, with
a moral spirit throughout, Mr. Har-
baugh writes naturally and seems gift '1
wi'h the best words in expressing Ins
beautiful thoughts
Prom Mrs. Genes \i. Pit kb i i
"The Ontario." Washington. I> ('.
November a, 1906.
Dear Mr. Harbaugk: Yesterday 1 re-
ceived "Lyrics of the Gray," and have
read th: little hook "from Anderson to
Wood." I have often seen your name
in the Confederate Veteran; and
whenever it has caughl my eye. I have
read on farther, for 1 knew that some-
thing with a beautiful poetic soul was
coming. In this way you have become
associated in my thought with the most
hrroii and most tender memories of my
Southland. It is a greal pleasure to me
to h.o e .1 Ci illection of your poems
Where I can lake it up at will.
\\ till the kindest and h st wishe . 1
am sincerely yours.
I.\S Mil ( lORBI I 1 l'lc RETT.
I 0M M ENDING * 'I NER \l 's OfFICI
( 01 i mi:i s. Miss No> o. 1006.
Deat l/i Horbaugh: 1 write to thank
you lor \. air new bonk of pi .1 111-.
"1 .\ in - of the ( 'i ay " 1 enjoyed in-
ti n-el\ tile 1. 13 al -< lltliiK lit s expressed
th rein. 1 wish yon every success in the
sale
Willi kindest wishes, your comradi
and friend. STEPHEN D. 1 11
"Lyi ics ot iIh i ,i,ii " « ill be sent po I
paid io any address by the author. Mr.
I ( 1 baugh, 1 'asstow n, ' >hio al 25 cents
ipj
TO Till- WOMEN OF THE CON-
FEDERACY.
i:\ KATE 1'. Fl.ENNlKEN.
Raise the shaft, 'tis for our mothers,
Si" Us base with colors fair;
Furl the faded, starry banner
Round iis staff, and leave it there
Lift it where the earliest sunbeam
Drives the morning's mist away.
Leave 11 where the fading twilight
Lingers longest with the day.
Twine Ihe myrtle with the ivy
And the fragrant scented vine .
Bring tin- white magnolia blossoms
And the crimson columbine.
North and east and south and westward
Front lis columns pure and white;
Wrile upon the peerless marble,
On ils polished tablets write -
How they toiled and prayed and suffered
Through the long and bitt r years,
Ever kept the altars burning
With the incense of their hats;
How their love, in streams of blessing,
Wore ils channels deep and wide.
Bi a ' 1 In f< a tunes of the battle-
On its broad and surging tide ;
How their faith that trusted ever
Ri sted on the soldier's shield.
Watched above the bloody carnage
And upon the tented field :
How tin summers bloomed and faded.
Yet did Love and Trust abide:
But their hopes, like shattered loses,
Willi the autumn glory dual
Then from out the burning embers
1 ,ove and hop and Faith and Irust
Soar, d ah. ive the desolation,
Shook their plumage of iis dust;
Sought and found the sprig of olive,
Saw the bow of promise spanned,
And the dawn of peace ,i]n\ plenty
( I'l t a broad and smiling land
Rut the heart knows no forgetting,
\ 1 1 . 1 within her silent halls.
Where tin fragrant incense rises
And the inner Sunlight falls.
Hang the swords and rusty scabbards
With the coals of faded graj ;
And perfumed with myrrh and a
All the ll IgS ai 1 laid away.
And beside ihe faded banners
And tin urn- of storied dust
Memory stands within tin portals
Ki ' ping watch abo> e In r trust.
X. B. Crtss. who served in Company
D, 48th Mississippi Regiment, writes
from Yalobusha, Mi-- I "I was wounded
very seriously at the battle of Chancel-
lorsville, and was confined to the hos-
pital in Richmond four or five months.
It was in\ good fortune to be an in-
mate of the 'Samaritan Hospital,' main-
tained by a Mrs Mayo, and 1 can never
forgel iln kmd attention and treatment
of two young daughters of General
Wind r. who lived there at that time, 1
desire very much to know if they are still
living; and if in Richmond, their resi-
dence number, as I shall attend the Re-
union there in June, and nothing would
afford me more pleasure than to meet
one or both of them at the time. They
will doubtless remember the lad thai
Dr. Little and his steward said was
bound to die, lint yet after more than
four decades he still survives. 1 request
an answer to this from any one who can
give me information of those who were
to me Samaritan- ind( ed."
Mi-- Evie Morris, of Helena. Mont.,
wishes to a-s|s, ., friend, who was cap-
tain in the 5th Michigan Regiment, in
locating a Captain Duchane (or Dus
hani 1 by whom he was captured in
[863 near Fairfax. Va.. and who took
his sword, but afterwards returned it.
He also wants the address of Captain
Frankland. Both wen with Mosby,
and he think- Captain Duchane was
from Louisiana. Write to Mis- Morris
if able to give the address of either.
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inert of Edward Rose & Co., Wholesali
Tailor, of Chicago. This linn 1- one
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Sam B Dunlop, of DeKalb, Mo., will
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quaintances, and especially anj who
were members of the i^t Mississippi
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Confederate Veteran
BPULISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF
CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS
VOLUME XV
S. A. CUNNINGHAM. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Nashville, Tenn.
1907
INDEX— VOLUME XV.
A Belle of the Fifties, Pen Portrait of 155
About Food and Sleep 439
A Britisher on the South 341
A Capture in Virginia, Thrilling Account of 120
Address by Senator Carmack 299
Address by Gen. H. C. King at Mount Hope Cemetery 494
Address to Veterans by R. B. Lee, Jr 297
A Friendship that Endures 321
Alabama, The 414
Alabama Monument at Shiloh 247
Alabamians at Vicksburg 121
Andersonville and Other War Prisons 107, 161
Andersonville and Major Wirz 14
Andersonville Prisoner, Report from an 57
Andersonville Prisoners, Honor for 60
Andersonville Prison Park. .Signboards 201
Andersonville, the Other Side at 57
Andrews' Raid 469
An Old Reb at Richmond 347
Appeal to Sons of Veterans 200
Armistead's Sword, Return of 255
Armistice on Kennesaw 537
Array of Battleships at Hampton Roads 245
Attorney of Jefferson Davis 359
Autobiography of Jefferson Davis 217
Barbee, Biography of Rev. J. D 187
Barger, Tribute to Billy 172
Bate, Gen. William B 114
Battlefield of Murfreesboro, Visit to 263
Battle of Atlanta, Explosion Before 569
Battle of Belmont, Mo 564
Battle of the Crater, Another Story of 167
Battle of Newmarket, Va 553
Battle of Sharpsburg, Md 507
Battle of Winchester, Va 411, 566
Beauvoir 101
Birthplace of Jefferson Davis 4S6
Blakely, Col. A. R 61
Blue and Gray at Vicksburg 440
Bowen, Death of Senator 37S
Brigadiers and Colonels 356
Brown, John, Story of Capture of 71
Cabell, Mrs. Katie, Marriage of 342
Calhoun Statue for Washington 46S
Camp Douglas, Hardships in 565
Captain Billy's Regiment 230
Capture of a Soldier 234
Capture of the J. H Miller 73
Career of the Merrimac 31 n
Cavalry Fight at Lexington, Tenn 22.6
Centenary of Jefferson Davis 10 4
Centenary of General Lee's Birth 5,65
Characteristic Letter from a Soldier 235
Character of Confederates Considered 397
Charity Fund for Confederates 139
Christmas and Result of Volunteering 545
Churchill, Gen. T. J 122
Cole, William H 543
Combat at Lockridge's Mill 24
Commendation of the Veteran 471
Commission of Ben McCulloch 504
Company B, Twenty-Seventh Tennessee, Remnant of 216
Company L, Sixth Tennessee Infnatry 544
Conerly, Buxton R 506
Confederate Ammunition, First Supply of 256
Confederate Artillery Regiments 537, 410
Confederated Southern Memorial Association 203, 294
Confederate Memorial Association r }61
Confederate Memorial Literary Society 346
Confederate Battle Flag, Origin of 70
Confederate Battle Flags in Albany, N. T 172
Confederate Cannon Used in the War 121
Confederate Cemetery at Chattanooga 232
Confederate Choirs 154, 304, 407
Confederate Dates, Important 171
Confederate Day at the Dallas Fair 439
Confederate Flag. First, on the Atlantic 227
Confederate Flags in Maryland 119
Confederate Flags in Tennesee Capitol 151
Confederate Flag in Unclaimed Baggage 31S
Confederate Generals Surviving 11 S
Confederate Half Dollar 507
Confederate History in Memorials 474
Confederate Matters in Florida 55
Confederate Memorial Association of St. Louis 356
Confederate Memorial Day Dates 454
Confederate Memorial Day in Washington 302
Confederate Memorial Fountain for Helena, Mont 454
Confederate Monuments 344
Confederate Monument at Camp Chase 177
Confederate Monument at Columbia, S. C 127
Confederate Monument at Linden, Tex 267
Confederate Monument for St. Louis 319
Confederate Monuments and Memorials 177
Confederate Museum at Richmond 105
Confederate, Popular 61
Confederate Records in Washington 352
Confederate Sentiment, Typical 459
Confederate Shaft at Arlington 344
Confederate Soldiers of Tennessee 534
C. S. A. Generals Killed or Died of Wounds 236
Confederate States Navy 449
Confederate War Paintings 330
Confederates Buried at Brunswick, Tenn 14
Confederates Disliked Conscription 394
Confederates Dropping Out in Georgia 172
Confederates in Washington 344
Confederates of Arlington, Tenn 556
Conklin, Miss Grace L 28S
Conscription Disliked by Confederates 394
Constitution at Jamestown 255
Controversy over Hood's Campaign 425
Copperheads in Illinois, Treatment of 113
Corcoran, W. W., Philanthropy of 345
Courage of a Georgian at Camp Douglas 389
Crater Battle, Another Story of 167
Cross of Honor 41
Crosses of Honor to Seattle Confederates 307
Cut Off Days and Nights in Swamps 361
Dare of Forrest's Men 501
Daring Deed of Scouts 549
Davis, Jefferson, Attorney of 359
Davis, Jefferson, Autobiography of 217
Davis, Jefferson, Birthplace of 486
Davis, Jefferson, Centenary of 104, 202
Davis, Jefferson, Home Association 437, 534
Davis, Jefferson, Monument to 198, 299
Davis, Jefferson, on Lincoln's Death 366
Davis, Jefferson. Papers in Museum 61
Davis, Jefferson. Suit Worn When Captured 222,447
Davis, Jefferson, Where Captured 438
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, Post-Mortem Statement of 42
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, and Empress Eugenie 253
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, U. C. V. Tribute to 8
Davis, Samuel 45S
Days and Nights Cut Off in Swamps 361
Death of Senator Bowen 378
Death of Col. C. D. Dreaux 307
Qopfederat^ l/eterai?.
Death of Stuart 362
Decoration of Graves, First 360
Decoration Day, General 392
Deed of Federals in Virginia 120
Dixie- After the War 4 r. 6
I »< I ;> isset Correspondence 538
Dlbrell's Old Flag 176
Douglas's Texas Battalion 211
Dreaux, Col. C. D., Death of 307
Editorials 296, 4S8, 53S
Eighth Virgina Reunion at Leesburg 19
Endorsement for the Veteran 243
Escaping Prison 378
Enlistments for the War 360
Etherldge, Ma.i. w. ii 400
Evans's Address, General Officers upon 157
Events, Humorous and Serious 135
Execution of Two Confederates 363
Experiences between Sharpshooters 170
Explosion before Battle of Atlanta 569
Failure c.f Statehood not Decree of God 394
l.i laa i Charge against General Lee 229
Federal Tribute to Confederates 380
Field, Rev. H. M 13S
Fifteen Years' Service Completed 533
Fight at Beverly, W. Va 857
Fight at Fort Wayne, Ind. T 70
Fight at Winchester, Va 411
Fight between Giltner and Averill 232
Finegan's Florida Brigade 540
First Confederate Flag on the Atlantic 227
First Confederate Georgia Regiment 557
First Decoration of Graves 360
First Ironclad Naval Engagement 426
First Reenlistments for the War 360
First Supply of Confederate Ammunition 209
Fitzgerald, Bishop, on the Old South 209
Flag in Washington Artillery Hall 46S
Flag, First Regiment, South Carolina Rifles 493
Flag of the First Texas Regiment 417
Flag of the Twenty-Fourth Mississippi (Original) 203
Florida Girl's Gift 45S
Food and Sleep 343,439
Forrest's Men, Dare of 501
Forrest's Capture of Ingersoll 64
Forrest's Cavalry, Veterans of 208
Forrest's First Cavalry Fight 139
Forrest Monument movement 454
Forney, Maj. Gen. John H 4S8
Forney at Manassas 487
Fori Delaware Prison 212
Forty-Fours, The 15S
Fraternal Relatione between Veterans 455
Freak of Lightning 360
From Fort Donelson to Camp Douglas 234
From the Other Side 656
Qavi I from Morgan's Home 234
Georgian at Camp Douglas 389,462
Georgia Rangers In East Tennessee 264
i Woman's War Experiences 550
Gettysburg, Soldiers of Both armies at 14
Gettysburg, Memorable Vision of 3S9
I I 'i proration Day 392
a] Oracle's Furlough 127
Gordon Picture for Alabama 569
Gordon Statue 302
Graham, Jim 411
I Army or the Republic 542
Oreen, Qen. Tom 78
Qunboat General Taylor Failed to Get 281
Hampton Monument 134
ii.iiahan. President J. T 186
li. Dderson, Mrs. L G., In New York 329
Heroism of TexanS at Vlcksburg 211
Serol m Of Walthall's Mississippians 365
Historical Inaccuracies 284
History of the Laurel Brigade 155
History of Prince William Cavalry 353
Hogg. Gen. Joseph L 379
Hoggard, II. C 621
Hold the Fort 393
Holliday, Capt. Thomas C 653
Home-Coming Week for Tennesseeans 376
Home for Gray and Blue 239
1 Conor between Soldiers in Service 539
Honor Greater than Riches 313
Hood's Brigade Association 230
Hood's Campaign Controversy 425
Hood's Tennessee Campaign 401-404
Horrors of the Battlefield 305
Houston, Tex., Monument Contributions 172
How Fort Gregg Was Defended 505
How Richmond Was Defended 557
I lumorous Stories 127
Immortal Six Hundred at Richmond 375
Important Confederate Dates 171
Important to Every Veteran 485
Incidents of Sharpsburg 380
Inquiries 63, 238-239, 256, 419. 545
Inquiry for Alabama Soldier 467
Interesting Statement of Judge Robert Ould 455
Jackson Memorial, Virginia Camp Favors 461
Jamestown Exposition 426
Jamestown Exposition Commission .*. 152
Jamestown Exposition Company 91
Jamestown Exposition. Constitution at 255
Jamestown Exposition, Pageantry at 376
Jamestown Exposition Piers .» 140
Jamestown Exposition. Statistics 42
Johnson, E. S 521
Johnson, Gen. B. R., Burial Place of 551
Johnson's Island Prisoners 495
Johnston, Joseph E., Estimate of a Federal 214
Jones, A. M 347
Jones's Raid into West Virginia 211
Kearney, Gen. Phil, Who Killed Ills. _T,i
Kind of Monuments to Erect 568
Last Agony of the Confederacy 489
Laurel Brigade. Story of the 156
Law. Mrs. S. G 427
LeCand, Capt. F. J. V 419
Lee, Miss Mary Custis, at Charleston 264
Lee. Gen. It. E 65, 566
Lee, Gen. R. E„ at Sharpsburg 411
Lee, Gen. R. E., Centenary of 5, 65
Lee, Gen. R. E., North's Estimate of 5. 105
Lee, Gen. R. E.. Tribute to 103
Lee, Gen. R. E.. Stlles's Tribute to 489
I.e., False Charge Against 229
Lees Home Life 399
I,.e's Keadil . ss to L ad His Men 546
Lewis. Gen. L. M 346, 396
Lewis. Meriwether, Remains of 4.",t;
Liberty in Fatigue March 548
Lincoln's Assassination and I'. imp Fisk 17n
Lockridge's Mill. Combat at 24
Longevity of Confederate Colonels 169
Loudon Park Cemetery 364
Love, Capt. H. B 496
Lowrey, Gen. M. P 13
Loyd, W G 501
Mansfield Battle Park Association 491
Marking Confederate Graves In the North 539
tfarriagt of Mrs. Katie Cabell Muse 342
.1. limine and Monitor at Jamestown 2S0
m. rrlmac, Career of the 310
Maryland Line Staff Officials 492
Maryland I Jonft derates at First Manassas 12
I. eh. Ben 604
M. I '• rrin, John B., D.D 309
Qoi>federat:<? l/eterap.
McNaughton, Gallant Tom 499
.McNeill in Virginia, With 408
Medical Officers Convention 244
Memorial Church at Shiloh 319
Memorial Hall for Dallas 329
Memorial to Confederate Women 153, 319
Memorial to Poe 72
Memories of Virginia 369
Merit of the Veteran 168
Military Titles for Women 344
Mississippi College Rifles 412
Missouri Confederate Record 453
Model of Great Gun at Jamestown 330
Model of West Point Building at Jamestown 330
Monument at Austin, Ark 173
Monument at Batesville, Ark 106
Monument at Fayetteville, Tenn 26
Monument at Jefferson, Tex 396
Monument at Jonesville, S. C 492
Monument at Lewisburg, Tenn 399
Monument at Morgantown, Ky 282
Monument at Okolona, Miss 393
Monument at Pittsboro, N. C 504
Monument at Princeton, Ky 14
Monument at Trenton, Tenn 283
Monument at West Point, Miss 497
Monument for the South at Shiloh 319
Monument, State, at Shiloh 62, 247
Monument to Emma Sansom 13
Monument to General Hampton 134
Monument to Gen. Lloyd Tilghman 462
Monument to Gen. Kirby Smith 356
Monument to General McClellan 392
Monument to Sam Davis at Pulaski 20
Monuments, Kind to Erect 568
Monument to Jefferson Davis 299
Moore's Brigade 493
Morgan's Death, Cause of 237
Mortality in Southern Prisons 500
Mysterious Appeal from St. Joseph, Mo 534
Navy of the Confederate States 449
Negro and the South, The 367
Negro Problem, The 8
New Home of the Veteran 92
New South, About the Term 53S
Nunnally Monument 564
Object Lesson in Journalism 296
Officers in the Two Armies 533
Old Blandford Church 553
Olden Days in Savannah and Phildelphia 81
On the Field of Honor 22S
Origin of the Confederate Battle Flag 70
Original Flag, The Star-Spangled Banner 552
Ould, Judge Robert 455
Our Women and Sam Davis 119
Owen, Col. Richard 202,252
Page, Frank, Trainer of Traveler 548
Palmer, Dr. B. M .' 92
Parthenon, The 549
Partisan Estimates 438
Patriotism of Vicksburg Women 461
Patton, Ellen Graham 9
Pelham Promoted after Death 251
Pension Declined by Mrs. Jackson 56
Pensioners, United States 491
Perilous Undertaking of Two Brothers 308
Perils of Escape from Prison 223
Peter, Walter Gibson, Executed at Franklin 551
Philanthropy of W. W. Corcoran 345
Point Lookout Prison 400
Popular Confederate 61
Portrait of Mr. Davis for Beauvoir 170
Prince William Cavalry 353
Prisoners on Johnson's Island 495
Prisoner with Fleeing Federals 233
Prison Experience at Point Lookout 400
Prison Life at Fort Delaware 212
Prison Life, Experiences in Escaping 378
Quantrell, The Querrilla Chief 238
Quintard, Works of Bishop 346
Racial Integrity of the Negro 369,522
Reception at Home of Gen. S. D. Lee 91
Recollections of a Confederate 231
Recollections of Johnson's Island 29
Record of a Confederate and a Senator 114
Reenlistments for the War 552
Remarkable Quartette, A 540
Reminiscences of the Confederacy 173, 395
Remnant of Company B, Twenty-Seventh Tenn. Infantry.. 216
Return of Bailie Peyton's Sword 230
Reunion Address 297
Reunion at Franklin 419
Reunion at Richmond 293
Reunion at Leesburg, Va., of the Eighth Virginia 19
Reunion at Shreveport 491
Reunion Experiences at Richmond 397
Reunion in Retrospect 343
Reunion of Companies 556
Reunion Preparations at Richmond 53
Reunion Programme 197
Reunion Rates 400
Reunion Results 397
Reunion Sponsors Considered 152
Reunions, Rules for 392
Rhea, Maj. James A., Career of 359
Ridpath's History 424
Rock Island Prison 60,378
Rough Riders 175
Rucker's Company 556
Rules for Confederate Reunions 392
Schoneld, Gen. J. M 460
Sentiment Rather than Business 56
Seven Confederates of Arlington, Tenn 556
Seven Days' Fight before Richmond' 285
Sharpsburg, Incidents of 380
Sharpshooters, Experiences between 170
Sharpshooters with Hood's Army 123
Sixth Tennessee Infantry, Company L 544
Siler, Capt. F. C 90
Silver Service for the Tennessee 82
Singleton, Bill, Got the Flag SOS
Smoke Investigation by Uncle Sam 44
Society of the Army of the Tennsesee 535
Soldiers of Both Armies at Gettysburg 14
Southern Cross of Honor 41
Southern Mothers' Scholarship 351
South, The Great 136
Speech by Al. G. Fields 555
Sponsors, U. C. V 7, 152, 200, 239
Star from Gen. J. E. Johnston's Coat 234, 356
Statue of Pocahontas 279
Stoneman's Raid on Virginia Salt Works 234
Stories of War and Prison Life 547
Story of the Seven Days' Fight before Richmond 285
Supernumerary Confederate Officers 398
Surviving Confederate Generals 397
Sword of Gen. Garnett 230
Teaching Patriotism 233
Tennesseeans in Other Southern States 568
Tennessee, A Grave or a Free Home 508
Tennessee Confederate Soldiers 534
Tennessee Private in Virginia 507
Tennessee Room at the Confederate Museum 200
Terry's Texas Rangers 49S
Texans at Vicksburg, Heroism of 211
Texas Confederates, Regiment of 375
The Alabama 414
The Great South 136
The New Constellation 390
The Women of Mosby's Confederacy 257
Thrash, Captain, and His Monument 210
Qopfederat^ l/eterai)
Tigert. Bishop J. J 25
Trainer of Traveler, Frank Page 54S
Treatment of Copperheads in Illinois 113
Treatment of Prisoners CO, 462
Tribute of a Confederate to a Federal 543
Tribute to Mrs. Davis, U. C. V 8
Tribute to General Grant. A Virginian's 336
Tribute to General Wheeler and Mr. Davis 32
Tribute to Grade's Brigade 336
Tribute to Lee in Alabama 5
Tribute to the Work of the Veteran 303
Twentieth Mississippi Regiment 1M
Tyler, Col. R. C 237
Typical Confederate Sentiment 459
U. C. V., Address by General Officers 149
I J. C. V., Aggregate Number of Camps 4S5
U. C. V„ Arkansas Division Officers 439
U. C. V. at Shreveport 45S
U. C. V., Dead Camps in Texas Division 546
U. C. V., Fort Worth Camp in Richmond 303
U. C. V.. History Report 314
U. C. V. in Montana 233
U. C. V.. Letter to Virginia Division 102
U. C. V., Mississippi Reunion 46S
U. C. V., Missouri Division, Proceedings 376
U. C. V.. Model i 'amp at Morristown. Tenn 2S
U. C. V., North Carolina Reunion 557
U. C. V., Officers of Stonewall Camp 230
U. C. V., Report Of Adjutant General Mickle 341
U. C. V„ Reunion of Northwest Division 4S5
U. C. V., Reunion of the Texas Division 375, 466
U. C. V., Reunion Programme 151
U. C. V., Tennessee Division 496
U. C. V., Trans-Mississippi Department 106
U. C. V., Tribute to Mrs. Davis 8
U. C. V., Virginia Grand Camp 343
U. D. C, Annual Convention 533
U. D. C. at Covington 210
U. D. C. at Norfolk 536
U. D. C. at Omaha 285
U. D. C. at Raymond, Miss 104
U. D. C. at the Peace Conference 247
U. D. C. Building at Jamestown 329
U. D. C. Convention at Gulfport 30
U. D. C. Day at Monteagle 377
U. D. C. Girls' Chapter 140
U. D. C. in Louisiana 394
IT. D. C. in Montana 238
U. D. C. in Nebraska inn
U. D. c, John Hames Chapter 492
U. D. C. Maryland Daughters 60
U. D. C, Mrs. Henderson's Letter. 6, 53, 103, 156, 201, 245, 848, 440
U. D. C, Officers of Philadelphia Chapter 201
U. D. C, Prise Papi r, Columbia University 44 1
U. D. C., R. e. Lee Chapter, at Houston. Tex 491
TJ. D. Cm Robert Patton Chapter 245
U. D. C, Stai. Officers 329
U. D. C, Tennessee Division 62, 153, 301
1 '. I '. C. Welcome to Mississippi 30
U. S. C. V, Confederation News 204,267
U. S. C. V 1 1' ritage to Sons of Veterans 117
U. S. C. V. in M.mphis 102
Valentint . BMward V 198
Van Dorn'S Holly Springs Victory 229
Veteran Approval 427
us in Norfolk 25
Virginia. Electoral Ticket 280
Walthall's Mississippian's. Heroism of 365
War Experiences, Thrilling and Varied 168
Wai Records Wanted 266
Wetherly, Sert Dams bus, Qrave of 255
what a iviiow in Need ind 267
what Confederate Mothers Have Don, 69
win Mr. Davis Was Captured 438
Col B. V , 168
Wilcox's Alabamians in Virginia 490
Wirz Honored by Tennesseeans 239
Wirz Monument, Location of 17
With McNeill in Virginia 40S
Woman's Monument Design 304
Wood, Homy B 209
Wood, James 102
Writers of the South 155
youngest Living Confederate Soldier 266
Zolllcoffer, Hon. F. K 28
POETRY.
Rattle Ode 23S
Confederate Anthem 500
C. S. A 352
Daughters of the Confederacy of St. Louis 319
1 1. ar Old Georgia 379
Dixie 235
Echoes of the Confederacy 502
Forrest and Lee 63
From Sin to Son 457
Her Father's Uniform of Gray 456
Home of the Soul 420
In the Gloaming 356
Jefferson Davis :t"4
1..0 :i:;
Lee, R. B 222
Memorial Day 240
1 In the March 342
Our Southern Mothers 45 4
Reunited 172
Stonewall Jackson 489
The Confederate Dead 268
The Kiss from Tennessee 281
The Old Brigades in Gray 176
The Old Sword on the Wall 544
The Rebel Tell 41S
The Standard Bearer 83
The Uniform of Gray 377
The Veterans ' 377
The Veteran's Parade June Frontispiece
What Texas Is 286
Women of the Confederacy 93
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Uabama Monument at Shiloh 248
Beauvoir March Frontispiece
Bible Pierced by Bullet 521
Capitol Square, Richmond. Va 279
Castle Rock 9
Children Hauling Davis Statue Through Richmond, Va.... 199
Confederate iVmotory at Madison, Wis :>:'.t'
Confederate Choir of Portsmouth, Va 154
Confederate Flag in a Michigan Business Advertisement.... 283
Confederate Half-Dollar 507
Confederate Monument at Austin. Ark 17:;
Confederate Monument at Fayettevllle, Tenn 26
Confederate' Monument at Linden. Tex 267
Confederate Monument in Hollywood 24".
Confederates In Washington August Fontispiece
Convention Hall, Richmond, Va 292
C. S. Steamboat St. Mary 4T.2
Decorated Residence at Newport News 366
Dedication of Jefferson Davis Monument 29G
Erecting Davis Statue 19S
Fairview Church 433
Flag of the Washington Artillery 46S
Forney, Gen. J. M November Fontispiece
Four Generations of the Davis Family 22u
aj to Cemetery at Chattanooga 232
General Bucknei ami Members of Committee 486
General Gordon and the Raccoon Roughs 213
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QoQfederat<? l/eterai).
< ieneral Order No. 9 February Frontispiece
Gens. F. D. Grant and S. D. Lee at Vieksburg . . . . . 535
Glimpses ot Beauvoir 101
Governor Cox and Staff at Jamestown S2
Grave of Colonel Rogers at Fort Robinette 245
Jefferson Davis Monument 295
Living Confederate Battle Flag at Richmond . . July Frontispiece
Love, H. B., and Family 496
Martin House, Headquarters of Black Horse Cavalry 258
Members of Camp at Morristown 29
Merrimac in an Engagement 449
Methodist Publishing House Building January Fontispiece
Monument at Batesville, Ark 106
Monument at Jefferson, Tex 396
Monument at Jonesville, S. C 492
Monument at Lewisburg, Tenn 399
Monument at Okolona. Miss 393
Monument at Pittsboro, N. C 504
Monument at West Point, Miss .• 497
Monument to Confederate Soldiers and Sailors, Richmond.. 197
Monument to R. B. Lee 200
Monument to Sam Davis, Pulaski, Tenn 20
Monument to Terry's Texas Rangers 49S
Xunnally Monument 564
Officers and Crew of the Tennessee 83
Piano Injured in the Battle of Murfreesboro 263
Reunion of Blue and Gray at Gettysburg 255
Rosehart 395
Scene on Kennesaw During an Engagement 459
Seven Confederates at Arlington, Tenn 557
Soldier's Record Certificate April Frontispiece
Stuart Monument i 294
Tablet on Bethel Church 4S7
The Forty-Fours 158
The General September Frontispiece
The Merrimac in Action 312
The Parthenon 549
The Texas September Fontispiece
Thrash Monument 211
Type of Vessel Bearing Confederate Flag 450
Typical Scene in the Best South 212
U. S. Steamer Kearsarge 453
Veterans on the Way to Unveiling of Gordon Monument. . . . 302
View of Jamestown Exposition 376
View of Lands Owned by Father of Jefferson Davis 4S6
Wade Hampton Statue 134
Warwick, Country Residence of Frank Hume S9
Washington Inspecting the Flag 552
Way Down in Dixie December Frontispiece
Where President Davis Was Imprisoned 266
LAST ROLL,
Abbott, Dr. J. M 133
Aiken, I. M 324
Akin, Judge J. W 519
Akin, Mrs. M. de Verderey.51S
Aldrich, Ed 240
Allen, J. G 327
Bailey, Capt. W. \V
Baker, Mrs. A. S . . .
561
517
Brewer, A. C 243
Brittingham, W. H 342
Britton, W. A ISO
Britton, W. A 270
Brodnax, Dr. J. G 372
Broughton, G. H 464
Brown, J. Tom 273
Brown, S. B 420
Brown, Dr. M. A 36
Barron, Mrs. A. S
Beale, J. B
Beard, W. J
Barger. W. G 181 Brown, Capt. W. F 371
,.. S7
.. 323
... 4C5
Belcher. G. W 32S
Benson, J. M 323
Bethell, Capt. W. D 373
Bickerstaff, Maj. J. H ... 269
Black, B. C 129
Blanding, Col. J. D 38
Blanton, F. B 370
Bleckley, L. E 241
Blocker, M. C 372
Bohon, J. E 327
Boon, T. M 511
Buford, T. W
Bunn, Hon. B. H . .
Burgess, C. W
Burnett, Mrs. T. S
Burns, J. B
Buster, S. H
Butler, H. A
178
517
182
130
328
320
463
Campbell, M. C 128
Carlisle, Judge S. S 562
Carter, S. E 518
Caruthers, Robert 180
Clarkson, J. N 40
Cleburne Camp 240
Cleveland, H. W 328
Clopton, M 518
Coleman, Daniel 326
Cone, W. C 179
Cooper, Maj. S. C 39
Cooper, M. C 37
Corn, Dr. J. S 325
Craver, James P 36
Crawford, W. S 560
Crawley, A. B 513
Crayton, B. F 328
Cross, R. G 37
Crowder, W. J 1S1
Crump, J. M 321
Cummings, Mrs. M. E. . . . 423
Daffan, L. A 184
Davis, Mrs. C. P 274
Deen, Thomas J 371
Dennis, Henry 327
Diem, F. J 375
Diggs, C. W 240
Dinwiddie, James 464
DuBose, J. R 39
Dudley, Mrs. M. E 275
Duffle, M. M 87
Dulaney, R. H 88
Dunwoody, W. M ....321,465
Dyer, Virginia 131
Easley, S. L 463
Easterling, J. B 323
Eberhardt, R. P 320
Erskine, W. W 328
Erwin. S. E 325
Evans, H. C 273
Ewing, B. D 181
Fairfax, Dr. W. H 561
Farrell. Maj. P. W 40
Feamster, T. L 325
Findley, J. W 37
Finley, John G 374
Fitzgerald Camp 240
Floyd, A. G 324
Flynt, H. A 320
Franklin, J. L 328
Fuller, C. H . . . .' 421
Fulton. J. H S5
Garrett, R. E 323
Gleason, T. H 510
Godwin, C. W 242
Granbery, Bishop J. C... 270
Gray. Balys E 272
Green, V. J 465
Grigsby. M. C 327
Grimsley, Rev. S. N 320
Halbert, Dr. P. W 320
Hambleton. Thomas E ... 270
Hancock, R. R 128
Hancock, Thomas E 275
Harris, C. C 1S2
Harris, W. W. S 129
Harrison, W. H S6
Haynes, A. H 464
Hays, John W 374
Helms, John E 35
Hill, J. S 130
Hodgson, Mrs. Telfair . . . 420
Hogin, J. E 36
Holbert, Joe 421
Holcomb, W. T 240
Holland, A. D 420
Hood, John M 271
Hopkins. J. H 327
Houston, S. H 181
Huffman, J. P 465
Hume, Frank 89
Hunt, Maj. J. T 39
Hunter, William 326
Ives, F. M 510
Jackson, W. D 240
James, Dr. F. L 370
James, Capt. W. N 269
Jernigan, J. H 325
Joel, J. A 182
Johnson, Rev. John 274
Johnson, Nelson 181
Johnson, W. B 513
Jones, J. C 420
Kendrick. J. C S8
Kindred, John D 465
King, Capt. George A . . . 34
Lane, Maj. H. M 370
Latane, Rev. W. C 516
Laux, John 325
Lindsey, J. W 513
Linkinbarger 240
Lippman, Mrs. Phil P ... 371
Logan, George W 562
Long, H. J 421
Long, Maj. Lemuel 186
Lowry, R. H. T 328
Lyon, Mrs. A. E 515
Lyon, Gen. H. B 560
Manning, F. J 35
Marchant, Maj. H. M .... 511
Martin, Dr. S. C 371
Mason, W. H 374
Maxwell, Mrs. R. E 179
McCabe, Bernard 422
McGee, J. B 328
McGinnis, J. M 324
McGinnis, J. W 328
McGrew, R. N 268
McKee, G. A 321
McLaughlin, L. W 84
McNeely, T. B 371
MePherson, Arch 323
Merrick, D. T 325
Merritt, James A 133
Metcalf, G. W 327
Middleton, J. W 327
Mildred Lee Camp 240
Miller, J. C 370
Miller, M. J 321
Milton, Dr. H. O 320
Montgomery, P. G 511
Morel, Maj. P. H S4, 274
Morris, R. B 513
Murphree, T. M 88
Myers, Maj. F. M 3S
Neill, Gen. Robert 183
Noe, F. R 241
Norman, Maj. M. J 519
Norton, N. B 465
Ogilvie, O. S 132
Osborne, L. B 270
Owen, W. L 323
Ozanne, John M 128
Pace, OR 129
Pafford, J. W 511
Patrick, S. V 322
Patton, J. B S8
Perkins, R. O 186
Perry, E. A 37
Pickens, J. H S6
Pickett, Miss A. B 87
Pilsbury, John B 133
Pleasants, John W 421
IT
Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
Porter, Edward P 619
Postell. Caiit. Jnhn W.
268
Price, Charles B 515
Price, J. L 40
Priest, Eli T 242
Puckett, David 36
Pugh, James L 184
Quarterman, A. S 371
Raiford. B. B 563
Rawls, J. W 374
Rhea, W. A 511
Richardson • 374
EUCkettS, L. C 39
Riddick. R. E 421
Riley, F. L 324
Rine, John J 327
Robertson, T. C 561
Robinson, J. C 240
Rogers, Judge W. H 38
Rogers. W. H 178
ROSS, ,T. R 87
Rushing. J. N 610
Russell. John M ' 36
Ruth. John W 423
Salmons, W. J 374
Sanders, J. S 182
Sandlford, R. B 86
Saunders, Mrs. F. S 180
Saunders, Rolfe S 20
Schley, George 4 2 1
Scott, K. F 179
Scott, I >r. T. J 514
Shannon, A. M S4
Shannon, Dr. Harvey .... 131
Sharp, Gen. J. H 516
Sharp, Mad. Sam 2o:i
Shaw, 11. W 328
Shaw, William 86
Smith, Mrs. Cassle-Klrby . 563
Smith. P. R 371
Smith. W. D 464
Sollee, F. C 513
Spears, E. F ....423,463,520
Spurlin, Mrs. W. F 37
Stephens, A. A 321
Stewart, J. T 37
Sublett. H. A 514
Suddath, J. B 133
Swain. E 511
Templeton, Frank 324
Thomas John ll . .
Thruston, S. C . . .
Tibbs, Col. W. H
Tucker, P. D
Tullos, S. C
Tulloss. S. E
86
40
36
179
39
421
Walr, James
Walker. J. E 465
War.-. Mrs. J. P 183
Warren, J. If 374
a n son, J. H
Wharton. Dr. I.. R
Whitcomb, (1, IC . .
White, Dr. I. S
Whltmlre, J. W .
. 133
. . 370
. . 179
.. 373
. . 87
Whltt, John V 327
Whittle, R. M 511
Williams. Dr. D. H 242
Williams. Hi; 242
Willis. Henry 373
Withers, R. K 612
\V,.o, Is. W. A 612
W Iward, Col. W. J 510
Wor ley, Mrs. M. E .... 1 T s
Wright, Miss Lizzio (66
Damon. H. G 223,235
Daniel, John W 116
Dargan. J. T 305
Darling. Mrs. F. A 369
Davidson, J. Wood 305
Davis, Jefferson .107,161.217
Davis. Manton 414
DeArllngton, P =ls
DeRosset, A. L 165
DeRosset, W. L 168,360
Dickinson. D. K 393
Dodge. Gen. G. M ... .400. 636
Donalson. Mrs. J. B 17
Dorsey, E. I, 279
Draper, W. w 487
Dunn, W. D 319
Edison. T. A 343
Edmonds, R. H 538
Edwards, John X 319
Eggleston, J. R 449
Eggleston, Mrs. S. D . . . . 30
Ellis. W. T 117. 361
Erwln, John B 256
Erwln, W. J 308
Etheredge, MaJ. W. It .. 167
Evans, C. D 380. r, is
Swing, Z. W 634
Fauntleroy, C. II 319
Fay, John B 408
Field, A. G 554
Finlay, L,. w 404
Finley, W. W 136
Fiveash, J. G 366
I'], nnikln, Kate P 93
Flateau, I., s 41 n
Shields. D. S .
Slaughter, S. D
Sloan. Dr. A. c
Alexander, Dr. G
All. a. C. H
Mien, J. W
Anderson, J. w .
371
.MM
132
Tarbrough, W.
STates, Dr P C
k \
.U'THORS.
369
307
. .376, 453
63
Cabell. Mrs. H. J
323
4 IS
Fletcher, R. i> .
Folk. Mrs C V
i "ip rden, C. A
Frazier, J. R
Frazier, J. w .
Fulmore, Mrs
Z. T
551
233
3 7 :i
110
552
7s
Giles. A'al C 417
Gillespie, Mrs. A. N 27
Glasson, W. A 438
Andrews, Eliza F 377
Arnold. W. 1'' 500
Atkins. George T .232. 234. 287
Ball. v. 10. II 237
Ballentlne, Miss Sallle . . 21
Haltimorc Sun 106
Barker, T. S 70
Barlow, Mrs. M. E 353
Bateman. L. C 222
Battle, Frank 347
i-.. ale, C. 11 827
Bell, Phares 239
Benton, T 11 "■
Blrdsong, J. C
1 llak, v. P. A 135. 879
Boiling, stith 102
Boiling, W. T 309
Boslnr. Kate L 304
. Margaret 28
Bradwell, J. G 411
Cabell, W. A 439 Goldsmith. W. I 264
Gordon. G. W 496
Grabill. John H 120
Graham, W. M 169
Gray, H. T 139
Grizzard, R. W 2n9. 201;
Bruce, D. H
Bryant. J. M
Burnett, Mrs. T. 1.
Burroughs, Dr. William
Hush. R. R
, W. M
Butler, Gen. M. C
653
57
173
81
233
378
134
i 'aboil. W. L 106
3 1 3
Callaway, W, A
569
Carmack, E. W 114
299
:. 5 7
Cassell, T W
3 4 6
Chalaron. Hon. J. A .533
.-,111
Chllders, Ben
119
Clapp, Mrs. J. w
301
Clark. Mrs. .1 W
466
Clark. W. A
US
Cobb. J. E
45s
Coffin, C. H
395
Coffin, J. P
10«
i'.,|, man. 11. T
411
Collier. Mrs. C. M
329
' oni rly, B. 11
50S
Cook. V. V
5 4
Cooper. James L
547
239
' !ox, 1 lov. John I
82
352
Crawford, J. t
170
Crlbbs, P. \
121
29
251
Cummlngs, C. C
390
( ainnyngham, W. <■ E. . . .
427
118
345
Halbert, II. S
Haley, M. J
Hamman. Mrs. X,
1 Ian, k. R. J . . .
llano, r. It
, . li'. 1
. . . 57
... 12
. , 308
... 540
Harbaugh, T. C 2::. 176, 281 166
Barman, X. F 400
Hayi s. Mrs .1. A ... .42. 448
Hemming, C. C 467
Henderson, Mrs. L. G 5, 63,
103, 156. 17H. 2111. 245 348, Ho
Herbert, Sidney 229
I text, L. W fun' Fronl
Hickoy. .1. M 344
Hinton, E. TI 366
Hockersmlth, P. E 211
Hodges, J. C 28
Hodgkln, J. B 399
II I, John J 499
Hopkins. Mrs. J. E 360
Ho,, ,11 Capl S. F 566
Hubner, c. w 456
Hume, Leland 200
Hunter, Alexander 267
Hunter, J. N 389
Ind. News 392
Inzer, John W 237
Irwin. J. W 319
Jackson, Ad.it. Gen. Texas
U. C. V 546
James, Enoch 113,439
Johnnie Reb 286
Johnson, E. Polk 545
Johnson, Mary L» 255
Johnston, Alex 54S
Johnston, B. S 230
.Ion- s. A. C 507
Jones, Ed D 235
Jones, It. E 536
Jones. J. William 566
Kearney, W. 11 i 1 1
Kellogg, J 139
Ki Hon. A. S 2.",.".
King. H. C 4!H
Kirby, J. 1 363
Klrkland, Dr. .1. II 346
Kritser, Join, s 1 77,
Lake, R. H 102. 177
Langworthy, n. E 234
Law son. A 238
LeCand, F. J. V 118
1.0,11.,, tter, .1 M 504
Lee, Mrs. J. C 5
Lee, R. E., Jr 297
Leonard. M. 1 120
Lewis. 1: i' 156
Lincoln, Joe 544
Lively, E. H 394
Livingston. Knox 469
Loehr, Charles T 4n7
I iOmaX, Mrs 1,1, , . . 36 '
London Spectator 489
l.oomis. C. V 343
LOVe, Mrs. S. E 39::
Martin. Charles B 567
Martin, D. C ir>*
Martin, .1. II 43s
Martin. I'. 'I' 231
Masters, T. B 4i:.
Mo, ianne, \ 'ii ginia 457
McClung, Dr. R. I. 195
McEnery, S. D 117
McNeilly, Rev. .1. II 14, 92, 42 1
Merrltt, T. M 547.
Mlckle, W. E 340
Minnieh. J. W 60,378,652
Minor, Kicardo 2 1"
M 1. Dr. W. II 212
Moore. John B 193
Moore, T. J 234
Mooro. Mrs. W. G 319
tfudd, .1. A 397
Mm 1,1. Dr. J. A 536
Xoilson. T. II ■•
Nelson, If. K
Nicoll, Dr. R 840
Nolen, C 1. 176
Norris, B \ <"> 537
N'ourso. C. II 561
Nunnally, R. J 468
Ogllvli . W. H 361
Owen, F. A 252
, .won. T. M '■■"'
Paddock, B. B 303
Palin, G. H 286
Parker. Mrs. J. H 32,247
Perkins, George C 116
Peters. Wlnfleld 12
E 8
Qoijfederat^ l/eterag.
Phillips, B. F 490
Phillips, J. K 509
Pilcher, Mrs. M. B 105, 377
Piner, H. L 502
Pitts, Mabel P 500
Plecker, A. H 360
Polley, J. B 281
Porter, Hon. J. D.24, 216, 537
Prince. P. H 565
Ramsay, H. A 310
Randall, J. R 343, 389
Randolph, Mrs. N. V 200
Ray. J. H 377
Reynolds, J. E 365
Richardson, C. A 121,342.
380, 411
Richmond, Sada F 351, 454
Riggs. B. F 73
Ritchey, John 546
Roberts. D. J 2 44
Robertson, Mrs. A. B.... 155
Robertson, F. L ..55,135,284
Robinson. E. H 360
Rogers, C. P 569
Romine, Mrs. W. S 20, 63
Rose, Mrs. S. E. F 497
Saunders, D. W 401
Saussy, G. N 485
Scomp. H. A 253
Scott, Hugh 549
Scott, J. J 344
Scott, J. M 378*
Searcy, M. W 229
Shannon, A. H 522
Shannon, I. N 123
Shannon, Thomas 25
Shea, Mary Ritter 61
Shearer, P. W 13
Shipley, C. L 70
Singletary. Don 564
Smith, Abbie 172,491
Smith. E. W 394
Smith, J. D 239
Spinks. J. M 16S
SI ler, John G 117
Steadman, Charles M ... 552
Steger, J. C 226
Stevens, Beatrice 83
Stewart, A. P 425
Stewart. W. B ...:... 14, 557
Stewart, W. H 536
Stiles, Major 489
Stinson, Dr. J. B 553
Stuart. Dr. E. S 486
Tardy, Anne S 101
Taylor, T. L 77
Teagar. M. M 222,489
Tench, John W 200
Thompson, M. S 158
Tillery, Mrs. S. E 550
Todhunter, R 39S
Trawick, A. M 543
Tritsch. J. W 455, 539
Tucker, H. St. George.... 91
Tunno, M. R 252
Tyler, II. A 208
Valentine, J. K 264
Viett, George F 376
Wagner, H. H
Walker, Gen. C. I ...263,
Watson, John S
White, Mrs. A. B 62,
White, P. J
Williams. John Sharp . . .
Willingham, W. J
Wilson. J. Mont
Winter, Rev. G. B
Wood, H. W 169,
Wood, Wallace
Wood, W. P
Woods. R. M 214,
Wright, M. J
Wyeth, Dr. J. A
168
304
238
153
566
127
232
493
25
356
267
90
542
396
65
Toe, J. W 10
Young, B. H 303
Young, J. T 173
Young, T. J 211
PORTRAITS.
Abbott, Dr. J. M 133
Akin, Judge John W 519
Akin, Mrs. M. de Verdery. .518
Andrews, J. J 469
Baker, Mrs. A. S
516
Bakewell, Rev. A. G
541
Ballentine, John G
24
Bate, Gen. William B . . . .
115
Bennett, Miss Rose
345
Bethel. W. D
373
Blakeley, A. R
61
Blocker, M. C
372
Boswell, William Nelson.
155
394
Brewer, Clarke
242
Brewer, W. B
438
Brown, J. Tom
273
311
Buford, Capt. T. W
178
Burnett, Mrs. E. S
130
Butler. H. A
463
Caruthers, Robert
181
Gary, Miles 558
Ghalaron, J. A 468
Churchill, Gen. T. J 122
Cole, W. H 543
Coleman, Daniel 326
Conerly, B. R 507
Conklin, Miss Grace L. . . . 285
Cooper, M. C 37
Cook, Miss Varina 216
Cox, Miss Mary 82
Cozby. Miss Martha 502
Crawford, W. S
Crayton, B. F
Cummings, C. C
Cummings, Mrs. M. E
Cummins, Mr. and Mrs...
560
328
390
423
467
Daffan, L. A 185
Davidson, J. "Wood 306
Davis, Mrs. C. P 274
Davis, Jefferson 166, 448
Davis, Jefferson . . . May Front.
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson. 21S, 448
Davis, Jefferson Hayes.220, 316
Diem. F. J 374
Dinwiddie, James 464
Dudley, Mrs. M. E 275
Duffle, M. M 87
Dyer, Virginia 131
Edwards, J. G 304
Erwin, John A 309
Erwin, W. J 308
Etheredge, Maj. W. H 400
Fairfax, Dr. W. H 561
Field, Al. G 555
Field. Dr. H. M 13S
Forrest, Gen. N. B 404
Fuller, W. A 470
Fulmore, Mrs. Z. T SO
Garrett, R. E 323
Gaul, Gilbert 247
Gray, Balys E 273
Green, Gen. Tom 78
Gurley, Capt. F. B 54
Hall, Col. Winchester . . . 541
Hambleton, Thomas E . . 271
Hames. John 492
Harahan, J. T 137
Harris, Gen. N. H 505
Hayes, Miss Lucy White. 314
Hayes, Mrs. M. H. D 219
Hayes, William Davis . . . 302
Helms, John E 35
Hogg, Gen. J. L 379
Hoggard, H. C 521 ■
Hogin, J. E 36
Holland, A. D 420
Hood. John M 272
Hume. Frank 89
Hunt. T. T 39
Jackson. Dr. George .... 466
James, Rev. A. A 493
Joel, J. A 182
Johnson, E. S 521
Johnson, Rev. John 275
Jones, Dr. J. J 77
King, George A 34
LeCand, F. J. V 419
Lee, Gen. R. E 222
Lee, R. E., Jr 297
Lewis. Gen. L. M 346
Lindsey, J. W 513
Lippman. Mrs. P. P 371
Logan, George W 562
Long, H. J 421
Long, Maj. Lemuel 186
Lowrey, Gen. M. P 13
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NASHYI1TK, TENN., MAKCH, 1SI0T.
No. 3.
( S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
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BEAUVOIR.
BY ANNIE SOUTHERN TARDY, BIRMINGHAM, VI \
tin one side the white-capped waters of the gulf, sparkling
with iln: soft light, "where Southern skies are bluest;" on the
otlur the moss-draped trees, tin- grass-carpeted lawn, the wide
verandas, the open door of Beauvoir, Hearts were softened,
verflowed as 'twas realized that we stood "ii sacred
GLIMPSES (IF IIFAVVnlR
ground, dear alike to every Southern heart — the home of Jef-
ferson Davis.
There is a satisfaction in the "eternal fitness >>i things," and
We felt as we looked around us at the pleasant home and the
happy old men in their well-kept suits of gray that never was
there a fitter memorial In a sacred cause and an honored
name than this Confederate Soldiers' Home at Beauvoir.
It is a sad fact that in most "Homes" for tin aged and af-
flicted one finds a certain despondent resignation in the ac-
ceptance of the well-meant accommodations. At Beauvoir it
is not so. Happy, smiling t'.i. . - greeted lis at the gate, willing
slips led tlie way through the sacred halls, reverent lingers
pointed out "his bedroom, his library, the little study sit
apart where lie wrote Ins book," and pride straightened
Stoop d old shoulders, while happiness and content lent a
sparkle to world wear) i yes as we were introduced to ""«
in" and "my wife." No word of complaint, no murmur
of discontent, no hint of neglect; everywhere tie' same all
pervading joy of rest and peace, and the thought seemed in
di ed "It is good to be I
Why is this? Is it the loving influence ol oui great leadet
that hovers around these faithful survivors of the Ii ( Oil
federacy, or is it the approving smili oi ins God .<<f\ ours
Rather let us know and rest m the s\\,,t security that it is
both that He would have it so and Heaven looks down in
benediction on the great work and indicating: "I' is will"
Being ourselves from Alabama, we inquired if there were
any Alabama soldiers in the Home. Two old gentlemen n
Sponded to the call, one of whom took on himself the "line
honoi oi escorting you lady Daughters wherever you warn to
go." The line old face beamed with joj as lie told how
"proud" he was n, see us, and we wen promoted during tin
conversation through all the ranks of kinship, a, he told us:
"\l\ own mother wouldn't bl more welcome, I'm thai proud
you Daughters I feel like you was my own sisters."
I. confided to us; "I married me a wife, so I would not he
50 lonesome, and Miss Sarah is young and wails on me line"
II, lieu took ii to in loom m one of the pretty new an-
nexes, and. "Mis Sarah" t, he showed us the "family
pin. ills" and "Mi s Sarah's flowers," whose luxuriant growth
iten "She has such a taking way with her.
they iiist naturally grows"
Happy old \ i i r i .n.s ' "I In sting of charity is gone, and
the "Soldiers' Home" becomes home indeed to each old man
102
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when his own particular domicile it. brightened by llie sym-
pathetic companionship of a "Miss Sarah."
On our return to "the big house" we were introduced to
"Miss Sarah" herself, whose proud air of proprietorship over
"Mr. Vines" was at once pathetic and amusing. She informed
us that she was "only sixty-live !" Cupid then had been at
Beauvoir. "Only sixty-live," and he had married lnr for her
youth !
The crowning pleasure of the day to those dear old people
was tea on the lawn with the Daughters. Mr. Vines pre-
sented us with a gavel made from the cedar at Beauvoir,
with which he said we could "order society." And then with
many blessings, lingering handshakes, and words of farewell
we parted. They, we tru^t, are the happier for their glimpse
of the Daughters, we the better for having stood on "holy
ground," taking with us hallowed memories, but leavk.g. alas!
the solemn rest and peace of Beauvoir.
LETTER TO THE VIRGINIA DIVISION, U. C. I\
In a circular letter by Stith Boiling, Major General Com-
manding the Virginia Division, U. C. V.. issued from Peters-
burg, Va.. he mentions "the very great importance of the part
expected of the old soldiers of Virginia at our next U. C. V.
Reunion, to be held in our capital city, Richmond, May 30 to
June 3. to remind comrades of their duty in the premises,"
and adds: "The Confederate soldier needs only to be reminded
of his duty, and he will perform it as faithfully and cheerfully
now as he did from 1861 to 1865. There is no place on earth
that elicits such tender affection and abiding love in the hearts
of the survivors of the armies of the Confederacy. We have
in Virginia twenty-three Camps of Confederate Veterans that
have never secured charters and joined the United Confed-
erate Veterans. Let me urge these Camps without further de-
lay to send in their applications to our Adjutant General.
William E. Mickle, New Orleans. La., and secure charters.
The cost is small compared with I he benefits derived. Appli-
cation blanks will be furnished by applying to Division and
Brigade Headquarters. The Grand Camp of C. V., as far
back as its annual meeting in 1892, adopted the following:
'That it is to the best interests of the Veterans' Camps in Vir-
ginia and for the furtherance of the objects for which they
were organized to join the United Confederate Ve'.erans.'
At nearly all the annual meetings since it has urged them
to do so. It is the only means by which you can keep in
touch with your old comrades of other States, who for four
years not only shared with you their dangers and hardships
but also their honor and glory, and who are now scattered all
over the country. I would earnestly urge all Camps to aid
and encourage the organization of Chapters of the Daughters
of the Confederacy and Ladies' Memorial Associations to co-
operate in the noble work each Camp has undertaken. Past
experience convinces us that without the sympathy of the
women the successful prosecution of these labors of love is
impossible. From the beginning of the war to the present they
have toiled for us and set an example of patience, endurance,
and heroic fortitude never before known in the annals of the
world."
J. J. Bolton, of Demopolis, Ala., desires to hear from any
old Confederates of Missouri who were captured by the Fed-
erals at the battle of Wilson Creek, Mo. If they remember
helping to take one of General Seigle's cannon from the bat-
tlefield on his retreat and helping to put it in a mill pond on
Wilson Creek, he would like to communicate with such in
the hope of finding the cannon.
IEXERABLE COS FEDERATE SOLDIER.
Doubtless one of the oldest of Confederate soldiers now
living is Mr. James Wood, of South Carolina, who was born
November 26, 1812. He is therefore now in his ninety-fifth
year, and retains his faculties of memory to a remarkable de-
gree. Mr. Wood was reared on a farm in Spartanburg Dis-
trict, and pursued farming until a few years past. He
1^ a typical South Carolina gentleman, dignified, and of strict
integrity, possessing those noble qualities which make him
friends wherever known. As a man, he is honorable and pure ;
JAMES WOOD, NINETY-FIVE YEARS OLD.
as a father, affectionate and kind; as a soldier, he was faith-
ful and brave. He now resides at Pacolet, S. C, with a daugh-
ter, Miss T. E. Wood. His other surviving children are: Mrs,
Atlanta Bryant, of Pacolet; Mrs. Sallie Lipscomb, of Gaffney;
Mrs. R. A. Brown, of Cowpens ; and Messrs. A. N. and Moses
Wood, of Gaffney, both of whom served in the Confederate
army.
Comrade Wood was given his Cross of Honor in January,
1904, by the Spartanburg Chapter, U. D. C, and has worn it
continually since then. He served in Company A, 7th South
Carolina Reserves ; its third lieutenant at the close of the war.
Sons of Veterans in Memphis. — R. Henry Lake: "As
Chairman of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans Commit-
tee on Monuments and Memorials for the State of Tennessee, 1
am anxious to see a law passed in this State permitting the
County Courts and Boards of Mayor and Aldermen in the
counties and towns of this State to appropriate money for
Confederate monuments in their respective localities. I am
sending you also a list of Confederate monuments in this
State. It is possible that you know of several more, or you
may know of some that are contemplated. May I ask you to
kindly advise me if such is the case? As Adjutant of our
local Camp, I am pleased to advise that within the past four
months we have had three good meetings, a large smoker
given at the Gayoso Hotel in October, and the night before
Lee's birthday last month we gave our annual banquet at the
Gayoso Hotel. Both of these were highly successful, and we
are endeavoring in every way possible to keep up interest in
the cause."
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UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
BY MRS. LIZZIE GEORGE HENDERSON, I'KESIDENT.
While the enlightened world's attention was being called
to the fact that one hundred years ago there was horn a child
who afterwards became one of the greatest of military leaders
— Gen. Robert Edward Lei- — one of his old followers, in try-
ing to put on record some of his commander's great qualities,
was moved to send to your President General the following
letter, which she submits to your earnest consideration
Pictures of Lee with Washington in Schoolhouses.
"Dear Madam: Recently in preparing an .uncle for a maga
line, some personal recollections of Gen. Robert E. Lee, my
heart was stirred with a renewed and deepei admiration and
love for my chieftain — his noble life, his beautiful Christian
spirit, and bis elevated character worthj ol the love and ad-
miration of every heart — and it occurred t" me what a beau-
tiful tribute u would be lo bis life if the Daughters of the
South determine lo place in every Southern schoolhouse an
engraving of General Lee beside that "t the 'Father of his
Country,' which the Mi. Vernon Association of women are
placing in all the public schools! These i»<>. the highest .mil
noblest types of the South, are peers, worthy to be placed
side by side. Can we place before the children of tin South
finer ideals of manhood, moral grandeur, and Christian citi-
ip? As has been well said: 'Their was the air of old
• nils and polished halls, of stately columns and fragrant
gardens about tlnsc two.' Surely these '-ileal spirits are the
chosen ones to keep before the hearts and minds of our chil-
dren to check the evil tendencies of this day in our midsl
This suggestion, Daughters of thi ( onfederacy, comes from
one of the brigadier generals who followed our great hero
for those four terrible years. Is it necessary for me to add
anything to this lo have you take up the work which he sug
I think not, and yet 1 must remind you of what we
owe to General I.ec and of what 'Heel il will have on our
children to have US put these pictures of bun where they will
miliar sights t<> them .is they study the great men of
our country by asking you a question or two. Is there in the
whole South a heart which does not beat quicker, a bead
which is not held higher, a step which is not quickened with
pride when the name of Lee is mentioned? Do we not owe
everything we ran do, m honor him and to inspire our children
to a like life, m the coming generations of (hat country for
which he gave himself, even were it merely for Ihe fact that
he made il possible for the mo, hers of the Souih to point
to him with pride as the ideal Christian Southern gentleman
of Ihe old school as we tell the children of the South how he
himself and all he bad for Ihe South and her rights'
' ould there he a more beautiful way of marking ibis ccn-
1 of his birth than by having ii go down in history that
the 1 laughters of the Confederacy, descendants of those who
ved him with perfect faith in his sagacity as a military
I -trusting in him as an honorable man and in bis know!
edge as to the duty of a patriot and bis determination to do
patriot's pari in thai trying time put the picture of this
sreat man where it would teach nur children to follow his ex-
SO that we may be proud and thankful to have brought
them into the world' 1 shall immediately open correspondence
with sum- firm to see wh.it we can gel these pictures for, so
sure am I that you will acl I i thi suggestion,
Hospitality of Virginia Division- m Jamestown
There ha i Pi esidenl I leneral
the following invitation, which 1 accepted for the Association
"My Dear Madam. As President of ihe Virginia Division.
U. IV C, I have the honor and the pleasure to extend to the
officers and members of the United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy the hospitality of the building now being erected by this
Division on the grounds of the Jamestown Exposition.
"I trust it may be their pleasure to accept this invitation,
which. 1 beg to assure you, is most cordially extended.
"I am, with great respeel and high regard, very truly yours,
Mrs. William R. McKenny."
We all, I am sure, will be very happy to see the beautiful
representation oi Beauvoir which the U. D. C. of the Vir-
ginia Division are erecting, and will not all of us feel proud
of that Division fur this beautiful work?
The "Yi \ki: " Ri mo for Distribi hon
1 have just received a few copies of the "Yearbook," which
e now read) to be senl in each Chapter as soon as the
twenty-five cents for the postage is received by the Secretary-
General, Mrs. Dowdell, Opelika, Ala. Many Chapters may
havi already sent in this amount, but I just note this as a
remindei I Ins will put them m the bands of the Chapters a
month before the nine required bj the constitution, and I
know you will join me in congratulations to our Secret n\
General on this; and after you have seen the book, you will
he pleased with the beautiful style in which it is gotten up
It is conveniently arranged with an index on the second pagi
Remember that it all means hard work on the part of our
Secretary-General, and that appreciative letters pay us well
for all the hard work.
Better Crosses or Honor.
We are lo have better-made Crosses after we have exhausted
the upply now on band, for the new make cannot be gotten
read) for the next distribution on first Division Memorial
Day. Mrs. Raines has gotten her office into beautiful working
Order; ami if you will follow the rules implicitly, there need
not be anj more trouble about the Crosses. I think the new
make of Crosses will be an increase of four cents, which T
think nol exorbitant, as they will be nude absolutely safe.
We bad to do away with the pin to fasten it on with and
substitute a screw button, and the ring holding the cross and
bar together will be oblong with opening on the side and this
opening lo be soldered together. We tried to have it with
a pin. as we hear that many of the Veterans prefer to wear
the Cross on the vest ; bin ibis could not be done without
greatly increased expense, that but few Chapters are able
to be. ii. and s,i those who prefer to wear them on ihe vest
will just have io have a buttonhole worked for it.
Fin vncial M otters < Ionsidi ri d
The finances are running pretty low, and the Executive
Committee have- decided to hive the bazaar at Norfolk as
led in a letter from Mrs. Voorhees, our First Vice
President General, to the Convention at Gulfport. 1 have
asked Mrs. Voorhees to take charge of this work, and I hope
that every Chapter will respond nicely when she writes to you
for a contribution of article's. We should make enough at
ibis bazaar to pay all the donations voted by the last Conven-
tion, and then we could starl next year with all of the 1007
per capita in the- treasury There is much for us to do and
but little to do it with. 1 shall write later on that subject, so
will nol say more now.
The work is going along as iiie'eK i- you could wish, and
we may congratulate each other on the fact that we arc grow
ing rapidly in every respect. Let each e>f us see to it that
this is the best year of the lb 1 1 I
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Confederate l/eterap.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor ami Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham- All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ 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.
Miss Florence E. Bligh, who has for a number of years
traveled for the Veteran in different States, now has the
State of Texas in her territory, succeeding Mrs. Smith, and
will be there for several months yet. Miss Bligh is a most
efficient representative, and has done some effective work
lately under difficulties. She is commended to friends of the
Veteran everywhere, who are requested to cooperate with
her in this work, and thus enable us to show a largely in-
creased list of subscribers by the close of 1907,
Several important articles prepared for the March Veteran
have been withheld for the use of a pertinent paper by Presi-
dent Davis on "Andersonville and Other War Prisons." This
record comes from Belford's Magazine, issues for January and
February, 1890, and is dated at Beauvoir December 10. 1888.
The favor to use them comes from Dr. R. W. Park, of Waco,
Tex., who was surgeon of the 5th Alabama Infantry, and the
thoughtfulness of Comrade G. W. Buck in sending them. Mr.
Buck had an extraordinary career in the Confederate army
through his excellence as a drillmaster. He was appointed first
lieutenant, but never received a commission. He was a private
in General Gano's Cavalry Brigade, and was so efficient in
military tactics that on the occasion of General Gano's absence
for two weeks, by consent of all the officers, even as high of
rank as lieutenant colonel, he commanded the brigade. It is
perhaps the only instance on record when any private soldier
actually commanded a brigade.
Comrade Buck has recently published a book, "A Free
Christian," notice of which may be expected later.
THE JEFFERSON DAVIS CENTENARY.
June 3, 1808, was the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the only
President of the Confederate States of America, a nation
which possessed a governmental organization that was exer-
cised over a vast region of the Southern States and which
existed fro-m the early part of 1861 into April, 1865, during
which time its armies gained many signal victories and for
four years maintained itself with much success and great mili-
tary glory.
It is fitting that appropriate notice be taken of the event
and special honors to the centennial anniversary of his birth
be given. The Southern people will honor themselves in hon-
oring Jefferson Davis. Mr. Davis was the object of unlimited
denunciation, infamous detraction, obloquy, and defamation.
Intensest hatred and hostility were engendered by the terrible
War between the States, and his detractors were zealous in
denouncing him as a traitor and rebel.
On this subject the New Orleans Picayune states: "When
the hate and malignity that had been aroused against him were
at the highest tide, it was attempted to try to convict him of
treason ; but when, after a long and cruel imprisonment, he
was brought into court to be tried for his life, it was found
that there was not in all the provisions of the national Con-
stitution, nor in all the statutes enacted by Congress, nor in
all the precedents recognized or established by the national
Supreme Court one word that could be tortured into authority
or warrant of law by which the captured President of the
Confederate States could be tried for treason or any other
crime against the United States; and therefore he was dis-
charged from custody on bail, which was exacted as a mere
formality, and subsequently was freed from all charges and
accusations in that connection. Thus it was that Jefferson
Davis was fully vindicated by the Constitution and laws of
the United Stales in the face of and despite the malignant
hate and persecution of his uncompromising enemies. His
worst enemies did not dare to assassinate him in full view
of the civilized world, and they were forced to set him free.
He was the chosen leader of the Southern people, who were
engaged in a grand, patriotic movement for home protection
and home rule."
U. D. C. AT RAYMOND. MISS., AND ELSEWHERE.
The N. B. Forrest Chapter, U. D. C, at Raymond, Miss.,
has undertaken to raise the money to inclose with an iron
fence the graves of soldiers who were killed in the battle
of Raymond and to erect a monument to their memory. The
Chapter is small and not strong financially, so any contribu-
tions from those interested in the cause, and especially from
those who fought in the battle cr had friends engaged in it,
will be appreciated. Any information concerning those who
are buried there, whether they were killed in the battle or
died in the hospital, will be gladly received by the Chapter.
The Chapter especially desires the names of the men who so
bravely fought and died there for the Confederate cause. Con-
tributions may be sent to the President, Mrs. J. R. Eggleston,
or to Miss Mary Ratliff, Secretary N. B. Forrest Chapter,
U. D. C, Raymond, Miss.
The Guilford Chapter, U. D. C, of Greensboro, N. C, has
issued a souvenir post card representing the banner of the
Kuklux Klan, which is the property of the North Carolina
Division, U. D. C, and now in the Confederate Museum at
Richmond, Va. This card is offered for sale at five cents
each or in lots of one hundred for $3, the net proceeds to be
for the charities and patriotic undertakings of the Chapter.
Mrs. J. G. Brodnax. 209 West Market Street, Greensboro, will
attend to orders.
Mrs. Alex. B. White, State President Tennessee Division, U.
D. C, sends an important notice which is commended to all
Chapters everywhere. She says : "Those Chapters of the Ten-
nessee Division which have elected new officers recently and
have not sent lists of same to the State officers are requested
to do so at once; otherwise official notice cannot reach the
right officers."
SUPPLIES OF NEW CONFEDERATE BOOKS.
The Veteran has recently secured fresh supplies of valuable
Confederate books, still offered at liberal rates. Of this stock
is Dr. J. A. Wyeth's "Life of Gen. N. B. Forrest;" price, $4,
postpaid, and with this price a year's subscription — new or re-
newal— is given.
"Two Wars : An Autobiography," by Gen. S. G. French.
This charming book might sell better if in two volumes, Mexi-
can and Confederate. The price, $2.50 (including a year's sub-
scription to the Veteran, new or renewal), will be returned to
any purchaser not satisfied.
For extended notice of the most valuable books supplied by
the Veteran refer to page 522 November issue.
Father Ryan's poem, including a sketch by John Talbot
Smith and a memoir by John Moran, is sent postpaid at $150.
and with the Veteran for a year for $2.25.
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THE NORTH'S ESTIMATE OF GEN. R. E. LEE.
[The Baltimore Sim's tribute to Gen. Robert E. Lee gives
estimates by the leading men of the other side in the war that
cannot be reprinted too often.]
Even in bis early manhood he won such fame in the Wai
with Mexico that General Scott declared to General Preston
thai young Lee was the greatest soldier in America, and long
before the breaking i Hit of the Civil War Scotl said to Pres-
ton: "If the President of the United States should ask my
judgment as to the ability of a commander, 1 would say with
my living breath, 'Let it be Robert Lee '
General Lee wrote February 25, 1868, having been sum-
moned to Washington by Francis Preston Blair, he under
-t 1. at the instance Of President Lincoln: "After listening
to his remarks, I declined the offer he mule me to take com-
mand of the army that was to be brought into the field, stat-
candidly and courteously as I could that, though op-
po ed to secession and deprecating war, I could take no part
in an invasion of the Southern States. I went directly from
tb, interview with Mr. Blair to the office of General Scott
and told him of the proposition thai had been made me and
tnj decision."
I hat he c >uid have chosen the command of the armies of
either the North or the South, could have directed eithei ide
in a great war. is a tribute to bis ability thai was probably
never before in all history given any commander. And this
was before those wonderful campaigns .if the Civil War that
gave him rank with the world's great captains. It was to be
expected that the Confederates would give him the highest
eulogy that language could express; but his masterly genius
prized by his foes, and his fame has in a single
generation spn ad through iul the w< u Id
great English authority 1 n the science of war, llender-
1- forth his belief that "1 f the great.
diers, if nol the greatest, who ever spoke the English tongue."
Theodore Roosevelt, to whom has never been attributed
partiality for the South, in his "Life of Benton" declares that
Lee was "without exception the very greatest of all the great
ins that the English speaking people have brought forth."
To the student of mankind Lee is oni of the loftiest char-
acters. Charles Francis Adams believes that his mosl en
during title to fame was his "humanity in arms." Field Mar
thai Viscount Wolseley, of the British army, declares: "He
was the ablest general, and to me seemed the greatest man 1
ever conversed with." Gen Frederick D. Grant, son of the
General, says that l.ee's winning personality, which had
charmed the whole South, appealed stronglj to his father.
He was .1 beautiful, lovable character; he was the best type
of Christian gentleman. Benjamin II. Hill declared that he
Was a 1 woman in life, modest and pure- as a virgin
in thought, watchful .^ a Roman vestal in duty, submissive
1 » as So. 1 .,i ,,, battle as Achilles
Lei was the soldier, the genius, the model character. To
the South he was in 1 best beloved son With pridi she hon
Ors Washington and Jefferson and the other great men who
have adorned her p St, but to I
iwing him into thi smoke and flame of battle w
cheer, charging the very heights of d ath, winning •
with a thrill or accepting defeat with unmurmuring
th( Confedi di r gave his life into Lee's hands
ui of the most trying years in human history; and when
he laid down bis musket and walked the weary mile!
to the smoking ruins of his home, and there in dust and ashes
with hare hand- began to rebuild the structure of the E
he look. d for inspiration to the great chieftain who towered
above defeat. He taught his children with their earliest
words to lisp the name of Lee and honor him above all other
men. .
Though men may come from the four corners of the earth
to lav upon the tomb of Lee the wreaths of fame, there is no
other honor like this splendid tribute of his people's enduring
love
1 ONFEDERATE MUSEUM, RICHMOND.
Southern States are properly ambitious for the best dis-
plays m rooms assigned to them in the Confederate Museum,
Richmond. This, remember, is the President Davis man-
sion and not the Battle Abbey. Mrs. M. B. Pilcher is
Regent foi the "Tennessee Room." In a letter from her
copied in the Richmond Times-Dispatch she stt
"1 am always glad to write a line or say a word about the
Tennessee R01 m in the Confederate Museum at Richmond,
Va. I am saturated with the thought of making it attractive.
historic, commensurate with Tennessee's importance as a
State and her brilliant part in the struggle of the sixties.
"There are unmistakable signs of an awakening to the fact
that the place 10 garner and exhibit I Oni derate n lies, por-
1 rails, historical data, etc, is in the old Confederate capital—
the Mecca of those who love Confederal memories and
where the world would naturally go to find the truth of
I J mfederate history.
"At the I'. D. C. Convention in Memphis last May I re-
ported donations from sixteen Chapters, giving details, in re-
sponse to letters to all of the Chapters in the State, and many
persona] appeals. Since October 1 I have received many
promises of materia] aid and kind expressions .if interest m
the work— valuable relics, either ;i. gifts or loans, autograph
letters of a fateful day long gone, battle- lorn flags, weapons,
and money. Some of the Chapters, notably Knoxville and
Jacks, hi. have had painteel tine oil portraits of two of our
'immortals.' Knoxville semis to Richmond that of Gen. Felix
K. Zollicoffer, ami Jacks,,,, th.,t ,,f Gen \\ Bedford Forrest
The Sam Davis Chapter at Morristown is arranging to paint
a portrait of the boy hero and martyr ami a fine picture of
General Bate in his uniform; also an oil painting has been
1 by the Chattat ga I haptei and gratefully accepted.
- He Chapter, No. 1. is taking steps to procure a bust of
Sam Davis. The' Winnie Davis Chapter, of Columbia, with
characteristic promptness and generosity, has started thi
donations for this year.
"Iii view of tin- great events that will transpire in Vir-
ginia in n.07 — the Jamestown Exposition, the national Re-
union ,,f the Veterans, th ■ unveiling ,,f th. Jefferson Davis
monu 1;. in. ami tin: National U. D. C. < m— il sei ms
in me that every woman in die Stan would feel it incumbent
upon In 1- t,, he up and doing for tin Tennessee Room. The
"Id Confederati city will receive the- world next June, ami
the- Museum is the center of attraction in Richmond. Please
ht us all bear in mind that the [Tennessee Room is not ready
mpany, and we have very little time to make u ready."
all the Stales taking suitable interest in this import. mt
mailer ? i , rim 1 epti favored in having in
Richmond Mrs. Janet Randolph, one of the most ,1
workers in all of our Southland, as Vice Regent. The zeal
and constancy of this noble woman for Tennessee can never
be fully realized. By and by Tenncsseeans should esteem the
unity to supply a testimonial in her honor amt for her
children— a thing she evidently has never thought of.
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TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT NOTES.
FROM ADDRESS BY W. L. CABELL, LIEUT. GENERAL COMMANDING.
The unpaid soldiers of immortal principle, heroes of more
than one hundred battles, a happy New Year to you and to
all dear to you. The old year, with its pleasure, its joys, and
its disappointed hopes, has passed, never again to return
Since my last report many of our noblest and best have crossed
over the rivtr into the great beyond, have answered the "last
roll call." Let us thank a kind and merciful God that the
number of those who have fallen from our ranks is no greater
than we should expect, and that our comrades, enfeebled by
age and incapacitated by wounds, disease, and sickness to make
a living, have been properly cared for by the great States,
Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, California, Oklahoma, and the dif-
ferent Territories, where they can spend the remainder of
their lives in ease and comfort ; that they are provided with
good food, comfortable clothing, suitable medical attention,
and good nursing. Let me say witli pride that every State
and Territory in this Department will continue this noble
work.
The Adjutant General reports over fifteen hundred Camps,
one-half of which number are in the Trans-Mississippi De-
partment. Continue this good work and let every Confederate
now living enroll in it. I therefore call on the Division and
Brigade Commanders of every State and Territory to issue
at once the necessary orders that will increase the number of
Camps as well as the membership of each Camp, so that at
the Reunion to be held in the city of Richmond, Va., May 30
to June 4, 1907, you will have more Camps than have ever
gathered at any time or place. I further request that you
urge every Camp throughout the Department to meet at
once and monthly afterwards to arrange for sending dele-
gates— one for every twenty members— with alternates and
to pay the per capita to Gen. Wlliiam E. Mickle, the Adju-
tant General, by the first day of April, 1907. The Committee
on Transportation consists of Generals Steele, Graber, and
Mendes, and Cols. B. S. Wathen and T. B. Trotman. . . .
There will be business of great importance in reference to
the care of our dead, the care of our feeble comrades, the un-
veiling of a monument to our noble President, Jefferson Davis,
and to perpetuate his bravery, his heroism, and his fidelity to
the South. Then come. Be ready, and let us make this the
greatest gathering of brave men and noble women that has
ever taken place in our own sunny South. Richmond, the
capital of the South, will receive you and treat you royally.
Where no one from a Camp can attend the Reunion, give your
proxy to some Confederate who can attend.
ARK.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, BATESVILLE,
BY JAMES P. COFFIN, BATESVILLE, ARK.
During the summer of 1906 the local Camp of the U. C.
V. and the Chapter of the U. D. C. undertook the erection of
a Confederate monument at Batesville, Ark., and each ap-
pointed a committee of three, and to this joint committee the
whole matter was intrusted. The committee on August 31,
1906, adopted the design submitted by Mr. Otto Pfeiffer. of
Batesville, and awarded the contract to him, stipulating that
the monument should be erected in the corner of the court-
house yard, Main and Broad Streets, and that the material
used should be Batesville marble from the Pfeiffer quarries.
six miles north of the town. The monument, being completed,
was accepted and paid for by the committee in January, 1907.
The height of this monument is a little over twenty-three
feet, the base twelve feet square, and the bottom section is
six feet square, on the four faces or panels of which sections
are the inscriptions as follows :
"In Memory of
The Sons of Independence Count)
who served in tin.
CONFEDERATE ARMY.
Their Mothers, Wives, Sisters, and Daughters,
Who, with patriotic devotion.
Remained steadfast to their cause
during the
WAR PERIOD.
1861-1865."
On the Broad Street face are the names of the ten com-
panies of cavalry and on the opposite face those of the thir-
teen companies of infantry which entered the service of the
Confederacy from Independence County, and on the remain-
ing face is this inscription — to wit:
"Erected by
Sidney Johnston Camp, No. 863,
United Confederate Veterans,
Sidney Johnston Chapter, No. 135,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
And Many Friends.
1907."
On the two street faces of the upper section are the first
and last flags of the Confederacy, the staffs crossed, and be-
neath in raised letters: "C. S. A."
May I, 1907, has been selected for the dedication of this
monument, when Senator James H. Berry, the Commander
of the Arkansas Division, U. C. V., and Gen. Robert G.
Shaver, who commanded two Arkansas regiments during the
war (in each of which were Independence County com-
panies), will deliver the addresses.
VIEW OF THE BATESVILLE (ARK.) MONUMENT.
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ANDERS0NV1LLE AND OTHER WAR PRISONS.
BY JEFFERSON DAVIS, DECEMBER 10, l888.
(This is a reprint from Belford's Magazine, January, 1890.)
Some eminent citizens of the North, who were farthest re-
moved from the class known as "Southern sympathizers" dur-
ing the War between the States, but who desire to know the
whole truth, have requested me to write an article, to appear
in some periodical published in the North, on the subject of
"The Prison at Andersonville, Ga." The invitation is ac-
cepted, both as to the subject and place of publication, from
a wish to vindicate the conduct of .the Confederacy and be-
cause the proposed channel is that which will most assuredly
reach those who have generally seen but one side of the dis-
cussion.
Civilization in its progress has mitigated the rigors of war
among enlightened nations, and most prominent of these hu-
mane manifestations is the introduction of cartels for the ex-
change and parole of prisoners.
Early in the war the Confederacy sought and obtained the
adoption of such cartel; by whom, how, and why it was
violated will, in the course of this article, be shown as a part
of the subject of the Andersonville prison.
When the United States authorities refused to fulfill their
obligation to continue the exchange and parole of prisoners,
the number of Northern captives rapidly accumulated beyond
the capacity of the prisons at Richmond, and also beyond the
ability of the commissariat to supply them. In the absence
of any prospect of relief from these embarrassments the re-
moval of the prisoners became necessary.
A large part of the food for our army in Virginia was drawn
from the more southern and southwestern States, and the
means of transportation were limited and diminishing. The
place to which the prisoners should be removed had to be
chosen and prepared. Andersonville, Ga., was selected after
careful investigation for the following reasons: It was in a
high pine woods region, in a productive farming country, had
never been devastated by the enemy, was well watered, and
near to Americus, a central depot for collecting the tax in
kind and purchasing provisions for our armies. The climate
was mild, and, according to the best information, there was
in the water and soil of the locality "no recognizable source
of disease."
A stockade was constructed of dimensions adapted to the
number of prisoners who might probably be confined there.
It was on a hill overlooking the valley of the Sweet Water,
a tributary of which stream flowed through the prison in-
closure. For a full description, illustrated by a map, reference
is made to the exhaustive work entitled "The Southern Side;
or, Andersonville Prison," by K. R. Stevenson, MI). Sui
of Military Prison Hospital, etc.
Persistent bj the United Stales in the refusal to ob
the cartel caused so large an increase in the number of the
captured sent to Andersonvilli a the accomi la
Hon provided, and thus to augment the discomforl and dis-
ease consequent on their confinement. It has be n ofl nsively
asked: "Why was not the contingency provided for?" I'
which I answer thai a selfish policy which for an indefinite
'tune would leave in captivity their countryn it tin
call of their government had volunteered to fight its b
m n 1 kei 0 ild bl ; ibility which v.
\\ ithi 'in entering into detail untered in
iln large and, in tin ol the w ar, evei
increasing number <>i prisoners maj lie briefly enumerated
thus :
1. 'lbe exceptionally inhuman act of the North declaring
medicines to be contraband, to which there is but one. if indeed
there be one, other example in modern war.
2. The insufficient means .it transportation and the more
inadequate means of repairing railroads and machinery, so
that as the war continued the insufficiency became more em-
barrassing.
3. The numerical inferiority of our army made it necessary
that all available force should be at the front; therefore the
guards for prisons were mainly composed of old men and
boys, and but a scanty allowance of these.
4. The medical officers were not more than were required
with the troops, and contract physicians disliked the pi. 1
service, among other reasons naturally, because of the im-
possibility of getting the proper medicines. (Our accomplish d
and diligent surgeon general did much to supply this want by
substitutes extracted from the plants and trees of the South ;
but these, though possibly as good, would, like other substi-
tutes, be less confidence-inspiring.)
5. lbe food was different from that to which most of the
prisoners had been accustomed, particularly in the use of
corn meal instead of wheat flour. Of the latter, it was not
possible in 1864 to get an adequate supply at Andersonville.
It was not starvation, as has been alleged, but acclimation,
unsuitable diet, and despondency which were the potent agents
of disease and death. These it was not in our power to re-
move. The remedy was with those who, unlike King David,
commenced their lamentation after the end had come. The
remedy demanded alike by humanity and good faith was the
honest execution of the cartel
When it was decided to locate a prison at Andersonville,
Gen. Howell Cobb was in command of the district of Georgia.
He was a man of large capital invested in planting and farm-
ing, of generous and genial temper, so much so that all who
knew him will readily believe that if the prisoners within his
command had been suffering for want of food he would have
supplied them gratuitously with such articles as his planta-
tion produced. Thus probably arose the report that he had
sent provisions to the prisoners, and it probably got wider cir-
culation as confirmation of the starvation theor)
Statements from gentlemen of high standing and who speak
disinterestedly of what they know are submitted as conclusive
on the question of quantity of food at Andersonville prison.
It is not only requisite that enough of some kind of food
should be furnished; it is needful that the power to use and
assimilate it should exist. Of this I have personal expericne;-.
During the first year of my imprisonment at Fortress M
1 was reduced to little more than a skeleton under the need-
less privations inflicted by that heartless vulgarian, Brevet
Gen. Nelson A. Miles. He was at the time of my imprison-
ni in seleeti d to supersede Col. Joseph Roberts, an educated
soldier, whose regiment had been the garrison of Fortress
Monroi in the latter part of the war. Why was this 1
deemed competent to command the post in war, but not in
[j acquaintance with both would suggest the an-
swer: a gentleman was not suited to the cruel purposes of 1
M Stanton, then Secretary of War.
lit us now consider the laws an in relatii
I how they were administered. Gen. John II. Win
if r was graduated at the United States Military Academy in
jid. with a brief interval, served in the United States
,n mj until he resigned, in 1S61.
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During the war with Mexico he was distinguished by gal-
lantry in battle, for which he was twice brevetted. His char-
acter and his lineage precluded the supposition of cruelty to
the defenseless. He was for a time the provost marshal of
Richmond and supervisor of prisons thereabout. His conduct
m these positions was in keeping with his reputation — that of
a man neither humble to the haughty nor haughty to the hum-
ble. When the great body of the prisoners were sent to Geor-
gia and the Carolinas, General Winder was ordered there to
exercise a general supervision. He was selected, among other
reasons, because of confidence in his kindness to prisoners, as
specifically stated by James A. Siddon. then Secretary of War,
Jefferson Davis, S. Cooper, Adjutant General, who had been
a cadet with General Winder, and George W. Brent. On
pages 205 to 208 "Southern Historical Papers" the full text
will be found from which these extracts were made:
"Sabot Hii.l, December 29, 1875.
"Mr. W. S. Winder: .... I had privately and officially
the fullest opportunity of knowing his [Gen. John H. Win-
der's] character and judging his disposition and conduct
toward the Federal prisoners ; for those in Richmond, where
he was almost daily in official communication with me, often
in respect to them, had been some time under his command
before, in large measure from the care and kindness he was
believed to have shown to them, he was sent South to have
supervision and control of the large number there being ag-
gregated. ... I thought him marked by real humanity
toward the weak and helpless — such as women and children,
for instance — by that spirit of protection and defense which
distinguished the really gallant soldier.
"To me he always expressed sympathy and manifested a
strong desire to provide for the wants and comforts of the
prisoners under his charge. Very frequently, from the urgency
of his claims in behalf of the prisoners, while in Richmond
controversies would arise between him and the commissary
general, which were submitted to me by them in person for my
decision, and I was struck by his earnestness and zeal in claim-
ing the fullest supplies the law of the Confederacy allowed or
gave color of claim to. This law required prisoners to have
the allowance provided for our own soldiers in the field, and
constituted I he guide to the settlement of such questions.
Strict injunctions were invariably given from the department
for the observance of this law both then and afterwards in
the South, and no departure was to be tolerated from it ex-
cept under the direst straits of self-defense. Your father was
ever resolved, as far as his authority allowed, to act upon and
enforce the rule in behalf of the prisoners.
"When sent South I know he was most solicitous in regard
to all arrangements for salubrity and convenience of location
for the military prisons and for all means that could facili-
tate the supplies and comforts of the prisoners and promote
their health and preservation. James A. Siddon."
"Montreal, June 20, 1867.
"To K. R. Stevenson, Slewiacke, N. S.
"My Dear Sir: ... I have never doubted that all had
been done for the comfort and preservation of the prisoners
at Andcrsonville that the circumstances rendered possible.
General Winder I had known from my first entrance into the
United States army as a gallant soldier and an honorable
gentleman. Cruelty to those in his power, defenseless and
sick men, was inconsistent with the character of either a sol-
dier or a gentleman. I was always, therefore, confident that
the charge was unjustly imputed. . . . The efforts made
to exchange the prisoners may be found in the published re-
ports of our commissioner of exchanges, and they were re-
ferred to in several of my messages to the Confederate Con-
gress. They show the anxiety felt on our part to relieve the
captives on both sides of the sufferings incident to imprison-
ment and how that humane purpose was obstructed by the
enemy in disregard of the cartel which was agreed
upon. . . . Jefferson Davis."
"Alexandria, Va., July 9, 187 1.
•'Td R. R. Stevenson, Stew'aclu-, X. S.
"Dear Sir: ... I can, however, with perfect truth de-
clare as my conviction that General Winder, who had the con-
trol of the Northern prisoners, was an honest, upright, and
humane gentleman, and as such I had known him for many
years. He had the reputation in the Confederacy of treating
the prisoners confided to his general supervision with great
kindness and consideration, and fully possessed the confidence
of the government, which would not have been the case had
he adopted a different course of action toward them ; and this
was exemplified by his assignment to Andersonville by special
direction of the President. Both the President and Secretary
of War always manifested great anxiety that the prisoners
should be kindly treated and amply provided with food to
the extent of our means, and they both used their best means
and exertions to these ends. ... S. Cooper."
"Alexandria, April 3, 1868.
"My Dear Captain: . . . The entry (in my journal Jan-
uary 9, 1865) is substantially as follows: 'In pursuance of or-
ders I addressed a letter to General Winder requesting him
to turn over thirty Federal prisoners to Major Hottle. quar-
termaster, for the purpose of taking out subtcrra shells and
torpedoes from the cuts in the West Point and Atlanta Rail-
road. Shortly afterwards I received from General Winder
a reply, stating that he could not comply with the request, as
it would not only violate the orders of the War Department
but would be in contravention of the laws and usages of
war.' . . . George W. Brent."
General Winder arrived at Andersonville on June 17, 1864,
and found gangrene and scurvy existing, and on the 20th of
that month recommended that the prisoners should be removed
as soon as possible to other posts. He received orders to
remove the prisoners to Millen and other points suitable for
their safety and health as soon as the necessary arrangements
could be made.
The want of transportation and the insufficiency of guards
produced occasional delays in the removal of prisoners; but
on the last of September the number had been reduced from
twenty or thirty thousand to about five thousand, who were
too ill for transportation. General Winder had in the mean-
time recommended that agents should be employed to procure
vegetables. These and all other suggestions for the comfort
of the prisoners were sanctioned by the Executive Depart-
ment at Richmond.
Much more might be added, but the foregoing is believed
to be enough to refute the charges made against General
Winder of cruelty to prisoners.
Let us now consider the conduct of the unhappy victim,
Capt. Henry Wirz, and the proceedings by which he was con-
demned and executed. From such information as I possess
he was a native of Switzerland, was a physician, and prac-
ticing his profession in Western Louisiana in 1861. He en-
tered the Confederate army at the beginning of the war, and
in the battle of Manassas his arm was broken, so that he
remained a cripple permanently. General Winder, who had
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Opportunities to know him while employed at the Libby Prison
in Richmond, selected him for superintendent of the prison
at Andersonville. Whether his conduct then instilled the
selection, let the testimony of competent, unimpeachable wit-
nesses determine. The eminent scientist and physician, Dr.
Joseph Jones, of New Orleans, was in August, 1864, ordered
in inspect and report on Andersonville prison. In the prose-
cution of Wirz garbled extracts were read to criminate the
in charge. Dr. Jones has published Iiis full report.
SO as "to place all the facts before the public, who have al-
ready had ace ss to certain selected facts." After discussing
the physical and pathological causes of the fatality at Ander-
sonville. lie wrote, as published, to Gen. IV II. Hill on January
17, [886:
"In accordance with the direction of Dr. Samuel Preston
Moure, formerly surgeon general C. S A. I instituted dur-
ing the months of August and September, 1864, a series of
investigations on the diseas s of the Federal prisoners con
lined in Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Ga.
"In justice to myself, as well as to those most nearly con-
nected with this investigation. 1 would respectfully call the
attention of Colonel Chipman, Judge Advocate U. S \. to
the fact that the matter winch is surrendered 111 obedience
to the demands of a power from which there is 1. > appeal was
prepared solely for the consideration of the surgeon general
C. S. A. ami was designed to pri mote the cause of humanity
and to advance the interests of the medical profession.
"On May 21. 1S61, il was enacted by the Congress of the
Confederate States of America 'Thai all prisoners of war
taken, whether on land or sea, during the pending hostilities
with the United Stat s should he transferred by the captors
from lime to time as often as convenient to the Department
of War; and 11 should he the dutj of tin- Secretary of War,
with the approval of the President, to is„tii such instructions
to the quartermaster general and his subordinates as shall
provide for th< safe custody and sustenance of prisoners of
war; and the rations furni ted | tiers of war shall he the
Same in quantity and quality as those furnished enlisted men
in the army of the Confederacy.'
"According to General Orders, No. 159, Adjutant and In-
ipectoi General's Office, 'Hospitals for prisoners of war are
placed on t lie same footing as other Confederate States' hos-
pitals in all respects and will lie managed accordingly.'
"The Federal prisoners wire removed to Southwestern Geor-
gia in the early pan of [864, not only to secure a place of con-
Bnement more remote from Richmond and other large towns.
from the operation: of the Unit d States forces, but also 'to
secure a more abundant and easy supply of food.'
"As fir as my experience extends, no person who had been
Rared on wheal br .id and who was held in captivity for any
length of time could retain his health and escape either scurvy
or diarrhea if confined to the 1 nuiedei.it, ration (issued to
the soldier in the field and hospital) of unbolted corn nnal and
bacon. The large armies of the Confederacy suffered more
than once from scurvy, and as the war progressed secondary
rhage and hospital gangrene became fearfully prevalent
from the deteriorated condition of the s\stnns of the troops
dependent on the prolonged use of salt meat. And hut for
the extra supple : from home and from the various
State benevolent institutions, scurvy .111,1 diarrhea and dysen
tcry would have hem still further prevalent
"A similar statement has been made by Dr. Austin Flint,
Jr.. in his recent work on the 'Physiology of Man '
"It was clearly demonstrated in my report that diarrhea.
dysentery, scurvy, and hospital gangrene were the diseases
which caused the mortalitj .il Andersonville. And it was still
further shown that this mortality was referable in no appreci-
1,1 either the character of the soil or waters or the
conditions of climate.
"The effects of salt meats and farinaceou: food without
vegetables were manifest in the great prevalence of -curvy.
The Scorbutic condition thus induced modified lli, COU1
every dis<ase. poisoned every wound, however slight, and lay
at the foundation of those obstinate ami exhaustive diarrheas
and dysenteries which swept off thousand- of ties unfortu-
nate men "
Gen. I D. [mboden, being for the time incapacitated for
active service, was in the autumn of 1864, on the recommenda-
tion of Gen. R. E. Lee, to whom he was 11, 1 -on. illy known,
directed to report for duly to General Winder, whose head-
quarters were then at Columbia, S. C.
Tn the "Southern Hist rical Papers," volume on the "Treat-
ment of Prisoners during the War." page 1S7 and following,
is the letter from Genet il [mboden, written in 1876, and from
which the following extracts are offered:
"I now proceed to give you a simple historical narrative oi
facts within my personal knowledge that I believe have never
been published, although at the request of Judge Robert Ould,
of this city, who was Confederate Commissioner for the Ex-
change of Prisoners. I wrote them in 1S00 and furnished the
MS. to a reporter of the New York Herald P.ut the state-
ment never appeared in that journal for the n igned
by the reporter that the conductors of the Herald deemed the
time inopportune for such publication, My MS. was retained
by them, and I have never heard of it since. . . .
"Colonel Bondurant's report on the Andersonville prison,
taken in connection with written applications from Captain
Wirz, which I had received, suggesting measures for the
amelioration of the condition of the prisoners, strongly in-
dorsed and approved by Colonel Gibbs, an old United Stales
army officer, a cultivated, urbane, and humane gentleman,
commanding the post, made it apparent to my mind that I
ought to make a personal examination into its condition. . . .
"At the lime of my inspection there was a good di
sickni ss among the prisoners, hut not a large percentage of
mortality. Our medical officers, even with their scanty phar-
macopoeia, gave equal attention to sick friends and enemies,
to guard and to prisoners alike. . . .
"Bad as was the physical condition of the prisoners, their
mental depression was worse and perhaps mote fatal [hou
sands of them collected around me in the prison and begged
me to tell them whether there was any hope of release by an
exchange of prisoners. Sometime before that President Davis
had permitted three of the Andersonville prisoners to go to
Washington to try to change the determination of their
government and procure a resumption of exchanges. The
prisoners knew of the failure of tin- mission when I w
Andersonville, and the effect was to plunge the great majority
of them into the deepest melancholy, homesickness, and de
spondency, They believed their confinement would continue
until the 1 ml of the war. and many of them looked upon that
as a period so indefinite and remote that thej believed that
they would de of ilien sufferings before the day of release
■'....
"I have already alluded to Captain Wirz's recommendation
to put up more shelter. I ordered it. and thereafter daily a
hundred or more prisoners were paroled and set to work in
the neighbo 1 In the course of a fortnight comforl
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file log houses with floors and good chimneys — for which ihe
prisoners made and burnt the brick — were erected for twelve
or fifteen hundred men, and >vere occupied by those in feeble
health who were withdrawn from the large stockade and
separated from the mass of prisoners. This same man (Cap-
tain Wirz), who was tried and hung as a murderer, warmly-
urged the establishment of a tannery and shoemaker's shop,
informing me that there were many men among the prisoners
skilled in these trades, and that some of them knew a process
of very rapidly converting hides into tolerably good leather.
There were thousands of hides at Andersonville from the
young cattle butchered during the previous summer and fall,
whilst the country yet contained such animals. . . .
"A few weeks later many of the barefooted prisoners were
supplied with rough but comfortable shoes. . . .
"Another suggestion came from the medical staff of the post
that I ordered to be at once put into practice : it was to brew
corn beer for those suffering from scorbutic taint. The corn
meal — or even whole corn — being scalded in hot water and
a mash made of it, a little yeast was added to promote fermen-
tation, and in a few days a sh;,rp, acid beverage was pro-
duced, by mi means unpalatable and very wholesome. Cap-
tain Wirz entered warmly into this enterprise. I mention
these facts to show that lie was not the monster he was after-
wards represented to be, when his blood was called for by in-
furiate fanaticism. I would have proved these facts if I had
been permitted to testify on his Irial after I was summoned
before the court by the- United State's, and have substantiated
them by the records of the prison and of my own headquarters.
. . . My personal acquaintance with Captain Wirz was very
slight, but the facts I have alluded to satisfied me that he was
a humane man and was selected as a victim to the bloody
Moloch of 1865. . . .
"The Federal government remaining deaf to all appeals for
exchange of prisoners, it was manifest that the- incarceration
of their captured soldiers could no longer be of any possible
advantage to us, since to relieve their sufferings that govern-
ment would take no step if it involved a similar release of
our men in their hands. Indeed, it was manifest that they
looked upon it as an advantage to them and an injury to us
to have their prisoners in our hands to eat our little remaining
substance. In view of all these facts and considerations.
Generals Cobb and Pillow and I were of one mind : that the
best thing that could be do"e was without further efforts to
get instructions from Richmond to make arrangements to
send off all the prisoners we had at Eufaula and Andersonville
to the nearest accessible Federal post, and, having paroled
them not to bear arms until regularly exchanged, to deliver
them unconditionally, simply taking a receipt on descriptive
rolls of the men thus turned over. . . .
"Finding that the prisoners could be sent from Anderson-
ville by rail to the Chattahoochee, thence down that river to
Florida, near Quincy, and from Quincy by rail to Jacksonville,
within a day's march of St. Augustine, it was resolved to open
communication with the Federal commander at the latter
place. With that view, somewhere about the middle of March
Captain Rutherford, an intelligent and energetic officer, was
sent to St. Augustine. A few days after his departure for
Florida he telegraphed from Jacksonville: 'Send on the1 prison-
ers.' He had, as he subsequently reported, arranged with the
Federal authorities to receive them. At once all were ordered
to be sent forward who were able to bear the journey. Three
days' cooked rations were prepared, and so beneficial to health
was the revival of the spirits of these men by the prospect of
once more being at liberty that I believe all but twelve or
fifteen reported themselves able to go and did go. The num-
ber sent was over six thousand. Only enough officers and
men of the guard went along to keep the prisoners together,
preserve order, and facilitate their transportation. To my
amazement the officer commanding the escort telegraphed
back from Jacksonville that the Federal commandant at St.
Augustine refused to receive and receipt for the prisoners till
he could hear from General Grant, who was then in front
of Petersburg, Va., and with whom he could communicate
only by sea along the coast, and asking my instructions under
the circumstances. . . .
"The real cause of all the protracted sufferings of prison-
ers, North and South, is directly due to the inhuman refusal
of the Federal government to exchange prisoners of war — a
policy that we see, from the facts herein stated, was carried
so far as to induce a commanding officer at St. Augustine to
refuse even to receive and acknowledge that he had received
over six thousand men of his own side, tendered to him un-
conditionally, from that prison in the South which above all
others they charged to have been the scene of unusual suf-
fering." . . .
Confirmatory of this are the following resolutions, adopted
at Savannah on September 23, 1864, by the prisoners who had
been sent from Andersonville, as elsewhere described. (See
"Historical Society Papers," volume on "Treatment of Prison-
ers during the War," pp. 184. 185.)
"Resolved. That, while allowing the Confederate govern-
ment all due praise for the attention paid to the prisoners.
numbers of our men are consigned to early graves, etc.
"Resolved, That ten thousand of our brave comrades have
descended into untimely graves, caused by difference in cli-
mate, food, etc. And whereas these difficulties still remain,
we would declare our firm belief that unless we are speedily
exchanged we have no other alternative but to share the same
lamentable fate of our comrades. . . . Must this thing still
go on? Is there no hope? . . .
"Resolved, . . . We have suffered patiently, and are still
willing to suffer if by so doing we can benefit the country ;
hut we most respectfully beg leave to say that we are not
willing to suffer to further the ends of any party or clique to
the detriment of our families and our country.
( Signed) P. Bradley,
Chairman of Committee in Behalf af Prisoners."
Whoso shall reject their declaration and insist, despite this
and all other competent evidence, that the lamented deaths
were the result of Confederate cruelty must be given over to
believe a calumny.
In September. 1864, the prisoners, except about five thou-
sand not able to hear transportation, were removed from
Andersonville, and it virtually ceased to be a post for the
reception of prisoners.
"Capt. Henry Wirz had the same control over the discipline
of the hospital that he had formerly held over the prison.
Surgeon R. R. Stevenson was placed in chief control of the
Medical Department, with some thirty assistant surgeons and
contract doctors. The process of renovating the post was
now pushed on with vigor and rapidity, considering the small
force and limited means at the command of Captain Wirz.
In a short time the whole premises were in a much-improved
condition, and the chances of the sick were growing more
hopeful. At one time it had been thought by the medical
officers of the post that nearly all the infected would die; but
by the use of vegetables in such quantities as could be pro-
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ill
cured and an acid beer made from corn meal and sorghum
molasses the death rate fell from about three thousand in
August to one hundred and sixty for the month of Decem-
ber. . . .
"The dead were buried about half a mile lo the northwest
of the prison. They were placid side by side in long trenches
and well covered up. Each grave was can fully marked by a
Stake bearing a number corresponding with that on the hos-
pital register, which gave the name, rank, regiment, company,
date of death, and disease of the patient. ... At one time
ihere were nearly eight thousand sick in the prison and hos-
pital, and the mortality was very great, notwithstanding all
possible e'fforts to check its ravages Hie greatest difficulty
was experienced in procuring medicines and antiscorbutics.
These were made contraband by order of the Ft iUt.iI govern
ment. . . . The guards en duty here wire similarly affected
with gangrene and scurvy. Captain W'ir? had gangrene in
an old wound which he had received in the battle of Manassas
in i86r. and was absent Erom the p four weeks on
m's certificate. |In his trial certain Federal witnesses
tn his killing certain prisonei iii August, 1864, when
he (Wirz) \\as actually absent on sick leave in Augusta, Ga.,
at the time.] General Winder had gangrene of the face, and
was forbidden by his surgeon. 1. II. White, to go inside the
stockade. . For a period of some three months (July.
August, and September, iS'op Captain Wirz and the few
faithful medical officers of the post were engaged night and
day in ministering to the wants of the sick and dying and
caring for th< d So arduous were their duties that many
of the medical officers were taken sick and had to abandon
-1 " ( Pages 25, 27, 28, 29, Stevenson.)
The New York Daily News of August g, [865, contained a
signed "M. S. II." which is reputed to have bci n written
by an officer of General Sheridan's staff. T have no personal
knowledge of the writer; but I think no one can read the
letter, to he found at page 138 and following of "The South-
ern Sid' ; ot. Andersonville Prison," by R. R. Stevenson,
without being Struck with the manhood of the narrator and
feeling a conviction that he is one to be relied on in any con-
flict between truth and popular clamor Want of space re
s me to brief extracts, lie writes:
"Having In en foi several months an inmate of the stock
ade at Andersonville, I propose herein t" consider, in the
first place, the causes of the excessive mortality there; and.
dly, how much of its frightful suffering is justly charge
able to Captain Wirz. . . . The mortality at Andersonvilh
resulted mainly from the following causes : (1) Want ol
(2) wain of shelter, (.0 want of medical attendance and Ilk
diet, 1 I 1 1 auses of a purely lord nature, coupled with
the moral degradation exhibited by tin- prisoners themselves
Ry the want oi propel 1 1 1 mean that the dietary scale was
neither of the kind nor quality to which most of the prison' 1
had b en accustomed. Still it was the ordinary diet of the
Confederate army, and they had nothing else to give us
Thousands .if the prisoners had never eaten bread mad' ol
corn meal or any preparation of ii whatever; and with thosi
Us use commonly resulted in diarrhea, which, aggravated by
the excessive use ,.f water, generally 111 a few days became
chrome Everj one kmnvs the difficulty "f treating this dis-
ease, even under the most favorable circumstances. At first
tin meal was issued uncooked and the prisoners allowed to
tockade under guard in squads to collect fuel.
This privilege was accorded with the understanding that an
escape would not be attempted In a short time, however.
Captain Wirz was compelled to withdraw the favor, for it
was eviduit that no reliance could be placed in the promises of
our men. . . . But the cooks were our own men, liberated
from the stockade for this special duty on parole and receiv-
ing therefor an extra ration and the liberty of the entire post,
besides other privileges. ... As for the quantity of food.
I know that until Generals Sherman and Kilpatrick destroyed
the railroad communications of the South the ration, as issued
by the post commissary, was nearly if not equal to that of
our guards. . . .
"Many of our men were taken in battle, then baggage gen-
erally at the rear. Others, too feeble or indolent to carry
their blankets or knapsacks, threw them away. . . . Whi It
asked how they lost their clothing, they almost invariably re
pie d : 'The Rebs stripped me.' All of these housTess and
naked nun were blistered by the sun and chilled by the dews
111' 1 ware the men who waited for the dead at the gates
and stripped every corpse to positive nudity whenever the im-
mediate friends or comrades of the deceased rejected the
loathsomt rags These are they whose portraitures have filled
our pictorials and upon whose testimony of suffering and
starvation the conviction of Captain Wirz will he sought, and
,\ I. 1 \ unlit -I i\ eiiess now in the hour of the triumph to which
they contributed little or nothing is equaled onlj bj their total
want of magnanimity, manhood, and self control while prison-
ers. . . The principal ailments were chronic diarrhea.
drop f, gangrene, and scurvj Of the first three, probably four-
fifths of the patients died. The treatment for scurvy was
■ iin uliat more successful, and would have been still more
so had not these same hospital attendants exhibited all the de-
moniacal cruelty which is now so eagerly attributed to Cap-
tain Wirz. . . . When the sick were brought out every
morning to till the pieces of those whose death had made
room for diem, a general scramble would ensue among the
nurses to secure those who would probabl} give the least trou
ble. Ver\ expert judges, too, were these nurses of the proba-
ble amount of plunder a patient would yield either before or
after death. . . . All that the physician could do was merely
an approximation to the proper treatment. The stringency
of the blockade (medicines and hospital supplies being con-
traband of wart was such that drugs were not proem a
ble . . .
"The local peculiarities of Andersonville were not of theni-
elvi of a character to indue.' au\ mortality, The
spot was selected mainly with a view to its salubrity, and
such is abundantly proved by the fact that very few of our
men who ware out on parole died. ... I have known our
men to volunteci to acci mpanj the hounds and bring back our
fugitives Should these men receive an honorable dischargi
and Captain Wirz be convicted and sentenced to an infamous
punishment? Is he to he In Id responsible for the deaths in
hospital when our men, deputed and paid t" nurse the sick,
tnon than neglected their duty: \nd because our own men,
-("fling at every prudential consideration of cleanliness, will-
fully neglected every precaution which would conduce to their
he dih. is he to be held up to the world as a murderer of
hitherto unknown magnitude! I trust not. In our national
heraldry I see an olwe branch for the conquered, not a hang-
man's noose. Believe me, sir. I have 1 personal interest or
object in making this statement or appeal I never spoke to
< laptain Wirz nor he to me."
Poor Wirz, upon whom was devolved the most laborious
and thankless task of preserving order among the crowded,
uncomfortable mass of prisoners al Vndersoaville without
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adequate force to preserve proper police or means to providi
for their health and comfort, became at last the victim of a
misdirected popular clamor. Arrested while under the pro-
tection of a parole, tried in time of peace by a military com-
mission of officers in a service to which he did not belong,
denied the favorable testimony of those who came and sub-
poenas for other witnesses of like character— without these
ordinary means, granted to the accused in all civilized coun-
tries, he died a martyr to conscientious adherence to truth.
A venerable and venerated priest. Father Wheelan, of Sa-
vannah, Ga.. visited me in prison, and there told me that,
hearing of the great mortality among the prisoners at Ander-
sonville. he went there to console the sick, to shrive the dying,
and to perform the offices for the dead. He said he was daily
in the stockade and in the hospital, and frequently met Captain
Wirz, whom he described as an irritable but kind-hearted
men, especially toward the sick. In regard to the food, he
said it was neither good nor abundant, but added that he drew
only the daily ration and subsisted upon it. In reference to
the report that Captain Wirz beat the prisoners, he said it
was certainly unjust, because his right shoulder had been
broken; and if he had the will, he had not the power to
strike.
When Captain Wirz was under trial, Father Wheelan went
to Washington as a witness. He said that upon his arrival
the prosecuting attorney asked him what he knew about the
case; and after he had told all his observations at the prison,
he was informed that he was not further wanted and could go
home. Col. Robert Ould was another of the cases where wit-
nesses for the defense were dismissed by the prosecution with-
out being allowed to testify. Colonel Ould wrote:
"I was named by poor Wirz as a witness in his behalf.
The summons was issued by Chipman. the judge-advocate
of the military court. I obeyed the summons, and 'was in at-
tendance upon the court for some ten days. The investiga-
tion had taken a wide range as to the conduct of the Con-
federate and Federal governments in the matter of the treat-
ment of prisoners, and I thought the time had come when I
could put before the world these humane offers of the Con-
federate authorities and the manner in which they had been
treated. I so expressed myself more than once — perhaps too
publicly. But it was a vain thought.
"Early in the morning of the day on which I expected to
give my testimony I received a note requiring me to surrender
my subpoena. I refused, as it was my protection in Washing-
ton. Without it the doors of the Old Capitol Prison might
have opened and closed upon me. I engaged, however, to
appear before the court, and I did so the same morning. I
still refused to surrender my subpoena, and thereupon the
judge-advocate indorsed upon it these words: 'The within
subpoena is hereby revoked; the person named is discharged
from further attendance.'" ("Southern Historical Papers,"
pp. 130, 131.)
Gen. R. H. Chilton, of the Confederate Adjutant General's
Department, on account of misrepresentations in regard to
Andersonville. on September 28, 1875, published a reply from
which I extract a paragraph and ask attention to the per-
sonal reference to Captain Wirz:
"Colonel Chandler's testimony that Mr. Davis was not aware
of the existence of his report is on the records (or should be)
of the Mrs. Surratt court-martial, which, by the by, sentenced
to death Captain Wirz, the only officer mentioned favorably
in that report as doing all that a subordinate could do to
improve the condition of the prisoners. Colonel Chandler in-
formed me that he was called before that court and asked
one question — viz.: If it was possible that so important a re-
port as his should not have ben brought to the notice of the
President? He replied that he had every reason to know that
it was not. No other question wras asked. That court was
evidently anxious to implicate Mr. Davis. Its failure to make
a case wh.n the feeling against him was at its greatest heat
should exonerate him from all such charges.
"I send with this a letter from Colonel Ould. recently re-
ceived, which, relating more generally to the subject of Fed-
eral prisoners, you are at liberty to publish.
"Respectfully yours, R. H. Chilton
Maj. R. B. Winder. M.D.. Dean of the Baltimore Dental
College, was a prisoner in the Capitol of Washington at the
time of Captain Wirz's confinement there. A statement of
his in regard to an event which occurred the evening before
the execution of Wirz has been widely published. I there-
fore make but a brief extract from it : "A night or two before
Wirz's execution early in the evening I saw several male in-
dividuals (looking like gentlemen) pass into Wirz's cell. I
was naturally on the qui vive to know the meaning of this
unusual visitation, and was hoping and expecting too that it
might be a reprieve, for even at that time I was not prepared
to believe that so foul a judicial murder would be perpetrated.
I think — indeed, I am quite certain — there were three of them.
Wirz came to his door, which was immediately opposite to
mine, and I gave him a look of inquiry, which was at once
understood. He said : 'These men have just offered me my
liberty if I will testify against Mr. Davis and criminate him
with the charges against the Andersonville prison. I told
them that I could not do this, as I neither knew Mr. Davis
personally, officially, nor socially; but if they expected with the
offer of my miserable life to purchase me to treason and
treachery to the South, they had undervalued me.' I asked
him if he knew who the parties were. He said, 'No,' and
that they had refused to tell him who they were, but assured
him that they had full power to do whatever they might prom-
ise."
We are informed by the brave and faithful counsel of Wirz,
Louis Schade, Esq., that "on the same evening some parties
came to the confessor of Wirz. Rev. Father Boyle, and also
to me, one of them informing me that a high Cabinet officer
wished to assure Wirz that if he would implicate Jefferson
Davis with the atrocities committed at Andersonville his
sentence would be commuted. He (the messenger or whoever
he was) requested me to inform Wirz of this. In the presence
of Father Boyle I told Wirz next morning what had hap-
pened. The Captain simply and quietly replied: 'Mr. Schade.
you know that I have always told you that I do not know
anything about Jefferson Davis. He had no connection with
me as to what was done at Andersonville. If I knew anything
of him, I would not become a traitor against him or anybody
else even to save my life.' He likewise denied that he had
made any statement whatever to General Baker. Thus ended
the attempt to suborn Captain Wirz against Jefferson Davis.
That alone shows what a man he was. How many of his de-
famers would have done the same? With his wounded arm
in a sling the poor paroled prisoner mounted two hours later
the scaffold. His last words were that he died innocent."
In answer to an inquiry addressed by me to the Rev.
Father Boyle, I received the letter of which the following is
a copy :
"Washington. D. C, October 10. 1880.
"Hon. Jefferson Davis, Dear Sir: Absence from the city and
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the desire sine: my return to obtain information on the subject
of your letter have delayed my answer. I have not succeeded
in the latter purpose. But I know that on the evening before
the day of ihc execution of Major Wirz a man visited me, on
the pari of a Cabinet officer, to inform me that Major Wirz
would be pardoned if he would implicate Jefferson Davis in
the cruelties ai Andersonville. No names were given by this
emissary, and upon my refusing to take any action in the
matter he went to Mr. Louis Schadf, counsel for Major Wirz.
with the same purpose and with a like result.
"When I visited Major Wirz the next morning, he told me
that the same proposal had hem made to him and had been
rejected with scorn. The Major was verj indignant, anil said
that, while he was innocent of the charges for which he was
about to suffer death, he would not purchase his liberty by
perjury and a crime such as was made the condition ol his
li'ia di mi.
"I attended the Major to the scaffold, and he died in the
peace of God and praying for his enemies. [ know that he
was indeed innocent of all the cruel charges on which his
life was sworn away, and I was edified by the Christian spirit
in which he submitted to his persecutors.
"Yours very truly, F E. Iln\ 1 1 ."
These witnesses were men of high character and intelligence,
of whom it could not lie pretended that they were in any man-
ner connected with the charges under consideration or other-
of doubtful credibility. Could as much he said in behalf
of the witnesses for the prosecution? Was a prisoner who
violated his parole and was captured a proper accuser of the
subaltern whose duty it was tn prevent his escape and. not
having a sufficient guard for that purpose, employed dogs to
the fugitive?
\ few words will suffice for the hloodhound horror. Since
ti I have been informed that there was not one blood-
hound at Andersonville pri-on: hut some d er or fox hounds
were kepi to follow prisoners who. when paroled for voluntary
e, broke faith and Red When 'rime shall have softened
. and prejudice, when Reason shall have stripped the
mask from misrepresentation, then Justice, holding evenly her
seal.-, will require much of past censure and praise to chang<
i
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Tribute of Gen I- T Ni< holls, or Louisiana, ro R, E. Lee.
In every relation of life he played his part well, meeting mis-
forlum with the same serene dignity that in earlier times he
lad accepted honors Mis virtue wen surpassed only bj his
valor, his greatness by Ins modesty, and so transc ndenl were
lis qualities of mind and heart that even before the dark
Clouds 'it wai had blown away the nation had begun to appreci-
Bt Robert E. Lee and to claim him as its own. Happj the
coun'ry that produces such a man ; happy th youth who have
in example of all a Christian and a gentleman should
1.
John Hagerly, jt7-> Connecticut Street. Buffalo, X. Y., writes:
"I am verj desirous of knowing the present whereabouts of
1 ' or relatives if living. He served in a Ken-
tUck) regiment (l2th or l8th) during the Civil War. 1 write
in behalf of in, sister, Mrs Johanna Rose Patrick McCarty,
another brother was South also. She lust heard from James
in iK/i- "Inn hi -.nd h was working, as was n 1 -. . Patrick,
on the street railwaj in New Orleans James McCatt) would
1 ",i seventy-five years old. was married, and had a girl
named Johanna."
FREATMEN1 OF COPPERHEADS IX ILLINOIS.
An interesting letter comes with a subscription to the
Veteran from Mr. Enoch James, of Ashland, 111,:
"February 23, 1007. will he my eighty-sixth birthday. My
health i- very good, and I do a good deal of work and enji y
walking to the farm and hack, three miles distant, each day.
My friend, Mr. Tuman, of this place, handed me a copy of
the Confederate Veteran. I have read it through, and am
well pleased. Its object seems lo he a true and impartial
history of the Ci\il War Have patience, and 1 will give you
some of my experience before and during ihe (nil War.
"When the honest abolitionists headed against the sin of
slavery. 1 did not fear; hut wlun the politicians hypocrites—
drove the South into rebellion, I was much grieved I thought
it would hi' the most desperate thing in history. Lincoln,
having been elected, called fi r s venty five thousand men for
hree months to put down the rebellion I In- was to he a
'breakfast job;' hut it took two to three million men fom years
and cost $0,500,000. besides the destruction of private property
that can't he estimated. During the progress of the war a
company was sent to this section occasionally to intimidate
the copperheads. 1 went to the village of Pleasant Plains for
my mail, wlun Mr. Cartwright approached a group of us and
asked that we read a paper that had been sent to him and
advise him what to do. Here is a true copy of the paper:
" 'February 17. 1864
"'I'. ( , Cartwright: Since my re'urn here with my com-
pany we have been invited frequently to partake of the hos-
pitalities of our friends, and we feel disposed t" divide the
trouble and eat with some of our antiwar friends: and, know-
ing that you are the most rabid copperhead in the neighbot
hood, we will here give you notice that we will on Saturday
evening, the joth inst., at six o'clock take supper with you
We give yii this tim ly notice s, , you can he prepared and
have plenty on hand. JOHN RMS'!.
( aptain Co. C, 64th Regt. ///. /'»/. Infantry.
"'.V. H. — You are also notified that you can't advocate
copperheadism in our presence, or it won't he healthy.'
"Hie foregoing is a true copy of the communication. I
wared a i^w moments for older ones to speak (Cartwright
had asked us what he had better do. 1 had nevei seen him
so angry 1. Finally I said. 'I would never give them their
-upper, 1 would ask mj friends to come and proteel me,'
and added. 'T will come and bring my gun.' The next daj
(Friday) Cartwright's father. Peter Cartwright, carried the
note to Springfield and gave it t" the provost marshal and
told him that Captain Raisy could get no supper unless he
could chew bullets Saturdaj evening 1 loaded my gnu with
buckshot and a bullet, put a -1- nr in my pocket, h
sides a long -Ida. led knife, and was one of the first tu arrive
at Cartwright's home Ihe family seemed very much worried.
and 1 asked what they were going to do; that if they in-
tended to give thai company supper they had no use for me.
Citizens began to come in from all directions some on too*,
others riding, and all armed, f/hej carri -1 their pistols and
had a pile of empty guns in a wagon. Soon the men went
to loading the urn- I read Captain Raisy'- letter t,, the
Crowd. One lug man hig in < very way -look the haul in
discussion as he rammed home a bullet and it - , app n I
titat all were determined We drilled "" Ihe lawn in the
moonlight*, hut no soldiers cone ["he provost marshal at
[field had -.in a note to Captain Raisy repudiating his
presumption and stating that he would he held responsible
1II3 fot til misconduct of his men."
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RECORD OF A CONFEDERATE AND A SENATOR.
Tributes Paid by Colleagues to Gen. W. B. Bate.
LEADING ADDRESS BY B.I". E. W. CARMACK.
[This address was delivered in the Senate of the United
States on Thursday, January 17, 1907, at the memorial serv-
ice on the life, character, and public services of Hon. William
B. Bate, late a Senator from the State of Tennessee.]
Mr. President: It is with a feeling of peculiar tenderness
and reverence that I approach the sad duty of this occasion. I
was born within a mile of General Bate's homestead, lived
among his friends and neighbors, listened with rapt attention
to stories of camp and conflict as they fell from the lips of the
heroic veterans who were his followers and comrades in battle,
and from my early boyhood was deeply imbued with the spirit
of personal devotion to him that prevailed among the people
of his native county. In later years circumstances brought us
much together, and I became his personal friend and supporter
m all his political contests. My personal knowledge of the
man revealed inborn qualities which strengthened my love for
him and held it to the last; and the affectionate relations that
have existed and do exist between our families are among the
most precious blessings of life.
Mr. President, if in youth one could be permitted to shape
the end of his life, he could not wish for it a happier termina-
tion than that which closed the mortal career of William B.
Bate. Full of years, full of fame, and full of honors, he closed
a life crowned with domestic peace and happiness, the esteem
and confidence of his people, and that conscientiousness of duty
faithfully done which more than all things else gives sweet-
ness to life and takes bitterness from death. By the sternest
code of honor be lived a life of rectitude. It is no exaggera-
tion to say that neither to the right nor to the left, under what-
ever temptation, throughout a long life, full of action, full of
excitement, full of strivings and honorable ambitions, did he
ever swerve by the breadth of a hair from the path of honor.
In addition to all this, and higher and better than all this, the
Christian's faith and hope were his; so that his peaceful death,
met with a calm and quiet resignation, was a fitting close to
such a life, a happy realization of the prophet's prayer : "Let
me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like
lii^!" He died as one who knew that the gates of death were
but the portals of immortal life.
William B. Bate was born in the old blue grass county of
Sumner, a county still famed for the sterling character of its
citizenship and the generous hospitality of its people. The
world cannot produce a nobler type of men and women than
may there be found. They are worthy of the ancestry from
whom they sprang. General Bate was the son of a Revolu-
tionary soldier, and came from the old pioneer stock who in
the early history of the State invaded this region with ax and
rifle to hew through the primeval forests a pathway for civili-
zation. They were men of heroic heart and simple faith. A
faith in God that knew no doubts or questionings gave them
the fortitude to dare the terrors of the wilderness. On the
fi>itl.rs of civilization, struggling with wild beasts and with
ut wiljcr men, they acquired the fundamental qualities that
go to lvake the manners and the character of a gentleman —
respect for one's self and for others. General Bate was born
near Old Bledsoe's Lake, and within sight of the old fort where
the early settlers found protection while yet the white man had
to make good his title to the land against his savage foe. Here
he spent the years of his boyhood until — a fatherless lad — he
determined to go forth alone to match himself against the
world. He went first to Nashville and secured a place as clerk
on a steamboat which plied between Nashville and New Or-
leans. The war with Mexico coming on, he enlisted in the
latter city, joining a company of Louisianians, and went to
Mexico. He served out his term of enlistment with the Louisi-
ana troops and then joined a company from his own State,
which had arrived upon the scene of hostilities, and was made
first lieutenant. In this capacity he served to the end of the
war.
After his return from Mexico, he soon entered upon the
study of law, graduating from the Cumberland Law School,
at Lebanon, Tenn. He did not have to wait for clients, but at
once achieved marked success in his profession, being elected
prosecuting attorney for the district including the city of Nash-
ville in the year 1854, just two years after he had been licensed
as a practicing attorney. In 1856 he married Miss Julia Peete
at Huntsville, Ala., the loving and faithful partner of his long
and checkered life, who still survives him. It so happens that
this day upon which we commemorate his life and services is
the anniversary of the day of their happy union.
General Bate early developed a taste for politics, and as a
member of the Legislature and presidential elector on the
Breckinridge-Lane ticket he began his political career, a career
which had already given promise of greatness when inter-
rupted by the outbreak of the war of secession.
Tennessee left the Union reluctantly and with sorrow. She
had voted down the first proposal to leave the Union by an
immense majority. But when the secession movement grew to
such strength that war became inevitable, and she had to de-
cide between the alternative of uniting her forces with or
against her sister States of the South, she chose to abide the
fortunes of the Southern Confederacy. Looking calmly back
from this peaceful time to that stormy period, I am proud that
she dared and suffered with the South.
The martial, the military instinct in General Bate was
strong, and his whole heart and soul was in the cause of the
South. Neither then nor afterwards, to his dying day, did he
ever question the justice of her cause or permit any man to do
so in his presence without stern and emphatic rebuke. That
cause had in him a friend who was faithful unto death and
beyond the grave.
He enlisted as a private in a company then forming at C .!•
latin, was made its captain, and later was elected colonel of
the regiment. In his eagerness to give his services on the field
he promptly took his regiment to Virginia and commanded it
in the battle of Bull Run. As its term of enlistment was about
to expire, so thoroughly had the rank and file become imbued
with the spirit of their commander, when the proposal was
made to them to enlist for the war the entire regiment stepped
forward as one man. There was not one laggard in this regi-
ment of Sumner County heroes.
There was another conspicuous illustration of the spirit that
prevailed in this regiment. Because of the promptitude with
which they had gone to the front, Colonel Bate had been per-
mitted to select the army in which his regiment should serve,
and he naturally selected the Army of Tennessee. Upon the
transfer being made, all the members of the regiment were
given a sixty days' furlough. Before this furlough had ex-
pired Albert Sidney Johnston made the movement which
brought on the battle of Shiloh, and at the call of their colonel
the members of this regiment voluntarily abandoned the ease
and comfort of home, tore up their unexpired furloughs, and
hastened to report for duty. For many of them it meant death
or mutilating wounds, for this regiment was early in the battle
and in the "focal and foremost fire." In a desperate charge
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Colonel Bate rode in ihe very front of his regiment and
cheered them toward the foe. While doing so he received a
wound which shattered his leg, but lie continued to lead his
regiment onward until faintness from loss of blood caused tin-
bridle reins to drop from his hands and until his horse was
shot from under him. In that battle his brother and brothei
in-law and a cousin were killed and another cousin severelj
wounded — five members of one family in one regiment welter-
ing m their blood upon one battlefield.
Colonel Bate lay for a long time in peril of death from his
terrible wound. His surgeons decided that amputation was
neo ary, but it was cli: rccteristic of the man that he over-
ruled the opinion of the surgeons and decided to take the
chance <>f recovery without the loss of his limb. His decision
meant that he would take all the chances of death rather than
become unserviceable to his country in its hour of peril, lie
slowly recovered fuom his wound, and was indeed badly crip-
pl.d throughout the war. lie returned to his command on
crutches as a brigadier general.
lie was 50 badly crippled that it was not believed that he
would again In fit for duty in the field, and a movement sprang
up tn make him Governor of tlie State t" succeed Isham G.
Harris, whose term was soon to expire There is no doubt
whatever that be could have been elected; but he promptly
declared that he Wl aid accept no civil office, but would share
all the perils of battle with his comrades unto the bitter end
He was afterwards twice wounded while Ml so badly crippled
from his former wound that be had lo be lifted to bis horse
is In rode at the head of his command. He had three horses
killed under him at Chickamauga, and everywhere and under
all circumstances he exhibited thai same spirit that won the
name bestowed upon him in in.' official report of ins division
commander, General Slew-art, at Chickamauga — "The indomi-
table." I shall not dwell upon the details of Ins military career
1 need not do so; there arc volumes of eulogy in the simple
statement that he entered the army as a private soldier and
left it as a major general. From the hopeful beginning to the
end of the sad but glorious chapter, when he surrendered the
■!. famished, battle torn, heroic remnant of his command,
it was the same story of a devotion that knew no weakness
and a valor that knew no fear Upon his tombstone, and upon
that of every Tennesseean who followed him. may be written
without flattery tin- characterization of Bayard: "A knight
without fear and without reproach "
When the war was over, be returned to the practice of law,
removing to the capital citj of Nashville, and soon commanded
an immense practice He was especially successful in jury
trials, and ;yi (he time when he became Governor, in 1882. his
firm probably had tin largest practice in the State.
lb- was elected Governor at a time when the refunding of
lht St.ilr deb) followed as a result of the settlement which was
an issue in this campaign An incident in connection with ibis
shows the extreme punctiliousness of his sense of duty, The
law required that tin- new bonds issued should be signt d In the
rnor Whin it was propOS d lo prepare a Stamp by which
'In- facsimile of ins signature might he placed upon ihe bonds.
In- insisted upon an exact compliance with tin- letter of tin- law
•"id of undergoing the immense physical labor and writing the
signature upon each with his own hand In all his careei
this same nice and self-exacting stum of duty governed bis
public and his priva'e conduct
Aftei In- second term .1 Gi ■> rnor came bis election to the
It was .-, battle of the Titans in which be thru pre
vailed Intellectual giants like ex-Governor Marks and ex
Congressman John F. House contended with him m friendly
and chivalrous rivalry, and yielded him the palm without bit
terness as to a victor worthy of their steel.
In politics he lived and died a Democrat — not simply in tin
sense that he supported the nominees of his party, but because
he was a thorough believer in its great fundamental prim
lake the late Isham G. Harris, he clung with tenacity to his
party's earliest creed, and felt a sense of resentment for ever)
deviation from the Jeffersonian principle of a strict consiim
tion of the Constitution.
In bis service here he was faithful, industrious, diligei
close student of the business of the Senate, having a clear tin
derstanding of the questions of the day; and when In- cho
do so, he presented his views with great ability, learning, and
power. A speech mi tin- tariff question in the early yeat - I
Ins service showed him to be a profound student of national
taxation, and his speech upon what, in our part of the country,
was usually denominated the "force bill" was liberally qt
from one end of the laud to the other.
But above all other qualities, be bore among his associati
here a reputation for honor anil integrity that was without a
stain. No suspicion of an unworthy motive was ever imputed
to any act of his. No man here or elsewhere ever felt one 1110
incut's doubt as to the- absolute rectitude of his intention-
It is a fact significant of the happy passing of old jsmus. of
old passions and prejudices, 1l1.1t among the most devoted
friends he had in this chamber were those who wore the- blue
when he wore the gray, who fought under the stars ami
Stripes when he fought under the- star- and bars, with whom
he contended for life ami death in the awful shock of battle
There are no truer friends than those who have been honor
able foes, and the handclasp that is made abovt the gravi ol
kindred dead is never broken 1 veil as In- loved and honored
those who fought by bis side, he loved and honored those who
Will 1AM BK1MAGE BATE.
M;ij.>r General <-'. S. A . Senator I . s. A.
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confronted them. And while old associations, the memory of
common sorrows and of common sufferings, bound him as
with hooks of steel to his comrades in arms, the story of that
great war was to him a lesson of American prowess an 1 Amer-
ican valor, which, united under a common flag, could with-
stand the world in arms.
His intense devotion to the memory of the cause for which
he had fought and of the comrades who had died for that
cause might seem to the superficial inconsistent with heartfelt
devotion to the Union; but you in this chamber who fought
on the other side — none of you ever questioned for one moment
the loyalty to the Union of this battle-scarred old hero of the
Confederacy. You loved and honored him for his very fidelity
to those hallowed memories and hallowed graves. You who,
like him, but on the opposing side, have passed through the
furnace of war know that he who can lightly forget what was
once the cause of his country, the cause for which its women
prayed and for wdiich its sons had died, could not be loyal
to any country or faithful to any flag. You know that he
brought to the service of the whole country as faithful a de-
votion to duty as when fighting for the cause of the Confeder-
acy on the red edge of the battle. The Confederacy had no
braver knight than William B. Bate wh.n war was flagrant in
the land; the Union has had no truer friend since the war
clouds were lifted and the waiting sunlight came down to
bless the land which is the common hope, as it is the common
heritage, of us all. His love for the Confederacy was but the
faithfulness of memory to the noble dead — that lingering with
uncovered head by the tomb of old comrades and fallen hopes
which purifies and exalts the soul.
Mr. President, it is true that "peace hath her victories no
less renowned than war." William B. Bate was one of those
who came back from the war, surveyed the scene of red ruin
and blank desolation that overspread his country, and then with
hearts resolute and undismayed faced the awful problems of
that awful time. All the heroism displayed through four blaz-
ing years of war pales into insignificance by the side of that
story of pati:nce, constancy, and fortitude which enabled a
weaponless and uncaptained army of disfranchised citizens to
win victory even from defeat.
In private life General Bate was simple, plain, devoid of
artifice or ostentation. Unusually bless. d in his domestic rela-
tions, he found his happiest hours around the family hearth-
stone and in the company of congenial friends; but in all the
walks of life the same high courage and noble qualities which
won him honor and fame in field, in forum, and in Senate were
his. And wh n he came to meet the inevitable hour, these
qualities rose supreme, and he blenched not when he stood
face to face with the king of terrors. Over him the grave
could win no victory, and for him death had no sting. As in
the ardor of his youthful prime he had faced death without
a tremor, with all the courage of a soldier, so at the last he
met death with all the fortitude of a Christian. At peace with
his fellow-man, with his conscience, and his God, "he gave his
honors to the world again, his blessed part to heaven, and slept
in peace."
Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, was the next speaker
at the memorial service. He said: "William Brimage Bate
was a soldier of his country before he became a man. He
had just entered his fourth term of service in this body when
he departed from us. Throughout his long and useful life
he was an earnest and hoivst soldier of the common good.
At the close of his service he left behind him a clean, white
record, which bears witness that through his life's ceaseless
struggle he was always 'present for duty.' and that as God
give him to see that duty so he did it, whatever might befall.
He had pass.d considerably beyond the period of threescore
years and ten before he died — indeed, he was in his eightieth
year — but his strength had remained equal to his tasks ; and
it is consoling to reflect that it was not in the valley of help-
lessness that he left us nor by the process of slow decay.
No matter when death comes, so mighty is the change it
is startling and sudden. No malter what the premonitions
may be, and no matter howsoever we steel our hearts to meet
the inevitable, the blow that shivers the life of one beloved
and honored must lacerate the sensibilities and pall upon the
affections. Although the shadow upon the dial marked the
evening of his days, Senator Bate was here and took the oath
of office for a new term on the 4th of March, 1905. I had
stood by his side when he entered the Senate in 1887, and
again was with him when he was sworn in the last time.
Together we joined in the line of Senators that proceeded
from this hall to witness the inauguration of President Roose-
velt from the east front of the Capitol. As we passed out of
the chamber I said to him, 'General, I have seen you sworn
into the Senate for four times, and I hope that you may long
live and that I may have the pleasure of seeing you sworn
in again;' but it was not so written. As we reached the
throng pressing forward through the halls of the Capi'ol
we became detached from each other, and I never saw him
more."
Senator William A. Clark, of Montana, said: "I recall the
sad incident wh:n, at my own home at a formal dinner party
at which he was to have been the guest of honor, while wait-
ing for his arrival, the first tidings of his serious illness came
unexpectedly to all present and cast a gloom upon the fes-
tivities of the occasion. . . . He was so unostentatious that
it required an intimate knowledge of the man to know and
appreciate his noble impulses and sterling qualities. To him
anything suggestive of insincerity, duplicity, or mendaci'y
was abominable. Purity of thought and speech was charac-
teristic of his daily intercourse with his fellow-men. He led
the life of a Christian, in all respects correct and consistent,
and in his social life he was most genial, companionable, and
hospitable. He was never so happy as when surrounded by
his family and intimate friends; he and his charming wife,
whom all who know her respect and love, dispensed' so royally
the well-known hospitality of their home."
Senator G.orge C. Perkins, of California, said: "Senator
Bate came from that part of our country where loyalty and
personal honor are deservedly emphasized as the two highest
virtues of man, public or private. Whatever vi;ws he might
hold, whatever cause he might espouse, it was recognized that
his position was taken as the result of impartial consideration
and unselfish thought ; and, though others might not at all
times agree with him, no one could raise a question as to his
honesty, his conscientiousness, or his integrity of purpose.
His entire career is evidence of the simplicity and truth of
his noble character. In two wars he exposed his life from
the sense of highest du'y to his people, and his many wounds
received on the battlefield proved his energy and unshrinking
courage in following the path to which that duty pointed.
. . . As Chairman of the great Committee on Military Af-
fairs he evinced a breadth of view and a grasp of detail that
showed him to be one of the most efficient of legislators. And
on other important committees of which he was a member
his influence was felt as a force."
In concluding an admirable address, Senator Samuel D.
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McEnery, of Louisiana, said: "His character was a grand
one in its integrity, its honesty, and its purity. He had a
lofty disdain fur all that was low and mean. There was no
^hallow nf fanaticism to cloud his character or to disturb hi*
judgment. He was in public and in private life a person of
the purest morals, and his indignation was aroused by profit
gacy or groveling baseness, lli- nature was kind and affec-
tionate and. true, and there was never a mure stead) or sin
cei i r frit ml."
Senator John C. Spooner, of Wisconsin, said: "But, Mr
l'v sident, with all hi- strength of comradeship and of a
timis, with his firmness nf conviction, apologizing fur noth-
ing rep nting of nothing, when he, standing at that desk.
the oath of a Senator, no man who ever has taken it
and no man who ever will take it can take it with a stronger,
holier purpose to serve in every way to his ut ermosl th
government of the United States than did he. lie was nt
terlv indifferent in Ins own comfort, sometim s indifferent to
his ,,\vn health ami safety, in the discharge nf duties relatively
trilling as a Senator, li cause tiny were duties, ainl he re-
garded no duty as (rifling. . . . Mr. President, he stood
for tl'.e rights nl the States; he stood for the rights nf the
national government, lie stood for larger powers in the
national government that he would have dune thirty years
I now stand Stronger for the rights of the Slates than
I would have done thirtj years ago He knew that the na-
tional gnvemnr.nt was created by the States; that every
power which it possesses was surrendered by the States;
thai it possesses none except those which expressly 01 b)
implication were surrendered by the Stat< . and thai all the
powers which the States did nol surrender the States with-
held and still pnssess. Mr President, this may he said of
htm: that when he breathed his last — and happily he w is
spar tl a lingering illness- there followed him In his home
in Tennessee the resp cl and affectionate regard nf every
member of the Senate and the r spect which all thoughtful
people everywhere cherish for an honest, sincere manly man
wlin had discharged in tin full his duty in every relation nf
life."
Senator James li Frazier, who was chosen by the Legisla-
tun of Tennessee in session at the time in succeed General
nail the concluding address fur the Senate lie said:
"In every walk nf life, from musket bearer to division com-
der, from steamboat clerk in Governor's chair and Sena-
tor's scat, his fidelity in everj trust was stern, unyielding.
n. from the path nf duty as he saw i'. from fidelity
to those who trusted him, no threat or danger could drivt
him. no temptation could allure him. lie stood always firm
and uncompromising for the right, as his faith and his coil
- pointed the way. . . . My father's friend. I can
not remember the tune when 1 did not know S nator Bate
I was taught In honor and respect him; his friendship and
lie love him. 1 s,, tight his counsel. 1 was
guided bj his wisdom. Ills last official act was in dictal and
sign a letter in me mi the daj before his death li was the
last time he ever signed In- name, and 5 1 firmly was his hand
In Id ill the grip nf d atli that the name is scarcely legible.
It related tn tin disposition nf the Confederate flags, ordered
returned to the States bj a resolution of Congress, about
which, as Gi I had asked his advic: the "hi. tattered
-. onlj repres nting a losl cause, .1 sentiment, if you
pi ase; hut to him. even in his hour of dissolution, it was
tin t ross nf St Vndrew, under whose >i;imln- folds he had
charged to victor) and It 1 gli ay,"
The House nf Representatives took much part in the me-
morial service. 'I he leading address in the House was by
linn. John W. (laines. nf the Hermitage District.
HERITAGE TO SONS of VETERANS.
'Ilie John A. Broadus Camp, United Sons of Confederate
Veterans, in Louisville, were fortunate in having for their
orator mi the occasion of the celebration nf the one hundredth
anniversary nf General Lee's birth Hon. W T. Ellis, of
Owensboro. Whether leading his company in battle or advo
eating the cans.' nf the Southern people in Congress, Captain
Ellis has ever been an honor tn his State and section.
Introductory to his response in the loast, "Gen. Robert E.
Lee," Captain Ellis said:
"Mr. Toostmoster, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and Gen-
tlemen: Whoever is asked tn address the Sons of Confeder
aie Veterans ought nut to overlook the fact that he has been
personally complimented ami trial lie is tn speak tn a se] ct
audience Who are these Sons nf Confederate Veterans? 1
answer: Tiny are the sons of men whose record in war and
whose adherence to law and order in tunes of peace entitle
them to a place in the first rank among those who have added
renown to American arms and honor in American citizenship.
"It is true your fathers fought ill d< fense 1 f a cause that
did nn| succeed; hut tiny did not tight in vain, 'liny strug-
gled to establish a principle which they believed tin Consti
tution of the United States recogni ed, ami during the four
stormy years that they followed the shifting fortunes of that
cause tiny not only proved their loyalty and devotion tn n.
hut by their splendid valor and unquestioned courage they
hook a continent by their heroic endeavors and filled the
world with the glorj of their achievements
"On tlie record Confederate soldiers made. I insist that
every young man who can exhibit an authentic certificate
showing that his father was a 'good Confederal soldier' ex
hibits a title in fe ■ simple in an estate more valuable than all
the stocks ami bonds that corporate wealth ami commercial
greed can under any conditions acquire."
Captain Ellis began his worth) tribute as follows: Ami
ask me to respond to the toast, 'Robert E. Lee.' This
is at once an easy yet a difficult task, for no words here
spoken, no matter how eloquent, and no eulogy here pro-
nounced can add anything t" the imperishable record of that
great military genius who. by his loyalty to the cause of the
(ll.l South and his unsurpassed military skill, not only wroe
his own name and fame 1ml that of the Arm) nf Northern
Virginia, which lie commanded, on the front pages nf the
nation's history."
[nquirj from a correspondent for some historj nf '.en
Robert C ("yler, win. was killed mar Wist Point, Ga., April
to. iS'o.s. induces the requesl for the address nf an) relatives
1 1 in niK i.i In- who lie; In he ahle in give something of his
personal historj as will as an aCCOUIll of his part in the nota-
ble engagement which cost hi1- life. A most interesting ac-
count of the battle and the death nf General Tyler appeared
in the Veteran i 1896), Volume l\ . pages 381-382.
In W, M Polk, sun nf the beloved Bishop-Gen ral Polk,
killed at I. nst Mountain, writes from New York: "Inclosed
I iid my check toward the monument the ladies of Georgia
propose i" 11 eei (0 Captain Wirz." The amount is $_\;.
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SURVIVING CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
BY TELAMON CUYLER (6l EAST 72D STREET), NEW YORK CITY.
I inclose you what I believe to be a correct roster of the
•urviving general officers of the Confederate States armies.
I published a rough list in August, 1905, and circulated it
widely and subjected it to frequent revision with this result.
To print this roster in the Veteran will be of great interest
to all Confederates — my father*s old comrades — for whom I
cherish a patriotic regard. The post office address follows
each name when possible, and also the State to which they
« ere accredited in their commissions and the date of such
commission. It will be seen that none are now living of the
eight generals, three of the nineteen lieutenant generals, nine
of the eighty-one major generals, and fifty-two of the three
hundred and sixty-five brigadier generals. So that in the total
of the four hundred and seventy-three commissioned of all
ranks sixty-four are now living.
I am now engaged in a correspondence which, it is hoped,
will bring me such generous response of pictures, war time pa-
pers, maps, copies of inscriptions on tombs and statues, reminis-
cences of veterans, correct information as to ancestry, early
lives, war services, death in battle, decease during or since
the war, of all our four hundred and seventy-three Confeder-
ate generals, as will enable me to compile a satisfactory bi-
ography of each of our heroic leaders.
1 undertake this work with no desire for pecuniary gain,
but give my time and labor that a correct narrative of their
heroic services may be transmitted to posterity. I seek infor-
mation from the thousands of veterans who followed thes?
generals, from those members of their staff who yet live, and
from their families and relatives. These can tell best the
stories which I will edit and publish. Therefore I appeal to
till Southerners to furnish me with all kinds of information,
that I may succeed in producing, and at an early date, a book
that will embody in its pages a correct biography of each and
every one of our generals. I ask that the Southern press give
this request the widest publicity, that the good results desired
may be speedily secured.
To each Camp of the United Confederate Veterans I ad-
dress an especial appeal. Bring this to the attention of all
your members ! Secure from them their written reminiscences
of any of our generals under whom they served; of those
generals who were killed on the field of battle. I desire nar-
ratives of their last moments, advices as to disposition of their
remains, etc. Descriptions of their personal app.arance — height,
color of hair, beard, eyes, and complexion — are desired, to-
gether with details of highest rank, and above all an authentic
war time likeness (in uniform, if possible). It is very neccs-
-ary to have a complete history of their war services: date,
place, rank and command in which they went out, battles and
rights engaged in, and all promotions in proper order. If
captured, date and place, and where and how long imprisoned.
Comrades sharing their imprisonment can add much informa-
tion to this book if they will write of those days.
Three Lieutenant Generals.
(The date of appointment is given with each.)
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Ky. ; Sept., '64. Munfordville, Ky.
Stephen D. Lee, S. C. ; June, '64. Columbus, Miss.
Alexander P. Stewart. Tenn. ; June, '64. Chattanooga, Tenn.
Nine Major Generals.
M. C. Butler, S. C. ; Sept, '64. Woodlawn, S. C.
Samuel G. French, Miss.; Aug, '62. Freehold, N. J.
Robert F. Hoke, N. C. ; April, '64. Raleigh. N. C.
E. M. Law. Ala. ; April, '65. Bartow, Fla.
George Washington Cttstis Lee, Va. Burke, Va.
Lunsford L. Lomax, Va. ; Aug, '64. Gettysburg, Pa.
William T. Martin, Miss.; Nov, '63. Natchez. Miss.
De Camille J. Polignac, France ; April, '64. Orleans. France.
Thomas L. Rosser, Tex. ; Nov, '64. Charlottesville, Va.
Fifty-Two Brigadier Generals.
E. P. Alexander, Ga. ; Feb., '"4. "The Dunes." Soti'h Is-
land (Georgetown County, S. C).
Frank C. Armstrong, Tenn.; Jan, '63. Philadelphia, Pa.
Arthur P. Bagby, Tex. ; March, '64.
William R. Boggs, Ga. ; Nov, '62. Winston-Salem, N. C.
Pinckney D. Bowles, Ala. ; April, '65. Tampa, Fla.
William L. Cabell. Va. ; June, '63. Dallas, Tex.
Ellison Capers, S. C. ; Nov, '64. Columbia, S. C.
Francis M. Cockrell, Mo.; July, '63. Washington, D. C.
George B. Cosby, Ky. ; Jan, '63. Sacramento, Cal.
John Z. Cox, Tenn. ; '65.
William R. Cox, N. C. ; May, '64. Raleigh, N. C.
Alfred dimming, Ga. ; Oct, '62. Augusta, Ga.
Basil W. Duke, Ky. ; Sept., '64. Louisville, Ky.
Clement A. Evans, Ga. ; May, '64. Atlanta, Ga.
John W. Frazer, Miss. ; '65. Clifton Springs, N. Y.
Richard M. Gano, Tex. ; April, '6s. Dallas, Tex.
George W. Gordon, Tenn. ; Aug, '64. Memphis, Tenn.
Daniel C. Govan, Ark. ; Dec, '63. Memphis. Tenn.
George P. Harrison, Ga. : Feb, '65. Opelika, Ala.
Eppa Hunton, Va. ; Aug, '63. Richmond, Va.
Alfred Iverson, Ga. ; Nov, '62. Kissimmee, Fla.
Adam R. Johnson, Tex.; Aug, '64. Burnet, Tex.
George D. Johnston, Ala. ; July, '64. Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Robert D. Johnston, N. C. ; Sept, '63. Montgomery, Ala.
Wilburn H. King, Ga. ; July, '64. Sulphur Springs, Tex.
William H. Kirkland, N. C. ; Aug, '63.
James H. Lane, N. C. ; Nov, '62. Auburn, Ala.
Waller P. Lane, Tex. Marshall, Tex.
Thomas M. Logan, S. C. ; Feb, '65. New York, N. V.
Robert Lowry, Miss.; Feb, '65. Jackson, Miss.
Hylan B. Lyon. Ky. ; June. '64. Eddyville, Ky.
John V. McCausland, Va. ; May, '64. Point Pleasant. Va.
William M. McComb, Tenn. Gordonsville, Va.
Thomas H. McCray, Ark. ; '65.
James A. McMurry, Tenn.
William R. Miles, Miss.; '64. Miles, Miss.
John C. Moore, Tex. ; May, '62. Osage, Tex.
John T. Morgan, Ala. ; Nov, '63. Washington, D. C.
Thomas T. Munford, Va. ; Nov, '64. Lynchburg, Va.
Francis T. Nicholls, La.; Oct, '62. Baton Rouge, La.
Lawrence S. Parker, N. C. ; '63.
Edmund W. Pctttts, Ala. ; Sept, '63. Washington, D. C.
Roger A. Pryor, Va. ; April, '62. New York, N. Y.
William P. Roberts, N. C. ; Feb, '65.
Felix H. Robertson, Tex.; Nov, '64. Waco, Tex.
Jacob H. Sharp, Miss.; July, '64. Columbus. Miss.
Charles H. Shelley, Ala. ; Sept, '64. Columbus, Miss.
Thomas B. Smith, Tenn.; July, '64. Nashville, Tenn.
James C. Tappan, Ark. ; Nov, '62. Helena, Ark.
Allen Thomas, La. ; Feb, '64. New York, N. Y.
Henry H. Walker, Va. ; July, '63. New York, N. Y.
Marcus J. Wright, Tenn. ; Dec, '62. Washington, D. C.
According to the roster prepared by Gen. Marcus J. Wright
in September, 1904, there were four hundred and thirty-seven
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general officers commissioned by the Confederacy. The late
Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., Georgia's distinguished historian,
placed the number at four hundred and seventy-four, by re-
spective ranks — viz., eight generals, nineteen lieutenant gen
erals, eighty-one major generals, and three hundred and sixty
six brigadier generals in the regular military service of the
Confederacy, Junes compiled his mster during the earlj sevi 11
ties, and was distinguished for his accuracy in such work
Of this number, General Wright asserts that sixty-five were
killed in battle and eleven died of their wounds. Thus evi ntj
six lost their lives during the war, and two hundred and
seventy-three have died since the close of the war. Then Eon
eighty seven were living in 1904. I have examined this list of
die living, and find that it is very nearly correct. In addition
to those named in my rosin (rei ised Up to this time), I find
the following names of brigadier generals :
Cullen A. Battle, Ala.: Aug., '63 Troy, Ala
Charles C. Crews, (la.; '05
Junius Daniel, N. C. ; Sept.. '62.
Jesse J. T. Finley, Ida.; Nov., '63. Quincy, Fla.
James E. Harrison, Tex.; Dec, '64.
Edward G. Lee, Va.; Sept., '64.
Dandriclge McRea, Ark.; Nov., '62.
Patrick Theodore Moore, Va.; Sept., '64.
Hugh \V. Mercer, <ia.; Oct.. '61.
Young M. Mooddey, Ala.; March. '05
William K. Peck, La.; Feb., '65.
Nicholas B. Pearce, Ark.
Jerome B. Robertson, Tex.; Nov., '62
James P. Simms. Ga.; Nov., '64.
Peter B. Starke, Miss ; Nov., '64,
Richard Waterhouse, Tex.; March. '65.
Frank IV ( iordon, M 1
Julius A. ile Lagnel, Va. ; Nov., 62. Alexandria, Va.
I. M. I.i wis, Mo.
II P. M.d, rv, Tex.; March, '62
The two last named I cannot find m any of my list- of Con
tte generals. Perhaps they were officers of the militia
in their States. Can any reader inform me? Gr at care
should be exercised to distinguish between C. S. A. and the
State troops.
1 desire to print a correct list of the generals, in order that
may be placed in leading public libraries as well as dis-
tributed in the South. It is therefore requested that any and
all pnssii,|(. additions and corrections be sent t<> my address
The foregoing is complimentary by the Veteran to Mr
Cuyler. Lit every friend help to gel the record correct in
the Veteran as well a- in responding to Mr Cuyler.
ording to the advance sheets of the forthcoming bonk by
Mr. Telamon Cuyler, the Georgia historian of biographies of
thi Confederal rals, there were commissioned during the
war eight generals, nineteen lieutenant gen rals, eighty-one
major general . and three hundred and sixty live brigadier
generals, making a total of four hundred and s venty-threc.
There are now living only sixt) four of this rapidly diminish-
ompany — namely, three lieutenant generals, nine majoi
generals, and fifty-two brigadier gen.
Accredited to Virginia and H hi each; North
na, Georgia, and Texas, seven each; Alabama and Mis
'1 ; Kentucky and South I irolina, four each
Arkansas, three; Louisiana, two; Missouri and brane . on,
each. There is no surviving general accredited to Florida
OUR WOMEN AND SAM DAVIS.
[An address by Ben Childers, Esq., of Pulaski, introducing
Miss Sallie Ballentine to the many thousands present at the
reunion in that city October 11. 1906:]
Veterans, Daughters, Sims. Ladies and Gentlemen: A duty
has been asigned me which is an honor; for to be com
manded by the noble band of women who constitute the
Daughters of the Confederacy — your daughters, old veterans —
is honor indeed. The women of the South were its pride
and glory in the days of ante-bellum aristoi rai )
In the four years of conflict, while you gentlemen were
passing through "the battles and sieges" — fortunes of war —
the "most disastrous chances." the "moving accidents by flood
ami field" — while you were giving the world the spectacle of
the most magnificent army it had ever seen, an army that
could win battles barefooted and liungn as much of hero
ism and valor as you displayed upon the field of battle, the
women at home, if such a thing were possible, showed a
higher type of courage and a more consecrated devotion to
the cause of the South than you yourselves did.
And since that conflict ended, with self-abnegation that is
beautiful, these wives and daughters have devoted themselves
to the perpetuation of the memorj of your heroism.
\nd the women of this Chapter of Daughters, in the erec-
tion of this beautiful memorial, have chosen for perpetuation
in granite and marble the greatest act of personal heroism 111
all history. They have reflected their own ideals of manhood
They have shown us the kind of bravery and fortitude South
ern women delight to honor
All honor to these noble women for their long and per-
istenl efforts that have resulted in such brilliant sue.--'
Against discouragements that would have balked and defeated
men, they have labored with persistence, until the funds neces
sary for this magnificent monument were raised They all
deserve our deepest gratitude. We adore them for what the)
are; we adore them for what they have done
And now I have the honor to present to you a member of
that organization whose personal and intellectual qualities
have made her known beyond the confines of our State, a
typical Southern woman, with all that is best and noblest that
the name implies, who will extend to you a Southern welcome
T have the honor to introduce Miss Sallie Ballentine, who
organized the Chapter that erected tin- m inument
By accident the foregoing was omitted from the report of
the monument dedication as published in the Decembei \i
1 !•■ \x, and it is too -j 1 lo lie 1 >st
The statement is made with gratitude that -tips are S0011
to be taken to creel the Sam Davis monument in Nashville
Confederate Flai 01 Maryland.— At a meting of the
Maryland Line Confederate Veterans, in which all of the ten
Camps wire well represented, the question of removing the
Maryland Confederate flags to a place of safely iii Annapolis
was introduced by Col. Oswald Tilghman. An animated dis
CUSSion followed; but tin i of opinion, it is said, was
that t1 - hould be preserved by the St:ii' \ committee
to look after the matter was appointed. It consists of Colonel
Tilghman, Lieut. Col. William L. Kitier, Privat - E. S. Judge
and J F. Ilickey. The flags carried by the Maryland regi-
111 the Union army were recently placed in the State-
house at Annapolis with imposing ceremonies. Colonel Tilgh-
aid Governor Warfield is desirous that the State'- 1 on
I iced there Most of the Maryland Con-
federate flags are at the Confederate Home at Pikesville.
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THRILLING ACCOUNT Of A CAPTURE IN VIRGINIA.
BY M. L. LEONARD, COMPANY E. 1ST VIRGINIA CAVALRY.
On the night of August 30, 1862, aficr the second battle of
Manassas, Company E, of the 1st Virginia Cavalry, was or-
dered to advance and establish a picket line. Captain Mc-
Clung sent Sergt. E. G. Fishburne, with W. D. McCausland
and Henry Kennedy, on a road leading across the country and
connecting with the "Little River Turnpike" to take a posi-
tion and wait for further orders from him. Shortly after
Fishburne had selected his position a body of horsemen ap-
proached them from the direction of the enemy. Thinking
that probabjy it was Cap'ain McClung returning from the
front with the remainder of the company after completing the
picket line, the detail allowed them to advance to within one
hundred yards before calling them to a halt. Fishburne de-
manded what regiment they belonged to, and received the
answer, " — New York." and in return was asked, "Who are
you?" Fishburne replied. "4th Pennsylvania," and at once con-
sulted with his two comrades how they could manage to cap-
ture the New Yorkers. He then asked the captain to send
his orderly sergeant forward. When the orderly rode up,
they disarmed him and sent Kennedy back with him, instruct-
ing Kennedy to take him to the first camp he could find and
ask the commander of the camp to send him a squad of men
to aid in the capture of the Yankees that he was detaining.
The Yankee captain, becoming impatient at the delay, in-
quired why he could not come on with his command. Wish-
ing to consume as much time as possible and expecting .re-
enforcem:nts as soon as Kennedy could reach some camp,
Fishburne evaded the captain's question as long as possible,
and then requested him to ride up to where he (Fishburne)
was, that they might consult over the matter more fully and
come to some understanding. This the captain agreed to;
and when he rode up, Fisjiburne put the drop on him and
told him that if he gave the alarm to his men he would be a
dead man. He then placed the captain between McCausland
and himself, facing the rear, and ordered him to command his
company forward. The captain answered, "I am your prisoner
and cannot do that," adding, "I suspected something was
wrong."
Fisliburne then gave the command himself, "Forward!
Trot! March!" and started for the rear with one prisoner
and forty-two armed men following, intending to keep the
space of one hundred1 yards between them intact ; but the
men riding in the rear soon closed up the space between them.
When they had inarched thus for about one mile, they saw
and recognized the dead body of Kennedy lying in the road,
and realized that there was no hope of meeting reinforce-
ments. At this point of the march to the rear a suspicion was
aroused among their armed prisoners (for these men were
not disarmed until camp was reached) when one of them said
in a loud tone to his comrades: "Boys, Fll be d — if I don't
believe these fellows are Rebels. Didn't you see that dead
man lying back there in the road?" He evidently thought th y
were Hearing the battlefield they had so hastily left a few hours
before.
McCausland says that when he h:ard this chat going on
among the armed men then trotting along in the rear he drew
the rein a little tighter on his horse and gradually guided him
to the left, so as to plac? himself on the flank and near the
rear of the column, thinking Fishburne and himself were soon
to meet the fate of Kennedy, and he wanted to be in position
to do some shooting himself while the fun lasted. After
marching a few miles farther, they came in sight of a regi-
ment of cavalry in camp ami marched direct to it, when Fish-
burne repeated his second order to "Halt and surrender," and
McCausland from the rear repeated the order to surrender.
This regiment was the 12th Virginia Cavalry, commanded
by Col. Asher W. Harman, and to them were turned over
the captain and forty-two armed men. Then, and then only,
was there any confusion in this whole affair. The surprise
was so great to these men in camp that they at once secured
their arms, and Fishburne had to dismount as quickly as pos-
sible and run in among the men and explain to keep from
being fired upon. Fishburne and McCausland at once ar-
ranged to have the body of Kennedy brought into camp, and
upon examination it was found that he had been murdered
by his prisoner by a stab in the heart with a knife, which had
been overlooked in the hasty search of the prisoner when cap-
tured. Kennedy's body was sent bom; to his parents, and
now lies buried in the old cemetery near Crimora, Augusta
County, Va.
McCausland, so far as known, is still living (?) somewhere
in Texas. Whether living or dead, 110 two braver soldiers
ever served in the Confederate army.
The account of this capture is as near Fishburne's and Mc-
Causland's own language as I can give it, and I believe cor-
rect, as I have gone over the matter with Fishburne several
times since the war, and also with McCausland, and as a
comrade in the same company was familiar with the details
at the time as recounted by those who made the capture.
The number of the New York regiment in question, I think,
was the 47th, but I am not certain. At the time we had the
captain's name, also the orderly sergeant who murdered Ken-
nedy. The boys kept a sharp lookout for him ever af'erwards
among all prisoners captured, and I believe if they could have
gotten their hands on him they certainly would hav; court-
martialed him on the spot.
HORRIBLE DEED BY FEDERALS IN VIRGINIA.
[Capt. John H. Grabill sends a clipping from the Richmond
Dispatch with an account by Mr. R. D. Stewart, of Balti-
more, and he gives a careful version of the event. It con-
cerns the murder of David Getz by command of Gen. George
A. Custer.]
The article differs in some of the details from the account
which I have secured from persons who were present and are
still living in Woodstock. The writer personally knew the
small family, consisting of Andrew Getz, Elizabeth, his wife,
and their simple-minded son, David. David was about thirty
years of age. The family lived in a small house close to the
Methodist church, and for the rent of this humble home they
served as sexton of the church. Davy was mentally deficient,
and no duties of a civil or military character were required
of him. He was simple and harmless. The boys loved to
tease him, and many a Confederate soldier told Davy that he
had come from the army to take him back with him. He was
a very timid child. He had no ambition to be a soldier, but
was always frightened when the suggestion was made that he
should go into the army. Davy had in some way become pos-
sessed of an old musket, and' with it amused himself hunting
ground squirrels and small birds.
In the summer of 1864 he was engaged in his usual sport
in the pines near his home when a squad of Federal soldiers
suddenly came upon him. To their question, "Are you a bush-
whacker?" he replied. "Why, yes." He had no comprehension
of the term "bushwhacker." He was at once seized by a
number of Federal soldiers, dragged to the pike, and then
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tied to a wagon. The poor fellow was almost frightened to
death, arid his heart-rending screams aroused the whole town.
There was a wail that can hardly be imagined.
Accustomed as wire the people to t lie brutality of the
Federals \\h<' prowled through this valley, nothing aroused
their sympathy and horror, nol even the burning of their
I omes and churches by the tire- fiends of the brutal Sheridan.
as dirl this inhuman outrage. Tied behind a wagon and
dragged through the streets, In- plaintive cries and shrieks
broughl to their doors the ladies on both sides "f the street
Helpless they Stood and' wept for the poor unfortunate, i I"-
behind him walked his ag d mother and father, clasping each
other's hands. They continued to follow their screaming
child until they were driven hack by the bayonets of the Fed
I l al soldi rs,
Custer's camp was about on: mile south of Woodstock
Here he was waited upon by Mr- J. I. Campb II. Mrs. Mur-
phy, and other ladies of the town, who gave him a truthful
tatement of the character of the man and besought Custei
to look at him, as one glance would convince him of the truth
of their statements. lie roughly repulsed them. lie was
afterwards visited by Moses Walton, a distinguished lawyer of
\\ Istock, I'r. J. S. Irwin, a Union man of the town, and
Mi \dolph Heller, a prominent merchant and a strong Union
man. at whose house both Custer and Torbetl had occasional!}
madl their headquarters. While Mr. Heller wa- at heart a
Union man. he was always ready to protect the innocenl so
far as it was in his power. He earnestly besought General
Custer to release the poor idiot. When ('lister intimated thai
la proposed to have him shot. Mr. ililler boldly n plied:
"General Custer, you will sleep in a bloody grave for this
Surely a just God will not permit such a crime to go un
avenged." These gentlemen left his headquarters saddened
by the exhibition of brutalitj upon the part of Custer. The
words ,,f Mr Miller proved to be prophetic.
Poi i I i.i \ j Get2 was again tied behind a wagon, compelled
to walk to Bridgcwater, a distance of forty-five miles, tin re
forced to dig his own grave, and was then murdered like a
dog. Tlie father - veral years later committed suicide. The
mother was taken to the home of her son, Mr. Levi Getz, of
Rockingham County, where she died some years ago.
ALABAMIANS AT VICKSBURG.
BY USUI r \ CRIBBS, M \ i VD0R, TEX.
[Comrade ( ribbs writes a personal note, saying: "I am not
able to renew my subscription, yet I am loath to do without
the Veteran, 1 have been reading it so long. I am too old
to work (seventj one years) and can't see lo read much, so
I will have to give it up for the present; but it grieves me to
>a\ good by. old friend. My heart is with yOU and all the
vish< foi success and prosperity an old comrade can
wish. May Heaven's richest blessings ever he' with you, pro-
g and supporting you in vindicating the Iruth and tie-
rights of the Confederate causel C |-by and God bless
you '"]
In the- December Veteran, page 551, S. V. R Swan made
mistake's which I think ought to be 1 errected. H states
that General Tracj was killed at Grand Gulf. I was second
ompany K. 20th Alabama Regiment. Tracy's
Brigade, lie- wa- killed at Teat Gibson 1 ol Isarn G
Commanded the 20th R gimeilt, Alabama Infantry, and I ml ■ o
States Senator E. W Pettus at that time was our lieutenant
el. When General Tracy was killed, Colonel Garret took
command of the- brigade, and heroically led us through the
battle of Baker's Creek and into the trenches around Vicks-
burg Colonel Garrett was killed in the works at Vicksburg.
The 36th Alabama Regiment lost all th ir field officers and
most of their line officers at Port Gibson and Baker's Creek
and at the blow-up in the redoubt at Vicksburg, ami Gen.
Stephen I1 1-ee. our division commander, put Lieutenant Colo-
nel Pettus in command of the 36th, which at that lime was com-
pletely demoralized, being cut down to less than one hundred
men ar. 1 without an officer above the- rank of lieutenant. Cell.
S. D. Lee ordered Colonel Pettus to rally his men ami retake
tin redoubt, hut they wouldn't rally. Colonel Waul's Texas
I egions w re in re-serve- at the- rear of our lines Colonel Pet-
tus called on Colonel Waul for sixty volunteers to retake the-
works ami drive the Federals emt of the reelemht, which he
did. Right he-re let me say that that act of gallantry made
two brigadier generals of E. W. Pettus ami T. N. Waul.
Co] I \\ PettUS was captured at Port Gibson, but e-scape-«l
like an eel in the- backwater and rejoined the regiment before
Hi, battl ot Piker's Cre-e-k, When the- old 20th congratulated
him for his promotion to brigadier general, he complimented
Us b\ saying that it was tin- men 111 the- line rather than his
• mn valor that he was indebted I" for his sttcce-ss.
Now tin-, are the facts as I remember them. 1 may no'
he altogethei correct myself in some respects, but in the main
I know 1 am right.
"( ONFEDERATE" CANNON USED IN Till. WAR.
together with other "Incidents of Sharpsburg," C. A.
Richardson relates "a good one on Lincoln"
"In one of the companies of the- gallant old 15th Virginia
Infantry, Company G, commanded by Capt. Joseph M. Gunn,
there- was a tall, stout, robust fellow; a dare-devil, rollicking
chap. win. gloried in .1 light. In tin- Sharpsburg light, when
about half the regiment had bee 11 killed anil wenineled, my
comrade ami hero, 'Beauregard' (a nickname given him in
thi regiment), was badlj wounded ami left on the field. Tln>
enemy, already in superior force ami receiving additional re-
enforcements, drove- us from that part of tin- terrible field,
compelling us te' leave 'Beauregard' with many others. He
wa taken iei the Fed ral field hospital, where he received as
g I attention as the crowded condition permitted
"A bright, sunny day of the week following tin great battle
there- wa- a gland review ^i the- Federal army which had
failed to defeat 'Marsc Robert's' veterans President Lincoln
eliel the reviewing, riding a tall horse both rider and
being tall -and all under a very tall silk hat. The President
was not considered a striking military figure (he was at his
best as a tall, gaunt, raw-boned, angular citizen in ill-fitting
Clothes and awkward manners 1 Our wounded hero, with
other badlj wounded comrades, hail been brought out on
Stretchers ami placed mi COts in front "f the- hospital, doubt
less with the ielea of impressing them with the grand parade
Several hundr .1 piice-s of artillery had passed in most im-
posing array, when tin Pn ident rode up and drew re-in near
oui 'Beauregard,' whom he noticed, and thus a. hh e-s<-.l ; 'Now,
jolnuue-. tell me-, what do you think of our artillery? Honest
now, .1 square opinion?' 'Well. Mr. President, 1 will tell you;
it surely does look fine, ami there's losts of it, too In our
arm\ w< haven't got SO much, hm it looks je-st like yours
(in nearly all the limber chests tin re's the- letters "U, S." sam
as yours.1 This retort, courteous ami so straight from the
shoulder, grea'lj pleased Mi 1 incoln, who never failed to see
and en id ioke-, no mallei at whose eXpeilS . whose un-
doing. II, rodi on. trying in vain to suppress laughter."
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Qoi}federat<? l/eterai)
GEN. THOMAS J. CHURCHILL.
Thomas J. Churchill was born on his father's farm, near
Louisville, Ky., March 10, 1824; and died in Little Rock, Ark.,
on the 14th of May, 1905, having passed his eighty-first birth-
day. He was a veteran of two wars, having enlisted in 1S40
as a lieutenant in the 1st Kentucky Mounted Rifles, com-
manded by Col. Humphrey Marshall, and serving with dis-
tinction through the Mexican War, and then when a soldier
of the Confederacy promotion came to him for his bravery
and efficiency until he reached the rank of major general.
At the time of his death he was the oldest survivor of the
Confederate army of that rank. His service for the South
was his pride, and few honors that came to him were more
highly prized than was his election as Commander of the
Arkansas Division, United Confederate Veterans.
In 1848 Lieutenant Churchill removed to Arkansas and set-
tled in Little Rock. There was a special attraction to him in
that city; for when he was on his way to Mexico as Lieutenant
Churchill, of Colonel Marshall's command, he was entertained
at the family mansion of Judge Benjamin Johnson during
the time he was in Little Rock, and met Miss Ann Sevier,
granddaughter of the house and daughter of Senator Ambrose
H. Sevier, to whom he was married in 1849. She survives
him with one son (S. J. Churchill, of California) and three
daughters (Mrs. M. M. Hanlnns, of Little Rock; Mrs. J. F.
Calif, of Nottingham, England ; and Mrs. E. G. Langhorne,
of Orange, N. J.). He left also two sisters, Mrs. Hampden
Zane and Mrs. Luke P. Blackburn, of Louisville, Ky.
Thomas J. Churchill had in his blood not only the heroic
strain of his English ancestry, the family of that Jack
Churchill remembered as Lord Marlborough, but also an ad-
mixture of the famous Virginia families of Armistead and
Harrison ; and through his mother was descended from a gal-
lant Kentucky officer who served as ensign and lieutenant
under Washington, and fell in command of the bloody Ohio
field where St. Clair was overwhelmed by the savage tribes
of the Northwest.
When Arkansas seceded from the Union, Thomas Churchill
raised the first regiment of mounted rifles, and with them im-
mediately entered the service of the Confederacy. It was his
cool and discerning leadership that saved the day at Wilson s
Creek, preventing the junction of two Federal commands.
Two horses were shot under him in this battle. His heroism
and sagacity in that battle won him promotion to brigadier
general. This was in March, 1862. While yet ranking as
colonel, he had commanded a brigade at Elkhorn Tavern ;
and after crossing the Mississippi, he commanded a brigade
at Corinth and at Tupelo. He then joined Gen. E. Kirby-
Smith in East Tennessee and commanded one of his divisions.
In the battle of Richmond, Ky., five thousand Confederates
ably led defeated the Federal forces of ten thousand, captur
ing as many prisoners as their number, nine pieces of ar-
tillery, ten thousand stands of small arms, and a large quan-
tity of quartermaster's stores.
The thanks of the nation were formally expressed by Con-
gress to these gallant leaders, Generals Smith, Churchill,
Cleburne, Col. Preston Smith, and their men for this signal
victory and "the speed, vigor, and constancy which resulted
in planting the Confederate flag upon the capital of Kentucky
and upon the shores of the Ohio River in front of Cincin-
nati." General Churchill's next battle was at Arkansas Post,
under orders to hold the position to the last extremity, though
he had but seven regiments and seventeen guns and was as-
sailed by McClernand's entire army from before Vicksburg,
including forty-nine regiments and nine gunboats under Ad-
miral Porter, the total of the enemy's artillery being about
one hundred guns. He made a most gallant defense, causing
the enemy, by the latter's own reports, a loss of over one
thousand killed and wounded before his artillery was silenced
and the Federals, in greatly superior numbers, crowded over
his works.
From this time, January II, 1S63, General Churchill was a
prisoner of war, three months of the time at Camp Chase,
Ohio. He was exchanged at City Point and ordered to re-
port to General Bragg. He commanded an Arkansas brigade-
in Cleburne's Division, of Bragg's army, including many of
his brave men at Arkansas Post, during the Tullahoma cam-
paign of 1S63. On December 10 he was assigned to duty
again in Arkansas, and put in command of a brigade composed
of the 26th, 32d, and 36th Arkansas Regiments. Almost at
the same time he was given division command, including Gen.
J. C. Tappan's brigade and his own, and just before the bat-
tle of Mansfield, La., he was in command of a corps which
included his division under Tappan and a Missouri division
under Gen. M. M. Parsons. While he was not in the en-
gagement at Mansfield, he encountered the enemy in stronger
numbers and position at Pleasant Hill on April 9; and Gen.
Richard Taylor coming up, it was decided to make the attack-
that evening, as they supposed the Federal command of Gen.
A. J. Smith had not effected a junction with General Frank-
lin, whom Taylor had encountered alone on the day before.
This was a mistake, as the Federal army was united; and.
despite the gallantry displayed by the Arkansas and Missouri
troops and positions taken, the result could not but be in favor
of the enemy. At Jenkins's Ferry Churchill commanded his
Arkansas division under General Price, supporting Marma-
duke's cavalry in opening the battle, and fought with great
GEN. THOMAS J. CHURCHILL.
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gallantry until the enemy's line was broken. For this he was
recommended by General Kirby-Smith for promotion to major
gi m ral, which rank was conferred upon him in March, 1865.
He was in winter quarters at Minden, La., and surrendered
with the troops of the Trans-Mississippi Department when
hostilities were concluded.
After his return to Arkansas, he retired to his farm in
Pulaski County, from which he was called to serve his State
m various others of importance, lie was dieted Lieutenant
Governor in 1866, hut was not allowed to assume the office;
was elected State Treasurer in 1876 and twice reelected; and
111 1880 the people of Arkansas bestowed upon him their
highest honor in electing him Governor, and his majority for
this office was t lie greatest in the history of the common-
wealth. After his retirement from office, he resided quietly
in Little Rock. He retained his interest in the affairs of his
State and the world generally, rind during the long illness
'1'ii preceded his death lie would scan the papers daily for
1 vents of the world's happenini
In compliance with a request made hy General Churchill
some months before he died, the funeral was a military one.
conducted by Maj. Gen. W. 11. Haynes, commanding the
Arkansas State Guard. He was laid to rest attired in the
Conf derate gray, which he loved so well.
SHARPSHOOTERS 11777/ HOODS ARMY,
BY ISAAC N. '.SHANNON.
Hood's army halted at Decatur, Ala, in his Nashville cam-
paign, and Cheatham's Division was formed in line ostensibly
1 sault the Federal works in its front. Lieut. John M.
Ozanne ordered me to report to Gen. John C. Brown, com-
manding, for orders. Hastily approaching the General and
making known my errand, he replied: "Yes, I will soon move
JOHN M. OZANNE.
1 I. h In "Last Roll.")
forward to the attack." 1 said to him : "In that event your
sharpshooters ought to be upon that hill." pointing to a hill
about a mile or more in our front, "so as to command their
artillery lire." lie then told me to tell Lieutenant Ozanne to
advance to the hill and bring on the engagement. I replied:
"General, that hill is a long . it is very near their line;
it is covered with bushes, and il maj be occupied by the Yan-
kees." He replied: "Well, Shannon, what would you sug-
gest?" I replied: "A company of infantry as a support."
lie asked, "What particular company would yon sue
and 1 said, "Give us Company E, of the yth Tennessee, for I
know them.'' He replied; "You can have Company E. Let
it be detailed at once and advance quickly to the lull and
bring on the engagement."
In a few minutes the detail was made, and we moved
rapidly to the hill, took our positions, and opened fire on their
picku posts, as no artillery was in sight. The Federals replied
promptly, but they fired wildly, as if they wire surprised or
excited. But picket post after picket post joined in, and soon
the fire of every post in reach of that hill was pouring its
shot on it. The best protectii 1 1 could find was an oak stump
about eighteen inches in diameter and two feet high ["he
tree had been cut entirely too low. The bullets came closer
and closer and thicker and thicker until the air seemed in
almost a continual buzz with them, and the bushes and limbs
were falling everywhere and the dirt and trash were flying
about lively. Two bullets had hit the stump. About that time
I beard the silvery voice of Maj. Mat Pilcher, and the magic
word was "Retreat." I crawled backward till out of range,
and then led the retreat, Lieutenant Ozanne had climbed a
tall water oak at the foot of the hill to ee what the Federals
were doing over in the town. Soon a three-inch Rodman can-
non was fired at him. The shot struck the tree just below his
feet and knocked out a slab of timber large enough for a rail
He called out. "I've seen enough," and descended with all pos
sible speed. He then ran through a low marsh with standing
water in it. and the nest — J 1 ■ -• t -truck just behind him and
knocked the mud and water on bun. We were soon out of
range and quiet reigned
During the first of the war 1 was ensign of the gth Tennes
see Infantry, but could not carry the flag on long marches on
account of a lame knee. Ed Buford swapped me the position
of sutler for that of ensign. 1 remained as sutler till I had
made some money, and with it I bought a mule, when I was
given a W'hitworth rifle. This old. gentle mule was a neces-
sity to us. for she carried one man and all the extra camp
equipage. When we were to cross the pontoon bridge at
Florence, we found that an order bad been issued that no of-
ficer under a certain rank should cross on animal over the
bridge. A council was held, and I was appointed to see Gen.
John C. Brown in regard to u I did so, giving him all the
reasons I could suggest why that particular mule ought to
cross, and he replied: "Your position is in front of the di-
vision when on the march I will be at the bridge to-morrow
morning when my division approach 5. Do you have that
mule in your proper place, and whin I turn my back get that
mule across." It was arranged that I ride the mule and Lieu-
tenant Ozanne carry my gun and cartridge box. I expected
the mule to stop as soon as she saw the first crack in the
floor, and the t\w men were to be behind her and make her
move at all hazards, and then two were to run forward on
each side and gi I bi iwien the sentinels and myself as I passed
them.
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Sure enough, just as we approached the bridge General
Brown whirled his horse ground and seemed very much en-
gaged in observing something down the river, and I turned
into the bridge. The old mule, true to her instincts, saw a
crack in the floor, and, throwing her head down and her fore
feet well out to the front, stopped ominously still. The men
behind used the muzzles of their guns on her so vigorously
that she could not stand it longer, and with a wild lunge
started to rearing, plunging, kicking, and bawling. The camp
kettle and coffee pot rattled and made her worse, but fortu-
nately I was able to keep my seat till her gyrations were over.
In the battle of Nashville 1 was comparatively barefooted.
I was at the front the day of the battle, and I did not see it
again till we got to Corinth, Miss. It snowed about three
inches deep while we were at Pulaski and turned bitter cold,
but I walked very well after I got used to doing it barefooted.
By a flank movent nt General Hood succeeded in placing
several divisions of his army on the east of Spring Hill, thus
eluding the hulk of the Federal army, which lay at Columbia.
. . . At Spring Hill we saw but one position which could
possibly be utilized, and it seemed certain death to try to reach
that. There were a few large oak trees left standing on the
north side of the road and in less than five hundred yards
of the Federal works. If we could only get there, we could
whip all the artillery they could bring to bear on the division.
Lieutenant Ozanne ordered us forward in single file, with in-
structions to reach the trees if possible. Then commence.!
a race for life. It seemed certain that they would see our ob-
ject and kill us all before we reached the trees. But we knew
the importance of the position and made up our minds to gain
it or lose our lives, and all ran as fast as they could. The
tree nearest the road was the largest one, and I outran all the
rest and got safely to it. The ntlurs filed to the right, and
each got safely behind a tree. It was a hard run of over half
a mile, and before we got calmed down we saw the wicked-
looking mouths of a battery of Napoleon guns pointing at the
lane near the river.
I think we fired at four hundred and fifty yards' elevation,
and the way we did that battery up was simply wonderful.
In less than twenty minutes, and before their gunirrs had got
the right elevation, we had driven them from their position.
Soon Brown's Division had formed at right angles to the
road on the north, its left resting on the road. This battery
or another took position in the northeast edge of the town
and attempted to shell the division in the field, the distance
being about twelve hundred yards. Then again our guns
played upon them with such savage effect that after a des-
perate struggle they were driven from the field and did not
show themselves again. The division remained in line of bat-
tle in the field unmolested till dark, and we had to remain
behind our trees until the darkness would hide our withdrawal.
Some years ago somebody intimated that Genral Cheat-
ham's Division, commanded by General Brown, ought to have
advanced promptly against the P'ederals. The truth is, it
ought to have done no such thing. The Federal line of in-
fantry, about three-quarters of a mile long, ran northeast
from the town. Cheatham's line ran about north and south,
and was about half as long a; the Federal line. If Cheatham
had advanced, the Federals would have swung around in his
rear.
After we had whipped the Federal batteries off the field and
I was leisurely loading my gun, I saw a large man standing
on the works and facing east. I called the attention of the
men to him and asked them to watch him, as I intended to
punish him for his impudence. A trilling circumstance oc-
curred just as I got the bullet down, and I let go the ramrod
to adjust my clothing, which was ragged and had caught on
the hammer of my gun. Being in a hurry, I forgot to with-
draw the ramrod, and. hastily capping my gun. I called out
to the men to watch my man. I fired at him, and the recoil
of that gun was simply terrific ; it knocked me down and away
hack from the tree. I fell full length, and hardly had sense
enough to get hack to the tree. My gun punched me in the
ribs, nearly dislocated my shoulder, skinned my jaw and the .
side of my head, knocked my hat off, and sprang out of my
hands. After a few minutes I got my breath freely and found
that I was not killed, and I called out: "Boys, what became
of the Yankee?" The reply was: "Both fell backward at
the report of the gun." Now if that Yankee is living and is
drawing a pension, he ought to divide with me. for if I had
not shot the ramrod at him he would not have lived to make
the application, and in shooting the ramrod I was worse hurt
than he was. If we had not gained the position behind the
trees, that battery would have cut the division to pieces or
driven it back under the bank of the creek for protection.
This incident illustrates two points in our peculiar service:
First, that much was expected of us by the rank and file of
our division, and, secondly, the desperate chances we took
and the alacrity with which we fought their artillery. \Y
never failed to silence or driye from the field a Federal bat-
tery under favorable circumstances.
The next morning after our sharp practice at Spring Hill we
reported early to division headquarters, and with cleaned guns
and replenished cartridge boxes look our position in front of
the division and began the march to Franklin. Our division
being the front one, we were the foremost infantry in our
army. The Federal army had passed Spring Hill during the
night, and we were following them. Nothing occurred of
note until we arrived within a few miles of Franklin, when a
battery was observed on a hill near the road. We pushed
rapidly forward, and gained a good position on the opposite
side of the road so as to enfilade the battery. It withdrew
before we could open fire on it. Soon another hill was sighted,
and on it another battery, with infantry support. We ad-
vanced rapidly and took position ; but before we could open
fire on them they all withdrew, and so it continued until we
reached Franklin. Their cavalry rear guard were in a yard
on the west of the road and about two miles south of Frank-
lin, and were so busily engaged robbing the house that they
did not see us. and I sent a shot at them, upon which they
mounted their horses and galloped toward Franklii at full
speed. Thousands of Federal soldiers, then in line behind
their works near the Columbia Turnpike, must have seen them
come in under whip and spur. This was the first shot fired in
the opening of that terrible hatile.
We were from a half to a mile in advance, and ran great
risk of being captured. We soon advanced to the top of a
high, rocky hill about a thousand or twelve hundred yards
south of Franklin and on the west of the turnpike, which is
known as Merrill's or Murrell's Hill. Here we had a fine
view of the Federal works and the open field in front of them,
but not a Federal could be seen. While waiting Gen. Pat
Cleburne rode up to where we were standing and remarked
that he had left his field glass behind and that he wished the
use of a telescope. Lieutenant Ozanne (who always carried
the gun of the man left with the mule and camp equipage)
quickly detached the long telescope from his gun, adjusted
the fecus, and handed it to General Cleburne, who laid the
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telescope across a stump and looked long and carefully ovei
the field, and remarked, "They have three lines of works,"
and then, sweeping the field again as if to make himself cer-
tain, said. "And they arc .ill completed." lie thin returned
the telescope, thanked Lieutenant Ozanne for its use, and with
kindling eye and rapid movement mounted hi- horse and ro
rapidly back to where his division was forming.
Soon after General Cleburne left us there was the boom of
a Napoleon gun near the Carter residence and the swish,
swish of a shell high up overhead, Soon another and another
gun opened until each one • f us had a battery all to ours Ives
We were firing at their gunners as Inst we could, when I saw
them running out a big gun by hand down the turnpike to-
ward us It soon turned off the road lo the southeast, and I
saw that it was making straight for a knoll about four hun
died yards south of the "Id ginhouse and about tun hundred
yards east of the pike and in marly half a mile from my posi-
tion, which was in a mck quarry mi the northeast apex <>f the
hill. Lieutenant Ozanne was nil top of the lull above me and
the Other three men In his left. I called OUt: "Lieutenant, do
you see those Yankees running that gun ..iii yonder to my
right?" He replied: "Yes; and do you direct your lire on it
and drive it back." 1 replied: "All right: I'll drive them
back." Soon the little elevation was reached, the gun charged,
and Gunner Henrj Fox stepped to his position to sight the
gun. hut 1 was in time for him and shut him in the shoulder
As soon as I could load and look Jake Id Merman was sight
ing the gun. and I wounded him; next John Dclph tried it.
and I got him. While loading and looking at my gun their
fourth gunner, Burrell Dunn, aimed the gun at me, and the
shell struck the pile of beat-up road rock that I was 1> linn'
and exploded within a few feet of my face with a terrific
which knocked a bushel or s,, of the rocks over my
In ad and all over the top of the hill. 1 was enveloped in
Smoke, dust, and small gravel, and was nearly knocked off my
Lieutenant Ozanne called out: "Are you hurt. Ike""
I replied: "No. not hurt, but scared" In a few moments I
got Over m\ fright and shot at Dunn, hut missed him. I re
loaded, look careful ami, and fired again, when I saw him
reel. Soon they started hack to their works with the gun.
T1irs at about half a mile distance at five shuts 1 disabled
[Unners and drovi a :41m to the rear, which, if 11 had noi
been molest,, 1, must have killed scores of Cleburne's Di
vision This was gun No 1 of Company A. Captain Catron.
Of the _>d Regim nl Missouri Artillery, (This specific infor
mation was voluntarily given me bj First Gunner Henrj Fox's
r. who lives ai Goodlettsville, Tenn., my post office >
I have givin the details of this affair to show the greal .1
ness ,ii tli,. , (an,, .us guns. 1 ,i,, not hesitate to state
that I ciild alone and unaided have whipped the hest sis
gun battery in th< Federal army under the same favorable
circumstances in less than two hours, especially if the) had
(hot ,1 iomebod] .1 1 and noi agitated me by bursting I.e.;.
vicious shells in mj I .
W< continued firing al the gunners of the Federal batteries
until our own men r, idled the works, wll n. for fear of in
juring tin m. we ceased firing and sal down and watched the
1 the battle. I -aw a skirmish line of Cheatham's
division .hoe, and i.,l. ihe first line of works, The line of
of thai doubt) grand "id division marched forward
with the steadiness of a ureal wave of the s, a until it struck
Ihe Federal works, when all was obscured by smoke \ ver
did soldiers march with steadier step and braver hearts than
did tl ml tried veterans into the very jaws of
They whipped the fight, hut it cost them a fearful price. Th ir
dead, dying, and wounded lay thick everywhere all over tile
field and ..11 and over the Federal -nl of their works.
Ihe nexl morning after the battle of Franklin 1 found out
that ..ne Dobe While had been trading with the Yankees, and
thai there was perhaps a lot of contraband articles in his
house. 'Ihe lieutenant colonel (C, S. Hunt) of m) old regi-
ment was the senior officer left in Cheatham's Division and
1 command. 1 told him about it. and he detailed the de-
tachment 10 search the premises, li was hastily must, red. and
down 10 Dobe White's we went For certain reasons Lieu
tenant Ozanne proposed to me thai we swap COatS and lli.it I
conduct the search. Coals wire swapped, and I stationed 111 11
around the house with instructions to let no one pass. I
knocked at the door, and a tall, fine-looking lady opened i;,
and I made know 11 my business. She asked me lo come in.
and -in' very quietly led ihe waj all through the house I
took one man with me and she look an old mulatto woman
with her. Upstairs we found some barrels of flour, and in
the cellar four full barrels and a part of another barrel of
whisky and a five gallon demijohn 1 f blackberry cordial. She
pleaded with me for ihe flour and cordial, and I promised lo
leave them with her. Then -he asked me to leave her the
remnant of whisky (a very feu gallons); hut I told her that
we must compromise thai by filling our canteens first, ami
then -he could have the rest. She consented: all tilled
our canteens and sent a mail to Colonel Hurl lo report the
capture and ask him to send a wagon quick lor ihe four bar-
rels, tine of the men lit Mrs. While's father pass out of
the house, and he went up town and reported what we had
fi iund.
We were waiting qui . tly for the wagon to come: and as
everything was quiet, we concluded to sample (he whisky lo
,, 11 it was any heller than that miserably mean pin lop
edition u, had met Willi ill Georgia So we all sampled our
canteens and pronounced it ver) fine and good. Soon the
question was sprung as to how much 1> tter it was than "pine
lop." and ue took another drink to ascertain. We agreed that
il wa- "ever so much Inner" Soon il was slated that if it
was "evei so much better," and as we had nothing to do. wc
might as well take another drink so w could "enjoy" the
great difference So ihe third round was swallowed, and the
began to hang a little high and everything seemed to
wear a lovelier hue. and I had about forgotten which out
ranked, G neral 1 heatham or myself, when down to the gati
marched a lieutenant with about forty men lie saluted me
and asked what I was doing ih. re. and something very much
like ti'e following occurred. I answered "1 am guarding
these prisoners." lie asked if I had not searched for contra
hand articles and found a lol of whisky. I answered him that
I had done so. 'Mien said he: "1 will relieve you of that
whisky and lake charge of it myself." Said I: "And that is
the very thing yon will not do." Me replied thai Colonel
Coftr, ihe provost marshal of the army, had given him orders
io ,|o so, 1 replied: "1 can't help what you 01 1 olonel Col 1
waul done in this matter, I shall hold the whisky." II, re
plied: "P.\ what right do you claim lo hold this whisky 111 ,'
regard of Colonel Cofer's orders?" 1 replied: "I hold it by
right of discovery, capture, and possession under the ord r
of a major general." He replied: "I am first lieutenant com-
manding pi ml. under orders ,,f Clonel Cofcr. and
I will put you and your men Ulldei arrest and take Ihe whisky
lo force." 1 replied: "I am first lieutenant commanding the
Whitworth Sharpshooters of ("heatham'. Division, and I will
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not give up the whisky, nor will I submit to an arrest by an
officer of my own rank."
Just about that time an officer came dashing up to the gat",
dismounted, and came rapidly around to where I was. It was
my brother, Capt. H. Shannon, of Swett's Battery. As soon
as he saw that lieutenant's coat on me he knew there was
something w-rong, and he ordered the lieutenant and myself
both under arrest. This was just what I wanted, as I was
only fighting for time for Colonel Hurt's wagon to arrive, so
I could turn over the whisky for the wounded of my own
division. Soon a wagon came, and old Major Murphy, of
Memphis, who was corps commissary, came with it, and put
everybody under arrest till he got the whisky in his wagon,
and then, relieving everybody from arrest, started his wagon,
and the last I saw of him he was following close after my
whisky. He even took the part of the barrel I had given Mrs.
White. And that was the last time Lieutenant Ozanne ever
offered to swap coats with me.
Mrs. White requested that we remain at her house and
guard it from further search, which we did, and we fared well
while we remained in town. As we returned through Frank-
lin, after the disastrous battle of Nashville, she had provisions
cooked and all our haversacks filled. She was a nice, good
woman, and her kindness to us will never be forgotten.
Nearly all our ammunition was captured at Nashville, and
just before arriving at the pontoon bridge over the Tennessee
River we had permission to disband until we got to Corinth.
This suited me well, for my bare feet were sore enough. I
had made arrangements with a wagoner to mess with him,
and the very next morning, just as the wagon train started
Lcfore daylight, cue of General Hood's officers called out to
know if I was not there. I answered yes. He ordered me to
report at once for duty at the pontoon bridge. I had time to
get only my gun and cartridge box, leaving blanket, canteen,
and haversack in the wagon. Nearly all our men were caught
in the same fix, and our orders were to cross the bridge and
go down the river and support Phillip's Battery in an expected
assault on the Federal gunboats which were coming up the
river. We found the battery nearly, if not exactly, opposite
an island (Patton's, I believe). We had nothing to cat, and
our division had gone on and left us. We found a water mil!
with some corn it, and we ground up about three bushels of
very good meal. Some of this we swapped for salt, and sent
two men out at night and killed a hog belonging to our
army, skinned that, and unsoldered a Yankee canteen which
made us two frying pans. We were then comfortable. One
day three gunboats came puffing up the river, and a masked
battery on the far side of the river opened fire, and I heard
one shot strike. The gunboats at once turned back and hur-
ried down the river, firing a few shots, one of which wounded
the officer commanding the Whitworth Sharpshooters of Cle-
burne's Division just above the elbow joint. We remained
here several days, and our meat gave out and we had to live
hard till we got lo Corinth. From Corinth we went south-
eastward across Alabama. Georgia, and South Carolina to
North Carolina, where we surrendered. I bought a pair of
flank leather shots on the Black Warrior River in Alabama
for eighty-five dollars, which, if new, would not now be worth
more than eighty-five cents.
Before closing these reminiscences I want to say more about
the great range of these guns. They were sighted up to over
two thousand yards, and I always believed they would throw
their balls five miles. I do not remember a single instance in
which we failed to silence a Federal battery during a skir-
mish, and we often drove them from their positions during a
battle if circumstances were favorable to us. The longesi
practice we ever had at them was down in Georgia. General
Johnston';, army had fallen back to a new position, and their
army for.ied a line in about a mile of our own. Far back of
their Hit their immense wagon train was parked in a large
field, aid so great was the distance that we put our sights
up to l\< entv-two hundred, and then aimed at the tops of tall
pine trees in the rear of the field. A trial shot revealed the
fact that the movements of the air carried the ball about one
hundred and fifty feet to the left. Making the proper al-
lowance, we opened fire on them, and in less than thirty min-
utes there was not a wagon or team left in the field. I al-
ways believed the distance to be near three and a half miles.
It is due to Generals Cheatham, Brown, and Maney. who
commanded our division, to say that our effectiveness was
greatly enhanced by their good sense in letting us alone and
leaving us unhampered with orders. Not a man in the de-
tachment but knew more about wdiat to do and when and how
to do it than any general officer in the army. And now I wilt
I. N. SHANNON.
give a sad instance of the interference of an officer with this
service that cost many hundreds of lives. At the battle of
Franklin gun No. I of the 2d Regiment of Missouri Artillery
came within my range, and I drove it back with the loss of
four gunners at five shots. The other five guns of that bat-
tery crossed the river to the east of Franklin, and they were
the ones which enfiladed the Confederate lines on the east of
the turnpike with such deadly effect. Cleburne's sharpshooters
were ordered into line with the infantry, and fought as in-
fantry, when they ought to have advanced down the river,
and, taking positions behind trees, stumps, or even in the
open field, they could have driven those five guns off in a
few minutes and saved hundreds of lives. If our five men
could have been there, we could and would have moved them
promptly, or the pension roll and Davy Jones's hotel register
would have b en much larger to-day.
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The tendency nowadays is for rapid-firing, breech-loading
guns, which must be far superior in point of general effective-
ness to muzzle-loaders ; but I do not believe a harder-shoot-
ing, harder-kicking, longer-range gun was ever made than the
Whitworth rifle. T gave my gun and appurtenances to our
division surgeon. Dr. W. K. Rogers, of Memphis, at the sur-
render, lie promised to keep it for me till I called for it.
He is dead and I want the gun, hut have been unable to get
it from his family or to hear from them in regard to it.
One of these guns is on exhibition at the Watkins Institute
in Nashville.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT COL UMSIA, S. C.
The Confederate monument at Columbia, S. C. standing on
the Capitol grounds, was erected by the women of the State
in memory of their hemic dead. It was unveiled "ii May 5,
1879, in the pies nee of an immense crowd of veterans and
citizens from all over the State. The introductory prayer was
made by Dr. William Martin, of the Methodist Church, the
closing prayer by Bishop Ellison Capers, of the Episcopal
Church, and the orator of the day was Col. John Preston.
The inscriptions on the monument were composed by Mr. Wil-
liam lltnry Trescott. a native of Charleston, S. C. a diplomat
of international reputation as will as a litterateur
This Monument
Perpetuates the Memory
CM those who, true to the instincts of then- Birth,
Faithful to the teachings of their Fathers.
Constant in their love for the Slate.
Died in the performance of their Duty;
Who
Have glorified a Fallen Cause
By the simple Manhood of their Lives.
The patient F. '.urance of Suffering.
And the Heroism of Death;
And Who
In the dark hours of Imprisonment.
In the hopelessness of the Hospital,
In the short, sharp agony of the Field
Found Support and Consolation
In the In lief
That at home they would not be forgotten.
Let the Stranger
Who may in Future Times
Read this Inscription
Recognize that these were Men
Whom Power could not Corrupt.
Whom Death could not Terrify,
Whom Defeat could not Dishonoi
And let their Virtues plead
For Just Judgment
Of the Cause in which thej Perished.
I el the South Carolinian
Of Another Generation
Remembi 1
That the State Taught Them
How to Live and How to Die.
And that from Her Broken Fortunes
She has preset \ 1 d for I ter Children
The Priceless Treasure of their Memories
• line all who May < 'laim
The Same Birthright
That Truth. Courage, and Patriotism
Endure Forever
Gen. Archibald .Gracie's Furlough. — A correspondent
from Huntsville, Tex. writes; "When General Gracie was
killed, I was a 'foot courier' for Gen. Bushrod Johnson. 1
had to copy dispatches and deliver verbally to the generals on
the line. One evening when I went to General Gracie's head-
quarters and walked into his bomb-proof he asked me if I
had his furlough. I replied that I didn't know. He took the
papers and said, 'Yes, here it is,' and asked me to share with
him an eggnog to the health of his boy. Mrs. Gracie was then
in Richmond, where the boy he was to go to see was born
Poor General Gracie! He never lived to see that boy. Tin
next day hi' was g. ling along the breastworks, as was his ens
torn every day; and when he got to the Crater, where the
23d Alabama was stationed, the General, with two others, a
captain and a private, stopped to look at some Yankees. Some
of the boys asked him what he saw, to which he replied that
he saw a general and staff riding along in the rear. About
that lime the Federals shot at them; and when the shell struck
the top of the breastworks, it exploded and killed all three, all
falling in a heap together. I did not see this, but write of
what was told me by some of my company who did see the
catastrophe. When the ambulance brought him out, it stopped
near our headquarters. I looked into the front of the ambu-
lance and lifted the hat from his face, and saw it so changed
and cold in death. We all loved General Gracie, and I was
not the only one who cried that day. I suppose I was one of
the last of his old brigade to see him. He was carried 10
Richmond, hut I never knew where he was buried. Colonel
Moody. I think, took charge of the brigade; but that gallant
little colonel, Martin L. Stansel. of the 41st Alabama Regi-
ment, had charge of the brigade most of the time after that
Stories about Darkies Credited to John Sharp Williams
Hon. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, is the reported
author of several humorous stories about old-time darkies
"While driving alone a road near my home, in Mississippi.
I observed a darky resting tinder a tree, and said: 'What are
you doing there, Sam?' Tse heah to hoe dat corn, sah,' was
the answer. 'Then wdiat are you doing under the tree — rest-
ing"-'' 'Not exactly, sah. I ain't hardly restin'. cause I ain't
tired. I'm waitin' fo' sundown, so's I kin quit work.'
"There is an old negro down in my town who did me a
service. I wanted to reward him. so I said: 'Uncle, wliicli
shall I give you, a ton of coal or a bottle of whisky?" 'Foh
de Lo'd, Massa.' he replied, 'you sho'ly knows I buhn wood.'
"When Judge Stevens, of North Carolina, was in Asheville
recently, he entertained sunn- friends by telling some of his
experiences. He said an old colored woman was brought be-
fore him charged with a misdemeanor. The offense was so
small that the Judge decided that the payment of a small
fine would be sufficient punishment. He knew the old woman
had no money, so he questioned her about any other pos-
sessions she might have 'Have you a cow, auntie?' he began
'|)i id. yeh honor. 1 ain't got no cow' 'Have you any ducks''
'No. sir, T ain't got none' 'Any geese or chickens?' 'Befo'
de Lawd, .ledge. I ain't got no'hin' but jes' (lis yere rheuma-
tiz.' The Judge said he dismissed the case.
"\ college president visited a hotel in New York; and
when he left the dining room, the negro in charge of the hats
pickxl up his tile without hesitation and handed it to him.
Mow did you know that was my hat, when you have a hun-
dred there?' asked the professor. 'I didn't know, sah,' said
the negro 'Didn't know it was mine? Then why did you
give it to me?' 'Because you gave it to me, sah'"
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Bff™r i r "i''1 •""*'*-"
How many a glorious name for us.
How many a story of fame for us
They left ! Would it not be a blame for us
If their memories part
From our land and heart.
And a wrong to them, and shame for us?
But their memories e'er shall remain for us.
And their names, bright names, without stain for us ;
The glory they won shall not wane for us ;
In legend and lay
Our heroes in gray-
Shall forever live over again for us.
R. R. Hancock, Author of "Hancock's Diary."
Richard R. Hancock, private in Company C, 2d Tennessee
Regiment Cavalry, Bell's Brigade, Forrest's Command, has
passed over the river and now rests under the shade of the
trees in God's glorious haven of rest. Comrade Hancock died
August II, 1906, at his home, near Auburn, Term. He en-
listed at the age of twenty on the 26'h of June. 1861, and was
honorably paroled on May 10. 1865, date of surrender of
Forrest's Cavalry at Gainesville, Ala. He was a typical South-
ern soldier. He participated in all the engagements of his
command up to October, 1864. when he was seriously wounded
at Paris Landing, on the Tennessee River, disabling him from
active duty until about the close of the war. A braver, more
gallant, and faithful soldier was not to be found in the army.
His was a courage which nothing could daunt — a bravery
which feared no danger. He was modest and full of honor,
faithful to every performance of duty. Whether in camp, on
the march, or on the firing line, his superior officers and com-
rades alike honored him for his loyalty to duty. His patri-
otism knew no bounds ; he was a true Southern man in every
respect, a soldier by instinct, with implicit confidence in the
righteousness of his cause.
He was the author of "Hancock's Diary of the 2d Regi-
ment Tennessee Cavalry" and the contributor of many facts
of history and parts taken by Forrest's Cavalry. His writings
contained the data kept by himself during the entire war, giv-
ing each day's movements of the command, his dates of en-
gagements and important movements, and were therefore ab-
solutely correct ; hence his "Diary" is invaluable to the future
historian, who will seek facts of the world's greatest cavalry
leader.
After the close of the war. Comrade Hancock returned to
his home, and applied the same devotion to duty in making
a useful citizen and the upbuilding of his country as he prac-
ticed as a soldier. On September 27, 1871, he was happily mar-
ried to Miss Sue Lester, who died some five years ago. He
was an active member of the Baptist Church, of which he was
a member from 1856 and in which he was ordained a deacon
in 1877. His final sleep is near the spot that gave him birth,
among the hills and valleys that lie loved so well. Though
the winter's blast may chill and deaden the surrounding ver-
dure of the hills and valleys and make it sad and desolate, yet
he springtime in all its glory and life will return annually
and bring to life the roses and lilies to brighten and beautify
the little mounds of buried chivalry. When friends and
patriots seek for the resting places of the South's heroes, the
little swelling mound of R. R. Hancock in Cannon County,
Term., will not be forgotten.
[The foregoing tribute is by Capt. George F. Hag r. who
knew Comrade Hancock well.]
John M. Ozanne.
A true Confederate and a faithful veteran was John M.
Ozanne, who died in Nashville November 16, 1906. Mr.
Ozanne was a native of France and was sixty-six years old.
He came to America when ten years old, and the principal
part of his life had been lived in Nashville, lie was a useful
and highly esteemed cilizen. At the outbreak of the War
between the States he enlisted in the Confederate army, and
was assigned to a company of sharpshooters, the heroic type
of fighters who did much effective work during the conflict.
He was known as one of the best shots and most fearless sol-
diers of his company. Mr. Ozanne was a man of strong con-
victions, and took a deep interest in Confederate affairs, being
a member of the local organizations. Each year he looked
forward to the annual conventions, and he had never missed
one of them since the Reunions were inaugurated.
Since being a young man Mr. Ozanne had been actively en-
gaged in business in Nashville, and for twenty-six years he
had been in the bread and confectionery business. He served
one term as a member of the County Court, being elected for
six years in 1894. He was a member of the First Baptist
Church, and he established a reputation for honest dealing.
He was a valued and useful citizen.
Mr. Ozanne had been twice married, his first wife being
Miss Mary Higginbotham, of which union there are two chil-
dren— John H. Ozanne, a West End merchant, and Mrs. Annie-
Fox, of Memphis. After the death of his first wife, he was
married to Miss Lena Thuss, who survives him, and by the
second marriage there is one son, Porter Ozanne.
On the evening of his death he had attended a lecture in
the large tabernacle well known to Confederates who attended
the great Reunions here in 1897 and in 1904. (This lecture,
by Robert L. Taylor, now United States Senator, was for the
benefit of a private soldier's monument in Nashville.)
It was this sturdy comrade who resigned his commission
as a lieutenant because he could not buy his provisions and
clothes with the pay. His action changed the laws of the
Confederacy, whereby officers were supplied along with the
soldiers.
Capt. McCoy Clemson Campbell.
Capt. M. C. Campbell was born in the purple of an illustrious
lineage of Scotch-Irish descent on August 6, 1838. He died
November 10, 1906, at his home, near Spring Hill, Tenn. He
enlisted in April, 1801, in the Brown Guards, a company
formed by his brother, Capt. George W. Campbell, named in
honor of his cousin. Miss Luzinka Brown, who became the
wife of Lieut. Gen. R. S. Ewell. The Brown Guards became
Company G, 1st Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A. We ate, slept,
and marched togeth'. r. constant companions and close friends.
Amid the fierce onset and roar of battle and the shrieks of
shells he always led where the fight was the hottest. Around
the camp fire he was a noble companion. Although sleeping
tentlejs upon the frozen ground, he was bright and jovial.
He was indeed a most lovable man ; but in battle he knew
no fear, and seemed to court dath itself by his heroic cour-
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age and superb bravery. A better soldier never answered to
roll call in the Confederate army.
\ .1 citi/cn, he was always true to the innate principles of
his most noble manhood. Me was a gentleman without re-
proach, a neighbor without guile, a Christian without hypoc-
risy. He has gone to the far-awaj home of the soul. A
i\ sons, ami a daughter survive him, and he bequeathed
to them the greatest of legacies — that of a spotless character.
Upon Decoration Day loving ones will repait to Rose Hill
Cemetery, Columbia, renn., bearing garlands of flowers and
lovingly place them upon the grave of Clem Campbell.
[From a tribute by John A. Miller.]
| ii. C. R. Pace.
Died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R, II, Hill, Hickory,
Miss.. Capt, C. R. Pace on the 7th of August. 1906, just en-
tering his seventieth year, having been horn in Kemper County,
Miss., July 30, 1837. He enlisted in a company of Stale troops
in the early part of [861, and was elected first lieutenant of
Company G, 8th Mississippi Regiment, in which position he
served until elected captain of his company, which was a re-
ward of Ins meritorious service and signal bravery. After
surrendering al Greensboro, X. C, in April. [865, Captain
Pace returned home and engaged m farming, lie was married
in 1870 to MisS Laura Gibbens, and to them were born five
children
\Y. W. S. (B Harms.
On the morning of the last day of the old year [906, after
a lingering dims, and much but patient suffering, the soul
of \Y. \Y. S. Harris returned to 1,0. 1, who His death,
daily expected for weeks, caused general regret
Comrade Harris was born in Humphreys County, Tenn.,
November 17. [84I, where he had lived all his life except the
tune spent in the Confederate army. No man was bcttei
known or more highly respected. He practiced the golden
rule by every one. He was loyal to all that was good,
and noble. His life was like the days, more beautiful in the
evening, and like the autumn, rich with golden sheaves when
good works and deeds have appeared in the field. He was
the last of five brothers and three sisters to "cross the river."
lbs youngest sistei (Mrs, Sallie Short, wife of Cap'. \\ V
Short, who dud about four years ago), who was living with
him. was found dead sitting in her chair in hei room about
three hours before his death. Ii was peculiarly sad the in >
funerals and burials of the same family at the same til
Comrade Harris was a member of Company F, fOtll Ten-
nessee Cavalry, which joined Gen. N. B. Forrest during his
raid in West Tennessee ni 1X62, and was in the battle at
Parker's Crossroads, where Colonel Napier was killed He
followed the "Wizard of Llli Saddle" m all of his principal
battles and skirmishes until after the battle of Chickamauga,
in 1863. During the fall and winter of 1863-64 his command
was with General Longstreet's armj in East Tennessee. He
wa with Joseph !•'.. Johnston's army at Dalton, and was under
Gen. Joseph Wheeler in all of that famous retreat to \tlanta
and until General II I's raid into Tennessee, when his regi-
ment joined Forrest's command at Florence. Via., and re-
mained with him until the surrender of his army at Gainsville,
Ala., where the nun w re paroled by Major General Canby
on May 10, 1865.
\fier the surrendei Comrade Harris returned home to his
father's farm, afterwards began merchandising, and was one
of the firm of Harris. Rogers & Co., whose business wi
stroyed in the lire at Waverly November 26. [883. Hi
afterwards appointed Clerk and Master of Chancery Court
by Judge Seay in 1XX7. and reappointed by Judges Gribble
and Stout, which office he filled until his death.
He was married to Mrs. Tennie Drummond Berglund April
5, 1888, who, with two sons, survives him.
A few weeks before his death, while confined to his bed, the
Cross of Honor was conferred upon him by the Daughti
the Confederacy \o one could have appreciated the honor
more highly or have worn it more worthily.
His dying request, that he he buried with Masonic honors
(of which he was a member and a long-time treasurer of the
Waverly lodge, No, 304) and that his body be lowered in
the grave by obi Confederates, was strictly complied with.
lie was a consistent member of the M. F. Church, South.
He was a g5 .<1 soldier, a useful citizen, a true friend, a tender
father, a devoted husband, a faithful civil offici r. and a Chris
tian gentleman.
Capt, Benjamin Clayton Black
Capt. B. C Black was born November 6, 1842, in Ruthci
ford County. Tenn.; and died in Searcy. Ark. November -' 1.
1006, from the .10.1 of a paralytic stroke received a lew
months previous. Winn the Civil War broke out, lie en
listed as a private in Capt. John McCaulcy's company, made
up at Searcy, \tk. and which became a part of the
Arkansas Regiment commanded by the gallant R. O. (Bobl
Shaver. While camped at Bowling Green, Ky., young Black
was afflicted seriously with measles. lie became SO feeble
that be was (honorably) discharged from the service.
S 1 after returning to his borne he reenlisted in Capt
Will llicks's company of cavalry, made up in While County.
\rk, which company was on detached service for several
months, during which time some severe engagements wire
lay
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had, the battle of Whitney's Lane being one of the worst.
It resulted in a great victory, numbers considered. Captain
Black was a participant. After several months of this char-
acter of service, the company was attached to the 32d Arkan-
sas Regiment, (he last volunteer regiment raised in the State.
Said regiment served in Dandridge McRae's Brigade, of the
Trans-Mississippi Department. Gin. T. C. Hindman com-
manding.
Black attained to the rank of sergeant major of the regi-
ment. He was in the battles of Prairie Grove and of Helena,
Ark. When Little Rock fell in'o the hands of the Federals,
he was inside the lines on furlough. He then reported to
Gin. T. H. McCray, who was organizing a brigade in
North Arkansas. He, in connection with Capt. T. B. Mosely.
organized a company, and a short while after its organization
he resigned and Black was elected captain. This company
was attached to the 48th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, which
made the famous Missouri raid. Captain Black and his com-
pany were in its every engagement. No liner or more gallant
soldier ever lived.
He took an active part in the political affairs of his county,
filling the positions of Alderman, Treasurer, and Mayor of
his little city; also sheriff of his county for several years.
He was Adjutant of Walker McRea Camp of Confederate
Veterans and Adjutant General and Chief of Staff of Gen.
R. R. Poe's 3d Arkansas Brigade, LI. C. V. Best of all, he
was a Christian — a member of the Baptist Church from early
boyhood, being loyal and faithful to his profession.
J. S. Hill.
J. Sloan Hill, an ex-Confederate soldier, died at his home,
near Brighton, Tenn., January 17. 1007, in his sixty-sixth
year. He enlisted in Company C. gth Tennessee Infantry, or-
ganized in Tipton County in April, 1S61. and served faithfully
and well for four years as a private, and was discharged about
the 1st of May. 1865, at Greensboro, N. C. He was in all the
battles in which his regiment was engaged; and, although
slightly wounded at Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, and At-
lanta, was disabled for but a few days at any time.
He was a Christian and died in the faith. He became a
member of the ''old school" Presbyterian Church when a mere
boy, and was for several years prior to his death an elder in
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church,
[The foregoing is signed "Brother" and dated at Memphis.]
Mrs. Theodore L. Burnett.
[A tribute from one who knew and loved her well.]
Elizabeth Shelby Gilbert was born in 1832. She became the
wife of Judge Theodore L. Burnett in 1852. On the evening
of January 29, 1902, a brilliant assemblage of friends wished
her and her noble husband many happy returns upon their
golden wedding anniversary. Among the numerous and hand-
some gifts to the bride of fifty years was a U. D. C. pin of
rubies and diamonds, presented with many messages of love
and good wishes by the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, U.
D. C, of which she was an honored member. On the morn-
ing of January 7, 1007, there dawned upon her a day of eternal
happiness, and her noble life on earth was ended.
In personal appearance Mrs. Burnett was strikingly attrac-
tive; possessed of unusual beauty of form and features, tall,
stately, with an ease and grace of bearing which stamped her
the thorough gentlewoman. Added to these charms was a
vigorous well-sto-ed mind and an almost unerring judgment.
Her funii of reminiscence was varied and charming, and her
friends were- ever eager to hear a recital of her thrilling ex-
periences during the War between the States. Her husband,
Judge Burnett, was a member of the Confederate Congress.
She shared with him the vicissitudes of war, and was a help-
meet indeed, a veritable tower of strength lo him.
Soon after the close of the war the Southern women of
Louisville organized the Confederate Monument Association.
Mrs. Burnett worked zealously in this organization until its
ELIZABETH SHELBY GILBERT BURNETT.
efforts were crowned with success in the erection of a beauti-
ful monument to Kentucky's Confederate dead. The monu-
ment occupies a prominent position on one of the broad streets
of the city.
Mrs. Burnett was a charter member of the Albert Sidney
Johnston Chapter, U. D. C, and was prominent in every good
work, her wise counsel and advice being sought and relied
upon in every important undertaking. She, with a few other
faithful women of Louisville, struggled to establish a Confed-
erate Home, giving unstintingly of her means and labor for
this greatly desired consummation, and from these heroic
efforts has been evolved the elegant Home at Pewee Valley.
She most earnestly desired the erection of a monument at
Shiloh to the memory of the Kentuckians who fell upon that
battlefield, and we who were privileged to hear her appeal to
the Legislature in the winter of 1905 for an appropriation for
that purpose can never forget the striking picture presented
by her and her gallant husband, who introduced her. Splen-
did representatives these two were of the grand man and
grand woman of the grand old South. We who loved her
Qo T) federate l/elerar).
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and lionorcd lier and relied upon her felt llun that she was
growing frail. An attack of pneumonia soon followed, from
which she never quite recovered.
She was a communicant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, an
exemplar of "pure and undefiled religion."
She was admired in society for her graciousness and kindli-
ness of heart. In her home Mrs. Burnett reigned queen, her
husband, her children, her children-in-Iaw, and her children's
children delighting to do her honoi
As the days went by and "sunset and evening star and one
clear call" came to her. she grew more beautiful. Her last
cvid nee of consciousness upon this earth was a smile of in-
effable love and tenderness given to her devoted daughter.
Her sweet eyes closed, and after thai the dark. But sin-
feared no evil, knowing whose rod and whose staff would com-
fori her, and so -he passed into the light that never fails.
Her life work well done, she has responded to the summons
of the King: "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
king. 1. mi prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
We 5hall nol see her like again, this grand, stately "lady"
of the Old South, I'm the "memorj of the iusl is blessed,"
her memory will be treasured a very benediction.
I In the April issue will appear valuable reminiscences of
crossing the lint - by Mrs 1 Inrni 1 1 I
Virginia Dyer
They err who tell us that only the memory of the departed
glorj of the South remains When I he Stars and liars wen
folded around the wrecked hopes of Southern nationality,
when the Southland w<pt over the sepulehers of its mar-
tyred dead and mourned the ashes of its charred splendor.
there were left untarnished the rich heritage of its national
characteristics of hlood
— her cherished ideals
that gavi to that glory
i soul. Thej with-
stood the storms of
the reconstruction, and
id nut to-day tow-
ering landmarks, ar-
chitects in the upbuild-
ing of tiic New South.
Virginia Dyer typi-
those characti
tics in tin :r l .dness
She was a • ughti r of
George W. Dyei and
Caroline Keith, of
Batcsville, Miss., and
a descendant of the
early Dyer and Chil
dress families of Nash-
ville, Tenn , who wen
promim nl in the social
and political life of the
(lid South and who gave valiant service to the Confederal \
Sin graduated from the State Female College at Memphis.
Tenn., and taught in the schools in. ii Inn home for several
years. Later she look a special course in structural geogra-
phy, science, history, and literature at the Chicago University,
where she won distinguished honors. As an educator am.
lecturer, she was accorded front rank, and was one of the
first Southern women lo enter this line of achii vements Her
brilliant mind was influenced bj a high spiritual nature She
vitalized whatever she touched in educational or religious
lines. She lectured in Chicago to the delight of critical au-
diences.
Returning to Mississippi, she gave valuable services in this
line to [he normal institutes for several years, and was desig-
nated for a time "The Orator of Mississippi." As supervisor
of nature study, professor of psychology and pedagogy to the
city teachers of Memphis, she won fresh laurels. While there
she also gave parlor talks before the Nineteenth Century
Club and Woman's Council. These were made the occasion
of social events as well.
Her versatile genius was shown to giral advantage ill a
ten months' stay at Battle Creek, Mich,, where she gave par-
lor talks to a cosmopolitan company of scholars, specialist,.
missionaries, and millionaires.
In a Rocky Mountain tour of five thousand miles in company
with the Press Association of Mississippi a few years since
Miss Dyer gave topographical readings from the ear window
thai were preserved on the printed records of that bodj
She removed to Barstow, Tex., a few years since with her
father, who has large interests there. An extension of her
brilliant career was planned for that State; but it was rudely
l>\ her death, which occurred Octob i 22, 19C6.
[The foregoing is by Mrs Fannie Eoline Selph, Nashville.]
I >R. 1 1 \i<\ iv Shannon.
Dr. Harvej Shannon was horn January is, (831, near 1 i
lettsvillc, Tenn., the eldest sou of (he late Harvey and Mary
Shannon. At an early age he graduated in medicine, and
prior to the war he practiced in Georgia, Holly Springs, and
Vicksburg, Miss. At the outbreak of the war. in 1861, he
assisted in forming an artillery company .it Vicksburg, known
as Swell's Battery, of which he was made lieutenant and
afterwards captain of the companj He served with dis-
tinction until paroled at Johnston's surrender. His lot-
tery was in Govan's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, and shared
with that gallant brigade its fortunes and misfortunes
Shiloh to Jonesboro, Ga., where the battery was captured.
Captain Shannon was badly wounded in the battle of Mi
sionary Ridge on Tunnel Hill !>y an iron ball from a twenty-
pound shrapnel shell, which broke his collar hone, passed
down through his lung, and oul near the backbone below hi-
shoulder. IK- came oul of the battle of Julj 20 al Peachtree
Creek, near Atlanta, with a shattered arm At Chickamauga
he fought Loomis's c lebrated -in gun battery of the I
army, and with some assistant from Key's Battery cut it to
pieces. It was captured eventually and held by Govan's Bri-
gade for a -hurt while Captain Shannon received the sur-
render of thi captain of Loomis's Battery, who presented him
with his fine sash and field glass with the remark: "You have
done the best tiring to-daj I evei saw done" While
General Burnside's forces wen- al Knoxville and General
Sherman's army at Chattanooga ration- were being sent from
Chattanooga by live light-draft steamboats on the Tennessee
River, and Captain Shannon was selected to destroy these
boats He did considerable injury to two boats; but he failed
to destroj them, as he could use only seven pounds of powder
111 a charge placed in a slick of cord wood; and after the
Second boat was injured, orders were given to split every
large piece of stennlio.it wood, and one of the new "infernal
machines." as the Yankees called them, was discovered, and
thus the plan wa frusti ated.
Dr. Shannon wa- married to Miss Lucy Irwin, of Vicks-
burg, Mi--, and they lived happily together forty year's They
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DR. HAKVEY SHANNON.
removed to Ocean Springs, Miss., and made their home there
for several years. Five children blessed their lives. The
eldest, Harvey, a noble young man, passed away five years
ago. The surviving
children are Irwin and
William Shannon, of
New Orleans; Miss
Lucy Shannon, of
Clinton, Ky. ; and
Mrs. Charles H. War-
wick, of Nashville, at
whose home his death
occurred May 14.
1906. Besides these,
he leaves s e v e r a 1
grandchildren, a full
brother and sister, I.
N. Shannon, of Dick-
son, and Mrs. Mary
Freeman, of Baker's,
Tenn., and a half-
sister, Mrs. Orpha
Wyatt, who resides at
Greenville, Ky.
[The foregoing is
from a niece of Mon-
ticello, Fla., who concluded: "Sleep on, dear uncle."]
In a personal tribute Charles W. Harmon said of him :
"Whatever Dr. Shannon did was well considered and exe-
cuted in the most unostentatious manner. After the war,
when the dark days of reconstruction in Mississippi were
fraught with events of oppression, when the yoke of provoking
insult and injustice was chafing the Southern neck, he was
again looked to to guide the people of his section, which he
did successfully, using pacific means when the best policy, and
again employing daring tactics when the emergency demanded.
"The latter years of his life were mainly devoted to the
practice of his profession, and in this he was the same quiet,
earnest, careful man, ever seeking the well-being of others
above his own advancement. In war, in peace, in the Church,
in the chamber of sickness, in the quiet of his home he was a
tower of inspiration, of comfort, of good cheer, and Chris-
tian example. He lived his principles, and was as nearly as
can be found an embodiment of the golden rule.
"He faced death as he faced every emergency in his event-
ful career. When such a life is to be yielded up, the end is
always well. God gave him length of days, and in return he
gave the years back to his Creator full of benefactions to his
times and fellow-men. He has gone to meet his comrades now
who are bivouacked on that shore where deeds of mercy and
heroism done on earth are wrought into crowns of eternal
rewards. His memory to those who knew him intimately will
come as sweet incense from the past at eveningtide, and his
life stands boldly forth as an example founded on truth that
welcomed duty in every form and knew no fear."
Dr. A. C. Sloan.
Dr. A. C. Sloan, of Corsicana, Tex., died November 30,
aged sixty-three years. That "Death loves a shining mark"
was verified when he relentlessly swooped down and snatched
from the bosom of his family one who was near and dear
to so many of his friends and who seemed so necessary to the
community in which he lived. To those at a distance who
had last seen him in perfect health the sudden news came as
a shock. Memory recalled the near neighbor and friend who
upon so many occasions of anxiety for the fate of loved ones
had come into our home as a harbinger of rest and uttered
reassuring words when the heart was faint, and who through
years had been ever faithful and true.
Perhaps there were few men wdio ever filled the place of
family physician so completely in every sense of the word.
He was the safe confidant, the calm, unbiased adviser in
every time of trial, and wore ever the white flower of a
blameless life. He entered a sick room with softened tread,
bending reverently to the agony he was called upon to allevi-
ate ; but his clear eye never faltered as he reassured the suf-
ferer and inspired the hopes of the watchers.
Dr. Sloan was trulj- "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief," and this had mellowed his life into gentleness and
given his manner a touch of tenderness to all wayward, suf-
fering humanity, which gained for him the confidence and
affection of his people. When only a youth he gave his willing
service to the Confederacy in his native State, Alabama.
When the banner of the Southern cross was furled, he turned
to face the world in a hand-to-hand struggle for himself and
loved ones, and to his brothers and sisters was "as a great
rock in a weary land."
Going to Texas in 1868, he settled in Navarro County,
near Dresden, and practiced his profession successfully. He
made a trip to Europe, where he studied the best methods of
surgery, and upon his return removed to Corsicana, where
for twenty-five years he was one of her most honored citizens
and successful practitioners. Intellectual, scientific, always
dignified, he was ever reserved and unassuming. His in-
fluence was elevating, his example inspiring, his charity known
only to its recipients, and his memory will be cherished in
the hearts of his friends as something rare and beautiful.
To her who was the loved companion of all his joys and
griefs, the one to whom his sensitive nature clung with un-
dying fidelity, and to his children all hearts go out in sym-
pathy as we stand with bowed heads in the presence of a
loss time can never obliterate. To him all is peace and rest;
and as the sands of life were slipping fast, he might have truly
felt with the poet :
"Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me !
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When I put out to sea !
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark.
And may there be no sadness of farewell
When I embark !
For though from out our bourn of time and place-
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar."
[The foregoing is by Mrs. A. V. Winkler, of El Paso, Tex.]
Overton S. Ogilvie.
Overton S. Ogilvie was born in Williamson County. Tenn.,
September 27, 1839; and died at his home, in Marshall County,
Tenn., in May, 1905. In youth he went to Louisiana and
took charge of a large farm owned by his father, Alfred S.
Ogilvie. While there the Civil War came on, and he en-
listed, taking with him his faithful servant, Henry. He did
valiant service for his country with Captain Vincent's com-
pany, Dick Taylor's command, at St. Landry Parish. La.
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He was in active service to the end. He returned to his boy-
hood home a physical wreck ami penniless. Soon he re-
gained his former strength and en rgy.
He married Mi-- Mary Clark, whom he hail known from
her childhood. They reared to maturity ten children. ■
boys and three girls, lie was ind ed a noble character. His
section. He was a native of Winnsboro, S. C. but removed
in Georgia when a young man. lie served gallantly through
the war with the 1st Georgia Regiment. For years he was
Commander of Camp Sumter, of Americus, and the success
of the Camp is due largely to his efforts. He engaged in the
practice of law after the war. and served as judge for years
in local courts. He was seventy two years of age. His wife
and a d mghter survive him.
1 >k. J. AI. Ajbboi i
The death of Dr. J. M. Abbott at Trilba, l-'la .. January 4,
mo;, was a distressing event. Although a Veteran (and they
are all old), he was of such activity, physically and mentally,
1 hat his loss becomes a public calamity. Dr. Abbott was horn
m Louisville, Ky , Time 14, 1X44. He enlisted in the Confed-
erate service at the age of eighteen years. He was second
lieutenant, then first lieutenant, and in 1804 was in command
of his company, E, 5th Kentucky Infantry. He was in many
Hi" the severe and famous battles, including Missionary Ridge,
Murfreesboro, and Rock Face Gap.
Dr. Abbott removed to Texas soon after Ihe war, and 111 the
practice of law was successful. He returned, however, to Ken-
uicky and took up the study of medicine. He graduated in
the New York Medical College, and soon went to Florida,
where a town is named in his honor, lie was a Royal Arch
Mason and a member of the Baptist Church.
Dr. Abbott sustained a severe injury by a wound in the battle
Ot RTOl 0G1LVI)
everyday life was a beautiful exampli of truth and integrity.
He calmly met everj obligation, and he put his trust and
faith in One he knew would comfort and sustain until the
end. In his family circle il was Ins delight to relate thrilling
tits of hi- soldier life around Washington and many
other places. Two well remembered comrades were Dan
Quirk and Eugem Blakemore, No Confederate soldier ever
loved the cause he espoused and the dear Southland more
than Overton S. < Igilvie.
Mice" send with the sweetest memories."]
S \l ni\ ( '<>r\ TV Yi HERANS.
Saluda County < S. C.) t lonfi di r
--ed away during [906. All three died of heart di
I \\ ii on pa 'il iiver in June, lie made a brave
-I Idier, .1- well as a good citizen afterwards.
B Suddath died in Vugust. He enlisted at the be-
ig of the war; and, though di abled bj .1 wound in the
arm, he served faithfully to the end
\ Meniit answered the summons in October, at the
age of seventj thi e j 1 ars,
the) leave u-. the brave boys of the S
Jutk.i John B I'n sbury.
The earthly career of Judge John B. Pilsbury, of Vmi
<;.v. was ended on the 22i\ of October, [Oo6, after an illness of
many months. He had bei dent of Americus for half
itury, ami 1, n in the life of that
UK T. M. ABBOTT.
of Jonesboro, Ga., that caused a hemorrhage of the lung
all) and resulted al last in In- death.
In his final words to the wifi he said: "Bury me in
my uniform of gray; for four year- 1 wore it with honor and
. and 1 want to 1"' I I ime."
Other Last k"ll n< unavoidably held over.
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MONUMENT OF WADE HAMPTON.
A most singular oversight occurred in the failure to men-
tion even the name of the sculptor of the Wade Hampton
colossal statue used on the front page of the Veteran for
December, which is regarded as one of the greatest works of
art yet produced anywhere. The print in the Veteran was
very defective. It was molded November 20, 1906.
The fund of $20,000 by the State of South Carolina was
liberally supplemented by private subscriptions, and the lead-
ing papers of the South have been lavish in its praise. Mr.
Ruckstuhl is himself very much pleased with his success, and
his pride in it is hardly second to that of his Gloria Victis in
Baltimore, which appeared on the front page of the Veteran
for March, 1903.
In a conversation with Mr. Ruckstuhl, he manifested his
pride and gratitude, which are justified by the widespread tes-
timonials he has received. Of many voluntarily written evi-
dences of appreciation, the Veteran requested a copy of the
following letter from a son of the distinguished soldier, states-
man, and citizen. It is as follows :
"Columbia, S. C, Nov. 21, 1906.
"My Dear Mr. Ruckstuhl: When the equestrian statue of
my father, Gen. Wade Hampton, was unveiled yesterday, I
saw it for the first time. This first and last impression was
awe-inspiring, and made, me feel that I saw my father as I
knew him on horseback.
"I consider that the people of South Carolina are to be
congratulated upon receiving from your hands such a mag-
nificent piece of work and a statue perfect in purport and
detail. With my" regards and best wishes, yours very truly.
G. McD. Hampton."
Gen. M. C. Butler, in his oration at the unveiling, said :
"Permit me in passing to congratulate you in securing the
services of so accomplished an artist and sculptor for the de-
sign and completion of this historic picture, and to congratu-
late him (Mr. Ruckstuhl) on the taste and ability shown by
him in his work. The appearance, the pose, the ornamentation,
the artistic proportions, the likeness, the mounted attitude are
as near perfect as it seems to me human effort and ingenuity
can make them."
The Monument Commission, appointed by the Legislature,
selected Mr. F. Wellington Ruckstuhl as the sculptor without
"competition" on the strength of his past work. The contract
was signed two years ago, when Mr. Ruckstuhl went to Paris
to make the statue.
The sculptor has represented Hampton riding down the
line at a review of his troops and saluting them as they cheer
him. The statue is fifteen and a half feet high, and was cast
by the compagnie A. Durenne at Paris. It was shipped com-
plete in a case sixteen feet high via Havre and New York
to Savannah by boat, and from there by rail to Columbia,
where it arrived safely. The sculptor followed it all the way
from Paris, and watched each loading and unloading.
The horse's head in the bronze is not reined in, but the
horse himself bends his head proudly as he bears his master,
cheered by his soldiers.
The pedestal, in the designing of which Mr. Ruckstuhl was
assisted by M. J. L. Fougerousse, of Paris, consists, first, of
a slight grassy mound; secondly, of a curb having beautifully
designed angle railings of bronze ; thirdly, of another grass
mound ; fourthly, of two steps of Winnsboro granite ; and,
finally, of a die made in Brussels of gray granite quarried in
the Vosges Mountains of Alsace. The die is completely
polished. It is mounted with twelve bronze plaques bearing
names of ten battles and dedications to Hampton, besides in-
scriptions in raised bronze, antique Roman letters. The ped-
estal is thirteen and a half feet high and of unusually happy
proportion. The whole monument is twenty-nine feet high
and cost complete thirty thousand dollars.
The monument is a great success with the people, and "i*
considered the finest monument in the South."
Mr. Ruckstuhl is the author of many public monuments,
among which are celebrated Confederate monuments at Bal-
timore and Little Rock.
The New York Times says of it:
"In Columbia the likeness to General Hampton is regarded
as perfect by those who have had the chance to see it. The
sculptor depicts Hampton baring his head as soldiers defile
before him — this in order to obtain a greater likeness and
naturalness than would have been the case if he had placed
the hat on. He has tried to steer clear of too much realism
on the one side and too much conventionalism on the other.
The horse especially is treated in a monumental way, with
parts of the head, for instance, slightly exaggerated in order
to carry well at a distance. The pedestal is about fourteen
feet high and the whole monument nearly thirty. In the arch-
ing neck he means to express the pride of a thoroughbred-
Hampton was a very dignified man of the old school, the very
opposite of the men who supplanted him in the political field
and occasionally amuse themselves by turning the Senate of
the United States into a beer garden. This dignity the sculp-
tor has tried to express.
"The statue, cast by A. Durenne, of Paris, is about sixteen
feet high and weighs seventy-five hundred pounds
"One of the commission from the Legislature, B. A. Mor-
gan, writes to the Columbia State that it is 'artistic, imposing,
inspiring, satisfying.' J. G. Marshall writes : 'The likeness
to General Hampton is remarkably fine. It is a great success.'
E. Mclver Williamson says: 'The statue grows on me. It is
Wade Hampton. The oftener I see it, the more I admire it."
THE WADE HAMPTON STATUE IN COLUMBIA, S. C.
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Gen. T. W. Carwile, who commands the Confederate Veterans
of South Carolina, informs the Slate that he is much pleased
with it."
The State said in commenting upon the monument: "The
Hampton statue is a magniliccnl work of art. It is worthy of
the subject, the masterpiece of a master. Nearly thanks are
due the Hampton Monument Commission for their excellent
judgment. They have been brilliantly successful in dischar-
ging the duty imposed on them by the Legislature."
The Columbia State says further in reporting the event:
"The statue to Gen. Wade Hampton is South Carolina's
tribute in enduring bronze not only to that great captain of
Cavalry but to the men who rode with him in Virginia and
to the men who counseled with him in 1876, This monument
is but a typification of the chivalry and manho d of the South.
"The people of South Carolina contributed to this monu-
m nt fund, and hundreds are interested personally in the suc-
cessful fruition of their hopes. What they were unable to
raise was supplemented by the Legislature. The first act ap-
proved by Gov. D. C. Heyward after be became Governor
reads :
"'Whereas the following preamble and resolutions were
adi pted by the last Democratic Convention:
"'Whereas it has pleased God, in his wise providence, to
call to his eternal rest our illustrious fellow citizen, Wade
Hampton ; and whereas we, the representatives of South
Carolina in convention assembled, recalling his glorious ex-
ample in war and in peace, and especially mindful of his
incalculable service to the Slate as her leader and counselor
in 1876, would put on record our sense of his noble career and
our appreciation of bis loss; therefore be it
" 'Resolved, That in the death of Gen Wade Hampton
South Carolina laments the |i ss of one of her greatest citizens
and most distinguished soldiers and a leader and counselor
in her direst necessity, to whom she owes a debt of lasting
veneration and love. His name and fame are a heritage of
which any people might be proud. And we further recom-
mend that a suitable statue be erected by the State and placed
in the State Capitol; therefore
I'm it enacted by the General Assembly of the Slate of
South Carolina, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be
appropriated, to be used in connection with ten thousand dol-
lars to be raised by voluntary contribution Said twenty thou-
sand dollars shall not become available until the sum of ten
thousand dollars shall he raised bj voluntarj contributions
and the same shall have been deposited in some bank within
the State to ihe credit of the commission to he appointed by
the Governor. The total shall be used for the purpose of
erecting upon the Capitol grounds an equestrian statue lo [he
memory of Wad Hampton.'"
MRU S 83 AND AB( H 1 I / FERANS
P, A Blakey, Mount Vernon, rex., writes: "I want to ex-
press my approval of the erection of a monument to the mem-
ory of Captain Wirz, who was unjustly murdered by the
United Sta rities, and hope to make a donation in-
dividually and perhaps one from this Camp, 1 hope you will
see lit to encouragi the building oi the G Derations to
follow should know |hat the Southern people hold in high
1 ti 11 him who was made a martyr to •: of the Con-
ey"
' ' In the 22d
of July. 1864, southeast -1 Atlanta. Ga., Second Lieut. Ed
went with n< in .1 charge made by oui com ma ml in th ■
rear of Ihe Federal army. He was never seen or heard of by
his company afterwards. Any information of him that can
be furnished will be gratefully appreciated. Our command was
Company II. coth Texas Regiment, Granbury's Brigade, Cle-
burne's Division. Any one there will remember that rear
movi in 1 1 and the Rebel yell made by Hardee's Corps. I had
the honor to command Company H until the battle of Frank-
lin, Tenn., where I got my leg broken and was not able lo
righl ;iii\ up ire.'
VOrj 1 HUMOR* 'US AND SI R/< 'I • . \ IS.
The Memphis Appeal of June 17, [862, quotes as (..Hows
from the Lynchburg Republican: "Good for Jack. An inci
dent occurred with our friend Jack Alexander, during Jack-
ie. 1 m dashes in the Valley, which should be put on
rd In the neighborhood of Martinsburg our cavalry,
among which was the Campbell company, commanded by
1 aptain Jack, came up with and captured a number of Yan-
kees who had in then possession a whole flock of negro women
with their little pickaninnies and who were found in the
wagons belonging to the army. < n coursi oui boys took pos-
session of the contrabands and turned them southward, with
their Yankee friends keeping 1 lun 1 company, Jack guarding
the whole. But a short distance had been made when the
little brats began to show signs of breaking down, and Jack,
ordering a halt, directed each of the prisoners to take one of
the little sables in his arms, telling them they had brought
them there, and he'd he d — d if they should not carry them
back! The order was obeyed, hut with evident reluctance,
and the march was recommenced, among the audible titter-
ings of our boys and the suppressed curses of the Yanks. In
this way thex inured Winchester, the little brats fondling
their nurses in some cases, and in others squalling as only
they knew how. The scene was most ludicrous, and many a
stern soldier, unused to the 'melting mood,' laughed until he
cried."
Col. Fred L. Robertson, of Tallahassee, Fla., sent the above
and adds: "In the same copy of the Appeal I found an excerpt
from the Atlanta Confederacy, entitled 'Plunderings, Rob-
beries, Outrages, and Atrocities of the Yankees in Middle
Tennessee.' The article was brought out by the fulsome reso-
lution adopted by the Yankee convention held at Nashville a
short time before which stated thai the 'forbearance, modera-
tion, and gentlemanly deportment >•< the officers and soldiers
of the Federal army, since their occupation of Tennessee,
challenge our highest admiration.' I do not think these items
should be lost or forgotten. The Yankees hold themselves up
to the world as models of refinement, of culture, and of
Christian forbearance: when, if they had justice done them,
many of them would be in a penitentiary for stealing from the
South the silver thai adorns their tables, the jewels worn by
their wives and daughters and of which they boast as 'cap-
oned.' as also the paintings on their walls and the finest fur-
niture that adorns their houses. One Virginia lady who sat
behind the wife of a general officer in Trinity Church, New
York, discovered that the wife of a general was wearing her
lawl. -She informed her husband of the fact, and told
him she intended to have it; that she knew it by a tiny darn
thai she had worked herself The shawl had b en stolen a>
usual During the service the Virginia lady haned over and
said : 'That is my shawl you have on. We are stopping at
Tie St. Nicholas I 1 turned crimson for the rest
of th. rid early next morning the shawl was s
ated."
iao
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THE GREAT SOUTH— MATERIALLY.
From a paper signed by W. W. Finley, new President of
the Southern Railway, the following notes are taken concern-
ing "the conspicuous industrial growth of the New South:"
"One of the most interesting stories of to-day is that of
American industrial, commercial, and agricultural expansion.
The decade closing with 1906 was the most remarkable in
American history. In the ten years the republic emerged full-
fledged as a world power. In this development the South was
most conspicuous. The farms of the Southern States during
this remarkable period gave the country its balance of trade
with foreign lands. Cotton was the largest single article in
the li<t of agricultural exports, and a majority of it came
from the S'ates traversed by the Southern Railway and its
alii' d lines.
"The Southern Railway, like other lines of the country, was
taxed to the limit in taking care of traffic. The growth of
business exceeded the anticipation and prediction of the most
optimistic economist. To have followed the dictates of the
oversanguine might have proved disastrous. . . .
"The main territory traversed by the Southern Railway
system, south of the Potomac and Ohio and east of the Mis-
sissippi, comprising about twelve per cent of the continental
area of the Union, contributed more of the fruits of agricul-
ture to world use than any other area on the face of the earth.
The staples of this Southern region have thus become inter-
national, rather than national and sectional. They enter into
the necessities of more people than those from the other sec-
tions of the planet. Of the eight important American exports,
four arc almost solely produced in the South, and these four —
cotton, tobacco, oil cake and meal, and vegetable oil — con-
tribute twenty-five per cent of the entire farm surplus of the
American republic, coming, as already staled, from twelve
per cent of the country's area.
"The year 1906 is one of an even dozen in the history of
the Southern Railway, each a year of increased growth as well
as responsibility; for not only has the road more than doubled
its length, and earnings as well as operating expenses in-
creased in proportion, but new problems present themselves
for solution. Originally an agricultural line, it is now an in-
dustrial one, for the industrial growth of the South in the
past decade had no equal in any other geographical division
of the United States.
"The relation the South sustains agriculturally to the people
of the world is fully established. For years it was regarded
as a one-crop country, but within the decade it has risen to a
commanding place in various ways, and in combination with
its former great staple — and still staple — it has a multiplicity
of farm crops which now participate in supplying Northern
and foreign markets.
"Corresponding with this marvelous agricultural growth has
been the industrial development, an attainment that has a
most substantial basis. No other region of equal size on any
continent has greater diversity and extent of natural re-
sources in deposits of coal, iron ore, structural materials, and
of rare and economic minerals, combined with forests of mer-
chantable timber and unrivaled water powers.
"The increase in capital in Southern manufactures in the
five-year period ending with 1905 was sixty-five per cent com-
pared with forty per cent in the whole country, while the in-
crease in products was forty-four per cent compared with
thirty-two per cent in the country at large. Reports to the
Land and Industrial Department of the Company show that
1,198 new industries were located in territory covered by the
Southern Railway and Mobile and Ohio Railroad during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, and there was no diminution
of activity for the last half of the year.
"The financial growth has been widespread and well dis-
tributed, as evidenced by the growth of the banking business.
According to the report of the United States Comptroller of
Currency, deposits in the banks of the South June 30, 1896,
were two hundred and twenty-one and a half millions, which
sum had increased June 30, 1906, to eight hundred and eighty-
two and a third millions, or four times -as much. Fifteen
years ago there were eleven hundred banks in the South; now
there are twenty-seven hundred. Thirty years ago there were
nine hundred newspapers ; now there are twenty-five hundred.
Educational facilities have multiplied, but particulars of
growth in all directions could be indefinitely detailed.
"The South has nearly as many seaports as all the rest of
the country combined. The total exports and imports are
not as great, but the figures are growing. During the fiscal
year 1906 Southern ports sent abroad six hundred and forty-
two millions of products compared with five hundred and fifty-
five millions in the preceding year, while imports increased
from eighty-three millions to one hundred and one millions.
The ports of the South are nearer the West Indies, South
America, and the Panama Canal than any other in the Union,
and in the trade now in sight with our neighbors of Latin
America the South has the supreme advantage.
"The known potentialities of the South and many yet to
be reckoned with under the whip and spur of steam and elec-
tricity, aided by scientific research and application, promise
much for industry and intelligence in the coming years ; and
so the Southern horizon shows no signs of stagnation, but
instead acceleration and achievement. The wealth and variety
of possibilities and opportunities for brain, brawn, and capital
are so vast in the South that they baffle the mind to fully
grasp their magnitude. Go where you may, there is room for
energy and ambition with ample compensation for every ex-
penditure of effort. There will be discouragements, individual
and sectional, and occasional impatience that somebody or
some place may be doing a little better ; but persons and lo-
calities most sure to win out and share rightly in the increas-
ing greatness are those who know there is a great work to
do and concentrate their energies and back faithfully every
interest directly or indirectly necessary to their home develop-
ment. All ambitions and emoluments cannot be realized this
week or month or year; but the earnest and honest worker
of the South, regardless of his calling, is living in a section
which has no equal on this continent for gaining all of the
rewards of persistent and intelligent labor."
P RES ID EXT I. T. HARAHAN.
The system of the Illinois Central Railroad is a different
one from that of which he took charge sixteen years ago.
By absorption and extension it has added many hundreds of
miles to its total length and increased its earning power many
fold. All this extension work has taken place under Mr.
Harahan's direct supervision. He knows every foot of the
roadway, and he is perfectly familiar with it from personal
observation. Not only is he familiar with the physical con-
dition of the property, but equally so with the earning capacity
and possibilities of every section of the system. At a mo-
ment's notice he can tell where the bulk of the tonnage comes
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from, of what the bulk of the tonnage of evi ry section consists,
and the possibilities of its future increase and expansion.
It is by this faculty of informing himself as to tlie general
interests of the gnat railroad and as to how they best can be
promoted that Mr. Harahan has attained his success. The
one particular thing in earlier days that attracted the atten-
tion of his superiors was that he went outside the round of
his duties to serve the interests of the road.
With every part of the woik of railroad operation Mr.
Harahan is practically familiar. He knows the process of
tamping a tie; he knows every section of the machinery of
which a locomotive is composed, and could put them together
like an expert machinist ; he can take out a long freight train
ami handle the throttle as efficiently as the most skillful emgi-
neei ; he knows by experience all the dangers and all the ex-
periences which befall the average train hand, for he has
undergone them all. and no man is more competent than he
to judge of merit on the part of his subordinates, lie is, in
short, a thorough railroad man.
Mr. Harahan has been called the Ulysses S. Grant of the
American railway world because of his indomitable i
and perseverance and the faculty he possesses of pegging away
at any difficulty encountered until it is removed and his pur-
pose has been accomplished. He is a big man, of massive
frame, strong physically, strong mentally, and with an in-
satiable determination to acquire all the information obtain-
able on any subject in which he becomes interested. His
scientific as well as practical knowledge- of everything relat
ing to railroad affairs is extraordinary. Mr. Harahan is like-
wise i big-hearted man, considerate to the widest extent of
the rights and fei I his subordinates He is a man of
PRESIDENT J. T. HARAHAN.
few words, but is keenly observant of everything taking place
about him, having a keen insight into the motives which
prompt men's actions or the results that are likely to follow.
He therefore excels in sel cting the right men for important
places. He is self-possessed; nothing perturbs him. When
confronted with an emergency, he meets it with serenity and
a clearness of perception of what is required and with alert-
ness, energy, and determination.
It is said of him that, while other men are thinking of how
a thing should he done, be has accomplished it: and if asked
how he fulfilled his purpose, lie simply points to the result,
the only explanation with which he is concerned. He is not
given to paying attention to methods so long as the results
are satisfactory. He is impatient of delay, and cannol endure
procrastination. While a man of few words, Mi Harahan
gives his instructions in definite terms, and he expects his
orders to l,e carried out with alertness and precision.
While deprived at the beginning of his career of a technical
training, .Mr. Harahan recognizes the desirability of possessing
such an experience ["he pior.eer period in railroading, in his
opinion, has passed, and the successful railroad manager of
the future must understand the whys and wherefores of every
action. He must be the master of the principles of operation.
Science and practice must be combined Mr. Harahan, there-
fore, is the warm advocate of technical schools for railroad
men. or rather for the youth who amis at devoting himself to
a railroad carei r.
It gives the Veteran sincere pleasure to testify that Mr.
Harahan ha- always shown the greatesl consideration for
thi i onfederate Veterans, and has by his prompt and liberal
cooperation contributed to the success ,,f ;,11 of their Reunions.
Although he fought on the other side, he has invariably mani-
fested a sympathy and g l will .,. generous as if hi- had
b en their associate in arms.
Mr. Harahan was entertained bj the Nashville Board of
Trade in January; and after leaving the city, he wrote to
the President, Mr. 1. eland Hume: "I am pleased to receive
the resolutions passed bj the Board of Directors of the
Nashville Hoard of ["rade, expressing then . in my
ability as a railroad manager, my friendship for Nashville,
the State of Tennessee, and the South, and tendering me. as
the chief executive of this company, their loyal support. For
expressions please conve} to the Board mj sincere and
heartfelt thanks The uti ince into Na liville of the Illinois
Central Railroad i nsummati of the greatest
ambitious of m\ long railroad career, and there will be no
change in my policj to do all within my power that is just
and right to upbuild and see Nashville what it is destined to
be — one of the foremost cue- of tins country. I could have
no other feeling for the home of m days, where re-
main unbroken somi iveeti t ties of friendship, and
whereat last b) the sidi of manj loved ones 1 expect all that
is mortal of me to rest forevci in i
I he p- 1 ipli oi | Mr. Haraha:. in the
St. Charles Hotel. New 0 ' inber 15 nit. Tin re
were more than one hundred and ninety participants at the
dinner. Addresses W< Hows, Hon. Martin Rerh-
tnan serving as toa Hon. Newton C. Blanchard,
"Welcome from the Stat< ;" Samuel I. Gilmore, "The City
of New Orleans;" Milton il Smith, "The Great Railroads of
thi South;" M I Sandi 'Oct in Liners in the. Mississippi;"
Bernard McCloskey, "Port Facilities of New Orleans;" Al-
ii 'it Godchaux, "The Commercial South;" response by the
gui -t. Hon. J. T. Harahan
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QoQfederat^ l/eterai).
REV. HENRY MARTYN FIELD, D.D.
Last ok Four Eminent New England Sons.
Much might be appropriately written for these pages in re-
gard to the life and character of Rev. Henry M. Field, D.D.,
who died at his country home, in Stockbridge, Mass., January
2S, 1907. It was the good fortune of the writer to know him
well, to know him on many a journey in his business life in
New York and in his home, a place he fitly described when
standing with his back to a great wood fire on a cold evening
after a journey from New York: "Ah! New York is very
good, but Stockbridge is better." The remark illustrated the
man. He looked on the bright side of things generally.
Through Dr. Field the editor of the Veteran was favored
with his clearest insight into
New England life. The visit re-
ferred to above was the occasion
for realizing hospitality that
can't be excelled in the South.
Dr. Field was, through his long
life beginning at the forefront cf
higher morality and advantages
for acquiring knowledge, enabled
to see with broad vision. Then
at an early age he possessed
extraordinary advantages for
travel, and as an author of emi-
nence his society was sought and
honors paid him by the nobility
of nearly every country in the
world.
Dr. Fit Id was pastor of a St.
Louis Church in 1843. at the age
of twenty-one years. After a
successful ministry there, he re-
signed to travel abroad. The
summer of 1S47 he spent in
Great Britain, and the winter
following in Paris, where he wit-
nessed the Revolution, which he
described in a series of letters
to the New York Observer.
That was his first work with the
religious press. After his return
to America, he became pastor of
a Congregational Church in West
Springfield, Mass., which pastorate continued about four years.
In May, 1851, Dr. Field was married to Miss Henrietta des
Portcs, a native of Paris and a woman of note. She was con-
spicuous in the tragedies connected with the French Revolu-
tion. After her marriage, Mrs. Field was principal of the
"Female School of Art" in Cooper Union, New York, and
among her pupils were Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New
York Times, and Whitelaw Reid. In March, 1875, Mrs. Field
died, af'^r much suffering. Then it was that Dr. Field began
his career as a world traveler. The plethoric purse of his
brother. Cyrus W. Field, was opened wide to him, and with
their niece, Miss Clara Field, the Doctor made a tour which
was extended around the world.
In the fall of 1876 Dr. Field was married to Miss Frances
E. Dwight, of Stockbridge, who survives him. He became
half owner of the New York Evangelist in 1854, and subse-
quently sole owner, and continued its publication until 1898,
when he sold the paper and retired, remaining quietly through
the latter days in Stockbridge.
Dr. Field was one of the most noted travelers in all the tide
REV. HENRY M. FIELD, D.D.
of time to write, as he did, from an exalted point of view.
His first book, published in 1S50, was "The Irish Confederate
and the Rebellion of 1798." In 1858 he wrote "Summer Pic-
tures from Copenhagen and Venice." It was while on the
journey with his niece that he collected data for the two
books, "From the Lakes of Killarncy to the Golden Horn"
and "From Egypt to Japan." Some years later he wrote
four other books, "On the Desert," "Among the Holy Hills,"
and then "The Greek Islam' a, id Turkey After the War" and
the "Gibraltar." He published "Spanish Cities" in 1892, and
then the story of "The Atlantic Telegraph" af:er the death of
his brother, Cyrus \V. Field, whose greatest fame is con-
nected with this achievement in cooperation with Peter Cooper.
Interesting as is the career of
Dr. Field, youngest and last of
"the four most eminent brothers
in America" ( While the four
mentioned were eminent men, it
seems hardly fair to omit the
others. One of them, Matthew
D. Field, was an eminent engi-
neer, and built the first suspen-
sion bridge at Nashville, Tenn.),
this sketch is lengthened to give
emphasis to his last and best
book, "Bright Skies and Dark
Shadows." This is the last of
his most important books. His
versatile and patriotic mind en-
abled him in his latter days to
appreciate most keenly the hos-
pitality of Mr. John H. Inman,
a Tennessee-Georgia Confeder-
ate, who accumulated millions of
dollars in the metropolis and
brought South a party of emi-
nent men on an extended trip.
Of this party was Dr. Field, and
this was his first visit. "Bright
Skies" is a series of papers on
that and subsequent visits.
Appearing as "Bright Skies"
did in Dr. Field's declining yet
ripest days, he was anxious to
have it read extensively in the
South, and one of his last business acts was to ship the entire
edition to the Veteran. A large number of copies of the
book have just been bound, and the interest of every man and
woman even friendly to the South is asked now to become
interested in this book.
In connection with the foregoing, mention is made of his
series of letters about the South— "Bright Skies." The offer
on this book is the best ever made except as to "Rise and
Fall of the Confederate Government." The publishers' price,
$1.50, is cut down to one-third of that sum and postpaid. It
is a charming book about the South by a great author, who
yearned to have the fraternal spirit that he entertained known
throughout the South and appreciated. Remember the price-
postpaid, 50 cents; two copies, $1; and it will be sent free to
any one who will send two new subscriptions with $2. Let
orders come at once. It would help to advertise the Veteran
if we could procure in thirty days orders for one thousand
copies. This book should be in the home of every family in
the South.
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L39
FORREST'S FIRST CAVALRY FIGHT.
BY II. T. GRAY, PERRYV1LLE, KV.
Iii September, 1S61, David and John Prewitt and I [eft
Perryvillc, Ky., after Church on Sunday night and rode to and
through Bloomfield to the home of Mr. William Huston,
about five miles south from Bloomfield, where we were fed
and slept through the day- After supper we fell in with an
old fox hunter, who was piloting Hon. R. \V. Wooley, and
Started for Dixie. After several days and nights of hard rid-
ing and dodging the home guards, we arrived at Munfords-
vill , then inside Dixie's line. From there the two Prewitts
and 1 rode over to Bowling Green, when- we got transporta
ti Memphis. There we enlisted in Capt. Dave Logan's
company of Forrest's Regiment. About ten days afterwards
w r were 01 di n d into Kentucky.
\ 1 1 1 r a short stop at Fort Donelson, we moved on to Hop
kinsville, Ky., and went into winter quarters. There we began
scouting the country, and did it thoroughly from Canton, on
thi I umberland, to Morganfield, hack to Eddyville, on the
Ohio, to Princeton, hack to camp. We were not in ramp
many days at a time, just enough to rest the hors s, when m
would be off on another scout. 1 lining Christmas week we
started on a scout. The weathei was verj cold, with snow on
[round, and often we suffered severely. One night some
of us hoys got in a shuck pen and buried ourselves in the
shucks and passed a comfortable night Vfter almost two
days of marching. Colonel Forrest took one half of the com
maud and went off a side road, leaving Major Kelly to march
<m id Greenville with the rest. We had about three hundred
men on this scent. On the second night Major Kelly went into
camp about one half mile north of Greenville, where the good
people sent out an invitation in supper. They gave us a real
royal feast at the courthouse Just as we were finishing sup
; lonel Starnes rode up and reported a Yankee scaring
p. lit-, out. Major Kelly took us back to camp He sent Lieu-
tenant Cowan out with twelve nun as pickets to picket the
We want about three miles, when oui road ran into
another. YVc halted here and prepared for a fight.
It was s,, cold that it seemed as if we would freeze, SO wi
ucin to work and tore out about a hundred pantls oi fenci
to our rear and came up with them and built a big, strong
fence across our road and staked and rid; red it and braced it
Then day began to break We mounted our hi rses and rode
back to camp about sunrise We fed our horses and laj down
by a good lire to sleep, when boots and saddles was blown.
O, Lordyl no sleep all night and no breakfast. Colonel For
ime in Hist as we gOl covered Up We got up and sad
lounted out horses, and took up our line of march ovci
me mad we had picketed all night before. When w
came to our base of the night before, we received information
that the Yankees were a mile or two ahead of us Colonel
Forrest called a halt and said: "Now. boys, keep rpnet." lb
then ordered the trot march.
We rode probably a mile or two when a halt was called.
Wc all tightened our saddle girths. Colon. I Forrest spoke-
to the bugler: "Blow the charge, Isham " With that, we
raised the veil and away we went. The ground had begun to
thaw by this time, and we were soon covered with mud from
Bead to fool Our company was in the rear, and our boys
began cursing the two companies ahead of US, whom we
thought were ruling too -low. and threatened to ride over
them. Colonel Seniles was riding with US, Me told Lieu-
tenant Cowan to pass them with his men right and left, which
wc did. reaching the open woods win re Forrest had just
engaged the Yankees. We went in red-hot, and in about ten
minutes we had them going. We chased them through Sana
memo and about two miles beyond, when a halt was called
We killed over twenty and captured about twenty live with-
out the loss of a man.
( HARITY FUND FOR ( 0NF1 ,"/ RATES.
"A Northerner" s.nds a clipping from the Chicago Tribune
to the Veteran suggesting that the merits of the case be in-
vestigated "Unable to obtain employment and without friends
lo care for them. Mrs. Margaret Hickey, sixty-eight years
old, and her daughter. Kathermc. fifty years old and deaf and
dumb, arc being cared for by the Desplaines Street pola.
Mrs. Hickey is the widow of Col. Michael Hickey, of Ken
lucky, who served through the Wai between the Slates in the
Confederate Army. For sixteen years after the close of the
war mother and daughter clung in a little farm in Elizabeth -
town 'Man debts swamped them, Mrs. Hickey said last even-
ing The mortgage was foreclosed, ami they came to Chica
go, where for twenty-five years they earned a precarious liyi
lihood. 'fhe difficulty lias been and is that Mrs. Hickey is
determined to keep her daughter near her Employment w 1 u 1 e
this is possible has been hard to find; and as the women grew
older, they found the task insurmountable. With linked arms
mother and daughter leavi the station each day, and until
nightfall seek employment. During the night at the station
the mother remains by her daughter 'fhe matron has urged
her to occupy an adjoining cell, where she might sleep bctler.
hut Mrs. Hickey declines 'My relatives are dead and we arc
in the world alone,' Mrs. Hickej said. '1 am willing to work,
Inn I niiisi be near my daughter on account of her affliction
My great grandfather, Sylvester Wheatl y, served through
the Revolutionary War, My grandfather was a soldier; my
husband was wounded fighting for the Confederates. Rut the
policemen have he n kind to me. and I thank them.' Mrs
Hickey and her daughter have been at the station for a week."
The published records of Confederate offic rs has not a
('..lonel Iliekey in the list. A ease of an old veteran and wife
wdio travel about quite extensively in Tenn ssee is recalled
by the foregoing. The man has papers showing that he was
e 1 soldier, and the pitiably filthy condition of himself and
wife induces spontaneous aid from good women, and the
money is spent in going from one place to another. He begs,
and \.i spurns the idea of going to the Confederate Home
While it is important to help unfortunate comrades and their
families, it should he done with (dose discrimination, There
should be a fund in the hands of a committee, and Street beg
ging for such persons should not he allowed
MRS. MYRTA LOCKET! AVARY'S BOOKS
Mrs. Avary's pen delights in depicting Southern historj
I I. 1 late t volume, "l>i\i after the War." gnes fascinating
and pathetic glimpses of events during and immediately after
that tragic period. There are numerous illustrations of nota-
ble personal: s The work is written in a unique, conversa
tioiial style, full of accurate anecdote. It is not too much to
-ay that Mi Wary' 1 1 by future generations will be
treasured as heirloom When the "Id folks are all gathered
lo their fathers, many a boj and girl will point with pride 1..
what then did in the most gigantic of civil wars.
Mi Avary is a Virginian by birth A glimpse of her life
history is given by Gen. Clemen) A. Evans in the preface.
[The foregoing is hy Helen Gray, of Atlanta]
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TWO JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION PIERS.
Of the sums appropriated by the United States government
in aid of the Jamestown celebration, to be held next year near
Norfolk, Va.. five hundred and fifty thousand dollars is
specifically set aside for the construction of buildings and the
collection of exhibits. It has been the purpose of the James-
town Exposition from its very inception to create a colonial
city on the shores of Hampton Roads, and the policy of the
United States government is to further this end by the erec-
tion of buildings all of which will belong to that distinct
type of architecture. Dotted here and there along the six
miles of roadway connecting the Exposition with Norfolk
are several fine examples of colonial architecture, and in the
city of Norfolk there are some houses which are perfect
specimens of that type.
It might be said that the American adaptation of the Geor-
gian style, called the colonial, reached its zenith in Virginia,
as is attested by the splendid James River mansions, the
colonial houses of Middle Virginia, and that marvelous ex-
ample of the purest type, the University of Virginia. The
lines of the buildings will be chaste and the gardens reminis-
cent of the seventeenth century. The whole picture will be
a composite of green foliage, native flowers, hard shell or
dirt roads, and houses, large and small, built of brick, white-
columned, or of shingles interset with tiles. The bill appro-
priating the government money sets forth that "Said build-
ings shall be erected as far as possible in the colonial style
of architecture from plans prepared by the supervising archi-
tect of the Treasury."
To enable free and ready communication between the ships
of the fleets that will assemble in Hampton Roads and the
Exposition shores, and in order to furnish a safe and ample
harbor for small boats and launches, the government has ap-
propriated four hundred thousand dollars for the construction
of two mammoth piers projecting eighteen hundred feet into
Hampton Roads, connected at the sea end by a third pier.
Each of these piers will be two hundred feet wide, and the
lateral piers will be eight hundred feet apart, thus forming a
basin eight hundred by eighteen hundred feet in area. The
paragraph of the bill making provision for the construction
of these piers further provides that the water basin shall be
dredged throughout its entire area to a sufficient depth to
accommodate boats drawing ten feet of water at mean low
tide. This water basin will be unique among the Exposition
sights. It will be brilliantly lighted at night, and at the sea
terminus will have two tall towers, one for the Lighthouse
Service and one for wireless telegraphy. The connecting pier
will be arched sufficiently high to permit all the small craft
to enter the basin. Shrubs will be planted all along the piers.
I'n -ides its use as a harbor, the inclosed basin will serve
as an arena for water sports, swimming matches, water polo
and such games, and possibly for the exhibition of various
models of mo!or launches. Boats will leave the main landing
at the shore end of the basin and circle the outer harbor or
take passengers to the various ships, while the sea end may
be used as a landing place for larger boats. The dimensions
of this enormous basin can hardly be comprehended without
comparisons. The greatest length is about nine ordinary city
blocks ; the connecting pier at the end is six blocks long, and
the width of each of the piers is the length of the average
block, two hundred feet. The total pi r way therefore equals
the superficial area of twenty-four city blocks, ample space
for a multitude of displays and space that will be utilized for
such purposes.
Harriet Overton Chapter, U. D. C. — A Girls' Chapter of
the United Daughters of the Confederacy was organized on De-
cember 31, 1906, by Mrs. Isabella M. Clark at her home in
Nashville. There is only one other Girls' Chapter in Ten-
nessee, the other being located at Paris. These Girls' Chap-
ters will be the means of bringing a large number of workers
into the field. There are thirty-two members in this new
Chapter, which is named in honor of Mrs. Harriet Overton,
who so materially aided the South during the war and worked
untiringly to the end of her life for those who espoused the
Confederate cause. Mrs. Clark, who is a charter member of
the Nashville Chapter, U. D. C, was unanimously elected Presi-
dent, and under such an able and enthusiastic leader the Chap-
ter should accomplish a great deal. Mrs. Clark is a woman
of marked executive ability, which has been demonstrated dur-
ing her long association with the Nashville Chapter. The
membership list of the new Chapter includes representatives
of the oldest and best-known families in Tennessee. Miss
Jennie B. McCarver is the Secretary.
A case of widespread interest in the courts of Washing-
ton has been the trial of young Chester Thompson for mur-
der on the plea of insanity. The Tacoma Ledger pays high
tribute to the plea of the father, Will H. Thompson, for his
son. The counsel was a Confederate soldier at fifteen years
of age. His education was prevented by a combination of
circumstances, but after attaining his majority he became a
diligent student. Among his contributions to literature is one
that will live through the ages — "High Tide at Gettysburg."
The W. B. Bate Chapter, of Nashville, will hold a me-
morial service at the residence of Mr. W. R. Bryan on the
anniversary of his death, March 9, at 3 p.m. Mrs. Bryan, the
President, extends a general invitation to this service.
Mrs. Fannie Eoline Selph is to be congratulated upon the
popularity of "Texas ; or. The Broken Link," the book that she
has advertised liberally in the Veteran. She is soon to
issue the third edition. The book has been liberally ordered
in New York, Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Her na-
tive State of Mississippi honored her in having it placed in
the State Library. It has also been placed in most of the
leading Southern libraries and in some of the leading schools
and universities of the South.
GEN. R. E. LEE OX TRAl'ELER.
The life-size painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Traveler.
by Mrs. L. Kirby-Parrish, of Nashville, Tenn., is justly re-
garded as the most faithful and characteristic of all the por-
trait of the "great soldier and greater man." He appears
here in his lovable character as a man of peace while Presi-
dent of Washington College, Lexington, Va. His famous
war horse, Traveler, is painted from the only life photograph
ever taken of him, and is a perfect likeness. At the solicita-
tion of the Exposition authorities, this superb picture will
have an honored place among the art treasures at Jamestown.
Nothing could be more appropriate, for General Lee was not
only one of the most illustrious sons of Virginia but he is
recognized as a world character of the highest rank.
Photographs from this fine painting (copvrighted) are now
on sale, and there is an increasing demand for them. Size
20x24 inches, $3; size 12x15 inches. $2. Mounted on best
white card, with wide margins, ready for framing. Order
from Confederate Veteran.
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any one who can .isms: him. tie says
his father, Emanuel Russell, enlisted
i! "in Al xandria, La . going first as a
substitute, as he was ovei age when the
first call came for volunteers. He thinks
he was with General Polk in Tennessee
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R. I M< Phail, of Graham, Tex., re
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town n\ a silver medal about the si/e of
a half dollar, on one side of which is the
following: "James M. Woods, New
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Vols." On the reverse appears:
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Station, Gainesville, Bull Run. South
Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Chancellors^ ille, Getfysbui g " The
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and I am delighted to have it ami look
forward to the coming of the nexl copy
wuh pleasure, although I served on the
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Sih Kentucky Cavalry."
In complimenting a friend with re-
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and the quantity of ore blocked out is so incredibly large that the figures are not given. This property
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.
Entered at the post office :it Nashville, Tenn., as second-class matter.
Contributors are requested to use only one side of the paper, and to abbrevi-
ate as much as practicable. These suggestions are important.
Where clippings are sent copy should be kept, as the Veteran cannot un-
dertake to return them. Advertising rates furnished on application
The date to a subscription is always given to the month before it ends. For
Instance, if the Veteran is ordered to begin with January, the dale on mail
list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that number.
The civil war wai too long ago to be called the late war, and when cor-
respondent* use that term " War between the States** will be substituted.
The terms "New South" and " lost cause" are objectionable to the Veteran.
OFFICIALLY' REPRESENTS:
United Confederate Veterans,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Sons of Veterans, and Other Organizations,
Confederated Southern Memorial Association,
The Veteran Is approved and indorsed officially by a larger and i
elevated patronage, doubtless, than any other publication in existence.
Though men deserve, they may not win success;
The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the less.
Price, $1.00 per Year. I
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Vol. XV.
NASHVILLE, TENN., APRIL, 1907.
No. 4.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
Proprietor.
address by general officers v. c. v.
To the Camps of U. C. V., the Confederated Memorial As-
sociation, United Daughters of the Confederacy, United
Sons of Confederates, and all Confederates.
We have been elected to offices of high distinction and recog-
nize the obligations created by these honors because they were
conferred by our comrades of the United Confederate Vet-
erans. In Ibis spirit we address you, on our own motion, this
letter on a special subject because we know that the desire is
common among us that the knowledge of the principles and
facts of the Confederate epoch should be more widely dif-
fused. We feel that this information should be conveyed to
the people of the present Age through the press and other
agencies in such spirit, manner, and mode of publication as
will do justice tn our Confederate people, secure the fame of
which our dear Southland is well worthy, abate all ungener-
ous controversial spirit, and promote a more perfect under-
standing and cordial union of all parts and people of our
Country.
In considering maturely this very important matter we are
gratified by the fact that the United Confederate Veterans
Association, Confederated Southern Memorial Association, the
United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the United Sons of
Confederate Veterans have an official organ, commended over
and over again by unanimous resolutions at our animal con-
ventions, m a magazine of high rank called the CONFEDERATE
n. nl.lv editeil and published monthly by our true and
enthusiastic fellow Confederate soldier. S. A. Cunningham,
at Nashville. This noble magazine began its career years ago
as a patriotic venture upon the field of hop. in its confidence
ed in il ■ to whom its worth] objects appealed, and
we have witnessed its ascent to success with the especial pride
that such success is so well deserved. We deplore nothing
that the 1" is conferring i month
upon thousands of readers are not enjoyed bj tens of thou
sands more, h is a medium by which everj phase of Con-
ite tunes is intelligent^ and interestingly conveyed to
the minds of young and old. It is a glad hand cxtcidid cot
dially to shake ever) I onfederate hand, and it goes with a
sincere fraternal greeting to all patriots in our Land It is a
treasury of argument, history, b siory. and song, con-
tinuing to steadily increase these rich* from month to month.
lt« contents make a table around which Confederates, with
their sons, daughters, and friends, sit once a month to enjoy
an intellectual, social, affectionate, friendly, country-loving
feast. It never was of more value than it is now. And, con-
sidering all that should be said, written, and done through its
agency during the next ten years of only one hundred and
twenty issues, it is now more valuable than ever.
In view of all things we know about the Confederate Vet
eran magazine and ils valuable uses, will you, each and all
of you, agree to make an immediate practical working effort
to at hast double the number of its subscriptions, and thus
quadruple the number of ils interested readers? Can we af
ford to do less? Can we do anything of better avail to dif-
fuse the knowledge and increase the appreciation of our South
land and its history?
We beg now to urge that every Confederate Camp and othei
organization consider formally, earnestly, actively, and prac-
tically this subject in the months of April and May. We trust
that each of these organizations will take immediate action,
so that the increase referred to shall he made before our great
Reunion in the city of Richmond. We urge that immediate
personal effort he made by Confederates and their sons and
daughters. We ask that the ever-generous press of our coun-
li \ help us. and we authorize the CONFEDERATE VETERAN to
publish this appeal with conspicuous display in the April and
May numbers of that magazine.
Repeating our expressions of gratitude to all who have hon
on d us as Confederate soldiers, and greeting you with OU1
hands and hearts, we have the honor to be your obedient
servants :
Stephen D. I.ee. General, Commander in Chief U. C. V :
William E. Mickle, \!.,i Gen., Chief of Staff. U C V ;
W. L. Cabell. Lieut Gen., Trans Mjss. | ), ,„ .. \\ (\ V .
('lenient A Evans, I urn Gen Vrm) ["emi Dept., U. C V.j
C Irvine Walker. Lieut. Gen., Army X V Dept., U. C \
M \ fOR Geni R \i s Vpproving.
ge P Han Maj Gen Vlabama 1 >i\ . < ipelika.
\\ II I. w< II, Maj < icn Florida Div., < irlando.
Vndrevi J. West, Maj Gen Georgia Div., Atlanta.
\ t i i len Mar) land I )i\ .. Baltimore,
John B Stone, Maj Gen Missouri Div., Kansas Cit)
Julian S. t an, Mai Gen North Carolina Div., Durham.
George W. Gordon, Maj Gen. ["ennessei Dh Memphis
K. M VanZandt, Maj Gen ft Dh . Fort Worth.
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Stith Balling, Maj. Gen. Virginia Div., Petersburg.
Robert Lowry, Maj. Gen. Miss. Div., Jackson.
Thomas W. Carwile, Maj. Gen. S. C. Div., Edgefield.
Paul A. Fusz, Maj. Gen. N. W. Div., Philipsburg, Mont.
John Threadgill, Maj. Gen. Okla. Div., Oklahoma City.
Robert White, Maj. Gen. W. Va. Div., U. C. V.
The letter from General Evans to Major Generals states:
"A suggestion, altogether my own, was made to Mr. Cun-
ningham about the Veteran, which he thought of favorably,
and in correspondence asked me to prepare the circular, a copy
of which is inclosed and explains the whole matter.
"If you approve, you will please authorize Mr. Cunningham
to print your name to the circular. I did not move in the
matter until assured that General Lee approved.
"If all, or nearly all, Commanders of Divisions approve, I
suppose that Comrade Cunningham will print and circulate
the letter as suggested."
Brigadier Genvrals Approving.
Application to Brigadier Generals for approval of the ad-
dress was sent direct without putting upon General Evans the
care to attend to it. As his address was only to the Major
Generals, many of the Brigadiers have refrained, but evidently
because of delicacy. Some of these, however, responded in
the spirit they were addressed. It h expected that nearly all
will contribute to this great indorsement in the May Veteran.
Brig. Gen. S. S. Green, of Charleston, W. Va., writes : "I
approve heartily of the matter; but as General Evans did not
send it to the Brigadier Generals and seems only to contem-
plate the signatures of officers above that grade, I do not feel
that it would be proper or becoming in me to sign the address
or authorize my name to be put to it. Otherwise I would be
pleased to do so."
General Evans replied to General Green : "I suggested sig-
natures of the Major Generals without intending to confine
our appeal to them alone. By my request Comrade Cunning-
ham has solicited the signatures of all Brigadier Generals,
and I trust he will be successful."
W. L. Wittich, Brig. Gen. First Florida Brig., Pensacola.
John W. Clark, Brig. Gen. Eastern Brig., Ga. Div., Augusta.
J. E. DeVaughn, Brig. Gen. W. Brig., Ga. Div., Montezuma.
W. A. Montgomery, Brig. Gen. Miss. Div., Edwards.
J. M. Ray, Brig. Gen. Fourth Brig., N. C. Div., Asheville.
W. L. London, Brig. Gen. Second Brig., N. C, Pittsboro.
J. M. Carlton, Brig. Gen. First Brig., N. C. Div., Statesville.
W. H. H. Ellis, Brig. Gen. Montana Brigade, Bozeman.
F. T. Roche, Brig. Gen. Third Brig., Tex. Div., Georgetown.
S. S. Green, Brig. Gen. Second Brig., W. Va., Charleston.
James R. Rogers, Brig. Gen. First Brig., Ky. Div., Paris.
James I. Metts. Brig. Gen. Third Brig., N. C. Div., U. C. V.
James Baumgardner, Brig. Gen. Fourth Brig., Va. Div..
Staunton.
[See comments of General Officers, page 157.]
Approved by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson. President General U. D. C,
writes as follows : "It gives me great pleasure to speak for
the U. D. C. indorsing the above. The Veteran has been
the greatest help to us in our work, and its editor, Mr. Cun-
ningham, has always since I have known anything of the
U. D. C. work helped us in his magazine with any work we
have undertaken. The whole of the U. D. C, I am sure, will
be glad to have me as their representative, indorsing all the
good which is ever said about the Veteran."
In a personal letter Mrs. Henderson states : "I take great
pleasure in indorsing all said about the Veteran in the com-
munication from the officers of the U. C. V., and you may
quote me as saying so. I couldn't possibly get the signatures
of the Division Presidents in time for the April number; but
I inclose an indorsement which I will be glad to have you put
right after the Evans paper signed by U. C. V. officers."
Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President of the C. S. M. A., writes
from New Orleans, La., March 23, 1907, to Gen. Clement A.
Evans, Commander Army of Tennessee Department, C. S. A. :
"My Dear General: It affords me great pleasure to say a
few words in praise of our distinctively Southern magazine,
the Confederate Veteran, and to compliment our mutual
friend, Mr. S. A. Cunningham, on his able management. It
is a magazine of great historic value, and I should be glad to
see it placed in all Southern colleges and schools. As Presi-
dent of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association I
most earnestly request every 'Memorial Woman' to use her
influence to increase its circulation. We cannot afford to miss
a single copy. Through its columns we are kept in touch with
all Confederate work. It is the link that binds us together and
enables us to preserve the cherished memories of the sixties.
"I am proud to say that I have in my library a copy of the
first number issued (January, 1893), and with the exception
of a few missing copies, which I am now trying to procure,
the file will be complete up to date. I consider this the most
valuable portion of my 'Confederate Library,' and hope it may
continue with increased circulation for many more years."
Sons to United Confederate Veterans.
Thomas M. Owen. Commander in Chief U. S. C. V., writes :
"Send me twenty-five copies of your 'Address,' and I
will forward to our several Department and Division Com-
manders with request that they unite with the Veteran in the
proposed appeal planned by Gen. C. A. Evans. I am glad to
respond favorably to your request of the 19th inst."
Commander in Chief Owen sends this to his comrades:
"During my two terms as Commander in Chief of the U.
S. C. V. I have never suffered an opportunity to pass without
doing all I could to aid in promoting the success of the Con-
federate Veteran. This valuable historical and patriotic peri-
odical is published by S. A. Cunningham at Nashville. For
years he, through the Veteran, has been the most valuable
ally possessed by the several Confederate organizations. He
has not only published, and thus permamently preserved, many
historical articles and isolated facts as well, but he has thrown
his columns open to us for notes and news concerning the
business of the organizations themselves, thus affording an
excellent medium for the interchange of views and the neces-
sary dissemination of information.
"In view of the assistance thus rendered our Confederation,
as well as for the principles upon which it is based, it is our
duty and should be our pleasure to stand by Mr. Cunningham
and the Veteran. To that end I want you to authorize your
signature to the address, a copy of whfch I am inclosing. It
is proposed to print the address in the Veteran for May, after
which it will be very generally distributed, in order to in-
crease its circulation. It is hoped that you will let me have
prompt reply, and thus couple your name with a worthy effort."
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Capt. E. F. Griswold, who served in the Union army from
1862 to the close and was twice in Libby Prison, becomes en-
titled to a pension of twelve dollars per month. In a letter
to the postmaster at Richmond, Va., he states: "I should be
glad to accept the government's gratuity, which North and
South both pay, provided there is any Confederate soldiers'
charitable organization that would be willing to receive it
in recognition of kindnesses shown me while a prisoner."
PUBLISHED REUNION PROGRAMME.
Official Order of Exercises for the Richmond Reunion.
Thursday, May 30. — Meeting of convention in morning and
parade of Veteran Cavalry Association, Army of Northern
Virginia, and unveiling of the J. E. B. Stuart statue in the
afternoon. Night, reception to Veterans by Sons of Veterans,
sponsors, and maids of honor.
Friday, May 31. — Meeting of the convention in the morning,
business session and reception in the afternoon, ball and en-
tertainment of Confederate Veterans at night.
Saturday, June I. — Business session in the morning. En-
tertainment of Veterans, Sons of Veterans, sponsors and
maids of honor, and the public in the afternoon. Reception
at the Executive Mansion by the Governor of Virginia at
night.
Sunday, June 2. — Memorial services in the afternoon.
Monday, June 3. — Grand parade and unveiling of Jefferson
Davis monument in the morning. Grand rally at Convention
Hall of Veterans, Sons of Veterans, sponsors, maids of honor.
Memorial Association and United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy at night.
Sponsors for the U. S. C. V.
Commander in Chief Owen is reported as saying: "The Re-
union would not be a success without the attendance of the
fair daughters of the South. Following the usual custom,
therefore, it is expected that one sponsor and one maid of
honor will be appointed by Department, Division, and Brigade
Commanders, and one sponsor each by Camps. The Reunion
Committee will supply free hotel accommodations for only one
sponsor in chief, with one maid of honor, three Department
Iponsors and one maid for each, and one sponsor and one maid
of honor for each Division. Brigade and Camp sponsors and
maids of honor, as well as maids of honor and chaperons in
addition to those indicated above, must be looked after by
their friends."
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
BY DR. T. WILLIAM JONES. SEC. AND SUPT., RICHMOND.
Tlie delay in the completion of this great enterprise has
been a source of great disappointment to the Board of Trus-
tees and to Confederates generally. But the suit of our former
Secretary. Underwood, and his injunction against the Rouss
estate, preventing the payment of $40,000 balance on the sub-
scription of C. B. Rouss, have so handicapped the Board that
they could net go forward. At first a Brooklyn jury gave a
verdict against the Association for $16,000: hut our counsel
took an appeal, and six months ago the appellate court gave
a decree in our favor on every point at issue. That ought to
have closed the matter; but they held on. pretending that they
would appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, until
they have finally been thrown out of court and all of the costs
put upon them.
Peter Rouss. son and executor of Charles Broadway Rouss,
has said all along that he would pay the balance ($40,000) on
his father's subscription as soon as the injunction was re-
moved, and he has now written that he is prepared to pay upon
evidence that we have in hand the $100,000 to meet his father's
$100,000. This we are prepared to do, and we confidently ex-
pect to report to the U. C. V. at the Reunion in Richmond
that we have in hand $206,000 and are ready to go forward
with our building.
We are under the highest obligations to our counsel, Battle
& Marshall (two sons of Confederate soldiers who have be-
come leading lawyers in New York), for the ability and zeal
with which they have managed our case without charging any-
thing for their services.
Many of our friends have said: "We will help you as soon
as you are ready to build." We say to all such that now is
the time to fulfill your promise, and you can make your checks
payable to George L. Christian, Treasurer, and send them to
the Secretary, and your money will go into our treasury with-
out any deduction for salaries or commissions.
CONFEDERATE FLAGS IN TENNESSEE'S CAPITOL.
Under a resolution offered by the Hon. A. Weber, of Fayette
County, who was a private in the 15th Tennessee Infantry
and was paroled at Greensboro, N. C. on May 1, 1S65, eleven
Confederate flags have been placed in hermetically sealed cases
in the passage between the Senate chamber and the Tennessee
State Library. The cases are antique, with plate-glass fronts
and lined with felt. When the flags were placed in the cases,
tobacco and moth balls were put in the bottom to kill any
germs that might be in the flags.
The resolution directed that Col. John P. Hickman, the Ad-
jutant General of the Tennessee Division, should have the
flags hung, and appropriated to him $500 for that purpose. He
had the work done for $366.58 and returned $133.42 to the
State treasury.
In the first case he put the following flags : 2d Tennessee
Infantry, Col. William B. Bate; 6th Tennessee Infantry, Col.
George C. Porter. Maney's Brigade, Cheatham's Division,
Polk's Corps. In the center is a steel engraving of President
Jefferson Davis.
In the second case are the following flags: 1st Tennessee
Infantry, Col. Peter Turncy, Archer's Brigade; 7th Tennessee
Infantry, Col. Robert Hatton, Archer's Brigade; 14th Tennes-
see Infantry, Col. William A. Forbes, Archer's Brigade; 23d
Tennessee Infantry, Col. Richard H. Keeble. McComb's Bri-
gade. In the center is a steel engraving of Gen. Robert E.
Lee. The flags in this case were used in Virginia, Heath's
I livision, A. P. Hill's Corps.
In the third case are the following flags: 24th Tennessee
Infantry, Col. John A. Wilson, Strahl's Brigade; 26th Ten-
nessee Infantry, Col. John M. Lillard, Brown's Brigade; 341I1
Tennessee Infantry, Col. James A. McMurray, Maney's Bri-
gade ; 50th Tennessee Infantry, Col. Cyrus A. Sugg, Gregg's
Brigade. In the center is a steel engraving of Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston.
Mrs. Ida Clingman Humphrey, of Goldsboro. N. C, is
anxious to locate a flag carried by the "Glaizc Rifles" during
the war and which she had presented to this company as a
girl in her early teens. It seems that Pink Shuford was color
bearer of the company and that he carried the flag until after
the battle of Shiloh, when the regimental flag was substituted
for it. She hopes to hear of the flag through some surviving
member of the company or through the family of Mr. Shuford,
as he may have had it in his keeping or left it with his chil-
dren.
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Confederate l/eterar?.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ 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.
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION COMMISSION.
It seems fitting to refer herein to the Jamestown Exposi-
tion exhibit for Tennessee since the publication of the editor
as commissioner was widespread and most flatteringly com-
mended. At the time of his appointment — the first made — as
commissioner, and subsequently the other appointments by
Governor Cox, no appropriation had been made. [He had
served his State as commissioner at the centennial anniversary
of King's Mountain when the monument was dedicated there,
he attended the Yorktown centennial celebration, and repre-
sented as commissioner the State in the Portland (Oregon)
Exposition in 1905, all without any expense to the common-
wealth.]
The Legislature now in session having appropriated $20 500
for the purpose of an exhibit, the present Governor, Patter-
son, appointed a new commission, including only Comrade
John W. Faxon of the original membership The appoint-
ment of John W. Thomas, President of the Nashville. Chatta-
nooga, and St. Louis Railway Company, as chairman of the
new commission was excellent, and his acceptance is a guaran-
tee that the purposes will be successfully conducted ; for. like
his deceased father, whom he succeeded in the great railroad
corporation, he never fails in any undertaking — he "counts
the cost in advance !"
The complaints of delay now and then published need cause
no alarm to patriotic friends of the enterprise, need cause no
anxiety, unfortunate as it is that the appropriation was not
made by the Legislature two years ago. The worst misfor-
tune connected with the undertaking is failure by the State
to have its own domicile. The senior commissioner com-
mended a wigwam, which suggestion he believes still might
have been accomplished uniquely. An inexpensive structure
of this kind could have been prepared in the short time al-
lowed, and would have been the most typical of all structures
on the grounds.
Every patriotic Southerner should be diligent to have all
that pertains to Dixie Land appear in the best attire at the
Jamestown Exposition.
REUNION SPONSORS CONSIDERED.
The sponsor question will doubtless share spirited discussion
at the Richmond Reunion. It has been a sore feature with
many of the humbler velerans for years; but the spirit of gal-
lantry has prevailed in its maintenance, and the opposition had
given up hope until the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
in the Gulfport Convention, declared with unanimity and
emphasis against the custom. Then tin- feature of gallantry
became a dilemma. Gen. Stephen D. Lee. Commander in
Chief, had made most appropriate selections ; but happily was •
not so far committed that lit- could not defer to the wish of
the great body of U. D. C, so he not only declined to appoinl
a sponsor in chief, but in his official orders in regard to spon-
sors gave notice that they must be entertained by their escorts.
It may be claimed that such ruling is not the province of the
Commanding General ; but many others who are thoroughly
familiar witli the inside historv of Reunions know that such
action is imperative if the smaller cities are to share in hav-
ing any of the remaining ga '.he rings.
There is another feature that seems not to have had suf-
ficiently careful consideration. In each of our great States of
the South sponsors and their maids are selected by the general
officers. To designate the worthiest daughter of the worthiest
soldier or officer is a grave responsibility. Besides, the
rule of naming one for a State and having her entertained
as guest of the Reunion city deters a multitude who would
be inclined to go if there were not this partiality and dis-
tinction shown one, together with her chum as maid and
another lady as chaperon. It might be well to distinguish
one lovely and eminently worthy daughter of a Confederate
soldier if it could be done by election of all the Camps in
a State ; but the plan that has been in vogue these many
years is so defective of highest merit and deters so many from
going that the petition of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy certainly deserves most respectful consideration.
Another feature that is ever embarrassing is the appointment
of other sponsors and maids of honor even down to Camps,
many of whom go expecting special honors that are never
paid, and they return humiliated.
If the subject be discussed at Richmond, let it be serious
and in the interest of the greatest good to the cause. No
spirit of gallantry or patriotism by the Veterans can be equal
to that of conforming to the wishes of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, and there can be no doubt that they give
expression from positive knowledge that the Veterans as a
body seriously oppose such custom of appointing sponsors as
has been so long in vogue. Of course the officers who
have the appointment of sponsors from among their favorites,
and have them entertained free, enjoy it and would regret
to see it abolished.
The partiality among attractive young Southern women in
the method of selecting sponsors and maids of honor cannot
but be dispiriting. While one is so favored, ten thousand
equally worthy in every respect are left out hopelessly, as
heroism in battle of their ancestors or the sacrifice of their
mothers goes for naught in that feature of Reunions.
The Veteran has been slow to discuss this subject ; but
its editor knows as well as any man the exacting needs of
economy in entertaining, so that invitations are not expected
at all from many well-situated cities. It would surprise those
who may investigate the expenses of Reunions to see how
many times over the amount that is paid for the entertainment
of a poor Veteran is that paid for one of these sponsors with
her maid of honor and the chaperon.
In all the years of our Reunions, with the multitude of lovely
women officiating, the Veteran has been as well treated by
each and every one as could have been desired. To comrades
who may disagree with these opinions like space is offered for
expression of opposite views.
The Pat Cleburne Camp, of Waco, Tex., took formal action
last January against the position of the U. D. C. at the Gulf-
port Convention. Those comrades, like many others, seem to
understand that our beautiful young women are not wanted
at the Reunions. Far from that; but, as indicated above, it is
to place the multitude on equal footing, so that many times as
many as have attended officially would be present, and they
would be as proud as "high privates" and would add propor-
tionately, as their numbers would be larger to the joy of the
men they desire to honor.
Other Camps protesting have not been formally reported.
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MEMORIALS TO CONFEDERATE WOMEN.
Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Special Representative U. S. C. V.
and Chairman U. C. V. Committee, Charleston, S. C, states
that the form of the memorial to the Women of the Confed-
eracy has been determined. It is to be a grand statue or
group of statues in bronze, typical of what these glorious
heroines did and suffered. This statue or group will be erected
on appropriate pedestals, at least one in each Southern State.
It is desired to secure the very best idea for such bronze
statue, which idea will be worked into proper artistic mold
by a skilled artist. As an example of such ideas, one might
suggest a woman nursing a wounded soldier ; another might
sugge-t a noble wife bidding her soldier husband adieu and
sending him to the battlefield — the very best and highest
idea or thought which will most fully and completely typify
and show for all generations what the Confederate woman did
and suffered in upholding and aiding the Southern Confed-
eracy is desired. Such ideas can be expressed in words, not
necessarily in artistic drawing. Ideas either written in words
or drawn will be received. Many may have most appropriate
ideas which they could not put in artistic form. What is
wanted is the idea; an artist can then embody it in proper
form. Suggestions or ideas are most earnestly invited.
The Women's Memorial Committee of the U. S. C. V. of-
fers a prize of one hundred dollars for the best and most ap-
propriate idea. The contest is open to the whole South, and
to the South only, under the following rules:
1. Suggestions or ideas must be typewritten or drawn.
2. Each suggestion must be marked with a designating word
or motto. The true name and address of the contestant must
be placed in a sealed envelope, which envelope must be marked
with the word or motto on the manuscript or drawing and
accompany the same.
3. All suggestions for this contest must be inclosed in a
sealed envelope and sent only by mail to Gen. C. Irvine Walk-
er, Chairman U. C. V. Committee, Charleston, S. C, and
marked on outside "Idea for Women's Memorial," and must,
to be considered, be in General Walker's hands by May 1,
1007, all(l nunc will be opened until that date.
4. The date each is received in Charleston will be stamped
in the post other. So if two or more ideas are alike, the one
first received will have precedence in securing the prize.
5- The award will be made as soon thereafter as possible
and by a committee composed of the chairman of the Women's
Memorial 1 ommittee U. S. C. V., the chairman of the U. C.
V. Committee of Cooperation, and an artist or other party
1o be selected by the two chairmen.
6. On the decision of the committee the award will be paid
to the contestant whose idea is accepted. However, if two or
more ideas are used to secure a combination deemed proper
and best by the committee, then the prize will be divided
between ill contestants submitting the ideas so used in part
in BUch proportion as the committee may feel that each is en-
titled thereto
The above plan and rules are deemed explicit as to the con-
ditions of the contest. In order to place every one absolutely
on the same footing, no answers to inquiries nor explanations
I will lie given.
General Walkei is spending some time in Nashville, He is
here in the interest of the "Tennessee Supplement," and he
states in that connection:
" 1 In re are being published throughout the South supple-
ments to various leading newspapers, those for each State
I*
telling the splendid story of women's fortitude and devotion
more particularly in that State. Such supplements have al-
ready been issued in Florida, Georgia, North and South Caro-
lina, Virginia, and Alabama. Arrangements are now being
made to publish the Tennessee supplement to give the women
of Tennessee their well-deserved place in this grand picture
of Confederate women's heroism.
"The women of Tennessee have a grand history. The many
all throughout the State who know such historic incidents of
women's sufferings, bravery, and devotion can do justice to
them and aid the work of perpetuating Tennessee history by
sending accounts of the same to the editor. What is wanted
is accounts of action. Many who most gloriously acted can-
not put the account in literary form. To such we say send
the account without regard to the literary style, and the
editor will dress it up so as to make a presentable show to
the world.
"All are most earnestly urged to make such contributions of
historic matter. Send before July 15. 1907, to Mrs. J. II. Nye,
17 Garland Avenue, Nashville. Tenn. Mrs. Nye, earnest, in-
telligent, and gifted, has been selected as the editor of the
Tennessee supplement "
TENNESSEE DIVISION, U. D. C.
BY MRS. ALEXANDER B. WHITE. PRESIDENT.
It is important that Chapters, and especially Chapter Presi-
dent-, should familiarize themselves with the proceedings of
the Gulfport Convention and the new rules adopted there, so
those Chapters who have not done so are urged to order these
minutes. Send twenty-five cents for the postage to Mrs.
Andrew L. Dowdell, Opelika, Ala.
The time for our State Convention at Columbia draws near
— May 15-17 — and I want to urge all Chapters to pay their
per capita tax of fifteen cents to the Treasurer, Mrs. George
W. Denny, Knoxville, by May 1 and to elect delegates who
will attend the Convention, for no Chapter will be allowed .1
vote in the Convention without a delegate present. One dele-
gate may cast the entire vote of a Chapter, but in no other
way is proxy voting permitted. Tickets on the certificate plan
will be sold for the Convention for one and one-third rate
round trip. Columbia is making many beautiful plans for the
entertainment of the Tennessee U. D. C, and this Convention
promises to h<- not only the largest yet held but one of the
most enjoyable in our history.
I hapter reports arc limited to three minutes. In the report
give Chapter motto and floral emblem, so the State Secretary
may collect and recorel them. All Chapters having Chapter
flags are requested to be sure to carry them to Columbia and
adel their part to the beautiful ceremony of placing Chapter
flags
Mrs. Robert Taylor. President U. D. C. at Griffin, Ga.,
wishes to secure from any veterans now living who were at
Anelersonville their affidavits as to tin- treatment accorded
prisoner- under Captain Win's administration, which she will
place' in the Museum at Richmond for the benefit of future
historians. This request is made for the purpose of securing
testimony that will refute the slanders upon the name of Cap-
tain Wirz as well as upon the South. Send diree'ly to her.
Again, information is earnestly sought concerning the Union
prisoners who went to Washington to intercede for an ex-
change, and true to their trust returned to the prison. Daugh-
tcrs of the Confederacy want to build a monument to them.
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CONFEDERATE CHOIRS FOR VETERANS.
Grand Commander William H. Stewart writes from Ports-
mouth, Va., that he has conceived the idea of musical enter-
tainments by uniformed choirs singing war songs at the open-
ing and closing of regular meetings of the Camps, and appeals
to the ladies for help. He reports that two Camps have al-
ready adopted the plan, .and that it "has acted like magic in
giving life and interest to Camp work."
His comment is: "It is a beautiful idea, this singing of the
old war songs that cheered the Confederate soldier along
many a weary march and made bright for him his somber
bivouac in the pines before he wrapped his blanket about him
and lay down to dream of home. Now that the battles are
past and the march on which he trudges is that along the path
of life, one which for most of the gallant soldiers of the
South is broadening out, toward the glory of a more perfect
day, the music of those sweet-voiced daughters of Dixie, heard
in the familiar airs dear to the hearts of the veterans, cheers
them again, even as the same songs sung with all the martial
ardor of young hearts and voices did in the long ago."
Colonel Stewart urges all Camps to select some accom-
plished vocalist to organize a Confederate choir on the basis
of a constitution that he has had published. For Virginia he
will number the choirs in the order of organization.
In conclusion he writes: "It is the hope of your Grand Com-
mander to see these vocal orders multiply, so they can be
organized into regiments, brigades, and divisions, forming
Virginia's Grand Vocal Army in Confederate gray to sing at
meetings of the Grand Camp and to give a concert in the audi-
torium of the Jamestown Exposition on Grand Camp Day in
October that will be one of the greatest, sweetest, and most
impressive patriotic festivals of song that have ever before been
heard at one time and place, breathing the very essence of that
spirit of sacrifice, devotion to duty, and love of home and
country that inspired the Confederate soldier from April, l86l,
to April, 1865."
The Veteran congratulates Commander Stewart upon his
happy conception, and commends it to every Camp in existence.
It predicts that at Richmond this feature will be so popular
that comrades from everywhere will take it up. They can se-
cure the cooperation of our Daughters, and it may bestir the
Sons to active interest.
THE CONFEDERATE CHOIR NO. 1.
The beautiful idea of having Dixie girls in Confederate
gray to sing at meetings of Confederate Veterans originated
with Col. William H. Stewart, now Grand Commander of the
Virginia Division of Confederate Veterans, and the first choir
in uniform appeared at Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Va., on
the 19th of January, 1907, singing for the impressive cere-
monies in the celebration of the one hundredth birthday of
Gen. Robert E. Lee. That is an appropriate birthday for the
uniformed Confederate choirs of Dixie.
These choirs are to revive old war songs, and the patriotic
lady, Mrs. J. Griff Edwards, who organized the Confederate
Choir No. 1 as auxiliary to Stonewall Camp, C. V.. of Ports-
mouth, Va., will be blessed by the old veterans throughout the
land. The best blood of Virginia flows in the veins of this
THE CONFEDERATE CHOIR OF STONEWALL CAMP.
Top row: Miss Sophia Nash, Mrs. W. H. Dashiell, Miss janie Neely (First Lieut.), Mrs. Robt. Ridley, jr., Miss Maud Walker, Miss Louise Wilson.
Middle row: Miss Emma Williams, Miss Reita Renn, Mrs. j. Griff Edwards (Captain), Miss Sadie Wilkins, Mrs. S. W. Harris (Second Lieutenant).
Bottom row: Miss Delia Beale, Mrs. Frank I.. Crocker, Miss Elizabeth Neeley, Miss Bessie Ridley (Adjutant).
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sweet-voiced daughter of Dixie, and her unselfish patriotism
is a bright heritage from distinguished ancestors, who are
famous for great
valor and noble self-
sacrifice for their
country. She is a
direct descendant of
Secretary William
Nelson, of the Colony
of Virginia, the father
of Gov. Thomas Nel-
son and Maj. John
Nelson, of Yorktown
fame.
Her father, Wil-
liam Nelson Boswell,
entered the Confed-
erate service at eleven
years of age as a
d r u in m e r in his
father's company, and
his soldierly bearing
on drill so attracted
the attention of Presi-
dent Davis that he
with his own hands
presented the little
drummer with a
sword.
The grandfather of Mrs. Edwards, Col. Thomas T. Bos-
well, out of his own pocket in 1861 uniformed Company A.
56th Virginia Regiment, of Pickett's Division, and served as
its captain until the last of the war. when he was promoted to
major and then to lieutenant colonel of the First Virginia Re-
serves, stationed at Staunton River Bridge, in Charlotte
County. He married Martha Nelson, the daughter of William
Nelson, the son of Maj. John Nelson, of Yorklown, for whom
Mrs. Edwards was named Martha Nelson Boswell.
WILLIAM NELSON BOSWELL.
Pen Portrait of "A Belle of the Fifties." — Mrs. A. B.
Robertson read this exquisite tribute to one of the South's
most distinguished women before the Virginia Clay-Clopton
Chapter, U. D. C, Huntsvillc, Ala.: "It was in the old Thes-
pian Hall. 1 can't give the date nor even the play; all has
passed from my memory but the one episode. When we en-
tered, there seemed an air of expectancy over the house, and
we learned that a seat in the first row front was reserved for
that grand, glorious woman and wife who had suffered and
fought so nobly for the release and freedom of her husband,
Alabama's great statesman, the Hon. C. C. Clay. There was
a hush, and my husband said: 'There she is.' All eyes were
turned to the entrance, and. with heart throbbing. I, for the
first time, saw the one woman of whom I had heard so many,
many times. She was gowned in a thin white mull, en train,-.
decollete, (lowers around the shoulders, in her hair, and at
her corsage, As she advanced it was a hand here, another
there, a smile across the hall, a word to that one, until, when
she had reached her sea!, she bad recognized in some way
every acquaintance in tin- ball, and with .1 sigh 1 breathed:
"No wonder C. C. Clay reached the hearts of the people with
BJCh a wife!' She wax thru, as now, the affable, gracious
friend to one and all. as she is to-day the one peerless woman,
our own grand President, the 'First Lady of our Southland'
and the 'Belle of the Fifties.' "
HISTORY OF THE LAUREL BRIGADE.
At the instance of Gen. Thomas L. Rosser and others, a
history of the Laurel Brigade was written by the late Capt.
William N. McDonald. Ordnance Officer of the Brigade. Cap-
tain McDonald was several years gathering the data and writ-
ing the history, which he had about completed, but had not
quite gotten in shape for publication, at the time of his la-
mented death. That the selection of Captain McDonald to
write a history of the Brigade was a wise one is attested not
only by the zeal with wdiich he entered upon the arduous duty,
the immense labor expended in gathering the needed data, and
as far as possible certifying the same, but also in the attractive
style in which he wrote it.
At a meeting of the members of the Brigade, held in
Charlestown on August 13, 1006, for the purpose of provid-
ing for the publication of the history, the following were ap-
pointed an Executive Committee: Col. R. P. Chew, Maj. E.
11. McDonald, Maj. Angus W. McDonald, Rev. James B.
Averitt, and Bushrod C. Washington. Maj. Angus W '. Mc-
Donald was made chairman of the committee and treasurer
of the fund. Bushrod C. Washington was selected to review
the manuscript, do the necessary editorial work, raise the
funds, and publish the book under the auspices of the Execu-
tive Committee.
A list of the principal engagements of the Laurel Brigade
will give some idea of the amount of service rendered by it
from the lime it shielded Jackson's rear at Kernstown to its
last and desperate fight at Appomattox. Write for circular.
The committee requests that members communicate as soon
as possible with Mr. B. C. Washington, Lock Box 46, Charles-
town, W. Va., giving him the names of the officers and en-
listed men in their company, the names, date, and place of
those killed or wounded in battle, and as far as they may be
able the present address of those living, as it is the purpose
to publish a complete roster of the officers and men.
It is the intention of the committee to have the history pub-
lished just as it was written by Captain McDonald, supplying
only such missing links, if any, as may be found in his manu-
script. It is believed that each soldier who served in this dis-
tinguished brigade will take an interest in the publication.
As it will take a considerable fund to defray the expense of
preparing and publishing the history, we shall be glad if
you contribute to it as you may feel inclined. A check pay-
able to Angus W. McDonald, Treasurer. Charlestown, W. Va.v
will be applied to the publication fund and duly acknowledged.
The Committee of Publication says: "It is expected to put
the manuscript in the hands of the publishers by May I.
Therefore please act with promptness in sending in your
names and rolls of the companies, etc."
Writers of the South.— Miss Rutherford, of Athens, Ga.,
author of "English. American, and French Authors." is now-
compiling the "Writers of the South" in order to give them
the place they rightfully deserve in literature Connected
with these sketches is a short historical outline, dwelling
mainly upon the causes that led up to the War between the
States and the South's true history during and since that war.
which will make the book of great value to all descendants of
Southern men and women. Miss Rutherford has been the
State Historian of Georgia U. D. C. since the office was
created, and is in a position to furnish an interesting and
most reliable historic record. Advance orders for this book
will facilitate its publication and be greatly appreciated by
the author Address : Athens. Ga.
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UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
BY MRS. LIZZIE GEORGE HENDERSON, PRESIDENT GENERAL.
In reading over the minutes of the Gulfport Convention
carefully I see that the President General was instructed to
urge the Chapters to make donations to the monument to
Capt. Henry Wirz, now being built by the Georgia Division,
U. D. C. I take great pleasure in urging this upon you, not
only because one of the most wide-awake Divisions of the
U. D. C. is doing this work but because it is a debt the South
owes to this much-maligned man. The false charges on which
he was convicted and executed have been so industriously
disseminated all over the world that even the children of the
most loyal Confederates have thought that these charges were
true. The world could not take it in that such a daring thing
could even be thought of, much less be carried out, as to
deliberately plan the execution of an innocent man under the
form of a legal execution. The Georgia Division has un-
earthed plenty of evidence as to his innocence to convince any
man or woman who will read it carefully.
If the world would only realize the fact that truth is eternal,
that it will rise up and confront and shame falsehood into
oblivion, what a deal of trouble it would save to those who
attempt to fix in the minds of the world an untruth! How
pitiful it is to see men and women trample under foot all that
is best in themselves, to establish a thing — an untruth — against
which the Almighty has already before the beginning of time
issued the decree of death ! Many untruths flourish for a time;
but truth, which is eternal, will confront them to their annihila-
tion. Let us not have any bitter feeling in our hearts for those
who did this unrighteous thing, but calmly pursue our great
purpose of publishing truth wherever we find that it has been
obscured for a time.
Following in the footsteps of him whom we love to honor,
let us say to the world in his words : "This is done not in
hostility to others, not to injure any section of the country,
not even for our own pecuniary benefit ; but from the high
and solemn motive of defending and protecting the rights we
inherited, and which it is our duty to transmit unshorn to our
children." Let us go quietly on correcting all false things pub-
lished in history, that we may point with pride to the truth
as we teach our children that to be worthy of the inheritance
we bring them through our great fathers and mothers they
must live upright, true, and God-fearing lives, ready to re-
spond whenever our country calls, no matter if in that re-
sponse they must give up everything, even life itself. Let us
teach them this too : That, while their first duty is to their
States, there is a fact which should make us defend one of the
other States as loyally as we would our own State; that this
is now an indestructible Union, and that no State can be in-
jured without an injury being done to all the others, the whole
country. Teach our children that no man who would boost
himself by crying down any section of our country is worthy
1o be put in a place of trust and honor. So let every Chapter
give its mite to the Wirz monument, which is to publish the
truth to the world and work against no person or persons,
but for truth.
Mrs. Voorhees has undertaken to have entire charge of the
U. D. C. bazaar, and she is sending circulars to all the First
Vice Presidents in the U. D. C. asking them to help. I think
it an excellent idea to have this work in the hands of these
officers, for they have no official duties, and the hands of the
Presidents are full. I hope we will all help all we can and
make them know by that what a popular thing it is to have
these officers really active officers. The treasury needs this.
I am sure you all want to do as I have done — congratulate
the Recording Secretary and the printers for the neat and
almost perfectly correct copy of the minutes just out. Those
Chapters which haven't gotten them can do so by sending to
Mrs. A. L. Dowdell, Opelika, Ala., twenty-five cents for
the express or postage. That will bring you only four copies,
as many as most Chapters need. And I want to urge the
new Chapters particularly to be sure to send for them. You
have no idea what an inspiration it will be to you to have
these and to have the best reports from the Divisions read at
your meetings. For myself, I never read any of the reports
without having my strength for our work renewed and with-
out being proud of belonging to the same body of women with
these who are doing such beautiful work.
The contract between the jeweler, Mr. Chankshaw, and the
U. D. C. for better-made Crosses at I2y2 cents each has been
signed, and hireafter we are to have Crosses made just as
near perfectly safe as it is possible to make them.
A Chapter in the Far West writes to ask what the constitu- .
tion means when it says in the eligibility clause: "Also women
and their lineal descendants wherever living who can give
proof of personal service and loyal aid to the Southern cause
during the war." And for fear that there may be others who
do not understand this I will interpret the meaning in this
article, for I am very anxious that we be very strict in observ-
ing the things which make people eligible. It means those
women who can give proof that they rendered any service,
such as supplying with food and clothing, and who sent word
to their friends of their whereabouts, who sheltered, passed
their mail for them, and cared for in any way even one man who
was serving the Confederate government ; those who gave
serviceable information to that government or its agents ;
those who helped to care for the families of Confederates ;
those who visited to cheer and comfort them when Ihey were
in prison; and those who helped them to escape from prison
by sheltering them after they were out of prison. "Lineal de-
scendant," of course, means direct descendants — the children
and grandchildren to the remotest generation. In the consti-
tution of one of the Chapters which was sent to me I notice
in the eligibility clause, "nieces and descendants," while the
general constitution says, "nieces and lineal descendants." I
call the attention of Chapters to the fact that it does not mean
collateral descendants, as cousins are not eligible.
Article IV., Section 4, says with regard to the constitution
of Divisions, and the same thing holds good with regard to
Chapters and their constitution and by-laws : "A State or Ter-
ritorial Division shall be organized by the adoption of a
constitution and by-laws, none of which shall be inconsistent
with any of the provisions of this Constitution."
I have received from the author a copy of one of the sweet-
est Southern sonfs I know of, "The Dear Old Flag of the
South," by Mary Wimboro Ploughe. My club of schoolgirls
were with me lately, and fell so in love with it that without
any suggestions from me they took the name of it, so that they
might get the music teacher in the public school to teach it
to them. It is dedicated to the U. D. C, and we are proud to
have it such a one as takis with the children. For, Daughters
of the Confederacy, in the children of to-day lies the hope of
the perpetuation of our order and the objects we exist for.
No "Vagrant Confederate Widow" in Chicago. — W. E.
Poulson, Commander of Camp Eight. U. C. V., Chicago, 111.,
writes: "On page 139 of the March number of the Veteran
you refer to an article in the Chicago Tribune about the widow
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and daughter of a 'Col. Michael Hickey,' of the Confederacy.
When I saw the account, 1 went to the station and interviewed
the two women referred to, and found that the reporter had
paid but little attention to their statements. Mrs. Mickey
stated that she had lived in Kentucky; but that none of her
relatives were in the Confederate service, and that her husband
was born in Ireland and died before the war. The President
of the Chapter of the U. D. C. also went to see them."
GENERAL OFFICERS UPON EVANS'S ADDRESS.
W. L. Cabell, Lieutenant General Trans-Mississippi Depart-
ment, Dallas: "I indorse all my old friend. General Evans, has
written, so put me down in the right place."
K. M. VanZandt, Fort Worth, Major General Texas Di-
vision: "I heartily approve of the sentiments of the circular,
and indorse the propriety of its publication. You are there-
fore hereby authorized to attach my name thereto."
Julian S. Carr, Major General Commanding North Carolina
Division, Durham : "You know it gives me great pleasure to
do so. I am for the Veteran first, last, and all the time. I
wish it were in every home in the Southern States, and for
that matter it would not hurt to be in every other home in the
land."
John B. Stone, Major General Commanding Missouri Di-
vision, Kansas City: "I authorize you to sign my name to the
circular."
George P. Harrison, Opelika, Ala.: "I take pleasure in say-
ing that you may attach my signature as Major General com-
manding the Alabama Division, U. C. V."
Bennett H. Young, Major General Commanding Kentucky
Division, Louisville: "You are authorized to attach my name
to the circular. It is a great pleasure to do this for you, or
rather for the great cause for which you have done so much,
labored so much, and paid so much."
Stith Boiling, Major General Commanding Virginia Di-
vi -h n, Petersburg: "It gives me great pleasure to sign the ad-
dress sent, and I am sure that every Brigade Commander will
cheerfully sign it. I think you have only to send it to them."
William 11 Jewell, Orlando: "I do with great pleasure au-
thorize you to put my name as Commander of the Florida
Division to the circular. Rest assured that whenever I can
speak a good word for the Veteran or do anything in its
behalf I shall do it."
Gen. George W. Gordon (M. C), Commanding Tennessee
Division, Memphis: "I have read the circular and heartily in-
dorse it. ... 1 will also make it a special matter to call
attention to this subject at the next meeting of our Camp."
Andrew J. West, Major General Commanding Georgia Di-
vision, Atlanta : "Please sign my name to the circular sug-
gested by General Evans, to be gotten out in order that it
may reach as many Veterans and others as possible."
Paul A. Fusz, Major General Northwest Division. Trans-
Mississippi Department, Philipsburg, Mont.: "1 am in receipt
1 I General Evans's letter, inclosing an address by tin- general
officers of the U. C. V.. in regard to urging comrades of all
Camps to do tluir utmost to increase tin subscriptions to the
CONFEDERATE Veteran. I am very much pleased to be of
Service in this manner."
W. A Montgomery, Edwards, Miss : "You have my full
pernu Brigadier General of the Mississippi Division
and also as Chairman of the Executive and Finance Commit-
tee of the Association to append my name to the address."
.1 Alph Prudhomme, Major General Louisiana Division,
Oakland Plantation. Bermuda. La : "I have received from
General Evans the paper headed 'Address by the General Of-
ficers U. C. V.' You are authorized to print my name to the
address."
A. C. Trippe, Commander Maryland Division, Baltimore :
"At the instance of General Evans, 1 write to say that you
may sign my name as one of the Major Generals recommend-
ing the support of the Veteran to all Confederates and others
wishing to get the truth relative to the War between the
States."
James Baunigardner, Brigadier General Fourth Brigade,
Virginia Division, Staunton: "I approve the circular inclosed
in letter to me, and authorize you to print my name to the
circular."
P. C. Carlton, Brigadier General First Brigade. North Caro-
lina Division, Statesville: "I very heartily concur in 'the sug-
gestion,' and authorize you to attach my name to the circular."
W. L. Wittich, Brigadier General First Florida Brigade.
Pensacola : "Certainly you can add my name to the letter, and
will do all I can to further the matter."
W. L. London, Commander Second Brigade, North Carolina
Division, Pittsboro: "If you think it will strengthen it any,
you are at perfect liberty to use my name."
John W. Clark, Brigadier General Commanding Eastern
Brigade, Georgia Division. Augusta : "I am pleased to indorse
the Veteran. It gives me pleasure every month. Will gladly
call attention to it when I meet my comrades and friends."
W. C. Ratcliffe, Ex-Commander First Brigade, Arkansas
Division, Little Rock : "1 am heartily in sympathy with the
movement, and you can use my name if you think proper.
My successor as Commander of the First Arkansas Brigade
is Jonathan Kellogg."
F. T. Roche, Commander Third Brigade, Texas Division.
Georgetown : "I cordially approve and authorize you to print
my name to the circular. The work done by the Confederate
Veteran in preserving the truth of history and perpetuating
the memories of our cause cannot be overestimated. I hope
the movement inaugurated by General Evans will result in
adding thousands of names to your subscription list. The
Veteran should be in every Southern home."
J. E. DeVaughn, Commander Western Brigade. Georgia
Division, Montezuma: "You have my authority to put my
name to the circular, as I fully approve same and will be only
too glad to cooperate with you in furthering the interest of
the cause "
J. M. Ray. Brigadier General Commanding Fourth Brigade.
North Carolina Division, Asheville : "I most cordially join
those distinguished officers who have signed the address, and
authorize the adding of my signature for the purposes set
forth therein."
J. II. Lester, Ex-Commander New Mexico Brigade, Deming
(now of Florence, Ala.) : "You have my cordial consent to
use my name in any way that will extend the circulation of the
i • . i i iterate Veteran. I will also use my personal efforts
In send ym subscribers. I have several times chided my old
comrades since being here for their indifference in this most
important matter."
James R. Rogers. Brigadier General First Brigade, Paris,
Ky , March 29, 1007: "I am heartily in accord with the spirit
"i General Evans's paper, and give my indorsement to any
unit seeking to advance the interests of the Veteran."
William H. Stewart. Lieutenant Colonel C. S. A. and Grand
Commander Grand Camp Confederate Veterans, Department
of Virginia, Portsmouth: "With the greatest possible pleasure
and delight I authorize my signature to the inclosed circular.'*
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THE "FORTY-FOURS."
BY D. C. MARTIN, PLANO, TEX.
The editor of the Veteran invited me to send a group of
an organization known here in Piano as the "Forty-Fours."
There are eight of us, all having been born in the year 1844.
Top row, reading left to right J. M. Wells, G. W.Bowman, A. II.
F"ortner, J. M. Huffman, G. C. Garrison.
Bottom row: J. C. Jasper, D. J. Martin, F. M. Armstrong, Frank Arm-
strong, Jr.
All were in the Confederate army, and we live in and around
the city of Piano, Collin County, Tex. The idea of the "Forty-
Fours" had its conception in the fact that in meeting each
other accidentally and otherwise we learned that each of us
was born in the year 1844. Consequently the club known
as the "Forty-Fours" was the result. Our birthdays range all
the way from January to December, except the months of
February, May, June, and July. The time for meeting is on
the birthday of any one of the club. Incidents (episodes are
usually told), memories of army life, battles, thrilling es-
capes are all talked over and are heartily enjoyed; then a
splendid dinner, after which a memento or souvenir is given
to the comrade at whose residence the meeting is held. The
little boy in the group is the grandson of F. M. Armstrong, at
whose side he is standing. Along with this I am sending you
a list of the "Forty-Fours," giving the number of regiments,
names of companies, etc.
Service of the "Forty-Fours."
T. C. Jasper, Co. C, 6th Ky. Cav., Morgan's Command.
J. M. Huffman, Morgan's Old Squadron.
A. H. Fortner, Co. K, Burford's 19th Texas Regiment.
G. W. Bowman, Co. B, 3d Ky., Morgan's Command.
F. M. Armstrong, Co. E, 5th Tenn. Cav., Ashby's Brigade.
D. J. Martin, Co. F, 15th Tenn. Cav., Morgan's Command.
J. M. Wells, Co. D, 3d Va. Battalion Artillery.
G. C. Garrison, 3d Ky., Co. I, Breckinridge's Brigade.
Mrs. Mary Taylor desires to hear from any old comrade
of her husband, who was a member of the 4th Texas Infantry,
serving in Virginia. He enlisted at Columbus, Tex. His
widow wishes to get a pension if she can get proof of his
service. Write to her care J. K. Neil (Company F, 1st Ten-
nessee Cavalry), Brackett, Tex.
Valued service is being rendered throrjh attention to this
kind of requests in the Veteran.
COL. ELIJAH V. WHITE.
BY MAGNUS S. THOMPSON (OF HIS COMMAND), WASHINGTON.
Col. E. V. White was a Marylander by birth and a Vir-
ginian by adoption. On December 9, 1857, he married Miss
Sarah E. Gott, of Maryland, by whom he had five children :
Elijah B., B. V., and John G. (all residing in Leesburg, Va.),
Mrs. John Gold, of Wilson, N. C, and Mrs. Isaac Lang, of
Fairfax County, Va. His second marriage, on November 28,
1894, was to Miss Margaret B. Banes, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
who survives him. He commanded and gave to the 35th
Battalion Virginia Cavalry its existence, and led it through
many campaigns, battles, and raids to a place in the history
of the war second to no command of its numbers, and distin-
guished under the special notice of such leaders as Jackson,
Ewell, Stewart, Jones, Rosser, and Butler, besides receiving
the highest encomiums from one of the greatest cavalry com-
manders since the days of Murat — Gen. Wade Hampton — and
of Robert E. Lee.
Colonel White began his military life during the Kansas
troubles when, joining a Missouri command, he took an active
part in staying the serious trouble that threatened the coun-
try. At its close he returned and settled in Virginia, only to
spring to her defense in 1859 when a second signal given by
John Brown at Harper's Ferry aroused the entire South to a
realization of impending trouble.
In 1861, when war was inevitable, he joined a company of
cavalry under the famous Ashby, and at once became a most
valuable scout, operating principally in Loudon County under
direction of Gen. N. G. Evans, who was in command that
summer. During the battle of Ball's Bluff, although a private,
he became one of the most conspicuous figures on the field.
Being familiar with the ground, he was assigned the duty of
placing commands in advantageous positions, which he ac-
complished with marked skill and daring, the result of which
was a complete victory to our arms. At night with a handful
of men he captured and brought in three hundred and twenty-
five prisoners. In the official report made he was highly com-
plimented and recommended for a captain's commission.
He soon raised a company of as fine material as ever en-
tered the field, and made a career as brilliant and as daring as
any of record. During the winter of 1861 and spring of 1862
he was attached to General Jackson's and General Ewell's
commands for scouting and headquarters service during the
campaign that resulted in the defeat and rout of three Federal
commands under Generals Fremont, Banks, and Shields.
On the 28th of October, 1862, five additional companies
united with his, forming the 35th Battalion of Virginia Cav-
alry, when he was unanimously elected major commanding.
Soon thereafter the battalion was mustered into the regular
service, and in the fight between A. P. Hill and Burnside in
Snicker's Gap he rendered such valuable and conspicuous serv-
ice as to elicit from Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, commanding cavalry
in the Army of Northern Virginia, a letter of commendation,
in which he said he had heard with much pleasure of the suc-
cessful operations of his battalion in the actions with the
enemy at Snicker's Gap and hoped that it "may be a fore-
runner of still further deeds of daring, skill, and success by
your command."
After this engagement, the enemy withdrew and moved
south along the base of the mountain with Major White raid-
ing his rear, and within a few days he captured about one
thousand prisoners, two hundred wagons, and an immense
amount of stores, arms, etc., among them the headquarters
wagon of Col. W. P. Wainwright, of the 91st Pennsylvania
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Volunteers, including his sword, the Colonel barely escaping.
Major White sent, among other trophies, the Colonel's sword
to General Jackson, and received the following reply :
"Headquarters Virginia District, Nov. 15, 1862.
"Major: The beautiful sword which you have so kindly pre-
sented me and also the other much-prized presents have been
received from Lieutenant Marlow, of your distinguished com-
mand.
"Please accept my thanks for them. I have watched with
great interest your brilliant exploits. Your men may well feel
proud of having such a leader. Press on in your successful
career.
"With high esteem I am. Major, very truly your friend,
T. J. Jackson, Lieutenant General."
After a successful raid and capture at Poolsville, Md., in
December, the following was received from brigade headquar-
ters by Gen. William E. Jones:
"Headquarters Army Northern Virginia,
January 31. 1863.
"General: I have received Maj. E. V. White's report, dated
December 24, 1862, of his scout to Poolsville, Md.. and have
forwarded it to the adjutant and inspector general at Rich-
mond, calling the attention of the War Department to the gal-
lant conduct of Major White and his command.
"I am much gratified at the manner in which Major White
conducted his scout and the substantial results accomplished
with such slight loss on his part.
"I have the honor to be, General, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, R. E. Lee, General."
Early in February, 1863, Major White was promoted to
lieutenant colonel by the President, and in a few days there-
after was ordered to report to General Jackson for special
duty, as the following letter will show:
"Headquarters 2d Corps, A. N. Virginia,
February 5, 1863.
"Major: The courier who bears this has an order from Gen.
R. E. Lee through Brig. Gen. William E. Jones, directing you
with the whole or part of your battalion, as may be necessary,
to report to me for orders. The object to be accomplished is
explained by the accompanying papers from General Cooper.
. . . Keep your instructions and also your destination con-
fidential until your plans require you to make them known.
I hope sometime to have the pleasure of being with you again.
"It is important that you move at once. Please write me on
your return respecting your success.
"I am. Major, your obedient servant,
T. J. Jackson, Lieutenant General."
Reporting upon his return, he received the following:
"1 ll'MlQUARTERS 2D CORPS. A. N. VIRGINIA.
February 24, 1863.
"Major Your letter of the 16th inst has been received, and
1 am much gratified to ham of your success.
"I hope that sometime it may be my privilege to be wiiii
you again.
"Hulling that great success may be yours. 1 am very truly
yours, T. J. Jackson, Lieutenant General."
On the 2ISt Major White wrote him again regarding scout-
ing duty in Loudon, and received the following reply:
"Headquarters 2d Corps, A. N. Virginia,
February 25, 1863.
"Major: Yours of the 21st inst. has been received, and I
congratulate you upon your complete success.
'Please accept my thanks for the papers you kindly sent me.
"I would like very much to let you continue scouting in
Loudon when you have not plenty of more important work
elsewhere.
"You have deservedly acquired great reputation with your
cavalry, and I trust that your usefulness will be increased.
"Very truly yours, T. J. Jackson, Lieutenant General."
On May 21 the brigade returned from an extended raid in
West Virginia, covering seven hundred miles in twenty-one
days through a rough and sterile country in which they were
very successful, having captured about seven hundred prison-
ers, one piece of artillery, two trains of cars, burned sixteen
railroad bridges, one hundred and fifty thousand barrels of
oil, many engines, etc., besides bringing .back one thousand
head of cattle and about twelve hundred horses. Through it
all White's command bore a conspicuous part, as was the case
wherever placed, until June 1 they rested and recruited in the
beautiful Shenandoah Valley, when their march began toward
Culpeper, where on the yth of June was fought the most san-
guinary and hotly contested cavalry battle known to history.
In this engagement, lasting all day. White's Battalion won un-
dying fame.
Moving from there to Gettysburg with Lee's army, they
met en route at Catocton Creek Cole's Battalion and at Point
of Rocks Sam Mead's command, defeating and routing both.
Then, taking the advance of the army, they were the first to
enter Gettysburg.
Upon returning to Virginia, the battalion resumed scouting
and raiding in Loudon County and vicinity, making many suc-
cessful captures. The ladies of Leesburg, rejoicing over our
return, sent the following:
"Leesburg, August 27, 1863.
"Will Col. E. V. White accept for himself and his brave
battalion from the ladies of Leesburg this expression of the
high appreciation of your deeds of brave and noble daring?
"In the offering of cake and wine, we would more particu-
larly commemorate your entrance into our town August 27,
t 01., ELIJAH V. will IK.
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1863, thereby delivering us from our oppressors and restoring
us again to our beloved Confederacy.
"Accept with our offering our best wishes for your health,
happiness, and preservation of yourself and each of your bat-
talion.
"May the God of battles defend and encircle you all in his
arm of love, crown your efforts with victory, and speedily re-
store peace to our bleeding country ! is the prayer of the ladies
of Leesburg."
On the 18th of December the brigade, under General Ros-
ser, than whom no braver ever lived, crossed the river at
Fredericksburg and made a raid around General Meade's army
at Culpeper, marching over ninety miles through rain and mua
in twenty-four hours, capturing a fortified camp at Sangster
Station with their colors, arriving at Berry's Ferry, on the
Shenandoah River, safely.
In January, 1864, the brigade made a most successful raid
to West Virginia, capturing a loaded train of one hundred and
nine wagons and over four hundred mules. On May 1 we
marched to the Wilderness and participated in the battle of
the 5th and 6th, and on June 10 engaged in the battle of Tre-
vilian Station, where we defeated General Sheridan (and here
let me add that Gen. Wade Hampton, commanding our cav-
alry, told me that if he had acted upon the suggestion and
appeal of Colonel White at the close of the engagement, while
Sheridan's forces were retreating in great disorder, he was
satisfied that we could have annihilated Sheridan before he
reached the Pamunky River). Later we crossed to the south
side of the James, and assisted in interrupting Kautz and Wil-
son's commands raiding in the rear of Lee's army. This was
effectually done, and we captured about seven hundred of them
and six pieces of artillery. On the 16th of September the com-
mand under Hampton made a raid in the rear of Grant's army,
capturing 2,535 head of fat cattle that had arrived for his army.
Later our brigade started for the Valley of Virginia, where we
vanquished Sheridan's forces, then devastating that country
with fire and pillage.
In November, General Rosser being promoted, the following
petition was sent to President Davis at Richmond :
"The undersigned take great pleasure in cordially recom-
mending Col. E. V. White as a most fit successor to the gal-
lant Gen. Thomas L. Rosser to the command of the 'Laurel
Brigade.' We are well aware that but little weight is gen-
erally attached to a recommendation by mere civilians of mili-
tary men for promotion, yet we are so strongly impressed with
the conviction of Colonel White's peculiar fitness for the com-
mand of this distinguished brigade that we cannot forbear to
place our estimate of his qualification on record. The chival-
rous ."""rage and dashing gallantry of this battle-scarred hero,
combin; ' as we are persuaded, with quickness of apprehension
and coolness in action, inspiring perfect and enthusiastic con-
fidence in the troops under his command, seem to point him
out as a worthy successor of the noble Rosser.
"Respectfully submitted. John Letcher,
John W. Brockenborough."
(Mr. Letcher was former Governor of Virginia and Mr.
Brockenborough a distinguished judge.)
Early in January. 1865, returning from a second successful
raid in West Virginia, capturing New Creek Station (the sup-
ply depot for the enemy), including stores, ammunition, about
six hundred prisoners, and one thousand head of horses and
mules, the battalion was furloughed for recuperation and rest
in Loudon County. Early spring found them at their post of
duty with the Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg.
On the retreat they were actively engaged day and
night in the last brief and gloomy but forever glorious cam-
paign which crushed the hopes that had sustained the hearts
of Lee's veterans through four years of suffering and blood.
At High Bridge, when surrounded. General Dearing and Colo-
nel White led the charge, defeating General Gregg and captur-
ing many prisoners; but at a heavy cost to us, as General
Dearing was mortally wounded. While lying upon the ground,
with General Rosser and White leaning over him, he said
(pointing to White), "General Rosser, these stars belong on
that man's collar" (referring to those adorning his). The
command now devolved upon Colonel White, who, cutting his
way out, marched to Lynchburg with his command. The
death knell of capitulation was heard, and the famous Laurel
Brigade, having won the admiration of Lee, Jackson, and
others, disappeared from among the military organizations of
the earth with nothing left but its honor, its scars, and its
history. This peerless leader returned to his home with a
stainless sword and the scars of eight severe wounds. Two
of the leaden missiles he carried to his grave, mute evidence
of years of patient suffering.
Colonel White returned to Loudon and was elected sheriff
of the county, serving with great credit for many years. In
the meantime he was called to the ministry, and up to the time
of his death, which occurred on the 1 it'll of January, 1907, his
life was dedicated to the service of his Maker with the earnest
devotion and energy that characterized his services on the
field.
He has passed from this transitory existence to that shore
beyond. He has bequeathed to his family, his comrades, and
his friends the rich heritage of a spotless character illumined
by achievements that can never be dimmed. He has joined
that incomparable army of martyrs who, with Lee and Jack-
son, long since crossed the dark chasm, and are now parading
the streets of the Celestial City amidst the strains of ecstatic
music and the hallelujah of the combined host.
U. D. C. IN NEBRASKA.
The Omaha Chapter, U. D. C, was organized three years
ago by Miss Grace Lennon Conklin, who has since filled the
office of President. LTpon her retirement recently from that
office she was made its Honorary President, showing the esti-
mation in which she is held by the members.
Miss Conklin is a graduate from the Department of Ex-
pression of the Marden School of Music and Elocution, and
has begun her career as a professional reader under most
favorable auspices. She has given readings throughout the
Southern States the past winter under the auspices of local
Chapters, which have elicited much favorable comment, and
her success as an entertainer of high order seems assured.
The following officers were elected for the Omaha Chapter:
Mrs. George W. Coven, President ; Mrs. G. S. Bradley, Mrs.
F. N. Maxwell, Vice Presidents; Miss Rebecca Maxwell, Re-
cording Secretary; Mrs. J. K. Stout, Corresponding Secretary;
Mrs. W. R. Davis, Treasurer.
PICTURE OF MAI. HENRY WIRZ.
Realizing the widespread interest in the subject, the Vet-
eran has had an engraving made from the photograph of Maj.
Henry Wirz, and prints of that engraving, 5x7 inches, will
be supplied free to those who renew or subscribe for the Vet-
eran during the months of April and May if they will ask
for them. Copies of this engraving will be furnished for
twenty-five cents or six for one dollar.
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ANDERSONVILLE AND OTHER WAR PRISONS.
BY JEFFERSON DAVIS, DECEMBER 10, 1 888.
(Concluded from Belford's Magazine, February, 1890.)
The important question recurs: "Who are responsible for
the multitude of prisoners of war who died in confinement at
the South and at the North?" It is ever the more difficult
task to prove the negative, but that neither the Confederate
government nor its agents were responsible is, 1 believe,
demonstrable. From the inception of the war the Confed-
eracy advocated the release of prisoners. Before a cartel was
agreed on General Early paroled captives as one of the es-
tablished usages in war between civilized nations. On July
22, 1862, a cartel was adopted, by the terms of which all
prisoners were to be released within ten days of their capture.
At that time the Confederates had a large excess of prisoners
who. under the cartel, were to be released on parole.
The savage orders and practices of Gen. John Pope, U. S.
A., caused General Lee, under instructions, to write:
"August 2, 1862.
1 .1 ill. I rent r.il Commanding I nit> .1 Slates Army, Washington.
"General: ... By the terms of that cartel it is stipulated
that all prisoners of war hereafter taken shall be discharged
on parole until exchanged.
"Scarcely had the cartel been signed when the military au-
thorities of the United States commenced a practice, changing
the character of war from such as becomes civilized nations
into a campaign of indiscriminate robbery and murder. . . .
A general order issued by Major General Pope on July 23
'• ' the day after the date of the cartel, directs the murder
•air peaceful citizens as spies if found quietly tilling their
farms in his rear, even outside of his lines.
"And one of his brigadier generals. Steinwehr, has seized
innocent and peaceful inhabitants to be held as hostages to the
end that they may be murdered in cold blood if any of his
soldiers arc killed by some unknown persons whom he desig-
nated 'bushwhackers.'
"Some of the military authorities of the United States seem
to suppose that their end will be better attained by a savage
war, in which no quarter is to be given and no age or sex to
be spared, than by such hostilities as are alone recognized to
be lawful in modern times. We find ourselves driven by our
enemies by a steady progress toward a practice which we
abhor and which we are vainly struggling to avoid.
While the President considers that the facts referred to would
justify a refusal on our part to execute the cartel, by which
we have agreed to liberate an excess of prisoners of war in
our hands, a sacred regard for plighted faith which shrinks
from the semblance of breaking 1 promise precludes a resort
to such an extremity
"Nor is it his desire to extend to any other forces of the
• 1 States the punishment merited by General Pope and
such commissioned officers as chose to participate in the
ution of his infamous orders." . . . ("Southern His-
torical Society Papers," pp. 299, 301
Thereafter there was some abatement of the evils complained
of. We then had an excess of captives, and with som ob
jcctionable practices on the part of the enemy tin cartel con-
tinued to be recognized until July 3, 18(13. when tin- United
States War Department issued General Order, No. 209, the
ethics of which are as had as its logic.
"War Department, Adjutant General's Oft ce.
July 3. 1863.
. It is understood that captured officers and men have
1**
been paroled and released in the field by others than com-
manders of opposing armies, and that the sick and wounded
in hospitals have been so paroled and released in order to
avoid guarding and removing them, which in many cases
would have been impossible. Such paroles are in violation
of general orders and the stipulations of the cartel, and are
null and void. They are not regarded by the enemy and will
not be respected by the United States. Any officer or sol-
dier who gives such parole will be returned to duty without
exchange and, moreovi r, will be punished for disobedience
to orders. . . . (Ibid., pp. 308, 309, volume 'Treatment of
Prisoners.') E. D. Townsend, A. A. G."
The captive beyond the protection of his government has
the natural right to secure his life and liberty by any pledge
of a purely personal character, and his government has no
rightful power 10 absolve him from the obligation he has as-
sumed. The great publicist Vattel states the case thus: "The
good of the State requires that faith should be kept on such
occasions and that subjects should have this mode of saving
their lives or recovering their liberty." The United States
Secretary of War in the general order just cited announced
to the army that any officer or soldier who should, in viola-
tion of general orders and the stipulations of the cartel, give
his "parole will he returned to duty without exchange and.
moreover, will he punished for disobedience of orders."
It used to he that soldiers of whatever rank had to be tried
and convicted before being punished, and that a soldier's honor
was the jewel the sheen of which his government sought to
brighten, not to tarnish. By the Stanton code it was a crime
for a soldier to protect himself when his government had lost
the power to protect him. a crime which was to be expiated
by being false to his parole not to bear arms against his libera-
tor until he had been exchanged.
Upon that order General Early, a trained soldier, a learned
lawyer, and a widely read historian, wrote a commentary from
which the following extracts are made:
"Mr. Stanton, in issuing the order of July 3. 1863, violated
the laws of civilized warfare, and the statement contained
therein that the Confederate government ('the enemy') had
pursued the same course was a mere pretext to give color to
his own unwarrantable act. Rut for that order all the prison-
ers captured by us at Gettysburg, amounting to fully six
thousand, would have been paroled, and, in fact, the proper
staff officers were proee ding to parole them and had actually
paroled and released a large number of them when news came
of the order referred to. Why did Mr. Stanton object to
the paroling of those prisoners? And why did he prefer that
they should be confined in prisons in the South — 'prison pens,'
as Northern Republicans are pleased to call them? ... If
the rule asserted in his order is among the laws and usages
of war, then it must follow that if General Lte had not been
able to guard or feed the prisoners in his hands he would have
had the right to resort to that dread alternative to which the
first Napoleon resorted in Asia when he found the paroles
granted by him not respected and destroy the prisoners in his
hands. If any of the prisoners brought from Gettysburg or
subsequently captured lost their lives at Andersonville or any
other Southern prison, is it not palpable that the responsi-
bility for their deaths rested on Edwin M. Stanton?
". . In consequence of the order, one division com-
mander who fell into our hands wounded, whom we could have
brought off, though at the risk of his life, and a large number
of other prisoners who were paroled (two or three thousand)
were returned to duty in the Federal army without exchange.
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and among them was a colonel who pledged his honor that he
would surrender himself and his regiment (paroled at the
same time) if the validity of the parole was not recognized by
his government. J. A. E."
The desire of the Confederate government to conduct hos-
tilities with whatever amenities belong to modern war was
persistently made manifest, and the anxiety for the prompt
release of captives in conformity with the cartel was intensi-
fied by the harrowing evidence of our emaciated men returned
from Northern prisons. Our Commissioner of Exchanges.
Robert Ould, had the largest authority given to him ; and well
did he labor to overcome the obstacles opposed to the free
and fair execution of the cartel, and, failing in that, to bring
relief to the sufferers retained in prisons North and South.
Some of his letters have been published, and his entire cor-
respondence is said to be, or to have been, in the Bureau of
War Records at Washington, D. C. On August 17, 1868, he
wrote "To the editors of the National Intelligencer" an an-
swer to the "many misrepresentations" about the action of the
Confederate authorities toward prisoners of war, from which
a few extracts are made :
"The cartel of exchange bears date July 22, 1862. Its chief
purpose was to secure the delivery of all prisoners of war.
"To that end the fourth article provided that all prisoners
of war should be discharged on parole in ten days after their
capture. From the date of the cartel until the summer of 1863
the Confederate authorities had the excess of prisoners. Dur-
ing the interval deliveries were made as fast as the Federal
government furnished transportation. ... In the summer
of 1863 the Federal authorities insisted upon limiting ex-
changes to such as were held in confinement on either side.
This I resisted as being in violation of the cartel. Such a
construction not only kept in confinement the excess on either
side, but ignored all paroles which were held by the Con-
federate government. These were very many, being the
paroles of officers and men who had been released on capture.
The Federal government at that time held few or no pa-
roles." ("Southern Historical Society Papers," p. 125.)
The advantage thus taken, in violation of the cartel, as soon
as the excess of prisoners was against us, was resisted until
the suffering of the prisoners of both belligerents caused the
Confederacy to wave their just and clearly defined demand;
therefore on August 10, 1864, Colonel Ould wrote to Major
Mulford, United States Agent, consenting to exchange the
prisoners, officer for officer and man for man, and with the
letter sent a statement of the mortality at Andersonville. The
proposition, if it had been accepted, would have released all
the United States prisoners and the excess, being then of
Confederates, would, by the shameless violation of the cartel,
have remained in prison.
The complications in regard to exchange of prisoners in-
dicated before the end of 1863 the probability of long confine-
ment instead of the prompt release contemplated by the car-
tel. Therefore our commissioner wrote to the United States
Agent of Exchange:
"Confederate States War Department,
Richmond. Va., January 24, 1864.
"Mat. Gen. E. A. Hitchcock, Agent of Exchange.
"Sir: In view of the present difficulties attending the ex-
change and release of prisoners, I propose that all such on
each side shall be attended by a proper number of their own
surgeons, who, under rules to be established, shall be per-
mitted to take charge of their health and comfort.
"I also propose that these surgeons shall act as commis-
saries, with power to receive and distribute such contribu-
tions of money, food, clothing, and medicines as may be for-
warded for the relief of prisoners. I further propose that
these surgeons be selected by their own governments, and
that they shall have full liberty at any and all times, through
their agents of exchange, to make reports not only of their
acts but of any matters relating to the welfare of prisoners.
"Respectfully, Robert Ould, Agent of Exchange."
To this communication no reply of any kind was ever made.
When it was ascertained that exchanges could not be made
either on the basis of the cartel or of officer for officer and
man for man, I was instructed by the Confederate authorities
to offer to the United States government their sick and
wounded without requiring any equivalents.
"Accordingly, in the summer of 1864 I did offer to deliver
from ten to fifteen thousand of the sick and wounded at the
mouth of the Savannah River without requiring any equiva-
lents, assuring at the same time the agent of the United
States, General Mulford, that if the number for which he
might send transports could not readily be made up from sick
and wounded I would supply the difference with well men.
Although this offer was made in the summer of 1864, trans-
portation was not sent to the Savannah River until about the
middle or last of November, and then I delivered as many
prisoners as could be transported — some thirteen thousand in
number, among whom were more than five thousand well
men.
"More than once I urged the mortality at Andersonville as
a reason for haste on the part of the United States authorities.
"In the summer of 1864, in consequence of certain infor-
mation communicated to me by the surgeon general of the
Confederate States as to the deficiency of medicines, I offered
to make purchases of medicines from the United States au-
thorities, to be used exclusively for the relief of Federal
prisoners. I offered to pay gold, cotton, or tobacco for them,
and even two or three prices if required. At the same time
I gave assurances that the medicines would be used exclusively
in the treatment of Federal prisoners, and moreover agreed,
on behalf of the Confederate States, if it was insisted on, that
such medicines might be brought into the Confederate lines
by the United States surgeons and dispensed by them. To
this offer I never received any reply. Incredible as this ap-
pears, it is strictly true." ("Southern Historical Society Pa-
pers," pp. 127-129.)
In the crowded mass of men gathered from many countries,
without common origin or home, disconsolate and desperate,
will any self-respecting man claim that a feeble police
could enforce such good order and discipline as were needful
to the health and comfort of the prisoners? In our straitened
circumstances there was no other practicable remedy than
liberation by exchange or parole. The first had been dis-
continued by the United States officials; the last had been
nullified by the United States War Department order of July
3. 1863.
Colonel Ould on July 26, 1863, wrote to Lieutenant Colonel
Ludlow, United States Commissioner of Exchange, thus:
"Although you have many thousands of our soldiers now in
confinement in your prisons, and especially in that horrible
hold of death, Fort Delaware, you have not for several weeks
sent us any prisoners. During those weeks you have dis-
patched Captain Mulford with the steamer New York to City
Point three or four times without any prisoners. ... I
ask jou, with no purpose of disrespect, what can you think of
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in our hands without the release of those of ours who are
languishing in hopeless misery in your prisons and dun-
geons? . . . Robert Ould,
Commissioner <»f Exchange."
The political and personal friendship of the United States
President. A. Lincoln, and the Confederate Vice President,
A. 11. Stephens, when they had been members of the United
States Congress encouraged the hope that the latter would
be able to arrange with the former such measures as would
insure the observance of the cartel and otherwise promote, as
far as practicable, humanity in the existing war. On July 2,
1863, Mr. Stephens received full authority, and with entire co-
intelligence between him and myself undertook the mission
to Washington; but he was stopped by the outer guard. He
was traveling under a flag of truce, stated in general terms
the object of his mission, and asked permission to proceed to
Washington. The officer telegraphed to his government at
Washington, and was answered. "The request is inadmissible,"
etc. Tin re was no evidence that President Lincoln was in-
formed of the request, and it would be vain to speculate on
what might have been. A paragraph from the letter borne by
Mr. Stephens will indicate the general object of his mission:
"My whole purpose is to place this war on the footing of
such as are waged by civilized people in modern times and to
divest it of the savage character which has been impressed on
11 1\ our enemies in spite of all our efforts and protests. War
is full enough of unavoidable horrors under all its aspects to
justify and even to demand of any Christian ruler who may-
be unhappily engaged in carrying it on to seek to restrict its
calamities and to divest it of all unnecessary severiti s."
I may here, by way of parenthesis, remark that officers of
tin Confederacy allowed messages even from prisoners to be
sent to nu. ami in more than one instance prisoners at Ihe
Libby were allowed to state their casi s in person, all of which
' d favorable action.
To the notice already taken of the efforts through our Com-
missioner of Exchange to secure the release of prisoners or,
in d< fault of that, 1" have needful supplies sent to such as
were kept in confinement there is to be added the proposition
by General Lee to General Grant when they commanded
the opposing armies on the south of the James River to ar-
for the exchange of all the prisoners held by the armies
of each. General Lee was authorized also to offer all the
in Oners then held by the Confederacy it Ins more limited
■ild be accepted General Grant declined the
ition with a narrow exception, restricting it to such ns
had been captured within the last three days and had not hen
delivered to the commanding general of prisoner- As that
officer was at the mouth of the river in rear of Grant's in-
trenchments. was it probable that there was a corporal's guard
who had not hern delivered to him? But. anxious to inter
change, he inquired whether General Lee
proposed to deliver colored troops "the same as white sol-
to which Gent ral Lee replied: "1 intended to include
all captured soldiers of the United States of whatever nation
and color under my control. Di scrtcrs from our service and
negroes belonging to our citizens are not considered subjects
of exchange, and were not included in my proposition." That
there were any of either of the not included class among the
prisoners was probably purely hypothetical: but the preti
1 General Grant as an excuse to decline negotiations and
for "putting the matter offensively for the purpose of pre-
venting an exchange." as he had r- commended General But-
ler, his Commissioner of Exchange, to do.
That a soldier bred anel educated under the Constitution of
the United States should have so great a regard for deserters
and "fugitives from service or labor" that, lest any of those
classes should be denied exchange, he would prefer to leave
hosts of his fellow-soldiers to languish and many of them to
die in captivity was an act which it is left for others to de-
nominate.
The harrowing recitals of the suffering of our men in North-
ern prisons and humane sympathy for the Northern men in
Southern prisons stimulated our efforts for the release of both
as far as national honor would permit. We could not fail
to see the duplicity of the pretexts employed and the covert
methods used to obstruct the cartel. Why, for example, was
General Butler selected as a Commissioner of Exchange?
Not for conscientiousness certainly. Wire there any nice
questions requiring his greater intelligence and diplomatic
skill? or was it not that, he being under ban of outlawry by
the Confederacy, it was assumed that our commissioner would
refuse to recognize him? Our zeal overcame all surmounta-
ble impediments; our Commissioner conferred with Commis-
sioner Butler, and reported him more just than his superiors,
but restricted by orders so as to be unable to complete what
was agreed upon between them.
It was when General Lee called to report the failure of his
efforts to negotiate with General Grant that, appropriate to
my expression of bitter disappointment, General Lee addressed
10 me the oft-quoted remark: "We have done everything in
our power to mitigate the suffering of prisoners, and there is
no just cause of further responsibility on our part "
That there were great suffering and mortality in Southern
prisons, which it grew beyond our power to relieve, we did
not deny, but urged as a reason for observing th cartel faith-
fully.
The assertion that our men in Northern prisons were kindly
treated and fully supplied is accepted as a tribute which vice-
pays to virtue, as evidence that the authorities dared not con-
fess to the people of the North the cruelties, privations, and
deaths they were mercilessly inflicting on helpless prisoners.
But while there may be a dark circle around the lamp, its
rays may penetrate the distance. The sufferings of Confed-
erates in Northern prison? attracted notice beyond the seas,
and a fund was raised in England for their relief. Mr. A. I.
B. Beresford-1 lop . MI', a man 10 whom title could not add
dignity, wrote to the United States Secretary as to the ap-
plication of the fund, and was churlishly answered that the
"United States government was rich enough to provide for its
prisoners and needed no foreign help "
I could sympathize with an honest pride which would have
prompted a courteous refusal if there had been a will keeping
n ith the vaunted power.
Yet again the suffi those prisoners aroused the
humanity of the people of Baltimore, who raised a fund and
employed an agent to distribute it. His published report
on. prison, and serves as a specimen cf others. John
I. Van Allen, of Watkins, Schuyler County, N. Y.. wrote thus:
"Late in the fall of 1S64. and when the bitter sleets and
biting frosts of winter had commenced, a relief organization
was improvised by some generous ladies and gentlemen of
the city of Baltimore for the purpos.- of alleviating the wants
of those confined in Elmira prison, where there were then
several thousand prisoners. ... As soon as appointed I
journeyed to that delightful paradise for Confederate prison-
ers (according to Walker, Tracy, and Piatt) and stated the
object of my visit tp the commanding officer, and asked to he
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permitted to go through the prison in order to ascertain the
wants of the prisoners, with the request that I might dis-
tribute necessary blankets, clothing, money, medicines, etc.
"He treated me with consideration and kindness, and in-
formed me that they were very destitute of clothing and
blankets ; that not one-half of them had even a single blanket,
and that many were nearly naked, the most of them having
been captured during the hot summer months with no other
than thin cotton clothes, which in most instances were in
tatters. Yet he stated that he could not allow me to enter
the prison gate or administer relief, as an. order of the War
Department rendered him powerless. I then asked him to
telegraph the facts to the War Department and ask a revoca-
tion or modification of the order, which he did, and two or
three days were thus consumed by me in a fruitless endeavor
to procure the poor privilege of carrying out the designs of
the Good Samaritans at Baltimore who were seeking to
alleviate in a measure the wants of the poor sufferers who
were then dying off like rotten sheep from cold and exposure.
The officer in command was an army officer, and his heart
nearly bled for those poor sufferers, and I know he did all
in his power to aid me ; but his efforts were fruitless to assist
me to put a single coat on the back of a sufferer. The brutal
Stanton was inexorable to all my entreaties, and turned a
deaf ear to the tale of their sufferings. . . . The nearest
I could get to the poor skeletons confined in that prison was
a tower built by some speculator in an adjoining field across
the way from the prison pen, for which privilege a money
consideration was exacted and paid. On taking a position
upon this tower, what a sight of misery and squalor was pre-
sented ! My heart w:as made sick, and I blushed for my coun-
try more because of the inhumanity there depicted. Nearly
all of the many thousands there were in dirty rags. The rain
was pouring, and thousand were without shelter, standing in
the mud in their bare feet, with clothes in tatters, of the
most unsubstantial material, without blankets. I tell the truth,
and Mr. Charles C. B. Watkins dare not deny it, when I say
these men suffered bitterly for the want of clothing, blankets,
and other necessaries. I was denied the privilege of covering
their nakedness." (Letter, "Southern Historical Society Pa-
pers," p. 294.)
Bad as no doubt were the scenes at Andersonville, the dif-
ference of climate forbade such scenes as were presented in
the black, wintry locations where our poorly clad men were
confined.
It has not been my purpose to illustrate the need for the
brother first to cast out the beam from his own eye, and I
therefore will only make another extract from a paper on
Elmira because that prison has been most extolled. A United
States medical officer wrote to the editor of the New York
World :
"Sir: I beg herewith (after having carefully gone through
the various documents in my possession pertaining to the mat-
ter) to forward to you the following statistics and facts of
the mortality of the Rebel prisoners in the Northern prisons,
more particularly at that of Elmira, N. Y., where I served as
one of the medical officers for many months. I found on
commencement of my duties at Elmira about eleven thousand
Rebel prisoners, fully one-third of whom were under medical
treatment for diseases principally owing to an improper diet,
a want of clothing, necessary shelter, and bad surroundings.
The diseases were consequently of the following nature :
scurvy, diarrhea, pneumonia, and the various branches of
typhoid, all superinduced by the causes, more or less, afore-
mentioned. . . . Here I may note that, owing to a general
order from the government to vaccinate the prisoners, my
opportunities were ample to observe the effects of spurious
and diseased matter, and there is no doubt in my mind but
that syphilis was engrafted in many instances; ugly and hor-
rible ulcers and eruptions of a characteristic nature were,
alas ! too frequent and obvious to be mistaken. Smallpox
cases were crowded in such a manner that it was an impos-
sibility for the surgeon to treat his patients individually; they
actually lay so adjacent that the simple movement of one of
them would cause his neighbor to cry out in agony of pain.
The confluent and malignant type prevailed to such an extent
and of such a nature that the body would frequently be found
one continuous scab.
"The diet and other allowances by the government for the
use of the prisoners were ample, yet the poor unfortunates
were allowed to starve; but why? is the query which I will
allow your readers to infer and to draw conclusions there-
from. Out of the number of prisoners, as before mentioned,
over three thousand of them now lie buried in the cemetery
located near the camp for that purpose, a mortality equal to, if
not greater than, that of any prison in the South. At Ander-
sonville, as I am informed by brother officers who endured
confinement there, as well as by the records at Washington,
the mortality was twelve thousand out of, say, about forty
thousand prisoners. . . .
"How faithfully these regulations were carried out at El-
mira is shown by the following statement of facts : The sick
in hospitals were curtailed in every respect (fresh vegetables
and other antiscorbutics were dropped from the list) ; the food
scant, crude, and unfit ; medicine so badly dispensed that it
was a farce for the medical man to prescribe. At large in
the camp the prisoner fared still worse : a slice of bread and
salt meat was given him for his breakfast; a poor, hatched-
up, concocted cup of soup, so called, and a slice of miserable
bread was all he could obtain for his coming meal ; and hun-
dreds of sick who could in nowise obtain medical aid died
'unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.'" ("Southern Historical
Society Papers," pp. 296-298.)
It must be conceded that the Northern States are more gen-
erally healthy than the Southern. Then with equal means
and care in providing for the prisoners it follows that the rate
of mortality should have been as the salubrity of the coun-
try. It may be presumed that all were "for duty" when cap-
tured, and that the average of the wounded among the prison-
ers was about the same, and therefore that all were in a condi-
tion to be benefited by rest and proper treatment in a favorable
locality. What was the result? According to the reports
of the United States War Department, the relative numbers of
prisoners and deaths were in round numbers:
United States prisoners held by Confederacy 270,000
Confederate States prisoners held by United States. . .220,000
United States prisoners died in Confederate hands 22,000
Confederate States prisoners died in United States
hands 26 000
From this it appears that the Confederates, with an excess
of fifty thousand prisoners, had four thousand fewer deaths.
This should not have been the case even if the means of
providing for them had been only equal ; but in every material
respect — in food, in clothing, in shelter, in medicine, in surgi-
cal instruments, and all which free commerce contributes —
the North had greatly the advantage. Only one element re-
mains to account for the difference — care for the defenseless.
And this in the depths of our destitution never ceased, as the
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world will appreciate whenever impartial history shall render
the justice which contemporaneous prejudice and passion have
denied.
I may be allowed to have fairly understood the character
of our people, and will cite an instance to prove what the esti-
mate was. At the close of the "seven days' battles" around
Richmond, much of which I saw, my order congratulating
the army on its victory over superior numbers contained these
words: "You are fighting for all tbat is dearest to man;
and. though opposed to a foe who disregards many of tjie
usages of civilized war, your humanity to the wounded and
to the prisoners was the fit and crowning glory to your valor."
In the devastating raids to which the South was subjected
supplies became in the latter part of the war so deficient that
our soldiers received only reduced raiions. and the allowance
to the prisoners was in like manner, but in no larger amount,
reduced. The hospitals for soldiers and prisoners were kept
on the same footing, and both suffered because medicines were
made contraband of war. We did not clothe the ragged,
neither had we boasted of our ability to do so.
Learning that our men in t he frigid locations where they
were confined had suffered to the extreme of freezing, a
proposition was made in October, 1864. for permission to ex-
port through a blockading squadron cotton to be invested in
supplies for those sufferers in Northern prisons. With sev-
eral conditions, such as that the cotton should be sent to New
York and the goods purchased there, the proposition was
accepted; but its execution was vexatiously delayed until the
officer. Brigadier General Beall. a paroled prisoner, moved
by the exigency of the case, commenced arrangements to
make the purchases in anticipation of the cotton, when he
was ordered to be confined, and so remained until the cotton
arrived. The proceeds of one thousand bales did not suffice
for all the pressing needs of the prisoners, and a request was
made to allow five hundred additional to be used in like man-
ner; but the application shared the fate of many previous hu-
mane proposals. Will not the repeated assertion that all suf-
ficient supplies were furnished by the United States authorities
to Confederates when prisoners be finally silenced by these
proofs, by the death rate, and by the agreement that we might
send necessary clothing, blankets, and provisions to our men
in Northern prisons"'
By an arrangement made in November, 1864, General
Hays, of the United States army, with such assistants as he
required, distributed among the captives in Southern prisons
whatever was needful; and, though the mild climate did not
demand haste because of the approach of winter, all practica-
ble aid was given to him; but our agent. General Beall, met
such obstacles as only the War Department could interpose,
with consequent delays cruelly injurious to the prisoners suf-
fering in the icy North. In the matter of prisoners throughout
the war the Confederacy did less than it would, but the best
it could, and in return received the worst which could be
meted out to it. For example, after General Hays had emu
plcted the distribution to the prisoners at the South and when
General Real] had but commenced the distribution to those
at the North, be received notice that Secretary Stanton pro-
posed at that stage of the proceeding to stop distribution, and
Was prevented only by the stern refusal of General Grant to
allow the agreement he had made to be broken. Whether or not
the report was entirely accurate, the fact of its currency and the
army source from which it was received gave it significance.
Returning to the special subject of this article, the prison
at Andersonville, attention is invited to the care taken in
burying the dead to mark the grave of each with a headboard
bearing a number corresponding to one on the hospital regis-
ter, where the fullest possible record was to be found of the
deceased. Dr. R. R. Stevenson, Hospital Surgeon, in the
Appendix to his work entitled "The Southern Side ; or, An-
dersonville Prison," gives the long, sad list of the dead, their
corps, date, and number, from which the grave of any except
the few whose name s were unknown can be found. To mark
the graves under then existing embarrassments was at least
humane, and farther on in the same appendix may be found
additional evidence of kindness shown to the commissioned
officers confined at Columbia, S. C, both by General Winder
and Mr. James G. Gibbs, the latter claiming to have lost a
very large sum of money through his unrequited sympathy.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens, in his "Constitutional View of
the War between the States," in referring to the charge of
cruelty to prisoners made "at the North against Mr. Davis
and the Confederate authorities," writes as follows: "The ef-
forts which have been so industriously made to fix the odium
of cruelty and barbarity upon him and other high officials
under the Confederate government in the matter of prisoners
in the face of all the facts constitute one of the boldest and
baldest attempted outrages upon the truth of history which
has ever been essayed."
As proof of the position of the Confederate administration
and the temper of the people it represented, extracts from
messages to the Congress arc here introduced:
"In the meantime a systematic and concerted effort has been
made to quiet the complaints 111 the United States of those
relatives and friends of the prisoners in our hands who are
unable to understand why the' cartel is not executed in their
favor by the groundless assertion that we are the parties who
refuse compliance. Attempts are also made to shield them-
selves from the execration excited by their own odious treat-
ment of our officers and soldiers now captive in their hands
by misstatements, such as that the prisoners held by us are
deprived of food. To this last accusation the conclusive an-
swer has been made that, in accordance with our law and the
general orders of the department, the rations of the prisoners
are precisely the same in quantity and quality as those served
out to our own gallant soldiers in the field and which have
been found sufficient to support them in their arduous cam-
paign, while it is not pretended by the enemy that they treat
prisoners by the same generous rule. By an indulgence par-
haps unprecedented we have even allowed the prisoners in our
hands to be supplied by their friends at home with comforts
not enjoyed by the men who captured them in battle." (Con-
federate President's Message. December 12. 1863.)
"The prisoners held by us, in spite of human care, are
perishing from the inevitable effects of imprisonment and the
homesickness produced by the hopelessness of release from
eonfineni.nl I he spectacle of their suffering augments our
longing desire to relieve from similar trials our brave men
who have spent so many months in a cruel and useless con-
finement." . . . (Message, May 2, 1864.)
The Confederate Congress, actuated by reports of bad treat-
ment of prisoners, appointed a committee 10 inquire and re-
port fully on the facts m regard to Southern prisons ami as far
as they could be learned in regard to the Northern prisons also.
By laborious investigation a large amount of testimony was
collected, and a report was made in February, 1865. This
mass of valuable evidence by both Federals and Confederates
was destroyed in the conflagration of Richmond; but the re-
port was preserved, and may be found at page 241 and follow-
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ing of Dr. R. R. Stevenson's book. It is too long for inser-
tion here, but a few extracts will indicate the value of the
report.
The committee fix upon the United States Congress Re-
port, No. 67, and upon the "sanitary" publication the char-
acter of sensational fiction. They specially notice the state-
ments about the prisoners sent from Richmond to Annapolis
and Baltimore in April, 1864, as follows :
"The Federal authorities, in violation of the cartel, having
for a long time refused exchange of prisoners, finally con-
sented to a partial exchange of the sick and wounded on both
sides. Accordingly a number of such prisoners were sent
from the hospitals in Richmond. General directions had been
given that none should be sent except those who might be
expected to endure the removal and passage with safety to
their lives ; but in some cases the surgeons were induced to
depart from this rule by the entreaties of some officers and
men in the last stages of emaciation, suffering not only with
excessive debility, but with 'nostalgia' or homesickness, whose
cases were regarded as desperate, and who could not live if
they remained and might possibly improve if carried home.
Thus it happened that some very sick and emaciated men were
carried to Annapolis, but their illness was not the result of
ill treatment or neglect. Such cases might be found in any
large hospital, North or South. They might be found even in
private families, where the sufferer would be surrounded by
every comfort that love could bestow. Yet these are the
cases which, with hideous violation of decency, the North-
ern committee have paraded in pictures and photographs.
They have taken their own sick and enfeebled soldiers, have
stripped them naked, have exposed them before a Daguerrean
apparatus, have pictured every shrunken limb and muscle, and
all for the purpose not of relieving their sufferings but of
bringing a false and slanderous charge against the South.
"The evidence is overwhelming that the illness of these
[Federal] prisoners was not the result of ill treatment and
neglect. The testimony of Surgeons Semple and Spence, of
Assistant Surgeons Tinsley, Marriott, and Miller, and of the
Federal prisoners E. P. Dalrymple, George Henry Brown,
and Freeman B. Teague ascertains this to the satisfaction of
every candid mind."
The committee, having adduced conclusive testimony of suf-
fering in Northern prisons far exceeding anything known in
the South, unavoidably great as the latter was acknowledged
to have been, then, referring to the inappropriate motto of the
Sanitary Commission, borrowed from our compassionate Re-
deemer, addressed to them these words: "The cruelties in-
flicted on our prisoners at the North may well justify us in
applying to the Sanitary Commission the stern words of the
Divine Teacher: 'Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out
of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out
the mote out of thy brother's eye.' "
The United States House of Representatives subsequently
organized a committee "to investigate the treatment of Union
prisoners in Southern prisons." Colonel Ould, our Commis-
sioner of Exchange, in a letter addressed to the editors of the
National Intelligencer wrote : "After the appointment of the
committee, the Hon. Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, being its chair-
man, I wrote to the Hon. Charles A. Eldridge and the Hon.
Mr. Mungen (the latter being a member of the committee)
some of the facts herein detailed. Both of these gentlemen
made an effort to extend the authority of the committee, so
that it might inquire into the truth of the matters which I
had alleged. All these attempts were frustrated by the radical
majority, although several of the party voted to extend the
inquiry."
Why was the inquiry limited? Did doubt and dread warn
the committee against looking behind the screen ? Or was
the object to allow the imagination to run with loose rein,
accompanied only by the swiftest witnesses? Fit means to
conceal truth and foster discord !
If in discussing the conduct of the Confederacy toward
prisoners there have been noticeable digressions from the sub-
ject of Andersonville prison and its dependencies, these have
been made no further than seemed to me useful in connection
with the subject, and certainly from no purpose to rekindle
dying embers.
Fraternal attraction caused the States after the War for In-
dependence to form a more perfect Union. To preserve the
union of hearts, there must be mutual respect ; and to this
end, if alienation disturb the proper relation, there should be
frank explanation, prompt reparation, and abiding cointelli-
gence.
Nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since the War
between the States ceased. Has the prejudice fed on the
passions of that period ceased with the physical strife? Shall
it descend from sire to son hardened by its transmission?
Or shall it be destroyed by the full development of the truth,
the exposure of the guilty, and vindication of the innocent?
JEFFERSON DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.
The foregoing account of "Andersonville and Other War
Prisons," by Jefferson Davis, should be accepted by all men as
absolutely correct in so far as it is human to be accurate. At
that time of life, an exile in his native land, although truly
patriotic, Mr. Davis could not have been influenced by any
other motive than that of truth.
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ANOTHER STORY OF THE CRATER BATTLE
[Maj. William H. Etlieredge, who commanded the 41st Vir-
ginia, Mahone's Brigade, in the battle of the Crater, now
partially paralyzed and in his eighty-sixth year, wrote to his
comrade, Capt. George J. Rogers, of Petersburg, Va., an ac-
count of the battle, from which extracts are made.]
At your request, I will give you a description of the battle
of the Crater, July 30, 1864. Colonel Parham, as you know,
was wounded in the first battle of Malvern Hill in 1862,
which rendered him unfit for duty, and Lieutenant Colonel
Minetree was wounded on the 6th of May, 1864, in the battle
of the Wilderness, and was unfit for service, so the command
of the old 41st Regiment fell to me; and, while I felt unequal
to the task, I determined to do my duty the best possible.
We were satisfied that the enemy was undermining some-
where on the line, but could not tell where until the mine was
sprung on the morning of July 30, 1864, when the whole coun-
try for miles around was startled by the explosion, and then
every piece of artillery that could be brought to bear on that
particular spot opened fire, and a most terrific cannonading
followed.
About sunrise there came an order for Mahone's old Vir-
ginia Brigade to hold itself in readiness to move at a mo-
ment's notice, and before we could get ready there came the
order for us to fall into line. After the line was formed, we
were ordered to divest ourselves of all baggage and to carry
nothing but our arms and ammunition and canteens of water.
We headed toward the cemetery ; and when we arrived at the
mouth of the covered way, used to protect our men when re-
lieving picket, we marched up that covered way to an angle,
when we left the ditch, flanked to the right, and marched a
short distance down a ravine until nearly opposite the point
where the mine was sprung, and were ordered to lie down.
General Mahone was at the angle in the ditch, and saw the
brigade pass. He had ordered the Georgia Brigade to form
on the right of the Virginia Brigade ; but as it failed to get
there in time, he took a position in rear of his old brigade.
They were getting ready to charge us, as we heard distinctly
the command : "Fix bayonets and no quarters." As stated,
General Mahone was in the rear of the brigade, with General
Weisiger on the right.
It has been a disputed question ever since the war as to
who gave the command to charge the enemy, some claiming
that the order came from General Weisiger. while others say it
came from General Mahone. ... In a moment we started
uphill, and soon saw the enemy in line. Fortunately for us,
the first line was of negroes, who could not stand the Rebel
yell and cold steel, and in order to get out of the way threw
their guns down and broke for the rear. The next line were
white men, and so great was their desire to keep the negroes
in front of them as a sort of breastwork that they lost sight
of us until we were only a short distance from them, and I
believe every shot took effect, as they were as thick in the
breastworks as they could stand, and it was almost impossible
to miss a man ; but the Yanks were determined that we should
not have it all our way. and before we reached the breast-
works they poured a volley into us. and about one-half of our
little brigade went down. Notwithstanding all this, we pushed
to the front, and, reaching the ditch with empty musket';, we
depended upon the bayonet and breech of the gun, and a regu-
lar hand-to-hand encounter took place. The scene beggars
description; our men would drive the bayonet into one man.
pull it out, turn the butt and knock the brains out of another,
and so on until the ditch inn with the blood of the dead and
dying. So great was the slaughter that Lieut. Col. William
H. Stewart, of the 61st Regiment, in command, and myself,
of the 41st, had to make a detail to pile up the dead on the
side of the ditch to make room so we could rcenforce to the
right or left, as occasion might require.
The Yanks fought bravely to maintain the foothold they
had gained; but the prowess of the Southern soldier was too
much for them at that time, and with us it was to do or die.
In an incredibly short time the breastworks to the left of
the Crater for some distance occupied by the enemy were re-
taken, and hostilities for a few moments ceased; but the
breastworks to the right of the Crater were still in the enemy's
hands, and General Lee said they must be recovered. About
that time the Georgia Brigade was on hand, r.nd General Ma-
hone called on them to perform that service. Accordingly
the line was formed, and when the command was given they
started as gallantly to the front as any set of men could; but
by this time the enemy had filled the breastworks as full of
men as they could stand together, and as soon as the Geor-
gians got near enough the enemy opened fire on them, and
they fell like autumn leaves. They re-formed and tried it a
second time, but with no better results. General Mahone
then called on the Alabama Brigade; the line was formed, the
command given; and when they reached the point where the
Georgians suffered so severely, they too met with a heavy
loss. But as soon as they received the shock every man that
was left standing started in double-quick, and before the
enemy could reload the Alabamians were on them ; and, as
was the case on our side of the Crater, a hand-to-hand fight
took place, and in a few minutes the gallant Alabamians had
driven out the enemy, or killed those who couldn't get out,
and were masters of the situation. The loss of life on both
sides was heavy, and I have often said that if a correct history
is ever written the fight at the Crater will be second to none
except the battle of Gettysburg.
And now, as you have requested me to do so, I will give
you a short history of the part I took in the fight at the Crater.
When we made the charge and reached the breastworks, I
was among the first to jump into the ditch, where the Yanks
were as thick as they could stand. First sergeant of Company
D jumped in about the same time I did, and was killed in-
stantly. Where I was there was a small bombproof, with two
Yanks squatting down near its mouth to keep out of danger.
They were white men with muskets in their hands with fixed
bayonets. My feet had not more than touched the ground
when they rose up and stood before me. Just then the man
that killed the sergeant stooped down and picked up a musket,
evidently with the intention of killing me. I took in the situa-
tion at once, took hold of the two men in front of me, and
kept them so close together that it was impossible for either
of them to kill me without endangering the lives of his own
men that I held before me. Just at that moment our men
were jumping into the ditch like frogs. One of them, Peter
Gibbs, of Company E, jumped in just behind me. and I said
to him at the top of my voice: "Kill the man in front of me."
He stepped a pace to the right of me and killed him instantly.
The fellow died with his musket in his hands trying to shoot
me, Then I made the two men I held throw down their guns
and started them to the rear. It has been said that drowning
men will catch at straws, so you can readily imagine my feel-
ings while facing death ; but I never lost presence of mind
during the terrible ordeal. Would that I had the mind to
picture to your imagination the heroism and many deeds of
valor of our men on that memorable occasion !
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IV HO KILLED GEN. PHIL KEARNEY ?
BY COL. W. L. DEROSSET, THIRD NORTH CAROLINA, WILMINGTON.
In the October (1906) Veteran, page 498, it is stated that
W. Singleton, of the 9th Louisiana, is the soldier who killed
Gen. Phil Kearney. I would state that my regiment in Rip-
ley's Brigade was held in reserve at the battle of Ox Hill in
1862, that on the next morning I walked up the road toward
the battlefield, and, learning that the body of a Yankee general
was lying in a farmhouse on the road, I walked in and found
it on the back porch. I was told by an officer present that it
was that of Gen. Phil Kearney. Walking on farther up the
road toward the battlefield, I met accidentally a young fellow
about seventeen years of age, barefooted and ragged, and asked
him if he could tell me anything about the killing of this gen-
eral officer. He replied that he could, as he himself had killed
him; and in response to further inquiries stated that he was
on the front line (I think he said picket line) and an officer
rode up toward him in the road and got within easy range,
when he ordered him to halt and surrender, which order he
apparently complied with. The boy threw his musket on his
shoulder, and the officer at once wheeled his horse, throwing
himself down upon his neck, and, putting his spurs, rode off;
but the Georgian said : "I was too soon for him, for I just
pulled down old Bess and dropped him from his horse."
This young chap told me that he belonged to a Georgia
regiment, and I think he said the 16th Georgia.
It is not a matter of much consequence, but 1 think such
things ought to be stated with accuracy. There was no reason,
so far as I could see, to suppose that this young man was
not telling a straightforward story of what had passed under
his own observation.
The officer with whom I talked at the farmhouse told me
that it was with difficulty that the surgeon was able to find
where the ball entered the body.
THRILLING AND VARIED WAR EXPERIENCES.
BY J. M. SPINKS, KILGORE, TEX.
I enlisted in September, 1861, in Company G, 10th Texas
Cavalry Dismounted, Ector's Brigade, Army of Tennessee,
and cut my eyeteeth at Richmond. Ky., in 1862. The first time
I shot I dropped on my knees to load, and my rear file rank
man was shot through the heart. In our next engagement they
shot in the muzzle of my gun. Caleb West, a citizen who was
sitting in a tree near by, told me that we fought forty-three
minutes by his watch before we routed them. They were not
more than seventy-five yards distant. My next battle was at
Murfreesboro, Tenn., in December, 1862. We opened the fight
at daybreak on the left, and before sunrise we captured six-
teen pieces of artillery.
I was at Chickamauga, Tenn., Saturday and Sunday, Sep-
tember 19 and 20, 1863. I was one of seven men who charged
within fifty yards of the Yankee battery on Saturday, and fired
several times after Ector's Brigade had been repulsed. Two
others of these seven men are living — Stoke Hutchens, Mar-
lin, Tex., and P. B. Barber, Kilgore, Tex. I helped to bury
Jimps Hudson on Sunday night, and cut an "H" on a post
oak tree near his head.
My next fight was at Jackson, Miss., just after the fall of
Vicksburg. I was on picket when we had an armistice of two
hours to let the Yanks bury their dead. We met halfway and
talked until the cannon fired. We were then sent to reenforce
Gen. Joe Johnston in Georgia. I joined General French's es-
cort at Iron Mountain, went to Rome, Ga., and joined Gen-
eral Johnston at Kingston. I was at New Hope Church.
General Ector was wounded there, and it rained all the time.
General Loring was ordered to the right before day, and I
was sent to Ector's Brigade. When I got to the line, there
was no one there ; so I rode on until I heard several guns
click, when I turned and my horse fairly flew until I met our
pickets coming out. I was at the Lattimore (?) farm, and
carried the orders to Captain DuBose to withdraw. I think
I had a hundred shots fired at me, and was left that night
with Colonel Gates to bring off pickets at two o'clock. I was
guide to lead Ector's Brigade off the top of Kennesaw Moun-
tain to the support of Cockrell in a charge when the Federal
Colonel McCook was killed. I was sent to our left the night
the Yanks tried to take our line, and I carried the last Con-
federate dispatch at Atlanta.
I was at Franklin in front of the ginhouse with General
French, and was in ten feet of General Walthall when his
horse was killed. There were only two of us with General
French ; the other man was Gordon Langston. I was at Nash-
ville at the rout, and rode backward and forward across the
road halting every man that had a gun until French's Di-
vision came in regular order after dark. I was with General
Forrest at Sugar Creek when we killed so many horses of
the enemy. I carried a dispa'rh ;o General Sears at Altoona,
and met Sam Birdwell wot,:.ded on a Yankee horse, and he
bantered me to swap horses. Sam had twenty-six bullet holes
in his clothes, but he is living yet at Chandler, Henderson
County, Tex. I was captured at Blakely, Ala., about the 17th
of April, 1865, and got home May 26. I was never wounded.
COMMENT ON THE VETERAN— ITS MERIT.
BY H. H. WAGNER, MANNSVILLE, IND. T.
I feel like I ought to give some evidence of the benefits I
derive from the Confederate Veteran. It helps me to re-
view the past and contemplate the future.
The first flag was adopted by the Confederate Congress on
March 4, 1861. exactly at the time when Mr. Lincoln was
being inaugurated President of the United States. The sec-
ond, the battle flag, was invented during the first great battle
(First Manassas) of the war. The third and final flag of the
Confederate government was adopted by the Confederate
Congress on March 4, 1865, just at the time when President
Lincoln was being inaugurated President of the United States
for the last time. Then again, when the U. C. V. organiza-
tion appointed a committee to select an emblematic badge for
their organization, the committee of course selected their old
battle flag. At the same time the Daughters of the Con-
federacy and the United Sons of Confederate Veterans also
appointed a committee for the same purpose, and the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy adopted the first flag and the Sons
adopted the last flag of the Confederacy as official emblems of
their organizations. These coincidences seem providentially
arranged, and are most fittingly reflected in the front cover
of the Confederate Veteran. We can't do without the Vet-
eran. I do not know who is your legal agent here; but if
there is none, I will try to secure one for you.
Ranking Officers of the Eighth Virginia Regiment. —
When Gen. Eppa Hunton was promoted from the command
of the 8th Virginia Infantry, four brothers — viz., Norborne,
Edmund, William, and Charles Berkeley — were the four rank-
ing officers in the regiment as colonel, lieutenant colonel,
major, and senior captain.
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TWENTY-SIXTH MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT.
BY W. M. GRAHAM, CEDAR BLUFF, MISS.
In my feeble way I will write something of the 26th Mis
sissippi Regiment. Every company of the regiment was made
up in Tishomingo County, mostly fanners, their agi s ranging
from eighteen to twenty-five. Many of them could shoot
off a squirrel's head in the top of a tree with an old-fashioned
rifle. The regiment was organized at Iuka. Miss. Arthur E.
Reynolds, of Corinth, was colonel and F. Marion Boone was
lieutenant colonel. He was as brave a man as ever went to
war. About November we were sent to Union City, from
there to Bowling Green, Ky., and thence to Fort Donelsou.
where we received our "baptism of fire" by being marched
right up to a line of battle in file of fours, and were fired on
while in this shape. We were on the slant of a little hill, else
we would have been swept off the face of the earth. Of course
this threw us into temporary confusion, but we soon got
straightened out and went at them like veterans.
Right here I saw a case of as pure "grit" as was ever dis-
played on any battlefield. I saw Comrade Wash Bigham
(afterwards captain of the company) shot in the center of the
forehead, with blood running down all over his face and in
his eyes, support his gun by the side of a tree, squirrel fashion,
and fire. We were captured with the rest of the garrison
and sent to Camp Morton. Ind. We fared splendidly as long
as Colonel Owens was commander of the post. Colonel
Owens was colonel of the 60th Indiana Regiment, and a per-
fect gentleman. He would go to the barracks very often and
call the roll himself, and would listen to every request a
prisoner had to make. I heard that he said he could pick
one hundred men out of that prison and whip his whole regi-
ment.
We were sent to Vicksburg and exchanged in September,
and were in many marches and countermarches around Jack-
son and Vicksburg. We were at Baker's Creek, got out with
Loring by marching clear around the Yankee army, and re-
turned to Jackson by way of Crystal Springs. We were with
Gen. J. E. Johnston in the rear of Grant, and later were in
the siege of Jackson. In April, 1864, after the retreat to
Demopolis, Ala., we were sent to Virginia and put into General
Davis's brigade. We were called "new issue" by the balance
of the brigade. I suppose it was because we had come from
the West — the Army of Tennessee.
When the battle of the Wilderness came on, Davis's Bri-
gade was formed just to the left of the Orange plank road.
The position of my regiment was several hundred yards from
the road. The fighting commenced near the plank road first,
and had been going on for some time. I presume the troops
engaged had exhausted their ammunition. The 26th was
detached and marched back up the line to take their places.
I shall never forget the scene that met our eyi s as we marched
up to that line — some dead, some lying flat on the ground.
still others squatting had been firing at close range on level
ground until they had nearly exhausted their ammunition.
We had been on the firing line but a short time when Colo-
nel Boone touched the writer on the shoulder and said: "Go
tell Captain Gallagher to move forward."
Captain Gallagher was a Mexican War veteran, tall and
straight, and as brave as ever drew a sword. When I reached
him, he was standing just behind his company, looking straight
through toward the front. Just as I was in the act of speak-
ing to him a bullet struck him (I think in the forehead) and
he fell dead. I gave the order to Lieutenant Luther, and by
the time I got back to my company the regiment was on the
move. The enemy had a battery a short distance up the road;
and when we commenced crossing that road, they began to
pour grape into us, which swept a space about thirty yards
wide. I don't know whether any other troops charged at the
same time or not. We soon came to their line of battle. We
halted then, and some other troops came up and took our
places. I saw another officer killed. Just as we commenced
to fall back a ball struck Lieutenant Roberts, of Company A,
in the back of the head, and he fell dead. We lay on our
arms that night in rear of the line of battle.
The firing commenced early the next morning, and we wit-
nessed one of the worst stampedes I ever saw. Davis formed
line ; and when the stampeded men had all passed, we had or-
ders to fire and fall back, which we did and in good order.
It looked as though all was lost, but Longstreet's men came
in just at this time and saved the day. We were in reserve
until late in the evening, when an Alabama brigade gave way
and Davis's Brigade was called on to check the enemy. We
met our men just at the top of a hill coming pellmell, the
Yanks right after them with their little "huzzaw." As soon
as we passed our men we raised the Rebel yell, and they
turned back as suddenly as if they had struck a stone wall.
We hadn't gone far when we were ordered to halt, and we
threw up together some old logs for breastworks, and the
enemy charged us repeatedly the rest of the evening. It
was here that we lost our brave and beloved Lieutenant Colo-
nel Boone. We went to Spottsylvania Sunday evening, and
W< re in an engagement about May 10 on our left flank at some
mills (I don't remember the name). We were not attacked
on the day of the great fight of the 12th, but were in breast-
works on the right flank.
The 26th was at Cold Harbor and several smaller engage-
ments around Petersburg and one on the Weldon Railroad,
where we lost half of the company engaged in killed and
wounded, among whom was our highly esteemed Capt. Phil
Hay. He was as kind and smooth in his manners as a woman.
I never heard a rough word escape his lips. Davis's Brigade
was captured on the 2d of April. 1865, while holding the right
of the works and we were sent to Fort Delaware. We had to
live on six crackers and about three or four ounces of meat a
day. We left Fort Delaware on June it, 1865, to return to
our devasted bonus.
Longevity of Confederate "Colonels." — H. W. Wood,
writing in the G. A. R. corner of the Madison (Wis.) Demo-
crat, states: "There is one noticeable difference between the
Grand Army and the Confederate organizations. Whoever
will take pains to read journal after journal of our encamp-
ments, tither State or national, will scarcely find a place where
a ninn is called general, colonel, major, or captain. So far as
distinctions of rank are concerned, with us they are dropped
and all are equal. It is true that we hear this one or that
called 'General' when, in fact, he was only a private in the
rear rank, and perchance a poor one at that; but when he
has anything to do in Post or Encampment, he is recorded
like all the rest of us, as simple comrade. But the records
of the meetings of the Confederates would make one think
that there is not a private now living down South. All have
such titles as would make one of us common, everyday fel-
lows in the ranks feel like hunting for a back scat somewhere.
Whenever we read a story of the South in which there is a
soldier, or a dozen of them, the page is set full of capital G's
and C's and M's. I wonder just why this is so?"
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EXPERIENCES BETWEEN SHARPSHOOTERS.
BY J. T. CRAWFORD, PAMPA, GRAY COUNTY, TEX.
As a patron of the Veteran throughout its existence, I do
not remember to have seen any account of the 5th Tennessee
Cavalry, Col. G. W. McKenzie commanding. Among all the
brave regiments that composed Wheeler's Corps, no other held
a higher place for cool daring and unflinching bravery than
the glorious old 5th in the estimation of our beloved com-
mander, Gen. Joseph Wheeler. I became a member of the
5th in December, 1863 (just after the retreat from Missionary
Ridge), by exchange with him to a membership of my father's
company, E, 26th Tennessee Infantry.
At the beginning of the Georgia campaign General Wheeler,
with part of his corps, including General Hume's division, to
which the 5th belonged, advanced from General Johnston's
right, striking the Federal cavalry about two o'clock in the
afternoon. Forming line of battle, we were dismounted, and
Company D, to which I belonged, was sent forward as skir-
mishers. We had advanced but a short distance when we be-
came warmly engaged with the Federal skirmish line. A
comrade (Asbury Nelson) and I had reached the angle
of an old clearing which cut into our line just enough to
expose two of us to the fire of quite a length of the Federal
line. There were three or four fine stumps in this angle, two
of which grew very close to each other. We immediately ap-
propriated the benefit of these stumps ; we lay flat on the
ground behind them, and began firing as fast as possible
with muzzle loaders and our position considered. It soon
became rather demoralizingly apparent that there was in front
of us a Yank who was using a "Spencer." He knocked dirt
and bark into our eyes from about ihe stumps. That Yank
seemed to be no joker. The situation became extremely hot
for us, when General Hume rode out into the angle from our
left. When just behind us, that Yank tried a shot at the
General, and tore a hole through his uniform just in front of
his heart.
He rode on down the line, smiling at his close call. Im-
mediately our Yank resumed his sharpshooting for smaller
game, and apparently without loss of confidence in his ability
to shoot straight. Nelson said to me, "We must do something
quick to get that Yank or he will get us," and asked if my
gun was loaded. He then proposed to draw his fire to him-
self, and at the same time get our Yank to expose himself.
Nelson said : "You are the best shot and I am the best target."
I tried to prevent him from exposing himself, but was cut off
short by Nelson saying: "Get ready, or he will get both of us."
Nelson then called out, "Come down from that tree and shoot
it out," being still behind his stump. Our Yank shouted back :
"Come out yourself, d — you." Instantly Nelson was on his
feet, with his coat tails extended to their fullest extent and his
arms extended at almost right angles with his body. Our
Yank fired, grazing the outer clothing of Nelson. Our Yank,
in his excitement, exposed himself, giving me a pretty fair
shot. To this our Yank yelled : "Come over and get your
coffee, d — you."
This ended target practice, and thus by a well-conceived
ruse and a reckless exposure of himself to danger Nelson
saved the situation which had become anything but pleasant.
That our Yank was evidently fond of a grim joke was after-
wards developed. We were soon ordered to charge. I could
not dismiss from my mind our late opponent, so kept the tree
behind which he had stood in view until I reached it. There
was no dead or wounded Yank there, but a well-filled haver-
sack containing about a peck of coffee, which all the mess en-
joyed for many days after. While enjoying a cup I often
wondered what induced our Yank to leave his coffee.
PORTRAIT OF JEFFERSON DAVIS FOR BEAU VOIR.
George B. Matthews, the well-known artist of Washington.
D. C, has just completed a portrait of Jefferson Davis for
Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, to be presented by her to the
State of Mississippi, and if accepted by Governor Vardeman
to be officially placed in the Confederate Veterans' Home and
Museum in the old mansion of Mr. Davis at Beauvoir. It is
to hang over his desk in the library, where he wrote the "Rise
and Fall of the Confederate Government." The portrait will
be exhibited in the studio of the artist to the Mississippi Con-
gressional delegation and personal friends of the donor of
the very valuable gift.
It is a three-quarter length portrait, Mr. Davis standing by
his library table, his hand resting on the notable history he
wrote of the Confederate States of America.
The portrait is regarded as a fine portrayal. The setting
is complete, yet free from all accessories to detract from the
central figure.
It was the purpose of Mrs. Darling to visit Beauvoir to-
gether with Mrs. Davis to attend the presentation of the me-
morial windows contributed by Mrs. Davis to the church at
Biloxi to her husband and daughter and the placing of the
portrait in Memorial Hall at Beauvoir to the Confederate
President, who "won the victory of defeat."
LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION AND CAMP FISK.
BY REV. HOWARD A. M. HENDERSON.
Several weeks after the establishment of Camp Fisk, under
a cartel made by the Federal and Confederate military au-
thorities, with the execution of which I was charged as the
Southerner Commissioner, an incident of a most dramatic
character occurred of which this is the first publication. This
unique camp was the product of a conversation, under flag
of truce, between Col. A. C. Fisk, A. A. G. on Gen. Morgan
L. Smith's staff, and myself. I had proposed that the United
States send to Castle Morgan, the military prison at Cahaba,
Ala., clothing and medical supplies, representing the destitution
and the discomfort the men were suffering. I had in the fall
secured from Gen. C. C. Washburne, of Memphis, a steamer
load of such stores, which passed, under flag of truce, the lines,
and were distributed by members of General Washburne's
staff, then in captivity from Forrest's raid into that city. The
men, instead of conserving these necessaries, had surreptitiously
traded them with the guards for food their morbid appetites
craved, and they were shivering in scanty clothing and ragged
blankets in a climate particularly severe in the transition period
from winter to spring.
Fisk casually remarked : "Why not bring the men here, under
parole, and detain them in a camp on neutral ground until
exchanged?" I caught up the suggestion, and added that I
was ready to enter into such an arrangement if it were made
to apply to the grays as well as to the blues.
He agreed, and before we parted drew up a cartel and the
minor particulars in duplicate to be furnished the confirming
authorities. The two governments ratified, and we set up
the camp at Four-Mile Bridge, back of Vicksburg. The rail-
road and telegraph were put in order by prisoners, neutral
ground was proclaimed for one mile on each side the track
to "Townsends," on the Big Black River, and the territory
patroled by cavalry. At my suggestion the cantonment was
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named "Camp Fisk," in lionor of Colonel Fisk. Here the men
on both sides were brought and paroled, each government
being represented in the manege of the camp. Several thou-
sand Union prisoners were here at the time of the incident.
A battalion of the 9th Indiana Cavalry was sent to me to act
aT my bodyguard, commanded by Major Wall, as knightly a
gentleman as ever wore a saber. I am perhaps the only Con-
federate who ever commanded a detachment of Federal sol-
diers under arms. My quarters were at the house of a Mr.
Sweat, the father of the captain of the famous arlillerj com-
pany from Vicksburg.
Maj. Frank E. Miller, now Presbyterian pastor at Paterson,
N. J., was the commandant of the camp, then, as now, a Chris-
tian gentleman of the Sir Philip Sydney type, full of "high-
erected" thoughts in a heart of courtesy.
The officers of the camp and trine were gathered in the
parlor of the Sweat home, having a gleeful time. Maj. Alex
Grant, of my flag, yet living at Frankfort, Ky., was "a fellow
of infinite jest," and could be as amusing as a comedian as
he was superb as a gentleman. He was engaged in entertain-
ing a coterie by showing some legerdemain tricks with cards.
While "joy was unconfined" an orderly, his saber clanking the
floor, strode into the room bearing a huge official envelope tied
with a yard of black ribbon. All saw at a glance that it was
a message of death, and every face blanched as if each were
the mark of the ominous dart. Major Huntsman, a surgeon,
was the ranking Federal officer present. He took the inclosure
and nervously broke the seal. He turned as white as a shroud
as he read, then nearly crushed the paper and cast it to the
floor. He threw up his hands and fairly shrieked: "My God!
they have murdered our President !"
He then stepped to the piano and was drawing a surgeon's
sword, when Major Grant, standing in the only door, whipped
out a navy revolver and covered the party, saying : "Doctor,
sheathe that sword, and let not a man attempt to leave this
room."
I then -puke : "Gentlemen, 1 understand from the emphasis
put upon they that Dr. H. charges the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln on the South, which I repel. At any rate, we
are here under a flag of truce, the most sacred ensign known
to war. If at this time when tattoo is about to beat to quar-
ters this news reaches these prisoners, and especially the
negro brigade guarding the bridge, our lives will be sacrificed
in the unreasoning rage of a mob."
Turning to Major Miller, I asked his attitude. He unhesi-
tatingly replied: "I will protect you if I have to ■-acrifice my-
self." I then asked him to send a trustworthy orderly, ac-
companied by my own, to Major Wall with an order to report
to me at once with an escort of twenty mounted men and
horses for the members of my staff.
In less than ten minutes the Major and the detail reported.
I asked him who he regarded as his commander. He an-
-v, 1 red: "You, sir!" I then told him of the tragedy, and in-
quired whether he was ready to deliver us at General Dana's
headquarters, where I would ask for protection. He replied:
"I will as faithfully obey your orders as if you were General
Dana himself."
In a few minutes we were galloping toward Vicksburg,
which we reached in less than an hour, and I reported to
General Dana The city was a volcano. All paroled Con-
federates and recognized Southern sympathizers were corralled
in the courthouse and its campus under heavy guard. General
Dana advised that I return at once to the Confederate lines
until the storm abated, and offered me an engine for the run
to Big Black. In a short time our locomotive was thundering
toward Townsends, I and my staff occupying the tender. We
passed Camp Fisk at highest speed, but saw the wild excite-
ment prevailing and heard the mad threats of violence if a
victim could be obtained. It was about two o'clock in the
morning when we reached the river. A German regiment was
encamped on the western bluff, while the opposite bank was
occupied by a squadron of Texas Rangers. A captain, officer
of the day, furnished us with a boat to ferry the river without
a suspicion of the cause of our hegira. An officer attended
us who could speak only "pigeon English" and who imper-
fectly understood what was said to him in our tongue.
When the prow struck the nether shore. Major Grant
twirled his huge mustache until it looked like the tusks of a
wild boar, he distended his eyes, arched his thick brows, di-
sheveled his long hair, and presented a most uncanny aspect.
In sepulchral tones he recited the tragedy. I have never seen
a more frightened man than the German officer. A score of
Texas Rangers, their long, unkempt hair flowing from beneath
their sombreros, reddened like Mephistophcles in "Faust" by
the glare of the camp fires freshly fueled, stood around, walk-
ing arsenals. The scencc reminded me of some of the situa-
tions depicted in Dante's "Inferno."
Seeing the fright of the boatmen, I interposed by rebuking
Major Grant, who could not let an opportunity pass to "have
his fun." I reminded him of the gravity of the tragedy until
his gleesome mood changed into one of tenderness and tears.
I never heard one of I hose fierce-looking frontiersmen utter
a mean or malignant expression. All felt that an awful blow
had been struck the fainting fortunes of the South. The next
day I ran up my colors, intertwined with the truce flag, at
half-mast, and on both sides of the. river the pikestaffs
mourned.
In less than a week we were asked to return to Camp Fisk.
A special car was sent to take me back. We were received
with cheers; and as we threaded the camp, signs of congratu-
lation on our return transformed it into an ovation. My quar-
ters were draped in mourning, and were so clothed when the
star of the Confederacy, the lost Pleiad, set in rayless night.
Of the actors in this scene. Colonel Fisk, Major Wall, Major
Miller, Major Grant, Lieutenant Davenport, and I arc
living to verify this missing chapter of the great history-
making period. From the distance at which I review the in-
cident it seems to me to be as a weird reminiscence out of
->me previous life. Rut for the cool, resolute courage of
Major Grant holding the Federals at bay the news would
have spread like wildfire through the camp, reached the negro
brigade guarding Four-Mile Bridge, and we would have been
sacrificed to the mad fury of a mob. The suddenly awakened
negroes especially would have roared and raged as so many
uncaged beasts of a menagerie.
Important Confederate Dates. — On December 20, i860,
South Carolina seceded from the Union, and February 4, 1861,
the Confederate government was formed at Montgomery, Ala.
General Beauregard, commanding the Southern troops, on
April 12, 1861, opened fire on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of
Charleston, S. C. General Lee surrendered at Appomattox
Court House, Va., April 9, 1865. General Johnston sur-
rendered at Greensboro, N. C, April 26, 1865. Gen. "Dick"
Taylor surrendered in Alabama May 4, 1865. Gen. E. Kirby
Smith, west of the Mississippi, surrendered May 26, 1865,
which was the last of any important command.
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REUNITED.
In his response to a letter of condolence from the New York
Camp on the tragic death of his wife, some months since,
Corporal Tanner mentioned some of the lovely traits of her
character and sent a poem written by her about fifteen years
ago after having met the widow of General Pickett, who
pinned upon her bosom a bunch of violets tied with "ribbon
gray." The sentiment so beautifully expressed in the poem
will find its echo in true hearts North and South :
"I loved the Blue in olden days.
Your heart was with the Gray ;
And if we neither can forget,
Ah! who shall say us nay?
'Tis quite enough that hate be past,
That love unites our hearts at last.
A little bunch of violets blue,
A knot of ribbon gray,
You fastened with your gracious hands
Upon my breast one day.
'Wear these for love of me,' you said ;
'Your sweet blue lives, my gray is dead.'
Though sweet the blooms as Eden's own,
They faded in a day ;
But love's dear flower they typified
Shall live for aye and aye.
Then what care we, since this be true.
Which wore the gray and which the blue?"
strife, but to be a perpetual reminder of the momentous sacri-
fice of men and women who were actuated by a sense of real,
if unwise, patriotism, unadulterated with the spirit of com-
mercialism or the misguided zeal of fanaticism."
CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAGS IN ALBANY. N. Y.
Joel Mann Marlin, of Schenectady, N. Y., wrote to the At-
lanta Constitution of the Confederate flags in the museum of
the G. A. R. Memorial Association, giving the following list :
A battle flag taken near Clover Hill, Va., April q. 1865.
Stars and bars captured by 3d New York Cav-ln ,:i N. C.
Battle flag of 7th Claiborne Cavalry, North Carolina.
A guidon taken at South Mountain and another flag of
North Carolina.
Flag of steamer Beauford, of C. S. A.
A flag captured at Columbus, S. C.
A flag of an Alabama regiment.
Secession flag of the schooner Sue.
Half of flag that floated over the City Hall at Richmond,
Va., said to have been the only flag that the city authorities
used on that building during the war. The other half of this
flag was sent to the museum of the State of Connecticut.
A Virginia flag with "Virginia" and a painted female bust.
Flag of the 5th South Carolina Cavalry, captured at Tre-
vilian Station June II, 1864.
Flag taken from a company of sixty-one so-called bush-
whackers in command of Lieutenant Colonel Wilhite near
Syracuse, Mo., October 5, 1863. The Confederate colon«l
was killed and his body wrapped in this flag, which is stained
with his blood.
A flag with red, white, and blue bars and a large star in
place of the Union, captured at Jackson, Miss.
Battle flag of the 17th Virginia Volunteers.
Flag from Confederates near Warrenton. Va., March, 1862.
Mr. Mann adds : "I should be pleased to see a space in the
capitol of every State set apart and dedicated to the preserva-
tion of these and similar sacred relics of the Confederacy.
Especially do I desire to see such a collection of hallowed
mementos in the capitol of my native State, Georgia — not to
revive the bitter memories of sectional animosity and civil
CONTRIBUTION TO HOUSTON (TEX.) MONUMENT.
BY ABBIE SMITH, COR. SEC. R. E. LEE CHAPTER, HOUSTON, TEX.
Mr. R. H. Downman, 1003-6 Hibernia Bank Building, New
Orleans, La., has made a munificent donation to the monument
fund of the R. E. Lee Chapter, U. D. C, of Houston, Tex.
Mr. Downman proposes to furnish at his own expense the
pedestal of Texas granite for the monument soon to be erected
in that city to the armies of the Confederacy, both militant
and triumphant.
The figure chosen to represent the Southern cause is that
of an archangel, his majestic pose seemingly proclaiming:
"I have done the behest of God."
Mr. Downman's gift has been gratefully accepted by the
R. E. Lee Chapter, and we announce the fact that our sister
Chapters and the Veterans' Camps may rejoice with us, as
we lack now only nineteen hundred dollars of the full amount
of the entire cost of the memorial. This patriotic son of the
South thus hastens the day when every Houstonian will bare
his head in reverence before the spirit of the Confederacy.
Tribute from a Friend. — In a recent number of the Con-
federate Veteran Hon. John W. Daniel asks regarding Con-
federate soldiers who were killed during the latter days of
the war. Let me have space to pay a tribute to Billy Barger,
who enlisted in Company C, 1st Virginia Cavalry, Capt. M.
X. White, in Lexington, Va., and went with the company to
Harper's Ferry in April, 1861. From that date until May 9,
1865. at every roll call he was there; at guard mount he was
there; on the skirmish line he was there; on the fierce cavalry
charge he was there; amidst the carnage of battle he was
there ; and on the morning of the 9th of May, 1865, when
his regiment was drawn up for a charge, a random shot
just prior to the appearance of the white flag found him still
there and lodged in his heart, killing our friend and comrade,
who was never so hungry that he would not divide the con-
tents of his haversack, never so thirsty that he did not offer
his canteen, never so sleepy or tired that he would not lend
a helping hand. A truer friend, a more gallant soldier never
lived or died. — D. R. B. Greenlee.
Confederates Dropping Out in Georgia. — The death of
Georgia's Chief Justice, Thomas J. Simmons, who commanded
the 45th Georgia Regiment, left its Supreme Bench with no
member who took part in the affairs of State, either mili-
tary or civil, during the Civil War. When a memorial of
Mr. Justice Blandford, who had lost an arm in the war, was
presented to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Simmons said
that he desired to impress upon all those who were too young
to bear arms during the Civil War that they should never
fail upon all proper occasions to emphasize the fact that
the Confederate soldier at all times represents adherence
to truth and fidelity in the discharge of duty; that he is
maimed in body or broken down in health or poor in the
goods of this world are only evidences of the sacrifices he was
willing to make in behalf of his convictions.
In a Virginia Court for Larceny. — The judge, seeing no
counsel for the darky in custody, inquired : "Are you the de-
fendant in this case?" "No, sir," replied the prisoner; "I'm
de nigger dat stole de hog."
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Nelson's Division of
MONUMEh T AT AUSTIN, ARK.
At the organization of Camp James Adams, at Austin, Ark.,
in 1897, Comrade T. J. Young was elected Adjutant; and,
upon being informed that there were several hundred un-
known Confederate soldiers buried in the woods and around
old Camp Nelson, in Lonoke County. Ark., he undertook the
task of having their graves cared for. These soldiers were
mostly Texans belonging to General
Cavalry and died of measles
while in camp. Their graves
were grown up in bushes
and briers Comrade Young
secured a deed to the ground
in the woods where they
were buried, and a bill was
introduced in the Legislature
for an appropriation of one
thousand dollars for the es-
tablishment nt ,1 Confeder-
ate cemetery at Camp Nel-
son, in Lonoke County, Ark.
Tbe bill was passed, but
failed to have the Governor's
signature in time, and was
brought up at the next meeting of the Legislature and became
effective; so through the untiring energy of Adjutant Young
a beautiful cemetery was established, inclosed with a wire
fence, with granite blocks at the head and foot of each grave.
On October 4, 1906, a nice granite monument was unveiled
at the cemetery in tbe presence of an appreciative crowd.
T. J. YOUNG.
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, AUSTIN, ARK.
After prayer and an introductory address by Comrade Young.
Mi^s May Martin, daughter of Dr. John A. Martin, a gallant
Confederate soldier, delivered an address; and then, assisted
by Mis-, Mabel Vess, granddaughter of Comrade J M. (lately,
who so kindly donated the ground, and Miss Issic Mulkey,
daughter of another gallant Confederate, she unveiled the
monument, on which is the following inscription:
"Camp Nelson Cemetery. In memory of Unknown Texas
and Arkansas Confederate Soldiers. Act of Legislature ap-
proved May 11, 1905.
"Theo. J. Young, W. F. Gibson, Grandison Apple, Trustees."
Addresses were made by others, including Senator Bush, of
White County, and Col. John R. Johnson, after which the
twenty seven old comrades present marched around the mon-
ument, each placing a piece of cedar on the base as a token
of love for their unknown comrades.
Comrade- Young will be pleased to correspond with any
Texans who had friends or kindred to die at Camp Nelson
ami with members of Company A, 8th Virginia Infantry, in
which he served the first year of the war; also with com-
rades of Company G, 7th Virginia Cavalry, in which he served
the remaining three years of the war. having reenlisted in
April, 1862.
RE.WM.MF.NCES OF THE CONFEDERACY.
[These reminiscences are by Mrs. Theodore L. Burnett, of
Louisville, whose life sketch appeared in the "Last Roll" for
last month — March, 1907.]
In the latter days of March, 1865, a group of Kcntuckians
were sitting in the parlor of the historic old Spottswood Hotel,
in Richmond, Va., chatting together with thoughtful faces.
They were Col. Henry C. Burnett, Gen. Humphrey Marshall,
Mrs. Ben Hardin Helm, and myself. Mrs. Helm had just
come to us from across the lines. We were making a des-
perate effort to be bright, when we suddenly heard the march-
ing of troops in the street. Looking from the window, we saw
a company of negro soldi- rs. and asked in surprise: "What
does this mean?" In answer Colonel Burnett said in his can-
did way, " 'Tis necessary, madam," proceeding in an earnest
manner to give his views of the situation, which were very
discouraging indeed, and General Marshall fully agreed with
him.
Another Kenluckian, John W. Crockett, was in the room at
the same time. He had been a member of the Confederate
Congress and had just arrived in Richmond from Southwest-
ern Virginia, where he had been wintering. He was walking
back and forth, dressed in his butternut suit of homespun
made by the most fashionable tailor. He had not joined in
our conversation; hut just then began talking very eloquently,
as he could on occasions.
Another echo that comes down through all these years was
General Lee's last desperate effort before Richmond — his send-
ing Pickett's command in the dead hours of night from point
to point, seemingly to augment numbers or to strengthen weak
places. That solemn tramp, so weird and sad. of the best
soldiers the world has ever seen and their brave and grand
commander are vividly recalled.
A few days later Judge Burnett determined to send his
family from Richmond and home to Kentucky if possible.
The arrangements were completed for my start home about
the 29th of March by what was then known as the "under-
ground railroad." which meant traveling by any way you
could, from the usual railway travel to an ox cart — any way
to get to and across the Rappahannock and Potomac. There
were nineteen in our party, most of them women and children.
Major and Mrs. McLain, three children, and Miss Steven-
son. Mi" Rotts, of Virginia, Mrs. Ashhridge. a dear old lady,
widow of a Presbyterian minister, were of the number.
After crossing the North Anna and South Anna (where
Sheridan had burned the bridges) and the Rappahannock in
little l>oats. we were delayed six days; hut finally reached the
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Potomac. How to get across the broad river was the ques-
tion, at this season, too. when the tide was troublesome.
Meanwhile the surrender of Lee had taken place. At night
our little boats came out of hiding up the small streams, and
we started ; but when halfway over we found the tide too
high and had to return, stopping farther down the stream,
where they told us it was fourteen miles wide. The following
night we made a successful effort; but just as we were
nearing the Maryland shore a volley was fired over our heads
with a demand to "surrender," which we did. But when our
captors found they had little else but women and children,
they were greatly disappointed and quite indignant. We were
marched to Lieutenant Leftwich's headquarters and ques-
tioned and personally examined. Dear Mrs. Ashbridge, how
grandly she bore herself through this trying ordeal ! We
were now prisoners, and were marched to a farmhouse of
a Southern sympathizer not far away, where breakfast was
ordered for the party by our guard. The man at whose house
we breakfasted would receive no remuneration from us,
though broken in purse, in spirit, and in health. After break-
fast his carriages and wagons were "impressed" to take us to
Washington. We stopped for a day at Port Tobacco, the little
place soon afterwards immortalized in history. We were
closely guarded, not allowed to leave our rooms ; but through
my little boy, who was permitted to pass at will, we accepted
the offer of Dr. Mudd to be of service to us and got him to
exchange some gold for greenbacks. He gave my little boy
a picture of himself, which we still have as a relic of the war.
This was on the 12th of April. A few days later he was an
actor in more thrilling events. The same Dr. Mudd was ar-
rested and imprisoned for setting Wilkes Booth's leg.
The next morning we started again on our way to Washing-
ton. We reached there about ten o'clock and were driven to
some sort of headquarters, where we were kept waiting for two
hours in our carriages, when permission was given to go to
any hotel we pleased; but we were not to leave the city. Mrs.
Ashbridge and I were soon in our rooms at Willard's, and
were so glad to get there.
That night they were celebrating the surrender of Lee. The
city was illuminated, bands were playing, fireworks, etc. We
closed our shutters tightly and tried not to see or hear — we
were not celebrating.
A young Englishman, who had been of our traveling party,
went out to see and hear, and, getting quite near when Mr.
Lincoln was called to the balcony for a speech, reported to us
when he returned that Mr. Lincoln made a very conservative
talk, and said : "The war is over now, these people are our
brothers, and we must treat them as such," etc. This did not
please the waiting mob below, and there were many threats
and much murmuring.
The next morning an officer came and administered an
oath, requiring that we should free our slaves. After that
we were permitted to leave the city, and at eight o'clock that
night, the memorable 14th of April, we left for Baltimore,
where we stopped at Barnum's Hotel, the home of Wilkes
Booth, and at that time of course the most undesirable place
for us. My baby was sick, and I called a servant late in the
night to bring some ice water, when he told me that President
Lincoln had been shot. I never shall forget the horror of
those words. I felt that the worst thing for the South, under
the circumstances, had happened, and have always felt so. Mrs.
Helm was in the hotel, and I went immediately to her room.
It was about two o'clock in the morning. I found her calmly
trying to quiet the excited wife of some Baltimore official.
whose husband was a friend of the South and against whom
there were threats of mob violence. The feeling against all
Baltimore was very strong, and especially our hotel, as the
home of Booth. The city was a perfect bedlam for some
time. We did not know what would befall us next.
No trains were allowed to leave for some days ; and when
I finally started again for Kentucky, we were closely watched.
Detectives were on every car looking for Booth and peering
into our faces. I reached home without further incident the
24th of April, having been nearly a month coming from Rich-
mond, Va„ and was again with my children, from whom I
had been separated for four long years. Where my husband
was, I did not know. I had parted from him on the banks of
the South Anna River.
My husband, Judge Burnett, had been in the South about
two months when I joined him in Richmond, Va., in Decem-
ber, 1861. I went through the lines with my little baby girl,
Mary, with great difficulty, and soon found myself in the war
most truly. I crossed the lines eight times and was a prisoner
four times.
In March, 1862, I was in the Trans-Mississippi Department
when the battle of Oak Hills or Elkhorn was fought, was at
Van Buren, Ark., near enough to the battle to hear the can-
nonading, and was there when the Confederates camped near
the place after the battle was over. I remember our forlorn
and helpless condition when the army was ordered east of the
Mississippi and the battles of Corinth and Shiloh were fought.
The border land was full of Kansas jayhawkers, wild Indians,
army followers, and robbers of every description. I remained
in Arkansas until the following August.
Judge Burnett then determined to take us back with him to
Virginia. It was very difficult to cross the Mississippi River,
as the United States gunboats were patrolling the river con-
stantly. The first bombardment at Vicksburg bad taken place,
and the town was almost deserted by the citizens. To cross
under the protection of our batteries there was the only chance.
To do this it was safest to get opposite in the night and sig-
nal the batteries, so that we would not be fired upon. We
succeeded in crossing at last in little rowboats sent ever for
us. How I remember my feeling of relief to be safe inside
of the Confederate lines even in a deserted and battered town
with a very sick child ! We stopped with our sick baby for
several days at the Washington Hotel, Vicksburg. We were
the only inmates except the proprietor and his mother. The
windows of my room commanded a fine view down the river.
They were expecting a fight, as a gunboat, it was rumored,
was going to pass or be blown up. I took my seat at the
window to see it and watched the shells from the United
States gunboat Essex fall in the river. I noticed directly that
the shells were falling in a line with our hotel. In a few
moments Judge Burnett, who had been riding around with
some army officers, came hurriedly into the room and said :
"Come away from the window. Do you know you are right
in line of those shells?" But they soon stopped for that day.
In the ceiling of the room where I was there was a large hole
made by a shell at some former bombardment. When my
little girl had improved enough, we started on. Our next
stop was at the healthful little town of Cartersville, Ga., where
we remained for a few weeks, the Judge going on to his duties
at Richmond. We were cared for by black Sam, a negro man
that my mother had raised.
Next we stopped at Athens, Tenn., where there were many
Kentuckians. From there Mrs. H. W. Bruce and myself de-
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termined to try to get back to our home, in Kentucky. We
started a few days before Christmas, 1862, and succeeded in
getting into Nashville. We were taken to army headquarters,
well questioned, and then given passports to Louisville — so
far so good. We went to the old St. Cloud Hotel quite hap-
py, expecting to leave on the early morning train for home ;
but before daylight a messenger came to our room to say we
could not leave the city. We knew nothing more until an
orderly came to say that we were to be sent back South im-
mediately. Wc put our wraps on our children, and all sat
bundled and ready to start back South, so waiting from ten
in the morning until three in the afternoon. Our kind land-
lady, Mrs. Carter, explained the cause of all this by saying:
"Morgan has torn up the railroad, and they are mad." She
told us that if we wanted to write letters to friends at home
she would see that they were sent. We were glad of the op-
portunity. I wrote several letters to Kentucky, all of which
reached their destination.
At three o'clock we were told that a carriage was ready for
us, but we were made to sign an obligation to pay for the car-
riage in case it was taken. The driver was a spy sent into
the Confederate lines for information, a man named George
Moore, and they were just on the eve of the battle of Mur-
freesboro. It was Christmas clay, 1862. Our carriage had to
move in line with Rosecrans's wagon train. Nearly thirty
miles of wagon train! It was dark long before we reached
the Federal headquarters, about two miles from Murfreesboro.
General Wood came to our carriage and talked to us very
kindly. He was so surprised to find ladies sent out at such a
time. He said they were just on the eve of a great battle— in
fact, had been fighting all day. When we went into Nashville,
the day before, the Confederate pickets were within three
miles of Nashville, and in twenty-four hours Rosecrans's
whole army was within three miles of Murfreesoro, and they
are about thirty miles apart. Before our interview with Gen-
eral Wood and l>efore it was quite dark our carriage had been
stopped, and we were made to wait for an hour or more while
the army marched across the pike in front of us into a dense
cedar wood on the left. On our right was an open field where
cannon and their belongings were massed as far as we could
see.
General Wood first said we could not pass his lines; but
win n we showed him our passports from General Rosecrans.
he said he had no power to keep us, but would advise us not
to try to enter the Rebel lines that night, saying we certainly
would be fired into. We had to go on, so we got them to
light some candles that we had in our baskets and put them
into the lamps of the carriage, and we started on our perilous
way, the soldiers bidding us "Good-by; that's the last of you;
you will be taken for artillery." In a few minutes we drove
right through Gen. Joe Wheeler's lines on to Murfreesboro
and to General Bragg's headquarters without stop or question.
At Bragg's headquarters we had some trouble finding any-
body; but finally Col. George Brent, his chief of staff, ap-
peared, and we delivered some papers Rosecrans had sent to
him by us — to get his spy. our driver, in, of course. We de-
livered the papers and left some Northern newspapers and
messages from Southern sympathizers that we had been in-
trusted with. It was then past ten o'clock at night, and we
had to find some place to stay. Wc tried all the hotels and
boarding houses, and finally went to Colonel Keeblc's. who
had been a member of the United States Congress and was
afterwards in the Confederate Congress and knew our hus-
bands. His home was full of Confederate officers and his
wife an invalid, but some of the officers gave up their room to
us. We found quite an assembly of officers in the parlor and
told them what we had seen that day, and were impressed
with their incredulous smiles at our report of the extent of
the Federal lines. One of them said, "A few men looked like
a great many," and that a "field of cannon and thirty miles of
wagons" were repeated as ridicule, although the men were
trying to be polite.
Right here I want to say that when Mrs. Bruce and myself
two days before were taken to headquarters in Nashville they
told us that General Rosecrans could not see us ; he was ex-
pecting to take the field next day. We were separated into
difl' rent rooms, paper and pen were at hand, and I was thor-
oughly questioned. First as to who I was. about my husband,
etc., and then as to how many trains I met loaded with sol-
diers between Chattanooga and Murfreesboro; and when I
answered none, Major Fitch, who was questioning me, said in
contradiction: "But, madam, we have positive information that
large bodies of troops have been leaving Murfreesboro every
day." Then he asked me to say how many soldiers were on
the streets of Murfreesboro and where Bragg's camps were,
how many bridges were burned between Chattanooga and
Murfreesboro, and enough of such questions to fill several
pages of legal cap paper.
When we went to General Bragg's headquarters, Colonel
Brent said he was out at a party with his wife. 'Tis a wom-
an's opinion that both sides were very much surprised at the
battle of Murfreesboro. Mrs. Bruce and I were very much
relieved to get away from the place early the next morning
and to get back to our old place at Athens.
The battle of Murfreesboro was fought two days afterwards.
Mrs. Bruce made another effort to get home soon, and suc-
ceeded; but the military authorities made her pay for the
carriage which their spy (Moore) claimed had been taken or
broken by the trip. These things are as bright in my memory
to-day as if they had occurred only yesterday.
Battle of Murfreesboro Surprise to Both Sides.
In the summer of 1905 I was sojourning at a pleasant re-
sort on Rainbow Lake, in Wisconsin. There I met Mrs. Paul,
a lady of my own age, who was in the Civil War. She had a
sister who was the wife of an army officer on the Federal
side. We were talking of our experiences when she said she
was in the battle of Murfreesboro. I said that I was too. I
then said I had always felt that the battle was a surprise to
both sides, and she replied that she knew it was to the Federal
side.
THE ROUGH RIDERS.
BY JOHN S. KRITSER, TAYLOR, TEX.
I enlisted from my old home in Independence, Mo., when
I was fifteen years of age. and served through the entire war.
And maybe I am serving yet, as I have never surrendered to
any one that I can call to memory just now. I was a high
private in the rear rank, and claim no other honor, as I think
that is honor enough for any one. I belonged to Company E.
2d Regiment of Missouri Cavalry, under Gen. Joe O. Shelby,
old "Iron Brigade," and history accords to our command the
name of "Rough Riders" the first time it was ever printed, but
af; rwards used in the skirmish in Cuba by Colonel Roosevelt
(fifty per cent of them never rode a horse).
At the end of the war I rode with General Shelby and a
few true and tried soldiers to Mexico, crossing the Rio Grande
River at Eagle Pass, on the Texas side, to Piedras Negras
(Black Rock), on the Mexican side We had a fight with the
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Mexicans as soon as we crossed, and killed several "greasers."
There was a regiment of them commanded by a Colonel Esco-
bedo. There were about two hundred of us old veterans, and
those greasers did not know what they were up against; for
it generally took fifteen hundred Yankees to lick that number
of old Joe's cavalry, and not do it then. We had three pieces
of our old battery with us, which we sold to these same
Mexicans, and two thousand Enfield rifles that we carried
with us from Texas armories, receiving Mexican silver for
them. Before going into Mexico we buried our old flag, which
we had carried all through the war and for four months after
all the Confederate soldiers had disbanded. We gave it a
soldier's burial, and also the black plume from our general's
hat. There were feelings of sadness and tearful eyes when
we took a last look at the old shell-rent and Minie-ball-rid-
dled ensign that we had carried so long in sunshine, rain,
sleet, and hail. Victory for us had perched on its faded crest
more than a score of times on hotly contested fields of car-
nage, and its folds had never trailed in the dust nor ever
been lowered in the face of the enemy, advancing or retreat-
ing, but kept as pure and unsullied as the pure mountain snow
under which it finally found a burial place. And the black
plume from our general's hat! For we knew that when "Old
Joe" took us in, if not more than ten to one against us, he
would bring us out — that is, those who were able to come out.
When he said, "Come on, my brave Missourians," we knew
something was going to happen poco pronto (very quick).
We always called him "Old Joe," yet he was only thirty-
one years old when he commanded his division of cavalry.
He was a man who possessed more magnetism than any one I
ever knew, and his men loved and worshiped him. knowing
their love was reciprocated; but he would fight them against
any number of the enemy to the death. We all knew this
from actual experience. He was as true as the needle to the
pole and a high-toned, honorable gentleman in every sense of
the term, and he is now with Lee, Jackson, and all those other
heroes who preceded him beyond the river.
my name and command, date of surrender, etc.. which I am
preserving for my children as souvenirs of the Confederacy.
Dibrell's Brigade was first in the division of Gen. N. B.
Forrest ; but soon after the battle of Chickamauga was placed
under the command of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and so remained
until the close of the war.
DIBRELL'S OLD FLAG WAS NOT SURRENDERED.
BY C. L. NOLEN, HUNTSVILLE, ALA.
Toward the close of the war Gen. George G. Dibrell, of
Tennessee, was promoted from brigade to division commander,
and Col. W. S. McLemore, of the 4th (Starnes) Tennessee
Cavalry, was promoted to the command of Dibrell's Brigade,
originally composed of the 4th, 8th, 9th, 10th. and nth Ten-
nessee Cavalry.
At Washington, Ga., when we were informed that our bri-
gade would be surrendered and paroled, the brigade color
bearer, Elbert J. Peacock, who had carried our flag so hon-
orably in the many battles in which we took part, in order
to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy, cut it into
pieces and divided them among the ten or twelve comrades
composing Colonel McLemore's couriers, and also to some
of his staff officers. I was given one of the stars from the
flag, which I have had framed and placed among my cherished
Confederate mementos. Colonel McLemore's couriers were
detailed from the different companies of his regiment (4th
Tennessee), Elbert J. Peacock and I being messmates.
General Dibrell's division composed the escort of Presi-
dent Jefferson Davis's cabinet and wagon train from Golds-
boro, N. C, to the Savannah River, near Washington, Ga.,
where we were each paid about twenty-five dollars in specie,
which was being transported in the wagon train. I yet have
four of those silver dollars, on which I have had engraved
THE OLD BRIGADES IN GRAY.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
They are passing in their glory,
Yet they'll live in deathless story —
Aye, until the years are hoary
And their past is far away.
By the world their deeds are spoken
And their fame is Glory's token,
For their ranks were never broken —
Those old brigades in gray.
I can see their camp fires quiver
By the fair and crystal river;
I can see them charging ever
Where the lights and shadows play.
Where their battle banner flaunted,
Brave, heroic, and undaunted,
In the wood by memory haunted
Stood the old brigades in gray.
I can see that banner streaming
In the sunset's glorious gleaming;
You may think that I am dreaming
Of a past that's far away.
Oft the storms of battle tore it
And the breezes bravely bore it,
Men of honor fell before it —
In the old brigades in gray.
O, how grand was their formation
When they fought to free a nation !
Fate was but their compensation,
Weak to-day is their array ;
They are crossing to the others
Who have crossed, their hero brothers,
Sons of gentle-hearted mothers —
The old brigades in gray.
Like the enemy who met them,
They have trials and cares to fret them;
But the world will not forget them
Whilst among us yet they stay.
Weave for them a wreath of roses
Which the morning sun discloses,
See that it in love reposes
On the old brigades in gray.
Where their comrades now are sleeping
Angel-guarded vines are creeping,
And the rivers, onward leaping,
Seek the sea that's far away.
They were mustered in their glory
'Neath the pine and cypress hoary;
Now a remnant tells the story
Of the old brigades in gray.
Confederate sentiment is sustained better by Confederate
literature than by any other means. The Veteran undertakes
to supply any such book at a low price.
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS AT CAMP CHASE.
Under heading "Petition and Resolution" is the following
directed to the Honorable Members of the General Assembly
of the State of :
"We, the R. E. Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, of Columbus, Ohio, by order duly authorized, which
order, as will hereafter appear, is indorsed and approved by
the State Division U. D. C, do petition your honorable body
as follows :
"That whereas we are advised that Mrs. Mary Patton Hud-
son, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who is not a member of any Chapter
of the U. D. C. acknowledged by the Ohio State Division or
by the National Organization, is procuring and attempting to
procure appropriations from the various State Legislatures of
the South for the purpose of erecting a monument at Camp
Chase Confederate Cemetery, located at Columbus, Ohio; and
whereas we believe that the good people of the South arc not
advised of the true conditions surrounding the last resting
place of our brave boys who sleep at Camp Chase Cemetery ;
and whereas for more than ten years that gallant Union sol-
dier, that noble-hearted Christian gentleman, now National
Commander of the Union Veteran Legion of America, has.
with the aid of faithful and devoted Confederate veterans lo-
cated in and near Columbus, Ohio, and the R. E. Lee Chap-
ter, U. D. C, cared for, tended, and made clean the grounds
and surroundings of the cemetery, and each year held ap-
propriate services with large audiences in attendance; and
whereas, finally, the good Colonel Knattss caused to be erected
the splendid Memorial Arch (a photo of which is inclosed),
crowning the immediate forefront of the cemetery grounds,
which monument was unveiled on the 14th of June, A.D. 1902.
and accepted in behalf of the Confederate Veterans of the
South, in the absence of Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, by
Col. D. E. Johnston, a Confederate Veteran of Blue-field. W. Va. ;
and whereas the national government has recently made large
appropriations for the erection of headstones at the graves
of Confederates buried in the North, which work of erecting
Said stones, etc., is under the immediate supervision of Col.
William Elliott, a Confederate Veteran of Columbia, S. C,
and which work we believe will be well and faithfully per-
formed and will fill in Camp Chase Cemetery every availabl
space within the inclosure where the two thousand two 1 inn
dred and sixty soldiers are buried; and whereas the ground-
are clean, well-kept, and well guarded, and we believe it is an
imposition on the generous-hearted and patriotic men ami
women of tin- South, and a reflection on the great work so
well performed by those who have- aided the R. E. Lee Chap-
Ire in caring for the cemetery, to ask tor .nil where noni 1
needed — then fore be it
"Resolved, That we petition your honorable body to the ef-
fect that, if an appropriation for Camp Chase Cemetery has no:
been made. 11., such appropriation be made; and if an appropri-
ation has already b' en made, we respiV fully recommend thai
there be reconsideration of the same had until there can he
further investigation.
"Done by order of the' R E, Lee Chapter. United Daugh-
ters i>f the Confederacy, of Columbus, ohm. tins _•, t day of
February, A.D, 1007. (Mrs.) M. A. Carroll, Pres.;
(Mrs.) B. E, Van Horn, Sec."
Ibis action of the R. E. Lee Chapter is indorsed, approved,
and commended by the State Division ol tie State Board
It would be a sad reflection upem the generous patriot 1 I
Ohio, heaeleel by Co! W. II. KnauSS, to interfere with the
beautiful monument in Camp Chase Cemeterj
CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS.
The following is from R. Henry Lake, Chairman Monument
and Memorial Committee, U. S. C. V. His address is 614
Memphis Trust Building, Memphis Tenn. : "Herewith I hand
you a list of Confederate monuments in Tennessee, with some
little data concerning each. We are desirous of obtaining a
complete list of all monuments or memorials to Confederate
soldiers in the State, and feel certain that your readers can
suggest others in various localities. We want further to stimu-
late interest, so that such monuments may be erected in every
town in Tennessee' "
Confederate Monuments in Tennessee.
Memphis, — Eorrcst Monument: Cost. $35,359; unveiled
May 16, 1905, by Kathleen Forrest Bradley; erected by For-
rest Monument Association, Ladies U. D. C, ami public sub-
scription. Monument to Confederate dead in 1 hnwood Ceme-
tery: Cost, $5,000; 1873.
Nashville. — Mt. Olivet Cemetery; cost, $10,500; May 16,
1889.
Franklin. — Public Square; cost, $2,500; November 30, 1899.
Murfreesboro. — Public Square; cost, $2,800; 190T.
Paris. — Courthouse yard; cost, $2,900. to "Valor, Bravery,
and Heroism Confederate Soldiers," Henry Comity; October
13. 1900.
ShelbyvUle. — Willow Mount Cemetery; cost, $1,200; Octo-
ber 17. 1899.
Gallatin. — Trousdale Place, near Public Square; cost, $2,-
000 ; September 19, 1903.
Knoxville. — Bethel Cemetery; cost, $4,500; May 19, 1892;
unveiled by Senator and General W. B. Bate.
Jackson. — Court Square; cost, $3,500; Memorial Day, 1884.
Covington. — Court Square; cost, $2,500; May 29, 1895.
Dyersburg. — Courthouse yard; cost, $2,250; April 6. 1905.
Pulaski. — Courthouse yarel ; cost, $2,000; October, 1906; in
memory of Sam Davis, boy hero and martyr.
( olumbia. — Rose Hill Cemetery; cost, $2,000; 1896.
Union City. — Cemetery; in memory of unknown Confederate
dead; June 22, 1867; unveiled by Mrs. C. E. G. Trevantham,
who organized the first Chapter U. D. C. in West Tennessee
(named for her).
Bolivar.— Courthouse yard; cost. $j.Soo ; 1870 (one of the
early monuments, and it is probably the first)
(InrksriUc. — Greenwood Cemetery; cost. $7,500: October,
1893,
Shiloh Bptlefield.—Near Shiloh Church; cost, about $2,-
000; September, 1905; in memory of Bate's Keginnnt, 2d Ten-
nessee Infantry (only Confederate monument at Shiloh).
Chattanooga. — Confederate Cemetery: Monument to Con
federate dead; cost, $2,500; 1877. Memorial Arch and Gate
to Cemetery; cost, $1,500: toot.
Chickamauga. — National Military Park, on Chickamauga
Battlefield; three monuments to Confederate infantry ami
artillery, costing each $2,500; also forty-six markers on
battlefield, erected by the State eif Tennessee, Tennessee
Chickamauga Park Commission, They alsei erected one mon-
ument. $2,000. to lwe> regiments of Tennessee Federal cavalry.
e hickamauga Park. — Private Battery Monument to Carnes's
Batterj (cost, $1,000), by Capt. W. W. Carnes, of Memphis.
Lebanon. — Cedar Grove Cemetery; July 27. 1890.
Fayettcville. — In courthouse yard; erected in 1906.
The' Veteran earnestly de-sires a record of all Confederate
monuments ami memorials in existence to dale
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William Hawi.ing Rogers.
Capt. William H. Rogers, more widely and lovingly known
by his friends as "Extra Billy" Rogers, died at his home, in
Leesburg, Va., on January 13. He was the son of Col. Hamil-
ton Rogers and was born at Oakham, near Middleburg, Au-
gust 22, 1824. Here he spent his youth.
From 1854 to 1861 he was agent of the United States govern-
ment for the Indians and Mormons, and rendered conspicuous
service to his government in that capacity during that period.
In 1857 Captain Rogers and Col. Albert Sidney Johnston,
commanding the United States troops, directed the rescue of
the survivors of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah.
In 1861 he came East, resigned his office, and volunteered
as aid on the slaff of Gen. N. G. Evans, of South Carolina,
and later on General Longstreet's staff.
After the war, in 1869, Captain Rogers went to South Amer-
ica and engaged in business with his cousin, Dr. John Hawling.
Here he remained until 1880, when he returned and purchased
Oakham, where he resided and dispensed true Virginia hos-
pitality until April 1, 1902, when he moved to Leesburg.
Captain Rogers was a knightly gentleman of the old school,
courteous, of dignified bearing, yet approachable and accessible
to every one. His manner was always engaging and his heart
was ever in sympathy with those around him.
He is survived by two brothers (Mortimer M. Rogers, of
Roanoke, and Col. Asa Rogers, of Petersburg. Va.), one sister
(Mrs. Philips, of Fredericksburg'), and nephews and nieces.
Mrs. Mary Eloise Wormeley.
Entered into rest February 17, 1906, Mrs. Mary E. Worme-
ley, aged seventy-four years. Mrs. Wormeley was born in
Fauquier County, Va., September 18, 1831. She was a cousin
of General Pickett, of Gettysburg fame. After her marriage,
she came to Memphis in 1852, and the remainder of her life
was spent here. During the sad days of civil strife, when our
country was bleeding and our homes were being desolated, she,
yet in the prime of young womanhood, zealously entered upon
the work of nursing the sick and clothing the soldiers.
In 1861 a band of loyal women organized a society known
as the "Southern Mothers," around the brows of each one of
whom we now see the halo of sainthood. Mrs. Wormeley
was a charter member of this association, and some of their
first work was to make up the Confederate gray for the sol-
diers, and afterwards they nursed and cared for all sick sol-
diers who were brought into Memphis. During the last year
of the war her house was burned by Federal enemies.
After these dark days were over, no one was more loyal
to the dear memories nor yet more conservative under the
dreadful discipline of reconstruction than Mrs. Wormeley.
She was a charter member and Honorary Vice President for
life of the Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association, and
she was also a member of the Sarah Law Chapter. U. D. C.
At the unveiling of Forrest's monument in Memphis, in May,
1905, she occupied the seat arranged for her on the grand
stand, wearing the badges of the three Confederate orders to
which she belonged. Mucli good and philanthropic work was
also done by Mrs. Wormeley. She was a charter member of
the Woman's Christian Association and President of the
same for the last four years of her life; she was also a con-
stant visitor and member of the Board of Managers for the
Woman's Refuge, the reformatory work of the W. C. A.
Rarely has there been a life as complete, for even up to the
last month of her life she was actively engaged in those good
works which were an inestimable benefit to mankind. Patri-
otic, philanthropic, broad, but first and always a Christian —
such was Mrs. Worm, ley's character. There can be no more
valuable records for our children than those which keep green
the memories of such women, and now we take comfort in
remembering that the rest of Paradise is the reward of His
saints. "By their works ye shall know them !"
[The foregoing is from a Memphis friend.]
Capt. T. W. Buford.
The death of Capt. T. W. Buford at Pickens. Miss., re-
moved from earth one of the noblest of men and the bravest
of Confedera'e soldiers.
Captain Buford enlisted in Corinth, Miss., just at the open-
ing of hostilities in a cavalry company formed by Colonel Inge
and was elected first lieutenant. Being delayed in leaving for
the front, he became impatient and started to Virginia, where
he enlisted as a private soldier in the 2d Mississippi Infantry.
CAPT. T. W. BUFORD.
He fought valiantly until the battle of Sharpsburg, where he
received a fearful wound which incapacitated him for in-
fantry service; so he and his brothers formed a cavalry com-
pany and joined the Mississippi Division.
Captain Buford was a Southern gentleman of the old school
— generous, modest, yet brave and daring. In war he served
his country faithfully and honorably, and in peace became a
law-abiding and highly respected citizen, a devoted husband
and father, a true friend, a Christian gentleman, and one of
the courageous, true men who have maintained the high level
of Southern citizenship.
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Mrs. Reisecca Elwell Maxwell.
It is with deep regret that the Veteran records the death
of Mrs. Rebecca E. Maxwell on the 15th of January at the
home of her daughter. Mrs. W. J. Cook, in Jacksonville, Fla.
She was in her eighty-eighth year. From the beginning Mrs.
Maxwell had been an interested subscriber to the Veteran
for hersilf and others, and her kind thought in contributing
thus toward ils maintenance was indicative of her character
of helpfulness.
Mrs. Maxwell was an honorary life member of the Martha
Reid Chapter, U. D. C, of Jacksonville, and was always in-
terested in the objects of the Chapter, doing her share in its
MRS. REBECCA ELWELL MAXWELL.
many good works. She was referred to as the mother of the
Chapter, having proposed its name and being its oldest mem-
ber.
Prior to her marriage she was Miss Elwell, of Boston,
Mass. Coming South in her early womanhood to visit rela-
tives in Leon County, Fla., she met Col. C. William McWhil
Maxwell, and 111 marrying him she became an adopted daugh-
ter of the South, and there wire none by birth who were
more devoted to or espoused its sacred cause more ardently.
She possessed a wonderfully retentive memory, and was proba-
bly better posted than any native in the history of the old
aristocratic South.
Mr>. Maxwell is survived by two sons (Capt. D. Elwell
Maxwell and Clarence W. Maxwell) and two daughters
(Mrs. \V. J. Cook and Mrs. Jennie Farrell, of Jacksonville)
The interment was at Tallahassee.
Deaths in the W. B. Plemons Camp, Amarillo, Tex.
[Reports by committees on several deaths in the Camp.]
Comrade E. F. Scott was born December 16, 1842, in Pettus
County. Mo. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army as
a member of Company I, 10th Missouri Cavalry, Marmaduke's
Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, in which command
he was a faithful soldier to the end. On October 4, 1876, he
was married to Mary F. Jones, who, with two sons, survives
him. Comrade Scott had been an honored citizen of Amarillo,
Tex., for several years, a consistent member of the M. E.
Church, South, and a faithful and beloved member of W. B.
Plemons Camp, No. 1451, U. C. V. On June 14, 1906, God in
his wisdom saw fit to call him home, where he joined the
hosts of his comrades gone before. Comrades, we miss Com-
rade Scott, as he was always with us "around the camp
lire;" but a few more meetings and more of us will be miss-
ing.
Comrade W. C. Cone died May 6, 1906, at the advanced
age of seventy-four years. Comrade Cone was a member of
Company A, 2d Regiment Texas Infantry, in which he en-
listed in Hunt County, Tex., in which command he acted well
his part in the defense of Southern rights; and as a true
American citizen, like other Southern soldiers, he did his best
in building up the desolated South, and lived to see the South
again the grandest country on earth.
God in his wisdom has again thinned our ranks in the death
of Comrade P. D. Tucker, who was born in Tennessee January
25, 1842, and died in Amarillo, Tex., September 20, 1906. In
[86l he enlisted in the 15th Mississippi Regiment, in which he
discharged his duty to the close of hostilities. On August 13,
1865, Comrade Tucker was wedded to Miss Aurena Mackey.
He took up railroad work as his vocation, and was employed
in the shops of Grenada, Miss., up to 1871, when he came to
I exas, working in different shops in Southern Texas until
two years ago, when his health failed him. He then came to
Amarillo to live with his son. Before coming here he was
an honored member of J. P. Benjamin Camp, U. C. V., of
Kaufman County, afterwards uniting himself with the \Y. B,
Plemons Camp. Comrade Tucker had been a great sufferer
with chronic stomach trouble for years, to which disease he
finally succumbed. He leaves his faithful wife, who has shared
his joys and sorrows for forty-one years, and eight children,
besides a host of friends to mourn their loss.
George Keenan Whitcomb, of W. B. Plemons Camp, an-
swered to the "last roll" at his home, in Amarillo, Tex.,
August 23, ioo6. He was born in Keenan, W. Va., March
jo. [834; and his parents moved to Union. W. Va., in his child-
hood. In 1854 he moved to Augusta, Ark. At the call of his
country he was the first volunteer, joining the 1st Arkansas
Cavalry. He was promoted through merit to first lieutenant,
and served throughout the war. Returning to his home in
1865, he engaged in the furniture and undertaking business
until 1800. He was married to Miss Cordelia Flynt, of Au-
gusta, Ark., in 18(16, and in 1S67 united with the First Presby-
terian Church of that city, serving many years as deacon. In
1890 he moved his family to Texas, and cast his lot with the
then frontier town of Amarillo, and was one of the few who
braved the trials and helped to make it the beautiful city it
now is. Comrade Whitcomb was a faithful Church member
•mil a devoted Christian, and for the past eight years had
been a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church of
Amarillo, Tex. He was also ,1 Mason of long and high stand-
ing He had been in feeble health for more than a year.
He leaves a devoted wife and five children.
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William A. Britton.
W. A. Britton died recently at the home of his son, Jim
Britton, near Keith's Mill, Whitfield County, Ga., at the age
of ninety-two years. He was born in Greeneville, Tenn., in
1815, and went to North Georgia when it was inhabited by
the Indians ; and when the government removed the Indians
from North Georgia, he assisted in the work of taking them
away. He was a cabinet maker, but gave up his work when
the Civil War broke out and enlisted in the Confederate army.
Mr. Britton was known for his marvelous memory. He
was well informed, and "never forgot anything that he heard "
Up to his death his memory was as clear as that of a man in
his prime. He is survived by three sons and four daughters,
besides numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Fanny Sillers Saunders.
Entered into paradise December 31, 1906, the spirit of Fanny
Sillers Saunders. In the early morning a voice called, and she
was given the "cup of salvation."
Born in Port Gibson, Miss., fifty-seven years ago. the daugh-
ter of Col. Williams Sillers, she passed a joyous childhood, a
carefully trained girlhood, and became an educated and cul-
tured woman.
Mrs. Saunders was a member of the Commodore Perry
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the
J. Harvey Mathis Chapter, U. D. C Holding offices in both
organizations, she always extended a cordial friendship to the
members of these Associations and generously assisted in their
various duties. Around her last resting place many friends
crowded to do her honor, and laid over the consecrated mound
flowers of sweetness arrayed in the colors of her beloved
Southland.
Col. W. J. Saunders, a literary man, planter, and later a re-
tired capitalist, won this winsome woman, and together they
spent many years of ideal happiness. Their home life was a
positive power for good ; they were kind, generous, and cheer-
ful, and much courted ; neither would have wounded, by word
or deed, a fellow-being; both were tender, affectionate, con-
sistent, and natural. Colonel Saunders is a member of the
Confederate Historical Society, and is also a member of Com-
pany A.
Two gifted daughters (Mrs. J. B. Brugler, of Milwaukee,
Wis., and Mrs. J. S. Selmar, of Dallas, Tex.), three grand-
children, and one great-grandchild have had left to them a
legacy of purity and devotion to duty that will remain a per-
petual inspiration. She was to her husband the light of his
life. Is not this a legend of the breath of a rose, the sadness
of the cross, and does it not portray life in its joy, its sor-
row?
There was a day full, perfect, and radiant, young from the
hand of God, of a sweet stillness, save for the song of the
bird trying its trill, the soft measures of the rippling water,
the newborn sigh of the pine — all bathed in the warm sun-
light. A man strong in stature, a woman a poem of purity,
clinging and true, abode in a beautifully created garden, wheie
all was fair, from the rose of velvet sheen to the tree of state-
ly pride. When they left the garden, he trusted, she leaned
upon him and bade him hope ; together they made a home of
joy and care. God so willed it that one should say good-by
to a still face and hands ever folded ; that one soul should
wing its way to gates leading into vistas of light and draw
thence the other. She best loves who most exalts, who most
gives courage, who bids that fai'h be a power to action with
God again joining the golden cord connecting tender souls.
In this day of hurry be not deceived, woman still clings to
home, and knows that her happiness is found in its fold. She
knows that husband, children, friends, her servants, her hidden
charities — these are the living interest of life. Her influence
may be silent, but 'tis powerful. It has no limit ; it is for
time and eternity. So it was with the gentle, cultured woman
gone from our midst.
We wish you to go, as she would wish, to Him who made
the garden, the home, to be dissolved, only to be rebuilt, when
MRS. FANNY SILLERS SAUNDERS.
you reach the land where they are, no shifting sands, no last
good-by, no folding of the tent ; but a realizing of every prom-
ise made by and through one Man of exceeding mercy and
boundless love.
In time we all can say in tender anticipation :
"I hear a voice you cannot hear
Which says: 'I must not stay.'
I see a hand you cannot see
Which beckons. me away."
[The foregoing tribute is by Mary Y. Walworth, Corre-
sponding Secretary J. Harvey Mathis Chapter, Memphis.]
Robert Caruthers.
Mr. Robert Caruthers died January 3, 1907, in Huntsville,
Ala., at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. A. W. Newson.
He was a splendid, cultured, chivalrous Southern gentleman
of the old school. He was in his eightieth year, and is sur-
vived by two daughters, Mrs. Newson and Mrs. W. H. Simon-
ton, who now resides in Fort Scott, Kans.
Robert Caruthers was a member of one of the oldest and
most prominent families in Tennessee. His people came from
Scotland to this country and settled in Virginia and North
Carolina. Soon after the State of Tennessee was formed this
family located in Maury County near Columbia. Here Robert
Caruthers was born December 13, 1827, the youngest of the
family. There was one other son, James Caruthers, and four
daughters, Mrs. Richard Looney, Mrs. Mitchell Davidson,
Mrs. William J. Sykes, and Mrs. Leonard D. Myers, all of
whom have crossed the river. His mother was Elizabeth
Porter, of one of the famous pioneer families. His father and
his grandfather, a Revolutionary soldier, and generations be-
fore them were named Robert, until now there is no male to
bear it, his only son, Robert, having died without a son.
Robert Caruthers came from Columbia to Nashville, Tenn.,
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in 1852. He was married to Mrs. Sarah Vaughn Lawrence,
a sister of Judge Michael and Mr. Hiram Vaughn, deceased.
Robert Caruthers was intensely Southern in his sentiments.
Although frail in health, he volunteered twice; but each time
was refused on account of his physical condition. Later he
entered the secret service of the Confederacy, and experienced
many thrilling adventures. His stepson, Lawrence Vaughn,
served under Forrest. The Federal authorities put a "price
upon his head." Finally when sick in bed he was arrested
and taken to prison, where he became so critically ill that his
release was secured by a prominent Union man. So he was
R0BER1 CARUTHERS
allowed to return to bis home, but Ins house was burned to
the ground immediately afterwards. Robert Caruthers never
took the oath oi allegiance, which was always a source ol
satisfaction to him. He was never able to readjust his idea
of life and duty to the changed conditions. He was a man of
stainless honor and absolute integrity and a devout member
Of the Church for a half century. He took gnat interest in
all Confederate organizations, especially in the work of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy. His favorite maga-
zine was tin CONFEDERATE Veteran. After the death of Mrs.
Caruthers, he moved to Huntsville, Ala., where he made his
home with Mrs. New sun, his youngest child.
\V. GlBASOH BARGEE. — W. G. Barger died at bis home, near
Martin, Term., in July, 1006, aged sixty-six years. He served
throughout the war in Company II, "lb Tennessee Cavalry.
under General Forrest, which is proof of his service as an
active soldier. He was married in 1873 to Miss S. E. Carlin,
daughter of Elder John 11. D. Carlin, A.B., D.D., one of the
most noted scholars and ablest divines of the Baptist denomi-
nation in West Tennessee. Ten children blessed this happy
union. Comrade Barger, by industry and economy, became
one of the wealthy men of Weakley County, and had many
friends.
S. H. Houston. — S. H. Houston, a member of Company C,
6th Alabama Regiment, Capt. R. M. Green, Colonel Lightfoot,
Battle's Brigade, died on December 22, 1906, in Stephens
County, Tex. He fought in Lee's army in Virginia, Mary-
land, and Pennsylvania ; was captured April 5, 1865, and
carried to Point Lookout, Md., from which prison he was
discharged about July 1, reaching home on the 13th. He had
nearly finished his seventy-fourth year. Comrade Houston
was a good citizen, and reared a large family to usefulness.
Nelson Johnson. — Nelson Johnson, aged sixty-two years,
died at his home, near Wclborn, Fla., April 9, 1906. He en-
listed in the Confederate army in May, 1862, in Company A,
1st Florida Regiment Cavalry, and was wounded west of
Atlanta, Ga.. in August, 1864. A piece of shell penetrated his
cheek, and finally caused cancer. Faithful as a soldier and
respected as a citizen, of him it can be truly said: "He did
what be could."
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William J. Crowder.
a brief illness of pneumonia, William J. Crowder
died at the home of his brother, Walter J. Crowder, in
Shreveport, La., in February, 1007, the second of the family
to succumb to the dread disease, his brother Ben having pre-
ceded bun to the grave but a few days. He was born in
Oglethorpe County, Ga., in 1834. the family removing to
Caddo Parish, La., in 1854, and the two brothers had been
planters near Sand Beach.
In April, 1861, William Crowder volunteered in the Shreve-
port Grays, serving as second corporal, and at Pensacola,
Fla., bis company was incorporated with the Dreux Battalion,
which was actively engaged in the army operating on the Vir-
ginia peninsula commanded by General Magruder, who, with
about thirteen thousand men, held in check for three weeks
General McClellan's very large army, which was on the way
to Richmond. In 1S62 William Crowder was transferred to
Vicksburg, where he surrendered with Pemberton's army;
and when exchanged he was transferred to the Trans-Mis-
sissippi Department, with headquarters at Shreveport.
As a soldier. Comrade Crowder's record is unsullied ; as a
citizen, he was active and public-spirited; as a friend, he was
steadfast. He was never married. A sister and two brothers
survive him.
Benjamin David Ewing.
Benjamin D. Ewing was born in 1831 in Wilson County,
Tenn., where he was reared to manhood, receiving a moderate
education. He went to Texas in 1856; but upon the breaking
out of the war. in 1861, he returned to Tennessee and enlisted
as a private in the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, commanded by
Col. Frank McNairy, which command was organized by
special act of the Tennessee Legislature before the secession
of the State. After about a year's service tins 1st Battalion
of Tennessee Cavalry was consolidated with the 71b and
formed the 2d Tennessee Cavalry. Comrade Ewing was with
his command under Cen. F. K. Zollicoffer at Fishing Creek,
and was in Forrest's Cavalry command for a long while, and
in all the battles fought from Fishing Creek to the surrender
of Forrest in Alabama, lie- was an active soldier from start
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to finish, as brave as the bravest, but with a heart as tender
as a girl's. It is said that "he and his horse, a fine iron-gray
called Mack, could be seen in the front in every battle." He
was often placed in charge of a squad of soldiers on important
duty, and exemplified thoroughly that a brave man in power
is ever merciful. He was made a Mason during the war,
and it was with Masonic honors that he was laid to rest at
his old home, Lane, in Hunt County, Tex., on Christmas day
of 1906. His devoted wife and five children survive him to
bless his memory.
John Sherman Sanders.
John S. Sanders was born in Claiborne County, Tenn., near
Springdale. in 1836. Believing in the cause of the Southern
Confederacy, he enlisted in October, 1862, in Company H,
61st Tennessee Infantry, Col. F. E. Pitt's Regiment, Vaughan's
Brigade. He was elected second lieutenant of his company,
and, proving himself a true soldier and an impartial officer,
he was loved and respected by his comrades in the army. He
was captured in September, 1863, and sent to Camp Chase,
and from there to Fort Delaware and confined till the close
of the war. He returned to his home in June. 1865, and in
November of the same year was married to Miss Margaret
Neal Stone. He removed to Missouri in 1867 and to Texas
the next year, residing in the vicinity of Grapevine until his
death, in May, 1906.
Comrade Sanders lived a consistent Christian life, and his
passing was mourned by many friends. He is survived by
two sons and two daughters, one son having died in his six-
teenth year.
His friend and comrade, J. C. Gardner, of Springfield, Mo.,
who was first lieutenant of the same company, writes of hav-
ing met him a short while before his death, and in their part-
ing Comrade Sanders said: "Our cause was right; I know
we were right. I have lived right ; let us meet right over
yonder."
C. W. Burgess.
C. W. Burgess was born in March, 1840; and died in De-
cember, 1906, having nearly completed his sixty-seventh year.
He volunteered in the Confederate service in August, 1861,
going from his home, at McKenzie, Tenn., to Union City for
enrollment, where he was sworn in as a member of Company
G, 5th Tennessee Regiment. The regiment was sent to Co-
lumbus, Ky., early in September, thence to Mayfield, where
they stayed in camp, drilled, and built breastworks until about
March I, 1862, when they were sent to New Madrid. There
a little skirmish was had with the enemy without any fatali-
ties on our side. The next move was to Tiptonville, Memphis,
and Corinth, then to Shiloh, where he received a wound which
necessitated the amputation of his left leg above the knee.
On the retreat of our army he was captured and kept in a
hospital at Louisville, Ky., until September 6, when he was
sent to Camp Chase, then to Johnson's Island, and in Novem-
ber he was sent to Vicksburg for exchange. Soon after the
war he went to Corinth, Miss., and engaged in the livery busi-
ness. He was married to Miss Maggie Bell in 1892, whose
tenderness and devoted care made his last years happy.
Capt. C. C. Harms.
Capt. C. C. Harris, a faithful member of Sterling Price
Camp, of Fresno, Cal., died in Fresno on November 16, 1906,
aged sixty-six years. He was born near Gallatin, Tenn., in
1840. He enlisted in the Newbern Blues, Capt. W. M. Har-
rell's company of Colonel Russell's Regiment Tennessee In
fantry. at Newbern, Tenn., in May, 1861, and was afterwards
promoted to chief of ordnance, Bell's Brigade, Forrest's Cav-
alry. He participated in all the campaigns and battles of the
Army of Tennessee, and was mustered out of service at
Gainesville, Ala., May 10, 1865.
Col. J. A. Joel.
Col. J. A. Joel died at his residence, 144 East 62d Street,
New York City, on December 27, 1906. Colonel Joel was
conspicuous as a flag manufacturer, and had been in busi-
ness at 88 Nassau Street, New York, for a third of a century.
At the age of seventeen he joined the famous Ohio Regiment,
serving with Generals Rosecrans, Hayes, and McClellan, and
in the same company with President McKinley. This regi-
ment was noted for the number of Presidents and prominent
men it turned out. Colonel Joel was wounded several times,
and his long illness and death were caused by wounds re-
ceived in battle. He was presented with a medal for bravery.
During President Hayes's time he was appointed United
States Consul to Sagua Le Grand, Cuba.
Colonel Joel was an active member of the Grand Army of
the Republic, receiving the title of colonel for spltndid serv-
ices rendered. In 1873 he began the publication of the Grand
Army Gazette as editor and publisher, but had to discontinue
its publication on account of ill health. In all movements per-
taining to the welfare of the Veterans he had been a leading
spirit. As a manufacturer of flags it was said of him that he
worked as much from a patriotic motive as he did from busi-
ness reasons. He was a prominent member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, having organized the John A. Dix
Post, of New York City, and was its first Commander. He
afterwards joined Edwin D. Morgan Post, also of New York
City, and was twice Commander. He was also a very active
member as well as a national officer of the Union Veteran
Legion, and was Colonel of Encampment No. 38 in New York
City for many years.
His oldest son, R. B. Hayes Joel, named after his father's
friend and comrade, Ex-President R. B. Hayes, died five
years ago from the effects of the Spanish-American War, he
being first sergeant of Company G, 9th Regiment, National
Guard, New York. With the regiment at Chickamauga he
contracted a severe cold which eventually caused his death.
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It is unusual to publish Last Roll sketches of Grand Army
men in the Veteran ; but Colonel Joel had been a thoroughly
good friend for many years, entertaining richly his Confeder-
ate friend when on visits to the metropolis. His advertise-
ments had appeared regularly for nearly thirteen years. Grati-
tude to his memory and to his family is abiding.
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Gen. Robert Neill.
Robert Neill was born in Independence Counly, Ark., No-
vember 12, 1838; and di.d in Balesville, same county, Feb-
ruary 16, 1907. In i860 lie was elected surveyor of his county,
and served as sucb until he enlisted in the first company which
was organized in that county for the Confederate service, of
which he was elected orderly sergeant, and which became
Company K, 1st Regiment Arkansas Mounted Riflemen, Col.
T. J. Churchill. Sergeant Neill was severely wounded in the
battle of Oak Hills, Mo., August 10, 1861, but he sufficiently
recovered to accompany his regiment east of the Mississippi
River after it was dismounted. About that time he was pro-
moled to n lieutenancy, in which capacity he commanded the
company in the battle of Richmond, Ky. lie was with it in
the advance on Covington. Ky.. when (he Confederate forces
pushed to within four miles of that city, lie participated in
the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., in December, 1862, ami
later was sent west of the river on recruiting duty, where he
was detained several months, and in an effort to recross the
river after the fall of Vicksburg was captured and held as a
prisoner of war and confined in Fort Delaware until June,
1865.
In 1866 he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of In-
dependence County, and served as such until removed from
office by the carpetbag reconstruction of the State in 1868.
Later he was licensed to practice law, and soon became known
as a safe counselor and a successful advocate, painstaking, con-
servative, and reliable, and for years past he steadily main-
tained his position at the head of the bar in his county.
In 1874 Comrade Neill was appointed brigadier genera! of
the State Guard by dov. A. H. Garland, and was conspicuous
among the leaders of the people when the carpetbag yoke was
successfully thrown off and the State restored to the rightful
control of its best citizenship. For several years he served as
a member of the Batesville School Board and of the Town
Council, in the former capacity aiding largely in bringing the
local public school to a s'ate of efficiency and in the erection
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of the superior group of buildings now in use under his super-
vision; while in the latter capacity he contributed largely to
the general improvement of the town, prominent among the
permanent benefits being the bridge across Polk Bayou, which
was secured largely through his untiring elTorts.
In 1892 General Neill was elected to Congress as the first
Representative from the Sixth Congressional District of
Arkansas, and was reelected in 1894, rendering valuable serv-
ice throughout two terms. It was through his efforts that the
United States District Court was located at Batesville, crea-
ting the necessity for the splendid building which has since
been erected ; and the first appropriation was made for a sur-
vey of White River, which resulted in the beginning of the
system of locks and dams in that river to secure permanent
navigation. When the railroad commission was crcati.l by
the Legislature of 1899, General Neill was appointed and con-
firmed as a member (if it, being elected chairman by his .1^
sociates, and he largely shaped the course of the commission
111 putting the law into effect. Later as a member of the
Board of Commissioners of the Batesville Improvement Dis-
trict he assisted in negotiating the sale of the bonds, letting
the contract and supervising the erection of the water and
light plant of his home town. At all times active and positive
in his affection for his native county and State, whatever
tended to the development and betterment of either received
lus hearty and loyal support. His last semipublic service was
as chairman of the committee which secured the contributions
tor and superintended the ercctien of the Confederate monu-
ment in the courthouse grounds in Batesville.
In 1869 General Neill was happily married to Miss Mary
A. Byers, and of this union ten children were born, of whom
four sons and three daughters grew to maturity and useful
citizenship. Tin- wife and six children survive the husband
and father. The greatest sorrow of General Neill's life was-
the untimely death of his eldest son. Arthur Neill, Adjutant
General of the State of Arkansas during the Spanish-American
War. which occurred less than two years ago.
Shut up to the limited school privileges of the country dur-
ing the period of his boyhood, General Neill was thrown upon
his own reading and study for the acquisition of the mental
equipment which he used so effectively; but the breadth of
his reading, which he retained with wonderful accuracy, was
the source of constantly recurring surprise to those who had
been blessed with better advantages in their youth.
As a man. as a soldier, as a citizen, and as a friend. General
Neill's prominent characteristics were a single-hearted devo
tion to duty as he saw it and a rugged honesty that com
manded the respect of all who knew him.
(This tribute is by James P. Coffin.]
Mrs. Josephine McPherson Ware.
Mrs. Josephine Ware, wife of Dr. James Ware. Surgeon of
Calcasieu Camp, Lake Charles, La., died on the 27th of I'M.
ruarv. at the age of seventy-six years. She was horn in
Maryland and of Scotch-Catholic stock, her parents having
emigrated to this country at the time of religious persecution
in Scotland. She was married to Dr Ware in 1865, and had
been a resident of Louisiana, and of Lake (hail.-, since [88?
Mrs. Ware was a woman of remarkable Strength of charac-
ter, and she lived ami died an ideal wife, mother, and friend.
Her husband was surgeon of the l6th Louisiana Regiment.
Gibson's Brigade. As a member of the I'. I). C Chapter of
Lake Charles, she was actively interested in i's good work,
and the pallbearers at her funeral were all Confederate Yet
erans. Her husband and two sons survive her.
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James L. Puhh.
James Lawrence Pugh, distinguished jurist, statesman, and
soldier, died in Washington, D. C, on March 9, in the eighty-
seventh year of his age; and was buried in Eufaula, Ala., on
March 12.
James L. Pugh was born in Butts County, Ga., in 1S20.
When four years old, his parents moved with him to Pike
County, Ala. ; and, dying soon after, left him an orphan with
no resources save his indomitable energy and unconquerable
will. When scarcely in his teens, he was mail rider through
a section then lying partly in the Creek Indian Nation. He
served in the Creek Indian War of 1837. Next he was clerk-
ing in a store in Eufaula, Ala., and, in spite of all obstacles,
at the same time mastering the knowledge of law and laying
the foundations of legal wisdom which in after time made
him the foremost jurist in the Senate of the United States.
In 1841 he was admitted to the bar, and took a prominent
place at once among the lawyers of East Alabama — Judge
John Cochran, John Gill Shorter (afterwards War Governor
of Alabama), Edward C. Bullock (who died in the great war
as colonel of the 18th Alabama Regiment), Alpheus Baker
(afterwards brigadier general of the Confederacy and distin-
guished lawyer of Louisville, Ky.), and Henry D. Clayton
(afterwards major general in the Confederate army). His
partner in practice was the brilliant Jefferson M. Buford, who
acquired a national reputation by his part in the Kansas trou-
bles just before the Civil War.
In 1849 he was a candidate for Congress, but was defeated
by Henry W. Hilliard. Again, in 1859, he was a candidate
for Congress, and was elected without opposition. When his
State seceded, he resigned his seat in Congress, came home,
and enlisted as a private soldier in the Eufaula Rifles, 1st
Alabama Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A. After a year of
faithful service in the ranks, his fellow-citizens elected him
-to the Confederate Congress, and reelected him at the expira-
tion of his first term.
When the Confederacy was overthrown, he resumed the
practice of law in Eufaula, and did his part in redeeming his
State from carpetbag rule. He was selected as chairman of
the Democratic Convention of 1874, which nominated George
S. Houston for Governor, and he was a member of the Con-
vention of 1875, which framed the State Constitution to super-
sede the one of 1867 imposed upon the State by negroes,
carpetbaggers, and Federal bayonets.
When United States Senator Houston died in office, in 1880,
the Legislature, being in session, elected Senator Pugh to fill
the vacancy. He was twice reelected, and finished a contin-
uous service in the Senate of sixteen years in 1896. He was
regarded as the foremost constitutional lawyer on the Demo-
cratic side in the Senate; and when his party was in the ma-
jority in 1892-96, he was chairman of the Judiciary Commit-
tee. After leaving the Senate, he continued to reside in
Washington, as he had acquired possession of a home there,
and three of his sons were residents of that city. But he
made frequent visits to Alabama, and never grew out of touch
and sympathy with the people of his State.
He was buried from St. James Church, Eufaula, the rector
of the parish being assisted in the services by Dr. T. J. Beard,
of Birmingham, the venerable friend and former rector of the
ex-Senator in the days of the war. The local Camp of Con-
federate Veterans also conducted exercises at the grave, led
by the Commander, Capt. S. H. Dent, a lieutenant in the
Eufaula Rifles when Senator Pugh was a private.
In the early forties Senator Pugh married Miss Serena
Hunter, daughter of Gen. James L. Hunter, of South Caro-
lina and Alabama; and she, with six of their children, survives
him. Their living children are: Mrs. Alfred W. Cochran, of
THE LATE EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR PUGH.
New York ; Edward L., James H., and Henry Pugh, of Wash-
ington; John Cochran Pugh, of Birmingham; and Mrs. S. P.
Elliot, of Eufaula.
Lawrence Aylett Daffan.
Lawrence Aylett Daffan was born April 30, 1845, in Conecuh
County, Ala. His father, John Warren Daffan, was born and
reared in Westmoreland County, Va. His mother, Mary Jones
Daffan, was born and reared in Caroline County, Va. In
1849 the family went from Alabama to Texas, living first in
Montgomery County, and in i860 went to Navasola.
His first employment was carrying the United States mail
from Montgomery to the old town of Washington, in Wash-
ington County.
In 1861, age sixteen years, Lawrence Daffan enlisted in the
Confederate army as a private and went to Virginia. His regi-
ment and brigade went to Virginia in companies. His regi-
ment was organized at Camp Bragg, near Richmond. Three
regiments were so organized. He was a member of Company
G, 4th Texas Regiment, under Capt. W. H. Hutcheson. Maj.
John B. Hood, of the Confederate cavalry, was appointed
colonel of this regiment. The first engagement in which
young Daffan participated was at Seven Pines, near Richmond.
He took part in many important engagements: Thoroughfare
Gap, August 29, 1862; Second Manassas, August 30 and 31,
1862; crossed the Potomac into Maryland, September 6, 1862;
Boonesboro Gap, September 15, 1862; Sharpsburg. September
16 and 17, 1862; recrossed the Potomac to Shepherdstown,
September 18, 1862 ; Fredericksburg, December 13 and 14,
1862; in vicinity of Suffolk, Southwest Virginia, twenty-three
days in April, 1863 ; fighting Franklin's Corps, Gettysburg,
July 1, 2, and 3, 1863.
While encamped at Culpeper C. H. a member of the Texas
Regiment was ordered to wear a ball and chain, and his fel-
low-soldiers considered this a disgrace to their regiment and
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to the State of Texas. A number of the soldiers, including
Lawrence Daffan, took him from the guard. Charges of
mutiny were immediately made against the indignant young
soldiers, and they were put under arrest. Their captains he-
came responsible for their appearance al court, and for six
weeks they were relieved from every duty.
Early in September, 1863, the trial took place at General
Longstreet's headquarters at Fredericksburg. On the march
from Port Royal, twenty miles east of Fredericksburg Law-
rence Daffan stopped al the home of his uncle. Champ Jones,
and reached Fredericksburg after his regiment had arrived
there, lie went alone In looking for the LongSlreel head-
quarters, where he was in he tried, he asked a major, who
directed him to a large white house, about a mile away, and
asked: "What are you going for?" Dalian replied: "1 am
going to he court-martialed for mutiny." Tin major replied:
"What? You are looking for a court to be court-martialed?"
"Yes." "Well, go on, sir; 1 don't think you will he shot
He was then eighteen years of age. The young men who
stood by their own comrade anil their own Stale were cleared
with no further ceremony.
He revisited his uncle, during which time the 41I1 Texas had
left Virginia for Georgia. He proceeded at once to Richmond
and reported to the provost marshal, who gave the young Con-
federate transportation and rations to Resaca, Ga. lie reached
there Friday, September 18, 1863. Saturday evening a hall
struck his gun between the rammer and the barrel, shivering
the stock and knocking him down; he received no other in-
jury than this during his service.
Hood's Brigade made a gallant charge at Chickamauga,
and there were two lines of battle of Federals from which
the Texans received a terrible voile) of musketry Ten of his
company were killed at Chickamauga and tlnrtx or forty
wounded
After this battle Longstreet's Corps moved east on the East
Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad also by marches
on their way to Knoxville and farther east.
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()n his way to Knoxville Lawrence Daffan was captured at
l.uiore Station, Tcnu., November 19, 1863, and this ended his
soldiering in the tiring line. He was taken to Chattanooga,
thence to Nashville to the penitentiary, which was being used
as a prison of war. Here he was taken with a severe attack
of pneumonia. From Nashville in December, [863, he was
taken to Rock Island prison. Rock Island, 111, and was re-
leased June 19, 1865.
Lawrence Daffan took the oath of allegiance to the United
States June 19, 18(15. 111 his twenty first year, lie went from
Rock Island to Houston, Tex,, by water, the government fui
nishing transportation and rations Leaving Rock Island on
June 22, he wuit to St. Louis ami on 10 New Orleans, lie left
New Orleans July 3 and reached his home, in Navasota, July
6, 18(15.
In prison al Rock Island with Comrade Daffan were C. C.
Hemming, now of Colorado Springs, Colo., 11. G. Damon, of
Corsicana, and J. \Y. Walkup, of Fort Worth.
(in Octob 1 1. 1805, he entered the employ of the Houston
and Texas Central Railroad under W. D. Derrick, who was
roadmaster and conductor lie was made a conductor De-
cember 1. 1800. The 1 louslon and I exas Central then had
eighty miles of track, seven engines, and three of them in had
order. In 1807 the I louslon and Texas Central bought the
Washington County Railroad, running from Hempstead to
Brenham. lie was given this branch of the mad. running
four trains a day, passenger and freight, until the r I ex
tended to Austin in 1870. lie followed the extension of this
road as far as it was completed, running a passenger train
until it reached Austin in December, 1871. He carried the
tirst through passengei nam mto Austin December 25, 1871
On July 13. T.885. he was made trainmaster of the second di-
vision of the road, and July 18, 1889, he was made superin
tendent, and so continued until September, 1904. From that
time to the day of his death he was general agent of trans
portation for the same road.
(hi January 23. 18/72, he was married to Miss Mollie A Day,
daughter of John IT Day, of Brenham, ami they made their
home m Austin, lie is survived by his widow and six chil-
dren: Miss Katie Daffan (former President Texas Division,
U. D. C), John. Lawrence A., Charles, Edna (Mrs. B. B.
Gilmer, of Houston I. and Quinlan.
Colonel Daffan was stricken with apoplexj at his oflici on
Monday. January 28. lie was brought to his home by his
two sons and physicians, and in spite ^i everj cue and medical
aid and the thoughtful watchfulness of his loved ones he
passed from death unto life January 28, 1007.
I hough having Tien in imperfect health for some time,
Colonel Daffan was greatly improved. He attended to his
business, making frequent trips to and from Ennis, and nont
of his family wen prepared for the sudden death.
'The funeral took place from the Daffan home, the servii
being conducted bj K< \ Georgi [Yuett, ol the First Baptist
Church of Dallas, assisted by Rev. R. T Philips, of the Cum-
berland Presbyterian Church of Corsicana, Rev, Mr. Lyon, of
the T.du in.i. 1. Baptist Church of Ennis, and the other local
pastors The casket was draped 111 the Confederate flag. The
c rcmonies al the gravi were under the auspices of the M
ami the acti\ e pallbi arei ed from ami mg M a >ons
Old and prominent friend from over the State were in at-
tendano Hundreds ol telegrams were received by the family
from absent friend- from tin- and other States, and the floral
covered not only the new mound bul the entire lol in
coming from railroad men, personal friends
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of the deceased and his family, the various Confederate or-
ganizations over the State, both Camps and Chapters, the
Young Men's Christian Association, and various orders.
Colonel Daffan was a Knight Templar, a member of the
Shriners, and a charter member of the Houston Lodge, Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Among those who
paid the last tribute at his grave were til" many colored peo-
ple, men and women, to whom he had been a friend, and the
city was in mourning, the stores were all closed and the
schools were closed as a tribute of respect and love to an es-
teemed and well-beloved citizen, whose place cannot be filled.
For the funeral of Colonel Daffan the Houston and Texas
Central Railroad ran complimentary special trains on both
ends of the road for the accommodation of old soldiers and
railroad men and any others who wished to attend.
There were hundreds of railroad men present, from general
officers to the day laborer. Every courtesy was shown by the
railroad managers, and each line of work where it was prac-
ticable was suspended during the funeral hours. The Young
Men's Christian Association, of which he was the first Presi-
dent, attended, as did the Confederate Veterans and the Ma-
sonic fraternity. The "Cross of Honor" was buried with the
brave man who had won it. In the dark days of reconstruc-
tion he entered valiantly into the dangerous vigils of the Ku-
klux Klan. The family have the sympathy and loving regard
of the broad and splendid friendships which Colonel Daffan
enjoyed.
Much attention has been shown the memory of Colonel
Daffan in Texas by the Veterans and the Daughters. In ad-
dition to his well-known loyalty to the cause, interest was in-
creased through the labors of his daughter, Miss Katie Daf-
fan, Ex-President Texas Division, U. D. C, who has been a
conspicuous Confederate worker in the State. Prominent
among the resolutions by Camps on the death of Colonel
Daffan are those of the Hannibal Boone Camp, at Navasota,
and the R. E. Lee Camp, at Fort Worth, one of the largest
in the organization.
Maj. Lemuel Long.
"A truer, nobler, trustier heart,
More loving or more loyal, never beat
Within a human breast."
Near Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., on August 19, 1906, the soul of
Lemuel Long passed suddenly but quietly into eternity. A
man fitly "formed for deeds of high resolve !" Worth, cour-
age, and honor were his birthright. His genial, hearty com-
panionship, his generous sympathy, kindly courtesy, high prin-
ciples, and worthy citizenship are sadly missed. He was a
native of Maury County, Tenn., having been born January II,
1827, within a mile of Mt. Pleasant. Old Jackson College
was his Alma Mater. He served the Confederacy under Gen-
erals Pillow and Forrest during the four years of fratricidal
war. It was under Gen. G. J. Pillow's leadership that Major
Long distinguished himself and won the rank of major. He
was serving as aid-de-camp until General Pillow was made
chief of conscripts in the Western Department; then Major
Long was transferred to the 9th Tennessee Cavalry, under
Gen. N. B. Forrest, in which he served till the close of the
war. His ardent love for the Southern cause never waned.
He was a member of the Leonidas Polk Bivouac, U. C. V., of
Columbia, and a subscriber to the Confederate Veteran from
the beginning and the tenets of its faith in the Southland.
He was also a faithful soldier of the cross of Christ.
Through his mother Major Long was descended from the
Lawrence, Willis, and Boddie families of Virginia and North
Carolina which figured in early Colonial and Revolutionary
times. He married in the later fifties Miss Martha Woodson
Pillow, the second daughter of Jerome B. Pillow, one of the
foremost men of Maury County — a woman beautiful in per-
son and attainments, saintly in character, and in every sense
a helpmeet to her husband, who was loverlike in devotion and
chivalrous courtesy throughout their long companionship of
more than half a century. Their home life was ideal, their
children worthy scions of a worthy ancestry (both were de-
scended from the cavalier settlers of Virginia). No man
stood higher in the esteem of his fellows than Maj. Lemuel
MAJ. LEMUEL LONG.
Long. His sudden death occurred while on a visit to the sum-
mer home of his daughter, Mrs. E. A. Orr, near Summer-
town. A vigorous constitution had been his blessing through
life ; but when he began to decline, a faulty action of the
heart gave anxiety to friends. When the Master's summons
came, he "fell like autumn fruit that, mellowed long," had
waited for the garnering. His body was brought back to the
home for the last sad rites, and then borne in the midst of
friends and laid to rest in historic old St. John's Churchyard
at Ashwood beside his wife, who died a few years ago.
Five children are left with the memory of his life as a
benediction: Miss Maude Long, Mrs. E. A. Orr, Mr. Jerome
Pillow Long, of Memphis, Rev. Lemuel Long, of Centerville,
and Hon. William Bethell Long, of Mt. Pleasant.
R. O. Perkins.
R. O. Perkins, of Thayer, Mo., has gone before the great
Captain to receive his promotion if found worthy. He was
buried by the Masonic fraternity February 18, 1907. Comrade
Perkins was reared near Marion, Ala., and when only four-
teen joined the 8th Alabama Mounted Infantry. He leaves
three sons, who reside at Columbus, Ga., fine sons of a Con-
federate veteran.
Qopfederat^ l/eterar?.
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BIOGRAPHY OF REV. J. D. BARBEE, D.D.
A book has recently appeared from the press of the Meth-
odist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn., bearing the title of
"Life and Memories of Rev. J. D. Barbee." (Smith & La-
mar, Nashville. Publishers' price, $i, postpaid.) This book
is of more than ordinary interest as being the story of the life
of a most remarkable man of the South. It will have a special
interest also for veterans. Dr. Barbee, who was a young and
vigorous man at the breaking out of the War between the States,
was given a colonel's commission by the Confederate Secretary
of War, Pope Walker, of Alabama, and authorized to raise a
regiment. This he actually did, and was prevented from taking
the field with his regiment only by reason of a prolonged at-
tack of inflammatory rheumatism, which, lasting an entire year,
brought him near to death. Recovering, he accepted the chap-
laincy of another regiment, and in that capacity rendered
services in various places.
Of the biography by Dr. Du Bose, Mr. John Leist Tait says:
"Dr. Du Bose is a graceful writer. He is thoroughly in
sympathy with his subject. Himself one of the leading divines
of his denomination, he comprehends more fully than the lay
writer of even equal rhetorical facility could do the more
spiritual and psychological phases of the work he under-
took. . . .
"Those who knew Dr. Barbee require the panegyrics of no
biographer to compel their admiration and win their love for
this man of mighty power with God and man. He was an evi-
dent incarnation of earnestness of purpose, seriousness of con-
viction, and steadfastness of life. His was no wavering torch of
faith, but a mighty beacon set upon a hill. His sense of duty
never left him. His time was full, and there was no space in
his life for the frivolous, the questionable, or the mean. His
work as pastor of many of the leading Churches of the Middle
South and as the executive head of the Publishing House at
Nashville called for powers of mind and graces of spirit such
as it is given the fewest to possess. There were days of glad-
ness in his life, when his people rallied about him and vied
in doing him honor. There were days of darkness, when false-
hood and calumny assailed him. He was the same steadfast,
unfaltering, lordly man and Christian. Neither puffed up by
successes nor cast down by apparent defeat, he bided his Mas-
ter's time with unwavering trust in the right, and lived to
receive the acknowledgments of those who had at one time
opposed him.
"He was a poor boy, a country boy. He grew to grace the
homes of the wealthiest and to adorn the gatherings of the
most deeply learned. He was studious by instinct. He was a
logician born. He was possessed of that rarest quality of char-
acter and understanding — perfect poise. He was gifted as an
orator and of princely presence. To know him was an inspira-
tion. To have been closely associated with him. to have been
permitted to enter into the secret places of his i-'imate life and
to gjvc out a record of these to the world, is a privilege for
which Dr. Du Rose is ninrc to be envied than he is for having
produced even so delightfully written a volume."
On the appearance of this book a newspaper critic writes:
"In this volume you have brought out the best book your
House has ever issued. It is one of the finest biographies in
the language, very sympathetic, yet a true picture of the man."
It is a l2mo volume, beautifully bound in muslin crape, gold
lettering and gold lop, 243 pages. Price, postpaid. $1. Smith
& Lamar. Nashville. Tenn.. or Dallas, Tex. Rev. H. M Du
Bose, D.D., is the author of this book.
GEN. R. E. LEE ON TRAVELER.
The life-size painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Traveler,
by Mrs. L. Kirby-Parrish, of Nashville, Tenn., is justly re-
garded as the most faithful and characteristic of all the por-
traits of the "great soldier and greater man." He appears
here in his lovable character as a man of peace while Presi-
dent of Washington College, Lexington, Va. His famous
war horse. Traveler, is painted from the only life photograph
ever taken of him, and is a perfect likeness. At the solicita-
tion of the Exposition authorities, this superb picture will
have an honored place among the art treasures at Jamestown.
Nothing could be more appropriate, for General Lee was not
only one of the most illustrious sons of Virginia but he is
recognized as a world character of the highest rank.
Photographs from this fine painting (copyrighted) are now
on sale, and there is an increasing demand for them. Size
20x24 inches, $3; size 12x15 inches, $2. Mounted on best
white card, with wide margins, ready for framing. Exact and
beautiful reproductions of the portrait, large size, done in
water color by the artist herself, are offered at f- tacit. Order
from Confederate Veteran.
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The Veteran carries a stock of books on Confederate his-
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Write us what you want, and we will give you the best prices.
Have you a copy of any of these books?
"Recollections and Letters of Gen. R. E. Lee." Compiled
and written by his son, R. E. Lee, Jr. Price, $2.50.
"Johnston's Narrative." A vindication of his military move-
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"Life of Stonewall Jackson." By Colonel Henderson. It
is the best biography ever written of him. Price, $4.
"Two Wars." By Gen. S. G. French. An autobiography of
his life and services in the wars with Mexico and between
the States. An interesting and valuable historical work.
Price, $2. This is a charming history of the Mexican War,
and it is an indispensable part of the history of the great
Confederate War.
"Reminiscences of the Civil War." By Gen. John B. Gor-
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on the war. Price, $1.50.
"Life of Forrest." By Dr. John A. Wyeth, who followed
Forrest as a boy, and writes from knowledge and admiration
of the great "Wizard of the Saddle." Price, $4.
Send orders to the Confederate Veteran. Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs. Fannie Eoline Selph is to be congratulated upon the
popularity of "Texas; or, The Broken Link," the book that
she has advertised liberally in the Veteran. She is soon to
issue the third edition. The book has been liberally ordered
in New York, Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Her na-
tive State of Mississippi honond her in having it placed in
the State Library. It has also been placed in most of the
leading Southern libraries and in some of the leading schools
and universities of the South.
I (an W. Ward, of Juno, Ark., writes of having taken the
watch of General Mouton when he found him dead on the
battlefield of Mansfield, La., and a comrade. Eugene Kidd,
took off the General's spurs. These were all turned over to
General Mouton's hostler, who promised faithfully to deliver
them to the wife. Mr. Ward also wants to hear from Kidd.
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Charles D, West, of Paragould, Ark.,
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his behalf. He enlisted at Gainesboro,
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On page 25 of the January Vet-
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Veterans of Portsmouth, Va., which is
improperly designated as Norfolk.
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the Veteran office.
\Y. N. Shive, of Union City, Tenn.,
would like to open correspondence with
any comrade of Company E, 19th Mis-
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Petersburg, Va., Sunday, April 25, 1865.
immediately before the surrender.
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Contributors are requested to use only one side of the paper, and to abbrevi -
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Where clippings are sent copy should be kept, as the Veteran cannot un-
dertake to return them. Advertising rates furnished on application
The date to a subscription is always given to the month brfore it ends. For
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Vol. XV
NASHVILLE, TENN., MAY. 1907.
No.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
Proprietor.
PROGRAMME OF RICHMOND REUNION.
[The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports the Reunion pro-
gramme for the seventeenth annual Reunion of the U. C. V.]
The gathering will assemble on Thursday, May 30, and will
continue its sessions through Monday, June 3. the visitors
being in Richmond through five days. The two notable oc-
casions will be the opening and closing days, when the Stuart
and the I 'avis monuments will he unveiled with appropriate
cei rim mies
It is believed that the Reunion this year will bring togethei
the largest gathering of people ever assembled at one time in
the city, preparations being under way for about sixty thou-
sand visitors to the Reunion proper, in addition to the large
number of visitors who will be passing through the capital
during the Jamestown Exposition.
Arrangements are being made for entertaining a large num-
ber of old soldiers, the committee providing quarters and meals
for ten thousand or more members of Camps who will be here
as the guests of the committee. In addition to these, accom-
modations are being secured for thousand- who will come en-
tirely On their own responsibility, as it is expected that the
attractions of the week will bring an enormous crowd ol peo
pic from all accessible points. The camp arranged by Capt.
I) A Brown on Broad Street Road will be one of the most
unique and attractive features of the Reunion, and many thou-
sands of the old warriors are expressing theii desire to get
a week under canvas rmam. rather than be assigned sleeping
quarters in our of the large warehouses that arc at the dis
oi tl mmittei
The t"i r -t da) of the Reunion, Maj 30, 1- Memorial I 'ay and
legal holiday throughout the country. A morning session of
the United Confederate Veterans is provided for ore
tion and to allow Gen Stephen D, Lee, the presiding officer,
an opportunity to announci tin appointment "i In- committees
At 2 p.m. of that day will come the great parade of the
11 Cavalry Association, of which Col. John \Y (.
will be chief marshal. At the conclusion of this parad
occur the unveiling of the monument to the memorj of Gen,
J I B Stuart with appropriate services. The address on this
ion will he delivered by Judge Theodore S Garnett, who
1 membei of General Stuart's staff, and the monument
will be accepted on behalf of the city by Mayo McCarthy.
owing tli-' unveiling i . in which tin- two grand
children of General Stuart will take part, the parade will be
re-formed, and will move on to Hollywood, where, in ac-
cordance with the usual custom, the graves of the Confeder-
ate dead will he decorated, and an address will be delivered
in the cemetery 1>\ the Re\ Dudley Powers.
The evening services of the opening day will lie under the
auspices of the Sons of Veteran-.
On the second day, Friday, May 31, the United Confederate
Veterans will assemble at the City Auditorium at 9:30 a.m..
and a number of addresses of note will be delivered, among
them an address of welcome from Gov. Claude A. Swanson
and another from Senator John W. Daniel. Addresses will
also be made on behalf of the city by Mayor McCarthy and
on behalf of the Sons of Veterans by Mr. Branch B. Morgan.
They will be responded to by Gen. Stephen D. Lee.
The sessions of the United Confederate Veterans will con-
tinue through Friday and Saturday, with a number of ad-
dresses and a constant succession of entertainments, gather-
ings of old brigades, and reunions of old commands. The peo-
ple of the city will keep open house, and entertaining will be
tin order of the day, both formally and informally.
On Sunday there will be special services in all of the
churches of the city, with a great memorial service at the
city auditorium at 3:30 p \i
The Monday following will be the great day of the R<
union. June 3 is the anniversary of the birth of President
Davis, and it will be a fitting occasion for the unveiling of
the great monument erected in Ins memory at the head ot
Monument Avenue. The day will be marked by one of the
most notable military and veteran parades in the history of
Richmond, forming at 11:30 \ \i and moving from Ninth
and Grace Streets to the head of Monument Avenue, Gen
Stith Boiling. Commanding thi Virginia Division, U. C. V..
will be the chief marshal. The addresses at the monument
will be made by Governor Swanson, Mayor McCarthy, and
Gen. Chun nt \ Evans, of Georgia, the latter being the chief
orator of ihe day. The exercises at tin monument will be im-
pressive and beautiful, and will be witnessed by all those
taking put in the parade, the lines being drawn up in military
formation, and l>> a gi at crowd of ladies and visitors, for
whom an immen 1 gi tnd stand will he erecti
It seems that every desirable arrangement 1- being
nfort of Veteran* and the -uecess of the Reunion.
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READY TO PLACE THE JEFFERSON DAVIS STATUE IN THE MONUMENT GROU
THE JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT.
In the center of the monument and surrounded by a colon-
nade is a pillar sixty feet high, at the top of which stands an
allegorical figure of a woman known as "Viudicatrix," repre-
senting the spirit of the South. At the base of this pillar is a
pedestal five feet high, and the bronze figure of Mr. Davis is
eight feet in height. The inscriptions on the pillar are in Latin.
The inscription on the front of the pedestal on which will
stand the statue of the President is. "Jefferson Davis. Ex-
ponent of Constitutional Principles, Defender of State Rights ;"
and beneath this, "Crescit Occulta Velut Arbor Aevo Famo."
On each side of the pedestal will be the inscription: "As
citizen, soldier, statesman, he enhanced the glory, the fame of
the United States. When his allegiance to that government
was terminated by his sovereign State, as President of the
Confederacy he exalted his country before the nations."
On the right side of the pedestal is inscribed: "With con-
stancy and courage unsurpassed he sustained the heavy bur-
den laid upon him by the people. When their cause was lost,
with dignity he met defeat, with fortitude he met imprison-
ment and suffering, with entire devotion he kept the faith."
On the interior of the architrade around the top of the colon-
nade will be inscribed: "Not in hostility to others, not to in-
jure any section of the country, not even for our own pe-
cuniary benefit, but from the high and solemn motive of pro-
tecting the rights we inherited and which it is our duty to
transmit unshorn to our children." This statement was made
by Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate June 21. 1861.
On the exterior of the colonnade is the inscription : "Erected
by the people of the South in honor of their great leader,
commemorating their love for the man. their reverence for his
virtues, their gratitude for his services."
The left end of the colonnade panel bears an inscription to
the navy and the Confederate States, and the right panel an
inscription to the Confederate army.
The inscription to the navy is as follows : "Giving new ex-
amples of heroism, teaching new methods of warfare, it car-
ried the flag of the South to the most distant seas. If to die
nobly be ever the proudest glory of virtue, these of all men
has fortune greatly granted to them; for yearning with deep
desire to clothe their country with freedom, now at last they
rest full of an ageless fame."
The inscription to the army is as follows: "From Sumter to
Appomattox, four years of unflinching struggle against over-
whelming odds." [The copy for the remainder of this in-
scription is from a defective print, and was ascertained too
late to have correction made. — Ed. Veteran.]
Sketch of the Sculptor. Valentine.
Edward Virginius Valentine, the eminent sculptor, was born
in Richmond, Va., November 12, 1838, son of Man S. and
Elizabeth (Mosby) Valentine. He received his early educa-
tion in Richmond, and developed such taste for the study of
anatomy that while a mere boy he attended the medical col-
lege of that city. While visiting the World's Fair, in the
Crystal Palace, New York City, in 1853, there was created in
EDWARD V. VALENTINE.
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CHILDREN HAULING Tin; JEFFERSON DAVIS STATUE FROM RAILROAD STATION I" M0N1 \l I \ I SIT)
him a strong desire to be an artist, and he soon began the
sunly of drawing and modeling. After study at some length,
he went to Europe, where he studied under Couture. Bonanti,
and then Kiss, whose "Amazon Attacked by a Panther," when
exhibited at the Crystal Palace, first inspired him to study
art. Returning to America in 1865, he opened a studio in
Richmond, where be has continued his resilience. His portrait
busts of several of our Southern kaders are remarkable for
their lifelikeness. Among his works are a colossal head of
Humboldt, a marble figure of "Grief," and the recumbent
figure m marble of Gen. Roberl I I ie. which was placed in
the mausoleum attached to the chapel of the Washington and
I niversity, at Lexington, Va. This has been pronounced
the finest piece of sculpture in America. In idealistic work
' Andromache and Vstyanax" is his masterpiece. This was
quite an attraction 111 the Virginia Building at the Columbian
Exposition at Chicago
A fine critic of bis work wrote: "Stone cannot be given
speech; but in ibis cla ii group Valentine has demonstrated
that it may be made to express feelings almost too deep for
word description, and feelings which bring the mind from
distant and fabled Troy to another struggle against inexo-
rabli fate." Some of Ins other works are: "The Samaritan
Woman," "Penitent Thief," "The Nation's Ward." busts of
General Beauregard, General Johnston, Gen .1 E. B. Stuart,
Edwin Booth, and Beethoven, and statues of Stonewall Jack
son, John C. Breckinridge. General Wickham. and Thomas
Jefferson. He is President of the Richmond Art Club. Presi
dent of the Valentine Museum, member of the Executive
Committee of the Virginia Historical Society, membei of
the Advisory Board of the Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities, member of the Advisory Board of the
derate Memorial Literarj Society, and honorary member
of Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans. His devotion to art is
unaffected by the opinions ,,f his fellow-men as expressed in
the material returns for his work: be is bent upon giving to
the world bis ideals.
In this Davis monument the authorities had such faith in
his efficiency and loyalty to the spirt of the undertaking that
it 1- said the work was placed unconditionally in his hands
Davis's Statui Hauled by Children.
It was a fitting event to have tin- children of Richmond
draw the large wagon bearing the statue of Jefferson Davis.
• lie onlj President of the Confederate States from the railway
u io the monument "through two mile, of spectators."
\ tife and drum corps led tins parade <>t children of the
South, [t was followed by the Confederal Veteran organi
tions of Richmond. Two lines "i ropes ovet seven hundred
feel in length were grappled by about three thousand children.
A numbei of strong negro nun were on hand for support in
the movement, but all they had to do was to serve as brakes
iln procession was fitting, and souvenir pieces of rope will
ni in their homt bj manj of the children through years
ot 1I1. future, fitting menu 1 worthy event.
Memorable is the h vent that p. miotic men hauled
«iih then- own hands Ih great bron e statue I Wash-
ington from the Jam - River landing in Richmond to the
Capitol Square, where it we- erected
to ri
.
I , I ) wis Win \ I [TED
While bit rson Davis deplored the threat-
disruption of the Union between the States and was
1 arnesl in his ]> I a v ■ ul 1 pei pi 1
id in ins speech of 1 signation from the Uni
: "It is known to Senators who have served with me
iiit I ii.i\.' foi many yeat ed .0 .m essential at-
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tribute of State sovereignty the right of a State to secede
from the Union. Therefore if I had not believed there was
justifiable cause, if I had thought that Mississippi was acting
without sufficient provocation or without an existing necessity.
I should still, under my theory of government, because of my
allegiance to the State of which I am a citizen, have been
bound by her action. I. however, may be permitted to say
that I think she has justifiable cause, and I approve her act."
TENNESSEE ROOM AT CONFEDERATE MUSEUM.
BY MRS. N. V. RANDOLPH, VICE REGENT, RICHMOND, VA.
Extending an invitation to Veterans, Memorial Associations,
and Daughters of the Confederacy to be at our Reunion in
June, I feel that they will appreciate the splendid work by Mrs.
A. B. White, President of their Tennessee Division, and Mrs.
M. B. Pilcher, Regent of Confederate Museum in Richmond,
and am assured that when they visit Richmond and our Con-
federate Museum they will feel as grateful as I do for their
determination that Tennessee should not be left out, and that
they will appreciate the work of these women.
Mrs. Pilcher, with her love for Tennessee and her desire to
honor the Confederate Veterans, has induced many to place
their relics in this our fireproof building. As Vice Regent, I
would beg that the Veteran Camps apply to her for Roll of
Honor blanks, which will be sent them free of cost. These
blanks are catalogued and bound and placed in the Museum
Records, not alone of officers of the company, but of the rank
and file of the most glorious army the world ever saw. It
is all the history of these men we shall ever be able to collect.
A veteran may fill it up for his dead comrade. Do it now.
The following relics have been received through Mrs. M. B.
Pilcher in the last few months :
Sword of Sergeant Peter Connelly, of the ioth Tennessee
Infantry, Company A; made of a carving knife and worn by
him in the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson. Inscribed :
"Here's what we tried to whip 'em with."
Valuable papers sent by Mrs. H. M. Chambers, Chattanooga.
Relics from battlefield of Shiloh ; loaned by R. C. Carnell,
Waverly, Tenn.
Leeland Batteryman's knife, captured by Col. A. R. Lank-
ford, 38th Alabama Regiment, at battle of Shiloh ; contributed
by his wife, Waverly, Tenn.
Coat and helmet worn by F. M. Trevanthan. adjutant Major
General Raines's Division.
Pictures of the unveiling of the Confederate monument at
Covington, Tenn.
Picture Confederate monument at Jackson, Tenn. ; sent by
Musidora McCrory Chapter, U. D. C.
I again appeal to Tennessee, hold up the hands of Mrs.
Pilcher, who has done so much for your representation.
Lend your relics for safe-keeping. I know it is hard to give
them up ; but they are crowded away in your homes, and often
come to us so moth-eaten or tattered that it is only with the
utmost care that we can place them. I thank you for the con-
fidence shown to the Richmond women, who are the custodians
of your loved trophies; but when you come to us in June,
you will find that your confidence has not been misplaced.
Subject of Sponsors and Maids of Honor.
Col. John W. Tench, Gainesville, Fla. : "Please allow me to
protest against the appointing of any sponsors or maids of
honor in the future. The expense of their attendance is some-
thing, it is true; but it is nothing to be compared to the heart-
burnings of the deserving ones who fail of selection. How
often have mere slips of children been selected, whose grand-
fathers even were very poor, short-term soldiers and their
fathers not in the war, because of financial or political stand-
ing, while the graceful, brilliant daughter of a man who made
rush upon rush over the earthworks of the enemy, routing
and slaying him as he ran, is passed by ! Give all a soldier's
welcome among us at all times. God bless them ! We love
them every one, and would have them near us all the time;
but let us have no more bruised hearts caused by unjust dis-
crimination."
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LLi;iiiHiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiii nniii»:::
THE R. E. LEE MONUMENT, RICHMOND.
WORTHY APPEAL TO SONS OF VETERANS.
BY LELAND HUME, COMMANDER OF TENNESSEE DIVISION.
Our organization is pledged to perpetuating the memory
and the deeds of valor of the Confederate soldier, to the mak-
ing of true history of the Confederate States, to the erecting
of monuments, and to assisting such Confederate soldiers and
their widows as may need our help. Much has already been
accomplished in these directions, but much remains to be done.
Each year should see the organization stronger and more able
to perform its work. As the old veteran, bent with age and
honors, walks slowly down the hill and approaches the river
that all must cross, the Sons should strive in every way pos-
sible to not only lighten the veteran's load but to comfort
and gladden his heart ; and surely this cannot be done in any
more effectual way than by taking up actively the work that
our organization is committed to — erecting nnpuiments to our
mothers, the Women of the Confederacy. This work should
appeal to us not merely as a duty, but it should be our pleas-
ure. No country has such a right to erect monuments to its
women as has our Southland, for truly has it been said : "No
nation ever rose so fair or fell so free from crime."
Therefore let all the Camps representing the Volunteer
State arrange promptly to send representatives to the coming
Convention at Richmond, and let them be authorized to con-
tribute toward this worthy cause. In sections where Sons of
Veterans' Camps have not been organized let some patriotic
Son immediately take up the work. All the information neces-
sary will be cheerfully furnished by communicating with Prof.
R. E. L. Bynum, Commander of the Army of Tennessee Di-
vision, Jackson, Tenn. I will be very glad to assist in the
organization of Camps wherever requested or to cooperate
with the various Camps in the district in any way that may be
suggested.
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UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
MRS. LIZZIE GEORGE HENDERSON. PRESIDENT GENERAL U. D. C.
I see nnd hear more and more which shows that the pur-
pose of the resolutions passed by the U. D. C. at Gulf port
with regard to sponsors has been misunderstood, and so I
am going to include in this a copy of them. I suppose if I
had seen 1 1n newspaper accounts of it I would have known
Ibis at first; but I was so busy until full, id ,s after the
Convention that I could not find the time to look at a paper,
and bj then it was loo old to occupy any space in the papers.
I he impression seems to be very general that the U. D. C.
pa ed resolutions asking that sponsors be dispensed with at
all Reunions, when, as you will see, we uric only asking for
this one at Richmond, hi cause we are to unveil our monument
to President Davis, and we thought it not out of place for
us to ask that for this once the old veterans might have
things done [or their pleasure.
Now we all know that the large majority of the veterans
do not enjoy the entertainments gotten up for the pleasure
of the sponsors, and those are the very things which take so
much money. So that on this one occasion, when we weir to
see the accomplishment of our great work of erecting a monu-
ment in ihr President of the Confederacy, we wanted tin
"rank and file" among the veterans to have most of the mont ]
spent on ih, a pleasure this one time. 1 know it is loo late
now for this I,, have any effect, bill 1 thought I would like
the "rank and file" to know thai the l". D, C. tried lo get it
for them.
In following is the copy of tin- resolutions:
"Whereas Confederate Reunions have of late years devoted
more in the entertainment of sponsors and maids of honor
than in that of Confederate Veterans, for whose benefit they
wen inaugurated; and whereas it is the wish of the Daugh-
i the Confederacy that ever) Confederate Veteran shall
have til. privilege and opportunity of witnessing tin- unveiling
of the Jefferson Mavis monument; and whereas the city of
Richmond will In ■• crowded on the occasion of tin unveil
ing of said monument as to tax to the utmost the hospitality
of its citizens; therefore be it
Ived, That ill Daughters of the Confederacy, in Con-
m assembled at Gulf port, Mis-, request the Confederal
\ ' ti rans in dispense with the offices of sponsor and maids of
honot at the Richmond Reunion, and that the entertainments
i' ' that occa ion he such as are adapted to aged Confederate
•Ills."
Tin-, you ei doi i peal oi any other time.
Your President was asked to serve on the Patriotic
Committee foi hi National Arbitration and Peace Congress
which met in New York April 14-17. ,-md -in- very readilj con
sented to serve on this committee for s,> great an occasion;
for she felt sure thai the U. D. C. a- a whole would he glad
to have a hand in the movement to accomplish a reign o(
n where difficulties between countries shall be settled nil
the principles of right and justice in li manner, rather
than by power ami might through that most terrible ol all the
many things which tear the hearts of women— war. li will
always bi a soun of regret to me that 1 could not attend thi
gnat evenl But I COUld not leave home with SO many Other
call- nn my time Hist now. 1 appointe rge delegation
'mill tin- I hi.. ml asked the IV jideni oi 1 ai h
Division to appoint two from each Chapter in hei Divi ion
1 urn Imping that some of our representative members were
there \nd | ant sure that some will have hi en. I'm thej have
Written ire that tiny would go. It is too earl) foi nn' to have
I*
heard from them; but I shall ask the chairman of the dele-
gation, Mrs. James li Parker, of New York, to send me an
account for the June number. Let us help this movemen
universal peace all w e can. for we of all people in the world
know of the horrors of war. And we also know that when
left to the fortunes of war right does not always triumph.
And now for something trery near my heart. A Utter from
th< President of tin Chicago I liapter, Mrs. Sells, rei
recently tells me the good news of a scholarship which has
been gum through the solicitation of her Chapter by the
University of Chicago to the descendants of Confederal 1
have not heard anything in a long time which has given me
SO much pleasure as this has. I am much happi.r over it than
I would be if it had been done by a Southern university, for
we have a right to think that will he done in all college- and
universities in the South; hut when one of the Northern uni-
versities is among the first to do ii. it should !»■ ver) gratify-
ing in 11- all. for 11 is such sulisianti.il evidence that the "late
unpleasantness" is really and truly a thing of the past Every
patriotic soul must rejoice 111 that. 1 am sure. Can't you see
what a help ii is to our whole country to have our Chapti
scattered throughout 1I1 North?
Now there is one thing that I am anxious for 1 vi ry Chaptei
in the Smith In accomplish before we meet again 111 Novem
ber: Get your towns to name their public schools for imi
of run- great Confed rates or other great men v.'xo served
your States either before or after that period. For hi us
never forget I hat that is not the only history we ha v. even
though we are proudei 1 1 that than of any other. If you will
make the effort, you wall surely succeed. What could we 4^
which would l'e a more beautiful memorial and which would
more effectually teach our children how much we Lppreciat
our patriots than tn have the scl Is all over the South named
for our patriots' L.et there lie a friendly rivalry among US
In see who can gel this done first and which Chapter can re-
pot 1 the largest number of schools which they have sin.
m getting named for OUr great men I hope we may accom-
plish much in that line before this year is out.
New Officers 01 mi I'm vdelphia Chapter, U. D. C—
President, Mis. Edgar Marlnn\. (319 I'.altinmi. \uiin
\ io I'n 0,1.111-. Mrs Louis Lewis, 1324 Pine Street, and Mr-
Juliana Taylor, [log Delaware Vvenue, Wilminiton, Mil .
Recording Secretary, Miss Nancy Krebs, 254 South 13th
Street; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. George P. Kurrie,
Elkins Park. Pa.; Treasurer, Mrs Josiph Earnsehow, 332
Earlham terrace, Germantown, Pa.; Historian, Mis, Mar-
garet Eiintzel, 3785 [6th Street; Registrar. Miss Lucy Mayi
3729 Locust Street; Recorder Crosses of 11,, nor. Mrs T
Ashby Blythe, 317 South 226 Street
Signboards m Andersonvilli Prison Park A reliable
gentleman and a patriot on "the other side" wm,- from An-
dersonville, Ga., Vpril jo 100;; "My deai \h I . it affords
me very great pleasure to inform you that all llio-e objection
ignboards in tlie prison park haw been removed. I In \
never ought to have hen put up. for, apart from .m n
a- to thru- accuracy, the) were injudicious, irritating to South
1111 people, ami ma approved by many Northern people. Soon
after your visit here I went ,, work to Secure [he 11 111,., ,
oi these signs, believing such a step would have some in-
. toward stopping tin movement for erecting .1 monu
mem to Majoi Wire, the carrying out of which would do much
harm, a- it would stir up and reawaken the animosities of
tin, pa
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S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ 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 dedication of the equestrian statue to Gen. John B.
Gordon in Capitol Square. Atlanta, on May 25 is attracting
widespread interest. There will he a military pageant. State
Treasurer Capt. R. E. Park will he the Chief Marshal and
Gen. Clement A. Evans the Chief Ora'or; while Gen. S. D.
Lee, Governor Terrell, and Capt. N. E. Harris will participate.
PRIZES FOR THE V SITED DAUGHTERS.
In all the history of the Veteran, for fourteen and a half
years, never have so many resolved to enter upon a campaign
for subscribers as have the United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, and it has been decided to make the work interesting
beyond what has yet been offered. In addition to the liberal
commission allowed, cash prizes will be given next Christ-
mas. If twenty Chapters compete for the prizes, four will be
given of $50. $25, $15. and $10. If thirty or more Chapters
undertake it. there will be five prizes, one to be $100.
Chapters intending to compete should give notice promptly,
when sample copies and blanks will be sent to them. In brief,
if there be thirty Chapters entering the contest by the 25th of
May by giving notice; the prizes will aggregate $200; and if
less than thirty enter the contest, then $100 will be given in
prizes, as indicated. Specific rules will be given later.
Small Chapters may be discouraged in enuring the contest.
Those who do will he surprised, doubtless, at their success.
Will not patriotic and enterprising Chapters come into the
contest? Consider it at once and give notice.
CENTENARY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Steps are being taken in New Orleans to lay the corner
stone for a monument to Jefferson Davis on June 3, 190S, the
one hundredth anniversary of his birth. At a public meeting
of the Confederated Memorial Association in New Orleans
February 18, 1907, the following resolutions were adopted by
the Association :
"Whereas June 3, 1908, is the one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of President Jefferson Davis, the stainless and
knightly gentleman, the pure patriot, the unselfish man. the
ardent and loyal son of the South, who. having the strength
.if In- convictions, was willing to be crucified for his people;
therefore be it
"Resolved, That the Jeff erst m Davis Memorial Association
of the city of New Orleans do here place on record their
admiration and love for him, and in testimony of it do declare
their fixed purpose and intention to erect a monument to his
memory in the city of New Orleans to bear record for all time
of their loyalty and affection. Be it further
"Resolved, That it is the sense of this Association that the
3d of June, 1908, be celebrated in the city of New Orleans,
the State of Louisiana, and the late Confederate States, by ap-
propriate ceremonies under the auspices of this Association,
and that all organizations who cherish the memories of the
Confederate cause be invited to take part and assist in this
celebration, and that all good women of this State whose
sympathies are with the objects of this Association be re-
quested to apply for membership."
COL. RICHARD OWEN.
Commander of Prison at Camp Morton, Indianapolis.
A name that will quicken interest and revive a spirit of
gratitude is that of Col. Richard Owen, who was in commaml
of the Fort Donelson prisoners at Camp Morton (Indianapo-
lis) in the winter and spring of 1862. Of those four thousand
prisoners, it is very doubtful if a thousand are still alive.
During the forty-five years intervening, however, the Veteran
believes that every survivor will thrill with gratitude at the
mention of Colonel Owen's name and be inclined to respond
to a proposition to honor his memory which the Veteran ex-
pects to make.
In conversation with Mr. Harvey M. LaFollette, who came
from Indiana some years ago and established a splendid in-
dustrial city that bears his name — LaFollette, Tenn. — some
facts were learned of Colonel Owen, and it was resolved to
ask those wdio were prisoners at Camp Morton during the
period that he commanded the prison and the children of
those not living to contribute as liberally as they may be in-
clined to some memorial in his honor. The Veteran, in be-
half of the great majority — those who have "crossed the
river" — and for the remnant yet living, assumes that not a
man of them ever entertained other than sentiments of sin-
cere gratitude tow-ard Colonel Owen. No argument is neces-
sary to establish that relation between Colonel Owen and the
prisoners ; but it is fitting to note from the records of a time
subsequent to that — during the heat of the great conflict —
in the spring of 1863, when Colonel Owen and his regiment
were captured at Mumfordsville, Ky. The record states that
"the regiment was paroled; but he was not paroled, neither
were his sidearms taken." On the contrary, "General Buck-
ner went into the field wdiere his regiment was guarded and
thanked Colonel Owen for his kindness to the four thousand
Fort Donelson prisoners at Camp Morton. Gen. Bushrod
Johnson, with whom he had been associated as a teacher, and
two of his old students also called upon him. He was treated
very politely by General Bragg, with whom he had become
acquainted in the Mexican War."
On April 18 Colonel Owen wrote to the Indianapolis Journal
in reply to a criticism of his kindness to the prisoners. He
stated that he had rigidly discharged his duties as taught under
that strict disciplinarian. General Wool, in Mexico, and yet
was disposed to grant such privilege as consistent with the
safe-keeping as could be granted to make the prisoners less
restless in their confinement and for the moral effect that
would result by their reports on returning to their homes, that
they had been deceived regarding Northern men ; that most
of them never entered on this war solely for the purpose of
depriving the South of her negroes, as they (these prisoners)
had been led to suppose.
A vivid illustration of his mind follows: "Theoretically, it
is easy to deal out stern justice: but it requires a strong sense
of a soldier's first duty — obedience — to refuse to the tears of
a weeping mother one glance of her erring son or to deny to
the stifled sobs of a wife a 'God bless you' for the father of
her children when these scenes occur under your own eyes."
In this letter of reply to criticism of the Journal Colonel
Owen wrote of how his officers and men were overworked;
that the men would receive pay for their services, but that
there was no prospect for him and other officers to get any
pay. This comes evidently of his serving under Governor
Morton's orders and not the United States government, and
on this line he wrote : "It is exactly six months to-day since
the Governor honored me by promotion. * * * I have never
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spun one night from camp since I was ordered here nor
entered a hotel or saloon since my arrival. After a hard
day's work. 1 sometimes retire to my camp cot without divest-
ing myself of coal or boots m ordi r to lie ready at the slightest
noise for my responsible and onerous duties."
He explained further that he had committed an error in
permitting his officers to take pris tiers into the city to make
purchases and who had permitted them to enter saloon-
He prided himself on the fact that in guarding forty-two
hundred prisoner- only thirteen had escaped, and that some
of them had been recaptured. In conclusion, lie stated:
we must establish and prove the power and firmness
RICH \RD oWEN.
of the general government is certain: but the sooner we
tie differences by avoiding ultraism, the greater the
chance of our securing again soon a powerful and united
nation seems equal!} certain."
On June 14. 1862, Go> 11 P Morton wrote President Lin-
coln that Colonel Owen, who had "so efficiently commanded
at tin camp," was under order- to take the field with his regi-
ment. Coventor Morton then stated: "I desire to place the
camp under thi 11.11 1] I). G. Rose. United States
al." The name of the wicked Rose is mentioned t
quicken afresh tin gratitude and respect for Colonel Owi
So far a- now n ivas not known a pi
who did not revert the one and despise the other.
A sketch of Colonel Owen will 1» given later. He lived a
kably useful life of about eighty years, and promised a
1 n mt 1. e to mankind : hut. unhap-
pily, he and an ileman drank what was understood
mineral water, but which was 111 tact a fatal acid. It
1- the purposi ..I ill, Veterak 10 secure. such fund a- will
com, of a freewill offering, and secure permission to ere
not more, a bronze tablet in tin Capitol at Indianapolis. Let
those who i.in, 1 nel Owen in gratitude while in com
mand of the pi I imp Morton, and yet who are not
to contribute, writ ,,f him to the Vf.teran.
I., the foregoing tribute to Colonel Owen it seems fitting
ention an act bj ten Federal prisoners toward Capt S.
F Mayes, of Marietta, Cobb County, Ga., who had been so
disabled in battles in Virginia that he was sent as an official
under Maj. Henry Wtrz at Andersonville prison. In pre-
senting a watch to Lieutenant Mayes, they wrote: "This
watch is not such as we would present you. hut it is the best
m, am able 1,, find. May yon always 1,,- able to wear it in
remembrance of our gratitude foi your kindness to us!" The
men were from various Northern Sti
DERATED Sol IiltKN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. — The
Confederated Southern Memorial Association will hold its
eighth annual Convention in the Second Baptist Church.
Richmond, one square from The Jefferson. The first session
of the body will be held Thursday, Maj 30, at to \ m.. when
the official programme will be distributed. Morning sessions
will be called to order at g a.m. and will adjourn tit u 11..
and delegates will he invited to partake of a luncheon served
by tin ladies of Richmond at the place of meeting Friday and
Saturday, Afternoon sessions will he resumed subject to call.
\ bureau of information will he located al The Jefferson
Delegates are requested to register upon arrival at Conven-
tion headquarter- There arc over sixty Memorial Associations
enrolled in tin- Confederation, hut it is known that there are
,1;, ,n- -nil in existence which are not enrolled. At the
invitation of the Commander in C4P f. Gen. Steph n D. Lee.
11 has been again decided to hold a joint memorial service with
:li, I nited Confederate Veterans din- joint service will be
held in the United Confederal \,i rans' Auditorium Sun-
day, June _>. at .; !■ m Rev. W. W. Moore, D.D., ,,f tin- Union
Theological Seminary, has been sell deliver the me-
morial address for the Association Seat- will he provided
for the delegates and alternate-, who are especiallj invited to
ittend. The general officers of th Confederated Memorial
Association are: Mrs \Y. J. Behan. President, New Orleans,
La.; Mr-, George V Williams, Corresponding Secretary, New
Orleans, La ; Mi-- Daisj M, 1. Hodgson, Recording Seci
tary, \'ew Orleans, La ; Mrs. Charles t, Wright, Tre;
Vicksburg, Mi--: Mi-- Man \. Hall. Historian, Vugusta,
Ga There i- a Vice President foi each State.
The intelligence and zeal with winch Mrs. Behan has con-
ducted tin- noble organization from the beginning i- a tad
with which the general public is not deservedly familiar, the
larger organizations being the more conspicuous. Th se
mothers are zealous in a most sai red 1 rise, and every South
ern man and woman owes much |,, their Confederate co-
worker. Mt- \Y J Behan, of New Orleans.
Originaj Fi.\ ..'4111 Mississippi Regiment.— A. B. Wad-
dell, Company B, 24th Mississippi Regiment, Cedar Bluff.
Miss., wishes to locati thi regimental flag of the 24th M
sippi, presented by Miss Helen Johnson, of Madison County,
and in honor of whom a companj was nam 1 thi Helen John-
son Guards, commanded by Captain Postell. "In her selection
of hearer for thi made Waddell, "she chose
of the above-named company. On receiving our battle
In- tlag w.i- -cut off. perl 1" Madison County,
It was one of the handsomest 1 ever saw. The hoys wen
very proud of it, and it would be a source of great pleasure
to the few survivot if 11 could be found and unfurled al the
Reunion of our brigade (Walthall's), at Meridian this
year. Any member of the 24th Mississippi having know
-it ion ,,r whereabouts will confer quite a favor by
giving notice."
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Confederate l/eteran,
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT.
United Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Orgaitued J.tly /, /Sg6t in Richmond, I'.:.
Conducted by the Comni:imler in Chief, to whom <?// contributions
intended therefor should be ttddressed.
THOMAS M. OWF.X, LLD , Commaxdlk i\ Chief, I M . .,
ALBERT C. SEXTON', A. G. and Chief of St. ,- k, \ Mortgomer- . Ala.
GEORGE R.WYMAX, Commander AamyX.Va.Dept., I r ™,;e„ni- v„
A. T. BURGEVIN, Adjutant, | r-*™wvilte. Ky.
R. E. L. BYNl'M, Commander Army Tenn. Dbpt., / , , t
C. E. PIGFORD. Adjutant, f Jackson, Tenn.
J. M. TISDAL, Commander Trans-Miss. Deft., I (
, Adjutant,
Greenville, Tex.
(No. iS.)
CONFEDERATION NEWS.
The Commander in Chief regrets that the demands upon his
time and strength have been so great that it has been impos-
sible for him to keep this Department up to date. The pres-
ence of the Alabama Legislature and the removal of the head-
quarters of the Department of Archives and History, of which
he is Director, into its new quarters in the south wing of
the State Capitol have quite fully absorbed his energy for
many weeks.
"1 he Commander in Chief desires to take this means of an-
nouncing to his comrades in all parts of the Confederation
that he will not be a candidate for reelection. He finds him-
self so overwhelmed w-ith official and personal obligations that
it will be impossible for him to consider another term under
any circumstances. He is sensible of the high honor which
has been accorded him in the past, and ftels that this an-
nouncement should be made now, in order that delegates may
be prepared to act intelligently and advisedly in selecting his
successor.
On the evening of January 18, 1907. at Hotel Gayoso, Camp
N. B. Forrest, New Orleans, held its annual banquet. The
occasion was graced by a number of gifted speakers, and Con-
federate sentiment ran high. The entire exercises were under
the direction of Comrade J. P. Norfleet, chairman. Camp N.
B. Forrest is at present the largest Camp in the Confedera-
tion, numbering five hundred members in good standing at
the last Reunion in New Orleans.
The annual banquet of Camp Beauregard, New Orleans,
was lnld at the Old Hickory January 9, 1907. The occasion
was well up to the standard of the dinner given at this season
each year. The invocation was delivered by the Chaplain Gen-
eral of the U. S. C. V., Rev. John W. Caldwell, Jr. The
toast list presented a pleasing variety of topics, and the ad-
dresses were brilliant. The ladies were present at the ban-
quet, and this innovation served to lend inspiration and charm
to the occasion. The banquet was preceded by the annual
meeting of the Camp, at which officers were elected as follows:
W. O. Hart, Commandant ; W. T. Amy, First Lieutenant
Commandant; E. K. Huey, Second Lieutenant Commandant;
G. K. Rennaud, Adjutant; A. A. Bursley, Treasurer; J. W.
Caldwell. Chaplain; Rixford Lincoln, Historian; C. J. Chapa-
toin. Quartermaster ; William Snow, Color Sergeant ; Dr.
George H. Tichenor. Surgeon. While a few other Camps of
the Confederation may be larger, there is none more active
and vigorous.
On the afternoon of Friday. February 22, 1907, at 2 130
o'clock, a "Confederate Seal Window" in Memorial Hall,
New Orleans, was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies. The
window was the gift of the Junior Confederate Memorial As-
sociation of that city, and is a beautiful example of decorative
and memorial art.
Camp Beauregard, of New Orleans, ever first in patriotic
enterprise, on the evening of April 12, 1907, held exercises in
honor of General B auregard, whose name the Camp bears.
The meeting was held in Memorial Hall, and the dale selected
was the anniversary of Ihe date that General Beauregard
lired the first shot in d.fense of the South. W. < >. Hart. Esq..
Commander of the Camp, presided. An introductory address
was made by Mai. R. T. Beaungard, a son of the General.
'1 lure were many songs. There were many oth.r addresses,
including a stirring appeal by Commander R. F. Green, of the
Louisiana Division, his theme being "On to Richmond."
Dr. Charles Hamilton, of Rome. Ga., Surgeon General of
the U. S. C. V., celebrated his silver wedding November 30.
1906, al liis residence. His wife was Miss Lew McClain.
They received many substantial evidences of regard and re-
membrances from their numerous friends. They have the
best wishes of Sons of Confederate Ve'.erans everywhere.
(.'amp John A. Broadus, Louisville, held its sixth annual
banquet January 19. 1907, at the Tavern Club. Samuel E.
Blackburn was toastmaster. The attendance of Sons was
large, and the following gues's of honor were present: Scna-
tor William Lindsay, Gen. John B. Castleman, Gen. Basil
Duke, Capt. John H. Leathers, Capt. W. T. Ellis. Judge W.
O. Harris, and Judge A. E. Richards. The addresses were
soul-stirring. The evening was devoted to a commemoration
of the peerless Lee. "None but himself can be his parallel."
Richmond Reunion.
The thought uppermost in the minds of all patriotic South-
erners at the present time is the approaching Reunion at
Richmond, Thursday. Friday. Saturday, Sunday, and Mon-
day, May 30 to June 3, inclusive. The Reunion is to be the
sev.nteenth of the U. C. V., the twelfth of the U. S. C. V.,
:ind the eighth convention of the Confederated Southern Me-
morial Association.
The United Sons of Confedera'e Veterans came into ex-
istence June 30, 1896, at Richmond, and this forms an addi-
tional reason for their pleasure over the prospect of the pres-
ent Reunion.
Extensive and elaborate plans are being arranged by the
city and by the several patriotic societies of Richmond for
the pleasure, comfort, and profit of visitors. This occasion,
it is believed, will bring together the greatest gathering of
Confederate survivors and their friends ever before known.
In Genaral Orders. No. 15, March 25, 1907, details were
published, calling on Camps to put themselves in good stand-
ing, etc.
The headquarters of the Commander. in Chief will be at the
Jefferson Hotel, where he will expect to meet all .visiting and
other comrades immediately on arrival.
Special railroad rates of one cent per mile round trip have
been secured, tickets being on sale from May 28 to 30. in-
clusive, return limit to June 6, with (he privilege of extension
to a later date.
The following are the chairmen of the several Sons com-
mittees, to whom communications should be addressed on all
matters over which they have jurisdiction: E. Leslie Spence.
Jr.. Richmond, Committee on Reception and Care of the Sons;
John B. Lightfoot, Jr., j,'/2 N. nth Street, Richmond. Va..
Committee on Entertainment of Visiting Sons of Veterans.
Sponsors and Maids ; Roy M. Jones, Room 34, Chamber of
Commerce Building, Richmond, Va., Committee on Informa-
tion and Quarters: John Landstreet. Richmond, Va., Com-
mittee on Parade, Carriages, and Horses : and Robert Lecky,
Jr., Richmond. Va., Committee on Auditorium. Music, and
Decoration.
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Delegates and others who have a desire to visit the conven-
tions of both Veterans and Sons will be delighted to loam
that the programmes have been so arranged as to avoid all
conflict and to permit attendance on each. Past Commander
in Giief R. B. Haughton writes as follows, and in what he
iays expresses practically unanimous feeling on the part ol ill
Sons: "1 have frequently tried to devise some means by which
we could arrange to transact our business at the various Re
unions and at the same time attend more of the Veterans'
meetings. It will be only a few years now before we will nol
have the privilege of a' tending tin ir meetings, and we OUghl
to do all we can to learn what is possible from them now.
Do you know of any way in which it can be accomplished!''
Do you think it will be possible for ns to meet one day sooner
than they or stay one day later1 If something of the loud
could be secured, it would be verj valuable to us in the long
run."
I ' n n < k- \i . Commission, \m> Badge.
Every loyal member of the Confederation should, where
possible, procure a uniform and a badge. All Department,
Division, Brigade, and Camp officers should apply to General
Headquarters for a commi sion .1- an evidence of their rank.
Badges and commissions cosl one dollar each. Pull particu
lars as to all Conf deration supplies are to be found in Circular
No. 6, a copj of which will be supplied on application.
SPOt 50RS \'~. D M UDS 01 I [ONOR.
Tile following Sponsors, Maids of Honor, Matrons, and
I haperons have been appointed to date:
Confederation: Sponsor in Chief. Miss Eva Comer,. Bir-
lam, \la : Mai. Is of Honor, Miss Julia Fulton Williams,
Yazoo City. Mis-, and Mi-- Amy MeKae Worth, Richmond,
Ya.; Matron of Honor, Mrs J 1 Lee, Montgomery. Ala.;
Chaperon. Mrs. Louise Bankhead Perry, Greenville, S. C.
Departments — Armj of Northern Virginia Department:
Sponsor, Miss Frances Key Duke, Louisville. Ky. ; Maid of
Miss DECCA I \M.\R WEST,
Spons, .r fur 1-v.is Division, U. I V.
Honor, Miss Edith Norton, I ouisville, Ky.; Matron of Hono .
Mrs. James P. Tarvin. Covington, Ky. Army of Tenm
Department; Sponsor, Miss Sallie Person, Jackson, Tenn. ;
Maid of Honor. Miss Bertha Waddill. Jackson, Tenn
Alabama: Sponsor. Miss Glenn Louise Hamburger. Mobile;
Maid nl Honor, Miss Ella Hargrove Sayre. Montgomery;
Chaperon, Mrs Clarence J. Owens, Vbbeville.
Arkansas: Sponsor, Miss Vgnes 1 Winchester, Fort Smith.
Florida: Sponsor, Miss Ruth Mitchell. Jacksonville: Maid
of Honor, Miss Elizabeth L. Fleming. Jacksonville.
Louisiana; Sponsor, Mis- Julia E Rogers, New Orleans:
Maul of Honor. Miss Belle Kahn. Plaquemine ; Chaperon,
Mrs. [),- George H Tichenor, New Orleans
Texas: Sponsor, Mis- Nora Lee DeLay, Tyler: Maids of
Honor. Miss Winnie Tisdal, Greenville, and Miss Eleanor
McHenry, Dallas: Chaperon. Mrs, C B Junes. Greenville.
Virginia: Sponsor. Miss Lucy Vtkinson Mcllwaine, Peters-
burg: Maid of Honor, Miss Grace Radcliff Day, Smithfield.
Memorial Exercises in Honor of Mrs. Davj
In response to the suggestion of General Orders. X
many Camps of the Confederation held memorial exercises in
honor nf Mrs. Davis. Mention is made of the following who
have reported their action to general headquarters: Camp
Holtzclaw, Montgomery. Ala.: ('amp Sterling Price, Si I
Mo : Camp Beauregard, New Orleans, La.; Camp Washing
ton, D. C : and Camp N. B. Forrest, Memphis, Tenn
Camp HISTORIAN
More interest than ever before is being manifested in tin-
office of Camp Historian, lie is the natural leader in the his-
torical work mi the ('amp and its members. He should not
only be enthusiastic: he should be discriminating and a man
of sound judgment. The leading Camp- of the Confederation
are calling their best men to the position.
In a letter from Past Division Commander W. W. Old, Jr.
Norfolk, Y.i . he says: "To show that I have nol lost interest,
at the meiting of the local Camp the oilier night I was 1
Historian, ,md accepted the office with pride Having ah
been Lieutenant Commander and Commander of the ('.imp. 1
i:li consider this an honor, and will do mj full duty as His-
torian."
Appeal i- made to Camps to elect i" this important post
that comrade who 1- limd for its duties and who will feat
le K perform them.
Camp Work
I mi frequent reference cannot he made in ih, importance
1 tnp activities. Unless the members ol a I amp are en
d upon some task, the organization will
( ommander Seymour Stewart, of 1 amp Sterling Price. S
Louis, writes: "(fur ('amp is holding meetings, if not monthly,
in.iiK thai often, barring the summer months, (In Octobei
23 we held inn first fall meeting, and \\ ■ bad with us
Veterans who fought for our Southern neb's ami many ladies
iii whom the South is most deal One of the Veterans rc-
marked after having heard the paper on 'The Alabama' that
In then f"i" the first time realized tin- causi for thi intense
animosity displayed by the Federal Beet coming up Mobile
Baj when thi ailoi shouted: 'Remember the Alabama Ri
' Revenge! Revenge!' Another Veteran, Commandei
>i ih- local l imp. has forwarded to ins headquarters the
and requested that it lie published bj the Society of
Confederate Veterans. 1 may add in conclusion that I have
personally secured the applications or the promises for fifteen
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new members, and amongst this number there are men who
will add greatly to the personnel of our Camp."
A. M. Sea. Jr.. Commander of the Kentucky Division, says
"I agree with your views as expressed in your letter of No-
vember I, 1906 that our chief defect is lax Camp work, and
thai this would be remedied in a great measure by more fre-
qui nt meetings. This will be urged upon all Camps. Several
01 11- m Broadus Camp have agitated this matter from time
to time; but the hoys do not take kindly to it as yet, and s em
to be content with three or four meetings a year. In time
they will see the matter as each and everj one ought to s.e
ii : That 1:0 secret or fraternal or benevolent order should
have as strong a claim to his affectii ns or should be entitled
to as gr at a share of his intelligent individual effort as our
'organization. In my judgment it is a greater honor to be the
son of a Confederate soldier than the descendant of a Revolu-
tionary hero."
New Camps.
New C mps since No 12, September. 1906, have been char-
tered as follows :
No. 551, Camp Cal Crozier, Tyler. Tex.. October 18. 1906.
eighty-seven members; C. O. Griggs, Commandant: Perley
H. Boone, Adjutant.
No. 552, Camp Fluvanna, Palmyra, Va.. November 1, 1906.
twenty members; Paul Pettit, Commandant; T. Walter Shif-
lett, Adjutant.
No. 553, Camp James G. Storey. Lockhart, Tex., November
2, 1906, thirty-two members; A. B. Stony. Commandant; J.
W. Karhack. Adjutant.
No. 554. Camp Brewster. Alpine, Tex., November 10, 1006.
thirteen members ; Benjamin F. Berkeley, Commandant ; John
W. Kinsey, Adjutant.
No. 555 Camp A. C. Gordon, Abbeville, Ala., November 17,
1906, thirty-four members; J. B Espy, Commandant: Joe Mc-
Lendon. Adjutant.
No. 556, Camp J. J. Dickison, Tampa. Fla., December 24.
1906. twenty-five members ; H. P. Baya, Commandant : Kelsey
Blanton, Adjutant.
No. 557, Camp Tom Smith. Suffolk, Va., April 16. 1907,
thirty-four members; J. C. Holladay, Commandant; G. L.
Bell. Adjutant.
No. 558, Camp Canney Steed, Liberty Corner, Va., April
16. 1907, twenty-six members; R. J. Stokes. Commandant: J.
L. Burke, Adjutant.
No. 559 Camp Col. Jack Moore, Centerville, Term., April
20. 1907, forty-three members; Stanley C. Brown, Comman-
dant; W. S. Wollard. Adjutant.
Women's Memorial.
So far as can be learned from expressions received from
comrades in various parts of the Confederation, the decision
reached on the subject of the form of the memorial to the
Women of the Confederacy has met very general satisfaction.
Irrespective of preconceived opinions or wishes in reference
to the form which the memorial should assume, comrades and
friends of the movement recognize that almost insuperable
conditions exist as to many of the plans proposed. Therefore
the plan originally suggested by Gen. C. Irvine Walker to the
Women's Memorial Committee, and recommended by it to
the General Convention in New Orleans, and subsequently
adopted by the special committee to which the subject was
intrusted, seems to very satisfactorily meet conditions as well
as to satisfy the wishes of the Confederation on the subject.
Attention is again called to the details of the plan as set forth
in General Orders. X,,. 12. printed in this department of the
Veteran for October, igoo.
General Walker is working with great zeal, giving his en-
tire time to the movement. He has many plans or schemes
for the raising of funds, nearly all of which are productive.
The Confederate Veterans appear t" be resp Hiding very gen-
erously to the appeals of General Walker. It is a pleasure to
note the enthusiasm displayed by Mr. H. G. Damon, of Cor-
sicana, Tex., appointed in May last year by General Walker
as s|ncial representative for Texas. Mr. Damon has issued
a circular appeal, from which he expects to raise several large
stuns. He estimates that from the two hundred and eighty-
eight Camps of Confederate Veterans in Texa- an average of
one hundred dollars each ought to he paid, making a total
of $28,800.
The Virginia supplements in behalf of the fund were pub-
lished last fall, and the present spring the Alabama supple-
ments appeared. These publications, apart from popularizing
'he movement, are valuable mediums for the preservation of
Confederate history.
There is a very general desire, however, to clos up this
work, as is evidenced by the following expression from Past
Commander in Chief R. B. Haughton, of St. Louis: "What
do you think of the idea of adopting a resolution or even a
cons' itutional amendment at the next Reunion assessing each
member five dollars or one dollar per year until a sufficient
amount is raised for the purpose of raising the money for the
Women's Memorial? We ought to do something to dispose
of that matter, and I rather think that if the matter is properly
presen'ed the members will agree t'i disp ise of the whole
thing at one big swallow. You can get a large donation gen-
erally abi ut ns easily as you can get a small one."
Ri onion of Tin; Florida Division.
C. Seton Fleming, of Jacksonville, submits the following
with reference to the Reunion of the Florida Division:
"I submit herewith a report of the attempted Reunion of
the Florida Division. U. S. C. V.. in Gainesville. Fla., on No-
vember 13 and 14. 190(1. This report was not forwarded sooner
for the reason that it was impossible for me to he present,
and I have been endeavoring for the last few months to obtain
authentic data concerning said Reunion.
"The Reunion of the U. S. C. V. was called at the -ant
time and place as that of the Florida Division. U. C. V.. anil
was a tended by the Commander of the Florida Division, U.
S. C. V., and five members of the Stonewall Jackson Camp,
X" 83, of this city. When this delegation arrived, they found
only those present who were from Jacksonville. The Gaines-
ville people advised them not to attempt the organization of a
Camp at that place, as the Daughters bad two Chapters there
and were having a lively light, and that the attempt to organize
a Camp would only make the tension between the two Chap-
ters greater. Such being the case, it was decided not to or-
ganize a Camp of the U. S. C. V.. fearing 'hat our cause
would be injured rather than advanced. The delegation from
Jacksonville, therefore, attended the Reunion of the Veterans
and participated so far as possible. Although a General Or-
der was sent out to all Florida Camps from the U. S. C. V.,
instructing each Camp to send delegates to Gainesville, the
only response to same was from Stonewall Jackson Camp, Xo.
S3, L". S. C. V.. of Jacksonville, as heretofore stated
"On January 19 the memorial celebration of the centennial
birthday of Gen. Robert E. Le? was held at the First Baptist
Church of this citv. a programme of which I inclose herewith.
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The services were largely attended by the local Chapter oi
the Daughters of the Conied racy and Camps oi the Confed
erate Veterans and Sons of Confederate Veterans and numer-
ous admirers of the great soldier and patriot The opening
prayer was by a son oi a Conf derati Veteran, the oration bj
a son of a Confederate Veteran, and the violin solos were
rendered by a son of a Confederate Veteran We were thus
well represented at the celebration The memorial services
were attended bj between seven and eighl hundred people,
the church was crowded, and the services were in ev rj waj
1 1 implete succ< ss."
Kl i N [ON "i rHE Lot '1SIANA DIVISION.
The Louisiana Division i- one among verj few of the l'i
vision organizations which have printed the proceedings of
their Reunion conventions held during 1906 That this is
true in regard to the Louisiana Division is greatly ilm- to the
seal and enthusiasm of Ralston F. Green, its present Com
mander. The following brief account is condensed from the
pi inted pamphlet :
eighth annua] Reunion of the Louisiana Division iva
held at Baton Rouge August 9 and 10. The first session con
of a joint convention of Veterans and Sons ["he meet-
ing was held in Garig Hall, and addresses of welcome were
1 .1 on behali of the State by Gov. X. C. Blanchard and
on behalf of the citj bj < ol T S rones. On behalf of the
11- .1 response was made by Gen. Albert Estopital and
lor the Sons by I ieut G i\ J. Y. Sanders. In the absence of
the Division Commander, J D Nix, Ralston I Green, Di-
1 ljutant, named th< credentials committee, and on
adjournment the Sons were ordered to reassemble on the fol
lowing morning at eleven o'clock
id daj 1 iSion convened at 11:15 \ M. 111 the p It
the Istrouma Hotel, Past Division Commander W. Mc-
iw presiding. From the report of the I redentiali ( om-
the i' '" '" !iiv I i inps « ei 1 Eound 1 pri senti d bj
Victoi St. Martin, Beauregard, II. \V. Allen. Joe
eeler, and C. M Smith.
report oi Division Commander Nix was presented by
on • ' ■ mi 1 Ireen, The 1 epi n was 1 ead and ordered
i on the minutes. It sin, wed that five new Camps had
rganized during the term, ending August o. and that
i.imp- had been revived In concluding the report he
: "I wish to impress on you all the absolute nei
of individual support b) th< members of the different Camps
1 I Hvisi i" Co nmander."
The report of the Division Adjutant, Ralston F Green, de
the clerical work of the Division. It stated thai tout
circular Utters had be to everj I amp, thai three
hundred and seventj eighl letters had been written, and thai
there were thirl i nips in the Division, with a total
memb rship of one thousand eight hundred and seventy. This
idopti d and 01 det i i pi inted
Division Adjutant Green was unanimously elected Division
Commander bj on, .1 R Landgridge, oi G
was elected Commander of the First Brigade; Edmund
Mam ildsom ill' . 1 'omtnandi 1 1 ii thi Si 1 nd Bi
1 ' [ LaFayette, O immandt 1 oi thi ["hird Bt
No elections were made for the Fourth and Fifth B
Commanders, 11 being decided that the Division 1 ommander
should make appointment- for these place-.
olutions were adopted thanking thi Veterans and others
for kindness and courtesj extended during
tin Reunion.
Reunion of mi Missouri Division
Mr. Chilton Atkinson, Commander, makes the following
report on the effort to hold a Reunion of the Missouri Di-
vision :
"The Reunion of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans
of the Missouri Division was called for September 26, 1000.
at Joplin, Mo. There were three delegates of tamp Sterling
Price, of St. Louis, who appeared at the convention and none
other. 1 spun the time organizing a Camp at Joplin. and
stayed over two or three days to complete the organization.
There are twentj one men who have signed the application,
and before I left Joplin I had collected the per capita tax
from "I"-! all of them and an extra assessment almost suf-
ficient I" paj the charter fee of the ('amp. Some of those
wdto were made officers by the articles of agreement had not
paid their portion and could 1101 be reached, so 1 left the
matter in the hands of Mr 1 lor. ice Merriti 10 complete for
me. The latter 1- Commander of the ('amp, and ha- written
to me that he is working on the matter. I will write him
again today t 1 these papers forwarded i" headquarters
immediately.
"We have a Camp at Jefferson Citj winch 1- also in the
course of organization, and on the whole 1 think that matters
in tin- State are |i oking up
"It 1, \er\ difficult to get ih.' ('amp- represented at the
Si, ne Reunions Manj who are willing to take tin time fot
national Reunion will not go to the Division Conventions."
Kl 1 \ io\ OF 1 HE Tex \> 1 lIVISION.
'I he following is an outline of the work of the Reunion '
vention of the ["exas Division condens d from the minutes
prepared bj Division Commander J, S. Milliard:
lln sixth annual Reunion of the Texas Division was held
in the city of Dallas October 25, 1906. It consisted of a
morning and an afternoon se sion, and was held in the coun-
cil chamber of the City Hall. Division Commander J. S
Hilliard, of Tyler, presided, ^mong other distinguished Sons
in attendance, there were pi en P Commanders in Chief
llioiuis P. Stone, of Waco ami X. R Tisdal, of Rusk ; the
pn 'in Commander i\i the ["ran Mississippi Department, .1
M risdal, oi Greenville; and Past Division Commander C.
S. Swindell-, of I lallas.
Hie following lamp- wen represented bj delegates ' il
i i" ier, 1 3 lei : Sul Ross, W aco ; R I I ee, Fori Wot th : W
L. Cabi Dall I Cro ier, Will's Point ; J. D Save,-.
Temple; J. A Cumings, Bowie; and Camp Greenville and
Rusk, of those cities.
The meeting was opened with don tion bj Rev. R.
M Gano The address of welcome was delivered by Judge
I' I: \ln , end ihe respon ,• by J. T. Wigein- Greetings
wen ' tended from the U. D C. by Mi-- Kate Daffan, of
Houston, and Mi- Moore Murdock followed with an inspiring
address, in which -he meed the .Son- to keep alive the spirit
,,f the organi ation and preserve thi historj of the Cause.
1 the appointment of ,, ,
in of the Veterans in 51 --ion in me - one build
ing, ihe meeting took a recess until the afternoon. On re-
mmittee from ihe Veterans appeared i" return
the greeting- which had been so cordiallj tendered hy the
Sons during tin morning, Several eloquent speech,- were
made hy the ne ml. ei s of .a-' committee
nander Hilliard submitted a bri f report a- 1,, In-
work, stating that he had been in service for only about two
ind 1 irnestlj pledged his 1" -1 endeavors to the full
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development of the Confederation work in the Division. In
accordance with li is recommendation, the Division constitu-
tion and the minutes of the present Reunion convention were
ordered printed.
Resolutions were adopted expressive of the sympathy of
the Convention on the death of Mrs. Davis; also indorsing
the movement to establish a home for disabled and aged Con-
federate women of Texas and expressing the thanks of the
delegates and others to the W. L. Cabell Camp for hospitali-
ties. Among other things, the resolutions adopted declared:
"We note with a blush of shame the lack of interest among
the sons of Confederate Veterans in the perpetuation of the
organization of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Also a lack of interest in maintaining the organizations here-
tofore chartered and the general apathy of the Sons in their
work and in their organizations."
The present Commander, J. S. Hilliard, was reelected with-
out opposition for another term. In responding to calls for
an address, he declared that he was a man of work, not words,
and he further declared his undying loyalty to the principles
of the Confederation. Messrs. Ben. E. Cabell, John A. Kee,
and N. R. Tisdal were also chosen as a committee of three to
name the route to be used by the Sons from the Texas Di-
vision in attendance upon the Reunion at Richmond.
During the sessions a number of sponsors and maids were
in attendance; besides, there was a representative attendance
of visitors.
Reunion of the Virginia Division.
Past Division Commander W. W. Old, Jr., writes as follows :
"The first session of the annual Reunion of the Virginia Di-
vision, U. S. C. V., was called to order in the city of Roanoke
by Division Commander William W. Old, Jr., of Norfolk,
Va., on the afternoon of October 24. 1906. The representa-
tion of Camps was satisfactory and the enthusiasm inspiring.
After the appointment of several committees, the meeting ad-
journed in order to allow the members to take part in a
reception given at the Hotel Roanoke by the Daughters of the
Confederacy of Roanoke. That night the Virginia Division
had its celebration, the orator of the evening being Hon.
Robert E. Lee, Jr., of the County of Fairfax. His instructive
and entertaining address was received with hearty applause.
"At the meetings held on the mornings of October 25 and
26 a large amount of routine work was disposed of. The
question of uniforms was thoroughly discussed, and a resolu-
tion adopted calling upon each Camp to urge upon its mem-
bers the advisability of taking the forward step. An amend-
ment to the constitution of the Division was also adopted pro-
viding for the appointment of a Division Historian, who is
to be ex officio chairman of the History Committee. This is
no doubt a step in the right direction and one which will
bring about good results.
"The parade took place on the afternoon of the 25th, and
impressive indeed was the sight of the gray-haired Veterans
who were willing and ready to give their all in defense of
their native State.
"The Reunion closed with a grand ball given on the night of
the 26th by the local Camp in honor of the visiting Sons,
sponsors, and maids of honor. The Virginia reel, participated
111 by the Veterans only, their wives and daughters, was the
feature of the evening.
"The election of officers resulted as follows: Division Com-
mander, James P. Banks, A. P. Hill Camp, Petersburg, Va. ;
Commander of the First Brigade, Paul W. Garrett, Loudoun
Camp, Leesburg, Va. ; Commander of the Second Brigade.
T. W. Miller, Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Roanoke, Va.
"The Sons were received 'with open arms,' and all credit
should be given to the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp. U. S.
C. V., which has lately been reorganized and which will prove
a powerful factor for good in the Division."
Concerning the Lee Anniversary.
The approach of the one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Gen. Robert E. Lee found the Sons in all parts of the
Confederation eager and willing to do honor to his memory.
The Commander in Chief issued General Orders, No. 14,
directing memorial meetings.
The most enthusiastic response was made and the follow-
ing Camps are noted as holding meetings : Camp R. E. Lee.
Richmond, Va. ; Camp John A. Broadus, Louisville, Ky. ;
Camp Beauregard, New Orleans, La. ; Camp Stonewall Jack-
son, Jacksonville, Fla. ; Camp Francis S. Bartow, Savannah,
Ga. ; Camp W. T. Aull, Owensboro. Ky. ; Camp Holtzchw,
Montgomery; Camp Victor St. Martin, Donaldsonville. 1
and Camp John C. Francis, Jacksonville, Ala.
There were many others doubtless, but no reports hav !
bein made to General Headquarters.
This report of Commander in Chief Owen, it will be seen,
covers the past few months, and the delay is cordially excused
since he could not meet all of the aggregated obligations that
were incumbent upon him. The Veteran joins in a multi-
tude who will regret to see that he feels he cannot serve longer
as Commander in Chief.
The Veteran has been unstinted in efforts to encourage and
advance the United Sons of Confederate Veterans. It pleads
for commensurate action and zeal by them that is exemplified
by Daughters of the Confederacy everywhere. If they would
more generally read the Veteran, they would realize how far
short they are in such cooperative service.
VETERANS OF FORREST'S CAVALRY.
Lieut. Gen. H. A. Tyler, Commanding Forrest's Cavalry
Corps, orders as follows :
"By an article of our organization, every soldier of any and
all arms of service who at any time during the war served
under Gen. N. B. Forrest and remained true and faithful to
the cause unto the end is entitled to recognition and mem-
bership in the Corps.
"All field and company officers now living are hereby reap-
pointed to the same positions, with same rank as held by them
at the close of the war, and are hereby directed to at once
notify every member of their old commands to meet them in
Richmond, Va., May 30 to June 3, and there get together at
our general headquarters and organize their old commands.
"Officers and members of this Corps are hereby notified
to assemble in the University College of Medicine, Richmond,
at 10 a.m. May 30 and attend a business meeting of the Corps.
"The University College of Medicine. Richmond, Va.. has
been assigned for the use of Forrest's Cavalry Corps during
the entire Reunion. An office will be kept open at all hours
for the use of members, as well as to give out all needed in-
formation. Cots for the free use of the members will be put
into many of the rooms. All officers and members are re-
quested to call at the office and register immediately upon
their arrival, and beautiful souvenir metal badges, similar to
those given out at New Orleans and Memphis, will be given
to those who have not heretofore received them. All mem-
bers are requested to wear these badges."
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HENRY E. WOOD.
BY K. \v. GRIZZARD.
"A soldier right gallant was he
When forth he went to serve the Smith —
Fortune and all he held dearly
Oft knew peril at cannon's mouth.
Now while long shadows gently fall,
Peace to this loyal soldi) r old ;
He heeded the call of Ins Southland,
And long let his daring be told."
With the pitiable spectacle of the ever thinning tanks of the
Confederacy before us, we ma) well pause amid the busy
rounds of this commercial age and weave chaplets of honest
admiration to bedeck the brow of valor Vnd lei us not leave
all mir tribute offering for the cold, dull ear of death.
I in subject of this sketch is Henry E, Wood, Esq., of Bremo
Bluff, Ya. Mr. Wood was a color bearer in Pickett's Division,
and answered roll call in the days that tried men's souls as a
member of Company E, 18th Virginia Infantry. Whenever
the did Stars and liars are flung to S Mil In in I. roves and the
old guard in gray rally to the strains of "Dixi ." Mr. Wood
can invariable Ik- found. He rarely misses a Reunion of the
Confederates of the South or a meeting of the Grand ( amp
of Virginia. Tall and straight and of soldierly hearing. Mr.
Win id is ever conspicuous among many upon patriotic and
martial occasions.
Comrade Wood still wears the suit in which he marched.
fought, and bivouacked during tin entire war. Worn and
frayed with age and hearing the scars of battle, tins relic of
the Confederacy gracefully adorns its wearer, lie was three
times wounded at Gaines's Mill, and his ,,ld regiment ils faith-
full) retain traces of the bullets, lie looks a soldiei <i \p
pomattOX fortunes. Ill- war regalia is such as a soldiir of the
sixties wore, lie carries a haversack and gum blanket cap-
vi a
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tured at Seven Pines. A canteen and Iwo tin cups from which
some Federal officer once regaled his thirst, and which Mr.
Wii.nl captured On the retreat from Vorktown. dangle among
other war trophies at the ..Id soldier's belt. Mr. Wood wears
also a Colt's navj rev. .her. captured from a Yankee major
at New Market m October, 18114. With this Yankee major
he captured six Federal soldiers, lie wears the cap of the
Johnnie Reb, and it sits gracefully upon a head which time
lias frosted, hut failed to rob of rich reminiscences of the war.
II. is especially fond of Col. R. E. Withers, of Wythcville,
Ya., than whom he says there was never a braver man nor
n;< a e exalted Christian.
Mr. Wood is tb" Commander of his Camp of U. C V., No.
54, of Fluvanna County. Many of the readers of the Yi n RAM
will no doubt si e tins interesting old soldier at the Reunion
in Richmond and at the Jamestown Exposition this year. Mr.
Wood has never married Apart from his fertile reminiscences
of the war. he is a prosperous and popular citizen of his sec-
tion, lie lost two brothers in the war and had two others
s ver< ly wounded.
BISHOP 0. I'. FITZGERALD OX THE OLD SOUTH.
[From a paper to the Nashville Christian Advocate.]
In the Old South were the roots of the New South. The
South of to-day has the same soil, the same heredity, the same
traditions The typical young Southerner of the old days loved
the open air and gloried m the athletics of his time. He could
ride aim] shoot, he was a long jumper and high climber, and
was not lacking in the courage naturally to be expected from
the descendants of the high-headed Cavaliers and the round-
headed Covenanters. * * * The men of the South in those
1 ild days fought Indians, drank all the strong drink that was
good tor them, and more, exhibited a passi.m for politics that
has descended l.. their children and children's children, and
cherished a punctiliousness on points of honor and a devotion
to principle thai were derided by ..tli.rs who would have done
better by imitating tin 111. Those ..1.1 Southerners in some re-
spects were a peculiar people, troublesome to tyrants and puz-
zling to political tricksters ami trimmers. Doubtless there
was some trace of snobbery in the Old South, as elsewhere;
hut the aristocracy of the Old South was more an aristocracy
of blood an.! brains than of money. In certain circles in later
(lays n was a common saying that the effect of tile peculiar
iiistiiuii.nl of domestii laver) had superinduced an effeminacy
in the white nun of the South. When mir Civil War began.
a in. t.,1 Northern editor said that every Southern gentleman
in the Confederate arm) would need t w . > servants, one to
carry his knapsack and the other to carry his cologne bottle
Effeminates were they, Mr. Greeley? ["hese were tb.- m n
wept the Vallej oi Virginia like a whirlwind under
Stonewall Jackson. These ware the men that breasted the
billows of flame at Manassas, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness.
Gettysburg, and Sharpsburg I hese were the men who paved
the lines of their assaults with the palpitating bodies of heroes
who could meet certain death on the double-quick and never
in equal combat showed their hacks to a foe. Effeminate, did
you 5ay? Muse were the men that galloped over many a con-
i ed field 111 man) campaigns with Forrest and Stuart and
ni and 1 lampion and the rest, and by their unsui|'
valor won undying fame ["hese were the men that followed
Robert E, Lee in a series of campaigns in which ware dis-
play.! a coinage, skill, fortitude, energy, and devotion unsur-
passed in the history of the world.
There never was a liner manhood on the earth than that of
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the Old South. They lived an outdoor life favorable to physic-
al strength and marked individuality. The existing state of
things in our country furnishes a vindication of what has been
sneered at as characteristic of the old Southern school of
statesmanship. The old-time Southern statesmen, it was al-
leged, wasted their time and their breath in the discussion of
abstract constitutional principles. They were accused of too
much persistency in their demand for strict construction of
constitutional provisions. They were satirized as abstraction-
ists and visionaries, and nicknamed in current politics as the
"Chivalry." The old-time Southerners who stood for this
principle and acted on it in their representative capacity did a
work never to be forgotten in the making of this republic.
The Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the
Federal Constitution are their monuments. In the contest
now going on in defense of the rights and welfare of the
American people the names and the deeds of these men of the
Old South will be invoked as examples by an awakened and
patriotic people.
The Old South was no exception to the rule that the land-
holders of a country rule it. If called upon to give my advice
to our young men, I should say to them : Stay where you are,
and hold on to your lands. There is no nobler secular calling
than that of a genuine farmer. The farm would furnish the
able-bodied young Southerner with good exercise after he
leaves school. They might exchange the bicycle for the plow
handles or corn dropper, the Indian club for the woodman's
ax, the dumb-bells for the handspike, the tennis racket for
the pitchfork, the boxing gloves for the sawhorse, and the
fencing foils for the reaper's scythe. To make one of the
farms in our fair Southern land flourish in increased fertility
would reflect more honor upon a young Southerner in this
year of our Lord 1907 than to win a medal for being the
highest jumper, the loftiest tumbler, the hardest kicker, the
brawniest boxer, or the fastest runner that was ever made
dizzy by the shouts of victory at an intercollegiate contest.
The expenditure of money for educational purposes is
larger, the percentage of illiteracy is smaller. * * * Nobody
but an idiot has anything to say against education. But it
depends on the kind of education as to whether it is good or
evil. Culture is a much-misunderstood word. No amount of
culture will suffice to turn a jimson weed into a rosebush. All
that culture can do for a weed is to give it a ranker growth.
The people of the Old South were homogeneous. Some of
our Southern people are inviting foreign immigration to the
South. It will be well for us if immigration shall not be more
rapid than assimilation. Other portions of our beloved coun-
try have gotten more than they bargained for in this matter
of immigration. The anarchists and unbelievers of many lands
and many tongues have come in multitudes. The power of
assimilation has been overtaxed, and the consequences are
not satisfactory to the parties immediately concerned. Let
us take warning. The old white South got along pretty well
with the old black South, all things considered. Conditions
have changed somewhat, but we understand one another, and
with less assistance from abroad that we do not ask for, and
the exercise of a reasonable degree of common sense, every
square mile of this Southern land would bloom in bountiful-
ness and beauty.
Covington Daughters of the Confederacy. — An oratorical
medal was presented sometime since by the Baker Lemmon
Chapter, U. D. C. An oration upon Gen. Robert E. Lee was
delivered by Mr. Edward Walk in competition which at-
tracted widespread attention ; and, while the medal was
awarded to another, the Walk oration is of such excellence
and was delivered with such easy, graceful eloquence that his
friends requested its publication in the Veteran. The facts
of General Lee's life are so well known and so many addresses
are mailed to the Veteran from anniversary meetings that
they can't all be used. Edward Walk is a high-toned, thor-
oughbred Southern youth of sterling character and noble as-
pirations. He has not yet doffed his knee pants nor passed
half through his teens.
CAPTAIN THRASH AND HIS MONUMENT.
Many monuments have been erected by the Southern people
to commemorate the valor of those who fell in defense of
their land, but it has been within the power of but few to be
able to do individually what has required the assistance of
many. Notable among these is the monument erected by
Capt. A. B. Thrash, of North Carolina, to Company I, 25th
Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, which he commanded
to the honor of his State. The monument is built of Ten-
nessee marble, twenty-one feet in height, and stands in the
cemetery where the dead of Company I are resting. On it are
inscribed one hundred and seventy-one names, comprising
every man who joined the company from first to last, and in
the picture herewith given appear some of the survivors.
Since this picture was sent to the Veteran our good com-
rade has died, and now lies at rest in the shadow of the mon-
ument which was his loving tribute to those who followed him
where duty led. Most remarkable to relate, although he was
quite advanced in years, his mother survives him. A friend
sends this short notice of his life and service for the Con-
federacy : "Capt. A. B. Thrash died at his home, near Candler,
N. C, on November 21, 1906. He was born in December,
1829, in Buncombe County, and entered the Confederate
service in July. 1861, as a private in Company I, 25th North
CAPT. A. B. THRASH.
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Carolina Regiment of Volunteers. He was elected first lieu-
tenant in April. 1862, and promoted to captain in December,
1864. He was in the battles of Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg,
Weldon Railroad, near Reams Station, Frazier's Farm, in the
blowing up of the Crater near Petersburg, and nine months
in the trenches th re. He was wounded and in the hospital
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THEASH MONUMENT.
and captured by Grant's forces when he took Petersburg. He
was sent to Newport News prison, and paroled from there
on June 16. 1865."
In the Veteran for November appeared Captain Thrash's
recollections of the "blow-up" at the Crater, and he had in-
tended to write an account of the siege of Petersburg as he
knew it, but death intervened.
HONORED WAS THE DOUGLAS TEXAS BATTERY.
P. E. Hockersmith, of Woodburn, Ky.. sends a printed let-
ter from Fd W. Smith with copy of resolutions by the Con-
federate Congress in regard to the first reenlistments at Dalton
for the war :
"The year 1S64 opened upon our Southern people in the
midst of a mighty struggle for Confederate independence.
Our coast cities were girdled by powerful Federal navies, the
Mississippi River was in the control of our enemies, and their
armies had penetrated most of our territory. The terms of
voluntary enlistment of our armies in the field were about to
expire, and the Confederate Congress had passed a sweeping
conscript law compelling the continued service of practically
all of our arms-bearing people. Our leaders, both civil and
military, had grave apprehensions of the effect of its execu-
tion upon the spirit of our people. Just at this juncture Doug-
las's Texas Battery, encamped with the Army of the Tennes-
see :it Dalton. Ga., on the 18th of January in a series of reso-
lutions reenlisted for twenty years, or during the continuance
of the war. General Johnston, in general orders the next
morning, quoted the resolutions and commended the spirit of
the battery to his army. This order was read at the same
time to all the different organizations in his command, and
regiment after regiment and battery after battery reenlisted,
and the conscript law fell harmless at our feet. Immediately
following this action Malcolm D. Graham. Repi sentative iu
the Confederate Congress, introduced and s(cured the pa
of the following joint resolution of thanks to the enlisted men
of Douglas's Texas Bat-en :
"'Resolved, by tin Congress of th,' 1 onfedexa e Stati
America, That the thanks of Congress arc eminently due and
are hereby tendered to the eidistcd men of Di Texas
Battery for the patriotic resolutions adopted by them on the
18th of January last and by which they reenlisted in till
tary service for war. Approved February 10 [864."
"This resolution was secured by Congressman Bob Smith,
of El Paso District, from the Confederate archives now in
the possession of the War Department at Washington, tin-
above being a certified copy of same. This piece of authentic
history settles forever the question as to what Confederate
command first reenlisted for the entire period of the war."
ABOUT JONES'S RAID INTO WEST VIRGINIA.
BY T. J. YOUNG, AUSTIN". ARK.
A mistake occurs in my article in which you published an
account of Jones's Cavalry raid in Virginia in the Veteran for
April, 1001, headed, "Ashby's Men in Rear of the Enemy," I
failed to include the 6th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, which
was on this raid, with the other regiment which composed
the brigade — the 7th, nth. and 12th Regiments. Whitcher's
Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, and Brown's Battalion of Mary-
land Cavalry. Comrade George H. MoiTett, of Parkersburg,
YV. Va . m lus article on this raid in the October (1905) Vet-
eran, omits Whitcher's Battalion, which I am sure was on
this raid, as 1 remember well their chasing the bushwhackers
up the mountains and capturing them like a pack of hounds
would capture a fox. Whitcher's men were from West Vir-
ginia and acquainted with the mountains. They were detailed
to catch the bushwhackers, who made their appearance in
many places during this raid, which was mostly through the
mountains. One morning some of Major Brown's battalion,
who were in the advance and doing picket duty, captured two
bushwhackers who had captured two of their men in the
morning while they were eating their breakfast at a house near
the picket post — a lieutenant and a private. As soon as the
men at the picket post found that their comrades had been cap-
tured they went in pursuit of them, and caught two bush-
whackers with long red beards and clothed in homemade but-
ternut with squirrel rifles. They wire shot and the Confed-
erals were liberated. I saw these bushwhackers after they
were killed lying by the side of the road. This must be what
Comrade Moffett makes allusion to, as Whitcher's men did
most of the capturing of bushwhackers.
I desire to correct these errors in order that justice may In-
done Major Whitcher and his gallant men, also the 6th Vir-
ginia Cavalry, which command I inadvertently omitted. I
think I am correct about the way we got the Federals out of
the old log church at Greenland Gap. which was by tying up
bundles of hay and the men rolling them in front of litem
against the church and then setting fire to the hay, which fired
the church and caused the Federals to surrender. Our regi-
ment, the "th Virginia Cavalry, was in front, and we were
ordered to charge by the church, which we did under the fire
of the enemy's guns Several men were killed and wounded.
Among them was our gallant Col. R. H. Dulaney, who re-
ceived a wound in his arm which caused him to lose its use.
This put us in the rear of the enemy, cut off their retreat,
and placed us where we could observe all that was done and
pin d.
HEROISM OF TEXANS AT VICKSBURG.
\ story is brought to light by United States Senator F W,
Pettus thai deserves preservation in these pages. It comes to
the VETERAN through .1. N. Hunter, of Demorest, Ga.
Judge Rufus Hardj icana, Tex., while on a trip to
Washington City visited th' Senator, who complied with his
request to write of a memorable affair at Vicksburg, which
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"Capt. L. D. Bradley, of General Waul's Legion, was born
and commenced the practice of law in Dallas County, Ala.
He was in his early days a partner of Col. N. H. R. Dawson,
who was afterwards for twenty-six years my law partner.
But I moved to Dallas County after Captain Bradley had gone
West. I met him first at the siege of Vicksburg. A redoubt
on the hill just south of the railroad to Jackson was on the
line held by Col. Charles M. Shelley, of the 30th Alabama
Regiment. I was then in command of a fragment of the 46th
Alabama Regiment, which had lost all of its field officers at
Baker's Creek and would not volunteer for continued work
at the time.
"So when ordered — as I had been directed — to take the
fort I went to Waul's Legion, near by and in reserve. I met
Colonel Waul and told him what I wanted. He said: 'I will
not order; but if any of my companies will volunteer, I will
consent.'
"1 went on and encountered Captain Bradley and told him
the situation. After questioning me, he said : 'Did you see
that whole Alabama company killed trying to take it?'
" 'Yes,' I replied ; 'but the captain and all of his men were
killed before they got to the back door of the redoubt. I ex-
pect to kill them before they know I am coming.'
"Captain Bradley then turned to a lieutenant commanding
a company next to his and asked: 'Shall I take the whole
job, or will you go halves?' The answer was: 'I will go if
you will go.' Then Captain Bradley asktd: 'How many men
do you want?'
"I told him that about thirty was as many as could be used
in so small a place.
" 'Count off fifteen from the right,' ordered the Captain to
his company, and the same order was given by the lieutenant
to his company.
"In a moment almost I had my band of thirty picked Texas
volunteers, which was joined by three men from Colonel Shel-
ley's regiment. My first order was to march to the right, and
away we went for the redoubt. Getting out of sight of the
enemy, we went into the ditches of our works, moving swiftly
with heads down and out of sight of the enemy until we had
reached the redoubt, which the enemy had captured and was
holding. Captain Bradley and I waited until the men closed
up.
"We- were still where we could not be seen by the enemy.
As soon as we had reached this position I waved and threw
down a red bandanna handkerchief, which was a signal for
our troops to stop firing at the back door of the redoubt. The
signal was obeyed at once, and instantly, with Captain Bradley
and his men well up, we dashed into the redoubt. In a few
minutes those of the Federals at the redoubt door were dis-
posed of. They had their heads down to avoid the firing
from the outside. Not one of our assaulting party was
scratched. The floor of the redoubt we found more than
covered by the bodies of dead men in gray and blue. In-
stantly I ordered our men to cover. All of the Federal guns
■ — a large number — opened upon the redoubt. There was still
a considerable force of Federals in the ditch in front of the
redoubt. They were ordered to surrender, and attempted to
do so by getting through the port holes, which had been
widely breached by the fire of their own cannons. Then they
were ordered to come around the redoubt in the ditch to the
rear, and in that way three officers and thirty-three men were
made prisoners and sent to the rear. The Federal fire from
the outside batteries continued until dark, but my men kept
safely under cover.
"As soon as anything could be heard one of Captain Brad-
ley's company, in buckskin breeches, demanded: 'What fellow
was that brought us into this hell's hole?'
"Captain Bradley professed not to know, which was re-
ceived by his interrogator with jeering skepticism, and he
broke out with this : 'I move we elect him a Texan, name
or no name, rank or no rank.'
"The Captain put the motion to a vote, as though he were
presiding at a town meeting. So I was unanimously elected
a Texan — the greatest honor I have ever received, although
I have had many beyond my deserving.
"General Pemberton and his chief engineer visited this re-
doubt soon after dark and gave orders for its repair that
night. General Waul and his staff also visited it. The at-
tacking party was then reviewed and all returned to their
commands.
"Captain Bradley was the coolest man I ever saw under
fire. I talked with him several times during the siege, and in
that way learned who he was, where he was reared, etc. ; but
I did not see him again after the surrender, although he re-
visited his old home at Selma, where I live."
PRISON LIFE AT FORT DELAWARE.
BY DR. W. H. MOON, C00DWATER, ALA.
I was a member of Company I, 13th Alabama Regiment,
Archer's Brigade, and I, with the brigade, was captured at
Gettysburg July 1, 1863. We arrived at Fort Delaware about
the 5th of July, and were put into newly built barracks con-
sisting of long rows of buildings. The material was all rough
and the planks nailed on vertically with strips to cover the
openings between. The outer row of buildings formed a
square, the doors all opening on the inside except on the south,
where the officers were quartered, the backs of their buildings
forming our south boundary. From the east side of the square
divisions extended westward to within about one hundred feet
of the west side, leaving an open way along the front of the
outer line of buildings on the west.
At the time of our arrival there was much rain, and the
island, being formed by the drifting of mud between the two
channels at the mouth of Delaware River, soon became a bog
where the men had to pass. After the whole place had be-
become a veritable bog, the authorities had plank walks built,
TYPICAL SCENE OF THE BEST SOUTH.
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which m.ulc the passageway better. For three or Eour months
we were supplied with plenty of bread and meat; but as the
winter approached i>ur allowance was cut to aboul half, which
was wholly inadequate to supply sufficient nourishment to
keep the men from starving and freezing when the cold winter
set in. Through the long winter months the m n sat m
groups upon their hunks or stood leaning against the walls
On the sunny side of the buildings, wrapped in their old
blankets, conversation gem rally being about the many good
things they had to eat at their horns down in Dixie. The
winter was so cold that the ice in the river by the ebb and
flow of the tide drifted into great icebergs, SO that when the
tide was at low ebb it looked like a vast plain covered with
stacks of ice, no water being visible.
\ division contained four hundred men and two heaters.
Around these crowds would gather in compact mass several
deep, so that no one els: could get near enough to receive
the benefit Of the heat. The houses being very open, in cold
weather the heat could be felt but a short distance even from a
red hot Stove. The prisoners were allowed one suit of clothes,
a cheap overcoat, and one inferior blanket to each man.
These, with the one heater to two hundred men. were the
only protection against the hitter cold winds that swept across
the Delaware River and up the hay One and a quarter miles
was said to he the nearest point to land from the isle.
Those who crowded around the strive continually were
dubbed stove rats. On very cold days those who spent most
of their time on their hunks trying to ke p warm would get
down in the passway between the hunks, form in column of
one or two with as many in the rear as wished to participate,
and charge the "stove rats." The hindmost would push those
in front until the stove was cleared. The rear ones would
then take possession at the stove until another column would
form and make a countercharge, when the rear ones of this
column would take their turn at the stove. These charges
and countercharges would mi very cold days sometimes con-
tinue for several hours, resulting at times in turning over the
red-hot stove on the floor, and this would stop the fun till the
could he righted and the flames extinguished. When
not too eohl. others would play cards, make rmgs from gutta-
percha buttons or hones, or work at some other device bj
which tiny could lam a pittance to relieve their "starvation
rations."
In February we were moved into the old barracks south of
GEN. .1. n. GORDON wn some of the "raccoon roci.ii-'
where we had heen staying. Thes,- were formerly occupied
by commissioned officers, who had heen moved to other parts.
When we entered these new quarters, the hunks and tloor
were covered with snow, which we had to clear out hefore
starting up our little heater-. The next morning from our
division four corpses were taken, frozen stiff. For four
months, during the coldest of the winter, very few of th<
or nine thousand prisoners at Fort Delaware had sufficient
food to satisfj their hunger at any time. The Yanks said
they were retaliating on us for the way their men were being
treated at Andersonville, da.
On Christmas day I succeeded in getting out on detail to
unload a boat of commissaries which consisted of crackers
and sugar in barrels, which we were required to roll from the
boat landing to the fort. It was impo-sihlc for hungn men
to roll hands of sugar so far and keep them whole, conse-
quently there were soon several with the heads out sitting
along the passway. As we rolled our barrels to the fort we
would in passing these scoop out a handful of sugar and eat it
as wc went to and from the fort. In this way we satisfied our
hunger and filled our pockets for future use. This, with our
half rations, kept off hunger for a few days, when we were
again subjected to the torture of cold and hunger for the re-
mainder of the winter.
Quite a number of tin older men who required more food
to sustain life became very much emaciated, and succumbed
to the cold, being found on their hunks in the morning frozen
to death. How any survived the ordeal through which we
had to pass that winter seems strange to me now. Early
every morning we would get down from our hunks and trot
around to warm up and get some feeling in our feet, which
were benumbed with cold till they felt more like clogs to flu-
legs than feet.
The prevailing diseases were smallpox in winter and measles
and diarrhea in summer. From these diseases hundreds died
and were buried on the Jersey shore. The manner of burial
wa- in dig a ditch six feet wide and six feet deep, put in three
boxes containing corp-is one on top of the other, then extend
the ditch, using the dirt to cover the boxes,
An amusing incident occurred at one of these burials.
There was near the hopsital the dead house, where the clothes
of the patients who want to the hospital were deposited, as
were also the bodies of those who died, for burial the next
day. One of the prisoners who was nursing at the hospital
concluded to attempt his escape by removing one of the
hodies from the box and hiding it under the old clothing,
then placing himself in the box and having one of his friends
replace the lid, SO that it could he easily removed. In this
way he. with several corpses, was conveyed in rowboats across
the river to the Jersej shore, where all the prisoners who died
at h'ort Delaware were buried. These burials were attended
to by detail- of prisoners t" do the work and a guard to di-
rect and keep the prison rs from making their escape. When
they landed on the Jersey -hole and were preparing I
po-n the boxes in the ditch, the man who had concealed him-
self forced the lid off the box, jumped to his feet, and ran
li the apple orchard which wa- near by. The detail
and Yank- all took to their heels in a different direction, so
In had no trouble in making his escape while the stampede
in As 1 remember, one i I [WO of the detail made good
their escap -. 'Those who knew nothing of the scheme were
probably a- badly frightened a- tile Yanks, and made no effort
to get away.
Another incident occurred which created considerable excite-
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ment among the guard one night. One of the prisoners, an
elderly man known as Old Tom, had become demented, and
was allowed to roam at will over the island. Occasionally he
would lodge in the dead house at night, and on the night of
the incident he had taken up his quarters there. As the guard
who had just been relieved from duty was passing in front
of the dead house Tom, dressed in long white apparel, moved
out through the door, going directly toward the squad. Tak-
ing him for the spirit of a dead Rebel, they became frightened
and made a break for their quarters, from which they were
separated by two canals about twenty feet wide and three or
four deep in mud and water. Into these they plunged, mak-
ing no effort to get to the crossings, which were very narrow.
When they reached their quarters, they were all wet and
muddy and terribly frightened. An investigation soon re-
vealed the cause of the fright and stampede.
GEN. J. E. JOHNSTON— BY A FEDERAL.
[Address before the Chicago Chapter, U. D. C, March 6,
1907, by Maj. Robert Mann Woods, Past State Commander
Illinois G. A. R.]
General Johnston, who was of Scotch descent, was born in
Virginia February 3. 1807. He was related to Patrick Henry,
Valentine Wood, the Prestons, and the McLanes, the best blood
of Virginia. He graduated from West Point Military Academy
in 1829 in the class with Robert E. Lee, and for thirty-two
years was an officer of the United States army. In the Mexi-
can War he was lieutenant colonel of a regiment of volti-
geurs, and highly distinguished himself. In June, i860, he
was promoted to quartermaster general of the army, with the
rank of brigadier general. It is significant that the names
recommended by General Scott to President Buchanan for
this appointment were those of Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E.
Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Charles F. Smith. From
this position General Johnston resigned April 22, 1861, to go
into the Confederate army.
His first command was at Harper's Ferry, and here he an-
nounced the principle which he adhered to in his entire serv-
ice— viz., that he would relinquish a position, city, or fortifi-
cation before he would relinquish an army. It would have
been well for the Southern Confederacy if he had been al-
lowed to carry out these military ideas.
General Johnston was chief in command of the Army of
Northern Virginia from the first Bull Run until the battle of
Seven Pines, May 31, 1S62, where he was wounded by a shell
and carried unconscious from the field. Gen. Robert E. Lee
then assumed the command.
I shall take no sides in the controversy between Jefferson
Davis and General Johnston as to the rank of the latter.
Under the act of the Confederate Congress of March 6, 1861,
it would seem that General Johnston was entitled to be the
first ranking officer of the Confederate army. * * *
On General Johnston's partial recovery he was placed in
command of the military division of the West, including the
departments commanded by Beauregard, Pemberton, and
Bragg, three distinct armies widely separated.
Bragg's defeat at Murfreesboro and Stone River had dis-
heartened his subordinates, Generals Breckinridge, Hardee,
Polk, and Cleburne, who petitioned President Davis to appoint
General Johnston, which Mr. Davis refused to do.
Then came the Vicksburg campaign. General Johnston re-
peatedly asked the Secretary of War to order reinforcements
to Pemberton from Lieutenant General Holmes, commanding
the Trans-Mississippi Department, and to unite those two
armies against Grant. But it was not done. Johnston ordered
Pemberton to throw his army against Grant's advance at Port
Gibson; but Pemberton failed to do so, and allowed General
Bowen to fight that battle with only five thousand men. Then,
finding Grant's movement successful, he ordered Pemberton
to abandon Vicksburg and march northeast to join him. He
had told Pemberton that to hang on to Vicksburg meant to
lose his army. Pemberton disobeyed the order, and Vicks-
burg was doomed.
Here again Johnston's principle was proved — that it was
better to save an army than a location.
In General Johnston's report of the Vicksburg campaign he
was compelled to say : "In this campaign General Pemberton
made not a single movement in obedience to my order and
regarded none of my instructions, and finally did not embrace
the only opportunity to save his army — that given by my order
to abandon Vicksburg."
Now came the battle of Chickamauga, which Judge Hughes,
of Richmond, says "was the greatest defeat which the Con-
federates sustained during the war."
Mr. Davis could no longer turn a deaf ear to the voice of
Bragg's division commanders, and he called General Johnston
to the command of the Army of the Tennessee, which, under
the gallant Pat Cleburne, had made a stand at Ringgold.
During this campaign Johnston succeeded in getting together
from forty-five thousand to fifty thousand men opposed to
Sherman's about one hundred and ten thousand men. Sher-
man's force was divided into three divisions — viz., the Army
of the Cumberland (General Thomas), the Army of the Ohio
(General Schofield). and the Army of the Tennessee (Gen. J.
B. McPherson), with two hundred and fifty-four pieces of
artillery. Johnston's army was commanded by Generals Polk,
Hardee, and Hood.
The story of Johnston's defense from Dalton to Atlanta is
as thrilling as the retreat of Xenophon's ten thousand Greeks
through Persia, as wise as the policy of Fabius Maximus in
the Punic War, and a thousand times more gallant than that
of Napoleon's retreat from Russia. During the entire seventy-
five days no day was without its battle, and in spite of Sher-
man's numerical superiority Johnston lost but four pieces of
artillery — a battery captured by Col. Benjamin Harrison and
his regiment, with a loss of one hundred and seventy-three
men, in the first battle in which they were engaged. And so
we record the steady and dogged resistance of this little army
at Ringgold, Tunnel Hill, Dug Gap, Mill Creek Gap, Rocky
Face Ridge, Dalton, and the quick jump to Resaca to meet
McPh'erson's army, coming through Snake Creek Gap. Then
the stand at Cassville, which was abandoned by the advice of
Generals Hood and Polk, and then the stand at the Etowah
River and at New Hope Church. Then came Johnston's great
effort at Kennesaw Mountain. Its great, natural fortification
and the fact that it must be the last stand before crossing the
Chattahoochee determined Johnston's course.
Here General Sherman made his first grand battle on the
27th of June, 1864. To fight against those heights and moun-
tain-buttressed slopes seemed to be and proved to be folly.
The Union loss was about twenty-five hundred, and that of
the Confederates about five hundred. In this battle was ob-
served one of those incidents that make us rejoice in humanity.
When the Union troops on the side of the mountain had been
repulsed, but could not retreat because it was more dangerous
than to lie down behind the rocks, the woods caught fire. The
Federal wounded were in danger of being burned alive. The
Confederates called out. "Get your wounded out!" the firing
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ceased, and both sides assisted in getting the wounded out of
danger. Then the battle was renewed with the old ferocity.
Johnston took advantage of the lull after this battle to trans-
fer his army across the Chattahoochee, and by the celerity of
his movements escaped without the loss of a man and to
Sherman's great surprise. Johnston then prepared for the ex-
pect! (1 division of Sherman's army and planned a battle at
Peach Tree Creek. He was ready for a checkmate to Sher-
man. At this crucial moment came the order from Davis re-
moving him from command and appointing Gen. John B.
Hood in his stead. This order was a painful surprise to the
Confederates and a joyful one to us.
General Howard in bis "Memoirs" -ays: "Just at this time,
much to our comfort and surprise, Johnston was removed and
Hood placed in command of tin Confederate army. Johnston
had planned to attack Sherman at Peach Tree Creek, expect-
ing just such a division between our wings as we made."
In General Sherman'- "Memoirs" I find the following: "At
this critical moment the Confederate government rendered us
most valuable service. Being dissatisfied with the Fabian
policy of General Johnston, it relieved him, and General Hood
was substituted to command the Confederate army."
Gen. Jacob P. Cox -ays: "It is certain that the change of
Confederate commanders was learned with satisfaction by
every officer and man in our army. The patient skill and
watchful intelligence and courage with which Johnston had
always confronted them had beui exasperating. They had
found no weak joints in his barm--"
1 confidently a-scrt that the campaign of seventy-five days
of Gen. Joseph P. John-ton and bis. say, fifty thousand men
against General Sherman and Ins one hundred and tin thou-
sand men. covering of one hundred miles, has no
parallel in brilliancy, hardihood, determined and dogged re-
sistance, in wisdom and discretion, in ill tin- wars of earth.
We could not see it at the time, hut we now know that had
Johnston been kept in command Sherman could not have made
the march to the sea and the campaign of the Carolinas. I
must say for Gen. John I'.. Mood that he was compelled to
make the fight he made at that time because he was appointed
for that purpose.
On tin- ist of February, 1865, G in Robert E. Lee was made
commander in chkf of the Confederate armies. On the 23d
he appointed General Johnston commander of all the forces
in North and South Carolina. Georgia, and Florida. Johnston
gathered the shreds of command from every place, and got
together at Fayetteville an army of between thirty thousand
and forty thousand nun with which to confront Sherman's
nearly sixty thousand, At Bentonville on .March 19 and 20
battle; but hi failed to tay the victorious march of
Sherman, who continued on to Raleigh
During ibis time General Lee surrendered at Appomattox,
and John-ton had hut one course to pursue. On April 17 he
met Gen ral Sherman, and on April 26 his surrender was ef-
fected
Mi Mavis drafted th< letter for General Johnston to send
to General Sherman proposing the sum ndi 1. though he after-
animadverted 111 lh on him for sur-
rendering, and in his life, written by Mrs. Davis, we find that
the animosity which Mr. Davis exhibited all through the war
still exi-led. His animosity seems to have begun when Mr.
Senator from Mississippi anil Chairman of the
Senate Committei of Military Affairs, tried to have Albert
Sidney Johnston appointed quarter! eral U. S. A.;
but Jo-eph E, Johnston secured the place. It was more mani-
fest when Mr. Davis refused General Johnston's demand that
the armies in Virginia be consolidated into one army, a course
which he afterwards permitted General Lee to pursue.
[The above paragraph is not accepted unquestionably by the
Veteran. It seeks verification. — Editor Veteran.]
I shall not weary you by the endless pages of Mr. Davis's
complaint and General Johnston's defense; but I will say that
all the military critics and writers since the war. North and
South, now agree that General Johnston's abandonment of
Harper's Ferry, his falling back from Manassas, his quiet
evacuation of Yorktown, his demand on Pemberton to evacuate
Vicksburg and save his army, his masterly Fabian retreat
from Ringgold to Atlanta were evidences of the highest mili-
tary genius; that his recommendations (none of which were
permitted or ordered) for the removal of General Bragg and
for the transfer of Kirby Smith's forces across the Mississippi
and the consolidation of Pemberton's army with them were
dictated by sound military policy. No one can tell what might
have been the result if these policies had been carried out,
but I assert that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was a military genius
equal to Robert E. Lee.
But now turn to more general views : I remember on my
last visit to Waterloo standing on the top of the vast mound
where reposes the immense bronze British lion, recalling the
conclusion drawn by Victor Hugo on the result of that great
battle. After reciting with graphic pen all of the wonderful
events of that momentous day, Hugo exclaims : "Why was
Napoleon defeated? Was it Wellington? No! Was it
Grouchy? No! Was it Bliicher? No! Was it the sunken
road of Ohain into which the French cuirassiers plunged in
that mad charge by which Napoleon intended to sweep away
the solid squares of British infantry? No! It was God! The
time had come when the Corsican was to be removed from
the sphere of human action."
So I say to you, sweet and loyal Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, why was the gallant, the superb, the daring and dash-
ing, the intrepid, the magnificently courageous army of the
Confederacy defeated and its cause forever lost? And the
answer to this question involves the acknowledgment of that
divine Power that rules and regulates the destinii S of nations.
There was something greater in the divine plan than the wants
and wishes and policies of any town or city or State or ag-
gregation of States.
After the lapse of nearly fifty years, the best idea we can
get is that in the providence of God a great nation was re-
quired—a nation strong in territory and population and of
immense wealth. A great world power was required to carry
out the divine policies — a nation purified as by tire, a nation
bound together by mutual respect for the people of every sec-
tion and bound together by bands of triple steel, homogeneous
throughout, and thus fully lilted for the work to which they
should be called. And through ways which we short-sighted
mortals could not see, through trial and travail and blood
and sorrow, He has produced that nation, which stands to-day
not only the peer of any and all nations, but peerless, the
richest, the most powerful, the most highly cultured, the most
proud-spirited, the most highly polished and effective instru-
ment in the hands of God for carrying out the behests of his
will.
And already we have seen the beginnings of his mighty
purposes :
The settlement of the Venezuela question at The Hague.
The settlement of the Moroccan question at Algeciras.
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The settlement and guarantee of the autonomy of the
Chinese Empire after the Boxer uprising.
The elimination of China from the Russo-Japanese War.
The settlement of the Russo-Japam.se War.
The pacification of South America and Central America and
their adherence to the Monroe Doctrine; the firm stand for
the rights of man and the curbing of oppression, as evidenced
by liberating the West Indies from the cruel yoke of Spain.
Our wonderful policy in the Philippines, never before at-
tempted by any nation on earth, undertaken without regard to
cost and from which no financial reward is expected, and
under which a progress toward civilization and justice has
been made in six years greater than shown in a hundred years
in any such dependency of any other government.
I say that we are revolutionizing the governmental ideas
of the world and filling the hearts of the oppressed millions
of earth with hope. We have set a high standard, and one
which must be followed by all other nations. Under the lash
of these ideas Belgium has awakened and the Congo region
of darkest Africa has been brought into the lime light of
civilization. Belgium must move, or Christian civilization will
do it for her. The movement for personal liberty and re-
ligious liberty has received an impetus from America which
is showing its influence on all nations.
The situation to-day is as follows:
Great Britain demands free schools and the abolition of the
House of Lords.
Germany demands emancipation from religious intolerance,
and its struggle is now going on.
France demands separation of Church and State, and it
looks as if she had achieved it.
The downtrodden Russians demand representation in a
parliament and a constitutional government.
The great American republic, through President Roosevelt,
has called together the World's Congress of Peace at The
Hague, and every nation on earth, except perhaps Morocco,
will be represented there.
Daughters of the Confederacy, let us accept that which God
hath wrought.
The foregoing was submitted to Hon. James D. Porter,
Chancellor of the University of Nashville, Peabody College
for Teachers. He was adjutant general for Major General
Cheatham during the war, an ex-Governor of Tennessee, and
Assistant Secretary of State in Cleveland's administration.
Governor Porter writes: "I return a copy of address by Major
Woods, of Chicago. When General Jesup, quartermaster
general of the United States army, died, in i860, Gen. Win-
field Scott, commanding the army of the United States, was
called upon to name or recommend an officer as his successor.
General Scott did not limit himself to a single name, but sug-
gested four — Gen. J. E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee. Albert Sidney
Johnston, and Charles F. Smith, in the order named. Gov-
ernor Floyd, of Virginia, then Secretary of War, recommended
Joseph E. Johnston, and he was appointed. Mr. Davis, then
a Senator from Mississippi, was Chairman of the Committee
on Military Affairs, and reported the name of General John-
ston for confirmation the day af'er the nomination was made.
It has been stated that there was serious opposition to his
confirmation, but it is a mistake. There were three votes
against his confirmation, and they were cast by Northern
Senators for political reasons. Mr. Davis advocated the ap-
pointment of Albert Sidney Johnston, but he manifested no
opposition to the appointee. There is no doubt but that the
differences between Mr. Davis and General Johnston were
caused by events occurring in the early clays of the War be-
tween the Stales. Certainly they did not grow out of the ad-
vocacy of the appointment of Gen. A. S. Johnston by Mr.
Davis. A few days after General Johnston's appointment
Gen. R. E. Lee wrote a letter of congratulation to him and
said: 'I feel my heart exult within me at your high position.'"
REMNANT CO. B, 27TH TENNESSEE INFANTRY.
J. H. Sandling, of Company B, 27th Tennessee Infantry, sends
a printed list of his company of one hundred and four men in
the C. S. A. and the names of the survivors, who are : Capt.
A. W. Caldwell, Troy, Term. ; Messrs. R. Inman, Sam Ryans,
Will Morris, George Wright, John Hayley, J. B. Harper,
J. H. Sandling, Union City, Tenn. ; Will Valient,
C. Pearsy, Texas ; Joe M. Wright. Lake County,
Sowell, Columbia, Tenn. ; Dick Cashion and
Hornbeak, Tenn. ; and Sam Miller, Glass, Tenn.
Comrade Sandling, the youngest soldier of the company, was
born March 20. 1845, and was sworn into the service August
16, 1861. The 27th Tennessee Infantry has not had due promi-
nence in the published records of the war.
Obion, Tenn.
Denver, Colo.
Tenn. ; Tom
John Morgan
MISS VARINA COOK, OF ARKANSAS,
D. lighter of Gen. V. Y. Conk and Sponsor Trar.s-Mississippi Department.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
WRITTEN IN NOVEMBER, l880.
I was born June 3, 1808, in Christian County, Ky.. in that
part of it which, by a subsequent division, is now in Todd
County. At this place has since arisen the village of Fair-
view, and on the exact spot where I was born has been con-
structed the Baptist church of the place. My father, Samuel
Davis, was a native of Georgia, and served in the War of the
Revolution first in the "mounted gun men" and afterwards
as captain of infantry at the siege of Savannah. During my
infancy my father removed to Wilkinson County, Miss. After
passing through the county academy, I entered Transvaal
College, Kentucky, at the age of sixteen, and was advanced as
far as the senior class, when I was appointed to the United
States Military Academy, at West Point, which I entered in
September, 1824. I graduated in 1828, and then, in accordance
with the custom of cadets, entered active service with the
rank of lieutenant, serving as an officer of infantry on the
Northwest frontier until 1833, when, a regiment of dragoons
Slaving been created, I was transferred to it. After a success-
ful campaign against the Indians, I resigned from the army
in 1835, being anxious to fulfill a long-existing engagement
with a daughter of Col. Zachary Taylor, whom I married, not
"after a romantic elopement," as has so often been stated, but
at the house of her aunt and in the presence of many of her
relatives, at a place near Louisville, Ky. Then I became a
cotton planter in Warren County, Miss. It was my misfor-
tune early in my married life to lose my wife, and for many
years thereafter I lived in great seclusion on the plantation
in the swamps of the Mississippi. In 1843 I for the first time
took part in tlie political life of the country. Next year I
was chosen one of the presidential electors at large of the
State, and in the succeeding year was elected to Congress,
taking my seat in the House of Representatives in December,
1845. The proposition to terminate the joint occupancy of
Oregon and the reformation of the tariff were the two ques-
tions arousing most public attention at that time, and I took
an active part in their discussion, especially in that of the
first.
During this period hostilities with Mexico commenced, and
in the legislation which the contest rendered necessary my
military education enabled me to take a somewhat prominent
part.
In June, 1846, a regiment of Mississippi volunteers was or-
ganized at Vicksburg, of which I was elected colonel. On
receiving notice of the election I proceeded to overtake the
regiment, which was already on its way to Mexico, and joined
it at New Orleans. Reporting to General Taylor, then com-
manding at Camargo, my regiment, although the last to arrive
■ having been detained for some time on duty at the mouth
of the Rio Grande — was selected to move with the advance
upon the city of Monterey. The want of transportation pre-
vented General Taylor from taking the whole body of volun-
teers who had reported there for duty. The Mississippi regi-
ment was armed entirely with percussion rifles. And here it
may be interesting to state that General Scott in Washington
endeavored to persuade me not to take more rifles than enough
for four companies, and objected particularly to percussion
arms as not having been sufficiently tested for the use of
troops in the field. Knowing that the Mississippians would
have no confidence in the old flintlock muskets, I insisted on
their being armed with the kind of rifle then recently made at
New Haven, Conn. — the Whitney rifle. From having In en
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first used by the Mississippians, these rifles have always been
known as the Mississippi rifles.
In the attack on Monterey General Taylor divided his force,
sending one part of it by a circuitous road to attack the city
from the west, while he decided to lead in person the attack
on the east. The Mississippi regiment advanced to the relief
of a force which had attacked Fort Lanaria, but had been
repulsed before the Mississippians arrived. They carried the
redoubt, and the fort which was in the rear of it surrendered.
The next day our force on the west side carried successfully
the height on which stood the bishop's palace, which com-
manded the city.
On the third day the Mississippians advanced from the fort
which they held through lanes and gardens, skirmishing and
driving the enemy before them, until they reached a two-story
house at the corner of the Grand Plaza. Here they were
joined by a regiment of Texans, and from the windows of
this house they opened fire on the artillery and such other
troops as were in view. But to get a better position for firing
on the principal building of the Grand Plaza it was necessary
to cross the street, which was swept by canister and grape,
rattling on the pavement like hail ; and as the street was very
narrow, it was determined to construct a flying barricade.
Some long timbers were found, and with pack saddles and
boxes, which served the purpose, a barricade was constructed.
Here occurred an incident to which I have since frequently
referred with pride. In breaking open a quartermaster's
storehouse to get supplies for this barricade the men found
bundles of the much-prized Mexican blankets and also of
very serviceable shoes and pack saddles. The pack saddles
were freely taken as good material for the proposed barricade ;
and one of my men, as his shoes were broken and stones had
hurt his feet, asked my permission to take a pair from one of
the boxes. This of course was freely accorded ; but not one
of the very valuable and much-prized Mexican blankets was
taken.
About the time that the flying barricade was completed ar-
rangements were made by the Texans and Mississippians to
occupy houses on both sides of the street for the purpose of
more effective fire into the Grand Plaza. It having been
deemed necessary to increase our force, the Mississippi ser-
geant major was sent back for some companies of the First
Mississippi, which had remained behind. He returned with
the statement that the enemy was behind us, that all our
troops had been withdrawn, and that orders had been three-
times sent to me to return. Governor Henderson, of Texas,
had accompanied the Texan troops, and on submitting to him
the question what we should do under the message he real-
ized, as was very plain, that it was safir to remain where we
were than (our supports having been withdrawn) to return
across streets where we w< re liable to be fired on by artillery
and across open grounds where cavalry might be expected to
attack us. But he added that he supposed the orders came
from the general in chief, and we were bound to obey them.
So we made dispositions to retire quietly; but in passing the
first square we found that our movement had been anticipated,
and that a battery of artillery was posted to command the
street. The arrangement made by me for crossing it was
that I should go first ; if only one gun was fired at me, then
another man should follow; and so on, another and another,
until a volley should be fired, and then all of them should rush
rapidly across before the guns could be reloaded. In this
manner the men got across with little loss. We then made
our way to the suburb, wdierc wc found that an officer of in-
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fantry with two companies and a section of artillery had been
posted to wait for us and in case of emergency to aid our
retreat.
Early next morning General Ampudia, commanding the
Mexican force, sent in a flag and asked for a conference with
a view to capitulation. General Taylor acceded to the proposi-
tion, and appointed General Worth, Governor Henderson, and
myself commissioners to arrange the terms of capitulation.
General Taylor received the city of Monterey with supplies,
much needed by his army, and shelter for the wounded. The
enemy gained only the privilege of retiring peacefully — a privi-
lege which, if it had been accorded, they had the power to
take by any one of the three roads open to them The point
beyond which they should withdraw was fixed by the terms
of capitulation, and the time during which hostilities were to
be suspended was determined on by the length of time neces-
sary to refer to and receive answers from the two govern-
ments. A few days before the expiration of the time so fixed
the government of the United States disapproved of the capit-
ulation, and ordered the truce to be immediately terminated.
By this decision we lost whatever credit had been given to
us for generous terms in the capitulation, and hostilities were
to be resumed without any preparations having been made to
enable General Taylor even with the small force he had to
advance farther into the enemy's country. General Taylor's
letter to Mr. Marcy, Secretary of War, was a very good re-
sponse to an unjust criticism; and in the Washington Union
of that time I also published a very full explanation of the
acts of the commissioners and of the military questions in-
volved in the matter of capitulation in preference to continuing
the siege and attack.
General Taylor, assuming that it was intended for him to
advance into the interior of Mexico, then commenced to pre-
pare himself for such a campaign. To this end he made
requisitions for the needful transportation as well as muni-
tions, including, among other supplies, large India rubber
bags in which to carry provisions for days, and which, being
emptied before we reached the desert of sixty miles, would
by being filled with water enable his troops and horses to
cross those desert plains. These and other details had been
entered into under the expectation that the censure of the
treaty of Monterey meant a march into the interior of Mexico.
Another thing required was a new battery of field pieces to
take the place of the old Ringgold Battery, which by long
service had become honeycombed. When all these arrangements
were nearly completed, it was decided to send General Scott
with discretionary power, which enabled him to take nearly all
the tried troops General Taylor had, including even the engineer
then employed in the construction of a fort and the battery of
new guns to replace the old ones, which were deemed no
longer safe, but which, under the intrepid Captain Bragg,
afterwards did good service in the battle of Buena Vista.
General Taylor, with the main body of his army, went to
Victoria, and there made arrangements to send them all to
report to General Scott at Vera Cruz except the small force
he considered himself entitled to as an escort on his route
back to Monterey through an unfriendly people. That escort
consisted of a battery of light artillery, a squadron of dragoons,
and a regiment of Mississippi riflemen. With these he pro-
ceeded through Monterey and Saltillo to Agua Nueva, where
he was joined by the division of General Wool, who had made
the campaign of Chihuahua.
General Santa Anna, commanding the army of Mexico, was
informed of the action which had been taken in stripping
General Taylor of his forces, and was also informed that he
had at Saltillo only a handful of volunteers which could be
easily dispersed on the approach of an army. Thus assured
and with the prospect of recovering all the country down to
the Rio Grande, Santa Anna advanced upon Agua Nueva.
General Taylor retired to the Angostura Pass, in front of
the Hacienda of Buena Vista, and there made his dispositions
to receive the anticipated attack. As sage as he was brave,
his dispositions were made as well as the small force at his
command made it possible. After two days of bloody fight-
ing, Santa Anna retired before this little force, the greater
part of which had never before been under fire.
The encounter with the enemy was very bloody. The Mis-
sissippians lost many of their best men, for each of whom,
however, they slew several of the enemy. For, trained marks-
men, they never touched the trigger without having an object
through both sights, and they seldom fired without drawing
blood. The infantry against whom the advance was made
was driven back; but the cavalry then moved to get in the
rear of the Mississippians, and this involved the necessity of
falling back to where the plain was narrow, so as to have a
ravine on each flank.
In this position the second demonstration of the enemy's
cavalry was received. They were repulsed, and it was quiet
in front of the Mississippians until an aid came and called
from the other side of the ravine, which he could not pass,
that General Taylor wanted support to come as soon as pos-
sible for the protection of the artillery on the right flank. The
order was promptly obeyed at double-quick, although the dis-
tance must have been nearly a mile. They found the enemy
moving in three lines upon the batteries of Capt. Braxton
Bragg and the section of artillery commanded by George H.
Thomas. The Mississippians came up in line, their right flank
opposite the first line of the advancing enemy, and at a very
short range opened fire. All being sharpshooters, those toward
the left of the line obliqued to the right, and at close quarters,
and against three long lines very few shots could have missed.
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At the same time the guns of Bragg and Thomas were firing
grape. The effect was decisive ; the infantry and artillery of
the enemy immediately retired.
At the close of the day Santa Anna bugled the retreat, as
was supposed, to go into quarters; but when the next sun
rose, there was no enemy in our front.
The news of this victory was received in the United States
with a degree of enthusiasm proportionate to the small means
unh which it was achieved, and generosity was excited by the
feeling that General Taylor had been treated with injustice.
Thenceforward the march of "Old Rough and Ready" to the
White House was a foregone conclusion.
In this battle, while advancing to meet the enemy, then
pressing some of our discomfited volunteers on the left of the
field of battle, I received a painful wound, which was rendered
more severe in consequence of remaining in the saddle all day.
although wounded early in the morning. A ball had passed
through the foot, leaving in the wound broken bones and for-
eign matter, which the delay had made it impossible then
to extract. In consequence I had to return home on crutches.
In the meantime a Senator of Mississippi had died, and the
Governor had appointed me his successor. Before my return
home President Polk had also appointed me brigadier genera!
MARGARET DAVIS HAYES,
Only surviving child <-f President D.i\is.
of volunteers, an appointment which I declined on the ground
that volunteers are militia, and that the Constitution reserved
to the State the appointment of all militia officers. This was
in 1S47, In January, 1848. the Mississippi Legislature unani-
mously elected me United States Senator for the rest of the
unexpired term, and in 1850 I was reelected for the full term
as my own successor. In the United States Senate I was
Chairman of the Military Committee, and I also took an active
part in the debates on the Compromise measures of 1850, fre-
quently opposing Senator Douglas, of Illinois, in his theory
of squatter sovereignty, and advocating, as a means of paci-
fication, the extension of the Missouri Compromise line to
the Pacific. When the question was presented to Mississippi
as to whether the State should acquiesce in the Compromise
legislation of 1850 or whether it should join the other South-
ern States in a convention to decide as to the best course to
pursue in view of the threatened usurpations of the Federal
government, I advocated a convention of the Southern States
with a view to such cooperation as might effectually check
the exercise of constructive powers, the parent of despotism,
by the Federal government.
The canvass for Governor commenced that year. The candi-
date of the Democratic party was by his opponents represented
to hold extreme opinions — in other words, to be a disunionist.
For, although he was a man of high character and bad served
the country well in peace and war, this supposition was so
artfully cultivated that, though the Democratic party was esti-
mated to be about eight thousand in majority, when the elec-
tion occurred in September the Democratic candidates for a
convention were defeated by a majority of over seven thou-
sand, and the Democratic candidate for Governor withdrew.
The election for Governor was to occur in November, and
I was called on to take the place vacated by the candidate who
had withdrawn from the canvass. It was a forlorn hope,
especially as my health had been impaired by labors in the
summer canvass, and there was not time before the approach-
ing election to make such a canvass as would be needed to
reform the ranks of the Democracy. However, as a duty to
the party I accepted the position, and made as active a cam-
paign as time permitted, with the result that the majority
against the party was reduced to less than one thousand. From
this time I remained engaged in quiet farm labors until the
nomination of Franklin Pierce, when I went out to advocate
his election, having formed a very high opinion of him as a
statesman and a patriot from observations of him in 1837 and
1838 when he was in the United States Senate. On his elec-
tion as President I became a member of his cabinet, filling
the office of Secretary of War during his entire term.
During these four years I proposed the introduction of
camels for service on the Western plains, a suggestion which
was adopted. I also introduced an improved system of in-
fantry tactics, effected the substitution of iron for wood in
gun carriages, secured rifled muskets and rifles and the use
of Mime balls, and advocated the increase of the defenses of
the seacoast by heavy guns and the use of large-grain powder.
While in the- Senate I had advocated as a military necessity,
and as a means of preserving the Pacific Territory to the
I'm. m. tin- construction of a military railway across the con-
tinent, and as Secretary of War I was put in charge of the
surveys of the various routes proposed. Perhaps for a similar
in -my previous action in the Senate — I was also put in
charge of the extension of the United States Capitol.
The administration of Mr. Pierce presents the single in-
stance of an executive whoso cabinet witnessed no change of
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persons during the whole term. At its close, having been re-
elected to the United States Senate, I reentered that body.
During the discussion of the Compromise measures of 1S50
the refusal to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the
Pacific was early put on the ground that there was no con-
stitutional authority to legislate slavery into or out of any
territory, which was in fact and seeming intent a repudiation
of the Missouri Compromise, and it was so treated in the
Kansas-Nebraska bill.
Subsequently Mr. Douglas, the advocate of what was called
squatter sovereignty, insisted upon the rights of the first im-
migrants into the territory to decide upon the question whether
migrating citizens might take their slaves with them, which
meant, if it meant anything, that Congress could authorize a
some practicable adjustment of the controversies which then
threatened the dissolution of the Union. I at first asked
to be excused from the committee ; but at the solicitation of
friends agreed to serve, avowing my willingness to make any
sacrifice to avert the impending struggle. The committee con-
sisted of men belonging to the three political divisions of the
Senate : the State rights men of the South, the Radicals of
the North, and the Northern Democrats, with one member
who did not acknowledge himself as belonging to any one
of the three divisions — Mr. Crittenden, an old-time Whig and
the original mover of the Compromise Resolutions. When
the committee met, it was agreed that, unless some measure
which would receive the support of the majority of each of
the three divisions could be devised, it was useless to make
any report; and after many days of anxious discussion and a
multiplicity of propositions, though the Southern State rights
men and the Northern Democrats and the Whig, Mr. Crit-
tenden, could frequently agree, they could never get a ma-
FOUR GENERATIONS OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.
^Wife^Varina Howell; daughter, Margaret Davis Hayes; granddaughter, Mrs.
Webb; and great-granddaughter, Varina Margaret Webb.
few settlers to do what it was admitted Congress itself could
not do. But out of this bill arose a dissension which finally
divided the Democratic party and caused its defeat in the
Presidential election of i860. And from this empty, baseless
theory grew the Iliad of our direst woes.
When Congress met in the fall of i860, I was appointed one
of a Senate committee of thirteen to examine and report on
JEFFERSON HAYES DAVIS.
a ^- Grandson whose name was changed from Hayes to Davis.
(These pictures fitly embellish this autobiography.)
jority of the Northern Radicals to unite with them in any
substantive proposition. Finally the committee reported their
failure to find anything on which the three divisions could
unite. Mr. Douglas, who was a member of the committee, de-
fiantly challenged the Northern Radicals to tell what they
wanted. As they had refused everything, he claimed that
they ought to bs willing to tell what they proposed to do.
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When officially informed that Mississippi had passed the
ordinance of secession, I took formal leave of the Senate, an-
nouncing for the last time the opinions I had so often ex-
pressed as to State sovereignty and as a consequence of it
the right of a Slate to withdraw its delegated powers. Be-
fore I reached home I had been appointed by the convention
of Mississippi commander in chief of its army, with the rank
of major general, and I at once proceeded with the task of
organization. I went to my home in Warren County in order
to prepare for what I believed was to be a long and severe
struggle. Soon a messenger came from the Provisional Con-
federate Congress at Montgomery, bringing the unwelcome
notice that I had been elected Provisional President of the
Confederate States. But, reluctant as I was to accept the
honor and carefully as I had Iried to prevent the possibility of
it, in the circumstances of the country I could not refuse it;
and I was inaugurated at Montgomery February 18, 1861,
with Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, as Vice President.
From this time to tbe fall of the Confederate government
my life was part of the history of the Confederacy and of Hie
War between the States It is impossible, therefore, to follow
it in detail.
In the selection of a cabinet I was relieved from a dif-
ficulty which surrounds that duty by the President of the
United States, for there were no "sections" and no "party"
distinctions. All aspiration?, ambitions, and interest? had been
merged in a great desire for Confederate independence
In my inaugural address I asserted that necessity, not choice,
had led to the secession of the Southern States ; that as an
agricultural people their policy was peace and free commerce
with all the world; that the constituent parts, not the system
of government, had been changed.
The removal of the troops from Fortress Moultrie to Fort
Sumter, the guns of which threatened the harbor of Charles-
ton, and the attempt to throw reinforcements into that fort,
thus doubly breaking a pledge that matters should be kept 111
Statu quo, constituted the occasion as well as the justification
of the opening of fire upon Fort Sumter. Speedily following
this event came the call for a large army by Mr. Lincoln and
the secession of other Southern States as the consequence of
this unmistakable purpose of coercion.
Virginia, which had led in the effort by a Peace Convention
to avert national ruin, when she saw the Constitution disre-
garded and the purpose to compel free States by military
force to submit to arbitrary power, passed an Ordinance of
Secession and joined the Confederate States.
Shortly after this, as authorised by tin- Provisional Con-
1 removed the Confederate capital from Montgomery
to Richmond.
Among the many indications of good will shown when on
my way to and after my arrival at Richmond was the pur-
chase of a very fine residence in Richmond by leading citi ens
IS offered as a present; but, following a rule tli.it had
governed my action in all such cases. I declined t<> accept n
I continued to live in Richmond until the Confederate forces
wire compelled to withdraw from the dtfenses of the capital
That event was not quite unexpected, but it occurred before
the conditions were fulfilled under which General Lee con-
templated retreat. After General Lee wa to surrender
and General Johnston consented to do so, I started with a
very few of the men who volunteered to accompany me for
the Trans Mississippi; but, hearing nn the road that marauders
weir pursuing my family, whom 1 had nol een since tin \ 1< ti
Richmond, but knew to be rn TOUtt to the Florid
changed my direction, and after a long and hard ride found
them encamped and threatened by a robbing party. To give
them the needed protection, I traveled with them for several
days until in the neighborhood of Irvinville, Ga., when I
supposed I could safely leave them. But, hearing about night-
fall that a party of marauders were to attack the camp that
night, and supposing them to be pillaging deserters from both
armies and that the Confederates would listen to me, I awaited
their coming, lay down in my traveling clothes, and fell asleep.
Late in the night my colored coachman aroused me with the
intelligence that the camp was attacked, and I stepped out of
the tent where my wife and children were sleeping and saw
at once that the assailants were troops deploying around the
encampment. I so informed my wife, who urged me to es-
cape. After some hesitation I consented, and a servant woman
started with me, carrying a bucket as if going to the spring
for water. One of the surrounding troops ordered me to halt
and demanded my surrender. I advanced toward the trooper,
throwing off a shawl which my wife had put over my shoul-
ders. The trooper aimed his carbine, when my wife, who wit-
nessed the act, rushed forward and threw her arms around
me, thus defeating my intention, which was if the trooper
missed his aim to try to unhorse him and escape with his
horse. Then with every species of petty pillage and offensive
exhibition I was taken from point to point until incarcerated
in Fortress Monroe. There I was imprisoned for two years
before being allowed the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.
(For a fuller account of my arrest see statements of United
States Senator Reagan, W. R. Johnston, President Ttilane
University, F. R. Lubbock, Treasurer of Texas, B. N. Harri-
son. Esq., of New York City, all eyewitnesses; also "The
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government," page 700, Vol.
II. For my life at Fortress Monroe see "The Prison Life of
Jefferson Davis," by Dr. L. J. J. Craven. New York: Carle-
ton, 1866.")
At length when the writ was to be issued the condition was
imposed by the Federal Executive that there should be bonds-
men influential in the "Republican" party of the North. Mr.
Greeley being specially named. Entirely as a matter of jus-
tice and legal right, not from motives of personal regard, Mr.
Greeley, Mr. Gerrit Smith, and other eminent Northern citi-
zens went on my bond.
In May, 1867. after being released from Fortress Monroe,
I went to Canada, where my older children were with their
grandmother, my wife as soon as permitted having shared
my imprisonment and brought our infant daughter with her.
From time to time I obeyed summonses to go before the
Federal court at Richmond, until finally the case was heard
by Chief Justice Chase and District Judge Underwood, who
were divided in opinion, which sent the case to the Supreme
Court of the United States, and the proceedings were quashed,
leaving me without the opportunity to vindicate myself before
the highest Federal court.
After about a year's residence in Canada. 1 went to England
with my family under an arrangement that I was to have
sixty days' notice whenever the United States court required
my presence. After being abroad in England and on the
Continent about a year, I received the offer of an appointment
as president of a life insurance company. Thereupon I re-
turned to this country, and went to Memphis and took charge
■ company. Subsequently 1 came to the Gulf Coast of
Mississippi as a quiel place where I could prepare my work
on "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government." A
friend from her infancy. Mrs. Dorscv shared her home with
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me, and subsequently sold to me her property of Beauvoir, an
estate of five or six hundred acres, about midway between
Mobile and New Orleans. Before I had fully paid for this
estate Mrs. Dorsey died, leaving me her sole legatee. From
the spring of 1876 to the autumn of 1879 I devoted myself to
the production of the historical work just mentioned. It is
an ociavo book in two volumes of about seven hundred pages
each. I have also from time to time contributed essays to the
North American Review and Belford's Magazine, and have
just completed the manuscript of "A Short History of the
Confederate States of America," which is expected to appear
early in 1890.
Since settling at Beauvoir I have persistently refused to
take any active part in politics, not merely because of my dis-
franchisement, but from a belief that such labors could not
be made to conduce to the public good, owing to the sectional
hostilities manifested against me since the war. For the same
reason I have also refused to be a candidate for public office,
although it is well known that I could at any time have been
reelected a Senator of the United States.
I have been twice married, the second time being in 1844
to a daughter of William B. Howell, of Natchez, a son of
Governor Howell, of New Jersey. She has borne me six chil-
dren— four sons and two daughters. My sons are all dead;
my daughters survive. The elder is Mrs. Hayes, of Colorado
Springs, Colo., and the mother of four children. My youngest
daughter lives with us at Beauvoir, Miss. Born in the last
year of the war, she became familiarly known as the "Daugh-
ter of the Confederacy."
PRESIDENT DAVIS WHEN CAPTURED.
"The true story of the capture of Jefferson Davis has
never been told correctly," said L. C. Bateman, of Auburn.
Me. Mr. Bateman was the youngest man enlisted from Maine
in the Civil War. He was barely fifteen years of age when he
hurried to Lewriston to try to join the company. At that time
men were buying substitutes. Young Bateman was not look-
ing for reward; but he met a man who offered him one hun-
dred dollars to go as his substitute, which he accepted.
In speaking of war experiences, Bateman said :
"The story of the capture of Jefferson Davis has never been
correctly told. Malice, prejudice, and a mistaken notion that
misrepresentations added to the glory of the Northern cause,
while serving to belittle and make ridiculous the Southern
cause, have made up a curious caricature called history. The
general belief in the North even to-day is that Jefferson Davis
when captured wore the clothes of a woman.
"It was my good fortune to be in the city of Augusta, Ga.,
when Mr. Davis and Alexander Stephens were brought into
that city, within a few hours after their capture. I was a
member of the 14th Maine Regiment ; my brigade had left
Savannah the last of May, 1865, and marched one hundred
and seventy-five miles to Augusta. We reached Augusta
about the 1st of June at dusk, and immediately went into camp
in an old tobacco warehouse on Sand Hill. The next morn-
ing Mr. Davis was brought into the city a captive. He had
been captured the previous evening by a small cavalry detach-
ment some thirty miles from the city and was taken by mule
team to Augusta. The party traveled all night, and reached
Augusta about six o'clock in the morning. Mr. Davis was
confined in the Baptist church, and my regiment was guard.
"Within a few minutes after Mr. Davis's arrival I saw him,
and can distinctly remember his appearance. He had had no
opportunity to change clothing. He wore a long overcoat
which came down to his fee-t and was closely buttoned. He
also had on cavalry boots which came to his knees. I talked
with his captors, and not one of them mentioned such a tiling
as a disguise or a woman's dress.
"Mr. Davis was kept in Augusta till the next day, and then
taken to the steamer Planter, a mile away. He was guarded
by my regiment. Company A of my regiment went aboard
the steamer and guarded Davis to Fort Monroe. This was a
snap for the boys. As I belonged to Company D, I was obliged
to trudge back to Savannah through the burning sands afoot.
"The whole story of Davis and the woman's dress is on a
par with the oft-repeated fabrication about General Butler's
stealing spoons in New Orleans. Butler was very much hated
in the South, and the story found friends through pure malice."
ROBERT E. LEE.
BY M. M. TEAGAR, FLEMINGSEURG, KV.
Thou chieftain, born of patriotic sires,
Whose lineage and fair, unsullied name
With pride are borne upon the lips of fame,
Adorned with honest motives and desires —
Before thy country's sacrificial fires
Thy loyal sense of higher duty came
To lead thy hosts and fan the vital flame
That strengthens hope and ardent zeal inspires.
Resolved to share the fortunes of thy State,
Rejecting terms where manhood's honor yields
To subjugate the land that gave thee birth.
Thy lot was cast to share Virginia's fate,
And bravely bear on sanguine fields her cause
With steadfast loyalty to native home and hearth.
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PERILS OF ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
BY II. G. DAMON, CORSICANA, TEX.
Though not the youngest living Conftderate, I may merit
the distinction of being the youngest of those who in the spring
of 1861 marched from home to the tune of "Dixie." My age
was fifteen years and three months when on the 20th of May,
1861, at Tallahassee, Fla., I was muslered into T. W. Bre-
vard's company. Six weeks afterwards it became Company
D, of the 2d Florida Infantry. Being at once ordered to Vir-
ginia, the regiment arrived in Richmond July 21. It was my
fortune to participate in the battles of Williamsburg. Mc-
chanicsville, Beaver Dam, Gaines's Mill, Frazier's Farm, Sec-
ond Manassas, and Sharpsburg. Two days after the latter
battle, having served sixteen months, though enlisting for
only twelve, I received my discharge and went home.
In February. 1S64, I joined Morgan, who was recruiting at
Decatur. Ga., connecting myself with Capt. Jobn B. Castle-
man's Company D, of the 2d Kentucky. As there were only
fragments of companies and regiments, I was placed in a
mixed company, commanded first by Cantrill and afterwards
by Cooper, in Bowles's Battalion.
Early in May. 18(1.4, the command arrived in Western Vir-
ginia, and early in June Morgan started on his last raid into
Kentucky with about fourteen hundred cavalry and four hun-
dred dismounted men. The latter were left at Mount Sterling,
while the cavalry proceeded to Lexington. A few days before
that time the Federal general, Hoffman, had started on a raid
into Virginia. When he reached the Kentucky line, hearing
that Morgan had passed through Pound Gap, be turned and
followed us. He surprised the dismounted men at Mount
Sterling, captured two hundred, and then proceded to Cyn-
thiana. On the 10th of June Morgan with twelve hundred
men surrounded Hobson's fourteen hundred, and captured the
entire force without the loss of a man. It was one of the
most brilliant feats of the war. Morgan should have then
gotten out of Kentucky without loss of time. Instead he
waited for Burbridge, who on the 12th of June, with six thou-
sand men, came on us like a whirlwind, and completely
routed our force, capturing two hundred and fifty and scat-
tering the rest. The captured of us were distributed in
Several prisons. Some were taken to Camp Chase, some to
Camp Morton, but the largest number were sent to Rock Is-
land. On the way one of my messmates. Frank Anderson, of
Clarksville, Tenn., escaped
Rock Island, situated on an island in the Mississippi between
the towns of Rock Island, III., and Davenport, Iowa, was
considered one of the strongest prisons in the North. Its
capacity was twelve thousand prisoners. Like most prisons,
it was in shape a rectangle, surrounded by a stockade twelve
igh, on which the guard was posted. There was a ditch
on the inside halfway between the fence and the barracks.
This ditch was the dead line, It was dug down mainly to
solid rock to prevent the pri ont rs from tunneling under. Wc
had to stay on our side of it under penalty of being shot.
Various schemes of escape were concocted. Tunneling was
'he favorite method. It was a em to start a tunnel
at the barracks, digging with knives, hide the dirt, and tunnel
under the ditch through the rock. Several bravely made the
attempt, but noi led. Sam Dupnis (pronounced Du-
pce), of South Florida, one of - caught in
the act and strung up by the thumbs for four hours. I did
DOt try tunneling Starvation rations had so reduced me that
I did not have the strength for the work.
Our daily ration was a loaf of bread so small that it could
easily be squeezed into a pint cup. with a piece of beef the
length, width, and thickness of two fingers. This was given
in the morning, and had to last all day. It was my custom
to divide my bread and meat into three parts : eat one part,
hide the rest in my bunk, and then go away. I dared not
trust myself in sight of it; but promptly at twelve I was
there, and dinner would soon disappear. At sundown I would
eat the remaining portion.
During the first month of prison life my mess, consisting
of Eston Cooke, Price, and some other Kentucky boys, often
got boxes of provisions from friends at home, and then we
fared well. Soon, however, that was stopped by an order
prohibiting prisoners from receiving provisions from friends.
After that there was an aching void within me all the time.
Men who had been in prison fourteen months told me they
had never seen a day when they were not hungry. Those
who have never experienced it cannot understand how ter-
rible it is to have day after day, for weeks and months, a con-
tinuous, unappeased craving for food. What we received
was barely sufficient to sustain life. It could not satisfy the
appetite. Sometimes the meat ration was corn beef, very fat,
but so spoiled that the stench was offensive. No one, however,
refused it on that account. One of Cooper's company, Brad-
ley, had been detailed as one of the cooks for our barracks.
For old acquaintance' sake, he would occasionally allow me
to have some of the rancid tallow that came from the spoiled
corn beef. This I would spread on a slice of bread and hold
before the fire until the bread was toasted and the tallow
soaked in. I had feasts before then and have had them since,
but never have I eaten a meal that I relished more than that
toasted bread plastered with odoriferous corn beef tallow.
The yard was full of hickory trees which had a full crop.
While the nuts were small and very tender we would often
climb the trees and eat them, hull, shells, and meat. I hesi-
tate to make this statement because it sounds so utterly ab-
surd that it reflects on my whole narrative, but any Rock Is-
land prisoner will verify it. That we ate such stuff edgerly
will give some idea of our dire extremity.
The south end of the stockade was about nine hundred feet
long, with a large double gate in the middle. There were six
sentinels on that end, three on each side of the gate, with
beats about one hundred and fifty feet long. Elsewhere the
beats were only one hundred feet in length. I noticed that
when the sentinels on each side of the gate were walking
away from ii their backs would be turned to each other, and
at the end of their beats they would be three hundred feet
apart. It occurred to me that an escape was possible at that
point, and 1 determined to make the attempt. On the evening
of September 19, with Sam Dupuis and some Other friend-. 1
strolled to the edge of the ditch not far from the gate and
sat down. As soon as the sentinels opposite had their backs
turned to each other and were walking away from the gate
I slid into the ditch, which was about six feet deep. I hugged
the opposite bank, making holes in it for my hands and feet,
and waited for the signal. Very soon Dupuis softly whistled
"Annie Laurie." In a second I was out of the ditch and mak-
ing for the fence as fast as I could go. There was a wheel-
barrow near by which I utilized to some extent. When the
sentinel was down the line, I dug with all my might; and
when he returned, I lay under the barrow, hut had to leave
half of my body sticking out. If he had taken the trouble to
glance down, it would have been all up with me. for the large
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lamp ten feet away gave the brightness of day all around.
At eight o'clock, before my work was finished, the bugler
came on the fence and sounded his bugle. I knew then that
I had to go it alone. Dupuis intended to follow, but it was
impossible. The prisoners had to go to their quarters, and
any one walking within fifty feet of the ditch would have
been an object of suspicion.
At about half past eight the hole was finished, and I slipped
through. The guardhouse was only fifty feet away. There
was a large lamp in front and the fence was whitewashed.
You could have seen a pin where I lay, and soldiers were
sauntering about within twenty steps. I crawled down the
fence as fast as possible, and, coming to a large bush, hid be-
hind it and remained there until tattoo beat. It was a wel-
come sound. I knew that the soldiers who were walking about
would have to go to their quarters, and the sentinels on the
fence could not see me because I was under them.
My problem now was to get away from the fence. I crawled
to the end of the beat, and soon the two adjoining sentinels
who were above me met, exchanged a few words, and then
separated. I waited until they were sufficiently far apart, and
then started. One of them saw me as I moved away. He
turned and brought his gun down from his shoulder. My
heart beat a reveille, but I walked on. Soon he replaced his
gun and resumed his walk. It did not take me long to cross
the island, which was about a mile wide. Reaching the river,
I pulled off my clothes, tied them in a bundle over my shoul-
ders, and prepared to swim. Fortunately it was not deep, and
I waded the entire distance to the Illinois shore.
Before leaving the prison one of the boys told me that if
I succeeded in escaping to go into the city of Rock Island
and inquire for Mrs. Buford. She was a Kentucky lady and
sister to Miss Kate E. Perry, now Mrs. Moser, of Coving-
ton, Ky., who was then visiting her. Both were devoted to
our cause, and would do anything for a Confederate soldier.
I was also advised to call on Mrs. Judge Morris, 281 Michi-
gan Avenue, if I reached Chicago.
About eleven o'clock I walked into Rock Island. One of
the first persons I met was a young man, whose shambling
step and mutterings convinced me that he was "light in the
upper story" and might safely be interrogated. I asked him
if he could direct me to Mrs. Buford. "Which Mrs. Buford?"
said he. "Mrs. Dr. Buford, Mrs. Tom Buford, or Mrs. Char-
ley Buford?" I replied: "Mrs. Dr. Buford." He gave me
directions and passed on. As soon as he was out of sight
I made my way to the depot and started thence to Chicago on
foot. I would not take any chances when there were three
ladies named Buford. A letter from Mrs. Moser last spring
informed me that her sister was Mrs. Charles Buford.
It took me all night to walk to the station, twelve miles from
Rock Island. I concealed myself in some tall bushes, and laid
up all day feasting on green apples and raw corn gathered the
night before. As soon as it was dark I walked to the depot
and jumped on a freight train that was just moving out, rid-
ing between two freight cars. I sat on a six-inch beam and
propped my feet against the other side. Whenever a station
was reached, I would get down, and hop on again when the
train started. The night was cold, my clothing was light, and
I was soon chilled through. Several times I nodded, but
woke up in time to keep from falling. At midnight I was
discovered by the kind-hearted conductor, who allowed me to
ride in the caboose. I stretched out on the floor and slept
comfortably, arriving in Chicago early the next morning.
I found Mrs. Morris, though she was not living on Michi-
gan Avenue, and it seemed to me that I had never seen a
sweeter face. The Camp Douglas boys called her the "sol-
diers' mother," and she had earned the title by her devotion
to them and her sacrifices for the cause. My forlorn appear-
ance (for starvation had reduced me to a shadow) brought the
tears to her eyes. After satisfying Mrs. Morris that I was
not an impostor (she had to be careful because she was con-
stantly watched), she gave me money to take me to Marshall,
111., where my captain, John B. Castleman, and some other
Confederates were making their headquarters. I took the
train that night, and two days afterwards was in Marshall,
away from any railroad and sixteen miles from Terre Haute.
Confederate Operations in Southern Illinois.
I do not know that anything has ever been published with
regard to the Confederate operations in Southern Illinois and
Southern Indiana in the summer and fall of 1864. If some si
the chief actors would write a history of the events in which
they participated, it would be interesting reading. Captain
Castleman and Major Hines, Morgan's chief of staff, had
been commissioned by the Confederate authorities in Canada
to stir up the disaffected people in that section, who were
largely Kentuckians and Tennesseeans and were decidedly
Southern in their sympathies. They were members of such
anti-war associations as Copperheads, Sons of Liberty, Knights
of the Golden Circle, etc.
Wonderfully well did Castleman and Hines execute their
dangerous mission. In an incredibly short time companies
and battalions were organized, in several places officered,
armed, and occasionally drilled. It was intended to get the
forces together early in October, swoop down on Camp Mor-
ton, Camp Chase, and other prisons, release the Confederate
prisoners, get ten thousand recruits from Illinois and Indiana,
thirty thousand from Kentucky, which, with twenty thousand
released prisoners, would have made an army so large that
Thomas, with Hood pressing him, would have been obliged
to either evacuate Tennessee or be captured. It was a grand
conception, and no two better men than Castleman and Hines
could have been selected to carry it to a successful issue. Had
not the treachery of a man named Shanks or Sanchez marred
the plans, the history of the Confederacy might have been dif-
ferently written.
A few days after my arrival at Marshall Castleman came
in with Lieutenant Mumford, of Clarksville, Tenn. The next
morning they hired a team and started to Evansville, Ind.,
taking me with them. We drove fast, and at noon arrived at
Sullivan. Unfortunately for us some scoundrels had for
several weeks been stealing horses and committing other
depredations in that vicinity. The peace officers could not or
would not break up the gang, and so the citizens organized a
band of regulators and took measures to protect themselves.
They were arresting all strangers ; and as we looked sus-
picious, they arrested us. Some treasonable documents were
found in our baggage, and immediately a telegram was sent
to Indianapolis for troops. They arrived soon after dark, and
about midnight September 29 the train that pulled into In-
dianapolis carried three Confederates, one of whom had en-
joyed his liberty only ten days. It was the irony of fate that
some of our captors were Sons of Liberty, who would have
given us our freedom if they had dared to. One of them gave
Castleman an opportunity to escape; but, though he knew
there there was danger of his being tried and condemned as
a spy, he refused to leave Mumford and myself. A few days
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afterwards at Indianapolis he had a similar opportunity, but
again refused to escape without us. We fought against his
decision, but could not change it.
Within three weeks the Federals, with the assistance of the
traitor Shanks, had ferreted out the plans of Castleman and
Hincs. and nipped in the bud a scheme that had in it great
possibilities. Fortunately the boys at Marshall were fore-
warned, and managed to get away. When Castleman saw
that our identity could no longer be concealed, he advised me
to confess that I was an escaped Rock Island prisoner, which
I did. We were then sent to Camp Morton, Castleman and
Mumford being placed in a tent separated hum the rest of the
prisoners and closely guarded night and day by two sentinels,
while I was put in the pen with "the common herd."
One of the first men I met in Camp Morton was Sam Pasco,
who since the war has represented the State of Florida two
terms in the United States Senate. A native of New Hamp-
shire, he had been in Florida three years teaching school at
Waukeenah when the war began. He was one of the first
to enlist in the 3d Florida Infantry, was badly wounded in
the summer of 1864, and carried to Camp Morton. He was
still suffering from his wound when I saw him. Having the
good fortune to be the possessor of two shirts. I gave this
embryo United States Senator one of them
The next week a Tennessee boy. Have Young, ami myself
tried to escape by way of the ravine that ran through the cen-
ter of the prison. We were caught after we had narrowly
escaped being shot and carried before Davidson, the adjutant
of the prison, who, after cursing and abusing us, tied us to a
lamp-post and ordered us to mark time, instructing the senti-
nel on the fence behind to shoot us if we stopped a second
Just then nine o'clock was called by the guard, and repeated
all along the line. We heard every hour called that night ;
and when the sun climbed over the eastern prison wall, our
weary task was not near ended. Marking time in itself was
terrible, but the awfulness of the punishment was having our
hands behind us in one position so long. Let any one try it
only two hours, and he will find the pain excruciating.
Finally when the sun was due south, twelve o'clock, after
fifteen hours' punishment, Davidson came and allowed us to
stop. Young was permitted to go back to his barracks, but
I was not to be let off so lightly. With my hands still tied,
Davidson drove me before him outside the yard to a guard-
house, where Yankee soldiers were confined who had com-
mitted infractions of discipline. The corporal in charge was
instructed to put me in a cell and feed me on bread and water.
Fortunately for me, the corporal was a humane' man and did
not strictly obey orders.
Davidson was of the stuff of which tyrants are made. All
that was lacking to make him a Nero was power. He de-
lighted in cruelty, and was the personification of malignity
and hate. His eye had the most baleful gleam I have ever
seen. If it was the purpose of the government to wreak
vengeance on unfortunate prisoners, no lul tcr-qnal iticel man
for the work could have been found than he. I was told !hat
in the preceding winter, when on very cold days the pri 1
would be huddled together for warmth, Davidson and Fife,
.1 sergeant who was almost his equal in cruelty, would hurst
Upon them with clubs, whacking right and left, breaking arms
and otherwise bruising them, justifying themselves on the
ground that the men were pleitting to escape. < hie man was
tied up by the thumbs eleven hours. Had he not fainted, he
have been made to suffer longer. I have been infi
that Davidson was killed soon after the war by two Louisiana
boys who were victims of his cruelty. It would be the ver-
dict of any Camp Morton prisoner that he deserved his fate.
After two weeks' confinement in the guardhouse, David-
son put me back in the main prison, with the remark : "I do
not think, boy, you will try to escape again. If you do, I
will shoot you on sight." The next Monday evening, Novem-
ber 14, about twilight, as I was sitting in my bunk, one of
the prisoners came in the barracks and, seeing me, said :
"Damon, a crowd of fellows have just run across the yard
with ladders in tbc direction of No. 4. I guess they are
going to try a charge." Instantly I jumped to the ground
(there was no floor) and, crying, "Come on, boys," ran to
the door. Arriving there, I turned and looked back. Not
a man had stirreel. "Are you not coming?" said I. The man
who imparted the information said: "O, it's no use. You
can't make it. You will all get killed." I did not stop to
argue with him, but dashed on to No. 4, which was the bar-
rack nearest the ditch on the north side. As I came near
I saw that there was a crowd behind No. 4 out of reach of
the guard's weapons. Those in front with ladders were say-
ing rather faintly, "Come on, boys;" while those behind with
tremendous vociferation were shouting, "Go ahead, boys!"
All this I took in while running toward them. I said to
myself: "They only need some one to make the break, and
I will do it." That honor, however, was not reserved for me.
When I was within ten feet of the foremost, with one im-
pulse they made a dash for the ditch, receiving the volley of
the guard before they reached it. In a second we were in
the ditch, up on the other side, and at the fence. When 1
reached the fence, there were two ladders against it, over
which were two of the guard with drawn bayonets. Our
boys had provided themselves with rocks, and in the contest
of rocks against bayonets the rocks quickly won. A man
behind me, climbing out of the ditch, handed me a ladder,
which I placed against the fence. 1 was the first man over the
third ladder. There was only one lone sentinel in sight. He
was twenty feet away, the picture of consternation, and in
feeble tones was saying : "Turn out the guard."
I have lately been informed by Tarn Brooks, of the 3d
(Georgia) Confederate Cavalry, Company E, and who now
resides in Hillsboro, Tex., that there were forty-six in the
charge; that it was engineered by Cy Means, of Collin
County, Tex., anel his brother, Clint Brooks; that the ladders,
of which there were five, were made that day out of strips
torn from their bunks and concealed under their blankets;
that five men were selected to carry the ladders, and the rest
armed themselves with rocks. He says also that Means
knocked down one of the guard with a bottle just as lie was
about to plunge bis bayonet into McGuirc. an Irishman, who
was ascending the ladder.
Camp Morton was in the northern suburbs of Indianapolis
on the edge of a field, which appeared to be half a mile wide.
Beyond the field was some timber. The boys ran off in
groups of twos and threes. No one knew me, so I was left
alone. On reaching the timber I turned squarely to the left,
pursued that course about one mile, came to a road running
at right angles with my course, and turned to the left again.
My course was now low ,nd the city, and at nine o'clock I
isurely walking through it. making for the depot of the
Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad. I walked thirty-eight
mil that night and the next day, and on Thursday night
reached Marshall, a distance of ninety miles, having fared
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well on the way, although I was entirely destitute of cash.
There were some things in my favor. I wore a good suit of
citizen's clothes. My height was only five feet four inches,
and I did not look to be over sixteen. No one would have
suspected me of being a Confederate soldier.
At Marshall, although the Confederate boys were all gone,
I found some Southern sympathizers, who harbored me for
two weeks, and then gave me sufficient money to take me to
Cincinnati. There I crossed the Ohio River, passed through
Covington, and walked fourteen miles to the residence of Mr.
Fielding Dickie, who lived not far from the village of Union.
His name had been given to me by Captain Castleman after
our capture. It happened that Captain Southall, one of
Duke's recruiting officers, was making Mr. Dickie's residence
his headquarters. In three weeks his arrangements were
completed, and a few days before Christmas he started for
Virginia with forty men. Included in the number were Tarn
and Clint Brooks, who, after enduring great hardships, had
reached Kentucky a few days before me. They had traveled
at night, waded ice-covered creeks, slept in the snow, and
suffered for food. Both had their feet and ears frost-bitten.
They had to tie rags around their feet, which were so badly
frozen that they could not wear shoes. But they had the
glorious satisfaction of knowing that they had done their
part well and of being free, and that compensated them for
their sufferings. We passed through Pound Gap on New
Year's day, and early in January I was with my brigade, which
was in camp not far from Abingdon.
In the summer of 1865 I met Pasco at the residence
of a cousin of mine near Waukeenah, Fla. He said that as
soon as the firing began on the night of the charge Davidson
ran to our barrack (No. 5) with his sword drawn and called
out: "Where is Damon?" Some one replied: "He has gone."
"O, the d — d scoundrel ! He is at the head of this. When I
catch him, I will kill him." Davidson gave me credit to which
I was not entitled. All the same, if he had caught me, he
would have killed me first and investigated afterwards.
THE CAVALRY FIGHT AT LEXINGTON, TENN.
BY DR. J. C. STEGER, GURLEY, ALA.
Captain Gurley and his friends read with a great deal of
interest Col. V. Y. Cook's article on Forrest's trip into West
Tennessee. Unintentionally, we know, Colonel Cook did not
give full credit where it is due. I was the only medical officer
of Russell's 4th Alabama Cavalry, and write this from what
I remember of the Lexington fight and through information
from Captain Gurley. The command of General Forrest, about
twenty-one hundred strong, were encamped the night of the
17th of December near Beech Creek and only a few miles
from Lexington. General Forrest sent for Captain Gurley
and gave him the following instructions: "Take thirty of your
company in the advance on the Beech Creek road. You will
find the enemy's pickets at a bend in the road close by. Drive
them in. If necessary, order up the remainder of your com-
pany or more of Russell's Regiment until you get enough to
drive them and keep driving them. Don't let them stop."
The Captain and his men were ready and started between
daylight and sunrise. They had to go about a mile when
they ran upon the enemy's pickets, who only made a feeble
resistance, and fired as they ran until Captain Gurley reached
a bridge over Beech Creek, where he found a strong force on
the opposite side. Here we had a rough time for a while.
Finally they gave way, except about a dozen, who with long-
range guns disputed the right of the pursuers to relay the
floor of the bridge they had destroyed. Rails from a near-by
f.nce were soon brought and a rough flooring put down, over
which the Confederates led their horses, still under fire. As
soon as the command, now numbering about two hundred, were
over and in their saddles the enemy was pursued toward Lex-
ington, the Federals rallying to fresh troops at every good point,
until they reached the forks of the road near Lexington, where
a large reserve was in line with three pieces of artillery — two
twelve-pound brass and one six-pound steel gun — located so as
to command both roads. These guns were opened on us, and
instead of charging up the roads the command was diverted
to a ravine to the left and formed, where the fire from the
battery could not reach us. The battery was well supported.
Colonels Ingersoll and Hawkins having about five hundred
men with Colonel Ingersoll's troops dismounted. When ready,
Captain Gurley charged the battery with his men mounted.
The impetuous charge and Rebel yell demoralized the Fed-
eral troops, and the battery and about one hundred and forty
of Colonel Ingersoll's command surrendered to Captain Gur-
ley. Colonel Ingersoll said: "I surrender the Illinoisians ; the
Tennesseeans have fled ingloriously." He said nothing about
the two hundred Ohio troops nor the sixty-eight commanded
by Captain O'Hara.
About half an hour after Captain Gurley crossed the creek
we heard the artillery of the enemy, and knew they had
reached the reserve. As I was mounting my horse General
Forrest, who was sitting on the roadside, asked me where I
was going. I told him to where the regiment of which I was
the medical officer was engaged, and he told me to hurry up
and tell Captain Gurley to take that battery. I suppose it
was about a mile from where we were, and I went in the di-
rection of the artillery fire alone, witnessing evidences of the
conflict on many trees and bushes ; also passed dead and
wounded Federals. Before I reached the place that Captain
Gurley had charged the firing ceased ; and as I approached the
field of action, I came upon Orderly Sergeant Kelly, who was
killed by the last shot of the artillery. Mr. Rison, of Hunts-
ville, was brought to me with a severe wound in the fore-
arm, and Mr. Echols, also of Huntsville, was shot through
the body. They were sent back, and Mr. Rison died and Mr.
Echols recovered. These were the only casualties in the com-
mand reported to me. Colonel Ingersoll reported eleven killed
and eleven wounded. To Captain Gurley alone is due the
credit of so signal a victory.
Capt. F. B. Gurley alone commanded the Confederate forces
in this engagement. He d. cided to leave the open road and
form in the hollow where the enemy could not see him, and
his charge was a surprise. His troops were not dismounted,
and the fight did not last half an hour from the beginning of
this charge. He had ordered up troops from the 4th Alabama
until he had in this charge about two hundred men. Colonel
Russell came on the ground before General Forrest and en-
gaged the troop not immediately in front of Captain Gurley,
the remnant of his regiment not being aligned with those under
Captain Gurley. Just after the capture of Colonel Ingersoll
and his command General Forrest came up with a Tennessee
regiment, took charge of the prisoners, and ordered Captain
Gurley to pursue the enemy, which he did day and night until
the afternoon of the 19th. Captain Gurley says there were
three pieces of artillery captured, one of which was lost at
Parker's Crossroads. The Tennesseeans were ever ready to
do as ordered by their chief, but they were not in this fight.
Men more gallant never faced a foe. My object is to simply
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FIRST CONFEDERATE FLAG ON THE ATLANTIC.
BY C. 11. r.FAI.E, MONTGOMERY, AI.A.
When the wave of secession began to roll over the South,
I was living in Ncwbern, N. C, which was considerable of
a seaport town. My honored father was one of the first to
espouse the cause, and I, his oldest son, followed him.
Too young to aid our cause, however, but full of love and
adventure, my school companion, John Hall, and I persuaded
our parents to let us take a voyage in one of the many mer-
chant vessels that plied betwem Newbern and Northern ports
and the West India Islands. Owners of these merchant ves-
sels in the South, fearing trouble because of the agitation of
war, refused to allow them to take cargoes to Northern points
We finally enlisted with Capt. Bob Robbins, commander of
the schooner Pearl, bound for the island of Demarara, in the
West Inilies. This schooner was owned by Theodore Hughes.
On the 5th of March, 1861, the schooner Pearl, two hun-
dred and forty-seven tons burden, sailed from Newbern
loaded under hatches with white oak staves and a deck load
of lumber. She was a flat -bottomed schooner, centerboard,
with two masts. Her sails consisted of a mainsail, foresail,
standing jib, flying jib, two gaff topsails, and a staysail. Her
crew consisted of one mate (white), four sailors and one
cook (who were all free negroes), John Hall, and myself
At our main topmast we had unfurled the first Confederate
flag that ever kissed the breeze of the Atlantic, so we claim
and believe. The design of this flag was adopted in Mont
gomery and telegraphed throughout the country.
On the 9th of March, t86i, we crossed the bar at Hattcras
Inlet, beaded for Demarara. On the I2th we were struck by
a gale that lasted four days and nights, during which time we
compelled to reef all sails except the standing jib (that
was double-reefed), and we scudded under bare poles with
the Manding jib holding her to the wind. When the gale
subsided, we had been blown entirely out of our course. After
repairing damages, we found that our gallant little vessel
was taking in considerable water by reason of leaks caused
by the severe strain she had undergone. The discovery com-
pelled us to keep up some extra pumping, which was done by
hand, and right here our love of adventure had vanished, and
we did some tall praying for boys of our age.
The leaks were stopped, the sails were unfurled, and every-
thing went along lovely. The first land we sighted in three
weeks was the Island of Antigua, which belonged to the
English, ami which of course we hailed with delight. Wc set
our colors for a pilot to take us in to the harbor of St. John's.
a nice little city. When entering the harbor, which was com-
manded by a fort, boom1 came a shot across the bow of the
vessel, which meant for us to lay to, and we did.
The commandant of the fort came out to us in a small boat,
and when aboard asked where we were from and what flag
re flying. We informed him that we hailed from North
Carolina, and thi that of the anticipated Confederacy
He remarked that be had sighted the flag as wc were coming
in, and had consulted tin' map of all nations and flags and
Ebund nothing like it. and for that reason had caused us to
lay to. After complimenting the flag, he gave hi? permission
for us to inter tin- harbor, and we got in about midday. Here
we lay in the stream at anchor and took samples of our stores
ashore to sell the cargo. We consigned our vessel to Johnson
. an English commission firm.
As may be imagined, our flag created considerable excite-
ment. In the harbor all about us were small schooners com-
manded by New England captains in the fish trade, and they
commenced to talk about it, calling it the "slavery" flag. Mr.
Johnson, Jr., asked permission to lake the flag ashore and
show it to the Governor of the island. The request was
granted, and the Governor complimented it.
All of these commission merchants had flag poles, and Mr.
Johnson raised this flag upon his pole. Threats were made
by these New England captains to tear it down; bribes were
offered to cut the flag's halyards; but Hall and I, aided by
young Johnson, kept the natives and all others from attempt-
ing to do so, swearing we would shoot the first man who put
bis hand upon the halyards. The next morning the feeling
against the flag seemed to have subsided, and on that evening
we accepted a very kind invitation from Mr. Johnson to dine
with him between the hours of five and six. While at dinner
we were informed that our flag had been cut down, and we
lost no time in running to its protection, even though it was
on a foreign shore. To our horror, we found that the mob of
negroes, incited by the crews of the fishing vessels, had torn
the flag down, tied the stars and stripes to the halyards above
it and raised it on the pole, fired pistol balls through our
flag, then tore it down and tore it into strips and tied it
around their ankles and trampled it in the dirt to disgrace it.
We were maddened to desperation, and would have rushed
headlong into certain death, but older heads kept us down.
The design of this flag was a blue field with seven stars in
the field and the red and white bars, and was made of oil
calico.
We failed to sell our cargo in St. John's, and decided i"
sail for another port next morning. We were constantly eyed
by the mob, who said that if we raised another such flag they
would scuttle our vessel. Our captain, though a "down-
Easter" by birth, married in the South, and was as true a man
to the Southern cause as ever lived. He said the Pearl should
fly the stars and bars, and if necessary he would sink with hi^
vessel in attempting it.
Leaving the vessel under the watch of a guard, the mate
and three seamen, we determined on having a new Hag made,
Some English ladies volunteered their services, and by rapid
work of fair hands it was not long before we bad another
flag made of bunting. Before daylight next morning the stai
and bars was again unfurled from the main topmast of the
Pearl, and as daylight appeared we sailed out of the harbor
in full view of all the citizens and headed for the Island of
Guadeloupe. Our crew of negroes had caught our spirii. and
win as ready to light for the flag as any of us, and for this
reason wc felt somewhat secure against anything like a hand-
to band encounter.
At the port of Bastarre, where we took dinner, the flag was
highly complimented by the Trench officers and consuls on
the island, this island belonging to France. Nothing of in-
terest transpired here, and we ■ , .. .n sailed for the Island of
Nevis, which is owned by the English and has fine sugar es-
tates. Filling our casks with fresh water, wc sailed for St.
Kitls. just opposite Nevis. We had to land there in our small
boats, as our schooner got in a dead calm live miles out. Not
selling the cargo here, we sailed for the Island of Dominique,
which belonged to the English. Here wc made the port of
Roseo, and there sold our cargo for a good price. We were
compelled to lay at anchor and unload in small boats, as there
were no wharves. Our flag was much admired here and con-
idi rably talked about.
As was my usual custom, one morning I took the yawl boat
and sculled ashore to net some fruit which grew so plentifully
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on the island. While making purchases in the market place
with a negro boy whom I had as interpreter, I was accosted
by a well-dressed negro speaking very good English. He
asked me if I belonged to the vessel flying the strange flag in
the harbor. I answered him in the affirmative, and he wanted
to know if North Carolina was a free State. I replied that if
I had as likely-looking a negro in North Carolina as he was
I would sell him for twelve or fifteen hundred dollars. This
insulted his "dignity," and angry words ensued. He informed
me that he was the Governor's secretary and an official of the
island, and he would have the gendarmes arrest me and con-
fine me in the barracks for such insolence. Such language
spoken by a negro to a Southern boy raised my ire, and I
went for my knife to cut my way by him and through the
cordon of natives that by this time had drawn round him.
Looking toward the schooner, to my great joy, I saw Captain
Robbins and my companion, John Hall, coming ashore in
another boat. Landing, they saw the crowd and came up to
see what was going on. The Captain managed to explain mat-
ters, and they let me off. I was then sent to the vessel.
Next morning the Dominique journal appeared with a col-
umn or more detailing the circumstances of how one of the
dignitaries of the island had been grossly insulted by a young
Southerner from the vessel in the harbor flying the strange
flag. This caused me some uneasiness, as I feared my pleas-
ure ashore was done for; but not so. The article gave me
notoriety, and the two and' a half weeks we were there I be-
came acquainted with all the officials of the island, who treated
me courteously and kindly.
After loading our schooner with sugar, I went with the
captain to the customhouse for his clearance papers. While
there a negro clerk wanted me to take my hat off while in his
presence, and I gave him a piece of my mind and walked out.
We then sailed for St. Thomas, which belonged to the Danes,
to finish our cargo with coffee, the Confederate flag still float-
ing from the masthead.
After we left Roseo, we came near having a mutiny. The
negro seamen, having been ashore, loaded up with rum and
came aboard drunk and refused to wash off the decks. We
always cooled the decks down and slept in hammocks at night
on account of the heat. A brace of pistols in the hands of the
captain, however, soon brought them to their senses, and they
begged for mercy.
We arrived safely at St. Thomas, a beautiful island, which
is used as a coaling station for American and English steam-
ships. Here we spent a week, filling out our cargo with coffee
and salt. While here we lost the leader of the mutiny by his
falling overboard and drowning.
Our flag received many compliments while at St. Thomas,
and many wishes for the success of our new government were
expressed by the noble Danes. We left this island with glad
hearts and a fair wind homeward bound. Nine and a half
days out from St. Thomas we made the land of Hatteras. We
bore down on the inlet and set our colors for a pilot to take
us over the bar. With our glasses we could see the fort
erected there since our departure, with the stars and bars
flying. The United States blockading squadron was then off
the bar, though they were not very fast steamers. Soon we
saw one of them steaming down on us. Now our excitement
was great, as we were in a sailing vessel. Could you have
seen the coolness of our gallant little captain, he would have
commanded your utmost admiration. Springing to the wheel,
he called the men to spread all canvas. "The Pearl will show
them a clean pair of wheels," he said. "They shall not have
my vessel if I have to beach her. I cannot risk Hatteras
Inlet without a pilot ; I will simply hug the shore and try
Ocracoke Inlet, farther down the coast." Boom ! came a
shot from the blockader falling astern the Pearl. Hall and
I proposed to Captain Robbins to try to fool them by run-
ning up the stars and stripes. "No," said he ; "they have seen
my flag, and I will not pull it down," and up went a shout
from every man on board. Every one of us was right for
anything desperate at such a time. Canvas was spread, and
our little vessel seemed as if she would jump from the water.
Boom ! came another gun, but we were gaining distance
rapidly. The captain remarked, "A stern chase is a long one,''
and paid no attention to it. When opposite Ocracoke Inlet
Captain Midgett, a pilot, came to us in an open boat, flying a
goosewing sail and steered by an oar. We learned from him
when he came aboard that Sumter was taken by our forces
and all ports were blockaded.
It was with some difficulty that we crossed the bar; but
when we dropped anchor inside under the guns of our own
fort, language failed to describe the time had aboard the Pearl
that night. Next morning we crossed Pamlico Sound and
entered the mouth of the Neuse River and headed for home,
where we arrived safely after a four months' voyage. Our
cargo proved to be a valuable one for the South.
Captain Robbins engaged in the blockade service aboard
steamships during the war on the Southern side. My com-
panion, Hall, enlisted in the 2d North Carolina Regiment, and
was taken prisoner at Aquia Creek, Va. He was killed by a
negro sentinel at Point Lookout, Md., when a prisoner for
resenting an insult. I enlisted in the 27th North Carolina Reg-
iment, and was a courier on L. O. B. Branch's staff, and served
through the war without hurt.
The writer is the only surviving person of this trip.
"On the Field of Honor." — "On the Field of Honor" is the
title of a volume of short stories of heroism and chivalry, deeds
of the brave and undaunted young fighters in the War between
the States, artistically and entertainingly related by Annah
Robinson Watson. To those who lived through that epoch of
death and suffering with fortitude these records will recall
most clearly unforgotten scenes in their own past lives, and
the young reader will be inspired to live more worthily of
such precept and such ancestry. The author employs a smooth-
ness and simplicity of style, and presents her pictures so
vividly as to fascinate and thrill the lover of tales of heroism
and strength. Perhaps the most interesting of the collection
of stories is that one entitled "Samuel Taylor and His Escape
with General Morgan," which describes the ingenious and
difficult escape of Gen. John Morgan and six of his officers
from the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. To read the little
volume is to pass through scenes of successive pathos and
pride, death and triumph, and the impression gained thereby
is deep and lasting. The following poem is a striking feature :
"Only a private ! No ribbon nor star
Shall gild with false glory his name!
No honor for him in braid or in bar.
His Legion of Honor is only a scar,
And his wounds are his roll of flame !
Only a martyr ! who fought and who fell
Unknown and unmarked in the strife !
But still as he lies in his unlonely cell
Angel and seraph the legend shall tell —
Such death is eternal life!"
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GEN. VAN DORN'S HOLLY SPRINGS VICTORY.
BY M. W. SEARCY, MEMPHIS, TENN.
In the Commercial-Appeal of December 24 W. H. Loving,
of Whitehaven, Tenn., credited Joseph E. Johnston with
formulating the Holly Springs raid, December 20, 1862. Now
I do not want to take away any of the honors from any gen-
eral or private soldier who wore a gray uniform; but I do
want history to give just credit to Gen. Earl Van Dorn, who
planned and executed that grand victory, a victory that has
no parallel in the history of the world. General Van Dorn,
with less than two thousand poorly mounted and poorly
equipped soldiers, defeated an army flushed with many vic-
tories and commanded by General Grant, whose war record
had never met a permanent defeat up to that time. The raid
was a success in every detail. We destroyed the army stores
of every kind, we captured the infantry, and had a hand-to-
hand fight with the cavalry in the old fair ground, defeating
them. They retreated in great disorder toward Byhalia, Miss.
Proof that General Van Dorn is due the credit is given as
follows : After our army had been defeated at Corinth and
we were driven back to Grenada, Miss., President Davis came
out from Richmond, and held a council of war to see if the
army could not make a fight at Grenada. This council was held
December 18, 1862; and after going over the situation serious-
ly they decided that they could not make a stand at Grenada.
At that time General Van Dorn did not have a command, as
lie had asked to be relieved after the battle of Corinth, but
was present at the conference ; and after the council had got-
ten through their work, Mr. Davis addressed General Van
Dorn, who had not taken any part in the council. Mr. Davis
said to him : "Let us hear from you, General Van Dorn, upon
the situation." General Van Dorn confronted Mr. Davis and
said : "If I can get the cavalry that belongs to this army, I
will defeat Grant in less than forty-eight hours." After he
said this there was a dead silence in the room for a minute
or more. Mr. Davis ordered General Pemberton, who was in
command of the army, to give him an order for all the cavalry-
he could spare, which he did, asking him at the same time
when he wanted them to move. General Van Dorn said : "1
want the order now, as I will leave to-night." Which he did.
This information was told to Capt. Thomas C. Flournoy by
Colonel Loughborough, of Gen. Sterling Price's staff, who was
present at the conference. Captain Flournoy was my cap-
tain and commanded Company A. of what was known as
Sanders's Battalion, Armstrong's Brigade, and served under
Van Dorn until his death.
Mr. Loving is in error as to General Johnston's connection
with this raid, as General Johnston was in Virginia suffering
from a severe wound at that time, and did not come west until
late in the spring of 1863. and could not have had anything
to do with directing the movement of any command in the
Army of Tennessee.
In addition to the many stirring events on this raid, we
captured Mrs. General Grant, who was alarmed for the time,
thinking she might be held as a prisoner of war. She sent for
General Van Dorn. who assured her that she was not a
prisoner of war, ns the Confederates were not making war on
women, leaving Mrs. Grant in a much better state of mind.
The death of General Van Dorn was a serious blow to thi
Confederate cause, as he was one of the most brilliant cavalry
Commanders on cither side and a perfect soldier in every de-
tail. The last campaign was against Rosecrans in Middle
1 ennessee when he, with less than four thousand men, kept
Rosecrans close into Nashville while General Bragg recruited
his army at Shelbyville, from which point he had to retreat
in less than ten days after the death of General Van Dorn.
This campaign lasted over ninety days and nights, and I
know of but one general living who was in that campaign,
and that is Gen. Frank C. Armstrong, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
who was a close friend and a strong support in the many
hard-fought battles under Gen. Earl Van Dorn.
The Veteran has been loath to publish the foregoing, being
confident that General Johnston was in command there at the
time; but upon reinvestigation of his own diary, the editor
finds that he has made a mistake in the year. It is a coinci-
dence that the event of General Loring's capture of Holly
Springs was just a year after the date of a visit to the army
at Grenada and the. grand review of the army by him there,
which was the day before Christmas of 1S62, instead of 1863.
UGLY AND FALSE CHARGE AGAINST GEN. LEE.
Sidney Herbert, in the Savannah Morning News: "More
than thirty years ago, while editing the Troy (Ala.) Messen-
ger, I compelled Harper's Weekly to retract an infamous
slander aimed at Gen. Robert E. Lee. Editor George William
Curtis charged that Colonel Lee, as a member of General
Scott's staff in 1861, retained that position until the last mo-
ment in order to carry with him into the Confederacy a full
knowledge of General Scott's plans and purposes as to the
conduct of the war. I clearly proved that Colonel Lee never
had been at any time a member of General Scott's staff, and
that he was simply in Washington on temporary leave from
his command in Texas ; also that Colonel Lee was not in
favor of secession, but was a State rights man, and as such
awaited the action of Virginia before tendering his resigna-
tion. Other Southern army and navy officers had resigned as
iarly as December, i860, without waiting on their native
States to secede. Colonel Lee, however, from the loftiest mo-
tives and a sense of duty to the government, awaited the final
action of his State; and when Virginia seceded, and not until
then, did he resign and tender his services to his native State."
Recently a Grand Army man took up that old story, and
some good people doubtless believe the story true. General
Scott's devotion to General Lee to the last is sufficient refuta-
tion. The man even at the North who undertakes to reflect
upon the integrity of Robert E. Lee will be in small company.
BOSTON I AN S LIKE TO HEAR CONFEDERATES.
On the 5th of March Dr. J. William Jones, Chaplain Gen-
eral U. C. V., read a paper before the Massachusetts Military
Historical Society, 111 Boston, on "Stonewall Jackson the Sol-
dier." This society is composed of Federal soldiers, but for
some years they have been in the habit of occasionally in-
viting a Confederate to tell his side of the story. For two
successive years they had Capt. Janus Power Smith, the last
survivor of the staff of Stonewall Jackson, who spoke first on
"Stonewall Jackson and Chancellorsville" and the second time
on "R. E. Lee and Gettysburg." This gallant soldier and
accomplished gentleman was heard with great interest by bis
auditors. This year they invited Dr. J. William Jones, whom
they cordially received, beautifully entertained, and heard with
enthusiastic applause from start to finish as he sought to
demonstrate that Stonewall Jackson was one of the greatest
soldiers of the centuries.
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GEN. RICHARD B. GARNETT'S SWORD.
The sword of Gen. Richard B. Garnett, who commanded a
brigade in the great charge of Pickett's Division at Gettys-
burg, in which General Garnett was killed, has been sent to
the family. It had been in the possession of James E. Steuart,
of Baltimore. There is inscribed on the blade "R. B. Gar-
nett, U. S. A." The blade is of fine metal, elaborately em-
bellished, and is in perfect order. The scabbard is of fine
steel, but somewhat rusty.
General Garnett resigned from the United Slates army in
1861, and was promptly commissioned in the Confederate army.
Prior to serving under General Pickett he served under Stone-
wall Jackson, and was considered among the ablest of the West
Pointers who served the Confederacy. General Garnett was
last seen leading his brigade in Pickett's charge. He was
mounted and his horse was bleeding from a wound. His body
was not identified, and will always lie among the unknown
Confederate dead.
The recovery of General Garnett's. sword is due to the late
Gen. George H. Steuart, of Baltimore, also a West Point
graduate, and who also led his brigade in a desperate charge
at Gettysburg a few hours before Pickett's charge. Years
ago General Steuart found in a second-hand shop in Balti-
more this sword of General Garnett and purchased it. Gen-
eral Steuart died November 22, 1903. James E. Steuart, his
nephew, is now enabled to forward the sword to its rightful
possessor by descent, who is the wife of Col. John B. Purcell,
a Confederate veteran, of Richmond, Va.
The Confederate dead in the battle of Gettysburg having
been interred on the field following the retreat of General
Lee's army, two physicians named Weaver — father and son — ■
residents of Gettysburg, gave diligent personal attention and
saw that the graves were marked or otherwise indicated,
looking to the ultimate removal of the remains. After the
war many of the dead were taken away by relatives.
just received your kind and handsomely expressed letter of
the 6th inst., returning to me the sword worn by my father
with General Taylor and General Worth in Mexico and worn
by my brother, Balie Peyton, Jr., who fell with General Zolli-
coffer in the battle of Mill Springs. The sword has been re-
ceived by express, beautifully incased and in perfect condi-
tion. Please be assured of my gratitude for your generous
action and appreciation of the noble impulse prompting it."
The foregoing recalls an interesting reminiscence to the
editor of the Veteran. Being in Washington at the time of
Garfield's inauguration as President, he was escort to some
Tennessee ladies — the only ladies in the party — to call upon
General Hancock, the defeated candidate, with a large dele-
gation of Tennesseeans. He introduced a "daughter of Balie
Peyton;" and the General, gracious and gallant in typical
Southern style, taking her hand cordially, said: "Years and
years ago I met a most beautiful Miss Peyton, of Tennessee."
The lady, embarrassed by his high compliment, interrupted
him, saying: "You must refer, General Hancock, to Miss Pey-
ton, of Virginia." "No," he responded ; "it was the daughter
of my old friend, the Hon. Balie Peyton, of Tennessee." This
lady was the only daughter of Balie Peyton, and the General's
memory was better than hers ; and, though her hair was white,
' he was spirited in recalling the expression "years and years
ago" with the remark : "I won't say how many years it was."
RETURN OF BALIE PEYTON'S SWORD.
The city of New Orleans presented a sword to Col. Balie
Peyton, of Tennessee, during the Mexican War, and it was
worn by the son and namesake, who fell in the Confederate
service under General Zollicoffer in the battle of Mill Springs,
Ky. The sword was captured by the enemy, and remained
in hostile hands until recently, when it was given to the heir
and relative of the two gallant soldiers.
The following letter from St. Paul, Minn., under date of
February 6, 1907, and the reply are interesting:
"John Bell Peyton, Gallatin, Tenn., Dear Sir: At the battle
of Mill Springs, in the early part of the great Civil War, it
was my fortune to become the possessor of a sword that was
at one time the property of Col. Balie Peyton, and was pre-
sented to him by the citizens of New Orleans during the
Mexican War. For many years the sword has been treasured
by my family as a valuable war relic, and we did not like to
part with it; but now, looking back over the time that has
elapsed since this great struggle — years that have witnessed
wonderful changes of sentiment of the people both North
and South, and years, I hope, that have bound up many of
the wounds caused by the desperate conflict — I have thought it
but right that this valuable heirloom should be returned to
the heirs of the man to whom it was originally presented. I
sincerely trust that it may never be unsheathed again unless
in defense of all the stars and stripes.
"Truly, M. C. Tuttle."
Mr. Peyton replied from Ocala, Fla., February 14 : "I have
In What Regiment Was "Captain Billy ?"— Bartlett S.
Johnston writes from Baltimore: "In 1863 I was living in
Charlotte. After the battle of Chickamauga, I heard the Yan-
kee prisoners were coming through town. I went to the de-
pot and saw a long train full of prisoners. While I was stand-
ing on the platform one company of the troops guarding
the prisoners got off the train and formed a line. The officer
in command (a captain) was a woman dre^ . .1 in full uniform
with a tobacco bag tied on a button of her coat. The men
called her 'Captain Billy.' They told me that her husband had
been the captain and she a lieutenant, but that he was killed
and she was made captain and put in command of the company,
and that she had been wounded. I ran over to where Gen.
D. H. Hill was standing and called his attention to the fact
that a woman was over there in command of a company. He
said to me : 'My boy, that woman is an example for some of
1hese men staying at home.' I would like to know what regi-
ment she belonged to."
Hood's Texas Brigade Association. — E. K. Goree, Presi-
dent, Huntsville, Tex., sends out the following notice : "The
Annual Reunion of Hood's Brigade will be held at Navasota,
Tex., June 27 and 28, 1907. Grand preparations are being made
for the entertainment and amusement of all who may attend.
It is the sincere wish -of the management that every living
member be present. Some may meet comrades whom they
have not seen before since the surrender at Appomattox. We
have the promise of some of the best speakers in the State,
and the good people of Navasota want you to come and be
entertained by them. Comrades, come."
Officers of Portsmouth Camp. — The officers for the Stone-
wall Camp, Portsmouth, Va., for the current year are : Com-
mander, William H. Stewart; Lieutenants, J. H. Gumm and
Joseph A. Parker; Adjutant, Thomas Shannon; Quarter-
master, W. S. Langhorne ; Surgeon, Dr. George W. O. Maupin,
Jr. ; Chaplain, C. H. Eckert ; Treasurer, John C. Ashton ;
Sergeant Major, Samuel Y. Browne; Vidette, Joshua Denby;
Color Sergeant, John E. Foreman.
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RECOLLEl TIONS OF A CONFEDERATE.
BY REV. P. T. MARTIN, 15ELLEVUE, TENN.
In Marshall County, Tcnn., April, l86l, my brother, F. 11.
Martin, and I enlisted in Capt. T. C. H. Miller's company
(F) of the l~th Tennessee Regiment, C. S. A. Captain Mil-
ler was soon promoted, and at the battle of Fishing '
Ky., he was lieutenant colonel in command of the regiment.
At one time in this battle the enemy was pouring shot into
our ranks so heavy that we were ordered to lie down. I was
on the right of my brother, and Robert Biggers on his left.
While firing in this position as best we could, Biggers was
shot in the shoulder and my brother in the right ear. the
bullet passing out the back of his head, lie immediately began
the lines:
"O sing to me of heaven
When I am called to die!"
While assisting him to the hospital our command passed
us in retreat, and soon after we arrived at the hospital we
were surrounded by an enraged squad of the 9th Ohio Regi-
ment, who cursed us and called us Secesh, and presented
their guns at my breast, swearing they would kill me. Just
then a Federal officer arrived on the scene, and, drawing his
sword, he threatened to cut their heads off and drove them
away. I told the officer how I came to be captured, and that
if permissible I should like to stay with and wait on my
brother, to which he consented. While crossing the battle-
field to another hospital we passed by the remains of General
Zollicoffcr, partly undressed, surrounded by Federals, who
were culting up and dividing out his buckskin shirt.
Ben Givins, of Williamson County, was in (he hospital des-
perately wounded, and the morning after the fight the sur-
geons pronounced him dead and pulled the blanket over his
face. He had been tin re all day without moving in any way
REV. P. T. MARTIN.
that I could sec. About one o'clock that night as I was giving
my brother and others of the wounded some water Ben raised
up and said he would like to have a drink of water.
In a lew days we were taken to Somerset, Ky., where the
Union sentiment prevailed, and we suffered with hunger. I
saw an old negro who had been to the jail to carry rations
to the convicts and asked him what he had, and he told me
"cabbage, meat, and corn bread." I asked him to give it to
me. and he did so freely. From here Spivy Stanfield and I
made our escape; but he had not sufficiently recovered from
his wound to travel fast, and the rains and swollen streams
impeded our progress, so we- were recaptured. From Somer-
set we were sent to Lebanon, Ky., when Dee Jobe and I were
given a privilege parole to forage for supplies for our
wounded. Then we went to Louisville, where the ladies sup-
plied us bountifully with food and clothing. Soon we were
sent to Camp Chase, where we tried to make our escape by
the tunnel route, but wen betrayed by a fellow-prisoner.
So much has been written of the' horrors of prison life that
I will pass by that, simply stating that we had our share
during more than seven mouths. On the 26th of August,
[862, we bade' adieu to Camp Chase, as happy a company as
ever was freed from prison walls, and in sixteen days there-
after we were landed at Yicksburg for exchange. At that
lime our regiment was 111 Kentucky, si . u e wen- attached to
Colonel Tillman's command, 41st Tennessee, until ours re-
turned to Tennessee. On our way from Jackson I lost my
hat and tieel a handkerchief on my head, and was arrested in
Knoxville for a spy. We reached our command in time to
engage in the battle of Murfreesbom. December 31. 1862. The
night after the battle Gen. Bushrod Johnson, Cap'ain Cooper,
and I went out on the battlefield, and while there we heard a
considerable rumbling. Captain Cooper remarked: "General.
1 believe the enemy is retreating." The General replied:
"God grant that it may be so!"
Our next big battle was at Chickamauga, where on Saturday,
September i<l. 1803, while mi my knees loading my gun a
Yankee bullet -truck me on the head. Had it struck an inch
lower, I should nut In' here now — unless my head were harder
than I think. Anyway, it bled so freely that Captain Cooper
-1 lit me to the hospital, assisted back by Thomas King. Dr.
Gentry, now of Franklin, Tcnn.. dresseel my wound. That
nighl we realized that our regiment bad lost heavily. The
next morning the Doctor dressed my head, and I went back
to the command. That day we passed the Vittitoe House,
and saw the ladies after they emerged from the cellar, where
they were -aid in have been for two days. We were then
pushing tin- enemy on toward Snodgrass Hill. Late in the
afternoon our well-nigh worn-out brigade was ordered to
lie down, and another took our place. In a few minutes they
passed back over us. It was then that General Johnson's
order rang down our line: "Forward, my old brigade!" We
knew then what he meant, and every man was on his feet
read) for tin- charge. The Mir coats were stubborn, but we
routed them and our army gained Snodgrass Hill. After the
battle, our gallant colonel. Wat Floyd, formed our regiment
.unl counted us. and said. "Boys, we have lost heavily; but
1 still have seventj - oi a inn. men .1- ever tired guns,"
npliment which caused me to -will with boyish pride.
1 11 Mil Chickamauga our regiment went with General Long-
in 1! in I ,r Tennessee, had a little brush with the Federals
at Knoxville — loo strong for us — then on to Mean Station,
where we tried them again, and a reckless Yankee put a Minie
ball into my right thigh, where it still remains. Here my
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brother and I separated, never to meet again. He was killed
on the Federal breastworks at Drury's Bluff, Va. I was taken
with John Boyd and some other wounded to a Mr. Johnson's
and put in a negro cabin, where we received the best treat-
ment from his family. Marsh Ledbetter, of our company,
remained with us, and proved to be a splendid nurse until
the Yankees took him away. He p eped up in the loft and
pulled down Aunt Hannah's feather bed and put me on it.
As the Federals were approaching, Miss Johnson came in
and told us that if we had any valuables we had better conceal
them. Some one raised a plank in the floor, and among other
things my sword was put under the cabin. I wish I could
recover it.
It was six months before I was able for duty, and I then
rejoined our command at Petersburg. When we left there,
I found I could not stand the infantry service, and secured
a transfer to Forrest's Cavalry. When Hood retreated from
Tennessee, Forrest's command was in the vicinity of Mur-
freesboro. Some of us went to Shelbyville, thence to Fayette-
ville, where Lieut. W. D. Shelton, Pet Billington, James Cook,
and I were sent out as scoutc to get what information we
could of the Federal movemtiics. Billington and I rode up to
Mr. David Hill's residence late in the evening to make inquiry,
and he told us there were four Yankees in the house, well
armed, and we had better get away, as they had all the advan-
tage of us. We went off and found Lieutenant Shelton, and
went back about 3 a.m., captured all four of them and their
horses, carried them back to Fayetteville, and turned them
over to Major Dudley, as we were cut off from the main
army. He paroled them, and we disbanded and made our way
out the best we could. A number of us crossed the Tennessee
River at some point in Perry County in an old horse trough,
swimming our horses. The first that crossed were told to
watch for gunboats, and if they saw one to fire a gun. Cap-
tain Neal was one of the last to cross ; and when he got about
midway, through a spirit of fun one of the boys was told to
fire, and that old trough was pulled for the shore in a hurry.
Sometime while on the march, weary and worn-out, I would
lead Major Dudley's horse while he slept, and then he would
lead mine while I slept. While going into an engagement at
Tuscaloosa, Ala., my horse was shot from under me, the ball
passing through him and striking my leg on the other side.
We were surrendered under Forrest at Gainesville, Ala.,
May 11, 1865. The day before we broke camp I went out
and exchanged my pistols with a citizen for seven chickens,
and our mess, seven in number, cleaned them up the next
morning for breakfast; and I started for home, where I had
been only twice in more than four years. Of six brothers
who fought in the Confederate army, I am the only one left.
■'Where immortal spirits reign,
There may we all meet again."
Fight between Gtltner and Averill. — Capt. George T.
Atkins, of the 4th Kentucky Cavalry, denies a statement in
General Grant's report that "Averill in his raid cut the rail-
road at Wytheville." Captain Atkins comments as follows :
"Morgan's old division met Averill at the gap of Crockett's
Cove, six miles north of Wytheville, and contested the gap
while Giltner's 4th Kentucky swept around on his flank, at-
tacked him, and drove him until night, forcing him to
burn his wagons and cross the mountains where there was no
road, and he joined Crook at Dublin." Concluding: "They
do say Averill cursed terribly at Dublin." Anyway, six miles
was the nearest Averill ever got to Wytheville.
COX FEDERATE CEMETERY, CHATTANOOGA.
BY J. W. WILLINGHAM.
I send you a picture of the Confederate cemetery in Chat-
tanooga which I have just made. The beautiful archway and
stone wall in front were erected by the U. D. C. The inscrip-
tion on the tablet in the small archway under the tower, the
gate which is used for persons walking, states :
"Erected in 1901
by the
Daughters of the Confederacy,
Chapter 81,
Chattanooga, Tenn.,
to commemorate the valor
and heroism that our
Confederate Soldiers
displayed in their battle for our
Beloved Southland
in the war from 1861 to 1865.
It is not in the power of mortals
to command success.
The Confederate Soldier did more,
He deserved it."
On the hill back in the cemetery can be plainly seen the
handsome monument which the Daughters erected in the years
soon after the war, and just back of that is the permanent
speaker's stand used on Decoration Days and other public
occasions at the cemetery. This is situated in a beautiful little
grove where lie the remains of several hundred Confederate
soldiers gathered up in this vicinity a few years after the war.
The monument bears the simple inscription on the south side
at which you look from the entrance at the archway.
"To Our Confederate Dead."
The graveled driveway on the left separates the Confederate
from the old "Citizens' " Cemetery, which is now but little
used, and the new stone wall on the right of the entrance
(which is now in course of construction by the Daughters)
separates it from the Hebrew Cemetery. On the southern
slope of the hill in the picture are the graves of many Con-
federate soldiers buried since the cemetery was established.
R. E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. — A patriot says : "I
cannot refer to Lee without also to his great companion and
friend, Stonewall Jackson. Never two men in the world were
such great complements and supplements of each other. Never
two men who had more admiration for each other."
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TEACHING CHILDREN PATRIOTISM.
Mrs. Carey A. Folk, of Nashville, Chairman Children'';
Auxiliary, Tennessee, has issued a circular Utter to U. D. C.
Chapters, in which she states:
"The years are carrying us farther away from the tragedies
of the War between the States. The actors in the scei
sacrifice and carnage arc passing away. . . .
"To the younger men and women falls the responsibility of
perpetuating the bravery and the nobleness of our Southern
heroes and heroines. Now while we feel the inspiration of
their presence, while some are left to hies- us with the truth,
let us work, gathering the harvest ripe and ready for the
garner.
"The youth — boys and girls — the hope of our nation, are
thirsting for the truth that must be imparted by Southern
tongue and pen. Patriotism is that which preserves nations
and makes possible the development of civilization. To ac-
complish this, we must begin to teach our children true his-
tory, inspiring them with appreciation and admiration for
the South, her principles and her people. To teach them, wc
must organize them in auxiliary bodies to our Chapters, al
lowing them, under the leadership of some wise head, to fol-
low any line of study, work, or philanthropy best suited to
circumstances and environment.
"Consider this at once and let me assist you in organizing
Write our President, Mr*. A. B. White. Pari-. Tenn.. or my-
self for some specific advice,"
./ PRISONER WITH FLEEING FEDERALS
HY R. R. BUSH, ATOKA. TEX.
I reply to J. J. Bolton, who wants to hear from some one
who was made a prisoner at Wilsons Creek. I was picked
up that morning as 1 was going to the spring north of our
camp, and will relate what 1 saw that day. A company of
cavalry caught me, but - I turned me over to the infantry.
As I came in with them I got a heavy blow in the back, and
on turning around to sec what was the matter a big Irishman
said: "Cheer up, comrade: you are in a better fix than the
others, as we arc going to kill them. Here, take a drink out
of my canteen." I did SO, and it helped me very much.
I stayed close to mj new friend a- we halted in Colonel
Sander-'- camp Their breakfast was just ready. My friend
let me outside of the line, and I got a cup of coffee, bread, and
meat. When wc got near the main road, it was full of strag-
glers and wagon-. federal cavalrymen formed across the
road and Stopped the travil for a while Mere wa- our Com-
pany wagon with our orderly sergeant. Cordell. and a man
named Newton. Cordell had one band in a sling, but they -en!
him with us. In a short lime I -a\\ three flags hoisted, and
here came a shower of grape from Woodruff's Battery, and
I learned to lie down. The air seemed to be full of grape-bo'.
By and by, hearing our yell, 1 got up. and there came the
3d Louisiana Infantry and the 5th Arkansas at charge bayo-
nets. It wa- a beautiful sight The Federals about fared and
drovi us befon them, all except Newton, Me cried out and
hugged the ground SO that 1 thought he wa- killed, lit was
left b\ the Federals; and when the 3d Louisiana passed him,
i a mu-ket and kept with them the 1. -t of the day.
Pour men and an artillery hor-e were killed near the cre-t
of the hill The rest of the battery had gone on and left the
one gun. They tied a rope to the trail and made tin pri
pull it. I saw the Federals beating them over the back- with
their gun-, saying, "< ■ t up. here, you — ." T didn't warn m
of that in mine. 30 1 went up to tin chest, proposing to carry
ammunition, and got three cartridges and carried them about
a mile and threw them away. I stooped over one of the dead
men to get his canteen: hut the underside wa- all bloody, 50
I dropped .:.
I would like to sec my old comrades of those eventful days
to talk over the trip. 1 remember Tom Jefferson, of Benton-
ville, Ark., and Albert Peal, of I'avett, villr, who escaped the
sei ond night out, and George Duvall, who was killed at Helena.
John Smith came out all right, although 1 have not -ecu him
for many years, Lewis, of the Corder settlement, 1- about all,
except Mo--, the Texan, who ate a wash pot full of roasting
ears while we slept, that I know anything about.
VETERANS AND DAUGHTERS /A' MONTANA.
The occasion of the fourteenth annual Reunion of the North-
west Division, Trans-Mississippi Department, U. C. V., was
marked by the floating of a Confederate flag over the town
of Town-end, Mont., the place of meeting under the auspices
of Stonewall Camp there. It was a thrilling sight to see this
Confederate emblem unfurl its star- and bar- to the breeze.
It- graceful motions were watched without suspicion or envy.
This meeting of Confederates in Montana was made the
occasion for elaborate entertainments for the delegates and
visitors, receptions, and banquets, in addition to the business
meetings at the auditorium. The address of welcome was
made by Dr. J. L. Belcher, a prominent Veteran of tin com
munity, followed by other- in eloquent addresses, prominent
among whom were Mayor Mayo, of St. Louts, Mo., and Rev.
1). P.. Price, of Stevcnsville, Mont. There were many visitors
in attendance from other communities, and the me. ting was
Successful in every wa\
The U. 1'. C. Chapter then take- the lead in subscriptions
to the Veteran — more than any Chapter in Dixie.
Omaha Chapter, United Daughters 01 im Confeder-
acy.— At its annual session in March it wa- shown that the
work of the Chapter is in building and supporting homes for
the Confederate soldiers, caring for the graves of the Con-
federate dead, and establishing schools for poor children oi
the South. The Chapter wa- organized three years ago by
Mis- Grace S. Conklin, who has since then filled the office of
President, and upon retiring was presented with an armful of
carnations and unanimously elected honorary President. Mrs.
George W. Covell, a woman of great executive ability and
widely known a- an enthusiastic and efficient Woman's Chris-
tian Temperance Union worker, wa- elected President, with
the following corps of helpers: Vice Presidents, Mr-. G. S.
Bradley and Mrs. P. N. Maxwell; Recording Secretary, Miss
Reb cca Maxwell; Treasurer, Mrs. W. R Davis; < orn ;pond
ing Secretary, Mr-. I K. Stout Air and Mr-. G. S. Bradley
uned the Chapter in true old -'vie Southern hospitality,
and with the same gracious spirit tendered their beautiful
for n- r gular monthly meetings
Ludicrous Attitude of \ Faithfui "Black Mammy." —
Mrs. Sue Al Morn-, of Tennessee, told a -lory recently that
is of historic value a- well as \er\ funny, She said (hat her
brother. J. M Puna, known 111 the army as "Rhodes Jim,"
was at home from the army on one occasion when, to the
surprise of the family, a largl b idy of federals were close
bj the residence. The emergency wa- at hand. Aunt Delphi
got in bed and pretended to he very sick with Mais Jim back
of her between the bed and the mattress. In her haste to gel
: -he had a table knife in one hand and a pig'- fool in
thi oilier Fortunately the enemy did not go into the kitchen
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CAPTURE OF A SOLDIER AND IV HAT FOLLOWED.
H. A. Langworthy, of Traverse City, Mich., wrote R. W.
Durfy, Vicksburg, Miss., Septimber 9, 1906, s'ating:
"I belonged to Cook's Twentieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infan-
try, First Brigade, Second Division, Thirteenth Corps, com-
manded by General Herron. On the night of June 5, 1863, I
was on picket duty down on the river in plain sight of Battery
Benton. About three o'clock in the morning of that date we
caught a man who gave his name as James Williams, Com-
pany I, Sixteenth Georgia. When we captured him, he at-
tempted to swallow something; but we choked it out of him,
and it proved to be a small silver ball which separated in the
middle, and in the ball was a dispatch from Pemberton to
Johnston. The dispatch stated :
" 'Lieutenant General Johnston :
" 'Send by bearer all the percussion caps you can spare. We
are short on caps. General Pemberton,
Commanding C. S. Forces at Vicksburg.'
"Well, we took the prisoner to regimental headquarters in
the morning, and were sent with him to division headquarters,
and General Herron said the sergeant who captured the pris-
oner had better go with him to General Grant's headquarters,
as there might be some questions to answer.
"After we had breakfast and fed the prisoner, we set out for
Grant's camp, out on the Jackson road, which we reached
about one o'clock in the afternoon. Colonel Bertram, of the
Twentieth Wisconsin, was at headquarters and suggested to
General Grant that if he wanted information concerning John-
ston's movements and the number of men with him, etc.,
he had better send the order right along by the man who
captured the prisoner, and it was decided at once that I was
to take the dispatch to General Johnston. Well, now, if there
was a Yankee soldier who had his heart in his mouth, it was
H. A. Langworthy after he had donned the Confederate uni-
form and was given orders to report to General Johnston,
out on the Big Black.
"Well, I got there about eleven o'clock that night and
counted, as near as possible by the camp fires, how many men
there were in the command of Johnston. When I gave him
the dispatch, he opened and read it and swore a little at Pem-
berton's stupidity, and then said .to me : 'Have you had any 1
supper?' I told him I had not. He told me to lie down
and he would have his boy bring me something to eat, and
would have me ready to start back in an hour. As soon as
he left the room I got up and took one of his stars off of
his blouse. I have the star yet. His initials are on the star."
Important Addresses of U. D. C. Officials. — Mrs. A. L.
Dowdell, Recording Secretary, Opelika, Ala. ; Mrs. L. H.
Raines, Custodian Cross of Honor, 408 Duffy Street, Savan-
nah, Ga. ; Mrs. L. Eustace Williams, Treasurer, Box 55,
Anchorage, Ky.
Gavels from the Home of Gen. John H. Morgan. — The
Daughters of the Confederacy in Kentucky have organized with
a purpose to erect a monument to Gen. John Morgan at his
old home, Lexington, Ky. Contributions to this fund can be
sent to Miss Julia Hughes Spurr, Chairman, at Lexington, and
it is hoped that comrades and admirers of the gallant Morgan
will respond promptly and liberally to this appeal. Handsome
gavels made from trees at the old Morgan home are for sale
by the committee, the proceeds to go to this fund. The gavels
are beautifully made, with a band of silver at each end, and
will be sent to any place in the United States, express prepaid
for three dollars. Chapters U. D. C. and Camps of Veterans
should secure gavels having such historic value, and thus help
along a good cause as well.
STONEMAN'S RAID ON VIRGINIA SALT WORKS.
BY CAPT. GEORGE T. ATKINS, 4TH KENTUCKY CAVALRY.
George H. Cosby was commanding under John C. Breckin-
ridge, and both were lying in camp near Saltville. Abingdon
was burned and Glade Spring reached before it was heard of
at headquarters, so fast did Stoneman come, having outridden
all refugees and having run over the pickets at Kingston, on
the Holston. The writer followed him from Seven Mile Ford
and on into Marion and took possession of the town when
Stoneman abandoned it, Colonel Witcher having furnished him
a small squad.
Stoneman's raid, although he went to the lead mines and
Wytheville, was not altogether a success. Returning, he met
Breckinridge, who had gathered his command, and at Marion
gave him battle all day. He was forced, however, to fall back
and give him the road, because all his ammunition was ex-
hausted and Stoneman was between him and his reserve sup-
ply. Thus Stoneman was enabled to burn the salt works.
It was here that Barney Giltner, sitting on the bank by
the side of the road among a coterie of officers, sleet and hail
falling, capes turned up over their heads, as the artillery
drivers were cursing and beating their mules — mud hub-deep —
gave utterance to the witticism : "Boys, I don't wish I was
an army mule to-night ; but I do wish I was somebody's dog
lying by a good, hot fire."
FROM FORT DONELSON TO CAMP DOUGLAS.
T. J. Moore writes from Ravenna, Tex. : "I should be glad
to have a roster of my company, E. 3d Tennessee Infan'.rv,
John C. Brown's Regiment. I was captured at Fort Doncl-
son under General Buckner February 16, 1862, was given
a few crackers, and after a long delay was marched on
board a boat on the Cumberland. I slept on cord wood in
the hull amidst the commotion caused by crushing ice. We
followed on down the Ohio and up to St. Louis on the Mis-
sissippi, landing at the wharf. The good people of that city
brought us wagon loads of good things to eat. In the midst
of this blessing our boat was anchored out in the middle of
the river. The next morning we landed at Alton and took
train for Chicago. That night about twelve o'clock we
reached Springfield, and were marched in squads to the plat-
form and given coffee and hard-tack. The next morning
(Sunday), a week from the day of our surrender, we arrived
in Chicago, and were marched three miles through mud and
slush, under guard of unsympathetic foreigners, to Camp Doug-
las. There was not a stick of wood or any straw for bedding,
blankets, or fire ; but the next morning we were supplied.
Colonel Mulligan, of the 165th Illinois, was in command. We
were allowed to play town ball, and in a game one day Tom
Golden, of Company E, was on base when W. H. Kilpatrick,
of same company, accidentally tapped Golden on the head
with his pine paddle, and soon Golden got sick. A squad of
the guard surrounded us, and took Kilpatrick to the dungeon
and Golden to the hospital. He died the next day, and Mulli-
gan had Kilpatrick tied in front of his headquarters for ten
days and half of the ten nights. The thermometer was down
to ten below zero, and his hands and limbs were almost frozen.
We piled all the old clothes on him and around his feet. The
eleventh day he was turned over to civil authorities, tried,
and sent to the Alton penitentiary for one year. He was
killed, or died, at Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., after the war."
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DIXIE.
I heard long since a simple strain;
It gave no thrill of joy or pain,
Nor did I care to hear again
Our "Dixie."
But time rolled on, and drum and fife
Gave token of a coming strife,
And called our youth to soldier life
With "Dixie."
It breathed of mingled hope and fear ;
It banished peace, brought discord near.
And cost each mother many a tear —
That "Dixie."
For gathering legions mart' ed away.
And garlands maidens w bed each day,
To crown them in their tierce array
In Dixie.
The husband parted from his wife.
And from the aged his staff of life
In some fair boy, whose bead was rife
For Dixie.
And as our treasures, one by one,
All by the battlefield were won,
We heard at morn and setting sun
Our "Dixie."
But death soon claimed the young and brave;
Valor and beauty could not save
Our darlings from a soldier's grave
In Dixie.
Their blood flowed on the fresh green hill,
It mingled with the mountain rill,
And flowed through vales once calm and still
In Dixie.
The ocean caught the crimson stain;
And moaned and moaned, that troubled main,
For those who would not come again
To Dixie.
The living rallied to 1 lie stand;
Their war cry was "Our native land,"
Bui sadder from the lessening band
Came "Dixie,"
The dying boy its music caught;
"I do not die in vain," he thought.
Freedom by blood and death are bought
For Dixie.
Sleep on. young soldier, in thy dream ;
Will didsl thou die with that bright gleam
Of hope 1o shed its parting beam
On Dixie.
There's many a sail heart living now
Would r.ilhcr in thy young grave bow
Than see his country laid so low —
Sad Dixie
W, ni iv not hear that simple strain
without a thrill of pain ;
Our dead come back to life again
With "Dixie"
And if I were a generous foe,
I'd honor him whose heart's best throe
Leaped to that music —
Our "Dixie."
A copy of the above poem was sent by Col. H. G. Damon,
of Corsicana, Tex., who writes that it was composed "by a
lady of Augusta, Ga., and was published about 1868." He
adds further: "I am sorry the author's name was not attached
to her verse, because she -deserves to be remembered. The
present generation cannot understand how it s tinder pathos
touched our heartstrings in the dark days of reconstruction.
She voiced the sentiments of many bitterly tried men and
women in saying :
'There's many a sad heart living now
Would rather in thy young grave bow
Than see his country laid so low —
Sad Dixie.'
Perhaps some of the Veteran's r.aders can give the name of
the author. There may be some mistakes in my copy, as I
have not seen it in print for over thirty years, and write en-
tirely from memory."
Characteristic Letter from a Confederate Soldier. — A
characteristic letter comes to the Veteran from Ed D. Jones,
of Hudsonville, Miss. It is in beautiful manuscript by J. L.
Harris to his wife, dated at Greenbrier River. Va. (the Con-
federate camp). October 6. l86l. Comrade Harris went from
Mississippi to Virginia very early in the war and joined the
23d Virginia Infantry. He was wounded near Bartlett's Mills
November 27, 1863, and died at Orange C. H. on the 30th.
The letter states : "Yes, we poor soldiers have to undergo many
hardships, more than you can imagine ; yet we submit to our
lot with cheerfulness, hoping soon to be rewarded by having
the Confederate States acknowledged as a free and inde-
pendent republic by every nation in the world. * * * I
like the piece of poetry in your letter. It spiaks of courage
and firmness, and at tin- same time breathes a prayer of mercy
for the vanquished. We would be devoid of all feelings of
humanity did we not treat with all possible kindness our
wounded and sufferin whenever the fortune of war
makes them our prisoners. * * * Shortly after reveille on
the morning of tin- 3d inst., while cooking breakfast, we were
alarmed by the rapid discharge of musketry on the Parkers-
burg road, and we knew that the enemy were driving in our
pickets and advancing for an attack. Immediately our line
of battle was formed to receive them, each man of us de-
termined on victory or death in our tracks." He here gives
an interesting account of how a Confederate command, lying
in ambush, created consternation imong the enemy, and of
their frightful loss, while our side lost but fifteen. Among the
trophies were 1 large silk United States Sag, a Minie musket
on which was engraved, "1 have killed three secessionists,"
overcoats, knapsacks, haversacks full of meat, etc. "Yester-
day a dag of truer was sent in asking that the enemy be per-
mitted t.. send a wagon to search for a field officer who had
been killed and a detail to bury the remainder of their dead.
General J. replied that d cent burial had been given their dead,
and he would nol permit their entrance within our lines."
newall Jackson to whom Comrade Harris referred.
The tenth annual Rem oi Xshby's Tennessee Cavalry
de will occur in Richmond May 30 to June 3. 1907. The
headquarters will be Room 31, first floor, University College
of Medicine, corner Twelfth and Clay Streets.
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C. S. A. GENERALS KILLED OR PILL' OF WOUNDS.
The following general officers of the army of the Confed-
erate States were either killed in hatlle or died of wounds or
disease during the progress of the war:
Johnston, Albert Sidney, General ; killed at Shiloh, Tenn.,
April 6, 1862.
Polk, Leonidas, General : killed on Pine Mountain, Ga.,
June 14, 1864.
Hardee, William J., Lieutenant General ; died at Wytheville,
Va., November 6. 1863.
Hill, Ambrose P., Lieutenant General; killed at Petersburg,
Va., April 2, 1865.
Jackson, Thomas J.. Lieutenant General ; died May 10, 1863,
from wounds received at Chancellorsville, Va.
Major Generals.
Cleburne, Patrick R. ; killed at Franklin, Tenn., November
30, 1864.
Donelson. Daniel S. ; died at Napoleon, Ark., April 17, 1863.
Floyd, John B. ; died August 26, 1863.
Green, Thomas ; killed at Bayou Pierre, April 12, 1864.
Rodes, Robert E. ; killed at Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864.
Stuart, James E. B. ; died May 12, 1864, of wounds re-
ceived at Yellow Tavern, Va.
Twiggs, David E. ; died July 15. 1862.
Van Dorn, Earl ; killed in private feud May 8, 1863.
Walker, Wm. H. T. ; killed near Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864.
Whitney, William H. C. ; died on Governor's Island, N. Y.,
March 10, 1865.
Brigadier Generals.
Anderson, George B. ; died October 16, 1862, from wounds
received at Sharpsburg.
Archer, James G. ; died October 2, 1864.
Armistead, Louis A. ; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863.
Ashby, Turner; killed near Harrisonburg, Va.. June 6, 1862.
Baldwin, William E. ; died February 19, 1S64.
Barksdale, William; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.
Bartow, Francis S. ; killed at Bull Run. Va„ July 21, 1861.
Bealc. Richard L. T. ; died April 19, 1863.
Bee, Barnard E. ; killed at Bull Run, Va.. July 21, 1861.
Benton, Samuel ; died July 28, 1864, of wounds received at
Atlanta, Ga.
Bowen, John S. ; died July 16, 1863, at Raymond, Miss.
Branch. Lawrence O. ; killed at Sharpsburg, Md., Septem-
ber 17, 1862.
Carter, John C. : killed at Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864.
Chambliss, John R., Jr. ; died August 16, 1864, from wounds
received at Richmond, Va.
Cobb, Thomas R. R. ; killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Decem-
ber 13, 1862.
Cooke, Philip S. ; died in Powhatan Co., Va., Dec. 26, 1861.
Daniel, Junius ; killed in battle.
Dearing, James; killed at High Bridge, Va., April 6, 1865.
Deshler. James; killed at Chickamauga, Ga.. Sept. 20. 1863
Doles, George P.; killed at B-thesda Church, Va., June 2,
1864.
Duncan, Johnson K. ; died at Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 18, 1862.
Dunnovant, John; killed at Vaughn Road October 1, 1864.
Elliott, Stephen, Jr. ; died in 1864 of wounds received at
Petersburg, Va.
Garland, Samuel, Jr. ; killed at South Mountain, Md.. Sep-
tember 14, 1862.
Garnett, Richard B. ; killed at Carricksford, W. Va., July
13, 1861.
Girardey, Victor J. B. ; killed at Petersburg, Va., Aug.. 1864.
Gist, States Rights; killed Dec. 1862, at Franklin, Tenn.
Gladden, Adley H.; killed at Shiloh. Tenn., April 6, 1862.
Godwin, A. C. ; killed at Winchester. Va., Sept. 29, 1864.
Gordon, James B. ; killed at Yellow Tavern, Va., 1864.
Gracie, Archibald, Jr. ; killed at Petersburg, Va., Dec. 2, 1864.
Granberry, Hiram B. ; killed at Franklin. Tenn., November
30, 1864.
Grayson, John B. ; died at Fernandina, Fla., Oct. 1, 1861.
Green, Martin E. ; killed at Vicksburg, Miss., June 27, 1863.
Gregg, John ; killed at Petersburg, Va., 1864.
Gregg, Maxey; killed at Fredericksburg, Va.. Dec. 13, 1862.
Griffith. Richard; killed at Savage Station, 1862.
Hanson, Roger W. ; killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn., January
4, 1863.
Hatton, Robert; killed at Seven Pines, Va.. May 31, 1862.
Helm, Benjamin H. ; killed at Chickamauga, Ga., September
19, 1863.
Hogg, Joseph L. ; died May I, 1862.
Jenkins, Micajah ; killed at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1874.
Jones, David R. ; died at Richmond, Va., Jan. 19, 1863.
Jones, John M. ; killed at Spottsylvania, Va., May 10, 1864.
Jones, Wm. E. ; killed at Mt. Crawford. Va., June 5, 1864.
Kelly. J. H. ; killed near Franklin, Tenn., Sept. 2, 1864.
Little, Henry; killed at Iuka, Miss., 1862.
McCulloch, Benjamin; killed at Elk Horn, Ark., March 7,
1862.
Mcintosh, James; killed at Elk Horn, Ark., March, 1862.
Morgan, John H. ; killed September 4, 1864.
Mouton, Alfred; killed at Mansfield, La., April, 1864.
Paxton, Elisha F. ; killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 5,
1863.
Pegram, John ; killed at Hatcher"s Run, Va., Feb. 6. 1865.
Pender, William D. ; died July 18, 1863, from wounds re-
ceived at Gettysburg.
Perrin, Abner M.; killed at Spottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864.
Pettigrew, James J. ; died July 18, 1863, from wounds re-
ceived at Falling Waters.
Posey, Carnot ; died November 13, 1863, from wounds re-
ceived at Bristow Station.
Rains, Jas. E. ; killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862.
Ramseur, Stephen D. ; died at Winchester, Va., Oct. 21, 1864
Randal, Horace ; killed at Jenkins Ferry, Ark., April 30, 1864.
Semmes, Paul J.; died July 10, 1863, from wounds received
at Gettysburg.
Smith, Preston; killed at Chickamauga, Ga., Sept. 20, 1862.
Stafford, Leroy A. ; died May, 1864. from wounds received
at Wilderness. Va.
Starke, William E. ; killed at Sharpsburg, Va., Sept. 17. 1862.
Stephens, Clement H. ; killed at Atlanta, Ga., July 27, 1864.
Strahl, Otho F. ; killed at Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864.
Terrell, James B.; killed at Wilderness, Va., May 31, 1864.
Tilghman, Lloyd; killed at Battle Creek, Mo., May 16, 1863.
Tracy, Edward D. ; killed near Port Gibson, Miss., May
1. 1863.
Tyler, R. C. ; killed at Fort Tyler, Ga.. April 16, 1865.
Villipigue, John B. ; died at Port Hudson, La., Nov. 9, 1862.
Walker, L. M. ; killed in duel at Little Rock, Ark., 1863.
Willis, Edward; killed at Mechanicsville May 31, 1864.
Wilson. Claudius C. ; died November 24, 1863.
Winder, Charles S. ; killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August
9, 1862.
Winder, John H. ; died at Branchville, S. C, Feb. 9, 1865.
Zollicoffer, Felix K. ; killed at Mill Spring, Ky., Jan. 19 1862.
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i OL. ROBERT C. TYLl R
BY LIEUT. COL. Jons w. INZER, .i_'n AND 5KT11 ALA. REGIMENTS.
In the March number of tin- Confederate Veteran an in-
quiry is made in regard to Colonel Tyler, of Tennessee, and
as to what may be remembered by any one now living in
regard to his life and character as a soldier during the war
for Southern independence, 1861-65.
In June. 1 No,}, Bate's Brigade was created and organized
near Fairfield, Tuin. This brigade was then composed "'
the 15'h and 37th Tennessee Regiments, consolidated, under
the command of Colonel Tyler; 20th Tennessee Regiment,
commanded by Col. T. B. Smith; 37th Georgia Regiment,
commanded by Col. A. F. Rudler; oth Alabama Battalion,
commanded by Col. Bush Jones; and Major Tasnell's Bat-
talion of Georgia Sharpshooters. At that time 1 was the
major of the Alabama Battalion, afterwards organized into
the 58th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and still later consoli
dated with the 326 Alabama Regiment, of which I was lieu-
tenant colonel.
I first saw Colonel Tyler at the organization of Bate's Bri-
gade near Fairfield, as stated, in June. 1863. "° was a stout,
robust Tennesseean, and had firmness, determination, and
courage written in every line of his face. From Hoover's
Gap, Term., hack to McLeraore's Cave, Ga., I was in many
skirmishes and under heavy fire with Colonel Tyler, ami soon
learned to look upon him as one of the bravest men I ever
saw. When th: 15th and 37th Tennessee were on our right
or left in battle, I always felt secure, as 1 knew Tyler would
be there until the hour of danger had passed.
In the battle of Chiclcamauga Bate's Brigade was under
the lire of the enemy almost from the firing of the first gun to
the firing of the last, and Colonel Tyler was ,,n the ground in
command of his regiments from its beginning to the end —
until the enemy hail been driven from tin field -and never
did I see greatei courage and (hiring displayed by any one
than was shown by Colonel Tyler and his command. I lis
bravery and his manner of handling his regiment on thai
bloody field were indeed conspicuous. < )n Saturday, Septem
ber 19 1863, 1 saw Colonel Tyler, with others, capture a bat-
tery of the enemy's guns, and he himself hauled one of these
guns into our lines. He had a Strap fastened to the gun and
placed in from of his breast. I can now in my mind see
Colonel Tyler bringing this gun back alone. There were quite
a number of prisoners captured and brought in by 'Tyler's
men and tin- nun of my command
Soon after this battle my regiment was transferred tn ,11
Alabama brigade, and I do « 1 < ■ t remember t" have seen any
more of the gallant Colonel Tyler, lb- was killed near West
Point, Ga.. in one of the last battles of the war. I have often
referred to Colonel I'yh r as one of the finest soldiers I evet
met. It affords me pleasure t" bear witness to the soldierlj
character of this good and true man.
BY 1 11 BAILEY, J VCKSON, \t ISS,
I notice in the VETERAN for March an inquiry about Gen.
Robert Tyler, who was killed in the battle of Wist Point, Ga.
I knew him well. He bail been wounded in battle, and was
sent to West Point a- commander of that post. During the
\\ ils, m rani be commanded Fort Tyler with one hundred and
thirteen men. sixty of them being regular artillerymen, while
the rest were old men and boy volunteers, The battle com-
menced about eight o'clnck and ended at four "'clock. The
Confederates fought and repulsed the mniu as long as they
had any ammunition, General Tyler was killed by a sharp-
shunter from an upper-story window across the street in the
residence of Dr. V \V. Griggs. At every charge General
Tyler and his men had repulsed the enemy with side arms.
'The next officer in take command was Captain Gonzali
Pensacola, Fla. When he was killed, I aptain Pat-ham, who
.1 31 cretarj in < ieneral 1 -. 1 toi >l c mmand. He
bad lost his voice- and couldn't whisper; but he
went to the- flagstaff, reached as high as he could, and with
Ins sword severed the rope that could have lowered the twenty-
foot silk flag, so as to prevent any surrender.
General [Tyler and Captain Gonzales were buried in the
Reese graveyard, one and a half mile's west of West Point.
When 1 last saw (ieneral 'Tyler's grave, u was badlj neglected.
There seems to haw been a cheap concrete' slab placed over
it which has crumbled. 1 was reareel in the vicinitj of Wist
Point, anel was familiar with all that transpire. 1. General
Tyler was a polished gentleman, a brave soldier, anil true to
bis counti 1
C.irsii ()/•' (,7;'.Y. JOHN //. MORGAN'S DEATH.
r\ CAPT. GEORGE T. ATKINS, till KENTUCKY CAVALRY.
1 have always regarded Gen. John 11. Morgan's death as the
result ed bis own lack of caution. I well remember that as my
command, the -Jlh Kentucky, marched into Greenville Col. H.
I.. Giltner and 1 were riding by ourselves. We- met (ieneral
Morgan at the opening of the mad leading toward Rogersville.
'The sun was low 111 the' western sky, anel Morgan was await-
ing us. As we rode up, sitting his horse facing us on our left
snle, he saiel : "Vaughn's Brigade is thrown well out to the
front with instructions to picket well Everett's Battalion.
Major Diamond and Col. Howard Smith an ordered to camp
close by em the road to Rogersville. You will take your com-
mand to a point three miles down the Rogersville Pike and
picket we'll luxe aid Rogersville."
'This scattered bis command along a three-mile line toward
his right, with nothing nearer than Everett's command, en-
camped over the railroad cut, and a battery at the church,
about a quarter of a mile in the rear. He said he would take
quarters in the Williams House, pointing it out to US, With
bint was only his staff. He thus practically isolated himself
from his command ami rendered accessible ami easj the sud-
den dash that cost him his life.
A sh"i .a two from the battery ami a desultory firing from
Everett's command took place, and a stampede ensued. When
the first shots occurred, soon ai 11 daylight, we (the 4th Ken-
tucky) were saeldbd and ready for action No orders coming.
ived permission from Captain Scott, commanding, to go
to headquarters for orders and report 'lie command ready to
move, Gilmer or. leu. 1 me to cross the road and get the man
living there, winch I did after persuading his wife that tiei
harm was intended him. Giltner asked this man whether those
shots win- above the mouth of ihe Rogersville road in
town. * * *
On our way w e- learned from a straggling soldier that Mor-
gan had either been captured or killed, "There was no enemy
1 -in, Morgan's command G iter ele-
cided i" fall back until In- could come- m contact with Vaughn's
or Howard Smith's commands (both outranking him); and
after goine. some ten or twelve miles, ■ I, and, not
seeing anything of any ranking officers, t.iltner. at my sugges-
tion, sent in a flag of truce to inquire Morgan's fate, atld, if
killed, to obtain the body, which we did.
Every incident in this affair is as fresh in my mind to-day
as if it had happened y. st.r.lay.
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DR. DOUTHAT'S "BATTLE ODE."
Concerning the battle of Gettysburg, Dr. R. W. Douthat,
of Morganton, W. Va., has linked his name with history. His
"Battle Ode" will be cherished by those who appreciate culture
in most vivid portrayal of the most heroic deeds of mortal
men. His glimpse of the charge is given in this language :
"Through ranks aligned with solid shot they plowed,
Through lines re-formed with shell and grape they mowed ;
O'er struggling masses grape and canister threw,
O'er lessening files their deadly missiles flew.
And canister, double canister, profusely fell
An avalanche of fire, a deafening hail.
That blighted, blasted, crushed, cut, and tore,
And scattered limbless life along the shore."
Captain Douthat is said to be the only one of the ten cap-
tains in his regiment who escaped unhurt.
INQUIRIES FOR AND ABOUT VETERAN.
Capt. A. Lawson, now of Louisville, Ky., writes: "I was
sent in command of about one-fourth of the 6th Kentucky
Regiment on November 24, 1864, to the shores of the Ogee-
chee River, between Milledgeville and Augusta, where I met
Major Lattimer in a fight with the 3d Kentucky Cavalry (Fed-
eral) under Kilpatrick. We were both captured and became
very much attached to each other. Together we determined to
make our escape, and on the night of December 7, when about
twenty miles from Savannah, we succeeded in doing so. We
traveled for three days over the route that Sherman's army
had passed on his way to Savannah, finding the country ex-
tremely desolate, of course. We crossed the Savannah River
into South Carolina, where we got our first meal worthy the
name for three weeks. We soon reached Augusta, and near
there Dr. Cartwright lent me a horse and furnished the Major
with a buggy, and we went about thirty miles south to the
Major's home. I had an order from the War Department
to gather up all horses branded "U. S." and "C. S.," which I
had kept concealed from the Federal guards ; so after we
rested a few days we got five other men (disabled Confeder-
ates) and started out. When near Kilpatrick's command, we
succeeded in capturing sixteen horses and took them back to
Major Lattimer's home. I should like to know if Major Latti-
mer or any of the other men of that raid are still living."
THE GUERRILLA CHIEF QUANTRELL.
BY JOHN S. WATSON, PARIS, TEX.
Noticing your request in a late number of the Veteran for
information in regard to the Guerrilla Chief Quantrell, I write
to say that I served under him from 1861 to 1865, and was
with him in all the raids and battles he was engaged in. He
was born and reared in Hagerstown, Md., and was a sur-
veyor by profession. He and his brother started to California
in 1859, and got as far as forty miles west of Leavenworth,
Kans. At Cottonwood Creek the Kansas Jayhawkers at-
tacked them, killing his brother and leaving Quantrell himself
for dead. After getting well, he joined Jim Lane's band of
Jayhawkers, and remained with them until he had killed thirty
out of thirty-two of the men who had killed his brother. He
then went to Missouri and recruited his company, and re-
mained there mainly until the fall of 1864.
We started then to go to Lee's army, and got as far as the
State of Kentucky, when we had a fight with one Capt. Ed
Terrell at Wakefield's barn, where Quantrell received a fatal
wound and died in a hospital at Louisville, Ky. He never
had a picture taken in his life.
One of the most horrid stories brought out in the four
awful years — 1861-65 — was tne massacre at Lawrence, Kans.
The Veteran seeks what extenuating circumstances there
were. One report has been given, but others are requested.
A member of Ross's Brigade writes of it as follows:
"After the fall of Atlanta, in the autumn of 1864, I was in-
limately associated in the service with Captain Reams, of
Westport, Mo., who was with Quantrell in the raid on Law-
rence, Kans. He rtcited to me in detail the cause and the
manner of carrying it out. Captain R.ams commanded a
company of Missourians in the army that was surrendered at
Vicksburg, and went back to Southwest Missouri for the
purpose of recruiting his company; but found this impossible,
owing to the strict and unceasing patrol by the home guards.
On one Sunday he was in Quantrell's camp, where he found
Quantrell and a few of his men, the rest being scattered
around through the country.
"For some time there had been confined in Kansas City,
Kans., by the United States military authority a number of
prisoners, among them a sister of two of Quantrell's men.
Parties were excavating for a foundation so near the building
in which the prisoners were confined as to endanger the build-
ing. The citizens called the attention of the military authori-
ties to this fact and asked them to remove the prisoners to a
place of safety. This they failed and refused to do. Some-
time during the day on that Sunday news came to Quantrell's
camp that the said building had collapsed, killing several of
the prisoners, and among them the aforesaid sister. Im-
mediately a council was held, in which it was determined to
destroy a Kansas town in revenge. Kansas City was dis-
cussed ; but that was too populous and too well guarded, and
Lawrence was finally determined on. Quantrell then sent out
all the men in camp to hunt up and order the others to come
in immediately. By Monday evening he had a force of about
sixty men. Soon after dark they mounted their horses and
struck a gallop, and never moved at any other gait until their
object was accomplished and they had made good their es-
cape, save and except the men who were lost. As they rode
into the suburbs of the town about daylight in the morning,
they ran into a camp of recruits for the Federal army; these
they slew to a man. Then, riding into the heart of the town,
the men were divided into squads, instructed to take the main
streets and fire the town as they went, and assemble at a point
designated out of town. This was done as expeditiously as
possible, and their long ride for safety was begun at a gallop.
Being closely chased by United States cavalry, they had a
long, hard ride day and night until they reached timber, where
they dispersed, every man to take care of himself. While
they were firing the town they were fired on by citizens from
upper windows of houses. Some of Quantrell's men were
wounded, and had to be left to their fate.
"Captain Reams was a very brave man, as I had ample oc-
casion to know, and I think truthful and in every way reliable.
He related this story with its horrible and interesting details,
but the foregoing are the main facts. I do not now remember,
but think he estimated the number of recruits killed at about
eighty men."
Much has been written about the Lawrence raid, and some
seem inclined to justify the retaliation; but it appears to be
one of the most horrible events of all the war. Kansas Jay-
hawkers established a reputation for villainy quite extensively,
and no punishment could have been too severe for them per-
haps; but this Lawrence (Kansas) raid is abhorred.
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TENNESSEEANS HONOR MAJOR IVIRZ'S MEMORY.
Messrs. J. W. Cowan, Ed Rcece, and W. M. Long, of Nash-
ville, Tenn., solicited contributions among their friends and
forwarded on February 7, 1907, the amount to the Treasurer
of the Monument Fund. Comrade Cowan wrote the follow-
ing letter to Mrs. C. C. Sanders, of Gainesville, Ga. :
"Dear Madam: To preserve untarnished the good memories
of the faithful dead is no less a duty than to help and bless
the living. To pay worthy tribute to those who stood faith-
ful at the post of duty when the storm was at its height is to
rear a race of heroes who will not quail in any storm nor
shirk from any duty. To neglect the memory of heroes is
to pave the way to dishonor and despair.
"The contemplation of such truth has prompted us to col-
lect the sum of $40.50, which we herewith inclose to you, as
Treasurer of the Wirz Monument Fund, to help place a
suitable memorial to Maj. Henry Wirz. We want to assure
you that our people here are in hearty sympathy with the
movement as fully set out in the Confederate Veteran. We
pray that your highest hopes may soon find fruition in a
worthy memorial to his memory. Whatsoever slurs his
slanderers may have written, let us record his virtues in
granite or marble as we have them in our hearts.
"With the friendly and fraternal greetings we esteem it
an honor to be brothers of the Daughters of the Confederacy."
Reply from Mrs. C. C. Sanders, Treasurer Wirz Monument
Fund, Gainesville. Ga., dated February 13, tgo7:
"Gentlemen: In behalf of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I thank you for your generous contribution of forty dollars
and a half which you sent for the Wirz Monument Fund. It
is most encouraging to receive letters like the one you sent
us and to be assured that Nashville is in sympathy with tins
our effort to vindicate one of the South's noblest heroes."
Home for Gray and Blue Suggested. — Phares Bell, of
Cleveland, Ohio, but who has spent much of his time in Flori-
da, writes of having conceived the idea of a Home for Union
and Confederate soldiers in conjunction. He seems not to be
informed of the great work in providing Soldiers' Homes
North and South, and an up-to-date Southern daily paper
prints at length his article as if he had suggested something
new in charity and in patriotism. The only point worthy of
mentioning, considerate as we may be of his kind senti-
ments, is that, after the Home is thoroughly established,
the United States government maintain it. This has been a
pet project of Mr. Bell for years. He is now seventy-five
years old, and is quoted n^ saying: "The seed has been sown
by me, and it now rests with the people whether the plan shall
be killed by procrastination or shall grow into a beautiful
flower; whether the WOfk shall be carried out until a fitting
memorial and home is built for the brave old soldiers of both
armies and the South and the North are united by a closer
bond than that of commercial interest, or be postponed until
every soldier of that terrific struggle has answered to the last
bugle call and passed beyond."
A. M. I. Handlcy, of Edgcrton. Mo. (first lieutenant Com-
pany — . 10th Miss,, uri Infantry), writes of Gen. L, M, Lewis,
mentioned on page no in list of Confederate generals: "He
was promoted a short while b forr the war closed to the com-
mand of M M Parson's Brigade upon the latter's promotion
to major general. The brigade wa 1 d of the io'h,
nth. and Kith Missouri Infantry. He was a Methodist preach-
er and went from that part of the country. 1 knew him well."
NORTH CAROLINIANS WANT SPONSORS.
BY J. C. BIRDSONG, RALEIGH.
Resolved: 1. That the L. O. B. Branch Camp, No. 515. U.
C. V., do most respectfully enter their solemn protest against
the resolution passed by the U. D. C. at their Convention at
Gulfport. Miss., and request the President, Mrs. Lizzie Hen-
derson, to have the same rescinded in time to have sponsors
appointed for our next annual meeting in Richmond, Va. ;
also that a copy be sent to the Confederate Veteran, asking
that the other Camps adopt same. If sponsors are not to at-
tend, we had better not hold any more Reunions.
2. That L. O. B. Branch Camp, No. 515, U. C. V, in the
belief that some recognition should be given the worthy-
negroes who followed the fortunes of the Southern Con fed
eracy as faithful servants, who in many cases put aside op-
portunities for freedom on account of love for their own white
folks, also that such residents of this State who served as
servants in the Confederate army, rendering true and faithful
service to their owners or others, shall be entitled to a pen-
sion on proof of such service.
3- That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the General
Assembly of North Carolina, with the request that pro-
be made for said pensions by adding a fifth clause to the
Pension Act. .
A bill has already been presented to the General Assembly
and referred to the Pension Committee,
INQUIRIES FOR AND ABOUT VETERANS.
J. D. Smith, of McGregor, Tex., sends copy of a special or-
der from General Bragg, which will be read with interest :
"Headquarters Army of Tennessee. Top of Missionary
Ridge, September ->.s, 1863.— Lieut. Col. W. K. Hard, of the
staff of the General commanding. Lieutenant Farley. A. D. C.
to Lieutenant General Longstrect, and Capt. R. W. Lanier.
Company G, 13th Tennessee Regiment, arc hereby selected
to bear to Richmond, Va., the flags captured from the enemy
in the battle of Chickamauga on the 19th and 20th inst. They
will proceed at once in execution of the mission with which
they are charged, and deliver the captured flags with the re-
port of Commanding General to Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant
General. Privates J. D. Smith. Company H, 10th Texas Reg
iment. and William II. Barnett, ->ist Mississippi Volunteers,
on account of gallant service, are herein detailed to accom
pany them. The Quartermaster will furnish transportation
both going and returning to Privates Smith and Barnett."
Comrade Smith wants those comrades who were with him
in Richmond to arrange for a meeting at the coming Reunion.
Texas Sponsor to Richmond Reunion. — Special Order
No. 21, issued by K. M. Van Zandt. Major General command-
ing the Texas Division. U. C. Y.. names tin following appoint-
ments fur the seventeenth annual Reunion, at Richmond, Va.,
May 30 to June 3, 1907: Miss Decca Lamar West, Sponsor.
Waco, Tex.; Miss Vara lliggenson. Maid of Honor, Waco,
Tea ; Mrs. J, B. Dibrell, Matron of Honor, S -inn. Tex. The
above appointees arc entitled to and shall receive all honoi
respect, ami courtesy due such positions from the chivalry of
Confederate soldiers
Henry Moore writes a letter the spirit of which is com-
mended: "I notice I am sponging on the Veteran. I see my
label says January, 1907, and we arc down in February. I send
two dollars for two years; hut you air authorized to send one
year to ed< 1 who would appreciate it but
can't pay for it, and credit me with oni year only."
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MEMORIAL DAY.
BY RICARDO MINOR, DALLAS, TEX.
With wreath remembrant, rose, and lily pale,
In fragrant reverence are strewn the mounds
Where slumber sacred dead. The shafts of sun
That float so soft adown and blissful calm
That clings to things aflowered make this day
Perfection's own. The fairest days since birth
Of spring have stolen up. and each has laid
That gift which dearest it deems into the lap
Of the glad Preset. War no longer sings
His song areek of hell, nor rank by rank
To weltering death with guilty hand he hurls.
With clasp of hands !:> the hiatus bridged—
The dead are dearer still through tears that fall
And consecrate a common altar side.
A hymn of unforgetting swells the breeze
To sacredness and reverence attuned —
Memorial of loving lips that speeds
From where smile palms beneath the sun's warm kiss
To lakes of limpid blue, from sturdy West
To shore that bears the brunt of waters wild.
Out of distress and mighty conflict fierce
Have peace and plenty come — a sweet, new life.
And lights of gladsome homes. And harvest sure
Abundant springs from soil that once drank deep
Of hearts of men who fell and marched no more.
Heaped are the blossoms in remembrance just
Of hero blood that spilled — ran full and free
At duty's stern behest. The outward show
Of chanted hymns and wreaths and garlands strewn —
'Tis kind. But boots it not save we engrave
Their deeds on living soul and consecrate
Our heritage at altar of the heart.
Dedicated to the memory of Capt. R. W. Minus, who faith-
fully served the Confederacy.
Deaths in Pat Cleburne Camp, Waco, Tex.
Report of deaths in Pat Cleburne Camp, Waco, Tex., from
April, 1906, to 1007: J. C. Robinson. Company H. 19th Texas
Cavalry, Parson's Brigade: W. D. Jackson, Company F, 8'h
Texas. Watkins's Division; W. T. Holcomb, Company D,
28th Texas Dismounted Cavalry; J. W. Linkinbarger, Com-
pany A, 15th Texas Infantry— all of the Trans-Miss. Dept.
Deaths in the Fitzgerald Camp, U. C. V.
Since its reorganization, in 1901, the following members of
Fitzgerald Camp, Paris, Tenn., have passed "over the river :"
Fifth Tennessee Infantry: Col. W. E. Travis, L. Cherry,
Company K ; B. G. Deets, Company G ; J. J. Hagler. Com-
pany I; Lieut. J. L. Lemonds, Company C ; E. W. Simmons,
Company G ; E. G. Seaton, Company H ; T. D. Daniel, band
and infirmary corps ; Dr. J. H. Porter, surgeon.
Forty-Sixth Tennessee Infantry: Col. R. A. Owens, Maj.
S. C. Cooper. Adjutant I. M. Hudson; A. B. Futhey, Com-
pany E; F. M. Gregson, Company E; A. J. Morton, Com-
pany A; Lieut. Elisha Paschal. Company K; W. 11. Reynolds,
Company K; Logan Tharpe, Company F; Maj. W. B. Van-
Cleave; Hardin Wilson, Company H; L. J. Hill.
One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Infantry: A. J. Bradshaw,
Co. F; R. H. Covington, Co. F; A. J. Looney, Co. F.
T. H. M. Hunter, Company C, nth Tennessee Cavalry; L.
A. Jobe, 9th Mississippi Cavalry ; A. L. Nored, Company D,
19th Kentucky Cavalry; J. T. Postlethwaite, Company D, 1st
Tennessee Heavy Artillery; F. P. Wasson, Company A, 4th
Alabama Cavalry.
Dead of Mildred Lee Camp, Sherman, Tex.
Memorial services were held at the Central Christian
Church, Sherman, Tex., by the Mildred Lee Camp February
24, 1907, for the following members of the Camp who have
died since last summer :
A. R. Andrews, Company B, 6th Texas Infantry.
Tom Perra (Mexican), nth Texas Cavalry, Company A.
afterwards in artillery service to close of war.
J. J. Hammond, 8th Arkansas Infantry.
Elder W. B. Stinson, Company H, 5th Alabama Infantry.
J. C. Edmonds, Mosby's command.
Capt. J. H. Tolbert, Co. D, 16th Texas Dismounted Cavalry.
(The foregoing is from J. B. Stinson, Camp Historian.]
Capt. Ed Aldrich.
This valiant old soldier came to an untimely death on
March 21 while walking on the railroad near Gulfport, Miss.
Captain Aldrich enlisted in the 2d Missouri Cavalry (Col.
Robert McCulloch) early in the war, remaining with that regi-
ment, in Forrest's Cavalry, until 1863, when he was transferred
to the staff of Gen. Frank Armstrong, with whom he served
with distinction the remainder of the war. After the war
closed, Captain Aldrich settled near Byhalia, Miss., from
whence he removed to Gulfport, Miss., about one year ago.
He was nearing his eightieth year, and, being very deaf, was
an easy prey to a passmger train. His remains were interred
at the Soldiers' Home, Beauvoir, Miss.
Capt. Charles W. Dicgs.
A prominent member was lost to Marmaduke Camp, U.
C. V., of Moberly, Mo., in the death of Capt. Charles W.
Diggs, who passed peacefully away in January, 1007. He was
living in St. Louis, Mo., at the breaking out of the war; but
upon the secession of Virginia he returned to his na'.ive town
of Warrenton and enlisted in the Warrenton Rifles, 17th Vir-
ginia Infantry, and was soon sent to the front. This regi-
ment was heavily engaged in the first battle of Manassas, and
suffered severely. The regiment also confronted McClellan
at Seven Pines, where Captain Diggs was so dangerously
wound. d that he could never serve in the infantry again. He
then joined the Black Horse Cavalry, the 4th Virginia, and
soon afterwards was promoted to a captaincy on the staff of
Gen. William H. Payne, in which capacity he served with
much honor until the surrender.
A little incident will show the spirit of the good soldier that
he was. After being taken from the field wounded — mortally,
as they thought— he asked the doctor what his chances were
for recovery, and upon being told that he had one chance in
a thousand he replied : "Doctor, I am glad of this. I will take
advantage of that cne chance."
After the war Captain Diggs returned to Missouri, and was
married to Miss Ida Rucker, of Huntsville. He was engaged
in mercantile life forty-two years, and was widely known and
loved by every one.
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Rev. F. R. Noe.
Rev. Frank R. Noe, St., was a Confederate soldier to the
end, Born in Greene County, Mo., January 26, [846, he en-
rolled and mustered March n, 1862, a private in Company
C, 3d Missouri Cavalry (dismounted), Greene's Brigade.
Price's Division, II was wounded at Corinth, Miss., Oc-
tober 4, 1862, and discharged on account of physical disabili-
ties "ii November 22, [862, He returned home, regained his
health, and rejoined the army as a private in Company G.
Ed Waller's Texas Cavalry Regiment, and surrendered with
In- command at Marshall, Tex., in June, 1865, His Confed-
erate Veteran and his Bible wen- his boon companions. He
was not one of Ihos: designated as unreconstructed; but he
was ardently fond of having been .1 true Confederate soldier,
and was faithful to the traditions 1 1,- vvas not boastful, hut
he was unyielding in Ins loyalty to the principles for which
OUtll fought and suffered.
Comrade Noe was for manj years a minister of the Meth
odisl Episcopal Church, South, and was truly a good man.
REV. F R. M'l
Ihs ministr) «.i~ a continuation of successful effort and good
works, a consecration o> bis Master's cause. Hi wa enei
tive and wholly without ostentation, with a
record and influence for godliness unsurpassed by any of th
gnat and g I lie dud in graceful submission to tin will
of his Mastet .11 Auvergne, Ark 1 19, 6, of asthma.
I I in. I I I |',| I I I.I I V
Judgi Logan I Bleckley, oi Georgia has gone to a rich
reward for a prolonged high order of deportment among his
fellow men I [< «;i, in many respect- a most remarkable
Ri \ Georg I ■. Smith, a fluent writer, gives an account
of Judge Blecklej that will be approved by those who
and loved hun best 111 begins with the statement that
roung Bleckley was a clerk in thi Western and
ntic Railroad offic< at Vtlanta Hi writi
"In 1840 1 was a clerk in the Mi P . and
Judge Bh < l li ] rii in to 1 mini,. the books.
When 1 was chaplain in the Phillips Legion, be was a mem-
ber of the legion and occupied the same tent with me. He
was one of the uniques! men Georgia ever produced. His
habits of study were the most peculiar. When I first knew
him he was studying the literature of England as found in
its poetry. He gave it exclusive attention until he had Snished
Ins study. Then be turned to metaphysics. There was no
man in Georgia who had so thoroughly studied philosophy
"All tin rare German books which had been reduced into
Knglish were in his library. He allowed nothing but law to
break in pn his philosophical researches for years. Then he
strangely enough turned to \lpiue traveling. He had more
English books on the Alps than probably any man in America.
He traced the pathway of the mountain climbers step bj Step
' 1 years. Then he gave himself to architecture, and gathered.
regardless of cost, all the scientific works on that subject.
When Herbert Spencer came to the front, he became hi
ciple, and everything the old philosopher wrote he studied
"II il had been ill the power of 1 in- of the most diligent and
1 rii' of minds to have secured light to walk by unaided, by
revelation, he would have secured it; but alas! like Huxley,
Darwin. Spencer, Carlyle, and Ruskin, the verdict at last was,
I don't know.' and '1 can't believe.' * * *
"Men sometimes believe more than they think they do, and
some men doubt when they do not disbelkve and some men
T light and grope in darkness for a while to see at the
last. 1 had hoped that some daj the cloud which overshadowed
bun from his youth would break, and 1 still hop;- il did. I
hoped that, .uning up all effort to find the truth unaided, he
would com, to Him who is the truth and find rest for his
■ ill \ man of such honesty, such sincerity, such reverence
less, such tenderness could not be forgotten by Him
who came to seek and save those wdio were lost in the mazes
of pour human intellections. He could not answer some
questions; no man can. But he said, and he said it sind relj :
'I am loyal to him if he is a personal God; if he is not, 1 am
I' i bun
Judge Bleckley was a marvelous man \iter he had be-
come profound in legal knowledge a- a profession and had
delved deep into metaphysics, he lived for years on a moun-
tain, isolated quite as a hermit. When he reappeared on the
hi- ot" Vtlanta, the editor of the Veteran greeted him.
giving his name, although he had previously enjoyed a pleas-
ant acquaintance, seeing him often with Gen. J. B Gordon,
the Judge's brother-in-law. The eminent jurist seemed hurt
and replied: "Do you suppose I don't know you. Mr. C — ?"
.li, an (i ( , Cox, in Vtlanta I institution. ">
Vast was Ins ken of questions, gnarled and bent;
Great was his knowledgi ol the hearts of men:
Childhood and age, the shrewd, the innocent
Win in him mingled in one glorious blend.
I he seer' deep learning and the pi n
The stoic's calmness ami ih patriot's zeal,
The soldier's drum call and the lover's lyre —
hi art to list to their appeal.
The winds which mourn above In- mountain home,
waves which sob along the fat Rung shore,
The rains which heat upon the mighty dome
'Neath which in- genius shone in days of yore —
■ 'ell their tales with deep drawn -oh and tl
lint more than these: the hearl of ia weeps
\ho\ ,- the lV ■ IVe di .']" d
Where tam. -now m d Logan Bleckley sleeps.
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Deaths in Stonewall Camp, Q. C. V., Portsmouth, Va,
The death of Sergeant Hilary G. Williams on December 24
removed from the membership of Stonewall Camp a gallant
soldier who, as a member of Company D. 61st Virginia In-
fantry, participated in the notable engagements of the Arm)
of Northern Virginia.
Charles W. Godwin entered the service in 1861 as a mem
ber of Company C, 16th Virginia Infantry. Death came to
him in Portsmouth on the 24th of January. 1907, occasioning
much regret in his circle of friends and comrades of S;one-
wall Camp.
Sergeant William H. Brittingham died at his home, in
Portsmouth, February 10. at the age of seventy years. He
enlisted in April, 1861. as a member of Company G, 9th Vir-
ginia Infantry, and participated in all the notable battles of
the Army of Northern Virginia. He was a sincere Christian,
a true and gallant soldier, a loyal friend, and his death is a
loss to the membership of Stonewall Camp.
Eli T. Priest.
Eli Priest died at the residence of his daughter and son-in-
law, Air. and Mrs. D. R. Montgomery, in Fort Worth. Tex.,
February 15, 1907, in the seventy-first year of his age. He was
born in Monroe County, Miss., December 28, 1836, and moved
to Texas years before the war. In 1857 he married Miss Cin-
derilla Burleson, of Bastrop County, who died April 13. 1894;
and after that time he led an unsettled life, part of the time
with his six children, three sons and three daughters, who
survive him. He and his brother, Robert Priest, yet sur-
viving him and ten years younger, enlisted in the beginning of
ROBERT PRIEST.
ELI T. PRIEST.
the war in Company B, 17th Texas Infantry, and served faith-
fully the four years through, being in many battles together,
in which both attested their devotion to the cause by suffering
patiently many wounds received of a painful nature. Robert
Priest now resides at Smithville, Tex. The picture shows
them together. Of course it is expected that they will meet
again. The deceased was a consistent member of the Baptist
Church from boyhood, and he died as a Mason in good stand-
ing. He sleeps by the side of his good wife at Corsicana, Tex.
He was a good soldier and a kind citizen, and leaves many
friends to mourn their loss.
A. Clarke Brewer.
C'imrade A. Clarke Brewer died suddenly at Holly Springs.
Miss., on the 8th of October, 1906. He was born in Virginia
in 1843, and made a gallant Confederate soldier. He received
many compliments Eor his braver, at Champion Hill, ami was
also mentioned in general orders by the commanding officer.
He fought through the entire war till taken prisoner at \
burg -hnrtly before the close when he was on; of Henderson':!
scouts. The news of his exchange and Lie's surrender reached
his people on the same day.
From the "History of the 10th Tennessee Regiment." by
Dr. W. J. Worsham, the following is taken: "Clarke Brewer
joined Company I. of the 19th Tennessee Regiment, when
but a boy, and made a good, faithful, and brave soldier, always
at his post of duty. He was wounded at the battle of Shiloh,
and as soon as he was able resumed his post of duty with
another command, and fought with that regiment to the end
of tlie war. Brave as the bravest and as sensitive to duly as
brave."
Another paragraph from the same book, written by Judge C.
W. Heiskell, of Memphis, shows his eagerness for action:
"We heard that a force of Federals were assembling at Bar-
boursville, and Companies B and K. of the 'Old Nineteenth,'
and companies from the 20th Tennessee, under command of
Colonel Battle, were sent to dislodge them. Clarke Brewer,
of Company I, now living in Memphis, slipped off and went
with us. We marched all night, and at daylight next morn-
ing (O how tired and sleepy we were!), September 19, 1861,
we heard the first hostile gun of the
war. Here fell Robert Powell, first
lieutenant of Company K, a quiet,
unassuming, brave man. the first
Confederate who fell outside of Vir-
ginia in the War between the States.
But the force against us scattered,
and we retired to camp."
Clarke Brewer was the son of
John Sackville Brewer (a descend-
ant of Lord Sackville, of England),
for many years a tobacco merchant
in Virginia, but who removed to
Chattanooga in the childhood days
of this son. Surviving him are the
wife and one child, Mrs. Thomas B.
Coffey, of Vicksburg. Mr. Brewer engaged in cotton-plant-
ing for many years in Mississippi, his wife being of Holly
Springs. Mrs. Brewer, a native of Holly Springs, and the
daughter are zealous Confederate workers.
Dr. David 11. Williams.
David H. Williams was born in Greene County, Ala., in
October, 1827; and died in Gainesville, Ala., February 3, 1907.
Comrade Williams was of conspicuous ability as a physician
and surgeon from his early youth, and won the confidence of
all whose good fortune it was to be associated with him. After
the fall of Vicksburg. he left a lucrative practice, raised a
cavalry company, and went to the front. lie was early pro-
moted as surgeon in the regiment, and enjoyed the confidence
of his comrades. At the close of the war he went home, and
devoted much of his time to the relief of his fellow-men with-
out remuneration. He was especially kind to the poor Con-
federates and ex-slaves of the South.
Dr. Williams became a Church member in his early man-
hood, and lived consistent with its teachings. He was a life
member of the American Bible Society, and contributed liber-
ally to its support, as he did to the cans? of Christ and his
Church and other enterprises for the good of man. He leaves
a wife and three sons, worthy of such a father.
CLARKE BREWER.
Qo^federat^ l/eterap.
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ADDRESS BY GENERAL OFFICERS, United Confederate
Veterans, to the Camps of U. C. V., the Confederated Memorial
Association, United Daughters of the Confederacy, United Sons
of Confederates, and all Confederates.
We have been elected to offices of high distinction and recog-
nize the obligations created by these honors because they were
cemfa ii,l by iuir comrades of the United Confederate Vet-
eran.-. In this spirit we address yon, on onr own motion, this
letter on .1 special subject because we know that the desire is
Common among us that the knowledge of the principles and
fact- of the 1 onfederate epoch should be more widely dii
fused. We feel that this information should be conveyed to
the people of the present Age through the press and other
i such spirit, manner, and mode of publication as
"ill 11" justice to our Confederate people, secure the fame of
uhuli our dear Southland is well worthy, abate all ungener-
al -pint, and promote a more perfect under-
Standing and cordial union of all parts and people of our
Country.
In considering maturely this very important matter we arc
gratified bj the fact that the United Confederate Veterans
iation, Confederated Southern .Memorial Association, the
United I laughters of the Confederacy, and the United Sons of
' Veterans have an official organ, commended ovet
and over again by unanimous resolutions at our annual con-
tentions, in a maga ne of high rank called the Confederate
WETERAN, ably edited and published monthly by our true and
fellow-Confederate soldier, S. A. Cunning
at Nashvilli This noble maga ne began its career yean tgo
I a e tri tii venture upon the field of hope in its confidence
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reposed in those to whom its worthy objects appealed, and
we have witnessed its ascent to success with the especial pride
that such success 1- so well deserve. 1, We deplore nothing
about it except that the benefits it is conferring every month
upon thousands of readers are not enjoyed by tens of thou-
sands more. It is a medium by which every phase of Con-
federate tunes is intelligently and interestingly conveyed to
the minds of young and old. It is a glad hand extended cor-
dially to shake every Confeelerate hand, and it goes with a
sincere fraternal greeting to all patriots in our Land. It is a
treasury of argument, history, biography, story, and -ong, con-
tinuing to steadily increase these riches from month to month.
Its contents make a table around which Confederates, with
their sons, daughters, and friends, sit once a month to enjoy
an intellectual, social, affectionate, friendly, country-loving
feast, [t never wa 1 more value than it 1- now \nd, con-
sidering all that should be said, written, anil done through its
agency during the next ten years of only one' hundred and
twenty issues, u is notv more valuable than ever.
In view of all things we know about the CONFEDERATE VET-
ERAN magazine and its valuable uses, will you, each and ail
eif you. agree to make an immediate practical working effort
to at least double the number of it- subscriptions, and thus
quadruple the number of its interested readers? Can we af-
ford tei do less? Can we do anything of better avail t" dif-
fuse the knowb dge and men a-e tie; appreciation of our South-
land ami 11- history?
We lug now to urge that i very Confederate 1 amp and oth< 1
organization consider formally, earnestly, actively, am! prac-
tically this subject in the months of April and May, \\ c trust
that each of these organization- will take immediate action,
so that the increase referred to shall be made bene, our great
Reunion in tin city of Richmond. We urge thai immediate
personal effort be made by Confederates and their sons and
daughters We ask that tin evei generou pr< ol out coun-
try help us. anil we' authorize the Com 1 in ex 11 \i rERAN to
publish this appeal with conspicuous display in tin1 April and
May numbers of that magazine.
Repeating our expressions of gratitude to all who have hon
ored us as Confederate soldier-, and greeting you with our
hands and in art-, we have the honor to be your obedient
servants :
Stephen D. lee', General, Commander in Chief 1' C V :
William E. Mickle. Mai Gen., Chief of Staff. 1'. C. V.;
W. L. Cabell, Lieut Ceil. Trans-Mi--. Depl , U. ( V. ;
Clemeni \ Evans, Lieut Gen., Army Tenn. Dept., U. C. A' :
C. Irvine Walker, Lie, it Gen., Army X V Dept, U C. V.
Major Generals Appro\
The letter from General Evans to Major Generals stati
"\ suggestion, altogether my own, was made to Mr. Cun-
ningham about the' Veteran, which he- thought of favorably,
anil iii 11 ini'-p : ked me to prepare the cin opy
■ if winch i- inclosed and explains the whole matter.
"If you approve, you will please authorizi Vfi I unnin
to print your name to the circular. I did not movi in the
matter until assured that General Lee approved
"If all, or nearlj all. Commander- of Division! approve, 1
suppose that Comrade Cunningham will print and circulate
the Ifettet ted."
George P. Harrison. Maj. Gen Al ■ . ( tpelika.
W. 11. Jewell. Mai. Gen, Florida Div., Orlando
Andrew .1. We-t. Mai. Gen. Georgia Div., Atlanta.
A. (". Trippe, Mai. Gen. Maryland Div., Baltimore.
: Div., Kat
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Julian S. Carr, Maj. Gen. North Carolina Div., Durham.
George W. Gordon. Maj. Gen. Tennessee Div., Memphis.
K. M. VanZandt. Maj. Gen. Texas Div., Fort Worth.
Stith Boiling, Maj. Gen. Virginia Div., Petersburg.
Robert Lowry, Maj. Gen. Miss. Div., Jackson.
Thomas W. Carwile, Maj. Gen. S. C. Div., Edgefield.
Paul A. Fusz, Maj. Gen. N. W. Div., Philipsburg. Mont.
John Threadgill, Maj. Gen. Okla. Div.. Oklahoma City.
Robert White, Maj. Gen. W. Va. Div., U. C. V.
Brigadier Generals Approving.
Application to Brigadier Generals for approval of the ad-
dress was sent direct without putting upon General Evans the
care to attend to it. As his address was only to the Major
Generals, many of the Brigadiers have refrained, but evidently
because of delicacy. Some of these, however, have contributed
to this great indorsement. Of the first received are:
W. L. Wittich, Brig. Gen. First, Florida Div., Pensacola. •
John W. Clark, Brig. Gen. Eastern, Ga. Div., Augusta.
J. E. DeVaughn, Brig. Gen. Western, Ga. Div., Montezuma.
W. A. Montgomery, Brig. Gen. First, Miss. Div., Edwards.
J. M. Ray, Brig. Gen. Fourth, N. C. Div., Asheville.
W. L. London. Brig. Gen. Second, N. C, Pittsboro.
J. M. Carlton, Brig. Gen. First, N. C. Div., Statesville.
W. H. H. Ellis, Brig. Gen. Montana Brigade, Bozeman.
F. T. Roche, Brig. Gen. Third, Tex. Div., Georgetown.
S. S. Green, Brig. Gen. Second, W. Va., Charleston.
James R. Rogers, Brig. Gen. First, Ky. Div., Paris.
James I. Metts, Brig. Gen. Third. N. C. Div., U. C. V.
James Baumgardner, Brig. Gen. Fourth, Va. Div., Staunton.
Clay Stacker, Brig. Gen. Third, Tenn. Div., Clarksville.
J. N. Thompson, Brig. Gen. Third, Ala. Div., Tuscumbia.
George M. Helm, Brig. Gen. Third, Miss. Div.
R. D. Funkhouser, Third, Va. Div.
Approved by the United Dauchters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, President General U. D. C,
writes as follows : "It gives me great pleasure to speak for
the U. D. C. indorsing the above. The Veteran has been
the greatest help to us in our work, and its editor, Mr. Cun-
ningham, has always since I have known anything of the
U. D. C. work helped us in his magazine with any work we
have undertaken. The whole of the U. D. C, I am sure, will
be glad to have me, as their representative, indorsing all the
good which is ever said about the Veteran."
Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President of the C. S. M. A., writes
from New Orleans, La., March 23, 1907, to Gen. Clement A.
Evans, Commander Army of Tennessee Department, C. S. A. :
"My Dear General: It affords me great pleasure to say a
few words in praise of our distinctively Southern magazine,
the Confederate Veteran, and to compliment our mutual
friend. Mr. S. A. Cunningham, on his able management. It
is a magazine of great historic value, and I should be glad to
see it placed in all Southern colleges and schools. As Presi-
dent of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association I
most earnestly request every 'Memorial Woman' to use her
influence to increase its circulation. We cannot afford to miss
a single copy. Through its columns we are kept in touch with
all Confederate work. It is the link that binds us together and
enables us to preserve the cherished memories of the sixties.
Indorsed by Sons of United Confederate Veterans.
Thomas M. Owen, Commander in Chief U. S. C. V., writes:
"Send me twenty-five copies of your 'Address,' and I will
forward to our several Department and Division Commanders
with request that they unite with the Veteran in the pro-
posed appeal planned by Gen. C. A. Evans. I am glad to re-
spond favorably to your request of the 19th inst."
Commander in Chief Owen sends the following signatures:
Thomas M. Owen, Commander in Chief.
George R. Wyman, Commander Army N. Va. Dept.
R. E. L. Bynum, Commander Army Tenn. Dept.
J. M. Tisdal, Commander Trans-Miss. Dept.
Clarence J. Owens, Commander Ala. Div.
H. J. McCallum, Commander Fla. Div.
A. M. Sea, Jr., Commander Ky. Div.
Ralston F. Green, Commander La. Div.
J. Mercer Garnett. Jr., Commander Md. Div.
George Bell Timmerman, Commander S. C. Div.
L. E. Mathis, Commander Tenn. Div.
J. S. Hilliard, Commander Texas Div.
James P. Banks. Commander Va. Div.
The foregoing is sent forth with inexpressible gratitude.
To have merited the unselfish service of such representatives
of the greatest organizations of the South completely fills all
ambition. The responsibility, intensified by this indorsement,
however, bestirs afresh to labor on harder than ever to fulfill
as nearly as practicable the demands hereby increased.
Gratefully, S. A. Cunningham.
THE MEDIC AlIdEFICERS' CONTENTIOX.
FROM SECRETARY DR. DEERING J. ROBERTS.
The tenth annual meeting of the Association of Medical
Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy will be
held in Richmond at the same time as the Reunion of the U.
C. V. The meetings of the Association of Medical Officers
will be held in the hall of the Y. M. C. A. of the street rail-
way, quite near the auditorium in which the General Reunion
exercises will take place, and at such time as will least con-
flict with the most interesting features of the General Re-
union.
While the objects of the Association of Medical Officers are
largely social and for the purpose of again bringing together
comrades and associates of trying and most eventful days, a
more important one is to collect and place before the public,
while the participants are yet alive, as much as may be pos-
sible of the important facts pertaining to the remarkable his-
tory of the medical department of the army and navy of the
Confederacy. Among the first houses destroyed by fire at
the evacuation of our capital by our army were the two in
which were stored the records, reports, and papers of the
surgeon general ; and, although many of the historical facts
of the great War between the States from 1861 to 1865 have
found a place in the numerous volumes comprising the "Com-
pilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies," published by the National Congress, the details per-
taining to the medical department of the Confederate army
and navy are very meager indeed.
Our Association so far has been the means of establishing
some very important historical facts and of correcting some
very material errors, and now ere it is too late, as our ranks
are so rapidly thinning and our memories are becoming
dimmed by the relentless movement of time— more especially
as this year the meeting will be so accessible to many of the
survivors who were active participants in the important, bril-
liant, self-sacrificing, and heroic part borne by the medical
staff — it is sincerely hoped that more will be accomplished
than at any preceding meeting.
Qoi}federat^ V/eterai>
All members of the medical profession who served as sur-
geon, assistant surgeon, contract physician, acting assistant
surgeon, hospital steward, or chaplain during the War between
the States shall be eligible to membership, and the Secretarj
will he instructed to enroll their nam:s as such when applica-
tion in writing is furnished, together with a statement of the
official position and rank held in the armj qj nay) ba the
applicant
All Confederate veterans who are regular doctors of medi-
cine are eligible to membership as associate members, and all
01 of < '■■iii derat( veterans who are regular docti irs of m
cine shall he eligible to membership as junior members, They
all have the same rights and privileges on the floor of tin
Association at its meetings, and differ only in name to indi-
cate the several classes forming our Association. The mem-
bership fee is i. ni dollar: and the annual dues, paid by all
only at subsequent meetings which thej attend, are one dol-
lar. * * *
Gallant, heroic, and enviable as were the acts and deeds of
the rani; and file ol thi I out derate army and navy, so also
were those of he matchless and unparalleled corps of Con-
federate surgeons and their assistants both in field and hos-
pital work. The ports of the world closed against them, med
ical and hospital supplies declared contraband of war In i
powerful foe equipped with a large navy, depending on an
originality most remarkable and unsurpassed, developing the
of tluir fields and forests, their fertile hills and
their mountain sides, valleys, and rolling plains, with
kindly lean-, lender hands, and untiring n to duty,
with .in indomitable will, unflinching courage, and tireless
iiiriei the) cared for the sick and wounded of their six hun-
tnd comrades, needy, ill-clad, and most meagerly
fed. in heal "i" summer and cold of winter, by day and by
Bight, in sunshine, in storm, in snow or ram. while contest-
m| life and death with nearly three million
of their fellow men. well equipped and armed, and with the
i the win >le world at their heck and call. They
had also to provid medical and surgical care For two hundred
entj thousand of their adversaries who had been cap-
tured, and that they did 50 mosl humanely and successfully
ii sti d bj ili i.i i that i ■ 'in thou and 1 ss of these died
in their hands than met a like fate among the two hundred
and twenty thousand of their comrades who were in the
hands of their enemies. * * *
To ih' e who .ii e m >w i ir it th i oming m eting may be-
members of our Association is this duty left, a duty in-
cumbent on them for the sake of theil • Oi iates who are ii"
more and as a legacy for their descendants and ours. All
that is asked is that the true facts of our history during those
days may hr pri erved Ever) one t ma is requested
to prep. in i paper containing some facl of the past that he
may deem worthy of preservation Short, practical state-
ment- of whal you may have observed at some period of your
will !"■ mosl heartily appreciated. Your personal ex
■eriences, whether in field, in hospital, or in prison, cannot
but bi intcn nd by doing your part you will add to
the i.i'!- that have alread) been placed in a proper light by
of our Association Ml who will prepare a piper.
e--a\. or report of cases or incii d to inform
oi postal card addressed to me
at Nashville After that date and prior to the meeting, the
information can bi senl to Dr i W. P. Brock. 20(5 E. Frank-
lin Street, Richmond. Va., Chairman of the Commit!
tngements. so that a programme can be prepared
ARRAl Oi TL1 SHIPS ON HAMPTON ROADS.
Never yet has Norfolk, of old the porl of naval rende
witnessed so imposing an assemblage of war craft as now lies
in the harbor between Old Point Cot I and the Expo
grounds. Though but the advance guard of the great gather-
ing "i lints that will lie here during the Exposition, thi
is impressive not only for it- numbers and power hut b)
reason of the fact that it is wholly American. Sixteen tir-t-
class battle ships strung along a line extending three miles.
with a number of secondary craft, make up this stupendous
array of the nation's ocean powtr. presenting a spectacle to
stir the soul of patriotism. Other ships are daily lengthening
this majestic line, and never before have Americans been
privileged to witness the power of the nation in such con
concourse ["his Heel constitutes the greatest assemblage of
American war ships ever held. It is the great new navy Oil
parade, the new navy with which the nation has assumed the
econd plai among the naval powers of the earth. The Heel
is manned with over five hundred officer! and thirteen thou
sand men. Twent) abreast, tins splendid host of American
seamen on the march would take two hours to pass a point.
The passage through this formidable line on one of the
many ferryboats that ply on Norfolk Harbor will arouse the
amazed interest of the dullest, and oik feels that the nation
can never go wrong witn such ships and such men.
/. .1/. ROBINSON, NORTt >\ & CO.
The Veteran takes pride in calling attention to the large
advertisement of the gnat house of J. .M. Robinson, Morton
8 ( o., Louisville, K\ It a like spun were exhibited by the
wholesale trade of the South, widespread interest would be
attracted to its advertising pages. This advertising is 111,1.'
on strict business principles (.'apt. George C. Norton, at the
head, 1- widel) known tor his zeal as a Confederati I h<
progressive and forceful as a citizen. In the recent serious
trouble with the employees of the street railways of Louis
ville Captain Norton was so active and 0 wise in his s.i
gacious work lor adjustment that all the peopl praised him.
Even the street railway employees l.eeame In- anient friends.
and the press of the city was not slow to acknowledg
great worl in the adjustmi nt.
./ STATEM1
t '1 \. 1 \ '. Ol 1 May I. [907.
To the Confedera 11 Vl I 1 KAN.
Rel rring to a petition and series ol resolutions concerning
the Robert 1'attoii Chapter, issued to Southern Legislatures
b) the K E Lee I hapter, of Columbus, 1 duo. , p of which
appeared in your last issue, the former Chapter's Advisor)
Board of men desire to mak the following statement While
regn one that it must do so, since the matter concerns two
of wi 'lin n. mi common justii and a ensi of thi vei
naiur of the' said utteranc< require that it shall
1 done and in measure regardless of whom 11 may most
IK ■ ly concern
The Robert Patton Chapter, incorporated under the laws
of Ohio, founded and organized 1 onfed rate work in Ohio
At the primary convention, which 11 called at Columbus for
the purpose of organizing the State into a Division for me-
morial purposes and bi fore any committ 1 ap
ed, the R I L Chaptei presented a printed constitu-
tion and by-laws for the governmenl of that body, of which
no one (not even the 1 ee Chapter, as it is said) had pr
This instrument sought to violate the funda-
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mental laws of the National Society. The Robert Patton
Chapter very naturally refused to indorse its use. made formal
protest, and declined to affiliate with that body until the Na-
tional Society had passed upon its legality. A petition, setting
forth the desire of this Chapter to see the work in Ohio prop-
erly begun, was laid before the Board of the General Order,
which, while realizing the justice of the Chapter's protest, re-
fused to interfere with the methods — no matter what the
nature — of a State.
The unjust and illogical statement of the National President
of the U. D. C. before the order at San Francisco, in conven-
tion, concerning this Chapter was not, by the advice of this
Advisory Board, answered. (This Chapter, we turn aside to
say, has endeared itself to this Board by its unfailing acqui-
escence in its suggestions, i Nor to the said petition and reso-
lutions from the Lee Chapter will it. by our advice, make
answer. To 1"- as brief as consistent with facis necessary to
be told, we will say that Mrs, Mary Patton Hudson. President
of the Board of Trustees of the Johnson's Island Cemetery.
was advised and duly authorized by the general and local
board? t" visit Legislatures of the South with the view of
soliciting aid from those States the dust of whose many sons
lie in the prison graveyards of Ohio. The letters of Gen.
Basil W. Duke, of the General Board, and Joseph A. Mag-
of the Local Board, were recognized by the executives of
thi Slates and the appropriation committees as sufficient
guarantee of the bearer and her mission.
Smce the failure of the National Society to uphold the
righteousness of it- protest, this Chapter has been engaged
as an independent organization in the only memorial work
undertaken in Ohio.
It is needless to tell of the success of this Chapter. From
Maine to the Gulf have pagans been heard for its achieve-
ment-. It has bought and fully paid for the Confederate
C metery on Johnson's Island. Ohio, where lie some three
hundred and seventy-five officers of the Southern army. (The
War Department has lately sent a number of names unre-
corded in the original list.) Besides this purchase, it has paid
$1,000 upon a bronze monument being made by Sir Moses
Ezekiel to be erected there. For this and the shaft it hopes to
rear in Camp Chase (where the revised list shows 3,650 sol-
diers are buried) aid was asked of the Southern States. The
generous recognition of the justness of this cause by the
honored soldier-Governor, B. F. Comer, of Alabama, and the
committees on appropriation was most gratifying. That
Striate appropriated $3,-250. The bill was not opposed by the
1 louse; but, owing to the sudden death of the Speaker, will
not be concluded until July. Gov. Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
has given encouragement to the appeal, and an appropriation
is expected to be made in that State also in July. Tennessee
cordially indorsed the object and passed a bill for its aid.
The said petitions and resolutions sent to Southern States
were received with much disfavor, resulting in much good for
the Robert Patton Chapter.
Sir Moses Ezekiel. appreciating the memorial spirit of the
Chapter, made it the offer to complete two bronze monuments,
one for Johnson's Island and the other for Camp Chase, for
less than the price of one, contributing his model and labor
free. It will be remembered that he was a soldier in the
Army of Northern Virginia. It was through the advice of
prominent Legislatures and this Board that contributions
should be solicited for both cemeteries at one time. The War
Department has issued to this Chapter the right to erect a
monument in Camp Chase. The said petition and resolutions
declare that "the arch built there some years ago is in the
immediate forefront of the cemetery." This is a mistake.
It is very improperly placed in the very center of the grave-
yard. It is the desire of this Chapter to remove this arch to
the gateway, where it belongs, leaving space for the statue
it will erect there.
This statement is meant to be in nowise derogatory to Colo-
nel Knauss and his work for the cemetery. This arch was
bought and entirely paid for by Col. W. P. Harrison, of Cin-
cinna'.i, without the aid of any one. Colonel Knauss was en-
gaged by Colonel Harrison to carry out his [Harrison's] idea.
Colonel Harrison is a member of this Advisory Board.
Mrs. Carrol, Presid.nt of the R. E. Lee Chapter, when she
heard of the desire of the Robert Patton Chapter to reset
the arch, leaving place for the s'atue, and that the names of
the- dead would appear upon the base of the shaft (thus ob-
viating markers), expressed regret that she had approved the
petition and resolutions, which were not formulated by her,
she said, but sent by Mrs. Hosea, President of the Ohio Di-
vision, for the Lee Chapter's action.
It is easy to realize that the Robert Patton Chapter is not
responsible for the lack of accomplishment by the Ohio Di-
vision. To quote the words of Gen. S. D. Lee when he de-
preciated action against it upon merely technical grounds:
"If those dear daughters of the Robert Patton Chapter do not
finish this work, it will never be done." The U. D. C. Di-
vision of Kentucky, concurring in the appeal of its Presi-
dent, is joining this Chapter in mortuary work on Johnson's
Island, and will erect there an arch above the gateway as
a tribute from Kentucky to the dead sons of the South. Mrs.
Basil W. Duke is the zealous chairman of this committee,
She has always given full meed of sympathy and encourage-
ment to this Chapter.
It is not believed that Mrs. Hudson, whose name appears in
that most remarkable petition and resolutions, needs defense
at our hands. Descended from many of the most honored
families of the South, she is well known there and has large
influence in this city. Her courage against all odds, ability in
organization, and, above all, her astounding self-sacrifice have
won the highest regard of this board, and be it to the shame
of woman or man who seeks to criticise her endeavors. It is
not forgotten that it is the heroic soldier dead who is thus
betrayed through such unholy war. Memorial Associations,
hundreds of Chapters of the U. D. C, and every veteran who
fought for the army of the Old South are valiant friends of
this Chapter. That no unworthy act against its purposes will
affect its future, there remains no doubt. That its fame will
be perpetuated in bronze is an already assured fact.
That 1 he Georgia Soldiers' Home was given $200 by this
Chapter. Kentucky Home $250, the Davis Monument Fund
$250, the statue of General Forrest and many other Southern
monuments benefited by its largess, is well known. Over
$7,000 has been made and spent by the Chapter in its eight
years of existence. By its fruits the world knows it.
By order of the Local Board: Joseph A. Magnus, Chair-
man : B. T. Farmer. Samuel McDonald, R. I. Reynolds, R.
I. Patton. W. P. Harrison, and J. C. Rogers, Attorney.
Genc.al Board: Gen. Basil W. Duke, Chairman; Gen. M.
J. Wright, Tennessee; Gen. K. M. VanZandt. Texas; Gen.
W. A. Wright, Georgia ; Col. R. E. Park, Georgia ; Dr. Thomas
Owen, Alabama ; Dr. I. W. Jones, Virginia ; Gen. James I.
Metts. North Carolina; Hon. I. T. Mack, Ohio; Capt. W. H.
Harrison, Georgia; Col. S. W. John. Alabama; Col. Joseph
Bryan, Virginia; Capt. J. W. Morton, Tennessee.
Qopfederatf? l/eterai}.
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s/ RIES OF C OJVFi /'/ A'. 1/7: SCENES.
An Enterprise by tiii Sol minx \rt PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Some months ago several gentlemen of Nashville, Tenn.,
engaged Mr. Gilliert Gaul, of New York City, to paint a
series of magnificent pictures, each one to be a masterpiece,
depicting the courage, sacrifice, heroism, sufferings, and home
life of the Confederate soldier during the Civil War. Tiny
organized the Southern \n Publishing Company, whose ob
jeel was to "crystallize on canvas the magnificent deeds of
daring and love which distinguished the ( onfederate soldier,"
for which work Mr Gilbert Gaul, National Academician, is
MR. GILBERT CAUL, THE ARTIST.
probably the mosi suitable man in America. The President
Of the National Academy d seniles Mr. Gaul as the best-
linter i f war scenes in the country, and his splen-
did canvases hang in the mosl famous of all art collections.
There are to he twelve paintings, .^\-44 inches in si/e. which
.11 being reduced in color [5x19 (in New York City). They
are embossed, -o as to give the perfect canvas effect, repro
.v shade of ton< and motif The) are to hi sold
at popular prices in portfolio Eorm, so that ever) Southern
may have pleasing reminders of this valuable het
and devol it n
Mr. C. II Brandon, ol Nashville, President of the Brandon
Printing Company, is the President of the Southern \n Pub
lishing Company, and is foremost m practical art production
Hi has the finest engraving plant in the South He ha
lociated with him repres ntative business men. such as Mi
Henry Speri Di Gordon White, and E W. Foster, who are
officers and stockholders of the compan)
The ■ s. , 1 Veteran indorses thi movement cor-
dially Half of the painting nished.
The critical public will first of all want to know about the
artist. Mr. Gilbert Gaul is now m the prime of life. Born
in Jersey City, N. J., in 1855, he began systematic stud) al
the age of seventeen years under T. G. Brown, conspicuous in
the art world for his bootblacks, and whose picture. "Heels
Over Head." representing a group of jolly, mischievous boys
at play, took the popular prize at the rennessee Centennial
I ^position, ten years ago.
Vfter six years under Professor Brown, Mi Gaul opened a
studio of his own and married. In 1881 he was elected an
Associate Member in the National Academy and in 1882
a full Member. He was also elected a Member of the Society
of American Artists that year.
Mr. Gaul's inclination primaril) was to enter the navy; but
that having been decided against his inclination, he next de-
sired to paint, and. naturally enough, he took to militar) sub-
jects, lie worked in New York at Ins profession for several
yi 11 : but, inheriting five thousand acres ,,f coal land 111 I'-'
nessee, he came to possess it, remaining in the St.-u 11 1
t88l to 1885, and again he was in the Tennessee mountains
from 1891 to [895. In all this time he has been zealous in his
art. and has made .111 international reputation 111 Ins specialt)
His "Charging the Battery" has taken medals in Paris, Chica-
go, and Buffalo Expositions, and his "Holding the Line .11
All Hazards" look a medal at the American Art Association.
An idea of his exalted place in the ail world may lie seen I ■ ^
his having been selected to make the frontispiece in three ol
the foul great Century war books
\ scrapbook secured from Mr. Gaul creates fascination for
his work. In a long review of an art cxlnlni in New York,
containing eight hundred subjects, the Commercial Vdvertisei
gives special prominence to Gilbert Gaul's "Storming tli Bat
tery." It states of the picture: "It is marvelous in effect, e\
cellent in composition. Every one should go and see this
prime work of art. The purchaser has secured a gem."
Tin New York Tribune, in commenting upon a collection
of "American Art" at the Cniou I eague Club, says: "Nothing
is so important as Mr. Gaul's two military pictures." Vnd
the \"ew York Times. ni commenting upon a picture of Con-
federate cavalr) escaping by a ferry much too small for the
need of the occasion, says: "He has rendered very excellently
the agony of battle, arousing sympathy for the defeated "
Thi' subjects SO far made .if the twelve to he ill the set are:
-I eaving Home," "Holding the I. me at All Hazards." "Wail-
ing for Dawn." "The Ticket. The Forager," and "Bi
the Lines." An outline of the first one, "Leaving Home," will
give an idea of the character of the work.
[his first picture of the series, "Leaving Home," repri et
a young man bidding the family gOOd-by, while his
wait outside the door holding two horses. The yellow trim-
nungs of the uniform denote a cavalryman, while the [at
insignia of rank shows him to bi a private The artist himself
says. "1 tried to make him look oi j il soldierl) stuff," and
he succeeded admirably, lie comes oi fighting -lock.
dicated by the Mexican War pieo with its oh] flintlock an!
the old sword hanging on th< .'..ill. besides, on the wall hangs
trait of a Revolutionarj ancestor. The surroundings in-
dim to be a man of 1, tti > I he toller gives his sol-
on parting words of advici to winch the young man re-
spectfull) listens, but with thai air of con i his ability
to meet all conditions and cue , in to youth.
II,,. entire household i- gathered about tin house servants
to show tlmr sympathy for tin old master and mi-tress, while
th,. .1.1,1 i i oling ih mother, who is in tears.
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SPECIAL TRAIN NASHVILLE TO RICHMOND, VA., AND RETURN.
ROUTE VIA NASHVILLE. CHATTANOOGA. AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY TO ATLANTA.
SEABOARD AIR LINE TO RICHMOND.
A special train, consisting of Pullman Sle.pers, Reclining
Chair Cars, comfortable Day Coaches and Baggage Car, and
carrying the two Nashville Companies of Confederate Vet-
erans, Troop A and Company B, to the Richmond Reunion,
will leave Nashville afternoon of Monday, May 27th, and
will run through to Richmond without change, arriving (here
Tuesday afternoon. May 28th. at 5 o'clock. Route as follows:
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. to Atlanta.
Seaboard Air Line Ry. to Richmond.
This special has not been arranged for the exclusive use of
the Nashville Companies, but for their friends and the genera!
public as well, and an urgent invitation is also extended to
the Confederate Camps to join Troop A and Company B 011
this trip and all go together on same train. If necessary, the
special will be operated in two sections, and a comfor'able
and pleasant trip is assured.
Schedule. Going.
Monday, May 27th.
Leave Nashville X., C. & St. L. Ry 3:00 p.m.
Leave Chattanooga W. & A. R. R S:oo p.m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 NT.
Tuesday. May 2xth.
Leave Atlanta S. A. L. Ry. (C) 12:30 A. M.
Arrive Richmond (E) 5:00 P.M.
(C) Central time. (E) Eastern time.
Richmond to Jamestown Exposition Down Historic
James River.
Leave Richmond by boat Wednesday morning, May 2gth.
day ride down the historic James River, pass all points of
interest, go through the great naval vessels of the world as-
sembled in front of the Exposition grounds, visit the Exposi-
tion and return to Richmond in time for the Reunion. Special
low rate for $1.50 round trip Richmond to Jamestown Ex-
position
Returning from Richmond.
Special train will leave Richmond shortly after the parade
and unveiling of Davis monument, Monday, June 3d, arriving
Chattanooga Tuesday morning and Nashville Tuesday after-
noon, June 4th.
The Route.
The route selected is especially interesting to the old Veteran
from the fact that almost every foot of the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & St. Louis Ry. from Nashville to Chattanooga and At-
lanta is hallowed ground. Afttr leaving Nashville the first
point of interest is the battlefield of Stone's River, two miles
from Murfreesboro, where one of the most desperate battles of
the Civil War was fought. The beautiful cemetery on the
battlefield may be seen from the train, right-hand side; Mur-
freesboro is next, then on through the thriving towns of Bell-
buckle, Wartrace, Tullahoma, Decherd, and Cowan. Two
miles beyond Cowan is the tunnel which divides Middle from
East Tennessee. Beyond the tunnel the scenery is very wild
and beautiful. After descending the mountain and before
reaching Cha'tanooga the road dips into Alabama and Georgia,
then back into Term ssee again. At Bridgeport the scenery is
very picturesque. Mountain spurs interlock, peaks and ridges
rise on every side. At Whiteside grand old Lookout Moun-
tain is brought into view. The tracks of the N., C. & St. L.
Ry. pass right at the foot of this historic mountain, which
rises 1.700 feet above you, the Tennessee River washing the
very base of the mountain to the left, forming "Moccasin
Bend." Chattanooga is situated in a loop formed by the river
and is one of the most historic cities in the South. In the
station will be found the old engin; "General." Near by are
the battlefields of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. From
Chattanooga to Atlanta the route lies over the old W. & A.
R. R.. which in the sixties was almost one continuous battle-
field. Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Graysville. Ringgold.
Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face. Mill Cr.ek. Dug Gap, Resaca.
Adairsville, Allatoona, Big Shanty. Brushy Mountain, Kenne-
saw Moun'ain, Smyrna, Peach Tree Creek, and Atlanta. From
Atlanta to Richmond the route is over the Seaboard Air Line,
through the cities of Athens. Greenwood. Clinton and Chester.
S. C. ; Monroe. Hamlet. Southern Pines Raleigh and Hender-
son, X. C.. and Petersburg. Va.
The following rates
from points named :
Albertville. Ala $14 30
Aliens Creek, Tenn 17 30
Belle Buckle, Tenn 13 SO
Benton, Ky 16 SO
Boaz, Ala 14 30
Bridgeport, Ala 13 10
Centreville, Tenn IB 25
Chattanooga. Trim ... 1! 2 5
Columbia, Tenn 14 10
Cowan. Tenn 13 15
Decherd. Tenn 13 30
Dickson. Tenn 15 05
Fayetteville, Tenn 14 10
Gibbs, Tenn 16 SO
Guntersville, Ala 14 30
Hobbs Island, Ala 14 30
Huntingdon, Tenn 16 SO
Hickman. Ky 17 45
Huntsville. Ala 13 60
Jackson, Tenn 16 SO
Johnsonville, Tenn 16 15
Lebanon, Tenn 13 SO
Lexington, Tenn 16 SO
Rates.
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an 1 r turn will apply
.Mai-tin. Tenn S 1 .', SO
McKenzie, Tenn 16 SO
Memphis, Tenn 17 So
McMinnville, Tenn 14 75
Murfreesboro, Tenn.... 13 SO
Murray, Ky 16 SO
Nashville, Tenn 13 SO
New Market, Ala 13 60
Paducah, Ky '6 30
Paris, Tenn 16 SO
Perryville. Tenn 17 55
Pikeville, Tenn 13 85
Sewanee. Tenn 13 50
Shelbyville, Tenn 14 05
Somerville, Tenn 17 35
South Pittsburg, Tenn.. 12 25
Stevenson, Ala 12 40
Tullahoma, Tenn 13 70
Union City, Tenn 17 00
Wartrace, Tenn 13 SO
Waverlv. Tenn 15 SO
Whiteville, Tenn 17 35
Winchester, Tenn 13 40
Dates of Sale and Limit.
Tickets will be sold May 26th to 30th, inclusive, with final
limit to leave Richmond not later than June nth, 1007.
Extension of Limit.
By deposit of ticket with special agent in Richmond and
payment of fee of fifty cents (50c.) an extension of limit
may b; secured until July 6. 1907.
Space in Sleeping Cars.
For space in sleeping cars make application to W. M. Hunt.
City Ticket Agent, X., C. & St. L. Ry., Nashville, Tenn.. ac-
companied by remittance. Rate for double berth Nashville
to Richmond in Standard Sleeper, $5.00, in Tourist, $2.50.
Additional Information
Addi'ional information and a copy of "Southern Battle-
fields" will be cheerfully furnished upon application to W. L.
Danley, G. P. A., X.. C. & St. L. Ry.. Nashville. Tenn.
Qoofederatc? l/eteran.
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beak, Tenn. ; John W. Cox gives no of-
fice ; C. S. Dwight. from Newberry, S.
C. ; G. W. Hammer, from Franklin, W.
Va. ; W. J. Barnes wants his address
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I (no previous address) ; a check comes
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NASHVILLE, TENN , JUNE, 1907.
No. C.
I S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
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UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
BY MRS. L1ZZI] GEORG] HENDERSON; PRESIDENT.
In, Chairman of the William P. Rogers Monument Com-
mittee of tin Chapter by tliat name in Victoria, Tix.. asks my
advice and help in th : matter of raising funds for that monu-
ment to be erected to the memory of the great Confederate
who gave his life so gloriously .a Fort Robinette, near Corinth,
Miss, and to be erected on the spot where lie fell. The
Corinth Chapter has bought the ground all around it. and is
raising money now to make it a beautiful park — Rogers Park —
and the William P. Rogers Chapter is to erect in this park.
On the spot marked by his country's enemies as the place
where this brave man fell, a monument to commemorate his
daring act in which he was killed, lie was born in Mississippi,
and Willi from Ins native State in a regiment commanded by
Col. Jefferson Davis to help light for his country in the War
with Mexico. He afterwards moved to Texas, and was had-
ing a Texas brigade whin he was killed. Is it not appropriate
for these two Chapters to establish and beautify the place of
his death and to erect on the spot hallowed by such a death
a monument to perpetuate the memory of it throughout all
age-' \nd is it n, it lilting that 1 should speak all the words
tmw ■ A
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01 n\n Rl CERS \
of encouragement 1 can as the representative of the U. D. C?
lo show you that there are no two opinions of the estimate
placed on such men, 1 copy the following letter from a man
who was in the Union army and wdio saw hi- death. The
letter is addressed to Mrs. Brownson, Chairman of the Wil-
liam P. Rogers Monument Committee:
"New York, November 27, [906
"Dear Minium: In my recent interview with you at Go>
ernor's Island 1 spoke to you of Col. William P. Rogers, of
Texas, and promised lo send you some account of his death.
"The battle of Corinth occurred on October 3 and 4. [862.
General Rosecrans commanded our forces and Generals Price
and Van Dom commanded the Confederates. On the 3d we
got the worst of it. and were forced into the Union breast-
works; but on the t-|th the real battle began by a fierce assault
On our lims. which for a time threatened to carry everything.
The 17th Wisconsin, of McArthur's Brigade, of which I was
adjutant, was placed in a position to defend Fort Robinette,
which was occupied by a regular battery.
"We bad cut down several acres of timber in our front,
forming an abatis as we felled the lues, so that all the ti ps
pointed toward the foe. The limbs were trimmed and sharp-
ened. It made a very formidable obstruction.
"After .in artillery duel 111 the early morning, there was .1
lull, the Confederates no doubt getting their assaulting col-
umns in position and we waiting for them. Suddenly we saw
a magnificent brigade emerge from the timber into the open
in our front. They were formed in two lines of battle. I he
-mi glistened on their bayonets a- they came forward at right
shoulder shift in perfect order, a grand but terrible sight.
At their In ad. in front of the center, rode the commander,
a man of inn physique, in tin prime of life, ipiiel and cool, as
though he were taking his brigade 011 a drill Up lo this time
lin re was no tiring on cither side, when suddenl] our artillery
opened and the infantry followed, and pandemonium reigned.
lb, Confederates were tearing their way through the fallen
limbers, and. notwithstanding the slaughter, wire getting
closer and closer. Their commander seemed 10 bear a charmed
in. Still on horseback, be was commanding and urging bis
men, gomg straight for Fori Robinette Before he had realized
it he had jumped his horse" across the ditch in from of the
guns, and was m the midst of us There he was shot dead
with sunn- of the soldiers who g, t through with him. Then
we learned who it was Colonel Rogers, of the 2d 1
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commanding a Texas brigade. When he fell, the battle in our
front was over. His brigade disappeand. How many es-
caped of the gallant brigade we never knew, but the slaughter
« as terrible.
"We laid the body of Colonel Rogers reverently in the shade
and covered his face with an overcoat. When the battle was
ended. General Rosecrans came over and asked us to uncover
the face. He said: 'He was one of the bravest men that ever
led a charge. Bury him with military honors and mark his
grave, so bis friends can claim him. The time will come when
there will be a monument here to commemorate his bravery.'
"This we did. and a few years ago I made a pilgrimage to
Corinth and found the grave still there, marked as we had
marked it. but there is no monument. Surely this is wrong.
The great State of Texas is full of men who love heroism and
who are generous enough to see that a monument is erected
to Colonel Rogers worthy of him and worthy of the State.
"With best wishes, 1 remain yours sincerely,
John Crane."
Daughters of the Conf deracy. will we allow a stranger.
one who fought against him. to show more appreciation of
such a man than do we. the discendan's of the men who
fought with him ? Can we longer allow this spot where fell this
great soldier to lie neglected? Will we sit quietly with folded
hands and leave all the building of this monument to these two
Chapters? Do we not want — all of us — to show to the world
that such a man belonged to all of us, to the Confederacy?
Can you point to another instance like it in all our history?
Is such a death so small a thing that we can longer neglect
to commemorate it ? Most of the Chapters in the South are
already engaged in some monument work; but you, Chapters
in the North, could, if you would, do much for this work.
Even the Chapters who are least able to do because of other
work can do something. Mississippi, his native State and in
whose soil he lies, and Texas, jn whose service he died. will,
if your Chapters ask for it, give nice sums for this monument.
On the 7th of May I went, upon the invitation of the Ala-
bama Division, to the unveiling of the beautiful monument it
has erected on the battlefield of Shiloh to the Alabama sol-
diers who were in that battle. It is a magnificent piece of
work, and I am sure you will heartily indorse the words of
congratulation I spoke on your behalf on that occasion. In
the Union lines monument after monument stands as a re-
minder that the North is proud of her sons who fought on
that bloody field, while all the territory occupied by the sol-
diers of the South lies bare of such testimonies except for
this monument recently unveiled by the Alabama Division,
U. D. C, and one erected to the killed of the 2d Tennessee
Regiment, commanded by Col. (but later Major General and
United States Senator) William B. Bate— this last erected
by their comrades.
Daughters of the Confederacy, see that your States remedy
this shameful neglect; and if you can't get your States to do
their duty, follow the example of the Alabama Division and
do it yourselves. For three thousand dollars each Division
could erect a monument to the soldiers from her State, and
then when there shall stand on the spot where Albert Sidney
Johnston fell the monument built by the whole U. D. C.
through your Shiloh Monument Committee we shall be satis-
fied. Can I make you see the importance of these monuments
to the soldiers from the South in the four great battlefield
parks? If you could realize the effect it has on those who
go through those parks and see so many .monuments to the
soldiers from the North and so pitifully few to our brave
Southern men, knowing the South lost those battles through
no fault of her soldiers, you could not keep out of the work.
O, Daughters of the Confederacy, there are so many, so very
many things for us to do, and we have so little to do it with !
As long as we put a ten-cent valuation on the needs of
our order, will we be able to do much? Think of all the
things we must accomplish, and then put opposite it the pitiful
ten cents each of us pays into the treasury of the U. D. C.
each year ; and if your cheeks do not burn, then I have mis-
undirstood in estimating the great love you have, or should
have, for the Confederacy and those who served her. Don't
say to yourselves and to each other: "Our President wants
too much. She must not expect us to do more than we are
doing now. We can't." If you could see the needs as I see
them, if you could see the opportunity for great things loom-
ing at our very door as I see them, you would go at it all
with the energy and the determination to win! Let us do all
that any heart could want us to do in honoring such men as
I am telling you about herein.
Out of all this great world we are the only ones the great
dei ds of our Confederate men and women can appeal to with
any hope of success. Will we too fail them? Will we allow
the wheels of our progress in accomplishing things to be ham-
pered and bound by this ten-cent rut we have slipped into
when we were small and before we realized how much there
is for us to do? I wonder if we do, all of us, realize all there-
is for us to do ! Do you know that if these things are not
started within the next five, ten, or twenty years at latest they
will never be done? Let us arise in our power in this the
ebb tide of our life as an association and. fitting our shoulders
to the yoke of service — and selfless service, too — make the
service so beautiful that when our shoulders are weak with
age younger shoulders will take our places and on and on
from shoulder to shoulder the work as long as the world
lasts. While in this beautiful and much-needed work we per-
petuate the .greatest monument which could ever be built to
our heroes and heroines — the United Daughters of the Con-
fedi racy — a monument with thousands of tongues to tell to
the children of the South through all the ages "the glory of
the story of the men who wore the gray."
When you read this, the greatest work we as an association
have ev.r done will be finished and unveiled to the view of
the world. Meet, indeed, that the first great work we ever
did should be to honor the memory of the great President of
the Southern Confederacy. The South is proud of us for this _
work. Let each milestone in our existence be marked by such
a work finished. The Jefferson Davis Monument Association
could tell you a pitiful tale of hard work and ceaseless in pro-
curing this monument. Suppose that instead of five hundred
or a thousand dollars a year we could have given ten or
fifteen thousand a year for this monument ! And, Daughters
of the Confederacy, we could do it if we would. There is not
one of us who could not make one dollar a year to pay into
the general treasury. You know it as well as I do. What is
one dollar a year to each of us when we think of all the great
things we could do with it? If I could take you with me into
the vista of my ambition for the U. D. C. and have you look
with me down the years in front of us and see on each side
great work after great work all down the life of the world,
you would be so fascinated with the view that you would
start with a double-quick step toward the accomplishment of
those things, and the very first step you would take would
be to pay a dollar each year into the general treasury.
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At last I have succeeded in getting prices on the picture- of
Gen. R. E. Lee, which I am urging that you put in the public
schools all over the South during this his centennial year. I
have seen the live-dollar and ten-dollar pictures, and they are
very fine. The first is plain print, and the last is India print.
But if any of you wish to have finer ones, you can get the
signed artist proof on vellum and the signed artist proof on
India paper, the price on t he first heing fifty dollars and the
other twenty-five dollars — all of these to be ordered through
the Corresponding Secretary General. If this is done, you get
them for just half the price. But all orders must be accom-
panied with post office or express money order for the
amount and a two-cent stamp to forward the order with. The
pictures will be sent direct to you, so give your address on
.1 separate sheet of paper that it may be inclosed with the
order. And all orders must be made payable to John A.
Lowell Bank Note Co., Boston, Mass.
I shall advise my own Chapter to get the live-dollar one, as
thai will he as good as any one need want. The advertisement
for the pictures quotes Miss Mary Custis Lee as saying: "It
i- .1 beautiful piece of engraving and the most thoroughly satis-
factory likeness "f my father that I have seen." 1 hope thai
when 1007 is among the years that are pasl everj schoolhouse
in the South will have a picture of our peerless leader in it.
I have planned to go to visit some of the Chapters in the
Northern cities right after the unveiling, and so I won't have
an article for you in the July Veteran. Any letters you have
to send me before my return, about the 15th of June, send here,
and they will be forwarded to me; but leave all that can be
h ft until after my return.
The address of the Corresponding Secretary U. D. C. is
Mi- Annie W. Rapley, 2816 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo.,
and that of the Treasurer until afier the U. D. C. Convention
in November is Mrs L. E. Williams, Daughters of the Con-
ey Building, Jamestown Imposition, Norfolk, Va.
Those of you who have not sent for the minutes of the
Gulfport Convention do so now. You have no idea how it
will help you with your work to read of how other Chapters
are doing theirs. Don't adjourn for the summer until you
have taken some action about a box for the U. 1). C. bazaar
to be held in Norfolk in the fall. Our First Vice President
lii entire charge of it; and if you will all do all you can to
help it, it will be a great success. The U. D. C. needs the
. and we certainly do not want to fail with this, when
we had such brilliant success with the bazaar held for the
benefit of tin Davis monument. We can all make something
pretty for it while we are having our summer rest. So let
ighter fail us.
DAUGHTERS .1/' THE PI GR1 SS.
BY MRS. JAMES 11 PARKER, CHAIRMAN N. v DELEGATION, 1 D I
The National Peace Congress, held in Carnegie Hall. New
York City, April 14-17, 1007. opened on Sunday night with
an audience which packed the immense building from pit to
dome. Appropriate addresses were made and choral services
were rendered by the Oratorio Society of New York.
The New York Chapter. I". !> C, was represented by a
delegation consisting of Mrs. Richard Waller Jones. Second
President, Mrs, Livingston Rowe Schuyler, Mrs. Charles
ldsborough, and Mr- James Henri Parker, There were
pecial seats assigned anj patriotic society, the delegate.-.
-eating themselves in the most accessible places after passing
through the throngs which lined the sidewalks for hours be-
ing; SO, while all were faithful in attendance.
the delegations at no session were able to sit together Ad-
dresses wire made by the Re\ John M Farley, Archbishop of
New York; the Rev. Henry C. Potter. Bishop of New York;
Rabin Emil C. llirseh; lion. George B. McClellan, Mayor of
New York: Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, Washing-
ton; Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Governor of New York; \u
drew Carnegie, Esq., President of the National Arbitration
and Peace Congress; Baron 1). Estournelles de Constant,
Member of the French Senate; Hon Oscai S Straus, Secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor; W. T. Stead, Esq., Editor
Review of Reviews, London; Col. Sir Robert Cranston, Ex-
Local Provost of Edinburgh ; Sir Robert S. Ball, Professor
of Astronomy Cambridge University. The women who spoke
Mr- Lucia Ames Mead, Boston; Mrs. Helen M. Hen-
rotin, Ex-President of tin General Federation of Women's
Clubs, Chicago; Miss Mary E. Woolley, President Mount
Holyoke College for Women, South Hadley, Mass.; Mrs.
Frederick Nathan, President New York Consumers' Leagui :
Mi-s Jan.- \. Id. mi-. Ilr.nl oi Mull House, Chicago I >ne could
not fad 10 be impressed by the clearness and strength and
directness of thought evinced by these members of out
a- they propounded their views. Telegrams of greeting were
read from the President General I*. D. C. and the President
General I). A. R.
An interesting feature of the Congress was the presentation
of a peace flag to Mr. Carnegie by a committee composed of
Mi- Helen Beach Tillottson and Lieut. Richmond P. Hobson,
appointed by the President General D. A. R. then in Con
tinental Congress assembled 111 Washington. The dag u.i- a
beautiful one. representing the national banner surmounted
by a wide border of white satin, on the upper side of which
was inscribed "Peace for All Nations," a dove with an olive
branch resting.upon the top of the staff.
1 in.' oi the most interesting sessions was that devoted to the
school children, live tin -and of whom were present, and they
listened to addresses treating of the horror- and barbarities
of war, rather than dwelling upon its pomp and ceremony.
Senorita Huidobro, of Chile, made a most interesting address
concerning the peace compact between Chile and Argentina
She stated that on one of the highest peaks of the Andes, at
an elevation of fourteen thousand feet, between the two coun-
a colossal statin of 1 In 1-1 had been erected, called the
Christ of the Andes, and bearing on its pi distal this inscrip-
tion: "These mountains -hall crumble to dust ere Argentines
and Chilean.- shall break the peace which at the feel of Christ
the Red emet 1 1 x\ have sworn to maintain." The statue is
unique, being the only one in the world to occupj such a posi-
tion ; and the majestic Christ of the Andes, standing with up-
lifted hand on the mountain far above the turmoil of the
world below, seems to exclaim again as long ago did th
Christ of Nazareth: "My peace 1 give unto you"
Large audience- and great enthusiasm and interest marked
the Peace Congress, but us practical results are only 10 be
determined by time.
[LABAMA'S SHI1 OH MONUMENT.
lii. up by the Alabama Division, U. D. C. May 7. 1907.
Nine years ago the Alabama Division, I D. C.| under Mrs
\\ \ Gayle's wise administration, adopted for its work the
on of monuments on battlefields known a- National Mili-
tary Park- Mrs. I .. < . Dawson, of Montgomery, was made
chairman of the committee, composed of one member from
each Chapter At various tune- appeal- were presented to the
Slur LegislatUl for aid in this work for perpetuating the
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memory of brave deeds of Alabama's sons. Failing to gain
a hearing before the General Assembly (for the bills pro-
pi -ed "mver came from the calendar"), the Division went
bravely forward until such sum was collected a< enabled
them to place a modes! testimonial upon one battlefield.
Seven ytars ago tbe assistant chairman, representing the
Monumental Committee at tbe Eufaula Convention, pleaded
Fi i Shiloh battlefield to receive tbe first memorial stone to be
eree'ed by Alabama Daughters. Mrs. Winn, of Demopolis,
indorsed Mrs. J. X Thompson's appeal, ami by motion tbe co-
operative work for Shiloh was begun.
That tbe monument should have been completed just in
time for tbe Annual Convention, and that the Convention
-In uld meet in tbe section of tbe State nearest tbe battlefield,
and. too. that the Chapter which gave most largely to tbe
fund should number with it- members the President, seemed
most fitting and a coincidence most gratifying.
For tbe trip to the battlefield the Southern Railway granted
a -p cial train to the Alabama Division and its friends to
Riverton. below the shoals in Tennessee River, from which
point the party, by special schedule arranged by the St. Louis
and Tennessee River Packet Company, was conveyed by the
steamer Kentucky to Pittsburg Landing, bordering the park.
That delegates from every part of Alabama might attend the
unveiling ceremonies, special railroad rates were granted on
the round trip.
The entire commission were aboard the boat to meet the
Daughters of Alabama and their friends. Col. Cornelius
Cadle, of Cincinnati. Gen. Basil Duke, of Louisville, Ky..
(uli, nil Ashcraft, of Paducab. Mrs. McKinney. President
Kentucky Division, U. D. C, and Dr. Young, minister from
Cincinnati, accompanied them. Dr. Young, by request, gave
the invocation.
In addition to the party of fifty delegates were Dr. Thomas
M. Owen. State Historian, of Alabama ; Mr. Will Sbeehan,
of the Montgomery Advertiser; and of greatest importance and
appreciation by the entire party, Mrs. Lizzie George Hender-
son, President General U. D. C, who had under most adverse
circumstances journeyed to Tuscumbia in order to make the
pilgrimage with this pa»riot band of men and women.
Vehicles were in waiting, and the crowd of about three hun-
dred were easily conveyed to tbe site of the monument, a
mile away, where Maj. D. W. Reed, the able Secretary of the
Park Commission, had erecttd a platform and seats surround-
ing the monument. The unveiling was most impressive; and,
though the programme wa>^ cut short by tbe unavoidable ab-
sence of some of the speakers, it was most enjoyabl -, and the
day was one of history to Alabama and our country.
Following the exercises, a sumptuous luncheon was spread
on the grounds by the ladies of Tuscumbia and Sheffield, aft r
which the party drove over the interesting parts of the park,
and then returned to the boat, reaching Tuscumbia at 9:30
P.M.
'I he presentation of the monument was made by Mrs. J.
X. Thompson, President Alabama Division, U. D. C, in most
fitting words, to which response was made by Colonel Cadle
for the Park Commission in accepting it. Mrs. Henderson
made a strong address in commendation of the spirit which
had animated the women of Alabama to place this memorial
at Shiloh. saying: "There could not be a more appropriate
thing than for the Alabama Division to be the first of the
I". D. C. to unveil on tbe battkfield of Shiloh a monument
to tbe soldiers from their State who fell in that great battle.
because tbe 1st Alabama Cavalry opened that battle and the
22d Alabama Infantry went into tbe battle with s.ven hundred
and nine ready for duty, and on Monday morning. April 7,
this regiment was one hundred and forty-three strong. For
the battle of Shiloh Alabama furnished about ten infantry
regiments, with several companies in the regiments From other
Stat s, and one cavalry regiment; while Ketchum's, Gage's,
and Robertson's Batteries did such fine work that of the first
Gen. Preston Pond said the safety of bis whole command was
due to Captain Ketchum and his batt ry ; while Generals
Withers and Chalmers spoke in the highest terms of the con-
duct of Gage's Battery, and the gallantry of Robertson's was
the subject of general commendation."
In concluding her remarks Mrs. Henderson urged upon tbe
Alabama Daughters the importance of building more enduring
monuments in the education of the children of their State
through the establishment of scholarships in different institu-
tions of learning and the teaching of history truthfully that
the glory of the men who wore the gray may grow with the
passing years.
Among those invited to attend the exercises and speak on
this significant occasion were the Governors of Alabama and
Tennessee, Gen. S. D. Lee, Commander U. C. V., and General
Harrison, Commander Alabama U. C. V.. but important en-
gagements prevented their attendance. Gen. Basil Duke, of
Kentucky, made the chief address, herewith given in full :
"Not only as a Confederate soldier — as one who served
under the same banner and for the same cause as did those
in whose honor you are here assembled — but as a member of
this Commission who represents the Army of Mississippi, so
many of whose slain are buried beneath this soil, it affords me
peculiar pleasure to assist in the sacr-.d duty you perform.
THE ALABAMA MONUMENT AT SHILOH.
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"It has been a matter of regret to my colleagues and myself
that monuments to the Confederate dead who lie lure have
not been mure generally ereeted. With the exception of this
one we are now dedicating and one other on which i- in-
scribed the name and service upon tin- field of the jd Regi-
ment of Tennessee Confederate Infantry, no appropriate
structure or design to commemorate the valor and devotion
of the Confederate soldier has been reared here where those
qualities were so signally and splendidly illustrate d. Save for
the efforts of this Commission, which in a matter of this kind
must necessarily be imperfect, their last res'ing place- are
unmarked. But surely this work ought to be done, not only
as a labor of love but as a pa'riotic obligation, not only in
justice to the dead hut as a lesson and incentive to the living.
"The Smith has many Mich memorials, it is true, which in
city and hamlet attest her grateful ncoll ction of those who so
freely gave their lives for her sake. In every Southern com-
munity perhaps some such testimonial of respect and aft ction
has bien rendered. Nevertheless, something more should be
done. They should he nared upon the hat tie grounds where
that patriotic blood was shed, where tin- sacrifice was con-
summated. They should appear side- 1,\ side with similai
tokens oi appreciation bestowed by the people of the Northern
Sta'es m honor of their fallen comrades In this way only
can the noble purposes t" winch these parks are dedicated he
p rfected. (July thus can they he made, as it was mt nded
the) sl'niild he made, the chosen and fitting places of national
Reunion, where the national reconciliation may he evinced by
the care with which these heroic ashes are guarded and pain
otic duly he inspired by the emblems of its past performance,
where citizens of a common and reunited country, all former
enmity forgOtt n may meet in amity to recall with proud rc-
membranci the deed- .if .1 -ad but gloriuiis past and wi uess
equal honoi - paid i<> all the dead.
"And in this wise also can a wider knowledge be given you:
own countrymen and mankind of that which you seek by such
means to pr serve and wish the world to know The mi mi
ment builded and consecrated at his own home lo the memorj
of the soldier who died fur that home upon -he field of battle
1- .1 touching and decorous offering, yet it may he se n onlj
by those who are already familiar with the Story and need
nothing to remind them of the regard which is due him. Bu!
if it 1 erected at a -put like tins, visitors from every part
of our great republic, from every quarter of the broad con-
tinent, from every country perhaps of the civilized world ma)
'-' ■ Upon the shaft, may read the inscription and I am the
historic facts you desire tn record and commemorate. And
in the august presence of these dead, niiw sleeping togethct
in th silenci and peace of the grave, but who in life so nob!)
demonstrated what American manhood can dare and do, He
story will acquire in added ami solemn interest. The stranget
may marvel at the recital of fraternal strife which wrought
such dread ful havoc, hut the heart of ever) line citizen of
this might) land will -well and throb with pride as he reflects
how much -II on his country has fur hope and how little
bu tear when men like those who died here are jh in
togethi r in In r 1
' thi i infnl ami conscien'ious student of history the
story -1 -in great (nil War or, a- we of the South prefer
in it. the War between the Stat s must always he a sub-
1 peculiar interest, and the part taken by the South in
her brief hut tremendous struggle fot eparati and inde-
■ ill political exi ; iadest historical treat-
ment.
1
"This i- scarcely an appropriate occasion on which to at-
tempt a discussion of the causes, much less of th.- merits, of
the controversy. 1 will only suggest that the impartial his-
torian ma) prom mice a verdict which shall exonerate both
parties in it of an) serious blame. He may find much of
reason in the contention of each, and discern in the dire strife
the latest, if it shall not he the last, assertion of that proud
and stubborn spirit of our own race which has ever main-
tained what it has deemed a right even at the cost of war and
bloodshed. When we r member that the free government
founded on this continent was itself horn it) the throes of
revolution, and also that questions of tremendous import were
left unsettled when that government was established, there is
small cause for wonder, although much for regret, that resort
was later had to so terrible an arbitrament. The disputants
on bo'h sides came of the blood that is 'slower tn hi ss than
I" ban,' prompter to strike than to parley ; .and the resort in
arms to settle once for all issues which seemed otherwise in-
soluble—when d hue and discussion bad been proven fruit-
less— was only the instinct of that blood manifesting itself
along traditional lines.
"But out of all that ordeal we have come a stronger and a
wiser people. The recollections of the mighty energies which
were called mo action, of the valor, the fortitude, and splen-
did devotion exhibited during that crucial trial, are now a
common heritage and give promise of a glorious and henetic nt
future. I believe that a people disciplined in such a strug
a struggle in which the contending sections were taught mu-
tual respect and a better understanding each of the other, and
which our children may regard with pride unmingled with re-
sentment— 1 believe that a people informed by such an ex-
perience will he able to deal succ ssfully with any problem
which shall hereafter confront them. So believing. I would
have the history of the great conflict in all of its aspec - be-
come familiar knowledge with the coming generations of our
countrymen.
"For work like tin- in v.'.k'ii we are engaged to-day — im-
portant not only in the way I have endeavored to indicate but
as an incentive and aid to historic compilation— the South is
largely indebted In h r women. To them must be awarded
the credit of inaugurating nearly every enterprise of this nature
and of conducting it to successful accomplishment.
"The Daughters of the Confederacy are now doing almo t
as much for ill : fame of the soldiers of the South as th, j eel
during the war fur their comfort. Earnest, faithful, tireless,
they prosecute their chosCn and congenial task with constant
interest and unflagging purpose. With a care and solicitude
■ no less tender and affectionate lb. ill that with which they one
ministered to the wounded and dying, they now chcri-h and
protect the memory . f the dead; and not less heroic than the
stor) which thi) strive tn perpetuate is that which shall be
Id of their own zealous love and labor.
"Could the .lead speak, the) would join their surviving com-
n proffet oi gi atitude I hi si ms 1 if Alabama who n 11
upon tin- held, whose heroic spirits passed amid the -nmk.'
and thunder ol battle, would 1mm asked no greater reward
for the service the) SO bravel) rendered, no bitter recom-
pense fur the tnil they endured, the dangei ihe) due. I. and the
talc the) accepted in behalf of their native land, than the
tribute they now receive from its daughters."
In addition 1.. the • there should be special tribute
t,, Dr. Thomas \| Owen for bis able services to the Daugh-
'I that ... ■ d iu their service in the Convention
c eremonies at Sheffield
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History of the Monument Movement.
From the beginning it has been felt by our Southern women
who had fathers or brothers, husbands or sons, sweethearts
or friends to lose their precious lives in the never-to-be-
forgotten War between the States that their deeds should be
commemorated and the resting place of their sacred dust be
marked by suitable memorials. Especially have they felt that
in those cemeteries where the Federal and Confederate sol-
diers sleep their last sleep together or those hallowed places
where the memories of both are equally recalled the latter
should have equal honor with the former. No army, it can be
truthfully said, ever responded to a more unselfish call or
displayed in the field a nobler type of soldierly character and
discipline than that one which marched in the uniform of
gray and under the inspiration of the stars and bars in that
memorable struggle of 1861-65. That struggle gave a new
name to human chivalry and honor. Never in the history of
the world have manhood and loyalty and self-sacrifice re-
ceived a nobler interpretation. And our women have not been
willing to see less done for the memory of their beloved dead
than has been done for others by loving hearts and hands.
In February, 1899, at the Convention at Selma, Ala., an
appeal was made by Mrs. L. G. Dawson to inaugurate a move-
ment to secure sufficient funds to erect a monument on one of
the four national battlefields of the country, which she set
forth with suitable preamble and resolutions: that as the Fed-
eral government has purchased and converted into national
parks some of the historic battlefields of the Civil War, that
as some of the Northern States have expended large sums
of money in erecting suitable monuments in commemoration
of their soldiers who were slain on these fields, and that as
the Southern soldiery who fell on those battle grounds, giving
themselves as a sacrifice to the cause of constitutional right
as they saw it, should have some marble shaft erected on
each of these battlefields in commemoration of their heroic
deeds and their devotion to their country's call — the Daughters
of the Confederacy for Alabama appeal to the various Camps
of United Confederate Veterans and the Sons of Veterans of
Alabama to join them in raising funds and erecting such
monuments.
They requested Gen. F. S. Ferguson, Commander of the
U. C. V. in Alabama, to issue an appeal to the Veterans, set-
ting forth the aims and purposes in view and request their co-
operation.
The President of the Alabama Division appointed Mrs.
Dawson, chairman of the committee, to promote the impor-
tant interest suggested, and in the summer of that year a
circular letter was issued by Mrs. Dawson to the one hun-
dred and one Confederate Camps then in the S'ate, asking for
sympathy and cooperation.
Gen. George P. Harrison. Commander of the Alabama Di-
vision, U. C. V., on June 23, 1899, wrote to Mrs. W. A. Gayle,
President Alabama State Division, U. D. C. : "I heartily in-
dorse the undertaking set forth by the Daughters of the Con-
federacy, and indulge the hope that every Veteran will con-
tribute something in aid of this worthy cause."
In 1900 Hon. Frank Pettus presented to the Legislature of
Alabama a bill asking for an appropriation for the object pro-
posed, and in 1902 a committee composed of the chairman and
other Daughters appeared before the Finance Committee of
the House in support of their bill and made an earnest appeal
for favorable consideration, and a bill was presented to the
House and placed on the calendar, "where it remained." The
Daughters, however, went to work in other ways, and labored
faithfully for eight years, strengthening their cause at every
step, until they secured the sum necessary.
In Eufaula in May. 1901, the Convention selected Shiloh
for the site of the monument, because of the famous battle at
this place. Alabama, next_ to Tennessee, contributed the
largest number of soldiers.
In July, 1906, the committee selected the plan for a monu-
ment, and on the 14th of September visited the battlefield and
selected a site. Among the foremost of Alabama's contribu-
tion to this battle of the Civil War are :
Alabama General Officers at Shiloh. — Brig. Gen. Jones M.
Withers, 2d Division, 2d Army Corps; Brig. Gen. Sterling
A. M. Wood, 3d Brigade, 3d Army Corps.
Alabama Cavalry. — General Bragg's Escort Company, Capt.
Robert W. Smith; 1st Battalion, Capt. Thomas F. Jenkins;
Mississippi and Alabama Battalion, Lieut. Col. Richard H.
Brewer; 1st Regiment, Col. James H. Clanton.
Alabama Artillery. — Gage's Battery, Capt. Charles P. Gage;
Ketchum's Battery, Capt. William H. Ketchum ; Robertson's
Battery, Capt. Felix H. Robertson.
Alabama Infantry. — 4th Battalion, Maj. James M. Clif-
ton; 16th Regiment, Lieut. Col. John W. Harris; 17th Regi-
ment, Lieut. Col. Robert C. Fariss; i8:h Regiment, Col. Eli
S. Shorter; 19th Regiment, Col. Joseph Wheeler; 21st Regi-
ment, Lieut. Col. Stewart W. Cayce, Maj. Frederick Stewart;
22d Regiment, Col. Zachariah C. Deas (wounded), Lieut. Col.
John C. Marrast ; 25th Regiment, Col. John Q. Loomis
(wounded), Maj. George D. Johnson; 26th Regimen*, Col.
John G. Coltart (wounded), Lieut. Col. William D. Chadick ;
31st Regiment, Lieut. Col. Montgomery Gilbreath.
The soldiers' reward be theirs, peace to their ashes wherever
they lie. Their sacred names are enshrined in every true and
loving heart in the land that they loved so well and fought
so bravely to defend. Their mounds will ever be bedewed
with the tears of the grateful people that they have left be-
hind.
"Each soldier's name
Shall shine untarnished on the roll of fame,
And stand the example of each distant age,
And add new luster to the historic page."
Mrs. L. G. Dawson's Work for the Monument.
The success of the monument movement is cordially credited
to Mrs. L. G. Dawson, of Montgomery. Mrs. Dawson has
ever been loyal and enthusiastic for the cause. Her fatlv r,
John G. Harris, of Hale County, Ala., entered the Confeder-
ate service in September. 1861, as captain of Company I, 20th
Alabama Regiment, and later was promoted to major. He
was wounded slightly in the siege of Vicksburg.
Mrs. Dawson was born during the war at the fine old ante-
bellum home of her grandfather, John E. Brown, of Sumter
County, Ala. She graduated at Judson College. Marion, Ala.,
in 1880, took a postgraduate course in 1881, and was married
in 1883 to Mr. L. G. Dawson, a planter of Elmore County,
Ala. They have lived in Montgomery since 1890. She is a
charter member of the first literary club of the city, "No
Name," and an active member of both the Sophie Bibb Chap-
ter, U. D. C, and Peter Forney Chapter, D. A. R.
President Elect Alabama Division. U. D. C.
The Alabama Division in its recent annual convention in
Sheffield anticipated a spirited contest for President, when
one of the two being advocated by their friends arose when
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her name had been called with hearty seconds and said in
substance : "My mother is very old and feeble ; she needs my
constant care. My husband is professor in the college at
Auburn, and I am deeply interested in those boys. I will
work in the ranks as hard as the President, and I know whal
that means." The splendid presence of the speaker (her name,
unhappily, is not remembered, no notes being taken at the
time), with those patriotic and loyal words, brought the Con-
vention to its feet, and many glistening tears exhibited the
highest ideals of Daughters of the Confederacy.
Concluding, the lovely woman commended the election of
Mrs. Giarles G. Brown, and soon the vote was cast unani-
mously for her, and she was declared President elect of the
Alabama Division, U. D. C.
Mrs. Annie Southern Tardy so writes of the new President,
of her nomination and election:
"When Mrs. llannon. of Russellville, made the speech which
nominated Mrs. Charles G. Brown, of Birmingham, Ala., for
President of the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, she said: 'As Mrs. Virginia C. Clopton stood
before us, her beautiful old face, with its halo of silvers hair,
aglow with enthusiasm and love, as her gentle eyes looked
down mi us, and her sweet voice, like a heavenly benediction,
spoke to us, 1 thought : "Where will we find another who will
in any way be to the Alabama Daughters what this rare
woman has bem and is?" When Mrs. Charles G. Brown, of
Birmingham, arose to respond to the address of welcome, my
question was answered. All that we have waited fur, all that
we could desire as a President, stood before us.'
"Mrs, Hannon's sentiments were echoed from the hearts of
everj Daughter, and Mrs. Brown was by unanimous vote de-
clared the President of the Alabama Division, U. D. C. Mrs.
Brown is well fitted by birth, education, and experience to do
full justice to the high position she tills and the honor which
has been given her. She is the daughter of Cyrus Billingsley,
of Marion, Ala. She attended the Judson Female Institute,
of that place, her father being one of the trustees. After
graduating there with high honor, she spent some time :it
school in Kentucky, and later studied at St. Catherine's, near
I i ironto, Canada.
"In 1X7(1 Miss Billingsley was married in Marion, Ala., to
Hon. Charles G. Brown, an eminent lawyer of Birmingham,
and afterwards Attorney-General of the State und 1 the ad-
ministration of Governors Johnston, Samford, and Jelks. Mi-
Brown, while a favorite leader in Birmingham society, ha-
ever held the work of the Daughters of the Confederacy as
her most sacred and holy mission. She' was a charter mem-
ber of Pelham Chapter, U. D. C, and ha-, served tin Chapter
and Division faithfully since its organization. She was Chair-
man of the Monument Committee of Pelham Chapter, and on
Decoration Day two years ago presented the city of Birming-
ham with the result of three years' work — the beautiful shaft
which stands in Capitol Park to the memory of the soldier-
and sailors of the Confederacy.
"She is also an honored member of the Jefferson Davis
Monument Committee, which will complete its work with the
unveiling in Richmond during the Reunion of the Confederate
Vet rails, At the time oi her election .is President of the
State Division Mrs. Brown was completing her second term
U President of Pelham Chapter, and right nobly lias she
filled the office. In giving her up to the broader work of the
we of the Giapter who love her feel thai we arc hon-
ored in the giving, for we know what she has done and what
she can and will do for the object so dear to all our hearts.
'She has lived her best;
She has worked her best ;
She deserves the best to come.' "
[A note was received since the above was typeel from the
lady of Auburn— Mrs. Letitia Dowdell (B. B.) Ross — express-
ing regret that she had no suitable picture for the Veteran-.
and adding: "You have always been so courteous to the Ala-
bama Division of Daughters that any failure to send requested
data for the Veteran is a cause of regret |
JOIIX PELHAM PROMOTED AETER DEATH.
United States Senator C. B. Culberson writes the Veteran
his thanks for copies of the magazine with sketch and picture
of John Pelham, the South's honored artillerist, stating: "By
the way, while everybody calls Pelham major, the official rec-
ords show that General Lee wrote a letter to President Davis
after Pelham's death, recommending that, notwithstanding his
death, he should be made lieutenant colonel, and pursuant to
this recommendation President Davis sent his name to the
Senate, and he was confirmed as lieutenant colonel of artil-
lery. This, to my mind, under all the circumstances, is the
most remarkable hone r conferred upon any man during the
Civil War."
By reference to the records, it appears that John Pelham
was commissioned major of artillery August 10. 1862 in date
1 11 1 1 COL. rOHN PELHAM,
from August 9, and lieutenant colonel of artillery April 4. 180,1,
to date from March 2 of that year. He was killed at Kelley's
Ford, Va., March 17. 1863 A sketch of Lieutenant Colonel
Pelham was published in the Veteran, page 362. for August,
[898 Other accounts of Ins marvelous career have appeared
in other issues.
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Confederate l/eterar?.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ for Asso-
ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let eacli one be constantly diligent.
Contributors to the Veteran will please renumber that
there is the most exacting demand for space all the time. In
sending reports for publication please be concise and prac-
tical in every way. The formality of "Whereas" and "Re-
solved," etc., is never d- sired. Manuscripts should be type-
written where practicable. In "Last Roll" notices it must.
upon reflection, be realized that all should be brief. Then
when engravings are used somebody ought to pay for them.
Leng'hy sketches are occasionally sent of men who did not
take the Veteran. Again, faithful patrons for years die and
their families fail to give any notice. It is very desirable to
have at least brief mention of loyal comrades when they die.
It is impossible often to publish reports of meetings and
dedications of monuments as early as expected. Let all friends
be considerate in these matters.
A much-regre'ted error occurred in the May Veteran by
naming Miss Varina Cook as sponsor for the Trans-Missis-
sippi Department, U. C. V.. at the Richmond Reunion, as she
should have been announced as maid of honor to Miss Lucy
White Hayes, sponsor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hayes
and granddaughter of the beloved President of the Confeder-
acy, whose memory is to be specially honored in the great
monument to be dedicated during the Reunion in Richmond.
General Cabell took pride in the appointment of Miss Hayes
as sponsor for his Department, and the error has been the
cause of embarrassment to both families and of deep regret
to the editor.
An explanation is therefore made which must satisfy those
who have patience with the fellow who said, "Once one is
two." The editor thoroughly understood the situation all the
way through. He knew that Gen. Stephen D. Lee had se-
lected Miss Hayes as sponsor for the South, and that she
most graciously yielded to a recall of the appointment by him
in deference to the reciuest of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy that no sponsors or maids be appointed for the
Richmond Reunion. And he distinctly understood that Miss
Hay is had been appointed by General Cabell as sponsor for
the Trans-Mississippi Department.
The error occurred through a letter from Colonel Cook
stating that General Cabell invited Miss Cook as sponsor to
the New Orleans Reunion in 1906. and that letter had been
kept upon the editor's desk for the purpose of making a com-
plimen'ary notice; for, as much as he appreciated the honor.
Colonel Cook had fit that he could not take his daughter
from her graduating exercise at Belmont College, Nashville,
last year. A fine engraving of Miss Lucy White Hayes and
late pictures of other members of (he family are to appear
in the July Veteran.
The Guilford Chapter, U. D. C, of Greensboro, N. C, has
issued a souvenir postal card representing the banner of the
"Kuklux Klan," which is the property of the North Carolina
Division, U. D. C, and now in the Confederate Museum,
Richmond, Va. Mrs. J. G. Brodnax will attend to orders, the
net proceeds to be for the charities and patriolic undertakings
of the Chapter. Price, 5 cents each, $3 per hundred.
COL. RICHARD OWEN.
BY M. R. TUNKO, SAVANNAH. GA.
Your pleasant reference to Col. Richard Owen in the May
Veteran I have read with very great pleasure. Not having
been a prisoner at Camp Morton, I cannot speak of Colonel
Owen's kindness to the prisoners there: but as one of his
students at the Western Military Institute of Kentucky I
know of his kindness to and fatherly care of his boys. He
was so considerate, gentle, and just that he received our
affection; and now. after the lapse of over a half century, we
remember him with love and gratitude.
Except in the sense that as an officer in an army opposed to
us on the field of battle, he was no enemy. His great, good
heart was full of love for his fellow-man, a fact well known
to us in 1850-53. Our love for him was shown at Blue Lick
Springs. Ky., when in changing the loca'ion of the Western
Military Institute to Drennon Springs the Hollidays (who
were the proprietors) attacked the professors. Col. Thornton
F. Johnson, Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson (then Colonel), Col.
Richard Owen (then Major), and Maj. Jamts G. Blaine. In
the firing that ensued Col. T. F. Johnson was shot down ; and
when Colonel Owen attempted to "get at" the Hollidays. the
cadets surrounded him to protect him for his patriotism. This
act very forcibly evinced our love for him. I admired and
loved Colonel Owen.
First Contribution to the -Memorial.
Frank A. Owen writes from Evansville, Ind. :
"Your article in regard to Col. Richard Owen, commander
of Fort Donelson prisoners at Camp Morton in the winter
and spring of 1862. interests me deeply. I was wounded and
captured in that battle and imprisoned at Camp Morton, and
soon formed the acquaintance of Colonel Morton and Dr.
Madison J. Bray, his surgeon, who removed the excess of
lead from my left leg.
"I want to thank you for your noble suggestions, and I
desire to be the first to subscribe to this worthy fund. Yet
I do not well see how you can fail to include Dr. Bray in this
Statehouse bronze tablet. One kind act of the many p r-
formed by Dr. Bray entitles him to every old Johnnie's affec-
tion. A gallant young soldier from Henderson, Ky. (who has
long since answered the last roll call), had every indication
of pneumonia when he reached the prison. Dr. Bray, at his
own expense, had a cot and mattress, with clean, new, warm
bedding, placed in his prison office and nursed the young Con-
federate back to health.
"I never heard but one man speak disparagingly of Colonel
Owen while I was in Camp Morton, and his words were
promptly resented, and he was ashamed of it as late as the
Nashville Reunion. He has since died.
"I inclose my check for five dollars for the Col. Richard
Owen fund, and will send a check for a like sum if you decide
to include the great, good surgeon of Colonel Owen's regi-
ment. They have both gone home to glory.
"I knew personally ten or more of the thirteen who made
their escape from Camp Morton, and there are but two of
them now living. Johnnie Mills, a saddle and harness dealer
in Madisonville, Ky., is one, and the writer is the other. I
will give you the names of the ten brave fellows if you wish
them."
[It is desirable that comrades who were prisoners and all
others who are interested in this matter write promptly. Let
us act with avidity upon the opportunity to honor Colone!
Owen. — Editor Veteran.]
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MRS. JEFFERSON DAI' IS AXP EMPRESS EUGENIE.
BY PROF. H. A. SCO Ml'.
What is there in common between royalty and republican-
ism, a court and a cabinet, a palace and a President's manse?
Surely joys or sorrows are the special dispensation of neither.
Perhaps we should accept it that emotions in high life are
the more poignant from the very restraints which such a life
imposes, for grief seeks to hide itself from public gaze.
The recent death of Mrs. Jefferson Davis brings to mind a
nyal contemporary beyond the seas whose life has had so
many points of likeness to hers that a Plutarch would find
in their biographies abundant material for another pair of
'Parallel Lives," though lived under conditions wholly incon-
ceivable to the old Greek author.
The Empress Eugenie was born in Spain May 5, 1826. Al-
most at the same date was born Varina Howell on a Missis-
sippi plantation, in the circle of the old aristocracy of the
South.
Somewhat more than a century ago Eugenie's maternal
grandfather, Kirkpatrick, left his native Scotland to settle in
sunny Spam as British consul at Malaga. There he married
a Spanish lady by whom he became the grandfather of the
future Empress. The French wars were then convulsing Eu-
rope.
Not far from the time of Kirkpatrick's migration to Spain
an Irish gentleman. James Kempe, implicated in Emmett's
rebellion, sought an asylum in the New World, and settled in
Virginia. By his American wife he became the maternal
grandfather of Varina Howell Davis. Later Colonel Kempe
removed to the Natchez country, where he became one of the
most prominent figures in the military, political, and social
life of those stirring times along the lower Mississippi
A few years later some of the Montijo-Kirkpatrick family
migrated from Malaga and settled in the beautiful old Moorish
capital, Grenada, where, under the shadow of the Alhambra,
the beautiful Eugenie first saw the light. Her education,
however, was completed in Madrid, and her young woman
hood was largely spent in travel with her mother over many
parts of Europe, till in January. [853, she was called to share
the imperial throne of France by virtue of her marriage to
tin pervenu Emperor. \ few years before this the American
girl, trained bj Ihe best culture of the old aristocratic South.
1' n married to a young army officer, who was already
attracting the attention of his countrymen by his military
pro« 1
While Louis Napoleon, just six weeks older than Jefferson
, was still a prisoner, under a life sentence, in the for-
it -s i,f 11.1111. I'nlolirl I >.H I W.r ..!■_'. ill! II- tllC Mississippi
nt at the head of which he was to win world renown
at Buena Vista. And he was already a member of the \nr 1
ress, while his French contemporary was fighting
Ins way to a place in the Constituent Assembly. Within a
few weeks afier Eugenie de Montijo's accession to the throne
of France, Varina Davis, as the wife of President Pierce's
Secretary of War. became a leading fi| ur national
capital.
well known that Mi Davis was the dominant spirit in
Puree's administration, practically controlling it- policj both
11 and domestic. During those four years he directed
the army organization and the building of national defenses
1 hi -r san I Napoleon, .1- 1 me of the allii
engaged in the ( rimean, the first of In- wars Retiring from
the Cabinet in 1857, Mr, Davis remained in Washington as
of the I'nited States Senators from Mississippi till the
beginning of our dreadful quadrennium. During these years,
as well as through the great struggle itself, Mrs. Davis was
always at her husband's side as his counselor and helper;
while Eugenie was probably the strongest support to the new
dynasty at the imperial court.
If the Empress dominated the hearts of the French, with
certainly no less affection was Mrs. Davis held in the hearts
of the South.
But wide asunder as the poles do the histories of thesi two
eminent ladies prove the radical differences' between French
volatility and Southern constancy.
Our great civil struggle of four years I 1S01 05 1 and the
Franco-Prussian War of little more than four weeks, in so far
as it concerned the Napoleonic dynasty — what national char-
acter settings do they afford! Both came as explosions of
long-pent-up forces. On the American side two hostile,
clashing civilizations were1 suddenly brought into violent col
lision by Lincoln's election, the tinder and the match had at
last come together, and the fire thus kindled was to hum mi
till the South was utterly consumed. There was no sur-
render; indeed, hardly a parley between the combatants
Yet even in the darkest hours — c. g.t after Vicksburg, Gel
tysburg, the fall of Atlanta, and the year of cons ant battle
up to Appomattox— though in tatters and facing starvation.
the people of the South never abated their faith in their
leaders, and to the last they would have shielded with their
bodies their President and his family. His sufferings in
Fortress Monroe but the more endeared him and his wife to
their hearts, and they would gladly have shared his burdens.
And when at last he emerged from his prison and with his
faithful wife once more passed through the quondam Con-
federate capital, it was to be received by the people with un-
covered heads, swelling hearts. and tear-dimmed eyes. And
twenty years afterwards, when, broken in health and tottering
to the grave, he was brought to Atlanta to be present at the
unveiling of the Ben Hill monument, where he was chaperoned
by the silver-tongued Grady— who ol the thousands present
that day will ever forget the shouts, the smiles, the tears with
which that multitude welcomed the r\ President of a nation
that lived only in memory and with no dream of a r surrec-
tion
Such was the South toward that ex-chieftain who was to
live in her midst an alien, an unpardoned exile, and who was
at last t,i sleep in her former capital under a monument the
freewill offering of her whole people, and in a grave bedewed
with their tears. Contrast with this devotion the fickleness of
French sentiment.
In a little more than a month after Napoleon 111 had
marched out of Paris amid the frantic "Vives l'Empereur" of
the multitude on his "way to Berlin." Sedan had been fought,
the Emperor was ,, prisoner, and that same giddj populace,
whose huzzas for theii Emperoi and I mpress had yet caro
died away, now 111 mad riol wire driving from the throne the
Napoleonic dynasty, and were forcing their beautiful Empn
to flee secretly and for her life from the gay capital, where
eventeen years hci slightest whim had hern law unques-
tioned, and she must spend the remainder of her days m a
foreign land among the hereditary enemies of her dynasty
It is in their days of misfortune that the parallel between
the French and the American ladies was the closes! ["heir
husbands, once the men of all men in their respective lands,
wen now citizens without a country or a nationality; the one
lived an exile in a foreign land, the other lived an ali n in
mi ["he formei dared not venture into the land of his
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birth ; the latter must not leave the home of his fathers.
Mai dictions from his own people followed the ex-emperor;
benedictions were invoked upon the ex-President.
Eugenie, as if to drain the wormwood and the gall, must
see her only child — the idolized Prince Imperial — brought
back from the jungles of Africa a corpse mangled by the
Zulu spear, and the txautiful Empress, her dark hair sor-
rowed into snowy white, was left alone with her dead, hope-
less, despairing, a Niobe among women, though not yet petri-
fied against her woe. On this side of the Atlantic the raven
wings had long hovered over that other household, where
another Rachel was weeping for her children; for Varina
Davis, too. was passing under the cloud. Of her children,
save one. she was bereft, and left alone in the world. Of
those children, the world knows most of the youngest, Miss
Winnie, the "Daughter of the Confederacy," born under the
"Conquered Banner," now furled forever, the Juliet whose
s range romance touched a nation's In art, and whose prema-
ture death brought mourning to her Southland.
For a generation the ex-Empress has lived among the an-
cient enemies of her people, respected and honored for her
many feminine virtues. For years Mrs. Davis lived among a
people who naturally regarded her as the chiefest of female
rebels and an enemy of their government. Yet even among
thise her many splendid qualities of head and heart won
for her a host of friends who have been touched with sym-
pathy for her bereavements and unparalleled sufferings.
Vet in some respects her fate is not paralleled by any mis-
fortunes in the Empress's life, for it was Mrs. Davis's hard lot
to carry for nearly two years a woe far heavier than exile.
During those long, dreary days her husband was a prisoner
in the damp cells of Fortress Monroe, charged with treason,
and with the yet more revolting accusation of complicity in
Mr. Lincoln's murder. A frenzied public were calling for his
blood ; suborned witnesses who had never been south of the
Potomac, lured by the immense bribe for "evidence to con-
vict." presented themselves to swear away to ignominy and
death a life which would have sacrificed itself a thousand
times over ere it would have incurred so foul a stain. Yet
even in the last decade we have seen that some of our State
courts show themselves eager to use the perjury fruits of
princely bribes to destroy hated political opponents.
What the proud spirit of Mrs. Davis suffered in those weary
years, who can tell? For a year kept away from her hus-
band's prison, forbidden to leave the bounds of Georgia —
but we turn from the sad story.
EugLnie, settled in the quiet town of Chiselhurst, could de-
vote herself to the rituals of her faith — for she was a devout
Catholic — and to charitable work and to watching beside her
dead. Her patrimony was ample for her needs and her chari-
ties.
But Mrs. Davis's ample fortune had perished in the war,
and pretty Beauvoir, by the Southern sea, was a life tenure
gift to Mr. Davis from an admiring friend. After her hus-
band's death, the proud-spirited wife preferred to depend upon
her own efforts for a livelihood. Yet few Southerners under-
stood her reasons for leaving her native State to live among
a people who could not be counted as her friends. They did
not know that organic heart trouble had caused her physicians
to advise a change of clime. Furthermore, they did not know
that the thousands who were continually flocking to Beauvoir
were laying a tribute upon the time, health, and resources of
its mistress which she was utterly unable to bear. They for-
got that the family income was no longer $40,000 or $50,000
per year, as in the ante-bellum. They forgot that the strain
of the endless reception of visitors, most of them strangers,
was too heavy for nerves which for years had been stretched
to breaking. Mrs. Davis had been reduced from affluence to
poverty ; but with a true woman's pride she chose to support
herself rather than be an object of charity.
Literary work seemed the kind most natural for her, and
who among the living could be more familiar with the inner
forces — the moving powers — of one side of the greatest civil
war since the days of old Rome? But alas! a wasted land
and an impoverished people could give but a scant support to
their periodical literature. A contribution, paid for by a pit-
tance at home, would command ten times as much in the
journalistic market of the North. So necessity, then, rather
than choice, sent Mrs. Davis northward.
The ex-Empress, on the contrary, had little need to give
time and labor to literary drudgery, though we may be sure
that such revelations as she could have given of the inner
life of the French court would be intensely interesting both
to the general reader and a thesaurus of facts for the future
historian. Eugenie lived the first, last, and only Empress of
the Second Empire ; Mrs. Davis was the first, last, and only
"First Lady" of the Southern Confederacy.
Each lived to witness the rise, the glory, and the fall of her
people. Each had outlived all the men prominently connected
with their respective governments. Each had suffered do-
mestic bereavements of the saddest in our human lot. The
Empress lived in affluence, though driven from own land by
her own people. Mrs. Davis lived in comparative poverty,
but with the love and respect of her people.
The founder of the Second Empire and his beautiful wife
must sleep in a foreign land, unmourned by their own nation.
The head of the Confederacy and his wife have been laid to
rest in Hollywood Cemetery, that Machpelah of the Confed-
eracy, their graves bedewed with the tears of a sorrowing
people.
Each lady saw her court vanish into the land of shades with-
out hope of restoration. The two might have sympathized
with each other; yet had the Confederacy won, there can be
no doubt but that almost at once the "Tricolor" and the
"Stars and Bars" would have come into a death struggle in
the land of the Montezumas, for it was a fixed conviction in
the South that French dominion in Mexico should never be
tolerated.
History furnishes no other pair of contemporary female
characters whose lives have been so strangely alike, and yet
so unlike, as those of Eugenie Marie de Guzman and Varina
Howell Davis.
Fleming's Life of Jefferson Davis. — A life of Jefferson
Davis is being written by Walter L. Fleming, professor of his-
tory in West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. He de-
sires the loan of material relating to any period of Mr. Davis's
life. He has all the regularly published books by and about
Mr. Davis; but desires such material as letters to and by Mr.
Davis, diaries and newspaper and magazine articles, pam-
phlets, privately printed books, anecdotes, and reminiscences ;
also pictures of Mr. Davis, his homes, places of interest, etc.
Those who possess such matter are asked to correspond with
Professor Fleming, who will be remembered as the author
of "Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama," "Documentary
History of Reconstruction." etc., and is most eminently fitted
for the important work now in hand.
The Veteran is most cordial in commending compliance
with Comrade Fleming's request.
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REUNION OF THE BLUE AND GRAY AT GETTYSBURG, PA., SEPTEMBER 15-17, I906.
Tlie return of the sword of Gen. Lewis A. Armistead, of
the Confederate army, by the Philadelphia Brigade to Pickett's
men was an occasion of much interest. The presentation
speech was made by Colonel McCarroll, of the Philadelphia
Brigade, and the response by Capt. Thomas D. Jeffress, "I"
the 56th Virginia Regiment, for Pickett's men. The cere-
monies occurred at the Armistead monument on the spot
where he fell in the enemy's lines. There is now marked on
the monument : "The high-water mark of American valor."
The picture represents a group of Northern and Southern
people after the ceremonies near the California monument on
Gettysburg battlefield Mrs. Pickett is in the center, ami
grasps with her right hand the sword held by Capt. Thomas
D. Jeffress in his left hand. Between them stands her lit'le
grandson. Colonel McCarroll is to the right of Capt Jeffn
should not fight her unless they met her in force. On August
19, 1812, she fought the Guerriere for four hours, leaving the
latter a total wreck, which could not even be brought into
port as a prize. Under Commodore Bainbridgc off the coast
of Brazil in December of the same year she captured the
British frigate Java after a sharp fight. Again off Cape Verde
Islands in a fight of less than an hour the Constitution, under
Captain Stewart, captured the frigate Cyane and the sloop
Levant, battle ships far superior to the Constitution.
In the midst of the modem war ships of the representative
countries of the world Old Ironsides, anchored in historic
Hampton Roads, will be one of the most interesting and edu-
cational exhibits of the Exposition.
THE "CONSTITUTION" TO nil AT IAMESTOWN.
V.\ A. S. KELTON, OF THE EXPOSITION.
A report received from the Charlcstown Navy Yard, Boston,
Mass., states that the famous old sea lighter, the Constitution. .
is now undergoing repairs, subsequent to a visit to the James-
town Exposition, to he held on the shores of Hampton Roads.
The vesst 1 has been in the Charlestown Navy Yard since I >i
tober, 1807, where she was towed from Portsmouth, N, II ;
and, owing to many years' neglect, it will he almost mid
summer before -he will 1" abli to loin in the grand naval
pageantry that will he on display during the period of the
Jamestown Exposition. Only structural repairs arc now being
made on the I onstitution; hut a movem nl is on foot to col-
lect tin OUVenirS and equipment taken from the vessel
at various times, SO that she will have as near as possible In r
original appearance
The Constitution is one hundred and seventj live feet in
length and forty-two feet in width, with a normal load
draught of one thousand nine hundrei event} tons. No
ship of ancient or modem type has hail such a glorious 1
as the Constitution. Such was the uniformi'y of her success
that the British Admiralty ordered that the English frigates
GRAI'E OF SERGEAXF DAMASl US WETHERLY.
BY MARY L. JOHNSON, COR. SIX'. FIT/ HUGH LEE CHAPTER, U. D. C.
It was recently the privilege of the members of Fitzhugh
Lee Chapter, U. D. C, of Frederick. Md.. to care for the re-
mains of Sergeant Damascus Wethcrly. of llomesville, Appling
County, (ia. This one of the many brave defenders of the
South died in 1862, and was buried ;ii Braddock, Md.,
I he intervening years have so changed this neighborhood that
it was found advisable to do away with this country grave-
yard. Years ago the late Mrs. John II. Williams, a loyal
Southern woman, had tins loiuly grave fittingly marked. The
Daughters of Fitzhugh Lee Chapter have had the remains
brought to Mount Olivet Cemetery, in Frederick, and placed
in line with our other heroes, many of whom have "fallen
asleep" in a strange land, far from kindred and hearthstone;
hut they "sleep well," guarded by our lovely mountains and
eared for lovingly by the Daughters of that Southland for
which they died. Here under the shadow of the first monu-
ment evei erected to the "Unknown Dead Who Wore the
Cray" they arc to sleep until the final reveille is sounded.
Each year these graves arc flower-strewn, and many tender
thoughts go to those far off who know not where their loved
ones lie Vnd so we will ever cherish and honor the memory
of our noble heroes.
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FIRST SUPPLY OF CONFEDERATE AMMUNITION.
John Battle Erwin, of South Carolina, tells tliN story of the
manner in which the Confederate government procured the
shot and powder with which Fort Sumter was hombarded :
"I got the story direct from Bob Toombs. He was in the
first Confed.rate Cabinet, being Secretary of State. When he
resigned and took the field, I was on his staff.
"It was at the beginning of the Wilderness campaign that
he said to me one afternoon: 'Come. Erwin, I'm going over
to see General Johnston. His wife and some of her young
lady relatives are making him a visit, and I'll take you along
to entertain them.'
"As we rode along Toombs began to reminisce. He de-
scribed the many difficulties they had to deal with in forming
the government and pointed out some of the mistakes which
he thought had been made. The chief of these was, I re-
member, in not following the advice of Alex Stephens — buy-
ing the cotton crop and shipping it abroad before the enemy
had time to blockade our ports. From these subjects, which he
spoke of with deep regret, his naturally buoyant temperament
turned to many little amusing incidents occurring at the time.
" 'Did you ever hear how we got the shot and shells that
fired the first guns of this war?' he asked, and the recollec-
tion evidently amused him. 'Of course the conditions in
Charleston Harbor were of the first matters taken up by Mr.
Davis and his Cabinet. At the time Montgomery was over-
run by unofficial delegates from Virginia and the other waver-
ing States, all of them urging us to strike the first blow, say-
ing: "The moment war actually begins, the waverers will join
the seceders. We will rush the issue and force the State out
of the Union into the Confederacy." '
"General Toombs continued : 'All the Cabinet were not in
favor of our striking the first blow. We wanted Mr. Lincoln
to be the aggressor. Finally, however, the bombardment of
Fort Sumter was decided on, and Walker, as Secretary of
War. was instructed to telegraph General Beauregard to pre-
pare for the at'ack. Beaurgard's reply was short and to the
point. "Where is your shot and where is your powder?" he
asked. Walker rushed to the President in his consternation.
There wasn't time to send abroad, and making ammunition
ourselves was out of the question. Davis called a Cabinet
meeting, and the conference lasted far in'o the night. It was
decided finally to ask Gov. Joseph E. Brown to turn over to
the Confederate government the shot and powder purchased
in England for the defense of Georgia before the State joined
the Confederacy.
" 'The telegram was sent, and we were not kept long wait-
ing for Brown's reply. It was this: "The government of
Georgia will turn over to the government of the Confederate
States of America the desired munitions of war, provided the
government will purchase the other supplies bought at the
same time and for the same purpose — ten thousand pairs of
shoes, ten thousand pairs of blankets, and two little gunboats
now stationed at the mouth of the Savannah River — reim-
bursing the State of Georgia for the whole."
" 'The Secretary of War was in a rage. The President was
nettled. "Brown deserves to be impeached !" Walker declared.
"The idea of the Governor of a State presuming to dictate
terms to the President of the Southern Confederacy !" Davis
was more calm of speech and attributed the message to Joe
Brown's ignorance of the situation. Being a Georgian and
knowing Governor Brown personally, it was decided that I
should send him a telegram of remonstrance. I was to point
out to him the improbability of there being a war. Even if
our fir.- on Sumter was resented by the North, their resistance
could not be long. But even in case of war the Confederate
government could not possibly make use of the supplies he
eiffered, as our troops were made up of Southern gentlemen,
who preferred to furnish their own equipment and would
never wear government supplies.
" 'Knowing Joe Brown, I was not surprised when his answer
to my telegram came. This is what he said : "The Governor
of Georgia will turn over to the government of the Confed-
erate States of America the desired munitions of war, pro-
vided the said government will purchase the other supplies
bought at the same time and for the same purposr — ten thou-
sand pairs of shoes, ten thousand pairs of blankets, and two
little gunboats now stationed at the mouth of the Savannah
River — reimbursing the State of Georgia for the whole."
"'What did we do?' Toombs chuckled. 'The only thing
we could do. We bought Joe Brown's munitions of war — ten
thousand pairs of shoes, ten thousand pairs of blankets, and
the two little gunboats stationed at the mouth of the Savannah
River. And do you know what Joe Brown did? He made
the Confederate government pay the State of Georgia cash,
and in gold.' "
INQUIRIES FOR AND ABOUT J'ETERANS.
G. L. Gooch. 1 127 North 13th Street, Waco, Tex., is seek-
ing to establish his record as a Confederate soldier, and asks
that any comrades who remember him in the service will
kindly write him. He states that he enlisted in the State
service in 1861 ; and after the battle of Lexington, Mo., came
South with General Price, and on arrival at Springfield. Miss.,
he enlisted in the Confederate service, 1st Confederate Cavalry
(Colonel Gates commanding), Little's Brigade. When Price
went East, Comrade Gooch was left in the hospital sick, and
upon recovery he reported for service at Little Rock, Ark.,
and became a member of Company F, Hawthorne's Regiment,
under Captain Barry, and serv'd thus till the close of the war.
Mrs. B. W. Cook, of Eldorado, Ark., seeks to locate the
relatives of Dr. Will H. Harrison, son of Dr. J. S. Harrison,
who enlisted from Eldorado in Company E, 3d Arkansas Regi-
ment, in 1861. He died soon after the war. and his father,
Mrs. Cook thinks, returned to his former home, in Indianapo-
lis, Ind. Dr. Harrison left a daughter, Mrs. Robertson, who
died not long since, and her children are seeking to learn
something of their grandfather's family at Indianapolis.
Isaiah Rush, of Hubbard City. Tex., desires to hear from
any old comrades of the 10th and 38th Mississippi Regiments.
In 1861 he belonged to Captain McKieffer's company of the
10th Mississippi Regiment, then reenlisted in Captain McKay's
company of the 38th Mississippi, and lost an arm at Vicksburg.
He wants especially to hear from Andy Whitely, who be-
longed to a Missouri regiment and nursed him while wounded
at Vicksburg. "Noble fellow he was," adds Comrade Rush.
Mrs. J. D. Ramsey, of Lawton, Okla.. inquires for any com-
rades of John W. Perry, member of a Missouri regiment (pos-
sibly the 15th), who can give her the names of its officers and
time of being mustered out. She thinks Comrade Perry en-
listed from North Missouri, Davis County.
T. L. May, of Brewton, Ala., wants to locate any comrades
that served on the gunboat Arkansas Ram, Mississippi River,
or the Chicora at Charleston, S. C. This comrade served on
both boats as fireman, and wishes to prove his record.
Rev. J. A. Burgess, of Saginaw, Oregon, inquires for J. H.
Burgess, of the 22d Alabama, and hopes some comrade can
tell of him.
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THE WOMEN OF MOSBTS CONFEDERACY.
BY ALEXANDER HUNTER.
The great Civil War covered a wide area. Every Con-
federate State was the scene of battles and skirmishes, and
warm, rich Anglo-Saxon blood soaked the Southern soil from
the Potomac to the Brazos. Only one distinctively Northern
State (Pennsylvania) heard the
"Fitful cymbal's clash
And the growl of the sullen guns."
For ages to come the Southland will be the theme of the
historian, the poet, and (lie .novelist. The siege of Troy was
the inspiration of geniuses for hundreds of years, and not
until this crime-stained earth shall cease to revolve on its
axis will the "Iliad" fail to stir the pulse oi adolescent youth
and cause many a dreamer to "wake to ecstasy the living
lyre."
The historian narrates in their order events and facts often
painfully monotonous.; but the novelist creates his plot, and
then gives us the pcopb a< they lived and describes the sur-
roundings with absolute fidelity; hence Walter Scott has
done more to arouse the national pride of Scotia with Ins
masterly sketches of Lowlande* and Highlander than Macau-
lay with his matchless historj of Scotland.
The pen of Albert Bitozius and of Berth. 'Id Aturbacb has
accomplished more to unify Germany into one nation than
all the proclamations of kings or the edicts of empsrors.
In our own country it is |.. the pen of Simms thai w( .on.
our pride in the achievements of Marion with his "swamp
foxes" (as Tarleton called them), partisans who followed
Marion and Sumter.
The aboriginal \m rican Indian would be but a myth but
for the genius of Cooper; "Leatherstocking" and the men of
the frontier will live as long as America la
When a second Walter ScOtl shall rise to portray the splen-
did endurance of the Southern people in the early sixties and
paint in vivid colors the romance and sentiment of grim-
visaged war. he will choose tin spot most crowded with inci-
dent; and when from histories, books, and old files of news
papers he has caught tin- vcr\ "spirit and body of the times,"
he will enthrall humanity and charm the world with tales of
"Dernng do" and prove that th • highest type of women was
the Southern girl of the sixties.
Now what region would the novelist choose for a historical
novel? Many Southern States (the Carolinas, Florida, Geot
gia. Kentucky, Miss,, mi. and i peciallj Tennessee) would
claim the honor; but then i om ection in Virginia that
presents such preeminent claims that none' can dispute her
right, and that spot belonged to Mosby's Confederacy. The
"debatable land" was the theater where the most stirring and
sensational war drama was played. This region comprises
the four counties of Fairfax, rime William. Culpeper, and
Fauquier, and within it- boundaries occurred the' first skir
■mish, whin Captain Man was killed in the early summer of
iWn The battle of Blackburn Ford look place on July 18,
t86i, and the battle of Manassas was fought three days later.
Then followed th<' bloody skirmish .11 Gainesville.
Dunne the next year Mosby's Confederacj was a place of
suffering, wounds, and death Stonewall Jackson on August
20 burned Manassas Junction with all Pope ii| 1] >l ii 1 ip
lured Tyler's Federal brigade, fought the batth of Gt
town for tWO days, and held Pope at ha\ until Long
got through Thoroughfare Gap; and on the 31st of August
occurred one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the
war. At the Second Bull Run fully twenty thousand men lay
killed and wounded on the field. The next year was fought
the well-contested battles of Bristow and Mine Run. In June,
1863, occurred the greatest cavalry combat the world ever
witnessed. Stuart was engaged in over a half dozen give-and-
take cavalry battles, Mosby had over a score, while detached
partus and individual -.'otits had combats by the hundreds.
Certainly if human blood enriches the- soil, Mosby's Con-
federacy should be the garden spot of the world — a place
where the dead far outnumbered the living. Fauquier County,
however, was preeminently the "Debatable Land." Its people
were put to severer straits, suffered more and endured more
for the Confederacy, than any cor. inunily of civilized people
ever did in the annals of mankind. John Esten Cooke, the
Southern novelist, and Captain King, the Northern writer,
chose this region for their scene of action, and they are but
the pioneers of romance.
Fairfax and Prince William Counties were strong]} garri-
soned by Federal forces, and Culpeper was generally occupied
by our forces; but Fauquier was the dark and bloody ground
of Virginia, and for three years it was the headquarters of
Mosby and his partisans; and the wild forays, the midnight
dashes upon the enemy's camps, the sweeps upon the Federal
railroads, and the wild, mad charges on the Union wagon
trains all had their origin and mostlj all happened in old
Fauquier. All the- Federal plunder and the prisoners gathered
in by the partisans were gathered and disposed of within this
county.
There was not a house in old Fauquier that did not have its
war history; everj one oi them had its latchstring hanging
outside the door for the gray jackets; all of them had been
searched by some detachment oi sorm Federal scouting parly,
and manj of the Black Horse men and Mosby's men had made
a running fight and dash for liberty as the bluecoat ui
rounded the place. The' whole fruitful county, which in the
beginning of the war was gemmed with tine gardens, well-
lilled farms, and princely estates, for three long years lay
untouched by plow, harrow, or hoe. and abandoned so far as
labor and tillage were concerned. The busj hum of industry,
the melodious chorus of the blacks in the corn-shucking, the
rhythmic music of the cradle's as they swung their ste-el blades
on the golden wheat, the cracking of the wagons loaded with
grain were heard no more. The region was a desert where
rue.' of the desert reigned, the once fruitful fields were
in pans grown up in their primeval wilds, great stretches
of pine ci ppice were on everj side, and these coverts were the
favorite lurking places of the scouts The Yankees nevei
penetrated their depths; ami if Rebel scout fleeing for life
Could Strike the pines, he' was safi
The low.i p..i 1 oi Fauquier County was nearly always occu-
pied by the Federal troops I Id Oi tngi and Alexandria
Railroad was tin- only source . f supply of the Army of the
Potomac when advancing; and when thej went into winter
quarters, their camps were stretched along the railroad from
Alexandria to the Rappahannock River.
In the winter the Black Horse, of the ph Virginia Cavalry,
which was raised in Fauquier County, was always -cut to the
Debatable I. and to gel Fresh mounts and to do all the damage
they culd to the enemy 1 1..- Black Horse gained Mosby
much of hi- reputation, and omi oi his ablest officers were
taken from the ranks of ihi- 1. p. my.
The people of Fauquier believed implicitly iu Mosby, and
11 had unbounded faith in him. When I recall Mosby
as I saw- him for the' first time at the head of his battalion
in the little village of Salem, in old Fauquier, in the autumn
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of 1864 splendidly mounted, his lithe, elegant form attired in
a showy, new uniform, slouch hat with gilt cord, and sweep-
ing plume shading his clean-cut cameo face, I thought of the
drys when "knighthood was in flower;" that he was the
knightliest of them all. He was the beau ideal of a "beau
sabreur" — a Centaur, Mars, and Apollo all in one.
In many respects Mosby was unique. His power over his
men was complete, but they did not love him. He had no
magnetism; he was as cold as an iceberg, and to shake hands
with him was like having the first symptoms of a congestive
chill. He was positive, evidence of a self-centered man, and
did not know what human sympathy was. He would have been
a Stoic had he lived in Athens in the days of Pericles. The
general impression of Mosby is that he was a rough-and-ready,
fighting Cracker Jack. On the contrary, he was a literati, a
classical scholar, and a thorough student ; but he reminded
one strongly of Goldsmith.
"Who wrote like an angel.
But talked like poor Poll."
Mosby was fond of reading the old English literature, and
he was familiar with Lord Chesterfield's letters, yet withal
he had the manners of a Piute Indian. It has often been
said of him that he made an enemy every time he shook hands.
He was a fascinating character to study; but he was a
"stormy petrel." a born soldier, a light cavalryman by in-
stinct, and a partisan who under no orders could accomplish
wonders, but in the regular army he would never have been
heard of. In the piping days of peace he was as a fifth spoke
in a wheel, and steady, plodding work was his abomination.
He was of the meteoric type. Yet though cold, indifferent,
and utterly selfish, he was the greatest leader of irregular
warfare that history or tradition tells us of. Sumter and
Marion were no more to be compared to him than Alvarez
was to Cortez. Mosby, with his battalion numbering some
three hundred fighters, caused more trouble to the Army of
the ,Potomac than any corps in the Confederate army ; and
they kept over thirty thousand Federals guarding their com-
munications, their railroads, their army posts, their frontier
towns, and their depot of supplies, when but for this ubiquitous
ranger these forces would have been in active service in the
field.
In T863 I obtained a transfer from the infantry to the Black
Horse Cavalry, and spent the winters of 1863, 1864, and 1865
in old Fauquier ; and though I recall many stormy scenes, yet
the memory of the noblest, truest, most patriotic women that
ever lived is what impressed itself most strongly on my mind.
Picture to yourself the scene of those long years. The
country seemed to lie under the curse; the country roads cov-
ered with grass, weeds, and sprouts; the ditches on each
side a bed of briers. No ground was tilled. No sound savu
the sighing of the wind among the tree tops, no animate crea-
ture to be seen anywhere, save perhaps a passing glimpse of
a horseman w:ho had disappeared before one could raise his
eyes for a second glance. In truth, the Debatable Land was
the abomination of desolation. A man traveling through that
section was in more danger in those days than a rich burgher
in passing through Hounslow Heath when Dick Turpin and
Claude Duval held high sway. In truth, a scout traversing
Fauquier County carried his life in his hands.
The Federal Secret Service, with unlimited means, had
equipped a battalion of picked men, dressed in the Confeder-
ate uniform, whose business it was to mix with the people,
pass themselves off as Rebel scouts, and gain all the informa-
tii m they could. They were known as the Jesse Scouts ; and,
though they wer; fearless, daring men, they ran desperate
n-ks for the high pay. They had forged passes, furloughs,
and details, and met with some success at first, as they had
full and accurate information as to Mosby's command and
the Black Horse; but their manners, their talk, and their ac-
cent betrayed them. Many a time, solitary and alone, I have
gone to some house for shelter and food, and have been re-
ceived with cold courtesy; but after undergoing a close ex-
amination a wonderful change would take place, and I would
be welcomed as one who was near and dear to them. Many
of these Jesse Scouts disappeared from the face of the earth ;
and when one Confederate cavalryman met another, it was
with cocked revolver that they faced each other, and explana-
tions were in order. If they were not satisfactory, then and
there was a duel to the death.
I came within an ace of losing my life once bicause the
girls of Mrs. Johnson's family mistook me for a Jesse Scout.
It was the day after Christmas in 1864. The Federal General
Merritt made a grand raid to celebrate the holidays, but it
was a water haul. A detachment of the Black Horse hung
on his flank and rear, picking up stragglers. When going
down a steep hill full speed, my mare fell and cut her knee
to the bone. I dismounted and led her to a house about a
mile away. All the Black Horse men wore the blue Yankee
overcoat ; and when the ladies saw me approach, they naturally
thought I was a Federal. I tied my mare and went into the
house, and was received like a tax collector. I tried to ex-
plain the situation to one of them, the rest having left her to
entertain me while they were hiding their valuables. In a
few moments the three girls (and they were beautiful girls)
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burst into the parlor and -;nd : "It you arc a Confederate sol-
di i. you had better surrender, for the Yankees arc all around
the house." I rushed to the porch and saw a squad tying
their horses to the palings of the fence. 1 ran down the hill,
intending to reach the woods about a hundred yards away,
when the sergeant in charge rode at me full speed and cut
me off. lie dismounted and threw up his carbine 1 had onlj
my army Colt's. The cap of his gun snapped, lie had a very
line horse which 1 rmK- to the end of tin- war.
In many houses there were no nun; every man capable of
hearing arm-, was in the field. Often a party of us would stop
al -mile lone farmhouse in the dead of night; anil after an
interval, a light would gleam, ami the white faces of a group
of women would he seen huddled together for safety. Then,
DO matter what the hour, they would start a lire and cook us
a frugal meal 1 low those prop],- lived, God only knows. In
tin lower part of the county there was no poultry, no hogs
or meat of any kind; for a Federal raid would sweep the
barn, the pens, and the smokehouse clean. In summer they
had theil gardens and vegetables, hut in winter the great ar-
ticles of de i were cow beans and corn bread
The close season for three years had tilled the country with
game, hut bird and beast, except the rabbit, were safe. Ah!
Ik"-, old hares! What a hlessmo they were to those unfor-
tunate noncombatants cooped up in Mosby's Confederacy!
The boys and girls had traps sit ;i|| around the place, and
rabbits roasted, rabbits fried, rabbit hash, and rabbit fric-
assee wei, fche pi Mailing diet. The p ople living near the
Federal camps fared better, for in all truth and honor to the
soldiers in blue ih y would give the country people mess pork
and hard-tack; and when they broke camp, there would lie
left quantities of provisions, which the soldiers freely bestowed
on those who came flocking from far and wide to share in the
Spoil. Hut for these supplies most people along the railroad
would actually have died of starvation.
The Muse of history has written on her Scroll the gallant
.1 and the endurance of the Black Mors Cavalry, hut in
h roic endurance they cannot compare with the women of old
Fauquier. It is impossible for tin- average- American of to-day,
as he sit, m his own home, with his family and friends around
him. with civilization encompassing him. he and his protected
by law. to understand or to picture the existence that the deli
i.ii'. refined women of Mosby's Confederac} led for three
Thej weie absolutely alone in their dwellings. Every
man capable 'f bearing arms or act iii the department was in
ih' servici ["here was hut little visiting among the neigh-
bors except m case of due necessity, There were no churches
open, no entertainments to relieve the somber lives they led.
["hen Were no -lores where they might purchase clothes ni-
l's, no social intermingling to shorten the long hours of
the winter nights, and jiisi think of u ' no fashion to give joy
to their feminine hearts. The negroes had long ago left, and
the* dili. ,ili women had to cm wood and carry it home on
iheir shoulders, bring water, and work in their gardens u,,v
cut the hay. ami cultivated coin patches m some obscure p
that a scouting partj would not he likdj to find
Many women to-daj would feel nervous ami frightened if
they had to remain in a house without a mal protector, even
though they knew thai law and order reigned and that COD
and police wire watching over Iheir safety with leep
lest vigilanci rhink, then, what they would feel to-daj in
;i\ home and in a region between two great arnii.s
with a knowledge thai there win- soldiers constantly pa
through the country, des rters and bounty jumpers, vii
unprincipled, and unmitigated scoundrels from the two armies
mi their way South or North, as it might happen their army
was encamped! Think of sitting huddled around a lire, with
no light save that of a guttering tallow dip, listening with
fearful ears for the coming of G6d knows what! Think,
matron and maid, what would he the state of your feelings to
he awakened out of a fitful slumber by the noise of some one
tapping on tile window pane, and then a long silence, or to
hear the sudden knocking al the dooi '
This was often the experience of those women of old Fatt-
quier, who. when the knocking came, would hurnedi\ light
:lie candle, and with throbbing heart and shaking hands
huddle on their clothes, and with lagging feel, almost Mind
with fear, go to answer the summons, and with horrid fancies
rioting through their brain unlock the door, turn the knob,
and open it to see— Heaven knows what1
Think, women of this fair land, who imagine yon are un-
happy, with your petty trials and trivial troubles; think of
the suffering, the tribulations that the women of the Debata-
ble Land endured for three long years. Vet not a word of
complaint or despair fell from then lips
These heroic women literally lived from hand to mouth,
only too thankful that they had a roof to cover their head-.
They existed in a strained stale' of expectancy, not knowing
what one day might bring forth. And this is no fancj sketch,
for traveling on horseback through this region aftei Lee's
surrender, from Culpeper C. II to Fairfax Station. I did not
see a dozen houses m a ride of fortj miles along the railroad
track. As far as the eye- could teach, the- only -iluis 0f human
habitation were- lone- chimneys — war's tombstones marking the
spot of what had once In en happy homes
None hut a Southern ve eran oi survivor of the Civil War
can comprehend the life the people of Mosby's Confederacy
lived. Most of them subsisted on the barest necessities. Set-
ting the table was often a hollow farce-, and grace before meat
was hut a hitter burlesque. In their daily prayers f,,r daily
bread they usually added: "Ami a little meat too. (> Lord!"
No tea. coffee, sugar, or milk, no preserves or pickles, no
bread except the corn pone or hard-tack. If one was taken ill.
there was no doctor to drive up in his family gig to bring
hope' and comfort. There were- no medicines except the he'rhs
of the field. The- isolation from all humankind, the- blind
ignorance of the- future-, the- «mhi- that came and went, the
long winter nights, anil those lingering summer days so spun
out that it seemed as if a modern Joshua had commanded,
"Sun. stand thou still!" ami the midsummer times of dread;
for the women knew that the- active campaign was in full swing
and that the blue and gray wen m mortal combat, that their
friends and relatives were in due danger, and that, cm ofl
loan the world as thee w t i e-, they must pass days, weeks,
even months perhaps, hoping, doubting, and fearing as to
whether their loved ones w i i e alive- or dead, and the brooding
care ami intense, anxious thought made then verj souls
sicken Net in their darkest iiom oi di pair if you asked them.
"If yon could, would you end u all bj submission?" the
flash of the' eye, tin- angrj red in the' cheek was answer
enough. It seemed as if "Brahma" creed was correct and
ih, it suffering purifie end eliminates the grosser passions; for
these- women stood calm and dauntless in every storm, and
all the' "sling irrow.s of outrageous fortune" hurled al
them failed to conquei -a break them lieu faith was
their hearts were brave, and thej smiled through their te-ars.
Yes, tlo > loved their St.it . next to their religion, and to men
adored cause- tin \ w ere as
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"True as the needle to the pole
Or the dial to the sun."
I have seen the women of Fauquier in war times in many
situations, and on life's stage, in the bloody drama of the
Civil War. they played many parts. I have seen many a deli-
cately nurtured girl performing the coarsest manual labor ; I
have seen them staggering through the forest with a heavy
"bundle of fagots on their backs; I have seen them with blis-
tered hands trying to cut knotty wood with a dull ax. and
wished that I was a second Briareus and had a thousand arms
to offer them instead of only two ; I have seen them cooking
food for the soldiers long after midnight, with the drum and
bugles of the enemy sounding in their ears; for hours I have
watched them sitting under the shade of the trees, knitting
socks or plaiting straw for their summer hats, and even mak-
ing footwear from the tops of the cavalry boots and turning
■out dresses from antique stuffs that had been heirlooms for
I know not how many generations; I have seen these same
girls dressed in gowns made from the blue overcoats of the
cavalry ; I have seen them standing for hours on the roof
with spyglass in hand, watching the movements of the foe ;
I have seen them speeding through brake and brier, forest
and fallow, to give the alarm to some neighbor who they
knew was entertaining Confederate soldiers; I have watched
them in the role of veritable picket guards, as they kept watch
and ward whilst the tired, overworked soldier slept through-
■out the livelong night under their roof tree. Many a time I
"have slipped into some house for shelter and warmth during
a bitter winter's night and dropped into peaceful slumber,
though the camp of the foe was not a musket shot off, feeling
secure and safe, "knowing that the girls were en garde" and
would not close their eyes or relax their vigilant watch until
the first dawn of day should lighten the distant mountain top.
I have watched them with reverent wonder as they bound up
the wounds of some soldier, at the same time conquering their
sickness of heart over the spurting blood and mangled bones.
T have seen them when they received the news of the death
of some loved one, their heart's dearest, who gave his life to
the cause he loved, and they met the blow as did the Roman
■matrons who said : "Return with thy shield or upon it." They
■quivered for a time under the stroke, but never gave way to
■unrestrained, hopeless grief nor to unavailing despair; they
■only grew more defiant, more bitter and irreconcilable. I
"have seen them on their knees praying to Almighty God to
give success to the cause they loved better than life.
There were some cowardly, timid men in Fauquier County
(we had a half dozen in the Black Horse, and there were
a score or more of bu'termilk rangers who kept dodging in
the bushes, arrant poltroons whose greatest achievement was
robbing some Federal deserter) ; but among the women, high-
bred and ill-bred, educated and illiterate, the pampered child
of fashion and the cruel sport of fortune high and low. there
'was the same spirit animating them all. the same vindictive-
-ness and defiance of the foe. I never in all those trying years
nut a woman in old Fauquier who counseled surrender to the
foe. The women for years saw only the sterner, sorrowful
side of life; they heard only talk of war and things of war;
tales of warlike deeds, of deadly daring, "of hairbreadth es-
capes by flood and field," of the melee, the fighting hand to
'hand excited their imagination and fired their blood. The
small details that go to fill up the average woman's existence
were not theirs. Instead, the martial air they breathed, their
thoughts, their dreams— all were tinctured with war, and so
they learned to love and admire personal bravery in a man
beyond and above all else.
Many a happy hour have I spent during the long winter
evenings with these matrons and maidens, and the contrast
between their firesides and the bivouac of the half-starved,
gaunt troopers in camp was to a soldier the difference between
Paradise and Purgatory. Yet I noticed one thing : it was no
use to try soft dalliance or to play the Claude Mdnotte with
them; no matter what the subject was, they would invariably
bring the conversation back to the war. It was the one ab-
sorbing, enthralling topic, and nothing else gained or held
their attention. How they flattered, and what homage they
paid the soldier who had performed some special act of
bravery, and treated him as though it had been done for their
own especial benefit ! Many a gray-jacketed Othello charmed
the ears and won the heart of some Fauquier Desdemona by
his tale of deadly daring.
These girls had plenty of proposals. The soldiers did not
waste time in their devoirs ; they did not know how long they
were to live, as lives were cheap in those days; but the women
would not listen to such talk. "Drive these people away; and
when the war is over, it will be time enough to listen to such
things," was the universal reply to the oa:hs. declarations, and
entreaties of their lovers to marry them. These women knew,
as did their officers, that a soldier newly wedded was a sol-
dier spoiled, for his heart would not be in his work. By their
words and example (he scout's soul was elevated, his heart
beat stronger, and he became more reckless and more daring.
It was a Fauquier tot of three summers who was sent to
visit her aunt in Boston just after the war ended, and just
before going to bed on the night of her arrival she knelt down
to say her prayers and ask Providence's blessing for General
Lee and Jeff Davis. When she was through, her aunt said:
"Mollie, the war is river now and we are one people, and you
must pray for the Yankees too." Obediently the little, white-
clad form sank back to her knees and raised her hands and
said : "O Lord, bress the damn Yankees too."
No woman is aware of her own capabilities until she is
tested, and there are some who will meet an emergency on the
spur of the moment and bravely face the ordeal when they
did not dream that they posstsed such resolute powers.
There was a young cavalryman (a cousin of mine named
Waller), a youth in his teens, who was visiting his fiancee, a
tall, stately girl but a year younger than himself. She was a
girl of gentle, winning manners, refined and lovely in mind
as she was in person. She was the last one family or friends
would have selected to play the role of heroine or to face a
crisis successfully. This was one of the instances where the
two extremes met. She was above the medium height ; he
was below it. and measured only five feet three with his boots
off. She was timid; he was the incarnation of recklessness.
She was slow and stately in her movements; he was lithe and
quick as a wild cat. Even among the plucky cavalrymen Wal-
ler was noted for being the rashest among them all ; he loved
danger for danger's sake. He dashed through a Federal cav-
alry camp once in broad daylight in full uniform in pure
bravado, and before they could recover from their surprise
he was out and away. On another occasion he was concealed
in a forest as a Federal detachment of cavalry was passing,
and just as the rear guard reached the point where he was
hiding he spurred his horse and with a mighty bound landed
right behind them, discharged every barrel of his six-shooter
among them, and dashed into the woods before the astonished
men could fire upon him.
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On the- occasion when his life was saved by bis fiancee he
was on his way to pay her a visit. With his usual rashness
he rode along the road as carelessly as if he were in the midst
of Lee's army instead of a side road in Mosby's Confederacy,
with the strain- of ihe bugles of the bluecoats echoing from
crag to crag of the Blue Ridge. He was riding in the open
road 'dose to his destination, when a companj of Federal
cavalry closed in on him. Waller, though taken by surprise.
did 1 1 ■ ■ i lose his nerve; he turned and shot the captain and
then sp:-d straight down the road, with the crack of the pistols
of his pursuers sounding loud above the thunder of the beat of
the hoof strokes. A high rail fence ran along the highway,
and there was nothing for him to do hut keep straight on.
As he marcd the mansion lie saw that the gate was closed,
hut he was well mounted and a light weight anil he just
d it; bul his horse lost hi- balance and fell to in- knees,
and in an instant Waller was off and ran up the steps into
the hous
Hi- sweetheart had seen the whole affair. The Federals
had in stop to open the gate, and this gave him tinn to reach
her -ulr before th Federals reached the hou i \n ordinary
woman would have screamed; an extraordinary woman would
urned white to the lips, and would have thrown herself
before his bearded foi tnd thus have gh n him a chance to
By; but a heroine did neither. She heard the order to the
rs to surround the house, and. worse than all, she heard
the clanking of -purred feet hurrying along the gravel walk.
There was imi foi tears, no time to think, only time to
.hi "ii an inspiration that saved a human life. To do -,> was
violating ever) principle of female modesty, everj precept of
the world, ami doing violence in cverj finer feeling and per-
forming an act which would in the common course of events
cause her long and continued shame and regret. She loved
her country, -he loved its defenders; but she loved most
of all the man now being hunted to death. She stood in the
gi In r tall form rendered more imposing by the mon-
crinoline skirt, with during the first two years of the
war. Sin made hei lovei stoop down and she stood ovei
him. her broad skirt- effectually concealing his diminutive
\- ih bluecoats came streaming into the hall, an
Officer in front, with hi- COCked Colt's in In- hand, demanded
to know when- the Rebel was She motioned them to a mi!
and -he stood like a statue all the time they were search-
rie house. When interrogated by the officer, she an-
swered coolly, calmly, and plainly, a if hi were disi
a dinner; ami her magnificent nerve kepi her standing there
So naturally that not one of thosi nun had the slightest sus-
picion that she knew anything of the Rebel fugitive.
After her sublime act. it would -i em that Fate would have
watched over and have protected her lover; hut her heart wa.-
m ir later tidings came In her that he had
in the front of battle line, with a bullet through hi-
:n in th-,- winter of tSo| occurred an incident which
- the truth of this couplet :
"What will not genii woman dare'
When -trnng alii ction stirs In I
Shakespeare ha- made' Cordelia tin paragon of daughter-,
hut u is doubtful if -he- would have ventured ami dat
King I eat what plain Man Pilcher did fur her father.
It wa- a lull! i OUS night, with the ram falling spas-
modically in li.rr.nts, ami black as Erebus. Mary's father
was an aged man ..f -e\enty. anil tluy lived inside Mosby's
Confederacy, about three miles from the' railroad, which was
heavily garrisoned by Federal camps. The Pilcher family
consisted of i ! i> ■ father, mother, ami three girls. Mary, t In-
eldest, being but eighteen, ami the- other two six and four.
i lid Mr. Pilcher was a martyr to neuralgia, and on the
night in question was taken with a severe attack which slowly
moved toward his heart; his agony was terrible, and there
were no medicines in the house except some -imple lotions.
Mrs. Pilcher eliel all in her power; bul her feeble efforts
availed nothing, and -he told her daughter that death was
certain unle--- a doctor could In- brought to his relief. Then
it wa- that Mary formed a heroic re olution, ami. going to
her room, she put mi her heaviest clothes and told her mother
that she was going in the Yankee camp for a surgeon Her
mother, distraught lu th< dreadful suffering of her husband,
made no protest ; so in tin- Faci of th storm Marj started on
her perilous journej She had to literally feel her way foot
by foot. In a short whili she was drenched to the -km. As
she ncareel the camp her courage almost failed. She knew
that at any moment she might unconsciously come upon a
sentinel, who would hool he-i elnwn without waiting for any
explanation; ami this nearlj happened, For as she moved cau-
tinii-lv along ihe- sudden -li.np challenge of a sentry hut a few
f ei elislant wa- Followed by ihe- click of his gunlock. She
gave a -cream, ami the- woman's voice saved her life. The
darkness hail momentarily lightened, ami her form was dimly
outlined again i tin- sky. The guard kept her covered with
In- musket ami call d Foi the- corporal of the guard. Winn
he' came with a squad at In- heels, the girl demanded to be
taken to the colonel
What a meeting! The tent dimly lighted, the officer half-
dressed ami only half-awake as he listened to the tale of tin
maiden, who was wan ami white-, as if she had been
fished out of the bottom of a river! Thai Federal officer had
a heart of gold; In- treated her a- if she wen In- nun sister.
II" roused hi- staff, an ambulance was soon ready, and the
regimental surgeon, a- fine a gentleman as the earth could
produce, accompanied her, ami wa- the means of saving her
father's life. lie called several times, carrying food ami
medicine; Imi never with an armed escort, for he knew his
Southern foe, ami he knew that he was a- safe in ihe dense
thickets ami open plains of Mosby's Confederacy, wiih tin-
Rangers lurking in every covert, as he would In- mi Km, id
\\ ay i a' Fifth \\ inn
It is to be regretted that ink \ within Mi by's
Confederacy that nm-i of the- cmTc-pmidi'iice between soldiers
and maidens wa- written wi h lead pencils. What a world of
romance would ha\ been saved! How many tales of daring
have been lost through the fading of tin pencil strokes! Yet
if the truth must he told, the love letters were mostly con-
fined t.i tin- -ii'iin-i -- \. The girls would write a co
about war In n in- Inn- given for sentiment: then again they
could never know into whose hands their letters might fall.
The recipient might be capture el. wounded, or killed, and
curious eyes might glanci • their loving words. Nol With
the girl- it wa- war' War! and the knif< to the hilt. The
news from the armj was talked of, rumor speculated
The relative merits ol ever) gen ral in the army were
discussed, and the next campaign was the absorbing the-mc.
Many of tin- scouts carried a map of \ irginia, and many a fair
the plan in m in ictory that some
\ tpoleon or Johnny in tatte'rs and rags had outlined. It was
a curious ■study to sec them r ceivi som< old newspaper that
bad passed through many hands before reaching theirs, for
it goes will ng that there were no post offic-s or post-
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masters in Mosby's Confederacy. A newspaper was a verita-
ble treasure in tbe isolated homes in that section, and its news
was eagerly devoured by the women : but they did not scan
the marriage notices or lists of bargain sales or society news.
It was the war column and news from the front that was of
interest to them.
Warrenton, the county seat of Fauquier, is a village of some
eight hundred people and famous in ante-bellum days for its
lovely women and its hospitality. It is beautifully situated
on a high range of hills. The inhabitants, all well-to-do at
the outbreak of the war, grew wretchedly poor before the con-
flict was half over. Warrenton was called the capital of Mos-
by's Confederacy, and every Federal raiding party would de-
flect from its course and dash through i'.s streets. It must
have been to the bluecoats like
"Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,"
for every door and window was tightly closed and not a soul
was visible. Yes, there was one exception: the worthy mayoi
always met the visiting military with a bow and smile, and
offered them the keys and the freedom of the town. This
happened so often that "His Honor," like a popular country
doctor, was often called up at the most untimely hours of the
night.
On one occasion a Federal brigade of cavalry swept into
town_ one day at noon most unexpectedly. It was a dull day
in November, with a heavy fog, and it caught the villagers
napping. A dozen or more old men were rounded up and
taken before the general commanding. "What is your name?"
he asked one.
"My name is Rabbitt, sir."
"And yours?" addressing the next one.
"My name is Coon, sir."
"Yours?" he asked of a little Dutchman.
"Lion." was the reply.
"Adjutant," roared the general, "lead all these men to their
homes ; we have struck a d — menagerie."
Yet these men gave their correct names. It was a curious
coincidence that they all should have been together.
It was wonderful how quickly news of the movements of
the enemy could be discovered and disseminated and spread
abroad by means of the grapevine telegraph. There were
some families who were appointed by G.n. Jeb Stuart him-
self to collect information, and it is safe to say he picked out
the loveliest, brainest, most devoted and patriotic among all
the fair women in the Confederacy. These ladies received and
entertained Federal officers at their homes, and they were os-
tracized all during the war by the whole community, for their
mission was kept a profound secret. These Circes invariably
wormed out every military secret from their visitors, and by
the time the bluecoats were springing buoyantly to the bugle's
blare of "boots and saddles" there were several Paul Reveres
of every age and sex speeding through Mosby's Confederacy,
and the flying Federal column might sweep through the coun-
try without seeing a living thing and return to report that the
country was literally a desert, harboring neither man nor
beast.
Yet sometimes the Federal raiders would start in the night-
time and steal a march on their vigilant foe. Even Mosby
was caught in Mr. Glasscock's house by a detachment of
bluecoats. and was badly wounded. In such cases the women
showed their nerve and bravery. The Yankees would have
given millions of dollars to capture Mosby. After he was shot
through the stomach. Mosby took off his coat, rolled it up.
and slipped it under the- bur.au. When the Federal troopers
asked Mrs. Glasscock who he was, she told them that he was
some soldier belonging to the regular army on a visit. They
left him to die, but the ladies hurried him off in an ox cart
to a house hidden away in the woods.
The women and scouts had a code of signals — by a motion
of a light in the night time and a shawl or some bright color
waved from the window. Another way in which these women
helped the South : they bent all the energy of their keen wits
to obtain firearms. There was a large number of deserters,
bounty jumpers, and human ravelings from the Army of the
Potomac who made their way northward through the coun-
try, and they would give their arms and accouterments for
something to eat or for information as to the best way of
making their way through the pickets or provost guards. The
women would secrete the weapons and later send them to
Lee's army when they were sorely needed. One girl secured
one dozen Enfield muskets and four revolvers with accouter-
ments, and she in her way aided the cause more than she
could have done had she been an average soldier.
In the capital of every Southern State there stands in the
public park a figure of heroic size either of granite, bronze,
or marble, and it is the people's tribute to the courage and
gallantry of the Confederate soldier. All, friend and foe
alike, bow in homage to as noble a type of manhood as the
Anglo-Saxon race has evolved. But it seems strange that
there is not so much as a plain monolith or simple shaft erected
to the memory of the Southern maids and matrons of Ameri-
ca's great internecine war.
The Greeks gave credit and honor to their women, and the
column to the memory of Artemisia will stand a living tribute
to the virtues of the loving "daughter of the Greeks" as long
as this world shall turn on its axis, and the temple to Diana
of Ephesus is one of the seven wonders of the world.
It seems but meet and proper that the South should erect
the loftiest shrine ever seen within her borders, commemora-
tive of the virtues and patriotism of the lovely yet dauntless
women who lived and labored for their State during the great
Civil War.
What an Arkansas Comrade Said for the Veteran.
The following little talk was made for the Veteran at a
gathering in Arkansas by a comrade who has given much time
and thought in its behalf, and it is given here in the hope of
enlisting others in the work : "Confederate Veterans, I wish
to ask a favor of every one of you. Every time you go to a
public gathering take with you a copy of the Veteran. If you
haven't one, send and get it : it will cost you nothing. Then
show it to every man you meet and ask him to subscribe. You
don't know how easy it is to get a subscriber until you try it.
Ask the young men to subscribe; tell them that after six
months, if they are dissatislied with it. you will give them their
money back. I made that promise to one young man, and
soon after getting his first number he told me there was onej|r
article in it that he would not take the price of subscription
fur. The young men ought to read it, and will if you will
show it and ask them to subscribe. We old men can't afford
to do without it. We can treble its list of readers if we will
try within a year. If you were a good soldier, get up and
hustle for the Veteran."
Curtis Green, of Oglesby, Tex., is anxious to procure the
first eight numbers of the Veteran (T893), and asks the com-
rades to look over their copies and write him. He will pay a
good price for them in good condition.
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VISIT TO BATTLEFIELD OF MURFREESBORO.
BY GEN C IRVINE WALKER. CHARLESTON, S. C.
Recently I had the very great satisfaction of spending a day
on the battlefitld of Murfreesboro, which I had not seen for
forty-four years — not since we inarched off in the rain and
storm of January, 1863. It was particularly gratifying that
the party who accompanied me were near participators in the
events of that battle. They were: Capt. 1'.. I., Ridley, of the
staff of Gen. A. 1'. Stewart, who then commanded a brigade
of Cheatham's Division; (.apt Charles H. King, an officer in
Maney's Brigade of the same division; and the editor of the
Veteran. We wen- driven on the historic ground by Com-
rade S. G. Hunt, who was familiar with tin- battlefield. In
that battle 1 was adjutant general of Manigault's Brigade,
Withers's Division, which division was supported by thai oi
Cheatham. So all the party fought in the same part of the
battlefield except Cunningham, whose regiment was in Mis-
sissippi at that time, and each could assist the other in identi-
fying the points of common interest.
We drove right out to the point on the Wilkinson Pike
where Manigault's gallant boys captured four gun- Easilj
fixing this. 1 could readily trace the line of advance to this
point and subsequent advance toward the Nashville Tike. So
far as I can learn from reading the "Rebellion Records." the
four captured twelve-pound Napoleons were four of the six
guns of Battery 1 .. 1-1 Ohio Volunteer Artillery. On them
were subsequently inscribed the names of four distinguished
South Carolinians killed in the battle, two each from the I Oth
and loth Regiments, which regiments were accorded the chief
glory of the capture, and they wire sent, under escort of a
detachment from the two regiments, commanded by Capt. C.
C. White. a mark of honor for distinguished gal-
lantry, to General Beauregard, commanding Department of
South Carolina, and turned 111 for use to Halliard's Battery.
1 if course the face of the country, from clearing and culti-
vation, is very much chang d; hut there arc many ineffaceable
landmarks by which the correct positions could he identified.
We drovi ovet to the Harding Home, which at the beginning
of the battle of December 30 was ju-t within the enemy's line
and in front of Withers'- Division. Near this house, before
our pickets had b en driven back, took place the heroic picket
light of Compani s \ ind I toth South Carolina Regiment,
when Capt Charl Carroll White oi Companj \. won his
ation for distinguished gallantry. In the house we had
the privilege n| \iewing the piano, shown in the illustration,
which was in the Harding Home at the time of the battle.
A lot of Federal wound. d were lying on the floor of the room
in which was the piano. After the house fell into our hands
by the victorious advance of the Confederates, a shot from
the enemy's hattery — said to he from the battery on the Wilkin-
son Pike, afterwards captured by Manigault's Brigade— swept
into the room, killing five of the wounded Federals and mak-
ing the shot hole shown in the left-hand back leg of the piano.
The Harding house of that date was destroyed by fire some
years ago, and the present house is upon the same spot.
While those of us who were in the battle were lighting it
over again. Mr. Cunningham, editor of the VETERAN, called
upon the venerable Mrs. Harding, eighty-six years of age, hut
who -its erect and whose eyes sparkled as if a girl of twenty.
She was reared in the vicinity. The tine old piano has been
eag rly sought by relic hunters. One man begged them to ac-
cept a thousand dollars for it. and another offered to supply
the best piano in the Nashville market and to give her three
hundred dollars in addition.
Standing on the lawn in front of (he house could he seen
the cedar thicket in which was Withers's Division, supported
by Cheatham's. Well do I remember that thicket. The
enemy on December 30, by the advance of their main line,
had driven our picket line hack to the edge of the cedar
thicket, in front of which was an open field < >ur effort was
to prevent their development of our main line of battle, and
.11 one time half the brigade was on the picket line to prevent
this, which was successfully accomplished
A vast crowd of vivid memories rushed upon me a- I stood
on this the scene of the first great battle in which I had par-
ticipated.
For dinner we rode out to the hospitable home of Capt.
George Beesley, and met the good old comrade, his charming
family, and Mai. R. II. Dudley, of Nashville, In- lnother-in-
law. The company and the dinner matched the enjoym nt s
of that day— real old time Tennessee fare ami welcome
After dinner we drove over to McFadden's Ford, on Stone's
River, where Breckinridge's Division so gallantly endeavored
to cross on the afternoon of January J. We stood on the hill
where the Federals had posted fifty-eight guns, and from the
■sweep they hail of all the approaches it is not to lie wondered
at that the Confederate attack [ailed
To mark the historic -pot. the \. C. S Si I Railway has
erected a viry handsome shaft, (hi the modi -1 tablet on this
monument 1- "Shop- X, ('. & St. I.. Railway," giving credit
to the patriotic workers of tin- great railroad
The whole day was one of unqualified gratification, and our
only regret wa- that it had not la-led a week. It seemed to
me a great pity that th : llisti ric point- around Murfree-horo
eoiil, 1 not lie full) and elearlx marked Not only wa- it the
scene of the great battle of Decembet 31, [862, hut of two
other battles. Heroism i- indigenous to the soil of Tenness e,
and around Murfreesboro it is manifestlj stri
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MISS MARY CUSTIS LEE AT CHARLESTON.
Miss Mary Custis Lee, the daughter of our beloved Robert
E. Lee, recently visited Charleston, S. C, and among the
many attentions most deservedly paid her was an entertain-
ment by the Chapter composed of the Children of the Ameri-
can Revolution, of which body Mrs. W. Moultrie Gourdon is
the Mother or President. There were several interesting
ceremonies, and among them the reception to Miss
Lee, the children being grouped around an Ameri-
can flag in the hands of Master Rhea Johnston, a
grandson of Gen. (now Bishop) Ellison Capers: a
recitation of "Washington at GreLiiaway Court,"
most charmingly given by little Miss Ruth Harvey;
and a speech on Robert E. Lee by Master B. Wi
son Walker. The latter is a grandson of Gen. C.
I. Walker, only seven years of age. but. true to
his heritage, a loyal little Rebel. The little fellow
spoke with great earnestness, and as if he felt every
word he uttered, the following speech taught him
by his grandmother, who believes in keeping fresh
in the memories of her descendants the precious
memories of the past: "Gen. Edward Lee w-as born
en the 19th of January, one hundred years ago. He
was a grand man. He loved God, he loved his
country, he loved all that was
good and noble, and I am
proud to say he was our Con-
federate leader. The name
of Robert Lee will never die. It is
written in history and in the Book of
Life, and will live forever.''
Miss Lee was so charmed by his
manly tribute to her great father that
she snatched him up in her arms and
kissed him.
Let us forever by just such inci-
dents and such teachings keep alive
in the hearts of the uprising genera-
tion the lesson of the heroism of the Confed
erate fathers and mothers, that they may be
bettered by the example of such glorious fore-
fathers.
GEORGIA RANGERS IN EAST TENN.
J. K. Valentine wrote from Loudon, Tenn.,
February 15. 1863 (he was of a cavalry battalion, Smith's
Legion) :
"For two weeks past we have been stationed at this
place, resting and awaiting developments ; but last night
these conditions were broken into. The men were asleep,
when suddenly the shrill notes of the bugle sounded the
alarm signal. * * * The voice of the adjutant sounded
throughout the camp : 'Turn out squadrons with your whole
effective force and be ready to move in ten minutes.'
"Then there was hurry and confusion. Nobody knew what
was up. The general impression was that the Yankees were
moving to attack and beat us back so as to burn the Loudon
bridge. In ten minutes the whole battalion was moving in
line of battle by squadrons, and we were soon double-quicked
toward Loudon. We entered the town, and raised such a
yell as I have never heard. The citizens roused from their
beds dreadfully frightened. They thought the Yankees had
charged the town; but when they learned who it was, they
were somewhat relieved. * * * As soon as ammunition
was issued the column was turned toward the bridge, evi-
dently to cross. This was trying to our nerves, for I believe
if the men had been offered their choice of crossing that
bridge or engaging five hundred Yankees in a fight they
would sooner have fought. It was very dark and raining, and
the floor of the bridge was full of holes. The crossing was
a dangerous feat at any time. We w:ere fearful of accidents,
and one horse did fall through in the beginning.
This crossing detained us at least an hour, but
finally we all got over without further trouble.
"Then commenced the rain. We struck off at a
brisk pace in the direction of Knoxville, our desti-
nation being Ebenezer Station, and our object to
intercept one hundred renegades and conscripts
who were to pass there on their way to Kentucky
to join the Federal army. At daylight we reached
the point to which we had been ordered, but there
was not a conscript or renegade to be found."
[The bridge referred to was very long and high
across the Tennessee
River. It was enough to
ilarm all who had to
cross it. This descrip-
tion will recall many
thrilling experiences that
were alike severe and perilous,
tlii- causes of which were never
understood by the men in the
ranks. Such experiences were
severe tests of the faithfulness of soldiers
and were maintained through rigid disci-
pline.]
}VHO KILLED GEN. PHIL KEARNEY?
BY COL. W. L. GOLDSMITH, NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Col. W. L. DeRosset. 3d North Caro-
ina, Wilmington, N. C, in the April
number is correct when he says that a
Georgian killed Gen. Phil Kearney. At
the time (1862) I was captain of Com-
pany K, 14th Georgia Regiment, Thomas's
Georgia Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division,
Jackson's Corps. Thomas's Brigade was
composed of the 14th, 35th. 45th, and
49th Georgia Regiments. I had charge of
the skirmish line in front of this brigade
at Ox Hill in 1862, and it was
late in the afternoon in the
midst of a rain storm and
very dark that we saw some
one approaching the skirmish
line on horseback a few hundred paces in front of us, and
not very far behind the horseman came a line of Federals,
who in their blue uniforms coining from the green field
were scarcely distinguishable. Our brigade was behind an
old-fashioned rail worm fence, thickly screened by sassafras
bushes, and my first impulse was to withdraw the skirmish
line, so as to ambush this approaching line of battle, passing
the order on the right and left to retire ; but the skirmish
line of the brigade, some of the men seeing the horseman
and not understanding the reason for retiring, fired and
killed this horseman, who turned out to be Gen. Phil Kearney.
I do not remember from which one of the regiments the
man came who fired the shot, but think it was the 14th.
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As Colonel DeRosset says, ihis is not a matter of much
consequence; but the truth should be told. I remember dis-
tinctly thai (here was great sympathy expressed by even
Confederate for this brave Federal general, who had 1 ft an
arm in Mexico.
Genesai Kearney Killed in Front oj iqth Georgia.
Col. G. X. Saussy, of Hawkinsville, Ga., writes to Col.
William L. DeRosset, Wilmington, X. C. :
"Your story of the death of the Federal general, Phil Kear-
ney, and the instance of the Georgia boy who claimed thai his
bullet rolled the General from his -addle, as noted in the
\ i mi ian For April, lias much < > f fact in it. In the gloom of
dusk General Kearney, getting beyond his line, rode right up
to the front of part of tin ©th Georgia, which was resting
111 the edge of the w 1- General Kearney asked in a quiet
way: 'What troops are these?' Possibly a half dozen re-
sponded: 'Th< (9th Gi irgia.' He quietly remarked. 'All right.'
and turned his horse in the opposite direction Some one ex-
claimed : 'That's a Yankee officer!' Then 'Malt!' rang out
from a dozen voices, when the General threw himself for-
ward 'in his horse, running the spurs into his sides by the
same impulse
"Mann Pate, of the 49th, was standing just b hind the line,
lie ordered, 'Shoot him!' and possibl} .1 di en or more rifles,
as one explosion, rang out. More than one bullet cut the
General's clothing, several pierced his saddle, and the one
that proved fatal, singularly enough, entered from the lower
part of the body and po siblj pierced Ins heart as he fell from
his horse When picked up almo 1 immediately, he was found
dead Ilis body was brought near a fire around which some
men and officers were gathered Neat bj was a wounded
Yankee Offil r, who, raising up and viewing the remains, told
the ( lonfi 'I ■■• as Gi n Phil Ke trney.
"These facts can be substantiated by Judge A. C. Pipkin.
of this little town, who was a member 1 i the 40th and wit-
: the tragedy. He says McCrimmon, of Telfair County,
Ga., exclaimed as the shot rang out 'Boys, I've got him!'
suppo in- ins gun was the only on< tired; but as the saddle
and the General's clothing indicated many bullet marks. Mc-
Crimmon's claim is - lie But the volley from the
boys of the 49th Georgia did the work, and a gallant and
valuable Federal officer paid the penalty of his misfortune in
getting h yond his 1
"Stonewall Jackson did so, hut the bullets that severely
wound i d 'Old. Jack' were tho e from the guns of his own men
Mi I'le 1 en rode up to the Confederate line near Atlanta by
mistake, and paid the penalty of his life in attempting tti r<
gain his own tr< iops.
"General Kearney's horse as soon ,1- the Gerferal fell
wheeled and came into the line of the pith, and was captured.
\\ I * - 1 1 ■ lieutenant colon, 1 of the 45th Georgia.
aK.. a resident of this town, verifies Judge Pipkin's narrative,
and I in lave there an other witnesses here who can sub-
stantiate the story as above.
"1 was not a membi r ol either r< giment nami d, but of the
Jeff Davis Legion, Hampton's Brigade, in thi same bt
at the time with B gallant it North Carolina Cavalry.
'"I hesi m.-id' 111- . 1 1 d to me bj Judgt \ I
Pipkin and Colonel Grice."
Seemingly Cu i Ki uiney's Death.
|t olorw 1 1 .1 ice writes .1 R. ' hili ide, < !a. 1
It was John McCrimmon, of the 19th Georgia Regiment,
who killed (iiu Philip Ki E Ox Hill (or
Chantilly), September I, 1862. Darkness had put an end to
the conflict; the battle was over and the firing had ceased
when General Kearney |( ft his line and rode alone to the
front of the 40th Georgia. Evidently he was trying to ascer-
tain whether these men were friends or enemies, as there was
some confusion on both sides caused by the growing darkness.
When close to our line, he asked ; "What troops are those?"
Ilis question was answered by a similar one concerning his
own belonging. Some of the men understood his reply to
be "We arc Confederates," while others thought he said
"Federals." Discovering his mistake, he- wheeled his horse
and started to retreat. Capt. John II Pate, of the 40II1, gave
the order to "Fire on him." General Kearney bent low down
on the neck of his horse; and as he did so, McCrimmon's
bullet entered his body directly from the rear, making no
external wound. He fell from his horse, and died in a few
minutes McCrimmon was the only man who fired just at
that time.
My regiment and yours (the 151I1 Georgia) was detailed
to hold the field while the others went into bivouac. It had
rained that evening while the battle was in progress, and the
night air was chilly to men in wet clothes. At the regimental
dqui rti 1 we built a fire, and to this lire the dead body was
brought. We knew by the uniform that it was a Federal
IN. er, hut we did not know his name or rank. A Federal
captain who had been wounded and captured had been brought
to the same fire, as soon as he saw General Kearney with
Ins .me arm (the other having been lost 111 the Mexican
Wart, told us who the dead man \\a- Ilis body lay by
that fire all night, a few hundred yards from where he fell.
Such of these incidents as did not come under m\ own oh
servation I got from the men that night and afterwards.
John McCrimmon died a few years ago at his home, in Telfair
County, Ga. He always claimed that it was his shot which
killed this distinguished officer, and tin men who were stand-
ing l'\ him at the time confirmed this claim. Major Rivers, "I
the 40th. who was wounded in the battle, rode General Kear-
ney's horse off the field to the hospital. The next day Gen-
eral Lee sent the body, under flag "f truce, to his own men.
and he sent with it the red smoking cap which was found
with the body.
It may not be amiss to add that a few week- afterwards
Mrs Kearney wrote a letter to General lee. requesting that
her husband's sword be sent to her. General Lee sent to
General McClellan not only the sword but thi liorsi and sad-
dle of the dead officer, explaining that the bridle had been
lost At the same time he sent a letter in care of General Mc-
Clellan to Mrs. Kearney. The correspondence between these
officers relating to the return of this property was published
111 the "War Records" by tin- United Slates government.
"I here ought to be no dispute about the tune, place, or cir-
cumstanc S of the killing of tin there are yet living
witnesses to the foregoing narrative; and yet 1 have seen from
lime I" nine various accounts of Ins death, no two of which
were alike, and no one of which was true. 1 hope this will
settle the dispute you mention over tins affair between <
Rutherford and oth.
Gkner.m. I'h 11 Kearney's Sv
[W. E, Duncan. Company II. 14th Georgia. Dublin, Ga.]
In tin- April (hxi;i VETERAN, page [68, is an article by
Co| \\ . I. DeRosset referring to an article in the October
111 >x. page 41)8, where it is stated that W. Singleton, of
the oth Louisiana, is the soldier who killed Gen Phil Kearney.
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As stated by Colonel DeRosset, it is not a matter of much im-
portance; but as truth is the object sought for, the record
should be correct.
In the battle of Ox Hill, in 1862, Thomas's Brigade, com-
posed of the 14th, 35th, 45th, and 49th Georgia Regiments, went
into action at the commencement. The enemy soon gave way,
but was rallied after falling back a short distance. Mean-
while our (Thomas) brigade was deployed and thrown for-
ward some distance in advance of the main line, when this
officer (who we afterwards learned was Gen. Phil Kearney)
rode up within twenty paces of the 49th Georgia Regiment
and asked what regiment that was. One soldier (whom Colo-
nel Derosset minutely described) answered: "This is Company
G. 49th Georgia."
The General saw his mistake, wheeled his horse, threw
himself close upon his horse's back, and put spurs. This sol-
dier, taking in the situation, fired and killed the officer, who
proved to be Gen. Phil Kearney.
The soldier who killed Gen. Phil Kearney is Elijah
Curl, of Company G, 49th Georgia Regiment, who related it
to me about two years ago. He now has General Kearney's
sword. It has always been understood here that Lige Curl
killed General Kearney and, taking his sword, gave it to his
lieutenant colonel, Johnathan Rivers. Colonel Rivers soon
afterwards lost a leg and was retired. He took the sword
home with him. Colonel Rivers died soon after the war, and
the sword being among his effects, the question arose as to
who was the rightful owner of it, as no one seemed to care
anything about it. Some years after other parties came into
possession of the premises, and found the sword, and, knowing
something of its history, began the inquiry as to who gave the
sword to Colonel Rivers. I heard of the inquiry, and wrote
to Mr. Curl, telling him how and where he could get the
-sword if he cared for it. He proceeded as I wrote him. and
got it, so he informed me about two years ago. This is the
tt rue history of the killing of Gen. Phil Kearney as related to
me immediately after the battle and several times since.
YOUNGEST LIVING CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.
BY R. W. GRIZZARD. LOUISVILLE, KY.
Mr. William F. Hopkins, formerly of York County, Va..
now residing at 224 South Pine Street, Richmond, Va., en-
joys the distinction of being the youngest living Confederate
soldier. His age is fifty-six, and he is hale, In arty, and heavy
of body. Mr. Hopkins has been twice married, his first wife
being Miss M. J." Davis, a direct descendant of Light-Horse
Harry Lee; and two sons. Rev. R. F. Hopkins, of Louisville,
Ky.. and Mrs. C. Fitzhugh Hopkins, of Hampton, Va.. sur-
vive this union.
Recently the jeweled cross to the youngest living Confeder-
al soldier was awarded to Mr. Hopkins. He was a full-
fledged fighter at the age of eleven years and a few months,
and fought the whole war through, his career as a soldur end-
ing at Appomattox, when hs was just fifteen years of age.
In a letter to the Times-Dispatch of Richmond, Mr. Hopkins
says : "I was born November 13, 1849, in York County, eight
miles below Yorktown, and entered the Confederate service
when I was eleven years, five months, and seventeen days old
with York Rangers at the beginning. Afterwards we were
Company I, 32d Virginia Regiment, Hunton's Brigade, until
after the fight at Gettysburg; then in General Corse's bri-
gade. I served during the entire war. and was paroled at
Appomattox Courthouse, at which time I was fifteen years
■old, and weighed over two hundred pounds."
Mr. Hopkins is a member of Magruder Camp, Confederate
Veterans, at Newport News, Va., and is rich in reminiscences
of the gory days of old when the flower and chivalry of the
Old South's manhood went forth and won enduring fame upon
many fields of blood. He was painfully wounded at the battle
of Charm's Bluff, and will carry upon his stalwart person to
the grave scars of battle.
1TAR RECORDS IV ANTED.
W. H. Bachman, of Magnet, Ark. : "I belonged to Company
F, 42c! Mississippi Regiment, and while in camp about Rich-
mond, Va., in the summer of 1862 it became a part of our
duty to guard the Federal prisoners that were captured in the
seven days' fighting about Richmond and at that time sta-
tioned on Belle Isle, in the James River. In this work we
were assisted by troops known as Montgomery's Battalion,
but from what State I do not recall. While thus engaged the
officer of the guard was always from the 42d Mississippi, while
the officer of the day was from the battalion. One night while
carrying out strict orders to have all approaching persons lean
over the bayonet to give the countersign, unintentionally my
bayonet was run through the clothing of the officer of the
day. If that officer is still living, I should be pleased to hear
from him, or from any one who belonged to Montgomery's
Battalion."
George R. Terry, of Cameron, Tex., seeks to establish his
record as a Confederate soldier, and would like to hear from
any comrades who can testify in his behalf. He enlisted in
John Pelham's Battery, Stuart's Horse Artillery, Army of
Northern Virginia, in 1862; afterwards served in James
Breathed Battery, then in P. P. Johnston's Battery, and lastly
in Dan Shank's Battery — all Stuart's Horse Artillery. He
wishes to get a pension by proof of his service.
Mrs. F. G. Catlett, President U. D. C. Pawnee, Okla, wishes
to secure the war record of J. W. Perry, who was from North-
east Missouri, and helped raise a company in Shelby, Clark,
and Lewis Counties; was with Price and Van Dorn, and both
in the infantry and cavalry service during the war. This
record is desired to enable his wife and daughters to become
members of the U. D. C. and the son a L'. S. C. V. Any in-
formation will be appreciated.
WHERE PRESIDENT DAVIS WAS IMPRISONED.
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Till: MONUMENT AT LINDEN, TEX.
John A. Morris writes from Linden, rex., -ending picture
of the Confederate monument (reeled there in 1903, when
tlie "boys in gray" and the Daughters have kept in memory
the noble virtues of the patriots of the sixties. The monu-
ment stand- in tin yard of the count) courthouse at Linden,
and was unveiled on October 29, [903, with appropriate cere-
monies It 1- a beautiful marble shaft, and was erected in the
most public place thru all might be made familiar with the
heroism of Southern soldiers and keep in memory their
gli irious achi< vements.
This monument movement was successfully carried through
by tlv untiring efforts of Mrs. Gertrude Cartwright, of I us
seta, Tex., and -he is tin- central figure in the group about the
monument, holding the flag, with her grandchildren on each
side. An only brother died in the Confederal : army, and his
memory inspired her devotion, which was untiring to the
Southern cause.
II II. II .1111 I nil IN Ml D DID.
B\ W \1 I \. 1 WOOD M u ORl 1 w-
So man] interesting reminiscences are published in the
Veteran that r am tempted to give my experience with the-
Hotel de Ragsdale, of Meridian, Miss., during 1S04 for the
fun I enjoyed While knocking around Pontotoc County,
Miss., hunting for somi freel ters from Memphis in the
shape of Yankee cavalry, I accidentally got too close to one of
these freebooters, who kill d my horse instead of me. This
necessitated a trip to Meridian foi .1 furlough to Canton to
get an' 'tiier horse.
With a twenty-dollar Confederate bill in my pod
walked around to the Ragsdale House, a well known hotel in
those day-. Some staff offii 1 1
at Forrest's headquarters had given me supper Approaching
the c. en it 1 1 and regi tering, I asked foi a room The pro-
prietor replied: "Five dollars per bed, and cash in advanci
1 inquired if that included breakfast also. "No, six," said Mr
Ragsdale; "breakfast 1- five dollars more." 1 did not have
e p. back "in and -le p on the ground, so I brought
out my twenty-dollar hill, -aid good-bj n> it. and passed 11
over to Mr. Ragsdale. In the dun light furnished by a tallow
candle — good old days when they were fashionable — he handed
me hack a one-hundred-dollar hill in place of the ten coming
to me. \fler this interesting little episode took place — and
highly interesting was it t" me — he called "the boy" to "show
the genlli man to X". jN," giving him at tile same tune a tallow
dip and a key to unlock the door \ller climbing up t" the
third floor, I \\ 1- ushered in'o a wide hall running the
full length of the house, with about one hundred cot- strung
out and about fifty of them occupied. The shouts of derision
which greeted me took away all the courage of the negro, who
handed me the candle ami key and ran hack down the stairs
(hi the morrow I soon had my "C" changed into small hill-.
So intent was my mind on the good thing- I expected t" eat
on the morrow that 1 scarcely slept, and no one in the hall
could tell me how many stations were between Meridian and
Jackson. I went to sleep gin --nig whether the number was
twenty or fifty. At breakfast next morning I tried to eat five
dollars' worth. I left the table feeling fully satisfied. I took
a good seat on (not in) the front flat car and watched closely
both sides of the track for a lunch stand. 1 don't remember
the name of the station which was the first stop out of Me-
ridian. 1 invested one dollar in lunch 1 1 1. • such thing!
sandwiches in those good old days). It was a leg. second
joint, and the wing of a tender, juicy chicken, fried crisp and
brown, with four biscuits and .1 gla of milk. We made the
run. a- near a- I can remember, mi twelve hours \fur 1 had
"hit" about teli lunches, 1 began in feel generous and liberal,
and I commenced treating my companions, who were not so
well supplied with money.
We reached Canton about _' am The lunch counter- u re
closed after dark, or r probably would have eaten my H
i ii en \fier that trip. I always had a high regard for Mr
Ragsdale, and remembered him with great pleasure. 1 made
a trip over the mad recently, hut I failed to -ie many of the
stations we passed that day. in 1864. It may he that our train
ran -. > -l..w that the lunch counter- may have moved and kepi
up with OUT train. I heard of Mr. Rag-dale'- death with
much regret One old 1 onfederatt had a good time through
his liberality.
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Qo^federat:^ l/eterar?,
THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. ■.
Forget not, Earth, thy disappointed dead;
Forget not, Earth, thy disinherited;
Forget not the forgotten ;
Kerp a strain of divine sorrow in sweet undertone
For all the dead who lived and died in vain.
Imperial Future, when the countless train
Of coming generations lead thee to thy throne,
Forget not the forgotten and unknown !
[These lines were furnished by Hon. St. G. T. C. Bryan,
Richmond, Va. The author's name is not remembered.]
R. W. McGrfw.
The Hen McCulloch Camp, No. 563. ' U.' C. V., pays tribute
to the memory of Comrade R. W. McGrew, who departed •
this life December 22, 1906, in the following resolution :
"Resolved, That this organization, some of whom have
known this brother from bur youth, mourn with heartfelt
sympathy the loss from our midst of a faithful and patriotic
Confederate soldier. He was a member of Company A, 7th
Texas Cavalry, Green's Brigade, remaining at his post of honor
Until the surrender. He bore wounds on his body received
at the brilliant cap'.ure of Galveston on January 1, 1863. We
here extend to his faithful wife and devoted children the deep
sympathy of all members of this Camp, of which he was a
charter member in good standing."
L. Ballon, W. T. Melton, T. H. Marsden, committee.
Capt. John Postf.ll.
Captain Postell died at his home, in Cartersville, Ga., in
May, 1906, after an illness of several months. He was born
in 1836 in Beaufort District, S. C. His parents moved to
Savannah, Ga., when he was an infant. He received his edu-
cation in Savannah. Captain Postell was a civil engineer,
and he was identified with a number of noted undertakings,
both military and civil. His first work as civil engineer was as
rodman on the Brunswick and Florida Railroad. He was
promoted early, and was soon intrusted with the preliminary
survey from Waresboro to Albany. He was afterwards se-
lected to help locate the Charleston and Savannah Railroad,
and was employed in the construction of that line.
Soon after the opening of the Civil War he was a member
of the Savannah Guards Battalion. He was immediately
chosen for engineer work in the defenses of Charleston, and
during such service he assisted in locating the Port Royal
Railroad. He was next assigned to duty under General
Beauregard at Charleston, and did some perilous work under
heavy and continuous shelling, constructing a columbiad bat-
tery and other defense work at Johnson's Island. Next he
received an appointment as lieutenant of engineer troops, C.
S. A., and on reporting at Richmond he was assigned to work
south of the James River. This placed him in the responsible
task of mining and countermining about the defenses and for-
tifications around Petersburg.
Lieutenant Postell was ordered to locate and build a line
of defense around Petersburg. The line, begun at night, was
not completed when the Federals appeared before it about
daylight. They began to build earthworks, and a continuous
lire was begun and 'kept up by both sides for a month until
the great Crater explosion. Under Lieutenant Postell the
Confederate works wen- -t lengthened in every possible way;
but it was possible to worl< only at night, on account of the
continuous firing by sharpshooters throughout the day. A
deserter finally informed the Confederates of the tunnel the
enemy was driving, and Lieutenant Postell was ordered .to
countermine against the Federal work, and a competent, tried
corps bi 111 n was placed under his charge. . . .
Lieutenant; Postell soon after the work on Petersburg de-
irj nses was promoted to the rank of captain in a corps of en-
gin ers, being thus transferred from the engineer troops. He
subsequently acted as adjutant for Gen. W. H. Stevens, chief
engineer id" the Army of Northern Virginia. Just before the
fall of Richmond Captain Postell was promoted to the rank
of major, and on the retreat from Richmond was assigned to
the position of chief engineer for Lieut. Gen. R. H. Anderson.
After the war. Captain Postell, in company with his ex-
chief. General Stevens, went to Mexico, arriving at the City
•of Mexico about the 1st of June, 1865. Their mission was
engineering work on the railroad from the City of Mexico
to Vera Cruz. The revolution which overturned the empire
began, and, foreseeing an interruption of the railroad work,
Captain Postell returned to his native country. After a time
he was selected as engineer for the street and suburban rail-
way in Savannah. After that he went to Macon and built
a tram road from the fair grounds through the city. When
Gen ral McRea was appointed Manager of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, he appointed Captain Postell engineer of
the road. After this he took charge of the Cherokee road.
About the year 1888 Captain Postell married Mrs. Kate
CAPT. JOHN POSTELL.
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Maxwell, of Mobile. Ala., whom he met while Ihej were both
on a visit North. She survives him. Captain Postell had
many friends. He was a quiet, dignified gentleman. His
remains were carried to Savannah for interment. The Vet-
erans of P. M. B. Young Camp took charge of the funeral
arrangements and attended his remains in a body to the train.
Rev. W. A. Cleveland officiated in a short but impressive
service at the home. Cartersville, Ga., at which place his
widow resides.
I ! vpt. Wii 1 1 \m X. James,
At his home, in Hickman, Tenn., January 31, 1907, occurred
the death of Capt. \Y. X. James at the age of seventy-one
years, lie enlisted in Company ( i. 55th Regiment of Tenw
see Volunteers, in December, [861, was soon elected first ser-
geant of his company, and at the reorganization at Corinth.
Miss., he was elected captain oi Company C, 44th Infantry
Regiment, C. S. A. He went through all the great battles
from Shiloh to Petersburg, when he was captured and held
at different places. He was cue of the "immortal six hun-
dred" placed on a small island in front of Charleston and
held there under lire of the two armies for forty days and
nights and fed on musty meal and spoiled pickles, nothing
else. While in activi ervice he was frequently in command
of his regiment a- senior captain lie led a \cr\ quiet life
aft' r returning, scarcelj ever referring to the war and never
to the part he took in it.
Mm. Sam Si mi
As the result of a itroke of paralysis while on his way 10
visit h ter, Mrs Leon Sanders, of Si Louis, Mo.
death cami to Mai. Sam Sharp about .1 month later. January.
1907, and his body was taken hack to Corinth, Miss, for
burial 1111 h 1 [he a I pii 1 of the Albert Sidney John ton I amp
of which he was its
w orthj c immander.
Major Sharp was
horn February 20
tX.iS. in McNairj
County. Tenn. lie
was an intimate friend
of President Jeffi 1 1 11
Davis. Entering the
army as a sit,, ml lieu-
tenant, he w.
tached 10 Company
G, 3isi 1 1 1.. -,■, in
fantry, w ith which he
remained throughout
the war w
sive promotions until
brevetted majoi bj
Foseph K John-
ston. He was in the
battles of Chickamau-
g.i and Missi
Ridge, and servi d
under General John-
ston throughout the entire G 1 impaign. Although twice
wounded, hi served to the surrender of Lee Majoi Sharp
was one of tin iminent citi nth, a large
landowner, and for the past ten years President of tin Corinth
Bank and I I well as interested in a number
of other enti rprisc-.
Major Sharp was married to Miss [dotha Fulghum in
MAI, SAM SHARP,
Humboldt. Miss,, wl,0 survives him with two sons and a
daughter.
Mai. James II. Bickerstaff.
Maj. James Henry Bickei mi one of the most prominent
citizens ami veterans of S' ale. Ala., dud at the residence of
his son, in Columbus, Ga., May 18, [906, He had been in ill
health for some time, ami had gone to Johns Hopkins Hos-
pital, Baltimore, for treatment; hut the operation there per-
formed did not bring the hoped-for improvement.
James Bickerstaff was horn in Russell County. Ala . in lSj.t,
lie was among the first to respond to the call of the South-
land, and enlisted in the Russell Volunteers, under Capt, Ben
Raker, in April. [861, befori h< was seventeen years old. and
his company was sent to Virginia, lie took pari in the first
battle "f Manassas. While in camp there In- brother Robert,
also a member of the company, died from exposure and
measles, and was buried at M,nii-;iv After tile term of his
first enlistment had expired, he returned to Alabama with
several companions and joined the battalion of Mai. James
Waddell However, his father, (apt, I". F. Bickerstaff. hav-
ing organized a companj of Russell County men. James
Bickerstaff was transferred to that command, Company I,
34th Alabama Regiment, and was made second lieutenant. The
company was stationed at Corinth, Miss, for some time.
In the battle of Murfrcesboro Comrade Bickerstaff mani-
fested great courage and determination. In the midst of the
battle his father was mortally wounded, and Captain Burch,
commanding the company, was also wounded. With tears of
grief blinding his eyes, Lieutenant Bickerstaff seized the
SWOrd that had fallen from his fa'her's hand, assumed com-
mand, rallied the company, and led them on in the battle until
i.i:; -.If shot down, -mni lj wounded in the thigh and slight-
ly m the arm. Ills father lingered until February 14. and
was nursed ami cared foi bj a Mrs fhompson in her own
home, and was buried in her garden. While alien 111
Reunion at Nashville in 10 >i Captain Bickerstaff visited Mi»r-
freesboro in the hope of locating his father's grave, hut was
11, .1 successful.
\1110ng olher battles in which he t' ok pari were Muml
ville and Tcrryvillc, Ky.. Lookout Mountain and Mi-
Knlge, Tenn., Chickamauga, and all the battles from Dal ton,
Ga., lo Atlanta. In the battle of East runt, near Atlanta,
July 28, 1864, lis lost hi- left arm. a bullet shattering the
elbow Vfter Hood's campaign into Tennessee, Major Bicker-
staff again joined his command and accompanied them to
South Carolina, (if this later attempt 1 he said:
"Finding tin lo ol an arm (00 much for me. I sorrowfully
returned home, took chargi ol mj mother's farm, and helped
lo care for her and my younger brothers and sist<
A few- years |at( r he w. : m irrii d to Miss ] ' I
Harrard, of Columbus, Ga., who. with I and three
daughters, survives him Hi iged mother, hearl broken over
his death, joined bun in the spirit land a few months later.
For several years Mann rved Russell County
collector, but at the time of his death was engaged in
farming and brick luanut successful in. both
enterprises. He was pension examiner for Ru-sill County
and a member of the stafl of 1. G gi I' Harrison, with
nlc of Major, also an offici I mp Waddell. and was
I m anything pertaining to the Southland.
For forty years he hail been a humble follower of Christ. He
was tenderly laid to rest by In- comrades dressed in his suit
of Confederal gray. The casket was of the sam< gray and
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draped with a Confederate flag. Over the grave a prayer
was offered, a salute fired, and taps sounded.
Recognizing his true worth and many noble qualities, one
of his home papers said of Major Bickerstaff : "Few men have
lived and died in Russell County or elsewhere who have left
a record of so great faith, hope, and service. He was a
gentleman of the old school, courtly, courteous, an upright,
honorable citizen of whom Russell County and the State may
well be proud, and a true friend whose death we all sincerely
mourn and deplore."
W. A. Britton.
A paper by Judge Joseph Bogle on the death of \Y. A.
Britton. of the J. E. Johnston Camp. Dalton, Ga., was adopted:
"Comrade William A. Britton was born in Greeneville,
Term., August 22. 1815, and removed to Bradley County at the
age of eighteen, where he remained until the commencement
of the Civil War. He enlisted in Capt. John Kuhn's company.
2d Tennessee Cavalry, and was in the campaigns of Ten-
nessee and Kentucky for about two years. He was wounded
at Loudon, Tenn., and as soon as able to return to his com-
mand was transferred to Company E, 4th Georgia Cavalry,
and served to the close of the war in that fine regiment, which
was commanded by the gallant Col. I. W. Avery. He was a
member of the Christian (Campbellite) Church, and was faith-
ful to his coun'ry, his Church, and his God. He died near
Pine Grove Church February 15, 1907, at the advanced age
of ninety-two years.
"In the death of Comrade Britton Joseph E. Johnston
Camp, U. C. V., has lost a faithful and valued comrade; and
we tender to his relatives and children our sincere sympathy
in their loss, which is also a loss to his neighbors and friends
as well as to this Camp."
Son of Thomas D. Osborne.
Comrades in Kentucky and largely throughout the South
sympathize sincerely with the well-known and generally be-
loved Thomas D. Osborne in the death of his noble son, Let
Byrd Osborne,*who died on the eve of Christmas. The funeral
services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Carter Helm Jones,
assisted by the Rev. Dr. Joseph M. Weaver, uncle of the
deceased, and the Rev. Joseph T. Watts. The services were
held in the Broadway Baptist Church. After the opening
prayer by Mr. Watts, Dr. Jones read the selections of con-
soling scriptures. He briefly mentioned the Christian career
of the departed, who had in early boyhood been baptized with
his mother in the Broadway Baptist Church, and in whose
Sunday school he had been awarded a gold medal for five
years' consecutive attendance. The young man's great-great-
grandfather, Lieut. Bennct Osborne, served under Washing-
ton in the Revolutionary War.
Bishop John C. Gkanbery.
Another sorrow came recently to the South, and especially
to the Methodist Church, in the death at his home, in Vir-
ginia, of Bishop Granbery, a devout, faithful servant of his
country and his Lord.
Mis fellow-bishop, C. B. Galloway, said: "Bishop Granbery
was noted among us for the serenity and saintliness of his
character, the accuracy and variety of his scholarship, the
gentleness and beauty of his disposition, and the wisdom and
tenderness of his leadership. He was called the St. John of
the Southern Methodist Church. A holier human being I
never saw, and the transparent beauty of his spiritual charac-
ter was most appreciated by those who kiKW him best. His
absolute integrity of spirit and life could bear the fiercest
search light. It was never my privilege to know a person
who, like Bishop Granbery, was so dominated by the principle
of Christian love without its emotional elements. He was not
a man of impulse, and was never swayed by his feelings.
Whatever the occasion. I do not recall ever seeing him yi.Ul
to his emotions. And yet he had the gentleness of a woman,
and the wealth of his sympathies was like the crystal flow of
an exhaustltss fountain. During the Civil War Dr. Granbery
was an army chaplain, and no soldier on the firing line dis-
played more unawed courage than did this modest man of
God. It was while on a battlefield in Virginia, ministering to
wounded and dying soldiers, that he received a wound in the
eye, from which he suffered to the day of his peaceful death."
Dr. W. F. Tillett, S.T.D., of Vanderbilt University, said:
"The noblest public tribute I remember ever to have heard
paid by one man to another was that paid by Dr. James A.
Duncan, of Virginia, to Dr. John C. Granbery. It was in
June, 1875, at th.e close of the commencement exercises of
Randolph-Macon College, of which Dr. Duncan was then the
successful and honored President. He said that John C.
Granbery was the only person that he had ever known in
whom he had never been able to discover a single moral fault."
Many beautiful tributes from high Church officials tend to
strengthen his comrades, who will ever be proud of his serv-
ices as a Confederate chaplain.
Thomas Edward Hambleton.
At a regular meeting of the Isaac R. Trimble Camp, held in
Baltimore on October 2. 1906, the death on the 21st of Sep-
tember, 1906, of Comrade Thomas Edward Hambleton. a mem-
ber of that Camp, in his seventy-eighth year, was announced
and recorded with deep sorrow. The Confederate cause was
indebted to him for services extraordinary and eminently suc-
cessful ; likewise in his death Baltimore City has lost a citizen
preeminent for enterprise, capability, and marked success in
advancing the public welfare, and withal a man of unsullied
honor, with the courage of his convictions.
After enlisting in Company E, 1st Maryland Cavalry, Army
of Northern Wginia, he substituted and equipped in his stead
a soldier who served faithfully to the end. The superior
talents and capabilities of Mr. Hambleton were availed of by
the highest authorities of the Confederate government to pene-
trate the enemy's lines with dispatches and subsequently to
bring supplies from foreign par's, prosecuting this latter serv-
ice to the bitter end. Two successful trips across the Potomac
through the enemy's country, under the authority of the Con-
federate Secretary of War. in peril of the scaffold, led to his
receiving authority from I he Confederate government to pro-
ceed to Europe-, take out cotton, etc., and return with supplies
for the government.
He purchased, sailed in, and was acting commander of the
blockade runner. Virginia Dare, which (with himself on
board) was wrecked on the sands of Lockwood's Folly, on
the South Carolina coast. He then had built in England the
steamer Coquette for a blockade runner, which ship continued
in the- Confederate service until the end of the war.
Prof. Henry E. Shepherd, A.M.. LL.D.. Editor in Chief of
the "History of Baltimore." wrote of Mr. T. Edward Hamble-
ton in 1898: "At Ihe outbreak of the Civil War his sympathies,
as well as his vast and varied interests in the South, induced
him to cast his fortunes and his life with the Confederacy.
Accordingly he moved to Richmond. Va.. and became a firm
(^federate? l/eterag.
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member of the Importing and Exporting Company of thai
city. This concern owned and manned several swift steamers
which ran in and out of the blockaded harbors of Charleston,
Wilmington, and other places South. They often escaped the
vigilance of the Federal fleets and earned cotton, stores, muni-
lions Of war. etc. These Swift 'runners' were nut always able
to escape, however; but Mr Hambleton, the man in charge,
most frequently was. He made many European voyages 01
trips in safely; and after the close of the war. he returned to
Baltimore and joined his brother, John A. Hambleton, in busi
ness. In [865 thej founded their banking house, of which far-
; ired concern Mr. T. Edward Hambleton was the executive
head."
\ Marylandcr to the manner horn, animated by the highest
patriotic spirit and the impulsi to contribute to the cause he
loved, his great Faculties ol enterprise, energy, and invention
enlisted in providing the materials necessary to conduct the
war, earning the thanks of the Confederate authorities, we
have in Captain Hambleton a hold and shining contrast to
llios,. engaged in the lilockadc-rtinning service for mere per-
sonal gain
I he marble statue of a Confederate cavalryman which
adorns our burial plot in Loudon Park Cemetery, made in
Italy by the Baltimore sculptor, Volck, by order of the Ladies'
Confederal Memorial Association of Baltimore, arrived here
in due course; hut funds were lacking 10 pay the import duty
(about $125), whereupon Captain Hambleton donated and paid
the money, and the statue was unveiled on Memorial Day.
June 6, 1874, thus evincing in this substantial manner his loyal
devotion to our departed comrades, llis fealty to the South
was further evidenced by taking his wife and young children
with him into the South, and after the war by having his two
sons educated at the Virginia Military Institute.
TIlnMAs E. II Hill ETON
Modest and unostentatious. Captain Hambleton was far
from parading his great services to the Confederacy. On so-
licitation, he applied for membership in this Camp, was elected
May 2, 1905. and was duly awarded a Cross of Honor by the
I laughters of the Confederac) \s a tribute of respect to tins-
memory and worth of Comrade T. Edward Hambleton there-
was entered on the minutes of this Camp the record of hi-,
faithful, invaluable, and perilous services to the Confederacy..
and it was ordered that a copy thereof be tendered to hfs
family with the sympathies and condolence of the members of
lliis ("amp.
["hi Following members of tin- Camp weir appointed 10
attend In- funeral: Commander William L. Ritter, Lieut. 1 ona
manders Winfield Peters and Spottswood Bird, Adjutant Wil-
liam II. Brent, Quartermaster M. Warner Hewes, Gen. Andrew
C. Trippe, Gen. John Gill, Gen. John M. I loo. I. IV. T Henry K.
Shepherd. Mai. .lames W. Lenny, and Mai \'ich>>'u, S Hill.
John Mii 1-1 i\ 1 loon
The Isaac R. Trimble Camp, No. 1025, L. C. V., of Balti-
more, paid high tribute to John Mifflin Hood, who died De-
cember i". 1906. in his sixty-fourth year, lie was a merhbet
of that Camp, The cause oi the Confederacy was indebted to
him for faithful and distinguished services; First, as a civil
engineer constructing a government railway, next as a pri-
vate in the infantry of the Maryland line, and then as lieu-
leu, mi , it' engineer troi ips.
Seriously and painfully wounded, with protracted illness
and prostration, his indomitable spirit yet kept him at the
post of duly to the end at Appomattox. The seven wounds
he received bore eloquent testimony to his bravery, fortitudi .
am! devotion to ditty. At Gettysburg, in the charge on Culp's-
Ilill. he was struck h\ a bullet and one passed through his
cap. And. as related by him. the two men on his right and
left, respectively I taller than he), were killed in each of the
n\i 1 ass;iulls on July 2 and .;. [863.
Bom near Sykesville. Howard County. Md. \pril 5, 1S4.?.
he began his active career in an engineer corps in 1S50. This
was on the Delaware Railroad; next he engaged in the con-
struction of the Eastern Shore Railroad, and for a time hac
charge of the operations there Leaving that service, he went
to Brazil in August, 1861. Finding the climate to In- uncon
genial, he returned to Baltimore in January. [862; and aftet
studying marine engineering, he ran the blockade, and offeree
ins services to the Confederate authorities at Richmond.
The chief engineet 1 f the Confederate States navy directed
him to report to MaJ01 Meyers, chief engineer of the military
id in course of construction from Danville, Va, to
Gre nsboro, N C, bj whom he was assigned to the duties of
topographical engineer and draughtsman. After this railroad
was Completed, he declined a commission in the Engineer
c orps, C. S \. .md he enlisted in Company C, zd Maryland
Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, on August 25, i862;
As a private, he served with bravery, fidelity, and distinction
until the spring of 1864 He then, owing to the scarcity of
engineers, accepted a m as second lieutenant in Com-
pany B (Capt John M Baldwin), 1st Regiment of Engineer
[*roops 1 ' "1 I M R 1 tlcott), Armj of Northern Virginia.
111,1 continued in that service until the surrender at Appomat-
tox, where he was paroled April 10, 1^5.
During the engagements near Spottsylvania C. 11. his left
arm was shattered, hut was resected, and was saved from
amputation only by the skill of Surgeon Russell Murdoch, of
Baltimore in ordet t" consult Dr. Nathan R Smith, of BaL-
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timore, he at great risk crossed the Potomac River under
fire, and safely reached Baltimore, where, in seclusion for
about two weeks at the home of an aunt, his arm was suc-
cessfully treated by Dr. N. R. Smith, and a lieutenant's uni-
form was sent him by Hamilton, Easter & Co. A cousin resid-
ing in New York, being informed of all this, raised a sum
from Southern sympathizers there, and a handsome sword
and sash were sent to Baltimore, which reached him undis-
covered. During his hiding in Baltimore he ventured out one
night to a barber's near by. and while waiting his turn he no-
ticed a policeman enter the shop. Concealing his face as
best he could behind a newspaper, he thought he escaped the
notice of the police officer, who was an acquaintance. After
the war this good man told Mr. Hood that he had recognized
him; but generously kept his secret, and thus saved him from
capture and imprisonment and possible death.
Despite the hazard and peril, he returned to his regiment
with his new uniform, sword and sash, and with recruits.
Mrs, M»ty Eloise Dick, widow of Judge Robert E. Dick, of
Greensboro, N. C, wrote of him : "I love to recall everything
connected with Lieutenant Hood. I remember well when my
husband went to the hospital here and found him weary, sick,
and badly wounded. It was in the sweet month of May, and
he insisted on his coming home with him and staying till he
was well and strong. He refused at first, but finally con-
sented ; and it was fortunate that he did, for with our best
care and nursing he was ill for some months. He was one
of the most modest and unassuming of men, with a courage
and devotion to duty seldom equaled and never surpassed.
His noble self-poise was neither disturbed by victory nor
defeat. His love for the South was a passion, and for her he
would have freely given his lifeblood, and he was so impa-
tient to return to his command that his recovery was re-
tarded, and even before he was able he was 'off for Richmond.'
I thought of him when the news of Lee's surrender came, for
I knew how his great heart must be filled to the brim with
bitter sorrow. Some days afterwards a young officer rode
to our door and inquired if Judge Dick lived there. The an-
swer was 'Yes.' 'Then,' he said, 'I have a message to deliver.
I was standing by Lieutenant Hood when the surrender came;
and when I started for my far Southern home, he said : "Stop
in Greensboro and tell my Carolina friends that my heart is
broken and I do not care to live."' But his noble, useful life
was not to end then. The service he rendered in after years to
Maryland and Baltimore that great city can tell, and in her
future, for which he planned so much, his will be one of the
'immortal names that were not born to die.' The South never
had a more devoted defender nor a more gallant spirit."
After his parole at Appomattox, he was arrested in Rich-
mond by the Federals and sent to Point Lookout, Md., but
was shortly released and returned to his home. From Sep-
tember, 1865, to January, 1S74, he occupied positions of respon-
sibility, such as chief engineer, superintendent and manager
of various railroads in course of construction or operation.
He became Vice President and General Superintendent of
the Western Maryland Railroad in January, 1874, and in
March of that year President and General Manager. In con-
sequence of the sale of this railroad, he resigned February
27, 1902, yet continued to hold his office until July following.
Like the good soldier that he was, he stuck to his post twenty-
eight years in the- firm faith and effort to build up the West-
ern Maryland Railroad and protect the interests of Baltimore.
His labors were unremitting and his recreations were few in-
deed. On February 27, 1902, he was elected President of the
United Railways and Electric Company, and so continued
until his death.
His presidency of the Western Maryland Railroad and sub-
sequently of the United Railways and Electric Company,
GEN. JOHN II. HOOU.
taken together with his record in the Confederacy, r.ndered
him a man preeminent for ability, skill, and leadership.
General Hood rendered unrivaled services in behalf of Bal-
timore for thirty-three years, and they were coextensive with
the city's recuperation after the ravages of the four years'
war. Credit is due to his master mind and his persistent and
indefatigable-labors for the building up of a railway system
that gave Baltimore a trunk line which was sold for every
dollar that it cost and enabled the city with $8,500,000 to
speedily recuperate'' from that most disastrous conflagra-
tion of 1904. Likewise as the head of the great unified city
passenger railway system of Baltimore his marvelous faculties
were displayed in its extensive development up to the period
of his untimely dejnise. As a superior commander of railway
forces and a soldier withal, the pioplp promoted him to be
General because they could find no higher title.
The delegation fronr Isaac R. Trimble Camp. U. C. V., to
attend the funeral of Gen. John M. Hood was composed of
Commander William L. Ritter, Lieutenant Commanders Win-
field Peters and Spottswood Bird, Quartermaster M. Warner
Hewes, and Maj. Nicholas S. Hill.
Balys E. Gray.
Balys E. Gray was born in Charlotte, N. C, February 3,
1840. His parents moved to Holly Springs, Miss., when he
was four years of age.. When the Civil War broke out, he
enlisted in the 17th Mississippi Regiment, under General
FeatlTerstone, and went with the troops to Virginia,' where
he served until the close of the war, receiving his parole at
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Appomattox Courthouse. In 1X70 he \\.i- married to Miss
Anna Davidson, of Holly Springs. He is survived by Ins wife
and three daughters : Mrs. B. B. Jones, of Bristow, Ind. T .
and Mrs. (.". II. McDowell and Miss Anna Cheatham Gray, of
BALYS K. GRAY.
Nashville. In [876 Mr. Gray moved to Jackson, Tenn., where
he was an upright, honorable citizen, making many friends
by his genial disposition Hi moved his family to Nashville
last June, hoping to improve his health.
Henri I 1 w Ev \ns.
Henry Clay Evans, of Roswell, X Mex., dud March 4.
1907, in St. Mary's Hospital. For five weeks he had been a
patient sufferer through great pain. He was sixtj two years
old and had lived a life of usefulness.
The deceased was born October 15, [844, at Evansville,
Ark., which town was named foi his father At the age of
eight years the family moved to Gonzales County, Tex. When
thi 1 ivil War broke out, he was seventeen, and he promptly
enlisted in his brother's company, the first to be raised in
Gonzales Countj He served with honor and bravery the.
enure four years of the struggle as a member of the ["errj
Rangers. He was wounded on on 0 seriously thai
he was laid up several months, but reentered the servici .1
soon a ]ii . 1 . tii able.
\ttir the war Mr. Evans engaged in the cattle busim
and amassed quite a fortune I at< 1 much of this fortune wa
swept away by the reverses that often came to the Western
cattlemen. Three years ago he went to Roswell, whir he
made a host of friends
Besides tin widow, the decea ed leaves three sisters and one
brother, our son, ami two daughters I lis son, C! trence Evans,
lives ,,, Detroit, Mich The daughters are: Mrs \V. C. Mil-
ler, of Medicine Lodge, Kan-, ami Mr- Frank Priestly, of
ties, '1 1 \
Mr Evans wa- a member of tin Episcopal 1 hurch and of
'he I. O. () F. He wa- thoroughl] in \ 1 1 1 [ 1 . 1 1 1 1 \ with the
Valverde (amp. Q, c v . though nol a member, lie «
splendid citizen and . nan The funeral 5(
conduct! d by Rev. Edwin Emerson Davis, pastor of the Pres-
byterian Church, who delivered a brief address commemora-
tive of the life of the deceased and appealing to the Christian
spirit of the large assemblagi to look upon death as a trans-
formation to a better life.
J ["on Brow \.
J. "I. Brown wa- born in Williamson County, Tenn.. March
[839; and died at his home. 111 Nashville, on March I, 1907.
His father was Thomas Brown, of Virginia, and his mother.
Margarette Bennett, was from North Carolina and a great
niice of Dolly Madison. Comrade Brown was educated a:
Campbell's School. Franklin. I enn . and then at Bethany Col-
lege, Wist Virginia. Shortly after his return from college
he enlisted in \pnl. [861, in the "Williamson Cray-." a com-
pany formed by Dr. James p. Hanner, which became 1 "in
pany 1). of the ist Tennessee Infantry, C S. A \- a soldier,
Tom Brown seemed to know no tear He wa- se\ rely
wounded at Perryville, K\ . in tin afternoon of October 8,
[862, when the i-t I 1 mnessee made one of the most despet l<
charges during the war. and captured a section of Loomis's
Battery of four Napoleon guns and brought them off the
field. This batter} wa- supported successivelj by five diffi
Federal regiment;.
The superb courage ami heroism of the "Kid Glove Regi
ment," as the 1st Tennessee had been styled, was commented
upon by Harper's Weekly and by George 1) Prentice, editor
of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the latter stating that it was
"such a pity the magnificence wa- not displayed in a better
cause."
After the battle of Chickamauga, Tom Brown was detached
1 row
iln \rniy 1 >t I enni --1 ami 1 a del ed ton port tot
Shaw under the assumed name of "Coleman" as a 5C0UI for
idquat ni - I le and tin hen., s .,,, | lavis, were
-cut out at the same time Davis for the vicinity of Pulaski,
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Tenn., and Brown for that of Nashville. Tom Brown was
captured near Nashville and sent to prison at Camp Morton,
and in March, 1864, was transferred to Fort Delaware, where
he remained until the 27th of February, 1865. He was never
exchanged, but was paroled by the Confederate States of
America at Richmond in March, 1865, and at the close of the
war paroled by the Federals at Greenville. Mi-*-. The priva-
tions and trials of army life he endured without a murmur, as
he did the most inhuman treatment at Fort Delaware, espe-
cially after the prisoners there were set apart in retaliation
for the Federal prisoners at Andersonville.
Comrade Brown was married in December, 1865. to Miss
Josephine French, who survives him with two daughters and
a son, three children having preceded him to the great beyond.
To his widow and surviving children he bequeathed the price-
less heritage of a Christian character.
Mai. P. II. Morel.
In correction of the notice appearing in the Veteran for
February, R. H. Venable, of Louisville, sends the following :
"After a short illness, Mai. P. H. Morel passed away at
his home, in Louisville, Ky., aged sixty-two years. He was
born in Savannah, Ga., and was a member of the old Georgia
Regulars, participating in many battles. Following the close
of the war he located in Louisville, and continued to reside
here to the date of his death.
"Major Morel was a prominent Mason, Knight Templar,
and Shriner, and a member of the George B. Eastin Camp, U.
C. V., and its members followed his body to the grave. He
was an employee of the City Health Department for eight
years, the last four of which he was registrar of the depart-
ment. He enjoyed to the fullest the esteem and confidence
of the lr.alth officer, with the friendship and affection of his
office associates. No one knew the 'Old Cap,' as he was fa-
miliarly known, but to like him. He was of a jovial, kind,
sympathetic disposition, and always ready to assist the worthy
poor and unfortunate. His death is mourned by a son and
two daughters, the former a resident of Los Angeles. Cal."
Mrs. Caroline Penelope Davis.
Mrs. C. P. Davis was born in Wilson County, Tenn., August
18, 1822 ; and at the age of twenty-one married John R. Davis,
a successful farmer, who was born and reared in the same
neighborhood, near LaGuardo. Early in life she became a
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and remained
a consistent and devout Christian until the day of her death,
February 24, 1907, which occurred at the residence of Mrs.
William J. Baker, Cuero, DeWitt County, Tex. She was a
noble mother and devoted wife. Her greatest pride was in
being a true helpmate to her husband. Of this union there
were born six children: Mrs. Novella D. Marks (wife of
Governor Marks), William H., Winfield S., Thomas, Alice,
and Samuel W. Davis, of whom William and Alice are the
only survivors.
She "was a Christian without hypocrisy and a friend with-
out deceit." Every one who came into her presence realized
in her a woman of great force of character. Her motto was :
"Never let the sun go down on a duty unaccomplished." If
able to sit up. she never allowed a day to pass without reading
three to live chapters in her Bible, and never failed to attend
divine worship, especially on Sunday, if her health and the
elements permitted. She was magnanimous and charitable
when occasions demanded, but could not tolerate an impostor.
She had no patience with those who were physically able to
work and became beggars.
Her husband, Maj. John R. Davis, was a member of the
Legislature of Tennessee when the State seceded from the
Union. He was originally a Union man ; but when he found
that his constituency were for secession, he cast his vote for
the same, returned home, and raised the first company in his
county, which formed a part of Colonel Starne's 4th Tennes-
see Cavalry. After one year's service commanding Company
MRS. CAROLINE P. DAVIS.
B, of that regiment, he resigned and organized the 4th Ten-
nessee Battalion, which he unflinchingly and gallantly led
into the battles of Perryville, Ky., and Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
besides numerous smaller engagements. Soon after the Mur-
freesboro fight, where he was wounded by a fragment of a
shell, he was seized by a malady that completely unfitted him
for service and which eventually caused his death. He re-
signed, and his and Maj. Baxter Smith's battalions were
merged into a regiment, Major Smith being elected colonel
and serving as its commander to the end.
Rev. John Johnson, D.D.
[Tribute by Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Charleston, S. C]
The most obstinate, prolonged, and gallant defense of the
whole war was that of Fort Sumter, in Charleston (S. C.)
Harbor. There the first Confederate flag was planted in vic-
tory, and there almost the last was lowered in disaster. For
two years the vast resources of the United States, its navies
and its armies, were in vain expended against the fortress.
Shot and shell from the most powerful armaments of that
day were thundered against its ramparts; but it never yielded
to a front attack, and was abandoned only when Sherman
flanked the Confederates out of Charleston. The heroic men
who so gallantly held the fortress won an imperishable glory.
The man who, by his skill, patience, untiring energy, and
superb courage, made possible the prolonged holding of the
fort was its chief engineer, Maj. John Johnson. His genius
converted the crumbling ruins of Fort Sumt.r into an im-
pregnable stronghold. So preeminent and well-known were
these services that all unite in yielding him the credit.
It is fortunate that the defense of Fort Sumter has had an
eminently fair, impartial, unimpassioned, and scientific history
from both contestants — Gilmore writing as to the attack and
Confederate l/eteran,
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Johnson as to the defense. Major Johnson's most valued
historic contribution is remarkable in its entire accuracy, its
completeness of d tail, and, above all, for the supreme modes J
(if the author. Forever the name of Maj. John Johnson will
be linked with the fame of the heroic defense of Fort Sumter.
After sheathing in honor his Confederate sword, he drew
bright and fair the sword of the Lord, and was for many
years the h loved rector of St. Philip's Church, Charleston.
Brave in the struggle of life, consistent in every action, per-
sistent in every duty, loving and tender to all around him, he
was in a long life of peace devoted to all that was pure, lofty,
and ennobling, as true as when, amidst war's alarums, facing
death, he was coolly and skillfully rebuilding the ramparts of
Fort Sumter.
Maj, John Johnson was called to his immortal reward Sun-
day, April 7, 1007. Ever present in life to cheei and comfort
him was the love, esteem, and confidence of all mankind, and
in the hour of death those who knew him besl have
confidence that the world is better in that he livid.
The father of Dr. Johnson, Joseph Johnson, MO. was a
son of William Johnson, one of the Revolutionary patriots
of "Liberty Tree" fame and an exile to St Augustine, and a
nephew of Justice William Johnson, of the United States
Supreme- Court. General Beauregard saiel that in the Rev
Dr. Johnson was due
tin masterly defense
"i Fort Sumter.
1 h. Johnson was
the' youngest son of
Joseph Johnson, M.D.,
and was born in
Charleston December
25, 1829. 1 le received
an academic educa-
tion at the' school of
Mr. C. Coats, and
then engage el in pro-
fessional and active
life' as ,-i civil engi-
neer. 1 luring t' 11
of such occupa-
tion he was emploj 1 d
in the surveys and
Miction of rail-
road, waterworks, 1 tc .
|in pat ing and pub-
lishing mule 1 1I1. pat-
ronage of ih St
large map of South
Caroliii ed to be' the best of the time (1853) and
fe.r man} y< at - th< reafter.
Mrs. Mary I-'.. Dudley.
Mm. Mary E. Dudley, aged sixty-three years, died at twelve
o'clock Monday, February iX, tex>7. at her bom , in Nashville,
1 1 mi . aft< 1 an illness of about two months. Mrs, Dudley was
the wife- ni M .1 1 R II Dudley, former Mayor of Nashville.
Mrs, Dudlej v.i ,1 greatl] - teemed woman, ami her death
will cenin 1 a great shock to the community.
Mrs, Dudlej had been in ill health for soiw time. She- is
survived b\ hei husband and mother, Mrs. Susan Beasley, of
Rutherford I ounty, who is marly ninetj ; age-. Mrs.
Dudle; Nashville soon after her marriage t < > Mai
R II Dudley, Vpril ei. 1868. Mrs Dudley, who was the
1 Mr. ami Mrs, Christopher Beasley, was born June
24, 1844 in Rutherford County, near Murfre slmro. where
she passed the earlier half of her life. Mrs. Dudley's brothers
and sisters are: William, George. Durant, and Charles A.
Beasley, Mr-. J. M Brooks, of Rutherford County, ami Mrs.
T. II. Williamson ami Mrs. G. H. Crockett. Her family were
ki v. inn n pin xsnN. n D.
MRS. MARY E. DUDLEY.
all ardently for the South in the sixties, ami her broihers
who were old enough served in the Confederate army. She
was a prominent member and official in the Woman's Aux-
iliary to the Confederate Soldiers' Home and of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. She was amiable, as her
face indicates, and yet absolutely firm in maintaining rur
principles. Her husband, who was advanced from the ranks
to the command of a regiment, is a leading business man and
a progressive citizen, worthy of the gray that he wore.
Thomas E. Hancock.
After a brief illness. Thomas E Hancock died at his home,
in Sylvan, Lamar County. Tex., March 31, K307. He was
born in Wilson County. Tenn., November 1. [843. lie en-
listed in the Confederate army in the early days of ieXot in
Company A, Whitfield's Legion, General Ross's Brigade, and
served until the close of the war. He participateel in many
hard-fought battles; anel after the four years of hardships
and privations, be returned to his Texas home. He was
happily married to Miss Mary Skidmore. who, with their two
-nis and two daughters, survives him.
Ihs chief ambition in life was to be helpful to those around
him, and often gave his time to the sick and needy. From
ie86o he was a consistent Christian and active member of the
Methodist Church. The large attendance of his neighbors
and friends at his funeral attested tin lr love for him. He was
a number of Camp No 70, -U. C. V.. and rarely ever missed
an annual Reunion. Thomas Hancock was devoted to the
South and to his comrades, At his request, he was laid to
rest in his suit of gray, kept and treasured for more than
forty years.
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^oi)federat<? l/eterar).
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT.
doited Sops of Confederate l/eterans.
Organiz d J-lv /, iSqO% ill Richmond, Va.
Conducted by the Commander in Chief, to whom n /contributions
intended therefor should be ..ddressed.
THOMAS M. OWEN LL.D , Commandeb in Chief, \ M„nt(r„m.rv A1,
ALBERT C. SEXTON, A. G. and Chief of Staff, [ Mon,g°n,er> ' AJa-
GEORGE R.YVYMAN. Commander Akmi N.Va.DepT.,1 , , . ,„„ v„
A. T. BURGEVIN, Adiutant, | Louisville, **•
R. E. L. BYXl'.M. Commander Army Tknn. Deft., I .„.„„ .-„ „
C. E. PIGFORD, AD|l tam. \J
J. M. TISDAL, Commander Trans-Miss. Deft., i r. „„„,.;,, -rw
C. W. UOFF, Adjutant, J Greem.lle, Tex.
(No. 16.)
CONFEDERATION NEWS.
This will probably be the last contribution of the present
Commander in Chief to the Confederate Veteran. The cour-
tesy and kindly helpfulness of the editor will ever be held in
pleasant and grateful memory. He has done much for our
Confederation. In turn the Sons everywhere should stand by
him and his noble work. As a final appeal, I besp:ak the
hearty support of the Veteran !
New Camps.
New Camps since No. 15. May, 1907, have been chartered
as follows :
No. 560. Camp James Lynn West, Covington, Ky„ May I,
1907, sixteen members ; James P. Tarvin, Commandant ; B.
A. Frazer, Adjutant.
No. 561, Camp Sparks-Walton. Fort Smith. Ark., May I,
1907, sixty-nine members ; T. P. Winchester, Commandant ;
Charles M. Cooke. Adjutant.
No. 562, Camp Mace Langston, Clinton. S. C, twenty-eight
members; E. Lee Pitts, Commandant; J. D. Bell, Adjutant.
New Division Commanders.
Comrade J. Mercer Garnett, Jr., Baltimore, Md., was ap-
pointed April 30, 1907, in Special Orders, No. 25, to succeed
himself.
Comrade Chilton Atkinson, St. Louis, Mo., was appointed
April 30, 1907, in Special Orders, No. 26, to succeed himself.
Comrade Charles C. Lewis, Jr.. Charleston, W. Va., was
appointed May 14, 1907. in Special Orders, No. 27, to succeed
himself.
Comrade E. R. MacKethan. Fayetteville, N. C, was ap-
pointed May 14, 1907, in Special Orders, No. 28, to succeed
himself.
Comrade Wallace Strea'er. Washington, D. C, was ap-
point* d May 14, 1907, in Special Orders, No. 29, Commander
District of Columbia Division to succeed Thomas Raleigh
Raines, whose term expired.
Comrade H. J. McCallum. Alachua, Fla., was appointed May
18. 1907, in Special Orders, No. 30, to succeed himself.
These Commanders by the terms of their respective appoint-
ments serve for the year ending December 31, 1907.
Sons at Dallas, Tex., to Erect a Memorial to John H.
Reagan, Postmaster General Confederate States.
The Dallas Times-Herald, April 20. 1907. in a special from
Austin, Tex., says:
"There was filed yesterday in the Stat: Department a char-
ter of unusual interest. It was that of Camp John H. Reagan
Sons of Confederate Veterans of Dallas, and which, if its pro-
visions are carried out, will serve to perpetuate ihe memory of
the late Judge John H. Reagan. The object of the corpora-
tion, as declared in the charter, is 'for the purpose of pro-
moting and building a memorial hall, or monumental edifice,
to perpetuate the memory of John H. Reagan and to solicit
funds for that purpose ; to perpetuate and to preserve the war
records of those who bore arms in the cause of the Confeder-
ate Stat s of America ; to accept, collect, and preserve such
public records, relics, and other property as may be committed
to the keeping of the Camp by the United Confederate Vet-
erans.'
"The incorpora'ors are all numbers of the Camp, and all
reside at Dallas. They are : W. Lindsay Bibb, Charles S.
Swindells, Jennings M. Moore, O. D. Ford, and Jeff D.
Reagan."
Lee Anniversary.
The following is the full text of the General Orders of the
U. S. C. V., issued for the purpose of urging the celebration
of the centennial anniversary of the birth of the peerless Lee :
"General Headquarters U. S. C. V.,
Montgomery, Ala.. Dec. 27, 1906.
"General Orders, No. 14.
"1. It is hertby ordered that Camps of the United Sons
of Confederate Veterans observe wi'h formal and fitting cere-
monies January 19, 1907, the one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Gen. Robert Edward Lee. The exercises may be
held alone or as a joint exercise with other Confederate or-
ganizations. Individual Sons are expected to encourage the
observance of the day in the schools of their communities
and to cooperate with every effort or movement looking to its
observance in other ways. It should be a pleasure to the de-
scendants of the heroic men who followed Lee, as well as of
all others who shared in the patriotic struggles of the sixties,
to yield ready response and obedience to this order. The name
and fame of this gallant soldier and Christian gentleman have
grown with the passing years until he is easily recognized as
one of the great men of all time.
"2. No special form of exercises will be prescribed, each
Camp being expected to prepare and carry out such a pro-
gramme as will best suit local conditions. It should, how-
ever, embrace patriotic songs, the rendition of prose and
poetical selections, a brief biographical sketch of Lee, with
a formal address by a Veteran or by some member of the
Camp. Confederate flags and likenesses of Lee should be
used in the decorations.
"3. General headquarters will be glad to advise with Camps
in the preparation of programmes or in securing appropriate
selections, etc. Newspaper or other accounts of meetings,
together with copies of addresses or other printed matter, such
as programmes, etc., should be promptly forwarded the Com-
mander in Chief for preservation in the Confederation records.
"By order of Thomas M. Owen, Commander in Chief.
"Official: Aldert C. Sexton, Adjutant Gentral and Chief of
Staff."
Minutes of the Eleventh Annual Reunion U. S. C. V.
The minutes of the eleventh Annual Reunion of the Con-
federation, held in New Orleans April 25-27, 1906, in a hand-
some volume of three hundred and fifty-seven pages, has at
last been published. Owing to the length of the volume, being
three times the size of previous issues, much difficulty has
been experienced in getting it from the press. Again, the
character of the materials embraced in the volume was such
as to require careful editing, in which much time was con-
sumed. The volume embraces organization and officers for
1905-06, an introduction containing extrac'.s from the New-
Orleans press for the Reunion period, the journal of the
Convention, reports of officers, reports of committees, his-
Qor?federa t<£ l/eterar?
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torical paper- liy members of the staff, official docuin nts and
papers for the preceding year, constitution, and roll of Camps.
The whole is carefully indexed. The introduc' ion, contain-
ing many personal facts and editorial expressions, is intend d
to preserve in a permanent w.i> the very spirit and atmosphen
of the occasion. The journal is unusually full, and contains
every detail of the proceedings. The reports of officers and
committees must he examined for an appreciation of the
value of the efforts being put forth by the Confederation.
The reports of the Relief. Monument, and Historical Commit-
tees are line contributions to the li'erature of their respective
fields, and "ill serve to indicate the seriousness of the pies nt
condition of the work. The Relief Committee reviews pen-
sion, Soldiers' Home, and special legislation in behalf of the
Confederate soldiers, their widows and orphans. The Monu-
ment Committee presents an elaborate review of the entire
fkld by States of monument and memorial effort for the period
of the War of Secession The Historical Committee has
brought together a series of valuable summaries, bibliographi s,
and suggestions, which will prove of the greatest service for
future historical ac ivitj These reports place the Confedera
tion on a higher ground than ever before, and the thanks ,,f
the Son- are due the chairmen of the committees. Messrs,
Stone. Haughton, and Duncan have performed unselfish and
excellent service, which will not soon he forgotten. The his-
torical papers by inenihirs of tile staff form a series of studies
in the historj of ihe several departments of the Confederate
States governm nt and army. While in no him' complete,
they arc substantial contributions to these phases of our his-
torj The roll of Camps is quite elaborate, containing num-
ber, name, location, date i f organization, date of charter, and
names of Commandants, Adju'ants, and Historians.
While delay in issuing the volume is to lie regretted, its
great value as a permanent contribution to the literature of the
i u Tiny will more than compensate for any inconvenience
of delay. It was edited by the Command i in Chief
Amendments ro Confederation Constitution.
Four amendments have been proposed to the constitution of
I'n i onfederation. The probable fate of the amendments can-
not be seen. These affect eligibility, enlarging the present
regulations; providi foi the appointment of a Historian Gen-
eral, provide a special assessment of five dollars on each num-
ber to aid in completing the Women's Memorial, and provide
a definite period in which reports are to be made to general
headquarters each year. The amendments, as contained in
Circular Mo. ~. Februarj 25 1007. are as follows:
(I) To amend Section 11, Article I Y . SO as to read:
11. All male descendants of those who served in the
1 1 ii< army or navy to the end of the war. or who <ln ,1
in prison or while in actual servic . or who wen killed in
battle, or who wait honorably retired or discharged; all
male descendants of women who rendered aid or comfort to
forces; all nephews and their uial : descendants
of the soldiers or sailor- named in the first clause of the ab ive,
provided there « a good and honorable reason for their
direct male ancestor not having b en in the Confederate army
or navy: and all male descendants of men who. not h
enlis'ed in the I onfederate army or navy, held civil office
under the Confederal governm nt. or who were employed by
i union and SCI \ ed it in some Othi
. who were retained out of -neb service bj heii re
ipectivi Sta d authorities, and who rendered service
ernment which prewired -rr\ o in
the land or naval forces of tin Confederate government, shall
be eligible to membership in the Camps of this Confederation,
provided no member under sixteen years of age shall have
the right to vote, and provided no person shall be admitted
under twelve years of age, and provided, further, that appli-
cants whose right to membership is not based on lineal de-
scent shall furnish complete and satisfactory resons why their
direct ancestors did not enlist."
(2) To amend by adding after Section 1 J. Article V., the
following additional section :
"Sec. . There shall also be elected at each Annual Re-
union a Historian General for the Confederation, whose duty
it shall be to collect, preserve, publish, and otherwise di
nate the truths and facts of the history of the South for the
period from 1850 to 1S70 "
(3) To amend by adding after Section 106, Article XVIII.,
a new section as follow s :
"Sec. . To enable the Confederation to more speedily
complete the task which it has undertaken of erecting a me-
morial to the women of the Confederacy, for the years 1.107
and 1908 each Camp of the Confederation shall pay, as a
special assessment, in addition to its regular annual per capita
tax. the sum of two and 50-100 dollars per capita for each
active member upon its rolls, the said sum to be forwarded
prior to October 1. in each year respectively, to general lead
quarters. The moneys received from said special assessment
shall be kept by the Quartermaster General in an account
separate and distinct from any othi r accounts kt pt by him,
and at each Reunion shall be turned over to the chairman of
the Women's Memorial Committee."
(4) To amend Section (10. Article X . SO as to read as fol-
lows :
Sec (10. The Adjutant (en r.-fl shall send out blank muster
rolls to the various Camps at least sixty days hi fore the An-
nual Reunion, These blanks shall be filled out by the Adjutant
of each Camp and certified to as the correct roll of the Camp
and returned to the Adjutant General, with the annual per
capita tax and all arrearages, thirty days price. ling the Annual
Reunion. Upon this certified roll will be computed the Camp's
representation at the Annual Reunion and a certificate issued
to the Camp sigmd by the Adjutant General certifying to tie
number of votes to which it is entitled if the due- have hi en
paid in full."
Ri 1 xiox 01 no Mississippi Division
Inasmuch a- no formal report has been received, only a
brief account of the Reunion of the Mississippi Division can
'be given. It was held September 1 J. njoo. in Jackson, with
■ only a small attendance. Division Commander W 1 1 .111
Well-. Jr. declined a reelection, and Brigade Commander E,
A, Miller, of Meridian, was chosen to succeed him Further
particular- are not at hand
Reunion 01 rni Oklahoma I Division.
In anticipation of the union of the Indian and Oklahoma
Territories, a joint reunion convention of the several Di-
visions of these Territories was held ,u Vrdmore, Ind. T„
July 26-28, 1000. The Yctcrans held a joint reunion at the
same tune and place. The business sessions of the two con-
vention wen separately held: but the social features were
for Veterans, Daughters, Son,-, and visitors alike. All par-
ticipated in a grand paradi on tin last day.
\t the business session of the convention of the Sons reso-
lution- were adopted, providing for the union or the amalga-
■ f the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Divisions under
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the name of the Oklahoma Division, for the new State. Brant
H. Kirk, who has from the very beginning of the Confedera-
tion taken enthusiastic interest in its promotion and develop-
ment, was elected the first Commander of the new Division.
Patriotic addresses were made and much enthusiasm pre-
vailed. The Division Commander announced the appointment
of Otis B. Weaver, of Ada, Ind. T.. as his Division Adjutant.
Comrade Weaver had previously served as Commander of the
Indian Territory Division.
Fifth Annual Reunion of the Alabama Division.
'1 he fifth Annual Reunion of the Alabama Division was
called to order in Temperance Hall, Mobile, Ala., at ten
o'clock November 21, 1906, by Commander John L. Moulton,
of Camp George E. Dixon. Hon. Max Hamburger, of Camp
George E. Dixon, delivered an eloquent and appropriate ad-
dress of welcome. Following the address of welcome, Com-
mander Moulton introduced Hon. E. M. Robinson, of Camp
George E. Dixon, who spoke enthusiastically of the work of
the Alabama Division and gave a most cordial second to Com-
rade Hamburger's address. Comrade C. J. Owens, Com-
mander of the Fifth Brigade, responded to the address of wel-
come in eloquent and appropriate terms.
Commander Moulton turned the convention over to Com-
mander P. W. Hodges, of the First Brigade, who presented
the gavel to Division Commander George W. Duncan. On
assuming command of the Convention, Commander Duncan
directed William J. Conniff, Division Adjutant and Chief of
Staff, to read extracts from General Ordrs convening the
Reunion convention. Committees were appointed as follows:
Credentials, William J. Conniff (Chairman), J. D. Leigh, L.
B. Chapman, Paul E. Rapier, and N. B. Stephens; and To
Extend Grettings to Veterans, Dr. Thomas M. Owen (Chair-
man), E. M. Robinson, C. R. Bricken, John H. Wallace, P.
W. Hodges, and John L. Moulton.
While waiting for the committees to report, the Conven-
tion was entertained by Miss Emma Frances Ives, who read
"Tom's Last Forage."
The annual address was delivered by Hon. Robert Tyler
Goodwyn, of Camp Holtzclaw. His subject was "The Life
and Character of Jefferson Davis." The address was worthy
of the occasion and the subject.
After the singing of "Dixie" by the school children, Com-
mander in Chief Thomas M. Owen was introduced to the
Convention. He spoke informally, but in eloquent terms, of
the Confederacy and its glorious history. At the close of Dr.
Owen's address the Convention adjourned to 2 :30 o'clock in
the afternoon and marched in a body to the Mobile Theater
to attend the meeting of the Veterans.
At the afternoon session Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, ex-Sec-
retary of the Navy, spoke on the Confederate monument to be
erected in Arlington Cemetery. Washington. D. C. At the
conclusion of Colonel Herbert's address Comrade E. M. Robin-
son offered a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, in-
dorsing most heartily the plan proposed by Colonel Herbert
for erecting this monument.
Gen. C. Irvine Walker was introduced to the Convention
by Commander Duncan. He spoke of the progress of his
work in collecting funds for the erection of a memorial to the
Women of the Confederacy. A resolution was introduced by
Comrade John H. Wallace, and unanimously passed by the
Convention, pledging the Sons of the Alabama Division anew
in their approval and support of this great work.
The report of the Committee on Credentials showed the
Camps of the Division to be in fine condition, and, with few
exceptions, that good delegations were present.
Chairman Thomas M. Owen, of the Committee to Extend
Greetings to the Veterans, reported that his committee had
performed its duty. The report of the committee was received
and the committee discharged.
Commander George W. Duncan read his annual report,
giving a full account of the various activities of the Division
since the last Annual Reunion, November 15 and 16, 1904.
The report showed that many new Camps had been chartered
and that the affairs of the Division were in good condition.
Dr. Thomas M. Owen, Chairman of the Historical Commit-
tee, reported at length on the work of his committee. Dr.
Owen's report showed that there was much activity among the
Sons of the Alabama Division, and that they were taking
great interest in historical work by the Confederation.
The report of the Pelham Monument Committee showed
that some progress had been made, and that the committee
had collected some funds for the erection of this monument.
Dr. Clarence J. Owens was elected by acclamation for the
position of Division Commander, there being no other nomina-
tion. Col. C. R. Bricken was elected Commander of the First
Brigade ; P. W. Hodges, of Greenville, was reelected Com-
mander of the Second Brigade ; Eli P. Smith, of Birmingham,
was elected Commander of the Third Brigade; John H. Wal-
lace, of Huntsville, Commander of the Fourth Brigade; W.
H. McElroy, of Anniston, Commander of the Fifth Brigade.
Appropriate resolutions were passed on the death of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis. Resolutions were also passed thanking Camp
George E. Dixon, U. S. C. V., the Confederate Veterans of
Mobile, the several railroads entering Mobile, the press, and
the people of Mobile for the many courtesies extended the
visiting Sons during the Reunion.
The visiting Sons and their guests were entertained by
Camp George E. Dixon, the Daughters of the Confederacy,
and the people of Mobile generally with several delightful le-
ceptions, balls, and other social affairs. One of the most happy
features of the morning session was the singing of "Alabama"
by four hundred school children under the leadership of Miss
Maude E. Truytt. Director of Music in the Mobile city schools.
The Reunion was pronounced one of the most successful in
the- hislorv of the Division.
Dr. W. B. Burroughs, of Brunswick, Ga., makes some cor-
rections of the paragraph giving historic data about Savannah.
John Houston's name should be spelled Houstoun ; he was
twice Governor of Georgia before he became the first Mayor
of Savannah ; then the delegates to the Continental Congress
were Houstoun, Archibald Bulloch, and Dr. Noble Wimber-
ley Jones ; and the visit of George Washington to Savannah
was in 1781 instead of 1778. This accumulation of errors in
one little paragraph in the Morning News, of Savannah,
clear, clean, and accurate as that newspaper is, is in a com-
parative sense excusable.
Dr. W. B. Wall, now of Santa Ana, Cal., in sending a con-
tribution to the Wirz Monument Fund, says : "I trust a monu-
ment will be erected to the memory of the Federal prisoners
of Andersonville who were allowed to go to Washington to
beg and implore the exchange of prisoners, that their com-
rades might have better food and comfort than was possible
for the Confederacy to give, and, failing in their mission, re-
turned to the prison. Such bravery and fideli'y should be
commemorated, and I wish to contribute a few dollars to that
end should a monument be ercted."
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CITY HALL, CAPIT01 i M.T. WASHINGTON MONUMENT, GOVERNORS MANSION, AND CAPITOL. RICHMOND.
STATUE OF POCAHONTAS.
BY ELLA LORAINE DORS1 V
It seems a far cry from 1607 to 1907; bill nearly two thou-
sand women are engaged in collecting money with which to
erect a memorial to another woman who three hundred years
ago saved the Jamestown colony from "death, famine, and ir-
nfusion," as set forth by the chief of the settlers in a
"Petition to Queen Anne" (wife of James I.) in her behalf
and attested in three several narratives by other beneficiaries
1 if hei I" unity.
The society is known as the "Pocahontas Memorial As-
sociation," and is a steadily growing organization whose
branches extend north, south, east, and west, and whose obli-
gations are the slightest ever imposed by the demand', of a
great work undertaken for education, history, and art. Life
membership i- secured by the payment of one dollar, and then-
are no dues and no duti s except tile bringing in of another
member by each new recruit.
What has made this simple method of procedure possible 1-:
1 The generous wisdom of the Association for the Pr< et
vation of Virginia Antiquities, winch furnishes a site and then
takes over into its perpetu.il care the monument, thus relieving
the Pocahontas Memorial Association of the expense of pur-
chasing ground and maintaining it with custodians, wages, etc.
2. The great desire the ladies have In spread a*, widely as
possible the membership, so that out of the hundred- of thou
sands of Americans who learn to realize that the firsl foothold
of our race was secured by the humanity, courage, and gen-
'. of this young Algonquin princess at least ten thousand
iind who will contribute a dollar toward the beauti-
ful golden bronze which will front th- James River on the
scene of her services. The American sculptor, Mr. William
Ordway Partridge, is the artist who has the work in hand,
and his exhaustive study of all the material available has re-
sulted in a design of exquisite beauty. The bronze 1- to be
of heroic size (61.. feet), but represents Pocahontas at the
age of twelve or fourteen — historically accurate— just budding
into womanhood, her slight, young frame almost boyish in its
li'he activity. Her fringed doeskin skirt and jacket, her mantle
of dressed doeskin, and her wrought moccasins are carefully
reproduce d and gracefully disposed. Her flowing hair is held
by a fillet 111 which is caught tin- white eagle's plum-, which
in her nation was the token of chastity for the maiden and
valor for the youths, and which suggests her secret tribal
name, "Matoaka." the little Snow Feather
["he moment chosen by the artist is that in which, af er
running through the finest at night at the ri^k of her life, she
warns Smith and his company of the plan to kill them as
they sit at supper and implores them to fly Tin- grace of
restrained -peed 1- in every line, the light oi courage and in-
spiration in her young face, and tin- gesture 1- free and fine
with which she implores them to seek tin il l\ el then nun
settlement.
The Association expects in have the statue unveiled during
the Exposition; but. being good business women, tiny pay as
thej go, and already $2,500 of the necessary $10000 has been
paid in on the contract through the Treasurer, Mr. C. C.
Glover, President of the KigLi- National Hank, and their bgal
couns 1. Mr. C. C. Calhoun, -of Kentucky, and they are work-
ing with In. 111-, beads, and hand- in make another such pay-
mint, so that tin glial Cast can go to the foundry and yet pre-
serve tin time clause should recasting prove necessary.
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The money of the Association is raised by membership fees,
contributions, the -ale of badges, pins, post cards, portrait of
Pocahontas, plates, photographs of "the marriage of Pocahon-
tas" the official ribbon, and entertainments.
The national officers in Washington, D. C, are: President,
Miss McLain; Honorary President, Mis- .Matoaca Gay; Vice
President, Miss Jane Randolph Codwise ; Recording Secretary.
Miss Mary Desha; Corresponding Secretaries, Miss Louise
Harrison and Miss Mary R. Wilcox ; Treasurer, Mr. C. C.
Glover; Assistant Treasurer, Mrs. J. R. Garrison; Legal
Counsel. Mr. C. C. Calhoun: Historian, Miss Ella Loraine
Dorsey; Chairman Membership Committc, Mrs. A. Campbell
Pryor ; Chairman Appoin'ment Committee, Miss Mary Lee
Goddard.
The President, the Vice President, and the Honorary Presi-
dent are descendants of Pocahontas, the latter by a series of
intermarriages being of the nearest generation.
Eligibility to membership is not confined to descent from
Pocahontas, however (although on the lists the descendants
are carefully recorded as such), but every man or woman who
wishes to join in paying this debt of gratitude may do so by
complying with the simple conditions above stated.
MERRIMAC-MOXITOR SCENES AT JAMESTOWN.
The terrible days of March 8 and 9, 1862, are to be de-
scribed in Hampton Roads at the Jamestown Exposition. It
■■'. ill be represented as the most unique naval engagement in
the history of the world — the struggle between the M rrimac
and the Monitor — a struggle which spoke the knell of wooden
vessels of war and marked the beginning of a new style of
naval warfare from which the- modern battle ships and cruisers
have been developed.
To those who witnessed this famous event, as well as to
those millions of visitors from all parts of this and other
countries to whom the de'ails of the battle are familiar as
matters of history, one feature of the Jamestown Exposition
will be of especial interest. This will be the spectacular re-
production of the great engagement, which occurred just off
the Exposition grounds.
The Exposition management announces that "the presenta-
tion will be given in as realistic a manner as the perfect equip-
ment of the present day will allow." The historical location
so near the actual scene of the occurrence lends added in-
ter st to the reproduction.
The seen? of the battle will be cyclorama, and "will be as
grand a sight as the human eye ever beheld." The scene
opens the day before the battle between the iron-clads, and
shows the sun just setting upon the leaping flames of the
burning Congress and the sinking Cumberland, with lur
cannon booming and her crew cheering as the ship settles
beneath the waves and the brave fighters go down to death
rather than surrender. The victorious Merrimac is seen
slowly steaming away to the shelter of the Confederate short
1 latteries to await the coming of dawn to complete the work
hi destruction. This sunset scene will be a revelation of this
character of scenic effect. Twilight comes on, and the lurid
light of the burning vessel casts its reflection upon the waters,
revealing the other vessels of the Federal fleet to which it
seems a- a Eorecast of their own doom on the morrow. As
the darkness appears, the stars twinkle and the sc ne becomes
tranquil. Then come rolling clouds, forked lightnings, and
peals of thunder, and a storm bursts in all its fury. Rain falls
in torrents, and the scene has every appearance of reality.
After the storm has subsided, the stars again show themselves
and the melon appears in all her glory.
After a while the day dawns, the sun peeps over the east-
ern horizon, and the audience beholds the most beautiful sun-
rise imaginable. Out on the water the Merrimac steams down
upon the Minnesota. The Confederate iron-clad has been
repaired after her damages from ramming the Cumberland
the evening b:fore, and draws closer and closer to the Federal
ship. The Minnesota lies helplessly stranded in shallow
water, but suddenly from the rear darts the Monitor. The
Merrimac puts on all steam, and soon the battle b tween iron-
clads is on. The cannon is seen in action, and the crack and
roar of the guns seems as real as during the great fight. Each
gunboat and every movement is in harmony with the most
authentic records of the great battle. Just at the climax the
curtain is drawn and the audience is left to determine which
is victor.
The engagement is such that no exception can be taken by
the visitors from any section of the country. Mr. Austin,
the great scenic artist, says this is his masterpiece.
The Merrimac and Monitor used in the reproduction will be
made of s'eel, and by the effect of the new appliances of
electricity they will appear to the spectators the actual size
of the vessels engaged in the famous battle.
VIRGINIA ELECTORAL TICKET.
Election November 6t/t, 1S61.
fob pezsibeit:
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
OF MISSISSIPPI.
£"CE5 VICE-PEESIDEUT,
ALEX. H. STEPHENS,
OP GEORGIA.
ELECTORS
.TOE. THE STATE -A.T X..A.:FeC3-E.
JOHN R. EDMUNDS, Halifax.
A. T. CAPERTON, Monroe.
f;3 THE BISTEICT3.
1st. JOSEPH CHRISTIAN, Middlesex.
2nd. CINCINNATUS W. NEWTON, Norfolk City.
3rd. R. T. DANIEL, Richmond City.
4th. W. F. THOMPSON, Dinwiddie.
5th. WOOD BOULDIN, Charlotte.
6th. W. L. GOGGIN, Bedford.
7th. B. F. RANDOLPH, Albemarle.
8th. JAMES W. WALKER, Madisou.
9th. ASA ROGERS, Loudoun.
10th. SAMUEL C. WILLIAMS, Shenandoah.
11th. SAMUEL McD. REID, Rockbridge.
12th. H. A. EDMUNDSON, Roanoke.
13th. J. W. SHEFFEY, Smyth.
14th. H. J. FISHER, Mason.
15th. JOSEPH JOHNSON, Harrison.
16tb. E. H. FITZHUGH, Ohio.
The above election ticket comes from Brig. Gen. B. H.
Teague, Aiken. S. C, and is copied as near facsimile as prac-
ticable.
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THE KISS PROM TENNESSl E.
BY T. c. HARBAUGH.
They found him where the sunshine falls
In grove of oak and pine,
A boy m years, bui one who stood
Upi hi Ihe battle imc ;
lit looked as if he swettly slept,
1 lis face so young and fair,
And on lii s wan cheek nestled close
A strand of gulden hair.
The growling guns of war were still,
I he fi ie had ded afar.
And floated proudly on the hill
The banner i if the star ;
The merry bugles of the Graj
For once had silent grown,
The fair young trooper kept his camp
Among the trees alone.
No more would he with Stuart ride
Triumphant through the wood,
No more would "boots and saddles" stir
His eager Southern blood;
The bravest of the brave, in line
1 [e'd stormed his last r< doubt,
And 'neath the houghs lie lay that day
Forever mustered out.
His fan whit hands a let'er clasped;
1 le seemed to read it still :
His loving look had been his last
I'pon that quiet hill.
He'd placed it ere the tight began
Beneath his coat of gray —
The missive breathing words of love
From sweetheart far away.
How happy, cheering ran the lines,
The words how full of bliss!
Si e'd -ini ih' let'er with her 1' >\ e
\nd sealed it w ith a kiss.
"We'll meet," she wrote, "when war is past
\ i i < 1 all again is fair;
You have at morn my endless love,
You have at eve my prayer"
He'd kissed it as the end drew nigh;
Hi- lips had touched her name;
She dreamed not that her soldier slept
I'pon the t'uld of fame
Ave. ill tin- gray he'd not disgraced
Beneath the state!) tree
lie slept in death, his last thoughts with
I In one in Tcnnc-
They left him on the little hill ;
Th y left the letter re-l
So i" aceful and so calmly on
The youthful hero's breast :
And wh< ii ii" ■ hi ii ■ ilden hair
Back from his brow that day.
\ comrade took a lock for her
Who u.v, i ,' - far away.
The fragile rose is blooming fair
Withm Virginia's glade.
Where met the legion, long ago
Willi bayonet and blade;
And where a beauteous river sings
I'n neath a hoary Ire.
There lingers still the last fond kiss
'1 hat came from Tennessee,
/ III GUNBOAT (.7:A / II LOR FAILED TO Gl I
BY I is. P0LLEY, FLORESVILLE, TEX.
Can any reader of the Veteran furnish the detail- of Gen.
I lick Taylor'- attempt ill [865 to purcha-c .1 Mississippi Kmi
gunboat from a captain of the Federal navy? If so, it would
make a chapter in the history of the Civil War well worth
reading. What I know about the circumstances and how I
came to know it follow- :
Retired from the Confederate service in February, 1865, and
— thanks to a specimen of penmanship that owed its extraot
dinary wretchedness to a timely hint from Dr. J. C. Jones,
the smgeon of the 4th Texas no) assigned to clerical duty,
I lost no tune in selling out for Texas and home. At the.
terminus of the Jackson and Xew Orleans Railroad. In Mis-
sissippi, I fell ill with Isaac Stein, of Company II, 4th Texas.
He lacked an arm and I a foot, so we immediately formed :t
mutual aid societj of winch, on account of my nearness to
a -talc of impecuniosity and his presumed opulence- — he hav-
ing been a sutler after the battle of Second Manassas — I
secretly elected him the eleemosynary and myself the receiving
mi mber.
Subsequent events demonstrated the wisdom of such an
alliance. Where wounds and heart-rending tales of woe failed
to convince 01 p rsuade, Stein's command of funds or mine
of cheek invariably succeeded. And there was urgent need
in the section of country through which we passed to emploj
all these resources; for at the terminus, Alexandria, La., we
again began the poorlj systematized, hut none the Uss grate-
fully received, paternalism of the Confederate government,
the country between the two points hung a "debatable land"
whose denizens, as well as the travelers across its swamps and
morasses, were in a sense bereft of any flag that they could
call their own, and tin rehire permitted their fealty to Union
or Confederacy to he controlled largely h> expediency.
Indeed, here, instead of iii the mountains ..f Tennessee,
might ea-ily have transpired the adventure of the widow who,
learning that In r son in the Confederate army was slum of
rations, determined to supplement them with bacon. Putting
half 1 side of the rich meal into each rt^l of a sack, a man's
saddle on a horse, and .1 numbet four lady'- gaiter in each
'-I 11 up of the saddle, thus effectuall) concealing the pro
visions undei the drapery of flowing skirts, she departed
cheerily on her mission of love. Its successful issue depended
in large measure on prompt adaptation of her own political
faith to that of the roving hands of soldier- -he would meet;
and a- these seldom wore a distinctive uniform, a g 1 deal
ni guessing must n cessarilj he dou< Suddenly she came
face in face with a paity of troopei - and her struggles began.
Plied by the commander of the squad with question after
question, she answered 01 evaded them so adroitly that the
inquisiti angry, and al last spoke sternly, saying: "No«
an-wer m\ question truthfully, madam, or 1 will have you
am stid as a spy Which side are you on?" For a moment
the widow despaired, anil then womanly cunning came to th(
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rescue. Blushingly looking down at one side and then the
other, she exclaimed: "You — fool, you — can't you see for
yourself that I'm on hoth sides'" She escaped before the
disconcerted officer and his laughing comrades regained their
composure.
Starting from the terminus on board of a shackly old
wagon whose axle broke at the end of the first six miles,
Stein and I so manipulated the accident as to secure trans-
portation in a comfortable carriage as far as Duncan's. There,
failing to find another conveyance, we ungratefully impressed
the borrowed vehicle, team, and driver. Here the exigencies
of the Confederate military service put us to our wits' end
and compelled a temporary dissolution of the mutual aid so-
ciety.
Being unable to swim, Stein hesitated to undertake my
perilous way of crossing the great river, and decided to wait
until he could get a boat. I landed safely on the west bank.
Soon an old negro astride of a mule as ancient and weather-
beaten as himself came in sight, and I hailed him. "How far
to your master's house, uncle?" I asked as he halted before
me. "Jess a li'le piece, marster," said the old man, doffing his
battered straw hat and sliding off his mule with an agility
not warranted by his aged appearance. "Jes git up hyar, suh,
on dis here mewel, an' he'll Kck yer dar immegitly."
Unwilling to offend by refusal, I climbed upon the beast,
and, proceeding to the house, alighted at the gate. A first
glimpse gave pleasant assurances, for the mansion was large,
commodious, and well-ventilated, and a motherly-looking lady
stood at a table on the front piazza, busily engaged in measur-
ing and cutting cloth for negro wear. A glimpse, however,
brought the liveliest disquiet into my mind; for near the lady
and in Yankee naval uniform from top to bottom sat a man
who, the moment he saw me at the gate, sprang to his feet
with suspicious alertness and came briskly out to meet and —
as I naturally supposed — capture me.
The one Federal betokened the near vicinity of a dozen,
and for a moment a child could have knocked me down with
a feather. Great heavens alive! After fighting, bleeding, and
almost dying for four long years in Virginia, Maryland, Penn-
sylvania, Georgia, and Tennessee ; after safely concluding the
long, arduous journey from Richmond to the Mississippi, and
after braving the perilous passage of that great inland water,
to be taken prisoner and perhaps shot to death by a parcel of
bow-legged Yankee marines !
Resigning myself to the inevitable, I awaited the approach
of the Yankee with calm, self-respecting dignity. "How do
you do, sir?" he began as he stepped out of the gate and
with an engaging smile extended his hand. "My name is
Johnson — Captain Johnson, of the Federal navy." "Happy
to make your acquaintance, Captain," I rejoined, seizing the
proffered hand and, in token of my joy over such an amicable
meeting, squeezing it cordially. "My name is Polley — Private
Polley, of Hood's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia; but
now, sir, retired and on my way to Texas. Can you take care
of me for the night?" "I am but a guest myself," he replied;
"but I feel sure that you will be kindly received by Mr. .
The lady on the piazza is his wife; and if you will accom-
pany me to her, I shall take pleasure in making you and
your wants known to her."
Half an hour later, so quickly did I adapt myself to circum-
stances, you would have thought me an old-time friend of the
Captain, mine hostess, and her husband, the latter having
meantime made his appearance and confirmed the welcome
his better half had accorded me: for, sitting in a rocking-
chair that was most comfortable and soothing to my tired
body, I was relieving them of all embarrassment and solicitude
by making myself thoroughly at home. They were burning to
hear the news from the seat of war, and I, in the happiest
frame of mind, was not at all loth to communicate such items
as in my judgment might safely be imparted to a Federal
officer.
At supper our party was reenforced by a couple of Confed-
erate officers whose patriotism, not" being of the quality that
could stand fire out of sight of their own hearthstones, found
inspiration and vent for courage in the command of "swamp
angels" or "River Guards." The company and fare were too
good to be willingly deserted, and the newcomers therefore
remained overnight. Next morning I learned from them the
little they knew of the Captain.
In January, 1865, Captain Johnson was the honored com-
manding officer of one of the best armed and equipped gun-
boats on the Mississippi River. His was an itching palm,
though, and it itched most cravingly at the very time Gen.
Dick Taylor got an idea in his head that he, the general com-
manding the Confederate forces along the west bank of the
river, must have a gunboat of his own. It took but a little
while for the two parties — the one desiring to sell, the other
to buy — to get together and agree upon price and terms — the
understanding arrived at being that on a certain night the
Captain was to run his boat close enough to the shore at a
designated point for it to be easily surprised and captured by
the Confederates. Somebody, though — presumably the Cap-
tain— was indiscreet; for the subordinate officers on the gun-
boat found reason to suspect the intended treachery, and re-
ported their suspicions to the admiral. Luckily learning of
this, Captain Johnson took advantage of the darkness of night
to lower himself into a small boat and, cutting loose from the
ship, to make his way to terra firma occupied by Confederates,
and finally to deliver himself, instead of the gunboat, the only
thing wanted, to General Taylor. Disappointed, disgusted, and
wrathful, the General turned a cold shoulder on the unsuccess-
ful traitor; and, with a price set on his capture by the Fed-
erals, the Captain was thus compelled to seek concealment and
safety among Southern people who, while detesting his want
of principle, were yet unwilling to betray him to their enemies.
And certainly no place was better suited for refuge than that
at which I made his acquaintance, which was on an island
surrounded by the waters of Bruin Lake, a few miles above
the town of Bruinsburg, La.
In conclusion, writing of the one gunboat reminds me of an
incident on the Mississippi River related to me by my friend,
J. C. Myers, of Floresville, Tex., who respectfully refers to
Buck Pettus, of Goliad County, Tex., for any corroboration
deemed necessary. A gunboat fired a six-pound shell at a
party of scouts, among whom was a reckless, daring, and fun-
loving Irishman who had not forgotten the game of town
ball. Between the scouts and the bank of the river lay a half-
drained and miry pond, and into this the shell first landed ;
then, continuing its course a hundred feet under the mud and
water, struck something solid close to the Hibernian. Robbed
by this of much of its momentum, the shell went straight up
into the air twenty feet and, making a short curve forward,
began to descend. Pat saw it as it entered and left the miry
pond, and, reckoning it had lost both its heat and its ex-
plosive power, sprang forward, caught it in his hands, and,
holding it aloft, shouted to the artillerists of the gunboat :
"Throw down your paddles, boys, for be Jesus I've caught
you out."
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i ONFEDERATE FLAG IN A MICHIGAN BUSINESS ADl ERTISEMENT.
Collier's Weekly, back cover page, for March 9, 1907, con-
tain- a conspicuous advertisement by the Olds Motor Works.
Lansing, Mich., imperfectly shown above, as the advertisement
n colors. In December previous a party of men left New
York City for Florida on an Oldsmobile "A." and they bad
finished the trip of fourteen hundred miles to Daytona, Fla.,
on January (2 Tbe purpose of the advertisement is to show
;real power of the machine through muddj roads
Any favor to the company by tins notice is gratuitous, and
it is given as the first illustration known by the Veteran of
any Northern concern giving prominence to the Confederate
Hag. Let it not be the last. That flag is clean enough in its
record to be the pride of humanity at the North or elsewhere,
as in the South, and it should not be regarded as inappropriate
for tbe families of men who faced it to ornament their homes.
It should be tbe pride of every American, and the tendencies
are that way. The time will never come when patriots and
Christians can taint the "bonnie blue flag" with dishonor.
. 1 ?i •/ D/J RS' MONUMEh I
\ Confederate memorial lias recently been unveiled bj thi
II Hill Chapter. V. I). C. at Trenton, Tenn. The monu-
ment is of white bronze and was made by the Monumental
Bronze Company. 41(1 Howard Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn
The base is seven feel square, and the total height, including
the life-size statue, is twentj two feet and eleven inches. The
ml proportions and expression, and
Trenton people are justly proud of tlmr monument.
The start d Confederate infantrj soldiei
■" "parade rest," and the features were leled to order in
preferenci to adopting it k statue, Tbe upper die of the
nionnin.ni contains life si/,- portrait medallions of Gen rals
id Forrest I 1 • dedii itory inscription reads "Erei ted
memorj ol our Confederate soldiers by the Russell
Hill Chapter, U. D. ('" On the front base are the word
"best we forget."
All the inscriptions are in bold raised letters, and the em-
blems, badges, etc., arc all in bold relief. Altogether it is a
verj handsome memorial, and tbe white bronze material is
Mid to be actually more enduring than the best of granite and
■ much better This ma-
terial is being extensivelj idopt Idiers' monuments at
the present time.
.Mom meni 1 01; MORGANTOWN, Ky. — This company has also
secured an order from Morgantown, Ky., to erect a monu
meiit to all soldiers of all wars from Butler County, including
for the Civil War both Confederate and Federal. Tbe names
of the dead and living will be separated with suitable headings.
One Revolutionary soldier's name appears and a numl
Spanish-American War veterans On one of the dies of the
monument will be a portrait medallion of lien Joseph
Wheeler. Tbe front tablet will bear tbe great il of the
commonwealth of Kentucky, showing the blue and the gray
grasping hands, with stack: of arms in the distano
The State of Tennessee has n iion for the pn Set
vation of all flags used by her State troops in the Civil War,
and any one having knowledge of any flags of Tennessee emu
mands will pleas- communicate with John IV Hickman, State
Capitol, and furnish him with any particulars about it.
The VETERAN office is in need of copies for January and
November, [902, and March, too,-, to till out somi incomplete
volumes. Only copies suitable For binding are desired Write
11- at the tinu of sending, so proper credit can be given on
subscription.
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HISTORICAL INACCURAC IES.
I-'red L. Robertson, compiler of records of the - ildiers of
Florida, wrote from Tallahassee sometime since:
"I think it was an old Persian philosopher who said, "A lie
has short legs." It is very evident that he was unacquainted
with the Yankee variety, or he would have made an exception
in its favor and added, 'This variety has tremendously long
legs and an inexhaustible supply of gall and wind.' I say this
because 1 have just had an irritating example of it.
"In a so-called 'History of the United States,' by one Henry
William Elson, published by the Macmillan Company in 1905,
page 287, appears the following: 'At Orangeburg a slight bat-
tle was fought and another before Columbia, the enemy being
led by Gen. Wade Hampton. Columbia surrendered February
'7 [1865], Hampton escaping after setting fire to five hundred
bales of cotton. The fire sunn spread, and a large portion of
the town was consumed.'
"In a footnote is the following: 'Mr. J. F. Rhodes, in an
article in the American Historical Review, Volume VII.,
page 485 sq.. give- a- his opinion that Columbia did not take
lire from the burning cotton, but that it was set on fire by
drunken soldiers, negroes, and escaped prisoner-.'
"At the close of the volume he cites a number of authorities ;
but he fails to mention General Sherman, who published his
'Memoirs' in 1875. On page 286, Volume II.. Sherman says:
'In my official report of the conflagration of Columbia I dis-
tinctly charged it to G'n. Wade Hampton, and I confess I
did so pointedly to shake the faith of his people in him.' In
that same report he says : 'I estimate that the damage to
Georgia alone is $100,000,000. Ninety-eight million dollars
was simple destruction ; two millions have inured to our ad-
vantage. Our soldiers have done the work with alacrity and
cheerfulness unsurpassed."
"These long-legged Yankee lies will continue to run until
we write our own history and print our own 1 ks."
■HALF HOURS IN SOUTHERN HISTORY."
One of the most interesting books of late issue is "Half
Hours in Southern History," by John Lesslie Hall, Ph.D.,
Professor of English and of General History in the College
of William and Mary, and recently from the press of B. F.
Johnson & Company, Richmond, Va. It gives in brief outline
salient features of Southern heroism and achievement as well
as the side of the South in the long controversy between the
sections. This book will be a revelation to those of the North
who have known only one side of the questions at issue, and
be an incentive to deeper reading and broader thinking. To
the .Southern man it will be as a tonic, strengthening his faith
and dependence in the principles and convictions which ani-
mated those- who fought for their rights in the sixties. It is
ii"t a 1 k to stir up controversy or ill feeling, but rather
conduces to that deeper, quieter thought which leads to "mu-
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-MILITARY MEMOIRS OF A CONFEDERATE."
The latest addition to Confederate military history comes
a- a "critical narrative." hy Gen. E. P. Alexander, under the
title of "Military Memoirs of a Confederate." This book
was not written for the purpose of extolling the valor of
Confederates in arms nor the skill of Confederate generals.
hut its object is to present a criticism of each campaign
in -o far as the author is able to judge of the gooel and had
plays on each side. That such a presentation will be of benefit
to general history goes without saying, and especially will it
lie appreciated by military students and officers. As the com-
mander of a brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. Gen-
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ments of the army, and therefore should be a competent critic
of those movements on which hinged victory or defeat.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Cloth-
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COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
From the press of the Jones Brothers Publishing Company,
Cincinnati. Ohio, has been issued a new history of the United
States by Dr. John Clark Ridpath, L.L.D.. so well known as
a historical writer. This history comes in a set of twelve
volumes under the following subjects: "The Era of Dis-
covery," "Discovery and First Colonization." "Middle Colonies
and New England," "Colonies to the Struggle with France,'*
•'Seven Years' War." "( hitbreak of Revolution," "Revolution-
ary War," "Constitution and Washington's Presidency."
"Downfall of the Federalists." "Slavery and the Territories,"
"The Civil War and Reconstruction," "National Expansion,"
"The Twentieth Century," Index. These volumes are hand-
somely bound and illustrated, and would be an attractive as
well as valuable acquisition for any library.
A general review of this new history is contemplated for a
later number of the Veteran, the above being given now as
an introduction of the work.
A NOVEL BY A CONFEDERATE VETERAN.
A pathetic story rich in folklore and human interest is
"Margaret Ballentine ; or. The Fall of the Alamo," written by
Mr. FVank Templeton, of Dick Dowling Camp. U. C. V„
Houston. Tex., and issued in attractive form by the State
Printing Company, of that city.
That the Volunteer State will take just pride in the book
e;oes without saying, as the mother State of the Southwest has
recently claimed Texas in legislative resolution, and a Hous-
tonian among the Texas Solons has assented in these words:
'"Tennessee is the mother of States; and of her daughters,
Texas excels them all."
Mr. Templeton has made it a labor of love to see that the
names of those less-known defenders of the Alamo be "not
writ in water." Compilers of family histories will thank this
painstaking historian, who has made a record of these nu-
merals, giving their place of nativity, former home, ami in
many instances personal and even physical characteristics.
"Last, but not least," this invaluable contribution to local
history has been made by one who, wearing the gray, has
himself given much to the cause of constitutional govern-
ment.— Kate Klcer.
[Since the publication of his book. Comrade Templeton has
passed into the better land. A sketch of his life will appear
in the Veteran later. — Ed.]
Inquiry is made for any information of J. J. Allison, who
went out in Company A, 1st Tennessee Regiment, under Col.
John R. Neil, and was under Ashby. but afterwards trans-
ferred to Forrest's command. The last heard of him was the
day after the battle of Seven Pines. Response can be sent to
the Vetek \\ office.
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A S TORY OF I HE SEVEN DAYS'
FIGHT BEFORE RH HMOND,
l'.l . t86
BY JOH \ Nil Kl D
( !i ime, list* n ti i a si n )
1 ;in] gi ling to ! il .i l ;
I' happi in d near by Richmond,
In the i >lil I lominion State.
' I 'w as .''. stampede of the Yanl i
Down the Chickahominy,
Big Yank, little Yank,
Ri ot Yank or die.
"To Richmond, on to Richm md,"
I In. i been the i anki i ;' cry ;
They said thai the) would have it
By tin' middl i f Julj
But j i hi see thai in ir predicti i
u ned "Hi i" I"' a lie,
For everybodj knows wi made i
Root Yank or die.
earl) in the morning,
I he thirty-firsl of Maj
I gm =s you :ill r. men ber
I l^n mi mi irable daj
When I Mil, oi Can ilina,
Found the N ankee brothers nigh :
ooi :n " them 'double qui :k"
Rl I '1 \ .11:1 I 'T c!h'.
Mi i lellan he was bothered
In regard lo our cours< :
- also quite uni
n ar \\ e'd rei nfoi i e
( ) how little \\ as he thinking
That Lee's chicanery
Would soon make him "double-quick" —
Root ^ .ink or die
Lee and Sti m< w all Jackson
ther put their « ii -.
And verj shortly afterwards
'I In ™ the Yankei s into fits;
I.i e put into c nter
And Jackson on the slj ;
ivn I i rivei ivenl the ,i ank -
Rool Yank or di
Lower down the river
thought he'd make a stand,
I ifter -I'lin hard lighting
Found he couldn't stand his hand
Si ■ onw .nil « ni Mc( 'lellan
1 Ii iw n the i !hii kahi uniny.
In- hirelings,
"Ri " it N ank i r di
Mi < 'lellan w n >ti to Linci In,
Noi t'ai in mi our lines,
i ill Ri bel devils
At a p ci ■ ailed S veil I'm
1 > ed it all up nicely,
wound up \\ nil a lie,
I ■ ' rybodj know - » e madi him
Rool Yank oi
1 1. ni ral Stonewall Jackson
I- a terror to the Yanks.
i e i gularly used up I'r moni,
Shields, and also Hanks.
(l<p it, S'i mi « all Ja :
And make the feathers, fly !
Make \ anl e d lie, d lodle
Rool Yank or die.
Now I tell you, Uncle Samuel,
\\ i- will hav yi m understand
I " " i I'.n ■!■ i ' usin Sail}
You inn ri , r.t\ er ran
I oi she's op • ' J ; ■ union :
So, I i cle Sam, good In
Dixii h II In I lixie,
Ri iol 1 i g or die.
I he i Imaha Chapter, l". D C, was
"i gani d some thr e j e trs as i 1 \ Miss
i.l: M E I .EN HON CONKI I \
Grace Lennon Conklin, who has until
recentlj filled the office of President,
and upon resigning was mad< its lion-
orarj President. This Chapter is noted
for efficieni work in the organization
and much cr dil is due to the enthusiasm
and interest of it- President Miss
( onklin is a graduate of the 1 1 p trtmenl
i I xpression in the Warden School of
J loquence, and has entered upon a career
as i prof ssional reader, in which she
has been verj successful II r readings
throughout the Southern States undei
the auspici s of ( lhapti rs I '. D I
been t ivorablj ri i h ed, and her succ ss
assured, She is a daugh er i if
Comradi I I bnklin, i f ( Imaha Win- .
ni" has been a teali his fi iend i if tin
■ i n for many years
P. A. McDavid, of Greenvill ■, S. C,
writes : "I in the i aih of August, 1864, I
was severely wounded and captured at
Deep Bo torn, Va., and carried to I 01
Monroe In the same room at the
hospital w here I was taken were • leneral
Walker, who had losi a leg, Captain
Mason, of Major 1 ien ral Field's staff,
1 il E W. Wan . "i \ irginia, and
Captain or Lieutenant McEachern. J.
Chester Jones, ol Baltimore, was then
nursing his wounded brother, who was
captain of artillery in the Federal army.
I [e was \ erj kni.l to me in mj helpless
condition I should like to hear from all
or anj of the above-named veterans if
in ing, and should like to shake bands ai
the Reunion in Richmond."
Vli • \\ E. Carter, of Mai una. Okla.,
seeks information of the war record ol
her father, J. B, ( luthi ie, whosi hi >mi
at Walnul 1 trove, Walton County, ' I
but he dud near dimming, I 01 sj tl
County, Ga., in 1887. In the early pan
nf the war he was in Company II. nth
Georgia Regiment, under Captain Mc
I laniell or Mi I low ell : bul he served in
bo'h the infanti \ and c i\ alrj during the
four years of his service, and she dot
not know whtre his later service was
Any information that will help establish
her mother's claim to a pension will b
appreciated.
Mrs. George V I. Buyers, 37 North
High Street, Columbia, Tenn., wi
in the interest of Mrs. I. X. Buyers,
widow of Lieutenant Buyers, of the 7th
Georgia Regiment, under Col \\ 1
Claiborne, who enlisted ai Macon, Ga.
at tli L- opening of the war for oni
in the infantry. When the year was up,
he, with Lieut. I. J Smith, made up a
company of cavalry, Company B, Pai
-.in Rangers, under Claiborne. Any iri-
formation as to the record oi Lieutenant
Buyers will be appreciated by lii- widow,
who seeks to establish her claim to a
pension.
J, (.' Bell, of Baldwyn, Miss . wi ites
ol a strange occurrence during the war
near ' Ikoli ma, Miss "Three captains
and a lieutenant look shelter from a
storm under a black jack tree, which
truck by lightning and all of them
killed except one captain, lie was al
tended by* Dr S N Walker and a young
physician, and gol well. Dr. Walker is
anxious lo locate his young assistant if
<iill living He thinks Ihes: officers and
the yot I ir were from Mabai
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WHAT TEXAS IS.
BY C. HERB PALIN.
A man once asked a native
What Texas soil would grow.
Said he : "I'll never tell you,
For really I don't know.
The soil's so rich in this great State,
Remember what 1 say.
That if I told you everything
I'd not get through to-day.
Just take the products of the earth
From every land and clime,
And Texas soil will equal
The best grown every time.
Why,
said he, "if walls were built
Around us ten miles high,
We'd have the best of everything
And wouldn't halfway try.
We have our mints, our countless herds.
And industries galore,
And hands that work and hearts that
beat
For Texas evermore.
And women fair, large men and strong,
Our cities rich and great;
I'll tell you, sir, what Texas is :
The world rolled in one State."
E. W. Winkler, State Librarian, Aus-
tin, Tex., wants to secure volume for
i893 ; January, February, March, May,
1S94; June, 1895; February, 1896; Au-
gust, 1901 ; September, 1904. He has
some duplicatts that he would like to
exchange for these missing numbers.
Write him as to what vou have.
Mrs. Bettie Taylor, of Springfield,
Mo., inquires for one John Coats, who
was, she thinks, from Johnson County,
Mo., and just before the battle of Jen-
kins Ferry he stopped at her mother's
house for dinner. \\ line there he dis-
tinguished himself in resisting capture
by a squad of Federals, killing a num-
ber of them and then making bis es-
cape. If he is still living or any one
knows of his whereabouts, she will be
glad to hear.
R. D. Almond, of Roosevelt, Idaho,
would like to hear from some member
of Stanford's Battery of Light Artillery,
Hood's Corps, Army of Tennessee, with
which he served. The battery went out
from Grenada. Miss.
Thomas Lew'is (adjutant 38th Ar-
tillery, Pickett's Division) writes from
Roanoke, Va., of a Confederate flag in
possession of some people in Cincinnati
who have made repeated efforts to locate
the company to which it belonged. It is
a handsome silk flag with "Plout Guard"
on it. The lady who wrote of the flag
said: "It was pathetic to sse the bullet
holes in it." It is hoped that this notice
will reach some member of the company
who will be interested in securing its
return.
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V., that their next annual Reunion will
occui mi .1 1 1 1 \ 20 and 27, 1907. These
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tend one time do not need a pressing in-
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H. D. Pearce, Chairman of Executive
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dax-. 111 July— 24-26— on the Colorado
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.1. A I lahlgren, of Atlanta, 1 ia . w
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battle flag to Ml Dahlgren's father, and
he is anxious 10 have the Hag inscribed
with the number of engagem nts it went
through.
J. F. Dunbar, of Palestine, I ex .
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from some comrade of her husband who
can give the company and regimen! in
which lie served. Surviving comrades
will kindly respond in order to assist
her in securing a pension.
Mrs. L. A. Lucas, the widow of W. P.
Lucas, who enlisted in 1861 at Simsport,
La., in Capt. Dick Boone's company,
seeks to establish the record of her hus-
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which she stands in great netd. Write
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J. A. Storey, of Arcadia, La., wants
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Warren, of Lee County, Ga., and thinks
j some members of his company (G) may
be able to tell him where it can be pro-
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The annual reunion of the Confederate
Veterans of Coryell County, Tex., will
take place at Gatesville, Tex.. July 24-27.
The Third Brigade will meet with them
this year, and every effort will be made
to make this occasion successful in every
way.
R. A. Cheatham, of Acworth, Ga.,
R. F. D. No. 13, writes of a badge found
near Acworth, a silver circle, on one
side of which is inscribed: "Sergeant
Wash Hollon, 8th Ky. V. I." He would
like to find the owner or some of the
connection.
B. F. Rook, of Sumner, Miss., writes
that he is in the Delta far away from
where he enlisted; and as a veteran of
the 2d Mississippi Infantry. Company
G, he would like to hear from any sur-
viving comrades.
C. H. Cleveland, 616 Market Street,
San Antonio, Tex., is anxious to get
the address of any surviving member of
Company I (Ball's company), of the
Fairfax Cavalry, Jones's Brigade,
Stuart's Corps, A. N. V., with which
he served.
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who was a member of Company G, Qlh
Tennessee Cavalry, under Col. Jake
Bififle, wants to get addresses on any
survivors of this company or of the regi-
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NASHVILLK, TENN., JULY. 1907.
No. 7. -j
S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
Proprietor,
THE RICHMOND REUNION.
So widespread and so elaborate have reports of the Re-
union of 1007 at Richmond been published that no attempt to
make record in the Veteran is made other than the historic
and official features. It is an unhappy error and a blunder
to talk about the greatest Reunion ever held in these days
when the gray line is thin indeed. True, there were more
Veterans at Richmond than it seemed possible ever to muster
again, and the health and vigor of the average was amazingly
fine. It may be said that the capital of the Confederacy did
it- U'-t on this occasion. The management through the cold,
rainy weather was called upon to supply quarters and a mul-
titude of blankets, and this at a time when resources must
have been quite exhausted, but the issues were met promptly.
It was doubtless the heaviest tax yet put upon any entertain-
ing city, and it shows that Richmond was resourceful to the
great em! rgency.
Richmond is indeed a strong. large city, with magnificent
hotels, and hospitality was without stint. The Jefferson, a
block deep, has the unstinted praise of world travelers who
have money to enjo> the best in any clime. It was a Mecca
on that occasion. Indeed, it was the pride of every South-
erner Such scenes will hardly ever be witnessed again on an
occasion of honoring Confederates. It was without doubt the
greatest occasion that will come to them this side of that
greatest reunion where the secrets of honest, patriotic souls
will be recognized and established forever and forever.
The Conventions of the Veterans were well attended, though
the hours were shorter than usual. Committees had their
work and reports well in hand, and there was no friction
manifested at any time. The leading reports will appear
herein and in later issues of the Veteran. The report of the
Confederate Memorial Association was read by Gen. Robert
White, of West Virginia, who at the conclusion turned to
the editor of the Veteran and said: "I want to shake hands
with you. and we want you to help us. You have thought we
were against you in the past, hut you were mistaken. We
were simply trying to hold our own."
Public answer is made in the statement that the Veteran
oer has had sincere esteem for the motives of the men who
inaugurated the "Batle Abbey" movement. That which caused
its greatest calamity was in their interest and the interest of
those who were giving their money to establish it. There
never was at any time any other motive 111 its course. It
would not seem just or fair to refer to this 1 xcepl to mention
in gratitude the princely donor. Charles Broadway Rouss, and
\ ham, RICHMOND, WHERE Tin CONFEDERATE REUNION FOR 100/ WAS I
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his royal representative. Col. Andrew G. Dickinson, the latter
offering on various occasions to give the money necessary to
the prolonged litigation. Yes, the Veteran will rejoice lo
see the undertaking perfected, and expects it to be one of the
chief attractions in the South.
It has been impossible to put in this Veteran all that was
intended, especially in regard to the Reunion and the dedica-
tion of monuments. The main reports are given, but much
of the assembly, and a fine band of music and hundreds of
girls were singing about the area of the monument. Such a
joyous throng of so great magnitude must have rarely ever
been witnessed on the earth.
MISS VIRGINIA STUART WALLER,
Granddaughter who unveil, d the J. E. B. Stuart Monument.
that occurred with which it was intended to entertain vet-
erans and other Confederates who were not present is un-
avoidably omitted. Affliction which usually takes subjects
unawares is mentioned in an important sense as explanation.
The dedication of the J. E. B. Stuart monument caused an
outpour of people that must have gratified those who were
most intimate with the wonderful cavalryman and a man who
was so light-hearted and gay, and yet in whose life there were
such deep and undying Christian virtues. "Jeb" Stuart will
ever be a study in human nature. The unveiling of the monu-
ment was by his little granddaughter, whose modest but splen-
did face is here presented. She was with Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart.
The dedication of the Davis monument was all that could
have been imagined. Such a sea of human beings was hardly
ever seen in the South, and for a Confederate occasion its
like is not expected to appear again. The order of exercises was
carried through as perfectly as could have been anticipated.
Of course it was not expected that the human voice could
be heard by the vast throng, and without seeming impropriety
— for it was a gala day rather than mournful — rockets were
being sent high above, from which emerged many beautiful
figures, conspicuous among which were balloons with mag-
nificent Confederate flags floating, which fell in different parts
Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
The Confederated Southern Memorial Association was ably
represented by its President, Mrs. W. J. Behan, of New Or-
leans. She was the only woman official who responded in
person before the great assembly gathered to dedicate the
monument to President Jefferson Davis. She said :
"In the name of the Confederated Southern Memorial As-
sociation, composed of the women of the 'sixties,' the con-
temporaries of the men who wore the gray, I thank you for
this hearty welcome. To the loyal and patriotic women of
Virginia, and particularly to members of the Central Com-
mittee of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association, U. D.
C, we extend sincere congratulations and rejoice with them
that our labor of love is accomplished. It is not my purpose
to deliver a lengthy address or eulogy on the life of Jefferson
Davis. This will be portrayed in more eloquent words by the
orator of the day. I esteem it a great privilege, however, to
stand here as the representative of Memorial Associations, and
in the presence of this vast assemblage in a humble way and
feeble voice give testimony to the loyalty and devotion of
Southern women who proclaim to the world their love and
reverence for the only President of the Confederate States
of America. Gray-bearded Veterans, silver-haired wives and
mothers, patriotic sons and daughters are here to-day to wit-
ness the unveiling of this monument, erected by the people
of the South and dedicated to the lofty patriotism and sub-
lime courage as exemplified in the character of Jefferson
Davis. Kentucky is here to claim him as a son, Mississippi is
THE J. E. B. STUART MONUMENT.
proud of him as the able representative of that S'ate, and the
people of the South are here to honor him as the President of
the Confederate States of America.
"Mr. Davis possessed in an eminent degree the heroic vir-
tues of fortitude, constancy, and devotion to principle. To
him, our resolute leader and the stanch defender of the Con-
st! ution. the South owes a debt of gratitude. Our children
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and our children's children should be taught to honor and
revere his memory. They should assemble on each June 3,
the anniversary of his birth, and strew immortelles on his
grave and learn from the matchless oratory of the Veterans
SOME DECORATIONS VI JEFFERSON DAVIS Monument.
tli'- true worth of this great American patriot and Christian
soldier. It has been well said that 'to-day his fame is ours;
.1 century hence it will Ik the world's.' In this historic city
the d< stinies of our short-lived hut glorious nation were
shaped and guided In In- gianl intellect, his services being
t'ed t" his p ople and to their cause, 'the grandest that
ever rose, the purest thai ever fell.' lie was the vicarious
sufferer of the Southern people. No man of the Confed rai J
>■. 1 ■ more ruthlessly maligned, more grossly misrepresented,
ami it devolves upon us to protest against the base calumnies
that have heen charged against him.
"Having implicit faith in his stainless character, we ask
that the starch light of impartial historj be thrown upon the
life and character of Jefferson Davis, believing that his name
will slime forth a- .1 bright example of patriotism, statesman-
ship, and Christian virtue, for he was a man 'faithful to all
trusts.' The Women of the Confederacy have com? from the
farthest ends of the South with garland- .if love and affec-
tion, which they offer as a tribute of love and reverence to
hi- memory. Come hither, you battle-scarred veterans, loyal
remnant of the grandest army ever marshaled in battle, come.
honored heroes, as great in peace as you were valiant in
war, and with bowed luads and grateful hearts lay your
testimonials at the feet of your beloved President. Let all
unite in honoring the name of Jefferson Davis, the noble
1 v mplar of truth and justice, who, when the roar of battle
d, 'withdrew from hi- exalted charge with the dignity
made Strong bj his faith' and 'gained for himself the love and
reverence of his people, who trusted him.'"
In the resolution of thanks to the good people of Rich-
mond the Confederated Memorial Association expressed grati-
tude to the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, to the
Hollywood ami Oakwood Memorial Associations, to the Rich-
mond Chapter. I'. IX C, to the Hebrew Memorial Association,
and to the Hollywood. Oakwood, and Hebrew Junior Me-
morial Associations for their invitation and for doing that
which made the meeting so successful, for the beautiful re-
ception at the Confederate Museum, and for all the personal
courtesies extended during the sessions of the Convention; 10
the pastor and deacon- of the Second Baptist Church for the
■ of the assembly rooms, which proved such comfortable
quarters for the Convention; also to the ladies of the lunch
committee for the lunches so daintily served.
Drs. W. R L. Smith. Landon R. Mason, and J. Powell
Smith were gratefully remembered for their assistance in the
ice niig- 1 banks were extended 10 various other organiza-
tions and individuals for kindness to the Association.
The committee was comprised of Mr-. Mary B. Poppen-
heim, Chairman: Miss L Byrd Mock. Mrs. Nannie Seddon
Barney, Mrs James Dinkins.
In commenting upon the Reunion, Mr-. \Y. J. Beban. Presi-
dent C. S. M. A., -aid: "Ibis Reunion can never he excelled
nor equaled. Our Convention was the largest in attendance
and most enthusiastic of any held since its organization, in
Louisville, in 1900. The success of the Reunion and Conven-
tion was due largely to the patriotism, zed, and energy of
the patriotic Confederate men and women of Richmond."
■ lUSANDS ASSEMBLED FO [ON 01 [EFKERSON DAVIS MONUMENT,
296
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S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ 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.
In soliciting advertising patronage, the Veteran is making
earnest effort to put before its readers only what can be re-
lied upon as being just what is offered: and should this fail
to be the case in any particular, the fact should be reported
at once. Much business has been refused because of its ap-
parent unreliability or other objectionable features; and while
losers to a large amount by this policy, much more is gained
by the protec'ion thus afforded to our patrons. In asking
their consideration, therefore, of anything offered through its
columns, they can be assured that their interest is sought as
w 11 as the help such patronage will afford the Veteran in
enhancing its value as an adverising medium.
OBJECT LESSON IN JOURNALISM.
It is gratifying to observe in the press of Havana, Cuba,
the Spanish La Union Espanola spring to the rescue of the
Havana Post (English). The Spanish journal says:
"A few days ago we published in these columns the fact
that our cultured and distinguished companion. Mr. Leavitt.
the editor of the Post, has been indicted as a result of a suit
brought against him by Messrs. Reading and Steinhart. The
case is one which is clearly within the class known as 'of-
fenses of the press' and within the limits of the daily risk
which may befall any companion. And yet, so far as known,
the Press Association has not met and adopted any resolution
to investigate the case and offer to the distinguished com-
panion its more or less efficient aid.
"We who have always practiced true newspaper unity,
which should extinguish all differences existing between com-
panions of the press when one is the object of such persecu-
tion, decisively offer to Mr. Leavitt all of our sympathy, our
affection, and, if it is possible that it is useful, our modest
assistance.
"The cause of this indictment has not been a personal ques-
tion discussed in the columns of the Post, but a matter of
general interest in which the companion may perhaps be mis-
taken in his criticism, but for which there is no reason to
believe him any the less sincere and honorable. We are, we
repeat, by the side of our prosecuted companion."
In commenting on the foregoing the Post says : "We are
most grateful for the cordial support of our colleague. By
its words it shows that it knows what true press companion-
ship is. A libel suit is something that any paper with cour-
age to speak its convictions is always running the risk, and
it is for their common good that newspapers stand together,
forgetting all other differences on such occasions. La Union
furnishes an excellent example of broad-mindedness. Lhiable
to agree with us in our policy of opposing the purchase of
Church property by the State, it nevertheless recognizes our
right to our opinion and stands by our side when an attempt
is apparently made to shut us up by means of libel suits."
There is no periodical in the United States more suited to
appreciate the foregoing than the Veteran. Press organiza-
tions ought to organize for practical support to their members
in such emergencies.
A subsequent issue of the Post renders sincere thanks to
the Cuban press as follows : "The hearty and unlimited sup-
port which is being given the Havana Post by almost all of
its colleagues in the press on account of the libel suits which
have grown out of the Post's opposition to the Church prop-
erty deal is very gratifying to this paper, and is an edifying
spectacle to the world, showing as it does that in Cuba, when
a newspaper in the pursuit of what it considers its duty is
assailed by powerful forces, its companions in the press know
how to forget all differences and rally to its support. We
cannot but give our sincere thanks for the hearty support of
the comrades of the press."
STRANGE.' STRANGE.'.' STRANGE.'.'.'
The National Tribune of June 13, 1907, says: "Many peo-
ple will be shocked into incredulity by Murderer Orchard's
cold-blooded testimony as to the industry and lack of remorse
with which he followed his horrid trade of assassination. It
seems unbelievable to them that any man could go about day
after day coolly taking away human life with as little com-
punction as a pig-sticker in the Chicago Stock Yards slays
his victims. History, however, tells us that such natures are
not at all unusual. We of this generation have seen a Captain
Wirz, aided and abetted, specifically ordered by Gen. John H.
Winder and Jefferson Davis, conduct a system which every
day sent to their graves hundreds of fully as good men as
Orchard slew, and accompanied this with cruelties incom-
parably worse than Orchard visited upon his victims. There
are men born so destitute of moral sense and sympathy as to
feel absolutely no compunction about taking human life, and
Orchard is one of them."
The National Tribune is related to the Grand Army of the
Republic quite as is this Veteran to the Confederates.
Black clots of old bloody shirts seem to have become petri-
fied, and cleansing is evidently hopeless. Good men of the
North differ in their views. A handsome patriot at the Rich-
mond Reunion was asked where he served in the sixties, and
he replied : "I served in the Union army ; but if it were to do
over again, I would be a Confederate." He so spoke referring
to the principles involved in the war. He believed in the
stainless life of Jefferson Davis.
ELIZA BENNETT YOUNG,
Six years of age, as she appeared on her pony "Johnny Dixie'' at the
head of the Kentucky Division parade, Richmond Reunion.
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297
ADDRESS OF R. E. LEE, JR., TO THE VETERANS
An event s cond to no other in interest of the many ad-
dresses at the Reunion was that of the grandson of Gen. R.
E. Lee. The young gentleman — son of "I\ ley" Lee — was
pn nitcd to the Veterans at the first Nashville Reunion. He
was then a mere youth, hut is now developed into magnificent
manhood. I lis speech was of much length, but was heard
with increased interest throughout, ["he speaker by his word
and mannei seemed to realize fully the responsibility of the
name he bore. He used no notes, and yet never faltered in
word 01 expression to the end. The nearest he approximated
reference to his eminent and beloved : tot was in an ex-
pression about "the anguish of Appomattox."
Mr Lee discussed the underlying causes of the great strug-
gle of the sixties. The following is from what he said:
"No" withstanding the fact that we are told upon the best
autboritj that 'out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh,' yet there are tune-- in the lives of men when that
fullness i- so ample, the demand so great, that the poor,
Stammering, stuttering tongue remains silent and palsied at
the magnitude and munificence of the task that is ^et before
it- Sunly there is such a moment in the life of every true
I the South when he attempts to depict the days of
doubt and dread between 1861 and 1X05. to describe the patri-
otism and self-sacrifice of the people of the Smith, to recite
the deeds of unparalleled courage and heroism wrought by
her incomparable armies, and to lay memories of sweet im-
tnortell upon the graves of the countless hemes of the Con-
fedei
"There never has been a more critical period of American
history than that which ushered the yeai [860 upon the world's
of action. The trouble was not of recent origin, it was
not the spasmodic outburst of an hour nor the stubborn and
Miss ELIZABETH W. WASHINGTON \M> ROBERT E. I.F.E. JR.
(1'ii inn rnndc ten jri ura igo. " Bi i le " i- now Miss Washington,
and son M ! est In the family of 1 Inn. I.
I Washington, and ws ' C. V. Con* ention
i Reunion of 1^7.
senseless resistance of a factious maintenance of groundless
opinions, but was the result of the existence of antagonizing
forces operating for a long time in the country, the seeds
being first sown by the forefathers, si. me in the fertile valley
of the James and some on the rock-bound coast of New
England. Sectional differences exhibited themselves long b(
fore the adoption of the Federal Constitution.
"For the purposes pf this 111 ion we care not how the
African 'lave first placed his unhallowed foot on Southern
soil. Suffice if to say that, although the South had at on •
time no inconsiderable career of maritime adventure, 'no ship
or shipmaster of hers was ever in a single case implicated
ill the illicit African slave trade.' Her greatest men always
maintained slavery to be the most dangerous element in the
country. From the beginning the statesmen of the South
scented danger in tin great race problem with which they
were being saddled, and the question that was uppermost 111
their minds was. What shall he don with the emancipated
serf? 'Much as 1 deplore slavery.' says Patrick Henry. 'I see
that prudence forbids its abolition.' Henry Clay asserted
that 'the evils of slavery are absolutely nothing in compari on
with the far grcaler evils which would inevitably follow ion
sudden, general, and indiscriminate emancipation.' And again
ins: 'If we were to invoke the greatest blessing on eartli
which heaven in its mercy could bestow on this nation, it
would b: the separation of the two most numerous races of
its population and their comfortable establishment in distant
and distinct countries.' Mr Mason, of Virginia, went farther
in declaring: 'The traffic is infernal. To permit it is against
ever}- principle of honor and safe'y.' Mi Calhoun was of
the opinion tint the existing relations between master and
servant 'cannot he destroyed without iubjecting the two races
to the greatest calamity and the section to poverty, desolati in.
and wretch dness.'
"Virginia in October, 1 77s. and Georgia in 1 ~<>" d acts
prohibiting the importation of slaves I he former act pro-
vided for a penalty of one thousand pounds, and als
everj slave imported contrary to the true intent and meaning
of this act shall upon such importation 1 ne free. Mm-.
to the everlasting credit of the South, upon who
head the vials 1 f holy wrath have b en so unjustly and brutally
p lured out for propagating, nourishing, ami harboring slavery.
she led the world in an earnest attempt 10 prevent the verj
thing of which 11 1 1 USI d
"During the light of t820-2i, which resulted in the Mi luri
Compromise, slavery had hardh become 3 political ques-
.tion, and as proof that the Southern States had not at that
early period banded together in support ol the system, the
States of Virginia, Kentucky, ei wen earnestly
engaged in practical mov ments for gradual emancipation oi
their slaves; and this g 1 work continued until it wa
re-ted by the abolitionists, who 'insisted upon convicting as
criminals those who were SO well disp -ed to brine about the
very result at which they thems Ives professed to
"'Promised emancipation refn 'nil itself to hateful
abolition.' Under thi 1 of philanthropy and humanity.
and notwithstanding the fa 1 ngland had liberated four
hundred thousand slavi at the cost of twenty million pounds
pan! to their owners, the abolitionists demanded the uncom-
■ I tli 1 1 le gi 1 ma iority of which
were 111 the South Such a wholesale attack on private prop-
er!} by tin- Sate ha- no parallel in history; the nearest ap
proach to it is th- suppression oi the monasteries by Henry
Mill and Talleyrand's famous measure for the spoliation of
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the Church during the French Revolution under the sophistical
plea that it belonged to the nation.
"Finally scheming politicians, 'invincible in peace, invisible
in war,' took advantage of the unfortunate state of affairs
and adopted slavery for their slogan and a vehicle for their
selfish ends.
"Mr. Lunt, of Massachusetts, says: Self-seeking and am-
bitious demagogues, the pest of republics, disturbed the equi-
librium, and were able at length to plunge the coun'ry into that
worst of all public calamities — civil war. The question of
morals had as little as possible to do with the result. Philan-
thropy might have sighed, fanaticism have howled for cen-
turies in vain, but for the hope of office and the desire of
public plunder on the part of men who were neither philan-
thropists nor fanatics.' Thus slavery was the occasion and
not the cause of the revolt, 'just as property is the cause of
robbery.' Slavery was the South's calamity, and not her
crime. Two most significant facts remain in this connection.
First, there was incorporated in the organic law of the South-
ern Confederacy, made wholly by slave States, an absolu'e
prohibition of the foreign slave trade. The final act was the
emancipation of the slaves by the votes of the Southern States.
"Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of January, 1S63, was legally
absolutely void and ineffective. The negroes were freed by
the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. When this
was adopted, the Federal Union was composed of thirty-six
States. The fifth article of the Constitution provides that no
amendment to the Constitution shall become part thereof
until 'ratified by the Legislatures of time-fourths of the States.'
Therefore it required twenty-seven votes to ratify the amend-
in nt. On the 18th of December, 1865. the Secretary of State
reported twenty-seven Sta'es having so ratified. Sixteen of
these were Northern States. Nine of those States refused to
vote for the measure, and the remaining eleven required to
make up the two-thirds were the Southern States. The much-
maligned, slave-tortured South became the liberator of the serf.
It is one of the ironies of history that the South, which had
done so much to prevent and stamp out the black terror,
should be' called on to be sacrificed on the altar of the opinions
of those who were in a large measure responsible for the
existence of the African within her borders.
"The South is charged with a desire to destroy the Union.
As fair and impartial a judge as Lord Wolseley falls into
this error when he says : 'Few find fault with the men of the
North for their manly determination, come what may, to re-
sist every effort of their brothers in the South to break up
the Union.
"Secession was not preached for the first time in the South,
as is so well pointed out by the Rev. Dr. McKim, of Washing-
ton, a gallant Confederate soldier: "It was threatened in the
North four times before South Carolina seceded. The first
came from Col. Timothy Pickering, of Massachusetts, a friend
of Washington's and a member of his Cabinet, opposing the
acquisition of Louisiana; the second from Josiah Quincy,
another distinguished citizen of Massachusetts, over the pro-
posed admission of Louisiana as a State in the Union ; the
third from the Hartford Convention, in which five States
w-ere represented, over the dissatisfaction occasioned by the
war with Great Britain; and the fourth from the Legislature
of Massachusetts, because it was proposed 'to annex Texas to
the Federal Union.'
"The steady development of the South, especially terri-
torially, stirred in the North a great 'jealous anxiety,' a fear
of a great slave empire and loss of political power. The ven-
erable Quincy pronounced it 'the duty of the North to take
possession of the government at any hazard, even at the dis-
solution of the Union itself.' When Louisiana knocked at the
door of the Federal family, it so stirred this distinguished
Massachusetts statesman that he boldly declared on the floor
of Congress that 'if this bill passes it is my deliberate opinion
that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it frees
the States from their moral obligation ; and, as it will be the
right of all, so it will be the duty of some definitely to pre-
pare for a separation, amicably if they can. violently if they
must.' Adams and Giddings were also nerved to such a pitch
that they issued an address declaring that the annexation of
Texas would be 'so injurious to the interest of the Northern
States as not only inevitably to result in dissolution of the
Union but to fully justify it.'
"Zachariah Chandler wrote the Governor of Michigan re-
questing him to send delegates to the Peace Compromise Con-
gress, called by a Southern State, being the only effort made
by a State to avert the war. 'Without a little blood-letting
this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a curse.'
When the Congress failed of its purpose, there sprang from
the throats of the radicals this triumphant note: 'We have
won the ba'tle, and we mean to have the fruits.'
"It would seem that Mr. Lincoln himself puts at rest all
doubt as to the responsibility of the conflict in an interview
with Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, as given by Miss Tar-
bell in her 'Life of Lincoln.' 'Gentlemen,' he is reported as
saying, 'after Boston, Chicago has been the chief instrument
in bringing this war to the country. The Northwest oppos.d
the South, as New England opposed the South. It is you,
Medill, who is largely responsible for making blood flow as
it has. You called for war until you had it. I have given
it to you. What you have asked for. you have had. Now you
come begging to be let off from the call for more men, which
I have made to carry on the war you demanded. You ought
to be ashamed of yourself.'
"When the red curtain of war rolled up on the American
stage, it revealed the South in arms, ready and willing to de-
fend all that makes life worth living — the freedom of country,
the honor of people, the sanctity of home. There was also
exhibited the sublimest and most unique figure the world has
ever seen, that of the Confederate soldier, the evolution of
a revolution, which history here takes up never again to put
him down.
"The courage of the Confederate soldier was like that of
Lacedaemonians : he inquired not for the number of his enemy,
but for the place where they could be found. 'The available
forces scattered over the Confederacy, from Richmond to
New Orleans, from the frontier of Arkansas to the everglades
of Florida, can hardly have numbered in April. 1861,
150,000 — about one-fifth of those of the enemy.' The Con-
federates amused in the tangled wilderness an enemy three
times their number; 51,000 Confederates confronted Grant
with his 190,000. attacked him wherever he showed an un-
covered front, killed, wounded, and captured more men than
the number of the whole Southern army.
"I care not what some may think of the Confederate sol-
dier as an individual ; put his cap on his head, button his
old gray jacket around him, fill his canteen, put his
musket on his shoulder, place him in the war-worn and
weather-bea'.en ranks of his fallen country, and see how he
soars above the rest of mankind, how grandly he enters the
awful realm of war in which he has become a denizen, un-
folding its mysteries and interpreting its strategies, permitting
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the military genius of the world to gaze a humble, reverent
observer. Let us not, then, be content with the lukewarm
and. if you please, molly-coddling expression that the Con-
federate soldier fought for what he believed to be right. If
precedent is a guide, if argument has any convincing force,
if approving conscience any solace, if subsequent approbation
by those who once disagreed with him any justification, if
duty magnificently performed any indication, then we can
assert without fear of successful contradiction that the Con-
tV.lt i, ite soldier fought and died for what he knew to be right
"i would not give my dead Ossory for any living son of
Albion' was the cry of a bereaved English mother. A a, 1
would not give the memory of my dear dead country and her
glorious past for all the living anticipations of the nations of
the world' is the true Confederate soldier's proud declaration
Win r< ver his hallowed bones are buried, earth has the care of
one more hero's gravi and heaven the custody of an addi-
tional soul over which the plaudit of 'Well done, good and
faithful servant,' has been pronounced
"Tins, blessed post-bellum camp fires which you kindle
year by y< ar warm into life the shadows of the past and the
mighty days from [86l to t86s that are dead and gone. Now
the polemic heat of the quarrel having passed without 're-
crimination or abuse,' without 'throwing faith to the winds,'
without 'waxing good-by to confidence,' the South proudly
points to the actors in that great drama as her rarest jewels
and places them in the diadem that crowns the nation's head
to shed undying luster to American arms.
'She is not disturbed that people know so much about her,
but what wounds and offends her is that they know so much
about her that is not so. She still has problems to solve and
burdens grievous to be borne. It is recorded that the great
Napoleon, walking at St. Helena with an English lady, met
in a narrow path a man struggling under a great load. The
lady ordered him to get out of the Emperor's way. The
'Little Corporal' stepped aside, turned mi her, and with his
characteristic fire sank 'Madam, respect the burden.' And
this is what the Smith calls en the' nation and the world to
do — to respect her burden and to add not to it, and to have
her alone while she beats those burdens which she alone can
beat and solves those problems which she alone can solve.
Some day generations yet unborn will rise up and call her
bll ed, for the tight thai sin has been in. and will ever make,
to keep Anglo-Saxon blood untarnished and American citizen-
lup purr and unblemished "
report of a wicked proceeding comes from Lexington,
K> It is that a veteran, Frank Tatman, sixty-five years old,
leen arrested under the charge that he had been drinking.
"He pleaded so hard for mercy that Police Judge Riley told
bun if he would win a race from a mounted policeman he
might go free Tatman ran three blocks with the officer's
horse, and won by thre feet lb was immediately released."
"Where shall I send my daughter to school this win
,,n. it maj 1" is a s, iiiiin, in ii b\ p.ii ruts all
'.mi the land, anxious!} inten ted in providing the b st in
ii. wax of instruction as well a- surroundings for their chil-
■ 1 1 iii Smiie must attractive school advertisements appear in
this number of the Vi iikxn. and it guarantees that anj
among them will prove satisfactorj Write for their
igues; and just to help the Veteran along a bit. men-
tion where you saw their advertisement.
JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT.
Formes Unitkh States Senator Carmack's Address
A more appropriate address could hardly be imagined than
that by Hon. E. W. Carmack, of Tennessee, who made the
address for Mrs. Lizzie Georf Henderson (whose father
was United Slates Senator from Mississippi), President of
tin- United Daughters of the Coi federacy, through whom the
monument was erected. The selection oi Mi I armack came
through Senator John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi. Mrs.
Henderson had never met Mr. Carmack until he was pre-
- in <il to her on the platform hy the monument. A mem-
orable tribute to the address remains in the animated, patri-
otic face of the I . D. C. President, which glistened through
her smiles and tears a- he made record for el nun of the
great character of Jefferson Davis and the principles for
which he stooil through tin- tremendou Ordeal Of war and
reconstruct^ m
Senator Carmack's addi in substanci . I il >ws :
"Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen: It is my privilege
to appear in the exercises of this great occasion as the repre-
sentative of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, whose
noble part it is and has ever been to keep 'tires of chivalry
alight in hearts of gold.' Let me add that this monument to
the South's great leader is no less a monument to the South's
great women, who have wrought into it their devotion to the
memory of his heroic services and his stainless life as well
as to the cause of which he was alike the foremost champion
and the most illustrious victim.
"It is no part of my task to justify this monument. Let
me say only that if the unselfish devotion of all the powers
of a great mind, if patient self sacrifice and heroic suffering
deserve a grateful remembrance no man ever builded more
surely than Jefferson Davis the foundation of his fame. Great
in all the years of his active life, he was surpassinglj great
in those last years in which mistaken malice laid on his de-
voted head all the suppose, I sins ,,f Ins people With the
serenity of a great and unconquered soul he bore the fury of
persecution and opposed a mighty and magnanimous con-
tempt to the crawling calumnies of his defamers. These have
lived their summer daj and died, while the fame of Jeff
Davis gathers new splendor with each passing year.
"Here let me say that there is no Southern soldier pusil-
lanimous enough lo accept that lenient judgment sometimes
proffered by the charity of his critics that he was the inno
cent, deluded victim of a wicked leadership. No soldier of
the South, however ruined in fortune oi broken with wounds,
no wife bereft of her husband, no mother bereft of her son,
has ever raised an accusing voice against the leaders of the
South. The Southern people are not of that coward lined
that seeks a vicarious sufferer for its own deeds
"I it no man mistake us -the South, the whole Smith, gave
both heart and hand to the war of secession; and as history
shall judge Jefferson Max:-, so let it judge every soldier who
fmight beneath the tlag of the Confederacy. Yea, and so let
it judge us of a new gem who ask for ourselves no
Inghei honoi and no prouder fate than that by their deeds
we max be judged and whose most fervent prayer is that the
si ms of tin ma . bi worthj !t theii - h es. No, my
countrymen, it is not as a trembling penitent that the South
approaches the judgment bar of history.
"Standing in the pn ence ol this noble and impressive
monument, we proudly front the world and proclaim lo the
I'll nit and the Coining time: "This was our hero, and his
our-.' Whether for chieftain or for private, we
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make no confession of wrong, we plead for no forgiveness of
error, we ask no tenderness of the future historian, no charity
from the enlightened judgment of mankind. If there are
those who are shocked by such sentiments, let me add that
this reunited country will not be best defended by conscious
criminals begging for mercy at the victor's feet. Thoughtless
people have sometimes reproached us for such scenes as this,
and have demanded as a pledge of our loyalty to a reunited
country that we give the memory of our heroes to oblivion
and their graves to the wilderness. They know not what they
ask. They would have us prove our loyalty to the Union by-
proving ourselves recreant to the noblest sentiments that
could swell the bosom of an American patriot.
"I say that the valor of our Southern soldiers, the fortitude
of our Southern women, the fidelity with which we cherish
the memory of their deeds and their sufferings are but the
measure of our loyalty to a reunited country and to the flag
that floats over it from ths lakes to the gulf and from sea
to sea. If the Southern people could so soon forget, if they
were so fickle and inconstant that they could learn to despise
the cause for which they gave the best blood of their veins,
if they could be ashamed of a record that is the wonder and
admiration of the world, then indeed might they be despised
as a degenerate and ignoble race who could not be loyal to
any country or faithful to any flag.
"He is foolish, indeed, who holds that the Southerner must
surrender not only his arms but his manhood and self-respect
before he can become a faithful soldier or a worthy citizen
of the republic. No, my countrymen, the world respects us
for what we are doing this day. It will despise us if we ever
come to despise our own glorious history.
"This monument is also commemorative of the soldiers and
the sailors of the South. Whatever else may be said, no man
has the hardihood to question the splendid valor and prowess
of the South, whether by land or by sea. With a courage so
great that her adversaries have loved to stigmatize it as sheer
folly and madness, she challenged the power of a great na-
tion vastly superior in numbers, in wealth, in everything that
makes ready for war. Without an army, without a navy,
without money, without credit, without arms or ammunition
of war, and without factories to supply them, she entered
upon that fearful struggle. Against the appalling odds of
nearly four to one she maintained it for four years, and for
a long time the issue of battle hung doubtful in the balance.
Nay, more: I assert that there would have been no victory
for the Union if the contest had been on land alone.
"It was the fatal weakness of the Confederacy at sea that
turned the tide of war. Given men, the organization of an
army is a matter of comparatively easy achievement. It is
another matter to improvise a navy for instant service. The
navy of the United States in 1861 ranked fourth among the
navies of the world, and in proportion to its strength was
second to none ; perhaps superior to any in efficiency. Its
merchant marine was the greatest upon the sea. A rich
nation with all the appliances for shipbuilding would have
heen at immense disadvantage. The Confederacy had no su 'j
appliances and was poor. Makeshift trading craft constituted
the bulk of the Confederate navy. Yet under all these ad-
verse conditions the genius of the South shone with as much
brilliancy by sea as by land. Cruisers like the Alabama and
the Shenandoah almost swept the merchant ships of the
Union from the sea. Ironclads like the Merrimac wrought
havoc with the best-equipped war ships of the enemy. To
naval warfare the Confederacy bequeathed the torpedo and
the ironclad ram as well as some daring and partially suc-
cessful experiments in submarine navigation. The record of
the Confederate navy was in short the story of genius, energy,
and fertility of invention baffled by poverty of means and
natural resources.
"But, my countrymen, no just tribute to the quality of
Southern manhood could be made that did not include the
story of its marvelous achievements in the redemption of
the South after the war. To my mind there is nothing in all
history so magnificent as the indomitable and invincible spirit
which enabled a defeated people to rise in determined, vic-
torious resistance to the policy of the conqueror's govern-
ment. The Southern people could accept what they deemed
the legitimate results of the war; they could give up slavery
without a sigh ; they could live under the Union and under
its flag (after all, it was their land and their flag) ; but to be
despoiled of their heritage, to be subjected to the rule of
a servile master — against such degradation and dishonor they
rose as one man with one spirit.
"Judge Tourgee, author of 'Fool's Errand,' by no means a
friendly critic, could not withhold his admiration for the
'indomitable men who, being conquered in war, yet resisted
every effort of the conqueror to change their laws or their
customs, and this too not only with unyielding stubbornness
but with success.' He admits that in all this they showed
the 'elements that go to make up a grand and kingly people,'
and that their 'triumph was incredibly grand,' that it was
the most 'brilliant revolution ever accomplished.'
"And grand it was not for the South alone but for 1 le
whole country, for free government could not have long sur-
vived under the rule of the worst elements of the North com-
bined with the ignorant negroes of the South. Let it be the
proud boast of the North that by the power of the bayonet
and the force of numbers it saved the country from dis-
union; it is the proud boast of the South that with its naked
hands it saved it from degradation and destruction.
"Let me say, my countrymen, that such are not the deeds
of conscious criminals. They are possible only to men deeply
convinced of the justice of their cause. The world has paid
its just tribute to the Confederate leaders and the Confederate,
soldiers. History has placed the statesmen, the military
chieftains, and the armies of the South beyond the reach of
calumny or detractions. President Roosevelt has written that
the Southern soldier was more effective in battle than his
Northern adversary. Those who would apply the name of
traitor to such men are but teaching the youth of America
that treason is a nobler school of manhood than loyalty and
that crime can outrival virtue in the greatness of its deeds
and the sublimity of the sufferings.
"My countrymen, the doctrine of secession is dead; but
because it is dead, because it can never again plague the coun-
try or disturb the repose of the nation, we can afford to speak
and teach the truth about it. Our children have a right to
know that the doctrine of secession from our earliest history
under the Constitution was taught by the ablest publicists of
the North as well as of the South ; that the very first treatise
on the Constitution, written by the then leader of the Phila-
delphia bar. taught the right of a State to secede from the
Union; that a standard work on the Constitution at West
Point when Jefferson Davis was a student there taught the
same doctrine, and that Jefferson Davis learned his lesson of
secession from the government of the United States. Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts, says that the very men who framed
the Constitution regarded it as an experiment, and did not
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di Libl tli'1 right of a State peaceably to withdraw from the
Union. In fact, the first secession movement in this country
had its origin in New England, and only sixteen years before
the Slate of South Carolina actually seceded the State of
Ma sachusctts by act of its Legislature threatened to seced .
"We have a right to teach these things to our children,
teaching at the same time that the causes that once threatened
to divide us have passed and that henceforth the strength and
glory of the South are bound up forever with the strength
and glory of the Union. After all, this Union is bound by
tronger ties than the phrases of a written Constitution; it
is hound by a common interest, a common heritage, and a
common hope.
'Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky;
Man breaks not the medal when God cuts the die.'
" Ml these things are now glorious memories Proud of her
glorious history, proud "f every drop of blood that has gushed
from the veins of her son-, proud of every grave and every
rum thai proclaims the splendor of her deeds while it marks
the failure of her hopes, the South turns resolutely from the
ashes of the past to the fruits of the future We may strew
MRS. THEODORE R. FROUDLE,
Matr.m of IInn.tr. Kentucky Division.
our flowers .oid lit tall our tears upon the hallowed mounds
where valor sleeps in In- bloody shroud, but the lesson
lives of our hero, admonishes us to do our dun i b
as they did theirs
"\\ e owt 1' \ - and mem. irj to thi past; we owi
to the present and to the futun ! ith her vie
tone- in, less renowned than war' In the field of commerce
udu-try the South h reaped a golden harvest,
Uld -he ha- but thrust her sickle into the grain. The pi
century t- stored with richest blessings for our Southland
"In the field of statecraft the opportunity is again at hand
for lb' South lo assert bet obi preeminence in the nation's
council-. The perils that menace the republic call for cour-
ageous leadership We of tin- South have a high and noble
lineage, anil with it a high duly and great responsibility. We
are the descendants of a Revolutionary, a colonial ancestry.
Elsewhere the blood of the pioneer trickles in a thin and
diminishing stream. We are the sons of sues who Laid broad
and deep the foundations of our government, who hewed the
logs of the wilderness to build their rude 'but imperishable
temple and dedicate it to liberty forever and ever. In our
veins flows the pure blood of the founders of the republic; ami
a- we have k'pt the blood, so let us keep the faith."
THE TENNESSEE DIVISION, U. D I
BY MRS. I. W. i I AIT. RECORDING SECRETARY, MEMPHIS.
The largest and probably the most eventful session of the
Tennessee Division, U. I). (', was the eleventh Annual Con-
vention, held at Columbia May 15. 10.07.
The growth of the Division is evidenced by the report of
the President, showing a gam of about one-third or an in-
crease of more than one thousand members during the year,
seventeen new Chapters having been organized since the Con-
vention m May, moo. The membership now numbers 4,269.
The interest and enthusiasm increase each year, a- was
exemplified by the large attendanci of delegates upon this
Convention, The Chapters responded with their usual gener-
ous donations for tin- projected monuments of Sam Davis
anil Shiloh, also for the care of the soldiers at the Home, and
Chapter reports showed a unanimous zeal and unity of pur-
po e in the objects to be accomplished. The marked pros-
per! n oi "in Division, I am constrained to say. I feel 1- largi lj
due to the efficient administration 1 f our retiring President,
Mr- Alexander R While, and cannot |,nI hop and believe
thai the judicious selection of Mr- M. 1'.. Pilcher as her suc-
cessor will result in a continuance of our successful work, as
she h\ her past experience in various branches of the work
is well equipped for the responsible duties devolving upoi
Contributions to the amount of something over three hun-
dred dollars were given to Mrs. I".. II. Hatcher, permanent
Chairman of the Sam Davis Monument Committee: and the
annual pledge of twenty-five dollar-, to the Shiloh monument,
which has not been met owing to a depleted treasurj each yi ir,
was ordered paid, the amount being seventy-five dollar- for
the past three years The financial condition of tin Division
1 most gratifying, a- (he State Treasurer, Mi- Denney, re-
port,] all obligation- met and time hundred dollars 111 bank.
Enough cannot he said of the llOSpitalitj of tli,
1 olumbia in then- entertainment of thi- Convention X" ef-
fort was li 11 undone foi [he comfort and pleasure of the dele-
gati bj ib local Chapters, clubs, courthouse officials, and
citizens. The newlj elected office] in Mis M. r, Pilcher,
l'i: id. in. Mi \". 1; Dobbins, of Columbia, First Vice Pres-
ident Mrs. J M Hardwick, Cleveland, Second Vice Presi-
dent; Mr- E. E, Adam-. I ebanon, 1 orresponding Secretary;
Mrs \\ \\ Baird, Humboldt, Recorder of Crosses of Honoi
The Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Clapp, Memphis, the
Treasurer, Mrs George W. Denney, Knoxville, the Registrar,
Miss Susie Gentry, Franklin, the Historian, Mrs. N. B.
Do ier, Franklin, the Custodian of Flags, Mrs B. J. Baker,
McKen/ie. .ami the Poetess, Mi-- Beatrice Stevens, will hold
theii office for another year, according to the constitution,
which po eat -' term 1 if offv
Chi ii ioi the next place of meeting.
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VETERANS ON THE WAY TO THE MONUMENT UNVEILING BY DAUGHTERS OF GENERAL GORDON.
STATUE OF GE.X. JOHN B. GORDON.
The dedication of the statue to Gen. J. B. Gordon occurred
on May 25. unhappily in too close proximity to that of the
great Reunion at Richmond and the dedications there to
secure that general attention from comrades of the South
that was due. The veterans, other Confederates, and the
people of Georgia, however, were in large attendance. There
were so many more thousands in attendance than could pos-
sibly hear that Gen. Clement A. Evans, the special orator of
the occasion, gave only an epitome of his able oration.
Gordon established a fame for himself and his fellow-Con-
federates that is more appreciated than is manifest in the
part taken in this work to commemorate him in bronze.
While the entire South claimed him, his adopted State of
Georgia merits more gratitude than is yet manifested for
this magnificent equestrian statue.
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY IN WASHINGTON.
On Confederate Memorial Day in Washington there was
a gratifying programme. Two hundred and sixty-five Con-
federate graves were decorated. During the day a good por-
tion of the city's population crowded every means of trans-
portation to Arlington. John G. Capers, of South Carolina,
the new Commissioner of Internal Revenue, made the
oration, and the Thirteenth Cavalry Band, by direction of
Secretary Taft. rendered a number of appropriate selections.
The feature of the proceedings was the Southern cross,
composed of eighty young Southern women, forming about
a floral offering contributed by one of the local Camps. The
Daughters were dressed in pure white with red diagonal
sashes and made -"a group of beauty." After the speech of
Mr. Capers, visitors decorated the graves of the Confederates.
An exchange states : "All the Confederates regret that Gen-
eral Wheeler is not buried in the Confederate section instead
of the plot selected by his family in another part of the ceme-
tery. General Wheeler, however, was by no means overlooked.
WILLIAM HAYES DAVIS, GRANDSON OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Qopfederat^ l/eterai).
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TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF nil VETERAN.
One of tli c most interesting nnd manifestly most pleasing
actions of the U. C V ( onvention came of a spirited address
by Gen. Bennett H. Young, Commander of (lie Kentucky Di-
vision. 1 le said :
"I am grateful for the courtesy of the floor at this time,
and I shall use the moment given to move that the United
Confederate Vssociation now indorse the action of th ■ Com-
mander. Department and State Commanders, and a large num-
ber "i the officers of the Association in approving tin grea
worth of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and commending it- sup
port to Confederates and all who sympathize in the splendid
vindication which time is giving to those who fought for the
independence of the Confederacy.
"It is difficult, Mr. Commander, in view of the marvelous
nee and genius .if ihe orators of the Southland. ti> gi\
utterance to anything new on this subject ; hut in sleep last
night a thought passed through my brain, the repetition of
which 1 am -ure will create pleasurable thought in the minds
"f those who are present.
"Fate denied the Confederate Stale, ,< place in the con-
stellation of nations; hut it crowned the efforts and saci
of their people with a glorious immortality and wrote the
story nf their heroic deed- and magnificent courage on the
brightest pages of human history
"Refused nationhood by the stern decree of (iod. yet as a
compensation the Confederacj has hen assigned a foremost
n the respect, admiration, and esteem of mankind; and
in peopli whosi government lived only s() brief a period as
four years ha- ever won inure renown or achieved a nobler
"i- grander distinction in the discharge of dutj in camp, on the
march, on the battlefield, or laid superb r offering on the altai
of pati i it ic duty
"But, comrades, then i another consolation winch adds
something to the exaltation of those who shared in the strug
gles of the Southland to be free. Relatively there are more
monuments to Confederate valor and to Confederate renown
than to anj other cau i human or divine, that has ever known
struggle or conflict in the past of the world Voiceless stones
becom eloqu nl messengers to reveal to the world how mag-
nificentl) ih, men of the Smith hattlcd foi the right, and for
el '" come will proclaim the grandeur of their couragi
and the fidelity of their services and il tj of then
purpii-i
"An inexorable destiny adjudged that the men oi the South
should fail in the mighty conflict they made for the gri
principle known in true liberty— the precious right of local
nent but that same destinj has decreed that the fame
"t thi ol the Southland shall live forever, and that,
whatever may conic in the y.ars that arc to follow, these hull
dreds of monuments throughout the States which have been
bj tin' mi-iii passed hen ii m of tin ii
shall stand a- sentinels to guard the glory nf those who dii d
and those who struggled m the great war ha- liberty and
I ill
"To produce these unparalleled results I ncies
were ■ I to work out th -e wonder-
ful conditi'
"i. 'Ihe magnificent achi vements and superb valor and
Inordinary patriotism ol the s,,i,i,ers who wore tin
fought for tin Southli istil I ■■■- the] did tin
and grandest army of volunteers that I under any
flag and for any cause
he splendid heroism and sublime devotion of the wom-
en of the South, than whom no grander have ever lived or
sacrificed or struggled for any cause. Their calmness m danger,
their steadfastness m disaster, their cheerfulness in misfor-
tune, and their loyalty in defeat gave a constancy, a courage,
and a chivalrj to the men wdio composed the armies of the
South that were simply immeasurably great. These things,
united with their undying love and their unfaltering stead-
fastness in the memories of the gnat struggle and of the
awful sacrifices they and their fathers, husbands, brothers,
and lovers have made for Southern liberty, produced a type
f womanhood so exalted and, so noble as to win and coin
mand the admiration and wonder of the world.
"3. The patience and the labor and the energy and the
breadth of the talent and genius of the Southern press and
the enormous inspiration that it gave Ho those who loved the
Confederate cause rendered possible and made successful the
efforts to build these monuments to Confederate valor and
Confederate glory which cover every portion of the South-
land, and no agency has been more effective than the Con-
federate Veteran; and its superb management, coupled with
the genius of its owner and its editor, has been a strong factor
in all that has been done to provide not only those things
which make up the comfort, relief, and happiness of infirm and
feeble Confederates but in rescuing front oblivion thousands
oi noble acts of the heroes that wore the gray and in defend-
ing the valor of the sons of the Southland on the hundreds of
battlefields, where they did all that man could do to maintain
and defend the cause to which they had given their alleg
and to which they pledged, if need he. their lives."
The motion, which was to indorse the address of the gen-
eral officers and others and published in the May and June
l-in- of the Vetkkan. was heartily adopted without a dissent-
ing voice, and the editor was presented to the Convention by
(1 n. Stephen D. Lee.
FORI WORTH CAMP IX RICHMOND
l:\ 1: 1: PADDOI K, I OKI WORTH. II -
line of the most phasing incidents of the splendid Reunion
of ihe Confederate Veteran Association which culminated
in Richmond was a luncheon tendered the Mary Lee Higbee
Guards, of Fort Worth. Tex., by Miss Ellen Glassgow, of
Richmond. The Mary Lee Higbee Guards are a contingent
of Robert E. Lee Camp, No. 158, of Fort Worth. Tex. the
largest Camp of the L . ' V. in the South. Thej were quar-
1 11. 1 ai Belvidere Mall. Nieces of Gen Joseph E. Johnston,
under whom mam of them served, wire present and served
at the table. It is not unusual for these amenities to be ten-
dered i" tie general officers and to those who wear gold lace,
hut this courtesy to the men in the ranks is an innoi
The Mary Lee Higl uards will carry a pleasing story to
relate to their ("amp. This gracious act by one of the charm-
ing daughter- of their belov d Southland will he a bright
spot in their memories through life.
J 1 Witcher, of Bells, rex., calls attention to an error
made bj Comrade Young in his article about Jones's raid in
West Virginia, in which hi of "Whitchei Battalion,
which should ha\ been "\\ itcher." This error should have
l.ien detect d le thi \i rERAN Vinson A. Witcher was
and lieutenant colonel' of the ,54th Battalion Virginia
dry.
1 I art. of Mason, hx. wants the address of any sur-
viving members of Company B, 10th Louisiana Regiment.
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WOMAN'S MONUMENT DESIGN NOT ACCEPTED:
BY GEN. C. IRVINE WALKER, CHARLESTON, S. C.
The committee to award the prize and decide on the best
suggestion for the design for the bronze statues to crown the
various State monuments lo the Women of the Confederacy
met at the Jamestown Exposition Wednesday and Thursday.
It was composed of Mrs. Rosenberg, of Galveston, Mann, and
myself. We gave most careful consideration to all the seventy-
five suggestions ; but it was with deep regret and much dis-
appointment that we were forced to conclude that none were
suitable, so we could not award the prize to any. There were
many good suggestions, but none were suitable, from varying
causes, for the purpose. There were several very fine designs
for monuments, but we asked only for suggestions for the
bronze statues to crown the monuments.
The committee will take further steps to secure a proper
design to honor those deserving of all honor — the glorious
Women of the Confederacy.
As readers of the Veteran will be anxious to know the re-
sults of our conference, I would be glad if you would embody
the above in an article and publish as early as you can.
UNITED CON FEDERATE CHOIRS OF AMERICA.
The uniformed Confederate choirs which attracted so
much notice and which were generally pronounced the most
beautiful feature of the great Reunion at Richmond organized
a federation at the meeting held in the parlors of Murphy's
IEFFERSON DAVIS.
BY KATE LANGI.EV BOSHER, RICHMOND.
Born of a people proud and free,
Nurtured in lore of sovereignty
Of Statehood's rights— of manhood's right
To read the meaning, in his sight,
Meant by the fathers writ in words
Of their day's need —
He came in fearless failh to lead
His people at their call, the seed
Of a new nation to implant,
Where pride of race should make no feint
Of closer ties than nature bids
Mankind to make.
Conscious of right, unbent he bore
Defeat and failure, proudly wore
The smile that met the cruel arts
Of dark misfortune, all the darts
That torturing shame and venomed shaft
Could fling and thrust.
Content that coming years would prove
His stainless honor, quenchless love,
That truth impartial does not fail
To make untruth of no avail,
He left to time, whose scales are true.
Its work to do.
Time's work is done. The world of weight
Has placed him with immortals great.
And to his memory stately stone
To-day is reared that it be shown
His name into eternity
Honored shall be.
Son of the South ! Anew we swear
Allegiance to those memories dear,
Which time nor place nor power nor might
Can dim or pale or cower or blight,
And to the world we proudly say :
"All hail this day!"
MRS. J. GRIFF EDWARDS.
Hotel on June I, 1907, and elected Mrs. J. Griff Edwards, of
Portsmouth, Va., Commander in Chief of the organization.
The "United Confederate Choirs of America" was the name
adopted, with the thrilling motto, "Song Forbids Glorious
Deeds to Die." A constitution was adopted ; and pursuant
thereto, on June 3, the birthday of President Davis, the Com-
mander in Chief issued General Orders No. 1 setting forth the
plan of government, which will be furnished on application.
The officers of the "United Confederate Choirs of America"
are to be quite on the order of Veteran organizations. The
seal shall be the great seal of the Confederate States, with
the inscription "United Confederate Choirs of America" with
date of organization and motto on the outer rim, and the seal
of State or county Divisions shall be the great seal of the
State or county with the addition "United Confederate Choirs
of America." The badge of the Association shall be the il-
lustration generally used with Father Ryan's "Conquered
Banner" — viz., the second national flag of the Confederacy
soaring aloft on its staff in a star-studded heaven, with a
bank of clouds beneath, all in an oval. The inscription
"United Confederate Choirs of America" is in red letters
surrounding the oval and the name of the Division beneath
in red letters. In colors on white ribbon.
At the Richmond Reunion the Confederate Choir No. I
complimented the Veteran by a serenade in the parlors of
the Jefferson Hotel, a packed audience enjoying the songs.
Col. W. H. Stewart, Commander of the Grand Camp of Vir-
ginia, in an address to the gathering, was very kind to the
editor, stating among other things that he has done more than
any one who has lived to bring about such results, as were
there apparent, to honor the Confederate cause.
Qoi)federat^ l/eterar?
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HORRORS OF I III- BA I I I i .
Mr .1 I. Dargan, of Atlanta, Ga., sends a remarkable paper
Willi the following introducton note: "I herewith inclose you
a copy of a letter written from Phillips, Va . under dati oi
August 6, [862, by J. Wood Davidson and addressed to my
sister, Mrs. Maclean, who was at that lime Miss Clara Dar
gan, of Columbia, S. C. Mr. Davidson was well known [or
man) years one oj the leading literary characters in the
Southern States and a man of profound scholarship. Poor
fellow! he died last year in Florida I simplj send you this
1 1 us a thrilling liit of corresj lence from the battl
ilel«ls ui \'irginia. It was written in August, 1862, while lie
was in camp. He was al the time attached to a South
Carolina regiment. Vs a curiositj 1 send you the original,
showing thai ever} word was written with punctiliou
and without a scratch anywhere. I: is certainly remarkable,
considering thi surroundings he must havi b 11 facing at the
time."
The following 1- an exacl cop) oi ih lettei excepl the
Yiviu I (1 si rip 1 [i in Written m h 1 1 me.
I'mi 1 IPs, Va., 6 August, 1862.
And you would have "the grandcui and glorj of a real
1 attle" 'impressions, im id' nd accidi nl
1 agnificence of blood is a theme worthj of a greal
poem, and all that 1 have seen written upon il is as nothing
to the truth that lies hid -hid to all avi ihj eye that has
een 11 all behind those common words I would not if I
mj young friend, nor could I if 1 would, produce in
your mind the feeling ed in mini by thi tragedies 1
id; and to approach as near this as possible is the end
of the literarj artist. Look for no such effort now A touch
mil a touch there, and memorj would hurry from thos
eek relief in the atmosphere of some treasured pasl
1 a bn ath of .1 pi aci Eul future.
I have a brother in the 41I1 '1 1 .1 R giment, under Jai
and I have not seen thai brothei in fifteen years He 1- an
■ Id man pasl nil j and verj g
Friday's tornado of battle al Cold Harbor, on Gain
harm, had SWepI ovei OUr heads. 1 had sunk down when the
iven in the \uw of battle as we were, too
to unbuckle anj of my trappings With gun in hand
■ 11 slei p < i the battlefield, drenched as I w a
piration, fasting for over a day, and almost cover I
nd dusl Momentl) ■ om the plain around
us, itnpi dil 11 thai troubled slumber, the deep
groan or p cry oi some frit nd 01 1 1
brother In various directions over thi field passed, pa
and recrossing each other, many lights of the infirmarj corps
and the ambulai rps seeking the wounded. The cautious
ow 1 ply bar ly broke the horrid silem
M01 11 .,1 |i 1 1 ■_■ 1 1 1 h uii its pi i nli 11 ii .on of things to
1 pass that, and w ith broad daylight lool
over the field ol
Impelled In a feeling I 1 1 uld nol 1 onl rol, lln iugli 1 h
b) such laboi as 1 had undergone and almost uttcrlj pros
trated b) a chill during the night, 1 strolled over the field of
yore after I had eaten a cracker and a bit of bacon ["hi an
of die held i- at leasl fivi square mil parti} pi tin a id parti)
No burials had yet hem made (Here an ordei 1
tents and march arrested my pen and do ed my knap
sack upon your letter till this the 1 ph of August, at which
time I resume 1 In the shrubbery we found a few of our own
men lying here and there tarl 1 .1- I began to
1**
ascend the rising plain, I found our poor men thick and fear-
fully mangled with ..union hot and shell, being al long range
Next upon the brow laj thi blui \ ested rej
in lines, as fire after fire from 0111 side had 1 red into
them during their advai 1 fo the left, over five or six acre-,
lay the Zouave-, thi dead and the mangled— all over the
plain. Mm scenii effect of their hire jackets and red trousers
( a la Turque 1 w ith the fi 1 athei oi na
Bui a w ild, deep, new Feeling oi il ,. .1 1
venge) anger maddened mj eye and stifled my breathing 1 n
hours 1 walked often alone among them through wo 1,1 and
field and looked upon the Fai ol 1 j di id 1 m mies and
conversed with I the wounded; I 1 I many
friendly fai 1 ' ii death then and hid ous in squal
lor. 1 th n sought to true : the ' pecial troop
the Louisianians and I'exans Both fought well, both died
well. You know why I pa sed along the route of the Texan
charge 1 charge as fatal as Balaklava. I walked slowly and
looked I may God -pale all oilni brothers from such a fi
ing!) carefull) al ever) graj corp e Man) wer< shockingly
slaughtered. I could ei none like him. Hope again came to
me, and 1 returned to our bivouac somehow elated, yel crushed
in hea
You have nol yel caught the faintesl glimpsi of the most
disgusting horror oi .1 battlefield to mi You will smile (as
I would have done l.-iiig syne) when I till you that horroi is
the -null the smell of blood A mangled corpse 1- dis
om,. thi... in this way a distance of many yards. Till doi
dually yc surely. You sil down to rest, hoping to
be oui of it foi .1 11 pile; but the tin d ad, faughy, penc-
01 steals over you, and you experience the
mg sense ol hi 1, look around, and there it is in ihe
ivi - dure |ust at your feet. 1 Ine third of his breast may be
shot awa) : bul he stares as you turn upon him, and — !
In the afternoon of the same day I walked partly over the
same field, Our dead had heen buried, and only our foes lay
there and few. r of them.
The severest fire we received was on Monda) evening in the
fight .11 Willis's Church. Here I advanced with the regim nl
as usual in the face of a brisk fire, one that dropped ou
every few yards, This subsided for a while and dai
thickened around us. We were ordered to lie down, and re
mained thus for several minutes; meanwhile the bullel
vived S nun Vankee advanced to the front of our regimenl
inquiring for the colonel and informing Colonel E., who was
then on our right in eoiif rence with General ii., that they
wanted him up thi re "to 1 some prisoners " 1
E. asked. "Who wants me?" and » irding the sum
m on- and going on to nn i ul General G.'s instruction Hi
order was "To youi feet, b) the right dank" — . Her . just
as the order to rise wa heard ovei the field and as the un-
known individual h.nl time to gel oul of range, there came
into 1 mi fai 1 : 1 from the Mom such .1 fire as onl) a
full regimenl can pour upon one spot Ii came just as we rose
iust after and somi la) down again to rise no more. The
fire did nol have oui height perfectly, elsi certainly half our
had slepi forever ihcre. They calculated for our
and allowed 100 much a few inches too much, and that
few ii" 1 d .1 hundred lives. Above us flashed and
popped the exp b ei the) hil a tree or skull
Ol a hole I Till plo k H llenever till} hil
any hard sul licl a slight w ound
miss ' r death
In rei in that way one thinks of dea-h rem
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in one sense, because there are enough practical things to do
that absorb the attention; yet one remembers momently that
he may fall next Step. This remembrance has nothing to do
with bravery ; for when a man has made up his mind to
advance to do his duty even to death, he never for once
dreams of changing his plan — hasn't time. Under that most
blasting breath of lead our regiment moved as coolly as the
nature of the ground and the darkness would permit. And in
the most trying charges of Friday, when universal Death
seemed sweeping whole armies before him, our lines were
always good. T never saw at any time three men waver in the
whole regiment in which I was. They were never confused,
and only puzzled when they could not possibly hear the word
of command on account of the incessency of cannon fire over-
head, the bursting of shells among them, and the constant
zip-zip-zip of the leaden balls at their feet or the low groan of
some comrade who sinks upon his face to die, the quick,
spasmodic "O '" of the youth or the heavier "O God!" deeply
gushing from the soul that feels its lease on life is over that
moment. So much of the steadiness of men could hardly be
said of all the regiments in our brigade, yet none did less
than their duty and none more.
One view more I must give you before I leave these ex-
periences. It too you would scarcely anticipate. It was on
Wednesday morning. 30th July, upon the battlefield of Mon-
day, at Willis's Church, or rather near it, at a cottage used
for the time as a hospital for the wounded. Wednesday morn-
ing in the p-lting rain I sought the hospital to get some in-
formation for some one. The cottage was jammed with
mangled men, armless, legless, and bleeding. The wounded
of Tuesday were also just coming in. Around upon the fence,
the ground, the garden, the ash hopper boards — everywhere
around lay dead men, perhaps thirty ( men died since brought
in), and outside too were yet many mangled lying in the
rain upon the grass, sometimes partly in the water puddles.
One corpse nearly stripped lay stark, ghast, and staring with
leaden eyes up at me — eyes into which was beating the cold
rain, eyes that never winked or wavered in their stony stare
right at me in their agony of physical pain, eyes from which
the life had fled in such haste that they could not close, from
which the soul had fled under the surgeon's knife. His leg
had been shot through the knee, and an amputation above,
midway the thigh, had killed him. They had left him lying
there upon the plank just as he had died, and had dropped
the limb at his remaining foot. The whole expression was
one of agony and despair : the w Tench back of the shoulders,
the clinched fingers — all. I was held in amazement by its
Gorgon horrors — it stared at me so — and was instinctively
bearing away from it when I trod upon the upper extremity of
the limb, which was lower than I calculated. Remember, I
could not look at the limb or at my feet, for my gaze was ab-
solutely chained by such a stare. I was looking at those dead,
imploring eyes into which the pitiless rain was beating inces-
santly, and they did not wink, but stared — absolutely glared —
at me. The limb felt to my foot touch like a piece of pickled
pork, hard and yet fleshly. In my intensest moments of feel-
ing I never make any sound, neither a groan nor a cry. Here
I only leaped with my full muscular might away, and lighted
over in the weeds upon a heap — yes, a pile a foot high — of
arms, legs, hands, feet, and fragments of these; all these piled
up with a corpse or two, these white and slippery and cold
in the grass and puddles of water — some of the water was
red. Now I was fully restored from the influence of those
eyes, and scrambled from the piled mass of fragmen's. but
not without difficulty, for dead flesh in water is very slippery.
And yet I did not quite fall over any of them.
On Tuesday evening, 2d July, we had one of the most mag-
nificent spectacles I ever saw — a great battle at night. We
were within range of shot and shell, and the danger (one
shell over or among us every half minute maybe) was just
enough to keep one's blood up. We did not fire a gun, but
were held as reserves that evening, and had full 1 .sure for
seeing. As the battle raged, yet fearful and unbroken night
stole darkly down upon the scene and wrapped Malvern Hill
in a shroud. Every flash of every gun flared up against the
sky in secondal succession — nay, ten per second might often
be counted ! And the shells could be traced by a faint streak
overhead ; and when they burst, the pyrotechnic splendor was
grander than any view of "the lightning's red glare painting
hell in the sky." These when near us were somewhat un-
comfortable, but grand. And with all this the roar, the din,
the thunder of seventy cannon played with electric speed, and
a mellower peal of musketry rolling sometimes through min-
utes so incessant as to seem one unbroken roar. And with
all this the moral significance of such work, the life-and-death
struggle known and felt to be there, the majesty of will, the
contempt of death, the royalty of hate, the infinity of distance
between the parties — all these things heightened the special
touches of the scene as a material picture. Majestic murder!
The shroud on Malvern Hill covered three thousand corpses.
I close this brief note to you, my young friend, in our
bivouac, on the main road between Gordonsville and Orange
C. H. The battle of Cedar Run last Saturday, 9th August,
was within five miles of Culpeper C. H. (Fairfax), beyond
the Rapidan (had to strip and wade that river), and was a
hearty Stonewall blow dealt upon Pope by Jackson, who then
fell back ready for anything else. The enemy lost at least
two thousand ; we lost less than one thousand. I conversed
with many prisoners, saw three hundred and seventy-five un-
wounded ones, while I was in Orange. We are called Jack-
son's foot cavalry. Our brigade was not in the battle of Cedar
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J. WOOD DAVIDSON.
Qonfederat^ l/eterai?,
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Run. I sec Jackson rarely. Saw some fine specimens of Vir-
ginia ladies a few days ago. Dress is ignored among us. We
enter fine parlors with the coarsest of clothes, the plainest of
shoes, and (O, Chesterfield and ( >. Brummel!) the dirtiest of
shirts. We sometimes do not see our baggage for ten days.
How else? Such is the camp and such is Jackson's foot
cavalry. J. W. D.
Three days ago 1 received official notice of the death of my
In- ther in the battle of Friday, the 27th of June, on Gaines's
Farm. I close the 15th of August, [862.
ABOUT THl DEATH OF COl 1 D. DREUX.
[Columbus 11. Allen, of New Orleans, corrects some errors
in reports of the death of Col. Charles D. Dreux. the first
officer of note killed in the Civil War. He is one of the sur-
vivors, and hi' account is concurred in by Comrade W. Mc-
Vicar.]
The battalion commanded b) Colonel Dreux was composed
of the Shreveport Grays, Grivol Guards, Louisiana Guards,
Orleans Cadets, and Crescent Rifles. Company A. Of the lat-
ter company my twin brother and myself wire members. The
command left New Orleans "ii the 15th of April, 1861, being
the first troops called into service by the Confederate govern-
ment from Louisiana, and enlisted for the term of one year.
* * It was whil ■ we were encamped near Young's Mill,
\ a . that the Colonel formed the plan to surprise a body of
Federal soldiers who were reported as making daily incursions
Erom Newport News OUt into the country and depredating
upon the citizens.
On the evening of the 4th of July, 1861, as I sat upon the
bank near the old mil!, 1 saw Colonel Dreux riding down the
road, where he encountered a farmer driving. The latter
at Dreux's request, and commenced to tell of the acts
of vandalism of the Fideral troops. Colonel Dreux asked
him a good many questions as to the topography of the land.
and sought information in regard to the movements of the
enemy.
That evening about dark a detail of twenty nun was or-
dered from each of the companies, reinforced by a detach-
ment from the Richmond Howitzers and a squadron from the
Halifax Catawba troops of North Carolina Cavalry, the
whole force numbering possibly one hundred men. We left
camp after dark, marched the entire night, and shortly before
daybreak took position in a thick woods just opposite some
abandoned houses on the other side of the main road leading
to Newport News 1 he cavalrj was on our right, while the
Howitzer boys were on our left. The underbrush and w Is-
concealed us completely, and we had high hopes that the
enemy, unaware of our presence, would march into the trap
I tin m The strictest discipline bad been observed dur-
ing the march. Col. mil Dreux issuing the command that under
no circumstances was any man to fit 1 iccept bj his orders. A
detail, to act as videttes, was made and sent through the
w Is, with instructions that when the proper dislanc had
been reached to cover tin- void upon which the Federal
Unfortunately this detachment in pro
ceeding to their position, while passing through the woods,
and killed a rattli snake 1 hi \ must ha 1 e tem-
porarily lost sight of the duty intrusted to them, and it is
presumed that the noise of their presence attracted the enemy,
II the m< tntime had come up The) fired upon our men.
killing Steve Hackett, ol th< Shi report Grays, and wounding
1 two othi
Our mam body was in single file, and 1. being the last man
on the end of the line, with Colonel Dreux standing close by
me, observed all that then occurred,
At the firing Colonel Dreux stepped from the woods on to
the main road to discover the cause of the firing. He then
took up his position, his drawn sword clasped in his hand.
Within scarcely a minute two Federal soldiers ran up, and.
halting at the point from which Colonel Dreux had disap-
peared in the woods, one of them peered in as if looking for
him, and evidently he caught sight of Dreux and raised a
short rifle and fired. I quickly returned his fire. The Fed-
eral soldier's comrade also discharged his weapon, the ball
plowing up the ground between my brother and myself. Colo-
nel Dreux had been struck : and as he fell, I dropped my gun
aid caught him and gently laid him upon the ground. The
builet had pierced the center of his body, breaking the 1
of his watch, and his death was instantaneous.
Just then Captain Fiske. second in command, ran down the
line to where I was bending over the body of the Colonel.
He promptly gave a command, which threw us out of the
woods and on to the road, when the Federals fired a heavy
volley at us; but we suffered the loss of only one man (Billy
Beauford), who was slightly wounded 111 the head. Captain
Fiske gallantly led its — my twin brother, Cicero M. Allen,
carrying the colors — and we forced the enemy in hot hast.-
back toward Newport News. During the fighting the horse
attached to the howitzer, becoming frightened at the firing,
dashed off, carrying the gun, and it was not discovered until
the enemy had been driven some distance.
Among the members of the Howitzers' detail I can
only the names of Buck White and Gordon MeCabe.
The expedition failed from unforeseen circumstance- (hat
prevented the realization of Colonel Dreux's plans. The sur-
prise intended for the enemy was frustrated by the snake-
killing incident, as related. We recovered our dead and
started sadly back to camp, Colonel Dreux's body being borne
upon a horse, with Bailey P. Vinson sitting on the animal
and holding Dreux in his arms, who had been placed in the
saddle. My brother and myself, with Comrade McVicar, were
a part of the escort. After proceeding about a mile, we si
cured a wagon, and, placing the body of our dead and wounded
within, we reached camp at noon on July 5. The expedition,
though a failure, was conducted on strict military
Colonel Dreux was a strict disciplinarian, but when off duly
was on intimate terms with many of the battalion, most of
whom he had known in a social way in our good old city: and
some evenings before 1 recall a jolly gathering of the boys
of the different companies around our camp lire, of which
Dreux was the central figure. We sang songs, and little
thought 1h.1t death hovered so near our gallant leader
Colonel Dreux's body was brought to New Orl.ans under
military escort, and was buried with distinguished honors.
Crosses ro Confederates in £ ["he birthdaj
ferson Davis was made the occasion tor presenting
..I honor to eight 1 onfedei in Seattle, Wash. Miss Pearl
Elizabeth Neagle, Custodian for the Crosses in the R. E 1 ee
Chapter, V. D. C, pinned them on the veterans. Judge John
II Allen. ..in of th. recipients, explained to the publ
scnil.lv the conditions wherebj certain vetei ins of the Con-
0 them I ' < Mel >ow ell fol-
lli n . a. the same lin - M rs Arthur J
. r on the subject . if the w ar and tin
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BILLY SINGLETON COT THE FLAG.
BY R. .1. HANCOCK, < RARLOTTESVILLE, VA.
In my article on William Singleton in the Veteran for
November, rorj6, I forgol to mention one of his most daring
After the battle of Chancellorsville (1863), General
1 1 nt General Ewell across the 1 1! ne Ridge Mountains to
drive Milroy from Winchester, Va. General Ewell arrived
at Winchester in due time, and 1 think he kept Gordon's Bri-
gade in town while General Early with Hays's Louisianians
went around to the west of the town. Meanwhile General
ivas to the east of !he town, and kept up an incessant
This kept Milroy looking out for Gordon and Rodes
while General Early with the Louisianians reached their point
of a tack on some breastworks that overlooked Milroy's
fnrt. which was immediately north and northwest of the town.
Everything worked well. The Louisianians formed a line of
battle and marched three-quarters of a mile through an op 11
held and came within thirty yards of the enemy's breast-
works before thej discovered us, s,, intent was Milroy 111
watching Gordon and Rodes. (if coursa we drove them out
of their trenches with a yell. General Early Shrew out a
skirmish line, as it was getting near nightfall. I had com-
mand of the skirmishers, and Singleton, as usual, was on the
=kirmish line on our right, toward Winchester. No one
thought that Milroy would give us his fori without a fight;
he even left the large United States flag living uninterrupted.
As I hav; before stated, Singleton was wide-awake and
lucky, lie was not mure than two hundred yards from the
fort. It was about daybreak when he looked toward Win-
ch -or. and ha saw one of Gordon's men running at full tilt
toward the fort. At first Singleton thought the man was
deserting. It was singular that I was looking to the right of
cur line and saw a man start in full run to the fort, and
naturally I thought one of our men was deserting. It hap-
pened to be Singleton, who outran the Georgian to the fort.
hauled down this immense flag, and returned to the skirmish
line all covered up with it. It was just at the time in the
morning when we expect. d Milroy to turn loose his big guns
en us from the fort, hut he had slipped off without our know-
ing the order of his going. He took the horses front the
u;e_;"iis. and left a long wagon train to fall into our hands.
General Rodes struck the rear of his army, and captured
twenty-live hundred or three thousand prisoners near Steven-
son's Depot, where Jackson the year before captured four
thousand men from Banks.
PERILOUS UNDERTAKING OF 7710 BROTHERS.
BY \V. J. ERVIX. OF HAMILTON, Mo.
As I stated in a former communication, because of the re-
tiring delicacy of Jesse McNeill I would write of his early
life, knowing his history so well. My father's children and
he attend- d the same old school. In the early summer of
1861, among the many noble men who went from Daviess
County. Mie, to battle for the right as they saw it was Capt.
John II. McNeill, father of Jesse, and his sun. George, wdlo
was killed in 'he battle of 1. xington, Ah'. The father was
wounded and lay in a hospital for months. When able to
travel, through the ingenuity of a lady friend he was quietly
conveyed South. Sunn after arriving in Virginia, at his
former home, he organized an independent battalion, asking
his son Jesse, then on his farm in Daviess County. Mo., a boy
of eighteen or twenty years, to loin him. Upon arrival Jesse
was made first lieutenant, and upon the wounding and death
of his father he became captain. [The history of the capture
nt" Generals Crook and Kelly appeared in the Vetera
Septcmh r. 1906. pages 410-413.]
\iil now I will answer some inquiries that I have read
during the last thirty years concerning two Confei
dii 1 - \\1 n the _7th of June, 1864, crossed over the summit
of Kennesaw Mountain, bringing into our lines a supply of
ammunition. After all bad been exhausted, when ba.\ 1
stones, and bludgeons were alone left for the defense of our
works, which were situated on the western slope of Kennesaw
Mountain midway from base to summit — being played upon
by fifty pieces of artillery in the valley below us — on the
summit to our rear we had a battery of four to six guns, which
were soon disabled and silenced by sup rior numbers and a
concentrated fire. Our ammunition in the trenches was ex-
hausted; a cry went up for a supply from all along the line.
Col. James McCowan, then commanding the 3d and 5th Mis-
souri Infantry consolidated ( 1st Missouri Brigade, Gen. F. M.
Cockrell commanding), said: "Gentlemen, I will make 111
order for a detail to cress the summit of that [Kennesaw]
mountain for ammunition, in go where I would not go, but
will gladly accept volunteers." Our ordnance department was
in a gorge on the eastern slop.- of the mountain near the base.
In looking over the situation with all of its perils and yet
of our needs. I said to our captain: "I will volunteer for one.
and if spared will return with some." Then, to my sorrow,
my brother, John A. Ervin, said: "I will go." Side by side
we climbed the rugged heights of Kennesaw Mountain under
hie of small arms and of fifty pieces of artillery. We cri
over the summit and reached with safety the ordnance train,
asking for three thousand rounds of Enfield ammunition. We
found red tape there. The officer wanted a requisition. We
had no time to comply. An old and loaded musket stoi d
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near by. I picked up the old and familiar gun, which was
1 and capped, and said: "Here is my requisition, Gii
us three thousand rounds now, and do it quickly." Ii was
done. We took one box each on our shoulders and oni b
tween us. We climbed the rugged heights from the east and
began the decent to the west. I wo 01 three hundred feet
from the summit a shell from some oni of the fiftj guns,
coming from the front, burst between us (front or rear, I
know not which) and si ittered us thirty 01 fort) feet apart,
tiif box between causing .1 lively miniature battle, it all ex-
ploded as so manj firecrackers in a barrel, but more terrific.
When the shock was over, I asked John if he were hurt,
and he answered that he was not. In the midst of bursting
shell we gathered each one thousand rounds; and if I
at tin age of seventj four, 1 could move with the celerity I
then moved down the rugged and western slope of Kennesaw
Mountain, I would feel that the days of Methuselah were
promised me 1 Ince in line, ammunition distributed, the orders
in front were to fall back Reinforcement was received. At
tli' hour of eleven that night we brought within our lines .1
Major Miillm. commanding th 121st Ohio Regiment, if I re
membei correctlj He had mon wounds than any man I
ever saw Hi died soon after, and was buried on the morn
Jum 28 1864, with Masonic honors on tin sftst lop
of Kennesaw Mountain, where so many of our noble dead lie
buried in unknown graves, awaiting the judgmenl day. Major
Mullin will not arise from the tomb with a halter around his
becaus he never burned or desolated the homes oi
w idovi - and childn n
John A Ervin went into the army early ill 1861 He was
in the battles of Carthage, Springfield, Lexington, and Pea
with the rest of the troops from Missouri, Arkansas
and Texas; a fi al for Shiloh; was at Iuka Corinth.
Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River;
-h the siege oi Vicksburg to Dalton, Ga.; through the
impaign to Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station; thence north
in Alkitoona, Franklin, and \.i hvill . from thence to Mobile
or Spanish Fort, where the command surrend red
Kitei all wa-. over, his life was -pun in the West, where he
id d 'ii Eureka, Nevada January 6, 1903 He was a man of
brilliant intellect, and under other conditions would have
d in the affairs of State and nation ' He was a deep
thinker, a brilliant writer, and an eloquent speaker. We
gether, fought together from the beginning to
•0011a. Ga. whir 1 received mj last and fifth wound, leaving a
shriveled and decimated hand and arm Through all t!
I" " , I 1 \ in received at I ranklin one slight wound.
loilN \ ERVIN'.
J(UI\ B 1/7 ERRIN, D.D,
REV. W. 1 B \o, 1 D., PAD1 < Ml, KV
lew men held a higher place in the estimation of the
Church, and noiie iii the estimation oi thi people generally,
than that assigned to Rev John B. McFerrin, D.D., the
commoner of the M E. Church, South But it 1- as «
him during the stirring seen 1 1 the last two \
Civil War that 1 writi
I was a member of Company C, 2d (Bate's) ["ennessee In-
fantry, and messed with his son, Jimmie, and his two m p
Sumner and John P. McFerrin, and. therefore -.1 w much ol
him during all the scenes of wai n camp and on the march
from Richmond, K> . to Franklin, Tenn., when he was often
with us, taking humble fare with the boys In McFerrin
had both a great brain and a great In-art: and. while he was
as fearless a- tjiur ,1c Lion, la- was as tender and sympa
•;| a woman, and on the field and at the hospital his
pri '. i was a blessing. X" oiler chaplain was too
in i!i. boys to he free from being joked; but woe be to the
man who was foohsh enough to "holler" at Dr McFerrin!
We all knew Dr D C Kellej as the fighting preacher undei
Genera] Forrest; lau all knew Dr. McFerrin rather as the
friend oi thi boys in the ranks, ,d! oi whom loved him and
would have don, anything for him within their power. Many
a time would he come to us when w e were worn by tli< march
under Gen. Pal Cleburne and preach an eloquent sermon to
us through ration. In had gathered up as he rode through
the farms and talked with people, who knew and loved him.
It was under his direction that the great revival in the
Army oi > 1 m . ei was carried on and neno oi us were
brought face to face with the truth who hail no
us along religious hues pi evio
\i Chickamauga, when I was going back with a broken
arm, 1 met Dr. McFerrin, who had heard that his son wa
wounded and was looking foi him: and when he heard that
Jimmie wa oni} shocked In a piece of shell shattering his
gunstock, he took me with him to tlie division hospital, and
the la-t I knew in thi delirium oi pain until 1 woke up a
week later at Marietta was his rough but kindly face as he
bi in m ,1 m< From that I loved him next to the
Master, for hi wa- truly the M i jent m helping me in
surgical aid befon mashed muscle broken hone, ami bli
\ CinS w Ollll lUSI d lie 1. ' I. ill and dii
John B McFerrin! name worth) written in It tet
■: history. Not a soldier of the Army
of Tennes him hut loved him, and his p ,,
should n \i gotten when the lender hands of WO
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WONDERFUL CAREER OF THE MERRIMAC.
[Maj. H. Ashton Ramsav's response to the toast, "The Con-
federate States Navy," before the Maryland Line of the Army
and Navy of the C. S. A., Baltimore. January 19, 1907.]
Comrades: I have been asked by our President lo respond
to the toast, "The Confederate States Navy," simply because
I had the honor to serve under that grand Marylander, Ad-
miral Franklin Buchanan, on board of his flagship (Merri-
mac), Virginia, during the memorable engagements in Hamp-
ton Roads, March 8 and 9, 1862, an event that startled and
staggered the maritime nations of the world, relegating, as it
did, all their ships to the dockyards as useless hulks.
Yes, comrades, I did have the privilege to walk the deck
side by side with that grand old hero, and well do I remember
that beautiful, bright March morning when he sent for me and
in a few brief words communicated the line of action he had
mapped out for the day, which was to proceed at once to New-
port News and first attack the Cumberland, as she had rifled
guns in her battery, whereas the Congress, although the larger
frigate, had only smoothbore guns.
The Merrimac was lying at the Norfolk Navy Yard, an un-
tried ship, never having moved a cable's length by her
steam power since her transformation into an ironclad. The
Admiral, calling attention this fact, asked if I thought it would
be necessary to make a trial trip before going into action. My
reply was : "As we have some distance to travel before pass-
ing into the Roads, this will be a sufficient trial trip." He
replied that his object in mentioning his purpose of ramming
the Cumberland was to instruct me to immediately reverse
the engines in case of feeling the concussion without waiting
for the signal, as he might be incapacitated or the wires be-
come deranged.
Soon after my interview with Admiral Buchanan word was
passed for the artificers, who still crowded the ship, and other
noncombatants to go ashore. I will mention here that the ship
was in an unfinished condition, many things having to be left
undone, the most important of which was the port shutters
which were left on the dock, as there was no time to adjust
them to the gun ports. Our moorings were cast off, and we
started slowly down the Elizabeth River.
Passing along the gun deck after the ship was cleared for
action, I was particularly struck with the countenances of the
guns' crews as they stood motionless at their posts with ram-
rods and sponges in hand. A ship cleared away for action was
not new to me, as even in peace time on board of a man-of-
war the crews are exercised at what is called "fighting quar-
ters ;" but at such times the sailors wore their usual careless
expressions. But these men were pale and determined, stand-
ing straight and stiff, showing that their nerves were wrought
to a high degree of tension.
Here we with an untried ship, single-handed, you may say,
were about to attack a fleet of the very best material in the
United States navy, composed of the frigates Congress, Min-
nesota, Roanoke, St. Law'rence (each with batteries of fifty
guns), and the Cumberland, a razee frigate of twenty-two
guns; besides, as we understood, several other war vessels
below Old Point — ten guns against three hundred, three
hundred men against three thousand. To fight these vessels
under cover c. f the shore fortifications manned by four thou-
sand troops and fifty field guns behind breastworks — this was
our hazardous enterprise.
It was not generally known that we were to assume the of-
fensive until we entered Hampton Roads, when Buchanan.
summoning the men around him on the gun deck, addressed
the ship's company : "Sailors, in a few minutes you will have
the long-looked-for opportunity to show your devotion to our
cause. Remember, you are about to strike for your country
and your homes. The Confederacy expects every man to do
his duty. Beat to quarters!"
The day is clear and bright. The surrounding shores for
miles and miles are lined with people, the inhabitants of Ports-
mouth and Norfolk nearly to a man, as we afterwards learned,
having left their homes to witness the result of what so many
thought an ill-starred enterprise. A more tranquil scene than
that presented to the eye as the Virginia came in view of
Hampton Roads could not well be imagined. All is still and
quiet ; but as we enter the Roads, huge volumes of smoke
issue from the funnels of the fleet at Old Point. The sailing
craft spread their sails and prepare to get out of the way, long
lines of small craft and tugs are seen making down close to
the far shore. Tugs run alongside the frigates, bright-colored
signals are run up and down the masts on all the ships ; gun-
boats run alongside the Congress ; her topsails are shaken out ;
down come the clotheslines on the Cumberland with the
sailors' clothes, which had been fluttering in the breeze, and
boats are lowered and dropped astern.
The ship's prow is now pointed directly for the Cumber-
land. The two frigates are running their guns out and prepar-
ing to receive us, and the Minnesota, St. Lawrence, and Roa-
noke are following us. The Cumberland delivers a splendid
broadside as we near her; but, relentless as fate, we rush
down on Iv.r. crushing through her barricade of heavy spars
(torpedo fenders), strike her below the starboard fore chains,
and crash far into her. We back off with some difficulty. For
an instant the weight of the Cumberland hangs on our bow,
and water curls up into the bow port from the returning wave.
Then we back off, and the Cumberland plunges down bow
foremost, with her flag flying and guns firing.
In the brief period she did us more damage than the all-
day fight with the Monitor the following day. We are now
exposed to perhaps the heaviest fire ever concentrated on one
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ship and at the closest quarters; for. besides having to re-
ceive the broadsides of the Cumberland and Congress, the
Newport News batteries, only a few cable lengths off, are
pouring a deadly fire into us and the sharpshooters picking
off every visible man. Our flag was shot down several times,
and was finally secured to the rents in the smokestack by
Lieutenant Eggleston, who gallantly climbed up and secured
it amid a hail of shot.
Arrangements had been made to board the Cumberland in
case the ram had been ineffectual, but this was unnecessary.
As soon as the Virginia drew away from the sinking vessel,
she started for the Congress. Owing to the shallowness of
i iter, she was obliged to make a detour, which movement
the men aboard the Congress interpreted to mean that their
adversary had been crippled in lur attack on the Cumberland
Their minds were soon disabused of this thought by the
Virginia turning and making straight for the Congress. Real-
ising that her fate would be that of the Cumberland, the
Congress hauled down her colors and ran up a white flag.
The Minnesota. Roanoke, and St. Lawrence retreated, but
the former vessel ran aground.
\\ e lay to as near as we could to the Congress, she having
drifted in shore, while the wounded were being removed.
The gunboat Beaufort, in command of Capt. William H. Par-
ker, was signaled to take the dead and wounded off the Con-
gress and fire her ; but she turned off from the frigate. Lieu
tenant Minor, Buchanan's flag lieutenant, was ordered to go
in an open boat to the vessel. Buchanan not knowing that the
Beaufort had been driven off by sharpshooters from the land
batteries. When Minor had made half the distance, the
sharpshooters turned their attention to him, and he was shot
down with several of his men. Then the Minic balls came
whistling around us, notwithstanding our flag of truce. Buch-
anan was severely wounded in the groin. As lie "as being
taken below he gave orders to Capt. R. Jones, who w a- now
mniand, to lire lint shot into the Congress and n.it to
her until she was afire. This was done, and soon black
ties of smoke were seen issuing from her We then
turned our attention to the Minnesota, everal broad
into her; but it was growing dark, and lie pil<
sisted on our drawing off into deep water We anchored in
'■ads near Sewell's Point for the night
The fire from the Cumberland had killed two of our men
and wounded seventeen and carried away the muzzles oi two
which we, however, continued to tire. The ship was not
We had tested our shield,
and f>lt well sati-lie. 1 with the result,
ail except the wounding of our intrepid /.
r, who had sln.wn himself to be as
gallant a command, i ever trod a
ship's deck.
Admiral Buchanan, his wounded flag
lieutenant, and several Other wounded
1111 n wet. ...re on the
ning of March o, the day of the
with the Moni
This day's conflict, 9th of March, 1862. A"MIKXi buchanan.
was one of the most remarkable in the world'- history, as it
was the lir-t to take place between mailed -hi).
tied forever the inferiority of wooden naval war-
. .impelling the change of the navii nation on
the earth.
It was a glorious Sabbath d sound disturbed the
serenity of the early morn, sa unrise
V
gun at Fortress Manor, the echoes of which, dying away,
appeared to emphasize the extreme quiet. What momentous
issues were held suspended on the results of this day's action!
Our ship slipped her moorings, and proceeded in the direction
of the Minnesota, which was still aground.
Our shot mostly fell short, and the limited size of the port-
holes prevented the guns being el va'ed sufficiently to give
them a greater range While we were feeling our way on the
edge of the channel, endeavoring to crawl near, r the Minne-
sota, a strange craft, winch we soon satisfied ourselves was
the much-talked-of Monitor, made her appearance. She grad-
ually shortened the distance and drew our tire from the Min-
nesota.
Now commenced the so-called duel between the two types
of iron-clads. The combat was kept up for four hours. Once
. liunie 1I1. fight the Merrimac was plumped ashore by our
pilot. Observing this, the Monitor took position wdiere we
could not bring a single gun to bear on her. She gradually
crawled upon us, testing the strength of our shield most
severely. At this juncture we were naturally alarmed for the
consequences, as it was a critical period of suspense. Finall}
we stopped the engines for an interval, lashed clown the safety
valve, and forced the fires to an unusual degree, and then
started up again with a heavy pressure of strain, crawled off
the ground, and made for the Monitor.
The captain of the Monitor, seeing by this movement that
we were afloat between him and the Minn sota, so that we
could lire one broadside at him and one at the Minnesota,
quickly turned and almost ran over us in the effort to get
betwe n us and the Minnesota. He ran on shallow ground,
where we could not follow, so we again turned our attention
to the wooden vessel, which was pouring broadsides into us
with little effect. A gunboat was alongside our wooden adver-
sary taking off stores, and several cannon had been thrown
Ovi rboard in order to lighten the ship and run her into shallow-
water. The order came 10 blow the gunboat up, and in a
moment a shot went hurling into the small craft's boilers,
which burst. I his brought lends the Monitor. She ei
cautiously toward us; hut we soon sent lur scurrying away,
and again turned our attention to the Minnesota Mi
itor eut straight for Old Point Comfort, so we tried to get
1.. the Minnesota The captain, having 1.
many of our shot fell short, suggested to the pilot to place tin-
ship nearer. The pilot said that we were dangerously near the
shoal, that the tide was falling, and that we would have to
draw farther away instead of going clos. r.
About this time Captain Jones called for me and -aid that
he proposed hauling off under thi guns of Sewell's Point, rest
the men for a few hours (it was now 2:30 P.M.), and renew
the attack on tie \i:ini ota latei in thi afti rn n the rise
of the tide, whin 1 i hi p d to gel i Igh to force the
Minnesota to haul down her color-; hut after a consultation
with some of his lieutenants, he was persuaded that it was
best for him t.. go into drj dock at once, in order to iron the
I below the knuckle and g. I on the port shutters. The
M.iutor had shown herself a formidable adversary, and now
she w rarily disabled (we SUppo ed Lt the tune that
she was badly injured by reason of her running away). It
wa- important to take advantage of the time she would re
quire to in HI shield. The Minnesota
pelesslj 1 1. Idled an. d ; and as tb. Moini
other - R ds, it would be a loss
..f valuable time to wait any longer Captain Jones wa- a
id det rmincd man and bis reasoning was
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doubtless g i; but with my youthful impe'uosity 1 remem-
ber feeling as if a wet blanket had been thrown over me.
After the success wc had already achieved. I felt as if we
could accomplish anything; and it seemed to me as if we were
abandoning the fruits of our victory to leave the Roads with-
out forcing (he Minnesota to hud down her colors
As the Merrimac passed up the Elizabeth River, trailing tin
large ensign of the Congress under the stars and hars, she
rec ived a great ovation — cheering, waving of hats and hand-
kerchiefs, people yelling themselves In 'arse, ami hundreds of
-mall boats lining her cours
doing back to the engagement with the Monitor, I omitted
to mention that when the Monitor came i Lit the last time we
rammed her; but not with much force, as she veered oft', and
we gave her only a glancing blow. But it was at this moment
that Lieut. John Taylor Wood, with his stem gun. delivered
a shot directed on the pilot house, which penetrated this
structure, carried away the steering gear, and, blinding Cap-
tain Worden, incapacitated him for a long time afterwards;
hence the withdrawal of the Monitor.
Capt. Van Wyck, of the Minnesota, in his official report,
stales that the Monitor suddenly withdrew, steering at first
wildly and Ih n straight toward Fort Monroe. The Merrimac
followed the latter vessel, hut afterwards turned and renewed
her attack on his ship, which he thought was now indeed
doomed; but, determining that she should not fall into the
hands of the rebels, he made arrangements to set her afire,
,vhen, to his great satisfaction, the Merrimac drew off and
proceeded toward Norfolk.
The Virginia, after the replacing id" two of her guns, fitting
additional strakes of iron below the knuckle, and having port
shutters placed on her gun ports, was again ready for work,
and a few weeks after her first engagement sallied out into
Hampton Roads under command of Commodore Tatnall.
The United States fleet had hen reenforced by two addi-
tional iron-clad vessels, the Galena and the Xaugatuck, be-
sides the Vanderbilt — which had been prepared as a ram pur-
posely to run down the Merrimac — and many other vessels,
steam frigates, and gunboats; and as the New York papers
had boasted that we were to he' blown nut of the water if we
ever made our appearance again in Hampton Roads, we nat-
urally expected some warm work; hut alas for all such ex-
pectations !
We proceeded down the Elizabeth River, entered the Roads,
and crossed over toward Fort Monroe until we were in range
of the guns of the fort; but the fleet was below the fort, and
they absolutely refused to accept our challenge.
This was early in April. We then made fast to our moor-
ings in the Roads off Sewell's Point, w-here we remained for
over a month in full sight of our greatly superior foes. We
had broken the blockade at Newport News, and took up this
position to guard the approaches to Richmond by the way of
the James River and to Norfolk by the Elizabeth River.
It was finally determined to evacuate Norfolk, and the Vir-
ginia proceeeled to the navy yard to lake aboard supplies, coal,
ammunition, etc. While she was away the United States fleet
allied out into the Roads and commenced bombarding Sewell's
Poinl ; but on the reappearance of the Virginia the entire fleet
turned about and proceeded down to and beyond Fort Monroe.
I will read you an account of this incident as given in an
official report of a British officer. Commander W. N. W.
lett, V. C. of H. B. M. S. Rinaldo, dated Fortress Mon-
\lay 10. tS()2, forwarded by Vice Admiral Sir Alexander
Milne. K. C. B. "ii May 24. [862; "On May 8, 1S62. a Con-
federate tugboat arrived at Fortress Monroe from Norfolk,
having deserted. She reported that the Confederates were
preparing to evacuate Norfolk, etc., and that they had sunk
the Virginia (Merrimac). On this intelligence becoming
known at 12:30 p.m. of the same day. a Federal squadron,
consisting of the Decotah and the Oneida (screw sloops,
twenty-six guns each), the San Jacinto (screw, eleven guns),
the Suseptehanna (paddle sloop, fifteen guns), and the Mon
itor and the Xaugatuck (iron-cased batteries), moved up the
river toward Sewell's Point and commenced shelling th Con-
federate battery on that point at very long range. This was
the prelude to their intended attack on Norfolk. The Confed-
erates returned a slow fire. I suppose their guns are not of
very long range. The Federal squadron continued firing to
2:30 p.m. without intermission. The Monitor at the time wa-
about eighteen hundred yards from Sewell's Point. She was
then observed to be coming back again toward the rest of the
squadron, which were some four thousand yards from the
Point, and in the direction of Newport News. The smoke of
a steamer could be seen rising above the tr^es ami moving
toward Hampton Roads from the direction of Norfolk. At
3 p.m. the Confederate iron-cased battery Virginia rounded
Sewell's Point (should be Lambert's Point), and the whole
of the Federal squadron steamed down quickly under the guns
of the fortress. As the Virginia alone came within range of
their guns and those of Fort Wool or Rip Raps, the Federal
frigate Minnesota, accompanied by four large steamers, which
are intended to act as rams, proceeded up the bay abreast of
Old Point and joined the rest of the squadron. With the ex-
ception of a few shots fired from the Rip Raps at the Vir-
ginia, the Federals made no attempt to molest her; hut, on
the contrary, as she approached them they steamed away
from her. They left off firing at Sewell's Point immediately
on sighting her coming from Norfolk. She would most likely
have made her appearance before had the water been suf-
ficiently high. The Virginia, having driven the Federal fleet
away, returned and anchored under Sewell's Point, where
she now remains."
On the 8th of May the enemy attacked Sewell's Point, the
Virginia having gone to Norfolk for supplies. We proc 1 ded
down the river as soon as the tide permitted the ship to pass
over the bar.
We found six of the enemy's vessels, including the iron-
clad steamers Monitor and Naugatuck, shelling the battery.
We passed the battery and stood directly for the enemy
for the purpose of engaging him, and we thought an action
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certain, particularlj as the Minnesota and Variderbilt, which
anchored below Fortress Monroe, got under waj
-i 1 up i" that point, apparently with 1 lie intention of joining
thi ii squadron in the Roads Before, however, we got within
gunshot lh< enemj ceas d firing and retired with all peed
under the protection of the gains of the fortress, followed bj
ihe Virginia until tin shells from the Rip Rap pa d ovet
her.
tin the tilth of Maj 1 ieut, J. P. Jones was senl to Cranej
I-1 1, and lir there 1 arncd that a large force oi the enemj
had landed on the baj shore and was marching rapidly on
Norfolk, thai the Sewell's Poini battery was abandbned and
our troops were retreating On reaching Norfolk he found
thai General Hugcr and all the other officers of the army had
left, thai the enemj were within half a mile of the city, and
that the Mayor was treating for it -. surrender, tin returning
te. the ship lie repoi ed thai Cran y Island and all other hat
■ ii the river had been abandoned. It was n<'\\ i en
o'clock in the evening, and this unexpected information rsn
prompt measures necessary for the safetj of the Vir-
ginia.
Previous to this il had been agre d thai the \ irginia hould
remain in the Roads and make no m ivemenl toward lightening
the ship ti ascend the James Knar until a signal had been
given bj General Hugcr fortj eight hours before the fortifi-
were to be abandoned; but the enemy, having b;en in-
ei b} a deserter that Norfolk was being evacuated, landed
iops 'Hi tin hay side "in oi our sight and pressed Hugei
-■. hard that hi ovi understanding he had con-
cerning the signals.
Norfolk n,-h successfully evacuated, and all tin ti iops' val
Inam e, etc., and i \ en the \ > ssels in com se oi
construction at the navy yard were saved under the protection
of Ihe Virginia, all but the Virginia herself, -he having to b
sacrificed; ami this sacrifice might not have been nee.
had ii not been for thi perfidj of one man. Byers bj name,
ad b en h to tow up t" Norfolk from Sewell's
Poinl the largest gun in the i onfederacy. This gnu was an
inch Columbiad Inst ad .if bringing the gun to X'"
folk, he deliben erted t" the enemj Byers reached
i iid 1'ontt with the gun in tovi on a barge before eight
n tin 8th in • . a- tin- war records show, and the enemy, also
noticing thi ibsenci of thi Virginia, were emboldened to sallj
'•m into thi Road and al lai k S< :w i 11'- Point.
larkness oi the night permitted, on the
i tilt of May the crew i.t' the Virginia commenced lightening
nip by throwing her six him. had tons of coal overl
and lite kentledgi "It la i -nliiniig.il .mis.
["he pilots had |iii'. ..il tiiai ill. v could cross liar
rison bar, in the lam.- River, if the ship was lightened to
a draught of water; lag after the -hip was lightened ti
his p.. nit they .helmed t.. take her up the run, declaring that,
..wing p. tin prevalenci "t the wind in a certain direi
"all thi' water had Imn driven off the bar."
In our now defenseless condition, not a day's coal in the
bunkers and her wooden wall- exposed, there was nothing
lefl t" do bul t" blow the -hip up. The Virgin;
pin under wax and i to the right of Cranej
« In 1 1 -I,, was set afire, hei crew esi aping to thi
iffolk Within sight of that
ah d dow n her drooping
green, and with mingled pnd. and grief we gave her t" tin
Now the lambent hotted
guns, and
"Then shook ihe hills with thunder riven,
Then hauler than the bolts of heaven
I .ii flashed the red artillery."
The slow match — the magazini and thai last d( p l.w.
sullen, mournful boom has rolled to the very sympathizing
stars and in muttered thunder told hei fate and it 'old our
people not far away on the march that their gallant -hip had
passed away.
"So lived, so died she,"
and la r renown -hall live in song Hid torj until time -hall
he no more; and as long a- love - I country, devotion to duty.
wisdom m council, and heroism in battle are honored among
men. so long -hall the gentle fair with thrilling hearts listen
t" tile brave and the tine a- they tell .a the eallanl spirits who
fought the Confederate States' war -hip io immortality, to
a gli a n 'ii-. ' \ ' a -brightl mil'-: imin. irtalitj
HONOR • <1 GRl I i I R VALUE I IU\ A'
Dai i \ , h\, June i;. IQO/.
1/v Old I Being unable from ill health to attend
th. greal Reunion at Richmond of the brave men who fol-
lowed tit.' Hag of ihe ('onfederacy until il wa- furled and laid
away, and knowing that I wa- growing "hi ami fe ble, and
that I had been honored continuouslj a- the Commandei oi
the Trans-Mississippi Department! for seventeen years, 1
deemed it bul right ami prop r hat I should return the com-
mission '"ii gave me m iS'io in order that you might
a younger ami more vigorous man t" command the Trans-
Mississippi Department, But my comrades from all the
greal Slates and Territories of the South .and West, the
jreatesi countrj that the sun shines upon, bj a unanimous
vote have reelected me No greatei honor, mj nrades,
could he conferred upon me. It fills me with love ami affec
tion for the old heroes who foil wed thi honored flag of the
Confederacy mini ii was furled ami forevei laid awaj 1
thank you, my old comrades, from an honest lean for this
gn at honoi . of w In. h I i. . i prouder than if I had been i
President of the United Males T promise you it -hall be
the effort of mj lit'.' to keep the camp ares burning during
my life, and that I shall continue to do all I can to perpetuate
our nobk association and to urge the gallant old heroes, "the
unpaid soldiers of immortal principle," to keep in touch with
each . ah. r the few shi irl j ai lefl to us here.
Recollect, my old comrades, that the great column of gray,
every m mbei "i which received his bapti m of blood and fire
over fortj veai ago, tl es oi whose gun- were heard
all over the civilized world, arousing ihe people to tin. i
th.- yoke of tyranny, and t ntend for a republican ran
..I government, is fast growing smaller, .and that hut a few
i an intervene until taps will he sounded and all will
i, n, ii,, , .1 over the river to the greal beyond to hold our
1 1 union i m thai etei nal >hi n Let u tin n a k a kind
Providenci d his sheltering wings over us, so thai we
maj in. ' i in reunion these remaining years.
king you again, my old comrades erj part of
Southland for I ou I
upon mi i in ..V a kind and merciful God to continue his
ipon our i" i >u and all
to you with good health and all the pleasures and com-
forts ineal.m I- lifr. May (,...! hie-- you
manj yi daily prayer of your
der, W. L. Cabeli
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REPORT OF U. C. V. HISTORY COMMITTEE.
BY JUDGE GEORGE L. CHRISTIAN, RICHMOND, YA
Within tlie limits prescribed for this paper it is impossible
to discuss with any degree of satisfaction the issues involved
in the great conflict between the North and the South from
1861 to 1S65. These have, however, been so fully discussed
by other members of this committee on former occasions, that
but little remains to add to those discussions.
In a recent work, wi'h the somewhat arrogant title. "The
True History of the Civil War," the writer begins by saying:
"The seeds of dissolution between the North and the South
were carried to Virginia in the =hips commanded by Newport
and to Massachusetts in the Mayflower. Each kind fell upon
soil well adapted to nourish its characteristics. . . . There
was in the beginning an almost imperceptible rift between
the people of the North and those of the South. This grad-
ually widened until, notwithstanding the necessity for union,
a separation in sentiment, thought, and custom arose. This
estrangement developed until it gave to the people of the
North and the South the aspect of two races manifesting
toward each other all the antipathy of rival and dissimilar
nations and in their disagreements rendering impossible either
sympathy with each other's standpoint or patient listening to
each other's contention."
Without intimating any opini- .'. as to how far all the other
statements contained in this work warrant the author in
giving it the title selected, a few glances at history will con-
vince the most skeptical that the foregoing statement is well
founded.
In 1775. when Washington's army was in front of Boston,
that great patriot-soldier issued a stern order threatening
severe punishment to any man found guilty of saying or doing
anything to aggravate what he termed "the existing sectional
feeling." And during the same year when Peyton Randolph,
of Virginia, the first President of the Continental Congress,
died, his brother-in-law, Benjamin Harrison, also from Vir-
ginia, was nominated for that position; but as John Han-
cock, of Massachusetts, was likewise nominated, it is said that
Mr. Harrison, "to avoid any sectional jealousy or unkindness
of feeling between the Northern and Southern delegates at
so momentous a crisis," had his own name withdrawn and
insisted on the election of Mr. Hancock. And so, too, in the
Virginia Convention of 1788 Mr. Henry, in opposing the
adoption of the Federal Constitution, after pointing out the
provisions to which he objected, and in which his almost
prophetic ken saw dangers lurking, which have since been
realized, said after all that he did not so much object to the
form of the instrument as he did to the character and dis-
positions of those with whom we were forming the compact.
And another distinguished Virginian with fervid eloquence
exclaimed that our oppressions under the compact would be
"worse than British tyranny."
With these early and seemingly innate antipathies, stimu-
lated and developed by growing and conflicting interests,. aris-
ing out of tariffs, acquisitions of territory, and other causes,
the "irrepressible conflict," as Seward termed it. would seem
necessarily only a question of time.
As to the real cause or causes which precipitated that con-
flict, there have been, and still are, differences of opinion. In
our view the settlement of this question is secondary, and
the vital questions to be determined are:
(a) Which side, if cither, was responsible for the existence
of the cause or causes.' And if slavery was tlie cause, as
some allege, which side was guilty of wrong-doing in dealing
with that cause?
(b) Which was the aggressor in provoking the conflict?
(c) Which side had the legal right to do what teas done.'
(1/1 Which side conducted itself the better, and according
to the rules of civilized warfare, pending the conflict.
It seems to us that an answer to these questions is per-
tinent at all times, and at this distance from the conflict they
can be discussed dispassionately without engendering sec-
tional bad feeling.
Our quondam enemies, knowing, as it seems to us they
must know, that the evidence on every other point is over-
whelmingly against them, and relying on the sentiment of the
world now existing against slavery, are prone to charge that
MISS LUCY WHITE HAYES,
S|it>nsor for Trans-Mississippi Department, Richmond Reunion.
the South fought for the perpetuation and extension of that
institution; or, to put it in the brief and common form, they
charge (as some of our younger people in their ignorance
seem to believe) that "slavery was the cause of the war."
It would seem to the unprejudiced mind, that the mere state-
ment of the fact (which, we believe, was a fact) that more
than eighty per cent of the Confederate soldiers held no
slaves, that General Lee, our representative soldier, freed his
slaves before the war, whilst General Grant, the representa-
tive soldier of the North, held on to his until they were
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316
freed by the results of the war. and the further fact that
General Lee said at the beginning of the war, that if he
owned all the slaves in the South and could by freeing them
save the Union he would do sn with the stroke of his pen,
ought to furnish a satisfactory refutation of this unjust
charge.
But let us admit, for the sake of the argument only, that
the charge is true. How. then, does the case stand as to us
both on the law and the facts?
It will not be charged by tin' greatest enemy of the South
that it was in any way responsible, either for the existence of
Slavery or for inaugurating that vilest of traffics — the African
slave trade. On the contrary, history attests that slavery was
forced upon this country by England against the earnest
protests of the South as well as of the North when the States
were Colonies under the control of that country; that "the
first statute establishing slavery in America is to be found
in the famous Code of Fundamentals or Body of the Liber-
lies "i the Massachusetts Colony of New England, adopted
in December. 1(141;" that the "Desire." "lie of the very first
built in Massachusetts, was fitted out for carrying on
the slave trade; "that the traffic became so popular that
attention was paid to it by the New England shipowners, and
that they practically monopolized it for a number of years."
'"111. Inn Civil War." pp. 28 29. 30.) And history further
that Virginia was the first State, North or South, to
prohibit the slave traffic from Africa, and that Georgia was the
in-; to incorporate that prohibition in Iter Constitution.
We have no desire to sav unkind things about the North.
Bat it is easj to show, that as long as slavery existed there.
as it dirl in all the Colonies when independence was declared.
i;t of slaves by the people of that section was as
harsh a-, if not more so than, was ever known in any part of
Ihe South Xot only is this true, but it is also easy to show
that as long as the people of the North were the owners of
they regarded and treated and disposed of them as
"properly." nit as the people of England had done since
171.;, when laves were held to be "merchandise" by the
judges of that country, with the venerable Holt at their
We could further show that slavery existed at the
North just as long as it was profitable to have it there; that
the moral and religious sense of that section was only heard
plain ' that institution after it was found to be tm-
profitabli and after the people of that section had for the
'.nil slaves i" tbv p opl< of the South; and
that, after Whitney's invention of the COttOn gin. which.
Union in the production of cotton at the
South a- to cause slave labor greatlj to increase in value, and
winch induced many Northern men to engage in that produc-
ivariably purchased thin slaves for
that purpo e and mini of thesi owned them when the wat
'I be South was then in no sense responsible tor tin- <\
rj within its borders, but il was brought there
I its will; it was clearly recognized and attempted to
be controlled and protected by the Constitution the supreme
law of the land— and the people of the South, not believing
any other or better disposition could be made of the
sla\es til. 111 by holding them 111 bont lly continued to
this.
In tl nine numerous efforts v tade, both in
Southi and by individl bolish the institution,
and it is tbe almost universal belief now that these efforts
would have been gradually successful, but for the harsh and
unjust criticisms of the Southern people by some of those
at the North and the outrageous, illegal, and incendiary in-
terferences by the abolitionists and their emissaries. As early
as 1769 the House of Burgesses of Virginia tried to abolish
slavery in Virginia, but was prohibited by the veto of George
III., then King of England, "in the interests of English com-
merce." And throughout tbe period from 1776 to 18.32. when
the work of the abolitionists first began to be felt, the ques-
tion of how to accomplish emancipation engaged the tb
of some of the most eminent men of Virginia ami othei
Southern States.
Mr. George Lunt, a distinguished lawyer of Massachu
in his interesting work, entitled "Origin of the Late War."
in which he shows that the North was the aggressor and
w-rongdoer throughout, says: "Slavery, in the popular sense,
was the cause of war, just as property is the cause of rob-
bery."
Whilst we do not indorse this statement, looking at the
subject from the view-point of a Southerner, yet if it were
true, surely there is nothing in it from which the people of
the North can take any comfort or credit to themselves.
But so anxious are our former enemies to convince the
world that the South did fight for the perpetuation of slavery
that some of them have, either wittingly or unwittingly, re-
sorted to misrepresentations or misinterpretations of some of
the sayings of our representative men to try to establish this
as a fact. A noted instance of this is found in the oft-
repeated charge that the late Mr. Alexander H. Stephens.
Vice President of the Confederacy, had said in his famous
speech, delivered at Savannah in February, 1861, that "slavery-
was the corner stone of the Confederacy."
We have heard this charge made by one of the most en-
lightened and liberal men of the North, and yet we have at
hand utterances from this same Northerner tantamount to
what Mr. Stephens said in that speech. Mr. Stephens was
speaking of the Confederacy, just then organized, and con-
trasting some of the principles on which it was founded with
some of those of the Republican party, then coming into
power for the first time, and he said : "Our government is
founded on exactly the opposite idea (that the two races,
black and white, are equal); its foundations are laid; its
corner stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not
the equal of the white man; that slavery, subordination to
the superior race, is bis (the negro's) natural and normal
condition."
Now it will be observed 111 the first place that Mr. Stephens
said the "corner stone" of the Confederacy "rests upon the
great truth that the negro is not the equal of the white man."
And isn't tins fact recogni ed as true to-day in every part
of this land ?
But hear now the utterano ol this liberal and cultured
Northerner on the same subject when he says as he
"The Africans are distinctly an inferior order of being, not
only in the South, 01 slave Stales, but throughout the North
also, not entitled to unrestricted pursuit on equal terms of
life, liberty, and happim ss "
Is there anj difference in principle between these t»
terances? If. as this distinguished Northerner asserts, and
as every one knows to be true, the negroes are "distinctly
an inferior ordt md "not entitled to the unre-
il terms [with the wdiites] of life.
liberty, and happiness." do S not this make "• Ition to
the superior race his natural and normal condition." as Mr.
Stephens says?
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Qor)federat^ Veterai}.
Urn hear now what Mr. Lincoln, the great demigod of the
North, had to saj on this subject in a speech delivered at
Charleston. 111., in [858, when lie said: "I will say, then.
that I am not now. nor never have been, in favor of bringing
about in any way the social or political equality of the white
and black races. I am not now. nor never have been, in favor
of making voter- or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them
to hold office, nor of intermarriage with white people; and I
will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference
n the white and black races which, I believe, will for-
ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social
and political equality. Inasmuch as they cannot so live, while
they do remain together, there must be a position of superior
and inferior, and I. as much a- any other man, am in favor
of having the superior position assigned to the white man."
Again we ask: 1- there any difference in principle between
what is here said by Mr. Lincoln and what was said by Mr.
Stephens in his famous "corner s'one" speech?
And. notwithstanding Mr. Lincoln issued his "Emancipation
Proclamation" eighteen months later, he said in his first in-
augural : "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to inter-
ior with the institution of slavery in the Sates where it
exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so. and I have
no inclination to do 50."
Could he have used stronger language to -how that he be-
lieved not only in the legality of the position of the South
on the subject of slavery, but that he believed in the pro-
priety of that position as well?
Mr. Toombs said in a speech delivered in Boston in 1856:
"The white is the superior and the black the inferior, and that
subordination, with or without law, will be the status of the
African in this mixed society. Therefore it is to the interest
of both, and especially to the black race, that this status
should be fixed, controlled, and protected by law." And this
i- just a- true to-day as it was when this statement was made
by this great statesman in 1856.
I '.111 there is this remarkable fact in connection with slavery
and its relations to the war. which we have not seen else-
where referred to, and which is to our mind a conclusive
refutation of the charge that the continuation or the ex-
tinction of slavery had any influence whatever on the con-
duct of the Southern people, and especially that of the Con-
federate soldier in that war.
The writer belonged to one of the three companies in the
army, the personnel of which i- so vividly described by the
author of "Four Years under Marse Robert." in which there
wen serving as privates many full graduates of the Uni-
versity of Virginia and other leading colleges both North and
South. In these companies a variety of subjects pertaining
to the war, religion, politics, philosophy, literature, and what
not, were discussed with intelligence and often with anima-
tion and ability, and yet neither he nor any of his comrades
can recall the fact that they ever heard the subject of slavery
01 the relations of the slaves to the war. referred to in any
way during that period, except that when it was determined
to put slaves in our army, a violent protest against doing 50
went up from the ranks, and the only thing which even par-
tially reconciled our men to this proposed action was the
knowledge of the fact that it had the sanction and approval
of General Lee. We have inquired of comrades of various
other commands about this, and with the like result. Do mefi
fight for a thing or a cause they never speak of or discus- J.
It, seems to us that to ask this question is to furnish the an-
swer.
Not only is the foregoing statement true, but with the ex-
ception of the steps taken to send negroc- to help erect forti-
fications, employing them as laborers, etc., but little considera-
tion seems to have bin given tin 111 or of their status to the
war either in the Congress or the Cabinet of the Coin deracy.
The reasons for this are manifest to those of us who lived
in those days, but a word of explanation may be necessary to
those who havs since come on the stage of life. In tin first
JEFFERSON HAVES DAVIS,
Grandsd-i of Jefferson Davis, bearing Ms name.
place slavery, as it existed in the South, was patriarchal in
its character; the slaves (servants, as we called them) were
regarded and treated as members of the families to which
they severally belonged; with rare exceptions, they were
treated with kindness and consideration, and frequently the
relations between the slave and his owner were those of real
affection and confidence. As Mr. Lunt. the Boston writer,
from whom we have already quoted, says : "The negroes were
perfectly contented with their lot. In general they were not
only happy in their condition, but proud of it."
Their owners trusted them with their families, their farms,
and their affairs, and this confidence was rarely betrayed—
scarcely ever, unless they were forced to violate their trusts
by coming in contact with the Federal armies, or were be-
guiled and betrayed themselves by mean and designing white
men. The truth is, both the wdiite and the black people of
the South regarded the Confederate cause alike as their cause,
and looked to its success with almost, if not quite, equal anxiety
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;inil delight. A mosl striking illustration of this and of the
readiness of the slaves to fight even, it' necessary, for the Con-
federal cau is furnished b) the following incid nt: In
February, 1865, when negro troops had been authorized to be
i ni 1 tiled in the Confederati army, th re wei e empl 13 ed al
Jacl on ] lospital, near Richnn nd, seventy-two negro men. The
111 ;< n in charge, th ate Dr. F. W. Hancock, of Richmond,
i id tin men formed in lin ; and ifter asking them "if they
would be willing to lake up arms to protect iheir masters'
mi . and their nun from an attacking foe, sixtj
ni- two r< ponded that the) would volunteer t"
,i4" i" the treni hi - ghl the - 1 1 to the bitter end.'
i "War Rebellion Records," Seriei IV. . Volume II.. p [193 1
At the .late lure i Eerred to we know that the life of the
oldier was one of the greatest hardship and
and the t'aet that five "in of everi .......
then ready i" i md go i" in trenches -
ivclj how trulj the.) regarded thi Confedei
... . is v ell a- thai . 'i the whit pei iple i if the Si iuth
. '. \m doubt h" a l.i cent of the white- in any
pan of the country would have \ ilunte red to go to thi Eroi
at that Stage ni til - war. If. then, it wire true, as alleged,
thai thi whiti people of the South were fighting for slavery,
it not necessarilj follow that the slaves themselves were
ml willing t" fight for it too? One of these in
i- jusl a- true a- the other.
We i have shown then that i mii if we admit that
slavery was. as falsely charged, tie- "cause oi the war" the
South "a- in i'" way responsible fot th exi I f that
but it «.i- a condition Forced upon it. oni recognized
bj th law of the land, "lie whieh the Smith dealt
wr'n legally and justlj a- contemplated by that haw. and his-
hows that in every respect, and in everj instance, the
and \ iola law wen- committed b) tie
North. Mr I inn says: "01 four several compromises be-
tween th" two ' countrj since the Revolutionary
War, each has b • •> kept by the Smith .md violated by the
North.'1 Indeed, we challenge the North t" point out one
ii w hieh the S< ml h \ ii I ited the Const itution
or an' made in pursuance thereof; whilst, on the
fourteen of the Northern States passed acts nulli-
the fugitive slave law. passed by Congress in obedience
i , tin i onstitution, denoum d .md defied the decisions ol the
;e Cmni. .md Judge Black, of Pennsylvania,
bolitioni I "1 hej applaud d Ji ihn Brown ti i the echi i
of the basest murders mi record. They did not
i their hostilit) lo the I d ral and State governments
'. in their enmitj to all law- which protected white men
The ('"i titUtion Stood in their way. and they enr-ed n bit
. Bible was quoted against thtm, and they reviled
< iod the Almighty himself "
i j i Our next inquiry is: Which was ''
Mr, llall.mi. in in- "Constitutional History of England,"
lized principle when lie says: "The
i w .11 that i h; who b is not the first
who uses force, but the first wh • renders force necessary."
We think we have ahead) shown, by Northern author-
ity -. that the North was the aggressor .and violator of the
C institution and of the legal rights of the Smith In ret
li what the) alh the Can-" of the war." ami it
t" show, by like authorities, that it was clearly tin
in bringing mi tin v
(>n the 7th of Vpril, 1861, President Davis -aid: "With
Hi.. Lincoln administration n I ioi bilit ol precip-
llision and the fearful evils of the cruel
In hi- reply i" Mr. Lincoln' \ rg
seventy five thousand troi ■ re" the South, on
15. [861, Governor Letcher -aid: "You ha\ chos n i" in
tte civil war. ami you can gi ps from Virginia
I'm- any such purpi 1
But we an- 11m .iiimiit tn rest tin- ques ion on the
1 ts -I iia 1 Southern authi iritii are, but
will let Northern writers say what they think about tie
1 ortant questii n
Mr. laint says in reference t" Mr Lincoln sending tin
reenforce Sumter in Vpril, [861: "It was intended t" draw
the fire of the Confederati and wa 1 nl aggression with
... 1 if pi :n ing an actii e aggression from thi
side."
Mr. Benjamin J. William-, another Massachusetts writer,
says: "The Smith was invaded ami a war of subjugation,
I i" 1" the mosl gigantic which the world ha
« a - l.i aim b) the Fed gc\ ernmenl against I h
ceding St.ee- in complete .md amazing di regard of the foun-
dation principle of its own existence, a- affirmed in the
.1 Endep ml nee, 1 nments derive their
jusl powers from tie- conseni of th" governed."
But h 1 a- heai what Mi I itn "In himself ha to a) mi
this qui -1. hi, am! with his testimony we -hall regard the
question as conclusively ettled [n repl) to a committei Erom
Chicago -"in to intercede with him in he relieved from
ing mure troops from tint citj to the North rn arum
Lincoln -aid in a tone "I bittemi '. nth nun. after Bos
1 . is been the chief instrument in bringing this
e.n "ii thi country, The Northwesl he- opposed th" South,
a- New England has opposed the Smith. It 1- you who are
largelj 1. ponsibl for making blood flow as it ha-. You
called foi wai until we had it: you called for emancip
and I have given it t" you. Whatever you have asked, you
have had Now : here begging to be let ofl You
ought i" h ashamed of yo (Sei rarbell's "I ife of
I 11. . In." Volume 1 1 . p. 1 \<i 1
1,1 II In. Ii side had the legal right i<< ./.' what was d
(in the column nf the 111. nmment erected i" 1 in greal civic
leader an- the w. a ,1- pro a- ... . meaning that th
E th South was that we fought in defense of our
altar< and our firesides. \nd the in 111 who would not
"Strike for his aha: and 1"- tires.
( .".1 and his native land"
1- a craven and a coward ami unworth) even of the nanii of
man Our country was invaded by armed men intent mi
. ercioil and conquest. We 111.1 them mi ihe tlne-h.dd and
them ami drove them hack as long as we had anything
eat .. strength to light with. We could do no more, we
do no less, and history, our children, and even mai
our former enemies now applaud "in conduct.
There were, however, two, and bul two, questions really
involved in the conflict. We 1 1 do more than state
these and of the many Northern authorities in sus-
tain the position that the Smith was tight mi both of these,
were: i 1 1 "///<• righl of <i Sta nd 1 2) the
right of the Federal government to cding State.
V- to the tirst of these questions, the 1 Black, of
Pennsylvania, said what is trui sion, like slavery, was
first planted in New England. Tie 1 flourished
and spr ad it- In .niche- far over the land before it
wa- ever dreamed of at the Smith" And he furthet
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that John Quincy Adams, in 1839, and Abraham Lincoln, in
1847, made elaborate arguments in favor of the legal right of
a State to sec:de.
Mr. William Rawle, also late of Pennsylvania, in his work
on the Constitution, the text-book used at West Point be-
fore the war, says: "It depends on the State itself to retain
or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends
on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union.''
Timothy Pickering, Josiah Quincy, and Mr. Henry Cabot
Lodge, all of Massachusetts, the late Horace Greeley, Gold-
win Smith. General Don Piet. of the Federal army, ami the
Hartford Convention all asserted and affirmed the same doc-
trine. And we know that had not this right been understood
to exist at the time of the adop'ion of the Constitution it
would never have been adopted.
As to the second of these questions — i. c, the right cf the
Federal government to coerce a seceding State — this ques-
tion was discussed to some extent in the convention which
framed the Constitution. Mr. Madison (called the "Father
of the Constitution") said: "The more he reflected on l..e
use of force, the more he doubted the practicability, the jus-
tice, and the efficiency of it when applied to people collectively
and not individually. A union of the States containing such
an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction."
And Mr. Hamilton said: "But how can this force be exer-
cised on the States collectively? It is impossible. It amounts
to war between the parties. Foreign powers also will not
be idle spectators. They will interpose, and a dissolution of
the Union will ensue." (5th Mad. Pap. 140 and 200.) And
no such right or power can be found anywhere in the Con-
stitution.
The late James C. Carter, of New York (a native of New
England), one of the greatest lawyers this country has ever
produced, said : "I may hazard the opinion that if the ques-
tion had been raised, not in i860, but in 1788, immediately
after the adoption of the Constitution, whether the Union, as
formed by that instrument, could lawfully treat the secession
of a State as rebellion and suppress it by force, few of those
who participated in forming that instrument would have an-
swered in the affirmative."
In November, i860, the New York Herald said : "Each
State is organized as a complete government, holding the
purse and wielding the sword, possessing the right to break
the tie of confederation as a nation might break a treaty,
and to repel coercion as a nation might repel invasion. . . .
Coercion, if it were possible, is out of the question."
The question was maturely considered by Mr. Buchanan
and his Cabinet at the close of his administration, and it was
unanimously determined that no such right existed.
One of the resolutions of the platform of the Chicago Con-
vention, on which Mr. Lincoln was elected, and which he re-
affirmed in his first inaugural, was the following:
"Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of
the States, and especially the right of each State to order
and control its own domestic institutions according to its own
judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric
depends, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed
force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes."
To show that Mr. Lincoln was fully cognizant of the fact
that he was committing this "gravest of crimes" when he
caused his armies to invade the Southern States, we will
give his own definition of the m;aning of the terms "invasion"
and "coercion," as contained in his speech delivered at In-
dianapolis on his journey to Washington to be inaugurated
in February, 1861. He asks: "What, then, is 'coercion?'
What is 'invasion?' Would the marching of an army into
South Carolina without the consent of her people and with
hostile intent toward them be 'invasion?' I certainly think
it would, and it would be 'coercion' also if South Carolinians
were forced to submit."
Is not this exactly what he did to South Carolina and to
all the other Southern States? And is it not true that this
"gravest of crimes" having been committed by him without the
authority of Congress, or any legal right, was the sole cause
why the Southern people went to war? We know that such
is the fact, and surely no further authorities can be necessary
to show that the South was right on both of the only two
questions involved in the war; and if it had not resisted and
fought under the circumstances in which it was placed, it
would have been eternally disgraced.
We can only state and without discussing at all our last
inquiry, which is :
(4) Which side conducted itself the better and according
to the rules of civilized warfare pending the conflict?
With the notoriously infamous records of the conduct of
Sheridan, Hunter, and Milroy in the Valley (to say nothing
of how far Grant participated in that conduct), of that of
Pope and Steinwehr in Piedmont, Va., of that of Butler in
Norfolk and New Orleans, and, worse than all, the confessed
vandalism of Sherman on his "March to the Sea," together
with the burning of Atlanta and Columbia, the last stimu-
lated and encouraged by Halleck, the chief of staff of the
armies of the Union, and contrast all this with the humane
order of General Lee, on his campaign of invasion into Penn-
sylvania, and the conduct of his army in that campaign, and
there can be but one answer to this inquiry. That answer is
that the South did right and that the North did wrong.
"God holds the scales of justice;
He will measure praise and blame ;
And the South will stand the verdict,
And will stand it without shame."
Confederate Flag in Unclaimed Baggage.
P. DeArlington, General Delivery, Dayton, Ohio, writes :
"Recently I purchased at an auction sale of unclaimed bag-
gage an old valise, in which was found wrapped in the rem-
nants of an old tattered flag a photograph of a group of
C. S. A. officers. On the back was written, yet quite legible :
'Our Mess
Johnson's Island, Jan. 186 — .
Capt. Jno. G. Kelly, 1st Mo. Cav. ; Capt. Reuben Kay, A. A.
G., of Gen. Thompson's staff ; Lieut. Harrison M. McClure
1st Mo. Cav.; Capt. Wm. B. Coy, 9th Mo. Infty. ; Capt.
Jno. C. Ward, nth Va. Infty.; Capt. Jno. T. Yates, Q. M.
McD's Mo. Cav.; Lieut. Jno. T. Mahan, 1st Mo. Cav.; Lieut.
S. R. Price, 1st Mo. Cav.: Brig. Gen. M. Jeff Thompson. Mo.;
Lieut. Wm. Etter, 1st Mo. Cav.; Lieut. Wm. A. Bart (or
Bast), 3d Mo. Cav.
From a pencil drawing by Wm. B. Coy, Capt. C. S. A.' "
As this was evidently a highly prized picture, Mr. De-
Arlington is anxious to return it to its owner.
Rev. J. A. Burgess, of Saginaw, Oregon, inquired for J. H.
Burgess, of the 22A Alabama, and hopes to hear from some
comrade soon.
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A CONFEDERATE MONUMENT FOR ST. LOUIS.
Mrs. William G. Moore ', >6 Vandevenler Place), President
of the St. Louis Confederate Monument Association, makes
an appeal in which she says: "The Southern women of St.
Louis have undertaken the erection of a monument to the
Confederate soldier. The world owes the duty to itself and
to posterity to commemorate the deeds of its noble and brave.
Our country gave the sublimest illustration of courage, patri-
otism, and self-sacrifice when the manhood of the South
marched at the call to arms, and counted even their lives of
little worth by the side of the cause they loved. Most of thi m
sleep to-day in unmarked and nameless graves throughout the
Southland. They need no monuments to do them honor, for
their valor and chivalry are the admiration of the world.
But our common country owes to itself and to its children
the duty of perpetuating, as far as granite and bronze and
inscriptions can do it, the courage, valor, and patriotism of
the American soldier, the noble qualities and high virtues
that have made our country great and that alone will repro-
duce a race of noble men. There is no stronger inspiration
that can be invoked, there is no enthusiasm that can be
created or awakened that will lead men so quickly into the
ranks around our common flag and hold them so steadily in
the face of death as the example of the brave deeds, the patri-
otic spirit, and loyal devotion of the Confederate soldier. The
Confederate soldiers are rapidly passing away, and now is the
time to erect a monument in their honor."
TO I HE D. O. C. ST. LOUIS.
BY JOHN N. EDWARDS.
In the splendorful, tenderful spirit
Of a sorrowful grave-strewn past
Comes the wonderful love of the women
To cherish their dead to the last.
In the black of the night of surrender.
Mid the crash of the cause tumbled down,
Shone the miracle love of our women —
A halo of grace for a crown.
And the beautiful light in the darkness
Lit the way from the Valley of Tears,
Kindled hope in the breast of the soldiers,
Undimmed by the rust of the years.
Let the iuroic hearts of our women
Lift the shafts to our dead to the sky!
It them grave on the marble the story
I )f valor that never can die!
MEMORIAL CHURCH AT SHILOH
Rev. W, D. Dunn, of Shiloh Circuit, Mitchie, Tenn. :
'\\ e are planning to build a 'Memorial Church' at Shiloh,
Tenn., on Shiloh battle ground in honor of the Southern dead
cost $8000 to $10,000, and in order to do so we are de-
pendent largely 0«1 advertising through the various papers.
s" we ask the Veteran to give us help by this notice.
"The South has two monuments in the park now — General
rennessee Infantry, and one erected by the
Alabama Division, U. D. C. We want to build a beautiful
church, one that will be more beautiful than any monument,
cribe now. Will call for the money when needed.
Committee: I> C McCullers (Chairman), Or. II. Abei
nathy (Secretary), Perry Cantrell, and (*.. W. Livingston, all
of Mitchie, Tenn.; and Rev. G. 11. Hurl urer. Pitts
burg Landing, T( mi."
MONUMENT FOR THE SOUTH AT SHILOH.
B'S CAPT. J. W. IRWIN, SAVANNAH. TENN.
The Daughters of the Conf deracy are uoing a noble work
in every Slate by erecting monuments and memorials in honor
of the Confederate soldier and in caring for those who are
needy. '1 he undertaking begun by the large-hearted, brave
little Shiloh Chapter, No. 371, at Savannah, Tenn.. to erect a
monument on the battlefield of Shiloh in honor of all Con-
federate soldiers from every State who participated in that
battle has been adopted by the General I". D\ C. A consider-
able sum is already in hand at interest. The ladies have taken
up the work with that enthusiasm which assures success at
no distant day. As every State organization is now enlisted
in this enterprise, and - s the General U. D. C. has pledged
five hundred dollars annually until the monument is com-
pleted, they can plan fot j more elaborate memorial than could
have been expected from a single or even any State organiza-
tion. May we not now aspire to erect a memorial at Shiloh
which shall not be surpassed by any of the one hundred and
seven monuments (numbers of which arc handsome) erected
on this field by the Northern States in honor of their dead?
We hope that the Daughters will set their mark for a thirty-
thousand-dollar equestrian statue of Albert Sidney Johnston
so designed and inscribed that it shall be a memorial in honor
of all Confederate soldiers who participated in this battle.
This was the idea and wish of Shiloh Chapter from the be-
ginning.
MEMORIAL TO SOUTHERN WOMEN.
BY CORNELIUS H. FAUNTLEROY.
Undying in faith and love, last at the cross and first at the
tomb, it has always b< en woman's glory to uphold man's fal-
tering footsteps, bind up his wounds, and soothe his aching
brow. At no time in her glorious history has this noble mis-
sion of woman been better exemplified than in the women of
the South during and after the Civil War. In death and
desolation and in mental and bodily anguish unspeakable
the light of their faith in the Southern soldier and in the
Southern cause never went out. The Southern soldier went
unfalteringly to his certain death nerved and cheered by the
support of the loved women at home.
When all was over, when the soil of the South had drunk
in vain the lifeblood of her best and bravest, when darkness
unspeakable brooded over the land, and the lamp of hope had
gone out, Southern women again took up the crushing burden,
soothed the starving, bleeding soldier, and whispered hope
for the future into his agonized mind and heart.
The renaissance of the South after the greatest and most
pitiless war of history is due to her women. And now, when
the clouds have rolled away and the bright sun of peace and
prosperity shines over our once-dcsolatcd land, it is again the
tender, tireless hands of the loving women oi the South that
decorate each year the graves of our .had heroes, and their
voices and pens that keep their memories green in the hearts
and minds of the rising gen. 1, on
Hdw can we Southern men honor our matchless women?
Already we have reared in our hearts a spiritual monument
to ihein Men in. ne exquisiti than thai described by the Rev.
Di McKim as reared to the Southern soldier. But let us not
stop at this, Lei :t Richmond or seme other Southern
city a physical monument to the Southern women which shall
express in form and feature, beautiful and tender and worthy
of the genius of a Phidias or a Praxiteles, that undying love,
honot 1 adequately express.
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'He is not dead! Such souls can never die;
He breathes already a diviner air.
And those eternal visions, vast and fair,
Already stretch before his wondering eye.
He is not gone! His presence still is nigh,
And lives within our hearts with holiest prayer
And sweetens ill our lives like incense rare
That floats like fragrance to the throne on high."
Dr. P. W. Halbert.
Dr. P. W. Halbert died at his home, in Lincoln County,
Tenn.. on April 4, in his sixty-fourth year. At the age of
eighteen he enlisted in the Confederate army in April, 1861,
as a member of Captain Ramsey's company of Fayetteville,
Tenn., which was a part of Col. Peter Turney's regiment, the
first regiment that left Tennessee for the seat of war in Vir-
ginia. He was in the battle of Bull Run. and was badly
wounded in the lungs at Seven Pines. After recovering from
that, he was attached to Company F, 12th Regiment of Cav-
alry, better known as Nixon's Regiment. Bell's Brigade, under
General Forrest. He was wounded again in a skirmish at
Campbellsville, Tenn.. a Minie ball in his wrist disabling him
for a short time, and he was with the army and saw the stars
and bars go down at Gainesville, Ala., on May i->, 1865. After
the war he studied medicine, and practiced his profession
until his health failed. He made many friends as a physician
and citizen, and always took an active interest in the welfare
of his county and State.
S \M UEL I [ENDERS0N I'll STER.
Samuel Henderson Buster was born in Greene County.
Tenn., in 1832; and died near Franklin, Nebr.. in October, 1906.
The family moved to Missouri when he was a small boy, and
he entered the Confederate army in December. 1861, as a
member of the 1st Missouri Cavalry, under Col. Elijah Gates,
and was afterwards in Shelby's Brigade until the close of the
war. After witnessing the dramatic burial of their flag in
the Rio Grande, he turned his face homeward and rejoined
his family. He went to Nebraska in 1872, and resided in
Franklin County until bis death, which is the first break in
he family, his wife, two sons, and eight daughters surviving.
Dr. Harvey Oliver Milton.
After some years of feeble health. Dr. H. O. Milton died
suddenly at the home of his son. in Knoxville, Tenn., in
November last, having nearly reached his seventy-fourth birth-
day. He was born in South Carolina; but the family removed
to Selma. Ala., and at that place Dr. Milton grew up. He
<d a good education, and finished in medicine at the
Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1857. He prac-
: at Selma until the breaking out of war. in which he
served as assistant surgeon of the 4th and 15th Alabama
Regiments, taking part in the campaigns about Richmond,
Second Manassas, and Chickamauga. Toward the close of
the war lie was promoted and stationed at Macon, Ga., wh;re
he was married 10 Miss Sarah Fort 111 [865. lie removed t 1
Chattanooga in 1877. and the following year rendered valuable
service in that city during the yellow fever epidemic. He
reined from active practice fifteen years ago. and in 1807 r -
moved to Knoxville to make his home with his onlj son.
For several years he had been Vice President of the Knoxville
Sentinel Company. He made friends wherever he lived.
Col. Robert Patton Eberhardt.
The death of Col. R. P. Eberhardt in Atlanta, Ga . during
January last closed a career that was remarkable in many
respects. He was born in Madison County. Ga.. in 1834. and
received his education in that and Elbert County. He always
had a great love of country and for true liberty; and. being
fond of an active life, when hut little more than twenty-one
years <•! age he enlisted in the expedition under Gen. William
Walker to Nicaragua. He faithfully endured the hardships
of that service and received an honorable discharge. He re-
turned to Elbert County, and with the opening of the Civil
War his patriotic spirit was again aroused, and he enlisted
with the "Goshen Blues," which he commanded and which
company became a part of the legion organized at Camp
Kirkpatrick, between Atlanta and Decatur, this legion being-
composed of infantry, artillery, and cavalry, to serve three
years. The legion was sent to Savannah; and when leaving
there for Virginia several changes were made, separating the
infantry, which was afterwards known as the 38th Georgia
Regiment and which was first in the brigade commanded by
Gen. A. R. Lawton under Stonewall Jackson, and later in
the famous Gordon Brigade, subsequently commanded by Gen
C. A. Evans.
In 1862 Captain Lawton was promoted to major of his
regiment, afterwards to lieutenant colonel, and for a time was
in command of his regiment. He was wounded at Sharps-
burg, but rejoined his regiment as soon as able, and partici-
pated in the many battles engaged in by that famous regi-
ment. The 38th Georgia, with the Evans Brigade, was in the
last fight and the last charge of the army, on the morning of
April 9, 1865.
He returned to Georgia after the war. and in 1875 located in
Athens, where he became a prominent business man. Fie went
to Atlanta in 188;; but retired from active business about
fifteen years ago on account of ill health, and had since lived
his good life in a quiet way. He was married in September,
1861, to Miss Emma Priscilla Hunt, of Elbert County, who
survives him with seven children.
Rev. Simeon- U. Grimsley.
Harmanson-West Camp, of Hallwood. Va.. mourns the
passing of their beloved Chaplain, Simeon U. Grimsley, whom
death released after many weary months of pain and suffering.
His service was as a private in Company D. of the 15th Vir-
ginia Infantry, from May, 1861, to the end of the war. He
w 1- horn in Richmond, Va., in 1839. ordained to the Baptist
ministry in 1879, and died in November. 1906. To his be-
loved ones he left the heritage of a good name.
Flvnt. — H. A. Flynt was born near Florence. Ala., in [836,
dying in October. 1906, at Mt. Vernon. Tex. He was taken
from Alabama to Mississippi when but three years of age,
and a few years la*er to Texas. He enlisted in the 17th Mis-
sissippi Regiment, of Barksdale's famous brigade, which
fought so gallantly at Pre lericksburg. He was badly wounded
at Gettysburg.
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M \j, A. A. Stephens.
Maj. A. A. Stephens, of Wolfe City, Tex, died at the home
of his son, Charles, at Celeste, March 30. 1907. The remains
were taken to Wolfe City, escorted by the Masonic lodge of
Celeste and many of his old comrades. Arriving at Wolfe
City, the funeral party was met bj the lodge of that city and
a number of Veterans and friends. The servici s were con-
ducted in the Baptist church by the Major's old-time friend,
Rev. J. H. Boyet, who paid a fitting tribute to his noble char-
acter, giving him special praise for his unremitting kindness
to his indigent comrades and all others in distress or need.
The remains were conveyed to Mount Carmel Cemetery, fol
lowed by the largest concourse of people that ever attended a
fum ral at Wolfe City.
Major Stephens was horn in Bibb County, \la. March -'4.
1843. At an early age his family moved to Mississippi, where
hi- grew to manhood.
Al the commence-
ment of the Civil
\\ ar he joined Com-
pany K, i-t Missis
Infantry. He
was in tin siege of
Port Hudson, La.
where he was , ,,.,
tured and paroled.
1 [e served on pn ivosl
duty, guarding prison
ers at Andersonville
prison until July.
[863, when he was
transferred to the
Army of Tenm
under Joseph E.
Johnston and J. B
Hoi id, participating
in all the bloody bat-
tle- 1 if that army.
When the Cmifed
army was d< -
feated al Nashvilh
and every one was
ordered to take
ii himself. Private
St phi 11 1.11 ted "ii:
d with camp equipage, being among the last leaving the-
intrenchments Winn he found his captain dangerously
wounded, he threw down his traps and took the captain on
hi- back and carried him mil al the risk of In- Own life
Hi v,a- always on tune, if lie had to go barefooted, Ili-
iny was called into line 01 rning, and, nol having
tune to put on his clothes, In "fell in." for winch he rci
a severe reprimand. A junior lieutenant, Marion Shelton,
took up for the boy, win. shortly proved to In one of tin
1 and most deliberate marksman in our army, always
on time, and standing ground win re tin- bullets flew thickest
Mi was never excited, hut always at Ins post of duty,
In July, 1866, he married Miss Eliza Durretl al I
Miss : and in 1880 he moved to Hunt County. Tex., when hi
took a prominent part in everything pertaining in the Con-
>cdi rate Vett ran 11. iva thi efficient Adjutant ol the Ben
McCullough ( amp. of W
In the mi of tin First Regiment. Texas I1'
M \|oi; - 1 1 rm \ -
I . L. \ ., he was a leader, and some fiv< years ago was elected
Major, and had been reelected annually.
There survive him his wife, two sons (Charles G. and N.
Z., of Cekste), and one daughter (Mrs. J. W. Griffis, of
Wolfe City), all of whom are well-to-do, highly respected
citizens.
, Resolutions were adopted by the First Regiment, Texas
Division, mi the death of Maim- Stephens, the first of which
states: "In the death of Comrade Stephens we have lost one
• if our best and truest comrades, the State and county one of
her best and most upright citizens, and the family a kind and
indulgent husband and parent."
[Thi- sketch was suit by I' Ii. Carter. Commanding First
Regiment. Texas Division, U. C. V.]
Capt. J. M. CRUMP ami Marshall J. Miller.
The Confederate Historical Association of Memphis re-
ports tin death of two highly esteemed members who passed
over in November. 1906:
Capl. Tames M. Crump was born in 1S43 and reared in
manhood at the Greenwood plantation home. Marshall County.
Miss, completing his education at Oxford, Miss He enl
in the Confederate army in May, [861. as a member of Com-
pany B, 17th Mi-siss,,,,,, Infantry. Capt. John McGuirk com-
manding his company. He served with the Virginia army,
and was severely wounded at Gettysburg. He had risen to
the rank of captain by the close of the war. After the war.
he made his home at Holly Springs Eor many years, but had
been a resident of Memphis some twenty years. He is sur-
vived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters.
Marshall J. Miller had long been a resident of Memphis,
and in the fullness of years has passed to his eternal reward
He was honored for his soldierly qualities during the war.
For some time he wa- a pilot, and afterwards commanded the
gunboat Grampus, which figured prominently in the waters
i'f the Mississippi before the fall of Memphis, in [862. He
was with tliis. boat at the battle of Belmont, Mo., opposite
1 olumbus, K\ . when the Confederates came so mar to cap-
turing General Grant. lie was subsequently engaged in
various capacities during the war. constantly along the line
"f duty, until the end, in May. 1865.
G. \ McKei
I tied at his home in \lt Selman, lis. G V McKee on
March 25. He wa- born in Marshall County, Tenn., in 1842.
1 In family removed to Texas 111 1S40 and settled near the
village 1 1 Larissa. \t the age of nineteen he left Larissa
ge to join Capt. Frank Taylor's companj of cavalry,
which was mustered into the Confi ervice at Dallas
as Company C, 3d Texas Cavalry, in which command he
served faithfully to the end of the war, cheerfully enduring
its privations and bravely facing 11 danget
After the war be • n the nursery and fruit busi-
111 s- near Mt. Selman, in which In- was very successful. He
wa- married in (865, and leaves four son md upright
citizens of the community.
W \l I 11 W. M. Dunwi born in Greene
County, Tenn., Dec mher 14, 1844; and at an early age en-
tered the < army and served four years. He was
man ied in 1N70. and the following twenty-seven years of his
life wen- spent in Alabama, Western Texas, Indian Territory,
' nia. lie died at Shawnee. Okla., in April. 1907.
aftei .1 year or more of ncerous affection.
wife, two son-, ami liters survive him.
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Sidney Virgil Patrick.
Born May 13, 1X42. at Cornersville, Terui., S. V. Patrick,
who was a faithful Confederate soldier ; died at the home of
his mother, in Galveston, Tex.. April 23, 1907. He became
ill early in December previous, but a'.tended faithfully his
duties until a few days previous to his death. He had been
United States Inspector of Customs through appointment by
President Cleveland during his first administration. The re-
mains were taken by his son, his only surviving child, to
Double Bayou. Chambers County, Tex., for interment by the
side of his wife.
Comrade Patrick was a nephew of Gin. Preston Smith, who
was killed at Chickamauga September 20, 1862. He and his
brother (now dead) both served under General Smith. The
mother, yet living, is a sister of General Smith, and she has
living iwo daughters (Mrs. W. W. Gregory and Mrs. J. M.
Foster) and a son (J. E. Patrick), all natives of Tennessee.
A correspondent of the Galveston News writes of him :
"Virge belonged to Company E, 5th Texas, organized by
Col. John D. Rogers. He was one of the first volunteers, was
faithful to the last, and laid down his gun only when Lee
surrendered. He was one of the best and truest men and
one of the most reliable soldiers I ever knew. He never
shirked the slightest duty either in camp or on the field.
During the four years I was with him in Virginia I don't
remember to have ev;r seen him 'rattled' or excited. He took
things as they came, and was apparently indifferent whether
the thing was to build a camp fire or charge a battery.
"I give an incident that illustrates his coolness and courage
At Second Manassas, after we had driven all that were left
of the New York Zouaves across Bull Run Creek, we were
ordered to charge a battery stationed on the hill that was
playing the mischief with us. Just about this time there was
a bunch of zouaves ahead of us going as rapidly as they could.
In crossing the creek their big zouave pants had got full of
water, and their legs looked like balloons. We were shooting
at them, and one little fellow se med to receive more than his
share of attention, for he got several shots through his pants.
He was not crippled, however, for he went up the hill like
a rabbit, and at every jump the water squirted like one of
those garden fountain hoses. It was a funny sight, but most
of us were too scared to see the fun of it just then. Not so
with Virge. I looked at him, and he was laughing fit to kill
himself. We charged so close to the guns that when they
were discharged we could feel the heat from them in our faces.
"In the hottest part of the work I glanced at Virge again,
and he was evidently thinking of that zouave and his water-
works, for he was grinning and apparently enjoying the mem-
ory of it. After we had taken the battery and had halted for
a breathing spell, the first words he said were: 'Say, did you
see that Yankee?' He was 'as cool and free from excitement
and enjoyed the funny side of the thing as much as he would
have done had the scene taken place in a theater and lie had
been one of the spectator-."
Dr. Paul C. Yates.
Dr. P. C. Yates died at his home, in Neosho, Mo., February
18, 1907, after a lingering illness. The death of this devoted
father and husband was a great shock to his family and a loss
to his State of a good physician and noble, kindly Christian
gentleman, who was ever ready to sacrifice his own pleasure
for the goed of others.
Dr. Yates was born in Randolph County, Mo., on March 1.
1836, the oldest son of Judge John M. Yates, a native of Vir-
ginia. Judge Yates belonged to a prominent family, with
Revolutionary ancestors of note, and Chief Justice John Mar-
shall was his great-uncle, for whom he was named. He mar-
11 d Mi^ Virginia Christian, and went to Missouri in 1822.
Dr. Yates studied medicine, graduating at Pope's College, in
St. Louis, in 1861, when the country was stirred by the menace
of war. He joined one of the first companies going South
under Gen. John B. Clark. From the first skirmishing at
Boonville and Carthage to the last call to "stack arms" he was
always a brave a soldier, a faithful comrade and friend. After
the battle of Springfield, he was appointed surgeon, and re-
mained with Price's army till the close of the war, serving
with Colonel Shaver's Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers.
An incident of those times is strongly characteristic of his
steadfast adherence to duty. After the bat'le of Elk Horn,
Dr. Yates went with his wounded to Van Burui to insure
DR. PAUL YATES AND WIFE.
their safety, the battlefield being in possession of the Federals.
Then he hastened to General Price and asked permission to
return to his brother. Will, who was wounded too severely to
be removed. General Price told him he could not give him a
pass, as the Federals were sure to arrest him, and he would
probably be shot for a spy. General Price said : "General
Davidson's special orders were to bring no doctors, as they
consider them spies. Besides, I promised your father to take
cafe of his boys."
But the little man who stood before him was obdurate.
"I must take my chances, General. He is only a boy; shot
through the lungs, dying perhaps, and calling for me."
The pass was written, and Dr. Yates was stopped on the
road by a Major Reynolds, who frowned at his replies to his
short questions until he told his name.
"It is the name of my bosom friend, who is now Governor
of Illinois," said the Federal.
"Yes, he is my cousin," Dr. Yates replied.
The Major with his carriage carried him into the camp.
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"I started into this," Dr. Vales told the writer, "with my
trust in Providence, and here my relationship to the genial
Republican Governor of Illinois saved me in the very tightest
of all tight places I ever found."
lie found his brother, nursed him hack to life, and Dr. Wil-
liam Yates is practicing medicine to-day at Calao, Mo. He
u.i- \\iih the beloved brother during his last illness. A
younger brother. Arthur, was killed at Kennesaw Mountain.
T)r. Yates was married to Miss Alice Levy in Camden. Ark.,
at the close of the war: hut in [880 returned fur his health to
South Missouri, where he practiced his profession till his
health failed, last year, lie leaves a wife and seven children:
Mr- Ruby Lacy, of Portland, Oregon; Misses Levy, Emma,
and Mamie Lee, and Jack and Paul, of Portland; and Fd-
ward, of Globe, Ariz. In the army, in bis lodge (he
i i Mason in high standing), in his profession, and in his
home he was the same, faithful to every trust and ever zealous
in the cause of go, id
Or. Yah s worked untiringly in aid of the monument in
memorj of (he Confederate soldiers a few years ago, and it
-I completed in hum i n "The Gray Soldier" to stand guard
ovet his resting place in beautiful Neosho.
Robi i; i F.i'U \i;n 1 1 krrett.
When the first call for volunteers was sounded through
our beloved Southland in the early pan of Vpril, t86i, .1
company was formed in Selma. Ala., known as ihe Mag-
Cadet Infantry, and among the lirst names enrolled
wa- that of Robert b'.. Garrett.
Mr. Garrett was a Virginian by birth; hut. residing in
Vlabama at the b ginning of the war, he enlisted under her
banner, and .01 April 2,1. 1861, his company was ordered from
Selma, Ala, to Dalton, Ga.. where it was assigned to
ll Alabama Regiment as Company C. and from this
point was ordered to Virginia. Just before leaving Selma Mrs.
ROBERT F.. GARRETT.
Clenmi White, a sister of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, presented
io this companj a hands,, me silk flag made of her wedding
gown, and it was at the battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861,
when the color bearer, who 1 1 .it Mr. damn's right, was
killed and the flagstaff shattered, that Mr. Garrett took from
the hand of his dead comrade the much-prized banner and
hore it aloft until he vvas himself wounded and disabled. In
the second battle of Manassas. August 30, t862, he was again
wounded, and a third tunc in the battle of Fredericksburg,
December 13, 1862. Later he was promoted td be regimental
ordnance sergeant, and 111 this capacity served until the close
of the war.
lie was a member of the [saac R. Trimble Camp. X,, 1025,
United Confederate Veterans, Baltimore.
From early manhood Mr. Garrett had been a consistent
member of the Baptist Church, and was faithful in the dis-
charge ,,f everj obligation in life.
Mr. Garrett died on July 17, tgo6. at hi- residence, on Mc-
( ulloli Stn • 1. Baltimore, Md.
W. R. A. Yarbrough,
I he death of Mr. W R. A Yarbrough occurred near Nash-
ville June 21. 1007. He had hem m failing health for the
pa 1 ;>n years, incident to infirmity of age and exposure dur-
ing the w ar , if [861-65.
Mr. Yarbrough was horn in Charlotte. N. C. October 24,
[828, and was seventy eight years and eight months old. He
located in Montgomery, Ala., when a young man. When the
tot hi of war was sounded between the North and the South-
ern States, he enlisted in the Confederate service in Com-
pany K. 22d Alabama Infantry Regiment, lie served in the
Army of Tennessee, commanded hy Gen \ S. Johnston,
Braxton Bragg, and General Joseph E. Johnston, until the
I of tho war Ho was detailed hy General Bragg for
secret service, and made s vera! trips to Nashville and
other places inside Federal lines and procured medicine and
surgical instruments, etc.. for the Southern army. II, often
related interviews he had with Federal officers and soldiers
while on tin hazardous duty. After peace u.i ,1' lai ,1. Mr.
Yarbrough entered business in Montgomery, and was
cessful coal merchant for twentj year- His health fading, he
ought a changi of climate in Texas and later in Nashville.
He was a consistent Christian gentleman, a member of the
Methodist Epi copal Church, South. II,' had been an inmate
of the Confederab Soldiers' Hom< tor the past three years
of his own choici II,' i- survived hy his wife and ,!■
son. Walter S. Yarhrough, of this city. The body was taken
to Montgomery, Ala. attended bj the son and widow.
Arch McPherson. — Camp Lyon, at Murray, K\ . reports
the loss of a valued membei in Februarj Lieut Arch Mc-
Pherson, who enlisted in Companj C, Kme's Battalion, in
September, 1861, .md was elei tiant. Upon
the consolidation of his company with tin- 1-1 Confederal
Cavalry, in [862, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and snr-
red with Lee at Vppomattox. Hi brave and
gallam II, was married in i860, to Mi-- V
l'.i'win. who died
I 'I VI IIS IN' I I Ami -I' 1. 1,. M iss.
Mi, following ■ 1 of "the Camp at Hattiesburg, Miss,
have recently passed from tune to eternity; J. M. Bet
i 1 .0 . J I', Easterling, Co. B. 27th Mis- l,n .
W 1 Owen, Co I'. 43d Ala. Inf.; J B I'.eale. Co E, 8th
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Capt. I. M. Aiken.
Camp Ward, No. 10, U. C. V., lias paid its last tribute to
Capt. I. M. Aiken, of Pensacola, Fla. Comrade Aiken was
seventy-six years of age, and had been in ill health for some
time, yet his death was a sad shock to devoted relatives and
friends. The deceased was born at Winnsboro, S. C, on Oc-
tober 16. 1830. When a young man, he moved to Georgia and
engaged in sea island cotton planting near Darien. He was
among the first to volunteer to Georgia's call for troops, and
entered the 47th Volunteer Georgia Infantry, serving with
distinction through the '.var as captain of Company H.
After the war Captain Aiken went on to Pensacola, and
had been a resident of that city for many years, holding many
positions of trust, one time being President of the Board of
Pilot Commissioners. He built up a lucrative business there,
and made many friends. He was a member of Camp Ward,
No. 10, United Confederate Veterans, and always manifested
much interest in its proceedings.
John Mathis McGinnis.
John M. McGinnis was born near Newbern, Dyer County,
Term., in November, 1838; and died on February 27, 1907, at
his home, in Dyersburg, Tenn. He enlisted early in the war,
serving in the command of General Strahl, and made a faith-
ful soldier to the end. He took an active part in the removal
of General Strahl's remains from Ashwood, near Columbia,
to Dyersburg. (See Veteran for April, 1901.) His life
since had been marked by strict integrity and steadfast atten-
tion to duty, and he was held in high regard by the people
of his community.
The death of his older brother, Jim W. McGinnis, at Co-
lumbia. La„ is also reported as occurring on May 10. He was
born in 1837, went through the war as a Confederate soldier,
and afterwards made his home in Louisiana. They were at
their last Reunion together in New Orleans.
Hon. Frank Templeton.
The death of Hon. Frank Templeton occurred at Houston,
Tex., on April 24, 1907, just one day before completing his
sixty-fourth year. He was born in Arkansas, and was taken
by his parents to Texas when just three years old, and had
since been a resident of the State. He had been a citizen of
Houston for some twelve years, and was well known as an
attorney of the city, and had served one term in the Legisla-
ture as a member from Hunt County. He was also a mem-
ber of Dick Dowling Camp, of Houston, he and a brother
(J. A. Templeton, of Jacksonville, Tex.) having served the
Confederacy gallantly.
Comrade Templeton had just published a historical novel,
"Margaret Ballentine ; or, The Fall of the Alamo," the pur-
pose of the writing being to pay a deserved tribute to those
who fell there and also to preserve the personality of such
men as Travis. Bowie, Crockett, and Bonham. This book
should be appreciated, especially by all who are interested in
the early history of our country.
Franklin Lafayette Riley.
An his home, in New Hebron, Miss., occurred the death of
Franklin L. Riley on February 19, 1907. He was born in
Lawrence County, Miss., in February, 1835, and his entire
life of usefulness and devotion to the uplifting of his fellow-
man was spent within a small radius of where he first saw
the light of day and in which his high character commanded
the respect and admiration of all who knew him. He was
.mustered into service on May 29, 1861, as a member of Com-
pany B. 10th Mississippi Regiment, where he served through-
out the war with unswerving loyalty. His command was
transferred to the Army of Northern Virginia, and there did
valiant service. Comrade Riley was wounded in the batlle
of Antietam, and as soon as able he returned home on fur-
lough. In October, 1S62, he was married to Miss Balsorah I.
Weathersby. He rejoined his command in December, which
was then stationed near Fredericksburg. Previous to being
wounded he took part in the battles of Cold Harbor, Malvern
Hill, Second Manassas, and Maryland Heights; and after-
wards in Chancellorsville, Second Fredericksburg, and the
skirmishes at Falling Water, Md.. Brandy Station, and Rapi-
dan. His command was present, but among the reserves, at
Gettysburg and Bristow Station ; but was engaged at the
FRANKLIN L. RILEY.
Wilderness and in the battles at Spottsylvania C. H., Peters-
burg, and Weldon Railroad. He was captured at Fort Gregg
and sent to Point Lookout in April, 1865, and remained until
June 30.
Shortly after the war he engaged in a mercantile business,
in which he continued till a short while before his death. His
energetic and industrious life was crowned with success. He
is survived by his wife and eight children.
Col. A. G. Floyd.
The venerable A. G. Floyd, of Spartanburg, S. C, died
from a second stroke of paralysis on June 10, 1907. He was
born in Cook County on Christmas day, 1832, and served in
Company G, 5th South Carolina Infantry. He was success-
ful in business life and was esteemed by the general public.
He is survived by his wife and six children (Mayor John F.
Floyd, W. M., Andrew A., Brian, and Mrs. Frank Hodges,
of Spartanburg, and Mrs. W. H. Darden, of Gainesville, Ga.).
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Cai't. I). T. Merrh k.
Capt. David T. Merrick, a distinguished sun of Louisiana
both in war and peace, and prominent in the public life of
Point Coupee Parish, died at Merrick on March 14. He was
a son of the late Chief Justice Merrick, of one of the noted
families of the South; and whether in war or peace, he was
always a leader. Born in Clinton, La., in 1841. he was sent
to Centenary College at Jackson; and when tin- war broke
out. though but nineteen years of age, he left school and
Oil red the Confederate army. He raised a company of in-
fantry, and commanded n under General Jackson, par-
ticipating in more than a dozen hard-fought battles. At Get-
tysburg be bad but one man of his company left. He after-
wards commanded a company of sharpshooters, and was subse-
quently placed on the staff of Gen. Leroy Stafford as inspector
general of the 2d Louisiana Brigade He was badly wounded
at Payne's Farm, in Virginia, a Minie ball passing through
the side of his head over the cavity of die mouth and cutting
off the lobe of bis left ear. Recovery from such a wound
was wonderful in th : annals of surgery. Returning to his
Point Coupee plantation after the war. be spent the remainder
of his life in upbuilding the South for which he bad fought.
He was a Mason of high rank and prominent in Confederate
circles for many years. His wife, a son. and a daughter are
left to mourn their loss.
Samuel P.. Erwix.
Comrade V P.. Hill, of Memphis. Tenn., sends tributi to
Samuel P.. Erwin, who died in Hazen, Ark . on \pril ifi, 1907,
in bis sixty sixth year, "having suffered every hour of his
life from the roth of September, [863, when at the battle of
Chickamauga he received a Minie ball in the head which he
carried there until February, 1004. by which time it had
Worked its way down to the roof of his mouth and was re-
moved. 'I li<' wound, however, failed to heal, and gave him
lurch pain. Erysipelas developed, and death ensued. Com-
rade Erwin was a member of Company G, 51st Tennessee In-
fantry, ami made a brave and gallant soldier. He was born
and reared in Tipton County, Tenn., and removed to Arkansas
Short 1) .liter the war lie was never married."
1 >R 1 \ \l 1 - S ( !0RN.
S. Corn was born m Winchester, lum, in 1849, and
it Nashville, Ark., in \pnl. 1007. His father removed
ei to Vrkansas in 1S57. Young Coin enlisted
in the Confederate army before he w as fifteen wars of age.
1 impany A. 47th Arkansas ' avalry, commanded bj
C Lee < 1. Hid. ill. McCrory'i Brigade, Fagan's Division, and
■ nl through as hard s rviee a- am other soldier. He
n Price's memorable raid through Missouri, ami on
account of his daring and bravery part of the time was courier
General Price. After the war he studied medicine, grad
Dating from Vanderbil) University, and in the practice of his
ion lie was the peer of any in Southwest Arkansas.
He was married in 1878, and leaves two daughters and a son.
James H. Jern igan.
'1 lie A Imt. mi 1 .1 1 amp R. 1 I 1 . al 1 1 immi rce, 1 ex., re
ports 1 be death (whicl D bei > oi James 11
Jernigan. a good member, who was born in Polk ' ounty, Ark.
in iS|o. r< moving lo I cxas in 1856 I te enlisted in the 1 lonfed-
erate army in Aug in Company H, 5th rexas Cavalry,
Gano's Brigade, s rving in the Indian ["erritory and \ii
tip to 1K04. ]|0 was dien sent to l'.onham. Tex., as
under General McCulloch, and subsequently assigned to the
Trans-Mississippi Department, under General Gano, and in
all these campaigns performed his duty bravely and gallantly.
Comrade Jernigan was made first sergeant at the organization
of his company. He was afterwards elected third lieutenant,
lie surrendered at Greenville, Tex., June [5, 1X05. After the
war he was a successful merchant and stock dealer in Com-
snerce. where he was known and i< pected for his sterling
worth
Thomas L, It. \ \i .- i i :
Thomas L. Feamster, of Greenbrier, W, Va.. passed into
the great beyond with the passing of the year 1906. He was
born in [829, and had spent bis entire life, save when in the
army, in his native county, lie was among the first lo volun-
teer in defense of his State, joining Companj \. afterwards
of the 14th Virginia Cavalry, of which his brother-in-law,
Moorman White, was captain, himself lirst lieutenant, and
his brother. S. \V. N. Feamster, second lieutenant. The 14th
belonged to McCausland's Brigade, and was a part of Gen
J. E. B. Stuart's famous cavalry. Lieutenant Feamster served
through the four years and made a record of which he was
always justly proud. He was married shortly after the war
to Miss Louise Cary, who survives him with four sons and
three daughters. As a citizen, be teiok an active interest in
public affairs, and was loved and respected in his community.
John Laux.
On May ?,-, [907, John Laux. an old ami respected citizen
of Boone County, Mo., fell asleep at his home, near Riggs,
Mo He was born in Germany August 2, [837. At about the
age of fourteen he came to America with his parents, landing
at New York City. Deceased went from there n> Wisconsin,
where he lived for some time, coming from there to Boone
County, Mo., and had been a resident of said county for
fifty years.
At the beginning of the Civil War lie linked his cause with
the Southern Confederacy, enlisting as a soldier in Companj
I, of General Cockrell's Regiment, and remained with it until
I:, was captured in the battle on KeniK'saw Mountain. He
was sent as a prisoner to Camp Douglas, Chicago. At the
close of the war be returned to Boone County. Mo. and on
November 3, 1870, was married to Esther Frances Melvin,
who preceded him to tin gt a( beyond five yi
I vi. Wu 1 i.wi Hi
The end of an eventful life came with the passing of ( apl
William Hunter, on the 25th of March. He was a nal
[J is, born in the old Hunter boniest cad, near the head waters
of Oyster Creek, in July, [830, and was therefore nearly
seventy seven years old. This old homt I ad tand
and should be famous as the headquarters of Santa Vnna just
before the battle of San Jacinto, and From its bountiful
In hi -e he fed bis pillaging host
Captain Hunter was the son of Dr. Johnson Hunter, of
Missouri, and the last survivor of the family. His
brother was the first white child born in Texas or in the
Austin colony. In 185.' William Hunter sought the gold
fields ot I alifornia, where he remained for some years. Re-
turning to b\.i\ he was married 111 1S00 to Miss Mary Pal
retl Ulen. of Kentucky, and to them were horn two
three daugl
Early in t862 he enlisted in the 15th Texas Infantry, and
served try to the end I pon returning from the war
111 sought rural shade-, in which his soul delighted.
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In 1883 he moved to Houston, where he was married the
second time to Miss Evelyn McGaw, who survives him with
his five children. He had been a faithful, earnest member of
Dick Dowling Camp, and from his deathbed sent his death-
less love to comrades of the Camp. He had been flag bearer
for the Camp for fifteen years, and was so attached to his
old flag that it was buried with him.
Resolutions were passed by the R. E. Lee Chapter, U. D. C,
in his honor as one who had never failed to respond to any call
from the Chapter and who would be missed for his gracious,
kindly cooperation in all good deeds.
Capt. Daniel Coleman.
Capt. Daniel Coleman, a prominent citizen, an accomplished
scholar, a Christian gentleman, and a brave Confederate sol-
dier, after brief, intense suffering, "Crossed the Bar" at his
home, in Huntsville, Ala., June 29, 1906.
Captain Coleman was born September 7, 1838. and was
reared in Athens, Ala. He was the son of Judge Daniel Cole-
man, of the State Supreme Court. He attended the male
academy in Athens and the Hanover Academy, Virginia — a
high school preparatory to the University of Virginia, con-
ducted by his cousin, the lamented and distinguished Lieut.
Col. Lewis Minor Coleman, of General Lee's artillery, who
fell mortally wounded in the battle of Fredericksburg. He
attended the Wesleyan University, at Florence, Ala., where
he graduated in 1857. He graduated in the Law Department
of the University of Virginia. In addition to his practice of
law, he and his brother, John Coleman, bought the Athens
Herald, and edited that paper until the Confederate war began.
He advocated the election of Breckinridge and Lane. When
Alabama seceded, he joined the Madison Rifles of Huntsville,
and they proceeded to Pensacola, Fla. Soon after leaving
home some of his Alabama friends who had supported Beli
and Everett in the late presidential campaign made fun of
and jeered at him. The stars and stripes were floating in the
breeze from the tops of several business houses in Athens on
that eventful day. In a few months, however, the very men
who had ridiculed Daniel Coleman for "rushing off to go to
war" had enlisted in the same great patriotic cause that had
inspired him.
Captain Coleman lost his health at Pensacola, and through
the influence of friends he was transferred to the "Limestone
Troopers," organized by the lamented and talented Maj.
Thomas Macklin Hobbs, who while gallantly leading his
company fell mortally wounded in the battle of Seven Pines.
Captain Coleman sometime after the first battle of Manassas
was transferred to the staff of Gen. Philips St. George Cocke,
of Virginia. General Cocke died in January. 1862, and Cap-
tain Coleman was then transferred to the Army of Tennessee
as inspector general on the staff of Gen. S. A. M. Wood, Cle-
burne's Division. In the battle nf Shiloh, while carrying an
order upon the field, his horse was killed under him.
In the battle of Murfreesboro his brother, Capt. John Heart-
well Coleman, was mortally wounded while leading his com-
pany of sharpshooters in a terrific charge fifty yards in ad-
vance of the main line of the brigade. After taking the re-
mains of his noble brother home for interment in the family
graveyard, General Wood assigned him to the command of
that same company of sharpshooters. He commanded that
company in the terrible battle of Chickamauga, where bis
brother, Lieut. Richard Vassar Coleman, in his nineteenth
year, was killed, pierced by a dozen balls, while leading his
command in a desperate charge upon Thomas's breastworks.
lie fell within thirty yards of the enemy. His company and
his brother's company constituted a battalion of sharpshooters.
Captain Coleman, through the influence of his de-r mother
and without his knowdedge, was transferred by General Bragg
to General Roddy's Division of Cavalry, in the Tennessee
Valley of North Alabama. In this command a month or two
later a boy brother, Ruffin Coleman, enlisted in the escort
company of General Roddy just after the Federals banished
him, his sister Martha, and his little brother, Frank, not
thirteen years old, from their mother's home, which they
pillaged and confiscated.
Captain Coleman served with marked distinction and gal-
lantry to the close of the war. In a dashing charge upon a
Federal ambuscade he had the second horse killed under him.
lie was never wounded; but in one battle he had his canteen
rhot off him, and in another several holes were shot through
his clothes. He was never a prisoner. In whatever command
he served he was popular with the men. His superiors had
implicit confidence in him. With General Roddy's command
he was surrendered at Pond Spring (now Wheeler), Ala.,
in May, 1865.
After the war Captain Coleman immediately resumed the •
practice of his profession in Athens, Ala. In June, 1874, he
married the accomplished Miss Claude LeVert, only daughter
1 if Mr. Francis and Mrs. Eliza Withers LeVert. Mr. LeVert
was a son of Dr. LeVert, who came as a surgeon on La-
fayette's staff in the War of the American Revolution. Cap-
tain Coleman was himself of a very prominent family. The
brilliant and beloved Mrs. Clay-Clopton said of him to one
of his sons upon meeting for the first time, her hand resting
graciously on his head : "Here is a son of the man who could
have had anything within the gift of the people of Alabama,
and he would not have it."
Captain Coleman left two children, a son and a daughter.
The son, LeVert Coleman, graduated at West Point in 1899,
seventh in a class of seventy-two. He is now a captain in
the regular artillery, stationed at San Francisco. The daugh-
CAPT. DANIEL COLEMAN.
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327
tcr, Verdot, highly educated, ;i brilliant musician, is very
popular and lives now with her widowed mother at the old
LeVert homest ad. in Huntsville, Ala. Captain Coleman's
love of home and his devotion to his family were beautiful.
He was never happier than when he was in his old-fashioned
ideal Southern home surrounded by his family. He and his
son were more like brothers than father and son. They were
"a- chummy as two college boys."
Captain Coleman was a number of the Episcopal Church,
and was foi years the senior warden of the vestry of the
Church of the Nativity at Huntsville. He was a brighl
Mi on and a Knight Templar, lie was an honor graduati ol
the Wesleyan University, ami served m the State Senate
He held a consular appointment in France from President
Cleveland. He was a devoted Confederate and had com-
manded the Egbert Jones Camp at Huntsville, and at the time
of his death he was Judge-Advocate General upon tin stafl
i Gen George Harrison, Commander of the Alabama Di-
vision, l\ C. V. He and bis brother Frank furnished a room
in the Moore Cottage of the Soldiers' Hume at Mountain
Creek, Ala., a-- a memorial to their hero brothers, John and
Richard.
"( .. '. s, ildier, ti i thy hi inored rest,
Thy truth and valor wearing;
The bravesl are the tenderest,
I Ik \o\ ing are the daring."
\ maj 1" seen, four Coleman brothers at the trumpet call
to ilut.v wenl io tin from m defense of the South, ami when
tin war was over, only two of diem returned, ami now only
one of the four who followed lb flag of the Confed ra n
i ai 'Ins side of th ■ "Bar "
Hopkins.— John Houston Hopkins was born in Spenc i
County, Ky. ; and dieil at Argeula. Ark. on April _• lie
grew to manh 1 at Owensboro, Ky., and was among the
lir-t to espouse the Southern cause, joining a company under
Capt. John P. Thompson I In- company was sent first to
Nashville, Tenn., and then to Harper's berry. Ya.. and was
-worn mi.. « rvicc as a pari of the regiment under Col.
Thomas I*'. Taylor ami Lieut. Col. William Preston Johnston
At the expiration of their year of service the regiment was
reduced to about two hundred nun. and they were disbanded
ami allowed to join any commands they chose. Houston
Hopkins, with about fortj others, joined Morgan's command
at ( 'hait 11100.4:1. ami remained with it to tin- end, being iden-
tified especiallj with Quirk's Scouts. Comrade Hopkins was
and-nephew of G n Sam 1 1. luston.
Joiin J. Kim. -The sudden death of John J. Rine at his
home, 111 Keyser, \\ Va., Maj rg removed a substantial and
upright citizen of the community. He had jusl passed into
his sixty-eighth year He served the South as a membei oi
Companj !•'. ~th Virginia, and was one of ih< bravesl of that
famous regiment He faithfullj filled the duties of life, and
bj hard work and strict economy had accumulated a com
fortable fortune, ami m living .i consistent Christian lit'- also
laid up ti iovi lie I- survived bj four daughters.
Wllin John V. WTlitt was horn m May. iX.c He volun-
. 1:1 Company I'. Hampton's Legion, in 1861, and was
continually with his command for duty until the surrender
at Appomattox Mi died on the night oi December 24, d ath
coming suddenlj ami quiet!) Mi- wife and three children
survive him.
Gricsby, \1t11 .1 good ami useful life. Miles G. Grigsby
died m Napa, Cab, at ths age 1 f sixty-two years. He was a
11. line of Tennessee, and in 1861 enlisted for th Confederacy
as a member of the 3d Tennessee, known as the "Brown
Pigers." commanded by Harvej Walker, anil serv <l faithfully
through the many trying experiences ^i a soldier's life. He
was wounded at Chickamauga ami again at Resaca, which
ended his lit, .0 .1 soldier. He went to California some twenty
years ago ami settled at Redlands, ami was \i-itiii^ among
friends and relatives at tin timi 1 I In- death, He was never
married. He leaves tout broth' r and one sister.
VlXEN.— J, G Allen died in Plain Pealing. La., 111 Septetn
ber, 1906, in Ins seventy-second year, lie joined the G
erate army tit Monroe, La., in April, t86i, as private in 1 om
pany B, tst Louisiana Squadron of Cavalry, went direct to
Corinth, Miss., ami was promoted to second sergeant just after
a battle at Denmark, Tenn, He - rved in Forrest's 1 avalry
until the la'ter part of 1X64, when he was transferred to west
of" the Mississippi River was promoted to first lieutenant in
Company D, of the is! Louisiana Cavalry, and surrendered
at Shreveport Ma\ _>.s 1865. His life, both military and civil,
wa- characterized by religious fidelity.
John I-:. BoHON.— Oil April 10. 10.17. John E. BollOil died
at his home, in Covington. K\ . aged seventj years Mr en
tried the Confederate service in \pnl. [861, in the 30th Vir-
ginia Regiment, C01 e' Brigad', Pickett's Division, and par
ticipated in the battle of Bull Run. where he was wounded
in the shoulder ; .11 G ttysburg, where in was wounded in the
hip; also ,11 Harper's lorry, battle of Five Forks, Fairfax
C M Mr was wounded in the head and sent to Richmond,
rejoined bis regimen', and was transferred to North Carolina,
serving under Stonewall Jackson. He » 1 paroled at Rich-
mond m Vpril, 1865.
Mi o mi George W. Metcalf died at his home, in Lexing-
ton, Ky , in February, 1007, aged sixty-eight years, in Sep-
tember of [862 he enljsted in Company F, 5th Kentucky In-
fantry, with which he served till the close ,,f tin- war. sur-
g a' Washington, da.. M:i\ 6, 1865. Me wa- appointed
corporal in May. 1S0.!. and promoted to sergeant in [864 He
participated in all the battles of his regiment with the famous
"Orphan Brigade," and was wounded at Chickamauga and
Dallas, 1.1 II was married in 1878 to Miss Marx Eastland,
I f Boyle County, who, with their live children, survives him.
Minim ion. — John W. Middleton dud .it Limestone, Tenn.,
in March, in his seventy-second year. Me was horn near
Harrisonburg, Va., in 1835, u,,i erved in the Confederate
army as a member of Company II. -'7th Virginia, Stonewall
Brigade, serving under Jackson till In, death. He was cap-
tured at Gettysburg and imprisoned mar Baltimore. He re-
turned to Lexington. Va., at his liberation from prison, mar-
II d. and reared a family of eleven children. He removed
w ith his family to I 1 ntu sei 111 (897.
Mink-, Dennis. Henrj Dennis, horn in Mown.' County,
Mo. ni 1836, died at Midway, Mo., in March, 1007. Me was
married to Mis- Elizabeth McGhec in 1N57. ami a son ami
a daughter si,,xn. Comrade Dennis enlisted in the Confed-
iim\ in August. 1861, serving continuously until the
of Franklin, where he was wounded and captured. He
was in a'l l' hard fought battles from Lexington. Mo. to
Franklin, and did his full dm. [diet in every way.
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COL. B. F. CRAYTON.
Eight Venerable Veterans of Anderson, S. C.
The Dixie Chapter, U. D. C, at Anderson, S. C, reports
the passing of eight veterans in that section as follows:
Col. B. F. Crayton, the oldest citizen of Anderson, died on
the night of February 5. Ik- was born in Greenville in July,
1S20. in 1838 going to Anderson, where he had continuously
lived with the excep ion of the war period. He closed out
his business at the
beginning of the war
and joined Orr"s
Regiment of Rifles,
pf which he was ap-
pointed quartermas-
ter ; but had to resign
later on account of
his health. He was
then placed by Mr.
Davis in charge of
the Confederate
States deposi'ory at
Anderson, and han-
dled for the govern-
ment large amounts
of money and bonds.
He was elected to the
Legislature in 1862,
reelected in 1864 and
also reelected under
the provisional government of South Carolina, when Orr was
made Governor, serving two years. He was elected to the
Senate in 1878, and served four years, representing that body
at the Yorktown Centennial. Colonel Crayton's boyhood years
were spent upon a farm where he imbibed a love for agri-
culture that continued through life, and he was a leading
spirit in anything tending to the improvement of farming
me' hods and stock. He leaves a son and daughter.
Joe B. McGee died on February 20, aged about seventy-five
years. When the war began, he joined the Palmetto Riflemen,
4th Regiment ; but was wounded and forced to return home,
and after a short while was elected sheriff of his county and
served faithfully during the rest of the war; he also served
one term after the war, and in later years became a merchant
in Anderson. His wife and six children survive him.
H. W. Shaw died near Mosely, S. C, in ' uary. aged
seventy-three years. He served in Company t. 20th South
Carolina Regiment, during the war faithfully to the end. He
was twice married, and of the second union sixteen children
were born, twelve of whom, with their mother, survive.
George W. Belcher died at his home, near Iva. S. C, Jan-
uary 15. He served through the war as a member of the
4th South Carolina Regiment. He was twice married, his
second wife and a large family of sons and daughters sur-
viving him.
R. H. Y. Lowry, one of the oldest and best-known citizens
of Seneca, S. C, died on March 6. He was orderly sergeant
of Company C, Orr's Regiment, enlisting at Sandy Springs
July 20, 1861, when the regiment was formed, and his record
was of the best. He was a successful business man of Seneca.
He leaves a wife, two sons, and two daughters.
James Robert Burns was born in 1843 in Oconee County,
S. C. : and died at Anderson in November, 1906. In his nine-
teenth year he volunteered in Company F, Orr's Regiment of
Rifles, and for his courage and high character was made a
sharpshooter in McGowan's Brigade in the fall of 1864. under
Capt. W. S. Dunlap. He was captured in April, 1865, carried
to New York and imprisoned on Hart's Island, and kept there
until July, 1865. Comrade Burns was of Revolutionary an-
cestry, his grea'.-grandfather, John Burns, of Laurens, being
a noted soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Capt. Julius L. Franklin died at his home, near Richland,
S. C, in December, having reached the ripe age of eighty
years. His record as a Confederate soldier is fine ; he was
a senior captain, and at times acted as brigadier general. He
was a graduate of the University of South Carolina and of
Virginia, and had represented the counties of Anderson and
Oconee in the Legislature in both Houses.
Wash W. Erskine. an aged veteran of the community, is
another death reported. He enlisted in the Confederate serv-
ice from Anderson County, and served through the war, mak-
ing a record surpassed by none. After the war he settled in
Oconee County, and made one of its best citizens. He was
eighty-two years old.
Hon. J. W. McGinnis.
A faithful friend and zealous friend of the Veteran was
lost in the death of J. W McGinnis, which occurred at his
home, in Columbia. La., in May of heart failure. He was
the honored Mayor of the town, and had filled the position
for many years. He was born in Obion County, Tenn.. about
seventy years ago. and enlisted in the Confederate army in
a company from that section of the State, serving throughout
the war. Mayor McGinnis was a zealous Odd Fellow, also a
member of the Knights of Pythias, and was buried by these
two orders. (See page 324.)
Rev. Henry Whitney Cleveland.
As soldier, minister, lawyer, and author, Rev. Henry Whit-
ney Cleveland held a high place in the life of Kentucky, and
especially in that of his home city, Louisville. Though born
in the North, at Akron, Ohio, in 1836, most of his boyhood
was spent in Georgia, and he was an ardent champion of
Southern rights. At the outset he was a colonel on the staff
of Gov. Joseph E. Brown. He assisted in the taking of Fort
Pulaski, and was also instrumental in the capture of the
Augusta arsenal, by which twenty-eight thousand arms and
much ammunition were won for the Confederacy. Later in
regular field service he was commissioned first lieutenant of
Company G, 1st Georgia Regulars. He served as chaplain of
his regiment. He was afterwards transferred, and held an
administrative office directly under President Jefferson Davis.
At different times during the war be was inspector of troops
of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. He was in the secret
service and in active command of the 54th Georgia Regiment.
He was captured at Vicksburg, and for many months held as
prisoner of war.
Comrade Cleveland was ordained a minister when very
young, and when but twenty years of age was admitted to the
Georgia bar. After the close of the war, his time was devoted
to the ministry and writing. He was a close friend of Alex-
ander H. Stephens, and assisted him in writing his "War be-
tween the States," and he is the author of a "Life of Alexan-
der Hamilton Stephens." He was called to the Asbury Meth-
dist Church, of Louisville, in 1884, and since then that city
had been his home. Though connected with that Church but
one year, his time was actively devoted to Church and educa-
tional work, and his contributions were published in leading
papers and magazines of the country. He is survived by bis
wife and three children.
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329
STATE OFFICERS U. D. C.
Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, of Greenwood, Miss., writes
on May 25 that she had been notified of the election of the
following lists of officers in the Divisions named:
Mississippi Division.
President, Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens. Brandon.
Vice President, Mrs. Sarah E. Wilson. Sardis.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Blanch M. Fresenius, Gulfport.
Cor. Secretary, Mrs. Jennie M. Berry, Port Gihson.
Treasurer, Mrs. Olivia M. Champion, Edwards.
Historian. Mrs. William Verger, Greenville.
Registrar, Miss Lizzie B. Craft. Holly Springs.
I<< corder of Cross of Honor, Miss Alice Lovell, Natchez.
Alabama Division.
President. Mrs. Charles G. Brown. Birmingham.
Vice Presidents, Mrs. B. Ross, Auburn, and Mrs. Louis
Cobb, Montgomery.
Recording Secretary. Mrs. L. T. Pride, Tuscumbia.
Cor. Secretary, Mrs. Eleanor J. Phillips. Birmingham.
Treasurer, Mrs. Thomas W. Palmer. Tuscaloosa.
Historian, Mrs. Harvey E. Jones. Mobil?.
Registrar. Mrs. Frank Elmore, Montgomery.
Tennessee Division.
President. Mrs. M. B. Pilcher, Nashville.
Vice Presidents, Mrs. W. B. Dobbins, Columbia, and Mrs.
J. H. Hard wick, Cleveland.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Clapp. Memphis.
Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. E. E. Adams, Lebanon.
Treasurer, Mrs. G. W. Denny. Knoxville.
Registrar, Miss Susie Gentry. Franklin.
Historian. Mrs. D. B. Dozier, Franklin.
Recorder. Mrs W W. Baird, Humboldt.
Poetess, Miss Beatrice Stevens. Dyersburg.
Custodian Flags, Mrs. Bealle J. Baker, McKenzie.
Louisiana Division.
President, Miss Mattie B. McGrath, Baton Rouge.
Vice Presidents, Mrs. R. L. Randolph, Alexandria, Miss
Belle Kahn. Plaqueminc. Miss Mary Furman, Shreveport, and
Mrs. Kate S. Holmes, Tallulah.
Reci rding Secretary. Mrs. F. K. Surghnor, Monroe.
Cor Secretary, Mrs W. N. White. Lake Providence.
Treasurer. Miss Julia Hines, Clinton
Financial Secretary. Mrs 1'. A. S. Vaught, New Orleans.
Historian, Mrs |). A. Caruthers, Baton Rouge.
Registrar, Mrs. D. A. Johnson, Alexandria.
Custodian Soldiers' Home. Mrs. P. Israel, New Orleans.
Recorder Cross of Honor, Mrs. A J. Hardy. Shreveport.
MRS III VDERSON ENTERTAINED IX NEW YORK
[Reported by Mrs. Cowles Myle* Collier, Historian.]
On tii. afternoon of June 17 in the parlors of Hotel Astor
the New York I haptei of the United Daughters of the Con-
acy nn 1 in honoi of th< President General, Mrs Hen-
derson, to welcome her in their midst Our President, \ii-
James Henrj Parker, prepared 1 1 n< > - 1 interesting programme
in which musical talent and bright speaki Ts gave zest to the
occasion in titling song and story.
Mrs Henderson replied in a womanly address breathing of
true patriotism and inspiring to higher ideals. Thesi words
were received in the spirit -< nl and full appreciation was
expressed in the applause which followed.
The invitation from the President to adjourn to the ad-
joining room and join her in a "cup of lea" before separating
was in fact a sumptuous feast spread with brilliant table
decorations embodying tin- Confederate colors and appropriate
souvenirs for each guest. The hour soon passed in discussion
of pkasant memories.
There were present as guests of honor to meet Mrs. Hen-
derson : Mrs. D. Phoenix Ingrahant. President General Daugh-
ters of Revolution; Mrs. William Garry Slade, President Gen-
eral Daughters of 1812; Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpoel,
Regent Mary Washington Colonial Chapter, D. A. R : Mrs.
William C. Story, Regent Manhattan Chapter, D. A. R. ; Mrs.
Katherine Eagan. of Florida, ex-Vice President 1>. A. R.;
Mrs. J. Heron Crosman, New York Regent Pocahontas Me-
morial Association.
DAUGHTERS' BUILDING AT IAMESTOWN.
With the determination never to lose an opportunity to do
honor to the cause they represent, the Daughters of the Con-
federacy of the Virginia Division net d at the Jamestown
Exposiiion. Norfolk, a replica of Beauvoir, the Mississippi
home of their beloved President. Jefferson Davis This is the
first time any Confederate organization has been represented
at an exposition except by a few relics in some building or
a day set aside by the exposition managers. It is a big under-
taking for one Division, and they ask individual support
from all interested in the work of their organization. The
building was opened on April 26. hut money had to be bor-
rowed to make the last payment. Tin house is one of the most
attractive on the grounds, with its wide porches and lovely
view of the water, a hostess to welcome guests and bid them
rest awhile, a place where members can check parcels free.
In connection witli our building and in order to meet our
running expenses is a dining room, where most attractive
meals are served at as reasonable rate as possible and South-
ern dishes made a speciality.
Membership is asked of all individuals interested in our
bouse. It is not necessary to belong to a Confederate or-
ganization. The Daughters of the Revolution wearing their
badges are our invited guests. We have not State. couni\. or
city to give us an appropriation. Send your contribution or
write for membership card for fifty cents to Mrs. C. B. Tate,
Draper, Va.. or to Mrs. N. V. Randolph. Chairman W.n
Means, Richmond, Va.
No worthier appeal was ever made in the Veteran. Gallant
Confederates, loyal Daughters, and friends of the South could
'do no better or more fitting s rvice than to send for mem-
bership as indicated above, ibis regardless of going to the
Exposition.
I)\ii\s Confederate MemoMAI Hall. — The John H.
Reagan Camp of l". S. C. V have taken out a charter to
build a memorial hall in Dallas. Tex It is "for tin- pi
of promoting and building ;i memorial hall, or monumental
edifice, to perpetuate the memory of John II Reagan and to
solicit funds for that purposi . to p ireserve
the war records of those who bore anils in the cans of the
Confederate States of Amen. cept, collect, and pre-
serve such public records, relic-, and othir properly as may
be committed to tin p bj the United Con
federate Veterans." The incorporators an W Lindsay Bibb,
Charles S. Swindell-. Jennings M Moon. 0. 1'. Ford, and
Jeff IV Reagan. Tin- is a new Camp, with W I. Bibb is
Commander and Charles S Swindells as Secretary
330 Qopfederat^ l/eterar?.
FINE LIKENESS OF GEN. R. E. LEE. MAGNIFICENT CONFEDERATE WAR PAINTINGS.
The large steel engraving published by the John A. Lowell The Most Successful and Most Important Artistic
Bank Note Company, of Boston, has been pronounced by the Attempt in the History of the South.
Lee family and others who were associated with and under -,,-■, ■ . . ■ . , ,
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him as the most perfectly satisfactory likeness of the great . ., , , . t „; „.„ „ , -,
, ■ , , T-. . , • ' , , r ments that a series of masterpieces of Mr. Gilbert Gaul, Na-
leader extant. 1 here were three cabinet photographs made of , . . • ■ . . . , , ,
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the General at his home three days after the surrender, ro D ■ ,. , ■ n , . , , .
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make his design, Mr. Lowell decided to use the particular one , , . . ,,.,,,
f »v,» k i;„ a . i .i 'i ii l i i perpetuate in color the spirit and life of the great strugg e
Of these believed to be the best and the one the family pre- , t ., c. , *. ■ , . ,
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ern cities, locating it at last in the library of Dr. William . , .. , . , • .
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Thompson, of Philadelphia, who loaned it to Mr. Lowell for \. n... . n , T . ' . , J? i-> j r . „
,, , t- .i ■ ir t ,, , j , Mr- Gilbert Gaul, to do the work. The President of the Na-
that purpose. 1-rom this picture Mr. Lowell had an enlarged , . , , „ . . „T ,r , , ., „ ,
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, , . . , . , . , ... ." . , . . , as the best-qualilied man to do this work m America, and
made his etching, keeping ihe likeness before him in the small , , , . ,
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, . ., r , . " . , , • , tions dealing with American war subjects have been made,
peared in the Soiithim press in praise of this great work TT ,, . .
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ot art. ...
T-, ,, ,..,.. , . , . ductions in the most exquisite fashion known to art. With
Ihe engraving is i(>' ..n.'I'4 inches in size, and is made in . . t. . . , ,
t . , lL , „ . this purpose the paintings are made by the finest color process,
four grades at the following prices: * . , , , , ..
21X20 inches, and they are now about ready for delivery.
Signed artist proofs on vellum, each $50 00 The company is delighted with the cordial reception given to
Signed artist proofs on India paper, each 2500 their project. The Confederate Veteran commends the
India prints, each 10 00 movement, and old soldiers to whom the pictures especially
Plain prints, each 5 00 appeal are securing sets, as are Camps, Chapters, and organi-
zations interested in Confederate work.
Testimonials from High Sources. The set of these reproductions comprises seven paintings.
Miss Mary Custis Lee is quoted as saying of the picture: The first, "Leaving Home," shows the parting of the father
"It is a beautiful piece of engraving and the most thoroughly w'tn his son in the interior of a typical Southern home; the
satisfactory likeness of my father that I have ever seen." second, "Holding the Line at All Hazards," is as its name
In ordcrng a copy of the engraving, Andrew R. Blakely. of implies and the noble stand being made by the Confederate
New Orleans, proprietor of St. Charles Hotel, wrote the forces upon a battlefield; the third, "Waiting for Dawn," is
firm: "I think your portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee a great a moonlight camping scene in the snow; the fourth is a
work of art and the best likeness of i' ; kind of the great "Picket" on duty in the forest; the fifth a "Forager" return-
leader I have ever seen." ing to camp ; in the sixth the boys in blue and gray have for-
Capt. G. W. Booth, of Baltimore, wrote of it: "By all true gotten hostilities and are playing seven-up for coffee and
lovers of their country, men who are proud of one of the tobacco "Between the Lines ;" in the seventh, "Tidings," a
greatest of its sons, the possession of .this likeness of Gen. beautiful Southern girl is reading a letter from the front upon
R. F.. Lee will be prized as a most valuable contribution to a" old Southern veranda. The whole makes a very complete
history; it will carry the old Confederate to the days when picture of the courage, devotion, daring, camp life, and home
in rags he followed him in battle, through danger and priva- life of the Southern soldier during the war.
tions, and when the last sad day came shed but a tear when The paintings are very pleasing, and every Southern home
their great captain said the word to cease the struggle, with 'llat can afford them should be supplied. They are to be sold
the unshaken conviction that if 'Marse Robert' said so 'it is 'n portfolio form, bound in leather "Confederate Gray," and
all right.' " with every set there will be descriptive pages telling the story
of each picture and exhibiting its motif. They are in turn to
Model of Great Gun at Jamestown.— In the exhibits by be 'Uustrated by catchy pen sketches. Elsewhere in this Vet-
the United States government there is a model of the largest ERAN there is an advertisement of the work. Aside from the
cannon ever made. Its length is forty-nine feet three inches, value of this series of Pict»res as accurate historic souvenirs,
a- weight two hundred and nine-one thousand pounds, and PreservinS the de'ails and illustrating the spirit of the Con-
six hundred and forty pounds of smokeless powder is re- federate days' *""? ls 110t amonS the serles a slnSle painting
quired for a discharge. The distance carried by the shot is but wou,d' from an art standpoint alone, grace the most ele-
twenty-one miles. Only four shot, have been fired, and the gant drawing-room or art gallery.
cost of each was $1 "00 This Southern company deserves the hearty commendation
of every one who loves the true value of the Old South, and
,. ... ._ . „ , the Veteran does not hesitate to state that every home which
Model of a West Point Academy Building at James- , , . ■,,,,, ■ .
^ . , , . , ., . . . secures a set of these pictures will be the happier for it.
town. — One of the most pleasing exhibitions in the James-
town Exposition is the model of entrance to one of the West
Point buildings. This entrance comprises pictures of six The Daughters of Columbia, Tenn., on occasion of the State
ante-bellum graduates of the academy. They are Grant. Convention U. D. C. did themselves great credit and have the
Sheridan, and Sherman, Federal; R. E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jack- gratitude of all the members for their hospitality. The lunch-
son, and Albert Sidney Johnston. Confederate. So far the cons were worthy State occasions, and will long be remem-
governmtnt has never been quite so liberal as in dividing bered. All the people of that fair city entered into the spirit
equally the distinction of eminent West Point graduates. of making the occasion one of highest credit to all concerned.
Confederate l/eteran.
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C. B. Patterson, of Henrietta. Tex.,
make* inquiry for two brothers. Newton
W. and Charles E. Patterson, lost in
the Confederate service, and asks that
any comrades who remember them will
write him. Comrade Patterson was him-
self a member of the l6th Missouri Reg-
iment, while N. W. Patterson belonged
to some Arkansas regiment, and thinks
lie was its adjutant. Charles was a grad-
uate of the West Point Military Acade-
my in 1861, went to Richmond, and was
-•in to Mississippi, and was killed or
wounded in the battle of Shiloh, though
no reliable information of either brother
I .1 ever been secured.
Houston Haynie, of Kemp. Tex.,
writes of an old comrade in that com-
munity who is needy and worthy, and
be wishes to locate some of his com-
to testify as to his war record.
This comrade is William Henry Thorn-
of G impanj I 1 1 aptain I 1 annel),
8th Louisiana Infantry, and he served
in the Virginia Army. Those who re-
member him will confer a favor by writ-
ing to Mr. Haynie in his 1>< half.
Attention has been called to error in
name of one of the brigadier generals
whose names were published in the VET-
ERAN for May. The name of Philip S.
e, Powhatan County, \'a , should
have been Philip St. George Cocke, of
Powhatan County. Va. This correction
s from Leander Walker, of Ttilia,
Tex., who writes that he was in General
Cocke's brigade at the battle of Manas-
sas, and sometime after that General
t eke went home sick and his death
Mi-- Isab 1 Smith, who is in the li-
of the Navy Department at Wash-
on, D. C, makes inquiry for three
brothers of her father who wen- in Ten-
i k fi ire the war James 1 h"yden
Smith. David Smith, and I a 1
Smith She also mentions thai "tie of
her uncle- went to Mississippi, and was
a law partner of Jos Davis, a brother of
President Davis She will be gla
hear from any one who remember. :
r latives or anything in connection with
the family.
V. C. Allen, of Da > nits
to know when and where the 3d 1
I ivalry Regimen! was organ-
ized and who command d it.
Confederate
War
Pictures
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By GILBERT GAUL.
NATIONAL ACADEMICIAN.
With Introductory sketches by
THORNWELL JACOBS.
Price of full set in four colors, on heavy
:'. polychrome paper with leather portfolio,
:• $l(i..r1(); payable $1.50 monthly, (ash price
':p'*2*j^*Si |P^f¥;?»'*br'.'l". Individual pictures *;;.:,u om.|i.
; ''. The gray men of the sixties are to live again upon the can-
vases of perhaps America's greatest painter of war subjects, Mr.
Gilbert Gaul, National Academician, whose splendid paintings
hang in the most famous collections of the world. His strong
brush has portrayed with much realism, not their bitterness
and recriminations, but their magnificent motive, their magnani-
mous courage, their unmatched devotion. Thus some who love
the real values of the Old South, have attempted to do a great
thing— something which should appeal to every intelligent
American, man or woman. A number of gentlemen of Nash-
ville, Tenn., have organized a company, the object of which is
to crystalize on canvas the magnificent deeds of daring love
which distinguished the Confederate soldier. One by one they
are going, and soon the papers will contain under black head-
lines the story of the last illness of the "man who wore the
gray." Some who have understood have joined hands and
said, "The vision of these men and their deeds must not perish
from the Earth." So they placed it in the hands of Mr. Gilbert
Gaul, and the result will be a heritage for the generations to come.
There are seven pictures 15x19 inches, reproducing every
shade of tone and motif and embossed so as to give perfect can-
vas effect. Each one is a masterpiece, depicting the courage, sac-
rifice, heroism, sufferings and home life of the Southern soldier.
It is impossible with words to describe the beauty and pathos
of these pictures. The first, "Leaving Home," is a typical South-
ern interior, and a lad telling the family good-bye. The second is
a battle scene, as the name "Holding the Line at All Hazards," im-
plies. "Waiting for Dawn," the third, depicts* a moonlight scene
on a battlefield, the soldiers sleeping among the stiff forms of
yesterday's battle, while they wait for dawn and renewed hostil-
ities. "The Forager" is a fresh faced young boy returning to camp
with a load of fowls and bread. The sixth, "Playing Cards be-
tween the Lines" shows the boys in blue and gray, hostilities for-
gotten, having a social game, with stakes of Southern tobacco and
Yankee coffee. The last of the seven is entitled "Tidings," and
represents a pretty Southern girl reading news from the front.
These pictures are offered separately or in portfolio form, and
at about half what they should be in comparison with similar
work along this line. Write today for illustrated circular de-
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Capt. W. S. Ray, of DeQueen, Ark.,
asks that surviving comrades of R. W.
Fisher, who served in Company G, 29th
Texas Cavalry (Tom Littlejohn's com-
pany), organized in Paris, Tex., will
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or regiment who was captured with him
shortly before the surrender of Lee, five
miles below Petersburg, Va.. and sent to
prison at Point Lookout, Md., for two
months and seventeen davs.
A. P. Sparkman, of Magnolia, Miss.,
wishes to locate a Dr. Harrell, who was
in charge of a ward at Delevan Hospital,
Charlottesville. Va., in June. 1862. He
was a refugee from South Carolina, an
Episcopal minister, and a prominent
physician.
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Dr. A. 1!. Gardner, of Denison, Tex.,
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Mrs. W. J. Bshan, of New Orleans,
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J. L. Dickson, of Sherman, Tex..
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whose home, as he remembers, during
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pi 1 11 1 ('. II , Va., and hopes to hear from
him or any of his family; also wants to
bear from John CatO, of Martinshurg,
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GROUP OF CONFEDERATES IN WASHINGTON CITY
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J. W. BBBSON, Pres., Meridian, Miss.
Mrs. F. 0. Fuller, of Cold Springs,
Tex., wishes to procure the war record
of her uncle, David Bullock, and asks
that any of his comrades will write her.
He was born and reared in San Augus-
tine or Sabine County, Tex., but she
does not know what State he enlisted
from. Some fifteen years since he was
living at Logansport, La. He was in the
battle of Mansfield, La., and she thinks
he was wounded in that battle, as her
recollection of him is of being crippled
from a wound.
Mrs. M. A. Robertson, R. F. D. No.
5, Box 30, Fort Worth, Tex., is trying
to secure a pension, and needs to hear
from some comrade of her husband who
can substantiate her claim. Her husband
was Nat P. Robertson, and he enlisted
from Marietta, Cobb County, Ga„ in
Phillips's Legion, 3gth Georgia Regi-
ment, company not known. She will ap-
preciate hearing from any one who re-
calls this comrade.
The fifth annual Reunion of the S. W.
Arkansas Confederate Veteran Associa-
tion was held at its "camping ground,"
near McNeil, Ark., July 17-19. Dr. C
N. Norwood made the address of wel-
come, and other addresses were made
during the Reunion by prominent vet-
erans of that section. From two to five
thousand people were in daily attendance,
and as a whole the Reunion was con-
sidered the most successful ever held in
Arkansas.
Air. E. W. Winkler, State Librarian,
Austin, Tex., is anxious to secure the
following numbers of the Veteran to
fill out the file for the State Library.
Any who can furnish these copies or a
few of them will kindly write to him.
stating price asked. Only copies in good
order wanted : All numbers of Volume
I. wanted : 1894, January, February,
March, May; 1895, June; 1896, February.
W. H. Bachman, of Magnet, Ark.,
asks if Dr. Wall, who belonged to Har-
ris's Mississippi Brigade and had charge
of Ward 1 in Howard Grove Hospital,
Richmond, Va., in August, 1864, is liv-
ing; and if so, he would be pleased to
hear from him. He thinks he lived in
Wilkerson County, Miss.
Alexander Kennon, of Lakenon, Hill
County. Tex., wishes to hear from any
surviving member of Company H, Capt.
John Peck, 3d Louisiana Cavalry.
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Contributors are requested to use only one side of the paper, and to ahbrevi
ate as much as practicable. These suggestions are Important.
Where clippings are sent copy should be kept, as the Veteran cannot un-
dertake to return them. Advertising rates furnished on application
The date to a subscription is always given to the month vffort it ends. For
Instance, if the Veteran is ordered to begin with January, the date on mail
list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that number.
OFFICIALLT REPRESENTS;
United Confederate Veterans,
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Sons of Veterans, and Other Organizations,
Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
The r»>»'/ war was too long ago to be called the fair war, and when cor-
respondents use that term " War between the States" will be substituted.
The terms "New South" and "lost cause" are objectionable to the Veteran.
The Veteran is approved and indorsed officially by a larger and more
elevated patronage, doubtless, than any other publication in existence.
Though men deserve, they may not win success;
The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the less.
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Vol. XV
NASHVILLE. TENN . AUGUST. 1907.
No. s.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
Proprietor.
REPORl OF ADJUTAN1 GENERA1 MICKLE.
In Ins official report dated New Orleans, La., May 23. 1907,
Gen. \V. E. Mickle says to Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Command) 1
in Chief United Confederate Veterans:
"General: In presenting my report for the year ending De
cember 31, 1905, 1 expressed the pleasure I felt in chronicling
thi b 1 State of affairs that had ever been noted in the his-
torj of our Federation. I felt convinced that no future show
ing won!, I be so satisfactory, for the reason that the rapidly
diminishing si urces from which the revenue of the order is
drawn must necessarily produce reduced income. I am able,
however, lo state that the present report, covering the year
[906, .1- far surpasses [905 as that year had all others.
"I submitted to the Convention held in New Orleans last
year .1 list of four hundred and twelve Camps which had con-
tributed nothing toward the support of the order for many
and 1 suggested that action he taken looking to the
dropping of them from the roster. The Convention realized
the injustice of carrying as a part of the order a lol of dead
Camps, and passer! a resolution directing the Adjutant Gen
end to drop .ill Camps in arrears for five years or more. I
immediately addressed the Commanders or Adjutants of these
derelict ( amps, and urged that the debts be paid, saying
among oilier things: 'I cannot think, my deal comrade, that
\"u and your a sociati have failed to pay these due from
inability or lack of interest in our h loved cause, hut olelj
from inattention: and I sincerely (rust that this simple notice
will serve I" remind you of your failure, and that I may hear
from you at Once. 1 am ready to make an equitable compri
nnse if the Camp cannot pay in full.' I am gratified to be
ahleiosiateth.it twentj two Camps made favorable response;
but I was compelled mosl reluctantlj lo erase from the roster
the names of the Other three hundred and ninety
"1 luring the year which has passed since our last meeting
there have been added i" our 'social, literary, historical, and
hen volent' organization fortj on< new Camps
tips on the present roster: Texas, -'51; Georgia, tl2;
South Carolina. 07. Mississippi, <)o; Alabama, 86; ^rkan 1 .
78; 'lo 72; North Carolina, 00; Virginia. OS: Ken-
tucky, 07: Louisiana, 61; Missouri, 48; Florida, 14; Indian
Territory, 36; Oklahoma, .'-': West Virginia. 10; Nortl
is; Pacific, M. Maryland. K; District of Columbia, -'; M
chusetts, . total number of Camp ganization, [,649.
"The collections from the Camps, now greatly reduced in
number, with membership depleted by death, are far in ex-
cess of any former year. Tins showing is as remarkable as
11 is gratifying. The officers too have displayed a keener in-
terest in the association, nut only in the matter of settling
promptly and cheerfully their dues hut in calling for com-
missions, more of these having been issued during the past
twelve months than for ., verj long period A fair idea of
the financial condition of the order will be seen from the fol-
lowing summary of receipts and disbursements for the twelve
months ending December 31. 1906: Receipts from officers,
$1,356.50; Camp dues. $4,736.35; commissions, $43; donations,
$322.85; total. $6,458.70. Expenditures — Salaries (including
amounts paid for extra help at and immediately preceding
the Reunion), $3,120; printing, $1,418.50; postage. $375.22;
rent. $660; miscellaneous. $.70.41 : total. $5,853.13."
With the foregoing conies a note from General Mickle 111
which In Mates: "1 hand you herewith a copy of the report
made by me to the Commanding General during the recent
Reunion in the city of Richmond, ft presents in condensed
form a summary of matters connected with my office for the
past year, and has an interest not fur the Confederate Vet
erans alone, hut for the public at large as well."
A BRITISHER ABOUT THE SOUTH.
Dr. Robertson Nicoll, "whom nothing in English literature
escapes," after reading Dr. Thomas Cary Johnston's two great
the "Life and Letters of Dr. Robert L. Dabney" and
the "Life and Letters of Dr. Benjamin M. Palmer." writes*:
"I have read with intense interest the two large volumes;
1 doubt whether any one else in England has read them, but
they are eminently worth reading. For years 1 have read with
eagern everything 1 could find about the American Civil
War. hut with especial eagerni thi books that defended and
illustrated tin cause "t the South.
"Nothing is more certain than that many of the Confederates
wen both I 'in -nans and wise, and that to the end considered
they wen right and s;1NV nothing to regret, but something to
be proud of, in their life-and death struggle.
, to my mind, something peculiarly interesting
in people who h 1 through revolutions, who have been
stripped of everything in ripe years and forced to begin the
world again Most people, it thej live long enough, pass
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through great changes — perhaps revolutionary changes — hut
these take place within the soul. There*are but few who see
the overturn of everything they believed in and the loss of
everything they possessed. The more I read about the Confed-
erates, the more I feel that there is hardly any parallel in his-
tory to the complete ruin which overtook them. They were
Americans, however, and the recuperative power of Americans
is marvelous. And still I doubt whether the losses were quite
made good, whether the wounds of the soul ever quite ceased
to bleed."
Records of Confederates in Washington.
Veterans who wish to obtain their war records so as to
secure pensions and admission to Confederate Homes should
write to the Chief of Records and Pensions, War Depart-
ment. Washington, D. C, giving the letter of company and
number of regiment in which they served. Information will
be given them immediately, as the records of all Confederate
soldiers are in that department. This may be beneficial to
some of the old veterans, and save them time and trouble in
hunting up members of their commands.
The foregoing is from G. W. Turnell, who was first lieu-
tenant of Company D, 5th Virginia Cavalry ; but he is mis-
taken in stating that the complete records are there. Still,
much assistance in proving claim might be secured in this way.
MARRIAGE OF MRS. KATIE CABELL CURRIE.
It is to be "Katie Cabell Currie" no more. The fascinating
and beautiful daughter of Gen. W. L. Cabell, of Dallas, has
become the wife of Judge J. C. Muse. While the United
Daughters of the Confederacy preserve a history of their or-
ganization, and especially while the older members live, there
will be a charming memory of Mrs. Katie Cabell Currie, who
served two terms as President, and whose administrations were
a credit to the great cause this organization of Southern wom-
en was created to perpetuate.
Zealous for principles, Mrs. Currie was conspicuously im-
partial in her rulings; and when trouble brewed, she was so
tactful as to bring smiles to delegations instead of frowns
and angry words. Since her active official relations with the
U. D. C, she has been diligent in looking after the comfort
of her venerable father, and many a veteran will cherish the
fond interest she has ever displayed in "Daddy" at Confed-
erate Reunions.
A Dallas paper in giving account of the wedding, which
took place at the residence of General Cabell, states: "Before
the ceremony Mrs. Henry Hymes sang 'Call Me Thine Own,'
and Mr. Farris played the wedding march. Gen. R. M. Gaiuo,
the venerable Chaplain of Camp Sterling Price, officiated,
General Cabell giving the bride away. The house was radiant-
ly embowered in flowers. The Confederate colors, white and
red. predominated in the decorations, and formed an attractive
floral background for a profusion of bride roses and white
carnations. Four hundred names were inscribed in the 'guest
book.' The Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp W. L.
Cabell (of which Judge Muse is a member), and Camp John
H. Reagan were well represented, and with them came a
bright bouquet of pretty girls. The universal esteem in which
Tudge Muse and his bride are held was eloquently attested
by a glittering array of costly bridal presents. Mrs. Muse is
.1 gracious, attractive woman, whose wit, poise, and intellectual
charm bespeak the culture and refinement of Southern an-
cestry, education, and environment. Judge Muse is a courtly
and accomplished gentleman, a brilliant and successful law-
yer. The Cabell home has long been the 'Liberty Hall' of
the old Confederacy. Rarely does so close and admirable a
tic bind father and daughter. Ever tenderly solicitous for his
health and interest, proud of his record as a soldier and com-
MRS. KATIE CABELL MUSE.
mander as well as a civilian. Mrs. Muse has been an ideal
example of filial devotion. He has enshrined her in his heart,
and cherishes with pride all the noble work she has accom-
plished for the Confederate cause and the veterans."
ON THE MARCH— 1861-65-1907.
BY C. A. RICHARDSON, COMPANY B, I5TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY'.
See that long line of soldiers in sober gray,
Strolling along in their own lazy way,
Hear the booming of guns and rattling shot?
Forward men ; close up there ; trot, trot, trot
In the heat of the day
To the front of the fray,
Where our comrades are holding a thin gray line,
Feeling and hoping we will be there in time.
In due time they come, that long line of gray,
Right to the front, then the blue fades away.
Our bugle sounds rest, sweet rest, for the gray —
A long, long rest for the blue in that fray.
The years of the past are counting two-score ;
No longer in haste they rush to the fore.
For that long gray line is done marching past;
All, save the stragglers, are resting at last.
To-day the long gray line is thinner still ;
See it marching by with laggard gait ?
Our weakening ranks no more will fill
The foe with fear; now we only wait
A few brief years, and nature's laws
Rounding our fame with world's applause.
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VIRGINIA GRAND CAM!' TO MEET IN NORFOLK
The Grand Camp of Virginia Confederate Veterans will
assemble in great number at Norfolk, October [6-18, on the
occasion of their annual reunion. Col. William II. Stewart,
Commander of the Grand ("amp. has issued an order to the
different Commanders in the Division, and he expects that
this reunion will bring the largest attendance to the James-
town Exposition that any single organization has yel done.
He has appointed Mrs. Theodore F, Garnett, of Norfolk,
sponsor and Miss Adelaide Louise Neimeyer, of Portsmouth,
maid of honor for the State at large.
Reunion in Retrospect. — In an article to the Charleston
News and Courier concerning the Richmond Reunion James
R. Randcll states: "The daily papers of the North and the
West devoted considerable space to the patriotic and praise-
worthy proceedings; and when editorial mention was made
of the tribute to Jefferson Davis in these influential and able
journals, it was temperate in tone and free from partisan
prejudice. The cheers of the veterans as they marched
through the beautiful streets of Richmond echo in the ear,
the warm clasp of the manly hand continues to send a thrill
through the breast, and the faces and forms of comrades are
mirrored in the mind."
EDISON'S ADVICE ABOUT FOOD AND SLEEP.
Since his "retirement" Thomas A. Edison has devoted a
good deal of attention to the investigation of dietetic reform,
and has arrived at the conclusion that we eat and sleep alto-
gether too much. Quite recently he said:
"Let me impress one all-important thing upon your mind
— that is, that you observe must rigidly the rule of hygiene
regarding careful and moderate eating. Fully eighty per cent
of the illness of mankind comes from eating improper food
or too much food. 1 have always been a light eater, and I
fully appreciate the fact that the sole purpose of food is to
rve the chemical energies and keep the human machine
going.
"Where there is no drain on the system, the minimum
amount of food will do. Even the Italian laborers are able
to preserve their muscular tissue on a small amount of bread
and cheese, and they certainly work hard. Then why is it
ary for th< bu in< 5 man to eat great quantities of food
when there is no drain on his system? Elaborate dinners are
a curse. Many busine mi n clog up their boilers by 1 x
tnd will live to regret it.
" Another important rule to observe is to get out of bed as
soon as you open your eyes in the morning. Don't lie 111 bed
and wait to see if you cannot go to sleep again. Thai is a
h thing to do. Jump out of bed and do something, any-
thing. Be active and alert, get your blood in circulation, leap
right into the activities of life the first thine md fov will
soon see thai your brain works better. . . . Sleep dulls
the intellect. If people would not sleep so long, we would
develop into a stronger and mure intellectual race. It i- well
known that the ant. one of the mosl intelligent of insects,
does not
re is proof in what I say by thi > my wife
She was in the habit of sleeping from eight to nine hours
tvery day. I told her she could get along with fiv< 0
hours' sleep just a well and that 1 benefit by the
change. She prote: cd thai she could not do with less sleep,
but consented to try im plan She n< and a
half hours i^ healthier, and her mind is more active,
"People say they need eight hours' sleep, but they don't.
It 1- not the quantity of sleep you get that counts, but the
finality. I go to sleep as scon as 1 get in bed, and 1 have
never dreamed in my life As soon as my eyes are open in
the morning 1 spring out of bed and get dressed, for 1 know
that I have had sufficient sleep
Mr. C. Y. Loomis, who reported the above, adds:
"And he practices wdiat he preaches. Every morning he
rise: at 5:30, reads until breakfast time, and is at work in his
laboratory at 8. There he remains until 7 in the evening.
Vftei his dinner, he reads or studies until midnight. Like the
late Russell Sage, he is not a believer in summer vacations;
but he admits that he is a victim, which is attested by the
fact that he spends a few weeks in the early spring of each
year in Florida. But it is really no vacation at all, for he
works as hard as evei when he is there.
"Mr. Edison still adheres to his intention to remain aloof
I10111 commercialism and to devote his remaining years to dis-
es that are for the world's benefit alone. This is the way
he puts it : 'In my forty-live years' work as an inventor I
have run across many queer things that seemed to lead off
into undiscovered worlds of thought. Now I am going back
to pick up the threads that I left on the way and see where
they will take me. There is no end of possibilities for the
man who starts out on this ro.nl and who is entirely indif-
i' n n: to the monetary value of his work. I calculate that we
know one-seventh-billionth of one per cent about anything, so
I have given myself a good margin to work on. I am going
to give nature a show; and if I don't strike something new,
it won't be my fault. There is a great difference between dis-
covery and invention. The lath r is generally attained by a
process of pure cold reasoning from ascertained laws of
science. A discovery, on the other hand, is often the result of
pure accident. ... I have taken out, I suppose, about a
thousand patents, representing various inventions, during my
as an inventor. I don't expect to take out another
patent in this new field of discovery that I have chosen, but
it may be that I will find things that will bring the necessity
of patents to man) an inventor who comes after me.'"
The Veteran gladly gives place to tin and grace
manifested in the foregoing. The world has advanced more
under the genius and diligence of Edison than any other man
of any period. Since he is able to fear no wolf about his
door, he has that feeling of fellowship for his brethren that
beckons him on and on for the good of Others. The philoso-
phy of the physical man in the foregoing is commended
ardently. Comrades ol the great war may not as a body be
greatlj benefited by his counsel on eating and sleeping, as
their days tire far spent, yet it will do even the old good.
Vppeal, however, i^ made to the younger generation to ponder
well what he says ninl to a 1 up n it every day and every
night I In- editor once fancied that there might be excep-
tion to the rule of growing old and becoming infirm to an
n In, own case, but the inexorable rule
1 last benediction to young men
and young women, lie would plead for diligence every day to
follow such rule-, of living a- will prolong life in its best con-
ditions Let the plea of parent, of friend, and of fellow-man
ii p . ing Mieni that "old age is hon-
orable" indeed, and that the music and the sunshine of life
sent forth b> the individual is like the besl bread cast upon
the waters and ili.it 11 will return a blessing to the s6ul and an
r to God. who enable- US to bestow it.
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S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal properly of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ 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 picture on the front page of this Veteran is destined
to become historic in representing" a group of the only armed
Confederates who ever marched the streets of Washington
City. They went there from the Richmond Reunion. The
picture represents members of Company B, of Nashville, Tenn.,
on the steps of the Army and Navy Building. It is known
that these Confederates called upon President Roosevelt at the
White House, and that he received them most cordially. They
were commanded by Capt. P. M. Griffin, who served in the
famous iofh Tennessee (Irish) Infantry. He stands on the
steps above, nearest the cannon in the picture, and his three
daughters are about on a line with him.
MILITARY TITLES FOR WOMEN OBJECTIONABLE.
Action has been taken by many Camps U. C. V. and other
Confederate bodies adverse to the appointment of women to
staff positions with military rank. The Confederate choirs,
an organization heartily commended, have adopted rules of
naming young women as generals, colonels, etc. It is well to
be conservative where there is diversity of opinion among
good men and women patriots, and therefore but little has
been published on the subject. The Veteran has never
had sympathy with any distinction given women in military
rank. It rejoices in tributes to women in frills and laces,
and the more queens the greater joy; but it ever has revolted
in the masculinity of women. That they desire such notoriety
is strange, and that Southern men inaugurate such methods is
stranger still.
Marvelous things have been achieved by women as de-
tectives and even spies. All honor to them in what they have
achieved! But the Southern idea of chivalry does not comport
with masculine rank and title to women. Consistent gallantry
toward women is balked when they appear in regimentals and
are called general, colonel, and on down to captain. A tired
man feels clumsy in offering his scat in a public conveyance
to a military officer whose sword dangles by her side.
Do let us maintain gallantry to women in dresses after the
fashion of our mothers and old-time sweethearts.
It is bad enough to have women engage in the practice of
law and other like professions ; but in occupations purely of
honor the more retiring and modest is woman, the more ele-
vating in his own conscience does man become — the more
gallant to women.
CONFEDERATE SHAFT AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY
Capt. John M. Hickey writes from Washington, D. C. :
"Your friends in Washington, the old veterans and the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, are so much interested in the
erection of a grand monument in the Confederate section of
Arlington Cemetery that we want the entire country to know
that Thomas F. Ryan has sent us a donation of ten thousand
dollars for the monument, and we hope and feel that this is
just the beginning of donations to our monument fund. The
Veterans, Sons of Veterans, and the United Daughters of the
Confederacy have all officially indorsed the plan of having
erected to the memory of the Confederate soldier in Arlington
Cemetery, Virginia, a shaft that will tower high and stand
out as a beacon light to the honor, credit, and valor of the
Confederate soldier. We now have donated over $15,000 for
this patriotic undertaking, and it is the devout hope and de-
sire that every Camp of Confederate Veterans, every Camp
of Sons of Confederate Veterans, and every Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy in all the land will in
the near future send in a contribution to our glorious work.
Many patriotic citizens who were not in the war, both North
and South, will contribute to this shaft that will represent the
valor of the Confederate soldier. Our prospect for raising a
large amount of money for this monument is very good."
The Washington Herald says in regard to it : "Subscrip-
tions to the fund are coming in steadily from all parts of the
country. The fund for this purpose had already exci eded
$5,000 when Thomas F. Ryan's contribution of $10,000 was
received. The entire sum to be raised is $50,000, and at the
rate that subscriptions are being received prospects are good
for an early erection of the shaft. The work is being under-
taken by the Southern Memorial Association. The subcom-
mittee on finance, which has the raising of the fund in hand,
consists of Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, former Secretary of the
Navy; Gen. Francis M. Cockrell, former United States Sena-
tor and member of the Interstate Commerce Commission;
Hon. Charles Faulkner, former United States Senator from
West Virginia; Gen. Frank C. Armstrong; Capt. John M.
Hickey; and Rev. Randolph H. McKim, Treasurer."
CONCERNING CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS.
Dr. J. J. Scott, of Shreveport. La., Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Monuments and Graves, submitted his report to the
ConvenlioH at Richmond; but being of much length, it was
accepted on the verbal statement of the Doctor as to its salient
features. In making his statement Dr. Scott commended and
encouraged all the efforts to erect monuments to the soldiers
of the South. He said in connection with it :
"Thus lofty and inspiring is the work of preserving from
the fingers of decay the names of the immortal dead and
rearing lofty monuments to their unparalleled deeds of bravery
and heroism that they may never perish from the earth. This
has been and is still a work of deep and enduring love, a soul
offering to memory's most sacred treasures by sons, daugh-
ters, and grandchildren to be transmitted as a precious heir-
loom to their descendants down the unborn centuries ; and
these monuments shall stand the silent yet eloquent tribute
of devotion of this Southland's most faithful, heroic, and en-
thusiastic women, a memorial signboard along the highway of
time to the men in gray, to endure after the last survivor has
answered the roll call and is tenting on the camp ground of
the 'great beyond.' ..
"There is always a world of pathos in these gatherings of
the American Titans of the nineteenth century. As time sets
its seal on their constantly thinning ranks there is a closer
entwining of their descendants around their aged forms. Song
and story have immortalized them, impassioned oratory has
crowned them with laurel wreaths of praise, beauty pays
tribute to their daring and their valor with sweetest smile
and the touch of her soft hands. The same self-conscious,
self-radiant spirit that animated the veteran in the bivouac,
on the march, amid the battle's storm, and amid the throes
of death's carnage has remained with him amid the pursuits
of peace."
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rillLANTHROPY OF IF. IF. CORCOK.W
BY KATE M. DABNEY, I48 A ST., X. E., WASHINGTON, D. i
'I'd reach those who revere and wish to honor the memory
of "the great in soul'' who gave their services and lives for
the principles <»f the Confederacy. 1 know no better way than
through a letter in the CONFEDERATE VETERAN. Those who
have visited the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C,
will no doubt recall the superb portraits of Gens. Robert E.
Lei and Stonewall Jackson that hang on either side of the
door facing the main entrance of the portrait section, These
portraits are pronounced admirable likenesses, especially that
of General Lee. The old veterans who knew him personally
say it is the best in exist nee. They are the most conspicuous
pictures in the room, and testify the admiration and sympathy
of Mr. Corcoran, who had them painted by the noted artist,
Elder, and placed in the gallery
Tins great philanthropist, whose bean was with the South
in it- struggle and suffering should be remembered by the
South with love and gratitude; for when the tenderly reared
women of that prostrate and destitute people were suffering
dire affliction in mind and body. Mr. Corcoran established for
Miss rosi la •
-<>r fur Arkansas Division, Richmond Reunion.
then beni mi an eli gant and i
"The Louise Homi and there
over fifty Southern ladies "who » p ted by the
Civil War" are ed in affluence During Ins life no
mark of 1 I ir them was ..nulled by
1*
him, and his delicate attentions will always be a source of
sweet recollection to the recipients. His first call on New
Year's day was devoted 10 them, and on their side they in-
vited him to dine with them on his birthdays.,
Many of those invited l>> him personally to make their
home in this haven of rest have joined the great majority,
hut others have taken their places as honored guests of one
of the noblest men of his generation. This Louise Home for
Southern gentlewomen was founded in one of the most beau
liful locations in Washington at a time when it required
moral courage and greatness of soul to espouse the principles
of those who had lost or even to show sympathy with its suf-
fer, rs
The institution which hears hi- nam —the Corcoran Gal-
lerj of An — he presented to the nation, and thus the refining
and beneficent influence of this truly great man ha- been a
blessing to the whole country. Here during the past spring
was held the most notable exhibit of current American art
ever seen in this country, the first attempt to establish an
American salon similar tn that of Paris, where the best work
of American artists will he exhibited every two years. 1:
wa a marked succiss both in the qualify of the paintings and
in the interest manifested, the daily attendance being -i \ ral
thousand.
Mr. Corcoran also endowed a school of art which i- con-
ducted under the air pa. oi the trustees of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. The average attendance i- two hundred and
fifty student-, and under tin- instruction of five efficient teach-
ers iii -i rab training is given free to all who desire it.
The writer beg in her an education here, and is now copy-
ing as a labor of love the two magnificent portraits of Lee
and Jacks, ,n mentioned above. They would be most suitable
.and hand-,, me for any Confederate Camps named for those
gallant and incomparable leadet
A- tlie daughter of a soldier who fought in the ranks
flu,, ugh the whole war, as a relation of those two brave men.
I.en. J. E. B. Stuart and Gen. Jubal A. Marly, and of many
who fell in the strife, m\ heart i- in my work of portraying
the immortal leaders whose names will go sounding down the
ages a- the exponents of all that is loved and honored by the
true of heart and enlightened of mind through all ages.
The Veteran never omits an opportunity to pay tribute to
Mr. Corcoran. It would take page- to mention succinctly his
acts of public benevolence. In ibis connection are recalled his
long and expensive labors in having brought back to this
country the body of John Howard Payne and the pathetic
StOrj of the remains lying m slate in the City Hall. Xew York,
with not a flower to dee,, rale the casket, of its arrival in
\\ ishington, and the ven rable man being the only guard of
honot in u- conveyance to th, Georgetown (?) Cemetery,
where lu- erected a monument
Mr. Corcoran, with his great wealth, when he could have
luxuriated in all lands under the sun. it is said spent every
summi it the White Sulphur Springs, Vir-
ginia
i , P. S in, of Winfield, rex., wants all the inform
po ibb concerning William- H, Scoggin, who was lieutenant
ei i oni] i". I . i-ili Alabama Regiment. He was put in
[i of the sick s, iua,l after the evacuation of Maryland.
I iptured and taken l,, Point Lookout, and from there to
Camp Chase He was sick the last letter he wrote home, and
information of In- sickness and death is desired.
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CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL LITERARY SOCIETY.
Its Work for the Confederate Museum.
The Confederate Memorial Literary Society was chartered
in Richmond May 31, 1S90; its preliminary work was begun
by Hollywood Memorial Association in February. 1890. Mrs.
Joseph Bryan, as President of that Association in February,
1890, headed the movement. The Confederate Museum, es-
tablished in the "White House of the Confederacy" (which
was the home of President Davis from 1861 to 1865), is under
the management of the Confederate Memorial Literary So-
ciety. It has restored the mansion to the appearance and
condition in which President Davis left it, except that it is
now fireproof and steam-heated.
The ordinance conveying the building to the society was
passed January 5, 1891. On June 3, 1804. the building was
formally turned over to the ladies by Col. John B. Cary.
Chairman of the School Committee, and it was accepted by-
Mr. Joseph Bryan, of that board, on behalf of the soci.ty.
The rooms in the museum are apportioned to the different
Slates, each bearing the name and coat-of-arms of the State
to which it belongs. A regent, resident in each State, secures
relics and funds to properly equip the room. A vice regent,
residing in Richmond, has charge of its room and contents.
The officers of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society
are: Mrs. Joseph Bryan, President; Mrs. Alfred Gray, Mrs.
C. W. P. Brock, and Mrs. J. R. Werth, Vice Presidents; Mrs.
J. Enders Robinson, Rf cording Secretary; Mrs. Lizzie Cary
Daniel. Corresponding Secre'ary; Mrs. H. T. Ellyson, Treas-
urer.
WORKS OE BISHOP QUINTARD FOLLOW HIM.
Dr. J. H. Kirkland, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University,
at the fiftieth anniversary of the University of the South, Se-
wanee, Tenn., June 27, 1907, paid the following beautiful and
worthy tribute to Confederate Chaplain-Bishop Quintard :
"In the history of this institution tin re are two occasions
that appeal to me strongly — two records that ought to be em-
phasized to-day. One is the record of endurance ; the other, of
achievement. One the story of life under pressure barely
surviving; the other the story of life expanding progressing
swiftly and beautifully. The darkest period of Southern his-
tory was just after the close of the Civil War. All wealth
had been swept away; desolation was on every side; death
had left its shadow in every home. Property values were con-
stantly decreasing; there was no outlook for the future. The
Southern people had no song on their lips, no joy in their
hearts. The plans of this institution were shattered. There
was nothing left but its charter. Subscriptions made could
not be collected. The lands acquired were about to be for-
feited. Schools and colleges already in existence were closed
or closing, and Sewatue seemed dead in the very hour of its
birth. To my mind, Sewanee's problem in 1867 was more
serious, more embarrassing than in 1S57. If the first hour
demanded the vision of the seer, the last hour demanded also
the faith and consecration of the martyr. It was well that in
that hour one was found whose spirit rose to meet the emer-
gency, whose heart was sustained by an unfaltering trust, by
a mighty faith. His work abides, crowned with glorious suc-
cess. Whatever may be the services of other friends in other
years, however great the merits of her own sons, her officers,
or her benefactors, no one can ever occupy the same relation
as he who in that darkest hour consecrated his life to her
service. Sewanee will cherish many names and tell the story
of repeated acts of self-sacrifice; but no record will be quite
so unique as the s'ory of the saving of this institution through
the heroic services of Bishop Charles Todd Quintard."
The other "record" to which Chancellor Kirkland referred
is that nf tlie son in-law of Bishop Quintard: "Another period
in your history stands out to me conspicuous and important.
'1 hat i> when the affairs of the institution were turned over
to a practical layman — a man of splendid scholarship, yet a
man of rare business ability, sympathizing with the history
of the past, yet freed from the littleness of hampering tradi-
tions ; broad in views, catholic in spirit, wise to seize all new
currents of life and utilize all new forces of to-day. Under
his guidance new friends have been formed, new buildings
erected, new departments created, higher standards of work
have been adopted, large increase in numbers brought about,
and a wid.r outlook given to the whole institution. In a world
too slow lo recognize epoch-making service till the laborer
has ceased and his service has ended, too scant in its praises
till praises fall on ears unheeding, too sparing of sweet flowers
till their fragrance is shed around an open grave, ht me pay
this tribute of respect and affection to one who has writ his
name large in the history of Sewanee — to the playmate of
my youth, the friend and colaborer of my manhood, the able
and successful administrator, the much-loved Vice Chancellor
of the University of the South — Benjamin Lawton Wiggins."
GEN. LEVIN M. LEWIS.
T. W. Casscll, of Indep.ndence, Mo., answering an inquiry
for some information about Gen. Levin M. Lewis, states that
he was a native of Maryland and moved to Clay County, Mo.,
GEN. L. M. LEWIS.
in the late fifties. He was elected colonel of the 3d Missouri
Cavalry at the call of Gov. Claiborne F. Jackson in April,
1861 ; and after finishing the term of enlistment (twelve
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months), the regiment \\ ; i - mustered out of service. He then
reenlisted for the war in Company A. 7th (afterwards 16th
Mi~-i.hu 1 Infantry, Parson's Brigade. rrans-Mississippi Dc-
partment, at Maysville, Ark., in June, [862, and was elected
captain of the company. He was promoted to lieutenant colo-
nel of the [6th Regiment about 1> cember, 1862, at I amp
\l.i ard, nine miles belov Fort Smith, Ark., and was pro
moted in January to c ilonel of the same regiment.
1 olonel Lewis was disabled by a piece of shell in the 1 .1 tl
1 Helena, Ark.. July 4, 1863, after capturing the middli fort
• m lm .i\ ej ard I ill, and falling into of the 1
was taken to Johnson's Island, where he remained a prisonei
of wai until released b) special exchange, He returned to
Richmond in Septi mbi 1 01 October, t8 14, n ioine I hi
niand at Camden, Ark., in November with a brigadier's com-
mission from I'n -ill nt Davis, and was assigned to the com
niand of Parson's Brigadi Pric Division, which po
he held until our surrender at Shreveport, .May 23, [865
General Li died in Los \r\ • . in [887 while there
I for his health. I lis home was in Dallas, Tex.,
where he was pastor of the First Methodist Church No more-
gallant officer ever led men to battle. I assisted him in pre-
paring a historj nt the r6th Missouri Infantry.
MRS. THEODORE K. TR01 S Dl I ,
Matron oi Moaor, Kentucky Division.
The Veteran apologizes for the error in Mrs Troendle's
name in the Jul) issui Vet the erroi was from inferioi manu-
Kripi rather tha mess, Anothei error in the same
was inexcusable, however. It 1- that of the younger
grandson of Jefferson Davis It is generall) known tha
elder, named for th President, was by law
changed from Jefferson Davis Hayes to Jeffei
but tn change that of the other son was never thought
of. ( See error on p:
AN "OLD REB" .11 RU HMOND.
1 I Ml. FRANK BATTLE, OF TENNESSEE.
1 rlj in the spring of 1865 I passed through Richmond 011
exchang?, having lain in a Northern prison for a year, where
I was held as a hostage in irons for eight months. Imagine
in\ delight in walking those streets a free man after this long
uunt 1 reported to the Secretarj of War. Gen. John
C. Breckenridge, who bad been a lifelong friend of my
father's and who bad been importuned in m) behali b) our
Tenia- ee Congressmen, notably A. S. Colyar, Dr. Men es,
J. D. C. Atkins, and John Maurj lb. -1 g 1 men saved my
life. Capt. S. T. Harris, a Federal prisoner, had been tried
as a spy and found guilt) md the day set for bis exei
Just at that time I was captured and immediately placed in
irons, and wax held as a hostag foi ( aptain Harris. Pi
dent Davis held out a long time, but finally yielded to the
S» 1 tar) oi \\ ar, and I was e> changi .1
I will 11 hi forg 1 the impi 1 sion made upon me as I p
the lines of the two armies. I couldn't hold back the tears
when 1 saw those "Rebs." I could have thrown my arms
around them and hugged the la 1 one of them. I got into
Richmond about dark, and bad quite a time g tting a place to
sleep, but finally got into g I quarters [There seemed to
be a gloom over the city, so many lives had been sacrificed,
and almost every family bad lost a 111 mber. In some all the
mail - n et 1 gi me.
I had an audience with Secretary Breckenridge, and hi
11 transfer! ing me from I len 1 al Wheeler to
General Forrest I had b en in ervice \\ itli I leneral Forrest
bel re, and was anxious to get back to him, I surrend
with bun .n Gainesville, Ala., and still have my paroli t
honi r, winch I prize very highly. I was allowed my bur-., and
irms, and took up my route harm in company with 1
D ( '. Kelley and 1 ). 1 S ! of Nashville, Tenn. All w re
I lad t mi w hen 1 gi 1 . ime Even the m gi 1 ies who bad
been raised up with me, who bad hunted rabbits and fought
yellow jackets with in in childh 1 days, seemed to be as
glad .".-I 11. \ return as my own dear family. God bless
the old famil) negroes! I shall always love them
Well, after forty two j ars, I haw been 111 Richmond
in of the gn at throng attending the 1 lerate Re
union. How different Ihi 1 ' m) eyes from
that former occasion! With band- playing "Dixie," ladies
waving their handkerchiefs, men ch ering and th
their hats — O it was a time long i" b remembered!
Richmond saw that her guests were properly cared for;
and when the long-continu d ram made ii unpleasant for the
boys in tints, her citizens came out in wagons and n
them into their own homes i he parade was a success. Ten-
ei had1 more men in line than any other State except Vii
This Ha- on of the happiest events of my life.
VETERAN FOUR M ORE AND F<
\ M. Join , oi [Yenton, Tenn., is doubtless the oldest sob
diet in Gil ty, if not in West ["ennessee, having cele-
brated his eight) fourth birthday in December last. Though
growing quite feeble, he is cheerful and full <<i song He be
i to the 4th Bi ' 21 h Tenn 1 ilr) . undei
I1 1 . Kelley, Forrest, and 4 1 1, Committing his wife and
i small children to the care of his Hea> nl) I ather, as
to that of hi- earthly father. Rev. John W. Join-, be
joined lh< c te at m) , at er a faithful soldi r,
veracity and efficiency were never questioned. The
hardship- he endured were borne patiently.
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UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
BY MRS. LIZZIE GEORGE HENDERSON, PRESIDENT.
As I told you, I did not have the leisure to get my July
article written. But I have so many things to tell you this
time that I hope you will feel repaid, and so will readily
excuse me, in your hearts.
Unveiling ok the Stuart Monument.
Leaving home on May 28, I arrived in Richmond on the
30th, and was made aware of the great care Mr. Frye, his
clerks, and every employee of the Jefferson have for the com-
fort and pleasure of their guests by being shown immediately
to the beautiful room engaged several months before by the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association, whose guest I was.
I have been in most of the best hotels in this country, and
I have never met with such care for the comfort and pleasure
of every guest as is exercised by every employee of the Jeffer-
son Hotel, Richmond. Its spacious lobby, halls, corridors,
writing and dining rooms, parlors, drawing-rooms, and li-
braries will accommodate more people comfortably than any
hotel I have ever seen. And the perfect cleanliness and the
fresh air all through every place made it an ideal place for
the immense crowd which was there for a wek.
Having lost twelve hours on my way there, I did not wit-
ness the very impressive ceremonies of the unveiling of the
monument to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, which was on the morn-
ing of the 30th. I heard General Lee say that there were as
many as two hundred and fifty thousand people out that day.
The monument is a handsome equestrian statue of him as his
old soldiers loved to see him — leading his soldiers into the
thick of the fight. His wife and daughter were in Richmond
all through the Reunion, thus adding to the pleasure of us all,
for what Southern man and woman is there among us all
who is not proud of the record of "Jeb" Stuart? The weather
was beautiful, and everything passed off as his cavalry corps
must have wished.
I feel sure that those who have been in the habit of at-
tending the Reunions will agree that the Richmond Reunion
of 1907 was the grandest ever held. I suppose there never
was one at which there were present so many of the families
of the great Confederate leaders. First, there were Mr. and
Mrs. J. Addison Hayes. Mrs. Hayes is the only surviving
child of President Davis. Mr. Hayes is himself a Confed-
erate veteran. For a few months ago Mrs. Davis wrote to me
that Mr. Hayes ran away and joined the Confederate army
when he was so little that he could not carry a musket, so
they allowed him to carry water to the other soldiers.
Their oldest son, Jefferson Hayes Davis, on whom we Mis-
sissippians were very glad to bestow his grandfather's name
by an act of our Legislature, and who gives promise now of
making us still gladder that we did it, was there. I believe
he knows what it means to bear the name of Jefferson Davis.
He is yet young — twenty-two, I think — but I thought I saw in
his general bearing that he realized that the man who bore
the name of Jefferson Davis must be upright, honorable, true,
and generous; must think of his country and the preservation
of her rights before he does of any good which might come
to himself ; that he must be great in power and success, must
be unselfish in his country's service, and must be greater still
should misfortune and maligning attend his latter days. And,
being all this, he may, as his illustrious grandfather did, rest
in his old age in the love and confidence of the people, who
cherish the memory of his grandfather.
The young daughter. Lucy White Hayes, though brought up
in the Far West, is just as sweet and just as modest and just
as altogether attractive as any Southern girl you ever saw.
The youngest son, William Howell Davis Hayes, is an up-
right, frank-mannered boy of seventeen, and bids fair to make
us all glad of the Davis in his name. Mr. Hayes is a gentle-
man of the old school in his beautiful demeanor toward all
with whom he comes in contact. And, to my mind, and as far
as I could hear, it seemed to be the opinion of all who met her
that Mrs. Hayes is just the dignified, courteous, and alto-
gether attractive Southern gentlewoman we would all wish
for her to Ire.
Miss Mary Lee, the daughter of Gen. R. E. Lee, was there,
and I was introduced to her too, but did not have an oppor-
tunity of seeing or talking to her afterwards, the veterans
surrounded her so.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson and her granddaughter, Julia Jack-
son Christian, were there. I had the good fortune to be
seated next to Mrs. Jackson one day at dinner, and Miss Chris-
tian was just opposite me. You know we U. D. C.'s feel that
Mrs. Jackson belongs to us, as she is the President of one of
our Chapters and is one of the Honorary Presidents of the
U. D. C. She is as lovely and sweet and gentle and womanly
as you rarely in life find a woman. Her granddaughter is
what you would expect iter to be with such a grandmother.
Mrs. A. P. Hill and her daughter, Mrs. Magill, were there.
Mrs. Hill, one can see on a very short acquaintance, is a big-
hearted, whole-souled, hospitable Southern lady, and is Con-
federate to the least part of her. And her daughter is a
handsome woman of about my own age (the only safe thing
to do when you speak of a woman's age is to liken it to
your own) who knows how to make those wdio are not Vir-
ginians feel at home in Virginia.
Miss Hampton, the daughter of General Hampton, was
there, and just as handsome and attractive as she was when
1 knew her when we were both young ladies in Washington.
Mrs. Mahone, a dear, sweet, motherly little woman who
wins your heart as soon as you meet her, was there.
I only met Mrs. Stuart and her daughter, but one could see
at a glance that they were typical Southern ladies.
And now I come to one whom I fell in love with, and I
do believe it was natural, so I am claiming her as a friend
always hereafter — Mrs. W. H. Fitzhugh Lee. Virginians love
to call her Mrs. "Rooney" Lee. I knew her slightly when I
was a girl in Washington. She was regal-looking then; but
her face is more lovely now, softened by her sorrow and ad-
vancing years. Such a pure, beautiful soul looks at you
through her eyes, that you feel the better for knowing her.
You know the world must be better to hold such as she is;
so true and so illustrative of the real meaning of noblesse
oblige that you like to be near her, and always leave her
with an inspiration to make the world better because of your
life. And you are not surprised that her son, with such a
mother and his inheritance on his father's side, is fast be-
coming the most popular man in Virginia, and that he has
such sentiments and expresses them so beautifully that he
made the "Rebel Yell" almost take the roof off the building
when he spoke to the Confederates in Convention assembled.
We Daughters who met him and who heard of the record he
is making are expecting one day to see Robert E. Lee, Jr.,
the President of these LTnited States.
Every man and woman in Richmond strove to make the Re-
union one which could not be forgotten, and all who were
there know that they succeeded. The Governor of Virginia
and his charming wife gave each and every one of us just the
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welcome you would expect from a Governor of Virginia, the
niiillur of States. In fact, they were so kind and so cordial
that if the Virginians see them as we saw them there will be
no rotation in office when it comes to the Governor in that
State
The Confederates wen entertained in tents near the Sol-
diers' Home, and their meals were cooked and served right
on the tenting grounds; and although it rained most of the
time, they were so comfortable that when one of tin- pastors,
whose church was near the tents, had the lire built in the
Church and sent carriages to bring those there who wanted
to leave the tents, they would not go, saving they were com-
fortable enough. It is very queer, Inn 1 was wishing for that
very thing for them in discussing the Reunion with my hus-
band last fall. Nothing can he so comfortable or so nice for
them as tents, and I hope Birmingham will "follow suit" next
year. It seems that there were ti" accidents and very little
sickness among the veterans.
The horse -how building, where the great ball was, Was
finely arranged for it, and the girls m their pretty dr< ssCs and
the men in their uniforms were a very prettj sight. The re-
ception given at the Museum to Richmond's guests, the Con-
federate veterans, was crowded, despite the fact that a steady
downpour continued throughout the whole afternoon. The
citizens of Richmond gave so many entertainments thai it was
impossible for one to he present at all. with only twenty
hours in each da) to do it in. for none of us thought of giving
more than four hour- out of each twenty-four to sleep. The
memorial services wire very inspiring, conducted jointly by
the 1". C. V. and C. S. M. A. It made us glad to be there;
for. although the men whom the orators sp,,ke iii ,111,1 the
times which they l.d lis to contemplate in retrospecl an with
us no more, we lifted our heads higher and our hearts heat
quicker when we heard of the greal leaders and the great
deeds of the men from whom we are proud to have sprung'
e I [VEILING 01 THE Davis MONUMENT.
There came at last the long-looked-for day. June .?. when
en lo see the unveiling of the monument to President
Jefferson Davis! It was as beautiful a clay a- could have
been wished for \ perfeel temperature and enough sunshine
to make US glad we were living, and yet nol enough to make
ar for our v ti rans as they marched with a glad, quick
Btep thai long distance from the Jeffei on to the monument.
d through so many people on each side of the street
that, remembering that I was to trj to tell my 1 laughters all
it, 1 asked General Evans, who rod,, m the carriage with
Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Behan, and myself, to tell me how many
.\ere (you know military men are accustomed to esti-
mating crowds it sight), ■ ind General Lee
there wire 125,000 at the monument. I thought there
t the monument "Morna million,'' as the littli 1
for as far as I could see in every direction as 1 st 1 on th
platform there were heads and heads and heads, and 0 On
ad infinitum. I never saw bul one other such crowd, and thai
was v, en I er Cleveland was lir-i inaugurated Pn -idem.
The speeches , . lhal I sh II speak only of the
on' wl ! your representative, should have made; but,
p ech should i« madi foi thi I D •
on th, I
my place. And so will did he till our wi
that those who had thought 1 was wrong cam, to m,
wards and thank,, 1 mi lor asking him to .1,. il I would not
take the unveiling of the Davis monument out of my life for
anything! It was the most inspiring thing I ever saw. and I
never expect to see anything like it again. The wind came to
us right over tin monument as we stood facing it; and as the
veil dropped, it caught the folds of the two Confederate battle
(lags on each side of President Davis's statue, and kept them
Hying almost straight out all through the ceremonies. Just
as the veil dropped, the first of the twenty-one gnus of the
President's salule was fired, sending into the air above and
just back of the monument a bomb which e-xploded, and out
of it came a white halloon to which was attached a Confed-
erate battle flag which floated gracefully over the monument
and finally settled somewhere in the immense crowd which
stood between the speakers' platform and the monument. If
wishes had had any power, that Hag would have settled right
in the lap of the President General, so that she might have
taken it to Norfolk and presented it to her dear Daughters.
As each of the guns of the President's salute was fired it sent
a bomb over the audience; and when it exploded, out came a
battle Hag to settle near some one whom it would make happy.
The monument itself is very satisfactory. The more you
see it. the better you like it. The floral offerings from all
parts of the country were the most magnificent 1 ever saw,
that from his own State, Mississippi, being the coat of arms
of the State made of immortelles and with immense Am.
beauty roses standing just over it. The one sent by your
President in your name was a perfect representation of our
badge in flowers and with American beauty roses standing
over it. These two were, as they should have been, the hand-
somest ones thei e.
As I sal there in the midst of this great occasion there came
before my mind's eye a picture of the birth, amidst the
clanging of hells and hurrahs from the throats of patrioi-. of
i great nation. Anglo-Saxons, with their inherent belief in
their right to self government, representing then
States, come together and hind themselves into a Coined
eracy to protect that God-given right. And so there was horn
nit,, the nations of the world the Southern Confederacy. For
more than two years this nation marched to victor) after
victory won by lis army and navy, fought with ever-diminish-
ing ranks against a foe whose recruiting stations drew from
'lie world with that magic charm, gold; while the Confed
drew only from its own people, their only reward a hoped-
for independence and the knowledge of having served with
,,ne mind and heart the States the) loved. In that great crisis
fathers cheerfull) shouldered their muskets and hade then- fif-
teen and sixteen-year old sons shoulder theirs and go with
them to their State's d, fense of her rights. Mothers, smilingly,
bravely, packed those boys' grips and said: "Go. m\ son; your
Stale needs you, and no ancestor of yours ever failed his
country." Confident in the justice of their cause, there was
no thought of anything hut victory at last, even though it
he at lie , o-i , ,i man) ;' . ■
Then Vicksburg ind Gettysburg came, and the star of the
South, in i on! dei u h Gaunt poverty stalked
d m the land, sickening the heart of the soldier as he
lies at home deprived of every-
thing hut the I of life, the mother at home
rig all possible I fn im the little ones to keep her
country's ors from starving and freezing.
women! Can wi evei do enough to show
ratitudi to them for having to us. their children, such
a hi rit
n there came before me a second picture: This n
horn amidst such enthusiasm and joy, i ath; its
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and sailors and statesmen returning home to fields
— that backbone of the industry of their country — devastated;
bare chimneys, where had once been comfortable homes; the
whole face of the country they loved so well one vast picture
of desolation and ruin, the only star of hope being the brave
hearts of "the girls they left behind them;" fields laid waste
and laborers demoralized by their newly gotten freedom.
\\ hat but the consciousness of a brave fight bravely made
could have given them the courag; to meet and overcome by
infinite patience and care that yet more horrible condition than
any Ihey had ever dreamed of— the reconstruction period of
the South ? With that dreadful specter downed at last, the
rebuilding of the South began. And when comfort one? more
began to take a daily seat in the homes of the South, the eyes
of her patriot heroes began to turn with tear-dimmed vision
to that one lone figure who stood as the target for all "the
slings and arrows" which hate hurled at the South; and as he
stood, brave and unmoved, amidst them all, his old followers
resolved that the South for whom he had done so much
should erect a monument to show to their descendants and to
the world what this great man had done for his country.
And so the work was started. But because there could be no
monument to the President of the Confederacy which was not
also a monument to the army and navy of the Confederacy,
their modesty tied their tongues and their hands, and they
paused in this beautiful work. And the United Confederate
Veterans, I hope, know that it will always be a great source
of pride to the United Daughters of the Confederacy that
then they turned to us and said: "Finish this work for us."
And from all this past of high hopes and brave endeavor
there came that great day when those veterans who were left
saw the finishing of the work which they gave us to do. We
all looked with pride on that great monument, and our hopes
mounted high again as, "after the sighing and the weeping,
after the sowing and the reaping." we looked at Mrs. Holmes
and her coworkers on the Jefferson Davis Monument As-
sociation, United Daughters of the Confederacy, those of our
ranks win. have labored so faithfully and so beautifully for
these nearly eight years for that fruition of our hopes, and I
thought: "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious
summer by this son of York, and all the clouds that lowered
upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean lie buried.
Now ar our brows bound with victorious wreaths, our
bruised arms hung up for monuments, our sum alarums
changed to merry meetings, our dreadful marches :o delight-
ful measures."
The great Davis monument is finished, and we must turn
our attention to yet others.
Visit to Washington and New York.
I went from Richmond to Washington, and found there
among all Confederates and all Confederate sympathizers the
great desire to be that we have a monument of which we and
those who come after us may be proud in the center of Con-
fed iate Section in Arlington. That you sympathize with this
desire you showed very conclusively last fall, and I hope we
will all work for it year in and year out until we see it un-
veiled.
It is a very nice thing to have Daughters all over the
L nited States, as your President found when she met those in
Washington and New York. And because it was done for
your President and not for any individual, I am going to tell
you about it at the risk of seeming egotistical.
I was never a belle before, and I found it very delightful.
and so it was the nicest trip I ever had. I had not been in
Washington more than three hours before flowers began to
ci me to me from - 'in of my I laughters, and everything had
been planned for my pleasure. I was a guest in the beautiful
and delightful home of one of my Daughters who belongs
to a Mississippi Chapter — Mrs. Fannie J. Ricks, formerly of
Yazoo City, Miss. She has not forgotten htr old-time Mis-
sissippi Delta hospitality which greets you with a face beam-
ing with welcome and never tires of doing things for your
pleasure. The Division had made arrangements for Mrs.
Walsh, its President, and Mrs. Ricks to take me to call on
the President the next day. Well, we went, and were re-
ceived with all the cordiality which the President inherits
from his Georgia mother and with the respect with which
his Confederate uncles have inspired him for all things Con-
federate. Then on Friday evening the Division gave in my
honor a most beautiful and delightful — because entirely with-
out ceremony — reception in the beautiful ballrooms of the
Arlington. We ended the evening with the Virginia reel,
and your President danced for the first time in nearly twenty
years. She danced with the most charming Confederate vet-
eran too, and felt honored that another veteran wanted to
dance with her.
On Saturday the Children's Auxiliary gave me a charming
luncheon, at which I made them a talk on the inheritance
which they possess in being descendants of Confederates.
They were charming hosts, and one of the boys in a most
graceful little speech presented to me from his comrades a
magnificent bouquet of pink carnations. That afternoon Mrs.
Ricks threw open her beautiful apartments for the U. D. C.
of the District to call on me. I will always remember it as
an occasion when I met many charming members of the U.
D. C.
On Monday the Marx- Cttstis Lee Chapter, in Alexandria,
Va., which is only about seven or eight miles from Washing-
ton, sent over the private car of 'he President of the Wash-
ington and Alexandria Street Railroad and carried several of
us over to their beautiful Chapter house for a most delightful
evening. All the Confederates of Alexandria, including the
Seventeenth Virginia Regiment Chapter, whose President pre-
sented me with a beautiful bouquet of red and white roses,
were there. And the Camp of Veterans, whose headquarters
is in the Chapter house, got out Gen. R. E. Lee's camp chair
for me to sit in. But your President, feeling herself or any-
body else she knew unworthy to sit in the chair, did not sit
in it. I don't believe the Veterans will ever know how much
I appreciated their getting it out and asking me to occupy it,
for I was too full to say how I felt. But I did and do ap-
preciate it very much. The next day I went to New York,
and first made a visit to our friend, Mrs. Livingston R.
Schuyler, in her delightful suburban home at Scarsdale. She
gave me a tea, and I met many fine people of the North as
well as some of my Daughters whom I had not met before.
On Monday afternoon the New York Chapter met in special
meeting, and I was asked to make them a talk, which I did
with fear and trembling. A most entertaining programme was
added to this, and we had a delightful reception afterwards at
which I met some of my Daughters from almost every State
in the Confederacy. With such a Chapter and such a Presi-
dent as it has we need never be surprised at the splendid re-
ports it sends every year to our conventions.
I came home with my head in the air. and told my husband
that if he- did not rejoice with me over such Daughters I
would be like the old negro he is fond of telling about, who,
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when his wife refused to rejoice at his prayer in meeting,
said: "And dat ar Lissa didn't no mo' 'joice dan nothin'. An'
you know ;, woman ought i 'joice at her own husband's prar.
An' I say: 'Lissa, whyn't you 'joice at my prar, nigger?' An'
she 'spon' : '<■" way fum here, Sam. who gwine 'joice at your
prar? You drunk.' An' wid dat I riz, an' I riz wid on ob
dem binch laigs in inch haiv; an'. Gord bless your soull I
made 'er 'joice." So I said I would have to get me a "binch
laig" ami make linn " 'joic " if he could not '"joice" at such
as I found everywhere 1 went.
1111. SOUTHERN MOTHERS' S( HOLARSHIP.
BY SADA FOt n RICHMOND, 1102 ELMWOOD wi i i MEMPHIS,
When Jacob slept upon his pillow of stones in 1750 B.C.
and saw the ladder reaching up in heaven, indicative of how
man might raise his character, though based upon earth, until
in height should be lost in the mists oi heaven, lie was
prompted to erect a monument of stone t" mark the spot.
1 when lie was parting from Lilian, whom he thoroughly
distrusted, ami feeling that he had reached the limit of he.
own abilitj to protect himself, he erected another heap or
monument oi stom 0 bi a Mi pah, or watch tower, between
himself ami his dreaded f itn r in la »
\ timi pa ed mi we find the primitive nations erecting
tin 1 monuments to mark anj important epoch in their his-
tory; and as ch ilization advanced, instead of the rough natural
stom . Hi j bi ".tn 1 , hi ■■.-. . '1 carve the beautiful granite
columns and to engrave inscriptions upon them. Thus was
displayed effort of primitive and aboriginal minds to
commemorate and make lasting tin history of their nations
and tin
But m iw, urn teen hundi - 'I \ ars aftet i hi ist, are we to
stand still in the steps of ancient Jacob: Have wi no higher
idea ol 1 mmemorating great deeds 01 noble people than to
continue building monuments ol stone which, however at
u maj make ih.in. are still onlj cold, in
ble, telling but a mi ager tale ti ■ Eutut 1 gi net
m it is evidenci I at ion \\ e at e not pr< igi 1 ing
if in this twentieth centurj wi still hold to the old ideas ol
Look around us to-daj and sec who are they thai are
building the most lasting monuments! Where 1- then- .1
- shaft that « ill in anj degri e 1 ompai 1 w ith the 1 'at
' "i' libraries that now dot the countrj ovet and are a bless-
■ .11.1111 p ople and a In iu 1 hold » 01 d in e\ et s city ?
Who has evet erected a 1 un equal in widespread bless-
ing to that of the Cecil Rhodes Scholarship? The world at
large knew nothing of Cecil Rhodes while he lived, but now
is fragrant witl g and his name upon every
\ new incentive 1- before the American hoy. He
w not onlj .. pit 1 to bi Pn idi nt, but hi 1 in wot k E01
Rhodes si
And now I c an to th< pi inl of in it li we build
a monument to our Southern mothers tin 1 who
endured tin 1 the days of 18
it not be a "heap of sti n s," in repel lion ol ab iriginal
but .11 lowi d I10 hip in 1 ach Southet 11 State ti 1 be
I "Tin Sou ithers' Si hoi 11 ship " Let the condi
I Southern parent-
id ancestry could win them ami the mental requii ments
rigid a- p. exclude any ambitious girl from tryin
tin in.
( inly a short ttm 1.1.,;. , [talked up. in thi
Bubject to two noble old Southern mothers, and thej botl
"Don't build any monuments, hut endow scholarships in our
11, in:,- that wall bless tin living while thej commemorate the
dead." I long to ee the time when this shall be accomplished I
The Southern mother well des rves a monument to her mem
ory. 'li- me. of course, that Southern women were not the
first w in n called upon in endure the anguish of civil war;
km 11 Southern posterity is tin first to reali 1 thi Fact and to
offer honor in i's heroic women, that will only prove that
Sou hern chivalry has still ih 1 id in en ili ajion. I In
naii 1 1 posterity, the appreciation of history, is surely but a
mi g r return in those who took 1 1 from theii own n
and clothing from their own households that the
might he sustained in theii fearful struggle. The Southern
soldier has made a record nevei before read into history, and
lie n ,1 ai oi 11 is that he had such women 1 1 enc mrage him !
I hat a monument should he built to the mothers ami grand-
mothers of the Conf deracj is unquestioned, and this 1S the
generation in ,1,, it. For as little children we -tend at their
knees and saw- their faces blanch as the roar of cannon rever
berated over the distant hills of Chickamauga or heard the
mothered cry of agony as the letter was read, telling ol ,
loved "ili slain at Chancellorsville or the Wilderness, and
■aw ih. 1 ars fall day by day over the fati of a son or brother
wounded and languishing in some improvised hospital without
comforts or nursing. And then the long week, of suspense
when im news came at all until the heart was sick with ti.n
and the I. rain crazed with anguish. Vfi , w who rememh i
lie e tilings, whose earliest recollections were the heroic for-
titude ami suppressed anxiety of our Southern mothers, must
see t" it that they are not forgotten. But let it not be a monu-
ment of insensate stone or pulseless clay, hut one that will
b .1 continual blessing t" all Southern womanhood and that
will place an incentive ill the \va\ of higher education 1
the Southern girls of the futun
Will .a 1 "in leader- among ih. Confederate Net rans ap-
point a committee to make plans tn this end at once? It
< to me that a small sum from every true heart d 5
erner would S ] swell tile fund tn the desired amount.
With ail a Southern woman's devotion, with all a tea,
zeal, with all a philanthropist's desire t" benefit Ins fUlow-
men, ami. above all, with a ki mbrance of how the
Southern girl's chances for education were curtailed and
handicapped by the sad results nt the 1 ivil War, 1 urge this
sup upon our Vetet m , our Memorial Associations, and our
I laughters of the Confi del " > !
>>i A' SOUTHERN WOM1 \ '.V PART IX THE WAR.
i i"ii \\ I Ellis, of O Ky., took for his theme
in an address at his home on the la 1 1 onl d VI inoria'
l'.i\ tie work of our women during and since the war. 1 , 1
hi addn Captain I His aid in ub tanci
"I declai yi m that futut e gem 1 ations ought not 1
gel to honor the women of thi South. During the four years
m winch the South -1 iblish its ii ice the
1 h\ their virtu.-, patt iol 1 m, 1 fic< and loyalty
in the ■'■ 1 "i the Southet 11 I onfi dei icj did mi in to make
USI a UCCI than all the arm,. us as they
were, which ih South c. n set on fieli attli
' . no situat ion too distt es - ing, no 0 ndition too
advi rse, no disa 1 loyal ivomi n of the
Smith By their unabated fidelitj to a cause which all the
ight thi j a 1 ,1 in inspit ing the
irmi ' - [03 alt} , fidelity .
ami bravery for the cau 1 the) defended to the extent that
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they made it possible for the Confederacy as an organized
government to struggle for four continuous years in an un-
equal contest to establish its independence. But for these
women of the South the Confederacy could not have sur-
vived for a single year. Inspired by their example, their
constancy, self-sacrifice, and patriotism, the South was able
to maintain its organized armies in the field for four of
the bloodiest years that mark the highway of ancient or
modern history. If Confederate soldiers won renown on
fields of battle, which they did, and if they shook a continent
by their heroic endeavors and filled the whole world with
the glory of their achievements, the credit for their per-
formance is primarily due to the women of the South. No
man could wear a Confederate uniform and not be a good
soldier under the influences which the women of the South
brought directly to bear upon him. Therefore whatever glory
clusters about the performances of the men who made up the
Confederate army should be set down in the first instance to
the credit of Southern women.
"At the breaking out of the war the women of the South
were the most highly cultivated, the most accomplished, the
most patriotic, and the most beautiful women in the world.
They devoutly believed in the justice of the Southern cause,
and with their accomplishments, their patriotism, their loyalty,
their virtue, and their beauty they made the armies of the
South the most formidable array of warriors that ever
marched under martial banners in all the tide of time.
"The shattered ranks of Confederate veterans ought to
gather about them to-day their children and their grand-
children, and inspire them with the example of these glorious
women of the Old South. It only remains for Confederate
soldiers to do a few more important things. They ought
to see to it that their descendants erect monuments to the
memory of the women of the South, so that future generations
can never forget their glorious example. From the fall of
Fort Sumter to that memorable day when General Lee had
his last conference with General Grant at Appomattox the
women of the South never abated their devotion, their ardor,
and their loyalty to the homes which the armies of the South
were marshaled to defend. The very ceremonies we are
here observing to-day had their conception and origin in the
loyal hearts of accomplished and devout Southern women.
"When the South quit its struggles in those dreary days
of April, 1865, there was not a ray of sunshine in any home
in the old Confederacy. Red-handed war had made a verita-
ble waste of every State embraced within its boundaries.
Homes had been destroyed, fortunes had been wrecked, and
millions of property had been destroyed by the invaders of
the South. Every condition bore the cruel marks of adverse
fortune. In this disastrous situation, when the last hope of
the Old South had perished, its women, true to their con-
victions, their purpose, and their devotion to their homes,
went afield, with no blare of trumpets, with no sound of vic-
torious bands to cheer them on, and gathered a few wild
flowers that survived the wreck of war, and with, tender
hands and affectionate hearts and tears placed them upon the
graves in which their dead hopes and dead heroes were
buried. That performance challenged the admiration of every
other civilized land, and to-day the custom of annually deco-
rating soldiers' graves, without regard to the armies in which
they served or the flag under which they fought, is due alone
to the women of the South. From this simple ceremony, orig-
inally performed by our Southern women when no sunshine
was over their devoted heads and no star of hope dawned
upon them, has grown up a custom which is to-day annually
observed by more than eighty millions of people in these re-
united States. All this honor is due to the women of the
South. Let us teach th.ir descendants that their fathers and
grandfathers were not traitors, but that they died in defense
of a constitutional principle which was recognized by our
ancestors when they wrote the Declaration of Independence,
a principle which was formally established in our national
law when our forefathers achieved our independence at York-
town.
"While I yield to no one in my admiration of and loyalty
to Confederate soldiers, no matter from what State they come,
I cannot omit to mention to you that the Kentuckian who
served in the Confederate army occupied a most unique posi-
tion. His State had not withdrawn from the Union, am'
when he entered the Confederate army he was an exile. His
home, his kindred, and the companions of his youth were
behind him, and a wall of fire raged between him and all that
he loved and honored in his boyhood; but, believing that the
cause of the South was just, he did not hesitate to align him-
self with his brethren of the South in the defense of a just
cause and struggled to the last to vindicate the altar which
the South had dedicated to liberty. Through four years of
war every possible m.ans of communication between him and
his native home was barred to him, but this did not abate
his ardor for the cause of the South. It is of record that the
very best soldiers in the Confederate army came from the
State of Kentucky.
"Without hope of reward except a consciousness of duty
well done. Kentuckians adhered to the principles for which
the South contended until the last star of its hope went down
to rise no more forever. Kentuckians were the escort of
President Davis when the Confederate capital had been sur-
rendered; they were the pallbearers at the burial of the
Confederacy's last hope. The conduct of these young men
who served in the Confederate army will continue to form a
chapter in the history of this glorious commonwealth which
will be honorable to them and creditable to their native State
as long as 'Old Kentucky' retains its place in this republic of
American States."
THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.
BY AMY PEARL COZBY.
There's a story my father has oftentimes told
Of a brave little nation that rose,
Baptized with the blood of her patriots bold.
To stand for an hour 'midst her foes.
He tells how she struggled for liberty's light,
Then sank into eternal night.
There's a flag — I have seen it — worn, tattered by shells.
And stained with the blood of the brave ;
It speaks ever sadly of silent farewells,
Of hopes that were hushed in the grave.
I know how it rose in its glory and pride.
Then drooped o'er the nation that died.
O, sad is the story my father has told
Of death and disaster and gloom;
Yet marked with such courage, such deeds daring, bold.
As I kneel at the young nation's tomb,
I am glad that from out her storm cradle she rose
To stand for an hour 'midst her foes.
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HISTORY OF THE PRINCE WILLIAM CAVALRY.
BY MRS. M. R. BARLOW, MANASSAS. VA.
Who thai is now falling into the sere and yellow leaf of
even middle life dots not distinctly remember the spring of
1861 ? Not for the beauty of the season, though that was as
I01 1 h ■ smiling skies, balmy winds, and odorous flower cups
could make it. but for the cloud at first that seemed scarcely
large] than a man's hand which began to loom up in the
political horizon and the distant mif.tcrings of the storm so
soon ti 1 hurst upon our land
Disunion, heedless of future evils, walked abroad, a new
scheme of government was proposed, a new Confederacy arosi .
and seemingl] a new memh r was added to the list of na-
tions Then came the call for troops, and soon the earth re-
sounded with the tramp of armed nun. Who was sane
enough in those da) oi - cessh excitements i" think of
the "battle, murder, and sudden (hath," the trio of evils from
which we had been taught to pray to be delivered, that might
lurk behind all this? Tin re was glory and enthusiasm about
n ordei of thing in the waving banners, the glittering
uniforms, and nodding plumes that led captive the imagina-
tion and silenced reason. In every town where troops wen
quartered thi young ladies were affected with "button upon
the brain." and seemed to think that life was made only to be
Spent walking, riding, and tinting with the soldiers. Youth
and gayety were everywhere uppermost, unappalled by the
spectacle of national distraction, and Men the soberest looked
upon the most astounding events with an equanimity border-
ing upon apathy
Of the many companies then mustered into service, few
entered with brighter prosp cts than the Trince William Cav-
alry, the company whose history I have been requested to
write. It had been organized in the winter of 1858 and 1859.
during the John Brown excitement. It had seen no active
then, hut bad continued under the militia law to drill
once a month at tin count] seat, Brentville, In the summer
of [859 at a picnic in Hart's woods, near Rristoe, they were
nted by the ladies of the county with a beautiful silk-
flag. This tlag was gotten up 1>> two ladies of the county.
ni,i and Som r William . cousins, the white por-
tions of the flag hung made loan an evening dress of the
latter, who is still living as Mrs, Lion, of Manassas, Ya. The
other lady, afterwards Mi ! aptain l'a\is, suffei d the in-
dignity of being the only lady of her county arrested b) ill
Federal forces. She was carried to Alexandria, where, in spite
of thi p idi 1 d by such unusual exposure
and fatigui in being taken from one provost office to anothi •■
ihe was detainei veral weeks, though she was never
charged with anything 1 rious than holding communica-
tion with the enemy, the said enemy being her own hu
.1 hiding place had been compelled to witness the
us wife, knowing himseli h Ipless to assist lur.
She was at length released loan captivity bj the kind
of Mrs. Holland, who. having British pro tllowed
to trade through the lines, and succeeded in getting h 1 i< ;
friend out and to Prince William, where she was met by her
brother. J. I aj lor Willian
within the Southern lines. This flag has survived not only the
war but nearly every one who was connected with its pi a
tion, and is now in po of B. D. Merchant, of Man.i
In jR(r>. during the presidential campaign, the company
undertook their first active operations. During that summer
John Underwood, with a following of about twenty Republi
cans, had raised a handsome pole ami Hag in the inter
their candidate. Abraham Lincoln, in Occoquan, Va., and the
company had threatened to cut it down. Underwood bad sent
word to Governor Letcher that Prince William Cavalry wis
coming to Occoquan to destroy private proverty, and the
Governor had ordered General Hunton, who then commanded
tin- militia of the county, to send the Prince William Cavalry
on a certain day to Occoquan to protect private property. Thus
Mm will perceive the position of the cavalry to have been
rather peculiar. They accepted, however, and. marched down,
accompanied by a good many citizens from different parts of
the county. At John Payne's store, one mile from Occoquan,
the citizens and a few of the company in citizens' clothes —
■ them Vivian I >wels, thi on of an Episcopal minister
of the county— formed themselves into a citizens' meeting
and elected Milton Fitzhugh as captain and Mr Jackson, of
Ellsworth notoriety, then of Fairfax t\ H., as axman. The
pole was cut down by this committee, cut into convenient
lengths to be carried hack to Payne's store, and there divided.
Most of it was made into walking sticks.
The cavalry was ordered into service on April 17. 1861, and
was a line and soldurly-looking lot of men. numbering som.'
sixty to seventy members It was uniformed with gray cloth
made at Kelly's Mills, in Culpepsr County. The uniform con-
sisted of a frock coat with one row of buttons up the front
ami 'Hie 011 each side, connecting at the top with a gold lace
V. Pants with yellow stripes, black hats with black plumes on
1I1. I, 11 side held up with crossed sabers, and a shield with the
letters "P. W. C." in front — a plain but neat uniform in which
the most insignificant must look his best; and as tins trotted
off by fours with the fine-looking, genial captain and his kins-
men at their head, there were none bul admiring eyes and hut
few dry ones in the old town which had known and loved
mosl of them from childhood to manhood,
Ihe company was officered in starting out as follows: Cap-
tain. W. W. Thornton; Lieutenants, P. D. Williams. J. M.
Barbee, and Demetious Rowe ; Orderly Sergeant. Thomas
riiornton ; Corporals. Robert Towdes and J. Taylor \\ ill
I In- first camp of the cavalry after it was ordered out was
on a farm called Saffolds, near Occoquan. From thence it
was sent to the northern neck of Virginia Eot several weeks,
und ; General Ruggles, who complimented
the company highly for promptitude and efficiency while under
his command in transferring it to Major Terry.
May 15 found the cavalry luck at Brentsville with orders
to inarch to Occoquan. Maj jo. -till at Occoquan watching
landings on tin- Potomac and guarding roads in constant ex-
pectation of an attack from the Federal forces which had
landed in Al xandria. On May -'4 the cavalry was ordered to
burn the bridg r the Occoquan and report at Manassas,
arriving there on Saturday, and ordered hack on same day to
Bacon Race Church. 1 Mi Mondai was ordered again to
Manassa! at full speed, and, arriving there, found General
m and staff already mounted, and were detailed
COrl to Cent rville. where a light was expected; but it
e alarm. Late in the evening the cavalry was or-
1 to Fairfax C II
The I iuit written on the Jolh of M.i\ of
the State of affairs at Fairfax County and on the 5th of June
of the tight at Fairfax C II, by one of the lieutenants; and as
the writer dors not shirk his own share in the letter, it may
be regarded as strictly authentic:
"This county is in a perfect fever of excitement, and con-
ntly filled with absurd rumors. Almost every night we
are snatched from our blankets and thrown into our saddle*
'65k
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by false alarms. We are here almost in the enemy's country
and are keeping a sharp lookout for them, and don't intend to
be trapped if such a thing can possibly be avoided.
"On the morning of the 1st inst. at 2:30 o'clock the two
advanced guards on the 'Little Falls Church' road came in at
full speed and reported that they had been fired upon by the
enemy, who were rapidly advancing upon this place. Our
company was immediately called out, and with great alacrity
were preparing to meet them ; but in less than five minutes
after the first alarm was given and the company about half
ready, not more than half of the men being mounted, it was
borne down upon by from eighty to one hundred well-armed
and well-mounted Federal dragoons. Our company, being cut
off from their officers (neither the captain nor I being with
them), could in their confused state do nothing but retreat,
and that they did with the greatest possible speed. When the
alarm was given. I got up, went to the stable, got my horse,
and returned to the barracks for the purpose of arousing
several members who were dilatory about getting out. I tied
my horse in front of the barracks about twenty steps from the
door and went in'o the building to bring out the men, not
dreaming that the enemy was so near at hand. Upon my
giving the two men notice, they immediately got up, and we
were about midway the building on our way to the door when
the enemy opened heavy fire upon our troop. When we got
to the door, our troop was passing under full retreat and the
enemy firing at every jump. I rushed out to get my horse,
but found that the enemy was within fifty feet of him, and that
if I attempted to mount I would certainly be taken as well as
my horse ; so I halted about halfway between the door and
the horse, hesitating what was best to be done. In this posi-
tion I was immediately discovered by them and fired upon
about six times. At this juncture, cut off from the company
and directly under the eye of the enemy, you know I very
readily decided to make my escape on foot, which I did with
the least possible delay, leaving my horse to be taken by the
rogues — an opportunity they did not lose, for I was hardly
out of sight of the house before some twelve of them dis-
mounted, entered the house, captured Henry Lynn, who was
too slow about getting out, and took him and my horse off
with them.
"The enemy pursued our company about three-quarters of
a mile, firing at every step. They then halted and returned
to the town, to be received by about forty-five of the Warren-
ton Riflemen, who had been aroused by the firing upon our
men. When they were within sixty yards of the Warrenton
Rifles, a brisk fire was opened on them, which was promptly
returned. In the first round the Warrenton Rifles lost their
captain, John Q. Marr. The enemy retreated, rallied, and
charged twice more upon the Warrenton Rifles, in which they
suffered serious injury. Our loss was one killed (Captain
Mor-r) and four taken prisoners (W. T. Washington, Henry
Lynn, Thomas Marders, and Charles Dunnington). The
enemy's loss was three taken prisoners and twenty-four killed
and disabled."
After this incident the cavalry were camped at various
places in the vicinity of Fairfax C. H. On July 9, 1861, it was
at Camp Scott, near the Occoquan, associated with the Albe-
marle Troop, under the command of Capt. John Scott, for-
merly of the Black Horse, and their duty was to guard the
Potomac between Occoquan and Dumfries, which was then
considered such an important point that they were supported
by a regiment of infantry, and in all numbered some one thou-
sand men, all eager to have a brush with the enemy and wipe
out the remembrance of the surprise at Fairfax C. H. The
Yankees, however, seemed to have been satisfied with their
reception at that place, and remained on their side of the river
until ready for their advance for the first battle of Manassas.
During that battle the cavalry were left on the extreme right
of our army, with the commands of Colonels Early and Hill,
whose forces by some strange mistake in the transmission of
orders were left inactive throughout the day, and the cavalry
were held in reserve until the enemy began to give way, when
they joined in the short pursuit of the fleeing foe, which did
not extend farther than Centerville, though we know now that
it might have been kept up to Washington City itself without
damage to our forces.
The remainder of the year of 1861 was spent by the cavalry
at various places in Fairfax and lower Prince William. It
wintered at a place called Round Top, in the latter county,
and the following is a description of their life there written
by one who was afterwards a member of the company and
who paid them a visit before joining: "The merry fellows that
I found in camp at Round Top are merry fellows indeed.
They have not yet felt the pinch of hunger, and but few of
the other ills consequent upon the life of the soldier. Within
an easy distance of their own homes, with plentiful rations
for man and beast, they spend their days in hard riding and
scouting, their nighls in games and revelry, and doubtless
think it is a fine thing. But they will waken ere long to its
stern realities, I very much fear."
That the stern reality came only too soon we may judge
from another extract dated only two years later, which reads
as follows : "It was broad daylight when we reached the edge
of the woods and paused to take a view of what was beyond.
There was an open space, the enemy's line stretching along the
opposite wood; while an occasional picket ensconced behind a
log-pen and protected by an India rubber cloth converted into
a temporary tent were evidently taking matters as easily and
comfortably as if we had been a hundred miles away. Still
farther to the rear we would catch occasional glimpses of
bodies of cavalry and infantry posted along the rising ground ;
the former with their sleek, well-fed horses picketed to tree
or fence, pawing the ground in their impatience, while their
riders reclined upon warm blankets and India rubber tents,
sleeping away the dreary hours or perchance watching the
cooks as they moved about the fires in their waterproof over-
coats, evidently preparing for their comrades a warm break-
fast from the well-filled stores of the Yankee commissariat. I
could not but contrast their position with that of our own brave
men, many of whom had been reared in luxury, while few
among them had ever known a real want, now without
blankets, without overcoats, many barefooted and half-naked,
cowering down behind trees or slumps for shelter against
chilling storms, and only too happy if they chanced to pos-
sess a slice of bacon or beef, a single hard cracker, a handful
of hay or corn to assuage the hunger of themselves or their
half-s;arved horses."
In September, 1861, while the cavalry were camped at
Sangsler's Crossroads, in Fairfax County, it was chosen by
Col. Beverly H. Robertson to constitute a portion of his regi-
ment of cavalry just organizing and became a portion of the
4th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, ranking as Company A, and
with the Governor's Guards formed a squadron. It continued
to act with this company until after the seven days' fight
around Richmond, when it was put with the Hanover Troop,
Captain Newton commanding, thus forming the second
squadron, and so acted the remainder of the war.
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Vfter the army fell back from Manassas, in 1862, the Prince
William Cavalry were camped for a short time at Stafford
C. H., and it was there that a reorganization of the com-
pany took place under an act of the Virginia Legislature, al-
lowing all volunteer companies the privilege of electing their
own officers. An election took place, resulting as follows:
Captain, P. D. Williams; Lieutenants, L. A. Davis, B. D.
Merchant, and George Colvin ; Orderly Sergeant, P. T.
Weedon; other Sergeants, J. Taylor Williams and Robert
Towles.
Soon after this George Colvin died, and each one of the
officers under him was advanced a step and some others
elected, among them Absalom Lynn and Vivian Towles, as
noncommissioned officers. The next year J. Taylor Williams
was made sergeant major of the regiment by Colonel Wick-
ham, and served in that capacity through the Gettysburg cam-
paign and until the old sergeant major, wdio had been cap-
tured at Stevensburg June 9, 1863. was released from prison.
Captain Thornton was made major in the commissary depart-
ment of Ewell's forces, and acted in that capacity until the
close of the war.
The cavalry went from Stafford C. H. To the peninsula
It took part in the battle of Williamsburg, where Colonel
Wickham and the major of their regiment, W. H. Payne,
were badlj wounded, From that time to the close of the
lighting around Richmond it formed a part of Stuart's Cav-
alry force in the immediate front of the enemy. An extract
from a Utter says: "My company did nobly all through the
fights. It captured one day one hundred and ten prisoners.
One man, W. Scott George, captured eighteen or twenty of
them by himself. I was slightly wounded on the left hand
and arm the second day of the fight by pieces of shell which
have deprived me of the use of them ever since; but now I
am rapidly recovering, and will soon be fit for duty again."
The wounds mentioned were received in the battle of Cold
Efarboi on June 27, 1862. while the company was supporting
Capl John Pelham's Battery of Stuart's Horse Artillery, and
ih. same shell had just killed Corporal Warwick, of the
Governor's Guard, of the same squadron, by striking his saber
ainl cutting him in two, one of the fragments striking Capt.
P I1 Williams on the hand, inflicting a painful but not serious
wound, lie was the only man in the company injured. Four
month latei In- was killed in the Mine Run campaign.
The following is tin- account written by his broth.!
I01 Williams, a f w days later: "Our brigade of cavalry
commenced the advance by way of Raccoon Ford. Culpeper
County, on Sunday morning, tin nth of October. We found
ill' enemy dure in strong force, and soon after crossing the
river we were attacked by a large body of cavalry. We fought
them s,,im- time, when our regiment (tin .(till was ordered
irge a body of sharpshooters, The regiment was com-
manded by Captain Newton, of the Hanover Troop, and our
squadron by my brother, P. D, William-, and his squadron
being in front, of course had to bear the brum of the fight
tin Newton was killed instantly, and my brother fell
mortally wound.. 1 He received a hall in his left arm just
below the shoulder which shattered the bone and entered the
Ills horse was killed and fell upon him; but it had
; moved by the enemy before his friends reached him, as
another charge had to 1,,- made before the Yankees were put
to flight lie was taken to Mr. String!'. How '-. in the neighbor-
and died a short time afterwards in my arms while I
u the act of giving him SOmi laainlv which had been
sent in by ilu chief surgeon "
Thus passed away in the prime of life (he had barely
reached his twenty-fifth birthday) one who in the words of a
fellow-soldier "was as brave a soldier as ever drew a saber or
fired a gun." With all due kindly deference to the soldiers
of to-day, we don't think they rank with Capts. P. D. Williams
and Newton.
The 4th Regiment of Cavalry was in most of the battles and
raids which made Stuart's Cavalry so famous during the war,
and the Prince William Cavalry fully sustained the reputation
which had made it Company A of the regiment. Its hardest
campaign was that with Stuart at Gettysburg, when it was
for fifteen days between Meade's army and Washington, travel-
ing day and night and scarcely taking time to eat their meals,
and toward the close the men wire so worn out by the loss
of sleep and rest that they would frequently go to sleep while
riding and fall off their horses. I luring the retreat from
Petersburg it protected the rear of the army, and had to
fight day and night for a week. "On the morning of the 9th
of April." says a correspondent, "our brigade was ordered to
report to General Lee at the front, and by him ordered to go
around Sheridan's command and get possession of the Lynch-
burg road. Our squadron (the 2d) dismounted and was fight-
ing on foot when the flag of truce came through the lines at
9:30 o'clock with the news of the surrender. General Mun-
ford, who was in command, sent word back to know upon
what terms the cavalry were to surrender; and after waiting
some time and 11.. answer coming, he took the brigade, e-\c. pt
our squadron, which was still on the firing line, back to Lynch-
burg. Our squadron remained until night, and then joined
file- regiment at Lynchburg. The- next morning. April to. the
whole command was disbanded."
R. ference lo the list of the dead given with this will show
that the cavalry did not escape losses either in battle or by
disease. Thirty names are recorded there, a large proportion
to the number enlisted, which never exceeded one hundred,
and several ..f these served only one year. Of the number now
living, but one man bears the visible sight of that mighty
struggle — in the crutch instead of the saber. Private John W.
Fewell, now of Meridian. Miss., lost a leg in the battle of Five
Forks the day before Richmond fell, and we think was the
only one of the company maimed, lie sp nt several months
in a Federal hospital in Petersburg, where he was most kindly
treated. B, 1>. Merchant ind several others had long ex-
perience in Federal prisons, where thee- did not fare so well.
Thomas S. Shirley. William Stone, and J. P. Monroe died
there, the latter quite early in the war at Mount Lookout. Sam
Davis and John Arundel were' murdered in Dumfries by two
negroes th.v had capture! neat \h xandria and were taking
back to Richmond. They weie -In pine 111 an old house, and
the supposition is that whoever was on guard went bo leep,
and the negroes knock. .1 them in the head with an ax they
had to cut wood for a fire. The negroes took their arms and
in... I. theii escape to Washington, where they were made
heroes of; and it wa- reported that Congress voted them a
in. dal for the deed
In giving the place and date of deaths of Confederate
brigad als in the Veteran for May. it was stated that
Gen Lloyd Tilgman was killed at Battle Creek, Mo., and it
d have been B 1 ek, Miss.
In In- "Perils of Escape from Pri n, I ol. II. G. Damon
that Mrs, Kate F. Perry Mosher, the prisoners' friend,
: sister of Mrs. Charles Buford; but they were only
friend-. Mr' Mosher states, and not related at all.
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IN THE GLOAMING.
BY T. C. HARBAUCH.
Out of the years that long ago vanished
Back from a youth that has flitted doth come,
Mingled with laughter and burdened with sorrow,
The stirring tattoo of an old army drum ;
And dimly I see where a river is flowing
The glimmer of lights, forming long, ghastly lines.
And an army in gray amid silence is marching
Under the crests of the far-away pines.
Hark! 'twas a bugle; I certainly heard it,
Twas a call for a charge through the copse on the foe.
And yonder a flag in the starlight is waving
The blessed old bars of the long, long ago ;
The legions of gray in the valley are' forming,
The guns are at work on the crest of the hill,
A comrade goes down with a prayer for his mother ;
The roar of the fight not a moment is still.
Nay, 'tis but a dream of the days that are over;
The crutch at my side is a token, I say,
Of a youth that was splendid, a boyhood enhallowed,
When proudly I sported a jacket of gray,
When shoulder to shoulder we marched on to glory
And charged in our youth to the cannon's red mouth,
When victory perched on our beautiful banner
And Fame wove a wreath for the chivalrous South.
There's gray in my hair as I sit in the gloaming;
'Twas gold when we stood on the battle lines,
And I think of the lock that I sent to a sweetheart
Who waited for me in the shade of the pines.
And so by the brink of the mystical river
That wanders away to the uttermost sea
I dream of my comrades of march and of battle.
I dream of the beautiful banner of Lee.
We furled it, the ages will crown it with glory ;
We lost, but the halo of fame is our own —
No stain on the swords that we drew for the Southland.
And not a regret where our bayonets shone.
I hear a sweet voice that is constantly calling
With love in its tones from a land far away,
And I yearn as I sit in the mystical shadows
For the heavenly camp of the comrades in gray.
GENERAL KIRBY-SMITH'S NAME IS HONORED.
[The Sewanee Purple, Sewanee, Tenn.]
On May 7, 1907, a bill was introduced by Senator Beard,
and subsequently passed, in the Florida Legislature directing
that a statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby-Smith be placed in the
National Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington. Under
the provisions of the Act of Congress, July 2, 1864, Florida
was entitled to furnish two statues for this hall, which the
State has never done ; and as General Kirby-Smith was the
•most famous Floridian in military life, it is fitting that his
memory be so commemorated.
General Kirby-Smith was born in St. Augustine, Fla., in
the year 1824. After the Civil War, he was for many years
professor of mathematics at the University of the South. He
was a strength and support to the university in those early
days of her existence, and v. closely associated with every
phase of Sewanee life. He was loved and respected by all,
and ever since then his name has been linked with Sewanee's.
He died just after the opening of the Lent term, 1893, at his
home here in Sewanee. Bishop Gailor, who was then Vice
Chancellor, in his report to the Board of Trustees in the same
year, pays this fine tribute to his character : "No name in the
records of the internal administration of the university shall
shine with a purer luster than his. He had the love and re-
spect of every student and professor. He was ever the loyal,
unselfish friend of Sewanee, an efficient officer, a devoted
Churchman, a noble, high-minded Christian gentleman."
General Kirby-Smith's life is worthy of emulation. A true,
brave son of the South — a patriot and a gentleman — he de-
serves to live always in the hearts of his countrymen. A
memorial volume of the life and letters of General Kirby-
Smith is in course of publication at the University Press, Se-
wanee, Tenn.
Why So Many Brigadiers and Colonels? — Gen. H. W.
Wood, G A. R., Madison, Wis., writes: "When we read a
story of the South in which there is a soldier or a dozen of
them, the page is set full of capital 'G's' and 'Cs' and 'M's,'
meaning 'Generals,' 'Colonels,' or 'Majors.'" And then he
wonders just why that is so! Dr. D. H. Grant, son of a
Confederate, at Palestine, Tex., replies : "All the home South-
ern people have such love and respect and veneration for their
old heroes, and they feel now that so few of them are left
to tell the true story, that they by virtue of their valor and
true heroism ought lo be generals, colonels, and majors. If
not for that reason, we all think that they are now entitled to
promotion by reason of succession to the titles."
About That Star from Gen. J. E. Johnston's Coat. — The
Veteran for May contained an article clipped from a Mis-
sissippi paper, giving a letter from H. A. Langworthy, of
Traverse City, Mich., to R. W. Durfy, of Vicksburg, written
last September, in which he made the statement that he had
cut a star from the coat of Gen. J. E. Johnston. This state-
ment is ridiculed by W. J. Brown, of Jackson, Miss., who
was of Company F. Wood's Regiment, Forrest's Cavalry.
Comrade Brown says it "will do very well as a work of
fiction," etc., and he makes a good point in referring to "Lieu-
tenant General" Johnston and "General" Pemberton com-
manding Confederate States forces at Vicksburg. Joseph E.
Johnston never was a lieutenant general, nor was Pemberton
ever a full general. The Veteran should have detected these
inconsistencies.
The St. Louis Confederate Monument Association issued
an address on May 29, 1907, in which it states that within the
last twenty years the Southern societies of St. Louis have
donated in actual money more than fifty thousand dollars to
monuments and benevolent purposes in Missouri and other
States. The proposed St. Louis monument is designed to rep-
resent the whole State, and it is to be erected to commemorate
the valor of every soldier and sailor of the Confederacy, how-
ever great or humble the service he rendered. It is proposed
to raise about thirty-five thousand dollars for this monument.
A prominent place in Forest Park will be accorded it, and
the ladies who have the matter in hand have every confidence
that Missouri, the fifth State in the Union, "will come to the
front" and erect a monument that will be a credit to the
State, an ornament to St. Louis, and a fitting memorial to
those who gave their lives to duty.
Any who feel inclined to contribute to this cause, however
small the amount, will please forward it to the Treasurer,
Mrs. Philomen Chew, 4033 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo.
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FIGHT AT BEVERLY, W. VA.
BY THOMAS H. NEILSON (CO. D, 62D VA. REGT., C. S. ARMY),
302 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.
The writer, a Virginian, a youth of nineteen, had already
Seen three and a half years of active service in the Confed
erate army when, early in November, 1864, he joined a fool-
hardy expedition of time hundred and eighty men to capture
the town of Beverly, in Randolph County, \V. Va., held by
an Ohio cavalry regiment (the 8th, T understood), eight hun-
dred strong. Our battalion (composed of men from different
companies and regiments of Gen. John D. Imhoden's Brigade.
recently ordered to Highland County to recruit our horses,
broken down in Early's raid on Washington City and the
active campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, la'ely ended)
was led by Capt. Hannibal Hill, of the o_>d Virginia, a young
Virginia mountaineer of reckless daring.
(•wing to disparity in numbers, our only hope of success
lay in a "surprise;" and as a large portion of the denizens "I
West Virginia were stanch Unionists, we were forced to
abandon the public roads and make the journey through th
mountains. The afternoon of November X found us some six
miles from our destination. We had supper and n ted
till dark, when, with injunctions of strict silence, we resumed
our march. Ranked the enemy's pickets, and took a po ition
on the river bank less than a mile distant from the town,
whi 11 we lay on our arms, intending to attack at dawn while
the enemy slept. Despite our precautions, tin enemy, apprised
of our approach, had posted a chain guard over a half mile
from their camp, and nearly an hour before dawn their bugle
sounded "reveille."
We sprang to our feel at the sound and formed in line.
Undaunted at the miscarriage of his plans, and though out-
numb! red nearly three to on (having lost a hundred men by
straggling the previous night), our intrepid leader determined
on an instant attack, and passed the order down the line.
"Forward."
Wc had advanced but a few hundred yards when "Who
comes there?" "Halt!" bang! bang! greeted us.
"Charge, boysl" shouted Hill, and the Rebel yell awok<e
tli ei hoes of the mountains as we dashed up the river bank
and swept at double-quick on their line, they firing at us by
our "yell" and w( on them by the flash of their carbines. As
we neared their line they broke and retreated toward theii
quarters, "tie-story log huts built on a hollow' square. We
cm off and captured several hundred pri oners, who subse-
quent mid spare few men to guard them.
We thought "the red field won" and pn ed on to their
quarters, yelling "Surrender, surrender 1" Many of our men
fell at the doors of 1! cabin . shot dead by the in-
mates, who could distinguish their forms in the dim light,
while within all was dark. Ail our muskets at
range, we clubbed them and battled hand to hand I
Hill. Lieutenant Gamble, and cer in command went
down in the "shock of batth ;" and dawn p vealing the paucity
of our numbers, the enemy rallied and attacked US with rc-
1 fury. Without leaders and scattered in this pcllmcll
fight ill the dark, our men were driven back and began to
retreat in all directi
Had I realized that we were wliipp d, 1 could hav
eight or ten men, .1- the enemy's horses stood in the stables
fully equipped, capture .1 their picket, and escaped It'll I
attempted in vain to rally our men until 1 found myseli m irlj
when I retreated, waded the river (holding my gun and
cartridge b my head, as the water came up to my
neck), and succeeded in reaching a wooded swamp near by
with five of my comrades, where we were soon surrounded
and forced to surrender to a scouting party sent out to cut
off our retreat to the mountains.
Ninety of us were captured 111 small squads and huddled
together in what had once been an old frame church, now
utilized as a guardhouse. The stone foundations, four feet
high, with the upright beams supporting the roof, still stood;
but the sides, flooring, and other woodwork had been ripped
off and devoted to camp fire duty. With its floor of earth
and open sides it afforded littli prol ction from the wintry
blasts that swept from the surrounding mountains
My loved mother had sent me, disguised as a skirt and worn
by a Virginia relative through the lines, some gray cloth from
Philadelphia, Pa., which 1 had had made into a uniform re-
sembling, as I subsequently learned, those worn by "Jesse
Scouts," Federal soldiers. When 1 was brought into camp,
one of the Yanks remarki d : "Johnny, you look very much
like a fellow that used to scout Eor General Awerill." Deem-
ing it only a casual remark. I replied simply. "Do 1?" and
gave no further heed to his remark. About three o'clock that
afternoon I was summoned ami escorted by two guards be-
fore a drumhead court-martial (composed of five regimental
officers), held in a large room on the first floor of a dwelling
used as army headquarters, and charged with desertion and
joining the enemy, conviction of which meant death.
I had braved the "grim monster" on many fields; but now
at the thought of being led out and "shot down like a dog"
on a false accusation death inspired disgust rather than ter-
ror. Friendless and exhausted by the long tramp through the
mountains, the charge and fight of the early morn, I sank
into 1 chair and gazed at the stern faces about me; no pity
shone in their eyes, not even in those of a young lieutenant
whom t had captured that morning and to whom 1 had given
a blanket, remarking that it would be very cold going back
through the mountains and that he would need it.
Winn this officer came into the room, f said pleasantly:
"Lieutenant, they have me up on vtry serious charges." He
replied coldly: "Well, I guess tiny are true." 1 said no more.
The court was called to order, silence reigned, and the judge
advocate proceeded to read "thi ," which alleged that
a few months prior I had been attached to General Avei ill's
command as a scout; had deserted, joined the enemy, and
had that day been captured with arms in my hands. I was
Ordered to plead, I altered an emphatic and indignant "not
guilty." I was first questioned on my personal history and
told the court briefly that 1 was a native of Richmond, Va. ;
that I had left college at the on the war and enlisted
as a private in Company A. S2d Virginia, under Capt. James
II. Skinner and Col. John B. Baldwin; that at the reorganiza-
tion of the army in the spring of i^'-' I had joined Company
D, of the 62d Virginia, and that 1 was color bearer of my
-nt.
The court then asked our inti thi raid. I replied
that whin the Valley campaign do ~ix hundred of
th broken-down horses had been sent to Highland County
to recruit them; that a gentleman who had come through
re was a federal cavalry regi-
ment at Beverly, handsomely mi nig in need
of horses, some three hundred and eighty of us had volun-
d to come over and "give tin m a brush," hoping to sur-
capture, and parole the garrison and go back mounted,
but that they had "turned the tables on US."
Lieut. Robert Gamble, acting adjutant, had been killed in
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the fight with the muster roll of our little command on his
person. I was questioned fifteen or twenty minutes on this
roll, and, having answered all questions put to me, said to the
court : "Gentlemen, had I been a deserter from your army for
the past two or three months, as the man for whom I am taken
is reported to be, it would be impossible for me to place to
their companies and regiments men from twenty-six or twenty-
eight different companies from three or four different regi-
ments." The court gave no consideration to this re: /ark. I
told them that the ninety prisoners in the guardhouse would
testify that I had never served a day in the Federal army,
and requested that they be called as witnesses in my behalf;
but that was refused. I then told them that I could prove my
innocence by an uncle, a rabid Unionist, in the North, a resi-
dent of Philadelphia, Pa., who would like to see the Southern
army exterminated ; but they would listen to nothing that I
would advance nor accede to any of my requests.
Two men were now called by the judge advocate and asked
if I was the man who had scouted for General Averill in the
Valley last summer. They scrutinized me closely and replied:
"Yes." "Are you certain of it?" asked the court. They again
eyed me closely and answered: "Yes." The judge advocate
then reached for a Bible to swear them. Unable longer to
restrain myself, I sprang to my feet and exclaimed : "Gentle-
men, it is in your power to swear away my life; but, remem-
ber, in so doing you murder an innocent man." Then, turning
to the court, I said : "And, gentlemen, I wish you to under-
stand that shooting down prisoners is 'a game that two can
play at,' and this farce of a trial will not avail you. You will
also have to murder the ninety men in the guardhouse, or
they will carry to General Imboden my request to hang ten
Yankees for me. This is all I have to say."
That was a phase of the case they had not considered, and
my remarks perhaps recalled the hanging of six of their men
by Colonel Mosby the previous summer in retaliation for the
murder of six of his at Front Royal. The proceedings were
instantly checked. The members of the court arose and went
to the farther end of the room, when, after a whispered con-
sultation, they returned and resumed their seats, and the
president announced that the court had decided to send me
for trial to General Averill. "Thank you, gentlemen," I
said; "that is all I ask. If General Averill will say that I
ever scouted an hour for him (I fought him repeatedly in the
Valley last summer), he is at liberty to shoot, hang, or
quarter me." I was then sent back to the guardhouse and
rejoined my comrades. The two witnesses against me then
seemed to take a fancy to me, gave me a blanket and some-
thing to eat, and vied with each other in kindly attention.
I had no faith in the court or its announced intention. They
had refused my request of the morning to allow me to go out
under guard to view our killed and wounded, so we could
report their fate. I would have attempted to escape had I
had the free use of my legs, although there would not have
been one chance in a hundred of success, as I had sprained
my left ankle badly in the charge of the early morn by stepping
on a rolling stone. I wrote a farewell letter to my now sainted
mother and one to my commanding general, reciting briefly
the facts and requesting retaliation. These I gave to one of
my comrades for delivery; and, being utterly exhausted by
fatigue and the excitement of the day, I rolled myself in my
blanket and slept soundly all night. The next morning we
arose early, as we were to be sent to the rear. Shortly before
the line formed the two witnesses called on me and said :
"Johnny, let us look at your teeth." On my complying with
their request, they exclaimed : "We know now that we were
mistaken and that you are not the man we took you for, as
that fellow had lost his front teeth." I replied : "You came
near making that discovery after I was underground."
Upon reporting their error to their colonel, I was sent off
with my comrades. We were marched some six miles over
the mountains without a halt, our guard being mounted. By
this time my ankle had become so painful and swollen that
my boot had to be cut from my foot, and I was unable to
walk farther and indignantly refused to do so, telling the
guard that they could shoot me, but that I could not and
would not walk another step. They then put me in a wagon,
and I rode until we went into camp at sundown.
The next day we were turned over to the 5th Virginia Fed-
eral Cavalry, grim old veterans, with hearts like women, who
treated us royally. I rode one of their horses, and we chatted
pleasantly over army experiences and sampled together some
army "poteen" with which they seemed to be liberally sup-
plied. We struck the railroad at Parkersburg, went from
there to Wheeling, and thence to our destination at Camp
Chase, from which I was liberated a month later on parole
by the martyr President, the gentle, kindly Lincoln, and re-
joined my mother and sisters, whom I had not seen for four
years, in Philadelphia, Pa.
There was no exchange of prisoners after December, 1864;
and when our flag was furled at Appomattox, I took the oath
of allegiance to the United States government. Over forty-
two years have since passed, but the memory of that drum-
head court-martial will be to my dying day a vivid and fright-
ful memory. I have never since met any of the actors in
that drama. Should this meet their eyes, they will doubtless
recall the November day in 1864 when they came so near con-
victing and shooting an innocent prisoner as a deserter from
their army. I will be glad to hear from any of the old boys
on either side.
It may not be uninteresting to the readers of the Veteran
to learn how I got my parole, as paroles were rarely granted.
My mother, through the kindly offices of Gen. Frank Blair,
secured an interview with Mr. Lincoln and pleaded for the
release of her only son. Mr. Lincoln promised to give the
matter consideration ; and when she called the next day, he
informed her that he had ordered my discharge upon taking
the oath of allegiance. My mother told him that she knew
I would not take the oath, so that his kind order was value-
less, and she again requested my release on parole. The
President said that gave a new phase to the matter. She re-
plied that she knew it did, but that she would answer with
her life for my keeping honorably any promise I might make;
and so the parole was granted. She had sent me a new suit,
some toilet articles, a box of cigars, etc., but had never hinted
in her letters that she was making an effort for my release.
•Imagine my surprise when, one morning early in December,
a Yankee sergeant came into our barracks and called loudly
my name, company, and regiment. I came forward and an-
nounced myself as the soldier wanted, whereupon Mr. Yank
asked: "Johnny, what would you give to get out of here?"
"What do you mean," said I, "foot loose and in Dixie? I
would give a good deal for that." Yank replied : "No, by
taking the oath." I said : "Nary oath." After some dis-
cussion I told him that I did not understand the matter, as
it was news to me ; that I had made no application for the
oath, and could not take it; but that I would go with him to
see the commandant and try to solve the mystery. He took
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me to the commanding officer, who informed me that he had
an order from the War Department to release me upon taking
the oath. I answered that I had followed and carried the
Southern cross through too many hard-fought battles to de-
sert it, and that I could not conscientiously take the oath. So
I was returned to prison.
A half hour later the same sergeant called and asked how
I would like to get out on parole. I pondered, being wholly
ignorant of what it meant. I wondered if I was to be again
court-martialed or transferred to some o:her prison. I knew
thai I could hardly get into a worse one, for we were in
"hard lines" at Camp Chase on quarter rations, and rats were
luxuries, commanding fifty cents apiece. The prospect of a
few days of freedom with plenty to eat was so alluring that
I announced that I would accept a parole. I tidied up, put on
my new suit, giving my old one to one of my comrades, and
went with the sergeant. At headquarters I was shown two
orders from the War Department, and saw at a glance that
the dates had been changed, the parole being made the earlier
and the oath the later order; so after failure to get me to take
the oath they had to release me on parole.
Alter treating the Yanks to cigars and thanking them, 1
took the coach to Columbus, four miles distant, where I got
the first "square meal" I had eaten in months at the old Eagle
Hotel. I paid fifty cents for my dinner beforehand. Had I
settled later, I think the proprietor would have charged me
five dollars, as, being half starved, I ate ten men's share, and
in runscqinnce nearly died with colic that night. This was
my first experience of Northern freedom and customs. The
head waiter was a "big buck negro" as Mack as coal, the
waiter girls being white. He stood at one end of the dining
room yelling "Mary," "Sal," "Fanny" to the white girls and
pointing to the various gmM~ muling attention. It was dif-
ficult for me to maintain silence and refrain from violence;
but, deeming this only one phase of Northern civilization, I
thought it best under present circumstances not to attempt its
reformation.
After dinner I took the first train from Columbus to Puts-
burg, thence to Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del., where, by
the terms of my parole. T reported to Gen. Samuel M. Bow-
man, commanding thai department, who ordered me to rejoin
nn family in Philadelphia, to paj no visits, to receive no
callers, to go to no places of public amusement, and to report
to him daily by letter. \ month later he ordered me to report
weekly. This continued up to the time of Lee's surrender,
when 1 took the oath, thereby becoming a full-fledged Ameri-
itizi n and ending my career as a Johnny Reb.
An A . i i hi I 'ii [dent J I >.w is. A Montclair
(N, J.) special to the New York Times on June t6 states
dward Hooker of the Cm federate army and
until recently a member "f Congress from Mississippi, is
visiting Col, and Mrs Selden Allen Day. U. S. A., in Mont-
clair. The men met during the imprisonment of Jefferson
Davis, One was an officer in the Confederate and the other
in the Union army. Colonel Hooker was the lawyer who
defended Mr. Dims after the war against the charge of
ii. ,md Colonel Day was a lieutenant a
the eapuve while he was in prison at Fori Monroe, I
Hooker often chatted freely with Li utenant Day, even giving
him advice and friendly counsel Mrs. Day is a V*ir|
and is known to the public as an author, writing over the -iu-
nature of Helen II Gardener."
i . [REER OF MAJ. JAMES A. RHEA.
James A. Rhea, first lieutenant of Company G, 19th Ten-
nessee Infantry Regiment, was wounded in the battle of
Shiloh, April 7, 1862. while commanding his company. He
was brought on a cot from the battlefield to his home, at
Rlountvillc, Tenn., about the 1st of May. He was taken off
the train at Zollicoffer. now Bluff City, the nearest point to
his home on the railroad, at which place was camped a com-
pany of Confederates. As soon as it was known among these
soldiers that Lieutenant Rhea wished to be conveyed to his
home, forthwith the entire company volunteered to carry him.
Twelve stalwart men were selected for this, and he was gently
borne "ii their shoulders a distance of six and a half miles
over rough hills and valleys to his home and friends.
After his recovery he was no longer able for infantry serv-
ice, ami in September, 1862. after having raised another com-
pany in his native county of Sullivan, he was mustered into
the Ooth Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry, Gen. John C.
\ aughan's brigade, and he was made major of the regiment.
\ aughan's Brigade was in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss.; and
after the surrender. Major Rhea reassembled for duty the rem-
nant of Vaughan's Brigade who had escaped the surrender —
he having been at home on account of the death of his father
at the time — and formed a small battalion, which was under
Gen. William E. Jones, who commanded the forces in Upper
Tennessee and Southwest Virginia in the summer of 1864.
On June 5, 18(14, Major Rhea led his band of brave men
into the battle of Piedmont, Va., and in this battle General
Jones was killed. Major Rhea was left on the field num-
bered among the dead, but later news came to his mourn-
ing family that he was wounded and in the hands of the
enemy. He was taken to the hospital; and after his wound
had been dressed, he went among the Federal wounded and
helped to dress their wounds, and treated them as if they
were bis comrades and friends, for which he received their
grateful thanks and praise, and one of them presented him
a rubber poncho as a token of gratitude for his kind treat-
ment. In this battle Major Rhea lost his sword.
After the war Major Rhea read law under Ex-Governor
Watts, of Alabama, having located at Montgomery in the
fall of 1865. He practiced law until his death, which oc-
curred December 31, 1871, and he sleeps in the cemeteie at
Montgomery. His brother, Robert M. Rhea, belonged to the
63d Tennessee Infantry, and surrendered with Lee at Appo-
mattox. He died at Knoxville, Tenn. lugust 13, [903. An-
other brother, Joseph Braincrd Rhea, was a member of Major
Rhea\ regiment; died at Marion. Va,, July 5. 1902.
A surviving brother. William 1. Rhea, 622 Gay Street,
Knoxville, Tenn. makes inquiry a- to what company was
camped at Zollicoffer at the time mentioned and who remem-
bei how Major Rhea was carried to his home, lie would
also like to hear from any c< with him
when wounded and a prisoner and who can explain why
Major Rhea was able to return home without parole. He also
makes inquiry for the Federal who gave him the rubber
poncho, lb will appreciate hearing from any one who can
give him information.
Southern p opli ii the Jamestown Exposition should
nol fail to call at Beauvoir, the- U D C building erected by
the Virginia women, Mrs Eustace Williams, of Kentucky,
1 tin- V . I> C, is in charge, and at very reasonable
luncheons are served on the oi.hr of old-time Southern
nig. This is not a "paid not;, mplimentary.
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STRANGE AND FATAL FREAK OF LIGHTNING.
BY E. H. ROBINSON, DELTA, FLA.
In the Veteran for June Comrade J. C. Bell, of Mississippi,
notes a tragedy of the war occurring near Okolona, Miss.
I, having been in the midst of it, make some corrections of
his statement and give the facts as they occurred.
A detachment of some one hundred and fifty of the 2d
Alabama Cavalry had been on an extended scout within the
enemy's lines, then about Corinth. We were returning to
Camp at Okolona when overtaken by a severe thunderstorm.
A party of us took refuge in an oak grove under a heavy-
topped black-jack. In this group were Capt. Bill Allen, Cap-
tain (or Major) Carpenter, Captain McCreary, Captain Pe-
guese, and First Lieutenant Lovell. Lieutenant Lovell had
just pulled down a limb of heavy foliage to screen his face
from the rain when the crash came. Lightning struck the
tree, the current supposedly following this limb. Lieutenant
Lovell, a gallant young officer, was killed instantly, and the
others were all severely shocked, Captains Allen and Peguese
remaining unconscious for some time. All recovered without
permanent injury except Captain Peguese, who lost entirely
the sight of one eye, and was off duty for some time.
Six of the seven horses in this squad were killed instantly
except that of Captain McCreary, who had just reined his
horse back a few paces in the nick of time. All were fine
horses, that of Captain Peguese being a beautiful and splen-
did charger, a present to him from the ladies of Tuscaloosa,
Ala. Only a few yards distant sat in line, close order with
knees touching, three men — J. J. Hodges, now of Lott City,
Tex., on the right, old man Harp in the center, and I to the
left. The bolt struck Mr. Harp's mount, a fine black mare.
Hodges's horse sprang away to the right, running crazily for
some distance. Both horse and rider were severely shocked.
My horse fell also, but recovered at once uninjured, and faced
the music as though he expected a charge. I think the surgeon
present was Dr. Hill, of the regiment.
A recent law enacted in Florida gives all Confederates of
sixty years a pension of one hundred to one hundred and fifty
dollars a year. I am just within the age limit, am sixty-one;
but have never yet asked for relief, though I stopped two
blue whistlers and left a leg in Georgia, and am so presump-
tuous as to deem myself worthy of a share of this benefac-
tion, and expect to make application.
ABOUT ENLISTMENTS FOR THE WAR.
BY A. H. PLECKER, LYNCHBURG, VA.
I notice in the Veteran for May, page 21 1, P. E. Hocker-
smith's paper concerning the first reenlistment at Dalton for
the war and to the effect that Douglas's Texas Battery was
the first to lead off. This was on January 18, 1864. He closes
his communication with an "authentic history, which settles
forever the question as to which Confederate command first
reenlisted for the entire period of the war!"
My ! My ! This is news to me, as I thought that every
command that was fighting under the stars and bars at that
late date was in for the war. Company H, of the 28th Vir-
ginia Regiment, of which the writer was a member, reenlisted
for the war in November, 7861, while out on advanced picket
line, and was given a battery of six guns which was known
as Anderson's Virginia Battery and later on Botetourt Ar-
tillery. It was attached to General Stevenson's Division in
the spring of 1862 in Tennessee, and followed him through
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi, and fought at Port
Gibson, Baker's Creek, and during the forty-seven days' siege
at Vicksburg, after which it was transferred back to the
Army of Northern Virginia; and three days after General
Lee's surrender on top of the Alleghany Mountains in South-
west Virginia spiked their guns and destroyed the battery, as
we had every reason to believe the war for which we had re-
enlisted nearly three and a half years before had closed.
FIRST RE-ENLISTMENTS FOR THE WAR.
Col. W. L. DeRosset, who commanded the 3d North Caro-
lina Infantry, C. S. A., writes reply to P. E. Hockersmith :
"On page 211 of your May number a correspondent relates
certain data, calling it 'authentic history,' with reference to
the reenlistment of Douglas's Texas Battery in January, 1S64,
at Dalton, Ga. Permit me to state that North Carolinians are
jealous of their rights when such matters are stated as 'au-
thentic history.' The first ten regiments raised by law in
North Carolina were designated as State troops, every man
of which was enlisted for the war — this in 1861. Calls were
then made for volunteers, and regiment after regiment en-
listed for twelve months, at the expiration of which enlist-
ment they were called upon to reenlist with certain privileges.
In May, 1862, many, if not most, of these regiments began
to reenlist ; this continued, and other regiments were organ-
ized. The reenlistment was for the war. This claim is au-.
thentic, it being found amongst the records of the State."
FIRST DECORATION OF GRAVES.
BY MRS. J. E. HOPKINS, NEW MARKET, V.\.
In looking over some back numbers of the Veteran, I
notice the question asked, "In what year did you first decorate
graves?" My answer is, May 15, 1866, being the anniversary
of the battle of Newmarket, which took place in 1864. This
battle is distinguished from all others as being the one in
which the Virginia Military Institute cadets rendered such
marked service. New Market is in the valley of the Shenan-
doah, the section that the Federal General Hunter devastated
with his torch and tried to make a barren waste according to
Grant's order, so that "a crow flying over that country will
be compelled to carry his rations with him."
A brief history may interest your readers. During the war
we had an "Aid Society" for the benefit of the soldiers that
might be in need of such things as we could supply. That
formed the nucleus of our present society, known as the
"Woman's Memorial Society." We are still doing effective
wprk. Only a few are living who belonged to the original
organization ; but they left it to us as a loving heritage, and
we received it as a benediction and are faithful. Thus up to
the present time we have kept the altar fires burning; and
should you see us on Memorial Day, you would be moved to
say we were worthy sons and daughters of noble sires.
Ours is an unchartered organization. To tell what we have
done may seem insignificant to some. It has been our work
to erect a handsome granite shaft with the names of all who
fell in this battle and died from wounds received in it, and in
addition each grave has a modest stone with name, company,
regiment, and where from. This we have done in the full-
ness of our hearts.
We claim to be the oldest society in the South. If there is
an older, please let us hear from it. We have also a fine
Camp and an organization of Sons of Veterans. Our neigh-
boring town has an interesting Chapter of U. D. C, to which
many of us belong; but the great day of the year is our vet-
erans' picnic, when we all keep open house and hearts and
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baskets; and if you want to see what old Virginia hospitality
is, come and see.
As a little girl, interested in anything curious, I went with
some ladies in the year 1862 to carry wearing apparel to a
battalion of Maryland soldiers. These ladies were the Presi-
dent and Vice President of the above-mentioned Aid Society.
Now I am a veteran's wife and daughter and mother of daugh-
i' 1
DAYS AND NIGHTS ( VT OFF IX SWAMPS
BY W. EC. ooll.VIK, AI.LISONA, TENN.
[The experiences of about eighty men of Brown's Brigade,
commanded by Gen. J. C. Palmer, in the battle at Bentonvillc,
N. C, has been reported through the Veteran at different
time . but this is a more extensive account. The story recalls
thi uccessful experience of the late Col. John H. Anderson,
who so far advanced in a charge during the battle of Mur-
freesboro as to pass beyond the enemy's line, and yet with these
eighty men made bis way around to the Confederate army I
Tn the Bentonville battle General Palmer's command con
sisted of the 3d, tStb, 26th. 33d. and 451)1 Tennessee, the 58th
and ooth North Carolina, and 54th Virginia Regiments. They
were near the cent r of the Confederate forces. There was
some hard fighting, in which the brigade drove the enemy
11 "in his works and advanced a half mile or more. The
em my disappearing in front, it wheeled to the left and at-
tacked the right of the enemy in the rear, the color bearer
of the 26th Tennessee with his flag being conspicuously in
th [1 td. Who can tell his name? After fighting about an
hour from the enemy's third or rear line of works, a force of
the enemy came up in its rear, putting the command in
peril. General Palmer and the greater part of his men made
their escape. Mis horse was shot and, he supposed, killed;
but, to Ins surprise, the animal was soon on its feet and fol-
Inin.
The eighty of us who were the last to leave the works wen
cut off from tin tiue of escape. Finding the enemy
all about us in the bushi . we kept dodging them, picking up
in nil. line, or four at a time until we had twelve to take
care of. We marched out to the east with our prisoners.
literall] surrounded bj tin enemy and not even hoping to
We moved 10 the right end of their works, and con-
tinued in that direction through the Swamps nearly knee-
di 11 passing neat their ordnance train*. During the night
a lieutenant of the 3d Tennessee, who was wounded severely.
walked between two of his comrades until coming to a drj
place where some bark bad been stripped from the tree, when
the gallant fellow asked hi* supporters to leave him. feeling
that In- was a burden and that we could not escape with him.
: a light in the distance, hi- comrades carried him to it
and lift him. When they returned, we pursued the march till
midnight, not knowing where we weir going. Although the
enemy's files were Mill 111 front of ns. we parsed the re-
maindei of the night and the next day on a dry place in the
Swamp. We ion,,] heat the Federals riding about us and
talking during the day.
A map of the country taken from thi enemy was pi
ly, and a plan of action bj 0U1 ■ llicers. Col.
Anderson Searcy and Lieut Col Alexander Hall, of the 45th
Tennessee, Lieutenant I olonel Gurley, of an Alabama
ment. and Mat W II. Joiner, of the l8th Tcnne-
! company offil ilcnant Ml I the 15th.
ami Captain Rhea, of the 3d. with others, took ch
prisoners, We continue, 1 east until we got beyond the enemy.
thence south two or three nights' march, thence west, cross-
ing the Alamanche River, and thence north to Raleigh.
About nine o'clock one night a scout reported that we could
pass through the enemy's line of fires at a certain point; but
when we reached it. we found it impracticable. With bated
breath we lay down until another point of escape was re-
ported, which we found not much better, so again we lay
down and waited. Our next move was to double-quick down
a road between the enemy's fires. On one side we could have
greeted them, but didn't regard it an opportune time for ex-
change of courtesies. On the other side the pine woods were
on fire. Our prisoners could have had us captured, but we
assured them that the two governments had recently agreed
upon an exchange of prisoners and that they would be im-
mediately exchanged; besides, we bad also intimated that it
would not be safe for them to make known our presence.
About midnight, while in a large open field, with a swollen
creek in front of us and the enemy's tins beyond, our strategic
colonel. Searcy, nearly despaired of escape. However, we suc-
ceeded in crossing the creek and again crossing the road
single file in double-quick between camp fires of the enemy.
We stopped in a dry, secluded place about daybreak. During
the day the enemy drove cattle within one hundred and fifty
yards of us. We did not molest them, being content to con-
ceal ourselves and our prisoners behind logs while tin y
passed. Being in need of food, Captain Rhea volunteered to
scout for some supplies, and returned with a red "razor-back"
North Carolina hog, which he and a comrade bad hemmed
in a fence corner and cut its throat, being afraid to shoot it.
The hog was skinned, divided into ninety-two equal part .
the skin likewise divided, and we devoured all greedily after
singeing the hair from the skin.
The next night we moved again in single file, one man be
bind each prisoner, through swamps more than half of the
1 mie and bushes so thick that we would frequently get hung
up, occasionally crossing a road. A number of the boys parted
with the soles of their shoes. While crossing swollen streams
on logs and otherwise some of us occasionally fell in chin-
deep.
About the third or fourth morning near daybreak we found
a buggy full of meat in the pine woods, which we took charge
of and carried to the edge of the swamp, where we put up
for the day. Our noble-hearted colonel requested US to take
only a pound to the man, saying some good Rebel had hidden
it from the Yanks. In returning tin meat we found its owner
out looking for it, and took him in charg1 | |, , laimed to be
the lust Union man 111 the country, saying be bad hidden out
twelve months from the Rebels, 1 1 ( changed front after as-
certaining who we were, and informed us that we were on
the batd< of the Alamanche River rigfrt at a crossing place,
being no other nearer than seven miles. It seemed that
Providence had guided us. Our captive, though anxious to
oli Ins family good-by. was retained as guide. We passed
over the river before sunset on a log way. Beyond the river
u 1 observed » rig al< mg thi road rapidlj . which
up] 1 to be igons. but we did not molest
them. Our captive was n 1 night and
1 1 in ning to bis home.
it tin fifth or sixth 'day out we found a barrel of peas
in an old schoolhouse, which we appropriated. Horrowing
I about the only thing the community had 1. It. it being
along the line of Sherman's march ti I, we cooked tin-
ned with an old goat thai given US, and had a
I Mint the 25th .a joili we were delighted
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by finding an old mill, which we put into use, and, repairing
to a beautiful clear spring near the house, cooked and had a
greater feast than kings ever enjoyed. The miller was at
church, but heard of the depredation and considered forming
a posse of fellow-Churchmen and firing upon us ; but after
investigating the case, he approved our conduct and quieted
the "old woman," from whom we had received a severe tongue-
lashing. After ascertaining that Lieutenant Colonel Gurley,
of Alabama, was a relative, she devoted herself to cooking
good things for us. But that dinner — that corn bread dinner!
Were I a poet, I would sing its praises. It was a never-to-be-
forgotten dinner.
A day or so afterwards we arrived in the vicinity of Ra-
leigh, drew rations, and awaited transportation to our com-
mand at Smithfield. At Raleigh we turned over our prisoners,
who were loath to leave us. We gave them letters to send
to our wives and sweethearts when they should be exchanged,
and took the cars, arriving at Smithfield about sundown. The
brigade turned out to greet us. General Palmer made a speech
in which he declared it to be the greatest feat of the war.
Gen. John C. Brown, our former brigade commander, at the
time commanding a division, hearing of our safe return, came
over to see us and made a speech, in which he compared our
actions to Napoleon crossing the Alps and other historical
campaigns. Our generals were glad to see us, and under the
enthusiasm of the moment spoke too highly of the remarkable
expedition. All honor is due to our beloved Colonel Searcy,
of the 45th Tennessee, and his counselors, who planned and
executed the escape. The private soldiers were intelligent,
prudent, and obedient. The prisoners deported themselves
well. The North Carolina troops did not go over the enemy's
works, though a lieutenant in the 60th North Carolina wrote
up the affair in a Raleigh paper, giving too much credit to
North Carolina troops. There were only two Alabamians,
Lieutenant Colonel Gurley and a private. I have tried in
vain to learn the whereabouts of the former. The latter had
an article published in the Veteran a few years ago claiming
that the company was composed of Alabamians except a few
Tennessee officers. He was in New Mexico.
THE DEATH OF STUART.
Veterans who followed the gallant "Jeb" Stuart will read
with interest the following account of his death written in
1882 by the wife of Gen. L. L. Lomax for the Philadelphia
Times :
"It has been said that Lee was the brain of the Confederate
army, Jackson was its arm, but Stuart was its soul. The
great cavalry leader was part of the history of an age that
dazzled the world for a space, going out in darkness. The
carriage of a noble person, the manners of a kind heart
awakened interest, enthusiasm, wherever he was seen. His
deeds, his exploits illuminated the gloomy scenes of war — all
that was chivalric gleamed as light about the name of J. E.
B. Stuart. In the saddle he was the picture of the warrior ;
out of the saddle the man in him was devout at times, full
of prayer; at other times gay with laughter, light of heart,
full of song, full of music, which was a passion with him.
"Stuart fell in a skirmish near Yellow Tavern in 1864.
... At Ashland they were led to believe that Sheridan was
moving on Richmond. General Stuart divided and placed his
cavalry on three roads leading to Richmond, with directions
to watch the movements of the enemy and engage him at all
hazards, in order to prevent his entrance into the city, and
with the understanding that the Confederate cavalry should
reunite at Yellow Tavern. Stuart accompanied the march
of the brigade. Upon reaching the vicinity of Yellow Tavern
he found a strong picket of the enemy in front, which he suc-
ceeded in driving before him. He shortly encountered two
brigades of Federal cavalry drawn up in line to support the
picket. This was morning, and the fighting continued inces-
santly with varied success until high noon. It could be seen
by the Confederates that the enemy had been reenforced.
From high noon till three o'clock the fighting, which had
been severe, seemed to stop by common consent. Field hos-
pitals were established and the men rested. At three o'clock
it was announced that the enemy was advancing in stronger
numbers, a larger force than had hitherto been seen. The
artillery was immediately placed upon an eminence by Gen-
eral Stuart's order for the purpose of commanding the ap-
proach of the Federals. The cavalry was hurriedly mounted
and moved to the support of the artillery.
"Upon that eminence many brave men were lost, and the
star of a great and glorious leader went down. As soon as
the artillery opened fire the enemy could be distinguished by
the naked eye preparing to charge in full force. Every effort
was made by the little brigade to meet this charge gallantly,
but it was thrown back again and again by overwhelming
numbers.
"Stuart held his position by the artillery, never leaving his
post except to rally the men or lead them back to the charge
with flaming sword. Nothing could have surpassed the su-
preme courage displayed by him. He was cool and clear as
his command went forth clear and determined. Stuart fought
without respect to numbers until a shot cut him down where
he stood battling for the guns. Crash on crash pealed forth.
One malignant shell touched the 'bravest and the tenderest.'
The first intimation the men received of the truth was to
see him dismount from his iron-gray horse, hold it by the
reins, his black plume tilting to one side as he staggered and
fell down among the ranks of the enemy. The enemy seemed
unconscious of the presence of the cavalry hero, who had been
a target for their bullets and who had met them with such
daring on so many contested fields.
"In the meantime another brigade of the division moved to
the support of the little brigade, when it was made known
for the first time along the line that General Stuart had been
shot and was perhaps dead in the hands of the enemy. The
effect of these tidings upon a body of men already over-
powered by continuous hard fighting can hardly be imagined.
Deep grief, despair was pictured upon the face of every
living man. The command was rallied and formed to make
a final charge for the recovery of General Stuart's 1 Ddy, alive
or dead. Captain Dorsey, commanding a company of Mary-
land cavalry, requested that he might have the honor of lead-
ing the charge. This was granted. The charge was made
amidst a fierce storm of bullets.
"General Stuart was found lying by the side of the iron-
gray prostrate, rational, but completely disabled by a gunshot
wound through the center of his body. Every eye moistened
as it fell upon the graceful form outstretched, the golden hair
blood-stained, the long plume, which had never been lowered
by danger or despair, trailing beside him. All entreaties to
induce him to leave the field were useless. He begged to be
allowed to die where he had fallen within hearing of the guns.
He was first in the hearts of his followers. They would not
leave him. His men lifted him gently, laid him across the
saddle, and bore him sorrowfully away from the scene of ter-
rible conflict."
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EXECUTION Of TWO CONFEDERATES.
BY J. L. KIIiBY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
The sad fate of Col. Lawrence Williams (alias Colonel Or-
ton) and Lieut. W. G. Peter (alias Major Dunlap), who were
hanged as spies by the Federals at Franklin, Tenn., in June,
1863, aroused deep sympathy throughout the South. In the
Confederate homes and army of our own State, however, this
tragic event — the first of its kind. I believe, to occur in Ten-
nessee— came with especially crushing force. There was some-
thing in the detection and swift di om of these brave men even
more awesome than the lidings of slaughter in battle. The
depressing influence alike upon friend and humane foe was
second only to that produced live months later by the lamented
but superbly heroic death of the young Tennesseean, Sam
Davis, within the same enemy's lines.
The Federal account of this grievous episode, written at the
time from the headquarters of the post in Franklin, is evi-
dently correct in every detail, and the story is told "more in
sorrow than in anger." From this report — the only one ex-
tant, so far as I know— I take the facts here given. A rc-
tatement of them, after the lapse of so many eventful years,
will doubtless be of mournful interest to those who at the
time were cognizant of the tragedy, and will prove hardly less
interesting to all who love and honor true sons of valor.
Vboul sundown of June 9, 1863, two strangers rode into
camp at Franklin and called at the headquarters of Colonel
Baird, commander of the post. The men presented unusual
appearances. They had on citizens' overcoats, Federal regu-
lation trousers and caps, the caps covered with white flannel
havelocks. They wore side arms and showed high intelligence
One claimed to be a colonel in the United States army and
called himself Colonel Austin; the other called himself Major
Dunlap, and both represented themselves as inspectors general
of the United States army. They stated that they were now
out on an expedition in this department inspecting the out-
posts and defenses, and that the day before they had been
overhauled by the enemy and lost their coats and purses. They
exhibited official papers from General Rosecrans and also
from the War Department .0 Washington confirming tbeir
rank and liiiMne^ These seemed all right to Colonel Baird.
and at first satisfied him of the honesty of the men. They
asked the Colonel in lend them fifty dollars, as they had no
coal and no money with which to buy them. Colonel Baird
lent them the money, and took Colonel Austin's note for it.
Just at dark the two officers took their departure, saying
they were going to Nashville, and rode that way. So soon as
their horses' Inads were turned the thought of their being
truck Colonel Baird, he said, like a thunderbolt; and
he' ordered Colonel Watkins, of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry,
who was standing by. to arrest them immediately. But they
going at lightning speed. Colonel Watkins had no time
to call a guard, and only with his orderly he set out on the
Hi told the orderly to unsling his carbine, and if, when
the men were halted, they showed any suspicious motions to
fire on them without waiting for an order.
I hey were overtaken about one-third of a mile from Frank
tin. Colonel Watkins told them that Colonel Baird wanted to
make some further inquiries of them and asked them I
turn. This they politely consented to do, after some ret
strancc on account of (lie latent S! of the hour and the di
they had to travel; and t'oloni] Watkins led them to his tent,
where he placed a Strong guard in It was not until
one of them attempted to pass the guard at the door that they
even suspected they were prisoners
Colonel Watkins promptly took them to Colonel Baird, and
they feigned great indignation at being thus treated. The
Colonel frankly told them that he had his suspicions of their
true character and that tiny should, if loyal, object to no
necessary caution. They were very hard to satisfy, and were
in a great hurry to get off. Colonel Baird told them they
were under arrest, and he should hold them prisoners until
he was fully satisfied that they were what they claimed to be.
He telegraphed to General Rosecrans, and' received the an-
swer that he knew nothing of such men ; that there were no
such men in his service or had his pas~.
After this dispatch came to hand, which it did about twelve
o'clock (midnight), a search of the prisoners' persons was
ordered. To this the Major consented without opposition, but
the Colonel protested against it, and even put his hand threaten-
ingly to his sword. But resistance was useless and both sub-
mitted. When the Major's sword was drawn from the scab-
bard, there were found etched upon it these words: "Lt. W.
G. Peter, C. S. A." At this discovery Colonel Baird re-
marked : "Gentlemen, you have played this very well." "Yes,"
said Lieutenant Peter, "and it came near being a perfect suc-
cess." They then confessed the whole matter, and upon
further search various papers showing them to be spies were
found upon their persons. Lieutenant Peter had on a Con-
federate cap, secreted by the wdiite flannel havelock,
Colonel Baird immediately telegraphed the facts to General
Rosecrans, and asked what he should do, and in a short time
received an order "to try them by drumhead court-martial,
and, if found guilty, hang them immediately." The court
was convened, and before daylight the case was decided, and
the prisoners informed that they must prepare for immediate
death by hanging. They did not want their punishment de-
layed; but, well knowing the consequences of tbeir acts, even
before their trial, asked to have tin- sentence, be it banging or
shooting, quickly decided and executed. But they depn
the idea of death by hanging, and asked for a commutation of
the sentence to shooting. This request could not be granted.
At daylight men were detailed to make a scaffold. The
prisoners wen visited by the chaplain of the 78th Illinois Regi-
ment, and upon their request he administered the sacrament
to them. They also wrote some letters to their friends and
deposited their jewelry, silver cups, and other valuables for
transmission to their homes,
The gallows was constructed near a wild cherry tree not
far from the railroad depot, and in a very public place. Two
ropes hung dangling from the beam within eight feet of the
ground. A little after 9 a.m. the whole garrison was mar-
shaled around the place of execution in solemn sadness. Two
poplar coffins were lying a few feet away At twenty minutes
past nine the guards conducted the prisoners to the scaffold.
["hey walked firmly and steadily, as if unmindful of the doom
that awaited them. The guards did them the honor to march
With arms re\a 1
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant n. I death hut once."
Arrived at the place of execution, the condemned officers
it( ppi d upon the platform of the cart and took their respective
places. The provosl marshal. Captain Alexander, then tied a
linen handkerchief over the face of each, and adjusted the
ropes. They then asked the privilege of bidding a last fare-
well; and permission being emu. ihej tenderly embraced each
other. This over, the cart moved from under them, and they
hung in the air. In twenty minutes all signs of life had ceased.
The DO cut down in thirty minute- and encoffined in
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full dress. Colonel Orton was buried with a gold locket and
cham on his neck. The locket contained the portrait and a
braid of hair of his intended wife; her portrait was also in
his vest pocket. These were buried with him, at his request.
Both men were interred in the same grave
The elder and leader of these unfortunate men was Lawrence
Williams, of Georgetown, D. C. He was a fine-looking man,
about six feet high, and perhaps thirty years old. He was a
son of Captain Williams, who was killed at the battle of
Monterey, and a first cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He was
a member of the regular army, with the rank of captain of
cavalry, when the Civil War broke out, and at the time was
aid-de-camp and private secretary to Gen. Winfield Scott.
Soon after the war began he informed General Scott that
all his sympathies were with the South, as his friends and
interests were there, and that he could not fight against them.
As he w-as privy to all of General Scott's plans for the cam-
paign, it was not thought proper to turn him loose ; hence he
was sent to Governor's Island, where he remained three
months. After the first Bull Run battle he was allowed to
go South, where he joined the Confederate army. He was
for a while on General Bragg's staff as Chief of Artillery, but
at the time of his death was inspector general. When he
joined the Confederate army, he altered his name, and signed
it thus : "Lawrence W. Orton, Col. Cav., P. A., C. S. A."
(Provisional Army, Confederate States of America). Some-
times he wrote his name "Orton," and sometimes "Austin,"
according to the object he had in view. This was learned
from the papers found on him. These facts in relation to the
personal history of Colonel Orton were gathered from the
Colonel himself and from Colonel Watkins, who knew him
well, they having belonged to the same regiment of the regular
army, the 2d United States Cavalry. However, Colonel Wat-
kins did not recognize Colonel Orton until after he had made
himself known, and sincerely mourned his tragic fate. Colonel
Orton, who recognized Colonel Watkins as soon as he saw
him, told him that he barely saved his life when the arrest
was made; that he had his hand on his pistol to kill him
and escape ; and that had it been any one else there he would
have done so. He delivered his sword and pistols to Colonel
Watkins, and told him to keep and wear them. He also pre-
sented him his horse, valued at five thousand dollars, and
asked him to treat it kindly for his sake.
The other victim of this daring exploit was Walter G.
Peter, a lieutenant in the Confederate army and Colonel Or-
ton's adjutant. He was a tall, handsome young man, of about
twenty-five years, who gave many signs of education and re-
finement. He played but a secondary part. Colonel Orton was
the leader, and did all the talking and managing.
There- is hardly a parallel to this side drama of the great
war in the character and standing of the actors, the boldness
of their enterprise, and the swiftness of their detection
and punishment. They went all through the Federal camp,
and minutely inspected its position, works, and forces with
a portion of their Confederate insignia upon them, and the
boldness of their conduct made their hazardous mission almost
successful.
The Federal writer, whose facts I have used, in closing his
narrative, said : "We are all sad over this event. There is
gloom upon every face. Although we are satisfied that the,
mission of these men was to plan our destruction, and that
even they recognized their punishment as just, according to
the accepted rules of war among all nations, still to see them
suffer such a penalty has filled our garrison with sadness."
LOUDON PARK CEMETERY.
The officers of the Maryland Line Confederate soldiers have
published a list of the dead Confederates in that cemetery,
Baltimore. It is here abbreviated, the name, letter of com-
pany, figure of regiment, and date of burial only being used :
Virginia. — Geo. H. Givens, — , 25th, buried May 18, 62.
Thos. Brinston, — , 16th, Sept. — , 62. Geo. W. Light, H, 14th,
July 10, 63. D. W. Bauler, G, 34th, July 20, 63. W. T. Lan-
caster, F, 3d, Aug. 11, 63; age, 30 years. H. L. Raber, A. Sth,
Aug. 14, 63. Willis M. Vesh, C, 57th, Aug. 19, 63; age, 21
years. H. T. Gibson, H, 56th, Aug. 20, 63; age, 27 years.
Thos. Church, C, 30th, Oct. 29, 63. M. G Austin, B, 21st, Dec.
3, 63; age, 24 years. J. R. Rice, H, 38th, Jan. 14, 64; age, 39
years. Hugh Price, — , May 11, 64. Archibald Edward, E,
21st, Aug. I, 64; age, 14 years. Thos. Cox, A, 21st, Aug. 15,
64; age, 33 years. R. P. Shinning. B, 14th, Oct. 14, 64. John
Gilpin, F, 22d, Oct. 15, 64. W. T. Bellington, I, 42d, Oct. 16,
64. G. A. Allen, G, 22d, Oct. 18, 64. G. S. Lewis, H, 4th,
Oct. 18, 64. C. M. Lawson, K. 50th, Oct. 19, 64. James A.
Lively, H, 26th, Oct. 21, 64. Richard Beasley, K, 15th, Oct.
21, 64. Robert A. Huckeby, I, 53d, Oct. 27. 64. Franklin
Oliver, C, 26th, Oct. 27, 64. John Hasley, C, 21st, Oct. 28, 64.
J. M. Johnston, K, 44th, Nov. 1, 64. T. C. Rice. C, 58th,
Nov. 3, 64. George N. Matherly, F, 42d, Nov. 6, 64. T. R.
Nelson, K. 50th, Nov. 10, 64. H. G. Kelly, K, 49th, Nov. — ,
64. John Brackley, E, 5th. Dec. 18, 64. T. J. Scott, B, 54th,
Dec. — , 64. B. F. Walker, B. 59th, Feb. 4, 65. Eugene Ken-
nedy, E, 13th, Feb. 18, 65. J. G. Wood, K, 42d. March 2, 65.
North Carolina.— Tobias M. Manning, — , 5th, May 17, 62.
John Hubbard, I, 5th, May 13, 62. Jas. Tomlinson, — , Sth,
May 17, 62. Blake B. Adams, — , 5th, May 20, 62. Thos. J.
Jones, H, 5th, May 22, 62. Aaron Moore, A, 5th, May 24, 62.
Patrick Haggerty, E, 5th, May 23, 62. Jonathan J. Lestre,
— , 5th, . Elijah Atkinson, C, 5th, May 28, 62. Whitmill
Clark, — , Sth, June 11, 62. B. Warner, H, 15th, Sept. — , 62;
age. 35 years. Stephen Bevan, — , 15th, . F. S. Bevans,
— , 4th, April — , 63. Hews T. Rowe, K, Sth, July 10, 63. J.
W. White, F, nth, July 10, 63. David Ingalls, D, 13th, July
20, 63. David J. Smith, I, nth, July 20, 63. J. W. Daniel, H,
3d, July 23, 63 ; age, 22 years. J. E. Morbray, G, S2d, July 27,
63. H. Carpenter, I, nth, July 31, 63; age. 40 years. A. R.
Edwards, R, 26th, Aug. 3, 63 ; age, 23 years. John Williams,
— . 47th, Aug. 7, 63. Daniel McCaskill, H, 26th, Nov. 20, 63;
age, 24 years. M. Skipper, D, 46th, Oct. 13, 64. C. R. Heffner,
F, 38th, Oct. 14. 64. Benjamin Caunet, K, Sth, Oct. 14, 64.
John A. Shaw, D, 51st, Oct. 14, 64. B. Howard, H, S2d, Oct.
IS, 64. Chas. Taylor, F, 66th, Oct. 21. 64. W. W. Caldwell,
C, 37th, Oct. 22, 64. M. H. Holmes, C, 1st, Oct. 22, 64. Lo-
renzo Colly, G, 25th, Oct. 25, 64. D. J. Bradshaw, B, srst,
Oct. 27, 64. R. P. Weathers, E, 12th, Oct. 27, 64. Caleb M.
Fronton, B. 5th, Oct. 28, 64. S. J. Woolen, E, 45th, Nov. 1,
64. W111. Wl Holland, I, 26th, Nov. 9, 64. Jas. M. Pritchard,
K, 6th, Nov. n, 64. Zelos H. Hames, H, 6th, Nov. 12, 64.
F. H. Matthews, I, 12th, Nov. 15, 64. Doggett Newton, B,
I2lh, Nov. 19, 64. Noah Camp, G, 5th, Nov. 20, 64. John
Frazer, K, 6th, Dec. 7, 64. Z. R. Robinson, G, 30th. Dec. 16,
64. W. H. Lothrop, E, 28th, Dec. 20, 64. N. Camp, C, 5th,
Dec. — , 64. W. W. Copes, — , — , Dec. — , 64. G. T. Boyett,
B, 2d, Jan. 2, 65. Jas. S. Low, G, 24th, Feb. 24, 65.
Alabama.— Dualey Dean, H, 1st, June 7, 63. John H. Craig,
— , sth, July 29, 63; age, 26 years. T. W. Shaw, H, nth,
March 3, 64; age, 25 years. H. D. Hancock, G, 12th, Oct. 16,
64. J. M. Tyes, G, 1st, Oct. 26, 64. Henry H. Smith, F 61st,
Nov. 2, 64. W. A. Tanier, D, 5th, Nov. 18, 64. E. B. Garden,
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J, 47th, Dec. — , 64. J. W. Carlisle, E, 5th. Jan. 8, 65. John
Pully, E, isl, Feb. 28, 65.
South Carolina. — John A. Boyd, D, 13th, July 20, 63. M.
B, Russell, T", 12th. July 31, 63; age, 25 years. J. D. Frick,
C, ISt, Sept 1. 63; age, 19 years. D. E. Pope. I (Holcombe),
Oct. 14, 64. Daniel Dandy, C (Holcombe), Oct. 14, 64. W.
B. Garrett, D, i8tb. Oct. 15, 64. R. W. Gibson, I, 21st. Oct.
17, 64. E. M. Mungo. II, ist, Oct. 23, 64. N. N. Ranch, C,
20th, Nov. 6, (.4. W. B. Smith. M, 8th, Nov. -6, 64. C.
Hudgcns. C, 3d, Nov. Q. 64. John N. Rowland, I, 1st, Nov.
10, 64. H. Z. Chapman. F, 20th, Nov. 10, 64. Win. E. Wil-
son, C, 22d, Nov. 12, 64. M. R. Sullivan. D, 4th, Nov. 20, 64.
II \\ Gardner, C, 1st, Nov — . 64. T. S. Warren, I, nth.
Die. II, (14. \V. N. Sctirgs. K (Watkins), March 2, 65.
Florida. — Jas. A. Ross, A, 8th, July 18,, 63. J. S. Cochran,
D, 5U1, Nov. 29, 63; age, 26 years. Benj. Phillips, E, 5th, Oct.
14, 64, J. P. Ray, E, Sth, Oct. 15. 64
Louisiana.— J, W. Osbourne, A, 14th, July 25, 63. E. J.
Thompson, G. Sth. Aug. 29, 64; age, 32 years. W. A. Burnam,
G, Sth. Nov. 15, 04.
Georgia. — Wm. Frederick, — , 3d, Dec. 23, 62. A. J. Coch-
rane, E, 41st. Dec. — , 62. Frank Goodwin. — . .8th, July 21,
63; age, 19 years. S. Lawson, E, 22d. Sept. 6, 63; age, 41
years. B. F, Ogietree, I, 13th, Aug. 15, 64; age, 37 years.
Thos. E. Hodges, B, 7th. Oct. 15, 64. II P Taylor, E, 7th.
Oct. 15, 64. W. B. Smith. A, 7th, Oct. 16, 64. IT. J. Orliff,
D, nth, Oct. '15. 64. Chas. Walker, K. 49th, Oct. 17, 64. A.
B. Foster, K, 54th. Oct. 19. 64. W. II. Wingett, G, 7th, Oct.
23, 64. L. D. Pierson, F, 28th, Oct. 21, 64. Daniel Teems, G,
38th, Oct. 30, 64. E. Carpenter, B, 64th. Nov. I, 64. L. D.
Watts, C, -'ist. \o\ 3, (14. John Clemens, G, 24th, Nov. 5.
64. G. R. Elliott, D, 53d, Nov. s, 64. F. H. Jarroll, I, 13th,
Nov. 7, 64. J. N. Reeves, G, 31st. Nov. 27, 64. C. J. Walton,
— , — , Nov. — , 64. J. C. Gotter, C, 92d, Nov. — , 64. J. C.
Bryant, P., 18th, Nov. — , 64. W. Fri dericks, — , 3d, Nov. — .
64. J. B. Weller. — . — , Feb. — . 05 N. Waites. A, 38th,
March 12, f>5
Mississippi Wm. .1 ( lark. . Dec. — , 62. David Ashbur,
11. 24th, Vpril 24 63 Ja<. E. Jones, C, 8th, April 27, 63. W.
O. Clark, — , March — , 63. R. W. Goodwin, A, nth, Dec.
John K. Mins, E, nth, March 13, 64; age, 24 years.
J. P. Owen. — . April 21, 64. T. E Steiger, — , April 21, 64
M. M Jones, E, 13th, Oct. 29, 64. B. J. Downs, D, 17th, Nov.
-'. 64. T. J. Ashburn, — . 30th. Nov. —,64
as. .1 M Lee, . Feb — . 63 S. N. Stevenson. II.
.sth. Aug. 7, 63. J E I ove, V sth, Aug. 23, 63; age, 31 years.'
Tennessee.- T. J. Hubbard, B, 7th. Aug, 3, 63. J. B. Crab-
tree, I). 44th. < )ct . 23, (it B. II. Hardway, A, tst, Nov. — .
64. A.Stark (drummer), — .4th. Dec. — ,64. II II Wiseman,
B. 1st. Feb. 17. 65. Lewis Horton, K (Hawkins), Match 3,65
«";>•» — John Scott, May 11,62. Graham. May 11.
62. John Nomey, Maj [4, 62 II lore Spier, May 15, 62.
Dennis L. Godwin, May 15. 62. James C. Weller, May 15. 62
J. R. Crawford, Dec. - . '12. P. Waiver, Jan. — . 63 Hyatt
Hank. April to, 63. John B. Tilly, Jum 10 6 Unknown,
ed from Martinsburg, Oct. — . 64. W. J. Smi"ns, Oct.
31, (14. H. H. Patten, Jeff. Davis's Art., Nov. . 64, \< F.
Mackintoff, D (Thos. Legion). Nov. — , (14. Michall, Nov.
1' I'. Gentree, Dec ,64 C. [rons, Dec. — ,64 G
P. Blunt, K, Dec. - , 64. J B Bass, Philips's Legion, Jan.
Three unknown. Feb. 4. 6s live unknown, F l> 23.
65. Jas 0 Morgan, Feb 21. '15 Jas. W. Brown, K (Col.
Kitchen), Feb 25, <■> J M Nolan, Jeff. Davis's Art,. Feb
21, 65. I A Hagen, Feb , 65 Five unknown, March 4.
63.
R.
65. C. B. Ruckman, July 7, (15. Gibbins, Dec. 30,
Robt. II. Perkinson, B (Hood's Battalion), Oct. 14, 64.
M. Daniels, Archer's Battery. Dec 23, 64.
Arkansas. — Wm. Appling, - . 10th. April 10, 63.
It will he se n that not a man from Maryland is in the list.
The State of Maryland has erected a handsome monument
(a white marble shaft) at Point Lookout in honor of three
thousand and four Confederate prisoners who died there from
March 1. 1864, to June 30, 1865. Thej were From States as
follows: Virginia, 640; North Carolina, 962; South Carolina.
248; Georgia, 249; Alabama. 75; Tennessee, 03: Louisiana.
38; Mississippi, 42; Florida, 31; Kentucky, 18; Texas, 6;
Maryland, 6; Arkansas and Missouri, 4 each. Then there
were -i\ hundred and eighteen whose State- arc not desig
nated. The above list represents those who died after March
1. while many had died there previously.
HEROISM OF WALTHALL'S MISSISSIPPIANS.
BY J. K. REYNOLDS, 30TH MISS. REGT., CAMERON, IND. T.
I feci it due to those whose acts of devotion and daring
gallantry should live forever that I send to you for publica-
tion .m account of a stand taken by a little band of men be-
longing to Walthall's Mississippi Brigade on the occasion of
iln surrender of tin brigade on November 24, 1863, while on
picket by the railway under the height: oi Lookout Mountain
We had hardly gotten located on duly, if my memory serves
me right, before we saw the Federal army maneuvering in
.Hid around Chattanooga, evidently preparing to attack and
di li dgs us. But a short time elapsed until their command
d on creek and bore down on us in such numbers that
it was folly to resist, so the brigade wa compelled to capitu-
late. None but those who chose death to capture dared to
lake life in hand and run the gantlet in attempting to escape.
We were under Lookout Heights, and to avoid surrendering
wo,- compelled to go hack over our own abattis work under
heavj cannonading, which was playing on the mountain side
to cut off our retreat. Four of my comrades- Henry C.
Latham, Buck Humphries, Steve and Jo Hughes— and I un-
ite itatingly chose the latter alternative; and we made the
break for liberty, the rest surrendering — at least, we saw no
others escaping. My four comrades knew oi in the
mountain, which they made for, and were soon sale from the
rattle of musketry and exploding of shells like hail about us.
Bearing as much as possible toward the top of the hill and
next to the mountain. I took up mj lin eat. While
• back toward the point of Lookout, and after b ing
ahled from a wound in my breast, my attention was called to
frequent confusion in the enemy's ranks, the colors in their
advanci line frequently falling hack on their massed columns
1 they pushed forward. I was facing the enemy in my re-
treat, and turned around to my right to see what caused the
commotion and disorder, when, to my astonishment, I beheld
one hundred and fortj eight of our men, who \u,\ been on
previous night, returning to then command.
On discovering the situation tiny had formed in line ol battle,
and were contesting every inch of ground that the enemy,
numbering twenty five to one, were taking. I forgot all about
lie of bullets and cannon balls plowing the ground under
mc. and my eyes filled with tears when I saw them mashed
to the ground. I saw them plainly using the butts of their
guns and bayonets as they were being crushed underfoot.
ami not ' te's back did 1 see turned to the enemy.
I would enjoj very much hearing from any participant.
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WHEN MR. DAVIS HEARD OF LINCOLN'S DEATH.
A most interesting article from Norfolk by Joseph G.
Fiveash is given in the Richmond Times-Dispatch concern-
ing the circumstances attending President Davis in his move-
ments from Richmond when the news of President Lincoln's
death was received. This comrade reports his first visit to
Charlotte. N. C, since the war period :
"The desire to revisit the old spot where Mr. Davis de-
livered his last speech was the chief cause of the visit ; and
when the Bates house was sought, from the front door of
which Mr. Davis addressed the citizens, refugees, and soldiers
who had assembled late that April afternoon to hear him. it
was found to have been replaced by an imposing building, the
lower floor being occupied by the Southern Express Company.
A few feet in front of it, fastened in the sidewalk, was a brass
tablet containing an inscription to this effect : 'On this spot
Jefferson Davis heard of Lincoln's death, April 15, 1865.'
"Had the date April 18 been substituted for the 15th, it
would have been entirely accurate. The news of the assassi-
nation of Mr. Lincoln was communicated to Mr. Davis just
as the latter was about to commence his speech. On Tues-
day, April 18, however, word was passed from one to another
of the citizens that Jefferson Davis would arrive in the town
during the day. Late that afternoon Mr. Davis reached Char-
lotte with several members of his Cabinet and others. Es-
corted by a detachment of Vaughan's Cavalry command, he
proceeded to the residence of Lewis F. Bates, on Tryon Street,
where a crowd composed of citizens, refugees, and soldiers
(mostly cavalrymen) had' assembled to greet him. Mr. Bates
was the Superintendent of the Southern Express Company,
and resided but a short distance from his office. There was a
lane or alley, now known as Fourth Street, between his prem-
ises and the residence of Col. William Johnston. The lot
on the corner of the lane was inclosed by a high fence, and
the Bates residence immediately adjoined it. Bates was a
Northern man who had located in Charlotte a few years be-
fore the war by reason of his connection with the Express
Company. When Mr. Davis and party arrived at the Bates
house, there was a delay of some kind, the impatient crowd
waiting several minutes before the front door was opened.
Mr. Davis stood immediately in the doorway, not more than
three feet from the sidewalk. On his left stood Col. William
Johnston, President of the South Carolina Railroad. Im-
mediately in front, on the sidewalk, were citizens and refugees,
and in the street, beyond the sidewalk, were a number of
cavalrymen sitting on their horses. They were members of
the commands of Generals Vaughan and Duke, and possibly
some from Ferguson's command. The time was late in the
afternoon; darkness was coming when the crowd dispersed.
"Mr. Davis, upon taking his position in the door, was just
about to commence to speak when he was interrupted by Mr.
J. C. Courtney, manager of the telegraph office, who handed
him a telegram, which he opened and read and handed to
Col. William Johnston, who was standing by his side. There
were cries from the crowd, 'Read !' 'Read !' whereupon Colo-
nel Johnston read the telegram, which was from Secretary
of War John C. Breckinridge, announcing that he had learned
through Sherman's headquarters that Mr. Lincoln had been
assassinated on the night of Good Friday, the 14th, and that
Secretary Seward had been wounded.
"Mr. Davis then, without making any mention of the dis-
patch that had just been read, proceeded to address the as-
semblage and outlined his views as to the policy to be pur-
sued. He stated that there were armies still in existence
(Johnston had not then surrendered), and that the con-
flict could be continued beyond the Mississippi River until
such time as satisfactory terms of peace could be secured.
The entire burden of his speech was that the war was not
necessarily ended; that much could be accomplished by armies
still in the field.
"After the end had come, Bates, who entertained Mr. Davis,
was summoned before a committee at Washington that was
endeavoring to connect the Confederate President with the
assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and testified that Mr. Davis,
when he received the news, made a quotation from 'Macbeth,'
showing his sympathy with the deed. The publication of this
testimony caused intense indignation in Charlotte, where its
falsity was well known, and the writer is of the impression
that Bates did not return to the town. A few years ago a
press dispatch from Boston announced the death in some
town in Massachusetts in extreme poverty of Lewis F. Bates,
the man who had entertained Jefferson Davis in Charlotte
when the news of Mr. Lincoln's assassination was received
by Mr. Davis.
"The writer of this received a letter from Colonel John-
ston, dated Charlotte, December 18, 1889, in which that gentle-
man said: 'Would be pleased to have your recollections of
what occurred. Charlotte was then crowded with refugees
from Wilmington, Charleston, Columbia, and other places.
Bates asked of Major Echols the privilege to entertain Mr.
Davis, and it was regarded as fortunate, as Bates had greater
facilities to entertain than any other citizen.'
"Mr. Davis remained in Charlotte several days, when he
started Sou'h, and was captured in Georgia."
The foregoing is given with the greater interest, as it so
well illustrates that great man in emergencies. He could not
have acted, it seems, with finer discretion.
NEWPORT NEWS RESIDENCE AT REUNION OF VIRGINIA DIVISION-
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THE NEGRO AND THE SOUTH.
Review of Race Relationship and Conditions.
by e. h. hinton, atlanta, ga.
(Letter held over from the [ndiaHapolis -V. ?"..]
In one of your recent issues, commenting on the Atlanta
riot of September 22 — an unfortunate incident which no good
Southerner defends — you used this language: "How does it
happen that the blacks who took care of the helpless women
and children during the war cannot now be trusted to live in
the same town ?"
I have not seen this question answered directly by any
Southern journal. And yet it goes to the very foundation of
all our race troubles. It might be answered briefly by the
statement that the negro has changed since 1865, and that in
many important particulars he lias changed decidedly for the
worse. This fact is perfectly patent to intelligent observers
in this territory, but it is due you that I particularize.
In order that you may understand that I am fitted by per-
sonal experience and observation to write on this subject, at
least from our view point, it is proper for me to tell you that
I am the son of a former large slaveholder of Mississippi
who had from one hundred and fifty to two hundred slaves.
Though a small boy when the war began, I was thoroughly
familiar with plantation life. I lived on the plantation during
tlie war and during the dark days of reconstruction. Prior
to and during the war and after it I was thrown in daily con-
tact with the negroes on our own plantation and others.
I cheerfully admit that during the war there was scarcely
a plantation in the South where the mistress and her children
Weri not left alone at the mercy of the slaves a great part of
the time, and that the record shows unswerving loyalty on
their part. This happy condition was the result of years of
training until it had become an inherited tendency. No
thought of social equality, and the vile thought inevitably in-
cidenl thereto, ever entered the heads of the negroes. The
disciplini "t th( plantation was linn but kind, and the rela-
tion between the owner and owned took on a paternalistic
character, the owner feeling as he might toward a lot of chil-
dren and the slaves looking up to him as a superior whom they
held in highest respect. There naturally grew up an affec-
II on, a bond of sympathy, and a mutual feeling of interest that
Was as beautiful as a poem, whatever may be said about the
institution of slavery as a whole. (And I wish to say just
here that none of the old slaveholders nor any of their de-
1 mis would restore the institution if they could.)
The end of the war came in the spring of 1865. Immedi
ntely a lot of adventurers, most of them unscrupulous, came
int.. the South from th< North, not for legitimate enterprises
nor honest investments, hut for plunder. They immediately
11.1 1 ample to instill into the minds of the
trine that they w. re in every way the equals
of the whites, that they were entitled to every privilege,
or otherwise, which iheir former masters had enjoyed, ami
that the United States government had spent millions to
guarantee this to them.
tn the very first of tin- infamous propaganda then
d b tween the two races a strong propulsive foil' to
drive them apart, placing on the defen ive tin while, with all
his pride of race and every instinct of self-preservation, and
on the part of the inferior black arousing an envy and hatred
inevitably born of a feeling that in being debarred from
equality by the native whites lie was being deprived of some-
thing to which he was entitled by right
trongly supporting the attitude of the "carpetbaggers,"
the people of the North recognized the negro as an equal by
admitting him into all public places, such as theaters. Pullman
cars, and hotels; and these facts, coupled with the intem-
perate utterances of the Republican politicians of the period
in Congress and out of it, made it appear to the negro that
the proud aloofness of the wdiite people of the South was the
stubborn unreasonableness of race prejudice, and therefore
unjust to him: and all our race troubles date from the baleful
dissemination of this idea.
It is but a step from the nursing of a supposed wrong to
thoughts of righting it, and there gradually grew into the
negro's mind a suggestion, if not a well-defined determination,
lo take by ford this coveted privilege. I say gradually, for
with the older negroes the instinct of deference and respect
for the white race was too firmly planted by the growth of
years to be easily supplanted by a contrary teaching; hut in
the young men and) with the youth as they grew to manhood
their new-found counselors from the North had receptive
listeners until in the early seventies the question of social
equality was frequently adverted to in public speeches by the
negro politicians and preachers and by the white scoundrels
and adventurers associated with them.
At that time the negroes were more than the political equal
of the whites. Backed by Federal bayonets, they had voted
themselves into practically every eifrice in the State, and hael
elected as Governor an adventurer from Massachusetts, a
miscreant whose offensive mi-rule is a malodorous mem-
ory in the State to this day. The Legislature was known as
the "Black and Tan'1 Legislature on account of the great
number of negroes and mulattoes that constituted it. It is
safe to say that there was scarcely a self-respecting white-
man in the State holding office.
1 reluctantly revive these unhappy recollections of experf-
that linger in my memory as a hideous nightmare, but
it is necessary to do so in order to emphasize a pivotal point
in this discussion — to wit: Thai as far as political equality
went, the negroes certainly ought to have' h en more than
satisfied at that time. But they wire not. There was a con-
stantly growing unrest and turbulence among them, and why?
Simply because the Southern whites sternly and proudly re-
fused to recognize them as in any way their social Equals.
In 187s 'bis turbulence culminated in a number of riots
in different parts of the S. ! . These riots all occurred about
th Jinc time, suggesting the possibility of some concert of
action, and all were traceable to the same caus.-s it is un-
necessary to give any detailed account of these various demon-
strations to show their inspiration. 1 will mention only one
as being typical of the others. In Warren and an adjoining
county there operated a negro politician named Davenport.
with a heart blacker than his ebony skin, although no worse
than other politicians and preachers of In- race in other parts
of the State, lie openly preached the doctrine of social
equality, and in 1875 he began to gather the negrot togethei
for a concerted move 011 Vick the purpose of en-
forcing their our absorbing '1 started with about
tin 1 1 hundred, the rani gal strength as il proceeded.
I ion, time 10 time he would 1 iwers with most
inflammatorj speeches. In these harangues he did not com-
plain that Ins hearers wen deprived of any of their political
Mr did not allege that their civil rights were
abridged in any particular; but still he had a grievance against
tin Southern whiles, and it was that they remained obdurate
in the 'il equality. "They refuse to recognize
il- g; their equals," said he; "but we will show them that we
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have the power to force them. We will go to Vicksburg
and take the white women for our wives and concubines and
make slaves of the white men. We are being deprived of
our rights, and we are going to have them if we have to wade
up to our bridle bits in blood."
A spectacular Governor of Colorado subsequently made
this expression famous or infamous, according to the point of
view. It only shows how oppressed and depressed the South-
ern people were that the author of these utterances was not
instantly dealt with in summary fashion. He continued his
march toward Vicksburg; but was finally met by a body of
whites, led by some of Vicksburg's most prominent citizens,
with the usual and inevitable result. How many negroes
were killed in that riot will probably never be known, but it
was sufficient. All the other riots of that year had a similar
result. It was the beginning of the end of Republican mis-
rule in the Slate.
That fall the white men organized and took over the gov-
ernment of the State. Nearly all the harpies from the North
fled between two suns; and after ten years of rank misrule,
a saturnalia of official crime, of public plunder, and of spolia-
tion of a proud but defeated people that dispassionate his-
tory will some day record as a foul blot on the escutcheon of
the Republican party, the Anglo-Saxon of the South came
into his own again. By the shotgun policy? Yes. I am in
no sense a disciple of Machiavelli, and I am persuaded that
my code of ethics is on as high a plane as that of any other
Anglo-Saxon, regardless of latitude or of environment ; but
I shall always believe that in wresting their State from the
thieves and plunderers who were desecrating its temples the
end to be attained fully justified the means adopted by Mis-
sissippi's whites.
The history of Mississippi during the reconstruction period
■was a fair sample of the conditions in the other Southern
States. Some of them escaped from the incubus sooner than
•others ; but all of them suffered the same ills that afflicted
Mississippi, and in all the misguided, if not malevolent, teach-
ings of the Republican leaders of the time left their poisonous
leaven in the heart of the negro.
Of course no further organized or open demonstrations
looking to social equality were made by the negroes, but the
venomous germ was none the less active that its operations
were secret. It was kept alive, too, by the "bloody shirt"
speeches of Republican politicians of the North, who made
the political atmosphere lurid for so many years succeeding
1S75, as well as by the actions, writings, speeches, and other
jpublic utterances of possibly sincere, but we think misguided,
preachers, teachers, publicists, and would-be philanthropists
,&i the North, who, according to Charles Francis Adams
I se Century Magazine for May, 1906, page 109), have been
talking and writing a lot of "rot" on this subject for the last
forty years. Considering the gravity of the results to the
Southern people, it is very mild, not to say flippant, criticism
<to call it "rot." We are reaping to-day the bitter fruit sown
in this "rot" by our brothers of the North.
The negroes have all deep down in their hearts the false
.2nd dangerous notions gathered during reconstruction days.
_and every perpetration by them of the one most heinous and
•revolting of crimes may be traced to the dominant thought
that they are only taking by force what is theirs by right, but
which is denied them by what they have been taught to re-
gard as the unreasonable prejudice of the Southern whites.
As a race the negroes do not regard this monstrous offense
as a serious crime, for they not only do not cooperate with the
officers of the law in apprehending this class of criminals, but
they actually protect and harbor them and aid their escape.
It is inconceivable that any people would habitually shield
criminals of whose crimes they sincerely disapproved, and
next to the crime itself this phase of the race problem is one
of the most conspicuous features of the diseased condition
of the mind of the negroes from the industrious dissemina-
tion by your people of the kind of "rot" which Charles Francis
Adams now denounces.
Forty years of freedom and this "rot" have transformed the
negro from a docile, kindly, confiding, good-natured, depend-
ent servant into a jealous, envious, distrustful, resentful, and
independent citizen. Tiie difference between a faithful dog
and an undisciplined wild animal is not materially greater
than the measure of this contrast. If you can appreciate the
full significance of this transformation, you should be able
to understand "why the blacks who took care of helpless
women and children of the South during the war cannot now
be trusted to live in the same town."
What remedy do I propose? It is this: Let your people
undo the wrong they have done. Let them recognize the fact
that in clothing overnight with full-fledged citizenship, in-
cluding the dignity of suffrage, millions of barbarous or at
least semibarbarous blacks only a few years removed from
the utter savagery of African jungles they committed a crime
against the Anglo-Saxon that is without a parallel in the his-
tory of that proud race. Let them in a measure make repara-
tion for this crime by wiping out the Fifteenth Amendment
of the Constitution of the United States. Then, instead of
spending millions to send missionaries to the Orient in an
effort to supplant the teachings and philosophy of Buddha,
of Confucius, and of Mohammed with the gospel of Christ,
let your people divert these honest, God-fearing religious en-
thusiasts to the blacks of the South, to spread among them
the plain gospel of honesty and of decent living, and to serve
as an antidote for poison left by the horde of unsavory char-
acters whom you sent down to us immediately after the war.
Let them teach the negro the honor and dignity of labor and
to be ashamed of his present idleness and shiftlessness. Let
them teach him that to work three days out of the workday
week and to loaf the other three, as at present, is a crime,
and that if he would practice ordinary providence, thrift, and
industry with the opportunities he has in the South he would
soon be the richest laborer in the world.
If he could be kept busy, it would be a material help in
curbing his criminal tendency. Above all, let them teach
the negro that social equality is impossible, and that it will
ever remain so, and that even political equality is an "iri-
descent dream" to b; realized only by his faithfulness in good
works. Let them make it clear to the negro that the Anglo-
Saxon, unlike the Latin races, in a thousand years of achieve-
ment has always held himself proudly aloof from any amal-
gamation with an inferior race — an important factor in his
progress; that as long as he has in him one spark of pride
of race, one impulse of worthy ambition, or one trace of lofty
purpose or high ideal this will be his attitude; and that if
the negro would escape ultimate annihilation he must recog-
nize and scrupulously respect this unwritten but inexorable
law of the Southern whites.
Your people could further help the situation by trying to
look at this question sometimes from the standpoint of the
Southern white man and by refraining from any public de-
liverances on this subject until they have carefully studied
both sides of it. . . .
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Our brothers north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers can be
of material help in solving this problem it they would; but
not until the scales have fallen from their eyes, as they have
from the eyes of the distinguished New Englander just
quoted, and not until they escape from the "bog of self suf-
ficient ignorance" in which they are now enveloped in con-
nection with this topic — until then (and we devoutly pray
that that time is not far distant) your people 'I" harm bj in-
terfering; until then urge them to be I nival, and let us
"tread our wine press alone."
"RACIAL INTEGRITY OF THl NEGRO."
It frequently occurs that some young man has put years of
work upon an intricate subject without the public having any
knowledge until a surprise is given through the result. Such
a condition is illus'rated in a new book with the above cap-
tion, "Racial Integrity of the Negro." The Veteran could
not do better than to make extracts from an editorial in the
Methodist Quarterly Review Rev. Dr. GrOSS \le\andcr, its
able editor, writes of the subject, wherein he states:
"Professor Shannon, the author, is a Southern man. edu-
cated at Millsaps College ami at Vanderbilt University, where
I had the privilege of being one of his teachers. ]|, has de-
voted much time and thought to the preparation of this vol-
ume. It does not deal with any sectional aspect or concep-
tion of the great problem, but with that problem in its totality.
"The volume consists of an Introduction and four chapters.
The main contention of the author is found in tin- hist chapter,
while the problems discussed in the succeeding chapters are
treated in the light of the principles involved in the first.
"Professor Shannon's treatment of the negro problem dif-
fers from that of others in important respects. The mixing
of the races is treated ably and thoroughly from the scientific
Standpoint, as well as from that of the interests of the white
rao Mi, present study seeks primarily to call attention to
tin- wrongs done the negro by those win', m their dealings
with him, suspend thus,, moral and ethical principles which,
among other races, air both recognized and enforced by sound
public sentiment and bj the sanctions of religion. The volume
i-. therefore, a plea for the highest and best interests of both
. but in a special sense it is a plea fur the negro race
"I hapter I contain .1 detailed account of the methods pur-
Sued by the author in securing an estimate of t" p. extent to
which the mixing of the races has been carried. llis con-
clusion! an ba -1 upon the United Stales Census Report
tion, and investigation. I in Cen us of 1850
lie first t' taki account of the mulatto as a distinct ele-
ment of popula on. ami that of iSoo 1- unfortunately, the
latest affording information upon this subject. The enumera-
tion of 1870 showed 584049 mulatto -: that of 1890, [,132,060,
a numerical increase "i almost 100 per cent in t \\ • nt \
'I he ratio of mulatto tu iota] negro population ha-, according
■ 1 n from (2 pi r cent in 1870 to 1
!"' '
pel onal im I igal ii m a ndui ted bj the author ai 1
calculate,! to bring the situation more vividly before the readi 1
any array of dead figures can 'In Hi- method an
thercf, with considerable detail, The results ob
tamed are in excess of tin Census Bureau, and
ti mates the number of mulattoes at tb, present time
rly or quite -
"Perhaps tbe most SUggestiv part of this study i- that in
which tin- . 1 influences tending to increase the mix-
ture of the races are discussed.
"It is shown that twenty years of freedom — 1870 to iSoo—
has produced a numerical result equal to that of the whole
period of the two hundred and forty years of slavery, from
iluo to i860. The evils of slavery are frankly admitted, but
do not explain all the sins of freedom.
"The manner of emancipation involves the loss of much
which the race had gained in industrial training and in ethical
culture under slavery.
"The intervention of tbe North in religious .and educational
im 11 1 -. 0 gether with conditions prevailing at the close of
the (nil War, produced an alienation between the negro and
the Southern people which has proved very unfortunate for
both races. At the beginning of his career of freedom the
negro needed sympathetic guidance at tbe hands of those best
acquainted with him. Instead, he became 'a bone of con-
tention' between the two sections embittered by the civil war.
"The cbapt r dealing with 'Slavery,' one of the ablest in the
book, sets forth the attitude of the civilized world toward
the institution .it the tune it was fastened upi n America. The
attitude of Christianity toward the institution is discussed,
as are also the reasons for the disappearance of slavery from
Western Europe in the twelfth century. Christian slavery in
North Africa — lasting until 181 6 — i s treated at some length.
An effort is also made to picture conditions in Africa at tin-
beginning of tb slave trade — and since — in order that the
condition of the negroes remaining in Africa may be con-
trasted with that of tin slaves in America. The purpose of
ibis chapter is to state clearly the conditions from which
slavcrx rescued tbe n- . gro and to point out what his period
of enslavement accomplished for him. He is incalculably the
belter off for tbe results of his enslavement. In an important
sense 'the South of i860 was the victim rather than the master
' if In r slave population.'
"The chapter dealing with the 'Educational Problem' give,
a fairly complete statement of the physical basis of tbe intel-
lectual capacities and development of the negro, as compared
with other races. 'Phis indicates clearly the limitations of
the race as ,1 whole, and determines the order of instruction
which will produce tin- best results. The public schools, and
especially those institutions which are free to select their stu-
dents, tire criticised for their failure to stand for the racial
mti gritj of the negro. Perhaps the most practical part of this
chapter is that in which the author insists upon such ele-
mentary instruction and manual and industrial training as
shall bring to the rac( .1 measure "i economic independenci
"ME WORI1 .V OF VIRGINIA."
"Memories of Virginia \ Souvenir of the Pionei r Days of
Jamestown," bj Mrs Flora Adams Darling, is dedicated to
the New York State Chapter of the Daughters of Founders
and Patriots of Vmerica, "the society that stands sponsor for
tb,' Bruton Church Pew. to the memory of Governor Mat
thews and the Wardens of Jamestown British Church, 1637."
lln, societj is to visit the Exposition on October 12. The
"Memories of Virginia" will be sold as a souvenir of J, urn
town, tb, proceed from its sale to found a Matthews medal
to I" given to th 1 of William .anil Mary at Williams-
\ a . the first incorporated town of our country, for
ipon tb' royal government. An annual prize
will b, given i" encouragi n earch of the days of the Royal
Council from 1623-60, when Captain General Matthews, of
Denbigh Plantation. -I," d the guardian of Virginia.
White and red are used as tin' colonial color- Address
Byron S. Adams, Publisher, Washington. D. C. Price, $1.
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"It matters not where their bodies lie.
By bloody hillside, plain, or river :
Their names are writ on fame's fair sky.
Their deeds of valor live forever."
Dr. Frank L. 7 .mes.
A St. Louis reporter writes in the Chicago Record-Herald:
"Dr. Frank L. James, a noted scientist, once sentenced to be
hanged, died at his home, in Chicago, on May 19. Once an
enemy of the Federal government, he was afterwards its chief
exp.rt in the inves igation of the 'embalmed beef scandal
during the Spanish-American War. For his services at an
inquiry in Chicago he received fifty dollars a day from the
same power which one- tried to hang him. As scientific editor
of the National Druggist and associate editor of the Medical
Brief, a St. Louis publication. Dr. James made his name known
to physicians and chemists all over the world. When the
Civil War began, he was a young student of chemistry in
Mobile, Ala. He invented submarine mines which were
planted in Mobile Bay to blow up Federal gunboats. They
were so effective that a price was set upon James's head. He
was captured and taken to New Orleans, where Gen. B. F.
Butler condemned him to death. By the aid of friends he
escaped from the New Orleans jail a week before the date
set for his hanging, and we.it to Japan."
Mat. Henrv Milton Lane.
"Maj. Henry M. Lane was a Confederate soldier of as high
and heroic record as any of either army who ever lived in
Louisville." This is the comment of a local paper of that
city, and his death has removed from its activity a useful and
prominent citizen. He was a son of Dr. Lane, and was born in
Crawfordsville, Bid., in 1839. He was rdated closely to Gen.
H. S. Lane, a distinguished soldier and public man of that
State, at one time United States Senator. The family re-
moved to Texas at an early date, and Henry Lane was edu-
cated at the Bastrop Military Academy.
In 1858 or 1S59 he was appointed by Gen. Sam Houston as
lieutenant of a company in one of the regiments of Texas
Rangers, organized to protect the Texas frontier on the Rio
Grande. At he beginning of the Civil War he volunteered
in a regiment of cavalry which was afterwards in Ector's
Brigade. The brigade was taken to Mississippi by Gen. Van
Dorn in 1862 just before the battle of Shiloh. in which it
participated, and afterwards Major Lane's command went
ti. Kentucky under Col. T. H. McCray (31st Arkansas In-
fantry), to whose staff Major Lane was attached. He par-
ticipated in all the battles of the Army of Tennessee. A
noted historical fact is that Ector's Brigade when ordered to
charge a battery invariably captured it and brought the guns
within the Confederate lines.
Major Lane was a man of intellect and scholarly attain-
ments, and as a lawyer stood in the front rank of practice in
hi^ Stale, and was an untiring worker, which doubtless has-
tened his death.
Dr. Lyman B. Wharton.
Dr. Lyman Brown Wharton, former professor of Latin in
the College of William and Mary, fell dead in the station at
Williamsburg, Ya., as he was in the act of buying a ticket
to Richmond to attend the Confederate Reunion. He was
greatly beloved by the student body.
I hough old and enfeebled by the long years of strenuous
labor through which he had passed, Dr. Wharton's end was
tragic. Early on that morning as he was preparing to leave
he was told to be- careful of himself and not to march in the
parade with his brother veterans. But the old gentleman
drew himself up proudly, and with the instinct and spirit of
a hero said that he still felt young and that he could stand it
with the best of them. He had looked forward to the Reunion,
probably his last, and he wanted once more to be with his
wartime comrades and recount with them the incidents of
the long, eventful struggle. But the walk to the station and
the excitement incident thereto were too much for him.
Dr. Wharton was esteemed by all wdio knew him. To the
students who sat at his feet he was more than teacher — a
friend, counselor, and a source of inspiration. No man ever
had a higher sense of honor than he. and none was ever more
of an exemplar of those virtues which make a good man.
F. Baker Blanton and John C. Miller.
Within a brief time Mr. J. D. Blanton and wife, of Nash-
ville, Tenn.. lost their fathers. Mr. Blanton is the efficient
President of Ward Seminary. They, with Miss Anna Blan-
ton, their only surviving child, are traveling abroad during
part of their vacation.
Mr. F. B. Blanton died in December, 1906, in the Memorial
Hospital, Richmond, Va. He was taken back to his native
county, Cumberland, "and was buried at old Brown's Church,
where he had spent the days of his boyhood and early man-
hood."
A long-time friend writes: "The county of Cumberland
never gave birth to a nobler son; truly another one of the
old landmarks of what was once known as an old Virginia
gentleman has passed away. He seemed to try to live to help
others. He was never known to speak a harmful word of
any oils, and' was always ready to lend a helping hand to any
good cause and to those whom he thought needed help. If
Baker Blanton had a fault (and I knew him well), it was the
fault of gen rosity, the fault of liberality, the fault of un-
bounded hospitality and kindness of heart. In 1861, when the
war clouds began to gather, he was among the first to rally
to the call, and discharged his duty faithfully as a soldier
until he was honorably discharged from further duty on ac-
count of his age, and his surviving comrades can only say :
'Soldier, rest, thy warfare is over: sleep thy last sleep, from
whence no sound of that bugle note once so familiar to thy
ear can wake thee to glory again.' Only twelve of the com-
pany composing the Cumberland Troop of eighty-four men.
rank and file, remain that left the county with him in May,
1S61."
John Caskie Miller, the father of Mrs. J. D. Blanton. of
Ward Seminary, passed away in February, 1907. For several
years he spent part of the winter with his daughter. He was
born in Stewarton. Scotland, in 1S36. Having completed his
education in his native land, he came to this country at about
eighteen years of age and settled firs', at Richmond, Va. Prior
to and during the war he was in business in that city. During
his residence there he married Miss Almeria Hawes, a native
of Richmond, to which marriage were born six children, two
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daughters and Four suns. He had served as an elder in the
Presbyterian Church for some forty years, and was active
in the councils of the Church. While nol in this country
long enough to espouse the Confederate cause, he was loyal
to In- adopted section and ardently so to the end
Mrs. Phil Poi i i Lippm \n
\ sad death occurred in Salt Lake On Januarj u. 1907,
in the death of thi beautiful and beloved Phil Pointer, who
had become [he wife of Mr Joseph Lippman. She will he
recalled as one of the most attractive sponsors thai Kentucky
ever sent to a Confederate Reunion. Fatherless from her
childhood, her father, he gallant Capt. Phil Pointer, having
died, leaving his beloved wife, Sallie, and tin e young daugh-
ters, she was reared mainlj at Ow nsboro, Kj For some time
pi vious to her marriage she lived in New York City. Because
df ill h alth her mother moved to the Far West three years
ago 1 1' spite the threat that he could not live long, she and
Mi- Joseph Lippn 11, formerlj a Uniied States district at-
. were married last June In the fall she and her mother
went :■' South m California; but the hoped for improvement
nevci came, and they returned to Salt Lake a week or so
befon tin end. which emir, with its anguish t<> survivi
the home of her sister, Mrs. Clint B. Leigh, a week later.
after the death of this li vel) woman a son in law of
Mrs S R Pointer, her in. .titer, was killed in a railroad wreck.
Martin.- Notice has been overlooked of tin di ith of Dr.
Solomon C. Martin in March, [906, at St. Louis, which oc-
curred suddenly from In art failure, lie v
in his practice to the time of his death, and had held for
fifteen years the position of Professor of Dermatologj in
l'.ames University, Si Louis Hi served as a surgeon in the
Confederate army, ranking major on the staff of Gen. Wirt
Adam- m the independent cavalry corps of \ S. John ton
lie was married to Miss Anna A. Calhoun in 1870 at In-
former home, in Claiborne County, Mi-- She survives him.
with their two SOnS and three dau
\ S. Qi vrterman Died a: Brunswick, Ga., in March
Alexander S. Qnarterman in his seventy-i > He was
a native of Lib rty County, ami formerly lived at Walthour-
ville, and was the last surviving charter member of the Wal-
Ihourville Pi 1 >bj ti 1 em Church, org nized in 1855. I le
duri", ■' e war as a member of 1! Troop, Young's Brigade
Hampton's Division of Cavalry, of the Army of Western
Virginia, participating in the battles of Hawes Shop, C
villian Station, Reames Station, and the siege of Petersburg
111 1X04. lie also served from 1S1.1 to [863 on thi coast ol
Georgia Virginia, and James Island, S <
Shields -David F. Shield-, an honored v teran of the
Mexican and Civil Wars, died at Petersburg, Va , in Sep
tentber, 1906. having lived oul nearly eighty years, lie was
one of the four surviving veterans of G I Fletcher II Mali r's
company of eighty-six Petersburg volunteers who sen
the war with Mexico. Comrade Shield- was Lorn m New
Kent County, Va., bul had lived in Petersburg since early
youth, where he iiad established a high reputation for honor
and integrity. He was a member of Appomattox Lodge L
O. O. F ..- W 11 ,1- \ 1'. Hill (.mi).. L C Y \ d 11
and son sun ive 01 in- family.
P. R. Smith.— The d alh of Peyton K Smith is rep
from Ll.in... Tex He was horn in Tennessee seventy-five
years ago, and moved t.« Texas in 1846. He was witl
I 1 i,1 .li.., . in - r\ ire tin.;. Cap Lie Fi k it" W allace
As a Confederal, soldier he served through the war under
Capt. Seth Mabry in the 171I1 Texas fnfantrj Hi was mar-
ried in 1854 to Mi-- Martha William-, wl 1 1 n tool. Of
their -is children, three sons survive, all of Llano County.
Brow n In August [91 6, Lain W illiam 1 Brow 11 1
suddenly at Meridian. Mi--, al the ripe age of
1 le was our of the pil : 11- of that city, and
had been prominentlj id ■ I with it growth and d velop
menl since its village days lie commanded a company in
the Confederal army, -.Mine valiantly throughout the war.
I. . tin, ■ -on-, and line dauj -urvivor-.
Deem I la. ma- I 1 )een was born in 1 1 inty, Miss.,
in January, 1840; at d di dm B in March
ixtj sevi n y> at 1 1. « enl to D xas in 1869. H
four years' sen ' tcj as a member of the
37th Mississippi. He had be 11 a Mason for more than
years. His wife and six children mourn his death with many
friends
d p,. Mi Ni 1 1 i Lamp No 1249 i Id, Ky., rep irts
1 a valued member. I B McNeely, who was born
in 11 unty, Tenn., and 22. He was a faith-
b Lively had lived
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Dr. John Grammer Brodnax.
On the 9th of May, while the Daughters of the Confederacy
of the Guilford Chapter, Greenshoro, N. C, were searching
far and wide for all flowers available for Memorial Day, one
of the purest, strongest, most useful lives that ever adorned
the list of the Confederate Veterans passed on to mingle with
the loftier harmonies of the heavenly life.
Dr. John Grammer Brodnax, a beloved physician of Greens-
boro, awoke on the pth of May in his usual good health.
After making his round of professional calls, scatter-
ing sunshine by his cheerful greetings, he drove up to the St.
Barnabas Episcopal Church, of which he was the Senior
Warden, and enjoyed the sweet service commemorating As-
cension Day. One cannot but wonder as he partook of the sa-
cred Lord's Supper if he heard the "still, small voice" whis-
per: "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Returning
home, he complained of pain : but in the afternoon felt re-
lieved, and remarked that he would "now go to sleep." He
gently closed his eyes, and without a sigh passed from earth
to his heavenly home. He is sadly missed by his large circle
of patients, friends, and admirers, yet none of them could
wish for him or for themselves a more beautiful passage into'
the great beyond. He was the most cultured man that it has
ever been the fortune of the writer to meet, one of the most
heartily religious and courageous gentlemen and' the most
skilled physician. His life gives one a better idea of the
Fatherhood of God through his fatherly charity than any-
thing that has ever been penned.
Dr. John Grammer Brodnax was born in Dinwiddie County,
Va., April 14, 1829. His earliest known ancestor in this coun-
try was William Brodnax, who married Mrs. Travis in the
settlement of Jamestown, Va. The father of Dr. Brodnax
was Gen. William Henry Brodnax, one of the most distin-
guished men of Virginia, and his mother was Miss Ann Eliza-
beth Withers, noted for her talents. Christian character, and
beauty. Dr. Brodnax first graduated at the Virginia Military
Institute, then graduated in medicine at the University of Vir-
ginia and the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, and
later took a three years' course in special lines in Europe under
the most famous teachers in Paris. In November, 1S53, he
commenced the active practice of his profession in Petersburg.
Va.
When the war came on, he offered his services to the Con-
federacy, and in 1861 he was placed in charge of some of the
hospitals in the city of Petersburg. There his fine abilities
were so well exercised that he was given the direction of
five general hospitals in that city. In 1863 he was transferred
to the North Carolina Hospital, and his work was most
favorably commented on. In 1864 he was detailed by the
government to supervise the exchange of prisoners, the task
requiring rare qualities of mind and heart, especially since the
Federal government had inaugurated a policy to discontinue
the exchange of prisoners of war on the ground that the im-
prisoned Confederates, as General Grant said, "were only as
dead men" when confined in Northern prisons, while the con-
tinuance of the Federal soldiers in Southern prisons was
aiding the Northern cause immensely by consuming the sup-
plies of the Confederacy. Later Dr. Brodnax was assigned to
duty in charge of General Hospital No. 14, established at
Wake Forest, N. C, and later he was transferred to Greens-
boro, wdiere at the time of General Johnston's surrender he
was in charge of two hospitals.
After the war Dr. Brodnax located in Rockingham County,
where his practice became the most extensive of any phy-
sician in that county. In 1887 he located in Greensboro, N.
C, and continued there in active practice up to the day of his
death, having been surgeon for the Southern Railroad for
fifteen years.
Dr. Brodnax was twice married. His last wife, Ella Preston
Burch, who survives him, devotes much of her time in loving
thought for the veterans of the Confederacy.
Gen. Cullum Battle, in his sketch of Dr. Brodnax in the
"North Carolina Biographical History," says : "Gentle in
spirit. Dr. Brodnax was ever a defender of the oppressed and
a champion of the right. He could easily have shone in the
world's galaxy of illustrious men ; but duty was the star that
led him on, and all the allurements of ambition compared to
it were as glowworms to the meridian sun. As a priest, he
stood at the altar of science while the incense of grateful
hearts filled all the temple of life."
An officer of Johnston's army said at the surrender that
General Lee and Dr. Brodnax were the only two officers of
the Confederate army who went through the war without
losing their politeness.
We go down upon our knees and thank God for the life of
this good man.
M. C. Blocker.
A Florida newspaper tells the pathetic story of Comrade
M. C. Blocker, who, together with a lad named Chauncey
Moody, was drowned May 25, 1907. The body of the senior
was rescued in about fifteen minutes and that of the boy a
half hour later. Vain efforts were made to resuscitate each.
"There is a Reaper, whose name is death,
And with his sickle keen
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath
And the flowers that grow between."
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Two witnesses at a distance reported that Mr. Blockei was
preparing "to take a pleasure parly down the hay." Mr.
Blocker used an oar to push off from a near-by barge, and
as the launch moved lie and li tl ■ Chauneey fell overboard
Mr. Blocker eame tip once with the child on his shoulder,
but went under again before reaching the launch. Mi Block
er was seen no more; but little Chauneey rose twiee again.
Striving manfully to reach the launch, but before am ons
could reach them the little one went under the third time.
Mr. R. ('. Blocker was bom at Tallahassee November 29.
1S47. His father, Capt. Haley Blocker, and brother enlisted
in the Civil War, and, losing his mother at the aye of fifteen,
hi followed his father and brother to the battlefield. He was
sent back home on account of his tender age; but, nothing
daunted, the next year he enlisted with Dunham's artillery,
of which he was the last survivor, lie moved lo Vpalachicola
about eighte n years ago.
Mr Blocker s rved under the stars and stripes during the
Spanish-American War. remaining in Cuba for three months
A favor shown him was never forgotten. He is survived bj
a devot il wife and two sons (Mr. C. L. Blocker, who is an
electrician in New York City, and D. W. Blocker, of Florida)
and a half brother (Dr. Blocker, of Pensacola) and a brother
( Mr. J. R. Blocker, of Carabelle). The Confederate Veterans
and Daughters of the Confederacy escorted the remains to
the Methodist church. The services were conducted by Rev.
M I! Norton. The hymns were beautiful, and Mr. Hendei
sin sang with much expression "One Sweetly Solemn
Thought." The members of the U. D. C. took charge of tin
flow rs and carried them in carriages to Magnolia Cemetery,
where Mr. Norton concluded the services
As thi last rays of the setting sun faded from the earth
the ebon sang "Home and Eternity" to the tune of "Home,
Nome" while the I laughters of the Confederacy lov-
ingly placed the man] beautiful floral offerings on bis last
resting plai 1
1 mi W. D. Bei hell.
Capt. William Dcatur Bethel! was born on Februarj 2,
[840, at Saint Man's Parish, La., being the son of an exten
sive sugar planter, who was subsequently engaged m business
in Memphis, Tenn.
In [860 Captain Bethel] married the third daughter of
Jerome B, Pillow, Cynthia Saunders Pillow, of Maury County.
rent \i tin bi aking out of the war, in the spring of r86i,
he went to Louisiana and raised a company which ins fathei
equipped and which became a part of the ad I ' nne 1 Regi
■nent, Captain Bethcll being made drillmaster of the regiment.
He was in the battl s of Belmont and Shiloh, and also Mur
freesboro He was wounded at Shiloh, He afterwards sen d
eral Forrest, and subsequently was appointed and
as a m mi™ 1 of General Pillow's staff until the end
of the war
The writer of this sketch knew him for many yens most
intimately, and gladly attests his many noble attributes of
heart He was a man of the people, and never turned In
back 1 n friend or foe Some of his most intimate a
mong the poor men of Memphis. He loved the South,
and was true to the instincts of bis birth, faithful to the teach-
i his father, and constant in In- love for the Stati
Captain Bethell was a man of fine busim 1 ipacitj Short
ly aft r tin' war be engaged hi sugai planting in his n
iln hi 1 mot id to Maui j 1 ountj , ["enn., y, hen he re-
mained until the death of his father. Then his business in
terests called bun lo Memphis, wh re he became connected
with the State National Bank as President, proving himself
a man of exceptional capacity, energy, and enterprise. He took
a prominent part in many departm nts of husmess. banking,
insurance, manufacturing, railroads, real estate, etc. He was
successful in whatever he undertook, bis last public service
being in the interest of the "Taxing District," of which he
was elected president in 1890. Later, resigning on account of
ill health, he moved to Denver, Colo., where be lived until his
CAPT. W. II. BETHELL.
death, in August, tgo6 Three children survive him. lbs
eldest daughter is Mis, John M Foster, of Denver, Colo.;
In- other daughter is Mrs John P. Edrington, of Memphis.
Tenn.; and his SOn, W. I> Bethell, resides at Redlands, Cal.
I I In' for going is from Mr. R, 11 Vance, of Memphis |
Willis.— Capt. Henry Willis, who commanded Company B,
oth Missouri Regiment, >\u.\ at Trinidad, Colo., on the 18th
of Januarj He was formerlj well known in Howard County.
Mo, the family residing at Fayette; but be left there soon
after the war, went to Texas, and later to Colorado. He had
one brother and several sisters \ relative at Fayette, Mo.,
i>. (. Willis, otitis that any information of Captain Willis or
his family will be ap|
I >k. I. S. White.
Dr. [saiah Henrj White, long a prominent physician and
citizen of Richmond, died then' July 15 after an illness of
nioi' ill. in a year He was bom at Onancock, Accomac
\ .1 . on July 24, [838. His father was Samuel C.
While, a farmer of Vccomac, and his mother, Mary E.
Chandler, of tl" unty.
\fter a rudimi at his home, Dr. White was a
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student at William and Mary College from 1855 to 1S58, and
was graduated from that institution in the latter year. In
1859 he entered the Medical College of Virginia, and was
graduated with high honors as a doctor of medicine in 1861.
In April, 1871, Dr. White married Mrs. Caroline W. Brooks,
and she died about one year ago.
Dr. White saw service in the Confederate army, of which
he was ever proud. In April, 1862, he was made assistant
surgeon of the Confederate States army, and was stationed
at Chimborazo Hospital. He was promoted in July, 1862. to
surgeon of the 14th Louisiana Infantry, and in February, 1864.
was assigned as surgeon in charge of the military prison at
Andersonville. Ga.
In the summer of 1864 a still greater responsibility came
to Dr. White. He was promoted to the position of chief
surgeon of all military prisons east of the Mississippi River,
and served in this capacity until the close of the war. Dr.
White was an ex-member of the Sou hem Surgical and
Gynecological Association and of the Richmond Academy of
Medicine. He had also been president of the latter body, and
took a deep interest in its work. In politics Dr. While was a
Democrat ; he was fond of outdoor sports, and especially of
horseback-riding.
Capt. John Goode 1m n lev.
To have been a brave and good Confederate soldi ;r is
enough to write a man worthy of fame wherever patriotism
is honored and valor remembered of men. As such, Capt.
John G. Finley deserves a chaplet among his comrades.
John Goode Finley was born in Montgomery. Ala., August
12. 1S42. He graduated from the University of Alabama in
1861, and enlisted in the Confederate service in Maj. H. C.
Semple's battery, in which he served as sergeant until after
ihe battle of Murfreesboro, when he was elected lieutenant
of Company A, 22d Alabama Infantry. A year later he be-
came acting captain of the company, and so served till the
close of the war. He was in many of the greatest battles of
the war — Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge. Ring-
gold Gap, and in the entire campaign from Dalton to At-
lanta. He was wounded twice, once so seriously that he was
forced to give up his command. Returning as soon as pos-
sible, he was in Atlanta when that city was captured.
Returning to Montgomery after the war. Captain Finley
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1S68. He was
an able lawyer, and was honored by the city in two terms as a
city alderman and by his county as attorney for eighteen
years. He was married in 1872 to Miss Sue Pierce, who sur-
vives. Death came to him while surrounded by friends and
loved ones. Comrades of Camp Lomax rendered their last
services at the grave.
Comrades at Marian x a. Fla.
Camp Milton, of Marianna, Fla., has lost five members
within the past two years, three of whom have died within
six months from last October :
J. W. Rawls died on October 3, an honored citizen of his
community. He had served his State and country faithfully
as a soldier in the 1st Florida Cavalry, dismounted. This
regiment was a part of Finley's Brigade, in the Western
Army.
J. N. Richardson died on the 25th of October. He enlisted
when just grown in Company D. 6th Florida Regiment, serv-
ing faithfully till the close of the war. "Jim Rich," as he was
familiarly called, belonged to the real boys of the army, those
who were always called upon when there was a hasty march
to be made on the picket line, and one who served with him
says he w:as always ready for any emergency.
B. F. Edwards answered the last roll on March 2, 1907. He
was 1 member of the 19th Louisiana Regiment, in the Western
Army, and surviving comrades testify to bis faithfulness in
the discharge of every duty. No less faithful was he after-
wards to his family, his Church, and his country.
Hays. — John W. Hays was born in 1848 at Sardis, Miss.,
gave seventeen months' service to the Confederacy as a
member of Company K. i8'h Cavalry Regiment. Mississippi
Volunteers, and was paroled at Gainesville, Ala.. May 13,
1865. He was twice married, and left a wife and four chil-
dren. He died in January. 1907, having gone to Las Vegas,
X. Mex., for his health, and was buried in the Rocky Arroya
Cemetery.
Willis J. Salmons.
W. J. Salmons was born in Cherokee County, Ala., January
5. 1837; and died at his home, near Joncsboro. Ark.. March
5, 1907. He went to Craighead Coun'y, Ark., in the spring
of 1861, and in July of the same year he returned to his old
home and enlisted as a volunteer in Company H, 19th Ala-
bama Volunteers. He remained in the service until May.
1865. He took part in the battles of Shiloh, Missionary Ridge,
Atlanta, and Murfreesboro.
In December, 1865. he with his wife, a brother, and
two sisters, returned to Craighead County, and resided there
until his death. He left a widow, three sons, and one daugh-
ter, besides a host of friends to mourn th.ir loss. Uncle
Willis, as he was best known, was a good soldier in war and
a good citizen in peace. He was always glad to attend the
Reunions. He accumulated a nice estate valued at forty to
forty-five thousand dollars. As a soldier, citizen, neighbor,
and friend. Uncle Willis did his duty as he saw it. and the
record he leaves behind him shows that he did not live in vain.
John H. Warren.
In 1S62 John H. Warren, a dark-complexioned, black-haired
young man, whose eyes sparkled with patriotic devotion, en-
listed in the 32d Mississippi Regiment, Company D. This
regiment was in the famous brigade and division commanded,
respectively, by Mark P. Lowrey and Pat Cleburne. He was
a gallant soldier, and helped to crown his command with the
laurels they so richly deserved.
Wlun the war ended, he was a prisoner at Camp Chase,
and he returned home with his oath of discharge, taken May
15 1865, which he kept until his death. He met and married
Miss Lizzie Hall, and was a devoted, loving husband, a good
citizen, and a faithful, loyal member of the U. C. V. Camp
until he was transferred to the great camp beyond the river,
where he will meet his old commanders and comrades who
had prec ded him. John H. Warren will be missed by his
dear wife and friends, and his comrades will miss his warm
handclasp at their annual Reunions.
[The foregoing is by G. W. B. in a Corinth (Miss.) paper.)
Mason. — One of Capt. Frank Gurley's company, 4th Ala-
bama Cavalry, has lately crossed the bar. At a reunion in
Captain Gurley's home, Gurley. Ala., July 10, 1907, G. B. Hill
offered a resolution, which was adopted, expressing "great per-
sonal grief and sorrow" in the death of William H. Mason.
His courage as a soldier and life as a citizen were commended.
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MR. FREDERK K J. DIEM.
Grateful Tribute ro His Memory.
The death of Mr. Frederick J. Diem, of Cincinnati, is
noted with sincere sorrow bj the writer In the years of
angni li caused by the unhappy suit for libel, when there was
no silver lining to the clouds of worry and expense which
eemed to envelop the business of the Veteran, a statement
was made to Mr. Diem of the situation and the gloomy out
look. II' was nut a native of this country, and knew bul
little of the Confederate element ; but without other considera-
tion than faith in good intentions he repli d: "We will send
MR. r i en ■'
you all the papi ! you want." And he continu d t" do it. The
circumstance i in i> apprei i onlj bj those who have
been tried as by fire. Of cours a grateful friendship would
have continued had there been no other consideration for
gratitude, but his greal heart b came warmer and warm r to
i] i i nd
Mr. Diem had served hi adopted countrj as Swiss Consul.
lie was of the eminentl) successful men ol I i icinnati Rom
on tli ■ last da) of [845 in Switzerland, he was brought by his
parents to this country when he was foui yt trs ol age. His
iii-i business was as clerl in a grocerj store, then a proprie
ior ni Mich business. After about twentj years he en
paper trade, and built up one of the largest concerns
in the country. The Diem and Wing Papci Companj occupied
In- time chiefly, though he had hank investments ili.it added
largely to hi- wealth. From the retirement of Mr. Wing Mr.
Di m was practically the sole owner of the business, lie was
da in exl raordinai \ business n
In hi- generosity to the management of the Veteran d
the period mentioned Mr Diem merits tin- la I ude of
lie mi r who i- interest) d in what it has achii
Mr-. Diem died some two \, ih re are now left
of the family a son, Mr. Albert Diem, who to the
management of the larg business, and a daughter, Mrs Fred
Mulhauser, of ( it
Time will no) dim the grateful memory of the found
the Veteran to Mr. Frederick .1 Diem.
lature a- Follows: "That the Govi ■ i the State of Texas
he authorized to rai a regiment of ten companies of fifty
mi M i .ii h oi ible i ■ ■.''' -I i G mfedi rate soldiers as a State
ttional guard of honor, and to do such military services
as the g 1 judgment of the Governor may require and such
service as may he required of tin- State reserve guards, to
he supported and maintained as otl et State troops except that
the uniforms of tin- regiment must he Confederate gray and
the insignia of office must be the same worn 'by Confederate
officers and the tactic- used the same as that used bj Con-
Eedl 1 ale -i -Idler- 11.11 die's."
REMNANT OF IMMORTAl 6oo II RICHMOh
• ciety of the "Immortal 6oo" met in animal session at
Richmond, Va., Maj 31, 1007. The meeting was called to
order by President Hempstead. Secretarj Murray called the
roll, and nineteen members answered 10 their name- Others
111 the cit) wire prevented bj other duties from attending the
in Eting The minutes of the last meeting were read hy the
Secretary and approved, tap' Junius I. Hempstead was re-
elected Pi ''Hi ami J Ogden Murray Secretary. On mo-
tion of 1 omrade Lamar Fontaine, Comrades J. \Y Matthews
nnt] J. C. Hauler were elected Vice Presidents and W. W.
1 Coloi Bearer. I In Secretary read the roll of members
of the society who had died -nice the last meeting. \ com-
mittee to draft the constitution and hy laws to govern the
SOCietj of the Immortal (>00 was appointed, hi report at the
next meeting. Birmingham, Ala.
Vddresses were made h\ Mai. 1"). McD Harrington. George
In I i. ni. ill, ('apt, lln in. i- Pinckney, Lamar Fontaine. Jack
son Ktrkman. and T. C. Chanler. President Hempstead read
mm' p -ai ii.. In ,Mi d to the Immortal 600. living and
dead.
I hi inks of the society were voted the retiring Pi lent, .1.
] iliinp-i ad. and Secretary .1. Ogden Murray for their work
for the good of the society. The membership due- were fixed
at one dollar per annum. The official bad f the Immortal
600 w. as fixed at cost price too cents) to each member. B
w ere distt ibuted bj the Seen tat j
Comrade Thomas Pincknej invited the members oi tl
ciety to a reception at Brook Hill, winch invitation was ac-
cepted, and he furnished carriages for the members
1 Mi Monday, June .',. the societj nut at headqua
formed, and marched to their position in the line of parad .
"Capt. .1. L. Hempstead in command. Mr- J. W. Matthews,
Matron, and Mrs. E. Lee Bell, Spon 01 foi the Immortal 600,
marched in line with the societj
Secretary Murray desires the address of all the true men
of the (100 now living men who stood tin Ordeal on Morris
Island. Fort Pulaski, ami Hilton Head. His addn
Charle-lown. \Y \ ,1
Tex \\s WW v Confederal Rfj i ' 'apt \ F
Wo.. I ! through ' lull for the Texas I
The sixteenth annual Reunion of the [exas lint-ion, U.
C. V., will be held at Bowi .1- . August _'i .'t. 1 107. The
Reunion Commit mnces that camp tent-, col-, and
other conveniences will he provided \ barbecue, with other
eatables, will he spr ad threi Him 1 ach day for visiting com-
es will bi '". 1 Inked States Senator
Bailey, Governot I ampb II, Hon .1. 11 Stephens, and others
. nt rtainments in the pavilion each evening.
bodj 111 and out of Texas invited to he present Re-
duced ratis on all the railroads
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PAGEANTRY AT JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
BY GEORGE F. VIETT, NORFOLK, VA.
Soldiers and sailors, the ships and the sea, martial music
and the roar of battle ships' broadsides, palaces of peace
filled with things of pure delight, sylvan solitudes and merry
mazes of festivity, shore line, azure dome of a Virginia sky
above all — that is the picture of the James-
town Exposition.
To offer one of the most unique military
spectacles and one of the greatest naval spec-
tacles of all time is the distinctive and splen-
did privilege of the Jamestown Exposition,
the latter made manifest in the immense
gathering of the formidable war ships of all
nations that are dropping their anchors be-
fore the sea gates of this transcendent cele-
bration. Judging from the immense interest
displayed in the imitation battle ship at the
Chicago World's Fair, this vast assemblage
of the fleets of the nations will be the crown-
ing attraction for the millions of visitors,
especially those from the interior. The great
fleet is now assembling, and the magnificent
array of American battle ships now lined on
Hampton Roads is by far the greatest yet
gathered beneath the American flag.
Of the foreign fleets, that of Great Britain
is the most imposing ; and when the great
ship Dreadnaught arrives, this the world's
greatest fighting craft will make an exposi-
tion by itself.
No other American harbor, and very few
in the world, could afford anchorage to the stupendous aggre-
gation that is now in Hampton Roads, and that will shortly
be augmented.
Unequaled in the history of American naval displays, it will
yield precedence only tr the great gathering of British and
foreign war ships assembled off the Isle of Wight at the time
of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. No other Exposition
in all historv ever had such an asset.
States, political relations between the State of Missouri and
the Confederate States, first and last Confederate guns fired,
last battle of the war, General Lee's farewell address to his
army, President and Cabinet of the Confederate States, Con-
federate Senators and Congressmen from Missouri, a sketch
of the Confederate Soldiers' Home of Missouri at Higgins-
PROCEEDINCS MISSOURI DIVISION, U. C. V.
AN ELABORATE BOOK BY ADJUTANT GENERAL ALLEN.
It is a full report of the proceedings, including all the
speeches made in the Convention of the Confederate Reunion
licld at Joplin, Mo., September 26 and 27. 1906. It contains
the constitution of the United Confederate Veterans and its
"kindred organizations, the United Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans and Daughters of the Confederacy, together with a
-complete list of Camps and Chapters of same in Missouri and
their present officers. One-half of the book contains much
reliable, interesting, and valuable historical matter relating
to the Civil War. It contains a list of generals of the Con-
federate States army, number of troops furnished by dif-
ferent States to the Federal army, strength of the Confed-
erate army, relative strength of the armies in seven engage-
ments, list of engagements between the Confederate and Fed-
eral forces in Missouri, losses in thirteen battles, Confed-
erate prisoners surrendered and paroled at the close of the
war, mortality in military prisons, Missouri organizations in
the Confederate service, Confederate Reunions, Southern
cross of honor, Confederate memorial work, Confederate
monuments in Missouri, dates of secession of the Southern
VIEW OF JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION, INCLUDING THE GREAT GOVERNMENT TIER.
ville, Confederate cemetery at Springfield, General Price's
official report of the battle of Springfield, etc.
The book is interspersed with forty fine half-tone portraits
and illustrations. Among them are the pictures of Lieut.
Gen. A. P. Stewart, the ranking surviving general of the Con-
federate army, who was the guest of honor at the Reunion,
Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, Maj. Gen. John S. Marmaduke, and
Gov. Claiborne F. Jackson.
A multitude of Confederate veterans should procure and
preserve this record. It will be supplied for $1 by James
W. Allen, Adjutant General, Missouri Trust Building, St.
Louis.
Home-Coming Week for Tennesseeans. — The dates for
Nashville have been fixed — September 23-28. 1907. E. S. Shan-
non, Secretary, Nashville, writes : "We want to invite every
Tennesseean living out of the State to come back to the old
home." Attention is called to this "Home-Coming" in the
hope that veterans and members of their families may take
advantage of the low railroad rates and visit Tennessee at a
time when the general public will be prepared to make the
visit very pleasant. For particulars write to Mr. Shannon.
Walter Preston Branch enlisted in the first cavalry com-
pany that was organized in Richmond, Va. After the war
he came to Kentucky, where he died near Guthrie in 1S78.
Information for his daughter is desired as to his service in
the war. Kindly address Mrs. Alice C. Branch, Station A,
Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Alice Craig, of Piedmont. Ala., makes inquiry for
Maj. A. Leyd'en, commander of the 9th Georgia Battalion
Artillery.
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U. D. C. DAY AT MONTEAGLE.
BY MRS. M. B. P1LCHER. PRESIDENT TENN. DIVISION, U. I). C.
The U. D. C. Congress at Monteagle for 1907 was a notable
event, the largest attendance of any of the days of Woman's
Week, and with a most enjoyable programme. Mrs. Lizzie
George Henderson, President General of the U. D. C. pre-
sided over the meeting, and considered the affairs of the day
with the forceful tact and wisdom of a general. Mis A B.
White, who for the past two years has been Tennessee's chief
executive, was with us, and made a strung plea for the Shiloh
monument. Mrs. White is deservedly popular, and is COI1
sidered one of the ablest of the I". D. C. officers. Mrs.
Eleanor Gillespie read a beautiful paper on the future of the
Confederate soldier. A "Plantation Sketch," with musical in-
terludes, by Mrs. Sidney Andrews, was much enjoyed. Miss
Ford's "Sonnet," written for the occasion, elicited much praise,
and Mrs. William Russell's "Before and During the War"
was inie of the best things of a long programme. There were
mil ical numbers and a varied programme. The afternoon
hour was filled with the symposium or "experience meeting,"
with three minutes' talks from the floor. This meeting was
open to all, and both Veterans and Daughters spoke of a
fateful day long gone — talks reminiscent and tender and some
of them humorous to a degree. There was no more success-
ful feature than this "love feast."
The evening was brilliant with Mrs. Pickett's stirring and
dramatic address on "Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg." This,
with orchestral music and some important resolutions offered
by Mrs. White and a beautiful short address by Mrs. Jose-
phine Pearson, concluded the programme for U. D. C. Day
a 1 Monteagle, 1907.
There was universal regret that Mrs. M. C. Goodlett could
not be with us. She is always our "guest of honor" on U.
D. C. Day. and we feel that the day is incomplete without her.
Elizabeth Lumpkin Glenn was another whose absence left a
vacuum that no one else could fill. Her eloquence, her superb
oratory, exquisite personality make her an enviable place in
the U. D. C. ranks.
I lie social features of the week were in charge of Miss
Josephine Pearson, permanent chairman of reception for the
Ladies' Association. When Miss Pearson is here, we always
feel sure that everj ocial occasion will be successful and
enjoyable Miss Blanche Carlotta Hindman, daughter of Gen.
Thomas (", Hindman and President of the John W. Thomas
Chapter at Monteagle, which is (lie hostess Chapter, supervised
the decorations, which were elaborate and artistic. She also
< d the hospitality of the occasion, extending a cordial
greeting and welcome from the platform.
1 must add a line to ray hurried notes to say a word regard-
ing another matter. It is of great regret that by inadvertence
the name ..f Mrs \Y. \Y. Baird. the State Recorder U. D. C,
was left off of the li^t of State officers in the minutes of the
Columbia Convention No lady among us is more capable of
filling a State ..Hi, 1 or more highly regarded than Mrs. Baird.
Alabama Honors President Davis ami Senator Morgan.
: Stale Senate has passed bills in hi
Jefferson Davis ami John T Morgan. It has also indorsed
a lull fm monument) tot the State at the national parks, pro-
viding for the expenditure of $J5.ooo a year to this 1 mi
1 in M01 gan monumi nl 1- in take the mil', ren aining
the Stale in Statuarj Hall, Washington, and will cos(
$15,000. The Davis monument is to have place on the Cain
tol grounds, Montgomery, and will cost a like amount.
THE UNIFORM OF GRAY.
BY FACKS0N HARVEU.E RANDOLPH RAY,
The golden sun has sunken far into the purpled west,
And many are the veterans weary who have laid them down to
rest.
Conscious of their parts well rendered and of pure, unsullied
name,
Sleeping sweetly, all secure, 'neath the sacred sod of fame
In the land where blossoms blithely the fragrant jessamine.
Where the ivy and the woodbine the lowly tombs entwine,
Waiting for the glorious dawning of the resurrection day.
When rewarded they shall be for the wearing of the gray.
Sons of those who wore the gray now are coming lo the fore,
Standing side by side with the ancient foes of yore,
All in peace and harmony, many times ten thousands strong,
Soldiers striving for the right against the hordes of wrong
'Neath the fluttering of old glory's glittering silver stars.
But ne'er forgetting that their fathers fought beneath "the
bars,"
Dying bravely — yea. most gladly — in the thickest of the fray,
Proudly dressed in torn and tattered uniform of gray.
Time has healed the bitter wounds of a valorous defeat,
And now closely reunited in loyalty we meet
In North, in South, in West, and East to steer the ship of
State,
All in love of fellow-man. Long dead is wild, warring hate:
And in its place the beauteous bird of peace has come again,
Bringing the budding olive branch to soothe the piercing pain.
And those who wore the blue rise up amidst the rest to say,
"All laud and honor, love and praise for those who wore the
gray !"
THE VETERANS.
BY ELIZA FRANCES ANDREWS.
(A Memorial Day Ode, suggested by seeing the old soldiers
of the Confederacy file into the cemetery on Memorial Day.)
I sec them slowly marching year by year
A lessening band to that lone camping ground
Where their companions in the days that tried
Men's souls have grounded arms forever.
Ease has seldom been their portioii ; bronzed by sun
And bit by winter's cold, they bear the scars
And blows of envious time as valiantly
As once they bore the buffetings of war.
For them a nation's coffers have not bled
To salve their wounds with gold; but when, worn out
With bootless victories, they left the field
Where valor long had slrove in vain with might.
Like him of olden time whose conquering arm
Did not disdain to guide tin plow, they sheathed
I leu swords, and. asking aid of none but God,
By honest toil redeemed tied
The land their fruitless valor could not save.
See whin tl in ever-lessening band'
I' 111 bj life's Storms and chilled by numbing fro
Of thankli . they falter not nor fail
In tin- great Strife with human wrong and W0<
Till one by one the great commander, Death.
word to break their ranks and join the vast
mpmenl 'math the white and serried stones
i ime shall write their lasting epitaph :
(juered, 'ait worn out with conquering."
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SENATOR BOWEN'S DEATH RECALLS WAR TIMES.
BY J. M. SCOTT, MULBERRY, ARK.
The death of ex-United Slates Senator Thomas M. Bowen,
which occurred in Pueblo, Colo., December 29, 1906, followed
one month later by the death of his wife, recalls a desperate
venture by twelve Confederate soldiers.
Colonel Bowen was in command of the Federal forces at
Van Buren, Ark., in 1864. and was the idol of his men. He
was very handsome, and considered a gallant fellow. It was
while at Van Buren that he sought the hand of Miss Maggie
Thruston, the daughter of Dr. Richard Thruston, one of the
pioneers of Western Arkansas, and one whose views were
truly Southern. Dr. Thruston refused consent to his daugh-
ter'- becoming the wife of a "Kansas Jayhawker." Colonel
Bowen made daily visits to the Thruston home, which was in
the suburbs of the little city on (he north bank of the Arkan-
sas River, three miles from the Indian Territory.
While the Colonel was paying court to this accomplished
Southern girl two Confederates, John Norwood and
Cary, were surrounded by a company of Federals, to whom,
after resisting their assaults several hours, they surrendered
with the understanding that they were to be treated as prison-
ers of war. They were taken to Fayetteville and placed in
irons, and later taken to Fort Smith and tried by a drum-
head court-martial and sentenced to be shot. Capt. J. C.
Wright, of Chester, and Capt. T. W. Marlar, of Mulberry,
believing they could rescue Norwood and Cary, selected their
crowd and wound their way through the mountains to the
north of Van Buren, arriving about four o'clock in the morn-
ing. They secreted themselves in a thicket some five hun-
dred yards from the city, where they could overlook the
Thruston home and the little city of Van Buren. About nine
o'clock Colonel Bowen, with an escort, was seen riding up
to the house of his intended bride. Captain Wright sent
Sol Wagner, Bill Black, Coon Covington, and Nelse Singler
to the Thruston home, he taking the other boys and passing
between the Thruston home and the Federal camp. When
Wright and his party reached the Thruston home, Black and
his party had held up the escorts and were bringing Colonel
Bowen out of the house, with Miss Maggie holding, to him
and begging piteously that Bowen be not taken away. The
order was given to double-quick, and they took the com-
mander of the Federal army at Van Buren right out of his
quarters in sight of his brigade of four regiments July 22,
1864, and took him fifteen miles to the north.
The special object of this venture was to save the lives of
Norwood and Cary, who were under death sentence at Fort
Smith, as stated. After a counsel was held, it was agreed to
parole the Colonel with the understanding that he would be
less barbarous to the helpless women and children and that
he would endeavor to secure the release of Norwood and
Cary. Colonel Bowen agreed also to send Captain Wright
$300 in Uncle Sam's money. He sent $100 in greenbacks and
$100 in Missouri State warrants. Colonel Bowen did make
the lives of our women and children less miserable ; but, sad
to say, Norwood and Cary were executed.
Miss Thruston was a leader in society and highly accom-
plished. Dr. Thruston had been forced to leave and go
South, and the Colonel and his intended bride eloped, going
to Fort Gibson, Ind. T., on horseback, a distance of fifty
miles to the northwest, where they were married.
Captains Wright and Marlar are still living, and are well
known as high-toned Christian gentlemen. I was in Nor-
wood's home a month after his execution, and was shown the
picture of him and Cary handcuffed and shackled. The brave
boys were executed after the promise of treatment as prison-
ers of war. I met Captains Wright and Marlar the day after
this occurred, and know this account to be true.
EXPERIENCES IN ESCAPING PRISON LIFE.
W. M. Buster, now of Elmwood, Cass County, Nebr., makes
inquiry for associates in an effort to escape prison by jump-
ing from a boat, and in doing so he gives some interesting
reminiscences: "After serving a term in prison, I was ex-
changed, and got back to my command the last of March.
1865. The command was at Blakely, Mobile, Ala. On April
1 we had a 'scrap' with General Steele's command, and kept
up the skirmishing until the 9th, when Steele charged and
captured us all, so I was a prisoner again. I resolved to get
away, and, putting my wits to work, I walked through the
guard line, but was detected and taken back. The next day
they took us to Ship Island, and kept us there about two
w-eeks. We were guarded by negroes, who shot several of
our boys for nothing. Next we were put on a boat and sent
to New Orleans. We lay out in the channel till evening, then
started up the river. Several of my company planned to
jump off and swim ashore, so about eleven o'clock we jumped
into the river just behind the wheel. It was a side-wheeler.
Some may think that wasn't hard to do. The boat was
loaded down with prisoners, and it looked more like jumping
into the grave than anything I had ever done ; but we got
out all right, and then put in nearly all night trying to wade
across the bayou, but had to give it up, and lay down to rest.
We heard some talking, and learned that it was more of the
boys. We made another attempt to wade the bayou, but
failed ; so two of us went to a farmhouse to get the man to
pilot us across, but he told us we couldn't cross it. He was
a friend all right, but said that every place that could be
crossed was guarded by Union soldiers. He advised that
we give ourselves up, but we wouldn't do that. So we started
back, and some negroes saw us and reported to the provost
marshal and he got after us, so we had to go right up the
river. They chased us about six miles before they caught us."
At South McAlester, Ind. T., there will be a Confederate
gathering of Veterans and Sons and Daughters of Veterans
in joint reunion on August 20-22. These bodies are united in
their purpose to build a Confederate Soldiers' Home.
STORY OF ROCK ISLAND PRISON.
A member of the old "Bull Pen," Mr. J. W. Minnich, now
of Grand Isle, La., and who was a Confederate prisoner at
Rock Island, 111. (Barrack 47), for sixteen months in 1864-65,
has written a true, vivid, and impartial history of a prisoner's
life at that place free from malice or prejudice, confining his
paper strictly to actual incidents, good or bad, just as they
happened and to conditions as they existed at that time. This
booklet would be a valuable contribution for the future his-
torian, as no complete account has ever been written of this
prison from a Confederate standpoint. The account will be
published in pamphlet form, and is to be paid for by volun-
tary contribution. The cost of publication will be only
seventy-five dollars, and as soon as this amount is sent in the
pamphlet will be published and a number of copies sent to
each contributor to this fund. If sufficient contributions are
not made to defray the expense of publishing, the money will
be returned to those who subscribed.
All remittances should be sent to J. W. Minnich, Grand
Isle, La., or to S. A. Cunningham, Nashville, Term.
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BRIG. GE V JOSEPH L. HOGG.
BY P. A. m.AKKV. MOUNT VERNON, TEX.
[On pages 396 and 494 of the Veteran for 1906 are articles
concerning Brig Gen. J. L. Hogg. Tlie first was from the
Youth's Companion and replied to by P. A. Blakey, Mount
Vernon, Ti \ )
(■<'ii J epll I. Hogg w i -. a son of Tlmnus Hogg, a colniiel
in the Revolutionary War, and a grandson of John Hogg, an
Irish gentleman who emigrated to Virginia in the earl) set
tlement of that colony. From Virginia the family moved to
South Carolina. Aft r the close of the Revolutionary War.
Thomas Hogg settled in Georgia, where Gen. J 1- Hogg wa
his State four years with marked ability, having proved him-
self to he one of the greati 1 statesmen known to Texas his-
tory.
c.l N. J. I . HOGG.
born. His youthful days were spent in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where
he was married, in 1833, '" A'1:-s Lucanda McMath, and moved
to 1 ' xas in [840. In 1X4,!, we find him serving as a member
ol 1 ongress of the republic. He took the stump in favor of
annexation, was a member of the first Constitutional I on
11. and was then sent to the State Senate, in which he
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
At the outbreak oi the Mexican Wai he joined the army,
and during the war was conspicuous for his gallantry and
rlj qualities. After its close he settled in Rusk,
Cherokee County, where he practiced law successfully until
the Civil War. He had served as colonel of
nd as majoi general of State troops
in Texas He was commissioned brigadiei general by the
War Department in January or February, 1862.
I in command of a brigade "f Texas troops, and ordered
to C irinth, Mis ifter & net al I leaui e
Bard fell back from Shiloh He commanded his brigade until
he w .1 1 down with diseasi He was taken to a pi 1
vate house four miles west of Corinth, when he died in
May. 1862, where he was buried, and where his remains rest
Until this day.
He left surviving his five children, two daughters and
thr.c sous, among the latter James Stephen, who was the
first native Governor o( fexas, in which capacity he
DEAR OLD GEORGIA.
BY 1 \ FONERDEN.
There is in this fair land of ours
No place where grow such fragrant flowers
As bloom in dear old < lei 11 gia ;
1 m truest blue, the pun st lies
In ( iii irgia maidens' sw eet blue ej 1
While o'er no land bend bluer skir
Than those that hies-, old Gei
No fruits and mi l>>iis are so fine
W grow on fragrant tree and vine
Down there in good old Georgia .
Her sun-kissed hills and fertile plains
Are blest with heaven's benignant rain-.
And wild flowers fleck the paths and lam
Sweet so in iil in old I lei n g ia
Her balmy breezes waft good health.
Her teeming fields yield bounteous wealth.
And joy abides in Georgia ;
The song bird's voice makes every dell
Vocal with its entrancing spell,
And souls of men reposeful dwell
In that sweet land of Georgia.
Could you but see that Eden land
Of valleys green and mountains grand
And crystal streams of I reoi gia.
You would behold with wondering eyes
\nd hi art aflame with glad surprise
A veritable paradise
In that fair land of Georgia!
Let me be buried in the earth
( )f that guild land that gave me birth,
That dear, sweet land of Georgia ;
There in that land of bliss is given
Life's unction true — that blessed haven
That lifts one's soul to that high heaven
Whose gateway is old Geoi ;
At an "experience meeting" in Georgia headquarters Dr.
W. B. Burroughs, of Brunswick, presided, ["he Veteran was
indorsed and the poem was commended to its pages by Colo-
nel Waddell.
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INCIDENTS OF SHARPSBURG.
BY C. A. RICHARDSON, COMPANY B, I5TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY.
The writer inclines to the opinion that any recital of truth-
ful personal observation and experience gathered on the
memorable field of Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862, will prove
of interest to comrades and survivors of that hard-fought
field, perhaps the gamest of game fights in the Confederate
war of 1861-65. Such incidents help to show the undercurrent
or individual spirit of the men — the rank and file — who thus
contribute to history in performing their allotted parts in the
grand drama being enacted about them.
We herewith submit some incidents occurring in the order
the writer now recalls them.
In a headlong charge, all going at a double-quick and yelling
like wild Comanches, a hardy, muscular, fearless "Tar Heel,"
who had joined us in a determined rush on the Federal line,
received a Minie ball in his open mouth. He did not seem to
immediately lose his speech, for he blurted out : "Boys, I'll
have to leave you. Going to the rear to look for that d — ball.
Give 'em h — and my compliments." The brave fellow sub-
sequently rejoined his own famous fighting regiment (30th
North Carolina), still a good and staying fighter, but minus
the full notes of that lusty yell at Sharpsburg. Of course
running up dead against the bullets of the enemy when they
were firing into us not only by regiments but also by bri-
gades was about the only earthly thing calculated to stop the
"Rebel yell," either individually or collectively. It did the
first quite often ; but the latter when in full swing, with that
terrific, terror-striking whoop generally swept onward until
the front was cleared and the work well done. The "Rebel
yell" had its terrors, fierce and demoralizing, to the enemy;
it was heartfelt and inspiring to the men in gray as they
rushed in to the support of a "thin gray line" or to break a
solid line of blue. It generally happened that the "blue line"
was broken and scattered, and the "Rebel yell" was duly re-
newed and prolonged until the victors were about exhausted.
About 6 p.m., when the heat and turmoil of battle had sub-
sided, I was reminded that I had not eaten anything since
early morning, and then only two hard-tacks. Three of us
soon filled our haversacks with fine apples from a near-by
orchard, then kindled a fire and got out frying pan and a
chunk of very fat mess pork. Two of our party were slicing
the apples, B serving as cook. The first pan of apples was
being turned into a tin plate, when bang! bang! bang! in
quick succession exploded three shells most uncomfortably
near, tendering us the untimely and cruel compliments of a
Federal battery which had spied us and made a target of our
little tea party. The Federal gunners soon had our range
and dropped a dozen or more shells about us in a few minutes,
doing no serious damage but causing us to postpone the meal
on fried apples in the mode a la Sharpsburg.
General McClellan, being first on the field at Sharpsburg,
easily had a decided advantage with his artillery in the early
part of the fierce fight; but very few of his batteries held to
their first positions as the battle progressed, for the Confed-
erates fought their artillery along with their infantry, all ad-
vancing together and fighting along the same alignment. This
style was new and novel to the Federals, also proving to them
most disastrous and fatal. The battery that acted so spite-
fully about delaying our supper was doubtless one that had
escaped very severe punishment, perhaps not sharing in the
red heat of the fray.
In the afternoon a "hot mix up" occurred. When we were
getting our "second wind" for another onset or attack, either
offensive or defensive, a brave and hungry Georgian, who was
"taking chances" with us, proceeded to unroll his blanket that
had a considerable bulge in it. which disappeared when re-
lieved of a half-gallon crock of apple butter. In a twinkling
the cloth covering of the crock was removed, ard the raven-
ously hungry son from Georgia began to rapidly ;i'l an aching
void. Soon came the ringing, stirring command, ' Forward,
men ; double-quick," when lo ! the crock was empty, most of
the contents in the Georgian's stomach, and no small portion
smeared over an unwashed face already begrimed with
smoke and dust of battle. * * *
The Georgians were hard but also gay and festive fighters.
Survivors of the "Old Fifteenth Virginia" will kindly recall
Major General MacLaw's "fighting division" as one of the
best of General Longstrect's Corps that so gallantly withstood
the fierce assaults of General Burnside on the sanguinary field
of Sharpsburg.
FEDERAL TRIBUTE TO THE CONFEDERATES.
BY C. D. EVANS, DARLINGTON, S. C.
The incident which I relate happened in middle South
Carolina during the early eighties. A former captain in the
Confederate army asked his son, also a Confederate, a ser-
geant in the company of his father, to go to mill. The mill
was on the stream on which the first cotton factory built south
of Mason and Dixon's line was established and which was
done during the war of 1812; the machinery for which had
been hauled from Philadelphia in wagons in order to avoid
the danger of capture from British vessels.
The miller was a native of England. He had served in the
English army in the Crimea in 1857. His regiment was after-
wards sent to Canada, and he drifted from there into the
United States and enlisted in the Federal army during the
War between the States.
Soon after arrival at the mill, while the miller was busy,
the Confederate was standing in the door, when a negro gave
a yell in the creek swamp near by. Instantly the miller hur-
ried to the door, saying: "Did you hear that?" The reply
was affirmative. "That was the Rebel yell," continued the
miller, "and I don't like to hear it even now. You know I
was in the Federal army ; and no matter how many men we
had nor how securely we were intrenched, when we heard that
'Rebel yell' we were whipped before you got to us because
we knew that you were going to do whatever you undertook."
Inclined to draw the man out on the subject of the war, I
said: "Suppose that during the siege of Petersburg and Rich-
mond General Grant and General Lee could have exchanged
numbers and resources — I mean suppose General Lee could
have had one hundred thousand well-fed and clothed Con-
federate soldiers and General Grant had had only about thirty
thousand starving Federals with no shoes and little clothing —
how long do you suppose it would have taken General Lee
to go to Washington?"
In an excited way the Federal replied : "Good God. man,
all he would have had to do would be to get over the works
and go there." "Well, then," I replied, "why did not General
Grant go to Richmond?" "Because he could not do it," re-
plied the Federal. "He tried hard enough. There never
were and there never will be such soldiers as were those of
the Confederate army."
This incident is, in the opinion of the writer, one of the
most beautiful tributes ever paid to the valor and long-suffer-
ing of an army which wrote a nation's history with their
bayonets.
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NASHVILLE, TENN., SEPTEMBER, 1907.
No 9.
S. A. CirNNINOHA.il.
Proprietor.
A deplorable misfortune occurred to the representatii
the Veteran al the Texas Stati R union in Bowie, \t the
close of the evening's suitable and delightful performance a
gentleman insisted on paying his subscription, when a re-
ceipt was written in a dim light, aftei which the subscrip
lion 1 k containing a list of all sums paid there and al the
Reunion the daj before in M Uester, [nd. T., was missing.
It is not possible to recall thesi sums nor any memorandums.
Friends who paid will plea e send information.
COURAi l.V !.\ CAMP DOUGLAS.
BY J. X. HUNTER, DEM0R1 ST, GA,
I \va? a member of Companj K. 2d Tennessee Cavalry, under
i. and was a prisoner of war in Camp Douglas from
tiber -1-'. 1862, to J"" 19, 1865 1 in the morning of the
iyh of Vpril, 1865, aft< 1 (he assassination of President Lin-
coln, flags were ordered to half-mast. The lanyard of the
garrison flag » and hung a few feet from the top,
and could not be moved either way. Colonel Sweet, the post
1 in. in detailed to climb the pole, om
hundrei ghty feet high, to fix the rope. 'I I
1 climbed the pole, but just as he reached the top and
he could fix the pulli | hi lost his hold and fell a fear-
ful fall to the ground.
I!, entin garrison of three thousand men and thousands
of prisoners witnessed the appalling sight. The man lived
about two hours, On the morning of the t6tli the O
olunteer to climb the pole, but out of the entire
force of three thousand men not one would volunteei I
di ius climb. Thi I red 1
d; but, strange to say, no one accepted the offer.
"Try the Johnnies," said Colonel Sweet. "Out of the twelve
thousand prisoners we will find a man who will climb that
pole. The prisoner who climbs it and adjust thi anyard and
flag shall I 1 hundi ed d atii m hom :
-
Barracks No. 1. near thi - called out, one hundred
and fifty in number. 1 1 and a
volunteer called for. Instantly a Kan. lank.
in the
front and went al om 1 to tin fl ig pole [I was no
ing 1 1 the 16th. In the prison and garrison and even in the
citj excitement was intense. Thous:
boy climb the pole, The entin thered
around the flag pole, sailors swarmed in the rigging of their
ships "ii the lake, and people on the house tops all watching
n of the most daring and thrilling acl oi thi war. The
boj from Geoi ;ia reached the top of the pole, swaying in a
gale "i" wind, and iii a few seconds fixed the rope; then, wav-
old Confederate hat three times about his head, threw
it .11 he crowd below, V mightj cheei went up a In started
on his descent. The prisoners caught it up, and for 1!"
and only time the Rebel yell was heard in a Northern pi
As he came dov, n and in 1 each the Fi deral sold
him nil in. pole and on their shoulders, carried him to the
1 officer mar by, where li. signed the oath or parole,
and there were handed to him five one-hundred-dollar bills
and his transportation papers home. He started home on that
evening. He had no idea ol climbing that flag pole thirty
minutes before he started up it. I would like to know who
In was and if he is still livii
MEMORABLE VISION Ol GETTYSBURG.
JAMES 1; RANDALL, IN THE CATHOLII WEI KLY.
Sorni \'.n ago an old man with silvery hair was led into
tli cyclorama of Gettysburg b} a bright-faced little girl Vged
and feeble, he sat down, while the child described to him the
feature- of the pictun Oo isionallj he asked her a question
as in doubt of the accuracy of her account, She lun
scribed the charge of the Confederate columns and thi
thi stoni wall, when he asked: "But where's the ar-
tillery, May?" "Do y.in mean the big gun 11
there Oil the hill ill a row." "All 111 a row ?" h asked. "Yes,"
id ; "thet ' ai e 31 nme mon down hi 1 but they arc ali
I think thej are bin ted." "Is that where the men are
coining over the hill?" "Yes, grandpa." "Is there a grove of
'Yes 11 seems to be full of men. but is so
thick you cannot see them." "O, I see them," he cried. It
was then noticed by some of the parly mar him that he was
The little girl answered : "0 mdpa, you
\ , . 1 1 .-1 ' said thi old oldier, "I can see the
men, the grovi . and the 1 1) ing about " I he
child looked at him in innocent surprise, and said: "You are
andpa." "No, my dear, ed the od man.
"No, that was the last thing 1
exploded there just this side of the stone wall, ami that was
the last terrible picture I ever saw, for it »:i- tin 11 that I lost
my eyesight, and I have never g mrc out of my mind."
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THE NEW CONSTELLATION.
LV JUDGE C. C. CUMMINl S, HISTORIAN OF TEXAS DIVISION, U. C. V.
(Annual Report al St;ite Reunion :tl Howie August 21, i'."7.)
On the 14th of June. 1777, the flag of our country was
brought forth by the first congress of the fathers enacting
"that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen
stripes, alternated red and white, and the union be thirteen
stars white, in a blue field, representing a new constellation."
The term "union" in heraldry means that part of the flag in
the upper corner next the flagstaff. A new constellation
argues of course the old, belonging to the Old World flag
emblems.
Asia is a rule of one. a despot; Europe, the rule of a few:
but these thirteen stood for the sovereignty of the people with
sovereign States representing them. To emphasize this idea,
the thirteen white stars on this blue field were arranged in a
perfect circle, with no central object, thus denoting their
freedom from outside restraint, acknowdedging no superior
but God. Stars in heraldry indicate independent power. The
blue field in heraldry represents spiritual infoldment of a
very high order of the emotional feelings, as we experience
on looking up to the blue vault of heaven. The red stripes
represent the passion of war, and the white the haven of
peace and purity as the aim of war. Let us follow the voice
of the fathers. Six years after the birth of the flag came
the peace of 1788 with the mother country. There we find
the States signing this treaty as individual States and not as
the United States, denoting very plainly their individuality.
We find that they bound themselves by the first Confederate
articles of 1776 to a perpetual union; but we find them se-
ceding from that union of first intention, and in 1787 we find
them forming what they then called "a more perfect union."
In this, the present articles under which we now live, nowhere
finds them to a perpetuity as did the old. True, we have
since then waged a great war in which for the present we
find the victorious party decrying secession as dead; and as
far as the South is concerned, our troubles are over, and this
matter is res ad judicata as to us. But did you ever note that
no amendment reaches the point? There is no declaration
against the tenth amendment, which declares that all powers
not yielded up to the general government are reserved to the
States. This has never been given up, and Massachusetts
before this amendment was adopted put a proviso in her
accession to the Union of 1787, in 1788, covering this point.
She acted it also when Jefferson made the Louisiana pur-
chase in 1803, and then she made threats to secede because
there was no power in the Constitution authorizing the ac-
quisition of new territory, especially so much as this, which
brought in more space than was in the original thirteen, and
because it so overbalanced the West and South as to degrade
the power of the East. Mark now : two-thirds of the area
of this government lies west of the great dividing river.
Population is fast following areas, and the Pag most surely
follows the population. It is not a dream when I opine this
point is sure to be raised by the East when the canal is opened
and Texas umpires the world. But let us follow up the new-
constellation the fathers dreamed about. Turn to a disin-
terested authority (Appleton's Cyclopedia, title "Flag," and
see Old Glory there pictured with its thirteen stars in a per-
fect circle). Did you know this flag fought through two
wars of independence with this mystic circle blazoned on its
folds? Did you know that in 1818 clerks of some of the
departments without lawful authority rearranged the stars
as now in parallel rows and destroyed the charm of the new
constellation? Science teaches that, while groups of stars
have their satellites revolving about them, yet these groups
have as an entirety no central sun. An interesting article in
the August (1907) number of the Literary Digest exploits
this position very fully, holding that while Alcyone, of the
Pleiades group, was once thought by some to be the central
force of the universe, yet a further investigation shows that
this group, like all others, is moving forward in space with
no respondent superior but the All-Father. This agrees with
the divine meditation of old Job:
"Canst thou bind the sweet influences
Of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven ?
Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?"
Why should the circle be broken so carelessly ? One main
reason is the fathers sat with closed doors. They met for
the single purpose in 1787 of interstate commerce. When
they gathered, they concluded that something more must be
dene to insure stability. They bound each other to secrecy in
their discussions, and debates were withheld from publication
until they were almost all if not all dead.
The large States wanted mere power, a strong govern-
ment; the small States in the majorit did not want to grant
it. So they wrestled with each other from May till Septem-
ber before they could agree, and then it suited few. Silence
was enjoined that each State might construe the new instru-
JUDCE C. C. CUMMINGS.
ment to suit its own views. All of them at one time or an-
other, for one reason or another, have run counter to the
strong government idea, aiming their protests against one
branch or another, the executive, legislative, or judicial arm.
But before we have the new constitution idea let us fol-
low the voice of the fathers on this subject and that of using
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forci against a State when joined to the new Constitution.
During the debates more than once allusion was made to th
model of these thirteen stars in a circle "" old glory as -inn
lar i" th lar system, with none but God as ruler. After
they had been sitting from May till July. 17S7, without
ing to an agreement, good old Ben Franklin, the oldest man
in that immortal body, came in one morning and said that.
inasmuch as they had been building without asking the counsel
G "I as the .Master Builder, he thought u meet that the)
shi mid after that open with prai 1 r
Hamilton has been n in history, according t" the
moderns, as a man of force in favor of coercing a State. It
is true that in this com ntion of irs~ he brought forward a
strong government plan. Born an English subject, he knew
not tl^' new constellation th© iry ; hut his scheme was 50 coldl)
received thai he saw that his influence with thai body was
gone and withdrew and H 0 mori in it till toward
ill. closi rhi next year when New York sal as .1 Stati to
ratify or not that instrument it was with difficult} that she
1 to do so, so warj was -he of binding her-
nd when he did accede, it was with the provision that
eserved the right to withdraw from tin' compact when-
ever her interests 1 -I'd it. Virginia and Rhode Island
me, Hamilton, in speaking for the Constitu
tiin then, inveighed against the use of force and declared the
idea of coercing a St iti 1 1 b< a dream. You never sei
in history, but thi ■ in two Hamilton-. Then are also two
tin Webstei of 1832 speaking against llayne in
favor of the union, declaring it not a compact but as having
te by the people and not by the States
In 1851 Webstei n versed himself from his place in the United
b . and in alluding to the thirteen Northern States
ring nullified the Constitution and acts of Congress for
the enforcement of the fugitive slave law declared tin- re-
1 thi S iuthi rn Stati ■'■ from the compact, ["he
histot ' tell you of Wi bster No. 2.
They are m rif\ Webster No. 1
Let u traci the new 0 'tt-ii llatii m idea i id © when
it < nds In 179' I 11 and Madi ectively the
Kentui 1 ) and Virgil nst the
alien 1 passed Adams's admini tr:
then in bi m 1 thi g< nius of our idea 1
ment — that the States done, and not Cong 1 thi Pn 1
dent, were the arbiters of rights and umpires of wrong done
them. Tin idea ol 1 Federal court enjoining a State law was
■ n thought of 1 01 ganic law. I h< pro
iolutions turned out the Federalist party and.
on. and the part) he built under these reigned till the
Hon of the sixties. Jefferson ignored the Federal ap-
pointments by \dams when In cami in, and nevei 0 ised 1
protest against the absorption of jurisdiction by these courts
imelhing not contemplated b) the fathers of thi I on
Washington called the more p
federac) Afti r J l time,
ress laid an eml in^i the shipping il New 1 11
gland which interfered with the happiness which Rhode I-
land in so many words declared on coming in -1" would
most regard ;i- a stay for her in the Uni
The most remark aide instance oi rbitrating their
grieva in id during the war of 1812 14, when five
New England State- sent representatives to Hartfi
and protested against a war that was ruining their ship
shops. The) Stopped the levil >ps and the march of
troops through certain of their borders to repel thi British,
and pr far that they selected a general to lead them.
The) hung out blue lights along their coast apprising the
enemy of the movement- t~i our land folic-. You never read
this in the histories d the Southern States for doing
similar acts in the sixties. The) do not mean to include this
part in the national anthem. "My Country, ' 1 i- of Thee I
Sing." ["he) now jubil 1 ovet the discrimination in their
favor in the face of the fourteenth amendment granting them
all the special privileges which this amendment was aimed to
destroy. Yet Madison, the father of the .Constitution, was
then at the national helm, and was lial the Hartfords
were in the lini of their rights, and said nothing ["In
n ended after this Hartford demonstration and got these
1 .iti Mi- out of the middli of a ver) bad hx.
Davis and ; duated al West Point in 1828, when Judge
r's commentar) on the Constitution was there used up-
holding this theon of the new const
denouncing them for the part the) took in the sixties
do not know that the) fougln a the) were taught by the
govert m< nt But a di than I [artford there
arose one from the South who knew not Joseph. Reared
in a State outside of the charmed circle of the original thir-
Jackson, from the backw 1- oi ["ennessee, knew little
ared less for tin voi tin fathers 1 [e knew that
while he and In- hunting-shirl boys with their ride- were
di tro) ng tin finesl arm) on the planet under Pakenham
at New Orleans the tendet England conscience was
allowing the British to march on Washington and burn the
■ !. and he -'nt President Madison word that if he would
keep those Hartford people quiet there he would come with
luthern lads and drive the eneni) into Canada. It was
[or tin- reason, when South Carolii 1 the role of the
former example- in In 1 nullification lav I a tariff
cquall) as oppn rgo laws were to New En-
gland, that he made a bluff of force for the first time in the
history of this new constellation. The circular form of the
been blotted out The Northern States were
pi, rj ■ 1 .hi- it meant mot 1 in sp© ial monopol) .
I hey were the strong) r and rejoiced with exceedir
Tew knew that South Carolina, like the other essayi
! ati right-, won. ami that her nullifii .'noli resulted in a
gradual lighten 1 tariff burdens.
I il,.. new text-book law of [*exas requires histories of the
United State- to b< used in publii ■ which shall be
,1 th, construction of the Constitution as played by the
"Fathers of the Confederacy," and Judge Cummins gives the
oing romantic store dug out of the "archives of the voice
1 of the I > «tS Ri union, ind that "f the In-
dian Territor) and Oklahoma an 1 1 appear in the Oi
Vetei ' mradi -. pleasi send promised data at once.
Information as to Prison Lifi Wanted D K. Dickin-
son, of Saratoga. Ark. a-k- all surviving I ■ sol-
em , d hi prisoners during the
war to send him a statement of the facts showing when,
and how captured, whi lo imp
.and the cha iment accorded by 1 d au-
thorities Mr. Dickinson v oldier under Gen-
erals Forrest and WI itured at Shelbyville, Tenn., and
1- interested in gathering such informatio now be ob-
i from surviving Confederates in relation to prison life
with tin purpose, if the reports will justify, of having them
edited and published in book form.
3\rl
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S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ for Asso-
ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantlv diligent.
GOOD RULES FOR CONFEDERATE REUNIONS.
Reunions of Confederate veterans are productive of much
genuine comfort in the meeting face to face of men who know
each other better than any other class on earth. Personal as-
sociation is the best feature, and then the giving of evid nee
to great truths is of much importance. The Veteran offers
suggi.-ii.iii- on this line.
The man who talks on the war is speaking for eternity,
and it behooves him to speak word- of soberness. It is well
to recall the humor of the camp and to refer to the courage
of the foe and of the kindnesses shown by captors in battle.
It is all right, too. to report the villainy of the enemy when it
occurred : but there is a habit of too many orators to speak
extravagantly of what their side did. and they often weaken
their cause by representing the other side discreditably. Such
representation tmdignilies the prowess of their own side.
Speakers at Reunions too often neglect their duty in dignity
and reverence. They should speak to the point and know that
others could relate facts of much value and interest.
Small gatherings should be more as experience meetings,
and every man should have opportunity to say a few words
about what he experienced. It is a grievous fault that many
speakers at such gatherings have some ulterior motives of their
own in addressing assemblies.
There should be marshals and deputy marshals for the pur-
pose of keeping perfect order. Parents should be required
to look to the deportment of their children; and when people
at such gatherings are not enough interested to desist from
talking, they should be assigned to some other places.
The worst fea'ure of these reunions is the waste of time
and the loss of proper dignity and solemnity by young men
who harangue the assembly by undignified, and sometimes
coarse, speeches, occupying valuable time and to no benefit.
It is grievous and yet true that many young men in diff rent
parts of the country make it the occasion for advertising
themselves. It will be shocking to some to learn that young
men of ambition for prominence are occasionally diligent to
procure the publication of a sketch of their father for the sole
purpose of advancing their business interests, and then ignore
the source used for their advancement. Again, officers in
these junior bodies seem to ignore them when their terms
have expired, taking no part in subsequent meetings.
These facts are grievous. The Constitution of the United
Confederate Veterans designates the Sons as successors, but
many of them fail to realize the commission.
There is too much of solemnity and grave responsibility in
these gatherings to admit of the continuation of these things.
Managers of such gatherings— whether merely for reunions,
dedications of monuments, or whatever be the occasion —
must approve these suggestions. No speaker who seeks the
appointment from other than the highest motive should be en-
gaged, and every speaker should speak to the point concisely
as possible and then surrender the platform.
These suggestions are made in profound solemnity, and
every veteran and mother of the Confederacy should merit
careful regard for them.
.1 GENERAL DECORATION DAY.
(The Indianapolis News. "I
We noted recently the unveiling of the statue to Jeff
Davis at Richmond. There certainly is every appearance that
the war and all its works lie buried, so far as personal feel-
ing goes. There is a suggestion in the effort of the people
of the South to adopt a general memorial day. The dan- now
is not uniform, and the effort is to have all the Southern
States and Camps of Confederate Veterans unite on a day.
The suggestion i- for June 3, which is the anniversary of the
birth of Davis. Eight Southern States have already desig-
nated the day. while in two others the day is a legal holiday.
* A day of this sort should be a day apart for the dead
soldiers and not kept as an anniversary also of any man.
Why. then, would it not be more proper for the South to
adopt the day that the nation observes for the same pur-
pose— May 30? At the North on that day we decorate
the graves of the Confederate dead, and in accordance
with the act of Ci ngress are now placing heads! ri< - al th ir
graves. Gen. Stephen D. Lee. the Confederate Commander,
in proclaiming the recent dedication of the Davis monument,
spoke of tb "unswerving patriotism and unconquerabl
alty" that were exemplified bv the leaders and hosts of the
Confederacy. So it rests in the hearts of those that survive.
We have left the dead past to rest in peace We are willing
to accord the tribute of honesty of purpose and bravery of
conduct to all. Now, it seems to us that when the battle
flags are furled and sent back and when the graves of all
alike are decorated, as is done with us on May 30. it
were the fitting thing for the same day to be observed in all
of the country. Nor should we be surprised to see this
eventually come to pass. "We do not force the note."
In speaking for 'he Southern people, in so far as the Vet-
eran has authority to give expression, it would say there
are prejudices here that may not be understood in the North.
In reconstruction days crowd's of negroes, led by carpet-
baggers, attended these decora' ions, and the scenes on those
occasions are yet a painful memory in the minds of the South-
ern people. It was a rabble. Conditions are different now,
and, looking to the future, when the soldiers of both sides
are all dead, it might be a wise and patriotic thing to do.
The South could well afford to adopt the same day, since her
women bear the undisputed credit of inaugurating a memorial
day to the honor of patriots who gave their lives as such on
one side or the other.
MONUMENT TO GEN. G. B. M'CLELLAN.
Gen. George B. McClellan deserved the monument that has
been er'cted to him in the National Capital. At a period of the
"Big War" he was the most conspicuous officer on the Union
side. His popularity with the soldiers under his command
was unbounded, and he had the confidence of the greater por-
tion of his countrymen; but he lost his popularity through
two causes: He failed to succeed in all that was expected of
him, and he never received the cooperative aid that the ad-
ministration of his government should have extended' to him.
He was confronted en one hand by the skill of Robert E.
Lee and on the other by the coldness, if not open opposition, of
those under whose authority he acted. But McClellan was a
great soldier, nevertheless. He w^as a great tactician and a
great organizer. He lacked only the quality of audacity. With
that he would have been the superior of Grant, whose strong
point was his audacity.
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MONUMENT AT OKOLONA, MISS.
l:\ MRS. S. EDMUNDS LOVE, OKOLONA, MISS.
The Confederate monument at Okolona, Miss., erected l>>
the Okolona Chapter. U. I >. C, Mississippi Division, was un-
veiled on April 26, 1905, by Mrs. Al. E. McDowell, Presidenl
of tin- Chapter, with imposing ceremonies. The monument is
located on Main Street on a small plot of ground given by
tin town and directly in from of the First Baptist Church. It
is built of Georgia marble, and i- thirty-two and a half feet
high above the cement foundation, and six feet square al
base by tw<> and a half feet high The statue surmounting it
is of Carrara marble and was made in Italy. A substantial
iron fence incloses the monument and plot of ground, which
is raised and sodded. Tin statui is .1 Confederate scout in
an attitude of inimitable grace, landing with lift hand shad-
ing his eyes as if l" shut out the too obtrusive glare and
apparently peering to see if danger lurks near. It i- beautiful
as a work id' art in it*, simplicity, 11- symmeto of form, and
magnificent pi 1
Mi' inscription mi the west sidi is: "Erected by Okolona
Chapter, U D C. No. 117. 1005" Just below is, "l.. one
thousand < onfederati soldiers who -lee], lute." and below this.
"Our ' ite I ie.nl." On tin north and south sides are
the name- of soldiers who lived at Okolona and vicinity and
were billed or dud during the war and are not buried in the
cemetery. "I In- east side i: re erved for veterans yet li\in^
Governor Vardaman and hi: brilliant staff in full regalia
were [in ~ . nt. with tile Vardaman Guards and many prominent
veterans and citizens, and the ceremonies were conducted in
■ of a large ami enthusiastic assembly.
Mr. Henry Lacey, o) Okolona, was master of ceremonies,
and introduced the speaker of the day, Hon S. Hill, of
Winona, who was followed bj Governor Vardaman, Col.
Lamar Fontaine, and II. in. Lovick Haley in brief addri
After the closing prayer, the crowd went ti> the cemetery,
where the children strew, over the soldiers' graves,
as the unveiling was mi Memorial Day, and with song and
praj er the exercises « ere 1 1
In a lonely spot a little distance from Okolona are the
graves of the d- ■ad who 1 memory the monument is inti
1 mmemorate unmarked bj even rude boards. This spot
was rarelj visited, and for years tin graves knew not the
touch of a tender hand. Such wa the cohdition until atten-
tion was directed through the Daughters of the Confederacy,
and these long-neglected grave- appealed Strongl) to the loyal,
true Daughters at Okolona, These were the wounded from
the battlefields of Corinth, Baldwin, and point- on down the
M &O Railroad, and were from every Slate in the South.
Onlj one gravi is marked, and its neat white marble -lab is
inscribed: "Jas. G. Haygood, of Cane I Mil. Ark.; Minister
oi the Presbyterian Church and Captain of Compan; C,
Hobbs's Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers; died March i_\
1862, aged 20 years and 3 mo Hi- Company, a- an ex-
■11 of their regard 1 1! a man and -. . gallant a
soldier, hai e 1 1 ei ti d this -lone."
"I le fell .1 leep in rosj May
\inl kindly was laid to rest :
Sleeping now in hi- coat of gray,
God kni n\ etb w hat i- In -t "
Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Okolona, Memphis, and Tish
omingo Creek, Union City, Fort Pillow, ami Paducah — all
tin di 'I of Forrest 1 >ut « ho peal for the unknown
lieroi >? These sad facts aroused the sympathj oi the women,
and under an impulse of patriotism as well as a sense of duty
the project to erect a monument to their valor was
Carthaginian women, we are told, gave their black luck- to
string their country's bow: and furnish cord ge for its ship-
ping, and the daughters of the South, with a like
zeal, have emulated ibis patriotic example in their effort- to
wrest thi memorj of the noble dead from oblivion and t
petuate their heroii li ids Discouragement and difficulties
bad to be "la and woman'- wit was taxed to devi
in I mi .in ; but pet istence and untiring energj won the
.1.0 Response 'inn From Chapters over the State, thi
ami gallant men of Okolona were generous in their help.
Governot Vardaman ami staff and many other- gave ; ■
this patriotic can-", and the 26th of April. 1005. witnessed the
culmination of their hopes in the unveiling of the beautiful
mot unieni before the 1 nthusia tii multitude
Mi MON1 ■- I At OKiil UNA. I
U III \ SHI RM IA S III). "HOLD THE FOR
Manx veteran- and students of the war in Gi
e\ nli nib 1 it the impression that the ordei 1 neral 1
Allaioon a was given as the army was falling 1 Hil-
ton to Lovejoj It occurred when Sherman's army w:
the march to the sea, and tin commander of the Union army
■:1. ,■/. 1 ,1 I r, and tb
■ with tin' mam bodj ot hi i- 1 13 i" Sa\ annah in his
"march to the sea." I hi iful song. "1 [old
: ii. for I \m t online." aid to iii the signal 1
n to Genera] Corse, who was holding out
neraJ French's immediate com-
in. mi] at Ailaio,'. w hi n the 1 xa< t Ian
I'l.il rri? mess in I tayton was :
"I am short a cheek and one ear.'btit able I" whipratl h — yet.
. . . \\ I herman?"
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FAILURE OF STATEHOOD XOT DECREE OF GOD.
BY E. H. LIVELY, ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON.
In his address, as printed in the Veteran for July. Gen.
Bennett H. Young says some things about which I, as a Con-
federate, must differ with him.
"Fate," hie says, "denied the Confederate States a place in
the constellation of nation?."
"Refused nationhood by the stern decree of God."
"An inexorable destiny adjudged that the men of the South
should fail in the mighty conflict they made for the greatest
principle known in true liberty, the precious right of local
government."
Xi it so! Destiny is as you make it. God stands for prin-
ciple. Neither fate nor God brought our defeat. The fight
was well enough, but don't charge God with our failure. We
lacked resources and open ports, and this was the sorrowful
part, ab initio, the alpha and omega of our shortcomings.
Amid heat and cold, sands, snows, and carnage for forty-
eight months the soldiers of the South seemed "proof against
peril and empowered with ubiquity." They had disposed of
all losses, opposition, and sorest adversities "as if they were
the titular dignitaries of the chessboard." General Grant was
opposed to the exchange of prisoners because, he said, the
return of the Confederates would perpetuate the war. This
implied that one Southern soldier was equal to four and a half
of the Federals. When the Southron was exposed to peril,
he was repaid with glory, the "unpaid guardian of immortal
principle." With only 600,000 men, the South confronted the
coalition of America, Europe, and Africa, aggregating 2,778,-
304. We fought ourselves to a frazzle in behalf of State
rights, which Mr. Cleveland vouchsafed to the South after
the war, being the only expedient for restoring the country.
The Federals never won a scintilla but the abolition of slavery
and the dismemberment of Virginia — a four years' war at a
cost of nine billions of dollars, with the loss of lives in
hecatomb lots.
As far as we were able to go. the combined nationalities of
our foes (natives, foreigners, and negroes) were unable to
withstand the power of our forces. No one knows this bc'ter
than they, otherwise they would have taken Richmond in less
than four years.
CONFEDERATES DISLIKED CONSCRIPTION.
Edward W. Smith, of Tyler. Tex., writes of the dissatisfac-
tion with the Richmond authorities in regard to conscript law
and the appointment of officers instead of their election by the
men. Me concludes: "I was a private and knew but little of
other armi. s and have since had no access in our Confederate
civil history, but distinctly remember the disquietude and
anxiety that pervaded the Army of Tennessee, to which our
battery belonged. Since the war 1 have learned, em the testi-
mony of general officers, the state of mind existing among the
leaders in that army. We read the morning papers, we saw
and felt the situation, and decided to take the 'bull by the
horns' and reenlist for the entire war. which we did in some
written resolutions that had the snap and glow of patriotic
fin .11 them. I hey were sent the same day to Joseph E. John-
ston, commanding general, and the next day he quoted and
warmh commended the resolutions in a general order which
was read al dress parade to every command in the army. A
r -0 liter the 154th Tennessee Regiment followed our
lead, and the movement swept like an electric current through
the army, tin reenlistment becoming general. When the news
reached Richmond, the Confederate Congress, on the motion
of Mr. Graham, of the First Texas District, passed a joint
resolution of thanks to Douglas's Texas Battery for its 'patri-
otic act of reenlistment.' This settles the question as to what
command reenlisteel for the war in that crisis, as Douglas's
Battery would not have been so signally honored if it had not
been first."
[It is not well now to criticise the Confederate government
for departing from such deference to soldiers in the fiedd as
was shown them in the outset. Commands under Gen. Albert
Sidney Johnston, for instance, murmured at not having En-
field rifles in the beginning, and some wanted to refuse serv-
ice on such account. Think now of how unjust was such com-
plaint. That great man was not a gunsmith. How could he
supply them when the South didn't have them? Our leaders
did their best all the time. — Editor Veteran.]
Miss BESSIE BREWER, MUSKOGEE, IND. T. ,
Sponsor for Indian Territory Division al Reunion, McAlester, 1007.
Daughters' Work in Louisiana— Mrs. D. A. S. Vaught.
Financial Secretary Louisiana Division. U. D. C, writes of
the incorrectly given title of one of the officers in the list
(July Veteran, page 329 ) due to the omission of a part in
abbreviation. She explains that the office of "Custodian of
Relief for Soldiers' Home for Louisiana Division. U. D. C,"
was created that the Daughters of the Confederacy and other
friends in Louisiana and elsewhere might have an agent who
would have custody of and distribute gifts of money and other
objects donated for the purpose. Mrs. Paul Israel is such
Custodian. The Soldiers' Home *of Louisiana is a model. It
is maintained by the State, and there is a devoted Board of
Directors among the veterans of New Orleans who con-
stantly visit the Home.
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REMINISCENCES OF THE CONFEDERAi Y.
BY C. H. COFFIN, i 11H Vi.o, ILL.
In the year 1892 1 bought from Mr. .1. U. Payne, oi New
Orleans, his summer home, Rosehart, Pass Christian, Miss.
It had been closed for some years, lire grounds wire grown
up with cane and weeds to a colossal height, and were im-
penetrable. The place fronts two hundred and lift)' feet on
the Shell Beach Boulevard, from which a beach lot sloped
il"wn to the Gulf of Mexico. I rom tins lot a pier one thou-
sand end eight) feel long extended to the channels in th-s
Gulf. At the end of ii was an octagon house containing eighl
rooms, for tea rooms and hath rooms, surrounded hy a gallery.
About tiii> yards beyond the bath hi diner platform
in the lake. In the olden times a negro band played on the
platform. In th« evenings the boats rowed up to the pier.
which was lighted, and guests were received and entertained
then I 'in me 1I1. j at ii' anchored
tin 1 hanneU ofl the pier. On the shore was an old boat hi u
with some decayed bi >atS .1- 1 1
The housi itself was built in three sections, having pavilions
around an open square culled the "Pla ita." I he central se(
tinn was copied exactly in the building of Beauvoir, which was
for years the h< me of Ex President Davis, and about sixteen
miles east of Rosehart. The gallery, about fifteen feel wide
and fifteen feci high, extended around the central pavilion,
which was on elevated pillars above the ground. The two
side pavilions contained bedrooms, kitchen, etc., a two-stor)
galler) extending around them. In the tear were a windmill
and deep well, a laundry cottage, and a bachelors' cottage,
which was used for housing bachebu .,,,1 Sundaj and foi
card games .it night Kit-. :en the plazita and the bachelors'
cottagi was an orange grove, containing seventy-five trees
from twenty to thirty feet high, yielding the luscious Louisiana
oranges, novi nearl) extinct, yel the) were certainly the best
oranges in the world These trees were in bloom nearl) all
the time, and we bitterl) lamented their 1"'- by the great
f [896 Barf ''i these were the vegetable gardens and
Stables, and on Si cm. id Street, 1 r Rear Road, were the lone
. quarters. Behind these quarters we owned a broad
stretch of pen forest extending bad. beyond a beautiful bayou,
We set tin bayou in aquatic plants and built among the solemn
I boils,- for our mane invalid guests who
1 'pini .hi " It to K a lai ge fi rce oi men many month -
to dig OUt, replant, and put this place 111 order; but 11 mad.
Us a beautiful b Pa' fourteen year-, and wa- beloved bv
11 dp It had been built by educated slaves owned by Mr,
ti out ot" timber cut on his ground anil thoroughly dried
ROSEHART, I Miss
in III. year [846, and the main par; of the house remain- as
sound to-daj as then, although, owing to the extremely damp
climate, the life of lumber and timber there is short.
Mr. Payni bad used this house tor a am: 1, 1 home; I bought
it for a winter home. He was al thai inn. ab >u1 i ightt foul
■Id, and one of the mosl charming men I evei nut II.
told me it would require seventeen servants t.. properly run
the place, a ii bad seventeen bedrooms \\ . gal al' ig, how
ever, very nicely with from -even 1.. nine. Mis winter honn
in New '. Irleans was one of the largest houses on this side of
ilir ocean, containing a greal number of lapee rooms, .and was
built of brick with ample gi oundB.
Prioi lo lb.' wai Mi Payne was a strong Union man. His
1 intimate and valued personal friend was Jefferson D
They disagreed as to secession. Mr. Payne at thai
owned many sugar plantations in Lo
tations in Mississippi lie al-.. had offices and warehi
in New (irleans, and u 1 ih, I.,,.., | , portei ol cotton and
sugar and the gn atesl 1 re "..i ..1 1.1. ign 1 He
• e. a. .1 1 ■ on 1I1. ai-and -In es, « hi ■.'.. 1 . I for, con-
tented, and happy. He bad a large capital invested in bii-i
nes.. and hundreds ,.f planters wen indebted p. him for the
supply ..f corn, bad .11. and household articles, it b ing the
custom to obtam these in advance from their merchants and
to pa) when they -old their crop- of citon or sugar. Nearly
all tile gr.at planters were thus m debt. Mr Payne himself
earned a considerable debt, and also earned a very large cash
balani
When tb. seven States which first formed the Confederacy
at Montgomery. Ala. bad passed their ... ion ordinano
and organized their government b) electing Jefferson Davis
President, they seem for the first lime to have thought about
finances. There i- nothing more astonishing now than to look
back and see with what niter disregard of Consequences and
lack '"" pi in- f.a the future that war wa- .nt. red upon by lb,
South I be South had no store of arms and .11111111111111011
except a- nearly every individual was the owner of a ride or
shotgun. They had few small factories capable of making
cannon., guns, or powder, and almost no clothing or shoe fat
ton,-, and practically the Southern States were given over
I., the growth of cotton, I lair leaders were llighl) intelligent
people ami held the "free tia.K" doctrines taught by Mill
and .llier-, and in forming their Constitution inserted a free-
lause, thus depriving themselves ^\ Ihe benefit of cus-
v enues. I of o mrse, maun. me .1 the d
of "Slate right-." and therefore did ie. 1 null, mi e their n.vvlv
. n .It. d gOVI mil nt 1.. coll el ill. dn . .1 tax neee-sa,
carrying ,.n the wai ind when tin v had 3 President
1 abinet, il fftcet n any
11 lie. vvb
the n w gi e 1 mucin.
\ii Davi 1 legi iplv d fri mi '■ . Vtr. J. U
I h ,u .] il,
iur Si 11. calls upon you to do youi
■ . ■ ■ '! 1 , .m.l hi ing w eh > 1 .11
all tbr ui. .- Mr. I'av n. '.I'i I. .1 I. a tifying
1. "w me p. tb- .' icceedi d in rais-
ith him I ■ ■ .1 coin.
which he ■ D he latter insisted that
a <T 11. and titer.' \v . re .n-
d ai tin . ild " i' gomery
seven hund 1 1 1 o- 1 il v gt al. 11
up and promising "to pay sixt) days after the declaration of
■nt i. 01 of lb, Southi ' ■ v " These-
3*. Hi
Qopfederat^ 1/eterag,
bonds remained in Mr. Payne's hand-, becoming, of course,
entirely worthless, and long after the war he gave to his favor-
ite granddaughter enough of them to paper her bedroom or
boudoir. What became of the rest. I do not know. Mr.
Payne's export business was of course stopped at once by the
Federal blockade. The planters who owed him were unable
to pay. The Federal troops later on seized his plantations and
destroyed most of the sugar, cotton press houses, and even
th fences. His great home in New Orleans, which was
crowded with works of art and vertu, accumulated by" years
of traveling and careful selections in Europe, was seized by
Gen. Ben Butler and used as his headquarters. Much of the
silver, paintings, and bric-a-brac was shipped to New England
by Butler and other officers to their homes. This is probably
the origin of the story of General Butler and the spoons. They
were never recovered., and it was many years before Mr.
Payne recovered his home in New Orlans.
Within two years after the beginning of the war Mr. Payne
found himself stripped of every earthly possession of value
and in debt over $700,000. He bravely went to work to pay
this debt off; and after some sixteen or eighteen years of hard
work, he succeeded in paying it all. What I last saw him,
he was ninety-four or ninety-six years old. and was at his
office and dealing in cotton every day. I went in to pay my
n ;. cts, and told him I had come to New Orleans to buy a
team of horses. He at once jumped up and took his cane,
and, with the beautiful manner which he had, insisted on going
with me to see that I fell into the hands of the right man
and was properly treated. He was a man of the purest life
and most beautiful spirit, and his manners were quite perfect.
He died quietly in his own home in the care of his daughter
at the age of ninety-seven and out of debt. He was probably
at the. outbreak of the war the second richest man in America,
certainly the richest man in the Southern States, his slave
property alone having been valued at four million dollars.
Rosehart was named from a great heart-shaped rose bed
between the house and the boulevard some seventy-eight feet
in diameter and containing three hundred rosebushes in which
we took great pride. My wife, being a botanist, by extensively
corresponding and exchanging with other rose lovers in Flori-
da. California, and even Europe, contrived to restore and keep
up the reputation of the place for roses, so that we had at
one time seven or eight hundred bushes in bloom. The roses
there are fragile and cannot be shipped, but are beautiful in
texture, form, and color, and all fragrant, quite in contrast
to the California roses. Some of the rare roses we brought
from California which were without fragrance in California
later assumed that quality in Rosehart.
Mr. Payne retained his friendship for Mr. Davis, who died
in his New Orleans borne; but of course, like all other old
Southerners, became a warm patriotic American, and would
have made great sacrifices for the old flag long before he died.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT JEFFERSON, TEX.
Tlie unveiling of the Confederate monument at Jefferson,
l\x., on July 10, under auspices of the Dick Taylor Camp,
V. C. V., was in every way pleasing. Mrs. Gertrude Cart-
wright, of Cusseta, Tex., delivered the dedicatory address.
It was pathetic, going to the heart of every true Southerner.
The monument was erected by the Veterans to their departed
dead as a sacred trust to the R. E. Lee Chapter, U. D. C,
ladies, girls, and boys of Jefferson as a gift from their an-
cestors, to be protected and cherished.
After Mrs. Cartwright's address came the soiig, "The Bod'
nie Blue Flag," and then occurred the unveiling. Thirteen
lovely little girls all dressed in white with red sashes, repre-
senting the thirteen Confederate States, participated. Senator
Culberson, whom all Texans love and honor, made the speech
of the day, in concluding which he said : "No spot or people
THE .MONUMENT AT JEFFERSON, TEX.
Little girls representing the Confederate States.
on earth is dearer to me than my old home at Jefferson." A
song and benediction followed. Capt. George T. Todd was
master of ceremonies, and made it as impressive as he did
service in the sixties, when in the thickest of the fray, still
true as steel to the Confederate cause. Much honor is also
due him for his untiring work in procuring this monument.
Error in Record or Gen. L. M. Lewis.— Gen. Marcus J.
Wright makes this correction: "In the Confederate Veteran
for August, page 347, in article on Gen. L. M. Lewis, appears
the following: 'He returned to Richmond in September or
October, 1S64, rejoined his command at Camden, Ark., in
November, with a brigadier general's commission from Presi-
dent Davis.' etc. This is a mistake. He was not appointed
a brigadier general by President Davis, but was assigned to
duty as a brigadier general by Lieut. Gen. E. K. Smith, by
General Orders, No. 46, Headquarters Trans-Mississippi De-
partment. May 16, 1865. See Volume XLVIIL, Series 1,
Part II., 'Records of the War,' page 1307."
Qo^federat^ l/eterai),
397
CHARACTER OF C01 S ( "l ' \ ^IDERED.
Dr Joseph A. Mudd, of Hyattsville, Md., writes to Judge
J. L. Bullock, (if Washington Citj :
"In viewing the magnificent spectacle of the unveiling of
ih- Davis monument, the though) came into my mind: 'Can
il i: possible that these splendid specimens of manhood who
endured for four years unparalleled hardship." and peril, who
for ten years fought the harder battle of the reconstruction,
who for forty years while paying vast tribute to a victorious
people have hern patiently effacing the desolation of war,
building up homes and sanctifying them to love, to liberty,
and to duty, and who now in the matured and charitable
judgment of the evening of their lives return to the central
of the great conflict to ratify the act of their enthusias-
tic youth, made then- dedication to an unworthy cause and a
purpose?' 1 recalled thai Judge Brewer, of the Su-
Conrt of the United State-, whose favorite brother was
killed fighting for the North, declared at the Lee centennial
celebration of mj Camp that, while Lee was the greatest gen-
eral the English-speaking people had produced, Lee the man
eater than Lee the general. Was the crowning life
Hff i.. of i a and the other great leaders, whose purity of
character and loyalty to purpose are being recognized everj
given to « hat « as had ?
" Vnd there was that great army of men whose individual
services made no note in history; but who were stain-
less, whose ideals were high, and with whom patriotism was
the supreme passion. The record of one of thesi beroes
d to me Of peculiar import. The Rev. Matthew O'Keefe,
a Catholic priest, who died last year at a very advanced age.
in* to 'Ins country after the illusion , youth had pa ed
away. He had no inherited love for the Southland. He had
no bia oi ig to direct his judgment. If he had any senti-
ment on slavery, it was probably one of opposition. He was
-i physicallj and mentally. He was possessed of a
considerable fortune, which was spent in Church exten-
sion and the alleviation of human suffering, reserving to him-
- than what comes to the humblest street beggar. He
tool a charge in Norfolk. In 1X55. when thai citj was
and everything was demoralization
and chaos, he v. nurse, priest, undertaker.
Di cd bj hi- bishop, the saintlj McGill, tin- privilege of tak-
• arm- 111 defense of the land of In- adoption when war
cami h lei the fighting Mahom .
On a hundred battlefields he tired the enthusiasm of the liv-
if n ligion to th< d> ing soldier.
visitOl io the dungeon of Mr. Davis, whose
trusted adviser he hai during the four eventful
In 186 I Napoleon the red ribbon
Legion of Honor for his attentions to .1 yellow fevei
Frencl man-of war in 1 laanpton Roads Manj
ago he was given hi- last try parish near Bal i
maintained with tie >n and self
that characterized his whole life, lie died penni-
1 contracted in admin tei
sacred rites to the dying. In the most solemn manner ever
VOud men. In- mind unclouded
by disease, with full knowledge that in a few niiiuil
Spirit WOUld -land 111 judgment God, he sealed his
faith in our can llin should he draped
in three Confederate flags, Judged by hi- every known act. it
must he s;,i,| of l,jlri thai niln. to fellow-nun.
he gave all; to self, nothing Mi- lit"' so bra
unselfish; ins death a triumph' I iding always that the
1 for which we gave the best years of our young ma
was the most sacred, save religion, that men could die for.
jealous always of the good name of the men who fought
with us because their devotion and their virti 1 justi-
fication of our faith. 1 glorj in the life and 'hath of this
humble priest, this fearless Confederate soldier."
REUNIOh I \n RL 12 RICHMOND.
According to the Inn.- Dispatch in a conservative 1
of Reunion results at Richmond, there were So. 000 \
in the former Confederate capital, h is .1 \er\ conservative
> -11111.it io say that tin expenditun of the 80,000
' pli was $5 per capita. At thai 1 timate the amount of
money that came to Richmond from all over the earth was
something like $400,000. The larger part of this money went
niln the tills of the hotels .\<\i\ the restaurants, but it got into
the Richmond channels of trade all the same.
li has been -aid that the increased attendance upon the Re-
union was in a measure due to the Jamestown Exposition";
that mam veterans who wanted to e 'lie Exposition went
to the Reunion more for that purpose than otherwise, thus
killing two birds with one stone.
\ careful reading of the railway and Steamboat 1.
pertaining to travel in and out of Richmond indicates that the
r.oii has profited by the fact that the Runion was in
Richmond. It is estimated that at least 20,000 of the p
win. went to the Reunion extended their journej to tidewater
to see the Exposition. It is also estimated that half ol
would not have made the journey to the exposition if they
had not been first attracted to Virginia by the Reunion.
The - ' oi expenditures in Richmond is fai
small, it is without question thai a Confederate Reunion will
lea., in any city entertaining it at least three times a- much
as the COSt in direct subscriptions.
Fortunate Results of the Reunion. — The Richmond
Times-Dispatch, which earned the gratitude of everj loyal
Confederate in the land for its excellent reports of the Re-
union, makes public statement that not a death or a -
m occurred to mar the happiness of the recent general
Reunion. In commenting upon the fact, that p. 11
"li 1 ..iioal red truly remarkable that when so large 1 b dy
of \isitors are gathered in one place, practically douhln
.: nine ile population of the city, and v. nany of the
in n are far nl\ anced in ig from
the infirmities of old age, Ih re should have been no casual-
til s, no d. alii-, and no ci id. ill - The fact 1- the
more remarkable when it is considered that during Ri
iin re were three days of most unseasonable and wintry
weather. Congratulations in due to th< -kill of the police
foro m handling great crowd-, to the employees of the Pas
ml Power 0 mpanj for their car. m previ
dents and for their excellent service amid 1 . 1 ulties,
aid to ile me. departi 1 their care
of the decrepit men given into their charge."
It is a singular coincidence that all three of the surviving
S. ] 1 Lee, I '■ ■ . 1 1 \ ai Buckner,
and \ art served in the Western Army, the Army
.... 1 . ior a time in the Army of
Northern Virginia, hut his service as lieutenant general was
1,111 S G French, oui • Idest surviving ■ nei al,
served 111 the Army of Tennessee.
398
Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
SUPERNUMERARY CONFEDERATE OFFICERS.
Some aid official papers from Comrade R. Todhimter, of
Lexington, Mo., will be read with interest, as they illustrate
the manner in which our subordinate officers continued in the
Confederate service.
On April iS, 1865. more than a week after General Lee's
surrender, he made application to organize a cavalry com-
mand of supernumerary officers of the department who were
able to mount themselves. He was assistant adjutant gen-
eral to Brig. Gen. M. D. Ector until February 17 previous.
His application was approved, and hearty encouragement was
given his ambitions and patriotic enterprise.
Col. J. L. Camp, of the 14th Texas, in commending the ap-
pointment, stated: "Ry his gallantry upon the field, his
promptness and ability in the discharge nf official duties he
has won the respect and admiration of the entire brigade.
He would make an efficient
officer of the character sug-
gested "
Col. D. Coleman, com-
manding the 39th North
Carolina Regiment, wrote
commending his "excellent
habits, his prompt and reso-
lute bravery, his efficiency in
action, and his high character
as a gentleman."
Col. J. A. Andrews, com-
manding the brigade, coin-
mended him most highly and
his project of getting those
patriots back into service.
Gen. Randall L. Gibson
approved the application to
raise "a command exclusively
of supernumerary officers."
Mai. Gens. D. H. Maury
and S. G. French both com-
mended Captain Todhimter
for the proposed undertaking.
Lieut. Gen. Alex P. Stew-
art commended the plan, stating that "Captain Todhunter
would make as good a colonel as any one I know."
Lieut. Gen. Dick Taylor authorized the raising of the pro-
posed company, stating that "the command might be increased
to a battalion or regiment." The officer- of the command were
to be selected from those so enlisting.
The next report came in the form of a parole. May 9,
1865, to Gen. E. R. S. Canby. U. S. A.
The picture herewith printed was made in August, 1864. in
his new uniform that erst about $1,200. He was wounded
four times — at Murfreesboro. Jackson, Miss., Chickamauga,
and Nashville. Seven horses were shot under him in service,
and three of them were killed.
Colonel Todhunter's Account of the Closing Events.
Uier Hood's army returned from the Tennessee campaign,
French's Division, which was composed of Ector's, Cockrell's,
and Sears's Brigades, was detached from the Army of Ten-
nessee and sent to Mobile to report to Gen. D. H. Maury,
commanding the Department of the Gulf. We remained there
nearly two months, and fought the battles of Blakely and
Spanish Fort ; but, being overpowered by the vastly superior
COL. E. TODHUNTER.
numbers, we were forced to vacate Mobile and fall back to
Meridian and join Gen. Richard Taylor's small army, which
was stationed there. These joint commands, scarcely num-
bering eight thousand soldiers, including all arms of the serv-
ice, were soon enveloped by General Canby witli forty-four
thousand men from and near the vicinity of Mobile. To any
but General Taylor's tried veterans of four years' service these
surroundings would have looked hopeless; but good soldiers
are ever optimistic.
These brigades were so depleted by years of casualties that
much talk of reorganizing and consolidating them with other
commands was indulged in. Ector's Texas Brigade, being
numerically small, was freely discussed with reference to con-
-•iliclation. This brigade with the Armies of Tennessee and
Mississippi had seen heavy service in every big battle, prac-
tically every engagement, and they made a reputation for
lighting surpassed by no other brigade in the army; hence tin \
would not consent to consolidation, thereby losing their
identity.
At Meridian several hundred officers of all grades and whose
commands were greatly diminished and who were drawing
rations from the depot commissary were willing and anxious
to fight to the last in any manner they could. This fact show 3
the character of General Taylor's army and the patriotism of
its soldiers. I had served with our Texas Brigade in every
battle from Richmond, Ky., until the close of the war in the
capacity of captain.
On January 16. 1863, President Davis commissioned me as-
sistant adjutant general. In consultations with the officers of
our brigade, it was agreed that I should apply for a command
of supernumerary officers in this department. This applica-
tion emanated more from a desire to hold intact the remnant
of Ector's Brigade than to advance self-promotion. (The
brigade, originally cavalry, had been dismounted by General
Van Dorn prior to the battle of Corinth, Miss., in April, 1862.)
With flattering indorsements from my superior officers, my
application was returned approved by the lieutenant general
commanding. I immediately entered upon the organization
nf this command, and in a few days several hundred offic rs
were enrolled. Many of these officers were so severely
wounded that they could have obtained a surgeon's certificate
of disability or a discharge from the army, but their in-
domitable spirit inspired them to render what aid they could
until the last. The surrender of General Taylor's army com-
ing on so soon, the active service of this regiment was nominal.
At my request and by the consent of the commissioners,
Brig. Gen. R. L. Gibson, C. S. A., and Brig. Gen. G. L. An-
drews, U. S. A., this regiment was dissolved and paroled
according to their former rank in the Confederate army.
( Hiieral Ector having lost a leg at Altanta. Col. W. H.
Young was commissioned brigadier general and assigned to
this brigade; but he having been badly wounded and captured
at Altoona, the brigade was commanded by the senior colonel.
This deprived me of an indorsement for raising the regi-
ment, which I very much regretted, as I had been the re-
cipient of a very desirable, commendatory indorsement.
While sentiment universal is in honor to the private Con-
federate soldier, who expected no promotion nor anything else
except sustenance and clothing to save life if he be spared
the deadly missiles until the end came, special tribute is due
to the officer who had survived his command and volunteered
to take position in the ranks as a private when his cause was
so nearly hopeless.
Qopfederat^ l/eterar).
399
CONFEDERATE STATUE .11 LEWISBURG.
Marshall County, Tenn., has been conspicuous for its brave
men and patriotic women. The progress of the county was
long handicapped in the facl that her people had no railroad,
while adjacent counties were spanned by trunk linos; but at
the first call to arms, in l86l, then was great unanimity of
sentiment to defend homes and their constitutional rights.
Companies anil regiments were organized, and die men moved
promptly to the front. They fought in Virginia and in the
Army of Tennessee from the beginning to the end.
About 1900 — seven years ago — a movement was inaugurated
to erect in the courthouse grounds a testimonial of their de-
votion to the Confederate causi Dirl was broken for the
foundation in 1 < x > 1 ; hut their ambition exceeded their financial
-' 1 1 > 1 1 1 1 > . ■•' they learned to labor and to wail. The Veterans
and the Daughters cooperated sealou .
Mr. James Hendirix has the honor of being the leader in
this movement, and much credit is given to him for pel
sisteiiey ami zeal in the enterprise. Capt. W. G. Loyd should
hardly he mentioned second: for. although he e.iinr from
Florida after the war, he had established such a hold among
the people of ins adopted home and was si. zealous in his
sentiment for its success that in- had tin undertaking largely
111 chat "■ Captain Loyd gave a succinct historj of the monu-
ment undertaking at it- dedication The base above a well-
established foundation consists of foui ma sivi blocl
stone. 5x10 feet and l.X inches thick -two crossed above lie
other- and above them is a large native white stone, up hi
which is ih. p destal of Georgia granite, transported gener-
ously from Atlanta by the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St.
Louis R tilwai 1 tn tin- elaborate f ur -id s of the monument
r* m
THF. LEWISBURG Mo' 1 M 1 '. i
are engraved the names of about four hundred men of the
county who gave their lives to the cause. The appropriate
inscription appears: "I. est We Forget." Appropriately the
monument is completed by the statue of a Confederal, -ill
dier over seven fit high As may he seen, the statue is sev-
eral feet above the pedestal em a pyramid of smaller blocks.
The exercises were happilj conducted by T Leigh Thomp-
son, well known in Tennessee, whose father honored the cause
by faithful service as a private, although he might worthilj
have commanded a regiment. The monument is estimated in
value at $3,soo, hut through tie- personal supervision of Mr.
Eiendrijf lie reduced the expense more than a thousand dol-
lars. 'i'|u. dedication caused one of the largest gatherings
ever witnessed in the county. It was an event the memory of
which will be cherished by the thousands present. United
Slater Senator F. W. Carmack and Rev, Lin Cave, whose
faithfulness in service as a soldier and sin,, tiown in
many Stales were present.
A group of beautiful girls represented each State of ''Dixit '■■
hand." and Miss Dulcie llendrix pulled the ribbons whet b
he work of many hands appeared in th" Confederate soldier
that des iv, ■ :. stand until tine judgment day. It -
happy day in April, mi-, .md this del.n of notice ha- b en
much regretted, for the mi,, who has tin re ponsibilit; of
editing tin Veteran marched and fought with these men, and
he honors the p ople of that ,-. uritj second to no other.
HOMl l 11 i 01 Gl X A' /: // / '5 / AMILY
BY JAMES B, H0DGKIN, OF [RVINGT0N, VA.
I wa^ born and lived for some yi n within a short
of the old Arlington man-ion, and my first Sunday school
experience was in a little chapel located I'll die corner of that
My in.. titer and Mrs. I.ee and Iter mother. Mrs I ti
H-. were intimate friends, and taught together a ragged school
for the benefit of tin pooi children of that neighborhood, and
mail) a ho\ and girl of that tin I ceived the only vt]n<
the; " essed from these ladies. < hi Sunday there w
casional < rvii e in this chapel eon, in, -ted bj the students of the
1 ;.pi sci 1 1. 1 1 Theological Seminary, a few miles distant. Tin i i
folk w ho came to the ell [pel v ere often very destitute, and the
best clothing the women could boast of for Sunday weat
calico dress and what was known thru as a sunbonnet. Even
on.- knows with what aversion verj pooi « n naturally
on those who are hiit.i In ..1 tl in thej (the feeling
i- very natural, as the comparison is glaring), and so I knew
both Mi- Custis and her daughter, Mrs. Lee (then Miss
t'usti- I, to come to tlie si
and a , leap sunbonnet. That this was dmie in order to place
the pi lorer women tit tin ■ ea I id" m
The -.inn spirit was seen in Robert E Lee himself. In the
:..' . . . in which 1 came in touch with him during
the war 1 found him as courteous to me, a rigged i
-.. ( ,. n,i ,d 1 (ill. nf. ■ . mora in aiii r I had tram
no lni-mess wnh him C, had precisely the same manners
for all. and his gcnllcmanlinc-- wa- eminently conspicuous.
ii| In- modesty there are main stories ixtant. I re,
incident wl rred on the line below Richmond and m
ih, north bank of the Times Ui the winter of [864-65. It
.lay and Wi nn lounging
m front of our tents, or rather huts, when President Davis
and Gen. R. 1 I.' ' ui" riding along the line. So soon as
11 went up— a "Rebel
yell." President Davis's hat wa- off. and lie bowed right and
left at thr hoys Lee -at like a StOne man on his In
400
Qoi}federat^ l/eterai),
turning his head to right or left. Apparently he heard not a
sound. I was standing by our colone'., and. turning to me, the
latter -aid: "Notice Lee's humility; he knows the cheering is
for him, but he passes it all over to President Davis "
PRISON EXPERIENCES AT POINT LOOKOUT, MD.
BY X. F. HARMAN (1ST SERGT. CO. F, S?n (''..). BARTOW, GA.
On October 3. 1864, with a large 1 umber of Confederates,
I was landed at the Federal prison of Point Lookout, Md.
After searching us and taking our money, knives, and other
article-, we were placed inside the prison. All of our blankets
were kept by officers, but later we were each allowed one
blanket. We had no barracks. Our shelter was canvas tents
of the bell style. In each tent fifteen to twenty men were
placed. The floors of these tents were of damp earth; no
planks or straw for dryness. Our beds were on this dirt floor.
Two of us slept together — one blanket on the ground, one to
cover with.
The wind had a clean sweep from one side of the Chesa-
peake Bay. We never had any wood or coal for fires nor any
fireplaces.
There were thirteen hundred prisoners in this place. Some
had been there two years. The prison was in a square in-
closure with a plank wall eighteen feet high. About three
feet from the top was a platform for the guards to walk on.
The?' guards were negroes from the plantations, mainly from
Norch and South Carolina. About twenty-five feet from the
walls and next to the tents was a ditch known as the "dead
line." If a prisoner crossed it, he was immediately shot.
At night there was a patrol of two negro soldiers inside
the prison for each, division, and these divisions, thirteen in
number, had each a thousand men in them. This night patrol
was to keep watch on the prisoners. Every one had to be in
his tent when "taps" was sounded and all lights had to be
put out, and talking was not permitted. I knew of these
negro patrols calling men out of their tents and chasing them
up and down the streets until they were exhausted. One
night two of these negro patrols, after running one poor fel-
low until lie could barely move, ordered him to his tent ; but
before he reached it one of them called out : "Hold on dar,
hold on; come back here!" He then said to the prisoner:
"What your sister's name and whar she lib? I want to write
to her."
One night one of these patrols shot into a tent and killed
two men. When the officer came rushing in to see what was
the matter, the negro said he shot into the tent to make the
prisoners stop talking. The fact was, all the men in this tent
were asleep; but nothing was ever done to this negro patrol
for the murder of two men who were asleep when shot.
It was a common thing for these negro guards and the negro
patrols to amuse themselves by calling the prisoners out and
forcing them to amuse them in many ways. The officers did
not seem to care, but allowed such humiliations.
Now as to our rations. At 7 A.M. we were marched into
a cook house, holding some five hundred plates. On each
plan- was a piece of pork about one-sixth of a pound. As
ear] 1 man came in he took his stand at a plate until the five
hundred men each had a plate, then at a signal each man
took his meat and we were marched out. At 9 a.m. the bread
entered the prison, and each one was given one-half
loaf of bread. At noon we were again marched into the cook
room and got a pint of so-called soup, but it was little more
than salt water. No beans or peas or grease of any kind ap-
peared in this soup. Once a week we received a mackerel or
piece of codfish uncooked in place of meat. This we had to
cat raw and salty, as we had no means to cook it or to soak
it. We had no means of kindling fires. Our supply of water
was from six wells with pumps. Of these, only one well
could be used for drinking purposes. This well was in my
division, No. 5. If the water from the other wells was al-
lowed to stand even one night, a thick green scum formed, as
if copperas was in it, and the water was unfit to drink. The
death rate was heavy.
GIVE ALL VETERANS LOW REUNION RATES.
The National Tribune demurs to the increase of railroad
fare to the G. A. R. National Encampment at Saratoga. It
would be unfortunate if the railroads should in retaliation
against legislation on passenger rates refuse the special con-
cession to annual gatherings of the fast-decreasing survivors
of the two great armies of the sixties.
The Tribune makes ugly comment occasionally. It implies
that the railroads are better to Confederates than to Federals,
stating: "It is a matter of fact that the railroads have granted
much lower rates to Confederate Reunions — practically to the
great Jeff Davis demonstration at Richmond — than they seem
disposed to give to those who want to attend the National
Encampment. In several of the Northern States there has
been a distinct refusal to make any concession whatever to
Department Encampments, while in the South the Confeder-
ates have no trouble in getting satisfactory rati 3."
Federals could travel much on government pensions.
MAJ. W. H. ETHEREDGE.
[Maj. William H. Etheredge commanded the 41st Virginia,
Mahone's Brigade, in the battle of the Crater. He is now
partially paralyzed and is eighty-six years old. He wrote to
his comrade, Capt. George J. Rogers, of Petersburg, Va., an
account of the battle of the Crater. See April Veteran, page
167.]
Qotyfederat^ Ueterar?.
j<»i
HOOD'S TENNESSEE ( .; UPAIGN.
[Address bj Maj I1 W, Sanders, of Louisville, Ky . b fore
the Southern Historical Society in April. [881 I
General Thomas pursued II I's retreating armj from
Hollow Tree Gap n> Spring llill with great vigor. Wil on
continued the pursuit from Franklin to Rutherford's Creek
with unceasing energy and intense ardor. Hatch's and Knipe's
divisions moved in parallel columns along the Carter'-- Creek
and the Columbia Pikes, Johnston's Division down the Carter's
Creek Pike, and Croxton on the Lcwisburg Pike. flu -
cavalry divisions, moving on all of the roads loading south
from Franklin, harassed the Hanks and real of Hood's army
with continuing charges and constant combats. Knipe and
Hatch attacked the rear with imp tuosity, and increased the
demoralization. Johnson, on the Carter's Creek Pike, turned
Hood's flank, and with great energy pressed on and in the
direction of Spring llill to strike the retreating troops at that
Point. Croxton's, on the Lewisburg Pike, turned the flank
0! the rear guard, when Knipe and Hatch moved their di-
visions to the attack, and in the conflict that ensued thre guns
of Douglas's Battery, of Lee's Corps, were captured, and the
rear guard was driven to Spring lldl Reynolds's Brigade, of
Walthall's Division, which was in good condition and of un-
questioned reliability, was moved from Spring llill on the
Carter's Creek Pike in the direction of Franklin and put in
position to check the threatened advance of Johnson. Wil-
son's pursuit was retarded on the (8th at Rutherford's Creek
1 heatham, with the remnant of bis corps, had destroyed the
bridges across Rutherford's Creek, and was in position on its
south bank, commanding its crossings. Rutherford's ( reek
was rising rapidly, thus rendering it impossible to ford it in
any direction. General Wood, commanding the Fourth Corps,
led tin advance of the infantry, and on th i8th was closed up
with the cavalry at Rutherford's Creek Generals Smith and
eld, with their respectivi (corps) commands in the or-
der named, wen- at and about Franklin. The trams -
with iln n n pectivc commands, carrying ten days' supplies
11 limidi 1 d rounds 1 if ammunition.
General Smith, commanding the i6th Corps.
oved to Spring llill. and General Schofield, command-
ing tin 23d Corps, remained at Franklin. General Hatch on
th< 101I1 made repeated efforts to cross Rutherford's ('reek.
anil late in tile afternoon succeeded in lodging a few
mishers on its south bank
tin the 20th General Hatch construct d a floa'ing bridgi
from (he debris of tin- railroad bridge, crossed Ins entire di
mil moved rapidlj to I olumbia; but found on reaching
Duck River th 11 I II A I it and had 1
i Duck River 1 illen and impa
1 lencral W01 id impn >\ isi d a fo< 1 bt idee
1 'mini ford's ■■ . and bj night
fall had SUCCI --full- i Thoma 's
11 ir. on 1 e 1. hed Ruthi rfi a d's 1 - ml no, m 1 if the
2isi, msi.. and during tin- afternoon was thrown aero
1 Smith marched In- corps over it.
ial Hood indulged himself in the belief that he could
; .
,1. 'iii. hi of his armj 'olum-
bia was so apparent that he abandoned all thought of
rh of Duck River. His army was w 1
and 'I nd distressing
1
of his armj south 1 f the 1 - ■ r olely on the
rcli ibililj of thi troops constituting thi ion g .id with
humiliation and distrust in th. result he turned the
of In- broken armj to th Pulaski Pike, and his hue oi
retreat was by that routi to Bainbridge, on the Tennesse
Kn er
On the morning of the 20th of December, [864, General
1 1' 0,1 -,-ni a member of his stafl to Gen ral Walthall, who had
established his headquart 1 [1 1 1 Nimrod Porter.
near Columbia, with tin- urgent request thaj he call at army
headquarters immediately. General Walthall at once rode to
headquarters, and the writer accompanied him. (in the pike,
as Walthall approached army headquarl rs, he met Gi
Hood on Ins horse in company with Dr. Darby, who was the
medical director of di- army. Hood -.nd in Walthall sub-
stantially as follows; "Things are in a had condition. 1 have
resolved to reorganize a rear guard. Forrest says he can'l
keep the enemy off of us any longer with ei! a strong infantry
support, lilt s.-iys he can do 1'. with the help of three thousand
infantry with you to command them. You can -'lot .no
troops m the army. It is a post of great honor, hut on, of
such great peril that I will not impose it on you unles
are willing to lake it; and you had heller take troop
I" oh d upon, for you ma> have 1" cut your way out to
get to me after the main armj gets out. The army must be
aved, conic what may, and if necessarj your command must
be act me' d in ,n,i implish it."
Walthall, in reply, -aid: "General, I have never a 1, d
a hard place lor glory nor a soft pi unfort, hut take
my chances as thej come Give me the ordei for the troops,
ami I will do mj he-t Being the youngest major general in
the army. I believe, my seniors may complain that the placi
■• 1 not "if. red to them, hut thai is a matter between you and
tin m."
General Hood said in reply: "Forrest want- you, and I
want yon "
General Forre 1 rode up during the conversation in time to
understand what had keen -aid. and he remarked: "Now we
will keep tin m hack."
Hood gave verbal orders Eoj Walthall to take anj troops he
di ued. and hi selected eight brig imated at three
thousand ' 11 ctive, as follows; \\' s. Featherstone's, .1. 11
Palmer's, 1 >. II. Reynolds's, O. 1-'. Strahl's (commanded bj
Col C. W. Keiskell), Smith's (commanded by Col. C. Oln
stead), Maney's (commanded bj Col, II. R. Field), I
Handed bj Col 1 1 ( loli in in i. o Q \ i command* -1
bj Hi ig t ien < i ge I ) John ;ton) m
to Walthall, who had them inspected and oi effectives
made. The eight brigades numb red nd six hun-
dred and 0 o es.
' i al \\ alili, dl issui d the fi >llov ing General ' ti der No
i, dating it "Headquarters Infantrj Forci in Real of the
Army of Tenni i umb i, ["enn Decembei 10, 1864
"The brigadi ol thi and w ill be tempor irilj united
atherstone and Quarles, immand of
i F.ctor and Ri \ n ilds, und r
r General Ri s nolds : Strahl and M
under command under
coram
I
Featln I 'inner, and Reynolds
111 tin
"By i ' \ liall
D. W. S al."
402
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The field return of this command's effectives was as follows:
Featherstone, 498; Reynold-, 528; Palmer, 297; Field, 298;
total, 1,621.
The organization of this rear guard is given in detail be-
cause of two reasons. General Hood, in his report and also
in his book, incorrectly reports the names of the brigades that
composed this command, and a correct statement has never
heretofore been given. Gentral Hood omits Featherstone,
Reynolds, Olmstead, and Johnston, and incorrectly states that
Granberry's Brigade was a part of the rear guard; and General
Forrest in his official report mentions Granberry's Brigade as
part of the infantry rear guard in the engagement of December
26, when he should have said Ector's and Reynolds's ins'.ead
of "Ector's and Granberry's brigades."
The rear guard that covered Hood's retreat from Columbia
to Bainbridge, on the Tennessee River, was composed of Jack-
son's. Buford's, and Chalmers's divisions of cavalry, and the
eight brigades of infantry temporarily organized into four di-
visions under Maj. Gen. E. C. Walthall. Morton's Battery,
and the whole force under the command of General Forrest.
The composition of this rear guard, its subordinate com-
manders, and its strength has been the subject of much mis-
statement ; and the heroic gallantry which it displayed in
covering Hood's retreat and the admiration which its splendid
soldierly qualities elicited from General Thomas has so often
been applied to other commands that the truth of history de-
mands its correction.
General Thomas, in his official report dated Eas'port, Miss.,
January 20, 1865. says this of Hood's rear guard: "He had
formed a powerful rear guard, made up of detachments from
all his organized forces, numbering about four thousand in-
fantry, under General Walthall, and all his available cavalry
and artillery under Forrest. With the exception of this rear
guard, his army had become disheartened and a disorganized
rabble of half-armed and barefooted men, who sought oppor-
tunity to fall out by the wayside and desert 1! '.'.: cause to
put an end to their sufferings. The rear guard, however, was
undaunted and firm, and did its work bravely to the last."
Thomas was one of the most imposing characters in the
military annals of his country, and his language carries a dis-
tinctness of statement and an absolute certainty of com-
manders, their commands, and events.
With General Walthall in command of the infantry rear
guard at Columbia, General Hood continued his retreat as
rapidly as the broken and shall "rd condition of his array
would permit, and crossed the Tennessee River December
25, 1864, at Bainbridge.
Walthall was the youngest division commander in that army,
as has been stated : and when he drew his sword in command
over the rear guard to cover its retreat, there was not a sol-
dier in it who did not believe that he would do it or perish
in the effort on the front line in the actual command of his
men. His military career illustrated the brightest pages of
the history of the Army of the Tennessee; his name, fame,
and deeds are imperishably united with its victories and de-
feats; and, with its bravest dismayed at the extent of the great
calamity which had befallen it, and its annihilation impending,
he. in his person, recalled the valor that in former days ani-
' the soldiers of that army when it achieved its greatest
triumphs.
On the 20th of December General Walthall moved his head-
quarters from Nimrod Porter's to the residence of Mr. Orr,
in Columbia, and the infantry rear guard was encamped near
the Pulaski Pike, south of Columbia.
The rain set in on the night of the 16th of December and
continued to the 18th, and on the 19th it became intensely
cold, and so continued for several days thereafter. The suf-
ferings of the troops w^ere terrible. Without protection from
the severity of the weather, without blankets, and many with-
out -hoes, and nearly all indifferently shod, the horrors of
the retreat were to be seen as the bare and frost-bitten feet
of the soldiers, swollen, bruised, and bloody, toiled painfully
on the march over the frozen pike.
General Thomas was aware of the desperate condition of
Hood's army, but the swollen streams retarted his pursuit.
General Hatch, with his division of cavalry, was on the north
bank of Duck River unable to force his crossing. He shelled
Columbia on the 20th ; and as there were no troops in the city
except the wounded in the hospitals, Genera! Forrest asked
for a conference under a flag of truce, which was readily
agreed to. General Forrest, accompanied by Major Ander-
son, of his staff, and General Walthall, met General Hatch
at the turnpike bridge, across Duck River, in the afternoon,
and Forrest and Hatch from the abutments of the broken
bridge on each side of the river had their conference.
General Forrest informed General Hatch that there were
no troops within the corporate limits of Columbia except the
sick and wounded in the hospitals, and requested that the ar-
tillery fire be discontinued, which General Hatch assented to.
General Forrest then proposed an exchange of prisoners, to
which General Hatch replied that he had no authority to act,
but that he would forward his proposition to army head-
quarters. General Forrest proposed and specifically asked for
the exchange of General Rucker, who had been wounded and
captured on the Granny White Pike on the night of the 16th,
and General Hatch said that he was without authority to make
this exchange, but that he would forward this request without
delay. The civilities of the flag were exchanged and the truce
ended. The proposition and the specific request of General
Forrest in the rapid movements that followed were never heard
from.
Late in the afternoon and the night of the 21st General
Wilson succeeded in throwing his pontoon across Duck River,
above Columbia, and on the morning of the 22d the enemy
crossed a column of infantry of General Wood's command.
Colonel Field, with his small infantry division, was in ob-
servation on the river, with a cavalry regiment picketing i:i
front of him. Colonel Field reported on the 21st the efforts
of the enemy to effect a crossing of Duck River:
"Columbia, Tenn., December 21, 1864.
"Major: Citizens report that the enemy are trying to effect
a crossing at Johnson's Knob, about two miles above this
place. Johnson's Knob is on the opposite bank of the river,
and commands a large extent of country on this side Reports
are that the enemy are digging down the bank at that point.
"Very respectfully. H. R. Field,
Colonel Commanding Maney's and Strahl's Brigades.
Maj. D. W. Sanders. A. A. G. Walthall's Division."
When General Wood's infantry appeared on the morning
of the 22d south of Duck River, General Walthall ordered
Colonel Field to reconnoiter and skirmish with the enemy, and
formed the remainder of his command in line across the Pu-
laski Pike. The enemy was in force, and easily compelled
Field to fall back on Walthall's line. General Wood rapidly
deployed in front of Walthall, and forced him to retreat on
the Pulaski Pike. Walthall marched about twelve miles, and
encamped at Mrs. Mitchell's, about two miles from Lynnville,
where he remained until the morning of the 24th.
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403
When the enemy crossed Duck River on the 22d and ap-
peared in force on the Pulaski Pike, General Forrest ordered
the rear guard to fall back in the direction of Pulaski. I le
directed General Chalmers to move on the right down the
Bigbyville Pike toward Bigbyville. The rear of Walthall's
infantry was covered hy Jackson's and Buford's divisions of
cavalry and Morton's artillery, while a few scmits were
thrown out on the left Hank. The enemy made his demonstra-
tion on the cavalry pickets near Warfield's, three mile; outh
of Columbia, The enemy opened upon the cavalry with ar-
tillery, which forced Jack-on and Buford to fall back to a
gap between two hills, winch posi ioh was held until the fore-
noon of the next day. The cavalrj retarded the advance of
the enemy on the 23d, and at nightfall were a short distance
in front of Walthall.
i In the morning of the 24th General Forrest ordered General
Walthall to advance his infantry on the pike toward Colum
bia with the cavalry on the right and left Hanks. Walthall
advanced about three miles, and came in contact with the
enemy, when a severe engagement occurred, and the enemy
was held in cheek for two hour- 1 he rear guard retreated to
Richland Creek, and Walthall took position in the rear of a
mill on Richland Creek about -even mile- from Pulaski.
W*ew
MAJ. GEN. E. C u ai I HALL.
I n was in fronl of the enemy, with Armstrong Brigade
in front and Ross's Brigade on the right flank. Cha
had joined Buford, and these two cavalry divisions were or-
dered on the left Hank. General Armstrong was ordered to
support -i\ pieces oi artillerj commanded by ('apt. John W.
Morton, Corn t's chief oi artillery, winch were placed in posi
Hon immediately on the main pike on .-, line with Chalmers's
and Buford's Divisions and Ross's I it's Di-
vision. \ttei a severe artillerj duel, t» • pieces of the enemy's
artillerj were dismounted The enemj turned both flanks and
crossed Richland Creek on Ins left with the view of gaming
t's rear. Armstrong and Ross were immediately or-
dered to cross the bridge on the mam pike and move around
and engage the enemj while crossing the creek. Chalmers's
and Buford's Divisions were heavilj engaged and forced to
fall back across Richland Creek. General Buford was
wounded, ami the division was placed under the command of
Chalmers. At 8 p.m. Walthall withdrew hi- infantry and
marched to ami occupied the outer line of works around Pu-
laski.
i'n the morning of the 25th, after destroying all the am-
munition that could not be removed ami two tram- of cars.
the rear guard, with the exception of Jack-on'- division of
cavalry, winch was ordered to remain in Pulaski a- long as
possible ami destroy the bridge, fell back on Anthony's Hill,
seven miles south of Pulaski.
At daylight on the morning of the 25th Walthall withdrew
hi- troop, from the works, marched through Pulaski, and left
the pike on the road for Bainbridge. The road- were almost
impassable, and the artillery and the few wagons which made
up the train were moved with great difficulty. Wilson, with
a considerable mounted force, pursued and pressed the rear
guard with unusual vigor and audacity \ few miles from
Pulaski scattering wagons of the main aiinv were overtaken,
and tb se were 1 one,! when practicable, notwithstanding 1:
greatly embarrassed the infantry. The boldness and vigor of
Wilson's pursuit was now- pressed with increased determina-
tion, and it was determined to turn upon him. An advan-
tageous position was selected for a line on Anthony's Hill,
four miles from Pulaski. Featherstone and Palmer, with a
brigade of cavalry on each flank, and Reynolds and Field
and Morton'- artillery in the reserve for support wire put
in ambush to awail the enemy's approach So broken is the
ground at that point and SO densely wooded that there wa- no
difficult) 111 concealing the troops. \ thin line of skirmishers
wa liimwii to the front, winch the enemy promptly engaged;
and when it proved Stubborn, be dismounted part of hi- cav-
alry men and made a charge. When the attacking
m red the troop- King 1:1 wait for them, the latter deb
In e ,111, 1 ,, .en in of Morion's artilb ry, 11:
1 rr by, 1 pened lire with considerable effect. The enemy re-
pealed in disorder, and Featherstone ami Palmer promptly
pursued .md captured a number of prisoners, horses, and one
piece of artillery Cap'ain Morton took charge of this gun,
and after turning it with effect upon the enemj
fn mi the field.
Mont -iin-et the rear guard was withdrawn from Vnthony's
Hill, at midnight reached Sue.,,- (',,,' .,. ,] for the night,
and there came upon a large pail of the nniv ordnanci
which had been dcl.o 1 mules which belonged to
it •might be used to aid in moving t!u- pontoon train to the
'I Iii- tram wa- mi ived forward ai an 1 at lj hour the next
morning, On the morning of the 26th Wil-on continued the
pm -uit with unabated vigor, and pressed Forrest's cavalry
with great impetuositj General Forrest -aid to Walthall that
more than a mile oti. were pressing hi- cavalry,
and that it would not be 11 cessary for the infantry to dis-
pute hi- advance. Walthall at once put Reynolds and Field
in 110-111011 between tin- two crossings of tin- creek, and
Featherstone, Palmer, and Morton were posted in a strong
position on th- south side of the crossing, nearer the Ten-
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.... River, to guard against disaster in the event the troops
in front of them were overcome.
Then was so densi a Eog that Reynolds and Field were
enabled to conceal their commands except a small force, winch
was purposely exposed, and which, when encountered by the
enemy, fell back, as they had been instructed, upon the main
body. The enemy, with part of his force dismounted, at one:
engaged this small force and drove it back on the main line,
and when he discovered the line in ambush broke and re-
treated in confusion. His flight being obstructed by the creek,
Reynolds and Field captured nearly all of the horses of a
dismounted regiment and some prisoners. After he crossed
the creek. Ross's Cavalry Brigade continued the pursuit for
a ci nsiderable distance. After this the enemy hung upon the
rear, but no further demonstration was made.
In the forenoon the r.ar guard took up the march, and
camped that night about sixteen miles from the Tennessee
River. On the morning of the 27th the march was continued,
and the rear guard crossed Shoal Creek about two o'clock in
the afternoon. On the south side of Shoal Creek the infantry
formed in line to guard the crossing. Here the cavalry passed
and moved on to the Tennessee River. At 1 p.m. the infantry
were withdrawn with the exception of Reynolds, who was
left with instructions to picket the creek and rejoin Walthall
the following morning, and Walthall marched to and occu-
pied the works covering the pontoon at Bainbridge.
General Walthall issued the following circular to the "in-
fantry fore s of the rear guard" December 28, 1864, 3 a.m. :
"Featherstone's Brigade will move promptly (without
further ord rs) at daybreak across the bridge, to he followed
by Field and Palmer.
"General Reynolds will withdraw his command from Shoal
Creek in time to reach the main line by daybreak and leave
a skirmish line behind for a half hour. He will follow Palmer
Ector's Brigade will cover the road until the whole command
has passed, and then will follow, leaving a line of skirmishers
behind until the rear of the brigade has passed on to the
bridge.
"It is important that the movements be conducted with
promptness and in good order.
"By command of Major General Walthall.
E. D. Clarke. Acting Assistant Adjutant General."
In obedience to the directions contained in the above circu-
lar, the infantry were the last of the rear guard to cross the
Tennessee River.
Walthall with his incomparable infantry, together with the
magnificent cavalry and artillery under Forrest, saved Hood's
army from annihilation and enabled him to escape south of
the Tennessee River.
Gcn.ral Wood, commanding the 4th Corps, pursued the
rear guard with . indomitable resolution and un'iring energy.
He was incited to make his wonderful infantry march to
Pulaski by the indications of demoralization, distress, and the
hopeless condition of the retreating army that abounded all
along the route of Hood's retreat. Arms, accouterments,
bi iken and abandoned wagons, disabled soldiers, barefooted
and frostbitten, told him that sure distress and appalling dis-
aster had worked the destruction of an army which he had
1 gallantly on many heroic fields. Pursuing the ad-
e that the fate 1 f battle had given to his arms, he
;lt ed fori trd with his victorious divisions with the deter-
mination to annihilate th i rear guard and capture or disp rse
the remnant of the Army of Tennessee. His troops responded
to the demands on their endurance, and achieved for Ihem-
selves a r putali in that win live forever in the military annals
of their country.
General Mood, in a campaign of thirtj eight days on the
north snle of the Tennessee River, fought the ba tie of Frank-
lin and Nashville and wrecked his army. No damage of anj
cons quence had been inflicted upon the enemy. Thomas at
Nashville confronted him with a powerful and well-appointed
army, fully equipped in till .arms of the service ; and when he
LIEUT. CEN. N. II. FORREST.
moved em him and overwhelmed and routed him at Columbia,
it appeared as though Thomas would crush and capture the
army. The pursuit of his mounted force, under the command
of General Wilson, was fierce and relentless. The inarch of
the rear guard from Columbia to Bainbridge, with the in-
c --ant assaults made upon it, is the most famous in that
awful war. The courage of this small body of troops was
admirable, the hardships endured by them were terrible, am!
their endurance a lasting tribute to the devotion of the volun-
teer soldier. The brigade commanders were nun of high and
marked character, who had distinguished themselves on many
fields in great battles. The escape of Hood's army was com-
mitted to their valor, and on them rested the hop." of the
army to reach the Tennessee River and to cross it in safety.
.AXOTHER REPORT OX HOOD'S CAMPAIGN.
BY cor. LUKE W. KIN LAY. MEMPHIS.
The fact that we get the finest traditions of the Scottish
heroes— her Wallace, Bruce, and others — from Scotland's own
writers, alt r the absorption of the territories of all the Clans-
nun under English power, suggests the fact that perhaps the
best account of our Southern heroes may yet come from the
pens of Southern writers. Shall history then gain nothing
from the Southland except from those who 'were not within
her borders and sympathize in t with her aspirations and took
confederate? l/eterarj.
in:.
in is that was
d 01 g In posterity will enter
■-Uiit in the iK\v n.
ilic. We think i ! laugh
lers should be turned to the from .ill the in-
i all her gli n ii - thai
aps f( w i :'
ny under 1 1 1 and tin irami i of tin
hazard so daring an exp dition as
liai chieftain oi tin South undertook in the latti i d
1864. Perhaps no other officei of tl e Confederacj \vi uhl have
u tdei tak n to do wha Hood did al I ink in, and yet Scho
ii Id was unwilling, with all of 1 . with all of his
n ources, and with Mm mi 1 1 r, to risk ani ithei day'
on thai hard Eoughi field. He says in the "Rebi
1 1 main Ii mgei al Franklin was to seriously
ha ard the li ss of my arnvj I determined to return
during th< night of ihe 30th toward Nashville."
I will narrate some of the incidents that came under my
personal observation after thai engagement. The small band
under Hood moved bravelj up and set themselves down in
i battle in from of Nashville in the face of about three
times their number protected by elal rate works \.s we
d Nashvill in December, is''h. I was ordered by Gen.
1 eatham to take charge of the line of skirmishers
kits in his fronl I was present when he and Maid
' mix, of his staff, rode in the fronl of the residence of 1 ne
of the noted nun oi ["en His widow received the
ral and his staff offic rs with great cordiality; ii «
fi 1 him; he was mar the citj of his boyhood and
manhood. Hi wa a big-hearted man and a splendid
He directed me to make my headquarters at thi 1 men
tioned and rode off. The splendid lady cordiallj invited me
to taki on the second story in her hospitable horn
cket Imr was but a short distam front,
50 I could not think oi accepting thi comfortable place ofl red;
n was too near the danger line for the risk. I did, however,
1 . w 1 1 re bui ned
ccupied prior to our arrival bj a 1 ederal
> guard, whos placi we did uol disturb, leaving him
still in cl when we li
Col V J. Ki Id 1 ci mmanded Strahl'
ha 11I1. 5th, 31st, and 33d Tennes ei Regiments;
I tan V Ki nni dj < 1 mimanded thi 19th, 2 pi
41 -' I enm ssee I
• in the morning of the 15th, after marching my command
to point, 1 found myself at 1 p.m. in fronl
old hi
1 who I w fited nn to dinm r. I saw the
linen and dish s in the dining roon
in-i then I received to be read] to move al a min-
ute's notice. So insti ad oi 1 1 ■ Id iner I took a pii
hard-tack. We moved rapidl) to the left, and wen
ir line ran.
I, and wai
from right to l< ft, mud I
pletcly surrounded bj tin larg Ij superi u fon enemy.
1 li bullets came from the from and ll
1 - ilu- sun
ing in the west,
1
. iving way." Ii had broken a li tie to thi
ter. I saw oui t in full 1
then 1 the hill
lid : "Look tin 5 hill !"
Ami sure 1 in ur line
in thi bi 1 hill.
In this ci ■ iw that there was nothing
to do but capitulati
1 irders, 1 directed the boys in 11 I
in the hill 1 m lii : opp ny White 1
in. full retreat. My
I W H!l thi
not much ahead oi the ad Is. I made the ti ip
• n fi 11 it, In iw i \ r, a id just a I n is as< ending tl 1
.1 staff officer whom I took to be 1
dashed up 011 horseback and asked me it" 1 would make a
stand al the gap nexl south oi I ranklin Pike, which we wen
aching. I nent -will b there d
and the brigade with it, and they will ob ) mj orders if I
get ;here in time." I te n id< up bj thi to let
me mount his horse behind him, so as to ride up then I
0 exhau ted with tit two-mile movement that I had no
spring, and I slipped to the ground between his horse and tin
log, and he lefl me, saying: "I havi ordei to cai ry."
I ma. 'a 1113 way on for a short distance, when, looking back,
I saw a Federal oldi 1 about one hundred and fifty yards
behind me and ng 1 took out my pistol and
thought 1 would shoot him; but, upon looking at him closely,
thai he was worn out and believed that he could not
kit me if lie were to try; so 1 left him an i passed 1 n, p
ring to tackle him at closer quarters if he should yon them
After going a short distance, ! saw Lieut A. I Ch
1 mj I '. 41I1 I 1 nni 1 e, 1 ii mj 1 1 mmand, now residi
Shelby i ounty, Tenn. 1 hailed him and directed him to form
the boys with him behind a large log just above him. lie did
\ few shots checked up the pursuit along that part of the
1 in . \\ e went on 10 the ti p of the 1 idge. Hi
were moving from the righl and left rapidly to this
Just then Williams, .1 young soldier from I 01 ana, belonging
0 Sti a .'' 1 1 Ort, rode up 011 a spl ndidlj mount
0 nnied, and said: "Coloni . take my horse; you can 1
n him, and I can't." I declined, sayinf
would be too much to ask 1 f him; but I d, and so I
took the In
1 then took p isil ion 1 m tin top of th ridg nd fot 11 :d the
assembled oldiei in mj command in lint Oth 1 1
including Colonels Kellar and Anderson, did likewise; but
just as we had 1 irmed in officei dashed up and said that a
fore of th en my was moving betwi n I Frank-
0 we moved again to the rear. In our from on the
pike ■ were driven ' became 11 Cl
for ti- to leave the road and march through tin timl 1 on
our right to avi id the enemy's range of the pike. Our re-
treating al Brentwood. We soon took
narch for Franklin, and went inl when
wi in I ranklin t
1 iur ci iinmand, w ith otln 1 infanl 1 •. and c tvalry, 1
\\ e « ere in thi I the line tit Rutin
Creek.
As ■■■ he pike mar Columbia General
d in now
his army. He
asked me what m> comm I told him Strahl's Bri-
gade. !!<■ then ve infantry
eight old brigades under Palmer,
v, uli an effi ctivi to
406
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1.940 men (Vol. XL., p. 72X. "United States Official Records''),
under Walthall, to report to Forrest in covering the retreat
to the Tennessee River. He asked me if the brigade would
volunteer for that -service. I replied: "We are soldiers, Gen-
eral." He then said : "You will report to Colonel Field. I
kni iw no soldiers upon whom I can rely with greater confi-
dence that the work will be done well than you Tennesseeans."
He then ordered those without shoes to go to the wagon train.
I recall, however, that some soldiers without shoes remained
with the reserve.
An incident here illustrates the freedom of speech between
the men and their officers. General Hood, upon being asked
wdien he would give the boys a furlough, said, "After we cross
the Tennessee." adding. "The cards have been fairly dealt, for
I cut them and dealt them myself, and the Yankees have beat
us in the game." Thereupon a soldier of the 19th Tennessee
said : "Yes. General, but they were badly shuffled." This, save
the yells of comrades in appreciation of the comment, closed
the matter, and the General rode ofif.
A snowstorm came up. and it turned very cold. Here Col.
C. \Y. Heiskell took command of the brigade. We went into
bivouac on the north side of the pike. I had just lain down
in the open before a good log fire at eleven o'clock when an
orderly from Colonel Field summoned me to his quarters.
Upon my reporting, he said : "I have two messages for you.
You will take two hundred men. and at four o'clock to-morrow
morning relieve the soldiers guarding the crossings of Duck
River, from the old mill above to the fort below. [This was
under an order from General Forrest.] The other is more
agreeable. I wish you to share that pot of coffee with me."
I did so ; it was most refreshing.
I returned to bivouac, went to sleep, and about 3 130 in the
morning I started with two hundred men to relieve the com-
mand guarding Duck River. It was bitterly cold. Our boys,
without notice to me, but of which I had knowledge, made an
agreement with the Federal soldiers not to fire without notice;
so no firing took place between them that day. Some negroes
belonging to the Federal command started to kill some sheep
just across Duck River, and our boys fired on them, which
caused a shout of "All right !" from the enemy. We had had
up to that time nothing to eat that day. A young lady whom
I knew in Memphis was then living in Columbia. I wrote her
a note on a small piece of paper to send me some cold victuals.
In about forty minutes a servant came with a large wai'er
bearing us a fine dinner. I placed it on a table in the old
house in which I had my quarters and called the lieutenant,
sergeant, and corporal who were with me. and we enjoyed it
as soldiers without rations could.
At 9 a.m. the next day my command was relieved by Mai-
William E. Estes, a companion and friend of my boyhood, who
came in command of two Texas regiments, and I ordered
my men to report to their respective regiments. The Federals
found that some of our cavalry pickets had gone into a cabin
on our side some distance above the old mill, and immediately
shoved a pontoon bridge across Duck River and crossed. This
made Forrest furious. He at once sent J. P. Young (a boy
then, but now a circuit judge at Memphis) to tell Armstrong
to come to him at once with his brigade. He rode for six
miles against the northwest wind; and when he reached Arm-
strong's quarters, he was so nearly frozen that he could not
get off his horse. They carried him into the house, and he
managed to say: "Boots and saddles." After thawing, he de-
livered the message to General Armstrong, who. with his men
v : ere already mount d, dashed off with Young to meet
Forrest. The Federal officer, with his magnificently furnished
command, was endeavoring to break Forrest's rear line.
As we approached Pulaski I received an order from General
Walthall near sundown to place some guards across the road
where the two ridges approached each other near the town.
A severe fight was going on about two miles in the rear ;
Armstrong was engaging them. An officer on horseback
dashed up, and the guard would not let him pass, in com-
pliance with my orders that none but wounded soldiers 1 ir
nun with a pass from Forrest should pass. He was neither.
He asked the guard under whose command he was. He
pointed him to the sergeant. He rushed up to him on his
horse and said: "What are you men stopping me for? I am
on Forrest's staff, -and don't have to carry a pass." The ser-
geant was obdurate, and he referred him to me. He met with
the same answer, when he said : "I will go, anyhow." I said
to the sergeant: "Shoot him if he does." Thinking that the
sergeant would do it, the man rode back across the pike,
saying he would report him to General Forrest. It was after
sunset, and soon General Forrest and his subordinate officers
and staff rode up. To my surprise, he dashed up to Forrest
and said to him: "That officer won't let me pass." Forrest,
turning to me said, "D — him. shoot him ;" and the officer
rode hurriedly back to his own command.
That night we bivouacked near Pulaski. The next day,
Christmas, we reached Anthony's Hill, seven miles south of
Pulaski. I had dismounted and was standing near my com-
mand. The- nun were resting, and Forrest rode up. He was,
as usual, quiet, mild, and self-possessed. He likewise dis-
mounted. While he engaged with me in conversation a strag-
gler rode up. He pointed to a sapling about one hundred and
fifty yards distant and ordered him to take his position there
and remain there until he came. In like manner another and
another, until some thirty odd were ordered to take position
by the sapl^g. He then told me that the Yankees were com-
ing, that he was going to tell them so. and that the man would
be shot who turned his back on them, adding that he would
put a line of infantry behind them to do it. In about an hour
the fight, which was then imminent, came on, and the shots
of the pickets along the line announced its coming. The fight
took place, and the well-equipped Federal command gave way,
and the reserve force captured a splendid piece of artillery
and the United States flag; and as they passed through our
lines with them, it caused great, good cheer.
The following story from that field is related by Hon. J. P.
Young, mentioned previously, who was with Forrest: "During
the battle, when General Forrest was returning from the sortie
made with his infantry, and which proved so successful, he
found a group of officers in the old orchard at his field head-
quarters. He was explaining to them with great glee the cap-
ture of two brass Napoleons by the infantry in charge. The
guns had just been brought up on the hill. At this juncture
his eye happened to observe a sec* ion of a battery retiring
from the crest of the ridge at the infantry line. Instantly his
brow became clouded, and he cried out impatiently to the
officer in charge of the section: "Where are you going? Who
ordered you away from there?" General Jackson, who was
standing by, replied : "I ordered him away. General. The guns
were unsupported and liable to capture." Forrest instantly
replied in great wrath as he rode toward the gun : "What did
you do that for, Jackson? I put the guns out there. That's
always the way. I can't do a thing but that there's forty
ordering around me."
Gen. George H. Thomas, U. S. A., says in "United States
Qor?f ederat^ l/eterap,
10'
Record:" "The enemy, with something of his former boldness,
sallied from his breastworks and drove back Harrison's skir-
mishers, capturing and carrying off one gun belonging to Bat-
tery I, 4th United States Artillery, which was not recovered
by us, notwithstanding the ground losl was almost immediate
ly regained."
Gent ral Forrest, C. S. A.. says in the same volume: "Seven
miles from Pulaski 1 took position on King's [prop rl\ \n
thony's] Hill, ami, awaiting the advance of the enemy, re-
pulsed him with a loss of one hundred and fifty killed and
wounded, besides capturing mam prisoners and one pieci oi
artillery. The cm my made no further demonstrations during
That day T balled my command at Sugar Creek, where it
encamped during the night "
About eighteen miles south of Sugar Creek we formed a
Inn- <>f battle, and the Tenness eans, under Field, and the
Arkansans and Texans, under Reynolds, were on the front
line. The Federal officer was approaching with his forces.
Forri i called Reynolds, Fields, and the regimental officers.
including Colonel Heiskell and myself, together on a little
knoll in front of our line and said: "The Yankees arc com-
ing. We are going to have a fight ; and when the infantry
break their lines. I'll tbrow Ross's Cavalry on them" Fields,
a wiry, brave oldier, misunderstanding Forrest, with a stutter
in In- speech said: "We have got no such infantry, General
They "ill not break our lines." Forrest, laughing, said: "I
don't mean when they break our lines, hut when we break
theirs." Fields instantly said. "That's the kind of infantry we
have. General," which created a big laugh all around.
Sure enough, the enemy soon appeared; and after a short,
decisive fight, we broke their line-, and Ross, with I
dashed after them and put them to rout. Colour] Ib'i-k'll
captured a fine saddle on the field. Here occurred an am
little incident. Just In fore the engagement of our con
While the tight was hot on our right and lift, our boy- were
ordered to bold tin ir fire until the enemy'-: line came abovi
the knoll in our front. Their bugler appeared on the top of
the nde- and blew In- bugle for a charge. A soldier stationed
in the line near James E. Beasley, A \. G., asked pern
of him to shoot the Yank, lie was insistent on this, but he
was refused the privilege. The bugler appeared the second
time and repeated his effort for a charge, ami eat ti time the
adjutant general was asked to let bun shoot. Just at this
juncture the order was given oui line to advance, and quickly
they went over the slight breastwork, and soon were busilj
d with advancing Federals, which cud' d their pursuit.
General Beauregard says of the retreat: "Untqpward and
he issues of ibis campaign, never in the
of tins war have the best qual tii oi our soldierj been
more i , ouslj shown; never more enthusiasm evinced
than when our troops once mot thi I mum ee River;
greater fortitudi and uncomplaining devotion than were
displayed on the retreat from Nashville to ["upelo; never
r gallantry than that which w at Franklin.
The 1 I of that campaign will ever be recollected with
honor by their countrymen, and the survivi rs have the proud
i that no share of the disaster can be laid to them.
who have so worthily served their country and havi
by if oven to the 1 1 i dat f hi ui of the repub
ral Thomas says : (See
Another incident occurred \v I befon thi Sugat (reek
fight. General Forn I [old the infantry soldiers that when
the Yanks were put to flight every infantt lier that
captured a ln.rse might ride it; and the I Vtd it. and
did capture several. Mounted on their steeds, ih j rode
toward the Tennessee Rivei with much glee. Arriving at
the river, however, thej found a guard at the pontoon bridge.
who accosted them with: "What command do you belong to?"
Our boys, proud of their command, promptly replied: "Cheat-
ham's Division." Then came the woeful '■ : . "( ,, | down off
that horse." and tiny had to do it. as it appeared that the
cavalry needed all tin horses; but that fact did not keep the
boys from criticising the act all the am< . Mm- closed the
di ,1-nous campaign in I enni
The splendid assault, not surpassed during the war. upon
the works at Franklin, so well prepared and so obstinately de-
fended, showed tbc character of this remarkable bodj 'it men
under Hood. If even soldier saw and comprehended the
situation before Nashville on December io. 1S04, the army, if
obedient to orders, pi rhaps could not have eluded the ■ p
of Thomas to better purpose than it did. It was in the lion's
mouth. Its spirits were not broken in getting out. The
covering ol tic retreat b\ Forrest wa a unmistakably well
done as tin' courage of the soldiery was determined and
superb. Whenever a point oi danger presented itself, there
instantly appeared or the scene the ever-watchful Forrest. It
n ' 1 military masterpiece. In that trying hour a compact
body obeyed bis orders; his foes, fully equipped, bore the
ordeal well, and staggered before the determined few who
stood in their pathway. Forrest was present and directed
every movement, and successfully covered the retreat. All
the generals who figured in that campaign save two or three
m \ I' w of that rear guard are now bringing up the
rear guard and nearing the approach to another river They
did their duty well in that difficult period under adverse cir-
cumstances. May we not hope that they too may deserve for
their fidelity to duty in the discbarge of life's demands a com-
mendation equally as grand as that with which Thomas spoke
of them when he used these remarkable words: "The rear
guard, however, was undaunted and firm, and did its work
bravely to the last !"
TRIE >> I III CONFEDl R nr 1
Mr Charles T. Loehr, Chairman of the Cot on In-
formation and Quarters at tbc late Richmond Reunion, writes:
"I have n.id your article in the Confedertae Veteran of
ibis month concerning military titles for women. In my
humble opinion as a genuine Confed rati P
men who charged .it Gettysburg thi I onfedierate Choirs have
done more to cheet the old veterans than am- othei org
tion To hear the old s,,n._;s of our camp life, reviving the
1 fi d.o 'i 1S01 65, w ith it '! pleasures,
is what is making the 1 hoit 0 \ ih tbli to the old boys.
What mailers ,i , f thej call theii officers gi colonel,
or captain! Hie; i,n ill right, and we want them with us
all tbc tune. ( if what use :- a port 01 or any other orna
i attraction to us? It is die old on and melodies that
■■in' \i the las) me ting of
No. 4 with 1 1 amp thi n c< «uld 1 I u tear
in maul 1 >f the old boys' 1 echoes oi
1 I hi n let us h.e ! Federate I 'hoirs ; it is just
w hat w e need and want."
Veteran unites with. all who favor the Confedi
Choirs. It has no words but of praise for tie in. but is "old
tie- I be torn of Comrade Loehr's letter would
impre iger that tbc VETERAN was not in accord with
Thai it i- unjust may be seen by perusal of all
that has been said in regard to tb 111.
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fl ITH M'XEILL IX ia.
BY JOHN B. F \Y. WAS B. C.
I i in id | ■ camp i if the 1 5t i \\ esl i Vir-
[nfantrj it Vli refield, W. Va., September 11. 1863 by
McNe I 1 some
oi the most remarkable and uniqui
ir. It was 1 cas of plol and counterplot, wherein ;md
own i" each other each side bad selected the same date
on which to attack and capture the other's camp. The only
point ol difference between the opposing parties was that,
while the Federals planned to attack at daybreak, the Con-
federates made their attack just befon daybreak — and won,
The 1st West Virginia Regiment was the first body of Union
troops organized in the western part of the State, and was
composed of the flower of the youth and manhood of that
section, north and south, of Wheeling, which bordered on the
Ohio River. Xo better or braver troops could be found any-
where, and during the entire conflict, from the time when at
Philippi their first colonel, afterwards General Kelley, had
the distinction of being the first commissioned officer wounded
in the war until and after the gallant Thoburn fell at Cedar
Creek, their record was a highly honorable and enviable one.
As it was our first experier.ee with them, it was also my
first experience with McNeill and his peculiar mode of war-
fare. I had joined his Rangers only a f w weeks before, and
hence the various incidents of the affair made an impression
upon my memory which can never be effaced.
The events leading up to the affair were briefly these: lit
August. 1863, General Averell moved from Winchester to
the Moorefield Valley, there to rest and recuperate the men
and horses of his brigade. This being done, he started from
Petersburg on a raid through the counties of Pendleton and
Highland toward Southwestern Virginia. Imboden and Mc-
Neill were sen; from the Shenandoah Valley to intercept him,
but on reaching Monterey found that he had started from that
place in a direction which rendered pursuit useless. Turning
their forces northward, they marched toward Petersburg
and Moorefield, where Averell had left a considerable force
under Colonel Mulligan. After making a demonstration in
front of this force, Imboden and McNeill withdrew and re-
turned through Brock's Gap into the Shenandoah Valley.
A small force of about seventy m n, under Capts. Frank
Imboden and Hobson, was left, however, in the Moorefield
Valley to observe the movements of the enemy, and this force
went into camp in the dense woods near the Howard's Lick
road, about four miles above Moorefield. They had not been
there many days when intelligence of their presence was con-
veyed to Colonel Mulligan at Petersburg, and plans were
laid for their capture. This.- plans were embodied in a mili-
tary order, which we afterwards captured when their camp
was taken. It was dated at headquarters 1st Brigade. Peters
burg, W. Va., September 10, 1863, and addressed to Maj. E.
W. Stephens, Jr., commanding forces Moorefield, W. Va.,
and reads as follows: "It has hern reported to these head-
quarters that a party of the enemy (numbers unknown) is
encamped four or five miles from Moorefield. A party of in-
fantry under Captain Fitzgerald, 23d Illinois, will start from
this point at 9 p.m., intending to arrive at the camp of the
enemy at daylight, and if possible effect a surprise and cap-
ture. The colonel commanding directs that you send to-night
Captain Barr's company of cavalry and a company of infantry
from your command with instructions to move on the re-
ported camp of the enemy, to arrive at daylight, and to ac1
in concert with the force moving from this point. Take every
precaution to previ . and have your detail
tly so as to cooperate with the other." The or.
I .1 linsi 11 ai I ant adjutant general.
It was a well-planned affair, and under ordinary circum-
would have been .1 signal success; but as "the best-
- 0' mice and men ear- aft agley," so in til
stance th wily scheme of the Federal commander w;
ti 1 pi ' i\ 1 an igm iminious failure.
[| 0 happened that the untiring and irrepressible McNeill
away over in the Shenandoah Vail y had b en figuring on
51 mi plans 1 his own conception, and in furtherance thereof
started with about seventy-five of his Rangers, and. passing
through Brock's Gap. had recrossed the Branch Mountain
and reenforced the littl party of Confederates late in the
evening of he eventful night in question. After a conference
with Captains Imboden and. Hobson, securing information of
the movements of the . force under Stephens, and learning
exactly where they bad pitched their camp for the night. Mc-
Neill determined to move immediately upon it and attempt a
surprise before daybreak and before any possible knowledge
of his presence could be made known to the enemy. Taking
about seventy of his own men and all those available of Im-
boden's and Hobson's, McNeill cautiously moved out of the
woods and down through the bottom fields east of the South
Fork until he reached the foot of the ridge about a mile from
Moorefield.
After leaving our horses here under guard, with a total
force of one hundred and thirty-live men and taking no part,
we proceeded in single file up over the ridge and through
the close thicket which covered its southern or western side
and extended over the hilltop in the direction of the enemy's
camp. An old mountain road, leading from Moorefield to
Lost River Valley, ran along the northern edge of these
woods and. coming from the town, passed over the top of
Cemetery Hill, where the Yankee camp was pitched. This
road was heavily picketed in the direction of the mountain,
and it was absolutely necessary for us to avoid that post.
Uncertain of its location, we had to use the utmost caution,
and our progress was snail-like and tedious. At times we had
to creep on hands and knees and move but a few yards before
halting and taking observations. We finally emerged from the
brush and formed in the old road at a point about midway
between the camp and picket post. No other woods inter-
vened and down the bare hillside we marched two by two
toward the white tents below, now dimly seen in the dis-
tance. It was just before dawn: the moonlit night was about
giving place to the coming morn; in far-off barnyards the
roosters were crowing for day ; and away beyond the silent
camp through the rising mist could be seen the shimmering
waters of the old South Branch as it flowed past the rich
farms and fertile fields of the b autiful valley.
I can never forget that nerve-testing march on the camp;
for, though we moved with slow and measured tread, our foot-
falls on the sod, to my sensitive ears, sounded like the tramp
of a legion of horses. But, strange to say, no alarm was
made. At last we reached the eastern side of the camp, and
slowly passed along until we stood fully abreast of the full
line of tents and but a few yards distant from them. And
still no challenge from guard or sentry. There at our feet
were the low shelter tens of the men, and a couple of large
"A" tents of the officers stood on the other side of the camp.
We stood for a brief space of time facing them in single rank,
as if on parade, and save from the distant river and the
chanticleers, the occasional snort of a horse, and the clank
Qorpfederat^ 1/eterap,
409
of a chain, at thai < nd < ii the camp
i mnd ci iuld b heard and the stillness of death
ed to in i \.i.| the Hi of tents \\ h ii i mid it
hi in . \''. . knew that along the en i oi the lull on the op-
posit imp and not more than fifty ;
rifle pits, Could it be possibl that our c itning
ed for u
nt' Kernstown, Port Republic, and S [anassas? Ah! if
■! US.
But tin se fancii - pn ". d ti i be idli i m I in order »a-
that m in ii' mid fire ran il Captain McNeill g i hi
by a vollej from his old shotgun, hi favorii weapon, and
i oni n ed in the companj M hi command we moved
forward toward the icm-; and part i I our line corning
a structure which project d b yond the tents, Captain Mc-
Neill called to those n< ir -* to "Tear it down." Just then a
carbine in the hands elli «•. w .1- accidental!}
discharged, and, tal ing thi .1 thi ignal agreed upon, an in
discriminate volley was poured in'o the camp and the men
dashed in among tin tents. Hani;' bang! went the gun at
the f! vanishing in the dim light over the edge of
the hill, and yells and shouts of "Halt," "Surrender," and
Rally, boys, rally" were In ird on ever) side. Ii was a verita
ble pandemonium for a few minutes, when the shooting and
uproar graduall) subsided and the camp waj ours
No surprise of an enemy's camp could have been more com
plet Oui attack was madi just in the nick of time. Had
we waited ten minutes longer, reveille would havi sounded
and oui expedition would have been a failure. If a camp
guard had been '1 tailed, they were, in common with their
fellows, fast asleep; and had it not been for the accidental
1 thi gun I, we might have taken the men
one b> one and without tinny a shot. 1 have always been
undet the imp! 1 sion that some oi 1 iur 1 ivt n m< n had 1
the in of "Rally, boys, rally." though altogether out oi place
g from an attacking part) Ii so, it had a novel and
< of the gall tnl fellows ami mg the
enemy, after rushing from their tents, had halted mar the
■ if the hill ome yi ung pini 3 w re
growing. They iingered there for a few moments in the
■ -. unci rtain what t" do 1 r v
• 1 Farther, Ii iving theii 1 omi adi perhap ti ug
behind them Led at one or two points b) Adjutant
Thomas H. McKee and Li utenanl St 1 led
rallying cry, and boldly dashed bacl over the bri
II and into camp, only, however, to find us in full pos-
ti 1 the list of i" isoners. 1 shall
lacle of one brave fellow dashing bai I
nd alone, 1
came, making a bayon 1 charge. \ dozen guns were brought
to bear on him, bill no trigger was pull d; a clubbed rifle
finallj round, and hi too n mained a
er.
i
• 11 McNeill threw himself on the ground under
d for a tii d to be 1 in the \ et gi of 1
on rallied, how ver, and was himself
1; but *.hi- circumstance -I 11 to which
all were i ! ! which I ha\ i
d them
in upon tli mpara-
mily ; but the g of th< 1 ! ptain. who
then in hi - forty-eighth year, bill loo n him
in ihi
ral amusi
taken in their tents, bin quite a
number were captun d uiidet tl hat fringi
of the hill. All we 1
shekel 11 ,1 lying in
ith. Pull e rents fro
nts, .'ii
ill right."
- looking coi ill) up . "bill you 11 xcited
t it."
! in ''I I our fellow s, a tall six-footer fn m 1
! \\ estmoreland, 1 II: d upon an 1 ffici 1 he found at the
f the camp P. surrender, and was almost struck dumb
with surprisi to hear the answer: "I am an officer, and will
only stirrendei to an officer." "It 1- perfectly immaterial to
: . b In thei you sui render or not! \\ . ire on tei
equality here, sir!" exclaimed Westmoreland is hi rai ed his
gun to tire. It is needless to say that the officer quickly w
his prerogati\ and handed over Ids arm- and accoutrements
Sauntering through the camp watching the prisonei pack
ing up, I happened lo look into an officer's tent, and thi
In- knees, cramming his knapsack with all his remaining goods
and chattels, I recognized an old schoolmate. "Hello. George,
how are you, old boy?" v ilutation. lie knew me al
mice and jumped to his feet, saying "M) God, John, what
an you doing here? Why didn't you join the Union army?"
I hi' situation, time, and place of course did not admit oi
. ii ' 1 ' I answers to these rather untimely questions; but
our hands met in friendl) clasp, and for the time beit
far as we two were concerned, thi' war was over. My friend
On Sergeant G Vi 1 ipp tt, formerly of Cum-
berland, Md. For mai er the war and up to the
time of hi .;. ih hi r and pi oprietor of the Pi iinl
Pleasant 1 W. Va. I Regisl r.
Day dawned as the smoki oi thi conflict cleared
i til) took stock nt ..in adventure We had taken about
one hundred and sixt) prisoners, fifteen of whom were
wound d, and of this number three dud shortly aften
Vmong the prisoners were Captains White, R ■■. and
Dougherty, Adjutant McKee. I 1 Steele, Hall, Helms,
nd Ha 1 1 Somi of the men on picket, whon
careful!) to ivoid in our a Ivani upon the camp, on In
ill. nli there, ha -' il) r< turm .1 to investigate, and
consequence were detained to share the uwc of their comt id -
In the emit" ir sudden onset M
Stephen-, tin officei in command, ind Captain Mc!
.' e.le.l in making their esi fi rmer, it is said, in
scanty attire. Hew,: d Oil
of the affair, bul a< quitti d oi all Maine.
! in Welt. in and Private W. 1 1.
- ml) being si verely wi mm
mei • and captured pn en then
h Moorefii ' Fork Ri ad. The
which we captun d, had evidenfl) not
yet been overhaul d, ■ mid in t have been taken.
etachment of B; ry and the company of infantry
said 01 di 1
mp 1 mly a few hour 1
tun d the two 1 of the 23d Nlii
Fitzgerald, and a number of "Swamp Dragons," as the West
Virginia Hi 1- were then called, were all in our im-
mediati id. In addition t" bi ing
encumbered with so man) prisoners and teams, th
Unawari r, our long
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and straggling column slowly pursued its march, and we were
intensely surprised when, about two miles from Moorefield,
we were suddenly attacked by Barr's Cavalry and the infantry
under Morrow. The enemy was posted on the hillside south
of the road, and poured a hot lire into the column, killing a
number of horses. A few of the Rangers and some of Cap-
tain Imboden's dismounted men, gallantly k-d by Lieutenant
Dolan, scaled the hill, and after a sharp contest succeeded in
putting the attacking party to flight. During the confusion
Captain Dougherty, who, under the plea of illness, was given
a horse to ride, made his escape. The prisoners were quickly
sent to the front, and the column hurried forward.
We struck the other party of the enemy as we turned from
the Fork into the Howard's Lick Road. Here another skir-
mish ensued, but we managed to get past with the loss of
a few men who were straggling and an ambulance, the horses
of which were killed. If the enemy had posted themselves
across this road, as they should have done, we could not have
passed. As it was, we had a narrow escape. As we rode by
the enemy's skirmishers a bullet passed right under Captain
McNeill's nose, slightly abrading the skin and drawing blood,
but doing no other injury. This last danger point being safely
weathered, we pursued our march without further apprehen-
sion and, crossing the mountain, passed safely with our
prisoners and captured property through Brook's Gap into the
Shenandoah Valley.
The following is an extract from the "Record of Events,"
an official document of the Fourth Brigade U. S. A., Depart-
ment of West Virginia: "On the morning of September II,
1863, Major Stephens with six companies of the 1st (West)
Virginia Infantry and Barr's company of cavalry were or-
dered to Moorefield, nine miles from Petersburg, by Colonel
Mulligan, commanding 5th (?) Brigade. Eight commissioned
officers and one hundred and thirty-five enlisted men of the
1st (West) Virginia and seventeen men of Captain Barr's
cavalry were captured by Captain McNeill's Rebel cavalry."
General Imboden's report of September 13, 1863, states:
"The following are the captures made and safely brought
to camp: Prisoners — captains, 3; lieutenants, 5; noncommis-
sioned officers and privates, 138; total. 146. Wagons, 9;
ambulances, 2; horses, 46; saddles and bridles, 4; Minie rifles
(best quality and in good order), 133; cartridge and cap
boxes and belts, 112; new army pistols, 29; rounds of fixed
ammunition, 10500; sabers, 25; bayonets and scabbards, 90;
sets of harness, 28: cooking utensils, tents, blankets, and camp
equipments of all kinds.
"I cannot speak too highly of the gallantry of officers and
men in this really brilliant little affair. They were in the
very midst of a largely superior force who were plotting their
capture, but the tables were completely turned upon them."
ONLY REGIMENT OF CONFEDERATE ARTILLERY.
BY L. S. FLATAU. 525S MAPLE AVENUE, ST. LOUIS.
I submit to you a roster of the famous Vicksburg Battery,
commanded by Capt. Jim Cowan, one of the companies that
composed the only regiment of artillery in the Confederate
army. This regiment was raised and commanded by Colonel
Withers, and now in the shadowy twilight of those days when
the great army of the Confederacy marches faster and faster
toward those white cities where bivouac is made for the last
time among the headstones it may be interesting to many of
my old comrades and heroes of the Confederate cause to re-
mind them of a number of their comrades that I recollect in
this famous company that was engaged in so many desperate
battles during the long period and dreadful events of the war.
To have belonged to a battery that was charged by the enemy
and taken would appear sufficient to convince any one of
experience a plenty; but Cowan's Battery had been charged
and had been supported by the most daring soldiers that Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas, and Alabama had ever given to this cause,
and had lost three batteries under such circumstances.
The roster of this battery, which I can remember distinctly
after these long years past, is: Capt. James J. Cowan; Lieuts.
George H. Tompkins, Thomas J. Hanes. Lud B. Cowan, Ben
C. Edwards ; Orderly Sergeant Archie Craig, who was after-
wards succeeded by E. Trent Eggleston ; Sergeants Van de
Morse, William V. McCray, Samuel A. Bently, and James
Conklin; gun corporals, W. B. Dancy, Joe Williams, B. F.
Wiggins, and your humble servant, L. S. Flatau, commonly
called "Spense;" caisson corporals, Dick Harris and A. \Y
Daniels. All thc^e names are in an old diary I have kept
since those stormy times, as most of them were my friends.
The roster of the cannoneers is : Samuel C. Parks, John
W. and Samuel C. Neely, Thomas Willis, James Wood, Samp-
son Dove, Warren and William O. Smithard. N. Bonaparte
Webster, Ben Powell, Watt Whitley. Warden Whittaker, John
Carroll, William Kelly, William Green, Frank Templeton.
James Billingsly, Alb;ry Billings, Luther R. Reed. Horatio
N. and James G. Spencer, John McDougal, Bun Butler.
Jethro Bunker, Samuel C. Carleton, David Bowles, Will and
John Howell, Gus Folks, John O'Reilly, Tim Crimmins. Will
Herrin, Alex and Joe Stafford, Walter Whitman, Duke and
Jerry Askew, Stephen Gordan, James and Charley Harris,
Henry and Ed Young, Andrew J. McFarlan, John C. Mc-
Quaid, Reece King, George Yost, Tal and Warren Cowan,
Al Trowbridge. Granville and Ben Hicks, Robert Sproule,
Tom Johnson, John and Will Hickman, L. P. Graham. John
Hand, Tom Trainor, Eb Ferrell, John Parr, William and
Tom Drummond, Levi and Jule Culberson, Robert and Wil-
liam Countryman, E. B. Cushman. W. H. Biglow, Jack Hor-
ner, William Johnson, Daniel M. Legg, Frank Russell, Doc
Irwin, John Harrison, Daniel Levy, William Fairchild, Oscar
Steele, Thomas Wilie Wadsworth, and Parmenias Beard.
This is the part of the roster that I have, having lost the
other part that contained the names of this famous battery.
The members of this command averaged a wound to the man.
Many of those I have named were killed or badly wounded,
so that they were no longer fit for service in the battles of
Vicksburg, Chickasaw Bayou, Baker's Creek, Liverpool, Sar-
tarschia, Mechanicsburg, Jackson, Decatur, Ala., Tuscumbia,
Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope
Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Lost Mountain, Chattahoochee
River, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Big Shanty, Altoona
Heights, Florence, Ala. We saved the pontoon bridge against
the fleet on the Tennessee River by Florence, and then at
Fort Blakely. Mobile Bay. There all were speedily cap-
tured except myself and two others, who got away. We
joined Joe Shelby and went to Mexico after making our way
to Texas, swimming the Mississippi River at Bruinsburg on
our horses. We offered our services to Maximilian as sub-
jects under the command of the great Joe Shelby. He re-
fused to accept us, and we made our way back home in 1865.
There are but few of this old command living to-day that
I know of. The only officer that is living is Lieutenant Tomp-
kins. The privates are Webster, Anderson. Daniel Levy, and
Asa Summers, who are not mentioned in the roster. I give
this list, hoping that perchance I may hear from any others.
Qor?f ederat^ l/eterar?
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THE FIGHT .// WINCHESTER, VA.—IIM GRAHAM.
BY J. ii. BRADWELL, BRANTLEY, ALA.
History says very little about the important battle fought
at Winchester, Va., between the Confederates, under Gen.
Jubal A Early, and the Federals, under Sheridan, S ptember
tg, 1X1.4, This battle lasted two days Early's forces num-
bered about thirteen thousand and Sheridan's about forty-
three thousand- more than three to one. Night put an end
in the conflict. The Federals lost six thousand, according to
General Sheridan's official report. According to General
Early's report, Ins army suffered a loss oi fifteen hundred.
Sheridan held the battlefield, and Earlj was forced lo retreat
I Rhodes, who commanded one division oi the army.
was killed here He wa: one of the best generals in the army,
and his death had much 10 do with the result of the battle.
Mi- men fell the lack of his wonderful leadership, and the
enur;. finally succeeded m driving them from their part of
the line late in the afternoon
I lu I. rave Gordon still held his pan of the line with his
old brigade on the extreme left until the broken fragments
of the various commands could get together and give the
army trains time to move on toward Strasburg. When the
Mm was going down behind the western mountains, Gordon's
ammunition was reduced to three cartridges to each man.
With these he told his men to drive back the next assault of
■ li my. When this was done, hi mounted his horse and
ordered the retreat Some oi his men were disposed to run;
but he ordered them to fall Lack in a walk, telling them that
.in- never ran from a battlefield and thai thej were not
■ I..I. but that thej were falling hack only because their
ammunition was exhausted. The enemy, who were falling
hack in the wood ..in of which they had just come, eeing
our men retreat, underst 1 the cause of our departure and
turned 10 renew the fight. Being well supplied with ammuni-
tion, thej i' -..I r new. .1 the fight Thej began
to "huzza" and poured .. terrible vollej into our retreating
rank1-.
1 'in 1 " in- nial colors, which had waved in the smoke ..I
-.. many battles, were this day carried h\ a noble young soldier,
1 m. We had gi me 1 mlj abi nit i me hundt ed j ards
from the position which we had held so long when a hall
•-truck him. and he fell to the ground Captain Miller was
then the "lily officer witfl US lh was near him when he fell.
The writer of this article was ten 01 fifteen teps to Graham's
left, and heard the hall when it struck him Captain M called
nil omi . • 1 .ii. on companj to come and lake him out
with us, hm ii.. on responded Looking to the right. 1 saw
our regimental colors lying by the side of our color bearer,
and mj first impulse was to take them up. A- I stooped to
g. 1 ih. in, 1 aptain M reached down and seized them and said:
"I'll take ih.- colors; you bring Jim out."
Ih. 1 in-: was now verj hot, and I 1m. 1 verj little
minal 1. .11 1 if In- w . mnd I found that
a hall had Struck "him on llie nose and cine out behind hi'
ear. I told him lo get up and I would help him ..in But he
replied thai he could not go, thai hi wa idled and would
fall inn. the hands of the enemy, and begged me t.. run and
make my escape. 1 I. .1.1 him th I n Millet had told me
him >au. and I must do it Willi great effort I
d 111 getting him on Foot, for he was much heavier than
I was. II,- (-.add not walk very fast; and when he saw the
enemy's balls knocking mj. ii. ground around ii' and knew
that they were not far behind, I me to put him down
ninl run for my life. "I 1 : ill .1 me, il! J OU
in.. 11 Mil don't pin 111 down,'' said he. But 1 thought it
my dut\ P. obey Captain .Miller's orders, and held on to him
and encouraged him to try to walk. Before I got him to a
pi... .■ of safety I saw that I must either put him down or
throw away my rill . which I had taken from a Federal an
hour or two befon \ soldiei passed by me without a gun.
and 1 gave it to him and told him to use it if he had any am-
munition. I was now able to gei along better, and finally
succeeded in getting him to our field hospital, winch was the
brick railroad Height house in Winchester.
Dr. .1. A. Butts, our regimental surgeon, was in chargi of
the wounded. I laid my fiuai. 1 on the grass in the yard in the
tear of the building, and he said to me; "Well, you would
bring me out; now you can do something for me Taki one
.( my canteens and till it yondet at that pump and
water in my wound." Tins I did; and when I had emptied
it. he begged me to do so again, saying that it relieved him
very much. 1 complied with this request also; hut when he
asked me to repeal it the third time. I thought it high time
to he gone if 1 expected to make mj escape from the enemy,
who » re now verj near. I hade him a hast j good by and
struck out to find my command.
I heard afterwards that Graham was paroled and exchanged.
I would like lo hear from him or any of his friends who were
in his company. I belonged to Company I. 31st Georgia Regi-
ment, < lord, m's Brigad
GENERAL LEE .11 SHARPSBURG.
l:\ c. \ RICHARDSON, COMPANY B, T _=, ] 1 1 VIRGINIA I'M WIKY
About noon of September 17. 1X02. at memorable Sharps-
burg, after the joy and tierce heat of battle had been our por-
tion for several hours, a trio of oiled and worn but hopeful
Confederati soldiers stood togethei with their guns unloaded
and caiin.le. boxi empty; thus far thej had gone through
the terrible light unscathed. In a few moments, when again
supplied with ammunition, they reentered the deadly fray,
and contributed then- -hare to the proud glorj oi arms so
well earned in that great battle Later in the daj on IS
buried on the bloo.lv field, another wa- badly wounded, the
other was 'pared, and still survives aftei the fortj fourth
annivcrsarj of the great battle. With this preface the writer
pens a brief sketch in reminiscent mood and in proud and
1. .\ nig 111. an. a \
\ i-ei the lapse of Fortj 1 mi \ cai . I distinctlj 1 ecall the
famous place and the memorable conditions surrounding the
greatest of soldiers when 1 first had tin privil 1 eeing
him. And now the kindly Stretch of more than tWO-
core mm 1 recall in proudest memorj thi fadeh s por-
traiture of that manly, heroic figuri 1 ..fully
-.■..I. d . .11 his noble, tru Ij steed
Ii was about noon of September 17. 1862, at Sharpsburg,
during the lerrih [1 ndeci i\ e battle oi Shai ps
• \;i... lam. that I Gen Robert E 1. e riding
the tiring line, lie was inquiring foi G neral Jackson.
I beard him make the inquirj of -oit.iI officers, and was so
impressed with the nobli bearing, tin statelj appearance of
the man. and his g I, ubstantial mount that I was induced
■ 11 him .i neat m il he ■■• is not
ived the prompt reply 'that it was Gen Robert E Lee.
He won no ign of hi 1 all ed 1 ank. 1 1 1 1 graj uniform
■■ • d no ornament of any kind indicating the high grade
of bis official position Still the personal appi is very
imposing and attractive, and he was well mounted on a large,
trustj iiorsc.
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Qoi?federate 1/eterar?.
Ij surpris d al being informed that the
ornmanding-looking soldier was Gen. R. E. Lee;
but] v.i- surprised and fell uneasj thai he should be where
he was likely to be struck down any second. I so expi
. and added that I did not supposi General McClellan
w - in .'i mile of the battlefield. Ii is not generally the ruli
commander in chief advance* with the men under a
. sweeping fire of rifles and musketry and shrieking,
bursting shell s. His subordinates, from brigadier generals
down, are expected t" do this; occasionally his major generals
lend their assuring pres nee in a hot and doubtful struggle
1 readily recall two gallant old brigadier generals, Paul
Semmes and M. D. Corse, that I had the honor to serve under,
who always led their men in every general engagement with
the enemy.
So it came about that I first saw Gen. Robert E. Lee to
know him at Sharpsburg September 17, 1862, while the great
battle of Sharpsburg was "in full swing;" while some one
hundred and twenty thousand men were making the gamest
fight of the nineteenth century, not excepting Waterloo, which,
in some respects, resembled Sharpsburg, but with very dif-
ferent results: Xapoleon being defeated and leaving the field
with a badly routed army; Lee with his heroic army occupy-
ing and resting on the field of battle the entire day after the
battle, and then the night of September 18 retiring deliberately,
carrying all his guns and baggage.
When I saw General Lee, he looked firm and resolute, per-
fectly self-poised, confident, dignified. He evidently felt that
his thirty-eight thousand veterans could hold the field and
carry it over the eighty-two thousand men composing the
Federal host. I saw our great Lee at his best, with the light
of battle in his eye and heroism in every feature. It was
during the most critical and trying part of that most des-
perate day when the deadly, bloody tide of dubious conflict
was fiercely, turbulently ebbing and flowing; when the red
vintage of human gore flowed in cornfields and apple or-
chards, in open hollows and on wooded slopes.
On this terrible, this ensanguined field at midday the strug-
gle for supremacy was mos! eventful and uncertain. It could
not be told where the bird of victory would fold its weary and
triumphant wings. It was here that "the red badge of cour-
age" flaunted its crimson hues over all the fair face of peacs-
ttd nature; it was here that knightly deeds far outshone the
mythical splendor of that vaunted time "when knighthood
was 111 flower;" it was here that "captains courageous" only
emulated the superb courage of their men, each and all bravely
doing amid so many heroes dead and dying; it was here that
we would have been so sorely pressed as was gallant Roland
at fatal Roncevalles had not our peerless Charlemagne been
with us; and it was here that the heroic manhood of Robert
E. Lie was severely tested and found equal to the emergency
of holding his battle lines of offense and defense against tin
powerful enemy.
The night af'er tne battle, after taking counsel with his
generals, he dismissed them with the words: "Gentlemen, ii
General McClellan wishes to continue this light to-morrow.
we will give him battle; sec that your commands are held
ready. Good night." The Federal commander in chief did
not sec lit in renew the bat'le the next day.
As 1 take it. upon a fair and reasonable estimate, the rela-
tive strength of the two armies the morning of September
18 would be aboul twenty-eight thousand Confederates and
sixty-eight thousand Federals. This would be placing the
Confederate loss from nine thousand to ten thousand men
and the Federal Ii 55 at from twelve thousand to fifteen thou*
-and the preceding day. In simply stating a situation 1
now a matter of history, I have no comment to make as 1
the reason entertained by a gen 1 il with sixty-eight thousand
men declining to engage in battl with another general who did
tn : have twenty-eight thousand available men. Tin two arm
were convenient to each oilier; they we're in plain sight i!<
one another on the same field they had fought on the day
before. There was no long, weary marching nee ssary to
precede the deadly rattle of musketry and the loud thunder of
artillery. Why the general wi'h an arm, vastlj superior in
numbers and warlike equipment did not renew an indecisivi
battle, so newly fought on ground of bis own choosing, with
the ready opportunity of a whole day, is a matter the writer
does not propose to discuss in this connection.
We think the honors of the heroic occasion unquestionably
rest with our glorious cause and our great commander. His-
tory will securely preserve the name and fame of Rob n E
Lee among the truest, noblest, most peerless soldiers of any
age or clime. A Northern historian has been kind and hones!
and brave enough to write down the great battle of Sharps-
burg, or Antie'am, as "a drawn battle."
Following this statement I think it relevant to add that
now in the certain, steady light of authentic history we learn
from the- reports of General McClellan sent to General llal-
leck, the Secretary of War, during the fiercest of tin Sharp
burg fighting that he regarded the Confederate forces opposed
to him as numerically superior to his own, and he had very
serious doubts as to the results of the battle. I lake it to be
fairly inferential, the facts being sustained, that all this only
adds to the assured fame, the tmdimmed glory of our match-
less chieftain and the superb fighting quality of his heroic
men. Lhifortunately for General McClellan, several of the
ablest Federal generals, including Fitz John Porter, were nol
at their best, and did not make the really game light made by
General Burnside, on the Federal right, against General Long-
street, on the Confederate left.
With the closing of this memorable and his'oric September
day a kindly and timely night granted a respite to the com-
batants. Neither army had met defeat, and neither claimed a
victory. The day following, September 18, both armies rented
on the battlefield, all unmolested. After efforts so unyielding,
so great, it is evident that both sides were exhausted.
In this brief sketch I have only written of Sharpsburg, or
An.lictam, in a general way, principally to recall the first time
1 saw the grea'est of soldiers, the noblest of men, a name re-
spected and honored alike by friend and foe far and near,
at home and abroad — the illustrious name of Robert E. Lee.
"And for all the years that time shall turn
In its noiseless flight, like lamps that burn
So silent in their starlit home.
His fame shall live in bronze and stone."
THE MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE RIFLES.
BY MRS. HOWARD J. CABELL, CLINTON, MISS,
In April, 1861, tl-.e flower and chivalry of the Old Sotuh
were being equipped and disciplined to go to the front. At
the small but historic town of Clinton, Miss., seventy-five
students of the Mississippi College were drilling 0:1 the cam-
pus, three of the teachers among them, Messr,s. J. H. York,
E. G. Banks, and M. .1. Thigpen. Other young men of the
surrounding country joining them, they soon formed a com-
pany of one hundred and four men called the Mississippi
College Rifles. J. W. Welbom, a trustee of the college, was
Qo^federat^ l/eterar?
V6
chosen to command them. Mr. Cud living near
Clinton, Joseph Buckles, and J. H. York were elected lieu-
tenants respectively; Mike Carney, orderlj sergeant; \\ . II.
Lew i-. second -• rgeanl
Naturally the topic of conversation among the ladies was
thi College Rifles. Entertainments we; given in their honor.
Several patriotic ladies Mrs. .1 B Greaves, Mrs. Patrick
Lewis, Mr-. Jane Criddle, and Mrs. Lucy Banks— spent many
hours busily sewing on a banner with which to present them.
It was presented with appropriate ceremonies by a beautiful
young girl oi Clinton, Miss Lizzie Harris. At Greenwood,
the "lil Mead homestead, Capt .1 W. Welborn was pres nted
by Mrs. Mary Mead with the sword surrendered by Aaron
Burr to Gen. Cowles Mead in 1807. This sword was stolen
in Virginia afterwards from tin tent of Captain Welborn.
On tbr evening of April 22 an entertainment was given to
thi 1 Rifles at Moss Hill, the handsome residence of
Mr. W. \Y. Moffet. Two of Mr, Moffet's -'in- were members
of this company — Peyton, a gay, light hearted boj oi seven
tnd Tom, grave and steadfast, whom the familj called
mother's boy because the mother idolized him. No one seeing
Mrs. Moflfet dial night as she moved among her guests could
have realized what the morrow held for her— a parting with
lur two bright boys, .1 final earth]) parting, for at Malvern
Hill Peyton was fatallj wounded, and his brother fell beside
him, shot through the heart
'in the afternoon of Vpril 23. 1861, a large crowd assembled
at the ( linton Station to saj good-bj to the College Rifles,
ind played "Dixie" and the "Bonnie Blue Flag." Min-
gling with laughter and glad young voices was tin- sound "i
.'.pint; as the last good-bj was -aid. Tile long train
.nit from die station, tin flag was unfurled, gray caps
wen flung in tin' air. and the boys cheered wildly midst the
shrill notes -I 'ii'e in "The Girl 1 Left Behind Me.'
From Clinton the College Rule- went t.. Corin'h, Mi
where they h came Companj E, of die iSth Mississippi Regi-
i ii'. mmanding, under Brigadiet < ten 1 al
1 hi \ftei remaining in Corinth .1 few week-, they were
sent directly to Manassas. In the first haul' of Manassas
Third Lieutenant York was killed, and Second Sergeant W.
.1 n. nil his place, lain- tin- 1S1I1 Mis
Regiment was Bt igad The
! Gen Richard 1 Iriffith fell leading his trw ips in
- : I'. .' fight mar Richmond. The i8th Mississippi
ienl then bei ami 1 pari ol Bat ksdah '- Brig ide and
finally of Humphrey's Bri I Barksdale
having fall' I li ttysburg.
In >. t86r, First Lii utenant Thomas, of the \l
ed, and' Third Lieut. W. H. Lewis was
elected to till the vacancy. 1 1 ieutenant ["homa . returning to
ed to the Mississippi Ca\ airy, •
Ion's Battalion, fad in Brig tn the summer of 1864
this cavalry was sent to North Mississippi to rcen
eral Forrest. On th 1 July, [864, was fought neat
.. Miss., I lai ri-1. in • ■ in. battle was
lost to tin ites. \- orn the
I I : .' ..- Ml
d ntly wounded, a- lie did in 1 n to
1 turned to
ki pt in line, coming
• mm with the regiment; hut wl >it out
Oil th
wn II. 1
In January, 1862, Captain Welborn resigned, and First
Lieutenant law' I the Mississippi Col-
lege Kill. -. a p. .-in. .11 he idled until Lee surrendered. [11
Captain Lewis was the most conspicuous figure in this
party, in active service those four years .d fighting 1
when suffering from wounds. I!.' was wounded in the knee
.11 Ind. 11. 1 burg, wounded in the left arm al Gettysburg,
and a Mime hall went crushing through hi- breast at I
Creek. \i Gettysburg he led the College Rifl -: and ■
thirtj men commanded by him, who so held their
al in the peach orchard during that bitter fight, 11
were killed. Though holding the position a- captain of the
gallant companj until that day ai Appomattox, 1 tptain I 1
did inn again command the College Rifles; fur. the field ol
ficers being di abled, he was either acting major or a- colonel
commanded the regiment. I quote from .1 recent letter re
ceived from an old veteran of the 18th Mississippi: "The one
thing nf he Virginia campaign which left the most vivid
impression on my memory was the dauntless couragi
; . \ . i . ■> Capt. W. II. Lewis, commanding the 18th Missi
Regiment in the bloodj battle of the Wilderness." Of the
one hundred and fiflj three nun commanded b) Captain
Lewis in tin- battle, eighty-five were killed.
When, in April. 1862, Captain Lewis was elected captain
of the College Knl'-. Seend Lieutenant Buckles was elected
first lieutenant. Lieutenant Buckles was wuli the companj at
Appomattox, and when he returned t.i Mississippi brought
hack with him th-' flag which in [861 the patriotic ladi
Clinton had made wiih such high hopes for tin- Mississippi
College Rifles. Ellis die 1- -till car. fully preserved in the
old chapel .1" Mississippi ( 1 illegi
Did -pace permit, I might mention main nam - of the
heroic boys who left Clinton with the 1 cllege Knl. n April.
1S01. On many a hard foughl battlefield their blood was
shed — Manassas, I ei burg, in the Seven Days' fight around
Richmond, mi Malvern Hill, and al S \.n Pines I In \ fol
lowed Longstt e< 1 inn > East 1 enm 1 . beyond inti ■ I !i
to reenforo General Bragg; they left their -lain mi the red
li 1.1 of thick... nanea ; they "fought like brave nnn loilj
well" ai Knoxville; they return d wiili Long treet to Vit
ginia, crossed with Lee the Potomac, did b rk at
Sharpsburg, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, a. id in the
terrible fighting at Gettysburg, in additii awful bat-
tles of thi Wilderness, Spottsylvania C. H., North Anna River,
Cold 1 in ; 1 and in othet 1 ngagi ments not mentioned In re.
On ihe oih of April, [865, with the Vrmj of North rn Vir-
ginia, who surrendered at Appomattox C. II. was the Hum-
phreys Brigade, and with thi the remnant of the
Mississippi Collegi R I I me hundred and four men
win. . there to he pan
After the Civil \\ ar", the I I inized
at Mississippi G 0 >ack the
I, and boj Confedei ite uniform
drill on die ..Id camp
\ln ost any day may 1 " two
1- who belonged i" the company durini
il \\ II I . w 1- and Mr.
I at their
-...a- laid down. Fit
d with a death 1.
many, n ig and val
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THE ALABAMA.
[Paper of Manton Davis read before United Sons of Con-
federate Veterans at the Missouri Athletic Club.]
Abraham Lincoln with a stroke of his pen wrote from the
ledger the capital reserve of the South, which for years it
had been investing in negro brawn. At this time the New
Englander, grown rich enslaving men his piety needs must
free, had been wrestling from the Briton the carrying trade
of the world.
I shall tell you a story of a little ship that lighted the seas
with the burning of this great traffic and sent the purse-
stricken Puritan to the protecting folds of foreign flags. It
is the story of the Alabama.
Intricate questions of international law are somewhat be-
side the purposes of our present meetings. Our time is short ;
it will not therefore be attempted to discuss the legality of
the Alabama's building, equipment, or commission further than
to say :
1. An exact precedent for every several act of the Alabama
was furnished in the Surprise, Revenge, and other ships fitted
out in France and against England by the Commissioners of
the Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin and Silas Dean.
2. In 1S61 the Federal government attempted to have built,
armed, and equipped in England and by the builders of the
Alabama several Alabamas for use against the Confederate
States. It was deterred only by the great cost and the long
time required for building.
3. Though England was required by the Geneva Award to
pay the snug sum of $15,500,000 on account of the Alabama
and similar claims, yet it was never adjudicated that she
violated any principle of the law of nations. This is the
reason : Negotiations prior to the arbitration resulted in the
Treaty of Washington. By that treaty arbitration was pro-
vided for and three principles stipulated by which the arbi-
trators were to be governed. One of these principles, then
stanchly denied by England to be a principle of international
law. was that it is the duty of a nation to use due diligence
to discover and prevent a vessel from being built or equipped
within its jurisdiction and for use against a nation with which
it is at peace and to pay all damages resulting from a viola-
tion of such duty. This stipulation was the foundation of the
award against England, and prevented a decision whether
England violated any international law.
In passing, it may be said that if this stipulation correctly
states the law of the nations then what must be our debt to
Spain? And, judged by that standard, how does the present
administration s'and with Colombia on Panama's account?
The Alabama was built by the Messrs. Laird at Birkenhead,
on the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool, England. She was
contracted for on behalf of the Confederate States by Capt.
James B. Bullock, of Georgia, who superintended her build-
ing. She was known until her christening as Numbr-r 290,
a rabid Federal press stating that that indicated the number
of sympathetic Englishmen who contributed to pay for her.
She was, however, the two hundred and ninetieth ship built
by Messrs. Laird, hence the name, and was paid for in the
sum of $250,000 from the Confederate treasury. She was a
little ship, 900 tons burden, 230 feet long, 32 feet wide, 20 feet
deep, drawing 15 feet of water. She could steam or sail, her
single engine was of 300 horse power, and her speed capacity
was 13 knots when driven by steam and sail. Her fighting
equipment, which she received after leaving England, was one
8-inch, one 100-pound, and six 32-pound guns. Her full fight-
ing force was 120 men, 24 officers ; beside the modern levia-
than of the deep, a mere toy — not a formidable ship, even in
her own day. The purposes of her building were summed up
in a sentence of her captain, when he said that she was "de-
signed as a scourge to the enemies' commerce rather than for
battle.''
So strong were the protests of the Federal government to
the English authorities that but for a ruse which her captain
frankly admits our story had not been told, and the Alabama
would have been detained awaiting the slow deliberations of
an English court.
On the evening of her completion she was carried out to
sea on a supposed "trial trip," having aboard her many ladies
as guests. Once outside, the guests were put aboard a tug,
and the Alabama went her way unmolested in this way, avoid-
ing the orders for her detention which were received at Bin-
k— .lhvad but a few hours after her departure. For two days
after leaving Birkenhead she remained at Anglesey, off the
coast of Wales, where she was joined by a tug carrying the
crew which was to sail her. She was carried by a young
Englishman to the Portuguese island of Terceira, in the
Azores, at -which rendezvous she was to be met by a ship
carrying her guns, munitions of war, and by Raphael Semmes,
under whose command she was to run her eventful career.
Semmes arrived on Wednesday, August 20, 1862, and by
the Sunday following the Alabama's guns were placed, her
stores loaded, her coal bunkers filled, and "she was sweet and
clean, her awnings snugly spread, her yards squared, her rig-
ging hauled taut, and she looked like a bride with the orange
wreath about her brow, ready to be led to the altar."
The christening of the Alabama is best told in the eloquent
language of him who commanded her:
"The ship having been prepared, we steamed out on this
bright Sunday morning under a cloudless sky, with a gentle
breeze from the southeast scarcely ruffling the surface of the
placid sea, and under the shadow of the smiling and pictur-
esque island of Terceira, which nature seemed to have decked
specially for the occasion, so charming did it appear in its
checkered dress of a lighter and darker green, composed of
cornfields and orange groves. The flag of the newborn Con-
federate States was unfurled from the peak of the Alabama.
The ceremony was short, but impressive. The officers were
all in full uniform and the crew neatly dressed, and I caused
all hands to be summoned aft on the quarter-deck, and, mount-
ing a gun carriage, I read the commission of Mr. Jefferson
Davis appointing me a captain in the Confederate States navy
and the order of Mr. Stephen R. Mallory, the Secretary of
the Navy, directing me to assume command of the Alabama.
"Following my example, the officers and crew had all un-
covered their heads in deference to the sovereign authority,
as is customary on such occasions ; and as they stood in re-
spectful silence and listened in rapt attention to the reading
and to the short explanation of my object and purposes, I was
deeply impressed with the spectacle.
"Virginia, the grand old mother of many of the old States.
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana were all
represented in the persons of my officers, and I had some
as fine specimens of the daring and adventurous seamen as
any ship of war could boast.
"While the reading w:as going on two small balls might have
been seen ascending slowly — one to the peak and the other
to the main royal masthead. These were the ensign and pen-
nant of the future man-of-war. A curious observer would
also have seen a quartermaster standing by the English colors,
which we were still wearing, a band of music on the quarter-
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deck, and a gunner, lock string in hand, standing by the
weather-bow gun. When the reader had concluded and at a
wave of his hand, the gun was fired, the flags were changed,
and the air was rent by a deafening cheer from officers and
men, the band at the same time playing 'Dixie,' that soul-
stirring anthem of '.he newborn government. Thus amid
this peaceful scene of beauty, with all nature smiling on the
ceremi ny. was the Alabama christened."
The commander had a ship, he had officers who had served
him well in the Sumter, but no crew. Sixty men had come
■ •ut on the Alabama, English they were, and Dutch, Irish,
French. Italian, and Spanish— sailors of all nations, promis-
cuously picked from the streets of Liverpool. Thirty men of
like kind had come out with the captain in the Bahama. After
a rousing '-lump speech by the commander, the books of en-
listment being opened, eighty of tin sc ninety signed, and thus
ended the first and last public meeting ever held on board the
Alabama.
The first cruise of the Alabama was against the whalers off
th< Vzorcs, and lasted but thirteen days, from September 5
i" 18, 1862. Ten '■hips were captured and burned. There
was no fighting, though in many instances exciting sailing
races occurred, the brst of which was with a boat from Siam
and bound for Hamburg, and of course immune as a neutral.
The goal of these races was the sanctuary of the neutral ma-
rine league, within which, to the Alabama's honor be it said.
no 'ii my in llight was ever able to come. The crews of all
these vessels were landed on the island of Flores. and the
Alabama crossed to Newfoundland in search of the European
and coastvi isr trade of the North.
On October 3 the Alabama made the Gulf Stream, the great
ocean highway, and from that day until October 15 captured
seven ships. Of these, five were burned, one was released on
giving bond for her ransom by reason of having neutral cargo
aboard, and the last, a passenger sailer, carrying sixty pas-
sengers, thirl) of them ladies, was allowed to go on ransom
bond to prevent the Alabama's bring turned into a nursery.
for five days following the Alabama, though busy, had no
results. She came near being lost in a gnat cyclone, and after
that Spent her energies chasing ships found to be neutral.
From October ->t to 27 ca; ured four ships, three of
which were burned, and the fourth, having neutral cargo,
released 1 n ransom bond and sent to New York with the
Alabama's hi >sl 1 if prisi mi 1 -
Deeming a longer staj in these wains so neat to New York
dangerous, she departed for the West Indies. On the way
-in c: -1 burned two other ships, taking prisoners a
1 nited Stairs i . ii, ,„,] three daughters, and car-
rying them inti the port oi Fori de Franc.1, on the island of
Martinique
By ibis time the fame of the Vlabama was great, and visitors
thi port, of which there were many, were disappointed
that thej did not find a Captain Kidd 01 a Bluebeard; but on
the other hand a courteous Southern commander, a trim little
ship, and a spick and span crew. The temptations of the port
were great for Jack, though; and. smuggling liquor
aboard, hi tarted a mutiny, led by twenty strong spirits.
llii- mutiny was quelled by soaking the culprits with buckets
and buckets of cold water 111 quick succession. This novel
method of punishment caused the sailors afterwards to say
tin 1 lid Bet wax is hell on watering a fellow's
grog."
While at this port the enemy's ship. San Jacinto, came in.
She being twice 1- heavily armed and having double the crew.
the Alabama, with that discretion which is the better part of
valor, withdrew in the night toward Venezuela. Five days
wei spent in tin Venezuela island of Blanquilla on a little
holiday, fishing, bathing, sailing races, and finally taking on a
new supply of coal. .
Vbout this time was being formed in Massachusetts the
much talked-of Banks Expedition to be transported by sea
to Galveston, and front that base to subjugate Texas. This
force of thirty thousand men was due about January 10, 1863,
before Galveston, and Semmes determined to cruise around
and await and sink ibis expedition, meantime hoping to catch
a California ship for Europe gold-laden. He was disap-
pointed as to the gold ship, but captured three others — one
burned, one released on bond by reason of her neutral cargo,
and the third, a ship belonging to Vanderbilt and having five
hundred women and children and one hundred officers and
crew aboard, was released because the Alabama could not en-
i' rtain thi 1 rowd. The ladies aboard this ship were seized with
great consternation when they learned they were in the hands
of that much-talked-of and "monstrous pirate," the Alabama.
In order to quiet their fears. Semmes sent aboard his hand-
somest young lieutenant, bedecked in his most gorgeous rai-
ment. So well did this lieutenant succeed in his commission
that he returned to the Alabama shorn of several buttons
i'ii bis uniform, thej having been clipped therefrom by the
ladies as souvenir- .d the adventure.
Proceeding in search of Banks. Semmes found that Gal-
veston had been retaken from the Federals and the Banks
Expedition bad stopped at New Orleans and did not mate-
rialize off Galveston.
Approaching the harbor about nightfall January 11, 1S63,
ii was found that the city was being shelled by live of the
enemy's vessels. Here occurred the Alabama's fight with the
Hatteras, the first of the only two fights in which she was
ever engaged. The commander was unwilling to combat five
vessels, any one of which was doubtless his equal; and while
pondering what should be done the enemy solved the problem
by one of his vessels coming out. The Alabama slowly
started to sea. and the enemy, encouraged by her flight, gave
pursuit. Keeping just nut of range, the Alabama decoyed the
pursuer until they were twenty miles out from the other ships,
and thru turned so she might approach, but ran parallel to
her opponent. The Alabama on her first had gavi the name
of a British ship. The pursuer declaring her to be a ship of
the United States, the Alabama then announced her name
and nationality, and the two vessels at a range of less than
one hundred yards simultaneously d broadsides.
Each ship as ' delivered her broadsides put herself under
steam, and the action became a running tight in parallel lines,
or nearly so, the ships now nearing and now si pai iting from
each other Thirteen minutes they fought in the moonlight,
when the Hatteras surrendered, shortly thereafter going down
in the waters of the Gull of Mexico Rescuing Captain Blake,
ri the Hatteras, and all his men. 1 Jaban extinguished
her lights to avoid the now awakened ships oh Galveston and
went her way. The Hatteras was one hundred tons larger
and had a crew 1 not. They each had eight guns,
though the Alabama's were th< heavier. Two men were killed
on the Battel i five wounded. One wounded was the
extent of the Alabama's injury.
Prisoners from the Hatteras were landed at Tort Royal,
Jamaica. This wa Briti h port, and our voyagers were re-
Wtth great h \propos of this hospitality,
there was an amusing incident. Five English ships of war
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\vere in port, and one of them, run of compliment to (he Ala-
bama, played "Dixie" during her evening band concert. Cap-
tain Blake, of the Hatteras, saw lit to protest to the British
commander that this was an insult to the United Slates and
to himself. On the following day reparation was made in this
manner: Beginning the evening concert, the British flagship
played "God Save the Queen." The second ship played a
fine opera air. and then the Greyhound, who lately had of-
fended, solemnly played a melancholy dirge. This was fol-
lowed by "Dixie," played with slowness, sweetness, and pathos.
When the last note had died away on the soft evening air,
there at once arose an infernal din of drums, fifes, and cym-
bals, and wind instruments in a go-as-you-please and every-
fellow-for-himself rendition of "Yankee Doodle."
Neither your time nor your patience would suffice for de-
tails of the Alabama's cruises. An outline sketch alone can
be suggested of the vessels burned off Jamaica ; of the Ala-
bama's fire aboard ship off Santo Domingo ; of two vessels
burned simultaneously when her own fire was scarcely ont ;
of her astuteness in taking a stand at that central point north-
east of Brazil, where both the European and American trade
to and from South America needs must p3ss and her captur-
ing nine ships there in quick succession; of her visit to Fer-
nando de Norohna. the penal colony of Brazil ; of her burn-
ing four ships on leaving that place ; of her visit to Bahia,
Brazil, and of the half diplomacy and half bluff which pre-
vented her from being run out of that port ; of her voyage
eastward to the Cape of Good Hope and the burning of eight
vess.ls on the way; of her diplomacy and the English good
will which prevented her being seized and held at the Cape;
of her capture of a vessel with all Cape Town looking on with
applause; of her fourteen desertions at Cape Town through
the agency of the United States Consul ; of her long and fruit-
less voyage of forty-five hundred miles through the Indian
Ocean to the Strait of Sunday and the China Sea, the Federals
vainly pursuing; of the fame which bad preceded her, causing
simulated certificates of neutrality; of the vessels burned be-
tween Java and Sumatra in spite of their fraudulent certifi-
cates; of her visit to Singapore, and there finding twenty huge
East Indiamen rotting at their docks rather than risk meet-
ing this terror of the seas ; of the same condition at Bangkok,
Canton, Manila ; of her leaving Chinese waters, burning
three large ships in the Malacca Straits.
We pause to relate an incident of the captain of one of the
vessels last named, lie was <>f refreshing manners. Coming
on to the Alabama, he said: "Well, Captain Semmes, I have
been expecting to fall in with you every day for three years,
and here I am at last." "Glad you found me after so long a
search." said Semmes. "Search?" was the reply. "It has
been some such search as the devil may be expected to make
after holy water."
Leaving the China Sea by way of the Malacca Straits, the
Alabama came back cm her trail around Ceylon and India to
Good Hope. Vessels of the United States had now come to
be scarce, and but two w-ere burned on this lung, long voyage
returning. Leaving Good Hope on April 22, [864, the Alabama
burned one more vessel near St. Helena and one five days
later, and then, worn and battered and foul, she limped into
Cherbourg. France, on July 11, 1864. her career of destruction
done. She had captured sixty-six ships. One was sunk in
battle, one converted to a cruiser, one sold, thirteen released
for ransom, and fifty were burned.
Do you ask why this waste of wealth in flames? All South-
ern ports were then blockaded. Semmes when he had com-
manded the little Sumter had sought an asylum for his prizes
111 ports nt the empires of Great Britain and France, and had
been refused. He had sought asylum for his prizes in ports
of Spain, and the vessels had been turned hack to their original
owner-;. He had tried sending prize vessels and crews through
the blockade, losing both the prizes and his own men. So his
ship, a homeless wanderer on the deep, must needs destroy
her prizes or be by them destroyed.
May we make a historical comparison? Sherman burned
the homes of the South ; Semmes, the ships of the North. But
the goods and stores that Semmes destroyed were not food
and raiment of old men. women, and children. The ships he
burned were not the sole shelters of the helpless. Semm.s
burned the adventurers of the North, sent forth to sea that
profits in luxuries might be returned; private personal effects
he harmed not ; while Sherman destroyed life's necessities
which warring Southerners might not replace to dependent
loved ones.
Would you learn in statistical eloquence of the South's little
ships? Then know that in i8(ii the United States had vessels
engaged in foreign trade aggregating 2.496,894 tons; in 1867
the total was but 214766 tons; and, despite the era of pros-
perity and the rapidly accumulated wealth of this country, the
United States in the year 1905 had but 946750 tons in for-
eign trade, or but thirty-eight per cent of her tonnage forty-
four years ago.
It was the intention of the captain to parole his crew for
two months and clean and repair the injuries of two years'
voyage. Cherbourg being exclusively a naval station, the
docks all belonged to the government, and to the emperor was
referred the question of their use by the Alabama. While
awaiting bis reply the Kearsarge came outside the port. The
Kearsarge was superior to the Alabama in size, armament,
crew, and stanchness. But, nothing daunted, Semmes pre-
pared to give battle. In addition to her other advantages, the
Kearsarge in preparing for the fight rendered herself an iron-
clad by hanging all her iron chains from rail to the water's
edge in parallel lines, and then covering the whole over with
boards to hide the ruse.
On Sunday morning of June 19, 1864, the Alabama steamed
out to her doom. The day was cloudless. Vast crowds, com-
ing even from distant Paris, had assembled in the amphi-
theater of the heights around Cherbourg. Seven miles out the
duel began. It was fought by both vessels steaming around
a common center and at a range of three-quarters of a mile.
Shell after shell was exploded against the Kearsarge's iron-
clad side without effect. Within twenty minutes the shot and
shell began to tell on the Alabama. Within thirty minutes
the Kearsarge would have been sunk had the ammunition which
the poverty-stricken Southerner had for two years hoarded in
his hold done its work. The stern post of the Kearsarge. in
which was imbedded an unexploded shell, defective from age.
is in the possession of the United States to this day. The ex-
plosion of this shell would have ended the fight in thirty
minutes.
For one hour and ten minutes they fought, when 'he Ala-
bama, her decks gory, her masts cut down, fast filling with
water, her fires extinguished, a helpless hulk, no longer able
to steam or sail, struck her colors; and then, like a living thing
in agony, she threw high her bow ami descended in'o the green
waters of the famnus British Channel, to lie entombed with
many a gallant craft that had gone her way before her.
[This paper has been unavoidably held over for months. —
Ed. [
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I
THE FLAG QF FIRST TEXAS, A. N. VIRGINIA.
BY VAI. C. I. II ES, 4TH TF.XAS, AUSTIN, TEX.
Hanging on the wall in the Texas Slate Library is a worn-
out, faded silken rt lie of the eventful sixties — a lone Star
Texas flag, so tattered and torn by war and time that the
casual observer will pass it by unobserved. It has a history,
but i- silent now, as silent as the gallant fellows who carried
it. fought for it. and died under u in the old cornfield at
Sharpsburg, Md., September 17, [862. Triumphantlj it had
v ived 'e»er the old tsl Texas Infantry on the banks of the
1 m. ,ii Vorktown, at Eltham's Landing, at Seven Pines,
.11 Gaines's Mill, al Freeman's Ford, at Thoroughfare Gap,
,'t B01 n boro 1 .an. and went down in blood on the battlefield
• 1 Sharpsburg The 1 ^t Regiment was -,, proud of this
flag tie", ile \ carried ii in 1 -ilk oilcloth case, and never un-
furled ' except "ii ie\ieu-, dress parades, or in battle. Ile
entire brigade was proud "f 11; and when we saw 11 waving
in the Virginia breeze, it was a sweet reminder of home, a
thousand miles aw ay.
This prized flag was made ami presented to the 1st Texas
[nfantrj bj Miss Lula Wigfall while her father, Louis T.
Wigfall, was colonel of the regiment, early in r.861. Later on
she made a beautiful flag out of her mother's wedding dress
and gave n to the 4th Regiment while they were in their
winter quarters on the P tomac, and it is now in the pos-
sessiori of the Daughters ol the 1 onfederacy in their room in
the Si. 11. Capitol building at Austin.
The 1st Texas was one of the few regiments in Lee's army
that had twelve full companies in it. In the beginning of the
war it was one of the strongt 1 regiments in the Army of
Northern Virginia, bu1 disease and bullets had greatly di-
nni ishi d H- number before it reached the fatal fii Id of Sharps-
\\ Ian this old lone star flag, now in the Texas Library,
was returned to the State -.one months ago b} the Secretary
of War. it was labeled: "Te> it Brigade Flag, Captured at
Antiol nn. M I "
Knowing that II I's ["exas Brigade, the onlj rexas troops
that served in tin if Northern Virginia, had no brigade
. Gi ■ William R 1 1 iinhv and myself, members of the ith
Texas Regiment uf that old brigade, visited the Capitol to 1
if we could discover wherein lay the mistake. General Ham-
hy's recollections of Hood's Brigade and of their eventful
campaign of 1^12 is remarkably clear. Although he had not
from a wi at S cond Manas sas, lit
went into the battle i burg barefooted, but came out
hod I know that our In igade quat tei
i issued ii- i clothing of any kind during I
ign mi" Maryland, but I never asked him where
' 'OS.
oon as the librarian pointed out the flag we both recog-
gh ii had been abi 111 fortj fout
last wc saw it. Ii 1 thi I ■ h>-t by the 1-1 Regimen
m the battle "i s'aai i' burg, ( olonel Work, who commanded
the regiment in the battle of Sharpsburg, in 1" report
! dent I -aw
four bearei te colors shol dow n, Ji ihn 1 1
larles Kingsbury, and James Malone; others
i -I down I In- colors
I h.u-k with thi I 'mi wli n lost
lie knew it save him who had fallen with it
The i-t Texas went into the light at Sharpsburg with two
iix, rank and file, and lost "lie lumdn ,1
and eighty-three in killed and wounded, which is the he!
loss of any regiment, either Union or Confederate, in any
battle of the war. The I"-- of the entire hrigade in that
battle was unusually heavy. We went into the tight with
i ight hundred and fiftj fout . i im< out with three hundred and
nineteen, h ving lo I on the field five hundred and thirtj
I have in my possession a complete muster roll of the mem
bet of the ist Texas Regiment who fell at Sharpsburg gal
lantlj di fi riding this li mi tat flag and theit battle flag, also
lost in the old cornfield I believe a muster roll <>i these
in ivi Texans should be inscribed on parchment and hung by
the old flag in the Stale I ,ibrat \
The two flags lost l>\ the I lent, now in the
State Library, are the onlj flags lost, captured, or surrem
l" dm rexas soldiers in Lee's army. The three i
minis, (he Ist. 4th. and .-th. stacked their gun- a! VppomattO
"ii April o. 1865, hut they hung no lags on the muzzles of
their faithful Enfield ride- The truth is. the boys deliberately
cut their old lings mt,, lull, pieces and divided (Hem among
themselves, .md those little fragments "i faded silk were about
all they get for four long y ars "i devoted service.
The lone star flag of the 1 -.t Texas lias had an eventful
areer. When presented i" the regimenl by a noble
girl on the hanks of the Potomac, it was bright and glorious,
and. like the character of the fair donor, was "pure as the
beautiful snow." Twelve hundred Texans cheered it to the
echo when it was kissed for the first lime by the breeze of
"hi Virginia. On the morning of September iS. 1862
onlj fortj three of its gallant defenders answered to T<"
call. One thousand .md fifty-seven were missing!
Gi ni nail Sherman was correct when he said. "War i- L
l'-i- lone star flag so faded now,
So w urn by shut ami shell.
Waved proudly once o'er gallant men
In the days when war was hell.
'I 1- bill a i.nled relic nine.
But "ii the Rebel yell
1 ung beneath this bonnj
In the da} - w hen w ar w a- hell.
X" foeman's hand e'er touched its folds
Till those who bore it fell
\nd died mi Sharpsburg's bloodj
In the days when war was hell.
This grand old flag, -•> silent here.
A storj -ad could tell
i 11 ihn-, who died beneath its star
In the days when war was hell.
Rest. "1.1 flag, ) ' 'ir mission'
Our -..us will guard you well,
I h.ir Fathers loved Mm long
In the days when war was hell.
— I '<il C. Giles.
-Tin- Old Sin in" fob Old \m. Youni John W. Martin.
1 i,,. 11,. u 1 ue i" tin iiitli 11 ' ' annot tell you with
,v |lat iearl interest 1 have read your vivid portt lyal ol
•4 1 "Id days But thej have p
;„„! wi m onlj t,u-i that lie who 'I'll' all things well has
1,, ected 0111 de-inn. A- an . of its appre. i.iii.m by
my chi 'ok has been kept among them and
friend-, depriving me t" a great degree of the Opportunity "f
; hence mj delay in acknowledging its
ipt."
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"THE REBEL YELL."
BY CAPT. F. J. V. L'CAND.
Tile scuie we present is the army in gray
Bivouacked where it halted from long, weary march.
Not sheltered by tents, on their blankets they lay.
.And canopied over with heaven's grand arch.
'J is spring of the year, and flowerets are blooming —
The features of Nature are broadening with smiles;
The winter is past, the birds are resuming
Their carols which charm us and man's care beguiles.
The morn is just dawning, the usual sound
Of reveille calls from the camps far and near.
At times well defined with notes full and round,
Then fainter, like echoes, it dies on the ear.
Aroused from their sleep, the soldiers are waking
From sleep that to same was tranquil and sweet,
\\ hile dreaming of home, and' in dreams merry-making
With those whom they longed in embraces to greet.
To others the long, weary watches of night
Were restless and brought neither sleep nor repose,
For movements were making which told them they might
Ere long be grappling in death with their foes.
A clatter of hoofs is heard fast approaching —
A courier hurriedly making his round;
He follows no path, but on camp lines encroaching
He urges his steed where a footing is found.
Without a delay, he reaches headquarters ;
He does not dismount, so great is his haste
With tip of his cap he issues his orders;
'Tis evident time is too precious to waste.
But a moment elapses — the adjutants call :
"Form your companies!" Orderlies quickly reply,
''Fall in! Fall in, men!" Abandoning all.
Responsive to duty, the soldiers comply.
Conveying their orders, couriers are dashing,
And movements are rapid as columns combine;
Artillery corps are their teams wildly lashing.
Battalions and companies wheel into line.
The lines are completed, the soldiers well know
'Tis theirs to obey, and are ready to serve;
They await the comimand which shall tell them to go
With moments of exquisite tension of nerve.
All now is made ready and waiting the word ;
Waiting — yes, waiting with feelings intense
The signal — the boom of a cannon is heard,
'i he sound's a relief from the dreadful suspense.
Attention, Battalion !
Command given "Load,'' and the ring of the rammer,
As driving the cartridge, it springs and rebounds;
The rustle of boxes, click of the hammer
At once are suggestive and ominous sounds.
O, who can forget it that ever has heard
The "Forward, Guide Center" which rings on the ear?
And followed by "Charge," that terrible word
Which starts off the line in its maddening career!
As surges the waves of the tempest-tossed ocean,
When lashed into fury by boisterous gabs.
It rises and falls in ceaseless commotion,
Then breaks on the rocks in murmurs and wails.
So move the long ranks of the- fierce "line of battle"
As onward it sweeps with disastrous flow ;
It charges 'mid shot, shell, and musketry's rattle,
And bursts in its fury when met by the foe.
Plunged into flashes of dense liquid lire.
Facing the rain of the bullets and shell.
'Mid columns of smoke mounting higher and higher,
Regardless of fate, they rush in with a yell !
Down the declivities, mounting the knolls,
Sweeping more rapidly over the plains,
A vast living mass like a fire it rolls ;
Humanity lost, pandemonium reigns.
The roar of the cannon, the musketry lire.
The whiz of the bullets, the shriek of the shells
Are sounds to which even the demons aspire;
Resounding o'er all are the fierce Rebel yells.
Me'hinks the first time this yell was e'er given
With reverence, we say. it was by God's command;
The order was issued directly from heaven.
The thought is majestic, superlative, grand !
'Twas Joshua, leader of Israel's hosts,
Who was told to compass a city about.
And follow instructions, with all at their posts.
The people he led should unite in a shout.
Conceive, if you can, of I he terror conveyed
By this loud-swelling chorus of shouting or yell ;
The hearts of strong men were with horror dismayed
As the walls of Jericho crumbled and fell.
This yell untaught is a wild inspiration
Which comes all unbidden — a gush of the soul;
Voice of the South, it defies imitation.
It L'umfs in prolonged and continuous roll.
The harvest of death a wide swath is mowing.
The dead and the dying are strewn o'er the field;
Yet steadily onward, like tidal wave flowing.
They rush toward the goal, to no obstacle yield.
The solid earth trembles, the elements quake,
And heaven itself with vibration is bowed.
Withdrawn from confusion which mortals can make,
The sun has thrown over its features a cloud.
An enfilade fire of canister, raking
From batteries in gray which have broken the flanks,
Is sweeping the works, and havoc is making
As shots well directed pour into the ranks
The starry cross over the breastworks is borne —
A host to' sustain it have gathered around.
Down, by a volley of bullets 'tis torn ;
Up, again floating, it springs with a bound.
Into the breastworks, commingled the flashing
Of fire which leaps out like tongues from the gun;
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Hand-to-hand conflict, their bayonets clashing,
Fighting like derhons, the triumph is won.
The voices which joined in these shouts years ago
Are silent in death or bj Time are subdued.
They never again so discordant can flow ;
T1r'\ never can be with their vigor renewed.
May the yell of the future be shoutings of joj
Whenever exultant our voices we raisel
Maj the thoughts of our hearts and our lips find employ
In joyful thanksgiving and paeans of praise!
( \1'1. 1 , J. V. 1 • \Mi.
Fred J. \ Let und wa born at Natclv VI >., January
13, i s 4 1 . of English i irentagi and Huguenot ancestry. Just
o the war he beca membt i oi the ' Natch
Fencibles," ;i company whicli was Vpril 24, [824,
wiili John A Quitman (afterwards major general in the
1 1 i< .in War) a its first 1 iptain The o "tnpanj vt as char
tered in 1833, ami 1 he charter was never foi feited or annulli d.
Robert Lowri I id \ era! years
: Bti r the war 0 i lin 1 << land to reorg
and perpetuati tl mpanj It has not been an actr m
pany I . bul the few surviving war members
have concluded thai it shall exisl as long as th< p
tain lives. The ] ' panj ( ■. 1 if the i.'tli
iment, Army of Northern 1 tnd its his
tory is in p everely wi mnded in the
battle of Seven Pines, but was back in the rank- after four
months, I [e w « 1 wnded a 1 which
kepi him out ol ervici for three months. He was with liis
command at the battle of Fori Gregg, neat Petersburg, which
occurred three days befori the surrender. Here, as hi
the remnant of thi ir brigade went up in a halo of glory. He
adjutant ol th 1 1 gimi ni t the 1 lose ^i the v
CONCERNING .1 REUNION AT FRANKLIN.
November ,^o. 1X64. never goes unobserved by men who
fought at Franklin. I here never was fought a battle doubt-
less in which the antagonists saw more of courage than was
witnessed there by friend and foe. The writer never knew of
two men meeting who faced each other in that awful carnage
that they did not greet each other most cordially, ["hi Fed-
erals give unstinted praise to the Confederates, who did all
that mortal men could, while the Confederates art evei
1 1! how the Federals rallied again and again for the
defense. Through an earnest desire to have the survivors of
both sides meet there in reunion (not a great bombastic gath-
ering, but the men who fought there to meet and compare ex-
periences) the editor of the Veteran has corresponded with
Union and Confederate soldiers, and he has ever found a
most cordial sentiment Favorable to it But n seems that
their own reunion- have been arranged for at such time as
to interfere with a liberal attendance. But the Veteran per-
sists lb'' people of Franklin an- earnesth in favor of it.
and the Daughter- of the Confederacy have engaged to give
1 welcomi to all and an entertainment that will certainly be
istent with Southern hospitality
Let 11- make a beginning thi- year. The anniversary comes
■ in Saturday, and let some of us meet then and arrange for
next year If Onlj a few, the movement can be started that
would result in a gathering that would result in much plea
tire and in the final purchase of the important parts of the bat-
tlefield I'H ,1 government park, where there should be a mon-
ument in honor of both sides Let any who can go thi- year
report in advance to S \ Cunningham, Nashville
Col. Isaac R Sherwood, of Toledo, Ohio, who was one of
the Union commanders in the battle of Franklin, writ.
,,rnn ernment park there: "Snob tin- United States
government should purcha > thi land where that bank was
fought, and I believe will do -1, if the effort is made by the
soldiei who took fart in that terrible conflict. 1 -ball aim
1.. do im fart in aid of such a movement, and I ran think "f
nothing that would interest me more than a reunion oi
who fought "ii both -ide- on that battlefield. I havi
been over the field since the war I send for the K.\ lb
I aid- I k containing so much about that b:
INQX IRIES FOR IND IBi M ' I \ S.
I B Masters, who was of Compani B, Third Florida Vol-
unteers, writes from 209 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Ga
"Kindly make an inquiry through thi Vetei ■ tor me.
the middle of December, [862, having been wounded and taken
prisoner on tin- battlefield of Perryville, Ky., I was sent t"
1I1. Federal 'bull pen' in Louisville, and was taken bj steamer
to Vicksburg, Mi--, to bi iged with about nine hun-
dred other prisoners- sick and wounded. There was a de-
tachment of twenty-five soldiei 25th Iowa Regiment
which tard. One of thesi -obiter-. .1 pi ivate about
fifty years of age, 1 i 1 that 1 was unable to use my
jaw-, on account of the lower one having been -battered by a
Federal bullet, and generou up of I" an soup,
which I aci 1 pti d, hat me had nothing in m d foi
I days Dai after day for the remainder of the trip
down tin- soldier brought, me his ration of soup, which I
ed my life, a- 1 was unabl the ration given
us bj the Yankees, which of bard tack and a small
if "Old Ned.' I have forgotten hi- name, but would like
r from him if alive to thank him for his kindness at
that time."
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THE HOME OF THE SOUL.
[Original repeats last two lines of each stanza.]
I will sing you a song of that beautiful land,
The far-away home of the soul,
Where no storms ever beat on the glittering strand
While the years of eternity roll.
O, that home of the soul, in my visions and dreams,
Its bright jasper walls I can see.
Till I fancy but thinly the veil intervenes
Between the fair city and me.
1'lis' Cncliaugtable home is for you and for me,
Where Jesus of Nazareth stands.
The King of all kingdoms forever is he,
And he holdeth our crowns in his hands.
O, how sweet it will be in that beautiful land,
So free from all sorrow and pain,
With songs on our lips and with harps in our hands.
To meet one another again!
Mrs. Telfair Hodgson.
The Kirbv-Smith Chapter, U. D. C, at Sewanee, Train.,
has lost a most valued and beloved member in the death of
Mrs. Telfair Hodgson. She was a daughter of Georgia, and
her husband, the Rev. Telfair Hodgson, was a gallant soldier
in the 44th Regiment of Virginia, afterwards chaplain in the
1st Alabama Cavalry, and on the staff of General Wheeler.
Mrs. Hodgson was a Christian of the highest type and a
true-hearted Southern woman. No member of the Chapter
could be more missed, and we desire to put on record our ap-
preciation of her rare virtues and fine personality. Recog-
nizing that her place can never be filled, we bow in submission
to the will of Him who has called her to higher things.
Committee : Mrs. E. Kirby-Smith, Miss Lily W. Green.
Mrs. M. J. Selden. Mrs. E. H. Shoup, Mrs. p. S. Brooks,
Miss E. N. Douglas (Chairman).
Caft. James C. Jones.
James Chamberlayne Joins was a representative Confeder-
ate. It is said of him that there was seldom if ever any more
popular man in Shelby County. He served under Forrest and
gained the rank of captain. Although a cripple for many years,
he was an honorary member of Company A, Confederate Vet-
erans. He was a son of Gov. James C. Jones and also United
States Senator. The family lived in Lebanon, Tenn., when
Comrade Jones was born, but moved to Memphis in 1849. He
engaged in active business pursuits, notwithstanding his af-
fliction. He was public-spirited, honestly and actively inter-
ested in the development, growth, and prosperity of the city
of Memphis. He was elected to the office of county register
in August, 1902, and reelected to the same office in August,
1906. In his administration of the affairs of the office Mr.
5 record had been eminently satisfactory. He is sur-
vived by bis widow. Mrs. Alice Tait Jones, and two brothers,
Felix Jones, of Richmond, Va., and Robert Jones, of Shelby
County, near Memphis, Tenn.
Capt, Samuel B. Browx.
Aiur a brief illness, Capt. Samuel B. Brown died at Water
Valley, Mi^s.. August 14, 1907, in his seventy-eighth year.
He commanded Company I, 33d Regiment Mississippi Volun-
teer Infantry, and bore a conspicuous part in many battles in
Mississippi and Louisiana under Gen. W. W. Loring. After
the fall of Vicksburg, the Army of Mississippi was trans-
ferred to the Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston, and Captain Brown was in the battles from
Resaca to Atlanta and with his command under General
Hood in his advance on Nashville, Tenn. He w:as severely
wounded in the right arm in the battle of Franklin, and was
left in Franklin when the army assaulted Nashville. When
our army retreated from Nashville, Captain Brown traveled
on foot, with his broken arm in a sling, more than two hun-
dred miles through rain, sleet, and snow to his home, in Cof-
feeville, Miss. After the close of the war, he was a news-
paper editor, and was very successful. He was for fifteen
years Adjutant of Featherstone Camp, U. C. V. A good man,
a zealous Mason, a consistent Christian, and a brave soldier
has passed over the river.
Deaths at Newport, Ark.
Tom Hindman Camp, of Newport, Ark., has recently lost
two more of its members by death, Dr. A. D. Holland and
H. J. Long, both of whom attended the Richmond Reunion.
Both died soon after their return home.
Dr. Addison D. Holland was a Kentuckian, but resided in
Arkansas since 1S78. He entered the Confederate service at
Hopkinsville, Ky., October 6, 1862, in Company G, Wood-
ward's 2d Kentucky Cavalry, and served under Forrest and
Wheeler respectively until the sounding of taps. He was one
of the immortal guards to President Davis in the latter's
movements southward after the surrender of Gen. J. E. John-
Qoi?federat<^ l/eteran,
Il'l
ston's army. Dr. Holland was born in Christian County, Ky..
July 24, [843; and died July ti, [907, at Newport, Ark., where
he had practiced dentistry successfully For nearly thirty years
HENRY .1. LONG,
ry .1. Long was born in ( ibarrus County, N ( . X"
1839 Hi entered the Confederate army July 30,
1861, in Company 11. 7th North Carolina Infantry, Vrmy of
em Virginia, and participated in the battles and cam-
ii thai army from Maj 4. (86 b I ebruarj 26, [865
when In - regimi 1 iched from tin- lines around Pi ti 1
ind -'in to North Carolina for specific duty; hut on en
iImi State he wa a- igned to John ton's army, with
which he surrendered al Green boro, N C, \ 1 > 1 i 1 26, 1865
Comr; di Long di< d at the hoi E hi d !- Mi John
1 Ni wpoi 1. \rk . June 23, >
No community wa- ever blessed with a citizenship excelling
that of tli' omrades Gallant soldiers, true friends,-
devout Christians, and of an unsullied integrity, thej will live
in the memory of their comrades and neighbi
The foregoing data wa- furnished bj Col. V. Y. ('.ink
Jon N W I'll \s W'TS.
The Times-Dispatch reports the death of Mr. John W.
at tin- residence of hi E dt» in I '1 1 ants, in
Richmond, from the resull of wounds received in the Con-
•e army. From July. [86l, until the Close <>t' th<
hfully a- a private in tin- first com-
i Richmond I He was woundi d
burg, anrl suffered many months in a Northern ho
After ange he rei ick to
Ompany and share it injury.
however, was never entirely healed, and resulted finally in his
death ■>».
After the war Mr. Pleasants I 1 year- iii I
gia and North Carolina; hut returned to Richmond and found
employment as 1 kkeeper and clerk, both in the State batik
and the First National Bank. lie wa- of retiring dispi
and unobtrusive, and wa levout member of the Third
Presbyterian Church from early manhood.
HoLBEin Died .11 hi- home, near Mount Vernon, Tex., May
11, [907, Comradi Joe Holbert, a member of Ben McCulloch
Camp, U. C. V He was born in Rutherford County, S. C,
in iN|8. His people removed to Texas in [841, locating in
what is now Franklin County, and there he wa- married in
[869 to Miss Marj Ellen Fleming, who survives him. He
enten d the Confi d< ■ at Mount Pleasant, Tex . in
iM'i. and served to th Co , in Company I. inh Texas Cav-
alry, Harrison's Brigade; was in the Tennessee Department
of service, and participated in all the engagements of ,]
partment of the service.
Schli i Mr ' Schley, long a resident of \\ harton
County. Tex., died recently at I ialveston, and was carried b u k
to Wharton and laid to rest bj Forest Citj I odge, Knights
of Pythias, of which he was an honored member. He was
born in Columbus, 1 '<&., some sixtj our 1
man was endowed with that martial spirit which gave the
world a distinguished hero in the person of Admiral \V. S.
Schley, to whom he wa< related While yet in hi- teens
George Schlej gave his services to the cause of th< Coin,,]
eracy, to which he remained loyal to the end.
Tulloss.— After a brief dine--. Lieut Sam I ["ulloss, of
Company F, 4th Tennessei 1 R ginient, died
at his home, near Amarillo, ["e> . Vugusl 22, [906. He was
born in Williamson County, I rim., in [838. lie enlisted in
i 1 impanj th it 1 ■ ■ ni ral Stai nes d in September,
[861, and by his gallantrj and efficiencj won a lieutenancy.
\ini serving bravelj and faithfully through the war. he was
paroled at Washington, Ga., Ma\ 9, 1865. Surviving him are
his w ife and line,- children.
1 1; Clinton II Fuller was born December -'4. 1841,
in Walker County, Ga. lie enlisted in Wad. t86i, as a I on
federate soldier under Capt. G G Gordon in Companj G,
9th Georgia Infantry, going to Vii finia in June. [861 I la
7th, Nth. 9th, nth. and 50th Georgia Regiments formed the
famous I igi ' Anderson's Bi igade of H
street's Corps This command was with ' el at Chick-
amauga, Know ill,-, and Morri ■ de Fuller wa- a
most valianl soldier, seeminglj blind to fear, lie wa- cap-
tured at Gettysburg on Julj 3 and sent to 1 *el ware,
From which he made his ■ ul the last of August Hi*
brother, II S Fuller, of Donaldson, Ark. wril
on the 14th of April al Kiamichi, lud. I . and mentions that
es only himself a- the last of five brothers who w
the ' my.
>i ROBl 1 ' I ■•
Robl it 1 Rii horn in N Count
and fell asleep in February, 1907, in In- I year. II.
I.- In passing leaves
the membership of Tom Smith Camp, at
I., Va. Hi I in North Carolina when Vir
ginia DO) of fifteen, and returned home and en-
in the N ! . afterwards Company F,
3d Virginia Infantry. This regiment wa- in the Peninsular
Campaign undei 1 uder, afterwards in I
in all 11- Comrad
valiantly p In- duty. After the Anttetam campaign,
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the 3d Virginia was assigned to Kemper's Brigade, Pickett's
Division, and this brought Comrade Riddick into the trying
experiences of Fredericksburg, at Marye's Heights, through
the North Carolina service, and at Gettysburg. Into this
battle the 3d Virginia went three hundred and thirty-five
strong, and lost of the number three hundred and two; Rid-
dick'-. company (F) went to the charge with twenty-five men,
and he alone escaped untouched. He was in many other en-
gagements, and through all bore himself gallantly, being twice
wounded. He was at Appomattox in a splendidly developed
manhood, with name untarnished.
Turning his face homeward, he took up the duties of life
with the determination to make the best of his future. He
entered the Virginia University, and graduated from the
school of medicine, and in the practice of his profession he
verily gave his service and life to his people, wdio gratefully
crowned him with the title of "the beloved physician"
Bernard McCabe.
For more than fifty years Bernard McCabe had been a
n sident of Nashville. Tenn., having come to this country in
1853 from Ben Bawn, County Donegal, Ireland, where he
was born February ->2. 1833. His death, which occurred re-
cently, removes from the life of the community a man who
had won a high place in its respect and esteem by his cour-
teous demeanor and magnetic disposition. He engaged in the
mercantile business soon after coming to Nashville, in which
he continued till April, 1861. when he enlisted in the Confed-
erate army as a member of Company B, 10th Tennessee
Regiment, serving through the war till the troops were mus-
tered out. He returned to Nashville after the war and en-
gaged in the hotel business, in which he was very successful,
retiring from active business about ten years ago. He is sur-
vived by his wife and two sons, both prominent in the city.
He was an enthusiastic member of Frank Cheatham Bivouac,
of Nashville, which has taken suitable action to his memory.
Capt. Thomas Gibson writes of him : "My first acquaintance
with Mr. McCabe began in May, 1861, I having been trans-
ferred from the 1st Tennessee Infantry (Maney's) to the 10th
Tennessee (Irish Regiment) as sergeant major. One among
my first acquaintances made after reporting for duty at Fort
Henry was First Sergeant Bernard McCabe, of Company B,
commanded by my friend, Capt. Leslie Ellis. After serving
about two months as sergeant major, I was, by the friendship
and influence largely of Sergeant McCabe, elected lieutenant
in his company (B), and was in command of the company at
Forts Henry and Donelson. Sergeant McCabe was a true
soldier in every sense of the word, kindl and considerate to
those under him. and loyal to the- end to the cause he had es-
poused. His cool, quiet conduct in this first baptism of blood
end ared him to myself and command. After the surrender
of Fort Donelson, February 16. the 10th Tennessee was sent
mainly to Camp Douglas, near Chicago, and was Kent there
until early in September following, when the men were ex-
changed at Vicksburg, Miss. During the imprisonment Ser-
geant McCabe acted as quartermaster and commissary officer
for the Kith, and his soldierly bearing and fairness and com-
manding presence endeared him to the men of his regiment
and to many other prisoners, as well as to the Federal officers
m command of the prison. Colonel Mulligan, U. S. A., an
Irishman, commanded the prison and post. He was a shrewd
and affable officer, and frequently consulted McCabe in ref-
erence to the health and wants of the prisoners. Colonel Mul-
ligan used every means and great persuasion to induce the men
to take the oath and get their liberty: but, true to the cause
they espoused, they (with few exceptions) spurned the offer
and remained in prison, and after being exchanged rcenlisted
for the war at Clinton, Miss. [ doubt if there was a regiment
exchanged that mustered for reenlistmem a greater number
of officers and men who were returned from prison. Bernard
('Barney') McCabe was ever alert for the reenlislment and
continued service of the regiment. Sometime after the re-
organization Col. Adolphus lleiman, first colonel of the 10th
Tennessee, appointed Sergeant McCabe to the quartermaster's
department of the regiment for his ability as a faithful officer.
This position he held, serving, after the death of Colonel llei-
nian, under the gallant Col. Randall W. McGavock, killed
at Raymond. Miss., while leading the regiment. Other com-
manders were Col. Sam Thompson, Col. William Grace, and
Colonel John O'Neal. He was engaged, besides the battle
of Fort Donelson. in the Mississippi campaign (Grant's and
Pemherton's) from Holly. Springs to Grenada. He was in
the battle of Raymond, Miss., in the siege and battles 01
Jackson, Miss., ami Port Hudson, the great battles of Chick-
amatiga and Lookout Mountain, in (he hundred days' cam-
paign from Dalton to Atlanta, Ga., in the campaign of Gen-
eral Hood to Tennessee, and at the battle of Franklin, No-
vember 30, 1864. He was at the battle of Bentonville, N. C,
and at the final surrender by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at
Bentonville, N. C. — a record truly to be envied. He returned
BERNARD ( "IJARNEV") M'CABE.
to his adopted home in this city and entered business. The
kindness and ever-sympathizing hearts of Mr. McCabe and
his good wife will be gratefully remembered by hundreds of
old soldiers yet living, as well as by scores who have passed
over the river. He who giveth and lends a helping hand to
the needy lendeth to the Lord. Such a man and soldier was
Bernard McCabe."
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John W. Ruth.
At Shelbyville, Tcnn., John W. Ruth, who died a few
months since, was a leading citizen For many years and uni-
versally esteemed. Though an invalid much of his life, he
espoused the Confederate cause, as did his brothers, C. L.
JOHN W. RUTH.
Ruth, of Montgomery, Ua., and Ambrose Ruth, of Win-
nii When tin armj fell back from Murfreesboro
ed winter quarters al Shelbyville, his adjutant gen-
eral, Kinloch Falconer, realizing Mr. Ruth's condition and
that of his family, it is undersl I, gave him an order of
I thai n In v( d him from :' luties in the field.
IN integrity of cha i m picuous. He served his
town as its Mayor, and in behalf of the public good he was
ev r diligent .
The I .nun II Chapter of Royal Arch Masons appointed a
lu- 1 1 putatii oi, u iih i ihancellor \\
ardcn as chairman, in which is the following resolution:
fondly cherish in our hearts the fraternal
words, deeds, and example of this noble member of our or-
int with pride to his usefulness to his fellow-
trust,
whethei ell impi >sed oi e laid upi m him."
itizen, husband, and fathi r, hi mi >di I ;
bi aid of him that "none knew him but to i
i i : I
\ fine re ord as a > J m w as made bj I apt
i e death oi curred at Paris, K
.-•I. mo;. Mi- company was G of the 2d Kentucky Infantry,
and he was the youngest captain in the Orphan Brigade. He
was wounded and captured at Fori Donelson; and an
months' imprisonment, he was exchange was again
wounded in the battle at Jonesboro, Ga., August 30, [864. He
recovered sufficient!) to serve in mounted infantry, which he
did to the end.
()f that tine compan) in the superb regiment commanded
originally by Roger Hanson, only three are known t" survive:
.1 \ McDonald, who sends this notice from Paris, now of
Kansas City, Mo.; J. J. Met arrington, Nicholasville, Ky ; and
John Malone, of I iourbi m < bunt) . EC)
\l Ri M \U\ 111 \n 1 11 1 1 .1 m [NCS.
Entered into her reward on February 24, [906, Mrs tfarj
E. Cummings, at the home of her only daughter, Mrs. A. J.
Harris, in Memphi , Tenn. Mrs. Cummings was the oldest
child of David \Y and Sophy Rodgers Collins, and was born
m Madison County, mar Huntsville, Ala., Vugust 31, 1
She was married to Dr. J. Y. Cummings on February 25.
1845, and was the mother of foui children, onl) two ol whom
grew i" adult age. Ilir son, Dr. John B. Cummings, died
in Fom ; City, \rk.. in [891. He entered the Confederate
army ai the age of fourteen, ami served undei Forrest until
the close of the war. During the terrible years of end strife
Mrs. Cummings was a member of that noble hand of "South-
ern Mothers" whose names are now canonized in the hearts
of Memphians. These women began the first Confederal
memorial service in Memphis, and she was untiring in her
ministry to sick or hungry soldiers. At one time she turned
her house into a convalescent hospital for soldiers recovering
from an epidemic of measles. and doubtless saved their lives.
Mrs Cummings endured all the humiliation of the recon-
struction period with heroic fortitude. At one time she was
-11 reduced in food supplies that she hoarded the wivi 1 I
1.1I Federal of
ficers in order to get
1 ations.
It is a great pleas-
un to contemplate
such a life as that
of Mrs. Cummings.
Stretching over a
period of mine than
three score years and
ten, sin' 1 mplo) ed her
borrowed years for
the good of mankind
After the turbulent
years of middle life,
a long twilight of
pi ,h eful rest w as
granted her. in whii I
lu 1 pal ii in example
and words of wise
1 nun ;el wen of ines-
timable alue to tlii 1- e
w In 1 had the i>i i\ ilege
■ if knowing her Bi
side In 1
lay her Bible and the
of Rol t Li
She v. i.mt reader of the VETERAN, and lift conversa-
tion always turned to the Old South. But the sands
life have slip 1 full) away; and after nearly
tm\ iii" usefulness, she has entered into het
[Contributed as a memorial to Mrs. Cummings by Mrs. C.
W. Richmi south Somerville Street, Memphis, Tenn.]
MRS. \l 1 1 UM MINGS
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-RIDPATH'S HISTORY OF THE US IT ED STATES."
By John Clark Ridpath, LL.D. In twelve volumes, large
8vo. Jones Brothers Publishing Company. Cincinnati. Ohio.
Reviewed by Rev. James H. McNeill)-, D.D., Nashville, Term.
These sumptuous volumes are splendid specimens of the
printer's art. In all the outward appointments of printing,
binding, paper, illustration they are a delight to the eye and
the touch. The history professes to give the story of the
United States from the dim traditions of Indian occupation
of the territory to the most recent development and expansion
of the great republic. Of course it is impossible to enter into
all the details of discovery, etc. But the author has seized
on the main points of this wonderful story and set them forth
in due proportion, so that we are able to trace the progress
of events clearly and to recognize the steps by which this re-
public has come to stand for "government of the people, by
the people, and for the people" as distinct from all other forms
of government among men. * * *
John Clark Ridpath has had large experience in writing
history. He is the author of a "History of the World," which
is a valuable and interesting account of the progress of the
human race. In these volumes he has had access to the
sources of American history, and especially to the archives of
the Federal and Confederate governments during the War
between the States. And it is evident that he desires to be
impartial and that he makes a sincere effort to present both
sides of the conflict. But in the whole tenor and tone of the
history there is, as is natural, a strong tendency to justify
the North and to minimize the case of the South. As exam-
ple of this, the speech of Webster in reply to llayne is held
up as the absolutely unanswerable vindication of the supreme
authority of the Federal government, and indeed that speech
has ever been glorified by New England and has been pub-
lished and republished, while Hayne's speech has been read
by few and is scarcely known to the public. Yet Mr. Webster
himself afterwards surrendered in his Capon Springs speech
the very points on which he attacked Mr. llayne.
Since the close of our Civil War there have been many
attempts to write the history of our country, and nearly all
have been written with a view to explain the causes and con-
sequences of that war. And so their view of the previous
history has been determined by their sympathies and theories
as to the nature of that fierce contest. It is true that these
histories have been mostly written by men who sympathized
with the Union and who were bitterly opposed to the South
in her contention. And while the writers have sincerely at-
tempted to be impartial, yet they have not been able to under-
stand or to do justice to the South in the great conflict.
It is becoming more and more evident that there is need of
a history of the republic written from the view-point of the
South, a history which shall set forth those great facts in the
original formation of our government upon which the South-
ern States rested their claims to secede from a compact
which had failed to secure to them their equality in the Fed-
eral Union.
It is probably impossible for any one. North or South, to
write an absolutely impartial history of our Civil War while
the actors in that great drama are still living. Indeed, it will
require several generations to pass before the passions and
prejudices of the sections shall pass away. In the meantime
every honest attempt to write the story as each party saw it
is to be welcomed. And in the coming time the future his-
torian comparing these varying accounts will be able to come
at the truth.
So also this history makes the impression that the ion
stitution of the United States was adopted, by the people of
the whole country acting as one nation and by the individual
votes of the whole body of electors setting up a government
of paramount authority ; while the fact is that the Constitu-
tion was adopted by the several States in their separate sov-
ereignty, setting up a government of limited and well-defined
authority. Again, there is very slight mention of the Lot
that New England asserted the right of secession over and
over again, and there is the merest reference to the personal
liberty bills of the Northern State-, which were more drastic
than the nullification measures of South Carolina in 1832.
Yet the nullification of the Southern States is condemned;
while the Northern States are commended by implication as
doing the righteous thing.
Now, as I have said, there is an attempt to be fair. But
the tone of the history is to apologize for the South as if
she were hot-headed, but to commend the North as if she
were only witnessing for righteousness.
In conclusion let me say that these volumes indicate great
research, a sincere desire to be fair, are written in readable
style, and are as impartial as it is possible for a Northern man
to be whose sympathies are with a section rather than with
the whole country.
"HALF HOURS IN SOUTHERN HISTORY."
By John Leslie Hall, Ph.D., Professor College of William
and Mary, Virginia. Pages, 320. B. F. Johnson Publishing
Company, Richmond. Reviewed by Rev. J. II. McNeilly, D.D.
This is one of the most delightful books growing out
of the great conflict of 1861-65 between the States. It sets
forth the life and civilization of the Old South and states with
clearness the political ideals of the people for which they con-
tended unto the death. Without bitterness it gives a vivid
picture of the conditions during and after the war. and shows
the great principles for which the South contended. It is one
of those books which our Southern 3'outh should read to get
a true idea of that civilization which was first overthrown by
war and then trampled underfoot in "reconstruction."
STATISTICS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS WANTED.
Walter L. Fleming, late professor of history in the West
Virginia University, but now holding the chair of history in
(lie Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, is engaged in
writing a biography of Hon. Jefferson Davis, and desires to
obtain as much information as possible about every phase of
his public and private life. He has all the books written
about Mr. Davis, and what he wants is such material as:
1. Names and present addresses of relatives, neighbors,
former slaves, etc., of Jefferson Davis who can give informa-
tion about him.
2. Letters, scrapbooks, diaries, and other documentary ma-
terial relating to Mr. Davis's life
3. Privately printed hooks, pamphlets, newspapers, and other
printed matter containing information about Mr. Davis.
4. Pictures of Davis and relatives, of his homes, and of
places connected in some way with his career.
5. Any souvenirs, relics, etc., of which photos may be made.
6. Reminiscences, authentic anecdotes, etc., of Mr. Daviv
7. Any information about Mr. Davis or his relatives in
Wales, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia. Kentucky.
Louisiana, and Mississippi.
The loan of any documents will he appreciated.
C^opfederat^ Ueterar?.
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t<>\ TROVERSY UPON HOOD'S CAMPAIC .
Gen. E. P. Alexander's criticisms in his recenl book have
enlivened interest in II I's campaign to Nashville and the
disastrous results, This will have attention later.
Maj. IV W. Sanders's official r port of the rear guard move-
ments in tlic escape has been revived, and Col. Luke W. Fin-
ley has written a report of Hood ign which will also
ippi ar at an early dati
Gen \ P Stewart wrote from Biloxi, Miss., July 9, 1907,
to 1 [on. fames I >. Port >\ s :
"My Dear Got 'orter: Many thanks for your letter
of thr 27th nil I have not the Alexander book and
attack. Was ii"t the fault at Spring 1 1 ill General Hood's own?
Was he not up with Cheatham? If there- was any disob
I orders, was not the remedj in his own hands? He
was there in command of the armj and could have put the
tro< ips ui himsel f 1 1 neo s sat y. I v >f Ruthi r-
ford Creek until toward night; had no orders I was
n-'i in a position to attack; General II I was responsible for
the failure."
In the Veteran for July. 1904, app ars information fur-
nishi tf by D. Pot ter, who was adjut 1 al to
Gen. B F Chea'ham during nearlj all of th war. in which
he quoti G~n. W B Bate, and
Gi I 1 rood, Govern ir Han in regard
to thi
"Dear Sir: In answer to yours of the 12th ins'., I have to
say that on the night that the Vrm; ol 1 undei
mand 1 f Gen. J. B II I, ■ lli'l on its march
from Columbia to Nashville, General II I. his adjutant gen
eral. Ma n, and tm ed the same room at
residence of Captain Thompson, near the village Late at
night we were aroused by a private soldier, whi repot ed to
General Hood that on r< imp near Spring Mill he
found himself within the Federal lines; that the troop, wen
in great confusion; that .1 part of them were marching in the
direction of Franklin, other- had turned toward Columbia;
and that th road was blocked with ba and gun
carriage, rendering it impossible to move in ordei either
direction, Upon the receipt of this report General Hood
directed Major Mason to order General Cheatham to movi
down on the road immediately and attack the enemy. General
II I and myself remained in bed I went to sleep, and I
suppose that General Hood did the same, \t daylight on the
foil ruing we learned that the Federal army had left
Spring Hill and was being c d at Franklin.
"tin ihe march to h'ranklm. General Hood poi,' to me, in
the presc nee of M m, of the failun
ham to make the night attack at Spring Hill, and cei
him in si for his d e of ordei Soon
aft<r thi-. being alone with Major Mason, the latter remarked
that 'General Cheatham wa not to blame about the matter
last night. I did not send him the order.' I asked if he had
communicated the fact to General Mood n, . -. ed that
lie had not I replied that it was due to General Cheatham
that this explanation should he marie, 'I hereupon Major Mason
eral Hood and gave him the information, After-
ral 11 1 - lid to me that he had don.- injustice to
im, and requested me to inform him that he
held him blameless 1 lure at Spring Hill \'
Mowing Ihe battle of Franklin, 1 was informed by
General Hood that he had addressed a note to General I
ham. assuring him th ensure or charge him with
the failure to make the attack."
Maj oi General B in interview with Gi
Hood betw en ihe hours of ten and twelve of the night of
ill' --oih of November, .it which Genet nentioned a
conflict in th<' order, of ihe general commanding and the
corps commander- touching the movement of his dh
iliat ( e in 1 al 1 1 1 - nd : "It maki no differ
or it is all right, anyhow: for General Fo
lias just lett. and informed me that he holds the turnpike
with a portion ,,f hi- forces north of £ ill, and will
stop the enemy if he tries to pass toward Franklin, and so
in the morning we will ha\ ,1 urrendei ■■■ thout a fight." lie
further said, in a congratulatory manner: "We can
< 1 1 1 i o 1 1 \ 1, . night
I Ik first intimation of dissatisfaction on the pari of the
inding general at the management 1 1 the affair at
Spring Hill wa ed bj the receipt of the following
no-,, written in front of Nashvilli ed December 3,
[864:
\eral: I do not censure you for tin
g Hill. 1 am satisfied thai you are not responsible for
it. I witnessi 1 the splendid manner in which you
at Franklin on tin- 30th ult. and I now have a I
soldier than I e\ 1 had
"Yours very truly. \. B. neral.
"Maj 1 !en B F I 'In atham "
THE Gil WL II ART1ME •
No monument - the memon ol ihe brave soldier
oi tin Confederacj has so touched the tender recollections
and -o thrilled the hearts of the youth with love and rever-
end .1- has the -eiie- of picture; gotten oin bj the Southern
\m Publishing Company, of N. hville, 1
These picture- are reproductions of painti Gilbert
Gaul, the great painter of war subjects, and accuratelj por
ti.iv the braverj and courage as well as the tenderness and
patriotism of the men of the sixties as on] 1 true
art can
To fori, id that the glorious deed- of these day- should die
and to reflect glory and honor on the 1 cause i-
the purpose ,,f these picture-, and tlair success i- shown by
the welcome the} are receiving by both thi and b) the
young people of to-d
This i- a monument that can he enjoyed by all, and a- -ueh
is welcomed by every true Southerner, for it enables him to
bring into his home works of real art and a.t the same time
pay tribute to the honored hero whom we -hall soon have
with it- only in menu iry
Schools rot; Monuments to Heroes Mi-- Man
Bailey write- : "The Sam Da r, U. D
1 h, Mo., is plannini held in the
spring, and a-ks for the cooperation of .ill Chapters of the
t 1 1 1 vol me to raisi a large sum to build
a school in the South for white children a- a monument 10
1 to bear the name of the hero
,|, The Sam tS the various Chap
ters to send some salable article- which will be place. 1 in their
booth. "I i' ugh anj original
article will of Ci S
and any gift toward this enterprise will he appreciated Ml
contril uld he 111 by January 30."
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EXTEND TIME OF JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
There is what is called a "movement to break up the ex-
position habit." A statement from Washington says: "During
the past twenty years the international exposition business
has become a habit. All sorts of anniversaries and events are
being celebrated with an 'exposition.' In the opinion of states-
men of many countries the time lias arrived to put a stop to
tlii- sort of exploitation, and it is regarded generally that the
'exp '-ition habit' has about played out. It is quite likely
that the last of the great shows of this character now is being
held in Virginia commemorative of the landing of the first
settlers at Jamestown. As an exposition, the Jamestown show
is a success, but there is no concealment of the fact that it is
not a money maker. This exposition business, particularly in
America, has been run into the ground. Congress was per-
suaded only by tbe most strenuous efforts to give its aid and
support to the Jamestown Exposition, and it is a practical cer-
tainty that the government will not lend support to another
similar proposition in a good many years to come."
Various countries have given expression to the sentiment
that no more expositions be held. The thing to do now is to
hold the Jamestown Exposition in iqoS. There seems to be
no sane reason why this should not be done. The buildings
are far superior to any yet erected. The government exhibit
is not in demand elsewhere, and by united cooperation of all
the people of all the States die exposition business for all
countries might be concluded in and by Hampton Roads in
the fall of 1908 in "a blaze of glory."
Jamestown Exposition Completed.
The Director General. James M. Barr, makes this official
statement : "The Jamestown Exposition, barring minor de-
tails, will be completed within ten days. It fittingly com-
memorates the great historical event which it was designed
to celebrate, and it reflects credit on Virginia, the South, and
the nation. In the character of its buildings, the excellence of
its exhibits, and the beauty of location on historical Hamp-
ton Roads, it compares most favorably with any exposition
held in this country, and it fully justifies its management in
asking the united support of the people of the country."
S. W. Bolles, Director of Publicity for the Exposition, sent
to the press on August 14:
"On April 26, when the gates of the Exposition were thrown
open to the public, the Exposition was incomplete. On this
day, August 14. it is completed. The only work not now done
in every detail is the United States government pier, which
will lie ready for dedication within a very tew days. This
pier is not a part of the work of the Jamestown Exposition
Company and does not detract from the beauty of the grounds.
"I believe that you will find here an exposition which will
convince you that it is worth your while and the time of every
man, woman, and child in this country to make the trip. Its
architecture is unique and truly and purely American. The
rates for board and lodging, for transportation, for enter-
tainment inside and outside of the grounds are within the
reach of all, and more reasonable, I believe, than at any ex-
position previously held,
"In view of this situation, the statements made as to the
incompleteness of the Exposition, as applying at the time of
opening, are no longer either true or worthy of attention.
"Have you passes? If not, I shall be delighted to forward
you cards in the names of those persons of your staff selected
h\ you. Please send such list at your earliest convenience
with position occupied."
FIRST OF IRON-CLAD NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS.
What is undoubtedly the first iron-clad naval engagement in
the world took place on March 8 and o. [862, at Hampton
Roads. It was the memorable battle between the Confederate
war ship Merrimac-Virginia and the Federal war ship Erie-son
Monitor. The inner history of the epoch-making tight was
never adequately printed until now. Capt. E. V. White, of
Norfolk, Va., gives a true and particular account of this stir-
ring battle in which iron-clad was pitted against monitor and
which revolutionized naval warfare for all time.
'I his "First Iron-Clad Naval Engagement in the World"
(issued from the press of Sherman & Bryan, New York) is
not only from an eyewitness to the fight but also a partici-
pant— junior engineer in charge of gong and speaking tube
on the gun deck of the Merrimac-Virginia. '1 his is a valued
contribution to the history of naval warfare. The author, a
Southerner, relates the events precisely as they occurred and
in their logical sequence, and makes no attempt to crown one
side with laurel wreath at the expense of the other. The
reader is impressed with Captain White's studious desire to
be absolutely fair and to subordinate all to historical accuracy.
He describes the battle as he saw it, heard it, lived it. so that
one smells the smoke of conflict, feels the impact of shot and
shell, exults with the victor, and mourns with the vanquished.
Captain White's account of that great naval engagement
clearly shows that, notwithstanding the contrary impression
among many Northerners, the Confederate iron-clad Merri-
mac-Virginia defeated the Union States Ericson monitor
after a battle in which heroic valor was displayed on both
silk-. His testimony is strengthened by quotations from other
eyewitnesses and by extracts from contemporary newspapers.
Captain White closes his story as follows: "The shock of
battle taught the combatants the mettle of which each was
made more thoroughly in four years than the touch of com-
merce and trade had taught them in a century, and they came
out of the strife with more mutual respect and confidence
than had existed between them in any period of their history."
PICTURE OF "LEE AND HIS GENERALS."
Attention is called to the advertisement under the above
head elsewhere in the Veteran. The group contains very
good reproductions of Confederate generals, the figure of
General Lee standing out distinctly in the foreground. These
generals are given in the vigor of war time days in handsome
uniforms, just the kind of picture that should be impressed
upon the minds of young Southerners. Critics will find that
a few of the large group do not give satisfactory expressions.
However, there is much, in the group that is most satisfactory.
One of those interested in the picture explains that its re-
moval from the Jamestown Exposition grounds was not from
lack of absolute faith in the success of the Ter-Centennial
celebration, but as it was not in a fireproof building there
was great danger of its destruction by fire; hence it was
thought best to remove it to Washington, where it should
have proper protection. Orders should be sent to 1420 New
York Avenue, Washington, D. C.
Theodore M. Newman, 578 Fifth Avenue, New York, seeks
information in regard to his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson
Hatch. Mr. Hatch was born in Philadelphia, Pa., but moved
to Chapel Hill. N. C. He was an officer in the Confederate
army, and died of yellow fever at New Orleans. The family
owned a place at Burlington, N. C, and had some slaves.
His widow is still living, aged seventy-five years.
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VETERAN APPROVED BY NOBLE MEN.
The reputation of men indorsing the Veteran gives much
strength to the publication. The late Bishop Quintard wrote
one of the most thorough commendations (.pity the copy is
lost), concluding with the comforting sentiment that with the
Confederati Veteran the demand is fully met.
The late Rev. W. G. E. Cunnyngham, D.D., widely known
and beloved, wrote in January, 1898, a short while before his
death: "I have frequentlj thought, after reading a number of
your valuable magazine, that ! would write and tell you how
much I admired il 1 do not speak of its beautiful appearance
as a work of mechanical art or as to its literary character,
both of which are excellent, but as a treasury of facts and
incidents connected with the Civil War. especiallj with the
defense made by the < > mfedi rati trmi inst the
overwhelming militarj power of the North. The future his-
torian of our country when hi comes to stud} the bloody
d of the years from 186] to 1865 will be greatlj in
d to the Confederati Veteran for the material neces-
sary to a fair and impartial judgment of many important
event ed with that fearful struggle. You now have
p. tin origin 1 ources of information, the testimony
itni iln men who helped to make the history —
but thej are passing away, and with them the opportunity for
collecting reliable historical data. It is now or never The
South will value youi work mon and more as the years go
by. Tin I 1 fderati Veti r • \ 1 iught to be in e\ ery home in
utliern States. It would help to educate the youni
pie of the present generation in regard to the greatest war
of modern times, the causes which led to it. and the manner
in which it was conducted. ... I read everj number of the
Vi ran w ith much interest "
S \r \n C Law, 01 Beloved Mi ho w
Much int. 11 . '. in 1 < \ iew ing old
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Forest Villa, Gladstone Heights, Memphis, bj Mrs
C I .'" " Februarj 5, [894: "When I renewed my subscrip
lion. I did not know tin price had been rais d to one dollar.
1 inclose stamp- to make out my dollar. I am still plea d
with th< \t rERAN. Would not like to be without it I find
■iii ting I would solicit subscriptions for
but 1 havi in • '.i confined to ti ine months, .and
at my advai now in mj eighty-ninth 1 n only
show it to all visitors, and so try to -end supscriptions."
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Bi lii 11 - it an item of ii i ft i, nil-, of the Vi :
and hoping it maj impress some who "didn't order it" after
t« . or three years of i xpense in i ii ling its is u< -. the follow
ing fij ■ given of purchasi ■ from our house, the I hem
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1907, $1,880 ■<• ["he aggregate sum paid to them i- $25,089.59.
Purchases from this firm show the growth,
Mam people tri ol thi opinion that the typesetting
1 the pi in' n :d items of cost of the publii
Whoever receives thi \ 1 mi . and fails to pay for it retard-
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wd Letters of Gen R I Lei By Di J. William
Jones, 1M' \ personal friendship between General Lee and
thi authoi gave valuable material in the preparation of this
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General I .ee m it hei efo ifi n e publi hed Cloth Prii
iri 11 Stonewall Jackson. By Col. G. F. R. Hender-
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memorial edition in half m irocco, $4.
01 1 Tii Civil War. Bj Gen John B. Gor-
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the War between the States, presenting the pan taken by this
matchless soldier. A late edition of this hook has hern issued
in cheaper form, so a- to be within the reach "i anj Confed-
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memorial edition in half Morocco. $4.
1 1 Gen X. B. Forrest. By Dr. John Allan Wyeth.
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Illustrated. Cloth-bound. Prio
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navy . the history of the Confederate cruiser Ala-
bama ' been issued and 1- now offered at $4, postpaid.
Bound in cloth
Two \ ,rs ON 1111 \i \r.\MV Bj Lieut. Arthur Sinclair.
\ companion look to that by Admiral Semmes by one who
the wonderful career of the \la-
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Manassas ro Appomattox. Bj Gen. James I
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Mess \<a - and Papi ' ompiled by
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428
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Militasv Annals of Tennessee. By Dr. J. Berrien Linds-
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Memoirs of Hon. John H. Reagan, Postmaster General
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Morgan's Cavalry. By Gen. Basil Duke. The history of
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Pickett and His Men. By Mrs. LaSalle Corbell Pickett.
An entertaining and charmingly written history of the gallant
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Prison Life of Jefferson Davis. By Dr. John J. Craven,
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Recollections of Thirteen Presidents. By Col. John
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Camp Chase. By Col. W. IT. Knauss, a veteran of the
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Confederate Operations in Canada and New York. By
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Southern States 'of the American Union. By Dr. J. L.
M. Curry. Price, $1.50.
Story of the Confederate States. By Prof. Joseph T.
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Northern Rebellion and Southern Secession. By Maj.
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Four Years under Mars Robert. Bv Maj. Robert Stiles.
Price, $2.
Women of the Confederacy. Bv Rev. J. L. Underwood.
Price, $2.
Recollections of a Lifetime. By John Goode, of Virginia.
Price, $2.
Hancock's Diary. By R. R. Hancock, a member of For-
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Old Tales Retold. By Mrs. Octavia Zollicoffer Bond.
Some of the most interesting events in Tennessee history re-
written by this talented daughter of Gen. Felix Zollicoffer
and published in an attractive volume. Price, $1.
Bright Skies and Dark Shadows. By Dr. Henry M.
Field, D.D. A series of sketches in his travels through the
South, a number of pages especially devoted to the battle of
Franklin, etc. Cloth. Price. 50 cents (reduced from $1.50).
American Eloquence. In two large volumes are given
some of the most masterly efforts of American oratory. Hand-
somely bound in cloth. Price, $5 per set.
The Immortal Six Hundred. By Maj. J. Ogden Murray.
"A worthy and true account of the six hundred Confederate
officers who were held as hostages and exposed to the fire of
their own friends in the siege of Charleston, S. C. The story
is one of heroic suffering and strength of character." Price,
$1.50.
War Songs and Poems of the Confederacy. Compiled
by Dr. M. B. Wharton. Cloth. Price. $2.
Songs of Dixie. A collection of the miiiS, so popular dur-
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Southern Poets: Father Ryan's Poems. Cloth. .Si. 50,
Other bindings procurable. Poems of Sidney Lanier. Edited
by his wife. Price, $2. Poems of Henry Timrod. Cloth,
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Robert's Rules of Order. Adopted by the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy as their guide in parliamentary law.
Price, 75 cents.
Several books by Southern women can well be placed in
this li--t of Confederate literature, notable among which are:
\ Belle of the Fifties. By Mrs. Clement Clay Clopton,
of Alabama. These reminiscences cover a period before the
war when, as the wife of the distinguished Senator Clay, from
Alabama, she took part in the gay life of Washington society;
during the war when she, in common with her sisters of the
South, sacrificed and suffered; and after the war when she
made such persistent effort to secure the release of her hus-
band from prison. AH this is told in a most pleasing style,
and one becomes a part of that life when following her
through the varied experiences of a brilliant and useful ca-
reer. Handsomely bound in cloth, illustrated. Price, $2.75.
A Southern Girl in 1861. By Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, of
Baltimore. This is a similar volume of reminiscences writ-
ten in a charming style. Mrs. Wright was Miss Louise V\ ig
fall, daughter of Senator Wigfall, of Texas, whose term be-
gan in the fall of i860 and terminated with the secession of
his State from the Union — a brief but useful career in his
defense of the South. These reminiscences extend through
the four years of sorrow and suffering, enlivened here and
there by anecdotes and incidents typical of the spirit which
cannot be crushed under the most adverse circumstances.
The book is beautifully bound and illustrated with pictures of
the prominent men and beauties of that time. Price, $2.50.
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War. By Mrs. Myrta Lock-
crt Avary. The first book by this charming writer, while not a
novel in the strict meaning of the word, is the heart story of
a young woman whose soldier husband made one of the great
army of Lee, and her friendship with the dashing J. E. B.
Stuart is most touching in its revelation of the tender heart
of the General, of whom could lie fitly said :
"The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring."
Cloth-bound. Price, $1.50.
Dixie after the War is a later book by this same author,
and gives fascinating and pathetic glimpses of events during
and immediately after the war, with numerous illustrations
of notable persons, a hitherto unpublished photograph of Lion.
Jefferson Davis forming the frontispiece. The work is writ-
ten in a unique, conversational style, full of accurate anecdote.
In her presentation of the reconstruction period she handles
the subject boldly, and vividly portrays the problems con-
fronting her people at the time, while the race problem is
touched on with frankness and without prejudice. A hand-
some cloth volume. Price. $2.75.
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. By Hon.
Jefferson Davis. Foremost among the works on Confederate
history is that by the President of the Confederate States,
sets of which are now procurable only in the half Morocco
at $20. Two volumes.
Confederate Ueteran
429
Capt. John W. Morton
WILL BE
Candidate for Re-E!ection
OPFICE
SECRETARY OF STATE
Jesse < '. I lial, i if Miami, I ex I Pan-
handle Ranch), wishes t" secure a
I his grandfather, III' I lial,
\\ In i was i aptain of G impanj K, mli
is Cavalry, Ross's Brigade. He
was afti rwards promoted ti i maji ir, and
commonlj called colonel. Mr.
Dial wants a sketch from earlj life,
whom he married, etc., and mi i
two surviving members of the company,
Miller ' Irei n and Jesse t rarrett, but
di ies not know where thi ■ re He w ill
e any responses b • this.
Mrs. I C Schi oler, of DeKalb, Tex.,
v i -In- to ond with any surviv-
ing m of V In; ii. Id's 1 i gii in or
I ne's Regiment that knew J. C.
Schooler, in order to secure their as-
sistance in proving lit r claim to a pen-
sii n 1 1 - first joined Whitfield's I
and was transferred to Lain-'- Regi-
in nt, I ut she does m it kn iw his com
panj in i ither command.
S. F. P 1 1 ! <.-. Ala.
( Ri itit ii.- eks to 1 " ate irhe member
of his company or regiment, which was
1 ipany C, 1 41I1 Alabama Infantry.
Captain Ban He w as p iroled at
imattox about \nril _>('. 1865 < om
lade up in St Clair and
I ipo a Co ntii and hi address \\ as
B. K. Morris, of Pun elh ille, I .oudon
County, Va., asks that any survivor of
' rst.Texa Ri gimenl of In-
fantry, Colonel Wigfall, with which he
I. will kindly w rite to liini in as
. pen ii "i I Ir in
rston, Polk County, Tex
Write him in ran- of J I Janney.
I R I dwards, ol
that . 1 1
Mississip nt, will kindl)
t<> him.
Mi;mwtmwtwm
1 War
I Pictures
By GILBERT GAUL.
NATIONAL ACADEMICIAN.
America's Greatest
Painter of War Subjects
Price of full set in four colors, on heavy
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WlitQ-' $16.60; payable *'l..r>o monthly, (ash price
%<VSo. $15.00. Individual pictures $3.50 each.
£ ''■: The gray men of the sixties are to live again upon the can-
vases of perhaps America's greatest painter of war subjects, Mr.
Gilbert Gaul, National Academician, whose splendid paintings
hang in the most famous collections of the world. His strong
brush has portrayed with much realism, not their bitterness
and recriminations, but their magnificent motive, their magnani-
mous courage, their unmatched devotion. Thus some who love
the real values of the Old South, have attempted to do a great
thing— something which should appeal to every intelligent
American, man or woman. A number of gentlemen of Nash-
ville, Tenn., have organized a company, the object of which is
to crystalize on canvas the magnificent deeds of daring love
which distinguished the Confederate soldier. One by one they
are going, and soon the papers will contain under black head-
lines the story of the last illness of the "man who wore the
gray." Some who have understood have joined hands and
said, "The vision of these men and their deeds must not perish
from the Earth." So they placed it in the hands of Mr. Gilbert
Gaul, and the result will be a heritage for the generations to come.
There are seven pictures 15x19 inches, reproducing every
shade of tone and motif and embossed so as to give perfect can-
vas effect. Each one is a masterpiece, depicting the courage, sac-
rifice, heroism, sufferings and home life of the Southern soldier.
It is impossible with words to describe the beauty and pathos
of these pictures. The first, "Leaving Home," is a typical South-
ern interior, and a lad telling the family good-bye. The second is
a battle scene, as the name "Holding the Line at All Hazards," im-
plies. "Waiting for Dawn," the third, depicts a moonlight scene
on a battlefield, the soldiers sleeping among the stiff forms of
yesterday's battle, while they wait for dawn and renewed hostil-
ities. "The Forager" is a fresh faced voung boy returning to camp
with a load of fowls and bread. The sixth, "Playing Cards be-
tween the Lines" shows the boys in blue and gray, hostilities for-
gotten, having a social game, with stakes of Southern tobacco and
Yankee coffee. The last of the seven is entitled "Tidings," and
represents a pretty Southern girl reading news from the front.
These pictures are offered separately or in portfolio form, ami
at about half what they should be in comparison with similar
work along this line. Write today for illustrated circular de-
scribing these masterpieces. Address
Southern Art Pub. Co. - 102 Arcade. Nashville. Tenn.
II tor, of DeKalb,
pond nub any sur-
nville
. uh.. served in Company K, nth
. idrv. n«- thinks they live
somewhere in 1 1
A copy of th,- Veteran for Novem-
1- \ ery much desired by Mrs.
M. S. McPherson,
New ( M Iran-. 1 a., and any one having
the copy to -pare will kindle writ
, condition.
430
Confederate Veteran
ROBERT E. LEE
General in Chief Confederate States Army, 1861-1865
High-Class Photogravure, 9x12 Inches, from Original Photo-
graph taken in 1863
The MOST LIFELIKE PICTURE of the GREAT GENERAL
Read the following extracts from letters from those who have received the likeness
Miss Marv Cusns Lee: "I received the very handsome Photogravure of my
father, for which accept my sincere thanks. It is the best full-face likeness
of him, and though, of course, I possess many of him, I shall specially
value this one. It will be, I am sure, much appreciated by the Robert E.
Lee Camp and any other Southern society to which you may present it."
Gen. Stephen D. Lee: "I have your photogravure of Gen. Robert E. Lee,
am glad to receive it; it is now framed and hangs over my desk, where I
do all my work."
Gen. Frederick D. Grant: "Accept my warm thanks for the proof copy
of the photo of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which I shall value as an interesting
likeness of that distinguished officer."
Hon. John S. Wise: "I think it is one of the best likenesses extant."
Gen. L. L. Lomax: "It is decidedly the best likeness I have seen, and I
intend to have it framed for my own home."
Gen. George D. Johnston: "The picture is a splendid one."
Gen. William L. Cabell: "It is a fine picture, and I shall have it framed
and placed in my parlor, where the young people of my country can see
it and call to mind his many virtues."
Gen. G. W. C. Lee: "Your picture is a good reproduction of the original,
and I value it en this account."
Gen. Samuel G. French: "I think it the best one of him to be obtained,
and the one fond memory recalls."
Gew R. F. Hoke: "It is very good of him, and lifelike, and recalls him
to me as of yesterday."
Gen. M. C. Butler: "It is unquestionably the best likeness of my distin-
guished commander, as I knew him during the war, I have ever seen."
Robert E. Lee Camp No. i, Richmond, Va.: "Members of this Camp
consider it a splendid likeness of our old commander and prize it very highly.
We will frame it and place it upon our Camp wall, where, for all time
that we may last, it will be a reminder of the noble face of that grand man
loved by all."
Gen. Alex. P. Stewart: "The picture seems to me an admirable one, cer-
tainly as good a one if not the very best of any I have ever seen."
A Picture for the Home of Every Southerner. Price, $1
REMIT AMOUNT TO
Ambrose Lee, Publisher, Williamsbridge, New York City
and the picture will be promptly sent, without extra charge, to any address
Orders and remittances may also be sent (or this picture to S. A. Cunningham,
'Confederate Veteran," Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs. W. J. Behan, 1207 Jackson Ave-
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has completed her file of the Veteran
with the exception of the number for
February, 1893, and she is most anxious
to get that. It is hoped that some sub-
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Mrs. Louise Jones Xorthrup. 220
Madison Street. San Antonio, Tex., sis-
ter of Lieut. Wesley A. Jones, of the
1st Alabama Cavalry, asks that any of-
ficer or member of that regiment will
kindly communicate with her at once,
for which she will be very grateful.
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George B. Matthews, of Virginia, which was on exhibition in the Lee Building on
tile Warpath, Jamestown Exposition. CJjAgents wanted in every Southern city
to sell a beautiful lithograph. c copy in color of this painting. Write for terms
to National Printing and Exhibit Co., Office 1420 New York Ave., Washing-
ton, D. C. Sent by Mail on Receipt of 55c. Every Southern Home Should Have One.
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435
Rev. M. E. Hanks, of Morcland. Ark..
who was chaplain of the 326 Mississippi
Regiment, makes inquiry for any com-
rades of George Williams, who served
in the [6th Alabama Regiment Infantry,
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His widow is in need of assistance, and
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\ \S1IYIU.K. TENN., OCTOBER, 1907.
No. 10.
s A CUNNINGHAM,
* Proprietor.
JEFFERSOh DAVIS HOME ASSOCIATION,
A moveroenl lias been inaugurated up~oti the suggestion of
Dr C. C Brown, of Smith's Grove, K> . to purchase such
parts of the birthplace of Jefferson Davis as ma) be deemed
last upon which to establish a park and erect a memorial
in honor of the South's leader in the great \\ ar between the
sections during [861-65. Dr. Brown conferred with Gen. S.
li. Buckner, who at once favored the project, lit- conferred
with several friends, and the subject was made public at a
reunion "t' the Orphan Brigade in Glasgow, K\ . in Septem-
ber. The paper submitted to thai assembly was as follows:
"At a meeting of the Orphan Brigade, an organization of
Confederate veterans, held at Glasgow, K) , September 12,
1907, it \v. 1- resolved t" take action in behalf of the preserva-
tion of the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, which is now of
Todd 1 ount) . mil In the town of Fairview.
"As the eentrinii.il anniversarj oi Jefferson Davis will have
occurred in less than a year (June 8, 1908), and as another
eminent Kentuckian, Abraham Lincoln, is being honored bj
elaborate arrangements to perpetuate the place of his birth
ia movement that is cordially commended), the Orphan Bri
gade and other Confedi rates in this meeting lake the initiative
in .1 movement which, ii is believed, "ill interest all of the
Southt in people and a large - li mi nl ol broad minded patriots
in the North.
"It is therefore resolved that a committei of five be ap
pointed, which may be enlarged as its chairman and i«" other
of its members may deem propei This committee 1- au
thorized to visit Fairview, investigate the lands owned bj
the father of Jefferson Davis, and secure options upon such
lands, 01 parts of them, with a view to their purchase for t In-
purpose indicated Said committee is authorized to have
legally recorded articles of incorporation undei the name
I, it. 1 -1 m Davis Home Association' and conforming to tin I iw
of die Slate of Kentucky. The inauguration of tlii- move-
ment by tin- Orphan Brigade ami other Confederates 1
is with the solemn sense of merit ami of our sacred duty
i" perpetuate the life ami charactei Art 1 man who, considered
from his birth to his death, deserves to be known ai
membered .1- om of the great men of earth, a man whose stu
life ai the [ransylvania Universit) al Lexington and
West Point Military Vcademy, and whose services to the
I nited States government in the Mexican War, as Secretarj
: War in Washington, and later as ;i Senator of the United
States Congress, then later as President of the Confederate
States ol America and as a resident 1 not as .-1 citizen) of
Mississippi and the South subsequent to the .ureal war, was
such as tn commend him to the patriotic and Christian world
"Jefferson Davis's long life of great usefulness is without
reproach, and wt commend it unreservedly to the present and
in all coming generations. Kentucky takes m. greater pride
in the life of any .if her sons, and now in the evening "I "in
!i\cs we deliberately lake this action, expecting the com
mendation of approved consciences."
The committee, composed ol Gen S B. Buckner, Cap!
George C. Norton, J. T. Gaines, Thomas D. Osborne, and S
A. Cunningham, was appointed by the Commander •>. the
Orphan Brigade General Buckner was made Chairman ami
Hi, anas D Osborne Secretary. This committee convened in
Louisville September 23, at which time it was enlarged by the
appointment of I >r C C Brown (Smith's Grove), W. B.
Brewer (Fairview 1, Col. Bennett II. Young, ('apt John 11
Weller, and Gen Basil W Duke (all of Louisville); and the
committee so enlarged became charter members.
The following .uncles of incorporation were adopted:
Article 1 The name of the incorporation shall be the "Jef
ids, ,n Davis Home Vssociation."
\n 2 The object of the association shall be to acquire
and improve in such manner as may be hereafter determined
such portion "i the native place of Jefferson Davis, situated
in the counties of Christian and Todd, in the State of Ken-
tucky, as ma\ he necessary to carry out the purposes expressed
in the resolutions abo> e cited.
\n 3 The government of the association shall be a body
of twenty-five directors who shall choose from then- number
.' president, a vice president, and a secretary.
\u 1 I he directors of ihis association shall be chosen
under the authority of the organization known as the "United
1 onfederatc Veterans;" but until the) act in the premises the
persons named in this act ol incorporation and such other
persons as they maj name, not exceding twent) five members
ether, shall constituti tin provisional governing body,
until their successors shall be chosen, shall exercise all
the powers necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this
1 1 gani iirai
\m 5 lln directors shall have authority to collect the
.m funds 1,, acquiring and improving the premises; to
provide a safe depositor) for the inn. I- ..i the association; to
i:is
^or^federat:^ l/ecerap
disburse the fund for the purposes named in these articles of
poration; to frame by-laws necessary to carry out the
purposes of this association and not inconsistent with estab-
lished law; to till all vacancies which exi-t or may occur in
their number; to appoint in such manner as they may prc-
scribe a treasurer, a custodian of the property, and such other
deem necessary to carry out the purposes
of this act; to fix the mode and terms on which persons may
become members of this association ; to appoint from their
number an executive committee of three members to dis-
charge such duties as may lie devolved upon them by the
i !i :i d of Directors.
Art. 6. Private property of incorporator- and members shall
be exempt from association debts.
Art. 7. The place of business of this association shall be
Louisville, Ky., but the Board of Directors may authorize lo
fix it at the Jefferson Davis Home or at such other place as
they may designate.
Following the adoption of the articles of incorporation, the
following officers were elected : President. Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner; Secretary, Thomas D. Osborne; Treasurer. Capt.
John H. Leathers.
The articles of incorporation provide that the association
shall be governed by a board of twenty-five directors.
1 in October 5 General Buckner, Capt. J. T. Gaines, and Dr.
Brown visited Fairview with S. A. Cunningham, Chairman of
the Committee on Grounds. These gentlemen were met at
Hopkinsville by veterans and citizens and entertained at their
homes, and a good delegation accompanied them to Fairview.
Hopkinsville Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy
manifested nine!; interest; but that inspiration did not pre-
pare the party for the surprise on reaching Fairview, where
about a hundred people, ladies predominating, had assembled
by the beautiful church and on the matted blue grass arranged
tables with spotless linen and stacks of luncheon that would
have Imn adequate for three times the number.
Some of the officers of the Church ( located on the birth site )
were present, and assured the committee that the heartiest
cooperation wo'uld be given the movement, and that any part
of the desirable nine
acres deeded by Mr
Davis to the Church
would be surrendered to
the Association. Own-
ers of the land seemed
to be most liberally in-
clined to part with such
as is necessary for pur-
poses of the Association.
The Chairman of the
Committee on Grounds,
\\ itb the approval of the
General Committee, ap-
pointed the following
gentlemen of Fairview
and that section of coun-
try to take special in-
terest in the premises :
W. B. Brewer and W.
D. Eddins. of Fairview ;
i lunter Wood, John P..
Trice, W. H. Jesup. and
W. P Winfree, of Hopkinsville; and Capt. M. H. Clark, of
Clarksville, Tenn. -Mr. Brewer will reply to correspondence
from Fairview.
While t!ie committee has not is-ued an appeal for subscrip
tions, the Veteran will assume to suggest to those who "like
to be first" that they may address remittance- to Capt. John II.
Leather'-. Banker. Louisville, Ky.
THE SPOT WHERE MR. DAVIS WAS CAPTURED.
BY JUDGE JOHN It. MARTIN, H.UYKINSVII.LE. GA.
Sometime ago I saw a statement in the Confederate Vet-
eran made by a Federal soldier that the capture of President
Davis was made about thirty miles from Augusta, Ga. It was
about one hundred and. seventy-five miles from Augusta.
President Davis was captured on the west side of the road
leading from Abbeville, the county seat of Wilcox County, to
Irwinville, about one and a half miles from and a little to the
west of north from Irwinville, the county seat of Irwin
County, Ga., on lot of land Number 51 in the third land dis-
trict of Irwin County, and about one hundred yards from the
east line of said lot and about halfway between the north and
south lines of said lot of land. This is a correct and accurate
description of the place wdiere he was captured. The Hon
R. W. Clements, deceased, late of Irwin County, who owned
the land and was living in Irwinville at the time of the cap-
ture and knew of his own personal knowledge where it oc-
curred, pointed out to me the identical spot where President
Davis's tent was pitched in an open place in the pine w Is
just a few steps south of a branch running through the lot of
land. It was on the hill just north of the branch that firing
took place between the Federal cavalry that was going the
road north and another detachment of Federal cavalry that
was traveling the road south, both troops being in pursuit of
President Davis, and each mistook the other for Confederates,
as it was just about daylight.
At the place where President Davis was camped the road
for several years has been discontinued, having been moved a
little farther east, so as to be on a land line. The signs of
bullets were on the trees when I tirst saw the place. I have
passed the place at least four times a year going to Irwin
court for more than twenty-five years. I cut a walking cane
from the branch where he was captured and sent it to Presi-
dent Davis, and received from him a letter dated January Q.
1887, which I have had nicely mounted and framed and which
is now in my parlor as a highly prized memento. In this letter
he says : "The cane you sent to me is doubly valuable by its
associations and the care you took to select it. Though con-
nected with a sad misadventure which has been the theme of
many scandalous falsehoods, I cannot remember as other than
a crowning misfortune without shame."
After the death of Hon. R. W. Clements, by direction of
Mrs. Una Clements, his widow, and Judge J. B. Clements, his
son, on November 29, 1898, I wrote to Gov. Allen D. Candler
tendering, as a donation to the State of Georgia, two acres of
land covering the spot wdiere President Davis and his escort
were camped at the time of his capture, with no conditions
attached to the gift except that the land should forever be held
and owned by the State of Georgia and not be permitted to
pass into the hands of private parties and that appropriate
legislation should be enacted to protect it.
W. B. BREWER.
Inexcusable Partisan Estimates. — William A. Glasson
writes in the Review of Reviews of the Confederates, and
aives much dignity to their numbers in the army. He
^opfederat^ l/eterai}.
439
stales: "According to the best available figures, the number
of separate enlistments in the Confederate army was from
[,239,000 in [,400,000 But man} of these wire reenlistments,
and the terms of service were varied Reduced to enlistments
i"t ,1 three years' term of service, the estimated number is
[,C82,l in"
It seems unfortunate indeed thai a periodical which con-
tains so much reliable data should print so misleading a
statement as to historic facts. The author should have shown
vine regard for the testimonj of records and the statements
of many Southern authors, who put the number at but little
ovei 600,000 * onfederate soldiers in the aggregate
CONFEDERA i 1 DAY Al DAL LAS FAIR
Gen. W. L. Cabell extends a cordial invitation to his com-
rades in attend the Dallas Fair on "Confederate Day." which
has hem fixed for October -'-•, [907, in which he makes spei ial
appeal to the Sons of Veterans, saying: "Come, noble sons oi
these brave veterans, bring your good mothers, your wives,
. and your beautiful daughters to enjoy this great love
ii.i-i Noble s,,ns of those old heroes, you are expected to
lake their places when your fathers have crossed the river 1"
tin great beyond. You are expected in keep the records
"I the service anil brave deeds of yum fathers, so that a true
and impartial histOl") ma) he written of the Confederate side"
Me quotes Section 1. Article XM oi the Constitution oi the
Confederate Veterans, which declares that any data or prop
city the Federation may possess shall he left to our successors.
1I1. Sons of Confederate Veterans, and adds: "Then, noble
suns of those brave men. get ready to take our places. I ap-
peal to you by the brave deeds of your fathers. I appeal to
you by the memory of our noble dead to enroll; I appeal to
.Mm by our proud histor) t" organize and he ready to show-
that you arc proud of your fathers, whose lame shall live a
long as the South admires true courage and true patriotism
' an. on October 22 ami help us make the day .me of the
udest in the history of the 1 (alias I aii "
In the 1 laughter- ..f the Confederacy he extends a cordial
invitation, for "no gathering i- complete without these noble
mi 11 oi tin South, wh.. in our dark days wen- our strength
and comfort, and to-day are the angels of mercy, bringing
help in tin- needy and charity to the old anil feeble. So come
.•mil grace Confederate Da) with your gracious presence."
ABOl I I en/) ./\/> SLEEP.
HI .1. Kill o,,, COMMANDER 1ST ARK. BRIG., i I V., L1TT i.
I have carefully read Edison's "Advice about Food and
in (he VETERAN, and take pleasure in indorsing what
he says on this subject I was horn September o. [840, and
will consequently he sixty-seven years young in a few days
About seventeen years ago 1 quit the use of flesh food, and
about seven years ago I discontinued the habit of eating break
fa-t, eating only a light lunch of milk and bread ah.. ill noon
or a little later In iIh evening about seven or eight o'clock
a light meal of bread and milk, and occasionally a dish
' I 1 ''in 1 "Id vi "' table I ai ise about fv\ 1 o'i 1< ick of morn-
ings, and usually engagi actively in doin chon iboul homi
or working in tin garden I then go to nn office, and am .1;
;k the gnat. 1 pari of the <\.\\. from eight 01 nine o'clock
until six or seven in the evening I am never sick. 11. .1 even
having headaches or othei aches ami pains that so man]
plain of. I am strong and active, and ti.l ,,- young nnl trig
01. 111- as I did thirtj ] I climb a nee or on top ol a
house as well as I did when a boy. M) faculties are all as
acute as ever, and I have no conception 1 1 old age excepl for
ihe graj hairs, which are quite in evidence 1 am confident
from what I have experienced, have sen. and read on this
line that any one and all of those who wall practice this mode
of living, coupled with right thinking, ma) renew then- bodies
and minds and live long, happy, and useful lives free from all
ph) sic d ailments.
I m 'lice- what you say regarding your former fancies along
this line II id you conformed to the regime suggested, you
w ' mid 11. .\\ he Cl lllfirmed ill these ideas
1-'.. James writes from Ashland. 111.: "1 am waiting patiently
for the Septembei Veteran I feel at a loss without it. 1
have other reading matter, hut none takes the place of the
VETERAN. I anticipate visiting the South the coming fall ir
winter If s,,, I intend stopping awhile in Nashville, Tenn.
I am still hale and heart) was eight) si\ years old February
23 — and attribute mj c 1 health to my temperate mode of
living 1 never used tobacco or strong drink of any kind,
and have pas-ed most of my time in honest toil I was always
loud of music, and can play the clarionet I read without
glasses."
Officers Vrkansas Division The Arkansas Division, U.
< V . held it! annual convention al Hoi Springs October 4.
James II Berr) was reelected b) acclamation to command the
Division for the ensuing year, and the Brigade Commanders
are as follows: Jonathan Kellogg. First Brigade, Little Rock.
John R. Thornton. Second Brigade, Camden; R. R. Poe.
Ihiid Brigade, Clinton; John J. McKean, Fourth Brigade,
Lockesburg \Y. M. Watkins continues as Adjutant General
and thief of Staff to General Berry I lis address is Little
Rod
John Shanley, [002 Maple Street, Des Moines. Iowa, desiri -
a cop) "i the original roster of the "Louisiana Tigers."
Miss 1 BYRD MOCK. SPONSOR VRKANSAS DIVISION.
■Ill)
Confederate l/eteran.
Confederate l/eteran.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ 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.
BLUE AND GRAY TO MEET Al VICKSBURG.
The Society of the Ann; of tin- Tennessee .-mil other
Union ami Confederate Veterans are to meet in convention
m Vicksburg, Miss.. November 7. 1907 It is officially the
thirty-seventh annual reunion of the organization named
above Ibis meeting will be held upon the invitation of the
people of Vicksburg, represented by the city authorities, the
commercial organizations, anil the survivors of the Confed-
erate ami Federal armies resident in Vicksburg, and guests
"will he entertained with cordial, true Southern hospitality."
On the morning of November 7 the members will he taken
fur a long drive over the old battlefields around the city and
through the great National Military Park, which is pae Jif
the most beautiful parks in the United States. ("In that
evening (November 7) the society will he welcomed to the
State of Mississippi 1>\ Gov. J. K. Vardaman and to the city
bj Maj. 1'.. W. Griffith, after which Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent
Grant, U. S. A., and Lieut. Gen. Stephen 1). Lee. Commander
of tlie l\ C. \\. will make addresses.
On the evening of the 8th a banquet will lie given, at which
addresses will he made bj Gen. Horace Porter, Archbishop
Ireland, Gen. O. O. Howard, P. T. Sherman. Mrs. John A.
Logan, Maj. S. II. M. Byers, Gen. T. C. Catchings, Gov.
Robert Lowry, ami other distinguished persons.
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF Hill CONFEDERACY.
BY MRS. L1ZZIF GEORGE HENDERSON.
This being the last number before the convention at Nor-
folk, I have waited as long as I can to write, hoping that I
might he able to tell you everything you need to know before
that time. I am going, iirst of all. to give you some of the
details of the arrangements for our comfort and convenience
while we an- in Norfolk; for the mails sometimes miscarry,
and this .will give you one more chance to get such facts.
Mrs. James Y. Leigh, 80 York Street, Norfolk, Va., is tin-
one you are to write to with regard to the room or rooms
ymi want engaged for you and those going with you. They
have made arrangements at two hotels — one inside the Ex-
position grounds anil one out. The Inside Inn is $1.50 pcr
ilay (for lodging only 1 for each person and with two or more
in a room. This hotel has no way of heating the rooms, but
has the advantage of being under the same roof with the
hall in which all the meetings except the opening meeting will
he held. 'I hen the Pelham Place Hotel is on a car line which
takes you to the Exposition grounds. This hotel is steam-
Inateil. and charges $1 per day for two or more in a room
I In Exposition rates on the railroads will prevail for the
convention, as the Exposition will still lie open. I hope the
Chapters will remember this year that there is a by-law which
prevents the committee from considering any credentials not
received by it "before 12 .\i. the night before the convention
or by the Secretary General, Mrs. A. L. Dowdell, Opelika,
Ala., ten days before the convention," and that another by-law
says all Chapters that do not pay their per capita ten days
before the convention are not entitled to representation. 1
call your attention to this especially, as each year there are
1 hose who come bringing their credentials in their trunks, and
trunks are often delayed until it is too late for the credential-
to he considered. The committee has no discretion in the
matter. I he by-laws bind them. If you will send both the
credential blanks filled out properly, one to the Recording
Secretary General and the other to the chairman of the com-
mittee— then if one miscarries, the other is quite apt to reach
its destination — there need not be any trouble. Don't put
it off until the latest mail, for there might be delay. Give
them plenty of time and send both, so that one will be sure
to get in all right.
The Pickett Buchanan Chapter has made arrangements for
an unusually attractive convention, and I hope the attendance
will be large. Go several days before and stay several days
after to see the Exposition, and the days of the convention
devote to that and nothing else. Remember that eyes from
all over the world will be there to see how Southern women
conduct their conventions. Let us keep this ever before 11-.
that we will be watched with hypercritical eyes, and so con-
duct our meetings that no one need feel that we might have
done better. I hope that each delegate wdio goes will remem-
ber that she has the reputation of the Southern women as
high-toned, courteous, gentle-mannered ladies in her keeping.
You will probably remember that the first Confederate sol-
dier killed in action was Private Henry L. Yv'yatt, of North
Carolina. One of North Carolina Division's Chapters is
named for this brave boy (for such he was in years), and they
have recently started the movement to erect a monument P
his memory in the Capitol Square in Raleigh. It is a great
movement, and I am putting it here that if any Chapter wishes
to help to erect this monument it may send the contribution
to Mrs. N. E. Edgerton, Salem, N. C. I hope every one of
you will be sure to read the article which took the U. D. C.
prize at Columbia University. It is to appear in this issue,
.ind you will be proud of our order for bringing before the
public all this information by offering the prize.
Mrs. Henderson Cum minus "Gleanings from Southland."
This summer 1 read a most delightful book dealing with
what the Southern women did for the Confederacy. Its title
is "Gleanings from Southland." It is an account of the per-
sonal experience of a Southern girl, Miss Kate Cumming,
who spent the entire four years nursing the sick and wounded
Confederate soldiers. There is no fiction about it, only the
daily experience of this patriotic woman, much of it quota-
tions from the diary which she kept during all that time. Ft
is delightfully written, and you never get tired of reading,
because you realize that it is true and that it tells you wdiat
thousands of Southern women — your own mother among
them — did to relieve the suffering of our soldiers. The Vet-
erans and Sons would find the reading of that book a great
spur to their determination to have monuments to Confed-
erate women erected in every Southern State. Get it and
read it to your children. It will have the effect on them that
it did on a lady in New Jersey, who said : "Until I read the
book, 1 had no idea of the sufferings and self-denials of the
South. They could not possibly have been endured with
such undaunted courage had the Southern people not be-
lieved their cause a just one." I don't know of anything which
will make them so stanch to our Confederates and their mem-
ory as this book will. I shall pretty soon read it to my Fri-
day Afternoon Club of girls between twelve and sixteen
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U. D. C. PRIZE PAPER— COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
Prof. Herbert T. Coleman secured the $100 prize for the
following p.iper. He is a Canadian, was a student at Colum-
bia University, and is now Professor of Education in the
University of Colorado. Although quite lengthy, those who
peruse the paper carefully will be gratified with the ex-
haustive record The committee making the award is com-
posed of Dr. Alderson, President of the University of Vir-
ginia (Chairman); Dr. Smith, President of the University of
North Carolina; and Dr. J. II. Finlcy, of the College of the
City of New York.
It will be remembered that Mrs. Livingstone Rowe Schuy-
ler, after much persistent zeal, secured for the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy a scholarship in Columbia College
for the study of correct history from the South's view-point.
The trustees of that college accepted the trust as they had
done for the Colonial 1 lames.
The Status OF EDUCATION in the South Pbios to the
Was betw een thi Si vtes.
During the period prior to the Revolutionary War the
agencil - and methods of formal education in the different
American colonies were practically the same. The work of
instructing children and youth was almost wholly in private
hands, while the studic- pur-tted and the methods employed
were the traditional ones of the mother country. It is true
that in Massachusetts and Connecticut provision had early
been made for public school systems; but through the un-
willingness of local communities to tax themselves and
through the lack of sufficient Slate support the public schools,
which in the latter part of the seventeenth century seemed so
full of promise, were in the century following allowed to
lapse into inefficiency.
It was during the period between the war of the Revolution
and the War between the States that the educational prac
tiics of the North and those of the South came to lie notice-
ably differentiated; In tier it is with educational conditions in
the South during this period that this paper will mainly deal.
iln - differences had to do not so much with the subject-
matter of instruction, since the curricula in schools of the
same (lass were practically the same in all parts of tile coun-
try; neither did they arise wholly from differences in educa
tional ideals, since the political and the philanthropic as well
as tb,- religious incentive were present in the Southern as well
as in the New England and Middle Stale- Such differences
as existed were largely a mattei of emphasis, tin- South pa}
ing relatively more attention to higher instruction and ovi
looking for a longer period than did man} oi the Northern
Stales lite important educational work which the individual
commonwealth might legitimately and advantageously under
take. 'Ibis latter fact had its origin in certain political and
social theories. These theories, more often explicit in legi
lativc action than formally expressed in words, will i
ferrcd to more than once in the following discussion of , i
tain features which the writer, after a somewhat extended
survey of the field, has come to regard as characteristic of the
South during the eighty years immediately prior to tin- War
between the Slates, Stated w i t h. mt am specifii reference to
their degree of importance or their order m time', these fea-
tures arc as follows ;
I. 11k ri-c of the Slate universities paralleled and in some
cases anticipated by the rise of denominational colleges.
J I lie grow th of the academics,
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3. The development of an interest in the education of girls
leading to the founding of many ladies' seminaries.
1 I he establishment of "free schools" and the existence of
antagonisms which prevented their achieving that degree of
efficiency and of public support which characterized the pub-
lic school system of many of the Northern States.
5. I he beginnings of modem city school systems and of
th< campaign of free public schools patronized by all classes
in the community.
The South was clearly the pioneer in the matter of estab
lishing State universities and in providing for their support
from the public domain. Of the six institutions of this class
founded before 1830, the South furnished five — viz.: the Urn
versirj oi Georgia, established in 1785; the University of
North Carolina, established in 1789; the University of Ten-
nessee, established in [794; the University of South Carolina,
established in 1 80 1 ; and the University of Virginia, estab
lished in 1819.
The State Constitution of North Carolina, founded in 1770,
contained the clause, "All useful learning shall he encouraged
in one or more universities;" while the act of the Legisla-
ture of Georgia setting apart 40,000 acres of wild lands for
the endowment of a "college or seminary of learning" con-
tained in its preamble the following significant statement:
"A free government can be happy only where the public prin-
ciples and opinions are properly directed and their manners
regulated. 1 his is an influence beyond the reach of laws and
punishments, and can be claimed only by religion and educa-
tion. It should, therefore, be among the first objects of those
who wish well to the national prosperity to encourage and
support the principles of religion and morality and early to
place the youth under the forming hand of society, that by
instruction they may be molded to the love of virtue and
good order. Sending them abroad to other countries for
their education will not answer these purposes; it is too
humiliating an acknowledgment of the ignorance and in-
feriority of our own, and will always be the cause of so
great foreign attachments that on principles of policy it is
inadmissible."
In the act itself the trustees of the university were for-
bidden 10 "1 xclude any person of any religion- denomination
whatsoever from full and equal liberty and advantages of
education or from any of the liberties, privileges, and im-
munities of the university on account of his or her specu-
lative sentiments in religion or being of a different religious
profession."
To Thomas Jefferson more than to any other one person
is due the prevalence in the South of tin- idea of an in.ritu-
tion of higher instruction maintained by the State and free-
to all young men within its borders who are intellectually
qualified for admission, llis name is most closely connected
with the university of his own State, and yet his views as
contained in various published letters exerted .111 influence
national in extent. For nearly fifty years he worked for the
establishment in the State of Virginia of a system of • due.i
tion the crowning piece of which was to be a university —
Stale as regards it- government and support, but national and
even cosmopolitan as regards the scope of iis interests. Even
while occupying the presidential chair and engaged in most
serious matters of national "policy his thoughts, as is shown
by his correspondent with Cabell and others, continually re-
verted to his educational schemes, During the leisure period
of bis lasl veils so absorbed did he become with his cherished
1 that lie even laid out the grounds for the new uni-
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versity, drew the plans for the various buildings, and super-
vised the details of their construction. Not only in regard to
external arrangements but also in regard to the curriculum
and ideals of the institution was Jefferson's influence strongly
felt. In the language of an alumnus of the university, "the
combination of the monastic with the democratic spirit, the
high standard and broad scope of study which he advised,
the honor system of discipline and the merging of party and
sect into literary and scientific fellowship — all survive in the
university and bear testimony to the wisdom of the mind
which first combined them."
The growth of the State universities during the early part
of their history was slow. Much of the land with which
they were endowed produced at the outset little or no revenue.
The work of university instruction was undertaken in many
cases without adequate financial support. One cannot but
admire the courage which inspired the early professors and
students, a courage which found a notable instance in Presi-
dent Meigs, of the University of Georgia, who at one time,
for want of a suitable lecture room, held his classes under a
large oak tree, and who carried on the work of the university
during ten years with but one assistant.
The South was, however, on the whole far from niggardly
in the support of her State institutions. From 1801 to 1863
South Carolina College received from the State Legislature
yearly grants exceeding in total amount $1,200,000, while the
legislative gifts to the University of Virginia in the course
of the forty-two years — 1818-60 — amounted to nearly three-
quarters of a million. The University of Tennessee was
established with funds obtained from the sale of government
lands. The University of North Carolina received some
$200,000 from escheats of land and land warrants in addition
to special grants for building purposes and revenue from lot-
teries. Transylvania University, which for many years was
practically the State University of Kentucky, derived con-
siderable income from such sources as the revenue from
State banks, court fines, land grants, and special grants of
money. In addition to the foregoing, grants aggregating a
large sum of money (the exact amount of which it would be
difficult, if not impossible, to estimate) were given to various
private colleges which the States felt had claims upon their
bounty.
The State universities differed from the colonial colleges
in several important particulars. One manifest point of dif-
ference was in their closer relation to the government of the
State. Being creatures of State legislation, they embodied
to a marked degree the ambitions and ideals of the people of
the State as reflected in the deliberations and legislative ac-
tions of their representatives. A second element of difference
was in the unsectarian character of the instruction given.
Though unsectarian, they were, however, far from being anti-
religious or even irreligious. This fact is illustrated by
the storm of opposition which arose against the so-called ma-
terialistic teaching of Thomas Cooper, President of the Uni-
versity of South Carolina from 1831 to 1834. This antago-
nism, which was accentuated by President Cooper's attacks on
the historical and scientific validity of the Pentateuch, even-
tually led to his resignation. A third distinguishing char-
acteristic was the liberal character of the course of study in
the State institutions. Of this the University of North Caro-
lina will furnish an illustration. The trustees provided at a
meeting in November, 1792, that on the opening of the uni-
versity the attention of the students should be confined to the
following subjects: "The study of languages, especially the
English; the acquirement of historical knowledge, ancient and
modern ; the study of belles-letters, mathematics, and natural
philosophy; the improvement of the intellectual powers, in-
cluding a rational system of logic and moral philosophy; in-
formation in botany, to which should be added a complete
knowledge in the theory and practice of agriculture best
suited to the climate and soils of the State; the principles of
architecture." The tendency shown by the incorporation of
agriculture and architecture in the curriculum is further il-
lustrated in the establishment by the State in 1854 of a school
for the application of science to the arts, its object being "to
prepare young men for professional life as engineers, artisans,
farmers, miners, and physicians."
As to the more pervasive and intangible results of these
institutions as a class, it is not unfair to quote the statement
of Prof. W. J. Rivers, of South Carolina College, who stated
shortly before the War between the States that the institu-
tion with which he was connected had been chiefly useful "in
raising the standard of the academies, in developing a high
sense of honor among the students, and inspiring an ap-
preciation of literary and scientific attainments among a
people largely agricultural."
As is well known, the denominational college was first in
the field in the South as elsewhere in colonial America. The
College of William and Mary, founded in 1691, is second
among American colleges in point of age ; and though finally
supplanted in the affections of the State and of the South
generally by the University of Virginia, it achieved undying
fame by the number of patriots and statesmen it furnished
during the Revolutionary period. Situated at Williamsburg,
for many years the capital of the State, it exerted a potent in-
fluence on the political and social life of the South during
the eighteenth century. It failed, however, in accommodating
itself to the altered conditions and the wider intellectual in-
terests which accompanied the advent of the nineteenth cen-
tury. It was a realization of this fact which led Jefferson to
write to his friend Cabell as follows : "Instead of wasting
your time in attempting to patch up a decaying institution
[meaning William and Mary College], direct your efforts to
a higher and more valuable object. Found a new one which
shall be worthy of the first State in the Union."
The various religious denominations in the South were far
from inactive in the field of higher education during the first
half of the nineteenth century. Their activity was due partly
to a fear that the founding of State universities would lead
to the rearing of an irreligious generation, partly to an in-
ability to conceive of religious apart from denominational in-
struction, partly to a desire to provide an educated ministry,
;md partly, perhaps mainly, to a feeling strongly prevalent in
the South that the work of education, aside perhaps from its
purely elementary phase, belonged to religious and philan-
thropic enterprise rather than to the State. Hence we find
that William and Mary and Washington College (a Presby-
terian institution at Lexington, Va.) were strong opponents
of Jefferson's scheme for a State university for Virginia; that
to the teachings of Thomas Cooper and the fears to which
they gave rise "may be directly traced the foundation of one
or two sectarian schools in South Carolina, and that Transyl-
vania University, after the withdrawal of State patronage
and finding itself unable to cope with several rising denomi-
national schools, passed successively into the hands of the
Baptists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Methodists."
It was, however, in connection with academies and ladies'
seminaries that denominational activity was especially mani-
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fcst; so further treatment of denominational education in the
South may be deferred until those topics arc reached.
Before leaving this general division of the subject, however,
a brief mention should be made of the strong tendency among
the wealthy families of the South to send their sons abroad
for their college education. Hugh S. Legare, in his "Essay
on Classical Learning," says: "Before and just after the
Revolution many (perhaps it would be more accurate to say
most) of our youth of opulent families were educated at Eng-
lish schools and universities. As an illustration of the
strength of this tendency in the Southern as compared with
the other States of the Union, it may be cited that of the
one hundred and fourteen Americans admitted to the London
bar in the eighteenth century forty-four came from South
Carolina alone, Virginia standing next with fourteen."
During the nineteenth century young men were sent from
the South in increasing numbers to Northern colleges, so that
a writer in DeBow's Review estimates that during the fifties
fully one-fifteenth of the students in attendance at the Mas-
sachusetts colleges and at Princeton were from the Southern
States. This fact furnished a ground for serious protests
when the No th and the South came to divide on the slavery
question. A r, iction set in in favor of home institutions to
stub .in extent i. [1 a competent authority ascribes the estab-
lishment of the University of Mississippi mainly to the op-
position to abolition sentiment.
So strongly was university education rooted in Southern
sentiment and practice that we find the Southern system of
education mentioned and defended by Southern writers as the
university system as distinguished from the public school sys-
tem which prevailed in the North. Some interesting statistics
are given in DeBow's Review in an article on "College Edu
cation North and South ;" while during the fifties Maine could
boast of one college student in 2,083 of population ; New
Hampshire, one in 1,162; Massachusetts, one in 944; Rhode
Island, one in 955; Connecticut, one in 441; Vermont, one in
684; "i' an average for the New England States of one in
916. Virginia possessed one college student for every 666
of population; North Carolina, one for every 1,078; South
Carolina, one for every 381 ; and Georgia, one for every 389;
or a total average for the four oldest Southern States of
one in every 545 of population. While these figures were
used ;is weapons in a bitter controversy which has now hap-
pily given way before a feeling "f mutual respect and an at-
titude of mutual helpfulness, they forcibly illustrate the posi-
tion which the S >uth has always maintained in reference to
university education.
The term "academy" was applied in the South to a great
variet] oi schools, some of a purely elementary sort and some
approaching the college of the day in the nature and extent
of their curriculum. Some of these institutions were purely
private; others were State-aided; many were under denomi-
national control. With all these various differences, however,
as a class they possessed the following distinguishing charac-
ter ins: They were chiefly for the sons of the well-to-do,
and to attend them was a badge of respectability. They aimed
to prepare Students t"r admission to allege, and hence the
classical languages occupied an important place in their cur-
riculum. They were in many cases boarding schools receiv-
ing students from neighboring counties, and in some instances
from neighboring States as well.
So important a place did the academy occupy in the South
that, according to the census of 1N50. there were in the
twelve States. Alabama. Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten-
nessee, Texas, and Virginia, 2,305 academies with 3.948 teach-
ers, 83,449 pupils, and an estimated annual income of $2,233,-
269.
A further analysis of the census returns mentioned shows
the proportion of academy students to the population in the
twelve following Southern States to be as follows: Virginia,
one in 98; North Carolina, one in 60; South Carolina, one
in 36; Georgia, one in 57; Florida, one in 37; Alabama, one
in 51; Louisiana, one in 47; Texas, one in 45; Mississippi,
one in 44: Tennessee, one in 76; Kentucky, one in 59; Arkan-
sas, one in 67. The total average for these States is one in
61, while the average for the six New England States is one
in 05. and that for the remaining States of the Union (in-
cluding New England) is one in 70. These statistics tend
I" i> enforce statements already made and show that in the
first half of the nineteenth century education, apart from the
purely elementary phase of it, was fully as highly regulated
in the Southern States as in the sister States to the North.
At the close of the Revolution there were in South Caro-
lina eleven public grammar schools or academics as contrasted
with three charitable and eight private schools of the same
character. In North Carolina by 1S26 one hundred and
eighty-six academies had been chartered by the State Legisla-
ture. During the closing years of the eighteenth century more
than thirty academies were established in various parts of
Kentucky. Each of these received from the Legislature six
thousand acres of land and permission to raise one thousand
dollars by lottery. By 1820 forty-seven of the counties of
Kentucky had academies in operation. In 1821 the Louisiana
Legislature appropriated eight hundred dollars for every
academy in the State with the understanding that in each
eight pupils were to be instructed free of charge. In Georgia
there were sixty-four academies in active operation by 1829,
and in 1840 there were one hundred and seventy-six. with an
aggregate attendance of eight thousand pupils.
In spite of legislative liberality, however, most of the acad-
emies were spasmodic in their activity, and reached only a
small portion of their proper constituency. In the early part
of the nineteenth century it was difficult to realize any settled
income from land endowment; there was too much free land
awaiting occupation Moreover, legislative enactment looking
toward a State system of secondary education was, so far
as the evidence is at hand, permissive in character, and local
communities were, as a rule, unwilling to tax themselves for
what many regarded as a luxury and many others as a re-
sponsibility of the individual parents concerned.
It would seem that in the field of secondary education the
place of honor belonged to the private academies. Many of
were in the hands of men ot high scholarship devoted
to their work and possessing singular gifts in inspiring the
youth with high intellectual and moral ideals. Reference to
one or two of these men may not be amiss here.
Of Dr. David Coldwcll, who conducted a school in Guilford
County, N, C, in the years immediately prior to the War
between the States, it has been said: "For many years his
log cabin served the Slate as a college, an academy, anil a
1 biological school. To have passed through the course of
Study here was a sufficient recommendation for scholarship
in any part of the South "
One of the most famous academies in the South in the
early part of the nineteenth century was that at Wellington,
in Abbeville County, S. C, and its most famous teacher.
Mo Waddell, The school building was of logs and situated
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in a grove of chinquapin, oak, and beech. The students, most
of whom came from a distance, lived in log houses near the
school. The government was mainly in the hands of moni-
tors chosen from among the older boys. In the curriculum
great emphasis was placed upon the study of the classics.
There were no fixed classes, promotion being made at such
times as the advancement of the individual student war-
ranted it. One of the students, George Carey, in, order to
secure a coveted promotion, prepared a -thousand lines of
Virgil for a single recitation. Later this feat was outdone by
George McDufhe, destined to be one of the most famous
orators of his day, who came to class on a certain occasion
prepared to translate one thousand two hundred and twelve
lines of Horace. Work of such advanced character was done
in this school that it was not unusual for its students on their
leaving to be admitted to the second and even the third year
of college.
Another famous head master, Robert L. Armstrong by
name, of a more Spartan type than Moses Waddell, is thus
described by a former pupil: "He was remarkable for his
industry and strict discipline. I have seen him ruin many a
heavy pair of winter pantaloons at a single whipping."
There seems to have been during the second quarter of the
nineteenth century a strong tendency in the South toward the
founding of ladies' schools. One of the journals of the period,
speaking of the States in the Southern Mississippi Valley,
says : "This valley twelve years ago did not contain, so we
are informed, any female seminary deserving the name, nor
is it known that any one now in operation has been in ex-
istence more than nine years, and yet in the year 1836 six-
teen seminaries were in successful operation in the whole
valley and preparations were making for the establishment
of eight more." Of Kentucky, it has been said : "Many fe-
male colleges were founded in rapid succession from 1850
onward, and soon became so numerous that almost every
prominent denomination had two or more representative in-
stitutions." Similar agencies, it would seem, were responsible
for the establishment of many institutions of like character in
South Carolina and other States of the South.
In regard to the character of these schools, one writer has
remarked : "The public sentiment did not favor schools of
advanced grade for women. Reared in luxury and among a
chivalric people, women received the most unbounded honor
and even adulation. The bearing of men toward them was
almost as extravagant as in mediaeval days. Their education
was confined to the acquirement of certain accomplishments,
such as music, painting, wax-working, and fancy needle-
work."
An exception to the foregoing — one of many, doubtless — •
was founded by the Elizabeth Female Academy, situated at
Washington, Adams County, Miss. In her yearly report for
1829, the governess, Mrs. C. M. Thayer, expresses herself
as follows : "Happy for the present age, and happy too for
posterity, the public sentiment has undergone an important
change in favor of female cultivation. Without undervaluing
personal accomplishments or disregarding domestic duties,
we are permitted to aspire to the dignity of intellectual beings,
and, as was beautifully expressed by a gentleman who ad-
dressed us at the close of our examinations, 'the whole map
of knowledge is spread before the female scholar, and no
grade of the ancients is set up as the limit of discovery.' "
The course of study followed in this school is thus de-
sl ibed by a local newspaper: "In 1825 the course of educa-
tion embraced the English, French, and Latin languages taught
according to the principles then most approved, with scrupu-
lous attention to punctuation ; also history, composition, the
elements of chemistry, geography, and astronomy (with use
of globes), and arithmetic. The improved method of instruc-
tion recommended by Edgeworth, Pestalozzi, and Condillac
of addressing the understanding without oppressing the mem-
ory was adopted."
The motives which led to the establishment of elementary
schools in the South were various. Philanthropy, religion,
desire of private gain — all had their part in the work. Finally,
however, the different States came to feel a responsibility in
the matter and to make provision, more or less adequate, for
the education of the children within their borders.
As early as the seventeenth century we find the philan-
thropic motive active in Virginia. In 1636 a school was
opened in Elizabeth County as the result of a bequest from
Benjamin Symms of two hundred acres of land and eight
cows. Some forty years later (1675) a school was founded in
Newport County by Henry Peasley, "who endowed it with six
hundred acres, ten cows, and a breeding mare." Later donors
added to the endowment several slaves. In 1722 Richard
Beresford left i6,500 to the parish of St. Thr uas and St.
Denis, near Charleston, S. C, "for the advanr* nent of liberal
learning." At the time of the Revolutionary War there were
thirty scholars in the school founded under the bequest, and
the endowment amounted to iio.ooo. At the time of the
War between the States the endowment had reached $70,000.
Dexter, in his "History of Education in the United States,"
speaks of this school as having been "one of the prominent
schools of the State down to the war."
The most interesting of all the charitable establishments in
the South during the eighteenth century was the Orphan
House, founded at Bethesda, near Savannah, Ga., by the Rev.
George Whitefield and for many years maintained through the
labors of this famous preacher and missionary. During the
period from 1740, the date of its opening, till 1808, when the
Orphan House estate was sold by order of the Legislature,
many hundreds of orphans were there given the religious, in-
tellectual, and industrial preparation for useful lives.
Following in the footsteps of Whitefield, Alexander Downer,
a wealthy Englishman, left in 1818 a large portion of his
wealth to be devoted to the education of orphans under four-
teen years of age, one-quarter to be taken from Richmond
County, Ga., and the remainder to be taken from the Edgefield
District, in South Carolina.
In other instances schools were founded by philanthropic
societies of various sorts. Examples of such organizations
are the South Carolina Society, founded in 1737, and the
Winyaw Indigo Society, founded at Georgetown, S. C, in
1756. The members of this latter organization were wealthy
indigo planters, who voted a certain amount of the contribu-
tions levied at a yearly convivial gathering to educational pur-
poses. Of the school thus founded, a local historian says :
"This school for more than one hundred years was the chief
school for the eastern part of the country between Charleston
and the North Carolina line, and was resorted to by all
classes."
A more ambitious organization was the Florida Education
Society, organized at Tallahassee in 1831. Its object was "to
collect and diffuse information on the subject of education
and endeavor to procure the establishment of such a general
system of instruction as would be suited to the wants and
conditions of the territory." Through the efforts of this so-
ciety considerable interest was aroused in education, and a
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manual labor school of the Fellenberg type was projected.
Eventually, however, the interest waned, and the society
within five years became extinct.
I he enthusiasm for manual labor institutions, to which
reference has just been made, was quite prevalent in the
South and, in fact, throughout the United States in the period
between 1830 and 1840. These institutions were patterned
after the famous school of M. Fellenberg at llofwyl. Switzer
land, in which the students varied their studies with employ-
ment on the farm and at the workbench. The Southern
manual labor schools — and, in fact, AT. Fellenberg's institu-
tion itself — had been anticipated in a school built in Abbeville
County, S. C, with funds bequeathed by John De La How,
who in 1796 left the bulk of his estate for the establishment
of an agricultural school.
As a direct result of the Fellenberg movement, we find
various religious denominations seeking to model the schools
under their care along the new lines. Such schools were gen-
erally, however, of the college or academy rather than of the
elementary type. In every case the manual labor idea failed
to take root. "Students who had been brought up on the
farm thought it a waste of time to cut wood and hold the
plow while at college" is the explanation given by one writer.
As has been indicated already, the religions impulse was
present in the elementary as well as in the higher fields of
education. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts established a school at Charleston as early as
171 1. Its missionaries were enjoined not only to preach but
to encourage the setting up of schools for the teaching of
children, while schoolmasters were admonished to pay especial
attention to the moral and religious welfare of their young
charges.
The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who emigrated to North
Carolina during tin- years 1736-70 brought with them a lively
interest in general education, so that "with every church
there was planted also a classical school."
Of the schoolmaster adventurers, we find here and there
some interesting information. Most of this class, however
belong to the "free school" period, when the grants from the
State gave at least something in the way of ,1 fixed income.
Of the "redemptioners" sent to Virginia and Maryland in
early colonial times, some we know were schoolmasters; but
their choice of the calling was doubtless not wholly voluntary.
and their constituencies were usually restricted to single house-
holds, with Other households occasionally added for the -.ike
ol economy or convenience. In fact, the private tutor has ;il
ways briii an important educational factor in the South, the
1 0l.1t io n of many families and the general unwillingni to
patronize the free schools, on account of the feeling that they
were 1 harity institutions, li ading ti 1 this
The limitations of this paper forbid thai any attempt be
inadi to ii.ni in detail the growth oi th< idea of public pro-
vision for elementary education in the various Southern
lie- publii chool systems of the South as they exist
• it ill" in. -Mil time have grown up since the War between the
I in 11 have, however, been in the South almost from
thi earliest time fai ighted tatesmen who have held firmly
to the beliei that the dutj of the State in this regard was a
large and in One Am e, the first in impor-
tance, if not m time, was rhomas Jefferson. As earlj .is 1770
he introduced into thi \ irginia Assembly .1 bill providii
the foundation of common schools for all free children, both
nd finale. This effort in behalf of female instruction
anticipated by tin years tin action of the city of Boston in
admitting girls to her public schools. Realizing the un-
wieldy nature of the Southern country, Jefferson ad\
the establishment for school purposes of hundreds of wards
ov townships based on the militia districts. Another respect
in which he showed singular foresight was in calling atten-
tion to the need of developing local initiative by requiring
the State grant for education to be supplemented irr every case
by local taxation.
When we turn to a consideration of the financial provision
for the support of public elementary education in the various
St; lis of the South, wc find on the whole a commendable
liberality. Instances which ate fairly typical of the attitude
of the South generally may be chosen from the history of
the four older States — Virginia, North Carolina. South Caro-
lina, and Georgia. The newer States were, of course, serious-
ly hampered in the matter of public education by the exigencies
of frontier life, the scattering of the settlers over wide areas
of virgin territory, and the unproductivity for many years
of legislative land grants for school purposes. Nevertheless,
they followed at no great distance the example of their older
sisters.
In 1818 Virginia appropriated $45,000 from the Literary
bund a- a yearly grant to public education. By 1855 the
fund in question had grown to over $2,000,000, $80,000 of the
income of which was available for public school purposes.
In 1825 the General Assembly of North Carolina established
a common school fund to be recruited from bank stock, liquor
licenses, fees for entry on government land, etc. In 1837 the
Literary Fund of the State amounted to some $2,000,000, with
an annual income of $100,000. In 1S55 the yearly revenue
accruing to the schools of the State was about $253,000, while
the school fund was estimated to exceed that of several of
the wealthier Northern States, being greater than that of
Massachusetts, for example, by $500,000.
In South Carolina as early as 1701 it was provided by
legislative enactment that each parish might receive £10 from
the public treasury to assist in the building of a schoolhouse.
The first free school was established in 1710, but little was
done in the way of creating a Slate school system till the
passing of the Free School \i I of l8ll. Up to 1821 $302,490
had been expended by the Stair on popular education, $100,000
of which, however, owing to careless handling, had not
been accounted for. The expenditure of the State on free
schools for the year 1847 was $33.5-7. while in 1855 the ex-
penditure on common scl 1 was one-eighth of the total
income of the State; and including the grants to colleges and
military schools, one-fourth.
The fifty-fourth section of the Georgia Constitution of
1777 provided that schools should be erected in every county
and supported at the expense of the State. \n act of the
State Legislature in 17S5 provided that the Governor might
grant one thousand acres of land for a free school in every
county. From this act the so-called "poor school" system of
Georgia took its rise.
By an act of December iS. 1S17. (be Legislature proa
to create and establish a fund for the support of "free schools"
throughout the State, and made a grant i'i $250,000 for that
purpose. In 1821 tin i inre provided for the division
of $500,000 equally between the academics and free schools.
An act of December 23. 1S36. set apart one-third of the sur-
plus revenue (amounting to $350,000) as a permanent "free
school and education fund." In 1837. after an exhaustive re-
port by a legislative committee appointed to investigate ami
report on a system of common schools, there was inaugurated
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"a general system of education by common schools" to take
effect in 1839, the academy and free school funds were con-
solidated, and, together with the interest on one-third part
of the surplus revenue, were constituted "A General Fund for
Common Schools."
All these grants of State money — large, considering the
time and considering also the total wealth of the common-
wealths by which they were made — brought, however, inade-
quate and unsatisfactory results. Southern thinkers and
writers were among the first to realize this fact and to seek
to determine its cause. Governor McDowell, of Virginia, as-
serted in 1843 that at that time provision had been made in
his State to give only sixty days' schooling annually to but
half of the indigent children of the State. He spoke of the
school law of 1818 (then in force) as "little more than a cost-
ly and delusive nullity." Gov. George McDuffie, of South
Carolina, in a message to the State Legislature in 1835, said :
"In no country is the necessity of popular instruction so often
proclaimed, and in none are the schools of elementary instruc-
tion so deplorably neglected. They are entirely without or-
ganization, superintendence, or inspection of any kind, general
or local, public or private."
A writer in the Southern Quarterly Review in 1844 gives
the following "Reasons Why the Free School System in
the South Has Failed :"
1. The extensive patronage furnished private schools and
academies. "The State Systems of Education" — in their early
stages very imperfect — have always accordingly had to con-
tend with respectable private institutions already firmly estab-
lished and supported and encouraged by our most influential
citizens.
2. "Free schools have been unpopular with the higher
classes of society simply for the reason that they are free —
simply because they are regarded in the light of charitable
establishments intended for the poor only." The poor, on
their part, hesitate to attach to themselves and their offspring
the stigma of poverty.
3. The organization has been faulty, the methods of teach-
ing used have been imperfect and injudicious. The teachers
have not been properly qualified ; they have been characterized
by inferior talents, positive ignorance, and total want of ex-
perience. The subject of proper school manuals has been
overlooked.
4. The schoolhouses have been clumsy structures. "Often
mere log cabins, buildings erected without the slightest regard
to architectural beauty and with almost as little regard to
the comfort of their inmates, poorly ventilated in summer,
badly warmed in winter, indifferently lighted always, with-
out furniture, without apparatus — such are the temples of
science at the South of common school grade."
5. There has been a lack of suitable supervision, while the
reports to the State Legislature have been incomplete and in-
accurate.
6. There have been no district libraries to supplement the
work of the schools.
7. There has been a lack of uniformity within the individual
States.
All this is a very severe indictment against the public school
systems of the South, and yet the reader must remember that
it can be paralleled in nearly all its important particulars from
the attacks by Horace Mann and others on the New England
district school of the same period.
There were, however, certain extenuating facts which the
article just cited did not mention. One of these was the fact
thai population in most of the Southern States was widely
scattered. A writer in DeBow's Review institutes a compari-
son between Virginia and Massachusetts in this regard. "The
territorial area of Virginia is probably nine times that of
Massachusetts. If, therefore, Virginia were disposed to adopt
the common school system (as found in the Northern States),
it would require nine times the schoolhouses and teachers to
afford the same convenience for attending school that exists
in Massachusetts. Virginia is a thinly settled agricultural
State ; in many places there could not be found ten scholars
in ten miles square. In such places a population might be
able to live comfortably, but not to establish schools or send
their children abroad to boarding schools. In commercial and
manufacturing States or those of small farms and dense agri-
cultural population this evil is not so much felt."
A further fact which should not be overlooked is that in the
life of the farm and the frontier the mastery of the rudi-
ments of book learning was not held in as high esteem as the
ability to handle the ax and plow. Such a life might lead to
a high percentage of illiteracy in the State, but it certainly
would not prevent the development of a high degree of in-
telligence. The writer just quoted goes on to state : "But
Virginia has a system of oral instruction which compensates
for the want of schools, and that is her social intercourse.
It is true that persons are not taught at such places to read
and write, but they are taught to think and converse."
In this connection the historian Ramsey, speaking of the
settlers in the newer States of the South, says : "The frontier
mind had its culture, though the sources of it and its chan-
nels were not the same as in the older communities. . . .
A frontier people, though generally illiterate, is usually re-
markable for good sense and general intelligence." Again, in
speaking of a very successful administrator in the early his-
tory of Tennessee, he remarks : "Governor Blount felt no
unwillingness to consult the least learned of the Territorial
Assembly as to the character of the administration. 'That
old man,' said he, 'is strong-minded, wise, and well informed
if he cannot read.' "
There were not wanting, however, signs of an awakening
to the needs of the situation. "From 1850 onward serious ef-
forts were made to remove the opprobrium which attached
to the public school as an institution ; and had it not been
for the War between the States, which directed State and
individual energies into other channels, the movement would
doubtless in another decade have transformed the nature of
popular education in the South. The most hopeful signs of
the awakening were shown in the establishment of efficient
school systems in such cities as Louisville, Nashville, New
Orleans, and Charleston. There is room here for but a brief
reference to two of these — the first and the last mentioned.
In 1829 a free school on the Lancasterian plan was estab-
lished in Louisville. The city gave $2,050 for its support for
a year, but later withdrew the grant and established tuition
fees. In 1840 tuition fees were abolished and the city schools
made entirely free. Night schools, especially for apprentices,
were established in 1834. In the same year a school agent was
appointed, a part of whose work was to visit every school at
least once a quarter. In 1838 this official was assigned addi-
tional duties comparable to those of the modern city superin-
tendent.
According to a writer in Barnard's American Journal of
Education, the system of schools in Charleston "revolutionized
public sentiment in the city, and was fast doing so in the
State when the War between the States broke out." The
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expressed aim of the :1 '1 commissioners of that city was
*'to provide schools for all, and not for pauper pupils only."
In [855 a schoolhouse was built on St. Philips Street at a
cost of $25,000 to accommodate eight hundred pupils. Three
years later another school was built on Friend Street at a
cost ol $30,000. There was also erected a high school for
girls at a cost of $25,000, of which amount the State paid
$10,000 and the city the rest. The expenses of maintaining
this -chiMil were $10,000 annually, of which the State paid
one-half on condition of being allowed to send ninety pupils.
In i860 the attendance at these schools was four thousand.
Commenting in 1855 on the efficiency of the Charleston
schools, a writer in DeBow's Review says: "The schools in
Charleston will hear a comparison with those in any portion
of the United States." Barnard's Journal, in commenting on
the transformation in progress, -.ays: "It is the same change
which is now going on in the public schools of Norfolk, Sa-
vannah, and Mobile, and which has already taken place in the
schools of New Orleans, Memphis, and Nashville — a change
by which the public schools in all the large cities of the
United States, in the North and the South, in the East and
the West, arc beginning to assume the same general features
ami exhibit the same gratifying results — schools in which the
children of the rich and the poor are enjoying the common
advantages of the highest intellectual training. Tiiese schools
are not perfect even in cities wdiere the system has been in
operation for the longest period and under the wisest ad
ministration and the most liberal appropriations, but they con-
stitute the most satisfactory portion of our American system
of popular education."
In the same connection there appear extracts from a speech
of Col. C. G. Memminger. the leader of the public school
movement in Charleston. I lis statement of the grounds on
which he based his appeal for general support of the move-
ment is worthy of quotation, not only as representing the
spirit which actuated himself and his fellow-workers through-
out the South, but as furnishing an excellent presentation of
. laims which the cause of popular education may always make
in a democratic society. Referring to one of the newly erected
buildings, he says: "Into this school the board propose to
invite our fellow-citizens to send their children in common
without distinction of class, that there shall be no discrimina-
tion between rich and | 1. and that the same thorough edu-
cation shall be given to all children so long as they remain
in school "
After showing that the expense of this common school, over
the amount received from the State appropriation and real-
ized from the tax authorized by law. will not be great, the
speaker proceeds to set forth tin advantages of the new ar-
rangement :
I. "The coming of the middle and better classes of society
into the schools will elevate their tone and, by affording a
higher grade of attainment, stimulate both pupils and teach-
ers."
2 The private schools will be stimulated by a wholesome
rivalry.
3. "Such an association between rich and 1 1 tends to pro-
duce a belter feeling in the community, and is more in con-
formity with our republican institutions. The children of
the rich arc' rescued from that self-will and arrogance which
dependence upon Servants produces, .md acquire at an early
age that respect for the opinions and feelings of others which
mmendable in any character, (in the other hand, the
poor arc cured of that spirit of envy and jealousy which is
apt to be engendered by the perception of benefits enjoyed by
others which are denied to us, more especially when these
others repel and forbid our approach."
4. Many are excluded from the benefits of the present free
school system. 'I his may not be a hardship to the rich, but
it is to those of moderate means.
5. The common school system brings to its administration
the whole strength of the community. When the children of
every parent arc brought into a common school, it becomes
the interest and duty of the parents to see to its management.
6. The public school, because of the large numbers attend
ing, allow, opportunity for superior classification. Moreover,
it is free from the trammels of the Latin and Greek tradition
< if tlie pi i\ ate schools.
7. The employment of a large number of young ladies in the
public schools lias, of necessity, a refining influence upon the
pupils who come in contact with them.
In conclusion, and to review in a somewhat new form the
main purposes of this paper, it may be stated that it seeks
to trace in as adequate a way as circumstances will permit
the development in the Southern States of the three most con-
spicuous phases of education, the higher, the secondary, and
the elementary, as illustrated respectively in the college and
university, the academy and the "free school." It emphasizes
the relatively great importance attached in the South to pri-
vate as contrasted with State support of education, a condi-
tion which had its origin in the manner of life and in the
political and social creeds of a large majority of Southern peo-
ple. It attempts to describe briefly the beginnings of a wide-
spread movement — checked in its advance by the outbreak of
the War between the States — to place the public school in the
position of honor which properly belongs to it. Furthermore,
in the preparation of the paper there has been constantly in
the mind of the writer the thought that the status of educa-
tion in a nation or a community is not to be determined sole-
ly by its percentage of illiteracy or the special form which its
educational institutions may assume: but rather by the ability
of the people in question to face new industrial, social, and
political problems, and to courageously attempt and achieve
their solution. With such a view in mind, the student of the
educational history of the South both before and since the
war is compelled to accord to that portion of our common
country a position of honor which has not been infrequently
withheld.
SUIT WORX BY PRESIDENT DAVIS WHEN CAP-
TURED.
( From a Washington paper.)
For some unknown reason, probably for no better excuse
than to deny the absurd story of the next day, some of the
Northern newspapers have revamped the edd rumor about
To idenl Jefferson Davis. (,f the Confederate States, having
been disguised in the garb of a woman at the time of his cap-
ture. 'Ibis story has been so often refuted that further denial
is unneci tr lent one- of the nie'st interesting facts brought
out by the me. re recent discussion is that the government has
the garments worn by Mr. Davis when he was captured care-
fully preserved at Washing
I hi •■■■ articles are in the original box iii which they were
sent from Georgia to t >e nernl Scholield by the officers making
the arrest. They consist ,.f a shawl, a rain-proof coat without
cape, and a pair of spurs I he shawl is such as is worn now
n of advanced years to protect the throat and shoulders.
It is. in fact. 1 large muffler. Sometimes a shawl of this pat-
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tern is worn by women ; but the customary use is as a man's
muffler, either with or without an overcoat.
The rain coat is a man's garment. It is short with broad
shoulders, and, with allowance for the change of mode, is a
commonplace waterproof coat. It is of soft gray material,
and it worn now by a middle-aged man on a rainy day would
not attract any special notice on the streets at Washington.
By President Davis's Daughter, Who Was Present.
Referring to the above paper, Mrs. Hayes writes:
""1 bis article, presenting a rational, truthful view of the so-
called disguise in the possession of the United States War
Department, was sent to me several years ago. * * *
"If Southern editors would try to keep for reference my
mother's splendid book, 'A Memoir of Jefferson Davis,' there
would be fewer of these painful and unfair articles given space
in Southern papers. No effort to disguise himself as a woman
could have been possible to a man and a soldier of Jefferson
Davis's stamp. I, his child, was present when he was cap-
tured, and I will never forget his kingly presence as he turned
to face the guard who challenged him, letting the coat and
scarf, such as all men wore when traveling, fall from his
shoulders, and answered to 'Who goes there? Halt, or I
will tire,' 'I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy.
Do your worst.' As he stood in the gray light of early dawn,
he stands in bronze in Hollywood Cemetery, guarding all that
remains of those he held dear. The suit of Confederate gray
he wore is in the Confederate Museum in Richmond, and has
been identified by a Union soldier who captured him. I may
add, after exploding the story of woman's clothing being worn
at the time of his capture, it became necessary to produce
such articles ; therefore my mother's trunks were prized open
and many articles stolen. One poor wretch had his hand shot
off while trying to open one of the trunks.
"The surrounding of the camp before dawn was such a sur-
prise and so sudden that Mr. Davis, even had he been capable
of so unmanly an act, did not have time or opportunity for
such an action.
"T. G. Carpenter, Secretary of Secretary Taft, must realize
that in fathering such unfair statements he is insulting the
Southern people and nurturing falsehood. It will not help
the administration to have such things said and done; and as
a full account of the capture of Jefferson Davis is to be found
in the memoir of his life written by bis wife, there seems lit-
tle excuse for such an article being printed in a Southern
paper, and I blush to read it in this way. After repeated de-
nials by all, both Northern and Southern, who were present
at Jefferson Davis's capture of these absurd stories which
are taught in Northern schools as history, it seems, to say
the least, unmanly and unchristian to vilify a man whose lips
are sealed in death.
"How little truth there was in the story of the 'female dis-
guise' can be seen by these garments. Wearing them, Presi-
dent Davis would present the figure of a man with a neck
muffler and overcoat over his ordinary clothing, which would
not conceal his trousers, riding boots, and spurs — so remark-
able an effort at female disguise as to furnish ample denial
of the story."
Letter from the Coachman of Jefferson Davis's Family.
Mrs. Hayes also sends a letter from Jim Jones, the negro
coachman who faithfully served the family of Mr. Davis and
accompanied them after the evacuation of Richmond until
his capture. She says : "It was he who aroused my father
and notified him of the approach of the enemy. He is em-
ployed in the Stationery Department of the United States
Senate, Washington." The letter is as follows :
"My Dear Miss Maggie: Your very welcome letter of June
25 reached me in due time, and I was truly glad to hear from
you all.
"I had not heard anything about the lady and the flowered
dressing gown, but know that neither your father (Hon. Jef-
ferson Davis) nor his wife had any such gown either on them
or in their immediate possession the morning of his capture
in Georgia in May, 1865, and have tried to make that plain in
the affidavit inclosed. Please have Mr. Hayes read it over
and let me know if I have covered all the ground lie thinks
necessary. I am anxious to tell the whole truth about Mr.
Davis's capture and to protect any Southern society from im-
position, particularly if that imposition places Mr. Davis in
a false light.
"The old story about Mr. Davis's trying to make his escape
attired in woman's clothes is entirely wrong, and does Mr.
Davis a very great wrong; for, except for his wife, he would
have made a bold effort to unhorse the Federal cavalryman,
mount his horse, and ride away in the darkness. He never
had any inclination to disguise himself; and if he had formed
any such idea, he had nothing at hand with which to disguise
himself.
"Yours most respectfully, James H. Jones."
JEFFERSON DAVIS AND WIFE.
This picture was made during their residence in Montreal,
Canada, after Mr. Davis's release from prison. It was fur-
nished the Veteran by the courtesy of J. J. McConniff, City
Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Intercolonial Railway of
Canada. Montreal, after its reproduction in the Montreal
Standard.
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THE NAVY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.
BY J. R. ECGLEST0N, FORMERLY LIEUTENANT C. S. N.
The Confederate Slates in the beginning was practically
without any navy at all, so far as ships were concerned. Its
personnel consisted of the Southern officers who had re-
signed their commissions in the United Slates navy to cast
their lot with their own people. In numbers they hardly ix-
1 two hundred, but among them were many of the must
distinguished officers of the "old" navj
Bui what is a sailor without his ship? Armies may he im-
provi il. but navies are necessarily the slow growth of time.
As the States seceded they bad taken |> i such trad
ing craft as lay in their harbors and converted them into
makeshift men-of-war. They were veritable mantraps. The
\ i> .mm. in of the Norfolk Navy Yard by the Federals gave
us the half-burned hull of the steam frigate Merrimac, and
we made "f that the only fighting machine \\e had that was
even remotely efficient, and even her efficiency was immensely
o\ i rrated
It i- no easy task to build a navy in time of peace with the
material and appliances ready at hand. But the task before
Mi Malli iv. Scrctary of the Navy, and his subordinates was
to build "iir ui a country invaded on all sides by land and sea
and without any of the necessary appliances. Vet efifoits in
thai direction nevei ceased, and we constructed more than
"tir ironclad battery, propelled in many eases by machinery
taken iwmills, and with these made successful fights
gainsl ill- thoroughly equipped war ships of the enemy.
["he few vessels that we had on the high s<ms for the ele-
11 of tin enemy's commerce were built in England, mid
i orl of management gotten out of the neutral
ports I can recall only four of these- viz., the Alabama, the
I Ion. 1. 1. the Shenandoah, and the Georgia.
no Southern man, woman, or child ever dishonor the
records of thesi bj calling them "privateers." \
"privateer" is a vessel fitted out by private parties to pn
the enemy's commerce "for the money that is in it." Our
Confederati cruisers as belligerents had the same status as
I the enemy. Tiny were no mori "privateei
men under Lei wen "bushwhackers."
A glanci at tlu- great - .1 power bj which we were con
fronted and which was Ihe prime fact.r in our final defeal
. a little ludicrous that we should havi al
him at all, for it was like a irs af
I .I pugilist, and almost inci edible that we
■ in. > n i. .1 i. - . i\ er him
In 1861 the navy of the United State stood the fouftl
among those of the world in point of numbers of ships and
II efficiency as in proportion to numb rs. 'Ibis
navy was backed by tin g 1 marine then in
existenci I ea was whitened bj us sails During a
fourteen years in the United States navy the writer
1 1 ndi ol 1 ts. and in every case the stat
wire already there; borne somel ships
e were upward ol om lun
lid lift) American ships, VvTl Ovi
forty ■ ■ ■ 1 i.i .1 1111.1. r tin as tulf 1 I the Con-
..]■■ .i mi nt'. .in d, .ml. .11' t few of li
I .. 'in Confederati nai ■■. bi longs
in w factors in naval w .11 1
< ihe exi 1 the world. I
■ tin torpedo and the ironclad ram. In tin latter we
of the G it tin
battle of Salatnis near) twenty-four hundred years ago: only
we substituted steam for oars.
The Manassas was our first attempt at a ram. She was
built at Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, in the
summer of 1861 ; cigar-shaped, probably eighty feet long,
and clad with railroad iron running horizontally. Several
Federal vessels were lying in the southwest pass, among
(hem the Richmond of twenty guns. Lieut \ 1- W'arlev. C
S. N.. in command of the Manassas, ran deliberately into the
Richmond one dark night; anil, although., owing to the light
niss and low speed of the ram, very little injury was inflicted
on Ihe vessel attacked, it so demoralized the whole Federal
squadron in the river that they put out to sea as soon as p
sihle, and the blockade of New Orleans was tempo
raised. Warley was one of the officers of the Richmond
when, a few months before, he resign. ,1 his commission in the
United Stati s navy.
The Career of the Merrimac (Virgi
The famous vessel of this name was not only a ram l.ui a
lighting ironclad, mounting ten heavy guns inside ol • < Struc
ture with sloping sides and covered with two courses of
rolled iron plates, each course being two inches thick. On
ihe 8th of March, 1862, the Merrimac, rechristencd the \
ginia, accompanied by a few frail wooden consorts, mounting
"i lb' ' about a dozen guns, all under the command
of Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan, steamed down from N01
folk to Hampton Roads and attacked the enemy's vessels and
batteries in and near that locality. The enemy's force, with-
out counting the land batteries, consisted of five frigati
-mailer vessels, mounting in all about one hundred and
fifty guns, and with crews numbering about two thousand.
rews numbered not more than five hundred.
The two opposing armies were drawn up oil each side of
Ihe Lay, and thousands of people from the cities of Norfolk
.iii.l Portsmouth witnessed the battle. When tin- sm
away, the Confederate vessels were seen to be victorious ovei
all their uiemi.s. The ( iiinlierl.iiiil li.nl been sunk by a blow
from the Virginia's prow, the Congress had surrendered and
1 11 fire, the Si. Lawrence, the Minnesota, and the Roan-
oke had sought safety under the guns of Fortress Monro
and Ihe shore' batteries at Newport News were silenced.
When the battle was over, the Virginia and her consorts
-learned over to Sewell's Point, and anchored there for Ihe
night under tin 1 lonfedi rate battel
Nexl morning when we looked out over the waters "f
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the bay we saw the- Minnesota hard aground, and near her
tin strangest-looking craft we had ever seen. It was the
.Monitor. We steamed out to renew the battle, and the Mon-
ime gallantly forth to meet us. Then began the first
battle ever fought between ironclads. The two vessels, often
as near together as twenty yards, bombarded each other for
four hours without any apparent injury to either. Finally
the Monitor retreated into shoal water whither she could not
be followed by her antagonist. She drew only ten feet, while
the Virginia drew about twenty-three.
There being no enemy's vessel left in the Roads that the
Virginia could reach effectively with her guns, she returned
to Norfolk for repairs. For the few remaining months of her
existence she was undisputed mistress of the waters of Nor-
folk. Again and again she challenged the Monitor to battle ;
but that vessel, no matter by how many others she might be
backed, invariably refused to take up the gage, and retired
to a place of safety. The Virginia had never been more than
a floating battery forming part of the fortifications of No'-
folk. When that place was evacuated by our land forces, she
had to be evacuated too. She was destroyed by her own peo-
ph to prevent her from falling into the hands of the enemy.
How the Arkansas Ran the Gantlet.
This vessel was in course of construction some distance
below Memphis, when on the fall of New Orleans she was
towed in an unfinished condition down the Mississippi and
then up the Yazoo, where work on her was continued. She
was built of timber cut fresh from the woods. She was
equipped with a prow for ramming, and mounted ten guns
of various calibers inside of what her officers called the "gun
box." Six guns were on the broadside and two pointed over
the bow and two over the stern. She was partially protected
by an armor of railroad iron. Her officers and crew num-
bered two hundred. Her commander was Lieut. Isaac N.
Brown, a native of Kentucky and a citizen of Mississippi. He
had formerly belonged to the United States navy. And here
let me say that Mississippi has never accorded to this
gallant son of hers the recognition that is his due. His ex-
ploit, of which I am about to tell, was one of the most hazard-
ous and daring in the whole history of naval warfare.
One day orders came to Brown to take the Arkansas out
of the Yazoo, through the Federal fleet that thronged the Mis-
sissippi, past New Orleans and the forts below it, out into the
gulf, and on to Mobile to raise the blockade of that port.
What a task even for the best-equipped ship of war then
afloat! But for such a makeshift as the Arkansas! "Some-
body blundered," but the blunder was the cause of a charge
on the water compared with which that of the Light Brigade
on land was a small affair.
On July 15, 1862, the Arkansas got under way and started
down the river. On entering the Mississippi she encountered
three of the enemy's vessels, which she engaged in a running
light. One of these ran into the bank and surrendered; the
other two escaped by their superior speed. Still some twenty
of the enemy's vessels lay between the Arkansas and Vicks-
burg. Among these were the heavy seagoing ships belong-
ing to Farragut's fleet. It was lucky for the Arkansas that
the«e vessels did not have steam up; but as it was, she had to
take the fire of all of them as she passed them in the river.
She finally got into Vicksburg, badly battered and crippled
and with about twenty-five per cent of li.r crew killed or
wounded.
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TYPE OF VESSKI. BEARING THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.
As I have already intimated, our Navy Department was in-
defatigable in building wherever it could be done vessels that
might be used as "forlorn hopes" against our powerful enemy.
Among these were the Palmctio State and the Chicora. built
at Charleston, S. C.
The principle of sloping sides as adopted in the Virginia was
employed in every case.
On January 30. 1863, Flag Officer Ingraham. in command of
the two vessels named, made an attack on the Federal vessels
blockading Charleston. It was done just before day.
The Palmetto State rammed the United States ship Mer-
cedita and received that vessel's surrender. But, it being de-
sirable to follow up the attack on other vessels of the enemy,
the officers and crews of the captured ship were paroled. Lieu-
tenant Abbott, U. S. N.. who had come hurriedly in his under-
clothes with full power to negotiate the terms of surrender,
took the usual oath. The Palmetto State then steamed away
to the aid of the Chicora, which was engaged with several of
the enemy's vessels. But these latter did not await her com-
ing. With the rising of the sun the whole Federal squadron,
including the perjured Mercedita, were seen hull down below
the horizon, and the blockade of Charleston was raised for a
time,
The Victory of the Confederate States Ram Albemarle.
This vessel had been built on the Roanoke River, in North
Carolina, under the supervision of Commander J. W. Cook,
C. S. N., and under his command won on April 19. 1864, a
brilliant victory over the enemy's fleet below Plymouth, N. C.
The Albemarle carried two guns and about one hundred
men. After running past the Federal batteries that lined both
sides of the river, she encountered just below the town of
Plymouth the Federal vessels Miami of thirteen guns and
two hundred men and the Southfield of six guns and one
hundred and seventy-five men. She promptly drove her prow
into the side of the Southfield. and the latter in sinking nearly
dragged her antagonist down with her. In the meantime the
Miami was pouring into the Confederate vessel broadside
after broadside at short range. Cook, still entangled with the
Southfield, finding that he could not bring his guns to bear
on the Miami, led his men to the upper deck, and from there
kept up the fight with muskets and pistols. At last, when the
Albemarle shook herself clear of the Southfield and made for
the Miami with her prow, the latter fled down the river.
The Albemarle, having driven the Federals out of the Roan-
oke River, took position in due time in Albemarle Sound.
There on May 5, 1864, she was attacked by eight Federal ves-
sels, moving against her in two columns. One. the Sassacus,
ran into her with the purpose of forcing her under the water,
but was glad to escape with one boiler exploded and other
severe injuries sustained. The enemy did not renew the attack.
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Admiral Buchanan's Heroh Fight in Mobile Bay,
i in Vugust 5, [864, Admiral Farragut ran by Fort Morgan
with a fleet numbering fourteen steamships of war and four
monitors, carrying in the aggregate one hundred and ninety
guns and twenty-seven hundred men,
Buchanan was lying above the fori with four vessels carry-
ing tuinti two guns and four hundred and fifty nun. Of
these, the ironclad Tennessee was the onlj one that ought to
havi been permitted to go into battle at all The other three,
ili Morgan, Gaines, and Selma, wire frail, wooden structures,
the last mentioned a walking beam bay boat.
Farragul passed Fort Morgan with the loss of onlj om
. the Monitor Tecumseh, destroyed h\ a torpedo. The
:, ad "i his column had been attacked 1>\ the Confederal ves
sels, with the result that the Gaines was beached in a sinking
condition by her gallanl commander, John \V. Bennett, the
Selma 1 Cap' P. W. Murphy) captured after she had sent
several raking shots into Farragut's flagship, and the Morgan
1 scaped ! 1 Mobile, The Tennessee, still uninjured, remained
where she had been left by the rapidly passing Federal fleet
The latter soon anchored in the bay about four miles above
Fort Morgan.
Nov began a battle against the greatest odds in the history
of naval warfare. < hn ship with six guns attacking a fleet
mounting one hundred and ninety-nine suns! It was like a
company attacking an army corps. The fight lasted for one
hour. Frequently the Tennessee was completely surrounded
by her enemies, and all her guns were in action at the same
rime. Four vessels ran into her at full speed, trying in sink
her. At last, after Buchanan had been carried below wounded,
the Tennessee was verj properly surrendered by her immedi-
ate commander, James 1' Johnson, I'm- she was a helpless
wreck on (he water, her steering apparatus destroyed, her
port shutters so twisted that they could not lie moved, and her
snir.ke-.taek entirely -hot away
Glorious ,is had been Buchanan's victory in I lampion Road .
even his defeat in Mobile Bay against the frightful disadvan-
tages was greath to his credit.
Firs i i i rpi do Boat Used in W \u.
It seems to me lhat the torpedo boat has reached a higher
of development than any other class of vessels in the
oi ilu world I in > si em t< 1 ha\ e passed the 1 xperi-
mental stage, as compared, E01 instance, with the battle ships
itest of these to 1"- launched 1- soon toll owed bj anothei
on advanced lines and more formidable than any of its prede
cessors,
If we Confederates had had a hall 1 1 rpedo ho.it - like
those the I 1 ely against the Russians,
we would have raised permanently the blockade oi all our
and anticipated the enemy in bringing from Europe un-
limited supplies of war materia] and mercenary soldiei \
it was, we had only the impty honor of pointing out to others
the way that we ourselves hid not the means to follow to a
successful conclusii
■ William I. Glassell, C S X. whil< attached to the
naval station at Charleston conceived the first idea of a tor
pedo boat, and made in person the first hazardous experiment
with her She was simpl) .1 Steam launch about lwent\ feet
lotiy .\ sp.,r about twelve feet long projected over her how.
ng an eight or nine-inch shell filled with powder that
would he exploded bj percussion caps upon impact with any
object that might he .ihonntned. Tile little craft w 1 ip
propriately named the David. One dark night the David, in
chargi oi Glassell and a crew of two nun 1 one tin' engineer
and the other 'he steersman), put to sea in search of the Fcd-
eral Goliath, This «.is the new Ironsides, the flagship 0!
Admiral Dahlgren, ami perhaps the most formidable vessel
then afloat. As the David approached the enemy, she was
hailed by a sentry. Glassell replied by shooting him down
with a double-barreled gun, The next moment the shell was
exploded against th< side of the great ship. The refluent
filled the David with water and. put out the lire-. Glas
sell and one of his men, thinking that the Pavid was sinking,
took to the water, and were afterwards picked up by ho. its
from the Ironsidi I he engineer, not knowing how to swim,
stuck by the boat, and actually drifted back into Charleston
1 1 arbor.
I hr charge of powder h.nl not proved sufficient to sink the
goat ship; hut it started several of her plates, ami so damaged
her that it was nec?ssarj to send her North to he docked
Glassell went in her as a prisoner, and in his report the Fed
era] admiral wrote: "Don't let that man Glassell come back to
Charleston."
SoiHi months later Lieut. Hunter Davidson duplicated the
< xploit of Glassell with equal daring and results equally in-
adequate. Davidson steamed out of the James River into
Hampton Roads through the midst of the Federal tie t. and.
singling out the Minnesota, tin- largest ship there, exploded
a shelL against her side \ considerable shaking up of the
ship and a scare to officers and crew was the only result.
The Exploits of I. mi i. John Taylor Wood.
After nearly all our little vessels bad been destroyed .md
our ports captured, the above-named officer still carried on a
naval warfare as daring as it was unique, lie wa- serving
on the President's stall with the rank of colonel, and his duties
in that capacity took him to various pans of the Confederacy.
That enabled him to ^et information, whether from his own
observation or that of others, of the movements and positions
of the enemy's >. mg our coasts When he found one
m a position favorable for his porpose, he would bring nun
"hi boats by rail as near as possible to the enemy and board
the vessel at night from these open rowboats, leading his men
Up the sides of the hostile ship and lighting on her decks band-
to hand with her officers and crew for her possession. In this
manner Wood captured at different tirrn 110 less than
tin enemy's vessels, one of them, the Underwriter, under the
verj guns oi a Federal fort. In Vugust, 1863, Wood in the
steamer Tallahassa ran the blockade of Wilmington, X C,
and made a brilliant dash along the Ail. nine Coast [he
treacherj oi a pat Jed prisoner, who made known to th
Mil authorities the pres nci of the Tallahassa on the coast,
frustrated Wood's plan of running into New York Harbor,
burning the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and then escaping through
Long Island Sound. Subsequently the Tallahassa was block-
aded in the harlot- of Halifax. Nova Scotia, and . ■
through an unused channel known practically
pilot who took the vessel through it.
Our Ship High Si
In the aho\ e 1 have given bi t of the mi >s1 m iti d
among the performances of our little navy ur own
COastS. I shall conclude with recalling some of the ItlOSl
slrikii i- 111 careers of our cruisers on the high seas
There was a glamour of mystery and romanci over the
rient Ol thi e VI els that attracted the .attention of the
civilized world. Bearing a new flag that was not acknowledged
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by the great powers as representing an independent nation,
only with the doubtful rights of belligerents, blockaded out
of their own ports by a vastly superior force, and only tem-
porary and unwelcome guests in any foreign port, it will be
readily seen that the responsibilty on the commanders of these
vessels was of no ordinary kind. Let it be remembered, too,
that they were pursued and harassed by the enemy's cruisers
in all parts of the world, while in every port there was a
United States Consul making every effort to arouse the hos-
tility of the authorities against the newcomer. Generally our
commanders were under the necessity of playing the part of
i""X. and only on occasions did the opportunity arise of
; .ling that of the lion. How admirably they performed both
,is occasions arose is amply set forth in the full record.
1 can glance at only a portion of it here.
On June 30, 1862, the small steamer Sumter, under Com-
mander Raphael Semmes, ran out into the Gulf of Mexico
through Pass a L'Outre, closely pursued by the steam frigate
Rrooklyn, and for the first time the Confederate flag was flung
to the bree7e on the high seas. After an exciting chase of four
hours, the Brooklyn gave up and returned to her station, and
the crew of the Sumter mounted the rigging and gave three
cheers. The Sumter, after destroying many of the enemy's
vessels in the West Indies and on the coast of Brazil and mak-
marvelous escape from an enemy's ship four times her
size, proceeded to Gibraltar. An inspection of the vessel in
that port showed her to be entirely unseaworthy. so she was
condemned and sold.
Tut; Alabama.
Semmes and his executive officer, Lieut. John M. Kell. had
arrived at Nassau on their way back to the Confederate States,
when they found orders from Richmond to take charge of a
new vess 1 thai had 1" en built in England and was expected
to be somewhere about the Azores. This was the Alabama,
destined to a world-wide fame.
Once the Northern papers published a report that the United
States steamer Hatteras had left her station at Galveston one
night in pursuit of a strange vessel in the offing and had not
been heard from since, although heavy firing had been heard
the direction in which she had disappeared. The
"strange vessel" was the Alabama, and she had sunk the Hat-
after a sharp, running fight lasting only thirteen minutes.
For nearly three years the Alabama continued her career in
various parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans until she had
swept those vast regions clear of the enemy's commerce, and
at last had entered the harbor of Cherbourg, France, in order
to be docked.
The United States ship Kearsarge making her appearance
off the port, Semmes challenged her commander, Winslow. to
combat. The two ships were quite evenly matched, the dif-
ference between them in men and weight of metal being in
favor of the Federal vessel. But the Kearsarge possessed
another advantage of which Semmes was not aware. She was
practically an ironclad, heavy iron cables being looped along
her sides and concealed by a light covering of wood. It was
like- a man fighting a duel with a coat of mail under his shirt.
The result is well known. The Alabama was sunk, and such
of her officers and crew as were saved were rescued by the
British yacht Greyhound and some French pilot boats. The
Kearsarge made no effort in that direction, showing an ab-
sence of humanity on the part of her commander in marked
contrast with that displayed by Semmes in rescuing all the of-
ficers and crew of the sinking Hatteras.
How Maffitt Rax the Florida into Mobile Bay.
One summer forenoon in the year 1863 the garrison of Fort
Morgan were attracted by the- sound of heavy firing by the
Federal blockading squadron, and after a while there emerged
from the smoke a vessel bearing the Confederate flag and
making straight for the entrance to Mobile Bay. Only three
men were visible on board the stranger. One of these was
seen at full length standing near the mizzen rigging ; the other
two were steering. The vessel proved to be the Confederate
States steamer Florida. Lieut. John N. Maffitt commanding.
The yellow fever having broken out among his crew, Maffitt
had determined on getting his sick men into a Confederate
hospital, and had succeeded in the desperate attempt. He had
sent below the few men that had not been stricken or had re-
covered, and, rising himself from a sick bed, stood on deck
to direct the steering of his ship. An eleven-inch shell bad
struck the Florida near her stern post and, ranging along the
berth deck, took off the head of one man and wounded several
others. It lodged fortunately without exploding in the- for-
ward timbers.
Its commander, Preble, was cashiered by Mr. Lincoln for
letting the Florida pass, and the sentence was read on the
quarter-deck of every United States ship in commission.
After the war he got a hearing before a court-martial, and
was restored to his rank on Maffitt's testimony.
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UNITED MATES STEAMER KEARSARGE.
The Florida having been refitted at Mobile, and with new
officers and crew, but still under the command of Maffitt, ran
the blockade on the night of January 15, 1863. and entered on
the work of destroying the enemy's commerce. Off the coast
of Brazil the captured brig Clarence was converted into a
cruiser under the command of Lieut. C. \V, Read with a crew
of twenty men. The Clarence proceeded north to the coast
of the United States. There she captured, among oilier ves-
sels, the new bark Tacony, and Read transferred his crew
and his one gun, a howitzer, to that vessel. The work of the
ny right in the track of the coastwise commerce of the
United States was rapid and effective. Federal cruisers were
11 pursuit of her. and she had become SO well known by
of released prisoners that Read tin Might it best to
mis flag on another prize, a schooner named the Archer,
along the New England Coast, and being de
sirous 1 1 getting possession oi a steamer, Read sailed at night
into Portland Harbor, Maim-, captured by boarding the reve-
nue cutter Cushing, and proceeded to sea with both vessels.
But, after all, the Cushing was not .1 steamer, and sunrise
found Read becalmed in full sight of the port. The enemj
fficienl force to capture him after .1
SOMI 1 I I ' !
Nashville, a side-wheel steamer under O et IV-
gram, bad been the first vessel to show the < onfedera
British port. That was in October, 1861 On her return
Confederacy shi ent tuforl Harbor, N, ('.. by a
bold 1 use Flj ing the United 1 up within
bad of the blockading vessel and asked him to send a boat
alongside. Before the boat could reach the Nashville she was
away at full speed and was nearlj out of range when the
Federal commander recovered sufficiently from bis surprisi
to think of sending a few shots after her.
What memories dime up in the mind of a naval veteran at
the mi 1 1 in. mi ii mi of the name "f tin Sh nandoah, Lieut. James
Q. Waddell commanding! for she was the one vessel that
bore the Confederate flag around the circuit of the glob', and
was operating under it several months after the collapse
Confederate government. Learning of that event from an
English vessel spoken in the Pacific Ocean, Waddell proceeded
to Liverpool and delivered his vessel to the British govern-
ment. The number of her prizes was exceeded only by those
of the Alabama.
When we consider that the officers and men in the Confed-
erate navy did not exceed in number that of a full brigade,
that they were practically without any ships of war worl
the name, that tin \ were pitted against one of the greati
powers then in the world, and actually won victories over him.
it must he conceded that their achievem nts have never been
surpa sed, ami it is doubtful if they have ever been equaled
in the annals of naval warfare
The prizes taken by the Confederate cruisers numbered two
hundred and i ighteen.
THAT l//'- ri
Slur- Ins official report of the Confederate Reunion held
at Joplin last fall. Capt. James \\ Ulen has been urged bj
i ii nds i" collect and publish a 1 ompleti
and soldier; who entered the Confederate
11 mm from Missouri. This, lie sii>. be is unable t" undertaki .
but is willing to cooperate witl interested in the im-
portant \\«nl.. and will receive, file, and preserve all lists sent
to bis office and turn ; !•- the proper committee win 11
11 ted
Under an act of Congress, approved I ebruar; 25, [903, the
1 and Pension l>i\isn.,i of the War Department is now
record 1 compleh n ister bj
Mai. - "i tl nnl enlisted men id' the Union and Con
ate armies. After this work is complete, Congress will
la asked t.. authorize its publication While it is a fact that
the War Department records contain the names of all i
soldiers, m i^ known that thev contain onlv the names .,t 1
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>ldiers who were in prison or paroled at the close
of the war.
Several of the Southern State-- have compiled and published
complete rosters of the Confederate soldiers
Each surviving Confederate soldier i- asked to take up the
matter at once and prepare from memory or from some re-
liable source a list of all Missouri Confederate soldiers, giving
name, rank, date of enlistment, place of enlistment, name or
letter of company, name of officers of company, regiment, and
brigade, and full particulars of service. Captain Allen requests
widows, mothers, sisters, brothers, or friends of deceased sol-
dier- to furnish reliable information concerning, their relatives
:iii.l their friends. Files of old newspapers may be of much
service in getting names and fixing dates
DATES FOR CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY.
Arguments are being made for the same Memorial Day
South a; that used at the North — May 30. There seems to
be but little, if any. prejudice against it at the South. We
could afford liberal method- since the North so graciously
gives the South credit for inaugurating such an event. But
ili. South desires to honor the memory of Jefferson Davis by
his birthday. Tune 3. This date has been fixed by law in
several States. It was made legal in Louisiana in 1902, Ten-
nessee in 1903, and Mississippi in 1906. In Alabama and
Arkansas June 3 is a holiday by consent only. In Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia the date is a legal holi-
day, but is not recognized as Memorial Day. It is observed
a- Memorial Day in Fayetteville. Ark., Louisville, Ky., Bow-
ling Green. Ky., St. Joseph, Mo., Springfield, Mo., Asheville,
N. C, Bedford City, Va., Culpeper Courthouse, Va., Dublin,
Va., Fredericksburg, Va., Lexington. Va., Manassas, Va.,
Portsmouth, Va., Warrenton. Va., Winchester, Va., Newport
News, Va.. Romney, W. Va.. Frederick. Md., and Washington.
D. C, or on the following Sunday when the date falls upon a
w eek day.
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President Confederated Southern Me-
morial Association, urges June 3, 1908, the centennial anniver-
sary of President Davis's birthday, as one fitting for special
honors to his memory.
The N. B. Forrest Chapter, U. D. C, of Rome, Ga., has in
hand a movement to erect a monument there in honor of Gen.
N. B. Forrest. The monument will be of granite, twenty-five
feet with Un feet base; all ornamentation will be symbolic of
thi cavalry arm of the service. Surmounting the granite will
be a figure of pure Italian marble (made in Italy) facsimile
of General Forrest in bis height of six feet, two inches. This
small Chapter of only thirty-four members has already a neat
-11111 in the treasury for this purpose, and expects to secure
the balance needed with little trouble. Any of General For-
rest's command who desire to contribute to this monument
fund can said it to Miss Mattie B. Sheibley, President N. B.
Forrest Chapter, Rome, Ga.
Confederate Memorial Fountain for Helena, Mont. — A
local paper in Helena, Mont, reports a most successful per-
formance by amateur minstrels in behalf of needed Confed-
erate funds: "A good show was expected, and an audience
which packed the house to the doors was not disappointed.
'I hree months of preparation, under the competent direction
of J. M. Moriarity, could not but give good results, especially
when the players were of the class that took part. The first
part was straight minstrelsy, and all the songs were of the
South. '1 he 'make-up* of the artists, men and women, was
perfect, anil a fellow could not recognize hi- own Sweetheart,
so perfectly was the work done by the female members of the
caste. All the end 'men' were not men. The Daughters of
the Confederacy are more than grateful to those who so
obligingly assisted them in the entertainment at the opera
house, and take this means of showing in a slight degree their
appreciation." These daughters are building a memorial foun-
tain, and Miss Evie Morris reports that they have already
$1,000 in bank; but they will not erect it until next year.
OUR ''SOUTHERN MOTHERS.;'
BY SADA FONTE RICHMOND.
(Lovingly dedicated 10 our three "Southern Mothers" re-
cently deceased: Mrs. Mary Eloise Wormeley, Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Cummings, and Mrs. Emily F. Ball, of Memphis. )
Never were women truer
Than they whose souls were tried ;
Than they, our Southern mothers,
Who stood by the "boys" who died !
They visited camp and prison;
They nursed both friend and foe ;
They endured insult and privation;
They suffered the depths of woe.
And He who remembers and sees
Is keeping their record on high!
And crowns immortal are waiting.
For their good deeds cannot die.
Then honor our Southern mothers;
Tell their story o'er all the land;
Make their lives to us immortal —
This faithful Southern band!
MRS. MARY ELOISE WORMELEY.
For sketch of this noble woman, see Veteran for April, 1007, p:i i^,- 17s.
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hkATERNAL RELATIONS BETWEEN VETERANS.
BV JOHN W. TRITSCH. LOGAN, nil mi. SEI RETARV \NI> TKI VSl RER
OF THE NINETIETH OHIO VSSOCIATION.
As a subscriber to your valuable and most interesting
1 1 1 1 , I a-k the f;ivi>r of space to express a few thoughts 1
was with Rosecrans at Chickamauga, Sherman on the Atlanta
ampaign, and was also with "Pap" Thomas .it Spring Hill,
Franklin, and at Nashville in December, [864; and therefore
know nf the boys in gray who made the terrific charges at
ranklin and again st 1 before us at Nashville on the
Granny White and Franklin Pikes.
My thoughts are now of the sentiments that exist to-day
between the "Yank" and the "Confederate." When the gravi
<if those Confederates who lie buried near Columbus, Ohio,
at ('amp Chase, were last decorated, members of the Grand
Armj ami an officer of tin United State- army took part in
the irrciiii'iiTv lint for hi- absence elsewhere, Governor
Harris, of the .meat State of Ohio, who was colonel of the
75th Ohio Regiment, a brave and gallant soldier in the Civil
War. would have been there to give his recollections of brave
men enlisted in a mistaken but conscientious cause. Nothing
could have shown more forcibly the ameliorating influences
of time, for war-time animosities have been buried "under
1 1 1 and the dew" with the hlne and the gray.
It 1- a pleasing coincidence that the custom of decorating
the gravi of oldiers of the War between the State- originated
in Columbus, Ga., and not Ohio. Then the suggestion of
annual tribute to t he heroic dead was made by a member
of the Columbus (Ga 1 Memorial Association, and the first
Decoration Hay was celebrated on April -'6. 1X60. two years
bi fori General Logan, a- Commander of the ('■ A K . issued
the proclamation to members of that organization which re
-idled in the present National Decoration I >. 1 \ Maj 30
A beautiful feature of thai first Memorial Daj celebrated
away down South in 'hat little Georgia town was the fact
that the graves of Confederate and Union -oldiers were
decorated impartially, although the ceremonies were con-
ducted !>' the I onfederates, then- relatives and friends. That
1- characteristic of tin- Southern spirit. Every year the Con-
tes who decorate the graves of their comrades in beau-
tiful Arlington at the National Cemetery, Washington, I) ('.
new flowers on the spot where are interred the re
main- of more than two thousand unidentified 1 nion dead
And they do not forgi ■ 1 tribute to the memory of Wil-
liam McKinley, through whose effort a section of Arlington
was set apart foi Confederate use These things are as thej
should 1». for without such an exchange of fraternal relations
this republic could not have become, nor could it remain, a
united 1 ["hese things an an indication of the spirit
linds thi people of tin- country, and i- the sure I en iran
n 1 of our national strength.
\ few yt 11 ago I made a visit to the South and some of
1 1 1 < iii lil- in rennessee and Georgia, and the most
fying thing that 1 found was the cordial ling existing
betw on the I ni' ■ ei 1 ..11 . nd I can say
without hesitation that among the best friends of our com
11 hi South to-day a 1 derati
army. A- we grow oldei and
tinder, and mst to tin comrade "ho -I I In our -id.' i- the
El aight 11- on mam liatteiield-
npon the rare occasions that they held conferences luring the
war. The hireling- who could n>'i -peak English never have
been esteemed by tin I onfederati even if they mad.
soldier-. Tint class may realize now that there i- some merit
among the "secesh" of the olden times
'I his Federal comrade omits what he may recall thai
were ever feeling- ol cordial regard between the real Ameri
cans m the Union armv at tin front ami the Confederates
,'\ / ERE STING STATl Ml ' I BJ U DGl R( >/■'/ i '
ie, I Ml. \. I., in- ROSSI i. w ii MINGTON, N. C.
Time i- moving apace and as il!> f< 11 pa-- on main of
tho e who participated activelj in thai great struggle of
1X01 65 are crossing the river. Veai bj yeai the rank- di-
minish, and it behooves those -iill left on thi- side to
their experiences and place In fore the present generation the
fact 1 thej occurred during that remarkable period, and to
which the civilized world can -how no parallel. Impn
with this thought, and having keen thrown with the prominent
men of the early sixties, I wa- in a position to learn much
from thi m
'I he officials of the Confederate State- in [863-64
greatlj hampered by tin necessity of feeding the large num-
ber of Federal prisoners, some -711.000. which were distributed
throughout the South. Again, the depleted rank- of Lee's and
of the Western armies needed replenishing, and the enemy
had iii prison at various points in the North some 220.000 of
our men. Through correspondence and treaty and interview
a conference between the Confederate State- and the United
States was arranged <i Hampton Roads fudge Robert Ould,
of Richmond, wa- the commissioner of exchange of pri
on the part of the Confederate State-, and the conference was
held on hoard a steamer. There were pre ent Mr. Lincoln,
the President of the United State-. Mr. Stanton, the Secretary
of War. and lien 1' S Grant, and perhaps other- on one
-ide. and Judge Robert Ould and one or more gentlemen to
1 csen! 'at onf del ati Stal -
The information that now follows wa- given me by Judge
Ould in the parlor of a clubhouse well known al that time in
Richmond immediatelj after his return from that noted con-
ference Mere were present at the time General Brecken-
ridge, Secretarj of War. and Mr, Sedden, Secretary of the
Ilea -nry. both of whom I knew well The Judge told me in
substance that he opened the conference with Mr. Lincoln by
repres nting to him the difficulty the South had in supplying
the prisoners with food and medicine, and then tendered i"
tin- United State- authorities the whole 270,000 prisoners in
return of our men (220,000) the} had Mr. Lincoln appeared
pleased with the proposition, and wa- favorablj inclined to
accept, but was met 1>> a peremptorj and flal refusal from
I Granl 'Well, General," -aid Mr. Lincoln, "the offer
seems reasonable; hut let us hear your objections." "Mr.
Pi 1.! ei ie replied, "if we get back tho 1 10 men. not
a single one of them will return to the army; but if you return
iii, 1 10,1 1 ' ' Southei n. 1 ■ ' ihein h ill go back into
their arm) and the war will have 1.' he fougl mi"
The proposition made bj Judge Ould being rejected, he then
proposed the' the United States government send South phy-
sicians, medicine, and food for their men ill prison under
' guarantees. Thi- He then tendered
Mr I of the -iik, which U 1 ited, and 111
, . impli in. e therew ith to.ooi -t of all. wei e .1.
livered to the United State- transports at Savannah ..nd Porl
Royal The United Stale- authoriti d to receive any
more; and when the batch reached Northern points, these
Sick nun w.i. photographed The conference broke up with-
out the accomplishment of any further e: 1
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General Grant at that period of the war was i»>t so well
known as afterwards, and I was asked the question by Judge
I >uld if I had ever heard of the life history of General Grant.
Replying that I had not, the Judge, who was apparently in a
reminiscent mood, said that during the Mexican War Gen-
eral Grant was promoted for gallantry during action and be-
came a captain of artillery.
Mr. Pierce was elected President of the United States in
1852, and appointed Mr. Jefferson Davis his Secretary of
War. Later on, at the suggestion of Mr. Davis, for good
1- the then Captain Grant resigned from the United
States army, and lived afterwards in Illinois. Upon the se-
ession of the Southern States, in January, 1861, Captain
Grant applied to the Governor of Illinois for a commission
i" raise a regiment to serve in the United States army, war
then being the talk. His request for a commission was ig-
nored at that time; and later to Mr. Jefferson Davis, who was
inaugurated Provisional President of the Confederate States
at Montgomery, Ala., on the 18th of January, [861, he wrote
asking for a commission in the Confederate army.
While in New Orleans some little while ago I mentioned
this incident to Colonel Chalaron, who is the Custodian of the
Louisiana Historical Association, and lias charge of the State
Museum. He told me my information was correct, and that
he had then in his possession the original letter from Captain
Grant, late of the United States army, to Mr. Davis making
the request : but that, in accordance with the terms of Mr.
Davis's will, the correspondence could not be published until
! wi ' years after the death of Mrs. Davis. Further, the Colonel
told me that he had also letters to Mr. Davis from Admiral
Farragut and from Gen. George H. Thomas, each applying
for commissions in the Confederate service. I have been told
that the wife of each either dissuaded or objected to the
resignation of these officers from the Federal service.
HER FATHER'S UNIFORM OF GRAY.
BY MRS. JOHN W. CLARK, AUGUSTA, GA.
Willi wondering and hesitating hands I turn the key in the
rusted lock of the brass-bound cedar chest that had
been closed since the dear dead hands had fastened it forty
years ago. What I saw was a "Gray Confederate Uniform"
folded so that the right sleeve lay across the breast. It was
lorn, ragged, and blood-stained, showing where the bullets
had riddled the arm that was raised, waving the sword, calling
the boys to follow to victory ; but the arm was shattered and
fell to his side, the long slit from collar to belt showed where
the saber cut the wearer's face when aimed at his breast.
In the rush of battle his assailants passed on, leaving him.
What picture to my mind this old. faded, blood-stained uni-
form brings — a handsome black-haired, blue-eyed man in
health and vigor, thirty-five years of age, six feet tall, in this
"Gray Coat" buttoned closely up to his chin, a red sash, and
over that his gilded belt buckled about his waisl and at his
side his sword! With hat in hand I hear him say: "Come,
wife and babies, kiss me good-by. I must go and do my duty
to my country and my God."
Four long, weary years that wife — a woman of the sixties —
bore the burden of a breaking heart and anguish of anxiety,
wishing but fdljfcg for news of the dear one whom she knew
would be in theTffickest of the fight. Can you imagine her or
her young daughter just old enough to realize what that uni-
form symbolized of war. suffering, carnage, and all of the
terrors that war means, even death ? With all of its sacred
memories let it rest. "Fold it. furl it: it is best."
REMAINS OF MERIWETHER LEU T S.
M \.l. E. C. LEWIS, [N NASHVILLE AMERICAN.
In an article in the American reference is made to .
contemplation of the removal of the body of Capt. Meriwether
Lewis to Portland, Oregon. The body of Captain Lewis, first
buried when he was killed on the Natchez trace in 1809, was
almost totally obliterated when the reinterment was ordered
by the Legislature in 1843. Evidence of eyewitnesses shows
that only the skull remained, the identification being cleai
because of the gold-filled teeth. The skull and possibly a
thigh bone were placed in the hollow of a rock cut for the
purpose and this rock buried, and upon it erected the monu-
ment ordered b\ the State. To move these few remains would
require the destruction of the monument.
Afterwards Lewis County, an integral part of the State.
was created with this as a center. Thus Lewis County be-
came a monument itself. Tennessee has done her part, pos-
sibly not her full part, toward the preservation of the remains
and the reverence of the memory of Meriwether Lewis. Will
Oregon do more one hundred years from now? Let Oregon
erect a monument to Meriwether Lewis as imposing as it
may please; but let his few bones lie undisturbed in their
security and seclusion, where they have been for nearly a
hundred years.
"DIXIE AFTER THE WAR."
Charles W. Ilubner writes of this strong book: "Mis
Avary's book gives us a most interesting inside view from a
Southern woman's standpoint of the politically turbulent and
socially painful period through which the people of the South
were compelled to pass in the years after the close of the
War between the States. Skillfully grouping a large collection
of characteristic anecdotes, clippings from current periodicals,
with other interesting matter of historic work, and connecting
these with vivid and illuminating comment of her own. Mrs,
Avary has contributed a most entertaining and in some re-
spects a uniquely attractive book to American literature. The
book gives us with rare skill the very face and color and
tone of the times easily recognized by readers who are com-
petent to judge of them, especially the women and men who
personally felt the evil forces then at war with civilization
and who suffered and endured with the spirit of martyrs the
outrages of lawless power and the characteristic social con-
ditions which grew out of our Civil War and flourished for a
number of years in a devastated country. The intensity of
emotion which at times characterizes the author's portrayal
of the times is certainly natural in a writer like Mrs. Avary,
wdio as a Southern woman of the highest type feels all that
she writes and dips her pen in her own heart for the vivid
colors of her pictures."
The New York Times states of this book : "The book does
exactly what it sets out to do. It shows wdiat the Southern
people, white and black, were saying and thinking and doing,
eating and wearing. It is the best book I have ever read for
information concerning social and economic conditions, race
relations, religious and educational matters, and politics from
the woman's point of view in that troublesome period. . . .
The reviewer did not read the book or he is not sufficiently
familiar with the facts about the period and the people to
qualify him to criticise the work intelligently. . . .
Edwin Markham, in his "Book Talk" in Success, describes
this work as "the human import of the tragic reconstruction
period."
It is published by Dotibleday, Page & Co. Price, $2 75.
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FROM SIRE TO SON.
BY VIRGINIA M'CANNE.
(Marshall Home.)
Our fori fathers crossed the unknown sea,
Its wild, unbroken way,
For opinions free and wider laws,
Afar from pomp and ritual clause
In freedom's land: and freedom's cause
Bloomed rarely for a day.
Then they waxed strong with yeai oi pride
And made laws to rule the land ;
Suppressed religions nol in touch;
On the smiling South they laid their clutch.
Began with runaways and such,
With no more witches to command
And so the little cloud, uprising
At first no larg< r than a hand.
Grew darker as it southward rolled;
It loosed the anaconda's fold
Which had tightened like a miser's hold —
It struck and battle Spoiled the land
I In Southern lost. The fight was o'er!
Yet no knight of old e'lr counted the cost
When a sacred trust he bop
( )r deserted Ins cause because he lust ;
Through famine and fire, and battle tossed,
llr ran nil his colors hefore.
So the Southern laid his arm- aside,
I ti i] ih dow ti and left of W ai .
Yel he bore defeat with a certain pride
That told how bravely he had died
It fate ha.! willed When death denied,
A hem -till his Ci ilors wore.
With breaking heart- (hey looked on Lee
When the low "Stack Arm-" they cried;
Who ti ii "1 a man of fun 5l mi Id
Soldier and patriot, as if pure gold
Uone was left when the fires had rolled
Through which he was sorely tried.
h gave them strength lo turn back home;
I In y had I" - ii too proud to hold
The one lost chance that by them sped.
Now tin eagle of Liberty hides his head;
\ raven, croaking for prey in his stead,
His talon- scratching in dirt for gold
In the days that followed the war. Yet now
We know the South was freed a- well;
Ami champions to come will tell
l ,\ tin abolition crank with greed
Turned too fast for the nation's need,
And did up their work too well.
'■ (ley will tell of the giant "Afreet" afar,
Who loosed his hands when the dugs of war
Went chasing to the Philippii
\nd turned out mure than u-e we call
Marids" brown and black and tan,
Resides the odd Albinos.
The old plantation, which is dear to us yet,
The Puritan c( ilil never understand;
I heir triumph is still a puzzling case.
For on closer acquaintance with "the race"
The "man and brother" who keeps the pace
Is an alien in his land.
It is nver! The South is prospering.
i in iw ing as never hefore ;
In ih id- they were true to land and home;
Mir truth tln.N would hand from sire to son.
I hat they maj know in days to come
Ami will tell it o'er and o'er.
Of suffering hap d to b nisi ms,
I h mothers at home in hopeless fear
I 01 the dead bO) - sleeping afar.
| 'i wives who waited ill leaden sorrov
i ach daj too sad to dread the morrow —
I In si at tie broken hearts of war.
It i- over! The soldier who wore the blue
Respects the one who wore the gray
And fought to his conscience true;
I In old-time memories now oft-told
As smoke that between the armies rolled
Broke with the mists away.
It is over! Soldier- brave and leader- true.
Each life a sacrifice still :
And yel who knows? There is something grand
In the deathless love of the fair Southland,
In the honor she gives to the faithful band.
What more could love fulfill?
[nqi an for \s Ai \ii\m\ Solium. — Charles C. Hemming.
of Company A. 3d Florida Regiment, writes: "I was captured
at Missionary Ridge In soldiers from Indiana or Ohio. With
nir w.i- .1 comrade now dead and al-o a young Alabama sol-
dier. We left the front line after the retreat, and on 1I1
-ule iif the ridge ran almost int" a German Federal regiment,
who had alreadj taken position between us and our line, which
wa then nowhere in sight. When we -aw escape was not
possible, my comrades and 1 ran into the -mall log hut near
bj and ah.. hi one hundred and fiftj yards of tin- German
,11, 111 riiej wen receiving ordi • in German 1 could hear
every : mand, and in their excitement they were shooting
down a few scattered Confederate soldiers who had thrown
up their hand- I saw tin- and told my two comrades Then
Ih, Alabama soldier -aid he would hide under the floor I
knew we could nol do this, foi we had been tired at by some
meinbi it regiment a- we ran into the hut. I began
leading, and I think my Florida comrade dill the same. I
-aid I would nut surrender, because 1 -aw them shouting men
who had surrendered. Just then a young Federal soldier gal-
loped up to the door of the house and -aid with an oath:
'Come out of there.' I threw my gun down on him and re-
plied, 'Throw up your hand-.' which he promptly did. I then
said: 'We will SUrrendei ii you will protect us as prisoners
,1 wai Your men are -hunting our men after they have
thrown up their hand-' lie replied: 'I will pmt, , I you.' We
then walked out and handed nver our guns to him. leaving the
Mabama bo; under the floor of the hut. if my recollection
is correct If that Alabama boy is living and recalls the
will he write me or reply in the Veteran?"
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SAMUEL DAVIS.
I i.VCISl i mi 5S BY B. .T. NUNNALLY, < > I- XKWXAX. GA.
Samuel Davis was born in Rutherford County, Term., Oc-
tober 6, [842. His parents were Virginians. He was attend-
ing a military school in Nashville when the North and South
rushed to arms and he enlisted in the i^t Tennessee Regi-
ment of Infantry. * * * When General Bragg directed the
organization of a company of scouts for important service- in
1863, young Davis, who had proven his soldierly qualities, was
chosen a member, and was regarded a- a man of tin- greatest
integrity of character, one of the coolest and bravest of the
command.
General Dodge, with an army of sixteen thousand men. and
having his headquarters at Pulaski, was much disturbed by
the efficiency of these scouts, and determined to stop them.
Davis with several others of the scouts had been within the
Federal lines for about ten days, and had gained valuable and
accurate information in regard to the Federal resources and
fortifications.
Young Davis, on his way South to report to General Bragg
and to deliver to him important papers and maps, was cap-
tured on the afternoon of November 19. 1863, by the 7th
Kansas Cavalry, and was carried to Pulaski.
General Dodge sent for Davis and insisted that he tell the
name of the person from whom he had received the informa-
tion. He firmly declined. When General Dodge told him
that he would have to call a court-martial and try him for his
life, that there was no chance for him unless he told the
source of his information, he replied: "I know that I must
die; but I will not betray the trust reposed in me. I am doing
my duty to God and my country." And all of General Dodge's
■efforts to obtain the name of the informant by pleading, prais-
ing, and threatening failed. Davis was tried on November
21 and sentenced to hang on November 27 between the hours
Of 10 A.M. tO 2 P.M.
Dountless General Dodge thought that the lad would tell
when he realized that death on the gallows was before him.
There is something grand even in physical courage. When
a man in the heat of battle, carried on by the mad rush of
enthusiasm, does some deed of splendid daring, he gains the
plaudits of all beholders. Davis possessed this courage in an
eminent degree. He well knew his danger as a scout. If cap-
tured, his life would be the forfeit; but now his courage was
put to the highest crucial test. On the one hand, life and
liberty, a safe return to the Confederate lines; on the other,
death and the ignominious death of a spy! Instantly was his
decision made, and Sam Davis fought his last and bravest bat-
tle. He had been promised release and a safe escort to the
federate lines. In the silence and gloom of his prison his
thoughts were of his home. On the night before his execu-
tion he wrote a last farewell to his mother, and between the
lines we can read the anguish which wrung his soul. He
begs that they will not forget him. He wants his body brought
to the dear old home, the home which he is to see never again.
1 in the morning of November 27 at ten o'clock promptly.
as if the hangman was afraid to wait, he was taken to the
scaffold. General Dodge sent Captain Chickasaw, his chief
scout, to Davis in a last attempt to learn the source of his
information, saying that General Dodge was anxious to save
such a life and that it was not yet too late.
"The boy looked about him. He was only a little more than
twenty-one years old at that time, and life was most promis-
ing. Just overhead, idly swinging hack and forth, hung the
noose; all around him were soldiers, standing in line with
muskets gleaming in the bright sunshine; at In- feet was a
box prepared for his body, how pulsing with young and vigor-
ous life; in front were the steps that would lead to a sudden
and what is regarded a disgraceful death, and that death it
was in his power to avoid 50 easily. If he hesitated, it was
only for an instant, and then tlu tempting offer was pushed
aside fori.\ er "
Then it was that Davis spoke these words: "If I had a
thousand lives, I would lose them all here and now before
I would betray my friends or the confidence of my informer."
The steps were mounted, and the marvelous young hero
stood on the platform with hands tied behind him. The black
hood was pulled over his head, the noose adjusted, and the
drop fell, and thus ended a tragedy wherein a young man of
the South, without counsel, standing friendless in the midst
of enemies, had with a courage of the highest type conceiv-
able deliberately chose death to life without honor.
In this age of graft and commercialism, when men -ell their
souls for a nrice, we see this boy calmly choosing death rather
than dishonor. And as long as one loyal heart responds to
heroic deeds Sam Davis will never be forgotten !
[This concise address is used now to meet the demand for
the story hj many who do not know it. A more elaborate ac-
count may be expected ere long. — Ed. Veteran.]
Revival of Subscriptions to the Monument.
Since the foregoing was prepared, Mrs. James T. Oake-. of
Pulaski, Tenn., inclosed ten dollars for the Sam Davis monu-
ment at Nashville with the following statement : "As an in-
dividual I want to contribute ten dollars to the Sam Davis
Monument. I feel like we should erect a monument to that
grand, noble hero in every city of ur Southland. When the
Giles County Chapter was organized, of which I was a char-
ter member, our one thought was to work for a monument.
Now that our beautiful monument has been unveiled, it is
my pleasure to contribute to the Nashville monument."
FLORIDA GIRL GAVE HER SHOES TO A SOLDIER.
Col. Knox Livingston in an address at Bennettsville, S. C.
said : "When Florida was invaded, troops were rushed for-
ward to reenforce General Finnegan's command. Upon the
arrival of the soldiers at Madison the women would meet
them and serve refreshments to the defenders of their homes.
Among these soldiers was a mere lad whose bare feet were
bleeding from the exposure and fatigue of the long march.
One of the young ladies, Miss Lou Taylor, took the shoes
from her own feet and made the hero boy put them on, while
she walked home in her stockings. Miss Tax lor died several
years ago in Fernandina."
Veterans' Days \t Shreveport Fair. — The Louisiana Slate
Reunion is holding its convention this year at Shreveport.
It being the week of the fair, that association is cooperating
to make the Reunion as pleasant as practicable. The busi-
ness sessions of the Reunion will be held in the city of Shreve-
port on Monday and Tuesday, October 7 and 8, and the third
day. Wednesday, will lie devoted to the entertainment of the
veterans at the fair grounds. A committee consisting of Maj.
F. R. Calloway and President Blanchard was appointed to
confer with Mrs. John L. Young, President of the Daughters
of the Confederacy, to determine upon the cooperation of the
Daughters in making the Reunion a success. The entertain-
ment of the veterans too will likely he given over entirely to
the organization of Daughters.
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- :/u/-..\ r 01 IT) PIC II COM EDERATE.
In the Veteran for December, [903, a sketch is given of
Judge James E. Cobb, who joined the 5th Texas Infantry as
a private and was twice promoted before his capture at Get-
tysburg. He returned after the war t" bis native Georgia,
bul -'»'ii afterwards located at Tuskegee, Via., where he
ie eminent as a lawyer. lie was elected judge of the
Ninth Judicial District of Alabama, serving a do/en years,
when he was Sent I" Congress for five terms in succession.
A daughter, Miss Lucile Cobb, having procured her father's
diary, recently put it into typewritten form and had it hand-
somely bound, The accidental opportunity of having its pe-
rusal indue,- extracts from it which vividly illustrate the
sentiment of Confederate soldiers while in service, These
extracts are commended especially to the gallant men who
lit for the Union :
"To morrow we will doubtless be called to meet the enemy
in seven and bloody fight. Maj God defend the right! In
him I put my trust, determined t" do my duty to the extent ol
my ability in every situation I may be placed." Again: "Very
soon two large armies are to meet in deadlj strife — the one
Struggling to uphold a usurped despotism, the other con
tending for that freedom so dear to the people of the South-
ern States."
"December 25. Visited Fredericksburg and the battlefield
near there The city i- much injured and seem- deserted;
onh now and then .1 citi en was seen endeavoring to gather
the little left by the enemy."
"March iS. On the eve of another battle. Many of our gal
lam brvs will fall, sealing their devotion to their countrj
with tli ;r blood. May He who ruleth the nations be our
shield, inspire us with courage and strength to drive the in-
vader from Southern soil forever!"
\iiri his capture at Gettysburg, while in Camp Chase early
in January, 1864, he wrote: "We all are expecting to go from
this to another prison, wherefore we know not perhaps for
a Speedy exchange, but more likely to be subjected to other
privations and greater hardships If so. maj we prove out
selves men indeed to bear without .1 murmur every indignity
that a civil enemy can inflict !"
Me was one of six hundred officers placed under fire of
( onfederate batteries, and endured Ins part of the privations
which make so ugly a chapter in American history Of a
bright daj on Morris Island, made so by the admission of
food from Southern friends to the prisoners, he wrote: "To
him who is Lord of all my heart is lifted 111 gratitude and
praise. May his protection be assured to me hereafter as in
days gone by! Ami 0 maj mj coming years be continually
devoted to his service, that I may become more worthy the
blessings that have been showered upon me in such abundance'
And whatever may betide me in the future, may I ever lie
able to say resignedly, 'Thy will be done1'"
Although the gratitude and joy of that da\ W( n 50 devoutly
praised, the Fare Following was five crackers, half pint of
bean soup, half pint of boiled rice, and two or three ounces
of meat. For ten days in December, 1864, the rations con-
sisted of meal, loaf bread, and pickles ; ten ounces meal, four
ounces baker's bread daily, a half pint of pickles, and two
ounces salt for live days, Nothing was given to cook in and
very little wood. I lis last Christmas dinner there consisted
Of a piece of cornhread and a cup ol meal coffee
t'ne of the most thrilling and pathetic stones {,\ the war
is that of the Confederates in the midst of the battle of Kcn-
ii' -aw Mountain proposing an armistice so that the Federals
could remove their wounded front the burning area
si 1 xi ox KENNESAW \\ 111 ki 1 in \x \hmimk 1 10 swi wotNiiF.n KNEH tOM BURNING.
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THE LATE GEN. J. M. SC HO FIELD.
BY CEN. GRANVILLE M. DODCE, NEW YORK.
I first met General Schofield in August, 1861, when he re-
turned with the little army that had fought so valiantly in the
i 'Little of Wilson's Creek under the command of General Lyon.
Schofield was adjutant general of that army, and in a large
degree it was his efforts and advice that brought the force,
that had really won a great victory and did not know it,
safely to Springfield and Rolla, where I was stationed. The
fatal mistake of dividing the army was made in the battle
of Wilson's Creek, Siegel's command attacking on one flank
ami Lyon's on the other. Schofield said it was Siegel's plan,
and he was opposed to it. Of course it was contrary to mili-
cience; and the destruction of Siegel's force early in
the day, its officer- going to Springfield long before Lyon had
finished fighting, left Colonel Lyon with half of his force to
meet the entire force of the enemy, which he did so gallantly
and successfully.
At this time General Halleck had relieved General Fremont
in command of the Department of Missouri. He found this
force at Rolla under the command of General Siegcl, and made
it the nucleus of the Army of the Southwest, which, it was
understood, was to be commanded by General Siegel. In
answer to a letter written to Lieutenant Schofield, Major
Sturgis, Captain Hunter, and others concerning the Wilson
Creek battle, Schofield wrote a remarkable letter to Genera!
Halleck, causing Halleck to place the Army of the Southwest
under the command of Gen. S. R. Curtis. Halleck utilized
Schofield in organizing the Missouri State Militia, of which
he was made a brigadier general. Afterwards he was in com-
mand of the Army of the Frontier, and finally the Department
of Missouri, where he demonstrated his marked ability as an
executive officer. There was great friction in that State among
the Union people, and great efforts were made to relieve
General Schofield of the command ; but President Lincoln
stood by him, and on November 29, 1862, made him a major
general. The Senate, under pressure from Missouri, refused
to confirm him. He was again appointed by President Lin-
coln in May, 1863.
I had a good opportunity to study General Schofield's ad-
ministration of this difficult command, as I fell in command
of that department at the close of the war, and was greatlv
impressed with his work. I followed his line of policy, and
received praise for doing that for which Schofield was severe-
ly censured. Schofield frequently told me afterwards that I
reaped the benefit of his work, for which he received curses
and I blessings, which was true.
When General Grant took command of the Military Di-
vision of the Mississippi in 1863, he asked for Schofield to
tale command of the Army of the Ohio to relieve General
Foster, who was ill. When President Lincoln received this
request, he said that would solve the difficulty, and by using
the dispatch received from Grant he induced the Senate to
confirm General Schofield. This was in the late fall or winter
of 1863. At this time General Schofield had no acquaintance
with General Grant, and felt that he was selected for this
important command from the fact that when Grant was mak-
ing the Vicksburg campaign General Schofield sent to him
from this department nearly all of his organized force, which
I remember we all greatly appreciated at that time.
In the Atlanta campaign I again came into contact with
General Schofield. His Army of the Ohio was but a corp;
in strength, and the Army of the Tennessee was only about
twenty-five thousand strong. Both of the armies were not as
large as the Army of the Cumberland, commanded by General
Thomas. This organization did not appeal to either General
Schofield or General McPherson ; they thought that the three
armies should be made more equal in strength. During the
entire operations the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the
Tennessee were almost always on the flanks, the Army of the
Cumberland being in the center on account of its great
strength. This, of course, brought more attacks upon these
two small armies, made them march more miles, gave them
much more work to do, and naturally this brought complaints
and criticism from the officers in these two armies. One day
I happened to be at General McPherson's headquarters when
General Sherman, General Schofield, and General Blair came
there, and in a friendly conversation comment was made upon
these complaints and criticisms, and the matter was discussed
between them in an open and friendly way. Sherman listened ;
and when they had finished, he said: "You know, Schofield
and McPherson, that the reason I keep >ou on the flanks is
that if the enemy should wipe you out I would have old
Thomas left, and they could not move him." Blair made a
rather sarcastic remark about sacrificing the two armies, which
all appreciated and laughed at heartily, none more so than
Sherman,
On the 19th of July, as we were approaching Atlanta, Sher-
man had stretched out his armies, not fearing an attack by
Johnston, looking for the usual defensive tactics on his part.
McPherson. with two corps of the Army of the Tennessee,
had been sent to Stone Mountain, some twenty miles away, to
strike the Augusta road and come back by way of Dec tur.
My corps was on the extreme left of the army. Early in the
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morning one of my secret service men, ;i soldier of the _:d
Iowa, who had been inside i he enemy's lines during the entire
campaign, came out with the Atlanta morning paper, h con-
tained the order removing Johnston and placing Hood in com-
mand of the Rebel army. I saw the great importance of this
information, and immediately rode over to General Schofield's
command, where Sherman was marching. I found that Sher-
man and Schofield had received rumors of the change of com-
manders, which my paper confirmed. Sherman immediately
asked Schofield about Hood, knowing they had been class-
mates at West Point Schofield said to Sherman: "This
means •, fight; Hood will attach you within twent) four
hours." After discussing the matter, Sherman sat down on a
stump bj the roadsidi and issued his orders calling M.
Pherson immediately to us and closing us all in toward
Thomas *is Schofield predicted. I I nod massed his army be
hind Piach free I reek and attacked Thomas with his whole
Force, and the battle i Peach Tree ("reek was fought, in
winch Hood was repulsed with great loss. The battles of
July 22 and 28 followed, in which virtually one half of Hood's
army was hilled, wounded, or captured, and the capture ol
Atlanta [1 illi ivc 1 d
\ 11 1 1 the close oi tin war. I again met I !em i al Si In ifield
on the line of th Union Pacific Railway at the time of the
Chinese ma sacre, which occurred during Pn sident Cleveland's
first administration. The President had sent General Scho-
field west from Chicago to investigate these troubles. The
.lenient and the tramps coming east from California
had taken possession of the railroad tram- I he labor organi-
in Denver heard oi Scho 'Id's coming, and called a
meeting and declared that his special train should not
\ . r the road Scl i ifield was notified o
and then laid down the doctrine that has ever since keen fol-
lowed He notified the rioters and strikers that he was travel-
er a mili'an n.. id oil military duty under orders ol thi
:. that interf rence with hi- movements
. and would be so treated
ed them to call a halt, and his tram went till
5pi He at this time took the advanced
p on that was afterwards followed that at ! 1 11
rying th United States mails whose trains were interfered
with \ 111 that the United Slate- was justified in
and taking steps to protect and operate the lines
with United States forces I p to tins nine there had been
. in 1 btaining lion when trains
and n obs Schofield had mi
studj of 111 ; i, and said to me al that, while
il -■ -'• i icism, he w as pi i pari d to de
them lie told me once when I was in V.
rawer in his desk, that in that drawer was
',1 and ml to maintain his position
When the great riot occurred in I hicago, General Schofield
m chief of the army, and it was the
I 1 ek Springs thai enabled him to pn
the matter so full) am il 1 lli veland lb. il
he did use the I niti d nsl th<
11 head and pri Governor ol
that State
It was in1 ip ' if
' hofield from thi meeting nir il
me, and 1 could plainly understand why Gran) and Sherman
I le v. .1 - ■■' » ij, quii
level-headed. He always had a convincing reason for all his
acts. Years ago he was a strong advocate of tin reforms Sec-
retary Root brought about in the army, and il was a
satisfaction to me and one of the greatest pleasures of my
life to have had his steady, stanch friendship and to have
known him so long.
i .en Granville M. Dodge, one of the oldest surviving gen-
erals of the United Slates army ( now retired I, has accumulated
a large estate; and yet, although quite beyond three score and
ten, he keeps well equipped as a man of affairs and goes
unite regularly to his business office, No i Broadway, New
York. Since his marked esteem for Sam Davis has been
published, together with a subscription to a monument to the
South's matchless hero, cordial friendship has been main-
tained, and he shows much interest in the VETERAN Upon
the occasion of a memorable \isit esteem was expressed Foi
Genera] Schofield. and General Dodge contributed the fore
going paper. It will he read with interest, containing as it
di ies -. .me \ aluable historic data
PATRIOTISM OF VICKSBURG WOMl
BY HENRY S, HALBERT, MONTGOMERY, \IA.
'I he "Official War Records," Serial No. im. page 770. states
that in the city of Vicksburg on Christma day, [863, during
services in the Episcopal Church, .it the point where prayei
was made for "the President of the United States and all
others in authority," Misses Kate and Ella Barnett,
Latham, Ellen Martin, and Mi- vloon 1 ind abruptly
I. 11 the church. In their exalted devotion to the Confederate
call 1 11 could not be expected that they remain and give a
■ iii> . 1 1 assent to a prayer for the welfare and succi
:1m enemies of their country, but Federal malignity took an-
other view of the in. in.; 1 .< n James B McPherson was in
.. 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 11 1 1 there, and he had these ladies banished from the
city. He ordered them t" I. Federal hue- within
fort) eight hour- The name- oi these devoted Southern
women should be held in everlasting remembrance by thi
pie . if the entire Si iuth
General Sherman in his "Memoirs" -a\ - th: 1 neral Mc-
011 had "man) noble qualities." Perhaps so, but cer
lainly a spirit of chivalrous forbeat 1 1 toward thi G
women of Vicksburg 11111-1 not be included.
I I f any of these lade in nil In illg, '
iran would appreciate an account of their banishment |
VIRGINIA i AMPS FA] OR J b 1// MORIAL.
A resolution o ing the Confederati hospital which
n 1- proposed shall be established as a mem.
wall Jack-on has been cordially commended by the
1. lend Camp of \.teian- m Virginia. f"he house in I.'
ion, Va . which was the home of Stonewall Jackson when he
dii d and is be onl) home he . . i purchased
by the Mary Custis Lee Chapter of 1 :
10 ii lias be. n 1 em i\ ati d and, « ith Mi - Jackson's
appro! ing convert'
equipped and maintained in loving memi former il-
lustrious ov,
I,, o;ii t > oiu ilns design -a much larger sum will he m
1I1. in that which the 1 nd patriotic women who have
undertaken this work have hem able to secure through their
mil. d through sev ral yi
The resolution -tales "The (.rand (amp of United '
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federate Vi irdially commends the Stonewall Jack-' in
Memorial Hospital to the g nerous support of our country-
men as a worthy memorial of the exalted character and un-
selfish devotion of a hemic life which was consecrated to the
ce of his country."
MONUMENT TO GEN. LLOYD TILGHMAN.
Publication is made that Mr. Frederick Boyd Tilghman,
Vice President of the National Humane Alliance, of New
York, a son of Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, whose family lived in
Paducah from 1861 to 1864. has been in Paducah, Ky., accom-
panied by Sculptor Kitson, looking after a Confederate me-
morial which will be erected there to be surmounted with a
heroic statue of General Tilghman. The memorial will be
made under the supervision of Mr. Kitson. General Tilgh-
man commanded the defenses of the Tennessee and Cumber-
land Rivers at Fori Henry and Fort Donelson. He was cap-
tured at Fort Henry and imprisoned at Fort Warren, Boston
Harbor, exchanged, and was killed at the battle of Champion
Hill on May 16. 1863. General Tilghman's old soldiers who
recall that magnificent, heroic officer will be gratified to learn
that he is to be memorialized in this way.
Mr. Tilghman will present to Clarksville. Term., a hand-
some granite fountain from the National Humane Society.
This fountain is made of Maine granite, polished and trimmed
with bronze, and weighs five tons. Its height is six feet.
REMARKS ABOUT TREATMENT OF PRISOXERS.
This writing is impulsive just after reading at length re-
ports upon the treatment of prisoners North and South. The
suffering of the men in Andersonville. taking up "the other
side" first, is horrid indeed. Evidently honest, truthful state-
ments are made which should ever be regarded grievously by
the South, and there may have been instances of cruelty that
merit condemnation of some of the authorities in charge. It
should be borne in mind, however, that men so situated could
not be philosophers in the true sense; a hungry man is as in-
capable of deliberate judgment as one with a torpid liver.
These men were honest, however, and their reports are dis-
tressing. It was bad in Libby and in most of the other prisons
for the custody of Union soldiers, and it would seem alto-
gether a blot upon Christian civilization that can never be
effaced. With rare exceptions, it is true that the Confederate
authorities did their very best to -how humanity toward their
captive-: they did the best they could. Then how did it all
happen in Christian America ~J
Confederates imprisoned at the North were treated ven
badly. They were subjected to such treatment that quite a
larger per cent of them died than those of the Union army in
Southern prisons. They were starved equally, and they were
frozen, no doubt, in much greater degree. The exact truth
about which side suffered most can hardly ever be known. If
the Confederate authorities caused it, they should be con-
demned of mankind, for it is bad enough to bring humiliation
and shame to the perpetrators. Confederates, however, did
the best they could, and the Federals did not. The latter
claimed as excuse that they were cruel in retaliation. The
Is are against them.
Truth seekers in after years will investigate the cause of
these awful things, and they will instinctively inquire for the
■1 1 of it all. They will read the records of agreement for
an exchange in July. 1862. and that it was faithfully kept for
a year, when the Federal authorities broke the cartel, the
excuse being that Confederate- would not recognize ncgroi
their own property — who had enlisted as equal to their sol-
diers in the exchange. While this was made the excuse for
canceling the cartel by the Federals, the Union officers were
in fact pleading with the authorities at Washington against
exchange. For instance, in a letter from Maj. Gen. J. C.
Foster, commanding the Department of the South, on Au-
gust -'5. 1864, from Hilton Head, to Gen. H. W. lb Heck, chief
of staff United States armies at Washington, he stated: "The
obtaining of .;;.oco men able to fight would at this time be
a much-desired relief to General Hood's army, and accounts
for the anxiety of the Rebels to exchange at this time."
What monsters! how vengeful! yet wdiat heroes were those
Rebels ! What a pity an agreement was not entered into for
the exchange of four or five for one if they valued Southern
valor in such proportion!
In their yearning for peace and good will the Southern
people would not reopen the deepest wounds of the war by
taking up the horrors of prison life; but they were driven to
it by the vile slanders continually perpetrated upon the mem-
ory of Major Wirz after his cruel murder in violation of the
terms of surrender. Some patriotic women in Georgia hav-
ing decided to erect a monument to him, the fury of North-
ern partisans drove the South to answer in vindication of the
truth; and the more the facts are investigated, the more en-
tirely does the blame rest with the Union commanders and
their Secretary of War, Stanton. The Confederate-, sickened
at the severity and hardships of Union prisoners, begged the
Union authorities to agree to measures of relief, while doing
all they possibly could to relieve the suffering of patriots and
good men in their custody, but without avail. They could
not stop or help it. Their homes were being pillaged and
their loved ones outraged. Let both sides be just.
The records left and the testimony of survivors prove that
at the North the authorities persisted in cruelties which should
bring shame and humiliation to the United States govern-
ment. The suffering and the deaths of Union soldiers im-
prisoned at the South are chargeable directly to the United
States authorities. They should not have been so impatient
and so eager for peace as to sacrifice the lives of so many
good men in such a cruel manner.
THAT NERVY GEORGIAN AT CAMP DOUGLAS.
1 be thrilling story of the Georgian who climbed a flag pole
at Camp Douglas and lowered the United States flag in
mourning for President Lincoln after a Union soldier in the
effort to do so bad fallen to his death ( see first page Septem-
ber Veteran) has been read by thousands, but no answer
< onus as to wdio it was.
The author of the account. Rev. J. N. Hunter, a superan-
nuated Methodist preacher who now lives at Station A. Dal-
las. Tex., having removed there from Demorest. Ga.. writes :
"It was said at the time that the young soldier who climbed
the flag pole was from Georgia and belonged to a Georgia
battery. I did not know him ; but I witnessed -the daring
feat with my own eyes, and I have met several in Texas who
-aw it. I served under Forrest with the 2d Tennessee Cav-
alry, was captured in December, 1S64. and released from
Camp Douglas on June 16, 1865."
The Veteran is anxious to learn more of this remarkable
occurrence, and will appreciate further information. A reader
wdio enjoyed the sketch said, "If it is fiction, it is fine;" and
the thousands who have been thrilled with the recital will be
glad to know more of its authenticity.
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I ' \IT. SlNG] ETON I I \YE1 1 I LEY,
Capl S I- Easle} was born in Talladega County, Ala.,
in February, 1838, removing with his parents to Cass County,
["< .in 1857 \t Jefferson in 1861 he enlisted in Phil
Crump's battalion of infantry, which battalion became .1 pari
1 f the 32d Texas Infantry, of Ector's Brigade, in the Army
ol rennessee He served in this throughout the war. par-
ticipating in .ill the battles in which thai arms was engaged,
nnd at the close of the war he ranked as first lieutenant oi
hi company. Returning to Cass Count) after the war. he
made his home there until 1871, when he married and re
moved to Dallas. Later he lived in Bowie, Seymour, and
Chillicothc, at which latter place he died in September, leaving
two daughters and a son Mr. Easle} was not onlj .1 gallant
soldier bui a most upright and inihieiiti.il citizen
Maj H. \ Butler
Maj. Henry A. Butler died at his home, in Malvern, Ark.,
"ii June 20, 1907, and in- spirit passed over the river into
eternal rest. He was born in Henderson, S C, in the year
1836, and moved to tulip, Ark. with his parents in [8— . He
was "ngaged with his father in merchandising until the break
ing out of the war, when he enlisted in the Tulip Rifles, Com-
pany I. as Second lieutenant under Capl George D Alexander,
MAT, II. \. BUTLER.
and went direct to Virginia, where his company was placed in
the gallant 3d Arkansas Infantry He was soon after ap-
pointed l>> Col. Van 11. Manning as adjutant of the regiment,
and he served in that capacity until the battle of Sharpsburg,
Md. when he was promoted to the staff of Gen. John R
Cooke as ass, stant adjutant general with the ra ajor,
where he faithfully served until the surrender at Appomat-
tox, \ a
At the close of the war he returned 1" his home at Tulip
and engaged in the mercantile business with his father. In
t873 I"- moved to Malvernj Ark. and engaged in mercantile
pursuits until a few ycat ago \t the inn, ,,\ his death he
was President of the Firsrf National Rank of Malvern and
Commander of Van II. Manning Camp, No. 991, U. C. V Hi
was an exemplary member of the M. E. Church. He wa
truly .me of Cod's noblemen, loyal to every principle that en
nobles OUr race. The large attendance at his funeral test,
lied the love and appreciation in which he was held by the com-
munity in which he resided I lis casket was buried beneath
a hank of richest (lowers He was an earnest Christian and
faithful follower of his great Captain, and died as he had
lived, a faithful soldier of the cross. \y p 1
Cam E. F. Spears.
Another h iro has left us to join our brothers in the greal
beyond. I Ins noble character must not leave us without some
notice oi his lite and tribute of love to his memory.
1 aptain Spears was born in Paris, Ky., June 9, 1840. At an
early aye he began a husincss life, and later, associated with
Ins brother, was engaged in railroad affairs of his native place.
I his position he satisfactorily tilled until the War between the
States. Espousing the cause of the South, he began to prep.are
lor the great conflict by helping to create that famous com-
pany. Hamilton Guards, so named in honor of .Mrs. Hamilton,
now .Mrs General Williams, a pail of the nucleus of the noted
2d Kentucky Infantry Regiment and important in the make-up
of the well known "Orphan Brigade."
1 aptain Spears served with honor and distinction through-
out the war is captain of his company, being several times
everely wounded. Though often physically unable to attend
to Such duties, his determined, unconquerable spirit was ever
111 evidence I here is not a single instance of his having asked
his men to enter one of the many hard-fought battles without
himself leading them. Unselfish in the extreme, he was often
begged bj his men not p, make such a target of himself for
1 lie ( 111 m\ 's fire
I lie writer has attended many Confederate meetings since
I he war, hut not one at which he did not hear recounted
numerous deeds of valor of Captain Spears, associated with
Mai Charles Semple, ("apt, Harvey McDowell, and Capt. Dan
I urncy— all of whom have gone to the goat beyond Mow
II ■" he s gone, wt Feel ( rushed by our loss; i„lt jt W,,„|,|
be wrong to wish him hack to a renewal of suffering here.
great "as his modesty, so extreme his diffidence, that the
faintest word of praise seemed to cause him pain; and we
even Eeel that wi must ask the indulgence ol In- he, caved
familj ,,, writing these tew words of our hoed one, whom to
know thoroughl} was to appreciate. We cannot, then, permit
him P. go from us without saying, especially to the young
II' r< was a man the light of whose life should In
in t" guide ill. -li ps Ml' all."
■■ iiunently a useful citizen. During
th( lattet (rears of his life he was very successful in husmess.
employil at many men with a generous pay roll, thus
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•'aiding greatly in the material advancement of our city. May
•God bless his family ! and may the whole community realize
uhat in him it has lost one in whose footsteps it would be an
>ionor to any man to follow.
[The foregoing sketch comes from Dr. C. J. Clarke.]
Deaths in L. O'B. Branch Camp, at Raleigh.
The harvest of death has been heavy in the ranks of L.
O'B,. Branch Camp, at Raleigh, N. C. and surviving com-
rades mourn the passing of these valued members. Two of
these. A. H. Haynes and W. D. Smith, belonged to the fa-
mous drum corps which was so well known at Confederate
Reunions, always attracting great attention to the North Caro-
linians. Only two members are now left, J. J. Lewis and
Wiley T. Johnson.
A. 11. Haynes was a lad of less than fourteen when the
Civil War began, and upon reaching that a$ e became a drum-
mer boy with an Alabama regiment, and saw service with it.
He was a man of will and determination, and served on
the police force of Raleigh through different promotions to
captain, resigning about a year since on account of ill health.
He was never married, and is survived by his mother and two
brothers.
W. D. Smith first entered llie Confederate service in the
cavalry, but was later transferred to Company D, jjd North
Carolina, and became the drum major of the corps. He was
about sixty-four years of age, was twice married, and is sur-
vived by a wife, three sons, and two daughters. His life and
conduct made him many friends.
Gaston H. Broughton. tin- other loss in this Camp, enlisted
in Company D, 26th North Carolina Regiment, under the
leadership of Col. Zeb B. Vance. He was promoted from
time to time, and when captured at Gettysburg was first lieu-
tenant of his company. He remained a prisoner then to the
close of the war. His home was at Raleigh for about thirty
years, and he was a citizen held in the highest repute, es-
teemed by a large circle of friends, lie was married three
times; and of the thirteen children born t<i him. ten of them
survive.
Mat. James Dinwiddie.
In the death of James Dinwiddie the South loses one of
her most prominent educational leaders. He was born in
Campbell County, Va., June 29, 1837; and died while on a
visit to his son, in San Francisco, July -', 190;. He was edu-
cated at Hampden-Sidney College, and afterwards entered
the University of Virginia, taking his M.A. there in 1861.
Immediately he joined the University Volunteers, and began
active service in the Confederate army. He was promoted to
a lieutenancy, and subsequently was made assistant adjutant
general of the brigade assigned to the Wise Legion. After
the disbanding of the Volunteers, he became a member of the
Wise Legion, and was stationed at Roanoke Island, escaping
thence, on its surrender, and making his way back to Char-
lottesville and joining the Charlottesville Artillery, of which
he was made first lieutenant. From this position he arose
to a captaincy of artillery, his command being a part of Stone-
wall Jackson's Corps. He was assistant ordnance sergeant
in Richmond early in 1863. Later lie became a major of in-
fantry, and held this rank till the close of the war. He was a
valiant soldier, and took an active part in many a fierce en-
gagement.
While his war record won him distinction, his career
is an educator entitles him to lasting remembrance. His
irst service in this field was as principal of Sayre Institute,
Lexington, Ky. After a year in that school, he was elected
professor of mathematics in the Southwestern Presbyterian
University, Clarksville, Tenn. For ten years he occupied this
chair with great credit both to himself and to that of the in-
stitution He then was called to a like position in the Uni-
versity of Tennessee, where he remained for five years. In
1885 he purchased the Central Female Institute, at Gordons-
ville, Va., and continued there till 1890, when he went to Peace
Institute, Raleigh, N. C. For seventeen years he conducted
and established that institute upon a very high plane. Be-
cause of failing health he retired from the work in May. hav-
ing remained at his responsible post almost to the very last.
Dr. Dinwiddie was married during the war to Miss Betty
Carrington, daughter of Dr. William Carrington, of Halifax
Count}'. Va. His wife died about eight years ago. There are
seven children living, and three brothers survive him. Major
MAT. JAMES DINWIDDIE.
Dinwiddie was for years an elder in the Presbyterian Church,
and he belonged to both the Masons and the Odd Fellows
Character was with him the basis of life. He was a benefactor
in the fullest sense. He gave generously toward the education
of many a young woman, not only in the way of tuition lnu
in . entire maintenance while under his charge. No worthy
girl ever appealed to him in vain. The amount he gave in his
long experience represents a fortune, and. best of all. his left
band never knew the deed of his right.
The remains were buried July 10 in Oakwood Cemetery,
Raleigh. The pallbearers were James R. Young, Governor
Glenn, Joseph G. Brown, Josephus Daniels, James P. Braw-
lev. A. A. Thompson. Oscar Hay, W. F. Harding. George W.
Thompson, and Henry Jerome Stockard. A host of sympa-
thetic friends were present to do last honors to the departed,
and among them were mam- who had been students under him.
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V. J. Green.
V. J. Green was born in Darlington District, S. C, August
18, 1844; and died at Hope, Ark., September 1, 1907. He was
tbe fifth son of Judge James and Sarali Ann Green. Judge
Green died near Hope in 1875 while Treasurer of Hempstead
County, and his mother died November 27, 1892. V. J,
Green removed with his father's family from South Carolina
to Whitfield County, Ga., when he was seven years old and
was educated in the schools of North Georgia. He removed
to Arkansas in i860 and began farming with a brother. Soon
the State seceded from the Union, and he was among the
first to respond. He joined a company which was being made
up by Capt. George Gamble, and which was made Company H,
of the 2d Arkansas Cavalry. Y. J. Green was in the battle of
Oak Hills, August 10, 1861, in which conflict the regiment lost
its colonel, James Mcintosh. He there established a reputa-
tion for bravery and coolness which he maintained constantly
during the entire war.
On leaving the State the regiment was ordered to send
its horses home and go as infantry, the horses to be re-
turned after that battle; but this was never done, and tbe
regiment was thereafter known as the 2d Arkansas Dis
mounted Infantry.
In the battle of Murfreesboro V. J. Green was wounded
severely and was sent to a hospital in Georgia. His father,
being still a Georgian by adoption, procured his son and
several others, taking them to his home and nursing them
back to fitness for duty. After the battle of Murfreesboro.
the regiment was sent to Mississippi; but was subsequently
returned to Georgia.
During a remarkable fight at Dug Gap tbe 1st and 2d
Arkansas Regiments defeated a whole division of the enemy
V. J. Green was sent on scout duty during that period, hav-
ing been reared in that section. He went among the Federals
ainl proved himself most efficient.
Miss Elizabeth E. Wright.
Among the many friends who have been loyal ti> the Vet-
eran since its first publication and helpful in its advancement,
Miss Lizzie E. Wright will always be remembered with
special gratitude for her cordial zeal and interest. Every year
in renewing her subscription she had sent others with it, and
always wrote of her desire to do more for the Veteran.
Death came to her on April 21, 1907, at tbe home of her
sister, Mrs. Ellen Nicols, in Baltimore, Md. ; and among her
was found a letter to a friend, written the night before.
in which she stated that she expected to die before morning
Mi - Wright was a daughter of the late Gustavus M G and
Rachel Wright, of a prominent Eastern Shore family, produ-
cing several members noted in Maryland history. She was an
ardent supporter of the Confederacy, anil during tin war she
and her mother and sisters gave every aid the) could to the
Southern cause. She was always noted for her charities,
and her ministrations to the sick and suffering were her
greatest pleasure, Throughout her lifetime practically she
bad one or more dependents, -mA her home was always open
to her host of friends. She was .1 mos( prolific reader and
writer, contributing largely to the new md having
much ■ di nee with important public personages, among
whom was the late General Hampton, and her interest in
politics continued to the end. Besides her sister, Mr Nicols,
survived by a brother, Mr. Solomon Wright, of Balti-
.111 I three nephews,
John D. Kindred.
John D. Kindred was born in Robinson County. X. C, in
[843; and died near Winona, Miss. ,,11 September 25, 1907.
At the age of nine years he removed with his parents to Kil-
miebael, Miss., where he lived to the breaking out of the war.
lie volunteered in 1862, joining Capt. H. 1'. Turner's com-
pany, afterwards Company C, 1st Regiment of Mississippi
Light Artillery, Colonel Withers commanding, making a good
and dutiful soldier. After the war he married and engaged
in farming within ten miles of his old community, becoming
one of the most public-spirited men of the county. His wife
and children preceded him to the spirit land. Comrade Kin
dred was an honored member of Slatland-Farrcll Camp. II.
C. V
I'.i VRD. — The Tien Humphries Camp, of Crystal Springs,
Miss., mourns the death of a faithful and beloved comrade.
W. J. Beard was born in Mississippi November 24, 1843. He
1 rti led the Confederate service in May, 1861, serving as light
artilleryman under Capt. Calvin Roberts in the "Seven Stars"
Artillery. He was captured and afterwards exchanged, and
then served the remainder of the war as a cavalryman under
Col. George Moorman. At the fall of tbe Confederacy he was
on duty at the exchange post across Big Black Bridge, near
Vicksburg. Comrade Beard was in several big battles, but
escaped without a scar. He was a brave soldier, stanch and
true, who never shirked duty, lie was respected by all who
knew him and loved by many. Death came to him on the
1st of July, 1907, and he was laid to rest with Masonic cere-
monies llis widow has the sympathj of many friends.
Walker. — John Elliott Walker died at his home, in Phcenix,
Ariz., in December, 100(1, after a short illness. ;it tin- nge of
fifty-nine years. Me was limn in Orange County, Va., and
entered the Confederate army when a mere lad of fourteen
years, serving through the entire war. About 1870 be went
to California, and a few years later to Arizona, and after his
marriage, in 1886, to Miss Matilda Robbins, In made his
home in Phoenix until bis death. He made many friends, and
was noted for his kindness and assistance I" all in distress.
He was a genial Virginia gentleman and a stanch Church
member.
Dunwoody. — W. M. Dunwoodj passed awaj on Vpril 26
at his home, in Shawnee, Okla. He enlisted from Greene
County, Tenn., and served as a member of Company 11. 31st
Tennessee Regiment, lie was in prison in Indianapolis when
the war closed. Returning home, he made a good, substan-
tial citizen of bis community, lie was married in 1870 to
Miss N. A. Hudson, who survives him with two sons and
two daughters.
NORTON.- Comrade N. B. Norton, of Haines City, Fla.,
died suddenly while away from home November 15. 1906.
He was born in Florida in October, 1845. He enlisted in May,
1862, as a member of the Marion Light Artillery, and served
under Kirbj Smith, Buckner, Bragg, Johnston, Mood, and
Richard Taylor. He was paroled at Meridian. Miss, May
10, [86s
Huffman .1 P Huffman, of Verbena, Va., died May 17
aftei an illness of some months. He volunteered for the
Confederacy in 1S01. enlisting in Company I. loth Virginia
Regiment, and participated in some of the leading battles
of the armj in Virginia,
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THE TEXAS STATE REUNION.
While the attendance at State Reunions, even of the great
Texas, grows smaller each year, that at Bowie for 1907 was
noted for its splendid character. It seems that the proportion
of the survivors are the prosperous men of the times.
The sentiment predominating at this last State Reunion was
manifestly patriotic and conservative. Following are the lead-
ing points of interest to the organization. While the Commit-
DR. GEORGK JACKSON,
Adjutant Gener.il Texas Division, t'. C. V.
tee on Resolutions did not concur with the suggestions of the
Adjutant General, he, as graciously as can be imagined, de-
ferred to their decision with the sentiment, "I am your serv-
ant," as he patriotically and cordially yielded.
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff George Jackson makes
his annual report to Maj. Gen. K. M. Van Zandt, Com-
manding the Texas Division, U. C. V., at Bowie, Tex., Au-
gust 21, 1907:
"General: Again I have the honor of submitting to you
and the comrades of the Texas Division a very brief report
of the Adjutant General's Department from October 26, 1906,
to August 14, 1907, inclusive, as per resolution passed at the
fifteenth annual Reunion, held in Dallas, Tex., October 25 and
26, 1906.
"The number of Camps reporting at the fifteenth annual
Reunion was one hundred and eighteen. The number of
Camps filing reports to this the sixteenth annual Reunion is
ninety-six, and by Brigades as follows: First Brigade, 16;
Second Brigade, 1; Third Brigade, 18; Fourth Brigade, 33;
Fifth Brigade, 28; total, 96. This is a falling off of twenty-
two Camps for the year 1907.
[Here he gives a list of Camps delinquent in payment of
dues, which aggregates sixty-three Camps.]
"I also desire to state for the information of all concerned
that there are quite a number of Camps in Texas supporting
the General Association on the east side of the Mississippi
River, paying their per capita tax of ten cents yearly, that
have not paid the Texas Division one cent for many years,
thereby giving the Texas Division the frozen hand of non-
support.
"1 also submit tor due consideration a finance report of all
moneys received and paid out during the time heretofore
mentioned in this report.
"I respectfully suggest and recommend the dropping from
the rolls of the Texas Division, U. C. V., all Camps having
110 organization as Camps without known officers and in
arrears to the Texas Division for five and six years or
more ; among said Camps are to be found a few having no
charter rights, as heretofore stated.
"I further suggest and recommend the return to the month
of October of each year for the holding of the Texas Di-
vision (U. C. V.) Reunions, believing that the interests of
the Association will be best subserved thereby.
"I further suggest and recommend the closing of the books
and accounts of the Adjutant General's Department at least
ten days prior to the first day of the holding of Division Re-
unions hereafter, that the Adjutant may have sufficient time
to make full and detailed report of all matters coming within
the scope of his duty whereby the comrades may have full
knowledge of the condition of affairs of the Texas Division.
"Any reference to the detail work done in the Adjutant's
office is purposely omitted, other than to say there has been
plenty of it and to spare.
"In submitting this report and making the few suggestions
and recommendations, I only ask by way of recompense that
they receive courteous and businesslike consideration.
"Finally, permit me to tender to you, to the officers of your
GEN. K. M. VAN ZANDT,
Commander of Texas Division, I*. C. V.
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staff, Brigade Commanders and their staffs, and all the
comrades of the U. C. V. organization ray heartfelt thanks
for kindness shown during the past year.
"To the newspapers of Texas fur publishing orders and
other matter pertaining to the advancement and welfare of
our order, 1 take special pleasure in tendering thanks — not
only my own hut the thanks of the U. C. V. Association of
the State."
Report of Committee on Resolutions.
Your Committee on Resolutions beg to report as follows:
Having examined carefully the report of tin N.ljutant
General, we find the same to he a clear statement of the con-
dition of the Division financially and otherwise. We recom-
mend the said report to he accepted.
But as to the recommendations made by the Adjutant
General, we are of the opinion that as to the first it would
be impolite and uncharitable to adopt it. As to the second, we
believe that we can have better Reunions if we hold to the
present date for our Reunions.
As In the third, while aware that the habit of waiting for
Reunions to make reports and payment of dues entails a
great deal of unnecessary laboi on the Adjutant General, we
are of the opinion that i" adopt a rigid system would work
a hardship on many Camps and defeat the purpose for which
we maintain > >ur i irgani. :iti< m
Committee: J. C. Loggin (Chairman), J. B. Policy, J. D.
Shaw, W. F. Baldwin, June Komble.
| While the Adjutant General manifests deep concern to
have delinquent Camps dropped from the list, he yielded
graciously to the decision of the Association in adopting the
report of l lie Committee on Resolutions, which did not agree
with him.]
The Commander of the Camp at Bowie, J. A. Cummins,
was chosen Commander of the Brigade, and he appreciated
the honor most highly. Brigadier General Cummins has a
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IENERAL U. C. V.
record for devotion to his comrades. When the great war
began, Comrade Cummins, a boy of sixteen, was prompt to
enlist On the old family spinning wheel his mother spun
the thread thai she afterwards wove into doth of gray and
made his first uniform suit. Shouldering an old squirrel ride,
he went to the front: and he i- proud of tin- record he made
as a Confederate. Through those years of struggle the folks
at home had their cares. His sifter, Mrs. Callie Thompson,
who now lives near Nocono, was only eleven years old at the
beginning of the war; but she did her part— she and that old
spinning wheel — in supplying threads of cotton and of wool
for the loi mi
Years have passed since those trying times: hut as treasured
WIFE OF COMMANDER i UMMINS.
relics the spinning wheel and the rifle, with many other ar-
ticles as useful, have been preserved, Comrade Cummins sells
a picture of himself and sister taken with these articles ill
view for fifty cents for the benefit of a monument to be
erected at Richmond. Va., "to the memory of the mothers
and grandmothers of Confederate soldiers." Orders can In-
sent to him or to the photographer. .1 J. Rocldcn, at Bowie.
Tex.
Bowie, Montague County, Tex. — Population. 4,500.
I'.ouie lias three good banks, one hundred and fifty stores.
eight churches, three commodious public school buildings (and
is planning a fourth), four cotton gins, compress, warehouse,
and one of the largest cotton oil mills in the State. It has a
flour mill, canning factory, ice plant, waterworks, electric and
gas lights, and a thriving commercial club. Montague County
lias [,500,000 fruit trees from two to eight years old. and
apples took first prize at the St. Louis Fair,
There arc no negroes in Bowie. It is situated on two trunk
lines of railway, in the heart of the richest all-round section
of Texas. The raising of cattle, bogs, horses, mules, sheep,
and goats is an important industry, and fowls take first
premiums wherever exhibited. Twenty-three thousand bales
of cotton were marketed from wagons in Bowie in 1906. The
eyes of the world are on Texas.
To Major Boedeker and his good wife the Veteran
breathes gratitude for hospitality.
Comrade Cummins writes: "I am greatly elated Over the
success of the Reunion, and hop, 1 lt.it many of the old boys
1.1 1 le able to attend many more just such. We had good,
patriotic talks every day and some delightful camp fire talks
-nix evening. The old soldiers would get scats on the
platform or near it in a circle; then the camp lire would burn,
to the delight of the old Yets and also of the sons and
daughters."
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MISSISSIPPI STATE REUNION.
Meridian entertained the Confederates in their Reunion for
1907 in a way that reaffirmed the devotion of that people.
1 be closing day, September 27, was devoted entirely to the
business interests of the Division. A resolution to memorialize
the Legislature to appropriate $25,000 or to raise such sum
through appropriation by the counties for said purpose was,
after much discussion, adopted by a unanimous vote.
"An Appeal for Shiloh," signed by a committee appointed
to raise funds for the erection of a monument to the memory
of the Confederate dead at that place, was referred to the
Committee on Resolutions, which body, after consideration,
recommended a donation, which prevailed.
Gen. W. D. Cameron, of Meridian, and Col. H. Clay Shar-
key, of Jackson, were chosen commissioners of the Confed-
erate park, located in Jackson. They were elected by ac-
clamation, their terms of office to begin and expire at the
same date as the other members of the commission.
The Committee on Resolutions presented a communication
from Winnie Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy calling upon all sympathizers of the Confederate
cause to celebrate June 3, 1908, the centennial of the birth of
Jefferson Davis, in a befitting manner. It was ordered spread
upon the minutes as the sense of the convention.
Gen. W. D. Cameron, as trustee of the Confederate Me-
morial Association, reported his work during the past month.
The report was filed and the General continued in service.
An invitation was extended by Rankin County to all vet-
erans to attend the unveiling of a monument that is now
being erected to the Confederate soldiers at Brandon this
fall, the date to be fixed later.
The following selections were made for officers: Gen. Robert
Lowry, of Jackson, reelected Commander ; Col. W. A. Mont-
gomery, of Edwards, reelected Brigadier General of the First
Brigade; Col. Charles Humphreys, of Crystal Springs, elected
Brigadier General of the Second Brigade ; Col. George M.
Helm, of Greenville, elected Brigadier General of the Third
Brigade.
[The Veteran subscription list at Meridian, under the dili-
gent care of Dr. E. E. Spinks, now numbers one hundred and
sixty, the largest in proportion to the population of any city
in the country.]
JOHN C. CALHOUN'S STATUE FOR WASHINGTON.
The Calhoun Monument Commission of Columbia, S. C,
has selected Mr. F. W. Ruckstuhl to make a statue of South
Carolina's eminent statesman, John C. Calhoun, to be erected
in Statuary Hall at the National Capitol. Mr. Ruckstuhl will
submit several models, one of which the committee will ac-
cept.
The Columbia State, in commenting upon the matter, says:
"The news of the selection of Mr. Ruckstuhl to this position
will be received with much pleasure by the people of the
State. As designer of the monument to Wade Hampton, he
made a name for himself in South Carolina, although his
reputation was world-wide at that time. When he came
South for the Hampton monument work, he became inter-
ested in this section, especially in Columbia, and since the
completion of that work he has paid Columbia a number of
visits, and once or twice has delivered lectures on civic beauty
that did much toward arousing Ihe pride of Columbians in
making better appearances on their streets. At the meeting
yesterday all of the members of the commission were present,
including Governor Ansel, Senator Mauldin, of the Finance
Committee of the Sena'e, Representative Banks, of the Ways
and Means Committee of the House, Mrs. Bratton, State
Regent of the Daughters of the Revolution, and Miss Maggie
Gist, Regent of the King's Mountain Chapter of (he same or-
ganization. There is an appropriation of $10,000 for this
work, this sum being given by the last General Assembly, and
the commission will before selecting the model hold a meet-
ing at Clemson College, the old residence of the Calhoun
family, and there consult wi'h several of the older residents
and submit to them photographs from which to select the
best likeness of the great statesman. As soon as this is done
the work will be pushed to completion."
FLAG IN WASHINGTON ARTILLERY ARMY HALL.
The above photograph of Gen. J. A. Chalaron with the fa-
mous flag was taken in Richmond, Va., during the U. C. V.
Reunion, May 30 to June 3, 1907. The flag is that of the
"Fifth Company of Battalion Washington Artillery." It was
made by Mobile ladies, and sent to the company at Dalton,
Ga., in the spring of 1864. It was carried through the com-
pany's campaigns in Georgia under Gen. J. E. Johnston and
in Georgia and Tennessee under General Hood and until the
final surrender at Meridian, Miss. It was saved at the evacua-
tion of Spanish Fort, Ala., by Orderly Sergeant John Bart-
ley, who secreted it on his person. It was placed on the
coffin of Jefferson Davis as he lay in state in the City Hall,
New Orleans, and on that of General Beauregard also. The
flag is preserved in the Battalion Washington Artillery Armory
in New Orleans.
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THE FAMOUS ANDREWS RAID.
With an interest and a daring only comparable to the Dahl-
gren raid on Richmond is that of a group of Federals who
made their way in disguise (citizens' dress) to Big Shanty,
Ga., now Kennesaw, a railway station nearest the foot of
Kennesaw Mountain. Much has been written of the Andrews
party even in the South, yet hut little is known of the pursuers
and captors of the party.
An exchange (evidently Atlanta") states:
"Fast schedules are kept on the Western and Atlantic Rail-
road; bill none are faster than that kept by the old 'Texas' on
April 12, iXfij, when she carried Capt. \Y. A. Fuller and
Anthony Murphy from Adairsville to three mile- beyond Ring-
gold, where the chase of the 'General' ended and the plan of
the Andrews raiders to destroy the road was defeated.
"Peter Bracken handled the throttle of the 'Texas' on that
memorable day. and during the chase ran fifty and one-half
mile- in one hour and five minutes. Two of these miles
were made pushing a heavy freight train. Twelve stops were
made, two cars dropped bj the fugitive- on the 'General' were
coupled to the 'Texas,' and these cars and the freight train
were shi ived i in siding-.
"Think of it! The 'Texas' was running backward and made
twelve stops and bail to do considerable switching. If SO
much had not been at stake, none of the men who partici-
pated in that famous rule would have risked his neck in such
a manner.
"While the chase after the 'General' was commenced at Big
Shanty, a few mile- above Marietta, it was not until the pur-
suers of the Andrew- raider- reached a point two miles south
of Adairsville that the 'Texas' began playing her prominent
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part From be- Shanty to the Etowah River the chase after
the fi derals was on fool and with a hand car
"Capt \\ A Fuller, who was conductor of the train from
which the 'General' was taken, saw hi- engine when the
raiders wenl off with her, Thej were all dressed in civilian
clothe- They had boarded the train at Marietta and other
point-. When Captain fuller -tailed after the raiders on foot,
Jeff Gain, his engineer, and Anthony Murphy, at that time
foreman of the Western and Atlantic shops, were with him.
Others along the way joined in— Confederate soldiers and
citizens but Captain Fuller and Mr. Murphy were the only
two « iio finished the chase together.
"At the Etowah River Captain fuller and Mr. Murphy se-
cured the engine 'Yonah,' which wa- doing duly at Cooper's
Iron Works, and started after the raiders, lie ran this old
engine at the rale of sixty miles an hour until King-ton was
reached. There were freight trains blocking the track there,
and the 'Yonah' could not pass without considerable delaj
So Captain Fuller appropriated the Rome engine and con-
tinued his chase, being delayed all along by stopping to re-
move cross tie- that the raiders were dropping from one of the
freight cars the 'General' was pulling. When within four
miles of Adairsville, the pursuers found sixty yards of track
torn up. But even that did not stop Captain fuller and Mr.
Murphy. They hesitated not to follow an engine on foot and
lake a chance to get another engine on their way. But for
two miles they ran. and then met (be express freight on its
waj to Atlanta. Captain fuller stopped it and took possi ion
This freight was being pulled by the 'Texas,' and from that
moment on the cha-c was thrilling. It was two mile- to
Adairsville, and for that distance the freight train had to be
pushed backward until a siding was reached, when tli
were -hovccl on the siding.
"Captain fuller i erched on the tender of the old 'Texas' and
signaled to Peter Bracken, the engineer In addition to the
engineer, the gallant crew of the old 'Texas' consisted of Mr.
Murphy, Fleming Cox, the fireman, and Alonzo Martin, 'the
w 1 passer.' CalhoUn, the next station, ten miles away, was
made in twelve minutes. Captain fuller saw the telegraph
Operator at that place, a twelve-year-old lad, walking along
the track looking for the break in the wires. The raiders cut
the wire- between every station and lore up the track a- much
as possible until the old 'Texas' made the chase too lively.
The telegraph operator wa- pulled aboard the 'Texas' b\ ' ap
tain fuller while the engine wa- running fifteen mile- an hour,
and then Peter Bracken pulled his throttle wide open again
"All sorts of (bance- were taken by the daring crew which
manned the old engine. Curves were taken at frightful speed
The old engine rocked dangerously to and fro. and il was with
difficulty that the members of the crew (.mid hold their places,
lain fuller managed to write a telegram to General
I. iilbelicr. in command at Chattanooga of the Confederate
Saying hi- engine, the 'General.' had been captured by
Federal Spldiers in disguise, and that he believed their mien
tlOll was to bum the fifteen bridges along the road. He urged
thai they be not allowed to pass through Chattanooga. At
Dalton tin- telegram was flashed through just a minute be-
fon the wiie- beyond Dalton were cut by the fast living
raider-.
"Both engine-— the 'General,' with the raiders aboard, and
the 'I exas,' with the gallant crew — were running as fast as
steam would -end them. Two mile- beyond Calhoun Captain
Fuller sighted the fugitives for the first time. They detached
one of the freight cars they were hauling and left it where
they had partially taken up a rail. The 'Texas' coupled to Ibis
ear without stopping and rati oxer the loosened rail. Captain
Fuller mounted the freight ear and gave signals back to Peter
Bracken at the throttle. Two and a half miles beyond this
point they met another freight car the raiders had dropped,
and this too was coupled to the 'Texas' and pushed in front.
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At Resaca both cars were shot into a side track and the chase
was continued faster than ever.
"Just beyond Resaca, while rounding a short curve at the
rate of fifty-five miles an hour. Captain Fuller, standing on the
back end of the tender, saw a T rail diagonally across the
track. It was too late to stop, and Peter Bracken gave the
throttle an extra pull. The faithful old engine gave a little
jump and went a trifle faster. She hit the rail at full speed,
knocked it off, and never left the rails. After Dalton was
passed, where the operator was dropped off to send Captain
Fuller's message, the raiders were overtaken in the act of tear-
ing up the track and cutting the wires.
"When the fast-flying 'Texas' came into view, the Federals
jumped aboard the 'General' and the remaining freight car and
took to flight. From that time on it was a steady, hair-raising
race between two engines. The 'General' had the advantage
over the 'Texas' because the latter was running backward.
The remaining eighteen miles of the chase were covered by
the 'Texas' in faster time than any of those aboard of her
ever made it before or after. None aboard that engine on
that memorable day ever made that distance over the Western
and Atlantic road in later years at a faster speed.
"Inch by inch the 'Texas' gained on the 'General.' Like
demons did Fleming Cox and Alonzo Martin work, cramming
wood into the fire box of the faithful engine. Peter Bracken
kept his hand on the throttle and kept her wide open. Cap-
tain Fuller remained on the end of the tender and kept the
fugitives in sight. Anthony Murphy was there ready to jump
with Captain Fuller and start after the raiders when they
abandoned their engine.
"It was a thrilling ride. The fugitives could be seen tearing
up parts of the freight car to burn as fuel. They were excited,
and it was evident they were getting ready to abandon the
ANTHONY MURPHY,
Foreman W, *t A. R. R. Shops, one of the pursuing party,
now resides in Atlanta.
'General.' They had not counted on Captain Fuller and An-
thony Murphy and the balance of the nervy crew taking up
the chase and keeping it up under such difficulties.
"When halfway between Ringgold and Graysville, the
'Texas' got within a quarter of a mile of the fugitives, and
they then turned loose their remaining freight car after set-
ting it on fire. They wanted to leave it on the next bridge
and burn it. but the 'Texas' was pressing too close. Fuel was
giving out in the 'General,' and the raiders saw it was only a
question of minutes before the 'Texas' would overtake them.
CAPT. W. A. FULLER,
Conductor of train from which the "General" was stolen.
So the raiders abandoned their engine and took to the woods.
The 'Texas' came up and coupled to the burning car. The
fire was extinguished and Captain Fuller sent it back to Ring-
gold with Engineer Bracken. He told Bracken to tell the
commander of a small body of militia he saw at Ringgold to
put them on horseback and send them after the fugitives.
"Tired out though they were with the strenuous chase, Cap-
tain Fuller, Anthony Murphy, Fleming Cox, and Alonzo Mar-
tin hastened in pursuit of the fugitives in the woods, and
caught four of them near Graysville. In a few days the militia
captured the remaining twenty.
"And that ended the famous flight of the old 'Texas.' If
she had not been faithful on that day; if one of her driving
rods had broken ; if a cylinder head had blown out, there is
no conjecturing what great damage the raiders might have
done. But none of these things happened. The old engine
was as true as the steel in her frame. She answered every
pull of the throttle that Peter Bracken gave, and the account
she gave of herself is worthy to go down in history.
"The people of Georgia are going to show that the strenuous
day's work was appreciated. The old 'Texas' will be preserved
for future generations of patriotic Southerners to look upon."
The "Gerrral" is now in Chattanooga, Tenn.. well taken
care of; v;l !e the "Texas" has been in use up to a few days
ago, when '.he was sent in to be sold for scrap iron. There
is a movement on foot to save her, however. It is understood
that the great railroad company, the Nashville, Chattanooga,
and St. Louis, that has done so much to perpetuate our his-
tory, has given the "Texas" to the State of Georgia. So
much has been given to the Andrews raiders, let us now have
something of the heroes who captured "the raiders." Who
can tell the history? Are there any survivors left?
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471
COMMENDATION
OF THE
Qopfederat^ l/eteran
ADDRESS BY GENERAL OFFICERS, United Confederate
Veterans, to the Camps of U. C. V., the Confederated Memorial
Association, United Daughters of the Confederacy, United Sons
of Confederates, and all Confederates.
We have been elected to offices of high distinction and recog-
nize the obligations created by these honors because they were
conferred by our comrades of the United Confederate Vet-
erans. In this spirit we address you, on our own motion, this
letter on a special subject because we know that the desire is
common among us that the knowledge of the principles and
facts of the Confederate epoch should be more widely dif-
fused. We feel that this information should be conveyed to
the people of the present Age through the press and other
agencies in such spirit, manner, and mode of publication as
will do justice to our Confederate people, secure the fame of
which our dear Southland is well worthy, abate all ungener-
ous controversial spirit, and promote a more perfect under-
standing and cordial union of all parts and people of our
Country.
In considering maturely this very important matter we are
gratified by the fact that the United Confederate Veterans
Association, Confederated Southern Memorial Association, the
United Daugh'ers of the Confederacy, and the United Sons o(
Confederate Veterans have an official organ, commended over
and over again by unanimous resolutions at our annual con-
ventions, in a magazine of high rank called the Confederate
Veteran, ably edited and published monthly by our true and
enthusiastic fellow-Confederate soldier, S. A. Cunningham,
at Nashville. This noble magazine began its career years ago
as a patriotic venture upon the field of hope in its confidence
reposed in those to whom its worthy objects appealed, and
we have witnessed its ascent to success with the especial pride
that such success is so well deserved. We deplore nothing
about it except that the benefits it is conferring every month
upon thousands of readers are not enjoyed by tens of thou-
sands more. It is a medium by which every phase of Con-
federate times is intelligently and interestingly conveyed to
the minds of young and old. It is a glad hand extended cor-
dially to shake every Confederate hand, and it goes with a
sincere fraternal greeting to all patriots in our Land. It is a
treasury of argument, history, biography, story, and song, con-
tinuing to steadily increase these riches from month to month.
Its contents make a table around which Confederates, with
their sons, daughters, and friends, sit once a month to enjoy
an intellectual, social, affectionate, friendly, country-loving
[east It never was of more value than it is now. And. con-
sidering all that should be said, written, and done through its
agency during the next ten years of only one hundred and
twenty issues, it is now more valuable than ever.
In view of all things we know about the Confederate Vet-
eran magazine and its valuable uses, will you, each and all
of you. agree to make an immediate practical working effort
to at least double the number of its subscriptions, and thus
quadruple the number of its interested readers? Can we af-
ford to do less? Can we do anything of better avail to dif-
fuse the knowledge and increase the appreciation of our South-
land and its history?
We urge that immediate personal effort be made by Con-
federates and their sons and daughters. We ask that the
ever-generous press of our country help us, and that the
Confederate Veteran publish this appeal conspicuously.
Repeating our expressions of gratitude to all who have hon-
ored us as Confederate soldiers, and greeting you with our
hands and hearts, we have the honor to be your obedient
servants :
Stephen D. Lee, General, Commander in Chief U. C. V.;
William E. Mickle. Maj. Gen., Chief of Staff, U. C. V.;
W. L. Cabell, Lieut. Gen., Trans-Miss. Dept., U. C. V.;
Clement A. Evans, Lieut. Gen., Army Tenn. Dept., U. C. V ;
C. Irvine Walker, Lieut. Gen., Army N. V. Dept., U. C. V.
Major Generals Approving.
The letter from General Evans to Major Generals states :
"A suggestion, altogether my own, was made to Mr. Cun-
ningham about the Veteran, which he thought of favorably,
and in correspondence asked me to prepare the circular, a copy
of which is inclosed and explains the whole matter.
"If you approve, you will please authorize Mr. Cunningham
to print your name to the circular. I did not move in the
matter until assured that General Lee approved.
"If all, or nearly all. Commanders of Divisions approve, I
suppose that Comrade Cunningham will print and circulate
the letter as suggested."
George P. Harrison, Maj. Gen. Alabama Div., Opelika.
W. H. Jewell, Maj. Gen. Florida Div., Orlando.
Andrew J. West, Maj. Gen. Georgia Div., Atlanta.
A. C. Trippe, Maj. Gen. Maryland Div., Baltimore.
John B. Stone, Maj. Gen. Missouri Div., Kansas City.
Julian S. Carr, Maj. Gen. North Carolina Div., Durham.
George W. Gordon, Maj. Gen. Tennessee Div., Memphis.
K. M. VanZandt. Maj. Gen. Texas Div., Fort Worth.
Stith Boiling, Maj. Gen. Virginia Div., Petersburg.
Robert Lowry, Maj. Gen. Miss. Div., Jackson.
Thomas W. Carwile, Maj. Gen. S. C. Div., Edgefield.
Paul A. Fusz, Maj. Gen. N. W. Div., Philipsburg. Mont.
John Threadgill, Maj. Gen. Okla. Div.. Oklahoma City.
Robert White, Maj. Gen. W. Va. Div., U. C. V.
Brigadier Generals Approving.
Application to Brigadier Generals for approval of the ad-
dress was sent direct without putting upon General Evans the
care to attend to it. As bis address was only to the Major
Generals, many of the Brigadiers have refrained, but evidently
lr cause of delicacy. Some of these, however, have contributed
to this great indorsement. Of the first received are:
W. 1- Witlich, Brig. Gen. First, Florida Div., Puisacola.
John W. Clark, Brig. Gen. Eastern, Ga. Div., Augusta.
J. E. DeVaughn, Brig. Gen. Western, Ga. Div., Montezuma,
W. A. Montgomery, Brig. Gen. First, Miss. Div., Edwards.
J. M. Ray, Brig. Gen. Fourth, N. C. Div., Asheville.
W. L. London, Brig. Gen. Second, N. C, Pittsboro.
J. M. Carlton. Brig. Gen. First, N. C. Div., Statesville.
W. 11 II. Ellis, Brig. Gen. Montana Brigade, Bozeman.
F, T. Roche. Brig. Gen. Third, Tex. Div., Georgetown.
S. S. Green. Rrig. Gen. Second, W. Va., Charleston.
James R. Rogers, Brig. Gen. First, Ky. Div., Paris.
James I. Metis, Brig. Gen. Third, N. C. Div., U. C. V.
James Baumgardner, Brig. Gen. Fourth, Va. Div., Staunton.
Clay Stacker. Brig. Gen. Third, Tenn. Div., Clarksville.
J. N. Thompson, Brig. Gen. Third, Ala. Div., Tuscumbia.
George M. Helm, Brig. Gen. Third, Miss. Div.
K. 1>. Funkhouser, 'lliird. Ya. Div.
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Qotyfederat^ l/eterar).
Approved by the United Dauchters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, President General U. D. C.,
writes as follows : "It gives me great pleasure to speak for
the U. D. C. indorsing the above. The Veteran has been
Ihe greatest help to us in our work, and its editor, Mr. Cun-
ningham, has always since I have known anything of the
U. D. C. work helped us in his magazine with any work we
have undertaken. The whole of the U. D. C, I am sure, will
be glad to have me, as their representative, indorse all the
good which is ever said about the Veteran."
Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President of the C. S. M. A., writes
from New Orleans, La., March 23, 100", to Gen. Clement A.
Evans, Commander Army of Tennessee Department. C. S. A. :
"My Dear General: It affords me great pleasure to say a
few words in praise of our distinctively Southern magazine,
the Confederate Veteran, and to compliment our mutual
friend. Mr. S. A. Cunningham, on his able management. It
is a magazine of great historic value, and I should be glad to
see it placed in all Southern colleges and schools. As Presi-
dent 01 the Confederated Southern Memorial Association I
most earnestly request every 'Memorial Woman' to use her
influence to increase its circulation. We cannot afford to miss
a single copy. Through its columns we are kept in touch with
all Confederate work. It is the link that binds us together and
enables us to preserve the cherished memories of the sixties.
Indorsed by Sons of United Coniederate Veterans.
Thomas M. Owen, Commander in Chief U. S. C V., writes :
"Send me twenty-five copies of your 'Address,' and I will
forward to our several Department and Division Commanders
with request that they unite with the Veteran in the pro-
posed appeal planned by Gen. C. A. Evans. I am glad to re-
spond favorably to your request of the 19th inst."
Commander in Chief Owen sends the following signatures:
Thomas M. Owen, Commander in Chief.
George R. Wyman, Commander Army N. Va. Dept.
R. E. L. Bynum, Commander Army Tenn. Dept.
J. M. Tisdal, Commander Trans-Miss. Dept.
Clarence J. Owens, Commander Ala. Div.
H. J. McCallum, Commander Fla. Div.
A. M. Sea, Jr., Commander Ky. Div.
Ralston F. Green, Commander La. Div.
J. Mercer Garnett, Jr., Commander Md. Div.
George Bell Timmerman. Commander S. C. Div.
L. E. Mathis, Commander Tenn. Div.
J. S. Hilliard, Commander Texas Div.
James P. Banks, Commander Va. Div.
Among those whose indorsements were not included in the
list of officers of the U. C. V. are:
Bennett H. Young, Maj. Gen. Kentucky Division (whose
splendid appeal brought unanimous indorsement of the address
by the Convention at Richmond).
J. Alph Prudhomme, Maj. Gen. Louisiana Division.
W. J. Stone, Brig. Gen. 2d Kentucky Brigade.
P. C. Carlton, Brig. Gen. 3d Brigade, N. C. Division.
W. H. Stewart, Grand Commander Grand Camp of Va.
H. A. Tyler, Lieut. Gen. Commanding Forrest Cav. Corps.
W. C. Ratliff, former Commander 1st Brig., Ark. Division.
J. H. Lester, former Commander New Mexico Brigade.
Indorsed by the United Confederate Veterans.
In a tribute to the work of the Veteran Gen. Bennett H.
Young, Commander Kentucky Division, said at Richmond :
"I am grateful for the courtesy of the floor at this time,
and I shall use the moment given to move that the United
Confederate Association now indorse the action of the Com-
mander, Department and Stale Commanders, and a large num-
ber of the officers of the Association in approving the great
worth of the Confederate Veteran, and commending ils in-
creased support.
"It is difficult, Mr. Commander, in view of the marvelous
eloquence and genius of the orators of the Southland, to give
utterance to anything new on this subject; but a thought has
passed through my brain, the repetition of which I am sure
will create pleasurable thought in the minds of all present.
"Fate denied the Confederate States a place in the con-
stellation of nations; but it crowned the efforts and sacrifices
of their people with a glorious immortality and wrole the
story of their heroic deeds and magnificent courage on the
brightest pages of human history. * * *
"The Confederacy has been assigned a foremost place in
the respect, admiration, and esteem of mankind; and no
people whose government lived only so brief a period as
four years has ever won more renown or achieved a nobler
or grander distinction in the discharge of duty in camp, on the
march, on the battlefield, or laid superber offering on the altar
of patriotic duty." * * *
To produce these unparalleled results three great agencies
are mentioned which wrought these wonderful conditions:
"1. The magnificent achievements and superb valor and ex-
traordinary patriotism of the soldiers who wore the gray and
fought for the Southland, constituting as they did the noblest
and grandest army of volunteers that ever aligned under any
flag or for any cause.
"2. The splendid heroism and sublime devotion of the wom-
en of the South, than whom no grander have ever lived or
sacrificed or struggled for any cause. Their calmness in danger,
their steadfastness in disaster, their cheerfulness in misfor-
tune, and their loyalty in defeat gave a constancy, a courage,
and a chivalry to the men who composed the armies of the
South that were simply immeasurably great.
"3. The patience and the energy and the genius of the
Southern press and the inspiration that it gave to those who
loved the Confederate cause, and no agency has been more
effective than the Confederate Veteran in its superb man-
agement, coupled with the genius of its owner and editor.
It has provided not only those things which make up the
comfort, relief, and happiness of infirm and feeble Confed-
erates but has rescued from oblivion thousands of noble acts
of the heroes who wore the gray and in defending the valor
of the sons of the Southland on the hundreds of battlefields.
where they did all that men could do to maintain and defend
the cause to which they had given their allegiance and to
which they pledged, if need be, their lives."
The motion, which was to indorse the published address of
the general officers and others, -was heartily adopted without
a dissenting voice, and the editor was presented to the Con-
vention by Gen. Stephen D. Lee.
The foregoing commendations doubtless exceed any ever
given any periodical since the art of printing was conceived.
The circumstances are most unusual. The veterans and the
Confederate mothers are passing away so speedily that every
patriot to the principles involved should be diligent now for
the most thorough establishment possible of the best meas-
ures to perpetuate the sentiment that induced millions of peo-
ple to undergo the greatest privations without murmur
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473
ihrougli the man) weary years of war and reconstruction —
years of privation, the shedding of blood, and death.
\ll other agencies in existence combined do not equal the
in. i inc< of the Veteran in the maintenance and preserva-
tion of these '■acrid principles, and everj man and woman
should participate in u cordially and without stint rhink of
the tax {one dollar .; year) even to a man too busy to read;
In should have it in 1 1 i — family Like the blood which the
Israelites sprinkled on their doorposts to escape the visit f
the destroying angel, let the Veteran I"- in ever) Southern
home Those who can afford it should supply not only their
own households but those of the less fortunate. Think .f
two or three well-to-do families taking one copy, passing it
around, and then mailing to some one else at a distance in tin
face of the stern reality that tin- VETERAN lias ever depended
upon Us subscriptions for prosperity. Circulate your copy
..s widel} as practicable, hut don't he stingy in its patronage.
Gen i lenient \ Evans, who wrote tin foregoing address
which has been so cordially and so widely indorsed, had the
additional inspiration October i to write the editor: "Well,
you must come to the Georgia Reunion at Augusta, Novembei
12 and 1.V You should make a five minutes' (at least fuel
speech about the Veteran Georgia is not doing its par
about our organ 1 do wish we could gel another thousand
subscribers in Georgia from among Confederates and Sons"
Ma writer realizes tin defects of the Veteran, and is
deepl) grieved bj them I he intensity of all that is sacred
ni purpose i- to make it better .mil better.
Suggestions \s ro How lis Friends Can Help h
First of all. he diligent to see that it is known bj your
neighbors. Send their addresses for -ample copies, and then
a word will induce them to subscribe
Articles for publication should he carefull) written on g I
and as a rule they should he rewritten, so as to con
dense and improve them otherwise It is not desired to have
privates write of battles in a general way. If the) did their
duty, they know only what the) saw : while the general of-
ficers' reports must be more accurate than the) could possibl)
u. Pin. hi and line officers can give what the generals
could not — viz. the personal actions of their companies.
Those who weie iti prison can tell of it as well a- their
. and often hitter, a- the) were subjected to severe
i reatmenl
The Veteran is not onrj pressed tor space hut it i- often
foundered It is SO now There are enough good, -Hon- ,n
ticle- p, nil it for years Then much that is current must
have place in season, If an article is delayed in publication,
it must not be regarded as from lack of merit lo secure
early attention, it should he carefull) and conciselj written.
and typewritten when practicable I he can of preparing
articles exceed- tin imagination of most men For instance,
the .o.iau' articli must he edited condensed as full) as
cable then typewritten, ami again gone over for con-
densation After being put in type, the proof i- read
turn- Not onl) i- tin- expensive process necessary, hut the
of printing article- approximates Si? to $20 per pag
Think of a man's writing, "If you will print im articl
batim, 1 will take -i\ extt 1 copii 01 "] will subscribe for a
year," when such article 01
Please, friend, rise to the dignity of the -iiu. .11. .11 N ,
that your friends know of the Vl 1 1 1; w It will cost you only
the letter or card to this office, lie diligent to keep the Yi 1
ik\\ advised of reunions, conventions, and sei to it pecially
that the deatii of ever) loyal, heron- in. 111 ..1 woman is 1 :
ported, concisely written
Bishop «i. I'. Fitzgerald, of the M E. ( liurch, South, i- a
practical man along with his daily piety, ami the following
autograph note should interest a thousand business men:
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\ candid talk wuh a Northern advertising agent so im
pressed the management of the Veteran that 11 is reported
Years ago this gentleman, who was and is prominently con-
nected with one of the leading agencies of the country, on
his first knowledge of the Veteran, asked animatedly the
price for one thousand inches. \o order of importance 1 -<
came from him. although the terms were satisfactor) Ri
ccntly thai same gentleman in discussing this same subject
said: "Your own people ought to advertise. The publication
1- all right; but at the North many don't know the character
of the VETERAN, and the) think it should not exist I see
i,.ii oppose the term 'New South' Don't you make a mis-
take in that? You remember that it was in his advocac) of
the New South thai Henrj Grad) made himself famous."
I his gentleman was informed that the term "New South"
originated with a partisan of the North who chose to make
his fortune in tin South, and who was one 'l.t\ harping on the
theme lone befon Grad) made In- famous New England
Speech; and this editor, deferential to the man as a visitor to
liii office, admitted that the North was helping the South
in having monej to expend among our impoverished people,
and the man einph.i .1 i .i-ticall\ : "It i- a New South
hecausi o( Northern brains and energ) as well as Northern
ey!" 1 1, n. . the pet mist the term
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AB0U1 AGENTS FOR THE VETERAN.
After perusal oi the elaborate and extraordinary showing of
the Veteran and its earnest advocates, please consider some
in regard t" agencies. Interstate railroad legislation
makes it utterly impracticable t ■ ■ -end traveling agent-.
has been the custom for many years, and it becomes impera
tive to adopt other mean- of maintaining and increasing the
li-t.
Let us reason briefly upon the subject. Practical, earnest
friends who wait for a traveling agent, whom they max hap-
pen to know and like, are informed that agencies are an ex-
pense of several thousand dollars a year to the owner of the
Veteran ; and since it is impracticable to maintain them in
the old way. why not volunteer and send the subscription
direct to the office? So many are careless in attending to
their renewals, and it seems they must be reminded, in which
e\ent local agents are desired. Worthy persons, veterans or
good women, are desired, and good commissions will be given
them. The great favor of commending such persons by friends
will be appreciated. Occasionally a patron will write for a
statement of how much he owes and gladly respond. How easy
it would be to look at the date by the name on the address,
then count from that date and pay for one or more years,
when the date would be advanced accordingly ! Every sub-
scriber in the United States could easily remit direct, deduct
ing the expense of post office order or registry, and the Vet-
eran would be greatly strengthened over the old plan of
waiting for an agent to call. The importance of this request
can hardly be estimated. Every cent paid on commission- and
railroad expenses comes directly from the individual owne1"
of the Veteran. If you are interested in it- prosperity, won't
you adopt a new rule ?
The Veteran has at present but one traveling agent, the
well-known and efficient .\Ii-s Bligh, and it is useless to com-
ment about how utterly impossible it would be for her to
canvass the territory if public meetings were held in each
town ami city in her behalf on arrival.
If the foregoing pages do not incite to action, the manage
ment will be disappoint! d
STATISTICS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS WANTED.
Walter L. Fleming, late professor of history in the West
Virginia University, but now holding the chair of history in
the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, is engaged in
writing a biography of lion. Jefferson Davis, and desires to
obtain as much information as possible about every phase of
his public and private life. He has all the books written
about Mr. Davis, and what he wants is such material as:
i. Names and present addresses of relatives, neighbors,
former slaves, etc., of Jefferson Davis who can give informa-
tion about him.
2. Letters, scrapbooks, diaries, and other documentary ma-
terial relating to Mr. Davis's life.
3. Privately printed books, pamphlets, newspapers, and other
printed matter containing information about Mr. Davis.
4. Pictures of Davis and relatives, of his homes, and of
places connected in some way with his career.
5. Any souvenirs, relics, etc., of which photos may be made.
6. Reminiscences, authentic anecdotes, etc., of Mr. Davis.
7. Any information about Mr. Davis or bis relatives in
Wales. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky
Louisiana, and Mississippi
The loan of any documents will lie appreciated.
OXFEDERATE HISTORY IX MEMORIALS.
Since July 21, [863, when General Beauregard led his men
to victory in the battle of Bull Run, up to the present time
the Confederate soldier has been the pride of every Southern
heart. No -on of the South can make a prouder boast than
that hi- father "wore the gray." No Southerner is better
entertained than when listening to some venerable champion
of the Confederacy tell of his victories and defeats, his strug-
gle- and hardships as he followed Lee in Virginia or was
with Bragg or Forrest in their arduous campaigns.
But in day- to come who is to tell of these brave and noble
deeds "f The heroes are leaving us one by one, and soon the
muffled drum's sad roll will have beaten its last tattoo, and
the wearer of the gray will have wrapped his blanket about
him and for the last time lain down to sleep beneath the
-tars. Shall we let them be forgotten? No! Our every
filer rev ilt- at the thought! Then let us erect to them some
monument that will perpetuate their glory through coming
generations — not monuments of stone alone, but something
that will warm the hearts of the youth and tire his breast
to the noble deeds of his ancestors.
This has been attempted and to a marked degree accom-
plished by a company of prominent men of Nashville, Tenn.,
mainly sons of Confederate soldiers. The Southern Art Pub-
lishing Company was organized for the sole purpose of pro-
ducing and distributing a series of Confederate war paintings,
and Mr. Gilbert Gaul, National Academician, is the artist
engaged to do the work. Mr. Gaul has made this kind of
work a life study, and is universally accepted as the best
painter of war subjects in America, llis work on this series
will add other laurels to his already heavy wreath, for each
of the paintings is fit to be a masterpiece.
The exhibit of the Gilbert Gaul war pictures at the recent
State Fair at Nashville, which was under the supervision of
the Daughters of the Confederacy, was one of the most at-
tractive as well as one of the most interesting exhibits on the
grounds. The interest shown by the visiting throngs is only
typical of the welcome these pictures are receiving not only
as souvenirs of the honored soldier, but also as works of art
which are to be valued for their decorative qualities as well
as historical.
-THE FREE CHRISTIAN."
The where and the how of religion have been exhaustively
presented by G. J. Buck, of Waco, Tex., in a volume of some
six hundred pages under the title of "The Free Christian.''
The author's ideas are original in the extreme, and in his
efforts to reconcile the differences apparent to some students
between science and the Scriptures he has brought forward
some very strong and striking theories. The book will have
served a good part in arousing an interest in the study of
religion beyond our everyday practice of it. Copies can be
procured from the author at $2.18, postpaid.
"LEE AND HIS GENERALS."
A work of much magnitude by Mr. George B. .Matthew-.
of Washington, D. C, is the life-size portraiture of General
Lee with twenty-six of his leading generals, only two of whom
are now living. Its composition required the study of each
face, form, and character from the best photographs and por-
traits extant. The reproductions are pleasing, and will ap-
propriately decorate the finest Southern homes.
Copies may be had from the National Printing and Exhibit
Company, 1420 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. 50 cents.
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475
i eorge Sibley, of Lonoke, Ark..
writes in behalf of the widow of Henr;
Mueller, late a member of the Camp
there, who left his wife in poor circum-
stances, anil she is now almost desti-
tute. In trying to aid her t" secure a
pension, Mr. Sibley asks thai any who
ran testify as to the service of Com
i i Mueller will kindly do so. He
was a German who spoke the language
poorly, and enlisted supposedly at New
Orleans, where he did a verj large and
pen his business as a cigar maker.
His widow does not know in what
command he served, and will appreci-
any information thai can be given
to Mr Siblej in her behalf.
Mrs. Mary A Williams, the widow
of William Williams, who in 1862 vol-
■ r< 1 1 m Captain Langford's com-
1 anj . ( Irinsted's .J..;d Arkansas Regi
ment, needs a pension and requires two
Miss Mill. KM. RAY HARRISON,
Sponsor Pacific Division, Richmond Reunion.
witnesses from that company or regi
ment a^ to his faithful service Ad
dress her at Corsicana, Tex. Lang
lord's companj \\a- organized at Old
Salem Church, m Ouachita County, Wk
Replies can be senl to Mrs. Williams
in I l 111111. Older \ F U 1
I ip Winkler. Corsi I < \
Joseph E 1 .mini. m. ol Hubbard
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Of the CoNFEDERATI VETERA N for Jan-
1893, the first number issued —
\ 1 ilume 1. No. 1 Write him in ad
^Confederate
Pictures
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The
By GILBERT GAUL.
NATIONAL ACADEMICIAN.
America's Greatest
Painter of War Subjects
Price of full set in four colors, on heavy
• J, polychrome paper with leather portfolio,
•'• $16.50; payable $1.50 monthly. Cash price
■°o.$15.00. Individual pictures $3.50 each,
gray men of the sixties are to live again upon the can-
'•;■ vases of perhaps America's greatest painter of war subjects, Mr.
Gilbert Gaul, National Academician, whose splendid paintings
hang in the most famous collections of the world. His strong
brush has portrayed with much realism, not their bitterness
and recriminations, but their magnificent motive, their magnani-
mous courage, their unmatched devotion. Thus some who love
the real values of the Old South, have attempted to do a great
thing— something which should appeal to every intelligent
American, man or woman. A number of gentlemen of Nash-
ville, Tenn., have organized a company, the object of which is
to crystalize on canvas the magnificent deeds of daring love
which distinguished the Confederate soldier. One by one they
are going, and soon the papers will contain under black head-
lines the story of the last illness of the "man who wore the
gray." Some who have understood have joined hands and
said, "The vision of these men and their deeds must not perish
from the Earth." So they placed it in the hands of Mr. Gilbert
Gaul, and the result will be a heritage for the generations to come.
There are seven pictures 15x19 inches, reproducing every
shade of tone and motif and embossed so as to give perfect can-
vas effect. Each one is a masterpiece, depicting the courage, sac-
rifice, heroism, sufferings and home life of the Southern soldier.
It is impossible with words to describe the beauty and pathos
of these pictures. The first, "Leaving Home," is a typical South-
ern interior, and a lad telling the family good-bye. The second is
a battle scene, as the name "Holding the Linear. All Hazards," im-
plies. "Waiting for Dawn," the third, depicts a moonlight scene
on a battlefield, the soldiers sleeping among the stiff forms of
yesterday's battle, while they wait for dawn and renewed hostil-
ities. "The Forager" is a fresh faced young boy returning to camp
with a load of fowls and bread. The sixth, "Playing Cards be-
tween the Lines" shows the boys in blue and gray, hostilities for-
gotten, having a social game, with stakes of Southern tobacco and
Yankee coffee. The last of the seven is entitled "Tidings," and
represents a pretty Southern girl reading news from the front.
These pictures are offered separately or in portfolio form, and
at about half what they should be in comparison with similar
work along this line. Write today for illustrated circular de-
scribing these masterpieces. Address
Southern Art Pub. Co. 102 Arcade. Nashville. Tenn.
♦'Lyrics of the Gray/'
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A. W. Rucker, of Elmore, Ala., and
.1. Warren Gardner, of Columbus, M;ss .
di --ire that all surviving members of
Ferguson's old brigade of cavalry will
meet at the Reunion of Confederate
Veterans in Birmingham next year.
Rucker and Gardner were members of
liu 56th Alabama Regiment, Companies
A and K respectively. There is noth-
ing that would give them more pleas-
ure than to meet the hoys and shake
the hand of each and all. and especially
of those they have not seen in more
than forty-two years. Ferguson's Bri-
gade and Ross's Texas Brigade were
in the same division.
W. B. Stewart, of Arlington, Tenn..
writes of an old veteran in his com-
munity who will celebrate his eighty
ninth year in November. .Mr. Samuel
Funk served during the war in the 4.3d
Tennessee Regiment, and he has a son,
the Rev. John Funk, who served in the
same company with him. The elder
Comrade Funk is hale and hearty still.
D. J. Dossey, of Wills Point, Tex.,
would like to hear from any and all
surviving comrades of Company I. 17th
Georgia Infantry, Bemihig's Brigade,
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In trying to trace the flag which she
presented to the 7th Arkansas Regi-
ment. -Mr. IdV Clingman Humphrey,
of Goldsboro. X. C, hits a letter from
Mr. Henry Bragg, of Imbodeii, Ark,,
stating that he carried this flag, which
was marked "Jth Arkansas Regiment."
At the battle of Shiloh the staff was
shot from his hand, but he recovered
it and carried it with a four-foot staff
through the conflict. The flag was
afterwards used on dress parade several
times, but was not again in battle.
Upon the surrender at Greensboro the
flag was taken by Colonel Gillespie to
his home, either at LaGrange, Ga., or
Macon, and given to his wife. Mrs.
Humphrey will appreciate hearing from
any of the descendants of Colonel Gil-
lespie, as he is not now living, hoping
in this way to secure further trace of
the flag.
J. D. Allen, of Lakeland, Fla., would
like to hear from any relatives or
friends of Capt. Sam Hannah and Pri-
vate Will Nicholson, of Company G,
50th Virginia Infantry. Captain Han-
nah was mortally wounded at Chan-
cellorsville, and Comrade Allen helped
to carry him off the field. He was also
standing by the side of young Nichol
son when the latter was killed at Get-
tysburg. Nicholson was a nephew of
Captain Hannah. They were from
Amherst County, Va.
II. C. Proctor. R. F. D. No. 1, IV-
Kalb, Tex., inquires for one J. 1..
Gregory, of Washington, Mo., whom
he last saw on the 3d of August, 1907,
just after the Virginia Cavalry As-
sociation had met in reunion at Gaines-
ville, Tex. Mr. Proctor is anxious to
hear from him.
Confederate Ueteran
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ROBERT E.LEE
General in Chief, Confederate States Army, 1861-1865. High-Class
PHOTOGRAVURE, 9x12 Inches, from Original Photograph Taken
in 1863. The Most LIFELIKE PICTURE of the Great General.
Read ih,- following exit acts from /■ a- rj from those who kavi
M rss Mary C ustis Lf r: "I n ceived the vei y handsome Photogravure ■
ivedthe likeness:
if my father, for which ac-
it hi > sincere thanks* It i^ the best full-tace likeness ol Mm, and t iough,o( course, I possess
many «-f him, I shall specially value i m is one. It will be, 1 am sure, much appreciated by the
Robert E. Lee Camp and any other Sout hern society t<> which you may presenl it."
Geni kai, s riniiN I). Lee : "I have y>»tir Phot/nrravure oi Gen. Roberl E, Lee, am glad to rei eive
ii ; it is now Framed and hangs over m\ desk, where l da all my work."
i it- m- h il Frederick D. Grant: "Ai cept my warm thanks for the* proof copy of the photo of Gen.
Roberl K. Lee, which I shall value as an interesting likeness of that distinguished officer."
Hon. John S. Wisb; "I think ii is one of the best Likenesses extant,"
< rEN. L. I-. LOMAX : "It is decided 1\ t he best likeness 1 have seen, and I intend to have it framed
for my own home.*1
Gbn. George D. Johnston; •• The picture is .1 splendid one."
Gen. William L. Cabell: " Ii is a fine picl ure, and I shall have it framed and placed in my par-
lor, where t he 3 nung people of my country can see it and call t<> mind his many virtues.''
Qi \. 1 .. W. C. Lee: " Your picture is ;t good reproducl ion of i he original, and 1 value it on this
I'lH."
(Ji w Samuel <i. French : " I think ii the besl one of him to be obtained, and the one fond memory
re< alls,"
1.1 ». R. P. Hoke: " Ii is very good of him, and lifelike, and recalls him to me as of yesterday."
Gbn. M. C. Butler: "It is unquestionably the best iii.t-n.ssni my distinguished Commander, as
1 knew him during the war, I have ever seen.11
Robert K. Lhb Camp, No. i. Richmond, Va.: "Members <>f this Camp consider it a splendid
likeness ol our old Commati 'er and prize it very highly. We will frame It and place it upon eur
Camp wall, where, (or all time that we may last, It will be a reminder ol 1 Ik- noble (ace <>f that
grand man loved by all."
<;i v A 1 i \. P.Stewart: " The picture seems to me an admirable one, certainly as good a one if
tut tin- very besl "i .my I have ever seen. '
1.1 •.. Marcos J. Wright: "I regard the Phntoeravure of Gen. Robert E, Lee which you sent me
as one ol tin- lim-st pictures of him which I have seen."
Commander in Chibi [India) Lord Kitchener: "lam verj much obliged to you for the si t ik-
ing likeness of Gen. Lee, w hich you ha\ »■ been good enough to send me and which 1 much value.11
A Picture for the Home of Every Southerner. Price, $1
.AMBROSE LEE PUBLISHING COMPANY
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^Confederate Operations in Ca.nad& and
New York. By Captain John W, Headlev.
Octavo, illustrated, $2; postage, 18 cents.
Charleston News and Courier: "There is an
immense amount of material in this book.
which will lie found of the utmost use to the
student of the times."
Selections from Neale's Southern
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"The Neale Publishing Company has certainly placed those who love the South and her glorious history under a
debt of no small proportions in the issue of many works by Southerners upon the actors and actions of their section."
—The Sun, Bait/more, Md.
A Historv of Southern Literature. By
Carl Holliday, M.A., recently instructor of
English literature in the University of Vir-
ginia, now head of the English Department
in Cox College. Octavo, $2.50; postage, 16 eta
Baltimore Sun; "It is well written, the ar-
rangement of the text is scientific, and the bal-
ance is well considered.''
Savannah News: "This history of Southern
literature is. therefore, not of interest solely to
the South— it will be welcomed in the country
generally as exploiting and perpetuating the
fame of many writers whose works are most
truly American."
Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee.
By Rev. J. William Jones. D.D. Octavo,
illustrated, J2; postage, 18 cents.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Dr. Jones can-
not be too highly praised for the work he has
accomplished. His book should be in every
Southern home."
The Political Opinions of Thomas Jef-
ferson : An Essay. By John Walter Way-
land, Ph.D., Assistant and Fellow in History,
University of Virginia. With an imroduc-
tion by Richard Heath Dabney, Ph D . Pro-
fessor of History, University of Virginia.
12mo, $1.35; postage, 10 cents.
Dr. Richard Heath Dabney: "Where are we
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readable style, yet sufficiently brief to find
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General EUsha. Franklin Pa.xton: Mem-
oirs Composed of His Letters from Camp and
Field. By John Gallatin Paxton, his son.
Octavo, frontispiece, $1.60; postage, 10 cents.
On September 21, 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee re-
ported: " Many valuable officers and men were
killed or wounded in the faithful discharge of
duty. Among the lormer. Brigadier General
Paxton fell while leading his brigade with con-
spicuous courage in the assault on the enemy's
works at Chancellorsville."
Mosby's Men. By John H. Alexander, a
member of Mosby's command. Octavo, illus-
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Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Mosby's men have
been written of before, but never so well."
St. Louis Republic: "It is a soldier-book from
the front to the back cover. "-
The Life and Services of John Newland
Ma.ffitt. By Emma Martin Mafiitt, his widow.
Octavo, illustrated, $3; postage. 20 cents.
Baltimore Sun: "The story, this, of a brave
man and a renowned ship ; the history of the
activities of one of the most able and daring of
the officers of the Confederate Navy, John New-
land Maffitt, and of the Florida, tlie scourge of
the commerce of the North. . . . Mrs. Maffitt
has done a creditable piece of work in this bi-
ography of her husband. "
Memories: With Special Reference to Seces-
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LL.D., Postmaster General of the Confeder-
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Octavo, illustrated; S3; postage, 20 cents.
TJte Nation : " Written in a sensible, straight-
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The Story of a. Cannoneer under Stone-
wall Jackson : In Which Is Told the Part
Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the
Army of "Northern Virginia. Bv Edward A.
Moore, of the Rockbridge Artillery. With in-
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Henry St. George Tucker. Octavo, illus-
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Review of Reviews: "The story is well told
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and typical privations of the Confederate sol-
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The Stranger. By J. F. J. Caldwell, author
of "The History of a Brigade," etc. VJtau.
$1.50.
Atlanta Georgian: "There have been a num-
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Philadelphia Press: "There is a dash of ro-
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A Long Time Ago. In Virginia and Mary-
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addition of a single acre to the amount
planted this present season. * * *
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and thousands of Southern white men
from the cotton fields, as the records
show that more than i.ooo.ooo South-
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living north of the Mason and Dixon
line when war was declared between the
sections, in i86t. It cannot be denied
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some prejudice among the Southern
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men, as well as the great masses of the
people, have been filled with a spirit of
industrial education which has made
labor of all kinds equally honorable,
and this old prejudice is, thank God,
becoming a thing of the past. — Prof, J.
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Gen. Nat. II. Harris Camp, No. 1607, Mayersville, Miss.
Joe D. Harrison Camp, No. 1608, Llano, Tex.
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Merrivvetber Camp, No. 1610, Greenville, Ga.
Urquhart-Gillette Camp, No. 161 1. Franklin. Va.
Jeff Davis Camp, No. 1612, Hazlehurst, Ga.
Carraway Camp. X". [613, Hemphill, Tex.
Crisp Comity Camp. No. 1614, Cordele, Ga.
A. R. Wilt Camp, X". 1615, Heber, Ark.
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Callcote-Wrenn tamp. No. 1620, Isle oi Wight C. lb. Va.
David Coleman Camp, No. 1621, Painter, N. C.
Ebenezer Camp No. 1622. Stanton. Ala.
II. A. Wise and W. II F. Lee tamp. No. 1623, Kara. Va.
A. E. Stccn Camp. No. 1024. Fort Smith. Ark.
Joseph I*'. Johnston Camp. No. 1625, McKenzie, Ala.
W. T. Wofford lanii). No. 1026, Clarksville, Ga.
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Brunswick Camp. No. 1629, Lawrenceville, Va.
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erate army. This of course I cheerfully did, as he w .is a con-
scientious, deserving soldier. The thought then entered my
mind which I now submit to the Veteran.
Every Confederate veteran should at once secure from some
surviving comrades a certificate of his services. Each State
authorizing pensions properly requires certificates of service
indorsed by living reputable witnesses; and as these old com-
rades are fast passing over the great divide, each survivor
should at once procure a blank from the Stale or county of-
ficer furnishing them and get two of his surviving com-
rades to certify to his services. He may not need the pension,
at present; but the time may come when he might need the
State's assistance, and then he might not find the witnesses
needed to perfect his application. Almost every issue of the
Veteran has some appeal from a comrade or his widow for
just some such witnesses.
Now let me advise every surviving comrade to procure one
of these blanks, perfect bis record while credible witnesses,
are available, and file the same against the day when he might
have need for it. * * *
It may be years (and God grant it may never be!) I" fori
due necessity compels the feeble old soldier to ask his State
for its pittance, and then perhaps the necessary witnesses can-
not be found to perfect his record. Comrade .in now in this
matter. "Delays are dangerous."
[The Veteran commends the foregoing most earnestly, and
to the wealthiest of all veterans. Such a record ought to be
framed in the home of every man who has a worthy record'
to leave for posterity. Another duly is commended : Furnish
every child and grandchild (be company and regiment, and
especially the regiment, to winch you belonged.]
IMPORTANT TO EVERY VETERAN.
BY COL. r,. N. SAUSSV, assistant QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
ARMY 01 11 NNESSEE DEPARTMENT, U. i\ v.
Sometime ago a comrade enfeebled by age and infirmities
asked me to indorse his application for a Stair pension and
certify to bis faithfulness as a Georgia soldier in the Confed-
Annual Reunion Nori HWl ST Division. Trans-M (SSISSIPP1
Department.— William Ray. Adjutant General and Chief of
Staff to the Northwest Division, Trans-Mississippi Depart-
ment, reports their annual Reunion, which was held in the
city of Bozeman, Mont., on October 15. 1907. Paul A. bus-
was unanimousl} reelected Major General oi the Northwest
Division and W. [■'. Kirby-was elected Brigadier General of
the Montana Brigade. There was a large and enthusiastic
attendance of veterans and also of Southern friends. The
next Reunion of the Northwest Division will be held in Port-
land. Oregon, the date for winch has not yet been selected.
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VIEW OF THE LANDS OWNED BY JEFFERSON DAVIS S FATHER, FAIRVIEW IN THE DISTANCE.
THE BIRTHPLACE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
[Dr. E. S. Stuart, of Fairview, Ky., wrote interesting data
about the birthplace of Jefferson Davis for the Review of that
place in which he set forth interesting data from which the
Veteran makes extracts.]
About the year 1793 Samuel C. Davis emigrated from Geor-
gia and settled in Kentucky. He opened and kept a way-
farers' rest, where he dispensed good cheer to man and his
beast. At this early day there were only four places occupied
between Hopkinsville and what is now Elkton. Here Mr.
Davis continued to reside until about the year 1811, respected
and honored by his neighbors for his frugal and open-handed
hospitality. The partner of his life by her ever-alert and
sympathetic interest succored the needy and afflicted around
her, winning the sobriquet of "Aunt Winnie" through her
practice of the works of the good Samaritan. Here Jeffer-
son Davis was born in 1808.
In this connection it may not be inappropriate to state that
Mr. George Tillman lost his wife in 1805. Mrs. Davis took
his daughter, Mary, who afterwards became the wife of Field-
ing Shanklin, to live with her. She died at the age of ninety-
four years. "Polly" Tillman was living in the Davis family
when Jefferson Davis was born, and was then in her twelfth
year. The writer has often heard her recount many incidents
of Davis's childhood, of her nursing and caring for him in
his infancy. She always spoke of him and called him by the
title of "Little Jeff." Having enjoyed the tender care of Mrs.
Davis when motherless, there was little chance of mistake in
her rearing.
The old Davis homestead has passed through the hands of
a number of owners. Mr. Davis sold to Penn, and re-
moved to the Jackson Purchase in 181 1. Penn lived there until
he sold it to Bear in 1818. Bear erected a pottery upon the
property, traces of which can be seen to-day. In the twenties
he sold to Henry Boyd, who was a smith by trade, and was
killed by McKinney in Elkton. After his death George W.
Boyd became the owner and occupant of the old Davis farm
and premises. He was an admirer of fine stock and a patron
of the turf. About 1840 he sold to one Davis, a negro
trader, who remained only one or two years, and then
exchanged the property for Col. William Morrow's Mt. Ver-
non farm. Morrow, after two or three years' occupancy, pro-
cured an act of the Legislature incorporating the town of
Fairview in 1846. It embraced twenty acres, centrally located.
The act of incorporation appointed Dr. H. W. Darnall. John
C. Lindsey, Lewis T. Templeton, Hugh B. Wilkins, and Wil-
son Shreve as the first trustees for the town. In 1847 Col.
Nathaniel Burms, County Surveyor for the county of Todd,
under the direction and supervision of the above-named board
of trustees, surveyed and marked off twenty lots of one-half
acre each on either side of the said road ; Main Street sixty
feet wide, lots fronting eight poles by ten poles back. In June
the lots were offered for sale, and all but two were disposed
of. Morrow sold to Edward Ware in 1853 and removed to
near Princeton, Ky. Ware sold to Willis Ellis in 1855, and
Ellis to A. J. Kenner in 1859 or i860, who remained thereon
until the death of his wife and self in 1884-85. After his
death the property was sold for a division among his children
The lot of nine acres upon which the church house stands
was bought by J. T. Smith and by him transferred to J. W.
Petrie in 1885.
At this period of time old Bethel Baptist Church had be-
come so large and inconvenient in its location for attendance
of all of its members that by agreement the Church was
divided, one part erecting their house of worship in Pem-
broke and the other seeking a location at Fairview. After
frequent and varied consultations, the idea became an accepted
one to secure and erect upon the spot of ground occupied by
the old Davis residence. Mr. Davis was consulted ; and after
the passage of a number of letters in relation to the idea,
Capt. M. H. Clark, of Clarksville, Tenn., proposed to buy
three acres embracing the old Davis home, that Mr. Davis
might present the same to the Church, and thus for all time
dedicate his birthplace to the living God. This proposition
GEN. BUCKNER AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AT FAIRVIEW.
Qopfederat^ l/eterar).
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was met by one from a citizen of Fairview that he would he
one of ten men who would buy and pay for the nine acres
of ground, have the property deeded to Mr. Davis, and thus
enable Mr. Davis to present his birthplace as a thank offering
to the living God. Tis needless to say this proposition was
accepted, and Mr. Davis in 1886 presented it for the purposes
indicated. Upon a marble tablet was recorded Mr. Davis's
birth and (late of presentation to Bethel Baptist Church. This
J El f IIRSOW DAVIS
01- MISSISSIPPI. WAS BORN
JUNE 3,1800,
ON l III: SITE OF THIS cimncii
hi: madi. a gift or l in.; uVi
MAIi .h io,r h iXC>.
1 (i m 1 m:i. i ' 1PTIS I" cum 1 ; cii
f\ THANK OFF 1 HINT. I i; U<3
(ablet was rescued from the burning building, which occurred
August 23, 1000, and has been replaced in the new and im-
proved structure erected on the same site.
The soil around Fairview is a rich, fertile limestone forma-
tion, well adapted to the production of tobacco, corn, wheat,
clover, etc. The neat and lidy farms characterize their owners
as thorough, wide-awake, and prosperous. As early as 1835
in this fertile section Mr. John S. Downer laid the foundation
for the justly celebrated Forest Nurseries. In the United
States Pomological Society he won for himself the position as
chairman of the section on pears, by reason of which he be-
came a recognized authority on that luscious fruit.
HOW FORNEY SAVED THE DAY AT MANASS.ls
nv W. W. DRAPER (MAJOR IOTH ALABAMA RF.GT.), ATLANTA. 0A.
Permit me to give a little incident of the war which had
big results. The 10th Alabama Infantry was commanded by
Col. John H. Forney, a captain of the 10th United States Reg-
ulars prior to secession, lie had seen service in the Nicara-
gua expedition in 1859 or i860, and knew how to take ad-
vantage of conditions and also to take care of bis men.
Early in July, 1861, we were sent from our rendezvous at
Richmond to Strasburg, Va., where we debarked and marched
to Winchester to confront General McDowell. In line of bat-
tle we received orders to make a "forced march across (lie
Blue Ridge" to join Beauregard at Bull Run. We were
green, raw troops, fat and full, numbering ;h a regiment about
1,100 officers and men. Colonel Forney, whom we thought
then a heartless and cruel commander, would make us pull
off our shoes and socks, roll up our breechi . and wade those
cold mountain stream-. We saw the wisdom of this later.
To the incident. YVc were then in E. Kirbv Smith's Bri-
gade with four other regiments. At nightfall, worn and tired.
we halted in the road. As soon as stopped the men dropped
down with knapsacks under their shoulders and 51
It was "Fall in." march thirty or forty Steps, and the Same
thing over and over again. Colonel Forney rode forward to
see General Smith to learn the trouble, and he replied: "1 do
not know. Flease ride forward and see " Upon his return,
Colonel Forney said: "General, we have come to the Shenan-
doah River, and the army is being put over in a country ferry-
boat, about a company at a time. Permil me to march my
regiment down to the river and rest till my time comes to
cross." General Smith granted the request. We were sleep-
ing soundly atiJ sweetly when the sun rose, with heaven as
our canopy and the earth our downy bed, as we were very
tired. Our time had just come to cross. Colonel Forney rode
his horse to the river to water him, and discovered an old.
worn condition of the hank, which suggested that it was a
former fording place. Me put spurs to his horse and crossed
the river, the water coming up on his saddle skirts. He re-
turned and called: "Attention, totb Alabama! Every man of
you disrobe, tie your clothes on the back of your necks, take
care of your guns, march in by fours, and await command on
the other side." It was a scene. The rest of the army
Followed the example, and regiments were put across in thirty
minutes where it would have taken hours to put them over
by the flat ferryboat. The wagons, ambulances, and artillery
all had to go in the flat (we had a wagon to each cbmpanj
then). It would have taken days to put all over in the flat-
boat. We then marched to Piedmont, the head of the rail-
road running to Manassas. Colonel Forney, being an old
army officer, was put in the lead of the troops. He would
march a regiment beside a train of box cars and designate
Company A to occupy this car, Company B this, etc., and in
fifteen minutes the train was off for Manassas. Gen. E. Kirby
Smith's was the last brigade and the 10th Alabama the last
regiment to leave Piedmont Station. His four other regi-
ments reached Bull Run just in the nick of time. The battle
had been raging for hours, and both sides were in doubt as
to the result.
General Beauregard had called a courier and begun a dis-
patch to General Johnston, then at Manassas Junction, to
prepare for a retreat, as he was uncertain of the result. Just
then he espied troops coming in the distance. He adjusted
his field glasses, and saw that they were our troops — Kirb)
Smith's four other regiments, full and strong. They had de-
barked four miles short of Manassas and came across the
country to Bull Run, cheering, double-quicking, and raising a
dust, which gave hope and courage to Beauregard and dis-
may to the enemy, which caused the panic and stampede. As
Pat replied to the question why he ran, he said : "Those that
did not run are there yet." The fording of the Shenandoah
River was the cause of that historic and unequaled panic and
our complete victory. There were two Union sympathizers,
engineers, that caused a head-on collision; but they went to
heaven, or elsewhere, at once. We learned to appreciate and
love Colonel Forney before he was wounded at Dranesville.
Va., on the 20th of December, 1861. He never came back to
us. having been promoted and sent to the Trans-Mississippi
I lepartment, and was made major general.
The iolh Alabama Regiment was the best in the army. This
thought with all the regiments made the Southern army th<
best the world ever saw. In our regiment we had judges from
the bench, lawyers of high rank from their offices, merchants
of wealth from stores, farmers of large plantations, and nu-
merous negroes who served through the war as privates. To
give an idea of the morale of the 10th Alabama, we had in
Congress at one time after the war four members -William
H. Forney, John H. Caldwell. Taul Bradford, and Tod Hewitt
—and at the same time Rufus Cobb was Governor of Ala-
bama. The first four, also General Forney, have crossed over.
Errors in an article on pages 455 and 456, October Veteran,
by Capt, A I. DeRosset will be corrected in December.
488
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so that they may be received by the editor on November 27.
This date is for a sentimental reason. This request is not
extravagant ; it will be easy to comply. Some one said : "We
hear from you once a mouth, but you don't hear from us."
Think of that, friends. For nearly fifteen years messages of
greeting and good will have gone to you, but no response ever
comes from a multitude except in the mere commercial way
of sending subscriptions. Think of how much you could
cheer and help by a brief letter giving advice in regard to
the Veteran — if you think that worth while. Write of any
errors in your subscription, in address and spelling of name,
so that every address may be perfect.
Many have written communications that have not appeared
— the Veteran has been foundered with manuscripts for years.
Write about these matters, assured that it is not from lack of
merit that publication has been delayed. There is good in
all that comes, and there are thousands of them on hand. Then
there is quite an accumulation of photos and daguerreotypes
from which addresses have disappeared. Describe any you
have lost, that they may be used or returned.
Do write without fail, and let every one suggest the names
of some to whom sample copies of the Veteran may be sent.
See if your subscription has expired ; and if so, state whether
you wish it continued. The Veteran will be sent to- anybody
who will request it in the absolute faith that none" would take
advantage of credit. It is not discontinued at expiration un-
less requested, and then it is done invariably ; so if you have
sent notice and it continues to come, be assured that there is
a mistake, as it is never sent intentionally to any person who
does not want it.
Another thing very desirable is an agent in every town in
the South. Suggest some one and send the name. Confer
with such person if you can before writing. Whether you
are a subscriber or not, if you read the Veteran occasionally,
write.
This request is made of every friend, not excepting those
who are in the habit of writing. Think of how much courage
and comfort would be contained in twenty thousand cheerful
letters setting right every business transaction that ought to
be corrected, and then of the multitude that would be made
familiar with the publication through sample copies by every
person addressed responding. This action would gratify Gen.
Clement A. Evans, who wrote the great indorsement of the
Veteran which has been approved by the representatives of
many thousands of heroic patriots — men and women.
Attention is called to that remarkable indorsement in this
connection, hoping that it will be an incentive to every per-
son included herein to comply with the request to write and
at the time designated. If you have not read the indorsement
referred to, see pages 471-474 of the October Veteran. The
only major general not included in that is former United
States Senator J. H. Berry, of Arkansas. His letter complet-
ing the list, dated Bentonville, Ark., October 25, 1907, states:
"Dear Mr. Cunningham: I am very sorry that I was not pres-
ent and that my name was not attached to the indorsement of
the Confederate Veteran at Richmond. In someway the mat-
ter escaped me. as I would have been most glad to have united
with the other Commanders of Divisions in expressing my
appreciation of the great service that has been rendered the
people of the South by the publication of the Confederate
Veteran. It has done a great work for us all, and I most
cordially indorse its course and thank you for the great ability
you have shown and the earnest and successful work you
have done for the Confederates of the South."
Col. V. Y. Cook, of Newport, Ark., writes : "I notice that
some of the Past Division and Brigade Commanders have
signed the Veteran 'indorsement.' You certainly are at great
liberty to attach my name thereto, either as former Com-
mander of the Arkansas Division or as the present Com-
mander of the Third Division, Forrest Cavalry Corps."
An omission occurred inadvertently from the list published
of prominent officials in the U. C. V. organization in the name
of Gen. H. A. Tyler, commanding the Forrest Cavalry Corps,
who was one of the first to give his signature.
The commendation of the Veteran beyond question exceeds
that of any publication that ever has existed, and now the
personal pride of every Southerner should be to give it power.
The time is fast approaching when every Confederate interest
should be controlled, and all look to the Veteran.
MA J. GEN. JOHN H. FORNEY.
John H. Forney was born in Lincoln County, N. C. Au-
gust 12, 1829, son of Jacob and Sabina Swope (Hoke) For-
ney; moved to Jacksonville, Ala., in 1835; appointed cadet
United States Military Academy in June, 1848; brevetted sec-
ond lieutenant in 1852 and first lieutenant in 1855 ; staff of-
ficer to Col. Charles F. Smith on exploring expedition to
Pembina in 1855 ; commanded pioneer corps with Gen. A. S.
Johnston in Utah campaign in 1857; instructor at West Point
in i860; first lieutenant 10th Infantry; resigned to accept serv-
ice as colonel and aide to Governor of Alabama January 23.
1861, commanding at Pensacola, Fla. ; resigned to accept cap-
tain of artillery, Confederate States Army, and inspector gen-
eral with General Bragg; appointed colonel 10th Alabama Regi-
ment; mustered for war June 4, 1861 ; brigadier general C.
S. A. March 10, 1862, commanding Department Gulf Head-
quarters, Mobile; major general October 27, 1862, command-
ing district of Vicksburg; during siege held center line from
railroad to graveyard ; commanded parole camp, Enterprise.
Miss., in July, 1863; ordered in July, 1864, to Trans-Missis-
sippi Department to discipline and bring East a division of
troops; four large brigades were concentrated at Hempstead,
Tex., preparatory to running blockade from Galveston to St.
Mark's, Fla., when General Lee surrendered ; paroled at Gal-
veston, and returned to his home in Alabama; died Septem-
ber 13, 1902, in Jacksonville, Ala.
His son, Jacob Forney, was for a number of years Presi-
dent of the State Normal School at Jacksonville, and at the
time of his death, December 24, 1902, was Professor of Psy-
chology and Pedagogy at the University of Alabama. He is
survived by his wife, son, and daughter, who reside in Spring-
ville, Ala. General Forney's wife and four daughters, Misses
Forney and Mesdames M. A. Stevenson and C. W. Daugette,
are living in Jacksonville, Ala.
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489
THE LAST AGONY OF THE CONFEDERACY.
(From the Spectator, London, September 21, 1907.)
It has been said with much truth that the continuance of the
great secession struggle for four years was either a paradox
or a miracle. Yet even after Sherman's giant stride across
the South in the winter of 1S64-65 had proved the whole
Confederacy to be a mere shell there were few who antici-
pated the sudden and utter collapse of April. The dauntless
front which Lee presented against overwhelming odds im-
posed upon friend and foe alike, and the volumes before us
(a mere fragment of the war literature of the South, which is
accumulating so rapidly) prove conclusively that up to the
very last there was no failure of heart and hope in his in-
domitable ranks.
"We relied nol SO much," writes Major Stiles, "on any
special plans or hopes, but rather upon the inherently imper-
ishable cause, the inherently unconquerable man. Fresh dis-
aster each day did not affect our confidence. We were quite
ready to admit — indeed, we had already contemplated — any-
thing and everything this side of the ultimate disaster; but
that, never I"
Brigadier Duke, of Morgan's Cavalry, who was almost the
last man in the South to lay down his arms, pictures the in-
describable dismay with which the veterans of Early's com-
mand learned of Lee's surrender: "If the light of heaven had
gone out, a more utter despair and consternation would not
have ensued. When the news first came, it perfectly paralyzed
every one. Men looked at each other as if they had just heard
a sentence of death and eternal ruin passed upon all."
Another of these writers, Senator Reagan, the Postmaster
General, upon whom it devolved that sad April Sunday to
break to Jefferson Davis the intelligence that Lee was in re-
treat, gives a striking description of the stupor into which the
Southern capital was plunged "when that ill news was told:"
"The booming of the guns cf the enemy told of the approach-
ing host, and preparations were hurriedly made for the de-
parture of the governmental forces. The pen of man cannot
bi 'bpped in ink dark enough to draw the darkness of that
nigbt which fell over Richmond. Throughout the city reigned
a quiet, undemonstrative fonfusion, such as the realization of
the inevitable draws with it — hardly a soul in all the capital
found rest in sleep, for on the morrow it was certain that
the dream of an independent Confederacy would have blown
over like a mist from the sea. Never before had Richmond
felt that the doom of capture was in store for her. During
four long year; the armies of the enemy had been beaten away '
from her very gates; but now the sad realization of the in-
evitable seemed to possess the gallant Confederate citizens.
During the years of conflict they had become inured to the
rattle of their windows by the thunder of the Federal guns,
but now all was suddenly chan
Vet even on that last desperate retreat which ended at
Appomattox Courthouse the courage of officers and men flamed
high as ever. "All over, sir?" replied Major Stiles with the
greatest sincerity, as he tells us, to the mournful ejaculation
of a civilian friend too old to march in the ranks-
sir? Why, sir, it has just begun. We are now where .
many of US have for a gcod while loner, 1 to he Richmond
gone, nothing to take care of, foot loose, and, thank God! out
of these miserable lines. Now we may be able to get what
we have longed for for months — a fair fight in an open field.
The gallant Major, who had served his guns in the thick ol
the fight from the opening days of the war, was spared the
t*
closing scene at Appomattox by being taken prisoner a day
or two earlier at Sailors Creek at the end of a murderous
day. The finale of this, the last battle of the Army of North-
ern Virginia, in which Lee's rear guard under Ewell was
isolated by overwhelming numbers, degenerated into a mere
butchery and a confused melee of brutal personal conflicts.
"I saw numbers of men," says Major Stiles, "kill each other
\\ ith bayonets and the butts of muskets, and even bite each
other's throats and ears and noses, rolling on the ground like
wild beasts. 1 had cautioned my men against wearing 'Yan-
kee overcoats,1 especially in battle, but had not been able to
enforce the order perfectly, and almost at my side I saw a
young fellow of one of my companies jam the muzzle of his
musket against the back of the head of his most intimate
friend, clad in a Yankee overcoat, and blow his brains out. I
was wedged in between fighting men, only my right arm free.
1 tried to strike the musket barrel up; but alas! my sword had
broken in the clash, and I could not reach it. I well remember
the yell of demoniac triumph with which that simple country
lad of yesterday clubbed his musket and whirled Savagely
upon another victim."
Yet these men were to a large extent soft garrison troops,
uninured to labor and hardship and privation and peril, tried
almost beyond human endurance by the audacious pressure
of the enemy's cavalry and by our lack of rest and food.
Major Stiles's Tkibute to General Lee.
He was of all men most attractive to us, yet by no means
most approachable. We loved him much, but we revered him
more. We never criticised, never doubted him, never at-
tributed to him either moral error or mental weakness— no.
not even in our secret hearts or most audacious thoughts. I
really believe it would have strained and blurred our strongest
and clearest conceptions of the distinction between right and
wrong to have entertained even for a moment the thought
that he had ever acted from any other than the purest and
loftiest motive. I never but once heard of such a suggestion,
and then it so transported the hearers that military subordi-
nation was forgotten, and the colonel who heard it rushed
with drawn sword against the major general who made it.
THOMAS J. (" "STONEWALL") JACKSON.
BY M. M. TEAGAR, FLEMINCSBURG, KY.
hair, gentle hands their rarest flowers strew
O'er grassy mounds wdiere Southland's heroes sleep.
And summer skies shed tears of crystal dew
And sleepless stars their nightly vigils keep ;
Wlii'c glory blazed upon the mountain steep
And vigilance impelled thy spirit on,
Thy virtues flowed in currents pure and deep
From limpid springs and sparkling fountains drawn.
Affection bows in sacred rev'rence here —
Gives honors due to valor's sacred trust ;
At freedom's shrine she drops a silent tear.
As immortelles spring from the honored dust.
Where cypress bends and weeping willows wave
Their tender, drooping houghs o'er Stonewall Jackson's grave.
Portrait 01 MRS C M. -Goodlett — The portrait of Mrs.
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett. first President of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, which was formally presented
at the San Francisco Convention, 1905, is being preserved in
the Confederate Memorial Hall. New Orleat
490
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WILCOX'S ALABAMIANS IN VIRGINIA.
BY B. F. PHILLIPS, ASHER, OKLA.
Through the request of friends and comrades I send to tin
Veteran a short sketch of Gen. C. M. Wilcox's old brigade
of Alabamians which was in the Virginia Army. Mahone's
Division, A. P. Hill's Corps, at the close of the war. Wil-
cox was first colonel of the gth Alabama Regiment, to which
I belonged, and was promoted to brigadier general before we
went to Yorktown. He remained brigadier commander of
the Alabama brigade until after the battle of Gettysburg. My
brother, J. C. Phillips, drove bis headquarters wagon while
he was brigadier general. After the battle of Gettysburg,
Wilcox was promoted to major general. Our brigade wa-
in the famous battles o>f Seven Pines, Seven Days' Fight, Sec-
ond Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, battle of the Wilder-
ness, Spottsylvama C. H., North Anna, Cold Harbor. Deep
Bottom, Salem Church, second battle of Fredericksburg, the
battle of the Crater, and various others. The first battle we
were in was at Williamsburg. The fight of Salem Church
was on the 2d of May, 1863, where we fought a division of
Federals and drove them back across the Rappahanock River.
In this battle we had the heavy loss of one hundred and
seventy-two men killed and wounded out of our regiment.
. . . Many small engagements occurred between the two
armies around Petersburg. The most noted one was down
on the Welden railroad at the old salt works.
In July, 1864, the enemy undermined our breastworks in
front of Battery No. 5 near Petersburg. On the morning of
July 30 about daybreak the mine was sprung, which blew up
Battery No. 5 and parts of the 18th and the 22A South Caro-
lina Regiments. Early on that morning Mahone's old brigade
charged to retake our breastworks, which had been captured
by a division of negroes, who rushed into the Crater soon
after the explosion of the mine. Mahone's men failing to re-
take the breastworks, they rushed into the left of the Crater;
then Wright's old brigade of Georgians charged on the Crater,
and were driven back with heavy loss. The old brigade of
General Wilcox, which was composed of the 8th, 9th, ioth,
nth. and 14th Alabama Regiments, was sent for. We went
down a zigzag ravine until we came to the mouth of another
ravine, then we marched up this ravine. About two o'clock
in the afternoon a detail was made to send for water, and
while waiting for its return General Mahone walked in front
of the line and told us that the negroes in the Crater had hol-
loed: "Remember Fort Pillow! No quarters!" He said it
was a life-and-death struggle, and for us not to take any of
them, but to load our guns, fix bayonets, and go stooped as
far as we could without being seen, and then to rise and go
in among them and give them ll — : and we tried '0 obey or-
ders. Just before the job was completed General Mahone
sent orders to us not to kill quite all of them. I don't know
how many were left, but there were thousands of them killed.
We stayed at the Crater that night.
The next morning the Federals raised a Hag of truce and
came over to bury the negroes. I stood on the bank of the
Crater and watched them dig pits between the two lines to
bury the negroes in. The explosion of the mine, called the
Crater, made a big hole in the ground ; it seemed at least fifty-
feet deep, about one hundred feet wide, and about two hun-
dred feet long. Grant commenced to tunnel our breastworks
111 a ravine behind his own works, some one hundred and fifty
yards from our line and about fifty yards behind his own
works.
On the night of the 31st of July our brigade was relieved
from the Crater, and we went back to our former position,
about a mile and a half from the Crater. There we remained
until sometime in March. We were then sent over to near
1 Irewry's Bluff, on the James River. About the 3d of April
we evacuated Petersburg.
Near Amelia C. II. I was captured and kept until the day
B. F. PHILLIPS.
l.ee surrendered, the Oth of April, 1865. I was then sent back
to Point Lookout. Md., and kept in prison two months and
one day. When captured, I weighed one hundred and sixty-
eight pounds; and when released, on the 7th of June, I
weighed one hundred and ten pounds.
I arrived at my old home, in Lauderdale County. Ala., on
the 27th of June, 1865. I am now a member of Camp No.
1 134, LI. C. V., oid Assistant Adjutant General Oklahoma
Division. LT. C. V. I belonged to Company I. 9th Alabama
Regiment. Three brothers of us belonged to that company.
The eldest, G. W. Phillips, was killed at Frayser's Farm in
the Seven Days' Fight.
Expensive Diffidence. — Frank Schooler was in the Vir-
ginia Army, and after one of its hard battles he was going
over the field and saw a dying Federal officer who had on a
fine gold watch and chain. Frank said he hated to rob a
dying man ; and seeing that the officer would live but a
short time, he concluded to go to a near-by spring and get
a drink, then return and get the valuables from the dead
man's pocket. When he returned, he found that some other
fellow had gotten them, evidently not so scrupulous. — W. A.
Campbell, Columbus, Miss.
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491
LOUISIANA Rl ' "' AT SHREVEPORT.
The Times of Shreveport deserves expressions of gratitude
from all Confederates for its elaborate reporl of the recent
Reunion in that city. Besides, that paper urges editorially
legi 1 dion by the State in behalf of monuments. The last
Legislature appropriated $100,000 for this purpose, but be
cause there was "no money available" the Governor vetoed
th< bill. The Times says practically: "It is the business of
State to find the monej
In iii- address of welcome, Mayor Bernstein said: "God
forbid that we should forget the story learned at our mother's
1 the sel sacrifice and heroism of our fathers I The
example of fearless levotion to dutj which you brave war-
riors engraved on the pages of history will evei be to us a
guide and an inspiration, ifou fought for a principle; you
battled for a righteous Cause. Principle is eternal and never
The South was defeat! d. but she preserved her self-
n pect and won the admiration of the world. Better that
we should have fought and lost than that the proud South
hould have cowardlj submitted to an invasion of its con-
stitutional rights. \\ 1 have no apologj to make, nor is anj
expected by our brethren <<t the North, who havi greati
respect for us because of the fight you gave them. Y01
fought the good fight; you kept the faith. The South accepts
the re tilts without bitterness, and none have a greater love
for the stars and stripes than the soldiers in gray who bat
lied under the stars and liars. To VOU, men of iron, 1 c\
tend the city's welcome with the wish that time may deal
gently with you and that we may see you all and shake your
hands again next year.
'In parting, old friends, here's a health:
\ i up oi gi e, ting to | * all.
Whenever the evening's shades of life
Around your faithful spirits fall.
A hand to you and a health to you
And golden memory's wealth to you
lir the , iid daj s, for the idd trj ing da
Following the address of welcome, Dr. Met 'loud intro
duced Mai. Gen .1. \. Prudhommei Commanding the Loui i
.ma Division, who responded to the welcome address m i„
half of his comrades Me thanked the citizens "i Shreveport,
'rogn i ■ I i igue, the 1 1 >uisiana State Fait \
tion, thi Daughters of the i onfederacy, and (.'amp LcRoy
ird for the royal mannei in which he and his comrades
had been welcomed to the city of Shreveport. "It is always
8 BOUn at satisfaction, wherever »i' may he- invited,
that we always receive a heart} welcome from the people."
said General Prudhoinme. "It proves the esteem in which
we are held and i lie love felt l>\ tin- Confederati cause."
T. W. Castieinan, Adjutant General and Chiel of Staff,
elected Majoi General Commanding the Division u<
cceding General Prudhomme. It was decided to hold the
next Reunion at a pi date to be later named by the
U.WSI U l.D BATTLl r IRK ASSOi fATION
\n appeal for aid in this worth) undertaking asks: "Are
you a Southerner. and is the cause of the Confederacj dear
10 you? If SO, yOU are interested m the eomnienioi'al i. ffl of
one of the most important battles won by the Confedet
the State"
I he Male i. Id Battll P I ill June.
1906, lias for its purpose the commemoration of the battle
of Mansfield, it is proposed to purchase one hundred acres
m which the important points of the battle were fought and
< stablish the "Mansfield Battle Park." The place has much
natural beauty, and ran easil) he made a spot that will till
every Southern heart with pride. To carry on the work
which is planned, funds are necessary. Contributions are-
asked with a view to securing a liberal donation from the
Slate at the next session of the Legislature.
Memberships to the Association are sought. The fee is
fifty cenl ,i year, and can hi- sent to Mrs. !•'. T. Robinson,
iircr. Mansfield, La. Mr- (' E Jenkins is the President
ai.d Mrs II T. I.ivcrman is the Secretary.
Additional information will he supplied b) application to
the Secretary.
NOTES FROM R. I III- < HAPT1 A'. //.'Ms Wl
B1 \lll:ll-' F. SMITH, COR SEC. R. E. I.EE CHAPTER. I i> .
The ladies of R. E. Lei Chapter are jubilant. The balance
di i -.11 "The Spun of the Confederacy" is now cash in hand
nearl) $1,700. Mis 1 1. 1, Holt and Mrs. M. E. Bryan hav
illg .cured the purse of FortUnatUS, the monument fund is
complete. Happy the Chapter that numbers such Daughters
among its I1 aders.
Ihi' Chapter is grateful to all who proffered help. It is
a matter of frequent comment in Chapter circles that the
Houston Post and the Houston Chronicle have freely given
thousands of dollars' worth oi advertising space to the I i>
t' work. Often kindl] words of commendation reach us. giv-
ing pleasure and encouragement as they pass from one to an-
other; as. for instance, the sympathetic expression of Mr
Frank Clemmens, the young captain of the Leans of the hall
game at a benefit for the Chapter, that he had no
been ahk: to ,|o for the Daughters of the Confederacy all In-
heart dictated.
The recent celebration at Alhambra Hall of the anniversary
of the battle of Sharp-burg was m every sens,-- historic,
devotional, artistic, social a miuv... The presence of sur-
vivors of Hood's Brigade was an inspiration, 'flic manifest
interest of the officers of Hood's Texas Brigade Junior,
Messrs. J, 1:. Jaqua, Louis and Gustave Dittmar, and Hen-
derson Yoakum, was a prophecy; in eyes of young and old
shone beacon lights of patriotism. Members of our loyal
clergy devoutly thanked God, who had given Such sons to
our country, and music and oratory did honor to the veterans.
\ line programme was delightfully rendered. Bj requi I
of the visitors, the evening close, 1 with the ringing strains of
the yell, tic < onfederate wai crj Verj gratifying t.> R E
Lee ( hapter were the visits of friends from beyond the line
1 1 M. and Dixon, and even from the isles of thi
eii.' , pie enci »,i .111 appreciated tribute to our hero<
"What things arc lovely, of good report." 11 Daughters,
"think on them "
1 ncl.1 Sam's Pensioners From the National Tribune in
formation is obtained that on fury 1 too6, there were on the
roll of Federal pensioners 985,971; and although ih, le weri
eld, d ',1.0:1 to the list to June 0 1 til re had been
dropped during the year 19,634, making the ICi at lati -1
967,371. Ih ggregate di rths of Civil War veterans were
!9,208, making eight deaths for (hi
eighty per daj ["he amount paid in pensions for thi
was $138,155,412, and the .mm, ni, 1 paid in pensions
by the v."i el mm fit to fun
492
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STRONG STAFF OFFICIALS OF MARYLAND LINE.
Brig. Gen. Oswald Tilghman (Secretary of State), the Com-
mander of the First Brigade, Maryland Division, has ap-
pointed as his staff the following: Adjutant General, Lieut.
Col. James W. Denny; Inspector, Maj. Samuel D. Buck;
Quartermaster, Maj. Louis \V. Trail ; Commissary, Maj.
James L. Kernan ; Judge Advocate, Maj. Fielder C. Sling-
luff; Surgeon, Maj. James G. Wiltshire, M.D. ; Chaplains,
Capts. Henry T. Sharp and Edward R. Rich ; Aids-de-Camp.
Capt. Edward S. Judge, James M. Garnett, William H. Brent,
B. Frank Bond, Henry Holliday, Sr., and James B. Chastain.
The five Camps comprising General Tilghman's Brigade
are as follows : James R. Herbert, Franklin Buchanan, Isaac
R. Trimble, and Arnold Elzey, of Baltimore, and Charles S.
Winder, at Easton. The Aids-de-Camp represent the Camps
respectively.- MRJor Trail and Chaplain Rich live at Easton,
Md., while the oilier members of the staff are Baltimoreans.
Brig. Gen. Spencer C. Jones, of Rockville, commands the
Second Brigade, composed of the Camps not in the First Bri-
gade. These two Brigades compose the Maryland Division,
U. C. V., under Maj. Gen. Andrew C. Trippe, with staff of-
ficers.
According to the constitution and by-laws of the U. C. V.,
each Camp corresponds with a Regiment, five Camps con-
stituting one Brigade. There are twelve Camps in the Mary-
land Division. These comrades hold to the old name. "Mary-
land Line."
General Tilghman was captain of the Rock City Artillery,
which at Port Hudson sank the Mississippi, which had among
her officers Lieutenant (now Admiral) Dewey. General
Tilghman is an ex-State Senator. His ancestor was Col.
Tench Tilghman, of Washington's staff, who, by his famous
ride across land and water, carried to the Congress in Phila-
delphia Washington's dispatch announcing the sxirrender of
Cornwallis.
Colonel Denny is an ex-Congressman. He was connected
with Gen. R. E. Lee's staff and headquarters. Major Ker-
nan is the owner and proprietor of the Hotel Kernan and two
theaters connected therewith. Dr. Wiltshire was a lieutenant
under Mosby, and known as one of his best fighters and dar-
ing scouts.
General Tilghman's staff was appointed previous to the last
Reunion U. C. V., held in Richmond, Va., and to aid the
historical wofk in progress in Baltimore, which involves
chiefly the eliminating from public schools of histories that are
unfair and offensive to the South and the substituting therefor
of histories by Southern authors, as was done some years
since through the Confederate Camps in Virginia.
The historical and record work is under a joint committee
from the four Camps in Baltimore, of which Col. Winfield
Peters is chairman. He is the Maryland representative of the
"Historical Committee" and of the "Committee on Southern
School History" of the U. C. V. Association.
The work of benevolence, especially the Confederate Home
at Pikesville, Md., is under the management of the Maryland
Line, with the active assistance of the Maryland Daughters
of the Confederacy.
Captain Haraes was born October 23, 1836, neaj- Jonesville
He volunteered in June, 1861, and went to Virginia as an
"independent." Later, because of impaired health, he re-
turned home. Soon afterwards a company of young men
from his county was formed, and John Hames was elected
its second lieutenant. That company became B of the 18th
JONESVILLE (S. C.) MONUMENT.
John Hames Chapter, U. D. C, was organized August 2,
1901, in the town of Jonesville, S. C. It was named in honor
of a gallant soldier of Union District, S. C.
JOHN HAMES.
Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, and was sent to Charles-
ton. On the 6th of May, 1862, at Camp Guerin he wa<
elected captain. The next
month they were ordered to
Virginia, and in the second
battle of Manassas, August
30, 1862, Captain Hames and
his brother, Sergeant C. A.
I lames, were both killed.
Their bodies were brought
home, and rest in Gilead
Cemetery, near Jonesville.
The chief aim of this
Chapter was to erect a
monument to the Confed-
erate soldiers of Union
District. After nearly six
years their hopes were real-
ized, and on May 17, 1907,
a granite shaft twenty-thrfe
feet high and seven and a
half base was unveiled in
the town of Jonesville.
On the second base is in-
scribed: "Confederate Sol-
diers." On the north side.
"Erected by the John Haines
Chapter, U. D. C, 1907,"
over which are carved crossed swords. Other inscriptions:
THE MONUMENT.
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On the east side :
"The arms are stacked, the flags are furled,
The sound of battle no longer falls ;
But our soldiers showed to a waiting world
How to answer when duty calls."
South side:
"From north to south, from east to west
Their ashes scattered lie ;
But in the region of the blest
Their spirits sing on high."
An anchor is carved above this inscription. West side : "C.
S. A., 1861-65. To the Confederate Dead of Union District."
Crossed guns are above this inscription.
The monument is inclosed by a neat iron fence and occu-
pies a prominent place in the town. The opening prayer at
the unveiling was by the much-loved chaplain of the 18th
Regiment, S. C. V., Rev. A. A. James ; the address was by
Col. W. W. Lumpkin, of Columbia, S. C.
Rev. A. A. James was born July 26, 1824, in Yorkville, S.
C, where he attended the schools of the place until 1844,
when he went to the Ebenezer Academy and prepared for
college. Under the instruction of Rev. P. E. Bishop, he en-
tered the junior class of Davidson College, North Carolina,
in 1846, and graduated in 1848. taking the first honor in his
c'ass. He entered the Theological Seminary in Columbia
A. A. JAMES.
in October, 1848, and d in 1851, going directly to his
present pastoral charge. When the War between the States
began, the 18th Smith Carolina Volunteers were organized
with four companies from Union, two from Spartanburg, two
from York, one from Anderson, one from Darlington, num-
bering one thousand men, The colonel, Gadberry, would not
appoint a chaplain, but submitted the appointment to a vote
of the regiment, and A. A. James was elected. He reported
immediately for duty, and continued to hold services and
minister to the sick and wounded until the close of the war.
Then returning to his pastoral charge, he has preached regu-
larly to the present time.
[The foregoing report conies from Miss Anna C. Hames,
Secretary John Hames Chapter, U. D. C, Jonesville, S. C]
FLAG FIRST REGIMENT SOUTH CAROLINA RIFLES.
[Maj. John B. Moore, now of Colusa, Cal., wrote to the
Dixie Chapter, U. D. C, of Anderson, S. C :]
I see in the July Veteran your report of the passing of
eight comrades. Those old and decrepit soldiers now resting
under the shade of the trees over the river were stalwart,
handsome, determined, and brave soldiers in the Confederate
army. You know not how grateful the old soldiers are for
your love, care, sympathy, and honors conferred while living
and the honors you arc pleased to bestow in memory of our
dead. May God's blessings (as I believe they do) rest upon
your labor ! The Confederate soldier fought for State rights
and constitutional liberty; and these must yet be maintained.
My special interest in writing is to call your attention to
R. H. Y. Lowry. He was orderly sergeant, as reported, but
he was more: he was first to carry the flag of our regiment.
Orr's Rifles. In 1862 on Sullivan's Island, on the west end
of the old meetinghouse, stood Colonel Orr in full uniform,
surrounded by his staff (and Crayton was one), also by
many ladies and distinguished men from the city (Charleston).
his regiment closed in a mass before him, when the ladies of
that city presented the beautiful silken flag to the regiment.
I think, though I am not certain, that it was Preston who
made the presentation speech and delivered the flag to Colonel
Orr. The speech, however, was able, patriotic, and touching.
Colonel Orr received the flag, speaking in reply to Preston
and extending thanks, and made one of the best speeches of
his life. Then, turning to the ensign, he said: "Sergeant
Lowry, I know this flag will never trail the dust till its folds
ci 11 it vour bodv "
/. C. MOORE'S BRIGADE, NOT W. P. ROGERS'S.
IiY J. MONT WILSON, SPRINGFIELD, MO.
The article on the first page of the Veteran for June makes
it appear that Col. William Rogers was commander of the
brigade. The Federal adjutant so states in his letter. In jus-
tice to Brig. Gen. John C. Moore, who was the commander,
this fact does not detract from the fame of Colonel Rogers.
General Moore's brigade was composed of the 2d Texas,
15th and 23d Arkansas, 35th Mississippi, and 42d Alabama
Regiments. In driving the Federals for three miles through
the fallen timber and obstructions described by the Federal
adjutant, the 2d Texas and 15th Arkansas were cut off from
the three other regiment s, and General Moore was with then)
Colonel Rogers, being the senior colonel, took charge of the
two regiments, and drove everything before them till uniting
with the balance of the brigade. But this was on Friday, the
first day. Every officer and man in the 15th Arkansas admired
Colonel Rogers, and I heard the lieutenant colonel of our regi-
ment remark that if Colonel Rogers had lived he would have
been made a major general. He certainly would have been
made a brigadier General Moore's gallantry as colonel of
the 2d Texas at Shiloh made him a brigadier general when
Lieutenant Colonel Ri ime colonel of the 2d Texas.
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GEN. HORATIO C. KING AT .1/7'. HOPE CEMETERY.
Address of Union Veteran to Confederates May 26, 1907.
Comrades and Friends: Hushed is the din of battle. The
clash of resounding arms no more rends the air with its hor-
rible discord. The cruel cannon are silent, and the death-
dealing volleys of musketry echo in memory only. Under
the sward in this God's beautiful half acre lie in peaceful re-
pose the remains of manly men who fought with a despera-
tion that confirmed their belief in the justice of their cause.
They fought for their homes and for the principles in which
they thoroughly believed, and thousands upon thousands laid
down their lives inspired by patriotic motives and counted
this sacrifice none too great. For four long, weary years the
sunny Southland echoed the tread of vast battalions which
marched and countermarched over its devastated fields ,and
with desperate bravery contended for the mastery and for in-
dependence. Rattling muskets and bellowing guns were
served valiantly by as brave partisans as ever responded to
the call to arms. The men who composed both the Northern
and Southern forces were never equaled by any armies the
outside world has ever seen. They were not -mere machines
with little knowledge of the purpose for which they were
brought into the field. Intelligent, keen, quick to apprehend
and prompt to obey, each side held to their determined and
bloody work until, exhausted of men and material resources,
ilic South laid down its arms to> a generous foe.
That the war was desperate and prolonged was due to the
1 ativity and like temperament of the combatants. When the
great orator and divine, Henry Ward Beecher, w:as in Europe,
lie was severely chaffed by an Englishman because of the
North's frequent reverses in the great war then in progress.
Mr. Beecher, a little nettled, replied: "Ah, my friend, please
to bear in mind that we are not fighting Europeans ; we are
lighting Americans." So the magnificent valor exhibited on
both sides in that unparalleled conflict is a common heritage
of which all Americans are proud.
J share with you in the reflected glory of your immortal
Lee and of the many brilliant officers who led you to victory
and comforted and counseled you in final defeat. We were
brothers then, simply estranged for a while by a difference of
opinion on constitutional questions, and we are tenfold closer
brothers now that these questions have been settled by the
arbitrament of war, and settled forever.
Certainly one notable result of the struggle was that both
sides learned to1 know each other better and to revise their
opinions, which were mutually based upon imperfect knowl-
edge. In the "Lady of Lyons" the peppery but gallant Damas
is made to say, "It is astonishing how much I like a man
after I have fought him ;" and surely out of respect, when the
last shot was fired, sprang the renewed esteem and friendship
which animated the contending hosts, who shared their hard-
tack and coffee and drank something more stimulating than
cither from the same canteen.
Indeed, throughout the four years of bloody strife there
never was a time that the North was not ready to' treat with
the South with a view to any compromise that did not in-
volve the dismemberment of the Union.
No more remarkable spectacle has ever been witnessed in
the world's history than the healing of the differences and
dissensions arising out of that awful struggle. That it was
greatly retarded by the wretched and disgraceful period of
obstructive miscalled reconstruction, none but blind partisans
will now deny. Had the men who had confronted each other
on many a stubborn and bloody field been permitted to dic-
tate the terms of settlement, the bitterness engendered by the
war would have speedily subsided.
The two sections of our great country were educated and
trained in diverse views of the powers devolved upen the
Stale- by the Constitution. It was State rights against State
sovereignty. As happily expressed by a Southern poet, a
brave Confederate soldier. Dr. Clarkson, of Virginia :
"They tell a legend of two knights of old.
Two haughty men, who on the highway met ;
Of brave, of kindred stock were they, and yet
With fiery speech and anger uncontrolled
They each drew lance against kinsman bold
Because a shield, suspended 'tween the two,
To each brought only one side into view.
And one had said 'twas brass ; the other, gold.
And so o'er this they fought — for thus 'tis told —
Till both were winded, when, in changing place,
Each saw the shield, but viewed its other face,
One fell. The other lowered his lance. Behold !
No more they strive. Their rash dissensions cease,
And each extends the open palm of peace!"
Out of the amazing conflict at which all civilized nations
stood aghast the United States emerged with renewed vigor.
With giant strides it has taken its place at the head of the
column. The republic is no longer an experiment, and the
reunited North and South in friendly rivalry work together.
'That government of the people, by the people, and for the
people shall not perish from the earth."
In the presence of the dead what unrighteous hand shali
resurrect these buried animosities ? And to this death must
we and all who participated in that mighty conflict soon come.
Death is ever a mystery, and yet it is "the old, old fashion —
the fashion that came in with our first garments and will last
unchanged until our race has run its course and the whole
firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion,
Death. O thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion
of immortality!"
"Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed Mercy pleads ;" and
we give thanks for that broader humanity and brighter patriot-
ism which has driven out hate, buried the animosities of the
past, and drawn together in fraternal handclasp all who love
their common country. The bitterness engendered by the
war has happily subsided, and hand in hand every loyal son,
North and South, "keeps step to the music of the Union," and
those whom the God of battles has joined together let no
man put asunder. In friendship, charity, and loyalty this
nation shall go forward, prospering and to prosper, the
beacon light of civilization and the controller for good of the
destinies of the world.
It is the comforting belief of many that the disembodied
spirits of the dead return to earth and hover over the scenes
familiar to them in their former experience.
May we not imagine that the embattled hosts who met in
sanguinary conflict here now look upon this gathering with
emotions of gratitude and joy? In our mind's eye I behold
the phantom specters of blue and gray, linked arm in arm.
inarch in review. There is no roar of conflict, but a joyful
uplift of thankfulness for peace and a restored Union.
"And in command supreme o'er all
March Grant and Lee, and at their side
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I he martyred Lincoln, at whose call
Unnumbered thousands fought and died."
As 1 look into your faces, as ( mark your gray hairs and
In ni figures, it is hard to realize that but seemingly a few
short years ago you were the lithe and active striplings who
made tin- world stand in awe at your prowess ami might}
But all nf us have passed the iTnwn of the hill and
are nearing with rapid strides our eternal home. The prob-
lem "i" death is no more a mystery to me than the problem
of birth. The supreme power that projected us upon the
sphere will take care of us in another and better country
when we have rounded nut our earthly careei ami out work
done I echo tin- feeling of mj honored father, who met
thi vM.M reaper with cheerful courage, aying with a -mile:
"I am ready; it is simply to cross the streel to meet my old
friends again." So too 1 often recall and repeat the prophetic
utterance of your immortal Stonewall Jackson: "Let us cross
over the rivet and rest under the shade of the tree-" Rest!
via. rest and peace forever and forever. We await with
equanimity the inevitable summons; and
" \\ In n life's camp i ign - at an end
\uil we are musti red i ut,
I he Yankee cheer and R< bel yell
Will mingle in one shi ml :
We'll greet our old antagonists,
\ini then no more shall know
No Union nor Confederate
With Benny Havens ( ) !"
PRISONERS <>\ TOHNSON'S ISLAND.
i:\ DR. K. I.. m'CLUNO, CAPTAIN COMPANY k, 1510 IRK 11
I wa- ;i prisoner of war. being captured at Fori Donelson
February 10. [862, and sent to Johnson's Island, and was re-
leased in September. I was afterwards in the siege of Port
Hudson, La., and .main captured ami sent to Johnson's Island
to the same block and nn-'. of m\ former occupancy. In a
rat hunt we Caught about five hundred wharf rats, piled them
up and divided them out. then cooked and ate them. Prison-
ers offered to exchange gold dollars for rats a dollar each
Inn I - iiild not buy them.
In the winter of [863 four of 11s li.nl our Pus and heels
ninl the stovi I in nail and every knot on the
of thr wall was covered with a shield of ice. We laid
nil; hut the Yanks always detected us
111 Ihrm until the last plan, which was not consummated In
Kchange was ordered. In our plan we elected the one
i General Trimble to lead us out. We were to know
■ ■ur places and wait for orders, hut the order never came.
Lieutenant Bowles, from Kentucky, One moonlight night took
about twenty-five nun and made ladders out of their bed slats
and started over the thirteen fool wall around us Lieutenant
l'.ow hs was shot di ad. some of the men were dubbed back,
while others got over the wall, about which time that old.
ignal gun tired, and everybody who heard it for miles
around knew what it meant. The next morning we were told
that tin woods were full of men, women, and children hunt-
ing for tin Is. The ground was covered with
Snow, and sum,- ,,f the men when returned to prison had
noses, ears, feet, and fingers.
des tins iat question (to show our starvation), ami in
addition lo the cold (for we were very scantily clothed),
Major Lie-son tl have never liked the name of Pierson since)
placed an order mi our bulletin hoard in these words: "Any
prisoner preferring the oath of allegiance to returning to
service in the Southern army will he placed in Block No. 1.
and will he furnished sugar, cotter, and blankets. Report at
once to Maj. W. S, Pierson, Commanding."
We bad one Captain Stephens (I have forgotten his com-
mand 1 who wrote out a petition for the oath, and started
after reveille one morning to the "lug gale" to deposit his
petition. It dropped from his pocket mi the sidewalk, and
was brought to our mess (Block 8, Mess 2). When Captain
Stephens returned, we had a seance. Smile kicked him out
at the door; bis colonel came along and was shown the paper,
and the colonel slashed him with bis cane and. with a by
word common t,, soldier life, told the Captain that be did
not want to draw bis blood, hut he wished to chastise him.
Captain Stephens's bed and his two blankets were thrown mil
at the door. He took them and went down near the lower
pump, and made what is called a "dog tent" out of one
blanket and put bis straw bed and the other blanket under
there, and there he rem. mud for a long time, as Pierson did
not fulfill his promise,
Major Pierson also wrote an order stating that any prisoner
found digging a tunnel would he shot. Then we went to dig-
ging in earnest. A tunnel was started from the deadhmise
The dirt dug out was hid under the floor until that was
filled, and then it was put between the ceiling and weather-
boards. A Yankee sergeant came by One day and found it
after it was nearly completed. He pushed his six-shooter
down in the hole and fired, hut luckily there was no one in
the tunnel.
A Captain Meadow- was shot through the knee one night
by a sentinel without any cause as be was on the pathway to
the sinks, lie recovered, went hack to the army, was recap
tured. and placed in the same old room, lie was afterwards
shot through the other knee, but recovered.
Mi"- anybody recollect the speech old "Brownlow" made
from the wall, and how we bleated him off: \nd bow. when
a certain Yankee lieutenant would appear above the wall near
by the blockhouse to call the names of a few who petitioned for
the oath, the cry would resound over the prison of 'Turn
call, purp call?" Two little children were brought in by a
Yankee one day. and bow we crowded around to see them !
Captain Fite would take bis stand on an upper platform about
the middle of the row and repeat that old Hardshell sermon,
beginning with : "And he shall gnaw a file and dee to tin-
land of Ilepsedam, where the lion roars and the w
li mourns for her firstborn." He would hold a thousand
men spellbound by that old sermon. He would give it often
of evenings. I well remember the cry of the soldier a Van
kei shut there on.- day for deserting 1 stayed on the Island
the last time from Jul) 28, 1863, to March .?. 1S1.5
Report comes from 1 exington, Ky., that a book, "Story of
the tireat Republic," ha- been barred from the city schools
there becausi ol "alleged disrespect" shown therein to
John 11. Morgan, and that the author, II A Gtierbet 1 New
Jersey woman, is willing to' make a change, so it may be
continued in the public schools, Surely Kentuckians will not
use a book the spirit of wh author would prompt such ex-
pression. We are bard up for book- when we make such a
compromise.
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CAPT H. B. LOVE, OF PARIS, TEX., AND HIS TWELVE SURVIVING CHILDREN.
Capt. H. B. Love, Commander of the Albert Sidney John-
ston Camp, U. C. V., at Paris, Tex., appears in the above
picture with his twelve surviving children. He has been twice
married, first to Miss "Puss" Fielding-, of Athens, Ala., who
was the mother cf eight children — one dead. The second
wife was Miss Mo. lie Forshee, whose father, George Forshee,
was killed in the war. By that marriage there were seven
children, five of whom, together with the seven surviving
children of the first marriage, appear in the group with the
father. The paients of Comrade Love, Thomas Love and
Mary A. Crutcher, were born in Virginia, and were taken by
their parents to Madison County, Ala., where they were mar-
ried. There is a large family connection in the South.
TENNESSEE DIVISION OF CONFEDERATES.
The Tennessee Division, U. C. V., met at Covington on
October 9, 1907, with a large attendance of delegates, and
there were many visitors there at the time. The Pension
Board and the Trustees of the Soldiers' Home both submitted
1 eports, which were adopted and ordered spread upon the
minutes. The pension report showed that Tennessee ap-
propriates annually $300,000 for soldiers and $75,000 for
widows, that there are now 4,011 soldiers and 1,129 widows
on the rolls, that the highest pension paid soldiers is $300 and
the lowest is $60 per year, and that the highest paid widows
is $72 and the lowest is $60. The Trustees of the Home re-
ported thet there are now 114 inmates in the Home, and that
the State appropriated a per capita of $135, with which the
inmates are fed, clothed, and cared for.
Frank Cheatham Camp presented resolutions against the
appointment of the "modern" woman to staff positions, which
were unanimously adopted and ordered presented to the next
General Convention, to be held in Birmingham.
Worthy Tribute to Old Negroes.
Gen. George W. Gordon offered the following preambles
and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted :
"Whereas there has ever been and still is a ready recogni-
tion throughout the Southern States of the faithful and praise-
worthy course and conduct of the slaves toward their then
owners and their many unprotected families during our inter-
state war, from 1861 to 1865; and whereas we deem it just
and due to the good faith and good name of said slaves, as
also to their former owners and to history, that this highly
instructive and most significant fact be promulgated and per-
petuated ; therefore be it
"Resolved, That it is the sense of the delegates and repre-
sentatives of the Tennessee Division of the Federation of
United Confederate Veterans here assembled that a stately
and durable monument should be erected at some central and
appropriate site in the South to the faithfulness and praise-
worthiness and to the fidelity and allegiance of the slaves to
their owners and to their families during the great American
war mentioned.
"Resolved, That the Secretary be, and hereby is, instructed
to prepare a copy of these preambles and resolutions to be of-
fered for adoption at the next Reunion of the General Federa-
tion of United Confederates, at Birmingham, Ala., in 1908.
"Resolved. That it is the sense of the delegates of the Ten-
nessee Division of United Confederate Veterans that the
negroes who faithfully served as attaches, employees, or serv-
ants in the Confederate army till the close of the war should
be pensioned by amendment to the pension laws now in opera-
tion in this State."
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year :
George W. Gordon, Major General, Commanding the Di-
vision; John M. Brooks, Clay Stacker, John H. McDowell,
Brigadier Generals, Commanding respectively the First, Sec-
ond, and Third Brigades; John P. Hickman, Adjutant General
and Chief of Staff.
Hearty thanks were extended for the bountiful hospitality
of the people of Covington.
The Division then adjourned to meet in Nashville on the
second Wednesday in October, 1908.
W. H. Cleere, of Haleyville, Ala., asks information in re-
gard to the Confederate service of Seborn L. Garrett, of Sa-
lem, Lee County, Ala., of the 6th Alabama Regiment, who, it
seems, was captured somewhere on the 19th of October, 1864.
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENI .11 WEST. POINT.
BY MRS. S. E. P. ROSE, HISTORIAN .1. M. STONE CHAPTER.
Iii the beautiful little city of West Point. Miss., stands this
imposing Confederate monument, unveiled on August 8, ioo;.
It is placed hi Russell Park, named for its donor, Col. E. L.
Russell, 'if Mobile, Ala., who generoush donated the plot of
ground as a location for the monument, ami it was erected
hv the John M. Stone Chapter, (J, D C, of West Point
This monument stands as a testimony of their belief in a
n- though defeated cause, as a token of their love and
n • i n H' Fot i he soldiers \\ ho wori the gray, and as a realiza-
ol their fondest hopes after years of untiring efforts
The members oi the John M. Stone Chapter have proven
themselves worthy of the name "Daughters oi thi onfed
This shafl of stone to perpetuate the memory of the
I. rat. soldier and to show to generations yet unborn
the public piril and patriotism of the women of the South
will -t. mil as a sentinel through coming years and remind us
and our Miccessors of their heroic deeds of valor.
August 8, 1907, is called West Point's greatest daj It is
estimated that seven thousand people witnessed the unveiling
\ beautiful programme had been arranged, and
erfectlj executed \ special train from Camp Cofum
bus brought a battalion of infantry, with Vdjutanl General
ridgi and staff, oi the Mississippi National Guard, who
joined in the parade, which, comprising veterans, Daughters
of the Coni d 1 trriages containing the orator of thi day
and others on the programme, the West Point band, and ele-
gantly decorated traps containing guests and citizens, made
the most imposing parade seen in Mississippi for years At
live o'clock the unveiling ceremonies proper occurred
T, M. Mosely, Commander of ('amp Pen Robertson, wa-
master of ceremonies. Following the salute by the rifle com
pany was the invocation by Rev II M Sydenstricker,
which the male quartet sang "Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground." The address of welconn w is bj Mrs. II. C Ter-
rell, President of John M. Stone Chapter, and some remarks
wen made bj Mis Daisj McLaurin Stevens, President State
Divi ion, I' D C. II"' responsi from veterans was by W
s Coleman, Vdjutanl of lamp Robertson The monumeni
Mas unveiled by Mrs. T. 1, [yy, [fonorarj President; and as
the shafl was disclosed, she recited with pathos and feeling
the beautiful lines of "The Conquered Banner." Hon I
Critz introduced the speaker of the occasion. Dr. \\ I
Boiling The benediction was pronounced bj Re> P. S.
Lewis. The programme was interspersed with selections by the
band. The Confederate States were represented by young
ladies, whos0 pretty faces and costumes brightened the
Mi appropriate im.de to the da) was the reception given by
Mrs. 11. C. Terrell al her home, to which the whole town
was bidden. The house and grounds were beautifully deco-
rated in Confederate colors, and the hostess dispensed the
most gracious hospitality.
The John M. Stone Chapter is now resting on the laurels
of an achieved success, ami points with pride to the monument
which expresses in lasting and permanent form their senti
incuts, love, and patriotism.
The following inscriptions are on slabs between ct
swords: West side: "1861 Gloria Victis 1865." < in space
next below: "John M, Stone Chapter, United I laughters of
Ihe Confederacy, pays tribute to the Confederate soldiers of
Clay County."
I be figures face north and south, thai on the north repn
renting a Confederate soldiet .11 parade rest; the one on the
south, a modern soldier and equipments. On the east side
are the inscriptions ;
"No nation rose so while and fair
( )r fell so pure of crime "
"Clay County holds in proud and grateful rememb: an. i li.i
brave and loyal sons who preferred death to a betrayal of her
dearest principles "
" M i g 1 1 1 Overt ime1
1 .; not our 50ns forget thai these unsullied heroes fought
fi 11 righl
The monumeni is marble, resting on stone bases, and is
forty-three feet high from bottom to 1 1 : p North of
the monument there 1- a pole, From which the batth Flag
MOM MINI AT WIST POINT, Miss
Reminiscences n \ Mississippiak in Peace vnd War.
reminiscences b) Col b \ Montgomery," writes
J. P. Brander, "stii the besl and highesl em 11 ol the
heart. Ever} Southernei loves the story of his land and its
peopli Mcmor) gi\ es b m bappim • a 1 hat m,
and dauntless courage \-.m~ From adversitj imi tal trophic
M. distinguished author, .1 gallant soldier of the Southern
m. I an eminent jurist, depicts th
and war so lucidl) and yel SO forcefully that one seem- to
iii 'the h well as its shadow. This
book bears the impress of a 'vanished hand' and heart of 1
patriot— the hand and hi soldier."
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TERRY'S TEXAS RANGERS.
Monument to that Gallant Cavalry Regiment.
Soon after the State of Texas seceded in 1861 B. F. Terry
and T. S. Lubbock, prominent citizens of Texas, went to
South Carolina and thence to Virginia, where, becoming at-
tached to the staff of General Beauregard, they participated
in the first battle of Manassas. Shortly after that battle they
received a commission to organize a "cavalry regiment of
skilled horsemen for immediate service." They returned to
Texas and issued their call for volunteers. Responding to
the call, the 8th Texas Cavalry, better known throughout the
war as "Terry's Texas Rangers," enlisted and were sworn
into service at Houston early in September, 1861.
The regiment was soon ordered to Bowling Green, Ky.,
where it formally organized and elected officers : B. F. Terry,
Colonel ; T. S. Lubbock, Lieutenant Colonel ; Thomas H. Har-
rison, Major; B. A. Bolts, Quartermaster; R. H. Simmons.
Commissary; M. Royston. Adjutant; Dr. J. M. Weston, Sur-
gi n; Dr. R. E. Hill, Assistant Surgeon; W. B. Sayers, Ser-
geant Major. The regiment was attached to the command of
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, and immediately began rigid
discipline, drilling, etc., to prepare for battle.
On December 17. 1861, the regiment engaged in severe battle
at Woodsonville, Ky. In leading a gallant charge Colonel
Terry was mortally wounded. In his official report of the
battle General Hardee says: "The conduct of the Rangers
was marked by impetuous valor. In charging the enemy Colo-
nel Terry was killed in the moment of victory. His regiment
deplores the loss of a beloved and brave commander and the
army one of its ablest officers." Lieutenant Colonel Lubbock
was immediately elected colonel of the regiment ; but he was
lying seriously ill of typhoid fever at Nashville, where he
died shortly afterwards, and Col. John A. Wharton was then
elected colonel and Capt. John G. Walker lieutenant colonel.
When in February, 1862, General Johnston evacuated Bow-
ling Green, falling back to Nashville, the Rangers formed the
rear guard of his army, going with him to join Beauregard at
Corinth.
On April 6, 7, and 8 they participated in the great battle
of Shiloh, one of the greatest battles of the Civil War. In
the three days' struggle the Confederates lost in killed and
wounded nearly 10,000 men ; while the Federal loss in killed,
wounded, and missing was over 12,000 ; many officers of high
rank falling on both sides. In that great battle Terry's Rangers
fought bravely, making many d< perate charges, and they
lost many brave men. Clint Terry, the younger brother of
Colonel Terry, was killed, Colonel Wharton and Lieutenant
Colonel Walker were seriously wounded, as was Capt. Rufus
V. King, the only man now living who held rank as high as
captain in the original organization of the regiment. Colonel
Wharton remained in command of the regiment until forced
in retire by complete exhaustion. During the remainder of
tin' battle the regiment was under the command of Major
Harrison, who led a desperate charge on the morning of the
8th. In the retreat which followed the battle of Shiloh the
regiment assisted in protecting the rear of the army. After
this the regiment was attached to the forces under command
of Gen. Bedford Forrest. In July near Murfreesboro For-
rest's command captured a battery of which it stood greatly
in need, and among others Capt. Sam Ash was detailed to
man the battery.
In September, 1862, the Rangers went with Bragg into Ken-
tucky: and when he was afterwards forced to retreat from
Kentucky, the Rangers with Wheeler's Cavalry protected
his rear, contesting almost every mile of Buell's advance. In
the battle of Bardstown the Rangers were cut off from the
rest of Wheeler's command, and, making a desperate charge
upon an overwhelming force of the enemy, cut their way
through his lines and rejoined Wheeler's forces.
At Perryville Bragg gave the enemy battle, and on the 8th
of October the Rangers were in one of the great cavalry
charges of the war. In this battle Mark Evans, who had been
made lieutenant colonel, while leading the regiment, was
killed. For brave conduct in this battle the regiment was
again highly complimented by General Bragg.
From Perryville Bragg retired and massed his army at Mill
freesboro. The Rangers were actively engaged in the five
days' battle around Murfreesboro, which ended January 3,
1863, and their loss in men and officers was large.
In the summer of 1863, under Forrest, who had become a
major general, they scouted and fought almost daily in North
Georgia and Tennessee until September 19, when they en-
gaged in the terrible battle of Chickamauga, and were in con-
stant action, making many desperate charges. After the first
day of the battle, they were dispatched with Wheeler and
Wharton to protect Bragg from the advancing Federal cav-
alry ; and for several days, almost without sleep or rest, were
constantly riding, scouting, and fighting around Chattanooga.
From Chickamauga they were sent to Knoxville, and were
with Longsitreet in his campaign against Burnside. which
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lasted throughout the winter, making many desperate charges
in the battles around Knoxvillc and in upper l-'.a-t Tennessee.
At Strawberry Plains Major Jarmon and Lieutenant Dil-
worth were seriously wounded; and in the battle of Mossy-
Creek Maj. G. W. Littlefield, still but a boy, while acting as
lieutenant colonel of the regiment, received .1 severe wound
from a shell which tore practically all the flesh from his left
hip. lie returned to his command in 1864, bul was by his
wound forced to retire from the army.
From the summer of [864 until the close of the war the
Rangers were with Wheeler, Joseph E Johnston, and Hood
in North Al. ib. mi. 1. Georgia, South Carolina, and North I arc
lina. The Rangers were in many of the battles of the mem-
orable Atlanta campaign, which embraced ninety days oi
continuous fighting The last battle in which the Rangers
fought was at Bentonville, N C., March 21, 1865, in which
battli in-! before they made their last charge the young son
leral Hardee, a mere boy, who twice before had pro-
to join the Rangers, but because of his youth had been
dissuaded, enlisted and entered into the charge;, and was b)
the first voile) instantl) killed within a few yards of his
father, who was in command
For valor in battle man} office 1 wen promoted. Wharton
becann .1 majoi general, Harrison .1 brigadier, Gustave Cook
a colonel, G W. Littlefield and 1'at Christian majors, and
W B Si aptain and assistant adjutant on General
Harrison's star) \11 of them wen everal times seriously
wounded in battle Phelps was made a lieutenant, and al
the cl iiin wai was acting adjutant of the regiment. The
rs did much service in Tennessee, and were much es-
teemed b) thosi w hi im the) defended
It would be impossible now to recount the entire historj
of tin- remarkable regiment It was organized with a mem-
bership of 1,173 men: they received many recruits, more than
1,700 men being enrolled during the war At the surrendei
at Greensboro, N C. April 24, [865, there were less than
"in hundred and fiftj of th< regiment in line Mam of them
died from exposure and disease, man) were killed in battle,
mane wen seriously wounded and forced to retire from the
S oi wai ; but it is said
that II" 1 mi Of them 1 rted thi 1 au 1 They were the
and swjfti t hi ..111I1. urest and best -hots, and
of lb' 1 1 men that evei 1 hai gi d a battery.
Earl in thei t Gen Albert Sidnej Ji ihnston aid
to ill mi "With .1 little more drill you are the equals of the
tard "i ' apoli on." I lenei al 1 lai di e, w ho was with
them in many battles, said: "I always Feel safe with the
Rangers in front." General Bragg also said: "There is no
1 surprise when the Rai between us and
the cm ti
At 1! ii the war President Davis pronounced upon
them the highest eulogj He said 'The Terr) Rangers have
done ..II 1 li.it could be expected or required of soldiers."
Im 'i.il Swords are red w ith rust,
I hi 11 plumed heads are bowed :
Their proud banner, trailed in dust,
Is now (heir martial shl i >ud
to Prof. Guy Carleton Lee, of Johns Hopkins University, and
before the distinguished historian could reply the president
added: "You belittle your learning by bringing forth a man
like Davis from the obscurity in which he rightly hides :
moreover, you will be disliked by the North and accused of
catering to the South "
1 1IOM \S B. M N U'l.ll IOV
NOW mi.'- GOLLEGl PROF1 Ob' 1 riMATl 01 I (SON
I ' ■ ' l he follow no ation is repot ted between tin
eminent authot and lecturer, Guy Carlton Lee, and a collegi
or at tin North: "Why did you write a lecture on Jef-
ferson Davis?" said a w. 11 known Northern college president
GA1 I l\ i TOM M'NAUGHTON.
n\ |oii N ! HOOD, l m i " . M'ISs.
A soldier visiting Fort Donelson after a lapse of twentj
eight years wrote in the Nashville American March to. 1890:
"\ thousand Middle Tennesseeans, comp 41-1
Regiment, under command oi the tried and brave Col. Robert
Farquharson, disembarked from a steamboat February [3,
iNi.j. at the Dover main landing The) inarched up the
street to the perpendicular turn leading to the courthouse
Here the head of the column was halted and the lini
.i to tin ■ annon shot of the enemj
'The writer was one of a half dozen at its head. nciC
whom had any conception of the danger from shells bursting
about them until
struck 1 lapt Thomas B M
Naughton, killing him in
stantly. While commis
of the regiment. McNaugh
ii mi \ 1 •liiiiu ered to go
the battle. He was instinc-
tive!] .1 gentleman. and
dressed as elegantly as if in
command of an army on
parade.
"S ehovt . somen lure, he
had procured a remarkalil.
gun. While perhaps of
great ago. it was so rcmarkahh preserved that ils burnished
gold ami silvei ornaments were as bright as if new. The gun
1 said to have been made at Damascus His memorable
words nttered just after the half dozen had ben laughing at
frightened young soldiers were: 'Well. Sally Ann. W(
never in a fight, bul maj 1" soon.' ["here were mon bo
than men in the regiment. They sought refugi b] Eeno and
houses from well-directed canister, so that many of theii
weri 1 . -I w ith fright, as if painted \\ In n th 1 n di
'Forward; tile right' were given, the regimenl started u
main street toward the courthouse, and the first shocking in
formation that went along the line was: 'McNaughl
dead '
"1 )r. J. \\ Smith, w ho lived 11 and does still
him fall, and said he was never tempted I 1 thing dur-
ing the war but that beautiful gun I he gun was taken Up
b) Lieut II. W. L I ittle, oi the regiment, and was ,
and used through the threi days' battle, and stacked in the
general line of surrendered gun- \ Federal officer ^i high
rank took the gun from tack, with others, on the morning
of our surrendei . and 1 arried it aw
"McNaughton's bod) la) b) the lit march as the
mand hurried b) Thi ca] 1 oat, thrown over his
head, hid from view the awful mutilation "i his shoulders and
chest b) the bombshell.
"It was my pleasure to have known intimatel) and
brother Thomas B. McNaughtOn while attending colli
Shcll.vville. Tenn. When I first met him, he was clerking at
John Nevins's bookstore Young, bright, magnetic, genii1,
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manly, he had many friends among the students. He was of
such charming personality that his acquaintances instinctively
admired him. He was a fascinating conversationalist and a
delightful entertainer, a close student, 'and highly cultured.
He contributed to the press of Tennessee and elsewhere many
brilliant poems and articles that adorned its glowing columns.
When the war broke out, he had written enough for a volume
and was arranging to have it published.
"From Shelbyville lie went to Fayetteville, and was a part-
ner (if or traveled for Kelso. Almost wholly self-made, Tom
McNaughton was a prominent and worthy son of his grand
old State ; and had he lived, he would have left his impress
as i soldier and a literary man.
"He was close to me in thought, in sentiment, and in
brotherly love, and I hold his memory, impearled in tears,
sacred in my heart. When McNaughton fell, the first martyr
of his regiment to that crushing disaster at Donelson, no
nobler son of Tennessee could have been immolated in her
cause."
MORTALITY IN SOUTHERN PRISOXS.
BY W. F. ARNOLD, A RETIRED SURGEON OF THE U. S. NAVY.
The following incident occurred this afternoon [September
8] aboard the Central Railroad of New Jersey's ferryboat
Si imerville :
There were many Grand Army veterans on this boat, and
as I stood on the apron forward I heard a touching recital
by one of these to another about a woman in the near South
who was looking for her son amongst a number of sick
Union soldiers. The narrator told it as a personal experience.
lie said that he had assisted her as best he could, and that a
hospital steward, as an attendant upon the sick, had consulted
the records and pointed out to her a desperately ill man quite
near as her son, neither the woman nor the almost dying man
having recognized each other. He told of her agony of grief
mid of her tender caresses and attentions to her son, said that
she had carried him unaided in her arms aboard a transport
In linn! for Baltimore, and concluded by telling that her son
had died within a quarter of an hour after reaching the ves-
sel bound for Baltimore.
His listener said, "They killed him. They starved him.
They did it deliberately;" and there was more of bitterness
to the same effect.
Without explanation or apology, I asked this traducer of
Confederates if he had ever heard of the hook-worm. He re-
plied that he knew about it. I inquired further if he knew that
when human beings were long in close contact with earth
polluted by negroes or by others infected thus by them no
care on their own part could protect thein from hook-worm
infection. He said that he did; then he added: "It produces
the sleeping sickness." "No," I said; "it produces grave,
essential ana?mia. When this is established, the affected per-
son may with difficulty be nourished ; but such patients cer-
tainly could not have been nourished on the Confederate ra-
il m of 1863-65. Now, sir," I continued, "unless you are in
position to prove, first, that this patient did not have hook-
worm disease and, second, that he did not receive the Con-
te ration, you have made slanderous charges of the
est character."
Neither he nor his companion giving the reminiscence made
1 ply, so I turned away from them in a few moments
mhI did not see them again.
I wisli to secure fuller knowledge of and discussion upon
tlie subject of the hook-worm disease, in regard to which
most individual Southerners and almost all Southern health
boards and even physicians appear to me to be indifferent.
I believe that I am the first to indicate its role in the death
rate of Union prisoners at the South. (See Memphis Medical
Monthly, March, 1907.)
I shall be very glad indeed to receive personally or to read
in the Veteran the accounts of any and all Confederate vet-
erans in relation to this disease. Address me at Navy De-
partment, Bureau Medicine and Surgery, Washington, D. C.
A CONFEDERATE ANTHEM.
The following beautiful poem, the exquisite sentiment of
which grows upon one in the rereading, was written by Mabel
Porter Pitts and dedicated by her to the Daughters of the
Confederacy on the occasion of the annual convention of the
California Chapters at Monterey, Cal. Miss Pitts, while a
native of Kentucky and a loyal daughter of the South, has
resided in California during the past ten years. The second
edition of her book, "In the Shadow of the Crag." is just
from the press, and has been accorded a flattering reception
by the critics. It is a handsome volume of four hundred
pages, full gilt and illustrated.
My Colors.
Who could help but be true when the red of her cheeks
In the bunting blows?
Who could help but be brave when the blue of her eyes
Like a beacon glows
In the field of the myriad five-point stars?
What matter the shape, if 'tis stripes or bars,
Since the satin-white folds of the sacred ground
Hold the tint that her soft throat shows?
Who could help but be thrilled as it trembles and fills
On its stanchion there?
To my eyes it appears like the undulant folds
Of my lady's hair.
If at rest or afloat, in its graceful lines
Speaks pride, that my worshiping heart divines
In my dear lady's form, in my lady's face
That is true as the flag and fair.
Be the lists where they may, be the cause what it will,
I will gladly go
If the blue and the white and the glint of the red
In the bunting blow.
For her eyes and her cheeks and her fair wdiite throat
I'll welcome the sound of the bugle's note,
I will pin her bright colors above my heart,
And will follow with friend or foe.
The young lady has been elected an honorary member and
poet laureate of John B. Gordon Chapter, No. 739— .Sou Jose
Mercury.
Errors Corrected— Capt. W. G Loyd corrects some men-
tion of himself in connection with a notice of the Lewisburg
(Tenn.) Confederate monument dedication (September Vet-
eran), stating: "I came not from Florida, but from Louisi-
ana. I was born in Lewisburg, Tenn. When the war broke
out, I was living in Alexandria, La., where I joined the 2d
Louisiana Regiment of Infantry. I served in the Army of
Northern Virginia during the four years. I went back to
my adopted State. Louisiana, in the winter of 1865, and in
May. 1867, returned to my native county, Marshall, in good
old Tennessee, where I have lived for forty years."
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DARE OF SOME OF FORREST'S MEN.
In the latter part of March, 1865 — when the War between
the States was on the verge of collapse, when General Granl
had closed in on Richmond, when Sherman was burning Ins
way through our homes, when Hood had been driven out of
rennessce, and when Gen. N. B. Forrest, with about three
thousand men. was camped at West Point, Miss. — a feat of
dash and dare occurred which showed the mettle of his men.
Ben Brown, of Company L, ,^d Kentucky (now dead), and
J. .Milner, of Company I, 12th Kentucky (now a leading
physician at Greenville, Tex. I, having failed to secure fresh
horses at their homes in Kentucky, as ordered to do by their
officers, came hack into Mississippi and forced some farmers
to give them some good horses for their broken-down ones.
This would have been all right and no crime in Kentucky,
simply a war necessity; but not so in Mississippi. Our boys
m ded those horses in defending Mississippi against the
Federal invaders Hen and Tom were followed, arrested, and
put into the guardhouse by some of Forrest's Mississippi
Cavalry and charged with stealing
Tins prison was very close to Forrest's headquarters, was
surrounded by many regiments of soldiers, companies of
scouts, field artillery, etc., and was guarded by thirty soldiers,
who kepi aboul twenty prisoners in ail upper room, with a
stairway on the outside, Four guards sto.nl al the foot of thesi
steps, two at tin- top, and twenty-four were in reserve in the
lower story, with double doors open at the stairwa) Our
Kentucky troops, Buford's Brigade, wire camped some nine
miles northeast, and pickets guarded ever) road.
1 )in prison comrades wrote to us and told us the whole
5 tor) We, through our officers, who freelj sympathized with
them, tried hard to get them released, hut utterly failed lien
.ind i wi i' good, true soldiers; therefore fourteen veterans
namely, \d.l Brown, John Bushart, Bob Bushart, Newt
Bushart, Rufus Johnson (all dead), Bill Murphy, Sam Stone.
rge Strathcr. John Smith, James I!. Saunders. Don Single
tary, Jap Nail, Mike Ward. W. P. Butler hastily volunteered
0 to th( releasi of our comrades at any hazard.
\1i11 ,1 hast) 1 .metis, John Bushart ami Don Singletarj
in tO ih' prison to see the situation, warn our .0111
radi "i oin intentions, and make ever) arrangement for our
move that night at 11 p.m. After going into the prison and
talking with Ben and Tom, Comrades Busharl and Singletar)
1 ill- la) of 1 ps, Forrest's quarters, batteries, etc.
and then went back toward imp. sonic fiv< miles, and met.
theit comrades. This squad of four! ...lad West Point
in 'I-' 1 n: '"'!• 111 between a fence and a small clump
1 i'H hi within fifty yards of tin- prison and Forrest's
i Add Brown and Join Smith held all hoi
Joim Busharl and Jap Nail took chargi of a small cabin of
jolly folks, who seemed to he dancing, and the resl of the
men vent quickl) in the darkness of the night to the pri 1
surprising and capturing the guards on post Each one of the
in ' n med with two revolvers, and 1 1 ad) foi
war, if war 11111-I come. \V« knew our business Bui little
tid, It took us perhaps three minutes. The reservi
guards were aroused, surprised, and confused; bul the) caught
Up their guns, and we had a haml I" li I encounter, and
caped war hi the finish One shot or casualt) would
have meant death and destruction for many.
i>ne of oin 111 ed them to he ipiiet and no harm
would oei ur, and thi d In the meantime James H.
Saunders and Bill Murph) had secured Ben and Tom, and
had warned the guards thai we were taking one of then-
men alon^. and would kill him if they made an alarm; but
had not taken either of their men. They were afraid to alarm
until they called their roll .111, 1 found no one missing. So our
tactics worked to perfection. Every one was at his best and
acted well his part. We escaped with our comrades, flanked
all pickets, got into camp, cleaned the mud off our horses, hid
our two comrades, and lay down just before a courier from
Forrest's quarter dashed up and ordered roll call and ab-
sentees noted.
Capt. J. E. Morris (now Dr. Morris, of Madisonville, lex.)
was happy that all were present. But alas! ran greatest trou-
ble was yet to come. We had committed mutiny, and the
penalt) w as death.
The next morning den 1'.. II. Lyon had Companies L, 3d
Kentucky, and I. 12th Kentucky, arrested and pul in the very
prison we iiiided the night before; and the da) following
Generals Forrest, Lyon, and Jackson sat as a court of in-
quiry to find out the leaders or men who were guilty ; but
we were up to our business, and played a little tactics We
held a council and agreed that in this court we were not to
know or tell anything on each other. We wen to know noth
ing about our comrades, to forget it all. but to tell whatever
we wanted to about ourselves except the truth of our nips
This worked well; we outgeneraled the generals, and all were
released except Boh and John Bushart and John Heard Yd
the generals got no proof against them. A little later Cap
tain Morris assisted in getting these released and exonerated
Ben Brown (now dead) and T. J. Milner (now a leading
physician at Greenville, Tex.) were hid out near our camp
and cared for.
General Forrest soon moved for a raid. W'e were on the
scout when the war closed, and made our wax home without
e\ er being paroled
In Memphis, linn, soon after the war First l.ieul. Wiley
Bushart talked over the abo\,- facts with General Forrest;
and when the General learned that fourteen men bad done
this feat and outwitted bis court, he said: "Lieutenant Bushart,
that was tlu 1 . . 1 1 \ time 1 u.i ever outgeneraled; and if I
evi I go into war again, I want ever) one of those men .1. my
staff officers or couriers "
In 1906 1 ( 'a 1 it 1 Dr, Morris, of Madisonville, rex., wrote to
this scribe concerning this West Poinl raid in pan as fob
lows: "I am tree to state that you were a brave, g 1. gallant
"Me 1. and a gentleman possessing the highest typi ol man
1 1 Idle release of Hen Brown and I .an Milner inow Dr
Milner. of Greenville, Tex.) from the West Poinl Pri on
in my opinion, ail honorable, manly, and valorous deed.
I indorsed it. I was at Men, him. Miss, when Ben Brown
was recaptured and brought there and thrown in the stock
a de in irons, In the meantime threi ol the Busharl boj
-ent there by General Forre 1 on suspicion. W . sua
in freeing Ben Brown from cuffs and turning him loose; and
as there were no .bale's against the Bushart boys, I de-
manded of the proVOSl marshal their trial Or release. lie
turned them over to me, and wi returned to camp No
.in regimental and brigade officers commended the raid, but,
you remember, General honest himself after the surrendei
complimented the boys who wi [ed on their bra
Yon all were exonerated Ben and Tom had obeyed 01
m obtaining fresh horses Your chivalry should go down in
history among the brilliant of our victories. You fought a
good fight "
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"ECHOES OF THE CONFEDERACY."
BY H. L. PINER.
Recited by Marthy Cozby, Al/c-, Tex., at the Stale Reunion at Bowk-, with
request that it be published in :he Yetekan.
They tell me that you have survived the long war and the
crash of a new nation's fall.
And the vultures whose black aftermath was the feast of your
dead hopes that lay over all;
And they tell me that Hannibal's troops were no braver in
fighting for Carthage than you ;
That the Trojans, whose armies were masses of courage,
were not more courageous and true ;
And they say that Napoleon's hosts fought no harder when
France and her lilies were crushed
Than you fought for your own Southern lilies whose petals
dropped blood for the hearts that were hushed;
They tell me you fought like the legions of Cassar, with more
than a Rome to defend ;
That you battled like Cromwell's "Old Ironsides," with more
than the crown of an England the end ;
And they tell me that wherever brave men are mentioned
the lips of love whisper your names;
And the poets who sing of things not earth say that you are
your country's and Fame's ;
And they tell me, as you would have died for the South when
you mustered and fought in the gray,
That your lives, like the saints', are with reverence embalmed
in your country's affections to-day.
And this is no legend, though history sometimes is silent
where it should speak out,
And sometimes the histories taught to our children are
tinctured with error and doubt.
All honor to every true soldier in blue who fought under
Grant and his corps,
And God knows the brotherly, peace-loving Southerner doesn't
want the war any more ;
But since it is done, though the issues are dead, it is truth
that forever abides ;
And so let the histories taught to our children tell all of the
truth on both sides.
Teach the children our soldiers were traitors? No! No!
Ten thousand times over, still No !
But teach them the truth with proud lip and strong heart —
truth that bows not its head to the foe.
Though the Confederacy be lost, there's more honor and glory
to those who go down with the right
Than to those whose cheap triumphs are rooted in error and
flourish on muscle and might.
Wrap the flag 'round the mem'ry of those who stood by it.
let partisan censors be dumb,
And let no lying epitaph slander their ashes on paper in ages
to come.
Take the children and show them one hundred and ten battle-
fields where the forests are scarred
Like the men who sleep under them in their graves 'neath the
sward ;
Where the dead comrades you fought with shall listen and
greet
All you say; tell the children who gather with uncovered
heads and with unsandaled feet
That heroes, not traitors, sleep under those trees ! And show
them the valleys and hills
Made fertile with blood that was royal as King David's,
with blood whose rich essence distills
In the dews of the evening, still quivering with life on the
lilies and golden-rod there,
And let them hear Lee on the eve of some battle get down
before Heaven in prayer ;
And while his petition goes up to the God of the war for
the South once again.
Let them hear in the hush and the fervor of prayer the troops
reverently saying "Amen !"
Unfurl and present them the cross of Saint Andrew's, and
tell them when that banner fell
It was snatched from Death's fingers and hoisted aloft to
be hailed with that old Rebel yell.
And tell them the Red and the White and the Blue have their
symbols outside of the war ;
That the Red was your blood and the White was your honor
and Blue were the skies you fought for !
Tell them how at the Second Manassas and Franklin and
Shiloh and Gettysburg — 0
Tell them how in these battles and others that banner was
carried, God only can know
MARTHY COZBY.
How gallantly carried right over the enemy's breastworks,
with hail of hot lead
And the batteries mowing them down like 'a scythe — on to
death — marching over the dead,
Till the stars of Saint Andrew's in glory were gleaming full
down in the face of the foe
And that old Rebel yell made your courage beat high as that
banner still waved to and fro.
That old Rebel yell! How I hunger to hear it before those
who gave it are dead —
To feel the earth quiver and hills make obeisance to Lee and
the armies he led !
Let historians searching for chivalric deeds but acknowledge
and write Southern men
In the annals of Knighthood, and each ex-Confederate would
prove himself knightly again.
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For let England or Europe make war on this land, ex Con-
federates wearing the gray
Would marshal with soldiers who fought in the Blue to whip
England or Europe to-day!
1 believe that the heroic mothers and daughters, the sweet-
hearts, and sisters and wives
Did as much for the South in the silence of love as the sol-
diers who gave it their lives.
While the husbands and brothers r.nd lathers bore arms,
Southern women were soldiers at home.
And they were as true, patriotic, and loyal as lived under
n's blue dome.
And they fought none the less that they shouldered no guns.
For they battled with Famine and Want
Where Pillage and Plunder preside at the hoard, and specters
of Poverty haunt
'I he fireside, and Murder grinds nut the last hope of the land
'ncath the wheels of his ponderous car,
And tin- vampires of war suck the blood of the children, who
know not the meaning of war.
It was here and like this that the women endured; here
alow did they grapple with Death
In a m ire horrid form than the soldiers encountered while
facn the cannon's hot breath.
They were watchful by day; thej were wakeful by night; and.
like Ruth, they most faithful!} cleaved,
Ami m i ladj and lassie have died of the wounds which
the 51 ildii rs 1 1 1 eh ed '
And the fingers that swept the hue strings and the harp made
the sucks for the soldiers' bare feet,
And the hands that knew how to rear soldiers from birth
made the bread for the soldiers to
And man; a Joan of Are left at home sent her brave spirit
1 attlii
And man] a Spartan commanded her boj to return with or
on lii~ own shield.
And never a groan from the valley of Death but an answer
came ba< k from the hills
Where the women stood guard, like the Marys at Calvary,
tli<- w i eping that kills !
And ii grew weary and faltered but some worn
an'- i Hi from afar
Stopped singing her little one's lullaby song to -me "Dixie"
i at the w ar '
And the; toiled in the rm do' and fields every day, and
thej nd spun everj night.
And the click of the shuttle was heard in the loom fot i icli
click of the trigger in light '
And whenever the soldier's canteen was turned dry, then the
larder v, a- emptj
uffered in body; thej hungered in soul fur the soldiei
wlii. might never come.
And they loved native country whose hi 1 thej inherited
loved hi i jI ii cry heart heat
With a love that was high as her mountains and deep as the
i- tii.it s,ng at her feet '
in id camp, on the march, pierced with aber or shell, cruci-
fixion was your hitter part ;
But thej bore the griefs and the anguish of war — the 'nth
semani irtl
And s,, when the harvest of Souls shall appear and the
i s shall gather the grain
And the Angel -hall shout "Resurrection I" for those that
liave died and those that were slain.
A million of women who fought this same fight will ascend
through the blossoming sod
And go up through the lilies that bloomed o'er them here to
live on as the lilies of God!
1 believe when the archives of liod shall unhosom the things
that forever endure
Southern valor, immortal as truth and as love, will abide
there forev* r secure:
Eor courage like yours. Southern men, cannot die; it was
horn of your blood and your tears ;
And the life that you gave il was your life immortal; it can-
not he measured in years.
Human rights must forever he rights; they can never, should
never, will never he wrongs;
And the truth shall lie sifted through long generations and
classified where il belongs.
The sleeve you call empty — ah! it is not empty; but honor
its meshes enfi .1.1.
And holy the timber of that wooden leg as the cedar built
temple of old '
And the scars you call uglj are symbols ol be; tj whose
meaning the years will unroll —
That the body was bruised. lacerated, disfigured to keep you
a beautiful soul !
I believe when the Angel of Judgment shall call for the brave
and hemic to rise
That the hosts of the North will come forth in the Blue to
.inform with the blue of the -hies.
For no men were common who conquered such soldiers as
fought under Jackson and Lee;
I hey fought hard, and they had to light hard from the
Mason and Dixon line down to th<
I believe when the trumpet shall sound the long roll of the
men of eternal renown.
Where every bright name shall he jeweled with start and
each star shall emblazon a crown —
I believe that a million of graves will burst wide, and a mil-
lii .ii w in. sleep m the Graj
Will marshal themselves as they did on the field, not afraid
of llie gi eat Judgment 1 >av '
For men who have fought and endured like the South, where
the very earth which they have trod
I made holy with hi I and with right and with honOI
such men cannot fear to meet God!
Fame sent out her messenger over the ages i" seek for the
.In. [tains of time
And i. . bring to her temple the heroes whose characters make
all the ages sublime :
\111l the messenger came with the worthies of earth, and they
sat in this temple of Fame's,
While Fame frescoed the walls of thai temple m gold with
Celebrity's magical names
In this panel she carved "Alexander the Great;" in this one.
Enea of Troj ;"
Here. "Achilles;" here, '"Hector;" here. "Cyrus;" here. "Han
nibal. true to in- oath from a boj ;"
I leie, "\\ illiam ..i I It angi '
"Kosciusko," and "Tell ;"
"Agamemnon," "The Scipios," "Cromwell," and
"Bt ui e;" and rh Ca as well;
'I hen high over these did she fashion the names of "Mc-
Clellan" and '('■rant" and all those
; hi ill. Blue H lioin we honor as friend-,
whom we honored as foes;
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Then higlicr again she engraved a design and wrote "Lin-
coln!" and "Jefferson Davis!" too;
For she found a great soul who had fought in the Gray for
each one that had fought in the Blue !
Then high over all did she sculpture the name of "Washing-
ton, Sire of the Free!"
And, standing on tiptoe, she stenciled in gold: "Stonewall
Jackson!" and "Robert E. Lee!"
In the lives of such heroes an infinite meaning lies hidden
beyond human ken ;
God wanted to show to a wondering people that he was stili
making great men !
You are old and gray-haired — how we honor that gray! For
the gray was the color you wore ;
You have made it the emblem of patriotism, the symbol of
truth' evermore !
Shall their monument be of Parian marble like that from
which sculptors of old
Have carved forms of the mythical heroes and gods of a
heavenly mold ?
Not of marble, for marble will break and discolor and waste
with the changes of time.
Shall we make of iron? 'Twill rust. Or of brass? It will
tarnish. Of gold for the smile
Of the serpent of Avarice? No! Shall it lie then of dia-
monds and rubies and pearls?
No! for these have a price in the markets wherever the ban-
ner of commerce unfurls !
Like a temple not builded with hands, without hammer or
saw, let the column be built
In the faith and the love and the life of the race who count
priceless the blood you have spilt !
But this monument, soldiers, you have it already in history
and in the arts ;
You have it wherever there is a humanity, wherever there
are human hearts.
This testament lives in the loins of the race for survivors
and those 'neath the sod,
And on through the blood of the ages it flows to the blood-
less white ocean of God.
Ah, the Blue and the Gray ! As they fell on the field, let
them sleep there in each other's arm-;.
Like children grown weary and fretful, at rest in the same
mother's bosom and charms !
Dead soldiers in each other's arms ! Gracious God, make the
living on both sides affectionate too !
For O when the Blue puts its arms 'round the Gray, let the
Gray put its arms 'round the Blue ;
\ih1 there in the hush of a new-plighted love let the hearts
that passed under the rod
Swear eternal fealty to fealty eternal — one country, one faith,
and one God !
Commission of Maj. Benjamin McCulloch, U. S. Army.
— J. P. Ledbetter, of Coleman, Tex., writes : "I have in my
possession the original document appointing Benjamin Mc-
Culloch quartermaster, with rank of major, in the United
Slates army, dated July 18, 1846, and signed by James K.
Polk, President of the United States. If any mar relative or
close friend should desire to preserve this as a relic or keep-
sake in sacred memory of the illustrious Confederate general
and soldier. I will cheerfully surrender this document to whom-
soever may be shown to be thus entitled to it. I will take
pleasure in corresponding with any one interested."
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT PITTSBORO. N. C.
A very handsome monument was unveiled on the 23d of
August, 1007, to the Confederate soldiers of Chatham County,
N. C, at Pittsboro, the county seat, with most impressive
ceremonies and in the presence of the largest crowd ever as-
sembled in that county. The orator of the day was Chief
Justice Walter Clark, of the North Carolina Supreme Court,
who at the carJy age of fifteen was adjutant of the 35th
North Carolina Regiment, and when only seventeen was
lieutenant colonel of the 70th North Carolina Regiment, and
who has done more than any other man to preserve the his-
tory of North Caro-
lina soldiers. He was
appropriately intro-
duced by Col. H.. A.
London, the Adjutant
General of the North
Carolina Division of
the U. C. V., who
acted as master " of
ceremonies.
The monument was
presented in an ap-
propriate address by
Mrs. H. A. London,
the President of the
Winnie Davis Chapter,
U. D. C, under whose
auspices and by whose
efforts the monument
had been erected. It
was. received with an
appropriate response
by Lieut. O. A. Hau-
lier, of Company F.
26th North Carolina
Regiment.
The chief marshal
of the occasion was
Col. John R. Lane, the
last colonel of the fa-
mous 26th North Caro-
lina Regiment, which lost more men (killed and wounded)
at Gettysburg than any other regiment in either army in any
battle during the War between the States. Colonel Lane wore
his "Id uniform; and although seventy-two years old. he rode
a spirited horse at the head of the procession, erect as an
Indian, with all the ease and grace of an accomplished cava-
lier.
This monument is the labor of love of a few devoted ladies,
who for nearly four years have struggled most persistently
in securing the funds for its erection. It is one of the hand-
somest monuments in North Carolina, and is made of polished
Mt. Airy (N. C.) granite, surmounted with a seven-foot
statue of a Confederate soldier made of standard government
bronze. The total height of the monument and statue is
twenty-seven feet, and it is erected in front of the courthouse.
The contractor was C. J. Harlin, proprietor of the Durham
(N. C.) Marble Works.
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Ashby died. Price, $2.50. For particulars, address Miss S.
Alice Cowan, Harrisonburg, Va.
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HOW FORI GREGG WAS DEFENDED.
1:1 I'.l \ kin K. i ONI RLY.
Fort Gregg was situated about two miles southwest of
Petersburg, Va., and was one of the man) earthworks, or
redoubts, that General Lee had constructed for artillery in the
ear of li i -- main line of defenses covering the cities of Rich-
, d and Petersburg. \\- form was semicircular, and a spao
was left open in the rear for the entrance of wagons and ar-
tillery. I In- earth was thrown up Mum the outside, forming
a ditch twelve or fourteen feet wide ami from tour to six
feel deep The walls were from six to eight feet wide at the
top. and ill; ground on tile inside next to the wall was raised
, for the cannon and for men to stand "ii A considerable
quantity of artillery ammunition was in the fort, consisting
of grape, canister, bombshells, ami solid shot-, stacked in
pyramid form.
The disaster on the right wing "i General Lee's army at
Five Forks, causing the loss of the Southside Railroad, forced
the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond The position at
and near Fort Gregg evidently increased and became of im-
portance from this time to that portion of our army in the
trenches around Petersburg, as it covered the ponl bridgi -
that had been thrown across the Appomattox River west oi
the town, over which our artillery wagon trams and troops
were crossing in their retreat.
During th( latter part of March, 1865, "in- brigade, composed
mI' (he I2th, 10th. 19th, and 48th Mississippi Regiments, com
nianded by Hen X. II. Harris, occupied a position between
the Appomattox and James Rivers, watching and guarding
the line from Dutch Gap, on the James, southward deployed.
N\ II II \RR1S.
About two o'clock on Sunday morning, April 2, 1805. we
received orders to move, leaving about one-third of our men
on the picket line in front of this position. We marched
rapidly in the direction of Petersburg, following the Rich-
mond and Pctershurg turnpike road until within about two
miles of Petersburg, when we left the main road, turned to
the right, and crossed the Appomattox River on a pontoon
bridge about two miles west of the town. We then crossed
the Southside railroad and marched by Forts Gregg and
Alexander tor Whitworth. as it was called bj some). We
moved to a position about four hundred yards in front of
these forts ami formed in line of battle, with .skirmishers
well thrown out to the front. Every foot of ground was
familiar to Us, for here u e had -pen! the greater part of the
preceding winter, and had guarded this part of our line for
everal months. Our old uncovered winter quarters were
just behind us. long lines of Federal infantry were advancing
on our front, batteries of artillery ware coming into position,
and as far as we could see to the right and left the enemy's
guns and bayonets glistened in the rays of the morning sun.
now well up nn the hills in the east. Our skirmishers soon
l'(', line hotly engaged in our front, and the leaden hail was
Striking our ranks-,
"Stand like iron, my brave hoys!" said General Harris as
he walked along the line "Stand like iron!"
Our skirmishers were soon driven in. and our brigade
Opened tire on the advancing Federal line with deadly aim
and effect. The) gained the shelter of ,i sunken road about
one hundred and fifty yards in front of us. Continuous firing
was kept up from this position for about one hour. On the
right and left of this position the Federal troops continued to
advance, threatening to enfilade us in both flanks. Quite a
number of our men fell killed and wounded ill this po
General Harris, seeing that our position was untenable, or
dered us to fall hack to the shelter of Forts Gregg and
Alexander, leaving a skirmish line to bold the enemy in check
Our brigadi began the backward move in a storm of shot
fnun the enemy's sheltered position in the sunken road and
tin crest oi lull- on the right and left ilanks, behind which
they were rapidly increasing in strength General Harris led
tlir greater part of the brigade into Fort Alexander, and
Lieutenant Colonel Duncan, of the 10th Mississippi Regiment,
led the remainder (about two hundred men. principally from
thi 1 ith and [6th Mississippi Regiments) into Fort G eg|
neiny, discovering this movement, rushed forward with
loud hu :as, and our skirmishers were pressed hack over the
open laid bj overwhelming numbers; hut. taking the advan
I ever) protection the ground offered to rest a moment
and load, the) never faded to give them a parting salute as
the) retired from one position 1,, another. During this tinn.
the linn in the I'm t had gathered all the loose guns tiny could
aid scattered Over the field around and near the fort. I in
Federal forces had advanced to tin- place early in the morn-
tor, we arrived), but had been driven away by Gen.
\ I' Ilill. leaving quite a number of rill, red over the
field, The men quickly gathered them together, not for-
theit experience in the "Blood) Angle" tit Spottsyl
\ .1111.1. \l.11 1 j. 18(1). where they used the captured guns
;li. enemy, which iiraetir.illi gave them the ad-
ot repeating rifles, a- they had from two to four guns
each 11 loaded, In addition p, the artillery ammunition in
Fort Gregg, there were also several boxes of rifle ammuni-
tion— about 1. -ii tnd rounds to the b
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About the time we were as well prepared as we could be
under the circumstances the enemy appeared in such over-
whelming numbers that Colonel Duncan decided to evacuate
the fort. We marched out of the fort to the rear about one
hundred yards, when we met a courier, who handed Colonel
Duncan a paper, which he read aloud :
"'Hold the fort at all hazards. R. E. Lee.'"
The men immediately returned to the fort, as no other
order was necessary, and assumed their position around the
walls. Our soldiers understood the conditions, and every one
knew that he must delay the advance of the enemy to gain
time for his comrades. The Federal troops at this time had
reached a point about three hundred yards in front of Fort
Gregg, and were moving on Fort Alexander at the same time
behind or under cover of our winter quarter huts, which
had been set on fire, and the smoke obscured their movements.
Fort Alexander was about three hundred yards to the right
of Fort Gregg, and was at this time under the command of
General Harris. The fighting on other parts of the line to
our right and left stopped for a while, as if the men were
watching the results of the movements about Fort Gregg.
Colonel Duncan watched the men and told them not to fire
until the word was given. With his sword flashing in the
sunlight of that beautiful Sunday morning, he insisted (with
his appeals to the State pride of Mississippians) that we
should obey his orders. All around the walls of Fort Gregg
was the cry of the officers with drawn swords, "Keep down,
men; keep down" — officers who had never quailed on any
field, from the First Manassas to that hour, and to name their
record would be to write the history of the Army of North-
ern Virginia. Soldiers that knew them, with their suspense
drawn to a tension indescribable, yielded to the order, and
waited with apparent patience until that magnificent line of
Federal soldiers was within less than one hundred yards of
us. and not the flash of a single rifle had yet defied them.
The last order of our officers, "Steady, boys !" was interrupted
by the cracking of rifles sending their death-dealing missiles
with telling effect. Gibbon's men fell fast and thick; his line
staggered and finally broke in confusion, seeking shelter be-
hind the crest of a ridge. A great cheer went up from our
lines on the right and left, and our boys responded with their
customary yell of triumph and defiance from Fort Gregg.
Reenforcements were hurried forward by the enemy from
their sheltered position behind the hill, and the second line
came forward at a double-quick in broken and scattered ranks.
We opened on them at a distance of three hundred yards,
firing as fast as we could. They staggered up to within one
hundred yards of us, when the greater part of their line broke
and ran back under cover; the others (perhaps three or four
hundred) reached the ditch in our front. They were not
strong enough to take us, and could not retreat without run-
ning the gantlet of death. Before we could turn our atten-
tion to the enemy in the ditch, reenforcements were hurried
to their assistance, and a third line came rushing on us with
loud huzzas from their covered position behind the hill, but
in broken and scattered ranks. The greater part of them suc-
ceeded in getting in the ditch, and completely surrounded us.
During this time the men in Fort Alexander assisted Fort
Gregg to some extent with an enfilading fire from that fort.
It seemed that General Harris at this moment, believing that
we were captured, evacuated Fort Alexander to save his
men. Our men deployed so as to cover every part of the
walls of the fort and detailed twenty-five men to hold the
gate in the rear. Now the solid-shot cannon balls and bomb-
shells found in the fort came into use. Our men hurled them
on the heads of the enemy in the ditch. The fuses of bomb-
shells were fired and rolled on them. This work did not
stop until all, or nearly all, of the solid cannon bal!s and shells
were gone. Brick chimneys built to tents for artillerymen
were thrown down and the bricks thrown at the enemy. Num-
bers of efforts to scale the walls were made ; but the Federal
soldiers would not act together, and consequently the most
daring ones were shot down on the walls and fell on their
comrades below. A color bearer fell on the fort, with his
flag falling over on our side. During all this time the men
at the gate were engaged in a death struggle, and the last
one fell at his post. The Federal troops, having no further
resistance, then began pouring in from the rear, and firing
as they came. So many of our men had now fallen that the
resistance was weak all around, and the Federal troops be-
gan pouring over the walls, where a hand-to-hand encounter
ensued on the crest, and our brave men went down in death
by overpowering numbers. Quiet soon followed, and about
thirty survivors were marched to the rear as prisoners of war
and sent to Point Lookout Prison.
BUXTON R. CONERLY, GULFPORT, MISS.
[Buxton R. Conerly, of Mississippi, was born in February,
1848, the son of Owen Conerly and Ann Louise Stephens, of
English descent. In 1864, just as he was entering his seven-
teenth year, he went to Virginia and joined the Quitman
Guards, Company E, 16th Mississippi Regiment, then com-
manded by Col. Samuel E. Baker, of Natchez. He received
his first baptism of fire at the battle of the Wilderness, and
from that time on to the close of the war he was in it all.
being one of the thirty survivors of Fort Gregg. His home is
now at Marshall. Tex.]
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501
General Harris evacuated Fort Alexander about the time
we were surrounded, and made his way to the rest of the
army, in the retreat to Appomattox C. H. The men of our
brigade left on the lines between the Appomattox and the
James also were in the retreat and the final surrender at Ap-
pomattox.
< lur brave Lieutenant Colonel Duncan was left in Fort
Gregg, wounded in the head, in an unconscious condition,
rolling in the blood of his fallen comrades, when we were
marched out.
Our bullet-ridden flag that had been borne proudly on so
many victorious fields bad been planted on its last rampart,
waved its last defiance, and gone down on the bodies and
laved in the blood of its brave followers and defenders, who
here made a chapter for the story of the Army of Northern
Virginia and left a gem for their mother State to place in the
crown of her soldiers who had responded to her call to
arms and faithfully performed their last duty,
THE CONFEDERATE HALF DOLLAR.
In thl Collection of Telamon Cuyler.
Ibi- silver coin was designed for, and struck by authority
<d', the provi ional government of the Confederate States <-i
America, which, as then constituted, was composed of the
Following "sovereign States of America" — namely. South
' arolina, Georgia. Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Texas (as shown by the signatures
of the member- of the several
State di 1' gatii ns on the Constitu
tion adi ipti '1 i tth Man h, A.D.,
i86i, .it Mi mtgomery > Thei i
n stars and seven strip.
il i Im Id. Above i- the "Liberty
Cap" 'I lie wreath L composed rj
maturi otton and
.-■ -talk of sugar cane
.unit of ill* Confederate half dollar fa- been privately
printed for felamorl in,].; a- a contribution to American
histon I ! ion i- limited to one hundn .1 copii s. ■:
which this is Mi
follow nil. Hi ii . ame with tii<' prim hi n « nl
'lid with my kindest regards to \li S, A, Cunning
ham I- a slight token "f my regard and appreciation of hi-
dl rate hlStO! J
i in I ,iK'; 6l Easl -Jil Street. New York."
INCIDENTS eh I OF SHARPSBl R<
1 I rones, of I bice Creeks. Ark., writes:
iiK article in tie Si pti ml" I \ i 1 1 RAN
i Sharpsburg reminds me of an incident
of thai great battle which, in justici to the ton,],- referred t
1 upon the p i mfedei ate histot y
"I refer to thai desperate struggle on our left from earl-
dawn till midday. Jackson had barely been able to hold hi
own against gnat ...Id-, when he v. reed bj twi
gades under General Walker. The advance brigade was com-
posed of the 27th ami 46th North Carolina. 30th Virginia, and
.id Arkansas. As this brigade unit into action the enemj
mad. an advance movement, partially breaking our lines and
forcing back by might of numbers the left wing, comprising
the 30th Virginia and the l''tli North I uMma; but the j;i'i
North Carolina and the 3d Arkansas not only held their own
but made a countercharge, driving the enemy back from their
advance position and penetrating the center of their line.
This charge was through the historic cornfield near the
Quaker Church. Its effect was decisive on that part of the
field, as thereafter McClellan directed his attack entirely on
our right. It is proper to state that the charge was led by
General Cook, of the 27th Virginia, Colonel Manning, who
ranked him, being shot from his horse at the first onset.
"To corroborate this statement, I have in my possession,
obtained from the department at Washington City, a map of
the battlefield of Sharpsburg, drawn by United States engi-
neer-, which shows the exact position of every regiment of
both armies at every stage of the battle, and which shows
these two regiments in the midst offthe charge, at one time
almost completely enveloped by the enemy's lines."
A TENNESSEE PRIVATE IN VIRGINIA
BY r. H. BENTON, COLUMBUS, KV.
I In statement by Capt. W. P. Tolley in the Lebruarv \ 1
ikv> in regard to the Gaines Mill battle is recalled. It was
in; misfortune to take part in that great battle as a member
of Company C, 14th Tennessee Regiment. I was one of the
boys to crOSS the mill race We crossed the race
little to the right, went up a little ravine, forming our battle
line in.', under the hill. From there we charged the enemy,
gained their works, and captured six pieces of artillery. Our
color bearer in the charge planted his colors on the cannon
'.lis name was Taylor. He was tendered a nice sabei foi
his bravery, hut declined to accept it In the Inst charge the
enemj repulsed as and got one of our wounded boys, Dick
Pike, and earned him to their field hospital General Mc
Clellan came around and said to Dick that he didn't think
the "Johnnies" could drive him from that position, In the
i.r\t charge we carried everything before ns. capturing the
artillery. Our company lost heavily. Archer'- Brigade was
in the second charge. We kept them mi the run from Me
chanicsville to Malvern Hill, where they took a stand and re
-isted Stubbornly. We fought them until m that
night before we drove them from their position
The North Carolinians had the biggest 1"-- in that battle of
seven days before Richmond. I was also in the battle of
Seven Pines, in which Gen. Bob Hatton was Killed lie was
promoted to brigadier general on the evening before the bat-
tle The attack wa- made in the morning, and the North
1 arolinians and other troops fought and drove them until
m the afternoon, when we were double quicked four mil,- 1.,
reenforce them. When we got t" where they weir fighting
President Davis and members of 1"- Cabinet iven out there
I shall never forget what President Davis said to General
Hatton, which w 1- "General Hatton, I want you Tennesseans
to charge those peopli ["he North Carolinians have
charging them all day. and have driven them but three
mil, ' All right, Mr. President, if you say SO," replied
General Hatton. We hadn't been in the tight very long be-
fore General Hatton was killed We fought there until after
dark that night. The next morning tiny had crossed the river.
hut we came very near capturing them all the night before.
General Hatton was one of the Sou-th's most gallant ami
gifted men lie was eminent in public life. Mis wife. Mrs
S. K. Hatton, and their two daughters. Mrs, \V. E. T
and Mi M ni. Hatton, are at present residing in Nashville
;,( IS
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TENNESSEE, A GRAVE OR A FREE HOME.
BY H. K. NELSON, ADAIRVILLE, KV.
A feiv of us "old boys" yet remain who remember how se-
vere were the times when Hood's army marched from Love-
joy Station, in Georgia, to Nashville, Tenn. We flanked At-
lanta about the middle of September, and marched back up
the railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga in the rear of
Sherman (who at the same time swung loose from Atlanta
to march to the sea), marching by day and by night, tearing
up the railroad, until we reached Dalton, Ga., where General
Cheatham, who then commanded General Hardee's old corps,
captured the garrison, consisting of about five hundred negro
troops, together with a battery of artillery.
That night we had a picnic. The commissary stores be-
longing to the garrison and the sutler's stock contained many
luxuries, some of which made some of the boys and officer^
feel too exuberant. We left Dalton by way of Gadsden, Ala.,
taking the negro prisoners with us for a day or so. Many of
these negroes our soldiers recognized as their fathers' servants,
and had them to carry our knapsacks, etc.
The three corps, Cheatham's, Stewart's, and Lee's, marched
by separate routes, each of which was designated by specific
marks on the trees, that "stragglers" might be able to follow
their respective commands. One evening after having biv-
ouacked General Cheatham ("Old Frank," we called him)
came along and called for the "barefooted boys." He went
with them to the slaughter pen and had them to take the beef
bides and cut moccasins and whang them on their feet, turning
the hairy side in. However ridiculous it may have looked,
those moccasins served a good purpose.
Do you remember, boys, how we used to charge the "sor-
ghum patches" and carry with us the stalks for that delicious
juice, and how we would climb the persimmon trees and eat
the fruit thereof, which would sometimes make our mouths
assume the position of that of the "Whistling School-Teacher'"
Don't some of you remember that one day we halted to rest
near a dwelling which stood near the roadside, a double log
house, and that three young ladies in the yard sang, "I am
a Rebel soldier and fighting for my home," and that when
they had finished the old Rebel yell thrilled every one pres-
ent?
One evening while crossing Sand Mountain we had stacked
arms for the night, when a big deer with horns ran out of the
bushes, leaping over the guns, and was soon out of sight.
Not one of the boys tried to catch him, but every fellow
wished that his gun had been "loaded." After marching
across Sand Mountain and going down into the valley, Cheat-
ham's old division, then commanded by Gen. John C. Brown,
was detained near Decatur. Ala., to watch the Yankees, while
the main army, with the wagon train, moved on down the
river to Tuscumbia. All of that division will remember how
hungry we were while there. While we remained there, Oc-
tober 27 to 29, all the ration we drew was an ear and a half
of corn to the man. It was reported that a load of fodder
was on the way, but the wagon broke down before it got to
us. We picked up the grains of corn that the artillery horses
lost and roasted them in the ashes, and parched all the acorns
we could find under the oak trees, of which we made coffee
or ate. Then we broke camp and followed the other pan
of the army on to Tuscumbia, where we waited a few days
for the pontoon bridge on which to cross over to Florence.
One night the Federals tried to practice a ruse by coming
down lie rivei in a boat with the necessary implements to
cut loose our bridge; but just when they got there our boys
were wide awake and "took them in." After crossing the
river, we camped a few days, waiting for the artillery and
wagon trains to cross. One night some of the boys killed
General Gist's milch cow, and after dividing out the beef put
the cow's head on a pole and stood it up in front of the
General's tent. I heard this.
We then marched for Tennessee. The weather was very
bad We encountered rain, snow, ice, and mud. Orders were
very strict. We were forbidden to straggle, forage, kill any
hogs, or visit any henhouses, yet some such things were done.
Two boys who killed a hog which they said "tried" to "bite"
them were overtaken by one of our generals, who made them
carry the hog suspended from a fence rail all day.
It was snowing hard one evening late when we stopped
to camp for the night, and some of the boys cut down a tree,
which fell on others, killing three of them. Another night
in desperation some of the boys went to "Marse Frank's" head-
quarters and took a barrel of "hard-tack" from his tent, and
also a nicely cooked ham of fresh pork. One day we heard
cheering in front of us ; and when we got to the State line,
we found suspended from one tree to another across the road
a canvas with the inscription : "Tennessee, a Grave or a Free
Home." Then we knew what the cheering meant. Proudly
we marched across the State line under the canvas, thinking
whether it would be a grave or a free home. We marched
the quickstep to Columbia. Then Cheatham's Corps flanked
Columbia and crossed Duck River some four miles above,
and made a forced march to cut off Schofield's army at Spring
Hill. What a tiresome march that was ! We reached Spring
Hill about sunset. We all remember the sad mistake made
there when, on the 29th of November, 1864, we slept on arms
within gunshot of our enemies, who were passing up the turn
pike for Franklin in the most confused manner — infantry,
1 • valry, artillery, wagons, and ambulances in a conglomera-
! _n. It was some one's fault that Schofield's army was not
captured or cut off that night, and that awful slaughter at
Franklin would have been averted.
Some of us wetrt into the Yankee lines that night, and on
reporting to our general heard the conditions discussed. Orr
the morning of the 30th we started for Franklin. By tire
roadside we saw many wagons with the teams killed in har-
ness, giving evidence of the presence of our cavalry and the
consternation of the enemy. That was a stony pike to the
vicinity of Franklin. A sad accident happened on the way.
llrree men were riding on a caisson when the friction caused
the powder to ignite, blowing them high into the air an.!
killing all three instantly.
Another incident. The poem, "O No ! He'll Not Need
Them Again," was written of Gen. Pat Cleburne, who had a
presentiment of his death. While riding along his line lie
noticed a captain, an old friend of his, marching barefooted
with his feet bleeding. The General got down from his horse
anil asked the captain to please pull off his boots. On his
doing so. the General told him to put them on, that he would
not need them again, and, bidding the captain good-by. rode
away, and was soon killed in that condition.
In the afternoon about three o'clock we reached the top of
Winstead Hill, where we could view Franklin arrd all tll2
Federal fortifications. When we had halted there a short
while. General Hood rode over the crest of the hill, examined
the situatiorr with his field glasses, arrd, returning to the line,
said to an officer : "General, we will make the fight." Just
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then every man's face was a study, and we thought of the
inscription at the State line "Tennessee, a Grave or a Free
I [omi " Whi( h -liould it be?
From the top of the hill to the main line of the enemy's
must have been a mile and a bail' over quite a level
plain which we must :ross in full view of the Yankees. 4Dur
"iiii-i rs began to move in hot haste, getting ready to lead
their respective :ommands. How well I remember thi
expression of General Cranberry's fao and General Strahl
looked as if be were marching into an ive." Then
Wi tarted down die slope in column-, of brigades, wilb our
brigade band in front, and they played until the pickets began
firing. The bands then stopped and we wheeled into line Eoi
tin chargi We did not advance a skirmi h line, bul movi I
in solid line of battle, while the bombshells from the I ed< al
batterii were bursting thick and fast over our heads, and
their Mime balls audibly warned Us of the "grave." Not a
man halted or hesitated. We rushed over their outer line,
capturing some, while others retreated, which was a
protection to us. By the time the few oi them thai did es
cape wen inside their main line we were Up again. i the out
For a short time it appeared uncertain who would be the
victors; bul the Federals' main line of works was jusl south
Of the tarter House garden, by the cotton gin and the
locust grove. A few of us crossed over the works, only to
lie down on our faces and wait for the morning. The right
of mil brigade was next to the Columbia Pike, and thi li '•
ded by the Cartel House. I saw tin it'ar.kei charge
Colonel lleiman's brigade at Fort Donelson, and stood upon
the breastworks after the charge and looked at the piles of
dead I was with Gregg's small brigade in the battle 01
Raymond, Miss, where we fought a corps of Grant's arm,
for -i\ hours, coming off the field in the evening twilight,
leaving about one-third of the brigade on the field; I was al
Chiokainauga when on Sunday morning the roar oi thi at
tillery was so constant that you could hardly distinguish one
gun from another, and participated in the charge across ill,
Dyer field, where we captured sixteen steel rifle pieces of
artillerj . I stood on Missionary Ridge and saw the Federals
climb the rocky hillside and threw stones at them; 1 was al
Ri i i when the Yankees i harged our works with such who],
sale slaughter; I was at the "Dead Angle" when the Yankei ■
d Cheatham's boys and planted their Hag on our works:
1 was at Jonesboro when they rushed upon the unfinished
works of Colonel Caldwell's men; 1 was iii that haul battli
at Atlanta on the 22d of July. 1S64, when General McPherson.
Of the Other Side, ami our Cell. W. II. T. Walker were killed;
but a II olute and determined charge was never made
by an army than was made on thai emorable evening
<>f the 30th of November, 1864 On the next morning thei
were I Is of blood, and the dead lay in piles against the
■ ime prosti oss Others, and soin ■
leaning against the w 0 ' with their guns in theil hands
Franklin v.. is most disastrous, and in casual
iii rea tands w ithi an a pai alb 1 in the an
w lule the loss of general office] - e> led
any two baiiles of the war. Brown's Division li
Gist, and Carter, who were killed; Gordon was captured and
I Brown was wounded. In Cleburne' n Cle
burne, Granberry, and Warns wen killed The few of us who
left began the search for missino comrades, and again I
could not but recall the inscription on the canvas at the State
line: "Tennessee, a Grave or a Free Home." When 50m of
us would recognize a dead comrade, we would write the name,
command, and regiment on a slip of paper, and place it
between the cold and contracted fingers or pin it on Ins sleeve.
then go on in search of others. I remember finding my friend,
\rtbtir Fulkerson, sergeant major of the 19th Tennessei
short distance from the wot cs with a slip of paper between
his fingers. When I saw SO many slain anil so few left. I
thought of the boy who "stood on the burning deck," ei.
Soon the work of burying the dead began. The old men
of the surrounding countrj began to arrive in vehicles of
various kinds, inquiring for their sons and friends, that, if
they were dead. thev might lake their remains home for burial
oi thi 1 boys who bad been buried were taken up and
carried home Having eared for the wounded and finished
burying the dead, we stalled on the 2d of Decembi
Nashville, almost entirely without officers, a mere handful ol
hungry, discouraged, demoralized, half-clad soldiers, to meet
an army largely reenforced by General Thomas, will disci
plined, well fed, and comfortably clothed, of at bast three
limes our number, only to be overwhelmed, driven by force
of numbers from our position, retreating through muddi.
fields and over slippery hills, and finally out of Tennessee,
when again 1 thought of the inscription on the canvas
Boys, I have written thi 1 1 e wi an ".Ming very
scarce, and the Ww of us who are left will have to talk often
and verj fast or we will not get into history. Many personal
things should be told, that the future generations, max know
what we endured.
The foregoing interesting paper will be appreciated by
Hood's armj survivors. I here is a question as to whether
General Cheatham was called "Old" Frank or "Marse" Frank
The term was endearing, as all of his men loved him. The
\ 1 iikvx would like to bear from those who remember.
This article was submitted to ex Gov. James l> Porter,
of Tennessee, who was , ,, General Cheatham's staff, and he
adds the following: "Dr. C. D. Elliott, of Nashville, was the
author of the banner, li was suspended across the road, and
under it the army marched. Dr. Elliott was disappointed at
the greeting given it by the first soldier, who called out to
him. 'Nary grave for me, old man;' and it v ted by
the entire line, to the disgust of Elliott."
Concerning the manner of addressing General Cheatham,
Governor Porter says; "It was 'Marse Frank.' It is a mis-
take that a barrel of hard-tack and a ham were taken. 'Marse
Frank' did not have either. lie lived just like In
and when coin w.- issued to the men. it was also issued to
him and bis staff."
INQl IRIES FOR AND ABOUT VETERANS.
J K Phillips writes as follows; "Among those who fol-
lowed the 'Wi/ard of th, Saddle,' Gen X. B. Forrest, was
W. F. Nelson, who lived at Hillsboro, in Coffei County, Tenn.
lb- was born in Warren Countj in (833, and enlisted in the
Civil War ,n Fori Smith, Ark. ill [86l, joil I chill's
nt .it I ittli Rock lb wa- in the battles of Spring
Mo. b Farmington, Miss., Richmond, K>
I enn . and was left sick at Jackson. Miss, when
Johnstbn evacuated, where he was finally mustered OUl oi
1 Omradi Nelson is now in his seventieth year, awaiting
the reaper of time. Me is a consistent Christian and wor-
ships with the M. E. Church, lie is anxious to con.
with old comrades who associated with him in the service"
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"Now the laborer's task is o'er.
Now the battle day is past ;
Now upon the farther shore
Lands the voyager at last.
Father, in thy gracious keeping
Leave we now our comrades sleeping."
Francis M. Ives.
Francis Marion Ives died in Portsmouth, Va., July 4, 1907,
at the age of seventy-three years. He entered the Confeder-
ate service in April, i86i,as a private in the Portsmouth Light
Artillery, Grimes's Battery, in which he served to the end of
the war, participating in the great battles in Virginia.
Comrade Ives had been living in Florence, S. C, for a
number of years, and was making his annual visit to relatives
in Portsmouth, Va., at the time of his death. He was a brave
soldier and an honored member of Stonewall Camp, U. C V.,
of Portsmouth, Va.
Lieut. Thomas Henry Gleason.
Thomas Gleason died at his home, in Portsmouth, Va.,
September 18, 1907, aged seventy-three years. He entered
the Confederate service April 20, 1861, as a sergeant in Com-
pany B, 3d Virginia Infantry, Kemper's Brigade, Pickett's Di-
vision, A. N. V. He was promoted to first lieutenant, and was
wounded in the first battle of Cold Harbor and at Gettysburg.
He was a gallant soldier, a true friend, and a man held
in high esteem by all who knew him, and especially so by the
Stonewall Camp, U. C. V., of which he was a member.
[The foregoing notice came from Adjt. Thomas Shannon.]
J. N. Rushing.
The Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, No. 654, U. C. V., at
Baird, Tex., passed resolutions in regard Id J. N. Rushing,
"the true soldier," who was "found ready for the call," which
came to him at his home, in Wea'therford, Tex., on October
1, 1907. Comrade Rushing was a member of Company E,
13th Texas Infantry. Locating in Baird in the early eighties.
he interested himself in the organization of Camp Albert Sid-
ney Johnston, and to his death he was ever true, ever faith-
ful to its welfare. As a citizen of Callahan County and of
Baird, he was ever ready to aid in all enterprises for the good
of both. He stood high in the estimation of his fellow-citi-
zens.
A consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, by his
outward life he lived close to the tenets of his creed. A few
years ago, on account of his health, he moved to Weatherford,
Tex., but still held property here and his Camp membership.
As faithfully as he served his Camp, his Church, and his
county did he serve his State as a member of the Legislature,
which is attested by many salutary laws upon its statue books
of which he was the originator.
The resolutions were signed officially by J. E. W. Lane, Ad-
jutant, and W. C. Powell. Commander.
Simeon D. Slaughter.
Simeon Drake Slaughter was born in Harrodsburg. Ky ,
June 23, 1843. While an infant his parents removed to the
old historic Fisher residence, near Danville, the first two-
story brick residence east of the Kentucky River, and the elt
of which is still in good condition. Here he grew to man-
hood and spent most of his life, removing about six years
ago to Muskogee, Ind. T., where he engaged actively in busi-
ness till forced by failing health to retire a few months ago.
Death came to him as comrades were going to the Richmond
Reunion, which he was anxious to attend, that he might an-
swer roll call, as "Quirk's old scouts are getting scarce."
Comrade Slaughter enlisted in the Confederate cavalry in
the winter of 1862 as a member of Capt. Tom Quirk's scout-,
under Morgan, a company of men ninety per cent of whom
were of the old squadron disbanded in the Lebanon (Tenn.)
fight May 5, 1862. Sim Slaughter was accounted one of the
safest and best scouts of the- company, and it was while on
the Ohio raid and the company almost entirely used up that
by his alertness the life of Maj, Thomas Thorp was saved,
and on other occasions his bravery and coolness helped to
avert death and disaster. While a prisoner in Camp Douglas
after the failure of the Ohio raid he acted as principal director
in the tunneling undertaken for the liberation of the prison-
ers, though he failed in making his escape. He was with the
guards of President Davis in their march southward from
Richmond in 1865. He returned home a poorer yet unrecon-
structed man and took up his life work as a farmer.
Comrade Slaughter was married in 1873 to Miss Ollie Bo-
simeon d. slaughter and sons.
hannon, of Woodford County, Ky., who survives him witii
two sons and a daughter, as also a comrade brother, Dr. B
G. Slaughter, of Winchester, Tenn., a much-scarred veteran.
The family will remain at Muskogee, where the young men
are successfully conducting business. The picture given shows
him as he was only a few days before his death, with his
two sons, whose names are among those first enrolled on the
roster of D. M. Wisdom Camp. S. C. V.. at Muskogee.
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C.M'T. II. M. M m;i a \nt.
Another Confederate soldier lia> (alien! Capt Henry
Mortimer Marchant, of the Army of Northern Virginia, lias
at last received his discharge, and leaves liis old comrades
standing with bowed heads and sorrowing hearts. Captain
Marchant died in Washington, D. C, February -'4, 1907. He
wa- the Second Lieutenant Commander of Charles Broadway
Rouss Camp, No. 1191, 1 ( V., of Washington, D. C, by
whom hi- remains wen borne to the Arlington Cemetery and
buried in the Confederate section, which he. with his Camp,
had successfully labored to establish.
1 aptain Henrj Mortimer Marchant, born January -~. [843,
wa- tlii' -on of Jordan M. Marchant. of Norfolk, V'a., and
Elvira Weston Marchant nice Lawrence), and the grandson
of Jordan M. Marchant, also of the same city, .and Frances
Keeling Marchant. formerly Mrs Frances K. Shepherd, of
rort-month. Va. Me wa- the nephew -1 Mi- Susan Mar-
Chant Farragut, (lie first wife of Admiral Farragut, the
nephew of Mr-. Edna Marchant Porter, firsl wife of Com-
modore William 11. Porter, and the nephew of Mr-. Fanny
Marchant Gardner, wifi of Commodore William II. Gardner,
United States navy,
'in 1I1, Marchant side he wa- of Huguenot hi 1, hi- an-
cestors having gon< to 1 ngland dining the days of the French
pel ecution. Through the Lawrence-. Mason-, and Hodgi
he wa- of English extraction. Hi- parents moved from Vir-
ginia when he was -ix years old. and his first return thereto
wa- when, in 1S61. he marched then to aid in it- defense, a
beardless youth responding to the call for men to defend his
ed St mthland.
lie u.i- present at San Antonio, Tex., Februarj t8, 1861,
under Ben McCulloch, at the surrendei "i General Twiggs.
United States army, with all the military supplies belonging
CAPT. HENRY U. MARCHANT.
to the Department of Texas. Returning to his home, in Gon-
zales, Tex., his energies were devoted to aiding in the or-
ganization of the company which later became Company A,
of the renowned 4th Texas Regiment of Infantry, Hood's
Brigade, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Yn
Though 50 young, his energy and efficiency caused his selec-
tion as orderlj sergeant, and from that time till the close of
the wai he via constant^ with the command except when
wounded. For more than a year he commanded his company
with the use of only his left arm, owing to having I" en d<
perately wounded in the right shoulder at Sharpsburg.
I he military history of Captain Marchant is embodied in
that ol In company and regiment, from which he was in-
separable from the beginning to the close of the war. except
for the brief period when confined to his bed in the hospiti !
..1 Richmond.
Distinguished For hi- untiring energy, unfailing cheerful-
11 the inarch, and his intrepid courage and gallantry on
the battlefield, he was ever gentle and considerate with his
comrades, who so loved and esteemed him that forty years
after the war his soldierly qualities are remembered with high
honor and distinction by all who knew him.
Serving .1- firsl -ergeant of Company A. 4th Texas In-
fantry, upon the organization of the company, he was elected
second lieutenant May 25, 1862, promoted to first lieutenant
Maj i). [863, and to captain Ma\ 6, 1864.
In civil life the trait- of character which distinguished him
in war were exemplified by a faithful discharge of every duty,
In public hie later he wa- Deputy Collector of Internal Reve-
nue at Austin, Tex., during President Cleveland's first ad-
ministration, and later Special Agent. Department of Justice,
under Attorney-General A. H. Garland.
lie was a member of the Charles Broadway Rou-s Camp.
No 1 101, U. C. V, of Washington. D. C, and engaged zeal-
ously in il- work, taking special interest in the endeavor to
effect honorable care of the Confederate dead in Arlington
Cemeterj and the Northern States. He was also an active
member of the Order of the Southern Cross.
Mi- widow was the daughter of J. L. Stevens and Eliza-
beth Eaves, of Virginia, and resides in Washington City.
His only surviving sister, Mrs. Medora Marchant Little, re-
ides in II Past i, Tex,
rhi Charles Broadway K011-- Camp. No. 1191, U. C. V.,
Ij lenders its soldierly sympathy and heartfelt condo-
leno to In- widow and sister in their great bereavement.
and shares with them in their -orrow for our mutual loss.
hi \11is in Camp \t McKinney, Tex.
C II Lake, Adjutant at McKinney, Tex., reports the deaths
For the past .war in their Camp; Capt. W. A. Rhea. Company
D, 6th Texas Cavalrj ; .1 W. Pafford, Company B, 48th Vir-
ginia Infantry; P. G. Montgomery, Company G, 19th Ten-
liii.iniiv . Capt I M Boon, Company K, 3d and 5th
nii Infantry (consolidated); !■ Swain. Company H.
10th Georgia Infantry.
Whittle— R. M Whittle, horn in Alabama in 1845. was
taken by In- parents to Alcorn County, Miss., while a small
child. When tin War between the States began, he enlisted
for the South, serving with the nth Mississippi Cavalry under
('■en N. B. Forrest, making a fearless soldier, always at his
po-i. always cheerful. After the war. he removed to Van
Alstyne. 'lex . where he remained until his death, July 24.
1907. Comrade Whittle was never married.
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Col. Robert Enoch Withers.
Col. R. E. Withers died at his home, in Wytheville. Va.,
September 21, 1907. He rendered distinguished service to
his State and country, both as soldier and statesman, in his
long life of eighty-six years. He was the oldest son of Dr.
Robert W. and Susan Alexander Withers, and was born at
Rock Castle, Va., September 18, 1821, and was reared in the
country. He was educated in the neighborhood schools, and
finished at Woodbourne Classical School, conducted by Sam-
uel J. Miller, in Pittsylvania County, Va. He studied medi-
cine and taught school while reading for his profession, at-
tended lectures, and graduated at the University of Virginia
in 1841. Afterwards he was one of the resident physicians at
the Baltimore Almshouse Hospital. He practiced medicine
in his native county until 1858, when he removed to Danville,
where he practiced until 1861. He married February 3, 1846,
Mary Virginia, eldest daughter of Joseph E. and Elizabeth
Gwathnie Royal, of Lynchburg, Va., who bore him twelve
children, two of whom died in childhood.
Colonel Withers took two companies of infantry from Dan-
ville, Va., to Richmond, and was mustered into service on
April 22, 1861, with the rank of major. He was made colonel
of the 18th Virginia Regiment of Infantry. He served with
this regiment in the battles of First Manassas, Williamsburg,
Seven Pines, and Gaines's Mills, at which latter place he was
shot from his horse while leading the final charge and received
rive wounds, two through the body. He rejoined his command
twice ; but was never again fit for active duty, and was trans-
ferred to the invalid corps and placed in command of the
prison post at Danville, where he surrendered to Wright's
Corps, of the Federal army, and was paroled on the 21st of
April, 1865.
Colonel Withers removed to Lynchburg in 1866, and was
the first editor of the Lynchburg News, which soon became
a leading paper of the section. He was nominated for Gov-
ernor in 1868, and made an active, extended, and able canvass
of the State. He was the first public man in Virginia to raise
the race issue, which he did in his first speech, which was
made in the city of Petersburg before an audience of three
thousand people, about half of whom were negroes. In this
speech he announced to the negroes that he neither asked nor
expected their votes, and appealed only to the white race.
He later withdrew from the race for Governor and removed
his family to Russell County and conducted a large grazing
farm for some years. He was made an elector at large on
the Greeley ticket, and canvassed the State in its support.
In 1873 he contested with General Kemper the nomination
for Governor of the State, but was defeated. He was then
offered the second place on the ticket by the unanimous vote
of the convention, and accepted it. He again actively can-
vassed the State, and the ticket was elected by a large ma-
jority. As Lieutenant Governor he presided over the State
Senate, and was nominated and elected United States Senator
after a long and arduous struggle by the Virginia Legislature.
He took his seat in the United States Senate March 4, 1875.
and served until 1881, being succeeded by General Mahone,
who was the head of the "Readjustee."
After serving his term in the Senate, Colonel Withers re-
tired to his farm near Wytheville, and devoted his attention
to it until after the election in 1884. Under the Cleveland
administration he was appointed Consul to Hongkong,
China. He sailed for Hongkong, accompanied by his family,
in June, 1885, having been complimented on the eve of his
departure by a public banquet given in his honor by the citi-
zens of his town and county. He served four years as Consul,
and resigned cm the election of President Harrison. He re-
turned to Wytheville, where he afterwards resided.
Colonel Withers devoted much time and attention to the
order of Masonry, having successively filled all of the offices
of the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of the State
organization, as well as the Grand Encampment Knights Tem-
plars of the United States. He was chosen Grand Commander
COLONEL WITHERS (iN CENTER) AND TWO OF HIS SOLDIERS.
of that order in San Francisco in 1S83. He traveled the
long journey from Hongkong to St. Louis in 1S86 to attend
the Grand Conclave of the Grand Encampment held in that
city. He took all of the degrees in the Scottish Rite, includ-
ing the thirty-second. He was for many years prominently
identified with the Episcopal Church, and was lay deputy to
the General Conventions of his Church.
As citizen, soldier, and statesman, in all of the varied posi-
tions that he held, Colonel Withers measured up to the full
standard of the upright and perfect man. In no position had
he failed to measure up to its most exacting requirements ;
but the crowning glory of his well-spent life was in his do-
mestic circle as husband, father, friend, and neighbor.
Woods.— Camp Slaughter. U. C. V. of Albany, Ga., lost a
faithful member in the death of W. A. Woods, which oc-
curred in August. 1907. His early life was passed in the
State of Alabama, and his first service for the Confederacy
was with the 18th Alabama Regiment. He was transferred
to the 5th Georgia Regiment, in both of which command-; he
served with patriotism and gallantry, lie had lived to an
advanced age (years not given) ; but whenever possible he
would meet with the Camp, taking an eager interest in its
work. Resolutions to his honor were passed by the Camp, by
which his memory is held in respect and affection.
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J. W. LlNDSEY.
John W. Lindsey was born near Double Springs, Putnam
County, Tenn., in July, 1840 ; and at sixteen years of age re-
moved to Nashville, where he engaged in business with the
noted firm of Irby Morgan & Co.. dry goods merchants, con-
tinuing with this firm till the breaking out of the Civil War,
when he enlisted as a soldier in the Con federate army. He
was first made sergeant in Kelson's Artillery, and partici-
pated in the battles of Columbus, Ky.. and Island No. 10. At
the latter place he was captured and scut to Johnson's Island
for six months or more, when lie was exchanged. He re-
enlisted and was elected a first lieutenant in Maj. William
Winslow's Battalion, which was ordered to Mobile, Ala., and
in that vicinity it was
on guard duty for
about two years. The
battalion was then
ordered to Georgia
to help retard Sher-
man in his march to
the sea. In ibis cam-
paign the entire bat-
talion was captured
and confined in the
Federal prison at
Ship Island for three
months, guarded by
negro soldiers.
While at Ship Is-
land Mr. Lindsej was
a great sufferer. 1 Ic
was still a prisoner
there when President
Lincoln was shot.
After his release, he
returned to Nashville,
and for many yeats
was connected with the wholesali clothing linn of IV II
Cooke & Co. Me retired from this firm principally on ac-
rount of bad health, and later org in '.1 the linn of Lindsey,
Goodbar & Co., wholesale bat dealers, in Memphis, lie sold
oul his business interests there after the epidemic of yellow
fevefi iii 1878-79. and returned to Nashville, where he organ
ized the wholesale hat firm of J. W. Lindsey & Co., in which
he remained for several years. Recentlj he had been connected
with the Royal Milling Company with his son. R. C. Lindsey.
Mr. Lindsey was a man of unimpeachable integrity, and
enjoyed the confidence and respect of all who knew him. To
the last he was loyal to the South, and on his deathbed
frequently talked of old days in the army and of old comrades
whose memories he revered lie was an honorary member of
the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment.
A I'. Crawley.
A. I!. Crawley, corporal of Company G, 8th Kentucky In-
fantry, died August l>. 1907, mar Cadi/. Ky. lie was .1 native
of Charlotte County. Ya.. but enlisted in Kentucky in t86l
lie was captured with his regiment ;it For) Donelson, and
ill prison scv.11 months. After be ing exchanged, I1
with Ins regimen) a) Coffeeville, Miss. Baker's Creek, Big
Black River, around Yickshurg, Jackson. 1'aduc.di. Ky. ]
at Guntown, Miss, he was under Forrest; also at Tupelo,
Harrisburg. Old Town Creek. Johnsonville, with Hood's ad-
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vance into Tennessee, at Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin,
and Murfreesboro. He was of the rear guard of Hood's
army back to the Tennessee River, and was surrendered with
his company and regiment at Columbus, Miss., May 15, 1865.
Comrade Crawley made an ideal soldier, a splendid citizen,
and died with the love and esteem of his neighbors.
Capt. W. B. Johnson.
W. B. Johnson was born in Alabama, his parents removing
to Mississippi when he was a child. He served in the war
with Mexico, enlisting with the Mississippi Rifles, which be-
came Company F, 2d Regiment Mississippi Volunteer In-
fantry, commanded by Col. Jefferson Davis, General Wool's
Brigade. Taylor's Division, U. S. A. He was in all the cam-
paigns of that regiment. Returning to Mississippi at the close
of that war. he engaged in the mercantile business until the
secession of Mississippi, when he was among the first to re-
spond to her call for volunteers. He raised a company of in-
fantry and was elected captain, the company being mustered
in as Company H, 3d Regiment Mississippi Infantry, with
which he served honorably and faithfully during the war.
Captain Johnson went to Texas in 1866 and engaged in
mercantile business. He died at Matador, Tex., in March.
1907. having shortly passed his seventy-ninth birthday. He
was a lifelong Church member, and had lived an exemplary
Christian life, being loved and honored by all wdio knew him.
Five sons and two daughters are left. He was a member of
the Masonic order, and was buried with its rites.
Robi i;i B Morris.
Robert B. Morris passed peacefully into the beyond on the
2Sth of June, after a serious operation at the Virginia Hos-
pital, in Richmond. Ya. lie enlisted in Company C. Fluvanna
Rifle Guards, organized at Palmyra. Ya., with Capt. Robert
H. Poore commanding, which was attached to the 14th Vir-
ginia Regiment. \iniistead's Brigade, and of that incompara-
ble host known .is Pickett's Division. Comrade Morris served
with this regiment in its many sanguinary conflicts until its
surrender. Though an invalid for many years, he attended
the last Reunion in Richmond, and greeted many comrades
he had not seen since -that fateful day at Appomattox C. 11.
In early life Comrade Morris was married to Miss Bettie
Brightwcll, a faithful and loyal companion through the vicis-
situdes of life. With her are eight children surviving — six
sons and two daughters. He was a member of Fluvanna
Camp, U. C. V., and with his casket wrapped in the sacred
emblem of his beloved Southland his comrades bore him to
his last resting place.
Francis CarseRA Sou 1 1
Francis C. Sollcc was born in .Charleston. S. C. in Sep-
tember. 18,54. and educated in that city, graduating from the
high school in 1840. He early In. Mine prominently identified
with the business life of the city, but removed to Florida in
[853. He was one of the original members of the Palmetto
Guards of Charleston, organized in 185 1. and was also of
the original membership of the Jacksonville Light Infantry
and first lieutenant in 1850 He was in the last war with the
Seminole Indians as second lieutenant of Hart's company of
mounted volunteers, 1858-59.
Entering the service oi I lorida as first lieutenant of the
4th Light Infantry at the commencement of the War between
the States, he assisted in erecting a battery at the mouth of
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St. John's River — Fort Steel, lie resigned from that posi-
tion, and was then commissioned by Governor Perry to raise
a company of infantry which was called the Confederate
Rifles. Disbanding that company in [862, he enlisted as a
private in the Chatham Artillery of Savannah, Ga.. and was
shortly promoted to sergeant of the battery. He was after-
ward-, transferred to Florida and made instructor of tactics
for the ioth Florida Infantry under Col. C. F. Hopkins, and
later was appointed quartermaster of the regiment.
He was appointed by General Finegan to the command of a
68-pound rifle gun mounted on a flat hand car on the rail-
road, in the operations against the Federal forces occupying
Jacksonville, and had several encounters with gunboats and
with a Federal battery mounted on the railway. He partici-
pated in the battle of Olustee, and went to Virginia with
Finegan's brigade and was present at the second battle of
Cold Harbor and at the siege of Petersburg.
He returned to Florida very sick shortly before the sur-
render of General Lee. He returned to Jacksonville in 1865,
and commenced life over again as a clerk in the employ of
Brock's line of steamers as master of the steamer Hattie.
plying between Jacksonville and Lake Harney, for about two
years. He went to Texas with a view to settling there, but
returned to Florida. He was for four years assistant post-
master at Jacksonville, and for eight years served as in-
spector, deputy collector, and acting collector of customs.
Dr. Thomas J. Scott.
Dr. Thomas J. Scott was born in Mooresville, Ala., January
28, 1838. He was educated at Huntsville. Ala., and at Prince-
ton, Ark. He graduated from the Vicksburg (Miss.) Medical
College, and from the New Orleans College of Surgery in
1859. He began the practice of medicine at Arkadelphia, Ark.
Dr. Scott's direct ancestors served in all of the wars for in-
dependence from the Revolution down, and Dr. Scott himself
was an honored Confederate war veteran.
When the first call for volunteers from Arkansas came, in
1861, Dr. Scott enlisted in Company A, 1st Arkansas Infantry,
and in May, 1861, his command was sent to Virginia. It
served under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston during the first year of
the war. He was one of those Arkansas boys who at Manas-
sas Junction gave the famous Rebel yell that turned the tide
of that battle. He was called from the field to the hospital
to attend to the soldiers wounded in that battle, and served
as assistant surgeon under Johnston until January, 1862, when
a vacancy occurred on Gen. Joe Wheeler's staff, and Dr.
Scott was appointed to fill the position of chief surgeon under
Wheeler, which position he held until the close of the war.
Dr. Scott and several other Arkadelphians were captured
during the siege of Savannah. They escaped on rafts made
of rice boats and crossed the river to the South Carolina side.
When near Greensboro, they came up with President Davis
and his family, Cabinet, and escort. Dr. Scott was among
those who guarded the presidential party. Recrossing the
Savannah River, the party camped near Whitesboro. On the
morning of May 4 the guards were drawn up to the Presi-
dent's tent, and from a pay wagon each soldier received
$26.50 of Mexican money, when they were disbanded.
They started for the homes they had not seen for four ter-
rible years. Just at nightfall they came upon a squad of
Federals, who fed them and treated them well and the next
morning gave them paroles.
Dr. Scott returned to Arkadelphia and practiced his pro-
fession there until 1878, when he moved to Hot Springs. Ark.
In 1882 he was elected President of the Board of Physicians
of that place, and soon won the gratitude of that people. In
1897 he moved to Houston, lex., and remained there until
DR. THOMAS J. SCOTT.
Texas called for volunteer physicians to go to the flood suf-
ferers. Dr. Scott answered the call, and served the State in
that capacity until no longer needed. He had become so well
pleased with the climate of the coast that he made his home
there until his death, October 1, 1906.
During the epidemic of smallpox at Hot Springs Dr. Scott,
though not an immune, administered to the stricken.
At his death Dr. Scott was surgeon for his U. C. V. Camp
and local surgeon Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad.
[This data is from Mrs. Laura Winfield Butler, nee Scott.]
H. A. Suelett.
H. A. Sublett was born at Lascassas, Term., December 27,
1841 ; and died near Trenton, Term., May 30, 1907. He joined
the Confederate army at Murfreesboro in the early part of
1S61, enlisting in Company C, 18th Tennessee Regiment. His
first captain was J. B. Palmer, afterwards brigadier general.
He was of the first soldiers quartered at Camp Trousdale.
He shared in the vicissitudes of this army to Shiloh. He
then went with General Bragg through the Kentucky cam-
paign, and in all the battles from Perryville to Mission
Ridge; then under Joseph E. Johnston in his hundred days'
campaign to near Atlanta. He was captured later, and spent
the rest of the war in Camp Chase Prison. He was honorably
paroled when the war was over. Through all this he was
only slightly wounded once, and his comrades testify as to
his heroic conduct as a soldier. When the war was over, with
malice toward none who had opposed him he took up the
battle of life in the same determined spirit, the dominant prin-
ciple of his life being an abiding love and devotion to his
Southland, yet ever true to whatever flag floated over him.
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Mrs. M.m \iiik E. Lyon.
Mrs. A. E. Lyon was born at Cheek's Crossroads, Hawkins
County, Tenn., December ft [817. She died at the residence
of her son-in-law, Capt. B. L. Ridley, in Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
October 6, [907, lacking two months of completing her nine-
tieth year. Sin was the daughter of David A. Deaderick,
"f Knoxville, who died in [873, and a niece of the late James
W, Deaderick, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of i.u
ller mother, who died at Iter birth, was Adelaide
I Jackson, the eldest sister of Gen. Alfred E. Jackson, a
ivell-known Confederate brigadier general.
Mrs Lyon was most carefull) reared as a member of her
grandmother Deaderick's family, and for this grandmother
she ever entertained a most tender and devoted affection, In
1837 she was married to Rev James \ I yon, a Presbyterian
minister and the pastor of the Church at Rogersville, renn
In (841 she removed with her husband and two small sons
to ' olumbus, Miss. In that place Dr. I, yon ministered to
the Presbyterian Church for nearlj a quarter of a century,
and exerted a most potential and beneficent influence in the
community, which is still recognized. He was con amore
a Southerner i" the core, and was conscientiously a pro-
slaver;, man. but he was much opposed i" the secession move
ment, large!} because of the belief, with aim isl prophetic pre-
: cause must fail in the end. For tins rei
he was |,„ ., while ungenerously criticised by many of his
warmest friends who, in the heat of the hour, deemed linn
lacking in civic patriotism But when the crucial test came,
he sent to the front his two available sons, who faithfully
served in the Confederate armj to the end and who made
cxcelh nt i ci ords.
1 >r. Lyon was one of the most eminent ministers of his
Church in the South, and as one of the leaders was active
in tin- organization of the Southern branch of the Presbyterian
Church, at Augusta, Ga., in t86i. He was the Moderator of
il third I ral Assembly, in 1863, at Columbia, S. C.
With her husband's views .Mrs Lyon coincided. She >■
at all limes his sympathetic Coworker, and ill the true scrip-
tural i ense his "helpmeet
< olumbus, as is will known, became a very important raili
tary pomt as the war progressed a- the seat of ordnance,
quartermaster, and commissar; departments, etc. Large hos
MKs. A, I LYON AMi HER FIVE CHILDREN,
Tanken on hi th birthday.
pilals were located there also, and hundreds of the Confed-
erate sick and wounded were sent there. At first these hos-
pitals were well supplied, and the patriotic and enthusiastic
ladies vied with one another in gentle ministrations. Dainties,
delicacies, flowers, and other evidences of interest and atten-
tion were profuse; but as the war dragged its weary length
along, as the shadows began to lengthen and the dismal
clouds gathered thick, then it was that Mrs. Lyon became
more conspicuous in her ministrations, bier slendet
was seen daj after day. in sunshine or in ram, wending her
the hospital, bearing in her hands a pitcher of milk,
sonu palatable light bread, or something else suited to the
condition of the poor boys King on their hard hospital
.ouches. Nor did she administer alone to the physical man.
but spoke words Of tenderness and comfort and directed
their thoughts along spiritual lines, as she was so eminently
qualified to do. This self-imposed service continued for her
country, for humanity, and for her Master.
At th. age of seventeen years Mrs. Lyon formally united
with the Presbyterian Church — the Church in which sin was
reared — at JonesborO, linn. She was a Calvinist of the
most pronounced type, and in her religious life she wa 1
rigid constructionist a strict observer of the Sal. hath day
all times a most faithful attendant upon the minis-
trations of her Church and kindred meetings. If her place
was vacant, her associates knew iliai her absence was im-
perative. Practically all her life she set aparl one-tenth of
her '.moss income, which she was pleased to .1, nominate the
'Lord'- money." to he scrupulously devoted to charitable and
religion, purposes.
Her husband died in Mississippi in 1882. Three children
preceded her to the grave — two daughters in early childhood
(1849). and a son, Judge Theodoric C. Lyon, of Columbus,
Miss, in [884. Five children survive: Dr. A. A. Lyon and
.Mrs John \Y. (Judge) Childress, Nashville; Prof. Jann \
Lyon (Southwestern Presbyterian University), Clarksville,
Tenn,; Mrs. Eagle ton M. Smith, Hollj Springs. Miss; ami
Mrs, B. 1 . Ridley, Murfreesboro, renn
\lt.r the death of lier husband, Mrs. Lyon made her domi-
cile iii Ten11es.ee with her youngest daughter, Mis Ridley
ller winters were usually spent with her daughter, Mrs
Smith, at I lolly Springs, and her summers largely in her
cottage at Monteagle, where -he had gone for man) years.
Ih, is has passed awaj from earth and its sorrows to her
final reward a faithful woman who had dedicated her long
truest meaning of that term.
1 :i mi 1 .- B Prii 1
; 1 f tl Id ( onfeder tte vetei ans « a I hai les B i'i ice,
born in I. . I. anon. \"a.. in [843-; and his death occurred
Hansonville, Ky . in February, 1907 \s a true patriot, he
answered the call of the South for soldiers, entering the
ii 1 as a private in I pan; C, .',; th Vii ginia Regimi nt,
Jackson's Division. He was in many halll.-. never shrinking
from dun. and remained with this regiment till the battle
11 Run, where he was wounded. After recovering suf-
ficiently to rejoin the army, he entered the 16th Vii
airy, and remained with it till the surrender. He then re-
turned to his native county and married Mi-- Ellen Dicken
-..11. who survives him with two daughters. Comrade Price
member of McElhenny Camp at Lebanon, and in Jan-
uarj had received his cross of honoi From II II Dickenson
Chapter, U. D C, ol that place.
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Rev. William Catesby Latane.
William Catesby Latane, son of Dr. James H. and Janet
J. Latane, was born at Mahockney, his father's home in Es-
sex County, Va., July 19, 1847. Young as he was, he enlisted
the last year of the war; and although ready for every duty,
he was ordered to the front too late to be of service.
Immediately after the war he was sent to Judge Coleman's
school in Fredericksburg, and later went to the University
of Virginia. Afterwards he studied law, and in 1872 he en-
tered the Theological Seminary near Alexandria, Va. He
was ordained by Bishop Whittle in June, 1875, and in Septem-
ber, 1875, took charge of Washington Parish, in Westmoreland
County, which he served acceptably and faithfully until
October 1, 1888, when he accepted a call to Leeds Parish,
Fauquier County.
He was married in November, 1876, to Miss Sue Wilson,
of Wakefield. He was called back to his old field in 1889,
and continued in charge of this work till October 1, 1906,
when failing health forced him to resign. While he had the
best medical attention, the tender care of an affectionate and
devoted wife and loyal children, and the loving sympathy of
all who knew him, death, "that loves a shining mark," took
him away on December 22, 1906. He bore his affliction with
Christian fortitude and yielded peacefully to the inevitable.
R. B. Spillman, who knew him intimately, writes that "he
was all that a pure, high-toned Christian gentleman could
be, 'a living epistle known and read of all men.' To know
him was to love him. His Church, his neighbors, his Camp,
and countless friends will ever mourn their loss. 'Blessed
are the dead that die in the Lord.' "
Gen. Jacob H. Sharp.
Gen. Robert Lowry, Major General Commanding Mississippi
Division, U. C. V.. writes officially of Gen. Jacob H. Sharp,
who died recently at Columbus, Miss. : "It becomes my pain-
ful duty to announce the death of our gifted and noble com-
rade, Gen. Jacob H. Sharp, on the evening of the 15th inst.
In all the heroic qualities that constitute a capable and trusted
military commander he was conspicuous. He had a courage
that never failed or quailed, an unusual alertness that antici-
pated surprises and quickly took advantage of opportunities,
and a magnetic leadership that imparted enthusiasm and
heroism to his command. No braver soldier ever enlisted
under the banner of his country, and no more dauntless leader
ever drew a sword in defense of his country's honor. He had
splendid virtues as a commander and citizen that will ever
make his memory a priceless possession. In the councils of
his State he held honored place and rendered valued services."
General Sharp had lived in comparative seclusion on his
Lowndes County farm, having taken no part officially in pub-
lic life except one or two terms in the Legislature. He en-
tered the Confederate service as a private in Blythe's famous
Mississippi battalion, later of the 44th Mississippi Regiment.
He rose to be captain in this command, and then was made
colonel at Chickamauga in 1863. He was promoted again for
gallantry on the field of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, succeeding the
late Gen. William F. Tucker, who was disabled by wounds.
Having shared all of its services and perils, General Sharp
surrendered the remnants of his brigade as a part of Gen.
Joe Johnston's army at Durham Station, N. C, April 26, 1865.
High tribute is paid General Sharp for his superb service
in the battle of Franklin. (See pages 500-503 in Veteran,
volume for JQ02, November issue.)
The personal characteristics of the man were well known.
"To the humblest soldier from Lowndes County he was al-
ways Jake ; to the commander of the army he was General
Sharp; but at all times and under all circumstances he was
the same kind, genial, and gallant gentleman, beloved by of-
ficers and men alike."
General Sharp was born in North Carolina in 1833 and
reared in Lowndes County, Miss., where he died September
15, 1907, in his seventy-fourth year. He was educated at
Athens, Ga., a classmate of Gen. John B. Gordon.
Col. W. J. Woodward.
The announcement of the death of Col. W. J. Woodward,
of Wilmington, N. C, will cause much sorrow in the wide
circle of his friends and acquaintances throughout the South
as well as in his native State. His death occurred cm October
II, after a severe lingering illness of some weeks.
William Joseph Woodward was born in Fayetteville, N. C,
in September, 1843. At the outbreak of the Civil War he cast
his lot with the Confederacy, enlisting in a company of the
famous Bethel Regiment. He was afterwards detailed to
important work in connection with the arsenal at Fayetteville,
remaining at this post of duty until the surrender at Appo-
mattox. Soon after the war he went to New York, engaging
in business there for five years. Later he removed to Florida,
and in 1886 he went to Wilmington in connection with the
large cotton-exporting firm of Alexander Sprunt & Son. At
the time of his death he was traffic manager of the large ship-
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ping interests of that house, and also secretary of the Cham-
pion Compress and Warehouse Company, an allied corpora-
tion of the firm. During his residence in Wilmington Colonel
Woodward had drawn to himself a company of friends such
as few men enjoy.
His interest in young men, one of his distinguishing traits,
had so endeared him to many of the younger generation that
his death comes as a personal loss. Kindly in his disposition,
genial, and ever ready to help the poor and minister to the
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suffering, lie possessed qualities which greatly endeared him tn
his fellow-man. Jlis integrity was unquestioned, and his
urbanity impressed all with whom he came in contact. He
was noted for his strong fraternal spirit, and stood high in
the affairs of the Knights of Pythias, being one of the
founders of the lodge in his city, and at one time serving as
Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of his State. He was
ever active in the affairs of the United Confederate Veterans,
being a prominent staff officer. He was ever a prominent
figure at the general Reunions U. C. V., serving his Division
Commander and Chief Commander in important relations.
Colonel Woodward is survived by his wife, who was Mi -
Mary Jane Worth, of Wilmington, and eight children. His
venerable mother, Mrs. A. J, Woodward, of Fayettcville, also
survive^ him.
Mrs Alice Smith Bakes,
Most pathetic was the death of the cultured and generally
beloved Mrs. Alice Smith Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
G, W. Smith, of Fresno. Cal., after a married life of only
three months, her death occurring at Aberdeen, Miss., August
6, 1907.
Born in the heart of the South, she was brought up in the
traditions that dialled the Southern women of the last gener-
ation to endure the hardships ,,f the world's greatest strug-
gle For principle with courage surpassing that of the soldier.
and her devotion to those principles preeminently fitted her
to represent the West at the Confederate Reunion, which she
did as sponsor for the Pacific Coast Division at the Conven-
tion in New Orleans in 1906.
Of her father's family, the aged head. Dr. John D. Smith,
too feeble to bear arms, was held as a hostage by the Federal
troops. His five grown sons — John D., Newton H., Thomas
H., Joseph II. , and R. W. Smith — were volunteer soldiers in
the service of their State, Tennessee. His five daughters mar-
MRS. ALICE SMITH DAKFR
ried Confederate officers, among them being Col. John F.
Newsom, wdio commanded the 19th Tennessee Regiment in
Bell's Brigade under General Forrest; Capt. A. B. Cook, also
of Bell's Brigade; Capt. W. P. Wood, of General Wheeler's
command; and Capt. Thomas Vance, a veteran of the Mexi-
can War. Her maternal grandfather, Samuel E. Kerr, served
four years in Company C, 2Sth Tennessee Regiment, Cheat-
ham's Division, and was wounded in both legs in front of
Atlanta. Her own father was a hoy of fourteen when the
war closed.
While on her way to the Reunion at New Orleans Mrs.
Baker (then Alice Smith) and her father were in San Fran-
cisco when the earthquake of April r8, 1906, occurred. Her
father returned to his home at Fresno; but she continued on
her mission under escort of Dr. Harrison, of Los Angeles, and
creditably performed her duties as representative for the
Western Division. Later she visited her father's old home in
Henderson. Tenn., also relatives in Mississippi; and it was
while acting as bridesmaid for .1 cousin at Jackson, Tenn.,
that sin- met Robert D. Baker, grandson of a gallant Con-
federate soldier who died on the field of battle, to whom she
was married in April, 1907, at Memphis, Tenn.
A loving and dutiful daughter, a woman of rare mental
attainments, of gracious presence and true and tender heart.
Alice Smith Baker, cut off in her happy young womanhood,
had the honor of being in herself one of those "angels of
peace" who are binding all sections of our country closer to-
gether; and these ties, though based largely upon sentiment,
are the strongest. She was a member of the Tyree Bell Chap-
ter, U. D. C, at Fresno.
Hon. Benjamin H. Bunn.
Comrade Benjamin II. Bunn, of Nash County, N. C. died
August 25, 1907, at the place where he was born October 19,
1844. Though only a boy in 1S61, he promptly enlisted in
Company I, 30th North Carolina Regiment. He took a trans-
fer to Company A, 47th North Carolina, in 1862, then camp-
ing at Drury's Bluff. From first to last as a soldier he was
patriotic and brave, active and efficient. He was chosen to
fill the first vacancies that occurred in the line officers of
his company; and when the second lieutenant was killed at
Bristow and the first at second Cold Harbor, he was promoted
tn their places successively. Comrade Bunn was wounded at
Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, where he received a shock from
a bursting shell which killed two members of his company;
but be joined his company when it recrossed the Potomac, and
participated in the remainder of the campaign of 1863. winter-
ing at Orange C. 11. and on the Rapidan. He was eontin-
uously nil duty from the Wilderness to Petersburg in 1864,
lux nig commanded bis company in the brilliant affair at
Reams Station or. August 25, 18
["here was no closing of the campaign of 1864, but a con-
tinual inn int.. 1865; and on March 25, 1865. he was again
painfully wounded by a Minie ball passing through his hand,
which hall killed his commanding officer of the picket line.
When Richmond was evacuated, he left the hospital, and,
walking, reached home the day of the surrender at Appomat-
tox.
Ih. boyhood closed with 'the closing of the great war; and
choosing -law as his profession, he plunged into reconstruc-
tion politics, and never let up work until the South was again
free. In law he was eminently successful, winding up a
strenuous life at the top of his profession. In politics too he
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attained high distinction, holding the leadership of his county
through life, having represented that people in the convention
of 1875 and in the Legislature. He also represented his dis-
trict as presidential elector and through three Congresses.
But immeasurably above and far beyond all his other
triumphs he left the wife of his busy life looking many years
younger than she is and eight grown and educated daughters
and sons, every one of whom is apparently without a single
physical, mental, or social blemish.
Silas Ewing Carter.
Capt. S. E. Carter was a native of Texas, born in Nacog-
doches County October 15, 1843. The family resided in sev-
eral different counties. When the Civil War began, he en
listed with Company D, 31st Texas Infantry, and was made
first lieutenant. Later he served as captain of the company
which he commanded during the last year of the war, but
never received a commission as captain. He ever led his
men in trying places. His mature life was nearly all spent at
Hillsboro, where as a citizen he was as worthy as when ,;
soldier in the service. As a merchant he established a fine
reputation for fair dealing and with open purse fur public
enterprises.
A local paper states: "One of the prettiest features of his
life was the tender devotion which ever existed between him-
self and the devoted wife and children who survive him, and
this was noted by all who enjoyed an acquaintance with the
family. The anguish of their bereavement is beyond expres-
sion. We may indeed weep and mourn with those who
mourn ; but our voices are hushed, our tongues are silent when
we would speak words of consolation to those prostrated with
such grief. The only message we are capable of sending to
these stricken ones in this anguish of their bereaved lives is
the soft, gentle words of our Saviour: 'Lo, I am with you al-
way.' "
Clopton. — At his home, at Thayer, Oregon County. Mo., B.
M. Clopton, a member of Col. J. R. Woodside Camp, No. 757.
died. He belonged to the 1st Kentucky Infantry, and was in
the First Manassas, Gettysburg, and many other battles. At
the time of his death he was police judge of the city of Thayer.
He leaves many friends to regret his death.
Mrs. Mary de Verdery Akin.
Mary de Verdery, the daughter of A. F. and Susan Burton
dc Verdery, was born July 6, 1830, in Augusta, Ga. The
family moved later to Floyd County, Ga. She was married
October 12. 184S, at Chieftain's (the former home of the
Cherokee chief, John Ridge), near Rome, Ga., to Col. Warren
Akin. Colonel Akin was a distinguished lawyer, being con-
sidered the leader of the Cherokee bar. He was a stanch
Whig, and in 1850 he ran against Joseph E. Brown for Gov-
ernor. He did not seek the nomination and was not at the
convention. In 1861 he was elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives from Cass County, and was chosen Speaker of the
I louse. He was the only man in the history of Georgia elected
to this position without previous legislative experience. He
was able, active, and forceful in public life. It was mainly
through his efforts that the name of Cass County was changed
in Bartow, iu honor of Col. Francis S. Bartow, who gave his
life to the Confederacy. While .serving as Speaker he was in
1863 elected to the Confederate Congress, lie was also a local
Methodist minister and trustee of Emorv College. It is under-
stood that while he was in the Confederate Congress he was
a close and trusted friend of President Davis.
Some two years after their marriage Mrs. Akin joined the
Methodist Church at Cassville, Ga., and until deafness came
upon her she was an active Church worker. She was es-
MARY DE VERDERY AKIN.
pecially active in missionary societies and Sunday school for
many years, during part of which time her son, John, was the
superintendent of the Sunday school. She was a life mem-
ber of the Foreign Missionary Society. Mrs. Akin was the
mother of thirteen children. Her death occurred suddenly
in the evening of October 17, 1907, after an illness cf about
ten days.
Judge John W. A-KIN.
John W. Akin was born at Cassville, Ga., on June 10. 1859;
and died October 18, 1907. lie was matriculated at Emory
College in 1874, graduating four years later with distinction.
He received the Boynton medal, given for the best essay writ-
ten by a member of the senior class, and was also tne best
Latin and Greek scholar in the college. He married in early
life Miss Frances Trippe Johnson, a daughter of Col. Abda
Johnson. Colonel Johnson commanded the 40th Georgia
Regiment, C. S. A., and he was a distinguished lawyer. Mr.
Akin is survived by his widow and three children — Mary de
Verdery, Lillian Gatewood, and Frances Berto. He was active
in good works. He was President of the Public School Board
of Cartersville from the time the schools were organized,
about twenty years ago. until his death. He made many
speeches and wrote many articles, one of which, "The Ag-
gressions of the Federal Courts." was commented on editorially
in the leading newspapers of the United States from Maine
to California. The Legislature of Wyoming by joint resolu-
tion indorsed it, and there were many thousands of copies
printed and distributed in that State and in the State of
Kansas by their State officials. His "Fourth Form of Govern-
ment," delivered before the Alumnus Society of Emory Col-
C^oi>federat^ l/eterap,
H9
lege many years ago, in which he used the term "government
by injunction." was largely commented upon. Prom the COI
porate litigation in North Carolina, Alabama, and other States
H seems that these peeches were prophetic He also made
many literary addresses, notably "Sidney Lanier" and "The
j?oet Bleckley." In addition to these, he made many speechi
about the Confederate States and people. I lis speech on
"The Shackling of Jefferson Davis" was commented upon
through the Associated Press and widely copied, A notable
speech designated "The Uncrowned King" was delivered
before the Daughters of the Confederacy al Macon, Ga., se\
eral years ago, and is a fair sample of his productions on thai
line. It will revive the gifted Grady, lie is also the author of
"Akin's Lodge Manual and Masonic Law Dig st," which is
iln standard for Georgia. In it is contained one of the two
services for a lodge of sorrow in the English language, lie
made man) Masonic addresses, and was Last Master, Past
High Priest, Las' Junior Grand Warden ni" the Grand Lodge,
and a Thirtj Si Ci md degt - Mas. m.
In tooj and again in 1904 he was elected to the House oi
Representath es of Georgia bj the largest majorities ever givi 11
an\ candidate in Bartow, his native county, although he had
1. in opponents. In 1906 he was sent to the Senate without
Opposition, and was overwhelming!} elected president of that
body, being opposed by hmr exceeding!} strong and popular
men. lie was for nine years Secretarj of the Georgia Bar
Association, and was then elected President thereof, lie was
admitted to the bar in 1878.
The editor shares specially in the sorrow over the loss and
in the in\ thai will ever remain for the lives of great useful-
ness of Mrs Vkin and her son, Judge John Akin. Mrs
Akin's long caivei in Cartersville was a benediction to all the
people At a crisis to the editor, as illustrating her character.
JUDGE JOHN
when the one in whom he was more interested than in all the
world beside was attacked with an illness that proved fatal,
Mrs. Akin furnished her carriage for passage to the railway
Station and walked m tin street by the carriage dour that she
might render instantly any possible service.
Judge Akin was as ardent for the Confederate principles
and those who had espoused them as if he himself had endured
the hardships of the camp, the marches, and the battles Ere
long his great address ai Macon, Ga., upon. the "Uncrowned
King" (Jefferson Davis) maj be expected in these pages.
I he funeral .if Mrs. Akin was conducted h\ the Lev. Dr.
R. J. I'igham in the Presbyterian Church at Cartersville. at g
\.m October jo. and the burial was ,u Cassville, seven miles
away, by the side of her husband, and near the Confederate
( emetery, in which there are monuments erected by the
I. adies' Memorial Association and the Daughters of the < on
federal \
Judge Akin's funeral was conducted in the afternoon of the
same day in the Sam Jones Tabernacle, conducted by Dr.
Bigham, Gov. II >kc Smith and members of the State I egi
I at ure taking part. The Masonic Fraternitj took charge there
and conducted the burial in the new cemetery, near where
Bill Arp is buried.
M vi M J Norm \\\
ihi August 1.;. 1007. Mai. M. J. Norman answered tin' roll
call beyond the river. lie was ( 'onimaiider of Capl. J. R.
\\ bide Camp, No. 7St, Alton. Mo., and bad served as cap-
tain of Company I. 4th Missouri [nfantry, Cockrell's Brigade,
taking part in all the battles with the Missouri Division up
lo and including the siege of Vicksburg, and distinguishing
himself as a brave and generous officer. After the surrendei
of Vicksburg, he returned to the West and was made major
.-I (nl. .ml Fristoe's Missouri Cavalry.
Major Norman endeared himself to the citizens of Oregon
County by returning ill [862 and taking all the COUllty records,
boxing and concealing them in a cave, where ili.\ were se-
cure until after the war. when Found in g I preservation.
lb wa- clerk al this lime; and when ordered to Corinth,
Miss., he hail foresight enough (•> knovi the fate ol the .-.unity;
-.1 obtaining permission from General Lricc, he returned am!
saved the records The courthouse had been burned during
this peril'. 1 Ills death was keenly felt by all who knew him.
Knw \u> F I'm 1 1 R
I dward F Porter was bum near Montrose, \ . in Novem
her. [839; ami enti red The army al the commencement ..1 hos-
tilities as second lieutenant oi Company E, 55111 Virginia In-
fantry, I apl Baile) Jett commanding the company. Early in
is transferred i" Companj 1 . 9th Virginia Cavalry,
and -' . private in that branch of the army to the siir-
i.i.l ;,, W.i 1 1 1 1 1 1 ■ 1 ■ 11 ..nil after the war. hav-
ing married his cousin, Miss Marj I Porter, and was For
nine engaged in business with the late Maj. Henrj I.
; ifterwards In d in Maryland for a short time,
and then again took up his residence in Westmoreland County,
111 engaged in successful business until stricken with a
lingering illness, which continued until bis death, on August
.
While never activelj identified with the Camp I". C V.,
took an active intere 1 in all that pertained
to the Confedei . and aided with his musical voice
.md talents in making successful the annual Reunions of the
veterans.
520
Qopfederat^ l/eterai>.
Capt. E. F. Spears.
Capt. E. F. Spears, of Company G, 2d Kentucky Infantry,
died August 29, 1907. He was the youngest captain in the
Orphan Brigade, and served from the beginning to the end.
He was wounded and captured at Fort Donelson, imprisoned
six months, then exchanged. He was badly wounded at Jones-
boro, Ga., August 30, 1864; but as soon as able he returned to
his command, and served to the close of the war in the
mounted infantry.
Comrade J. A. McDonald, of Kansas City, who was of
Company G, 2d Kentucky Infantry, in sending the above,
writes : "Only two other members of this company survive —
J. J. McCarrington, of Nicholasville, Ky., and John Mahone.
of Bourbon County, Ky."
Col. Rolfe S. Saunders — "In the Midst of Life."
Two friends met on a public highway in Nashville one even-
ing in September. Each was glad to see the other and ex-
pressed his pleasure in assuring words. The senior was Col.
Rolfe S. Saunders, who, though seventy and seven years of
age, expressed himself as in the best of health. Chatting
through the better portion of an hour, one of the last injunc-
tions by Colonel Saunders was in behalf of circulating the
Veteran among those who fought for the Union in the six-
ties. He had previously urged a vigorous method for secur-
ing their interest and again pressed it, declaring that at least
ten thousand of them would gladly take it. He had ever
taken a zealous interest in the Veteran and was an ardent
Southerner.
Through friendly interest in Colonel Saunders, more prudent
hours were suggested in an argument against his taking the
2 a.m. train for his home at Athens, Ala., to which he replied
that he had spent some weeks in the mountains of North
Carolina, was feeling fine ; that he would go to bed, sleep
awhile, then take the train indicated, be at home for break-
fast, and by noon he would not realize he had lost any sleep.
He afterwards called upon Mr. W. J. Ewing, Managing Editor
of the Nashville American.
The only other thing yet known of his movements was that
he fell from a street car by the Union Station about nine
o'clock that evening, an hour after the above conversation.
He was taken to an infirmary, unable to speak, where he lin-
gered for nearly a week, dying, however, very suddenly. Mis.
Saunders came as quickly as possible, and remained near him
to the end.
Editorially the American says of him : "Rolfe Saunders had
lived long, had a wide experience, and had a remarkably large
acquaintance among men. He had lived in many large towns
between New York and New Orleans, and had known more
prominent men than perhaps any other private citizen. He
had dined with Daniel Webster, was intimately acquainted
with Horace Greeley and the leading editors of Mr. Greeley's
day, and was personally acquainted with many Presidents of
the United States. He was a delegate to the Charleston Con-
vention in 1857, and was for many years engaged in journalism
in Alabama, Tennessee, and Washington. Rolfe Saunders had
many friends and no enemies. He was genial, amiable, and
always cheerful. He cared nothing for money ; his wants
were few and simple, and he was always ready to do a friend
a favor. * * * One of his peculiarities was to remain away
as much as possible from the town in which he lived. If
working on a Nashville paper, he would spend more of his
time in Memphis than in Nashville; if on a Memphis paper,
he would be found in Nashville oftener than in Memphis. He
was married three times, and leaves a widow at Athens, Ala.,
and several children. With a cheery 'Good night,' he left
the American editorial rooms thirty minutes before he was
fatally stricken. A genial soul passes in the death of Rolfe
Saunders."
It was his happy disposition to look on the bright side of life.
Rolfe Smith Saunders was born in Wilson County, near
Lebanon, Tenn., in 1S31. His father had been a Revolutionary
soldier, and died when Colonel Saunders was about nine
years old. Four years later his mother married again, and
Rolfe left home to make his own way in the world. He was
a devoted friend to Judge Robert Caruthers, whose wife was
a near relative. (Judge Caruthers was elected Governor by
the Confederates during the war.)
About 1853 Rolfe Saunders married, near Columbia, Tenn..
Eliza Anderson, a lovely woman, who lived but three years
and left one child. James Caruthers Saunders, who now lives
in Newport, R. I. In 1S60 Colonel Saunders married Miss
Billings, of Columbus, Ga. He was editing a paper in Knox-
ville, Tenn., at that time, and bought a large farm near that
city, to which he moved a few years later. His second wife
died in the early nineties, and in iSys he was married to
COL. ROLFE S. SAUNDERS.
Mrs. R. V. Howard, of
his home, though his bus
many friends in Athens,
Of the second union
(Mrs. Lockwood), who
ago; Betty M., now Mr
is in the United States
Wright, Spokane, Wash.
Clay, of Birmingham, Al
Athens, Ala., and made that town
iness kept him much away. He had
his adopted home,
there were three daughters: Mary
died in Savannah, Ga., three years
s. William Sample, whose husband
army and now stationed at Fort
and Caroline, now Mrs. Withers
a.
Qo9federat<? l/eterag.
;v_'i
A FRIENDSHIP THAT ENDURES.
This little record of past events may be of interest to many
readers of the Veteran and perhaps find a parallel in the
experiences of some other comrades :
Two Confederate soldiers were II. C. Hoggard, of Nor-
folk, Va., now having a real estate agency in that city, and
Elijah S. Johnson, formerly of Albemarle County, Va., but
for some years past a merchant of New Decatur, \la
H. C. Hoggard entered the cavalry service at less than
ELIJAH s. JOHNSON,
I5lh Virginia ( .|\ ill. \ ,
\ r.\\ I »ei a iir, Ala.
HORATIO C, HOGGARD,
15th Virginia «. ';i\ al r \ ,
Norfolk, Va.
sixteen years of age at Norfolk during the winter of t86l 62,
and served through tin- entire war in the 15th Virginia Regi-
ment, Gen, W. II. F. Lee's Brigade, J. E. P.. Stuart's Corps
E. S. Johnson served the first eighteen months of the war in
the 18th Virginia Infantry, and the remainder of the war in
the same regiment with Hoggard; ami it was then that a
strong friendship began and continued to grow stronger as
time and circumstances went on.
On the i;,lli of September, 1863, during a severe cavalry
and artillery fight, beginning near Brandy Station ami ex-
tending over every inch of ground from there to Culpepei
C. II.. between our forces under Stuart, with two hrigade?
numbering about 7.000. and Sheridan, with alioiit 30.000 Fed
■ 1.1I troop*, E. S. Johnson was struck twice by rifle halls.
either of which would have caused his death had they not
heen intercepted— one by his diary. Testament, and a hunch
of letters, the hall going through all and dropping into his
breast pocket without breaking the skin; the other struck his
belt buckle in the center and bent it in, leaving a large black-
spot on the flesh underneath, but not breaking the skin ["hi
only effect from it was a very sick stomach 11 C. Hoggard
in the same light received quite a severe wound 111 the shoul
iter, and was m the Chimborazo Hospital, ai Richmond, for
several months.
Other experiences as related by Comrade Hoggard are:
"In the lattei part oi Vpril, 1864, we began fighting Sheri-
dan at Spottsylvania C. H. ami in the Wilderness. Shi
was relieved by an infantry force, and we had to fighl it for
several days until we were relieved by our infantry ["hen
began a scries of battles between us and Sheridan all the
way to Yellow Tavern, near Richmond, where oui noble
Stuart received his death wound, and where 1 was tnadi
pi is, .mi M.i\ 10. 1S04. We fought every day for eighteen
days. Our army consisted of two light batteries and about
6.000 men. and Sheridan's command was underst I to com
prise nearly 30.000. We prevented them from getting into
Richmond, hut the lighting continued for seven days at
Meadow Bridge and Gaines Mill. On the morning of the
12th of May, [064, E. S. Johnson was made a prisoner also
and brought to where some thirty of us were held. We were
all taken first to Fortress Monroe, and a few days later to
Point Lookout Prison, wdiere we remained for over ten wear}
months. We had poor rations, had water, and very bad treat
ment generally. Many times the negro guards were allowed
to shoot into the crowd as we were going into the soup
houses. Johnson and 1 became more and more attached to
each other while in prison.
"I escaped during the last of March, 1865, and was earned
on a Steamer, along with about 1.300 other prisoners going
lo be exchanged, up the Janus River to a landing near Rich-
mond, where we landed and made our way to the capital Mi
name was not among the 1.300. 1 simply worked my wa>
out without detection, and reached Richmond with the others
without being exchanged and without the Federals knowing
of my presence. E. S. Johnson got out on a dead man's
rame a few days later and went to Richmond In a tew
days Richmond was evacuated, and on the 9th of April the
Confederacy was no more. s,. far as tin \rin\ of Northern
Virginia was concerned.
"After the war ever} one hail to scuffle tor a living, ami
we two drifted apart. Up to the Reunion at New Orleans
in 190(1 each thought the other dead. It was then that I
found out where Johnson was living, and a correspondence
began and plans were made for a meeting It was decided
that Johnson should visit me and then the Jamestown Ex-
position ; s,,. after a separation of over forty-two years, we
had a reunion of our own. We greeted each other with a
good, old-fashioned hug, and had our pictures taken together
In the picture of the diary
and Testament the diary was
slipped down. SO as to show
that the ball went all the way
through. The diary has heen
01" much interest. In it is
recorded: 'We have drawn no
rations for three days, and 1
am hungry.' ( hi the next day :
'No rations yet. four days,
ami I am awfully hungry '
Another date would say: '1
have had a fine dinner and
saw some lovely girls.' Then
the various tights were re-
corded. 'Picket posts, rabbit
hunts, and no rabbit caught;' and for 'one pound of salt paid
s; cents;' foi 'one pound of sugar, $1:' for 'twelve pounds ol
1m' on. $j 25,' etc. And whenever on a raid or iii a light or en
picket duty, you would always find recorded, 'Had a nice
time with young ladies,' or 'Got a good dinner or breakfast.'
"The years which have intervened have made many changes
1 lo age and cold of hair, hut the friendship continues just
the same "
N. L. P00I1 . 1 lebume, rex., wishes to ascertain the com-
pany and regiment in which' Emmett Collins and Boyd Collins
served during the war. They were with the Texas troops cap
Hired at Arkansas Post. This is for the benefit of the widow
Ol Emmett Collins. He was kept ill Rock Island until the
dose of tin war. and died at Jefferson. Tex.
522
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■■RACIAL INTEGRITY: AND OTHER FEATURES OF
THE NEGRO PROBLEM."
Under the above title Prof. A. H. Shannon has brought to-
gether an array of facts arid figures of the deepest interest to
students of the negro problem. The census of 1870 returned
584,049 mulattoes; that of 1890, 1,132,060, an increase of al-
most one hundred per cent in twenty years, showing that amal-
gamation has made as great progress numerically in twenty
years of freedom as in two hundred and forty years of
slavery with the decade of the Civil War added. There
are now nearly or quite 2,000,000 mulattoes. Among
the causes producing this result, special attention is
given to the prevalent suspension in our dealings with
this race of moral and ethical principles, as is illustrated
in politics, philanthropy, and in religious activities.
The chapter dealing with racial integrity contains the
gist of the volume. Three other chapters are added,
however, dealing respectively with the problem of the
city, slavery, and the educational problem. The chap-
ter dealing with the problem of the city is a discussion
of the economic and moral problems incident to the
herding of the negroes in the cities and towns. This
leads to a discussion of the steps taken by the Southern
States in dealing with the vagrancy problem.
The chapter dealing with slavery discusses the atti-
tude of the civilized nations toward the institution at
the time it was fastened upon America and earlier; also
conditions existing in Africa, the slave trade, and the
progress of the race under slavery. The chapter deal-
ing with the educational problem is worthy of the most
careful study. It takes up the physical basis for intel-
lectual activity upon the part of the negro, reviews and
criticises the efforts made in behalf of the race, dis-
cusses the needs of the race, and gives at some length
conditions sure to obtain in the South if any large class
of the negroes remain economically inefficient and
morally degraded.
Professor Smith, in the color line, approaches this
problem from the scientific standpoint. Professor Shan-
non approaches it from the standpoint of the moral and
ethical principles involved, reaching conclusions which
must help both races. The book is essentially a plea
for the highest and best interests of both races.
This is a book which should possess an intense in-
terest for all students of Southern sociological prob-
lems, but especially for students of the negro prob-
lem and for all veterans of the Civil War.
Order of the Confederate Veteran. Price, postpaid, $1.25
in his early life, and he announces "as a physical fact that John
Wilkes Booth was not killed on that 26th of April in 1865
at the Garrett home in Virginia." All this makes a very in-
teresting story; and whether or not the proof is convincing,
the statements are very plausible and show very clearly how
his escape could have been accomplished. But it will be neces-
sary to read the book to realize fully the strength of the proofs
presented. Copies can be procured of the author for $1.50.
"Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth." — Like Ban-
quo's ghost, the spirit of restless John Wilkes Booth still walks
abroad, keeping alive doubt in the minds of many as to his
fate after the assassination of Lincoln. That he did escape
from his pursuers and lived many years in Texas and in the
Territories is the story set forth in a late publication under
the title of "Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth," by
Finis L. Bates, of Memphis, Tenn., whose claim is to have
known Booth in his later life under the name of John St.
Helen while living in Texas, and later still to have known of
him under other names in the West, and who tells of his sui-
cide in 1903 at Enid, Okla. Mr. Bates brings forward some
powerful proof in the identification of the picture of St. Helen
as that of Booth by different people who had known the latter
PROF. A. H. SHANNON,
Author of " Racial Integrity: And Other Features of the Xegro Prohlem."
GEN. R. E. LEE ON TRAVELER.
This full life-size painting by Mrs. L. Kirby-Parrish, of
Nashville, Tenn., so widely and highly approved, is a leading
attraction at the Jamestown Exposition. Good photographs
from the splendid canvas may still be had on cash order to
the Confederate Veteran. The prices are: Size 20x24 inches,
$3 ; size 12x15 inches, $2. Mounted on best white cardboard,
with wide, margin ready for framing. The above was painted
from a photo made at Washington College in 1868.
A patron of the Veteran asks that something be published
of Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rhodes, who was a native of Virginia,
but commanded a brigade of Alabamians during the Peninsula
campaign, and was killed in the battle of Winchester between
Sheridan and Early in the autumn of 1864.
Confederate l/eteran.
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A good idea is secured from a corre-
spondent who is collecting material for
a memorial volume, for which she is
securing articles, poems, etc., for use
in celebrating a certain day. As we
very often have requests for such ma-
terial, it is thought well to suggest that
each Chapter of Confederate Daughters
have its Historian to make such a vol-
ume for use as occasion may require.
It would also he well to set down in that
all good suggestions for celehrating
these memorial days, such as any good
programme that has been carried out
elsewhere or any good ideas that may
come from others. Such a volume would
he of great value as a ready reference.
The sixth Reunion of the Northwest
Division, U. C. V., was held in Boze-
man, Mont., October 15, 1007, with a large
attendance of veterans and friends, and
an enthusiastic meeting was held. Of-
ficers elected for the following year
were Paul A. Fusz. Major General
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Commanding Northwest Division, and
J. L. Kirhy. Brigadier General of Mon-
tana Division. A cordial invitation was
extended by J. W. Smith, a former Ten-
nesseean, to meet in Portland next year ;
so the next meeting will be held there,
date to he selected later. The social
features of this occasion were also very
enjoyable.
At the annual Reunion of the Pacific
Division, U. C. V., held in Los Angeles,
Cab. in September, 1907. Maj. Gen.
William C. Harrison was reelected
Commander and Col. Victor Mont-
gomery, of Santa Ana. was elected Brig-
adier General 10 command the Cali-
fornia Brigade. It was decided to ad-
mit the sous and lineal descendants of
Confederate veterans into the Camps as
associate members. The attendance
was large and the Reunion a success in
every way.
Wanted. — Purchasers for the beauti-
ful Southern picture. "From Manassas,"
designed by a Confederate veteran ; size.
32x22. Lithographed in rich, appropri-
ate colors, ready for framing. Unique
in design. On right margin in battle
array stand the boys in gray with peer-
less R. E. Lee; on left margin, also in
battle array, stand the boys in blue with
dauntless U. S. Grant. In the space
between run three lines of rail fence.
the rails being the staff on which is
written the words of the old war song,
"When this cruel war is over." the
four stanzas being given beneath. Price,
un framed, $1 ; handsomely framed,
$3.50. Agents also wanted to sell this
picture. Address Mrs. Belle Thompson,
Box 28, Hasty, N. C.
524
Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
ROBERT E.LEE
General in Chief, Confederate States Army, 1861-1865. High-Class
PHOTOGRAVURE, 9x12 Inches, from Original Photograph Taken
in 1863. The Most LIFELIKE PICTURE of the Great General.
Read the following extracts from letters from those who haze received the likeness;
Miss Mary Custis Lei-:: " I received the very handsome Photogravure of my father, for which ac-
cept ray sincere thanks. It is the best full-face likeness of tim, and though, of course, I possess
many of him, I shall specially value this one. It will be, I am sure, much appreciated by the
Robert E. Lee Camp and any other Southern society to which yon may present it."
General, Stephen D. Lee : " I have your Photogravure of Gen. Robert E. Lee, am glad to receive
it ; it is now framed and hangs over my desk, where I do all my work.''
General, Frederick D. Grant : "Accept my warm thanks for the proof copy of the photo of Gen.
Robert E. Lee, which I shall value as an interesting likeness of that distinguished officer/*
Hon. John S. Wise: "I think it is one of the best likenesses extant."
Gen. L. L. Lomax : "It is decidedly the best likeness I have seen, and I intend to have it framed
for my own home.'*
Gen. George D. Johnston : " The picture is a splendid one.'*
Gen. William L. Cabell : " It is a fine picture, and I shall have it framed and placed in my par-
lor, where the young people of my country can see it and call to mind his many virtues."
Gen. G. W. C. Lee: "Your picture is a good reproduction of the original, and I value it on this
account."
Gen. Samuel G. French : " I think it the best one of him to be obtained, and the one fond memory
recalls."
Gen. R. F. Hoke: "It is very good of him, and lifelike, and recalls him to me as of yesterday."
Gen. M. C. Butler : " It is unquestionably the best likeness of my distinguished Commander, as
1 knew him during; the war, I have ever seen."
Robert E. Lkh Camp, No. 1, Richmond, Va.: "Members of this Camp consider it a splendid
likeness of our old Commander and prize it very highly. We will frame it and place it upon our
Camp wall, where, for all time that we may last, it will be a reminder of the noble face of that
grand man loved by all."
Gkn. Alex. P. Stewart : " The picture seems to me an admirable one, certainly as g-ood a one if
njt the very best of any I have ever seen. '
Gen. Marcus J. Wright : "I regard the Photogravure of Gen. Robert E. Lee which you sent me
as one of the finest pictures of him which I have seen."
COM mander in Chief ( India ) Lord Kitchener : "lam very much obliged to you for the strik-
ing likeness of Gen. Lee, which you have been good enough to send me and which I much value."
A Picture for the Home of Every Southerner. Price, $1
AMBROSE LEE PUBLISHING COMPANY
WILLIAMSBRIDGE. NEW YORK CITY,
and the picture will be promptly sent, without extra charge, to any address.
Orders and remittances may also be sent for this picture to O. A. Cunningham, " Confeder-
ate Veteran," Nashville, Tenn.
REMIT
AMOUNT TO
The one book: that gives a complete history of the
Confederate flags
THE STARS AND STRIPES
AND OTHER AMERICAN FLAGS -
BY PELEG D. HARRISON
The Confederate Veteran savs this book contains " a history of the flag's which have figured
in American history, their origin, development, etc.. with army and navy regulations, salutes, and
every other thing- that is of interest. To Mr. Harrison is due much credit for his exhaustive re-
search in compiling this data."
I was much interested in this valuable Flag book, particularly the part containing a history of
the flags of our Southland.—.)/. A. Jackson, Widow of Gen. Thomas J. (" StOTiewall") Jackson,
Charlotte, N. C.
The standard text-book on the subject treated. — John W. Gordon, Major Confederate States
Army, and Chairman United Confederate Veterans, Richmond Reunion, iqoy.
With Eight Flag Illustrations in Color. •'417 Large Pages. Handsomely Bound in Cloth
Price, $3 net. Postage, 20 Cents
l^ittle, Brown & Co., Publishers, Boston
INEXPENSIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Dainty, and easily made at home. Just what you are looking for. Will
please the giver as well as the one who receives them. We'll show them
to you for a onccent stamp. Colored Christmas post cards ready Decern.-
ber 1 — 25 cents a dozen.
THE ARTS SHOP, Dept. C, Nashville, Tenn.
THE OLD CONFED.
BY ALLIE STEDMAN, PARAGOULD, ARK.
Blessings on thee, old Confer],
With wrinkled brow and snow-white
head ;
Your ence bright eye is growing dim ;
Your brawny arm and sturdy limb
That served you in the long ago
On gory field against the foe
Are growing weaker year by year ;
Your heart that never once knew fear
Beats just as loyally to-day
As when, in homespun coat of gray,
A noble, brave, and earnest band,
You fought for right and Dixieland.
Your ranks are thinning day by day —
Another comrade turns away
To answer to the drum and fife
That call him from this weary life
To peaceful sleep. His rest is sweet.
And never more his tired feet
Shall stumble on the march nor fall ;
He's answered to the last roll call.
You've left to us an honored name
No prince of royal blood can claim.
A truly noble heritage.
And plainly written on the page
Of memories that cannot die
Your valorous deeds shall ever lie;
Your fame shall never fade away;
'Twill live forever and a day
And through the countless ages sound.
For greater theme cannot be found.
0. how we love you, Old Confed !
Blessings on that dear grav head !
FOR SALE.
A $5,006 Virginia farm for sale, half
mile from depot on Tidewater and
Western Railroad. One hundred and
sixty acres of land, with a large six-
room brick house, slate roof, basement,
three porches, four halls, seven closets,
cook room joining back porch. Land
well watered by springs and creeks, and
there are three lithia springs near the
house, also a well of pure water in the
yard. Twenty acres of original growth.
Can give possession at once. Cause of
sale, age and infirmities.
For other information address Hugh
F. Goodman, Ballsville, Powhatan
County, Va.
Lost. — While in transit from Selma,
Ala., to Pilot Knob. Mo., in 1866 a
sword, lettered on blade "St. J. 0. H.
Bumpass." Mrs. Benjamin Gum, Alton,
Mo., a sister of Officer Bumpass, would
like to get the sword.
Confederate? l/eteran
J. N. Downey, of Templeton, Cal.,
writes: "I have had a great desire ever
since the occurrence to know how many
men were in Fredericksburg a few
weeks before the first battle when a
squad of the isi Indiana Cavalry forded
the river at Falmouth and rode down
through the city. 1 know there were
some soldiers besides the Home Guards.
Will some Johnny please tell me
through the VETERAN or otherwise'"
A book of poems that should find
leady sale in the Si. nth is "Lyrics of
the day.'' by T. C. Harbaugh, of
Casstown, Ohio, who has contributed
s" much to tin- Veteran in the last
few years. lie will pav a good com
mission to agents to sell this hook, and
it should In- especial!} easy for young
boys and girls to make some money in
this way Write to him for terms.
G. E Ennis, of Comanche, Tex., re-
quests any survivors of Company C.
Wirt Adams's Cavalry. C. S. A. to
write him. as he wishes to establish his
record and secure a pension. Comrade
Ennis is a worthy Confederate veteran,
very destitute, and has not been able to
furnish two living witnesses mi his rec-
• ill. which the law requires. He will
appreciate a response from any sur-
vivors who remember him.
.Indue J W Currie writes from Ban-
Tcx. : "John McCurdy was a
member of Company 1. '15th Georgia
Regiment, commanded bj ('apt Henry
Smith under CoL W G. Foster. He
i~ making application for a pension,
and wishes ihe address of some of his
lid 1 1 "in ades in aim- Mi i 'nrcly is a
resident of this county and a worthy
••Id man"
Mrs M J Byrom Mays, of Grimes,
( >kla., will' to find 1 11 Idier.
North or South, who ran testify as te.
her service as matron in thi Bragg H
pital. She v, a~ empli ij ed by I >rs
and 1 I : Kentucky, and went into
the hospital al Ringgold, • in . in the
spring of 1863, remaining in I
until the spring of [865 Mrs Mays is
seventy-four years old. She ha- applied
for a nurse's pension, and will be grate-
ful for any assistance in that direi I
i«€ L,Vi Dr ISAACTfioHISOJfj EYEWATER
Confederate
^ War
f Pictures
By GILBERT GAUL,
NATIONAL ACADEMICIAN.
America's Greatest
Painter of War Subjects
Trice of full set in four colors, on heavy
vJ::. polychrome paper with leather portfolio,
jfX- *Ki.50; payable $1.50 monthly. Cash price
u?&g!*H^^S$9P$:: ?.o. $15.00. Individual pictures $,'1.5(1 each.
.-* ':; The gray men of the sixties are to live again upon the can-
vases of perhaps America's greatest painter of war subjects, Mr.
Gilbert Gaul, National Academician, whose splendid paintings
hang in the most famous collections of the world. His strong
brush has portrayed with much realism, not their bitterness
and recriminations, but their magnificent motive, their magnani-
mous courage, their unmatched devotion. Thus some who love
the real values of the Old South, have attempted to do a great
thing— something which should appeal to every intelligent
American, man or woman. A number of gentlemen of Nash-
ville, Tenn., have organized a company, the object of which is
to crystalize on canvas the magnificent deeds of daring love
which distinguished the Confederate soldier. One by one they
are going, and soon the papers will contain under black head-
lines the story of the last illness of the "man who wore the
gray." Some who have understood have joined hands and
said, "The vision of these men and their deeds must not perish
from the Earth." So they placed it in the hands of Mr. Gilbert
Gaul, and the result will be a heritage for the generations to come.
There are seven pictures 15x19 inches, reproducing every
shade of tone and motif and embossed so as to give perfect can-
vas effect. Each one is a masterpiece, depicting the courage, sac-
rifice, heroism, sufferings and home life of the Southern soldier.
It is impossible with words to describe the beauty and pathos
of these pictures. The first, "Leaving Home," is a typical South-
ern interior, and a lad telling the family good-bye. The second is
a battle scene, as the name "Holding the Line at All Hazards," im-
plies. "Waiting for Dawn," the third, depict* a moonlight scene
on a battlefield, the soldiers sleeping among the stiff forms of
yesterday's battle, while they wait for dawn and renewed hostil-
ities. "The Forager" is a fresh faced voungbov returning to camp
with a load of fowls and bread. The sixth, "Playing Cards be-
tween the Lines" shows the boys in blue and grav! hostilities for-
gotten, having a social game, with stakes of Southern tobacco and
Yankee coffee. The last of the seven is entitled "Tidings," and
represents a pretty Southern girl reading news from the front.
These pictures are offered separately or in portfolio form, and
at about half what they should be in comparison with similar
work along this line. Write today for illustrated circular de-
scritiinfi these masterpieces. Address
Southern Art Pub. Co. - 102 Arcade. Nashville. Tenn.
Geot v;i Sibli I amp Mcintosh,
\rk . asks that any comrade
win knew Henri Mueller in the army
will kindly verify his service, so as to
li la ■ « nl. iva . who 1 - ' lid, 1 '. and
crippled, to obtain a pension. Com
Mueller did not inform his family as to
what command he served in He was a
native 'of Saxony. Germany, and a
scholarly man.
A correspondent ;rk- 1 m in
which a line runs thus: "Morgan the
raider, and Morgan'- men,'
526
Qo[)federat^ l/eteran.
Watch Charms
Qonfederate
Veterans
"JACKSON" CHARM
as Illustrated, $6.00.
Write for illustrations of
other styles. List No. 18.
"Children of the Confed-
eracy'* pins, handsomely
enameled, regulation pin,
sterliny silrer. pold plat-
ed, 55c. each, postpaid.
S. N. MEYER
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Pettibone Uniforms
for U. C. V. and U. S.
C. V. are famous. Be-
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the true military cut.
They fit well, look well,
wear well, aud are very
reasonable in price.
Each one is made to in-
dividual
measure. Send for prices
and samples of cloth.
Besides Uniforms we have
been manufacturing Flags,
Banners, Badges, Swords, Belts,
Caps, Military and Secret Order
Goods for thirty-live years.
The Pettibone" Bros. Mfg. Co.
CINCINNATI, OHIO
(Mention this paper when writing.)
The BEST PLACE to
purchase all-wool
Bunting or
Silk Flags
of all kinds.
Silk Banners, Swords, Belts, Caps
and all kinds of Military Equipment and Society Goods
is at
Veteran J. A.JOEL & CO., 38 Nassau St.,
SEUD FOR PRICE LIST. New York City.
^
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REUNION AT RICHMOND.
BY R. W. CRIZZARD, SOUTHERN BAPTIST
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Men of the old gray guard.
You who glorified arms
In the heyday of youth,
Nor faltered at war's alarms —
From every mountain crest,
"From every verdant vale.
Where comrades sleep in death —
Virginia bids you "Hail !"
Ne'er shall your glory fade
While moons shall wax and wane
And Fame her vigils keep
O'er thousands of your slain.
Come, know good cheer these days
At Richmond, on the James ;
Forgotten ne'er shall be
Your glory-gilded names.
Beneath the tattered gray
Beat hearts both brave and true,
And now, when you are old,
This one thing we will do :
Through all the years to come
Our proudest boast shall be.
Our fathers fought and died,
Led by Jackson and Lee.
No iron heel of war
Doth now afflict our land ;
Peace with her victories
Hath waved her magic wand.
Through all the aisles of Time,
Till dawns eternal day,
Shall shine the deeds of men
Who glorified the gray.
Archie Owens, of Chester, S. C.
(R. F. D. No. I, Box 34), asks informa-
tion as to where his brother Jim was
killed. He enlisted from Arkansas,
going to Star City or Pine Bluff at the
first of the war, and was killed in 1864;
but it has never been known where or
when. Comrade Owens will be thank-
ful to hear from some comrade or
friend.
Any comrade who served with James
H. Biggs, who enlisted at Norfolk, Va.,
in the spring of 1861 and died from
wounds received during the summer of
that year, will confer a favor by writing
to Davis Biggs, Jefferson, Tex.
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i
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Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York and
all Eastern Cities
from the South
and Southwest
is via BRISTOL and the
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Through Trains
Sleepers, Dining Car
Best Route to
Richmond
Norfolk, and all
Virginia Points
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Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. B. BEVILL, General Pass. Ageot
Roanoke, Va.
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Selected from Male's Southern Books
**The Neale Publishing Company has certainly placed those who iove the South
and her glorious history under a debt of no small proportions in the issue of many
works by Southerners upon the actors and actions of their section.99— The Sun,
Baltimore, Md.
When Hea.rts Were True. Stories of the
Middle Plantation. By Willoughby Reade.
12mo, SI ; postage, 8 cents.
In tone and style these stories of Virginia are
delightful, for Mr. Reade's work is character-
ized by precision and reserve, a self-control
that Iihs a charm of its own, and a churm in-
separable from the finished product. He tells
a story v ith directness and candor, with little
ornamentation and circumlocution ; he knows
thoroughly— intimately— the life of which he
writes, and his sympathy is broad and tender.
Betty Pembroke. By Elizabeth Hazlewood
Hancock. Postpaid, $1.50.
If there is a sweeter heroine than Betty Pem-
broke, she has not been seen in these latter days.
And if her counterpart- — a flesh-and-blood Betty
— really lives in the Old Dominion, she had bet-
ter not admit it, that's all. For who would not
desire Betty? Who would not cross "hill,
stream, andscar" to ask Betty to marry him?
— Bettjet Pembroke, tender, faithful, roguish,
debonair, "queen rose in the rosebud garden of
girls," the dearest heroine of them all— Betty,
a Virginia maid.
The Conquest. By Daisy Fit^hugh Ayres.
12nio, §1.50.
Baltimore American: "Mrs. Ayres has told a
brilliant story with directness. It is a power-
ful novel, clean and wholesome, with a virile
honesty that would be almost barbaric in its
strength but for the swift and tender touches
of refinement which veil and soften its most
feprless outbursts of expression,"
L&uismut Courier- Journal: "Mrs. Ayres has
written a splendid book; one deserving a big
success."
Four Years under Marse Robert. Bv Maj.
Robert Styles. Major of Artillery in the Army
of Northern Virginia. Octavo. Frontispiece
by W. L. Sheppard. $2; postage, 14 cents.
London Spectator: "It deserves, together
with ihe other works that we have bracketed
with it [publications of this company], to be
read and pondered over by those who wish to
understand the mechanism and capabilities of
a national army, as well as the spirit which an-
imated the solid South while its lifeblood was
being slowly drained away "
Mr. Thomas Nelson Page; "I have rarely
read a volume relating to the war which has in-
terested me so much.
Jefferson, Cabell, and the University of
Virginia^ By John S. Patton. Librarian to
the University of Virginia. Octavo, illus-
trated, $2; postage, 16 cents.
Baltimore yews: "The book is well written
and interesting throughout, and should be a
welcome addition to the library, not only to all
friends of the University, but to all who are in-
terested in the life of Thomas Jefferson or the
history of the Old Dominion." ,"**
Major General J. E- B. Stviart, Command-
er of the Cavalry Corps. Army of Northern
Virginia. By -Judge Theodore S. Garnett,
his Aid-de-Camp. 12mo, illustrated, $1;
postage, 8 cents.
An address delivered at the unveiling of the
equestrian statue of General Stuart at Rich-
mond, Va., May 30, 1907.
A Historv of Southern Literature. By
Carl Holliday, M A., recently instructor of
English literature in the University of Vir-
ginia, now head of the English Department
in Cox College. Octavo, $2.50; postage, lti cts.
"Baltimore Sun: "It is well written, the ar-
rangement of the text is scientific, and the bal-
ance is well considered."
Savannah News: "This history of Southern
literature is, therefore, not of interest solely to
the South— it will be welcomed in the country
generally as exploiting and perpetuating the
fame of many writers whose works are most
truly American."
Life and Letters of R-obert Edward Lee.
By Rev. J. William Jones, D.D. Octavo,
illustrated, $2; postage. 18 cents.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Dr. Jones can-
not be too highly praised for the work he has
accomplished. His book should be in every
Southern home."
Confederate Operations in C&nadat and
New York. By Captain John W. Headley.
Octavo, illustrated. ?2; postage, 18 cents.
Charleston News and Courier: "There is an
immense amount of material in this book,
which will be found of the utmost use to the
student of the times."
General Elisha Franklin Pa.xton: Mem-
oirs Composed of His Letters from Camp and
Field. By John Gallatin Paxton, his son.
Octavo, frontispiece, $1.50; postage, 10 cents.
On September 21, 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee re-
ported: " Many valuable officers and men were
killed or wounded in the faithful discharge of
duty. Among the former. Brigadier General
Paxton fell while leading his brigade with con-
spicuous courage in the assault on the enemy's
works at Chaucellorsville."
Mosbv's Men.. By John H. Alexander, a
member of Mosby's command. Octavo, illus-
trated, S2; postage, 14 cents.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Mosby's men have
been written of before, but never so well."
St. Louis Republic; "It is a soldier-book from
the front to the back cover."
The Life and Services of John Newland
MaJfitt. By Emma Martin Maftitt. his widow.
Octavo, illustrated, $3; postage, 20 cents.
Baltimore Sun: " The story, this, of a brave
man and a renowned ship; the history of the
activities of one of the most able and daring of
the officers of the Confederate Navy, John New-
land Maffitt, and of the Florida, the scourge of
the commerce of the North. . . . Mrs. Maffitt
has done a creditable piece of work in this bi-
ography of her husband."
Memories: With Special Reference to Seces-
sion and the Civil War. By John H. Reagan,
LL.D., Postmaster General of the Confeder-
acy, sometime United States Senator, au-
thor of the Interstate Commerce Law.
Octavo, illustrated, $3; postage. 20 cents.
The Nation: " "Written in a sensible, straight-
forward style, these ' Memoirs ' are
the serious expression of a serious man's rem-
iniscences, with the political aspect of things
always squarely to the front."
The Political Opinions of Thomas Jef-
ferson : An Essay. By John Walter Way-
land. Ph.D.. Assistant and Fellow in History,
University of Virginia. With an introduc-
tion by Richard Heath Dabney, Ph.D., Pro-
fessor of History, University of Virginia.
12mo. $1.25; postage, 10 cents.
Dr. Richard Heath Dabney: "Where are we
to find a book in which the quintessence of Jef-
ferson's political views is given in clear and
readable style, yet sufficiently brief to find
readers among the busy, rushing people of to-
day? Dr. Waylaud's is just such a book."
The Story of a. Cannoneer vinder Stone-
wall Ja.ckson : In W hich Is Told the Part
Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the
Army of Northern Virginia. Bv Edward A.
Moore, of the Rockbridge Artillery. With in-
troductions by Cat it. Robert E. Lee, .Jr., and
Henry St. George Tucker. Octavo, illus-
trated, $2; postage, 14 cents. '
Review of Reviews : "The story is well told
and gives a real insight into the everyday life
and typical privations of the Confederate sol-
dier boy. . . . Full of 'human interest' of a
very genuine kind."
The Stranger. By J. F. J. Caldwell, author
of "The Historv of a Brigade," etc. 12mo.
$1.60.
Atlanta Georgian: "There have been a num-
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NASHVILLE, TENN.. DECEMBER. 1907.
No. L2.
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FIFTEEN YEARS OF SERVICE COMPLETED.
I In Veteran for January is to contain more reading than
has any number in its history. It begins the sixteenth volume!
In the fifteen years the circulation aggregated well into the
millions of copies.
Ah, the changes in fifteen years! In glancing over the
volumes it seems that nunc than half ils contributors have
crossed "over the river." But they contributed to the great
record that will be found in libraries North and South and in
the best preserved homes for generations and generations ol
the future. What responsibility there is in living and in
doing! Do the right with thy might.
In all the years of its existence their has not been such
widespread commendation of the Veteran as now. Looking
back, it has seemed a long, long struggle with shoulder to
wheel all the while until the recent official action of men and
women whereby the Veteran can certainly keep well in the
road without struggle; and yet its main patrons are moving
with setting suns, and it behooves them to get its principles
rooted in the minds of posterity. The more successful the
enterprise, the more diligent should all of its friends be, as
bj united and diligent effort so much more can be accom
plished,
Advertisers are beginning to realize the high merit of the
Veteran. In rates are lower than any "class" publication
The wisesl plan is to use it regularly through
the year, Small space used all the time is better than spas-
lii use occasionally Applj foi terms bj the yeai
should remember that Mrs. Henderson realized her great re-
sponsibilities and thai she was ever zealous in the performance
of her varied duties. She evidently had her preferences and
was influenced by them ("il is human to err"); but there is
no question that at all times duty was before favoritism, and
that she sought to be absolutely just to all members and to
each section of the country. The Veteran cannot let the op-
portunity pass without expressing gratitude to Mrs. Hender-
son for doing her best throughout her official career as a co-
worker for all that it stands for.
Mrs. Stone has been one of the ablest and most zealous
workers in the organization since it was founded, and it may
well be predicted that she will be tireless for the advancement
of the sacred interests involved.
Details of the reports of the Divisions will appear in each
Veteran for several months. An entire issue might well be
di v hd lo valuable reports of the proceedings.
./ .Y.Y t •.//. CONVl \ i h<\ r D i
The United Daughters of th< « onfedi racy held their annual
Convention in Norfolk, Va., November 13 17. too late for any
detailed account of proceedings in this issue of the Vi 11 ran.
Mrs. 1 Branch Stone, of Galveston, Tex., •■
President; Mrs. Martin S. Willard, North Carolina, First
di nl ; Mrs. C. 1 I, Second \ Pn
dent ; Mrs. \, | | >, ,v. dell, Vlabama, R< cording
Mrs 1 I- Williams, Kentucky, Tua-mii; Mts. 1. II Ra
H01101
In the retirement oi Mi 1 i rge Henderson, Pn 1
dent C the Veteran paj
tribute to hi I very man and woman in the South
ABOV1 OFFh ERS IN THE TWO ARMIES.
A violent commotion occurred through the publication oi
an article by ('apt. A. L. DeRosset, of Wilmington, N. C, to
which reference is made oil page 538. General Chalaron was
promptly interviewed by leading publishers of the country.
and authorized this statement given to the New York World
"I deny having made the statement about biters of Gem 1 il
Grant, General Thomas, and Admiral Farragut attributed to
me by Capt. A. I. DeRosset in the Confedeb n Veteran of
1 icti >ber, 1907
'I aplain DeRosset must have misunderstood whal remarks
1 may have made about the Davis paper! in our conversa-
tion when the Captain visited Memorial Hall two years ago.
I have nevei seen such letters, nor do 1 Know of their cx-
istem
"It is to 1« regretted that he did not verify his recoil
of thai conversation by writing to me before the publication
of Ins article."
The Boston Herald prints an interview with Gen, Nelson
A. Miles, who in his characteristic way says: "I think it is a
lie." That same paper " reports an interview in Washington
wiih Gen. John C. Black, Civil Service Commissioner, who
ill better language said I Grant w.i- among the
in- 1 to respond to Lincoln's call for troops. Following
call, several meetings were held in Illinois. One of the very
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first of these meetings was at Galena, and Captain Grant,
then a clerk in his father's tannery, presided at the Galena
meeting. His record and career from that moment have been
known to all the American people."
General Black's interview comports exactly with a state-
ment to the editor of the Veteran when in conversation on
the subject with Gen. Fred D. Grant soon after the publica-
tion appeared. General Grant referred to the fact that his
father espoused the cause of the Union at once, participating
in the public meeting referred to by General Black.
The publication brings to light testimony unquestioned that
General Thomas was very much inclined to enlist for his
native Southland, and would most probably have done so but
for the zeal of his wife to retain his office in the United States
army. His letter to Governor Letcher is made public. Fight-
ing as he did for the Union, there have never been charges
of unsoldierly or cruel conduct in his career through the war.
In the Veteran for June, 1904, pages 274-276, there is an
interesting sketch by one of his officers about his "regard for
the South," which it was pleasing to print to his credit.
Hon. Z. W. E.wing, of Tennessee, ex-Speaker of the Senate,
and who is on the roll of honor of those distinguished for gal-
lantry in the battle of Chickamauga, states in regard to Gen.
John A. Logan : "I was in command of a company made up
from the various companies of Gen. Bushrod Johnson's Bri-
gade, and in my company under this detail was the Rev. Mr.
Goodall, a minister of the Christian Church. Mr. Goodall was
under me in this detached company for a year or more, and
up to the time he was killed, in front of Petersburg, on the
morning of June 17, 1S64. Mr. Goodall was as good a sol-
dier as ever wore the gray, was honorable and upright, and
I think incapable of making an intentional false statement.
At the breaking out of the Civil War he was living in South-
ern Illinois, and he told me time and again that John A.
Logan, then in Congress, afterwards a distinguished general
of the United States army and also distinguished in civil
life, made up a company in Southern Illinois for the purpose
of going South and tendering the services of himself and
company to the Confederacy. Mr. Goodall was a member of
this company enlisting under Captain Logan. Mr. Goodall
understood that President Lincoln, upon hearing that Logan
was going South, offered him a colonelcy in the United States
army, which offer he accepted. Mr. Goodall, not being in-
fluenced by this change on the part of his captain, came South
and enlisted, and was afterwards detailed and served, as has
been stated, until, true to his convictions, faithful to the end,
he lost his life fighting for what he believed was right."
It is a coincidence that in the "War Records of the Re-
bellion," Series I., Volume XXX., Part II., page 478, Col.
John S. Fulton, 44th Tennessee Infantry, who commanded
Johnson's Brigade in the battle of Chickamauga, states as to
these two men : "I am pleased to notice the conduct of Private
Turner Goodall, of the provost guard, who, in the thick of the
battle on Sunday evening, seeing the men all so gallantly at
work and hard pressed, came up with his gun and fought man-
fully through the hottest of the fight, and by words of en-
couragement to his fellow-soldiers and example did his whole
duty as a soldier and provost guard. * * * I would also
mention Lieutenant Ewing, of the provost guard, from the
17th Tennessee Regiment, who, finding that the officers of
his company had all been placed hors dc combat, asked per-
mission and returned to take command of his company on
Sunday morning. He is a worthy and promising officer."
JEFFERSON DAVIS HOME ASSOCIATION.
The Jefferson Davis Home Association is perfecting titles
to certain interests at Fairview, Ky., and will ere long give
opportunity to all who desire the preservation of the birth-
place of the South's most distinguished son of later genera-
tions— Jefferson Davis.
MYSTERY OF AN APPEAL FROM ST. JOSEPH, MO.
Much disturbance has been caused by publication in the Vet-
eran for September concerning a "Bazaar of States" which
was to have been held under the auspices of the Sam Davis
Chapter, U. D. C, of St. Joseph. Upon investigation it has
been found that this notice was sent to the Veteran late in
1906 for publication early in 1907 ; but upon request later its
publication was withheld, and the notice should have been
destroyed. However, its appearance with o> ler held-over
proofs a few months back did not revive memory of the re-
quest to withdraw, and, considering the object a most worthy
one, it was published with a view to helping the project along
This explanation is made freely to relieve any one of the
responsibility of its publication except as to the oversight in
this office. Mrs. Marcia A. Bailey (the Veteran had it Miss
Bailey), to whom its authorship is credited, writes a dis-
claimer as to having any connection with it, and the Presi-
dent of the Chapter also enters a protest against its recent
appearance. The Veteran assumes responsibility through the
oversight, with apologies to the good women who have been
caused such annoyance.
Much credit is due patriotic Confederate women in that
section, and it is desired to help them in every worthy under-
taking. The Veteran is absolutely impartial in what may be
a controversy, but wishes through its columns to further the
work of any Chapter or the whole organization undertaken in
a cooperative spirit.
On November 19, 1907, the President of the Sam Davis
Chapter wrote : "Letters and donations are being sent from all
over the South to the party who wrote the article."
TENNESSEE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
The annual meeting of Tennessee Division of Confed-
erate Soldiers, which antedates several years the United Con-
federate Veterans, was held at Covington, Tenn., October 8
and 9. There was good attendance for a meeting at one
end of the State, and the hospitality of the people of Coving-
ton was gracious and unstinted. Capt. C. D. Simonton was
master of ceremonies, and gave his entire time to the pleas-
ant work of seeing that everybody was well looked after.
A striking feature of the occasion was the interest mani-
fested by the young people in the old soldiers. In order that
everybody might see each veteran, it was insisted that they
march through the main streets of the town; and although
many were feeble, but few failed to join in the procession.
Maj. Z. W. Ewing, of Pulaski, was chosen President; and
of the other officers, Capt. I. N. Rainey was chosen a Vice
President and J. P. Hickman Secretary. Colonel Hickman
has been the Secretary throughout the history of twenty-one
years, and he was active in the organization of the United
Confederate Veterans, of which organization he has been
Adjutant General for the Tennessee Division throughout its
history.
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;ENS. FREDERICK D.
.KANT AND STEPHEN P. LEE WITH A PARTV UN VICKSBURG BATTLEFIE]
The ladies in picture are Mrs Bennett and a daughter of
Corporal Tanner. The men in front row are Gen: O. O.
Howard (his empty sleeve hidden). Gen. Stephen D. Lee,
Gen. Fred D. Grant. Colonel Barnum, Bishop Fallows i smooth
face), and General McGinnis. Standing by the flag pole will
be 51 ni the sculptor, Mr. H. H. Kitson, who is engaged upon
the memorial to Gen. Lloyd Tilghman to be placed in Pa-
ducah, Ky. General McGinnis stands erect — over four score.
SOt III) OF Tllli ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.
In April. 1865. while the Federal army comprising the
Army of the Tennessee Department was camped about the
State Capitol of North Carolina, the officers organized a so-
1 ii ly by the above name. The call was issued by Gen. Frank
Blair, and Gen. John A. Rawlins was chosen President. The
rule has been with that Society, as with the U. C. V., to retain
its chief officer; so General Rawlins was continued until his
death, in 1869. when (Sen. W. T. Sherman was elected con-
tinuously until his death, which occurred in 1891. Then Maj.
Gen. Grenville M. Dodge was chosen, and he has been the
President continuously since that time. Col. Cornelius Cadlc,
of the Shiloh Battlefield Park Commission, has been the Re-
nt: Secretary since General Dodge has bun President.
Of the twelve Nice Presidents elected each year, one is a
woman, who is expected to respond to a toast at the annual
banquet This was the first meeting held in the South since
rganization, except one held in Louisville, Ky. in 1S00
There is hardly any expense to the organization, as no
salaries arc paid, and they have a fund of $12,000 in United
States government bonds for incidentals; while the COSl .[
membership is fio, with annual dues of $1.
I In' meeting at Vicksburg was upon invitation, tin Societj
seeking to have as many I' lestS as practicable.
1 )n August j| General Dodge wrote the Veteran office;
"I inclose you the circular of the Society of the Ariin of
the Tennessei for us meeting at Vicksburg on the 71b and
8th of November Ynu will notice that we make a spei
invitation to the Confederate veterans, and that several of
the distinguished officers will be there to take part in the
allj Lieut. Gen, Stephen D l ee, who is Com-
mander in Chief of the United Confederate Veterans
"It will give the Society great pleasure to have you attend
as its guest and take part with us in the reunion, and I hope
you will certainly be there, for I know you will find our com-
rades very glad to meet and greet you,
"I would also like to have you give notice of (his meeting
in the Confederate Veteran, so your subscribers may know
of it. We have no other way of reaching them that I know
of. although T suppose the local committee at Vicksburg will
take some measures in this direction. 1 wish to say it will
give me greal personal pleasure to have you attend."
In a later letter he said: "You know it was the two armies
of the I ennessee thai were engaged in the campaign of Vicks-
burg, and the survivors of one army have invited the other
army down to visit them, and we are coming with the greatest
of pleasure. Anything you can say in the Veteran with ref-
erence to the meeting will greatly oblige us."
Then was a liberal attendance of Confederates at this meet-
ing. It was not a large gathering in numbers of cither army,
but highly representative, and the sentiment was as fraternal
as ever can exist.
Gen. Fred Grant made the main address of the occasion.
Two references in it, one as to the numbers on each side
and the other a complimentary referenci to negro troops, were
objectionable to Southerner-; but 111 every other respect noth-
ing occurred that was 11. .1 a- perfectly agreeable to the South-
ern side as to the other. This expression refers to all the con-
es ui the meetings and the outings on the Battlefield
Park. No finer tribute, in- fact, could have been made to the
valor and the endurance of Confederates thin bj then captors.
1 hi the other hand, the Confederates were never more at
ease than in reciprocating the splendid sentiments of patri
and good will. Col. W. A. Montgomery, who has been
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Chairman of the Executive Committee of the United Con-
federate Veterans for many years, and who commanded the
2d .Mississippi Regiment in the Spanish-American War, in
his address the next day protested .against General Grant's
figures as to the relative numbers at the siege, producing
figures from the records at Washington very different to those
of General Grant. He did it so splendidly' as to procure the
enthusiastic indorsement of all present, and before that session
closed General Grant responded as generously as was any
act of his father at Appomattox or elsewhere, stating that he
had given "estimates" of the Confederates. Then he spoke
at length of the tendency of both sides to use figures credita-
ble to themselves with honest intention. General Grant
throughout the meetings established for himself that esteem
which makes him a worthy representative of his distinguished
father in all that was liberal and high-minded, while his Ken-
tucky wife prides herself in being a Southerner.
Gen. O. O. Howard, a classmate of Gen. Stephen D. Lee,
mellow in his years of Christian service, celebrating his
seventy-seventh birthday, took occasion to confess that he
had been wrong in his opinions of the Southern people.
Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, the President of the Society, is
near General Howard's age, and yet he is a man of large
affairs in New York. He was unstinted at all times in show-
ing his esteem for the Confederate guests.
W. T. Sherman, the younger son of General Sherman, a
lawyer of New York, was present, but not conspicuous. He
was treated with cordial courtesy.
Many of the less conspicuous officers were delightfully cor-
dial and complimentary. Protests were made by some of
those that there were no Confederate flags displayed, and they
were promised the luxury of being able to see some of them.
Governor Vardaman's address was received most cordially
by all present, and he urged as many as could do so to visit
Jackson, that he might be able to extend to them courtesies
at the capital.
Major Griffith, of Vicksburg, in his address of welcome,
after telling the Society that they were survivors of one of the
greatest armies the world has ever known and expatiating
upon the prowess of many of their leaders, said : "Your op-
ponents were your equals, officers and men."
Mr. Cunningham invited the Society to hold its next re-
union in Nashville, and it appeared that the invitation would
be accepted ; but there had already been an agreement among
the officials to go to St. Louis next year.
Jerome Hill, of Memphis, urged Memphis for the next
meeting place, but Nashville has precedence when they come
South again.
A VIRGINIANS TRIBUTE TO GEN. U. S. GRANT.
In his address to the Virginia veterans of the Confederacy,
Col. William H. Stewart said at a recent Reunion:
"Some men are here who stacked their arms in surrender
at Appomattox, and they will never forget the tender consid-
eration of the commander in chief of the Union armies.
(Cheers.) As the star of hope went down behind the black-
est cloud that ever bedimmed human vision, when a battery
commenced to salute their victory, he promptly ordered the
gunners to cease firing; and instead of exultation, he offered
bread to the hungry captives. (Applause.)
"They remember how his manhood stood for paroled pris-
oners when the viciousness of revenge demanded violation of
his pledge on that fateful battlefield. I know I can say that
every veteran here who surrendered at Appomattox C. II. re-
members with gratitude the graciotisness and goodness of
General Grant to surrendered soldiers, remembers with the
'gratitude which is the fairest blossom which springs from
the soul, and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
I am glad to tell the world how we appreciated the nobleness
of General Gram.
"He was a great captain in battle, but greater in victory.
Let us have peace' was more fruitful of good to his country
and will be remembered longer than any of his achievements
on the battlefield."
Addresses of Camp Morton Prisoners. — The Veteran
requests the post office addresses of survivors who were im-
prisoned at Camp Morton in 1862 from February to Septem-
ber. Please give prompt attention.
State Divisions of United Confederate Veterans have been
held during the last few weeks with the same devotion and
zeal as in former years. Two features become more and more
paramount — personal devotion between Veterans and their
zeal for true records of what was done in the sixties. The
States of Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia deserve
elaborate reports of proceedings herein.
The U. D. C. Convention at Norfolk voted unanimously that
the surplus remaining after the completion of the Jefferson
Davis monument, in Richmond, be given to the Jefferson
Davis Memorial Association in New Orleans. Mrs. Behan
thanked the Convention for its action, and stated that the
corner stone of the Jefferson Davis monument would be laid
in New Orleans June 3, 1908, the anniversary of the birth of
Jefferson Davis. This work is under the auspices of the Jef-
ferson Davis Memorial Association of New Orleans, La.
Tribute to Gracie's Brigade. — Mr. Archibald Gracie, of
Washington, D. C. 1527 Sixteenth Street, is preparing to
publish important historic works at as early date as prac-
ticable. His first book will be a "Tribute to General Gracie
and to Gracie's Brigade." It. is highly commendable that a
young man reared in the North is taking the time and ex-
pending the necessary funds to honor the memory of his
father and the men who so loyally served under him in the
Confederate army.
H. E. Jones, Agent Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, C\\-
charas, Colo., writes of an old sword or saber in bis pos-
session which was sent home during the war by his uncle,
also a cavalry saddle. The name of Lieut. J. W. Gillock is
carved on the handle, and he is anxious to get in communica-
tion with Lieutenant Gillock or his family. Mr. Jones's uncle
was captain of an Ohio regiment, and sent these things home
as having been captured.
Dr. Joseph A. Mudd, of Hyattsville, Md., wants every man
who fought under Col. Joseph Porter in North Missouri to
send him his address. He also asks for the address of the
man (or some member of his family) whom he jerked out of
bed on Monday night, July 28, 1862. a few hours after the
battle of Moore's Mill, Calloway County, Mo., and made pilot
their little squad over the North Missouri railroad. Missouri
exchanges friendly to the preservation of Confederate history
will please copy.
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THAT ARMISTICE ON KENNESAW MOUNTAIN.
In the VETERAN for October, page 459, appeared a picture
of a scene 'luring the armistice between the two armies thai
the Federal wounded and dead might be removed from the
burning area. In connection with thai a statement was made
thai lli' < -iii' derates proposed this armistice for the purpose
mentioned. The following correction of thai statement is
mill' by Hon James D. Porter. ex-Governor of Tennessee,
who was in that battle as Cheatham's chief of staff:
" I In 1. mova! of the Federal wounded and dead was, under
i!h circumstances, one of ihe most pathetic incidents of the
wat . but 11 1- nol true thai the suggestion "f an armistice
was initiated by our commanders, hut application was made in
the usual 1 rm bj General Sherman for . ion of hos-
in ordei to enable him to remove his wounded and
bury lu~ dead. W< were masters of the field, and it was not
a pari oi oui dutj ti .1 V F01 su pension of hostilities.
"It ma\ surprise you and may be a surprise to many of
our soldiers in the I. alia of Chickamauga when I say that
1I1. Federal dead not removed during the action remained
just where they fell after that fight and while we were
righting the battle of Missionarj Ridge. Indeed, they remained
just wlnr.' (hey fell for six weeks I was on the battlefield
several Eter the battle and saw them It is explained
lo sonic person not familiar with the rule, of war that where
a victorious army passes over a field of battle it is not under
obligations 10 bury the enemy's dead. We were not criticised
by any Federal authorities, as they knew thai was the rule
of w
1 DJ .'■. \i 1 [RTILLERY Rl GIMENTS.
B \ 11 Morris, Grah \\i. Tex.
On pagi 410 "f tin- \'i mi;\\ fen- September I.. S. Flateau
states thai the famous Vicksburg Batter] was one of the
companies composing the only regiment of artillery in the
Confederate army. In ibis statement Comrade Flateau is in
error, a member of the 1 si Si'iilh Candina Regiment.
and then was a 2d South Carolina Artillery, We engaged in
the defen ; Giarleston until Sherman's march to the sea.
I think 1 am right when 1 state that this was the only place
besieged that did not yield '" the forces besieging it. It was
Stronger and abler to repel any attack on the day that it was
evacuated than ever before ["here are officers of ibis regi-
ment living, as are many of it- members, who were on the
ground when the "Stai of the West" was ,,,-,| upon. One of
us members. Bob Anderson (from Anderson District), was
in ihe United States army and stationed at Castle Pinckney
(if ii' 1 in charge), a fort in the bay. and was literal!'
in pieces b) a mortar shell from tin guns after man-
ning a mortar battery all night lung. * * *
The war is over, but the principles remain. I wa
with my captain. Blake, and others on the morning following
the last stand General Johnston made at Bentonville,
and was carried by way of N'ewbcrn. X. C. to Hart's I
X. i '.. and assigned to Squad 26. I took the oath on the 171b
of June and returned t" my old home, at Anderson. S 1 .
arriving there July 10. [865, before I was nineteen years of
I wi luld be glad i" i" .11 11. mi an\ old comradi ■
In order to get ibis mattei correct, tli. \ 1 mi- . wroti 1
Washington, and an official replied: "The only source from
which the desired information could be obtained would be
from Ihe adjutant general, and 1 do not know that il could be
obtained even then
Bj careful inspection of the best authorities at band the
Veteran gives twelve regiments of artillery as follows:
Louisiana, 1st Artillery Regiment, I "1 Paul 0. lichen.
Missi-sippi. ist \rtillcry Regiment, Col. W. T. Withers.
North Carolina, ist \n Reg., Col. J. A. J. Bradford
South Carolina, ist Artillery Regiment, Col, J. \. Wagener.
South Carolina, 2d Artillery Regiment, Col. T. G. Lamar.
South Carolina. 3d Artillery Regiment, Col. R II \n.i.
Tennessee, ist Heavj Vrtillery, Col. A. Jackson. J,
Texas, ist Artillery, Col. Joseph J. Cook.
Virginia, 1-1 Vrtillery, Col George \\ Randolph,
Virginia, 2d Heavj Artillery, Col Robert Tansill
Virginia, 3d Artillery (Local Defense 1. Col. J. C. Porter.
Virginia, 41b Artillery. Col, John T. Goode Later this
regiment was made the 34th Virginia Infantry. March, [864
GAl LANT, FAITHFU1 I I FERANS .11 GLASGOW R I
W1II.IAM WOOD.
CAPT. T. G. PACE.
I*
J. A. MURRAY.
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Qopfederat^ l/eteran.
Confederate l/eterar;.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ 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.
THAT DE ROSSET CORRESPONDENCE.
Widespread publicity has been given the Veteran in con-
nection with the article of Capt. A. L. De Rosset, of Wilming-
ton, N. C.j appearing in the October number, pages 455-456,
headed "Interesting Statement by Judge Robert Ould." The
offensive part of the article is on the latter page, wherein
the author quotes a conversation with Gen. J. A. Chalaron,
Custodian of the Confederate Memorial Hall, New Orleans,
to the effect that U. S. Grant, George H. Thomas (a Vir-
ginian), and Farragut (a Tennesseean) had tendered their
services to President Davis for the Confederate army and
navy.
The eminence that these three gentlemen attained in the
service of the United States afterwards made the publication
startling, and one Colonel Stuart, of Chicago, "challenges" the
authorities in New Orleans to produce the proof. The editor
of the Veteran was surprised by the statement, and would
not have printed it from ordinary sources. He personally
knew both the gentlemen, however, and ever had such im-
plicit faith in their integrity that he could not but accept the
account. He does not feel that it would have been any great
crime or personal disgrace if such a tender of services had
been made. In support of this assertion, he recalls reading
about that great and grand man, Albert Sidney Johnston,
wherein he thought his course in connection with his part in
the war would be best for his family. The statement, the
exact wording of which cannot be recalled at this writing.
was a painful surprise, and it has caused much meditation on
the subject of professional life. The soldier makes war a
business, as does the merchant, the lawyer, the farmer, or
even the minister of his occupation. Besides, as good men as
any of these tendered their services to President Davis to
fight for the South. These included as patriotic men even o[
Northern birth as ever lived. By this meditation it was con-
cluded that the trained officer as a rule did not entertain that
spontaneous zeal of patriotism that induced many men to sac-
rifice large estates and leave their wives and children to
undergo hardships that would not have been endured for
all the money on earth. Neither was there any prospective
glory for them. They expected no rank of degree, but sim
ply with gun and cartridge box to maintain God-given rights.
It is currently believed that the distinguished John A. Logan
was really organizing a command in Southern Illinois to fight
for State rights with the South when he accepted a prom-
ising offer to fight for the Union.
So far as the Veteran is concerned, its readers will bear
testimony that it has never sought conspicuous place b..'
sensations, but that it has courageously stood for the truth
without exaggeration. General Chalaron having denied
promptly that he made such a statement to Captain De Ros-
set, the Veteran accepts it without waiting for response from
Captain De Rosset. He had urged the importance of the pub-
lication.
It is not asserted by Chalaron that such letters were not
written to President Davis. If they had been, it would have
been like that man to keep them from the public, through hi?
exalted sense of personal consideration and the Golden Rule.
This manifestly unfortunate publication has been discusseu.
with Gen. Fred D. Grant, to whom several copies of the Vet-
eran had been sent, and the conference was not in the slight-
est disagreeable.
ABOUT THE TERM "NEW SOUTH."
Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers'
Record, Baltimore, has published in a book of seventy-two
pages a wonderful array of "Facts about the South," in which
he deals mainly with commercial resources, yet he possesses
that degree of sentiment whereby that which is of greater
value than material prosperity is dealt with. He states in
"Achievements of the Old South" the spirit which was able
to survive the wreck of the war :
"The 'New South,' a term which is so popular with many
people, is supposed to represent a country of different ideas and
different business methods from those which prevailed in
ante-bellum days. The origin of the term has been a subject
of much discussion, but the writer has rarely seen it ascribed
to what he believes to have been the first use of it. During
the war, when Port Royal, S. C, was occupied by Northern
forces, a paper called The New South was established by one
of the officers. This was probably the first time that the term
was applied to the Southern States. Its use now, as intended
to convey the meaning that the progress of the South of late
years is something entirely new and foreign to this section,
something which has been brought about by an infusion of
outside energy and money, is wholly unjust to the South of
the past and present. It is an improper use of the term, or
rather an abuse of it. There is a new South — a South which
is making a vigorous effort to regain the relative position
held in i860 as compared with the whole country, a South
which has met and solved many of the hardest problems ever
faced by any section of our country — but without the Old
South the New South would have been an impossibility. The
South of to-day is no novel creation. It is an evolution. After
suffering and prostration, it has been relieved of its great in-
cubus, and is becoming more and more able to hold its own
with other sections in trade and manufacturing.
"It needs but little investigation to show that prior to the
war the South was fully abreast of the times in all business
interests, and that the wonderful industrial growth which it
has made since 1880 has been due mainly to Southern men and
Southern money. The South heartily welcomes the invest-
ment of outside capital and the immigration of all good peo-
ple, regardless of their political predilections; but insists that
it shall receive from the world the measure of credit to which
it is entitled for the accomplishments of its own people, and
it justly points to the Old South and its work as proof of the
broad business ability and energy which found new expression
in. the revival of activity after 1876. In the Old South were
bold railroad builders, aggressive for an expansion of foreign
commerce, far-seeing nationalists in statesmanship, practical
and unselfish promoters of their country's greatness and pro-
foundly successful in education. In finance and banking the
Old South had no superior in any other section. In i860 it
had thirty per cent of the banking capital of the entire coun-
try. Louisiana ranked as the fourth State in the Union in the
amount of banking capital in that year, and Louisiana banks
were second in the country in specie holdings in i860, New
York alone being ahead."
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HONOR BETWEEN SOLDIERS IN SERVICE.
LV JOHN W. TR1TSCH, LOCAN, OHIO.
The Confederate Veteran is read with interest by ine as
one who wore the blue, and it is one of the best maga-
zines that come into my home. It contains nothing objec-
tionable for any home, and is worthy to both sides.
The 90th Ohio Regiment, to which I belonged and of which
association I am Secretary and Treasurer, faced the 1st Arkan-
sas, of Polk's Brigade and Pat Cleburne's Division, nearly
all the way from Chattanooga to Atlanta in 1864. We became
quite well acquainted with them, and found them honorable,
brave, and gallant soldiers. On the Kennesaw Mountain line
we were within a stone's throw of their works from the 20th
of June until the 2d of July, and during a part of that time
we entered into a truce not to fire at each other unless we
came out of our works in line of battle, and the old First
Arkansas was true to her promise. This gave us an oppor-
tunity to meet between the lines and do a little trading in the
way of coffee, tobacco, knives, newspaper-, etc . and we would
play cards with them for several hours.
And now 1 wish to speak of an incident I observed at this
place, and it may be that some of the 1st Arkansas boys will
remember it. 1 should like to hear from any of them. One
afternoon one of their boys called over to us and wanted to
know where the 17th Ohio was, as he had a brother in that
regiment and would like to see him ; that his name was Bope,
and he was from Lancaster, Ohio. We told him that the 17th
1 only a short distance to our right, and we would go over
and tell him. He came back with us, and the two brothers
met halfway between the lines and shook hands and talked a
half hour or more. When our man came back, wc asked him
what his brother said. It was for him to send word home to
the family at Lancaster that he was "rebel to the backbone,"
and he was going to "stay with them to the end." A few
years ago I saw the comrade from the 17th Ohio, and he told
me that the brother in the 1st Arkansas passed through the
war safely, and relumed to Arkansas, where he died.
Other incidents of like character took place between the
Yanks and Johnnies, and the boys who stood on the firing line
from Star) I" finish on both sides were honorable in their
treatment of theii Eo< when prisoners. * * * On the 37th
of June. 1864, at Kennesaw we charged their works and were
driven back with great loss, and the woods caught fire; but
they were humane and allowed us to carry back our dead
and wounded to keep them from burning.
MARKING CONFEDERATE GRATES IN THE NORTH.
The Madison (Wis.) Democrat reports the presence in that
city of Col. William Elliott, who has charge of placing markers
at the graves of our Confederate dead of ■ Northern prison
The Democrat of current issue states :
"Confederate prisoners arc buried in sixty-one cemeteries
extending over the Northern States from Boston in the I isl
to Santa Fe in the West. Colonel Elliott must cover this
vast territory. After a few days in Madison, he leaves for
Rock Island, 111., thence to other points along the Mississippi.
The contract for the headstones was let to the Blue Ridge
Marble Company, of Nelson, Ga., at $2.50 apiece. Tin
made of Georgia marble, which 'does not fall prey to ex
posure.'
"Colonel Elliott ascertains the name of each deceased Con-
federate prisoner, rank, company, regiment, and State, .111 '
has these facts noted on the headstones. In Madison these
features of his duties will not be onerous because each grave
has a wooden marker with name, rank, company, regiment,
and State. These markers were placed on the graves through
the efforts of the late Mrs. Alice W. Waterman, assisted by
citizens. Colonel Elliott appreciates the work of this noblc
woman and the generosity of Madison people wdto assisted her.
"There are one hundred and thirty-nine graves in 'Confed-
erate Rest' at Madison.
"Mrs. Waterman, being of Southern birth, naturally loved
the South, and she had the grounds inclosed with a board
fence and ornamented with beautiful shade trees and hedges,
and every grave was properly marked with a headboard. She
died in 1897 at the home of Major Oakley.
"Colonel Elliott served as a member of Congress for six
teen years from the Charleston District of South Carolina
as a Democrat. He says: 'It is a source of much pleasure to
note how the services of Mrs, Waterman and those who so
kindly assisted her arc treasured.' lie ha- so fai been treated
most kindly both by Union soldiers and the people in gen
A MEMORIAL TO MRS At ICE WATERMAN— THE CEMETERY UNDER HER SUPERVISION.
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FINEGAN'S FLORIDA BRIGADE.
BY U. H. HANE, LAKELAND, FLA.
The Florida troops that served under Gen. Joseph Finegan
played no small part in the service of the Confederacy. Gen-
eral Finegan was in command of all the forces in Florida for
some time. He fortified St. John's Bluff, at the mouth of the
St. John's River, to keep that valuable stream open for Southern
crafts and prevent the destruction threatened by the Federals.
The work was well done, and resisted an attack of three vessels
of the United States navy— the Paul Jones, Isaac P. Smith, and
the Water Witch — which had been-sent to destroy the fortifi-
cation. Many broadside shots were delivered, by which two
of our men were killed and two others wounded. We had
but a small infantry force to support the works, which had to
be evacuated, as the enemy landed a largely superior force.
Plunder and devastation were soon commenced by the Yanks,
as the river was open to them.
The troops there were then employed in guarding some of
the most important points on the seacoast until General Sey-
mour, from Hilton Head, landed a large force of white and
negro troops at Jacksonville to play the game that Sherman
afterwards played on his march to the sea, but General Fin-
egan succeeded in getting reinforcements and stopped his
career by the battle of Olustee. General Finegan had planned
to swamp Seymour's entire army, but the heroic General Col-
quit, ever anxious to meet the enemy, brought on a hasty
action which resulted in Seymour's defeat. The victory to
our arms would have been more glorious if a sufficient cavalry
force had been on hand, as Seymour would never have reached
bis ships at Jacksonville.
Our army had nothing to cause excitement for some time
after that until General Finegan was called to reenforce Gen-
eral Lee in Virginia. We were halted on our way at Charles-
ton, S. C, to keep back the landing of an infantry force on
James Island. From there we headed for Virginia, and joined
General Lee's army at Hanover Junction. It was fight and
go forward until we reached Cold Harbor, where Grant had
several thousand more men slaughtered. Our division com-
mander, General Mahone, in his fine, sharp voice asked a lit-
tle fellow in<our company (H, loth Florida Regiment), named
Ward, to climb a tree and give him the exact point of a Yan-
kee battery that was giving us trouble. After it was silenced,
it was said that Finegan's men were proud to dig holes,
climb trees, and fight Yankees. A part of our breastworks
was captured, and General Finegan was ordered to retake the
works, which was nicely done with but small loss. Many of
the Yankees had whisky in their canteens. After that the
fighting was light until we reached Petersburg, where it wa~
frequent in the trenches and cutting off raiding expeditions
against the railroads south of Petersburg.
The battle of Ream's Station was no skirmish. Finegan's
Brigade, with some others of our division, put Wilson's and
Kant's Cavalry out of business. It took them some time to
recruit. We captured seven pieces of artillery, a number of
wagons and ambulances, horses, saddles, bridles, blankets,
muskets, a lot of provisions (some already cooked), a num-
ber of prisoners and negroes, a fine carriage packed with
ladies' wearing apparel, baby clothing, jewelry and silver-
ware, books, etc., plundered from defenseless homes. General
Finegan's great-granddaughter, little Miss Effie Parramore,
is the mascot of our Camp U. C. V., No. 1543, of Lakeland,
Fla., where we often see her and are glad, for we are re-
minded of him under whom we served and loved so well.
A REMARKABLE QUARTET.
BY GEN. T. A. CHALARON, NEW ORLEANS.
At the meeting of the Association of the Army of Tennes-
see, Louisiana Division, No. 2, U. C. V., held on the 10th
of October, I made them acquainted with the fact that on the
same day in the interval since the last meeting I had re-
ceived letters from three venerable Confederate veterans and
a vi^it from a fourth one, whose combined ages amounted
to three hundred and forty-four years. The men were dis-
tinguished soldiers and citizens.
First came Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart, eighty-six years old,
now residing at Biloxi, Miss., in full enjoyment of his men-
tal faculties, though enfeebled in body. lie wrote me about
the position of the guns I commanded in the battle of Mis-
sionary Ridge and the correct location assigned them in the
report that is about to appear of the Commission for the
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, of
which he is a member.
Next came a letter from Col. Winchester Hall, eighty-eight
years old, who resides at Pocomoke City, Md., who wrote me
concerning the pension laws of Louisiana. Colonel Hall com-
manded the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, was wounded
during the siege of Vicksburg, and while disabled was as-
signed to one of the military courts, from which he resigned
and returned to his regiment as soon as recovered from his
wound. He was in command of it at the surrender. He has
written a history of his regiment, and two years ago wrote
and published a book, "Self-Development." that is highly
spoken of by competent judges.
Then followed a letter from Private Henry Vining Ogden.
of the 5th Company Washington Artillery, eighty-five years
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old, ami residing at Milwaukee, Wis. lie was one of my sol-
diers, and his letter began: "My dear Captain. I come to re-
port again before life slips away." Private Ogden, bj common
consent of officers and nun, was the finest soldier of the ?th
Company W. A. He is a Northern man by birth, born at
Ogdensburg, X. Y. Coming South when quite young, the
breaking out of the war found him Manager of the Agency
of the Liverpool and London and ( llobe Insurance Company
in New Orleans, with a large salary. He resigned his position
and enlisted in the 15th Company as a private, and throughout
the war declined all promotion, serving most of the time a-, a
driver by preference. He was the oldest man in the company,
and was known to rill and respei II as the "Old Gentle-
man." He never missed a battle, and had eight horses killed
under him. No finer type of a gentleman entered th< i
federate army. After the war the insurance eompanj a
as possible gave him back his position at an increased salarj .
and when be was partiallj paralyzed, some ten yens ago, he
was retired with an ample pension, and has since resided id
Milwaukee, Wis., where he has a son practicing medicine.
Ilu it was no citizen of New Orleans more highly esteemed
by all than Private Henry Y 1 Igden
Private Ogden has written, and is now revising, a Mi
torj of the Cotton Seed < >il Industry of the South," and
iwroti that he would complete n if he had three months more
of life. In hi- letter to me he hail asked about the first orderly
nit of the sth Company, now Rev. \ Gordon Bakewell;
and while these letter- were before me, who should call to sei
me but the Reverend Bakewell, as active as a cat, as erec!
a- an Indian, as striking in appearance as Cardinal Richelieu.
and eighty-five years old?
Bakewell was the first orderly sergeant of the 5th Company,
Washington Artillery. He was a merchant in New Orleans
when he enlisted, and served in the Company in the Shiloli
and Corinth campaigns, and availed himself of the discharge
became a chaplain in the Confederate army. He is pastor of
one of our city Churches, Chaplain of all the Confederate
Camps of New Orleans, and Chaplain General of the Louisiana
Division, U. C. V.
No wonder the Association was moved with admiration and
I nun over age to retire and pursue his preparatii
tile ministry, to which he was admitted SOOn after, and then
1a \ \ 01 iSDON e \M.W I I.I .
respect for such venerable and distinguished Confederati
lion came that, as of old the gladiators on entering tie-
arena saluted Caesar before dying, for these Confederate
veterans now standing on tin- brink of the grave, the
Roman custom be reversed and tin Issociation salute them
by making them honorary members of their body. The idea
wa- earned out with enthusiasm, the assemblj rising to roti
the honor b\ acclamation. Gen, A. 1'. Stewart being
an honorary member of till \ ociation, the vote in his case
was a renewed expression of dn- love and devotion ili<- Y
sociation entertains for him The honorary roll was then
fore only increased bj the names ol Col Winchester Hall.
26th Louisiana Regiment Infantry; Orderl) Sergeant \ 1.
Bakewell, 5th Company, Washington Vxtillery; and Private
Henry Vining Ogden, 5th Company, Washington Artillery.
The Yi ni;\s is disappointed in its failure to have a pictun
"i Comrade Ogden for tins remarkable quartet It may ap-
pear I
Benepii 01 Bi .in, '1,1, Mom meni Fund fhi song
"Louisiana," dedicated to the ini Gen. P. G. 1 Beaure-
gard, is being -old bj the New Orleans Chapter, U. 1'. I
the benefit of t! I I Monument Fund ol ( hapl
■ at nun ■ For 1 'lie dollar,
paid. 0 senl to Miss D, Gautreaux, 1212 1 on
-tantinople Street, or to Mr- I I \ S Vaught, 1442 Lotli
Avenue. \'cu I It leans. La.
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GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
Its Organization, Aims, and What It Has Accomplished
[This paper was written for the Veteran by Maj. Robert
Mann Woods. 644S Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, Past Depart-
ment Commander of Illinois, who took an active part in form-
ing the organization, as may be seen,]
This is the largest, most powerful, and influential military
organization ever formed, and the Society has been of much
use and benefit and is doing a greater work of charity for the
veterans, soldiers, and sailors of the Union army and their
wives and children and for the widows and orphans of com-
rades than any other organization in the world. At the same
lime it is bringing to the aged veterans of the great war the re-
spect and admiration of the people of the country. It also in-
culcates the principles of patriotism in the young people of
the country, respect for the flag of our Union, and love of
liberty and tespect for law and order and for the constitu-
tion as the palladium of our liberties.
This Society was devised and organized by Dr. Benjamin
F. Stephenson, surgeon of the 14th Illinois Infantry, and his
associates. Those most immediately connected with him in
this work were the members of his staff announced in his
first general order, issued from Springfield, 111., April 1, 1866.
It names as the officers on duty at these headquarters, Col.
Jules C. Webber, Aid-de-Camp and Chief of Staff; Maj.
Robert M. Woods, Adjutant General; Col. John M. Snyder,
Quartermaster General ; Lieut. John S. Phelps, Aid-de-Camp ;
Capt. John A. Lightfoot, Assistant Adjutant General; and is
officially signed, "By order of Benjamin F. Stephenson, Com-
manding Department. Official: Robert M. Woods, Adjutant
General."
The first ritual was written by Dr. Stephenson ; the con-
stitution and by-laws were written by Maj. Robert M. Woods,
Adjutant General, who also got up the forms for charter, re-
P'irts, returns, etc. Its declaration of principles is as follows:
"The soldiers and sailors of the volunteer army and navy
of the United States during the rebellion of 1861-65, actuated
by the impulses and convictions of eternal right and con-
firmed in the strong bonds of fellowship by the toils, the
dangers, and the victories of a long and vigorously waged
war, feel themselves called upon to declare in definite form
of words and in determined cooperative action those princi-
ples and rules which should guide the earnest patriot, the en-
lightened freeman, and the Christian citizen in his course of
action; and to agree upon those plans and laws which should
govern them in a united and systematic working method with
which in some measure shall be effected the preservation of
the grand results of the war, the fruits of their labor and toil,
so as to benefit the deserving and worthy."
The results which are designed to be accomplished by this
organization are as follows:
";. The preservation of those kind and fraternal feelings
which have bound together with the strong cords of love and
affection the comrades in arms of many battles, sieges, and
marches.
"2. To make these ties available in works and results of
kindness, of favor, and material aid to those in need of as-
sistance.
"3. To make provision, where it is not already done, for the
support, care, and education of the orphans of soldiers and
sailors and for the maintenance of the widows of our de-
ceased comrades,
"4. For the protection and assistance of disabled soldiers
and sailors whether disabled by wounds, sickness, old age, or
misfortune.
"5. For the establishment and defense of the late soldier}'
of the United States, morally, socially, and politically, with
a view to inculcate a proper appreciation of their services to
the country and to a recognition of such services and claims
by the American people."
To this declaration of principles the first National Conven-
tion of the order added the following paragraph :
"6. The maintenance of true allegiance to the United State -
of America, based upon paramount respect for and fidelity to
the national constitution and laws, manifested by the dis-
continuance of whatever may tend to weaken loyalty, incite
to insurrection, treason, or rebellion, or in any manner impair
the efficiency and permanency of our free institutions, together
with a defense of universal liberty, equal rights, and justice
to all men."
With the above objects in view, the first Post was organized
at Decatur, 111., April 6, 1866, and by July 12 sixty posts had
been organized in Illinois.
On July 12 a convention of soldiers and sailors met at
Springfield to ratify the former proceedings. The meeting
was presided over by Col. Walter B. Scates. Gens. Benjamin
M. Prentiss and James M. True were Vice Presidents and
Maj. Robert M. Woods was Secretary.
At this convention Gen. John M. Palmer was elected De-
partment Commander, leaving Commander in Chief Stephen
son free to continue the organization. In the meantime he
had dispatched Adjutant General Woods to organize the De-
partments of Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, and other States
By November enough Departments were organized to justifj
calling a national convention, which met at Indianapolis, Ind..
November 20, 1866. As Dr. Stephenson was a poor man
and needed the salary of Adjutant General, he declined elec-
tion as Commander in Chief, and was appointed to that office
Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut was elected Commander in Chief.
That completed the national organization of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
The order proved acceptable to the veterans of the war
It took care of the veteran from his muster in till the day ol
his death. Thus on approaching an outpost the soldier i-
halted by a sentinel. He approaches and gives the counter-
sign. He is mustered into the service. He finds officei'-
similar to those of any Army Post — Commander, Adjutant.
Quartermaster, Officer of the Day and of the Guard. In sick-
ness he is attended by the Surgeon of the Post, in death b\
the Chaplain, and as his soul rises to heaven the bugler sounds
the taps. The Post attends his funeral and buries him with
impressive ceremonies, a corporal's guard fires the salute over
his grave, and for years his grave is kept green and decorated
every Memorial Day. The order obliterates former rank, and
every officer and soldier or sailor on entering the Post be-
comes simply a COMRADE.
During its forty years of existence it has been of incalculable
value to its membership and the country. It has elevated the
veterans in the esteem of the people of this country and se-
cured their respect and admiration. It has secured for the
veterans the presidency of the United States six times, and
its members have filled the office of Governor in nearly all
the Northern States and numberless other offices of honor and
trust in all departments of civil life. It has secured for its
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•members and for the widows and orphans of deceased com-
rades more money in pensions than all the governments on
earth have paid for all the wars that ever occurred. It has
dotted the country with Soldiers' Homes, Soldiers' Orphans'
Homes, and Soldiers' Widows' Homes, and has made the pen-
sioners of the Civil War the best cared for veterans that ever
existed. It has taught lessons of patriotism and fidelity to the
•flag and constitution to the rising generations of this coun-
try. It has raised the star-spangled banner to the highest
pinnacle of glory, and its beneficent effect will be for ages
to come a monument to the valor and courage and the final
victory of the Union in that momentous struggle.
It is well worthy of note that the original Adjutant General
of this large organization, after passing its two score years,
is a subscriber to the Veteran, and volunteers to supply this
succinct account of its history. Very little is stranger than
that this organization, largely political in its character, con-
trolling the national vote in several instances (as is alleged),
even through reconstruction times, is now so thoroughly cor-
dial i" the Confederates This fact is gratefully announced.
and yet the Veteran is comforted in the knowledge that many
gallant soldiers of the Union army ever have refused to af-
filiate with the G. A. R. for the reason that it meddled too
much with politics. Ah, the anguish and the horror of re-
construction! The men who engineered it can never atone
for the infamies committed. The men of the South who en
dured the hard, hard years of the war were so intensely in-
terested in the principles of government founded by tin-
fathers thai they have been anxious to sacrifice all but prin-
ciple that it be restored. Human instincts would cry for
vengeance ; but these men submitted, and have ever been ready
to accept fraternity from the other side when in right spirit
ture has been made.
Mai. Robert Mann Woods has in public addresses shown
the right spirit, and a recent publication by a woman. Miss
Mary H. Stephenson, furnishes another evidence of good will
that is greeted with satisfaction. She writes: "My father was
a surgeon in the Union army during the Civil War, and after-
wards founded the Grand Army of the Republic. He was
one <>f the earliest and stanchest members of the Republican
party Hut I wish to express my high regard for Southern
character. If to love your own State and your own section
of country, whether it be North, South, East, West, or Middle
West, be sectionalism, 1 fear we will all have to plead guilty.
If to honor and defend the heroism, nobility of principle, and.
iction of right shown by one's ancestors, even
though they may have been partially in error (so judged by
others), is sectionalism. 1 fear all of us who are genuine men
and women must plead guilty. The citizens of our Southern
are among our noblest and best fellow-countrymen
They do not now Contend for cither secession or slavery.
What more do we want? Do wcj-equire that they should rc-
pudiati crate their fathers I el us taki a little dose
of 'put yourself in his place.' Is it quil
raising the howl 'Rebels' or 'sece'sh' every tune a Southerner
lifts ever so little the veil of the past' Would we not be
ployed in trying to Ul i them and their pe-
culiar industrial, economic, and social problems? Personally.
I consider the Southern people among the most lovable on
ihe face of the globe."
| The above extracts from Miss Mary Stephenson's letter
are from the Cumberland Presbyterian Banner]
TRIBUTE OF A CONFEDERATE TO A FEDERAL.
Dr. A. M. Trawick, of Nashville, who for fourteen years
was physician to the late William H. Cole, furnishes a sketch,
of "his friend :"
"William II. Cole was born in Covert. N. V., September IQ.
1840, and at the outbreak of the Civil War he was following
a quiet and peaceful life upon the farm. In response to Pres-
ident Lincoln's call for volunteers in July, 1862, Mr. Cole
enlisted with Company C, of the !2th Regiment of New Yorn
* WILLIAM II. COLE.
Volunteers, and was appointed one of its corporals. During
his service he participated in the battles of Harper's Fern
and Gettysburg. In the latter battle he was severely wounded
in the right thigh on July .",. Again at Mine Run he was
wounded in the right leg. Me fought al Morton's Ford and
the \\ ilderness, and in the latter battle was severely wounded
in the right hand, which cripple. 1 him lor life II. was dis
charged on account of wounds at Philadelphia, Pa., July 7.
1805
"lie was a man of linn conviction-, courageous, and always
na.ly to respond to everj call of duty. He possessed in a
rare way those finer qualitii 5 ol ei that mark the true
gentleman — patience, gentleness, humility— and ever extended
his hand in a brotherly gra p to 1 con ades who wore the
gray.' He was ei d in the hardware business in Fayette,
Ohio, until about two years ago. when he moved to Nash villi
although he had hi en visiting in Nashville from time to time
for fourteen ye;
\ Lor of Erkoks Correi ed Maj. Sidney Herbert, of the
Savannah (Ga.) Morning tyejys, the veteran military writer,
makes correction of some errors in the October number of the
Veteran, pages 458. 450. in the name of General Fincgan and
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Kenesaw, both coirectly spelled with only one n. He also
says that Fort McRee, in Pensacola Harbor, Fla., is incor-
rectly called Fort McRae. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's
name is often printed, even in histories, as Albert Sydney
Johnston, while that of Capt. Sydney Smith Lee, U. S. N.
(father of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee), is improperly given as Sidney
Smith Lee. Gen. Granville M. Dodge, referred to in the Oc-
tober number as a "retired United States army officer," was
never in the regular United States army, and tfever retired,
but was a major general of volunteers and resigned in 1866.
His name is not Granville, but Grenville Mellen Dodge, after
a distinguished son of the late Chief Justice Prentiss Mellen,
of Maine.
Mr. C. B. Haley, of Nashville, states: "In regard to 'Kenne-
saw' the Postal Guide uses two n's ; the Century Dictionary
authorizes either one or two n's. I was born and reared at
Marietta (near Kennesaw Mountain), and always saw the
word spelled with two n's in that section of Georgia."
The thanks of the Veteran are due Major Herbert for these
corrections, the errors occurring through carelessness.
COMPANY L, SIXTH TENNESSEE INFANTRY.
Comrade W. H. Kearny sends from Trezevant, Tenn., a
list of the survivors of Company L, 6th Tennessee Infantry.
The list is so unusual that inquiry was made of Col. George
C. Porter, who commanded the regiment, and he reported as
fi illows :
"Company L was not in the original organization of the 6th
Tennessee, in Ma3', i86r, at Camp Beauregard, in Jackson,
Tenn., but came to the regiment directly after the battle of
Shiloh, joining us on the 12th of April at Corinth, Miss.
The first captain was M. D. Merriwether, and the second was
W. W. Folsom. L. B. Everman, S. L. Gannaway, and S. B.
Pearson were the lieutenants.
"Of Lieutenant Everman, who weighed over two hundred
and fifty pounds, it is said that he was the coolest man ever
seen under fire. If there was at any time a halt in line, even
under the heaviest fire of musketry and artillery, he would
take out his notebook and write down observations and data
of what was going on as coolly and collectedly as though he
were in his own Jackson workshop.
"This company ( L) was one hundred strong when it came
to my regiment at Corinth, and they were nearly all married
men. When lined up, the company looked nearly as large as
the rest of my regiment after the battle of Shiloh, in which
I lost over two hundred men in three minutes at the time
we charged the Hornets' Nest a few minutes before General
Johnston was killed. These gallant, matured, middle-aged
men, going into the war at the time they did and under the
circumstances and conditions that they did and making the
fine soldiers they made during the rest of the war, furnish one
of the greatest exhibitions of patriotism, valor, and heroism
that ever came under my observation. I am glad to know
there are so many of these splendid old heroes still in the
land they fought so gallantly to defend."
The surviving members of Company L, 6th Tennessee In-
fantry, as given: John J. Boone, Lieut. J. B, Pearson, W. T.
Anderson, R. H. Cartmell, Capt. M. M. Merriwether, H. D.
O'Neill, R. D. Whitworth, James T. Watson, at Jackson,
Tenn. ; William Anderson, Carroll, Tenn. ; Drew Brock,
Stokes, Tenn. ; W. A. Gardner, Juno, Tenn. ; J. N. Harris,
Covington, Tenn. ; J. J. Pardue, of Middle Tennessee ; John
M. Smith, Humboldt, Tenn.; Atha Thomas, Mfdon, Tenn. :
\Y. 11. Kearney, Trezevant, Tenn.; Robert Fenner, Osceola,
Ark. ; Capt. W. W. Folsom, Hope, Ark. ; A. F. Huntsman,
Little Rock, Ark.; James Greer, Dallas, Tex.; Dr. W. J \Y.
Kerr, Corsicana, Tex.
THE OLD SWORD ON THE WALL.
Where the warm spring sunlight streaming
Through the window sets it gleaming
With a soft and silver sparkle in the dim and dusky hall,
With its tassel torn and tattered
And its blade deep bruised and battered,
Like a veteran scarred and weary, hangs the old Sword on the
wall.
None can tell its stirring story.
None can sing its deeds of glory,
None can say which cause it struck for or from what limp
hand it fell.
On the battlefield they found it.
Where the dead lay thick around it,
Friend and foe, a gory tangle, tossed and torn by -hot and
shell.
Who, I wonder, was its wearer?
Was its stricken soldier bearer?
Was he some proud Southern stripling, tall and straight and
brave and true?
Dusky locks and lashes had he?
Or was he some Northern laddie,
Fresh and fair, with cheeks of roses, and with eyes and coal
of blue?
From New England's fields of daisies
Or from Dixie's bowered mazes
Rode he proudly forth to conflict? What, I wonder, was his
name ?
Did some sister, wife, or mother
Mourn a husband, son, or brother?
Did some sweetheart look with longing for a love who never
came ?
Fruitless question ! Fate forever
Keeps its secret, answering never;
But the grim old blade shall blossom on this mild memorial
day.
I will wreathe its hilt with roses
For the soldier who reposes
Somewhere 'neath the Southern grasses in his garb of blue
or gray.
May the flowers be fair above him.
May the bright buds bend and love him,
May his sleep be deep and dreamless till the last great bugle
call,
And may North and South grow nearer
To each other's heart and dearer
For the memory of their heroes and the old sword on the
wall !
In sending the above Mr. L. L. Losey, of Chicago, writes:
"The inclosed poem came to me in manuscript from a friend
who assures me that he has never seen it in type, and that, so
far as he knows, it is anonymous."
[This beautiful poem was copied in the Veteran several
years ago from the Saturday Evening Post, and its author is
Joe Lincoln. — Editor. 1
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CHRISTMAS AND RESULT OF VOLUNTEERING.
FROM SKETCH ]:\ I POLK JOHNSON, 1 nUISVILLE.
Christmas day at Tunnel Mill in [863 was .1 brilliant wintry
day. Snow lay upon the ground, and as the sun rose the
mountains put on their tiaras oi diamonds in honor of the
occasion. Winn ibis had been attended to, the unprecedented
happened: the Confederate States of America issued rations
of whisky to the tst Kentucky Cavalry. In those days eighty-
two of our counties had not gone "dry." and most of us took
"our medicine." One of my comrades with a foresight un-
usual and commendable, looking far into the future winch
should sweep all On to "dryness" in every county, declined to
partake of the unusual "ration" provided for him by a benev-
olent government, and gave his share to me. I never did
have any luck in looking into the future or in foretelling
what was going to happen in Kentucky or elsewhere; conse-
quently I took care of his share and my own also. Like the
Scotch girl's baby, each share was "such a little one" that no
untoward results followed my combining and disposing of
the two in one; but I have long since fallen into line with
the ninety Kentucky counties and voted myself "dry" also.
The degenerate \otith of to-day must have his perfumed
hath in a steam heated room 1 had mine that Christmas day
in a stream which murmured hy the camp and had an icy
margin. There "as no perfume other than that of the smok-
ing camp fin 3, and there was no steam heat to speak of.
Once C411 of the hath, there was fresh "linen" made of
King Cotton's siun.y product, and then, still more wonderful,
a new gray uniform which through some happy dispensation
of fate had come to me as a holiday gift, and fitted me per-
fectly Once Ih ■ new uniform was donned and the damp locks
Smoothed, it was time to go to the colonel's headquarters,
whither 1 had been bidden to dinner. Invitations to dinner
with the colonel reminded oni of angels' visits — they did not
happen verj often, and no one ever stayed away who had
received one. * * *
Good old Tom Richards was our regimental bugler, the
very best one 111 the army, lie was my friend. We had
drunk out of the same canteen when its contents were various
— sometimes there was water in it. Tom had found a par-
tridge ml something that few persons of to-day know any-
thing about and had gone out and captured an entire covey
Of partridges. There were no game wardens connected with
the army at that lime. The colonel and Thomas and the
other headquarters people had these partridges for dinner,
and I was there as a guest. * * *
Now dinner was over and the scene changed. At the head
of a detail. 1 proceeded to relieve a picked force some miles
front camp. There was no supper that evening, and we had
the same cold for breakfast next morning. Think of those
partridges of ye terday — call them quail if you want to —
hut think of them and contrast the no fare of the next morn-
ing. 1 have heard of the feeling of the "morning after" from
those nh,, have been there and know it; hut they did 11
could not know my feelings on the 26th when I thought of
the dinner 0,1 the previous day. Another night, and relief
early morning of the 27th We re-
turned to the camp to find all excited
that lutl, Wi .n,l of War, "Fighting Joe"
Wheeler, I ed a raid upon tin enemy, and every one
wanted to e,,. The ordei came that none but tho i
were in ( I condit 11 1 raid. My
had been shot under me on the retreat from Missionary
!*»
a month previous, and had not yet recovered. But I
wanted to go on that expedition, and I went. There is al-
1 way to do things if you go about them with both
heart and head working in unison. Mine worked all right
that day, and I went along with General Wheeler.
Afterwards, in the retirement of a Federal prison away up
North, when 1 gave the subject calm consideration, I was
sorry that I had gone along with the General. He did not
especially need ine. We found the enemy for whom we were
looking, found him numerously, and he also seemed to have
been looking for us. There was a mix up. the usual shouting
and shooting; and when I untangled myself from the results
of the affair, it was to find that my horse had been shot and
its body was calmly reposing upon one of my legs. My com-
rades had retired in the direction whence they came, and left
me to my own devices. Some Federal soldiers came along
and relieved the situation by pulling me out from under my
late charger and informing me that I was a prisoner of war.
I had been suspecting for several minutes that I was some-
thing of that kind; and when a stout Teutonic Yankee gave
me a prod with his bayonet, saying genially, "You tamn Rebel,
I kills you." I knew that 1 was a prisoner. I went along
with my new friends for several days, and was then sent to
a Northern prison, where for many months I gave myself
up to a serious contemplation of the unique situations into
winch an active and energetic youngster can force himself
without unusual effort.
I had dined with my colonel on Christmas day. wearing no
higher insignia of rank than a sergeant's chevrons: on the
27th I had begged to be let go on a raid, and was humored;
on the 28th I was a dismounted cavalryman and a prisoner.
In those days of serious contemplation I concluded that it
would have been just as well had I let General Wheeler make
that one raid without my assistance.
IXQUIRIES BY AND OF I'ETERANS.
T. M. Merritt, of Jackson, Miss., writes of the surrender of
Fort Henry and of prison comrades: "I was a member of
Company K, 4th Regiment Mississippi Infantry. We were
sent to Fort Henry, 011 the Tennessee River, in November,
1861. A detail was made from the 4th of twelve men to
man one of the guns in the fort. I was one of the twelve,
and was made gunner. The enemy attacked the fort February
6, 1862; and after a bombardment of an hour and a half. I
Lloyd Tilghmau surrendered. We had fifty to sixty men.
We had two killed, one mortally and live slightly wounded.
We were sent to Paducah. Ky . and were kept in the room
in which General Tilghman drilled his company for about
ten days. From Paducah we were sent to Alton. HI. There
we found quite a number of Missourians — good men — who
fought under General Price. Among them was a Colonel Mc-
Goffin, who had been 111 irons; hut on account of his poor
health his shackhs had been removed, but he was still kept
in solitary confinement. One night Colonel McGoffin and
about thirty others made their escape through a tunnel. There
was also a Colonel Parker, who wore ball and chain, lie was
accused of bushwhacking Hi was left in prison when we
■. ■,,. 1 ■ ■■ nged m September, [862. 1 would liki to know
what became of Dick Martin. John McCrosky, Town
and of the men from Fort Henry — Tom Moran, Daugherty.
Selkirk. Ciibuie. and Frank (Red) Gavin, of the artillery
•ly."
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GENERAL LEE'S READINESS TO LEAD HIS, MEN.
BY JOHN RITCHEY, WINONA, MISS.
In the Epworth Era of July 25 a paragraph in an article,
"Where Bishop Asbury Died," stirred some memories of
Spottsylvania C. H. I belonged to A. P. Hill's Corps, Ma-
hone's Division, Harris's Mississippi Brigade, and Company
K, 12th Mississippi Regiment, and was on the ambulance corps
at that time. We came on the field of action in the Wilder-
ness just at the time Longstreet was brought off the field. We
were soon faced west, lying in the road. Soon we were
charged by Northern troops, who came rushing forward,
driving in our pickets, when we were ordered to fire and
charge, which we did, driving them across the river. We
were immediately recalled and marched east through the
battlefield of the day before, where the woods were burning
right over the dead and wounded ; but we had no time to
stop for anything except now and then to move some poor
wounded fellow into a place where the fire had burned over.
After many encounters with the enemy, we crossed the
Potomac River and did picket duty for a day and night, when
a courier came at full speed and brought orders for Harris's
Brigade to double-quick to Spottsylvania C. H., four miles
northeast, which we did. Upon our arrival at the road lead-
ing from the west into and about a half mile from the town
we halted. Just north of us were General Lee and his staff.
General Lee seemed to be very much absorbed with the view
he was taking through his glass, when a shell burst among
the company staff, killing two couriers' horses. General
Lee rode rapidly to our brigade and asked: "Whose brigade
is this?" The answer was given. Then he asked: "Where
is the general ?" He was told on the right. He quickly
added: "I want to see him; but never mind, I'll command
this brigade myself. Left face, forward, march."
We had gone about a half mile, and were passing through
a gap in an old worm fence, when General Harris came up
with the head of the column, then marching by the left, which
put the ambulance corps in front of General Lee. General
Harris saluted General Lee, when General Lee said, "General,
I'll lead your brigade myself;" but many of the men said,
"No, General Lee, you cannot lead us. We will go; and if
men can take the place, we will take it. But you must go to
the rear ;" whereupon a great shout went up, "Lee to the rear !"
General Lee dismounted and gave us a guide (we understood
him to be a major on General Rhodes's staff), who led us
about a half mile northwest into General Gordon's line, run-
ning north and south about three hundred yards west of an
acute angle.
When we were ordered to go farther east, we changed by
the right in front and walked right into the enemy's line in
column, and without an order we formed line on the right
by file into line, charged the works, drove the enemy out, and
held that difficult place for nineteen hours, withstanding seven-
teen successive charges, and piling the dead and dying of the
enemy in a great heap where they came into range of our
guns. In the meantime General Lee built another line of
works in our rear that cut off the angle which was left
between the hostile forces. And here we lay until Grant
moved to our right in an attempt to reach Richmond before
us, in which he signally failed.
[The splendid article in the Epworth Era contains quite a
Similar account of General Lee seeking to lead his troops
against the enemy. The event occurred in the vicinity of
Bishop Asbury's grave.— Editor Veteran.]
DEAD CAMPS IN TEXAS DIVISION.
Adjutant General Jackson's Position Concerning Their
Elimination.
It is my desire to acquaint you with my apparent determina-
tion to get rid of all dead Camps in the U. C. V. organiza-
tion of the Texas Division, and to this end call your atten-
tion to the facts as enumerated. All minutes of the U. C. V.
Texas Division exhibit a disposition on the part of Camps to
make no proper reports, as is required by the constitution
and by-laws, notwithstanding every effort has been made by
Division Adjutants to have them do so. In 1902 it occurred
to the minds of Col. S. P. Green and myself that a great deal
of the trouble was caused by dead and defunct Camps.
In a circular letter dated May 26, 1902, on the subject,
which was mailed to every Camp then on the rolls of the
five Brigades in Texas (numbering two hundred and ninety-
five Camps), only twelve Camps were reported as dead to
July, 1902, and were dropped by resolution of the Committee
on Resolutions as follows. "We respectfully recommend
the adoption of the following resolution : Whenever it is
made to appear to the satisfaction of the Major General Com-
manding that any Camp heretofore borne on the rolls of this
Division has from any cause ceased to exist as an organiza-
tion of Confederate Veterans, he shall direct the Adjutant
General to drop such Camp from his roster." This resolu-
tion was passed at the eleventh annual Reunion U. C. V., at
Dallas, Tex., July 30 and 31, 1902. This resolution gave
predicate to the elimination of dead Camps from the rolls.
Adjutant General Green's report to the twelfth annual Re-
union U. C. V., held at Sherman, Tex., July 15 and 16, 1903,
referred to this matter, and his report, as usual, went to the
Resolution Committee, which in turn made the following
recommendations relating thereto : "In reference to that part
of the Adjutant General's report which refers to nonpayment
of per capita tax, as provided by the constitution, we would
recommend that the Adjutant General be requested to notify
all such Camps of the importance and necessity of making
their annual payment to their respective Brigades; and when
they neglect and refuse to pay the same, that he be authorized
to drop all such Camps from the rolls."
Adjutant General Green died June 29, 1904, a short time
before the meeting of the thirteenth annual Reunion, held at
Temple, Tex., July 20 and 21, 1904, at which Reunion I filed
my report as Adjutant General, having been promoted, as
per General Order, No. 55, July 2, 1904, from Assistant Ad-
jutant General to that of Adjutant General, with rank of
Colonel. My report received the courteous consideration of
the Committee on Resolutions, and as follows : "We have
examined the report of the Adjutant General and find it cor-
rect. Thomas H. Edgar, J. B. Clark, Seth Mills, A. F. Wood,
R. E. Beckham, Committee."
My next report was made at the fourteenth annual Reunion
U. C. V., held at Galveston, Tex., July ig and 20, 1905. in
which I made the statement that there were seventy-nine
Camps in the Texas Division failing to make reports for five
years — viz., 1901 to 1905, inclusive — and stated "they should
be stricken from the rolls as dead Camps, and should be sep-
arated from the living." The committee's action on the Ad-
jutant General's report is as follows: "General Polley, Chair-
man of the Committee on Resolutions, reported upon the
report of the Adjutant General as follows: 'The report is
approved with the amendment that all Camps which have not
reported for the past five years, as stated, be dropped from
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the roll.' A. T. Watts, J. B. Policy. F. T. Roche, Oliver
Steele, Frank Rainey." My financial report was also adopted
by the same committee, and reads as follows : "We, your com-
mittee, have examined the above financial report and find it
correct."
The seventy-nine delinquent Camps were dropped from the
roll of Camps of the Texas Division, U. C. V., and published
in the minutes of the fourteenth and fifteenth annual reports
by number, name, and location of each Camp so dropped, and
up to this time but three have been reinstated. Doubtless the
act of the Resolution Committee at Galveston, Tex., prompted
Major General Mickle to view the deplorable condition of the
entire U. C. V. Association and his causing the dropping
from his rolls of four hundred and fourteen dead Camps,
seventy-five of which he found in the Texa Division, as per
his list submitted to Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee at Columbus,
Miss., from New Orleans April 3, 1906, and submitted to the
Convention in that city April 25-27, which authorized him
by resolution to drop dead Camps from his roll, as referred
to above — a most righteous and sensible act. Attention is
called to the minutes of the fifteenth annual Reunion, held .it
Dallas. Tex., October 25 and 26, 1906, among which the
Adjutant General reported forty-six Camps still on roll of
Camps in arrears for five years or more, and suggested their
being dropped from the rolls, etc., and referred to the Com-
mittee on Resolutions, who, it appears, made a report as fol-
lows: "Adjutant General's report is fully approved with the
exception of his recommendation regarding the dropping
of delinquent Camps from the roll. J. D. Shaw, John H.
Traylor. Frank Templeton, E. W. Taylor. Committee on
Resolutions."
The facts are that the Committee on Resolutions made no
written report touching the Adjutant General's report, but
permitted it to go back to the Convention for its considera-
tion, arid the Chair permitted a vote to be taken to table the
same, which came near carrying on account of a motion and
speech made by one having a fancied grievance and taking
advantage of the chairman's inexperience and want of a
proper understanding of the question at issue and my in-
ability to defend my position on account of ill health.
This brings us to the sixteenth annual Reunion, at Howie,
Tex., August 21 and 22, 1907, when the Adjutant General's
report was found correct and accepted, .1 copy of which was
mailed to the Veteran Septembei 26, 1007, together with the
report of the Resolution Committee referring to same.
I have no fault to find with the report made by the l\i so-
lution Committee at Bowie, lex. s it is open for those who
read to judge of the merits of both reports; but the treatment
received at the fifteenth annual Reunion, at Dallas, Tex., Oc
tober 25 and 26, 1906, was needlessly sevi ,e, without just
cause, and without fair treatment.
This is to explain the object had in view of separating the
dead from the living that the "fittest" should SUP
versy contends for what it regards the best thing to do, it
pleads for zeal on the part of all living comrades to main-
tain their organizations and pay dues to the State and general
organizations. Do let us stand up and stand together while
we live.
The \'i 1 rved that comradi pecially in
Texas, have had much controversy in regard to ( .mips that
make no reports to their State Division. For several /ears
some I nps have kept up their dues with the general
organization, ignoring the source of their exist djutant
General Jackson has simply followed the precedent and the-
law in recommending the dropping of (amps th
ristently silent.
While the Veteran believes that each side to the contro-
stories of run ir.u< and prisox life.
BY JAMES L. COOPER, EAST STATION, NASHVILLE, TENN.
When 1 saw the picture of the Rev. P. T« Martin in a re-
cent number of the Vl ii-u.\n. I said: "Well, I haven't seen
him for twenty years, but that's 'Old Pink Martin.'" What
a host of memories of Mill Springs and Camp Chase Prison
his kindly, honest face bring to me! Tell his wife, if he has
one (and Methodist preachers are usually provided in that
respect), that he is the best rook in Tennc i if he
gives her any back talk about poor cooking, to send him
to the kitchen.
1 enjoyed every word of his article, as I always do these
personal Hems One column of something that happened to
one of the "boys" is worth many pages of proceedings of
Camps of Sons and Daughters.
At that time I was a member of Company C, the "Sewanee
Rifles," the color company of the 20th Tennessee. J. C.
Rice was captain, and among the officers were J. C. Thompson
and Duval McNairy, prominent citizens of Nashville, Tenn.
I was wounded and captured by the 37th Ohio Regiment,
commanded by Colonel Bradleigh, the night after the battle.
Colonel Bradleigh resembled General Zollicoffer so much in
his general appearance that I walked into his lines, thinking
1 was with our own men. 1 was placed in charge of Captain
Choate, from Columbus, Ohio, and but few prisoners ever
met with such treatment as I received, lie took me into his
tent to sleep with him. gave me a change of underclothing and
anything else I would accept, and offered to give or lend me
money. I was taken by him to see the body of General Zolli-
coffer the day after the battle. It was lying on a cot in a
small tent almost without any clothing. He had a large nose
and prominent brow, and some high officer remarked as we
came up that he was a perfect type of the old Roman senators.
The other Confederate dead were treated with seam cere
mony, being brought up on stretchers and tossed into large
pits twelve or fifteen feet square and a foot or two of dirt
heaped over them. 1 was standing by 0n< of these pits with
Captain Choate when some pot>r fellow was pitched 111 and
happened to fall on his hack with his face town,] us. "That's
a member of my regiment, the 20th ["ennessee," 1 said.
"That's Dave Scales;" but it wasn't Dave, who is yet very
much alive. After a few days, being only slightly wounded,
1 was put to nursing the wounded Confederates, and after-
wards spent several months m Camp Chase Pri 0
On being exchanged, 1 rejoined mj regiment at Vicksburg
during the summer. I never saw (apt. on Ch n He
called upon my father, at my request, when his command
passed through Nashville shortly after tins, to assure him of
my safety, as I had been reported killed. Much to in\ grief
and regret. Captain Choate was killed in the battle of Jones-
boro, near the end of the war, when- we were again in op-
1 -tin r. He mail
as a gallant officer, and w at the time of his death.
The present generation can't vhat excitement the
battle of Mill Springs caused in Nashville. General Zollicoffer
and his staff were from Nashville, also Rutlcdge's battery
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oi artillery, two companies of the 20th Tennessee, and a bat-
talion of cavalry. There was a company of cavalry the mem-
bers of which called themselves the "Bull Pups," and it was
said that the streets of Nashville were full of them next
morning at sunrise. (The distance is perhaps about one hun-
dred and fifty milts.) Of course this was not true; but we
could all have reached Nashville the next day if we had kept
up the gait we started with from the battlefield.
Confederate prisoners were a rarity at that time ; and when
we were ordered back to Somerset, near the battle ground,
about a dozen of us were sent to General Thomas's head-
quarters for examination, and taken into a large room where
he and his staff and a lot of officers were assembled. As the
youngest of the bunch (I was only seventeen), I seemed to
be singled out for their special attention. The first question
from them was: "What are you fighting for?" I could hardly
answer that question satisfactorily to myself. . . . General
Thomas ("Old Pap") said: "You are a very young soldier.
Will you fight again if I release you?" Visions of home and
a parole loomed up before me, and I hardly knew what to say.
"Speak up," he said; "speak up, tell the truth." I managed
to stammer, "I reckon I would;" and he turned away with
the remark, "Then we'll be certain not to let you go." I had
been in close quarters during the battle, and had several bullet
holes through my clothing in addition to the one through my
flesh, and a good many comments were made upon them by
the younger members of his staff. There was one hole in the
tail of my coat, and they couldn't understand why the bullet
did not hit me; and I well remember my feelings of youthful
wrath when one vile Yankee insinuated that the coat tail
was probably standing straight out behind. This remark was
the more galling because it was so plausible. . . .
Among the killed from Nashville were Maj. Henry Fogg, of
General Zollicoffer's staff, and Evan Shields, who was serv-
ing upon his staff on that occasion. Lieut. Bailie Peyton,
from Gallatin, was also killed within a few feet of the enemy's
line. Most of the "old boys" who were present on that oc-
casion have passed away; but I still meet upon the streets
occasionally Capt. Mark Cockrill, Capt. Bill Shute, Brad
Nichol, and the aforesaid Dave Scales, and some of the few
surviving members of Company C. As long as I am above
the sod myself, there will be a warm place in my heart for
every one of them.
LIBERTY IN FATIGUE MARCH.
BY C. D. EVANS, DARLINGTON, S. C.
Readers of the Veteran will understand somewhat the
reason why soldiers of the Confederate army were able to
march three miles to two covered by the Federal army in the
same time when they are told that in the march there was
little regard for formation. Each man was allowed to take
his own gait, and, provided he kept near his allotted place,
he was not interfered with by the officers. No matter how
wide the road was, it was filled with men who were going at
that swift, easy gait which accomplished results which were
the wonder of our enemies.
We had been marching all of the previous day, and were
still going along at the same rapid rate late into the night
when two soldiers who belonged to different companies in
the regiment came together in the road. Both were doing
their best. One said to the other: "What is the meaning of
this rapid march?" The reply was: "I think we are going
into a fight!" "You do?" asked the other. "Yes, I think
we will be under fire before twelve o'clock to-morrow." The
man ran his hand into his haversack and, pulling out about
half of a hard-tack and a very small piece of bacon, said:
"This is all I have. You think we are going into a fight
to-morrow. I may be killed ; I will eat this now, so as to
be sure of it." Suiting the action to the words, he immediately
swallowed what he held in his hand, not knowing where his
next supply was to come from.
The Irishman in Stonewall Jackson's command who said
that the ration was "three foights a day and one male a
week" gave, as only an Irishman could, a true picture of the
Confederate soldier.
TRAINER OF TRAVELER— FRANK PAGE.
The readers of the Veteran are just now especially inter-
ested in Traveler, General Lee's war horse. A history of him
has been published several times, but the first man who ever
rode him has not yet been mentioned. The photograph here
presented is a good likeness of Frank Page, as he was known
to the people of Lewisburg,
W. Va., when he was per-
forming the duties of jani-
tor at the school building
and bank. He was born in
1846 a slave, the property
of Mr. A. D. Johnston, near
Blue Sulphur Springs, Va.
(now West Virginia) ; and
when quite a lad, he broke
the colt "Jeff" which after-
wards became the favorite
Traveler of General Lee.
This servant handled horses
with much skill, and "break-
ing the colts" was his busi-
ness. So he came to have
the honor of being the first
rider of Jeff (Traveler),
and trained him for exhibition at the Lewisburg Fair in i860.
Mr. Alexander Johnston writes in regard to this matter :
"I secured the inclosed photograph shortly before the death
of Frank Page especially for the Veteran. The mounting
and placing in position of the bones of Traveler reminds me
of delay in sending this picture. I am a son of the Mr. A.
D. Johnston mentioned, and know the facts in the case."
In March last the Richmond Times-Dispatch said : "The
bones of Traveler, General Lee's favorite war horse, will soon
be properly mounted and the skeleton placed on exhibition,
most likely in the proposed Lee Museum at Lexington."
In that same paper the statement was made that arrange-
ments had been completed for shipping the bones of the fa-
mous horse to a natural science concern for proper mount-
ing. It is understood that the structure will be skeleton, and
that the bones have been so well preserved as to appear white
when mounted.
Miss Mary Custis Lee, in writing of the horse, states:
"There is not much to tell, though it was pathetic that a
horse that bore the brunt of the whole Civil War, endured so
much, and ran so many risks when he might have looked for-
ward to a peaceful and honored old age should have been
taken off by lockjaw. He did not long survive his master. It
was in the June following General Lee's death that his end
came. I was sitting in the veranda of our home in Lexington
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with my brother, Gen. Custis Lee, when Traveler, always a
privileged character, but of course a special pet since his
master's death, came browsing around in the yard, and, see-
ing some one on the piazza, advanced whinnying for the lump
of sugar that he always expected. I entered the house to pro-
cure him one, and when I returned with it found my brother
examining his foot, saying: 'This horse seems to be lame.' A
very small nail or tack was extracted, and the wound was so
slight that it did not even bleed.
"After eating his sugar with relish and being caressed, he
moved leisurely away. In the course of a day or two the
hostler reported him unwell. We had no veterinarian in
Lexington; but the two doctors who had attended my father
during his last illness devoted themselves assiduously to the
sufferings of his famous war horse. Everything that skill
and devotion could do was done. He was chloroformed,
liquid nourishment forced down his throat, and. when he could
no longer stand upright, a feather bed was laid on the stable
floor to give him all the relief possible.
"Our little town — indeed, the whole neighborhood — was in-
tensely sympathetic. Not only the gentlemen of the town but
the farmers around came to offer suggestions and condolences.
It was all of no avail. The efforts to relieve him merely pro-
longed his sufferings, which, when all hope was gone, I ad-
vocated putting an end to at once. But my brother could
not bring himself to that, though poor Traveler's groans and
cries were heartrending in the extreme, and could be plainly
heard in the house. I don't think any of us were able to sleep
that last night, and it was really a relief when all was over.
When I went to look at him after death, from being a power-
ful, well-grown horse he seemed to have dwindled away to
the size of a colt, and I am sure we almost felt that we had
lost a member of the family. * * * I often heard my father
state that at the end of the most arduous day. with often the
night thrown in, he was apparently as fresh and lively as
when first mounted, He was bought for a second or spare
horse; but as one after another of the more showy steeds,
notably a superb charger presented by the gentlemen of Rich-
mond and named after our Confederate capital, succumbed
to the fortunes of war Traveler came gradually to the front
and remained there, my father riding him not only at Appo-
mattox but on his sad return to Richmond."
ACCURATE COPY OF THE PARTHENO
Virginian, was captain in the Confederate army, and died
while colonel of the 1st Tennessee Regiment in the Philip-
pines just as the command was about to engage in battle.
It is generally known thai (his reproduction is in the Cen-
tennial Park at Nashville.
The walls of the Parthenon are of massive brick, but the
columns are of inferior staff. Since its erection, the city
of Nashville has acquired the park with a perpetual revenue
from the Street Railway Company, whereby the park is al-
ready of great beauty, and the Parthenon has been so sub-
stantially repaired that it is expected to remain for generations
"a thing of beauty."
The above is the scene at the Parthenon, Nashville, when
the tablet to Architect Smith was unveiled This architect, a
I >. I RING DEED OF SCOC I S
[From advance sheets of Col. U. R. Brooks's forthcoming
book of "Butler and His Cavalry in the War of Secession"
Hugh Scott writes of perilous scout services.]
I was detailed as a scout in Hogan's squad of scouts for
Gen. Wade Hampton. The scouts were in the rear of the
Federal army. Wc had been sent to watch the Orange and
Alexander Railroad. We started out on Saturday evening —
three mounted men. Bolide, Freeman, and myself, and about
five or six on foot — and reached there that evening about an
hour by sun. and that night we went into ambuscade until
the next morning. We were not far from Brentsville, Va.
The next morning Shadbourne (George D. Shadbourne,
who was chief of scouts) said: "You three mounted men go
up and enter the town." We went into the town, and the
people said: "What are you doing lure? Don'1 you see the
Yankees over there"-" We replied: "We came here to get
breakfast." We got breakfast while a lady held our horses.
We could see the Yankees three or four hundred yards away.
They got down and hitched their horses. As wc were going
down the hill I said: "They are playing a trick on us by going
around here to' cut us off from the ford." So we went hack
to tlie Mind, or ambuscade, we had on a hill.
At three o'clock that evening Shadbourne again ordered us
to ride back into town. The Yankees were there, and they
saddled their horses and came for us. Wc fell hack th
the pines to get back to the foot of the hill. They were
dressed up in gaudy style — gauntlet-., gloves, and plumes.
Bolick asked the officer who was in command of this squad.
He answered, "I am;" when Bolick asked, "Who are you?"
I he answer: "I am Major Lamar, of General Crawford's
Staff." Bolick then said: "Major, there an onlj three of us
here: but it is a good place to fight, and we will tight it out
in detail." After a few more word-.. Bolick pulled Ins car-
bine and tired one shot at him. Then we left ; and as we
went by the ambush, the Yanks were pretty close on us. and
I told Bolick to take to the woods. We ran around a hill
and came out about the foot of the hill. Three Yankees had
passed the blind. One of the Yank.. hoved his pistol right
against Bolick and shot him, and I shoved my pistol right
against the Yankee and shol him through the shoulder. Bo-
lick fell from his horse. I ran the-s,- three- fellows up the
for quite a distance As 1 returni el I pa-seel Bolick,
when he looked up at me and said "Scott, I am killed." I
told him I would come hack. 1 we nt up the hill tei the am-
bush to see what damage we- had done. There were- twenty-
one Yankees in the- party, and we- had killed seventeen of them.
The major had his hat turned up in front, and we- shot him
in the forehead, We- go1 onlj one horse out of the lot. This
occurred on Sunday, the 14th of February, 1863.
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We carried Bolick down into the pines about one hundred
yards, thinking he was dead. Two days afterwards we went
back with a two-horse wagon and coffin to get Bolick. He
had his hands clasped around a little sapling, which showed
he was not dead when we left him. We buried him at Ar-
lington's Crossroads.
Bolick was anxious to marry 'a young lady at Arrington's
Crossroads, and he had told her the morning before he was
killed : "I am going to be killed the first fight I get into.*'
She had jilted him. We carried his body to the crossroads
and buried him right at the young lady's house.
[This sketch is somewhat condensed from the original.]
A GEORGIA WOMAN'S WAR EXPERIENCES.
BY MRS. SUSAN E. TILLERV, DUBLIN, GA.
I have become so interested in the Veteran that I want to
give you some of my experiences. I was reared in Irwinton,
Ga. ; but during the war my father moved to his farm, about
six miles from town, where we were near neighbors to my
friend, Miss Sallie Clay.
At Gordon, Ga., on the Central Railroad, there was estab-
lished a home for the sick and wounded soldiers. Each week
some ladies were appointed to visit this home and carry bas-
kets of refreshments for the soldiers ; so the week I am refer-
ring to Miss Sallie Clay and I filled our baskets with the best
we could get and went on the mission. It was a Tuesday
morning in November. We arrived at Gordon about nine
o'clock, and not more than an hour later news came that the
Yankees were coming into Macon and destroying everything
in their reach ; so we decided to go home as quickly as pos-
sible. As it happened, a train for Savannah came down from
Macon and was stopped just long enough for us to get on.
From Toomsboro we had to walk to our homes, as our return
was not expected until the next day. The distance w-as about
four miles, and of course we were excited and frightened.
We spread the news to everybody we saw that Sherman's
army was coming and was destroying everything.
The people had but little time in which to hide their stock.
Father had his taken down in the swamp and tied out. The
next day he sent a negro boy, Bob, to look after the stock,
which he reported all right. Bob was sent down again on
Thursday morning to feed and water them ; and not returning,
father went down that afternoon to look after him and the
stock. Bob was gone, but the stock was all right. The next
morning an old neighbor told us that Bob had gone to the
Yankees, that he saw him go through Toomsboro the day
before on Mr. Clay's fine gray, with one of Mrs. Clay's quilts
for a saddle blanket. That was the last of Bob for several
weeks ; but late one afternoon as the family at home were
sitting on the front porch we saw some one crossing the field
(it was a rare thing to see a man), and it proved to be Bob.
Father had threatened to kill him if he ever returned, so he
got up to get his gun from over the door. We children be-
gan to cry, and mother took hold of him and begged him to
desist from his purpose. Upon questioning Bob as to why
he went to the Yankees, he said that after feeding the stock
he thought he would go up to the "big road" and hide, so he
could see the Yankees as they passed. Suddenly two of them
dashed upon him and said that they had been looking for him,
that they wanted him to go with them, that they would give
him ten dollars in silver every month and a fine horse to
ride, and that they wanted him to ride by General Sherman
and wait upon him. That sounded so big to Bob that he de-
cided to go. Continuing, Bob said : "They let me ride the
fine gray they took from old Mr. Clay to Ball's Ferry, and
there told me to light, which of course I did. They then
branded me across the shoulders with three letters, 'A. S. A.,'
which came near killing me, and they made me walk all the
way from there to Savannah. I made my escape from them
in the edg ■ of the city. I am glad to get back to Mars
George." ' -i father said, "You ungrateful rascal ! I wish
they had . ' =• I you," to which Bob replied, "They came very
near doing vmtk. No more Yankees for me, for I am perished
nearly to death. They made me burn bridges, build breast-
works, and do all kinds of hard work." Bob was nearly
naked, not even a shirt to his back. He turned his back for
us to see the brand. He stayed with us until the last of
1865. I don't know what became of him afterwards.
I had a memorable experience that week. Our neighbor,
Mr. Clay, as every one else, was trying to prevent his pos-
sessions from being destroyed ; so he had all his best bedding
and most valuable things loaded on a wagon and sent to the
river swamps, where he sent also his stock. The old lady
and Miss Sallie, their daughter, were the only persons re-
maining. This was on Wednesday, and by Thursday evening
the whole country was alive with Yankees, plundering, burn-
ing up ginhouses, and taking all the stock, chickens, etc., they
could find, and breaking up what they could not use of rich
and poor alike. Mrs. Clay became very uneasy about the old
man, for fear they might find him. She had no one to send
to see about him but Sallie, and was afraid for her to go
unless I would go with her. My father at first refused to
let me go, but they were so distressed and miserable diat he
consented ; so we started out about two o'clock, stealing our
way the best we could through fields and woods and briers,
going the safest way, as we thought, to the swamp. As we
were going down the last hill, which put us very near Mr.
Clay's camp, we heard the sound of horses and looked back,
and O ! it seemed that the whole country was filled with them.
The Yankees were making for the camp. As it happened,
there was a tremendous gully at the foot of the hill ; so we
rolled over into it, among the briers, thorns, and everything else
that could hurt. They passed within a few yards of us, and
there we lay almost breathless until they all passed. They
went whooping and hollowing at every breath. The good
Lord blessed us in that they did not see us. We did not know
what to do. It was then dusk, freezing cold, and we were
about three miles from home. The first thing was to get out
of that big gully without being seen or heard. We scrambled
out alive, with our clothes torn nearly off and our flesh so
lorn that we came out bleeding. Such briers I have never
seen s. ce. We were nearly frozen, as it was an awfully cold
day in November. Just as we got up the hill we saw the
flames from Dr. Taylor's ginhouse, and that added to our
fright. We were looking every minute for the Yankees to
grab us; but as good luck for us we were very near the home
of Mrs. Lord, Sallie's sister. We went in the back way and
met her starting out in search of us. She said that the Yankees
had just left her house after killing all her chickens and rob-
bing her meat house, and that they were left without any-
thing. She had two little negroes with her, so she went with
us nearly to our homes. It was then very late, and I had a
mile farther to go than Sallie. We got to Mrs. Clay's all
right, and she started home with us ; but we hadn't gone far
till we met my two younger sisters and our old cook coming
through the field with a torch to see if they could find or
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hear anything of me. My father's health was so feeble, and
they were the only ones to send.
I shall never forget that awful experience, and shall always
be thankful to God for taking care of us. The Yankees found
Mr. Clay, and got all of his stock and destroyed all the other
things, but spared his life. I was the main dependence of the
neighborhood for spending the night with different families
and looking out for the Yankees. For several days after our
trip I could hardly walk, I was so scratched up and sore.
I am getting old now, but my recollections of the four
years' war are fresh in my memory, and I don't think I ever
forgot anything that happened through the war. During that
same week of Sherman's raid through Wilkinson County
Judge Bower, an old resident of Irwinton, had all of his best
beds and bedding sent down to his plantation, about a mile
from town, and thought he had iheni hidden securely from
the Yankees; but they found them, of course. Tiny ripped
the feather beds open and burned the other things. Not being
satisfied with that, they took off the top of his fine carriage
and put planks across the wheels and used it as a dray, went
to his barn and shelled all the corn they wanted, hitched up
his oxen, and drove right by the Judge's door, going to mill
with it. He managed in some way to keep his old gun and
new overcoat from them all the week ; so Saturday morning,
being so cold and thinking all were gone, he put on his over-
coat and took his chair on the front porch, with his gun across
his lap. swearing vengeance against tin- despoilers. Just then
two straggling Yankees walked up from the back yard, and
were right on him before he knew it. They said, "Good
morning, sir," to which he did not respond. One of them
then remarked that it was an awful cold morning, and said
to the Judge "'i 'in seem to be well protected from it." Then
one of them felt his coat, and in a breath they had his coat
and gun and were gone. Poor old fellow! he didn't live long
after the war closed
Mr. \V. E Duncan, as true a soldier as was in the Con-
federate army, is a good friend of mine, and it was through
him that I got acquainted with the Veteran. If my ex-
periences are interesting enough to publish, all right; but if
not, I shall enjoy reading those of others. I love to read and
talk about the war, as I had so many friends and relatives,
besides my two brothers, in the Confederate army. My hu--
b. ml also was a Confederate soldn i
ICE OF GEN. B. R. JOHNSON.
R. D. Fletcher wrote from Thayer, 111., in August: "S
time ago I had business at Miles Station, about forty miles
south "I li>i>. and upon information that Gen. Bushrod R.
Johnson was buried there I walked out to the cemetery to
satisfy myself, and found it tin.- His monument is a plain
white marble shaft about fifteen feet high inscribed:
'Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson
Sept. 12, 1880,
Aged 62 years, it months, and 5
A friend had this verse cut below:
'A valiant lender, true-hearted and sincere;
An honored foldier who held his honor dear;
holar with mind both deep and broad ;
An hones) man, the noblest work of God.'"
predate the great qualities
of this major general. Me was Northern reared; hut, having
1 spousi d the 1 nd efficiency
grow continually with those who knew him and his service.
WALTER GIBSON PETER EXECUTED AT FRANKLIN.
BY CHARLES H. NOURSE, M.D., DARNESTOWN, MD.
The article in the Veteran for August upon the execution
of the two Confederates at Franklin, Tenn., recalls the his-
tory of the younger of the two.
Walter Gibson Peter was the youngest son of Maj. George
Peter, of near Darnestown, Montgomery County, Md. Major
Peter commanded a battalion of the United States Militia at
the battle of Bladensburg, near Washington City, when the
British entered the capital and burned its public buildings in
1812. Subsequently he removed to Montgomery County, Md.,
and was a large landed proprietor, noted in all county affairs,
a large-hearted, most hospitable gentleman, a genial host, a
true Democrat and Southerner. He was related to the Custis
and Lee families. His youngest son, W. Gibson Peter, at the
outbreak of the Civil War helped to organize a company of
cavalry made up of young men in his vicinity, and was chosen
to a lieutenancy of the same. Later the company was dis-
banded, and "Gip," as we called him, went over to Virginia
to my father's, the Rev. Charles H. Nourse, of Leesburg, and
made his home with us. My father's second wife was the
widow of John Parke Custis Peter, of Seneca, near Darnes-
town, and a cousin of W. Gibson Peter. Lieutenant Peter
roomed with me ; and when the battle of Ball's Bluff came on,
he volunteered as aid-de-camp to Col. Walter H. Jenifer, 8th
Virginia Cavalry, who was in command of the cavalry oper-
ating that day with General Evans, of South Carolina, who
commanded the troops at Leesburg.
I was sixteen years old at that time, and Lieutenant Peter
returned in the afternoon. When I was watering his horse,
which was completely jaded, he showed me five bullet holes
about him — through his hat, his coat in shoulder, under his
arm, etc. — all made while delivering orders upon the field.
He remarked, "It is not very funny, Charlie, is it? But we
are right, and I am going into the service regularly," which
he did. He joined Col. "Lige" White's company. A, I be-
ieve, and was elected to a lieutenancy. He remained there
for a short while only, owing to the urgent request of his
cousin, Orton Williams, that he come to him under General
Bragg. He was a generous, warm-hearted, gallant man, six
feet in height, straight as an arrow, a splendid horseman, and
every inch a soldier. His greatest ambition was to serve the
South and in meritorious service to win a star on his collar,
the same rank his father before him had attained. This he
wrote to me just before the fatal trip he made in Tennessee
with Col. Orton Williams. His eldest sister, Miss Sarah
Agnes Peter, had warned him to beware of Orton Williams.
"He is so foolhardy and rash; do, my brother!" She had
reared him almost from babyhood, after the death of his
mother. His execution broke her heart, and she died soon
afterwards. A more gallant man never espoused our South-
ern cause. The news of his death came to me from two
schoolmates, Maryland boys, on the battlefield at Gettysburg
inst after 1 hail received his last letter saying that he was
going into Kentucky.
Williams was always known in the family as "Orton Wil-
liams." and was a brother of Mrs. Kate Upshur, wdiose bus-
hand was Captain Upshur, of the United States navy or army.
The old Peter home is near here, and some of his people are
now in our village ami several others are residents of our
county E C Peter is a prominent attorney, and his brother.
Roben also a lawyer
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ABOUT RE-ENLISTMENTS FOR THE WAR.
BY J. W. MINNICH, GRAND ISLE, LA.
Concerning the discussion between some of our veterans in
regard to reenlistments for the war, I have noticed considerable
good-natured rivalry of claims to distinction. Comrade Hock-
ersmith awoke rather late on the subject of reenlistments, or
else his pen played him a trick. Next conies Comrade Plicker,
of Lynchburg, Va., who claims that Company H, of the 28th
Virginia Regiment, reenlisted for the war in November, 1861.
Then Colonel DeRossett, of North Carolina, claims that the
first ten regiments of State troops from that State enlisted
for the war. I remember that when certain enlistments were
made in Louisiana, and New Orleans especially, we started out
as on a "picnic," and no one believed that it would last six
months. That "picnic" idea prevailed largely among the Tar-
heels. But whatever ideas obtained at the time, it is true that
the Tarheels stuck it out. As to reenlistments, my company,
DeGournay's 5th Company, Copen's Louisiana Zouaves, was
organized in March, 1861, in New Orleans, signed for one
year, and reenlisted for three years, or the war. This was
Cornwallis's headquarters near Yorktown, Va., and in Feb-
ruary, 1862, exact date not remembered. Reenlistments had
occurred previously no doubt.
We do not claim to have been the first to enlist for the war,
but we know that as individuals more than nine-tenths of us
were in for "the whole war to stay," regardless of time speci-
fied in the articles. And then, after all, what does it matter
if we were there at the wind-up? Why split hairs when all
were animated by the same sentiments from the start to the
finish?
[T. L. Taylor, Bailey, Tenn., writes on this subject:]
On May 15, 1861, the 4th Tennessee Regiment was sworn
into service as State troops; but on August 17, 1861, it swore
allegiance to the Confederate cause. On April 25, 1862, the
regiment reenlisted for two years, or the war, and on the 17th
of January, 1864, you will find it again reenlisting. The first
troops to reenlist at Dalton, Ga., were the 13th and 14th
Tennessee Regiments, and about the same hour General
Strahl's Brigade also, composed of the following Tennessee
Regiments: 4th, 5th, 19th, 24th, 31st, and 33d.
General Johnston issued General Order, No. 10 — viz. :
"Headquarters Army of Tennessee, Dalton, Ga.,
January 17, 1864.
"General Johnston has received official information that at
a meeting in Strahl's Brigade this morning, at which nine-
tenths of the command were present, the following resolution
was adopted by acclamation, not a dissenting voice being heard :
'Resolved, That we, the officers and soldiers of Strahl's Bri-
gade, do this day agree to enlist for the war, determined never
to lay down our arms until our homes are rescued from the
enemy and the Confederacy permanently established among
the nations of the earth.'
"Information was previously received that the 13th and
154th Regiments Tennessee Infantry, Vaughan's Brigade,
Hindman's Division, had reenlisted for the war. The noble
and patriotic resolutions of these brave Tennesseans to 'en-
list for the war' is offered to the army as an example worthy
of being followed by all who love their homes and country.
"Will not this army by immediate action gain the proud
distinction of being the first to revolunteer in a holy cause
and pledge its service to the government until peace is con-
quered? By command of General Johnston.
"George William Brent, A. A. C."
ORIGINAL FLAG— "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER."
Correspondence between Mr. George Armistead, of Balti-
more, a nephew of Gen. L. A. Armistead, C. S. A., and a
grandson of Col. George Armistead, who defended Fort Mc-
Henry against the British in 1814, with Mr. John W. Frazier,
of Philadelphia, has brought out a curious reminiscence in
the Sun in connection with the restoration of General Armis-
tead's sword, which was lost at Gettysburg.
Mr. Frazier describes the presentation of the sword : "When
Gen. L. A. Armistead, who' commanded the advance brigade
of Pickett's Division, crossed the stone wall of Cemetery
Ridge, at the 'Bloody Angle' of Gettysburg, he drew his sword
and, placing his hat on its point, waved it aloft as a con-
spicuous guidon for his heroic followers. General Armistead
and about one hundred of his men (practically all that re-
mained of his brigade upon reaching Cemetery Ridge) pene-
trated about one hundred feet inside the Union lines, held by
the Philadelphia brigade. At that point General Armistead,
surrounded by men of the Philadelphia brigade, fell mortally
wounded, and the sword which dropped from his hand was
picked up by Sergeant Michael Specht, and remained in his
possession until September, 1906, when it was returned to
Capt. Thomas D. Jeffress, President of Pickett's Division,
with impressive ceremonies, at the Gettysburg reunion of the
Philadelphia Brigade and Pickett's Division." (See June
Veteran, page 255.)
As Adjutant of the Philadelphia Brigade Association Mr.
Frazier received a letter from George Armistead, stating:
"We tried again and again to recover the sword of General
Armistead after the battle of Gettysburg, but could find no
trace of it, and am indeed glad to know of it after all these
years. I shall see that it is placed in the Confederate Museum
in Richmond. General Armistead's remains repose in Old St.
Paul's churchyard, Baltimore, and General Armistead sleeps
by the side of Col. George Armistead, who in the gallant de-
fense of Fort McHenry against the British in 1814 inspired
WASHINGTON INSPECTING THE FLAG.
the poet, Francis Scott Key, to write our national anthen,
'The Star-Spangled Banner.' That same old flag that Key
strained his eyes 'in the morn's early light' to see 'streaming
so gallantly over the ramparts' remains to this day in the
possession of our family."
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PLEA FOR OLD BLAND FORD CHURCH.
Dr. J. B. Stinson, of Sherman, Tex . has published in behalf
of Old Blandford Church, near Petersburg, a circular letter
in which he states :
"The siege of Petersburg, Va., is well known by readers
of Confederate history. Situated on the southeast of the
historic city, in its suburbs, is the no less historic Blandford
Cemetery, with its truly historic Old Blandford Church. This
cemetery is located between the city and the line of earth-
works of both Confederate and Federal armies, and had many
of its antique tombstones shivered by the Federal shot and
shell. The old church was built of brick brought over as
ballast in ships from England in the early colonial days of
Virginia. For a number of years anterior to the War between
the States it had not been used as a house of worship ; but
some years ago the Ladies' Memorial Association of Peters-
burg rehabilitated it. and it is now supplied with nice pews,
etc. I quote the following from a letter to me from Mrs.
George W. Cardwell, one of the members of this Memorial
Association, who lives near the old cemetery: 'I am living
here; and with Old Blandford Church, with its historic walls
rising in front of me, a memorial not only of the war of 1861-
65 but of colonial days as well, I am impressed more and
more with the fact that such memorials cannot be too well
preserved to tell the children of coming generations of the
great struggles and wonderful heroism of the people of our
glorious Southland.'
"The old church has suitable places for memorial windows
to be donated by each Southern State in its chosen hero.
Our Ladies' Memorial Association is anxious that the whole
South respond, that we may preserve a building dear in
memory to thousands and full of historic interest to the whole
country as the third oldest church in America; and when com-
plete with these windows, it will be, to quote Mr. Tiffany as an
authority, 'one of the most beautiful buildings of its kind
in America.'
"The cost of each window is $400, and I am writing to you
as a public-spirited man and as a member of Mildred Lee
Camp, U. C. V., hoping that each State will donate a window
and give the subject heartfelt interest.
"Four windows have already been placed in the church by
different States. An easy way to raise the money, and
quickly, is to get each school child to contribute live cents.
"Petersburg having been besieged for nearly ten months
by Grant's overwhelming numbers, and the old cemetery
with its noted church being the innocent victim of many a
shot and shell, makes the appeal of this Memorial Associa-
tion necessary."
Send contributions to Mrs. George W. Cardwell. 257 Main
Street, Petersburg, Va.
FAITHFUL CAPT. THOMAS C. HOLLIDAY.
In an address made recently by M.ij Charles M. Stcadman
at Chapel Hill. X C, to the university alumni he said: "Cap-
tain Holliday was a native of Mississippi, but his ancestors
were from North Carolina. Col. John Holliday, his father,
and hi- mother, who was a daughter of Gen Jesse Speight,
were both born and reared in Greene County, N. C. He
idjutanl general of Davis'- Mississippi Brigade, Heth's
Division, Army of Northern Virginia, and was on il
treme right. The Federal troops with an immensely su-
perior force flanked the brigade, and it was subjected to a
withering enfilade fire Hollida; was ordered to carry a
message to Major General Heth 'to reenforce the right.'
Through a hurricane of fire he rode, his face radiant with
that brightness which always delighted and charmed his
friends. As he reached the plank road he fell from his horse,
badly wounded and stunned. Too weak to speak above a
whisper, he pointed toward a staff officer of the division, who
was brought to him. As the officer kneeled by his side he
said to him in tones made weak by the approach of death,
'Reenforce the right,' and then hi- great heart stood still.
The happy associations and tender memories of his boyhood
days and the hours passed at this university, which was al-
ways dear to him and about which he talked with delight
by the camp fire upon many a winter's night, faded from his
vision as he rejoiced in the consciousness that he had ful-
filled the trust which had been confided to him. In the colder
regions of the North its people have erected costly monuments
to the memory of its soldiers who won distinction and re-
nown during the Civil War, and it is well. Here in the
South, in the campus of this university, through which they
ofttimes strolled with their comrades and friends beneath the
great trees under whose shades they lingered long years ago,
should be erected a monument to the memory of Lieut. Col.
John T. Jones and Capt. T. C. Holliday. It should be built
by the alumni and students of this institution, which has
been honored by the heroism of their death."
Colonel Jones was of the 26th North Carolina Infantry, and
both fell in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864.
BATTLE OF NEW MARKET. VA.
BY D. H. BRUCE, JOPPA, TENN.
Having seen a few articles about the battle of New Market.
Va., fought in May. 1864, written by those who claim to have
seen it, some of which 1 believe to be erroneous, I give my
version as I saw it. believing that history should be correct.
As the captain of an infantry company — A, 51st Virginia —
I could not see all the field of battle, >'\ course, and can give
only part of it.
We were stationed about the center of the line of battle
on the left of the pike ami some little distance from it.
When we got our lines formed after our regiment had run
in the rain through a field freshly planted in corn and tramped
it into a "loblolly" of mud. we were on level land in a wheal
field, where the growing grain was about knee-high. The
Yankees were in a meadow, from seventy five to one hundred
yards off, without protection to either side Our regiment
was m or near the center. Next to us on our right was the
Cadet Corps from the Virginia Military Academy; 011 their
right was Imboden's Brigade. On our left 1 recall Ed
Clark's, and Derrick's Battalions There were others, but
I cannot recall them.
Our regiment lay down and the Yankees stood up. We
were facing down the valley to tin east, and «>■ stayed in that
position and tired as fast as we could load for one hour and
fifteen minutes, according to a man who was not in tin bat
tie and noted the time.
In front of the left wing of our regiment, a little over a
hundred yards from us. was a battery of artillery which
played on us with shell, grape, canister, and shrapnel. After
we had fought for a considerable time, I saw Imboden's men
giving way, and also saw thai the cadet boys were confused
and giving way. I had been noticing the cadet boys (and
boys they were at that time) on the right of our regiment,
right out of school, and we wire old veterans. I was curious
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to see how they would stand fire, and I saw them stand and
fight like regulars. I never saw soldiers fight better than
they did. They stood up and took it in military style, while
we, who had been there three years in many battles and knew
the danger of Yankee lead, lay as flat on the ground as we
could get.
When the cadets gave way, Lieutenant Colonel Wolfe, com-
manding our regiment, standing behind me, said: "Captain,
what had we belter do?" I answered, "You are the colonel.''
meaning that he was my superior and it was his place to
command the regiment. I did not think our regiment would
run, as I had never seen it driven off a field in three years.
I didn't see Colonel Wolfe any more in the battle ; suppose
he went to the head of the regiment. My company was doing
fine work. It was made up of boys out of the mountains of
Wise County, Va. — all good shots and not excitable. I could
see the Yankees in front of us falling right and left. I said
to the boys: "Draw low and fire at their knees; don't over-
shoot; keep steady; we will whip them." I seemed to feel
that we would whip them.
There were four companies of our regiment on our right.
My company was A, and belonged at the head of the regi-
ment ; but when on the march we walked so fast that the
command could not keep up, and General Wharton put us
back in the right center. Those companies on our right gave
way one at a time, slowly falling back ; they dropped down
to try to stay under the shot and shell from the enemy that
seemed to keep the air blue. I called to the company next
to mine to stand firm, as I was not going to run. My men
always told me they never would run until I did, and I be-
lieved them. The officer tried to hold his company, but could
not. I saw something had to be done, and saw no officer of
higher rank than myself. The time had come for no foolish-
ness ; at least half our command was giving way.
A few steps behind us there was a little lane with low fen-
cing— an old worm rail fence. Behind this lane was the corn-
field, tramped into a "loblolly." I thought that if I under-
took to run my company through that muddy field we would
all get killed, so I concluded to. fall back in the lane and get
behind the fence and the right would rally on us. I dropped
my company back and tried it, but the other men failed to
rally. Corporal John Wampler, of my company, a six-footer,
got up and looked over the field and exclaimed : "Captain, the
Yankees are running on the left." I saw some two or three
hundred yards off Derrick's Battalion going toward the
enemy. I gave the command, "Attention !" which brought my
company to their feet ; then I told them to "Forward ! Dou-
ble-quick ! Charge !" My company and the whole left raised
that old Rebel yell, and at them we went. The right, when
they saw us going forward, turned and came back with a yell.
When we got halfway to them, I saw they had their horses
to the artillery and were starting. I gave the command to
"Fire left oblique into that artillery !" It seems that I can
still see the guns of my company turned in a left oblique
direction and tiring. All the riders on the artillery horses
who were not hit jumped off and struck the ground on a run.
They turned everything loose. My company went straight
forward to the right of the artillery. By the time we got
halfway to the Yankee line they were running, going their
best, but shooting back ;:nd hitting a good many of our men.
They had a reserve line behind, but the first line ran through
it and tangled it so badly that it went too.
After we had run them a good way, Sergeant Wampler,
than whom a better soldier never fought, now a Southern
Methodist preacher, threw his hand to his shoulder and said:
"Captain, I am wounded." I answered, after placing my
hand on my right thigh : "I am wounded too ; both of us are
badly wounded." 1 told my first lieutenant, Kennedy, to take
charge of the company, and I stood and watched them go out
of sight on a run. Our men captured, so I understood, about
fifteen hundred prisoners.
Our regiment went into the battle with about five hundred
men, five per cent of whom were killed and wounded. I have
seen it stated in papers that the Cadet Corps captured that
artillery. If they captured any artillery, it was not the six
pieces that my company fired left oblique into. That battery
was left oblique from my company, and the cadets were be-
yond four companies to our right. I have thought that maybe
after we had run the Yankees off they came across the ar-
tillery and took possession of it and, like boys, thought they
had captured it. I would not take any honor from them, for
they were brave.
An article sometime ago in the Richmond Times-Dispatch,
I understood, stated that Edgar's Battalion ran over our
regiment and captured the artillery. No battalion or regiment
ever ran over our regiment and took our front in any battle.
The cadets and Edgar's Battalion did not both capture it.
I have given this account as I saw and understood the battle
[Without familiarity with that battle, the editor suggests
that the cadets may have captured another battery. — Veteran.]
GREAT SPEECH BY AL G. FIELD.
[Many people who don't go to mistrel shows would hardly
expect their most conspicuous representative, Al G. Field, to
give such lofty expressions as in the following address by Mr.
Field at the memorial service in Camp Chase Cemetery, Co-
lumbus, Ohio. It will give pleasure and inspiration. This
great-hearted patriot has more at heart than has any other —
a memorial to dear old Dan Emmet, the author of "Dixie."]
In time of peace it is difficult for those among us who did
not live amid the stirring scenes and tragic events of the days
that made this spot sacred to fully comprehend the issues in-
volved in the controversy that caused the most momentous
war Christendom has ever known.
Universal peace is the dream of the idealist — a dream that
will never be realized while human nature is constituted as
it is. In the life of nations, as in the life of men, questions so
difficult of solution, differences so great, and matters so deep
and vital that they cannot be settled by arbitration will for-
ever exist, and as a last resort war will be the arbitrator.
Civilization without wars would relapse into weakness and
decay. Peace hath its victories and war its lessons, out of
which comes human progress. Who can gainsay the fact that
that great civil war between the North and South has not
advanced this country in all the walks of life — in civilization,
education, and commerce — to say nothing of the lessons of
love and forbearance instilled in the minds of the people of
this country, healing the wounds of dissension made by years
of wrangling, and thus bringing the people of all sections
nearer to each other than since the War of 1812?
As we stand on this sacred spot, our hearts and feelings
submissive to that most powerful of all human emotions —
sympathy — forgetting all the animosities of the past, remem-
bering only that those whose memories we are here to honor
were citizens of our common country, were of our kind, we
drop a tear on the graves of the dead.
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"Sleeping under the sod and dew, awaiting the judgment day;
Tears and love for the blue, love and tears for the gray.'
From the first day I read the inscription upon that arch
that spans the entrance to this hivouac of the dead its ap-
propriateness lias been more and more deeply impressed Upon
my mind. I understand the word "Americans" was engraved
upon that arch at the suggestion of a brave soldier, prompted
by the respect a brave man lias for a fallen foe. It is actions
of this character that bind the old soldiers of the North and
South so closely that when we strew the little mounds of
earth with sweetest Sowers, moistened with tears of sorrow,
we do not look for an inscription upon the headstone of the
grave; we do not care whether he wore the blue or the gray —
we only know then/ is an arch of love extending from North
to South. South to North, over our country's soldier dead, its
corner stone patriotism, and inscribed upon its apex in letters
of living light is the talismanic word "American
This inscription "Americans" is more than appropriate as
applied to the dead whose memory we are here to honor.
They were citizens of that section of our country — the sunny
South — first settled by English-speaking people — a hardy race
that not only fought the battles that made this country the
refuge of the oppressed of all the world, but a race that
established social and legislative conditions that arc the
foundation of all our greatness. The legislative branches
of our government are based upon the popular form of gov-
ernment instituted at Jamestown, Va. It was in Virginia that
our greatness was born; Virginia was the cradle of the vir-
tui - of American citizenship. And Virginia was all of the
South in those days, from Florida to Canada, even extending
into il Stale of Ohio,
I he genesis of older nations may be shrouded in obscurity,
but there is no glamour over the place or the people where
America was born. And while America is a homogeneous
country (millions of foreigners have landed upon its shores),
yet it is a distinctive fact that Virginia in the South has not
increased in population from this emigration; the increase in
that section has been from the lineal descendants of those
first settlers. The customs, laws, and social conditions of
those who landed at Jamestown are preserved and practiced
even unto this day by the people of the South
Preserving their traditions, the people of the South are as
free from anything un-American as they were the day this
republic was born. There never was an anarchist born in the
South. This American republic — first among the nations of
the earth — had its beginning in the South. From that first
settlement at Jamestown grew all the settlements from Florida
to Canada. The glorious achievements of the descendants of
those first settlers in giving America her independence make
every citizen of this country proud of the title "American."
For more than two hundred years the people of Virginia
and the South planted and harvested until the staple products
of their land ruled the markets of the world. The wealth of
the South was untold, its prosperity unequaled, its resources
unlimited. Then came the great war between the North and
South — a war of such gigantic proportions that the whole
world looked on in awe, a war that made the American soldier
the admiration of the armies of the world, a w'ar that has
made America the foremost power in the world.
After five years of strenuous strife, marked by deeds of
daring equaling anything recorded in poesy or mythology,
came the end at Appomattox. The men of the South turned
their faces homeward and began, where their ancestors had
begun more than two hundred years before, to rehabilitate
and build anew the South — a land once as fair and beautiful
as ever sun shone upon, but then devastated as no country
ever was in civilized warfare. They were buoyed up by that
high-born pride known only to a brave and chivalrous people.
With faith in their strength and love for home and its sanctity
unequaled, with a determination inherited from their an-
cestors in the short space of forty years, the new South has
been made even to surpass the Old South, accomplishing
more in the forty years than had been accomplished in all
the years intervening between the settlement at Jamestown
and that last memorable day at Appomattox,
On the spot where blackened chimneys and smoldering
rums were all that was left of thriving villages magnificent
cities have been builded, the breastworks thrown up for the
d< tense of homes are leveled to the earth, and waving fields
of grain are growing over the sod once drenched with broth-
ers' blood. The people of the South have brought order out
of chaos; prosperity rules where ruin prevailed. The South
has again taken her proud position in trade and commerce
and in all that goes to make a country and a people great—
a proud and happy people, whose hospitality and generosity
,ne proverbial the world over, a people whose loyalty is para-
mount, a people worthy of their ancestors, true to then tradi-
tions. May they sleep well under this beautiful arch!
MR. \l i. FIELD.
Alfred Griffith Field.
Al G. Field was born in Loudoun County, Va., but emigrated
to Ohio in 1870. He has been a resident of Columbus, Ohio,
since that time. Mr. Field takes a great interest in Camp
Chase Cemetery, located in Columbus.
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WORD FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
BY CAPT. S. F. HORRALL, WASHINGTON, IND.
A copy of your excellent magazine came into my hands. As
a veteran of the Civil War, who served nearly four years in
the Federal army, the perusal of its pages was deeply inter-
esting. I was one of thousands on the Federal side, as on the
Confederate, who entered into service out of considerations
of a sense of duty, bearing no animosity and no ill feeling.
When the war began and the call for seventy-five thousand
men was made, I helped organize the first company of volun-
teers from South Indiana. I was a newspaper editor (now
"Nestor of South Indiana journalism," retired) ; and while
the people stood aghast at the call for so many men, I wrote
that "if the government won with a million men it would be
little less than a miracle," and was laughed at. My ancestors
were all of Southern blood, and I knew their spirit and pluck,
their chivalry and heroism; and while I could not see a just
cause for secession, I recognized the possibility that if I had
lived south of Mason and Dixon's line there might have been
a difference of vision.
My first experience in "grim-visaged war" was in the battle
of Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862. I commanded Company
G, 42d Indiana V. V. I., and in thirty minutes lost twenty-
two out of fifty-two men, six killed outright, and I with the
others received an unpleasant reminder of Confederate ac-
curate shooting. We fought, in part, John Morgan's Cavalry,
together with, as we understood, a regiment of Louisiana
Tigers, and over the same spot of ground till the wounded
and dead were mixed. An incident is still vividly photo-
graphed on memory's page: We were being flanked right and
left. At the command "Fall back!" I told my company to
obey; but, being lame, I could not "double-quick." Water was
scarce, but I had a canteen full. One of our comrades asked
for water, and drank half. Passing on, I saw the upturned
face of a boy not out of his teens, head against a tree, eyes
fast fixing in death, and he said : "Captain, please give me
water; I am dying." He was a pretty boy, no doubt some
mother's darling. The canteen passed into his hands, and he
drank the last drop, and I got no water until twelve o'clock
the following day.
There has been speculation galore as to whether the battle
of Perryville, Ky., would have been fought except for a
blunder ; but be that as it "may, one thing is sure : we were
whipped, though there were under Gen. Tom Crittenden (our
side) a brigade of men in sight of us not ordered to fire a
gun. We learned to understand by that fight that the enemy
meant business, and prepared for the next struggle at Mur-
freesboro, Tenn.
Together with return proof of the foregoing, Major Hor-
rall writes a postscript: "If space is offered, I'll give under
your chosen head line, 'Word from the Other Side,' sketches
of incidents humorous and pathetic, gleaned from the Federal
side of the firing line, for I was in forty-two battles and skir-
mishes, being for the most part staff officer, brigade inspector,
and ordnance officer, with thereby exceptional advantages."
Rev. James Omelvena, pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Washington, Ind., pays tribute to Major Horrall's author-
ship of a history of the 426. Indiana Regiment, which is re-
garded as "the most perfect history of any regiment yet pub-
lished." The author is growing venerable with his seventy-
ninth year. The Veteran greets his patriotic utterances and
reciprocates his good will most cordially.
REUNIONS OF COMPANIES.
The best of all reunions are those in which members of the
same company in the service meet with their families in a
quiet way. Occasionally an account is sent the Veteran of
such reunions. A report of such a gathering comes from the
Southern Sentinel, at Ripley, Miss. It is of a day spent with
Capt. A. C. Rucker a few miles out of that town. Captain
Rucker commanded Company B, 34th Mississippi Regiment.
He gave a splendid dinner to the seven survivors of the com-
pany who lived in Tippah County. There are other survivors,
but they lived in other States, and attendance was impractica-
ble. These seven survivors were Capt. A. C. Rucker, Capt.
Thomas Spight, Capt. H. A. Stubbs, Alder Joseph Pearce, J.
A. Kinney, M. S. Phyfer, and T. A. Hunt. Only seven ! This
company was made up in the early part of 1862. It was led
by Captain Rucker until he was wounded and had to give
up the service, when he was succeeded by Captain Spight.
capt. a. c. rucker.
Capt. A. C. Rucker commanded Company B, 34th Mississippi
Regiment, which company was made up in Tippah County in
the early part of 1862. Captain Rucker led this company in
the- thick of the fight until wounded, and thereby forced to
give up the service. He was succeeded by Hon. Thomas
Spight, who is now and has for a number of years been a
member of Congress representing the Second Mississippi Dis-
trict. Captain Rucker is a gentleman of the old school, a
model citizen and thorough Christian gentleman. He has been
a member of the Ripley Masonic Lodge for sixty years, and
has held every office of the Blue Lodge from being the
youngest entered apprentice present to the Master in the East.
He has also held several civil offices in his county. He is a
devout member of the Presbyterian Church, and takes a deep
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interest in social and political matters in his county. On the
19th of last June Captain Rucker tendered a reunion and din
ner to the survivors in Tippah County of his old company, and
it was a happy day at his elegant country home, three miles
north of Ripley. Mr. Rucker is a close reader of the Con-
i-ldkratf. VETERAN, and attends all the reunions in his county
when able to make the trips.
SEVEN CONFEDERATES OF ARLINGTON, TENN
Beginning at left of group, first row, are Capt. K. Garrett
< with cane in hand), Company C, 7th Tennessee Cavalry; Dr.
J. P. Bone, Company B, Forrest's Cavalry ; W. B. Stewart,
154th Tennessee Infantry and 12th Tennessee Cavalry; R.
S. Donelson, Company H, 13th Tennessee Infantry. Standing
just behind these are J. C. Land, Company I. 51st Tennessee
Infantry and 1 2th Tennessee Cavalry; .1. W. Zellner, Com-
pany E. 1.3th Tennessee Infantry; .1. S. Wyatt, Company A,
38th Tennessee Infantry.
NORTH CAROLINA <". C. V. REUNION.
Mai. Gen. Julian S. Carr was reelected October 16, 1007,
as the Commander of the North Carolina Division, U. C. V.
A most enthusiastic meeting oi tin- organization is reported
All the present officers were reelected with General Carr, as
follows: Brigadier Generals — First l'.rigade, P. C. Carlton, oi
States ville; Sccor.d Brigade, W. L London, of Pittsboro;
Third Brigade. James 1. Metts, of Wilmington; Fourth Bri-
gade, Janus M. Ray, of Asheville. The reelection of all of
the officers was by unanimous
The meeting v iver by General Carr. and Ad-
jutant General II A. London, of Pittsboro, acted as secre-
tary. A decided majoritj od 's were 0
Adjutant General London stated tl were eighty-six
Camps in North I arolina, but that only forty-five of these
1 ntitled to vi *es, .1 - thi dui s 1 >f tin- 1 ithei s hat
paid to ill, General Reunion Convention, and that at the
ral Reunion in Richmond North Carolina did not have
its full number of votes because the dues of some Camps
w ere not paid.
Resolutions of thanks were most cordially recorded to Judge
Walter Clark (Justice of the State Supreme Court) and to
Col. F. A. Oud for the great work in behalf of correct history.
FIRST CONFEDERATE GEORGIA REGIMENT,
BY CHARLES B. MARTIN, SHUBUTA, MISS.
The picture in the October Veteran representing a seme
on Kennesaw Mountain reminds me forcibly of one which
occurred on the left of the Confederate line between Powder
Springs and Kennesaw Mountain, of which I was a witness.
Sherman was trying to turn our left flank, which was held
by Hardee's Corps, Cheatham's and Cleburne's Divisions being
on the extreme left. We were attacked by a heavy force,
which charged through an old field that had grown up in sedge
grass nearly waist-high, which caught fire from exploding
shells and canister. When the grass was seen to be on fire,
the shooting ceased, and soon, as by instinct, Confederates
and Federals were together eng-.^ed in removing the wounded
out of the reach of the flames, and the assault was not re-
newed that day.
I was relating this to two veterans in Selma, Ala., in 1892,
and while talking we were joined by a stranger unknown to
either of us. At the completion of my story I remarked :
"There are few who would believe this true had they not wit-
nessed it." The stranger then said: "I will testify to the truth
of it, as I was on the other side." I grasped his hand and
said: "Comrade, I am glad to meet you. What command
did you belong to?" "I was of the artillery in a battery that
you fellows called the 'Leather Breeches' battery," he said.
"Yes," I replied, "and that made me 'hide out' many times."
This man's name was S. W. Kasier, of Kenton, Ohio.
I belonged to Walker's Division of Hardee's Corps, which
was on the right of the corps, but was not engaged.
HOW RICHMOND WAS DEFENDED.
BY MILES CARY, POCAHONTAS, VA.
(Copyright. All rights reserved I
Dates we often forget ; facts, never. Just in what year of
our Civil War it became necessary to have a home guard for
the protection of Richmond, I cannot say; but at the time of
which 1 write this home guard was known as the Richmond
Defenses, was commanded by Gen. G. W. C. Lee, and was
made up of the employees of the Confederate States govern-
iii> tit. There were a Tredegar Iron Works Battalion, an Ar-
senal Battalion, an Armory Battalion, and a Departmental
Battalion, the latter commanded by Major Henley. The
Hoxall Crenshaw Mills were grinding for the government.
Capt. 1 ail A. Welford was post commissary for the govern-
ment, and employed me in a minor position. I was of a com-
pany under Captain Dill, a native of . who had
served in the Maryland Line, and. Incoming unfit for active
service, had raised Company K. Our drill room was on the
west line of 12th Street, between Main and Cary, just in
the rear of what was then the American Hotel. In case of
an attack on Richmond, the hell in the Capitol Square would
ring, and then the bells in the different engine houses were
to take it up. The other battalions would move from their
nvc workshops; but as the members of the Departmental
Battalion were scattered all over the town, we were to as-
ible on the Capitol Square and move from there.
On the rainy afternoon of March 4. 1864, we were sum-
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moned to the square. Gen. Custis Lee was present, and we
were told that Dahlgren, a celebrated Federal raider, was
rapidly approaching Richmond from the west via the West-
ham Plank Road, and also that the Armory Battalion had
been sent out to meet him. General Lee instructed Colonel
Griggs, chief of ordnance, to issue sixty rounds, and then
we all knew that at last we had a chance. Our route was
up Grace to Fifth Street, thence across Fifth to Main, and
up Main to a cross street that led us into Cary Street at the
Westham House, then to the right up the Westham Plank
Road. By this time night had fallen. I thought that I had
known it to rain and had known dark nights ; but the only
way to describe that rain was as pelting and the darkness as
intense. It was impossible to move in marching order (files
of four), nor was it attempted — route step and arms at will —
as we splashed through the mud, our officers urging us on at
every step. Little need to urge us with the lights of dear old
Richmond at our backs and the enemy in our front.
When four miles out. opposite the farm of a Mr. Benjamin
Green on the right of the road, we suddenly heard firing and
the galloping of horses, and then the sound of men running.
It was the Armory Battalion, and small blame to them, as the
first thing they knew they were being ridden down by cavalry,
every man a tried and proved soldier. After routing the
Armory Battalion, Dahlgren wisely decided that on such a
night and on unknown ground it would be best to fall back on
a meadow over which he had passed, dismount his men, and
fight them as infantry. As Major Henley was on his death-
bed, Captain Dill was in command of our battalion. The gap
in the fence through which the Armory Battalion had entered
the field was found, and we took up their former position.
Instead of ordering a company forward as skirmishers, as is
usual on such occasions, Captain Dill, well knowing that he
could get all the men he wanted, chose to ask for five vol-
unteers from each company to act as skirmishers. My father
and an elder brother were at rest in beautiful Hollywood ; and
as I stood in the pelting rain with the lights of old Richmond
at my back, the lines came floating in my mind :
"Strike! till the last armed foe expires;
Strike ! for your altars and your fires ;
Strike! for the green graves of your sires —
God and your native land!"
As Captain Dill, coming from the left of the line in asking
for volunteers, reached our line I at once made up my mind.
There they were in our front and Richmond in our backs.
We had them to whip, and the sooner we got at it the better.
Stepping to the front, I said : "Here is one, Captain." Grey
Dowell, next to me, said : "Here is another." The names of
the other three I never knew. The enemy were armed with
the first magazine gun, a Spencer carbine, carrying nine
rounds, while we had the Springfield musket. Any old sol-
dier will know the disadvantage of having to bite his cartridge
under the cape of his overcoat to keep his powder dry.
Captain Dill put the five volunteers under my charge, say-
ing: "March one hundred yards to the front, deploy at fifteen
paces, and report to Captain Babcock, whom you will find on
the right." I found Captain Babcock ; but had I not taken
the precaution to count my paces, so dark was the night and
so blinding the rain, I could never have found my proper
position on the skirmish line. After the enemy had dis-
mounted, they had to form column of attack, which, owing
to the darkness, took them some time. After a while we could
hear the command, "Forward ! quick time, march !" and as
they came splashing through the grass and water shoe-deep,
I was just thinking. "Will Captain Babcock let them run over
us?" when just in the nick of time (they could not have been
twenty yards from us) came the command calm and deliberate
and clear as the sound of a silver trumpet : "Ready ! Keep
cool, boys; fire low. Fire!" We let them have it.
Our duty as skirmishers having been done, Captain Bab-
cock should have ordered us to fall back on the main line.
If he gave such an order, I did not hear it; and as the first
duty of a soldier is obedience, I stood my ground. They were
all around us. No light save the flashes of their guns, and all
we had to do when a gun flashed was to aim in that direction
and let them have it. We had heard that Dahlgren wore a
cork leg, and all along I had been thinking if I could only get
him I would be a made chap. He passed right by me, and as
the enemy swept our skirmishers back on the main line I fol-
lowed them up, banging away in their rear. When they met
our main line, they turned; and as the lights from Richmond
hung low at their backs, I could plainly see Dahlgren, as he
was mounted. I ran possibly twenty yards to cut him off.
Dahlgren has long since gone to that God before whom each
in our turn must appear ; and whatever else he might have
been, he was a daring soldier and a "Beau Sabreur." My
bayonet could not have been three feet from his chest when
my cap burst, my powder being wet. In an instant he knew
an enemy was in his front, and, rising in his stirrups, with
a downward stroke of his saber he cut for my head. The
"Guard against cavalry" was all that saved me. His saber,
glancing from my gun, cut entirely through the cape and
deep into the left breast of my overcoat, shearing the skin
off the wrist of my left arm, and then, spurring his horse,
he struck for my chest; but his horse, striking against me,
swerved me aside, and1 I caught the point of his saber deep
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in the bone of my left forearm, midway between shoulder and
elbow. As he passed over me his horse trod on my left thigh.
Down I went, gun one way and I the other. I worked my
wrist and found that the tendons had not been cut, and turned
on my face to keep from being trampled on by our main line
as they came on, firing as they came and cheering like mad
devils. As they came up to me I stood up. Somebody,
stumbling against a man on the ground, said : "Here is one."
It was Grey Dowel! with a flesh wound through the thigh
and bleeding badly.
The enemy were running for their horses, completely
routed ; the fight was over, dear old Richmond was saved,
and we were as happy as lords. We could hear the command
from the enemy, "By fours from the right; forward, trot,
march!" and they were off for good. There was mithing for
us to do but march back to Richmond, carrying the "glad ti-
dings of great joy." Captain Babcock sent for an ambulance
which had followed us out, into which Grey Dowell was
lifted, and he also told me to get in, as my wounds had be-
come very painful by that time. While yet on the field several
had tied handkerchiefs around Grey's leg as best they could,
and some one had also tied a wet handkerchief around my
wrist. In fact, everything was wet. Nothing could remain dry
under that downpour of water. When we got in sight of Sid-
ney Baptist Church, we saw a light streaming from the front
door of a Mr. Moran. who was a brick mason. His family,
as well as some neighbors, were waiting in fear and trembling,
having learned from some of the Armory Battalion who had
passed them of the result of the fight on their part, and not
knowing but that our battalion would have a like fate.
Mr. Moran and the driver lifted Grey out and laid him on
a lounge in the front room, and Mr. Moran then went for a
doctor. An elderly lady (the mother of Mr. Moran, I sup-
posed), looking at me, said, "I'm doctor enough for this little
fellow," and left the room. In a few minutes she returned.
holding in one hand a broom on which she had collected a
mass of cobwebs, and in the other a bandage. Sitting in a
chair by me, she took my arm in her lap and, untying the wi I
handkerchief from my wrist and wiping away the blood,
slapped the cobwebs on my wrist and fastened the bandage
as deftly as if she had done nothing else all her life. It
stopped the bleeding all right, but it was many a day before
the black mark of the cobwebs wore out of my skin.
I was still in bed — my memory fails me as to the exact date.
but from what afterwards occurred every word is engraven
on my mind and will remain as long as life lasts.
"I hereby recommend that a furlough for thirty days be
granted to Private Miles Cary, of Company K, Henley's De-
partmental Battalion, for gallant and meritot net on
the night of March 4, 1864, at Green's Farm, he being slight Ij
wounded while skirmishing with the enemy.
Dili., Captain Company K, Commanding Battalion"
Major Henley had been buried by the battalion while I was
laid up. The next for approval was Gen. G. W C. Lee. His
office was in the Customhouse, the first door to the right as
you entered from Bank Street Winn 1 entered bis office
with my precious slip of paper in my hand, I found myself
in front of the usual wm , running the width of the
room, cutting it off from the office proper. In this wire
screen there were two pigeonholes. At the one just op]
the door sat a gentleman writing. On the ledge of the win-
dow next to Bank Street den Custis l.ee was sitting, and in
an arm-chair, talking with him. sat that greatest soldier and
most finished gentleman of all time — Robert Edward Lee. I
handed my much-valued little slip 0f paper to the gentleman
at the desk, with the request that he would hand it to Gen.
Custis Lee, which he did. Gen. Custis Lee read it. and then
handed it to his great father. I had moved to the right, and
was standing by the screen at the other pigeonhole when
the two generals walked up n. me. My heart was in my
throat — somehow 1 seemed to feel what was coming. By this
tune several others had come from some inner room, and were
standing just behind the Generals Lee. Looking down at me
with his kindly brown eyes, "Marse Robert" asked: "How
old are you, my lad?" "I will be sixteen on the 5th of June.
General." Turning from me. 1 distinctly heard him -ay to
those behind him: "As long as the boys fight so they will
be quite a time whipping us." Then turning to me. he said :
"I will approve this myself." Some one handed him a pen,
and on the hack of my little slip of paper he wrote-: "Ap
proved. R. E. Lee, General."
I could not have spoken a word had my life depended upon
it. I could only look the gratitude that I felt. As I went out
1 thought that I would have it framed and hung under the
Cary coat-of-arms, that when I should have a son he might
know that his "daddy" would under no circumstances turn
his back on an enemy when Richmond was in danger. As I
went up Bank Street 1 met Charlie Bargamin. who was com-
ing from the Capitol Square at the Tenth Street gate. With
what I still think was pardonable pride I pulled out my fur-
lough and showed it to him. As he handed it back he said :
"I would rather have that slip of paper than ride at the head
of the finest brigade in the service." I said nothing, but I
thought : "Yes ; there are many fine brigades and many fine
fellows riding at their heads, but I am the only chap with a
slip of paper like that." Charlie was at that time in business
with his father and an elder brother, Clifford. Their place
of business was at the southwest corner of Main and Ninth
Streets. Their sign read: "Geo. A. Bargamin & Sons, Dealers
in Mantels. Stoves, Hardware and Tinware, etc."
I intended to send my precious furlough home to my mother
for safe-keeping; but as it was not found among her p
at her death, in 1867, it is therefore lost to me, except
through this account of bow some four hundred untried men
and boys were pitted against live time- their number of tried
and proven soldiers, picked for that especial duly, and
them, thereby saving Richmond. And if this account should
een by Captain Dill. I am sure be would rewrite the fur-
lough and mail it to me here just as 1 have it was
written.
A- to my further servict in thi 1 1 of the Confed
on the 14th of October. 1864, 1 enlisted in the Crenshaw Bat-
if Richmond, Capt. Thomas Elicit, and spiked my gun
of ninety-three pieces) on a field two miles from, Ap
pomattOX C. 1 1., on that memorable Sunday, April o. [865.
"But all too long through seas unknown and dark
( With Spencer's parable I close my tale 1
By shoal and rock bast steered my bark.
And landward now I dri\e before the gale.
\n.l DOW the blue and distant shore 1 hail,
And nearer now I see the port expand.
And now I gladly furl my weary
And as the prow light touches on the strand.
I strike my red-crot I my skiff to land."
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"These are the patriot braves who side by side
Stood to their arms and dashed the foeman's pride,
That Greeks might ne'er to haughty victor bow
Nor thraldom's yoke nor dire oppression know.
They fought, they bled, and on their country's breast
(Such was the doom of heaven) these warriors rest."
Walter S. Crawford.
Walter S. Crawford was born in New Orleans August 26,
1838; and died there April 24, 1907. His residence had been
in that city continuously since birth, with the exception of the
years he served in the Confederate army.
From the memorial resolutions passed by the Association
of the Army of Tennessee. Louisiana Division, Camp No. 2,
U. C. V., the following tribute is taken :
"Among the first to respond to the South's call to arms was
Walter Crawford, and he was one of the very last to sur-
render. He first saw
service in the Cres-
cent Regiment, Louisi-
ana Volunteers. In
1862 he enlisted in
Fenner's Louisiana
Battery of Field Ar-
tillery, and partici-
pated with his com-
mand in all the bat-
tles that made the
Army of Tennessee
immortal in the an-
nals of history.
"Courteous and
gentle toward all as
a citizen, courageous
and unflinching in
the discharge of
every duty as a sol-
dier, Walter S. Craw-
ford was a man
whose memory will
be lovingly cherished
by all who had the
privilege of knowing him, and will be for those who survive
him as an incentive to give, as he gave, the best that is in them.
"In the death of Comrade Crawford the State of Louisiana
suffered the loss of one of her most worthy sons, distinguished
as he was by the possession of all the virtues and graces of
the gentleman, the citizen, and the soldier, who earned the
gratitude of his State by his sufferings in and devotion to
her cause in peace and in war, and won for himself the un-
dying love and affection of innumerable friends."
Comrade Crawford is survived by his wife, one son, and
two daughters, and also a sister and brother (Richard H.
Crawford, of New Orleans, also of Fenner's Battery).
W. S. CRAWFORD.
Gen. H. B. Lyon.
At a meeting of the Second Kentucky Brigade, U. C. V.,
held at Kuttawa, Ky., August 3, Messrs. Henry George and
J. W. Hollingsworth were selected to prepare a tribute to the
memory of Gen. H. B. Lyon, who died quite suddenly on his
farm, near Eddyville, Ky., on April 25, 1907. In their report
they said :
"General Lyon was a graduate of West Point; and when
the War between the States was declared', he was a lieutenant
in the United States army and out on the Indian reservation.
At the very beginning of the war he resigned his position
there and hastened home to offer his services to the Confed-
eracy. He at once raised and organized a company for a bat-
tery of field artillery. He was soon thereafter elected lieu-
tenant colonel of the 8th Kentucky Infantry, and in that ca-
pacity commanded that regiment in the battle of Fort Donel-
son, where he made himself conspicuous for his cool courage
and the intelligent manner in which he handled his regiment
He surrendered there with the army, and was taken as a
prisoner of war to Johnson's Island. He was held for seven
months, at the expiration of which time (an agreement be-
tween the North and South for an exchange of prisoners hav-
ing been made) he, with his regiment, was sent South. He
entered into active service again, and ere long he was engaged
in battle at Baker's Creek, Miss. He was sent to Vicksburg
with his regiment, and was there shut in with Pemberton's army.
His regiment having been mounted, he was granted permission
to fight his way through General Grant's lines, and in this
he was successful without the loss of a man. For several
weeks he operated in the rear of General Grant's army, and
did valiant service for the Confederacy; and when Vicksburg
was forced to surrender, he went to Jackson, Miss., and was
in the severe battle fought there on the nth and 12th of July,
1863.
"Comrades will recall the cool, undaunted courage of Gen-
eral Lyon on this occasion, and where he charged the enemy,
losing half of his regiment in a few minutes. Notwithstanding
his loss was so great, he forced the enemy to retreat, leaving
in front of his command forty-five or fifty, more of the enemy
dead than his regiment numbered when the fight began.
"In March, 1864, the 3d, 7th, 8th, and 12th Kentucky Regi-
ments were brigaded together, and General Lyon was given
the command. Lyon's Brigade was with Forrest during his
memorable campaign into Middle Tennessee. He fought at
Athens, Sulphur, Pulaski, and all other battles under General
Forrest. He brought on that fearful engagement at Brice's
Crossroads, or Tishomingo Creek, as some call it, where Gen-
eral Forrest gained his most signal victory, one of the most
complete victories gained by any general during the war, and
which General Forrest himself afterwards said was largely
due to the undaunted courage of Gen. H. B. Lyon and his
Kentuckians.
"After this he was given a detached command, and with it
made a raid into Kentucky in the rear of General Thomas.
That raid demonstrated the fact that he was fully competent
to lead an independent command; and had he been given an
opportunity, he could and would have written his name high
up on the walls of fame as a general and leader of men.
"General Lyon was a true, courageous man in all the walks
of life. As soldier, legislator, and citizen, he was without
hypocrisy or guile. A blunt, honest man, and totally without
fear, he spoke his mind on all occasions. Whether it was to
applaud a good deed or to denounce infamy, it was no trouble
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to secure his opinion of men or measures; and we all can
truthfully say that in his death the State has lost one of its
GEN.
LYON.
truest and hest citizens, the United Confederate Veterans one
oi tin 11 mOSl courageous comrades, and his family a true h up-
land and 1' \ ing father."
('\n \\ \y Bah i s
At the annual Reunion of Ben T. Embrey Camp, held on
the 7th ami 8th of August at Gravel Hill, Pope County, Ark.,
ill' Memorial Committee reported eight deaths among the
members of the Camp during the past yeat \mong them
was that nf Capl W. \Y. Bailey, whose death occurred Feb-
ruary to. 1907. He enlisted in Company K. 2il Mississippi
Regiment, an.! served through the war. Sometime after tin
war 1h- went in Arkansas and located in Franklin County,
which he represented in the State Legislature for a time.
fifteen y ated at Atkins, where he died.
Comrade Bailey was about seventy-two years old, and left
al children and grandchildren,
Death i: Oni oi rm Virqinia Ca mps.
\~ Chairman of the Committee on Ncctologj For West-
moreland Camp "i Confederate Veterans, Montrose, Va., Dr.
M. M. Wall several sketch?- of members which were
before the < amp on 1m Reunion day, September jo
Died at in- home, in Portsmouth, Va., Septem-
Thomas Carolanius Robertson, in the sixty-third
Son of the late S \\ X. and Lucy Robert
son, he was born in Montrose, where he lived until iSo.;. when
>\ < i nment appointmi nl and mot ed to Ports
in. .nth. In [862, while yet under age, In- joined Company K.
yth Virginia Cavalry, and served faithfully in that command
I., the surrender. He was a g 1 soldier, a Kind and affection
ale husband and father, and a genial and courteous man to
all about hun Above all. he was a consistent member of
"fell "t ( "n M
Dr. William Henry Fairfax.
William 11. Fairfax was born in Cameron, King George
County, Va., December 10, 1834; and died at his home, La
Grange, one mile from the Hague, April 3, 1907. He was the
son of Ferdinand Fairfax. M.D., and Mary Jett Fairfax.
Dr. Fairfax sprang from generations of soldiers and states-
men. The poet Milton eulogizes a brave ancestor for firm,
unshaken virtue and knightly feat-, at arms:
"Fairfax, whose name in arms through Europe rings,
Filling each mouth with envy or with praise."
Iln first Lord Fairfax, win. was the third or fourth in the
baronial line, came to this country early in the eighteenth cen-
tury with a land giant for what was called the Northern Neck
■ if Virginia, and winch comprises, as now laid out. fifteen coun-
ties in that State and live in West Virginia. The founder of
the family was knighted by Queen Elizabeth about the middle
of the sixteenth century. * * *
Dr. Fairfax was educated at Rappahannock Academy, in
Caroline County, ami William Mahone, afterwards a major
general, was one of his instructors. He studied medicine with
his father, and later at the Medical College of Virginia, from
which he graduated in 1853, and entered at once on the prac-
tice of his profession. He enlisted for the war as a private
111 the "Potomac Rifles," afterwards Company K, 40th Vir-
ginia [nfantry. Early in the contest he was promoted to sur-
geon in the army, as which he served to the close of the strug-
gle.
I )r. Fairfax was married soon after the war closed to Miss
Eleanor Griffith, the devoted wife who survives him, and
moved to Tennessee to join his father, who had preceded him.
lie remained hut a year in Tennessee, and upon returning to
Virginia continued the practice of medicine. Later he was
elected treasurer of the county, holding the office for eight
DR. WILLIAM II 1 URFAX.
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years. He later settled in the lower part of the county, and
practiced his profession to within a few weeks of his death.
Dr. Fairfax had held the position of Surgeon of Westmore-
land Camp since its organization, and his fellow-members
-adly miss his genial presence and wise counsel. True to the
virtue of his ancestral lineage, he was a lover and follower
of all things high and noble, measuring up to his full duty as
a citizen. As a soldier, his true courage quailed not in the
face of difficulty and danger; as a husband and father, he was
gracious, gentle, and loving; as a friend, his memory will
ever remain as a treasure to all who knew him. Faithful to
every trust, honorable in his dealings with all mankind, he
was a man among men.
Of such as these the world is made better. They richly
deserve the highest commendations of their fellow-men, and
especially of those who fought for Southern rights and con-
stitutional liberty.
Judge Samuel Stewart Carlisle.
John B. Gordon Camp, U. C. V., of Seattle, Wash., loses
a most valued and useful member in the death of Judge Sam-
uel S. Carlisle, one of the best-known lawyers of Seattle.
He was greatly beloved by all who knew him.
Judge Carlisle was a veteran of the Civil War, having
served with distinction in the Confederate army, in which lie
reached the rank of major of ordnance. He was a member
of the 1st Missouri Infantry, under the command of Gen. John
S. Bowen, and was promoted from the ranks to a position on
the General's staff in direct recognition of bravery on the
field of battle. He was in active service all the while, and
his record was a brilliant one.
Judge Carlisle was a charter member of John B. Gordon
Camp. He is survived by his widow and two sisters, Mrs.
Bettie C. Larimore, of Seattle, and Mrs. Josephine Austin, of
St. Louis ; also three brothers, John L., David, and Frank Car-
iisle, all of St. Louis.
Judge Carlisle was born in Philadelphia February n, 1836;
but removed with his parents at an early age to St. Louis.
Mo., where he lived until the breaking out of the war. In
1865 he located in New Orleans, where in 1868 he was married
to Miss Sallie Holmes. He was most prominent in the civil
affairs of New Orleans, and served four years in the Senate
of Louisiana. At the request of President Cleveland he re-
signed this office to accept the position of Minister to Bolivia,
which office he fi'.!: ! from 1887 to 1890. Upon his retirement
from diplomatic ;::,ice Judge Carlisle went to Seattle, where
he had resided sir.ce. His health had been poor for many-
months, and he was preparing to retire from active practice.
George W. Logan.
Lieut. George W. Logan, Company C, 8th Kentucky Cavalry,
died at his residence, in Shelbyville, Ky., October 5, 1907, of
heart failure. He was a descendant of one of four brother.
who came to America from the North of Ireland in 1734. He
was born in Shelby County, Ky., October 12, 1828, a son of
Alexander and Verlinda Offutt Logan, and attended the school
of Samuel V. Womack, where he was a classmate of Cols. J.
Stoddard and William Preston Johnston. His education was
finished at Hanover College, Indiana, and in 1852 he went to
Oregon, where he assisted in taking the first census of Wash-
ington Territory, having crossed the plains with thirty-five
companions. While in Oregon he was the guest for a time
•of Capt. U. S. Grant, afterwards general, and then President
of the L'nited States. From 1855 to 1S5S he was a merchant
and miner in California, later returning to Kentucky for a
short stay, and then went to Missouri to reside.
In 1861 Mr. Logan enlisted as a private in Major Bowman's
GEORGE W. LOGAN.
Battalion of Missouri State Guards, and participated in the
battle of Elkhorn Tavern. In July, 1862, he was appointed
adjutant of Colonel Kavanaugh's Missouri Regiment; but
soon thereafter resigned while the regiment was in Arkansas,
and rode with a single companion back through Mississippi, Ala-
bama, Georgia, and Tennessee to Kentucky ; and after spending
a few days at home he joined Gen. John Morgan's command
at Lexington, Ky., as a private in Company C, 8th Kentucky
Cavalry, under Colonel Cluke. He was soon promoted to
second lieutenant, and while with Morgan on a raid was cap-
tured at Salineville and taken to Camp Chase, Ohio. Later
he was confined at Johnson's Island, Point Lookout, Md., and
Fort Delaware, and finally released on June 20, 1865.
After the war Comrade Logan returned to Shelbyville and
entered the milling business, and was President of the Logan
Company at the time of his death. He was married in 1867
to Miss Josephine Bell, who survives him with four children —
Albert Logan, of Omaha, Nebr. ; Rev. Charles Logan, a mis-
sionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church, now stationed
at Tokishima, Japan; and Harry and Miss Mary B. Logan,
of Shelbyville.
At a meeting of John H. Waller Camp, No. 237, U. C. V..
it was resolved : "That in the death of our comrade this
Camp has lost a valued and loyal member, and one whose life
was a blessing to this community. His genial, whole-souled
nature endeared him to his old comrades and to every class
of persons in this community. He was one of nature's noble-
men, of quiet, unassuming manners, and established a reputa-
tion for honorable and upright dealings with all men."
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Mks. Cassie Kirby-Smith.
Her multitude of friends were shocked by the news that
the widow of Gen. Edmund Kirby-Smith had died on the
morning of November 3. She had been ill for a week or so,
but seemed hopeful of recovery even on Saturday night.
The funeral was conducted in the chapel at Sewanee, Con-
federate veterans and the Kirby-Smith Chapter, Daughters
of the Confederacy, attending in bodies. In the procession
from the residence to the chapel these organizations followed
the casket on foot in advance of the family and others in
carriages. Every Daughter of the Confederacy carried a
floral offering and wore the Chapter colors.
This beloved woman had every conceivable honor shown
Iter. She was Miss Cassie Selden, of Lynchburg, Va., and was
wooed and won by Gen. E. Kirby-Smith while in a hospital
at Lynchburg on account of a serious wound received in the
first battle of Manassas. They were soon married, and she
was much with him during the war. Two of their children
were born in that period. They were blessed with eleven chil-
dren, six daughters and five sons, all of whom arc living.
Four of the daughters and two of the sons are married, and
there are thirteen grandchildren. Some of them living re-
motely could not attend the funeral.
She was of a distinguished family in the Old Dominion.
MRS. t'ASSIK si NUN KIRBY-SMITH.
in which there were fourteen children, five of whom sur-
1 1 She v. years old in September.
While General Kirby-Smith was a native of Florida, he lived
much of the time after the war in Tennessee. At the con-
clusion of 1 he went to Mexico; hut, while Maximilian
esteemed him greatly, the General found that his residence
there might prejudice the United States authorities against
that government, so he went to Matanzas, Cuba. While there
his wife visited Gen. U. S. Grant in the hope that be might
be permitted to return to the United States, when she was
assured that it would be most agreeable to have him do so.
Upon his return, General Kirby-Smith took charge of the
military school in Kentucky; but from 1872 to 1875 he was
connected with the University of Nashville, when he became
connected with the University of the South, at Sewanee. The
Kirby-Smith home was the Confederate rendezvous at Se-
wanee, and one of the veterans said yesterday : "This will end
our picnics at Sewanee."
The Kirby-Smith home had been Confederate headquarters
at Sewanee for many years. Their children and children's
children will, however, maintain the principles espoused so
ardently by General Kirby-Smith and his worthy, noble help-
meet.
Tribute by Miss Green, her Chapter President:
"The Kirby-Smith Chapter, I'. D. C, of Sewanee, Tenn.,
has sustained another very sad loss in the death of Mrs. Ed-
mund Kirby-Smith, their honorary charter member. She had
been identified with Sewanee life for thirty-two years, her
husband, Gen. E. Kirby-Smith, having come to the University
of the South as professor of mathematics in 1875. She was
Miss Caroline Selden, of Lynchburg, Va., married when she
was very young, and was one of the most devoted wives and
mothers ever known.
"One never associated death with Mrs. Kirby-Smith. Her
life was so kindly, her temperament so cheerful, and her
warm heart went out to those around her with such childlike
simplicity, touching the most callous and endearing her to all,
that it seemed that she might be spared for many years more.
She represented the type, now almost passed away, of warm
Southern hospitality, and nothing delighted her more than
entertaining the veterans at her home when the Chapter dis-
tributed crosses of honor each year on the 3d of June, and
those who attended these reunions will recall her smiling,
hearty welcome and cheerful words for all."
B. B. RaifORD
B. B. Raiford was born near Goldsboro, N. C. in March.
1847; and died October tS. 1007. He was at school at LaPlace
Academy, near Mt. Olive, in 1864. and enlisted from there in
what was known as Company A, 71st Regiment, N. C. S. G.,
at the age of seventeen. In April of that year he was made
first sergeant of bis company, in which capacity he served till
the close of the war. participating in three battles — Bellfield.
Va., Kinston and Bentonville, N. C.
Ii was the proudest day of Ins young life when In- wen:
forth as a Confederate soldier, and in tin- evening of life he
was among the immortal patriots of that memorable struggle
who wear the Southern rrn« of honor a- a token of their
fidelity to the cause of the beloved Southland. He served
with distinction until the banner of the South was furled for-
ever, and so indelibly affixed was his company's muster roll
in his mind that be could call it almost perfectly until hi?
death.
The Vim > ■■ 1 iligent p . tribute to Confed-
erates whosi ire worthy models There is no charge
: in the use of engravings, and thai Olllj i' r their cost.
pecially desirous to make record of those who were
patrons. Even where the famil) does not desire subscription
continued, it is very appi make record of the noble
men who supported it
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BATTLE OF BELMONT, MO., NOVEMBER 7, 1S61.
BY DON SINCLETARY, CLINTON, KY.
In Series I., Volume 53, page 506, of the "War of the Rebel-
lion : Official Records," Gen. U. S. Grant, in a dispatch to
Washington dated November 7, 1861, at Cairo, III., says:
"We met the Rebels near Belmont, and drove them step by
step into their camps and across the river. The Rebels re-
crossed the river and followed in our rear to a place of em-
barkation. Losses heavy on both sides."
Testimony to the Contrary.
We, the undersigned, were in Columbus, Ky., on November
7, 1861, and witnessed the battle of Belmont. Mo., between
the Union forces, under Gen. U. S. Grant, and the Confed-
erates, under Generals Polk and Pillow, and we know and do
certify that neither the Confederate army nor any part of it
was driven across the river, nor did any part of the Confed-
erate army leave the Belmont side until General Grant and
the Union army had been driven entirely off the field and
the Confederates were in full possession thereof. [Here fol-
low fifty-six signatures with post office address. — Editor
Veteran.]
The above dispatch, signed and sent by Gen. U. S. Grant
himself to the War Department at Washington as true his-
tory (?), is false, and General Grant sent it doubtless because
he had fought that battle without any orders (as shown on page
507 of the same book mentioned above by a dispatch from
Chauncey McKeever, A. A. G., to Major General Fremoiu
from Cincinnati November 9, 1861), and had been badly
whipped and driven off the field in a rout and a run, as he
really admits in the above dispatch.
I call attention to this record to illustrate one of the many
points of false history read and believed by our Northern
brothers. Everybody ought to be willing to know and accept
the truth. I wish every person who witnessed that Belmont
battle would write me the facts about it as he or she saw it.
Did General Grant tell the truth about driving us across the
river?
In the beginning of the Belmont battle we were surprised,
and had time to get only Pillow's Brigade of three regiments
over the river, together with Tappan's 13th Arkansas Regi-
ment, Beltzoover Battery (four pieces'), and two companies of
scouts. With only a few rounds of ammunition we opened
the battle against a very much larger force under General
Grant. I had only seven cartridges, and others had about the
same ; we soon ceased to fire — were out of ammunition. Then
we were ordered to fall back to the river. We did so, and
got ammunition ; and by that time General Cheatham's Bri-
gade had gotten across the river, and we then whipped Grant's
forces and ran them off the field. Next day he sent a flag of
truce, and we let him bury his dead.
At Shiloh we met General Grant again, and surprised him
and whipped him badly; and but for Buell's timely arrival
Grant would have been retired forever, I think.
STATUE AND SHAFT TO CAPT. M. T. NUNNALLY.
Capt. Matthew Talbot Nunnally fell in the battle of Get-
tysburg contending for the rights of his State, Georgia. His
sister, Mrs. Mary Nunnally Sandidge, has recently erected a
handsome monument to his memory.
In 1861 young Nunnally was a cadet at West Point, but
came home promptly and went to the front as captain of a
company, and was killed July 2 in the second day's battle
at Gettysburg.
The monument is about twenty-five feet high, and is of
Georgia marble except the statue, which is of Italian marble.
On each corner there is carved a column. The die on the
west side is carved with a Confederate flag. The statue rep-
resents the young soldier in the uniform of a Confederate
captain ; t infantry, and is a lifelike reproduction of a very
handsome physique.
The inscriptions on the four faces of the die are:
South side of the die: "Matthew Talbot Nunnally, son < •
William B. and Mary Talbot Nunnally. Born in this county
March 18, 1839. A cadet from Georgia, he entered United
States Military Academy at West Point, from which, after a
meritorious record, he resigned upon the secession of his
State from the Union. In June, 1861. he was mustered into
the Confederate army for the period of the war as captain
of Walton's Infantry, Company II, of the nth Georgia Regi
ment, of Barstow's Brigade, afterwards Anderson's Brigade.
Hood's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Vir-
ginia. On July 2, 1863, he was killed while commanding his
company in the second day's battle of Gettysburg."
On the east side of the die is the following beautiful tribute
written by Ex-Gov. Henry P. McDaniel, major of the nth
Georgia Regiment, who witnessed his death : "A young man
of fine presence and talents, of high purpose and1 courage, of
genial nature, and of devotion to his profession. His years
of training at West Point fitted him to become a model sol-
dier; he was rigid, but kindly in discipline, unremitting in at-
tention to duty, and mindful of the safety and comfort of hi.i
command. Always cheerful, sharing hardships and dangers.
He led his company through many battles with marked dis-
tinction, and he fell while cheering on his company in the
charge of Hood's Division, which drove the enemy from the
I (evil's Den woods, over the slopes of Devil's Den Ridge
to the shelter of Round Top Mountain and of Little Round
Top. He was lamented by all wdio knew him, and by none
monument to captain nunnally.
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so much as by the men of his company, who respected, ad-
mired, and loved him fur bis great worth."
On the face side is the following inscription: "A tribute of
loving remembrance from Mary Nunnally Sandidge to the
memory of her brother, whose young career was brief, brave,
and glorii HIS
On the west sidi of the die and just underneath the flag
are the following lines:
"I i it fame i 11 brightest pages,
Penned by poets and by sages,
Shall go sounding down the agi
Furl its folds though now we must
HARDSHIP IX CAMP DOUG1 16
DY I', n. I is i NCE, C0NW w. vkk.
I was in Camp Douglas at the time Lincoln was killed and
when the Federal soldier climbed the flag pole and fell. I
was in tbe hospital (second storj I, located in an open square,
-an two hundred yards from tbe flag pole. About eight
lock in tbe morning a man Standing at tbe window i
anted: "Look at thai d— Yankee falling from the top of
the dag pole!" In a little while the papers came in. giving
account of Booth's having killed President Lincoln. It
was said that tin cord attached to tbe flag bad gotten out of
fix -o n could not be lowered, and they bad offered a sixt
es' furlough to tile man who WOtdd climb the pole and right
tin- cord, and thai the man who bad fallen one hundred and
fiftj fret to the platform around tbe pole bad knocked a holt
through two inch planks, and that be lived for more titan two
hours afterwards. Soon after that we saw another man climb
tbe pole and fix tbe Cord lb.it raised and lowered tbe flag, and
the flag was half-mast ; but I had never heard who it was.
When I came out of (amp Douglas, on June 17. 1865, I
passed by tin flag pole, and remembered tbe Yankee's falling.
and saw tbe bole be knocked through tbe platform in falling
1 was reared in Tallahatchie County, Miss., tbe son of \\ il
liani Prince. My grandfather, Daniel Prince, of Morgan
County, Ga., bad fifteen sons and daughters of the same
mother, and reared them all to maturity. All married and bad
children except one daughter, tbe eldest child, and there were
hundred ami eleven sons and daughters and grandchildren
of Daniel Prince living at the commencement -1 tbe Civil War,
and seventeen of those sons ami grandsons were killed on
tin- battlefields of that war I and four brothers wen
in the war, threi of whom were killed, while I. tbe youngest.
and tin othei survivor wen captured I served in Sandei
Scouts under Forrest, 1 enlisted about a year before the close
of Hie war, and was captured md carried, with thirty-nine
others, to Camp Douglas on tbe 23d of November, 1864. In
two weeks twentj four of us, out of the forty, bad did of
smallpox, p I other diseases I was tbe only one
Of tbe forty that lived to tin- surrender I I id tbe want
of -on . eat caused tbe death 1 f all 1 We
1 warm climate, and "in clothes were thin ami
light, and smallpox and pneumonia made sad havOC among us.
To give -ome idea of tbe treatment derates in Camp
Douglas. 1 will mention about myself ami J J. Murphy, who
It] on a plank bunk together, with no bed and only one light
blanket under us and on. o\er us. when at limes the titer
or was twentj below ten There were about two hun-
1 us in thi irracks, and we were about as well
fixed as an> of tbem Often .air fellow-prisoners were found
1 dead in their bunks in the morning. The vermin was
so bad that our shirts would be bloody in a short time, and
wc got to wash our underclothes onlj once in every nine days.
Tina consisted of one thin calico shirt and a thin pair of cot-
ton drawers There was a washhouse, if we could get in it
very early before it was filled up, where we could do thi:
washing. On one occasion Murphy said: "Prince, il
will get up before day and get us a tub. we will get in that
washhouse early." Now, the rules wen cl We had
to lie down when the bugle blew at sundown, and get up win 11
the bugle blew at sunup, unless for som call. Our
barrack was straight with the streel and about three hundred
yards from the hydrant, and I could 1 withou
shot by thi poli and then turn to the left down another
Street about four hundred yards to Barrack 13, under which
the tubs bad been left the evening before. So 1 got Up aboul
a half hour before day and went the route to Barrack [3,
stooped down to put my band on a tub, when 1 heard tin
"Prairie Bull," whose voice I knew well, sweat at me an aw ful
oath, and at the same time be shot at me, the ball passim.'
through the top of the tub that my band was on. 1 knew it
meant death if I did not get away, so I jumped to the door
1 Barrack 13, and he senl another ball at the door facing
me, md then followed me with cursing. There was a prayer
going up all the time that I might escape. 1 squatted down
111 tbe ball of tbe house, praying that he might pass and not
''■ me 1 la came in. and thus give me a chance to get out
and run. In mj heart 1 was calling on God to give me the
strength if the brute saw me to take his pistol from him and
kill him with it; but, as 1 had hoped, be bad his bead up
wearing as be passed bj me. and I went .an on my toes.
Bj ibis time 1 bad my courage up. and I took tbe tub that
the bullet went in ami ran with all my might. The snow was
10 in .in, 10 two feel deep and the thermometer twentj I" low
110. and the wind blew as only it can blow off Lake Mali
gan ; but I made il to die hydrant, and 1 am satisfied no
Yankee saw the race. I drew the tub half full of water,
picked it up, carried it into our washhouse, which was some
one hundred feet away, and found there about thirty other
Confederates fixing for an early wash. Vbout tins time two
Yankees can 1 me to each di or of tbe bouse, and I got back
to I be wall where a window was up about two feet and rolled
out into tbe snow, while the- Yankees drove tbe other boys
of] i" tin « len horse (called "Morgan"), which was
feet high: and while I was lying there in the snow the
"Prairie Bull" bad driven tbe two hundred nan 0111 of Par-
rack 13 because they did not tell where I was tin fellow
who rut into that barrack when be shot at me These men
wen asleep 111 their bunks and had not seen me at all. lie
irrying all these men to rid. tbem on tbe wooden leu o
in the eol.l. none of them having on all their clothes. As I.
lay there in tbe -now 1 bad a beany laugh, I suppo 1 I
I had gotten away and v cr what 1 thought
was smart and dating ill me. I went into the washhouse
and Murphj cami with oui garments, ami in a few minutes
1 tin in washed and back to our barrack. \s we went
in ill- lew sunup, tbe tunc for us |. have gotten up
for the day.
inn other thing that took place the morning that Lincoln
died The Yankee policeman who called the roll by having
the men counted, when he got through, said: "Hoys, J. Wilkes
Booth shot Abraham Lincoln last night at the theater in
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Washington City, and he died this morning at six o'clock."
One of the Confederates, an Irishman, replied : "A d — good
thing; he ought to have been in h — long ago." At once the
policeman began to beat this Irishman over the head with a
stick and took him to the famous wooden horse and put him
astraddle of it, tied the half of a coal stove to each leg, and
then they stuck their bayonets in him and tried to make him
take it back and say that he was sorry he made the statement ;
but he cursed them and Lincoln the more, saying that he had
only spoken the truth. In about a half hour afterwards he
died from the abuse, but was game to the last. I did not see
this, as I was at the hospital ; but the boys told me all about
it when I was returned to the barracks. I was devoted to
this Irishman. Although he was not acquainted with me, still
on one occasion while in Camp Douglas I was being beaten
by a large, strong man about a trifling matter in which he
was to blame, and while others stood by and saw the unequal
combat this Irishman knocked him down and told him to get
up and fight a man and let the boy alone.
RECOLLECTIONS OF BATTLE AT WINCHESTER.
[P. J. White, of the 5th Virginia Cavalry, has written a
vivid account of the battle at Winchester, Va., from which
this is taken.]
I have never forgotten the battle fought near Winchester,
on the Berryville and Martinsburg roads, September 19, 1864.
The Confederate army, commanded by Gen. Jubal A. Early,
was outnumbered four to one, yet made a heroic and very
nearly a successful struggle to maintain its position from early
dawn till sundown, holding its own in the center with obsti-
nate valor while both wings were bent back like a crescent.
How often in thinking over the tragedy of that day have the
words of Roderick Dhu to Fitz James when in their death
grapple occurred to my mind :
"Now, gallant Saxon, hold thine own; ■
No maiden's arm is around thee thrown."
The Confederate army occupied an open plain and a posi-
tion easily flanked on either side, a most unfortunate situa-
tion, considering the great odds to which we were opposed,
and which was finally the cause of our undoing, when the
Federals were unable to force our lines in front. Col. Thomas
H. Carter, General Early's chief of artillery, said to me on
one occasion that it was the hardest stand-up, all-day fight he
was in during the war. The day was ours, the field having been
held against the repeated and desperate assaults of two army
corps, each outnumbering our whole army, with heavy losses
on both sides, until late in the evening, when a heavy body
of cavalry, as large as our whole army and accompanied by
fresh bodies of infantry, all newly arrived upon the field,
advanced against our left flank on the Martinsburg road.
This overwhelming force it was impossible to stay with the
handful of men that we could oppose to it. Yet our lines
fell back in good order, and we passed through Winchester
as the setting sun was sinking behind Fort Hill, reflecting with
its departing rays the flashing sabers of ten thousand Federal
horsemen against the evening sky — a most magnificent though
hostile array. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is inseparably connected
with the events of that day. How well do I recall his sol-
dierly figure on the field of battle as, followed by his staff and
astride his beautiful mare, Nellie Gray, he led us across the
field from right to left ! Later he went down with a grievous
wound, and poor Nellie Gray was mortally wounded.
At one time our little division of only two brigades was
widely separated, one brigade being upon each flank. This
in a large measure was our salvation, in my opinion, Wick-
ham's Brigade, from the right, being able to reach and occupy
Fort Hill before the Federal cavalry, which had passed us
on our left, could do so, and thus keep them out and the way
open for our retreat. From the field where Jackson and
Ewell, Taylor and Wheat won imperishable fame the Confed-
erate army slowly retired, never to return.
Such was Winchester on that memorable day, and such arc
some of the memories of the long ago. Seeing it staled thai
the Governor of Massachusetts has very recently visited this
historic spot on the occasion of the dedication of a monument
to the Union dead that lie buried there reminds me that the
Confederate and Federal soldiers there rest side by side, as
it were (.the cemeteries adjoining), upon and near the fields
where contending armies strove. They rest from their war-
fare and their works do follow them. Here blue and gray
in dreamless sleep are wrapped in fadeless green; here "un-
known and unrecorded dead" have everlasting rest ; here
beauteous flowers of loveliest hue and feathered songsters
with sweetest notes hallow the rest of the warrior dead.
LIFE OF GEN. R. E. LEE, SOLDIER AND MAN.
Dr. J. William Jones has been a prolific writer on Confeder-
ate men and things. In 1874 he published "Personal Reminis-
cences, Anecdotes, and Letters of R. E. Lee," and since then
"Christ in the Camp ; or, Religion in Lee's Army," "The
Davis Memorial Volume," "Army of Northern Virginia Me-
morial Volume," appendix to Cooke's "Life of Jackson,"
"School History of the United States," fourteen volumes of
"Southern Historical Society Papers," and many articles for
encyclopedias, magazines, and newspapers designed to illus-
trate Confederate history and vindicate the name and fame of
our cause, our leaders, and our people.
Dr. Jones's last book has been pronounced by competent
critics the best piece of work that he has ever done. His
intimate association with General Lee, his free access (by the
kindness of the family) to the private letters and papers of :
the great chieftain, his study of everything that has been writ-
ten concerning him, and his enthusiastic admiration for the
soldier and the man have all prepared him for this work,
which he has done with painstaking accuracy.
He has so interwoven General Lee's letters, many of them
published for the first time, into the narrative as to make him
tell the story of his own life. There is a splendid outline of
Lee's campaigns and battles, showing clearly the great odds
in numbers and resources against which he fought and the
splendid genius which overcame these obstacles and won vic-
tories which illustrate brightest pages of American history.
But perhaps the chief value of the book is the treatment of
Lee, the man, bringing out those noble traits of character
which made him a model for our young men.
Dr. Jones was chaplain of Washington College during the
time that General Lee was its president, was thrown every
day into the most intimate relations with him, and was thus
enabled lo draw a vivid picture of him as college president,
citizen, husband, father, and thorough Christian gentleman
The book has received the strongest commendation of the
press all over the country, North as weli as South, and is
recommended as worthy of a place in every library.
Published by the Neale Publishing Company, Washington
and New York. Price, $2. Or it may be ordered of the au-
thor, Richmond, Va.
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VALUABLE WORKS ON CONFEDERATE HISTORY.
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. By Hon.
Jefferson Davis. Foremost among the works on Confederate
history is that by the President of the Confederate States,
sets of which are now procurable only in the half morocco
at $20. Two volumes.
A Short History of the Confederate States of America.
by President Davis, gives in a condensed form the most im-
portant facts relating to the secession of the Southern States
and the organization of the Southern Confederacy, with de-
scriptions of the leading engagements on the held, making a
record of accurate historical data. It should be used in
schools as well as have a place in every Southern library.
Only a few copies left. Bound in cloth. Price. $4. postpaid.
Johnston's Narrative. By den. Joseph E. Johnston. A
history of the operations of his command and a masterly vin-
dication of his plan of operations. Tn half morocco, $3.25;
sheep, $2.75. postpaid.
Recollections and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Com-
piled and written by his son. Capt. R. E. Lee. A collection of
letters written to his family which bring out most interest-
ingly the domestic side of General Lee's character, while the
connectional comments by Captain Lee add much to the en-
tertaining qualities of the book Bound in cloth. Price, $2.50.
Life of Gen. Robert E Lee. By Gen, Fitzhugh Lee. More
especially a history of his military campaigns and valuable for
its accuracy. Cloth-bound. Price. $1.50.
Life and Letters of Gen. R. E. Lee. By Dr. J. William
Jones, D.D. A personal friendship between General Lee and
the author gave valuable material in the preparation of this
work, which is a revised edition and contains many letters of
Gem ral Lee not heretofore published (loth. Price, $2.
Like he StoNEWAU JaCKSON. By Col. G. F. R. Hender-
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written, presenting clearly the science of military strategy so
successfully followed Published in two volumes. Six hun-
dred memorial edition m half morocco. $4
REMINISCENCE! 01 no Civil War. By Gen. John B. Gor-
don. Doubtless th« most interesting personal narrative on
the War between the States, presenting tin- put taken by thi
matchless soldier A late edition of tin- book has been issuci
in cheaper form, 0 a: to be within the reach of any Confed-
erate SUrvivpl In cloth. $i; ; tin lit edition, cloth, $3:
memorial edition in half mon ceo, $4.
I-11 1 oi Gi \' B. Forrest. Bj Dr, John Allan Wyeth
Ibis 1 i ii becomi well known as standard authority on
the "Wizard of tin Saddle." therefore needs no further com
mend i is written with great care, every im-
111 being verified bj unquestioned testimony.
Illustrated. Cloth hound Price,
Two Wars: An Autobiograph B Gen S G Frem
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navy ami ■ the Confederate cruiset Ala
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TWO Yi UtS 01 Bj Lieut. Vrthur Sinclair.
A companion book to thai b) Adm m to one who
d under him during the wonderful career of the Ala-
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From Manassas ro Appomattox. By Gen. James Long-
street. A handsome volume of some seven hundred pages.
Edition nearly exhausted. Cloth. Price, $3.
Messages and Papers of the Confederacy. Compiled By-
Hon. James D. Richardson, of Tennessee. In two volumes,
per set, half morocco, $10; cloth, $5.
Military Annals of Tennessee. By Dr. J. Berrien Linds-
ley, D.D. Half morocco, $5; full morocco, $7.50.
Memoirs of Hon. John H. Reacan. Postmaster Genera]
of the Confederate government. Occupying this position in
President Davis's cabinet throughout the 'war, Mr. Reagai
was regarded as one of the masters who shaped the fortunes
of the Confederacy. A notable volume. Price, $3.24, postpaid.
Morgan's Cavalry. By Gen. Basil Duke. The history of
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many adventures under dashing John Morgan and succeeded
him. Cloth. Price, $2,
Pickett and His Men. By Mrs. LaSalle Corbell Picket;.
An entertaining and charmingly written history of the gallant
commander and the men he led up the heights of Gettysburg
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Prison Life of Jefferson Davis. By Dr. John J. Craven,
chief medical officer at Fortress Monroe at the time of Mr
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Recollections of Thirteen Presidents. By Col. John
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pictures of the Presidents from Tyler to Roosevelt. Price,
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Came Chase By Col. W. H. Knauss, a veteran of the
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a list of those there buried. Cloth. Price, $2,20, postpaid
Confederate Operations in Canada and New York By
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Southern States of the American Union. By Dr .1 L
,M Curry. Price, $1.50.
Story of the Confederate States. By Frof. Joseph T.
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Northern Rebellion and Southern Secession. By Maj
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Fori; Years under Mars Robert. Bj Mat Robert S
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Women of the Confederacy Bj Rev .1 1. Underv
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Recollj ms of a Lifetimi By John Goode, of Virginia
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Hancock's Diary. By R. R. Hancock, a member oi
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Ms Retold, By Mrs. Octavia Zollicoffer Bond
i| tl 1 most interesting events in Tennessee history re-
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and published in an attractive volume. Price, $1.
Brii hi Skies and Dark Shadows. By Dr Henrj id
Field, D.D. A series of 11 his travels through the
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Franklin, etc. Cloth. Price. 50 cents (reduced from $1.50).
American Eloquence. In two large volumes are given
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The Immortal Six Hundred. By Maj. J. Ogden Murray.
"A worthy and true account of the six hundred Confederal''
officers who were held as hostages and exposed to the fire of
their own friends in the siege of Charleston, S. C. The story
lis of heroic suffering and strength of character." Price, $1.50
War Songs and Poems of the Confederacy. Compiled by
Dr. M. B. Wharton. Cloth. Price. $2.
Songs of Dixie. A collection of the songs so popular dur-
ing the war, both words and music. Paper cover, 75 cents.
Southern Poets: Father Ryan's Poems. Cloth, $1.50.
Other bindings procurable. Poems of Sidney Lanier. Edited
by his wife. Price, $2. Poems of Henry Timrod. Cloth,
$1.50. Memorial Edition.
Robert's Rules of Order. Adopted by the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy as their guide. Price, 75 cents.
Several books by Southern women can well be placed in
this list of Confederate literature, notable among which are:
A Belle of the Fifties. By Mrs. Clement Clay Clopton,
of Alabama. These reminiscences cover a period before the
war, when as the wife of the distinguished Senator Clay, from
Alabama, she took part in the gay life of Washington society;
during the war when she, in common with her sisters of the
South, sacrificed and suffered ; and after the war when she
made such persistent effort to secure the release of her hus-
band from prison. All this is told in a most pleasing style,
and one becomes a part of that life when following her
through the varied experiences of a brilliant and useful ca-
reer. Handsomely bound in cloth, illustrated. Price, $2.75.
A Southern Girl in 1861. By Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, of
Baltimore. This is a similar volume of reminiscences writ-
ten in a charming style. Mrs. Wright was Miss Louise Wig-
fall, daughter of Senator Wigfall, of Texas, whose term be-
gan in the fall of i860 and terminated with the secession of
his State from the Union — a brief but useful career in his
defense of the South. These reminiscences extend through
the four years of sorrow and suffering, enlivened here and
there by anecdotes and incidents typical of the spirit which
cannot be crushed under the most adverse circumstances.
The book is beautifully bound and illustrated with pictures of
the prominent men and beauties of that time. Price, $2.50.
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War. By Mrs. Myrta Lock-
ert Avary. The first book by this charming writer, while not
a novel in the strict meaning of the word, is the heart story of
a young woman whose soldier husband made one of the great
army of Lee, and her friendship with the dashing J. E. B.
Stuart is most touching in its revelation of the tender heart
of the General, of whom could lie fitly said:
"The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring."
Dixie after the War is a later book by this same author,
and gives fascinating and pathetic glimpses of events during
and immediately after the war, with numerous illustrations
of notable persons, a hitherto unpublished photograph of Hon.
Jefferson Davis forming the frontispiece. The work is writ-
ten in a unique, conversational style, full of accurate anecdote.
In her presentation of the reconstruction period she handles
the subject boldly, and vividly portrays the problems con-
fronting her people at the time, while the race problem is
touched on with frankness and without prejudice. A hand-
some cloth volume. Price, $2.75.
Remember that all Confederate books are supplied by the
Veteran at the publishers' prices.
KIND OF MONUMENTS TO ERECT.
A patron who has studied this subject writes:
''I am in the stone business, and in that way am thrown
more or less in contact with the soldiers' monuments being
erected in all parts of the United States.
"The North and West with their wealth have advanced
rapidly in erecting monuments to their warriors. The South
is just about starting, and well may she look before she leaps.
Ibis thing of erecting enduring evidences to last for time
immemorial is no small task, and should not be taken up
lightly. The future will judge us by them. As we sow. so
shall we reap, and the harvest will be in direct proportion to
the art and merit in our work ; but adverse proportions will
arise in the wake of many of the monuments erected through-
out the country. It is to prevent this that I beg to call your
attention to the small amount of art and the large amount of
material in our country's monuments. We want 'the biggest
job for the money,' while our friends, the French, always call
for the 'most art in the smallest space.' Let those in charge
of these emblems of honor and glory ever bear this in mind.
The closer they get to that ideal, the nearer they have ful-
filled their great and arduous duty.
"You may ask why we do not attain the heights of Pire La
Chaise. Is it because we can't? Not so. It is because we
are going at it wrong. Our committees and commissions
are soldiers, and not architects. It is right they should have
charge of the last rites to their honored loved ones ; but this
does not mean they must decide on designs, drawings, and
details. It means they are in the same position as the com-
mission appointed to erect a public building, whose first
step is to get an architect ; so let the monument committee
get a monumental architect or artist. Let them also as-
sociate themselves with some one who understands practically
the materials out of which they wish the monument built.
'Ibis party need not be an artist nor a monumental architect;
but his technical knowledge will do much to help, while the
art side of the problem will come from the artist.
"May our ladies (God bless them!), who have charge of
practically all of our Southern public monuments, fight shy of
what has been done in the past. Let them bear in mind that
they are buying art, not stone nor metal ; and if they but
serve that god with half the zeal they have served their cause,
generations will rise up to call them blessed, and our South
will go down to posterity as a people of taste and refinement.'1
Do let us take heed on this subject. It seems unfortunate
to erect statues upon shafts so high that outlines of the figure
are lost. Granite is so much more durable than marble that
where practicable the figures should be bronze and the bases
of granite. If a fine figure is procured, either bronze or gran-
ite, do place it so the art may be enjoyed. The Veteran
makes earnest plea in this matter. Make monuments durable
as possible.
Tennesseeans in Other Southern States. — The tenacity
of Tennesseeans for the South and the migratory disposition
of the people are shown in the following statistics : There are
J3°-389 natives of Tennessee in Texas; in Arkansas, 84,644;
in Missouri, 64,972; in Kentucky, 59,500; in Alabama, 31,035;
in Mississippi, 22.984; in Georgia, 11.965; in Virginia, 9,015;
in California, 7,268; in North Carolina, 6,784; in Louisiana,
4.708. "These States lead the others in the number of Ten-
nesseeans," and the grand total is 566,465.
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GEN. J. B. GORDON'S PICTURE FOR ALABAMA.
Capt. C. P. Rix;f.rs's Presentation Address.
It is my pleasing duty, sir, to present to you as the Cus-
todian of Archives and History of the Slate of Alabama this
magnetic life-size portrait of our late Commander in Chief,
Gen. John B. Gordon, who led Alabama troops to victory on
many a bloody field. Gordon belongs to Alabama as well as
to Georgia, as he entered the army as a captain of the 6th
Alabama Regiment and became its colonel, and then com-
manded a brigade of Alabama troops consisting of the .sib.
6th, and uih Alabama Regiments, who illustrated the valor
of the Confederate soldier and shed luster on the name of
Alabama.
It has been said that "fame is a fancied life on other's
breath." but not so with General Gordon. He lived to a good
old age. and enjoyed all the honors that .1 grateful people
could besti >w.
Coming OUl of the war with honorable wounds, he devoted
his life to the rehabilitation of the South, and did all that he
could b> precept and example to allay the prejudices of war,
and he endeavored to make the Union a reunited country in
fact as well as in name. He was called to the governorship
of his native State, and became a United Stales Senator from
Georgia, honored and esteemed by all sections of the c nintry.
Ills former companions in arms bestowed upon him the
highest honor they could bestow by making him their Com-
mander in Chief, which office he held as long as he lived, and
he died lamented b\ friend and foe alike.
From a captain of infantry he rose rapidly through all tin-
grades of the service, and attained the high rank of lieutenant
general, and was tin tried and trusted friend of the immortal
Robert I 1 ee, and his meteoric career will be remembered as
;is Seven Pines, Malone Hill. Antietam, Gettysburg,
Spottsylvania, and Appomattox have a place in history.
A nation's history is the sum of its great exploits, and
poor are the rulers who fail to treasure up and record the vir-
tues an,! exploits of its li roes We present to the State of
Alabama this picture of this illustrious character with the
hope that when the youth of our country shall look upon it
may bo inspired to emulate bis example; ami should the
occasion arrive to defend that country, they will do o with
equal patriotism and fortitude as did Gen, John I', (, onion
I Ik Tiiom \s M ( lu en's VCCEPTANCI
Dr. Owen replied that he felt a twofold pleasure in accept
ing the gift- "m the opportunity personal!) of seeing you here
and looking inl i your brave and noble faces, .niil as stand-
ing as the representative of the great State of Alabama ill
re© iving it."
I )r. Owen pledged that it would be kept, so far as any one
would 01 could tell ; m the State's gallerj forever,
an object lesson oi patriotism, of high ideals, of nob].- en
deavor
The speakei referred I rdon as "one of the knightliest
I knightly race" that Struggled in the blood} da] from
l86l to 1865; ami tln-n turning from Gordon to tho - I- 1
him, he said: "Alabama has great material resources, but the
greatest asset in Alabama's wealth is the presence of you
of that unequal strife in her midst; for it is you who
have made her what she i-, in the rehabilitation of t
in the midst of the .lire distress of tin- dark daj
struction."
1 he utmost enthusiasm of (hi d thi
cedent speeches ol Captain Rogers ami I >r Owen
action is suitably suggestive. Every Southern capital should
havi Genera] Gordon's portrait.
The painting is the product of the brush of Mrs. I. R.
Gregory, of Atlanta, a sister of Captain Rogers, much of
whose work adorns the Capitol of Georgia.
EXPLOSION BEFORE Till' BATTLE OF FRANKLIN.
BY w. A. CA1 1 AWAY, _'(i CHURCH STREET, ATI AXi \. GA.
Mr. X. K. Nelson's .uncle in the November Veteran,
pages 508 and 509, gives a very comprehensive and o
account of General Hood's campaign in Tennessee after the
tall ot Atlanta. He mentions an incident which occurred in
my company (Young's Battery, from Columbus, Ga.) on the
afternoon of tin battle of Franklin. I refer to the explosion
of our limber (ammunition) chest. We were going at a
rapid gait on the pike, which was very rough, in order to
catch up with the rest - f our command, which had gotten
ahead of us. The rough pike had caused some of the fuse
igniters, or caps, to get out of the tray and under the shells,
thus causing the explosion of forty rounds of shells. They
did not all explode simultaneously, and it sounded like an
artillery duel. This caused almost a stampede in the ranks
of a brigade of infantry half a mile ahead of us. Supposing
that we had been ambushed, they came back at double ipiick
to our rescue. I was in six feet of the explosion, but escaped
injury. Two of our men were riding on the chest, and were
torn utterly into pieces
Some two years after the war I met a young lady, and we
wen casually discussing the war. She remarked that she
had a brother ill the army, but had never heard of bun. It
developed in the conversation that one of the 111,11 on the
limber chest that afternoon was her brother. Dink Watson,
of Russell County, Ala.
[The foregoing illustrates the value of the Veteran in
procuring information about those who fell in tin- halt lis of
the Confederacy.!
"SOUTHERN AUTHORS IX POETRY AND PR0S1 "
The fourth of a series of books on Southern literature is
"Southern Authors in Poetry and Prose," a collection of bio
graphical and critical essays, with selections from the writers.
by Mrs. Kate Alma Orgain, of Temple. Tex The work is
intended not only for tin general reader and the student of
lettet . bin 1-1 .1 text-hook for the use i E high schools and
-- Tin- biography of each author is presented in a
deal and attractive manner, some critical comments and esti
in. 10 - ,ni- given, followed by several typical selections from
the author's writings, the titles of his books, and the name
and address of his publisher. In selecting these authors from
'In- Imig honor roll of Southern writers, Mrs. Orgain has
happily ignored many i radii ion. d lines of classification. She
presei md prose writers, novelists and essayists, men
and women. Among the poets are Timrod, ITickllOr and
1 in.. Irwin Russell, William Gilmon Simms, John R.
Thompson, John Esten 1 ooki and ["heodore O'Hara; and
among the novelists an \ugiisia J. Evans, Elizabeth W. Bel-
lamy, Virginia I.. French, Mary Noailles Murfree, Grace Eliza-
beth King, and Marion Harland — a most gracious and charm-
ing company.
Mrs. Orgain is eminentlj fitted to write of this company,
having In en long identified with the best in Texas literature.
Published by the Xcale Company, Washington and New
York. Price, $2; postage, 14 >
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Books for $on$ and Daughters of Confederate Ueterans
THE BOY IN GRAY
BT GEORGE G. SMITH
In a neat work of nearly 300 pages, the author, a member of Phil-
lips's Legion, Georgia Volunteers, has narrated most interestingly many
of the thrilling scenes of the wa^. He has written the book in the
interest of peace — that the young people of the Southland might
know bow nobly their fathers bore themselves in the war, and how
grandly their mothers and sisters toiled at home. The book should
be found in every Southern home. It is beautifully bound in gray
cloth and gold. 266 pages. Price, postpaid, 60 cents.
Address THE EPWORTH ERA, Nashville, Tenn.
A NARRATIVE of the CIVIL WAR
Bl" A. E. SNVDER
This is a truthful narrative of the facts and events of the great
War between the States, the Civil War, written in a plain style and
chronologically arranged. It is designed especially for the young
people of the South, and covers the entire subject in a way that
makes it intensely intei^sting and of great value to all who wish to
know correctly about the war and its various phases. The book is
handsomely bound and contains many interesting illustrations. Price,
postpaid, 60 cents. Send all orders to
THE EPWORTH ERA, Nashville, Tenn.
"THE WELDING."
A distinctly strong impression is made
by Miss Lafayette McLaws's latest book,
"The Welding," a novel dealing with
the welding of the nation after civil
strife. A broad view is taken by this
author on questions pertaining to that
most momentous period in our history —
a view not altogether in accord with the
sentiment of Southern people generally.
The characters brought forth are among
the leaders of that day, and among the
great men introduced are Clay, Calhoun,
Webster, President Lincoln, President
Davis, General Lee, General Grant, and
others ; but that most lovingly portrayed
is the character of the great and good
Alexander H. Stephens. The hero of
the story, David Twiggs Hamilton, a
boy of the Cracker class who becomes
a protege of Mr. Stephens, by whom he
is educated, is taken through many stir-
ring episodes ; and though his heart is
given to a girl whose people and whose
sentiment are against the South on ac-
count of slavery, David remains true
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to his State and serves her gallantly as
a Confederate soldier. The pretty ro-
mance is carried through satisfactorily,
however, and David wins the girl he
had loved from childhood.
The author is a native Georgian, the
daughter of Gen. Lafayette McLaws,
and through her rearing has been able
to give a true picture of conditions in
Southern life. Her mother was a Miss
Taylor, of Lexington, Ky., a niece of
Gen. Zachary Taylor. After the death
of her parents, Miss McLaws resided
in New York with Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
who looked upon her as her ward.
"The Welding" is from the press of
Little. Brown & Co., Boston, Mass.
Price, $1.50, postpaid.
Maj. J. Ogden Murray, Secretary of
"The Immortal Six Hundred," Box 404,
Charlestown, W. Va., wants the address
of the living and dead members of the
six hundred Confederate officers who
were placed on Morris Island under
fire of our own guns, September, 1864.
He is anxious to get a list of the sur-
vivors. He has the list made on the
island, also the list made at Fort Pu-
laski.
S. C. Turnbo, of Pontiac, Mo., is
making up a file of the Veteran, and
would like to get the volumes for 1893-
96 and the copies for January, Novem-
ber, and December of 1S97. Write him
in advance of sending, stating price
asked and condition of copies.
M. H. Ingram, of Winamac, Ind.,
writes that relatives in that county of
Peter Warman, an ex-Confederate sol-
dier, would like to know his location if
still living. Information will be thank-
fully received by Mr. Ingram.
Confederate l/eteran.
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OLD BLANDFORD MEMORIALS.
A movement has been started by the
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Church a memorial window for each
Southern State, and each State is ap-
pealed to for contributions sufficient to
defray the cost of the window, which
is only $_)00. Fuur windows have al-
ready been placed by different States.
The suggestion is made to get each
school child to contribute five cents
toward the memorial, which will be a
monument more beautiful than marble
and more lasting than brass. "Old Vir-
ginia would cherish as a rare treasure
luch a memorial placed in her keeping
By a sister State," and to preserve this
ric old church by this means will
make it a sacred memorial for all the
States.
The siege of Petersburg, Va., is well
known by readers of Confederate his-
tory. Situated on the southeast of the
historic city, in its suburbs, is the no
less historic Blandford Cemetery with
its truly historic Old Blandford
Church. This cemetery is located be-
tween the city and the line of earth-
works of both Confederate and Fed-
eral armies and had many of its antique
tomb: tones shit i i ed by Federal shot
and shell. The old church was built of
brick brought over as ballast in ships
from England in tin- earlj c ilonial day
Df Virginia. For a number of years
anterior to the Civil War it had not
been used as a house of worship; but
- ■ ■ 1 1 o years since the Ladies' Memorial
iation of Petersburg rehabilitated
it, and it is now supplied with nice
pc w s, etc.
The suggestion is made that the P
"I, nl of each State Division. Y I> r
write to Mrs. George W. Cardwell,
Petersburg, Va., one of the most in-
terested members of the Association
who will advise as to the best method
for carrying on the work. Dr. J. TV
Stinson, of Sherman, Tex., has taken
hold of the work for Texas, and has ad-
dressed a communication. to Camp Com-
manders of that State Division, U. C.
V., and it is through him that the mat-
ter has been brought to the attention
of the Veteran.
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Rangers." Bell Book &
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MOTHERLAND.
(Air: "Old Hundred.)
O Motherland, by heaven blessed !
One, North and South; one, East and
West;
Thy capital is Washington,
Thy realm from Maine to Oregon.
Dear Motherland, known far and wide,
More loved than any land beside,
Thy flag is cheered on distant seas,
Where free it waves in friendly breeze.
Should insult come or foes invade.
Dear Motherland, be not afraid ;
To thee we pledge our lives and store.
God save our land for evermore !
Prof. J. H. Brunner, of Hiwassee
College, Tenn., an ardent Southerner,
now eighty-two years old, sends the
foregoing to the Veteran. It is from
print copy over which is engraved an
eagle mounted on clasped hands with a
streamer on which are the words : "In
union is strength."
THE REUNION.
BY FRANK BRANAN, MACON, CA.
Where sturdy bulwarks once were built
And men in battle slain,
Where blood of friend and foe was spilt
To fertilize the plain.
Where unprotected homes were spoil
And pillage of forays.
The Peach, the queen of Southern soil,
Her royal scepter sways.
Her crimsoned blossom is aglow
With blood that heroes shed,
And gracefully her branches grow
Like laurels for the dead.
Her boughs of lusciousness are stripped
By summer's stealthy hand —
The nectar of her fruit is slipped
Throughout the common land.
As round a sweet communion we,
In fellowship divine,
Repentance and humility,
Partake of bread and wine,
To children of the Union may
A luscious feast be spread.
We wear no more the blue, the gray —
The dead past buries dead.
WANTED
Every man. woman, and child in the South to
order EARLY, for the holidays, copies of " The
Conquered Banner" with poem.
See ad in Veteran.
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By GILBERT GAUL,
NATIONAL ACADEMICIAN.
America's Greatest
;'" Painter of War Subjects
Price of full set in four colors, on heavy
polychrome paper with leather portfolio,
$16.50; payable $1.50 monthly. Cash price
%0-;.o-0: $15.00. Individual pictures $3.50 each.
The gray men of the sixties are to live again upon the can-
a vases of perhaps America's greatest painter of war subjects, Mr.
Gilbert Gaul, National Academician, whose splendid paintings
hang in the most famous collections of the world. His strong
brush has portrayed with much realism, not their bitterness
and recriminations, but their magnificent motive, their magnani-
mous courage, their unmatched devotion. Thus some who love
the real values of the Old South, have attempted to do a great
thing — something which should appeal to every intelligent
American, man or woman. A number of gentlemen Of Nash-
ville, Tenn., have organized a company, the object of which is
to crystalize on canvas the magnificent deeds of daring love
which distinguished the Confederate soldier. One by one they
are going, and soon the papers will contain under black head-
lines the story of the last illness of the "man who wore the
gray." Some who have understood have joined hands and
said, "The vision of these men and their deeds must not perish
from the Earth." So they placed it in the hands of Mr. Gilbert
Gaul, and the result will be a heritage for the generations to come.
There are seven pictures 15x19 inches, reproducing every
shade of tone and motif and embossed so as to give perfect can-
vas effect. Each one is a masterpiece, depicting the courage, sac-
rifice, heroism, sufferings and home life of the Southern soldier.
It is impossible with words to describe the beauty and pathos
of these pictures. The first, "Leaving Home," is a typical South-
ern interior, and a lad telling the family good-bye. The second is
a battle scene, as the name "Holding the Line at All Hazards," im-
plies. "Waiting for Dawn," the third, depicts a moonlight scene
on a battlefield, the soldiers sleeping among the stiff forms of
yesterday's battle, while they wait for dawn and renewed hostil-
ities. "The Forager" is a fresh faced young boy returning to camp
with a load of fowls and bread. The sixth, "Playing Cards be-
tween the Lines" shows the boys in blue and gray, hostilities for-
gotten, having a social game, with stakes of Southern tobacco and
Yankee coffee. The last of the seven is entitled "Tidings," and
represents a pretty Southern girl reading news from the front.
These pictures are offered separately or in portfolio form, and
at about half what they should be in comparison with similar
work along this line. Write today for illustrated circular de-
scribing these masterpieces. Address
Southern Art Pub. Co. - 102 Arcade. Nashville. Tenn.
A Southern library is anxious to com-
plete its set of the Veteran, and re-
quest is made for the first volume and
the numbers for February, March, May,
July, and October, 1894; January. 1896;
February, 1898. Any subscribers being
able to supply this volume and the copies
will convey a favor by writing to thi
office.
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THE SONG OF THE VAN-
QUISHED
BY W. M. P1ERS0N.
I have heard of the song of the victors
As they told of the hard-won fight;
1 have heard their pseans of glory
Through the long watches of the
night ;
But I will sing of the vanquished
Who ne'er reached glory's height.
Who, Steadily lighting onward.
Fell in defense of the right !
Of those who esteemed not glory.
Of those who, forgetful of self.
Followed their gilded dreams of honor
Disdainful of power and pelf;
Of the vanquished brigades of truth.
Toiling onward in the night —
These are the ones I sing of.
The uncrowned soldiers of right
0 ye who are lighting life's battles
On the heights or in the vale.
How often the laurels of victory
Belong to the ones wdio fail —
To those who count their honor
For mure than the scepter of might.
To the uncrowned hoys of the trenches.
To the glorious soldiers of right!
Wanted.— Purchasers for the beauti-
ful Southern picture, "From Manassas,"
designed by a Confederate veteran; size,
32x22. Lithographed in rich, appropri-
ate colors, ready for framing. Unique
in design. On right margin in battle
array stand the hoys in gray with peer-
less K. ]■'.. Lee; on left margin, also in
battle array, stand the hoys in blue with
dauntless U. S Grant. In the space
between run three lines of rail fence,
the rails being the staff on which is
written the words of the old war song,
"When this cruel war is over." the
foui stanzas being given beneath. Price.
un framed, $t : handsomely framed,
$3.50. Agents aNn wanted to sell this
picture. Address Mrs. Belle Thompson,
BOX 28, Hasty. N C
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Mrs. William \ Smith. 501 Azule
Street, Tampa, I la., wishes to hear from
any Mirvivors of the 4th Kentucky Reg:
limit who served with her husband,
William A. Smith, who enlisted in 1861
and served until the surrender. She is
trying to gel a pension and needs the
names of two witnesses.
PHOTOURAVl'RK
Robert E. Lee
General in chief C. S. A. 1861-1865.
From original photograph taken in
1863.
A Perfect Likeness of the dr<-.\ I
General. Every Southerner
should possess one.
Miss Mary Custis Lee : " It is the
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Gen. Frederick D. Grant : " An
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Oen. Samuel G. French: "The
best one of him to be obtained."
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our old Commander."
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