Confederate Magazine 1896 Volume 4

Confederate Magazine 1896 Volume 4

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LAST WORDS OF STONEWALL JACKSON.
( By D. S. Morrison, i

“Let us cross over the river and rest under the
shade of the trees.”

“Over the river. ”a voice meekly said.
Whose clarion tones bad thousands obeyed,
As in ranks upon ranks they grandly rushed on.
To bailie for liberty, country and home

• Hit the river.” immortality’s plains,
In verdure eternal, where peace ever reigns.
Rejoice witfa their beauty his vision of faith.
As his spirit approaches the river of death.

•’Over the river.” Oh I glorious sight.
An escort celestial awaits with delight.
In the glittering armor Of glory arrayed,
They welcome him over to rest in the shade.

“Over the river,” no more to command
The drum-beat to arms in a war-stricken land;
No bugle call summons the brave to the fray.
Nor squadrons leap forth in battle array.

“Over the river.” now a heavenly guest.
‘Neath the shades of I he trees forever at rest-
His memory and fame to ages belong,

And his lofty deeds live in story snd song.

This poem
is a revision
by the author
of the origin-
al, published
in the Rich-
lii o ii d E n –
quircr in
1865. It was
set to music
in New O r –
leans, and
sung at the
unveiling o f
t h e Jackson
monument at
Chancellors –
ville, Va.

Mrs. Jack-
son’s Life of
her husband
has all been

sold.

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SONGS OF THE CONFEDERACY.

By Daniel Bond, of Nashville, Term.

•

•’When falls the soldier brave

Dead at the feet of wrong 1 ,
The poet sing’s — and guards his grave

With Sentinels of Song.

“Go Songs,” — he gives command —

Keep faithful watch and true;
The living and dead of the Conquered Land

Have now no guards save you.’

‘And ballads! Mark ye well.

Thrice holy is your trust;
Go out to the fields where warriors fell,

And sentinel their dust.’ ”

The recent Southern tour of the old man, Daniel
Emmett, the author and composer of “Dixie,” and
his warm reception, shows how fixed in the hearts
of its people is the simple old tune. As the seasons
roll by, and the memories of the fierce struggle for
four years to repel an invading- force fade out from
the minds of the old and the recital of battles and
sieges are interesting to the young only as matters
of history, this tune — which inspired the Rebel yell
at Manassas — is as fresh to-day as it was on that
memorable Sabbath morning thirty-four years ago.
Every Southerner feels the pulse-beat quicken and
the heart thrill with emotion whenever and wher-
ever he hears the air. And so will it be until the
end of time. It is but an illustration of the powerful
influence upon a people of a song born of sentiment.

DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT.

Fletcher of Saltoun, a wise man himself, said
that he knew a very wise man who believed that if
a man were permitted to make all the ballads he
need not care who should make the laws of a country.

The songs of the Hebrews, breathing adoration
to the great Jehovah, the God of Israel; the Iliad
of Homer, with its struggle of Greek and Trojan,
are monuments that inspired generations to deeds of
devotion and arms far more effective than all the
texts of the law givers. The Song of the Niebel-
ungen — with its legend of Siegfried of Chrimhild,
and Brunhield — is responsible for much of the liter-
ature as well as the martial spirit of the German.
Who will den}- that the ballads concerning King
Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, those
heroes of the ancient romances — lion-hearted in
combat with worthy foes, mild and gentle towards
woman — had its effect upon that great race, made
up of Dane, of Saxon and of Norman, and their
descendants, the brave and tender cavaliers who set-
tled this South land.

The Robin Hood ballads, commemorative of that
bold man’s deeds, and his struggle against the
domineering aristocracy of the Normans, kept the
spirit of liberty alive in the land, carrying its sen-
timent through centuries, influencing the heart of
the nation, and finding fruition at Runnymede and
Naseby — the heritage of the English speaking race.
Yes, indeed, song and ballad have had their share
in the history of all peoples. Dear were they to the
followers of Cromwell in the struggle with Charles.
The ecstacy with which the “Scots who hae wi*
Wallace bled” is received by the Scotchman of to-
day; the wild enthusiasm of the Frenchman under
the strains of the Marseillaise — sometimes, during
exciting periods, aroused to such a pitch as to
cause an interdiction of its music by the legal au-
thorities — prove that sentiment and not reason rules.
While the Irishman steps off gaily in his march
to the “Wearing of the Green,” let a rival band strike
up the “Battle of the Boyne,” and a fight is on at
once. Whenever the Englishman hears “God Save
the Queen,” he raises his hat, and the German will
ever add his voice to the song of the “Watch on
the Rhine.” The heart and not the mind governs.
The tune “Dixie,” endeared to us first by victory
and afterwards doubly so by defeat, was originally
a negro-minstrel song, with words of little mean-
ing. It was Albert Pike, I think, who first gave
the present version with the refrain “To live and
die for Dixie!” The word “Dixie” now is every-
where accepted as meaning that part of the United
States consisting of certain states that seceded from
the union in 1861.

There is no ballad or tune, 1 believe, that so warms
the hearts of the people of the Northern States as
this tune of “Dixie” does those of the people of
Dixie.

“Yankee Doodle” belongs to the whole country,
and is commemorative of another period and anoth-
er war, in which George Washington, Light-Horse
Harry Lee and other’Southern worthies acted a part.
Mrs. Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is too
elaborate. In the true ballad nothing of mere
poetical adornment is allowable. This hymn,
though beautiful, can never be popular with the
m sses.

Possibly the grave and stern soil of eastern Puri-
tanism is not so suitable to the growth of such sen-
timental songs as sprung up in the more excitable

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South. “John Brown’s Body” and “Marching
Through Georgia” had a temporary popularity
there during the exciting period of the war,, like the
“Bonnie Blue Fla^” at the South; but I think they
have no song that inspires the same feeling that
“Dixie” produces in Dixie.

Harrj- McCarthy, an actor of some ability, com-
prised and sang ibis “Bonnie Blue Flag” in the
theatres of the Southern cities during the first year
of the war. He waved, during the chorus, a blue
silk flag that bore a single star in its centre: and at
the words “The single Star of the Bonnie Blue Flag
has grown to be eleven.” he shook out the folds,
and the flag opened, disclosing the single star sur-
rounded by ten sisters. The song was very popular.

James R. Randall’s “Maryland My Maryland,”
to the college tune of “Lauriger Horatius,” was
also much sung in the armies of the Confederacy as
well as by the firesides at home. It was first pub-
lished in a New Orleans paper in April, 1861. It
possessed literary merit and is one of the best of the
poems of the war.

Possibly the most popular of the camp songs were
the negro melodies smacking of Southern soil, such
as “Uncle Ned.” “Way Down South.” “Old Folks
at Home,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Oh Su-
sannah,” “Nellie wasa Lady,” all written by Stephen
C. Foster, a native of Pennsylvania, but evidently
thoronghly acquainted with Southern sentiment.
There is a tone ol sadness about them all, as with
“Suwanee River,” “Alice, Ben Bolt,” “Lorena,”
and “Listen to the Mocking Bird!”

No other soul; in its pathos is so sweet or ap-
peals so tenderly to the Southern heart as this last.
“Annie Laurie,” “Douglas,” and “Home, Sweet
Home” belong to the whole world, but this soul; of
the mocking-bird appeals alone to Uixie’s lard.
Already popular at the commencement of the Civil
War, this sa<?, sweet song was heard in every South-
ern home. Carried into the army by the soldiers,
its echoes thrilled the souls of thousands of young
patriots in the camp and on the march, during lour
years of terrible war. Oh I matchless songster oi
the orchard and the Farm-yard, no other bird ap-
proaches you in delicious harmony! The music ol
the nightingale, the lark, and the mavis is all yours.
The twittering of the canary is all unworthy of
your imitation. And your home is Dixie, and there
alone do you abide. Associated with all recollec-
tions of the old South, bringing to the heart

dear memories ol childhood and vouth, of sweet

communion of lovers neath the leafy bowers as the
old, old story is repeated — of dreamy moonlight
walks, of tender partings, of the dear old gray-
haired mother, sitting on the wide balcony, while
this heaven-inspired singer was vocalizing the sum-
mer air long will you be dear to every one who
loves the Sunny South, and fixed in his affection
will be this favorite air.

How sad it is that this sweet and gentle bird
our companion at every period of life the loving
witness of every joy, every sorrow — who has whistled
at the laughing baby in the cradle, and poured
forth its melody as the ^rand-sire was borne to his
resting- place under the magnolias — should be des-
tined to extermination!

Oh! men of the New South, with your business
enterprise and your mad efforts at financial success,
let into your hearts a little sentiment, and help save
the life of the mocking-bird!

Of the poems born of the war, the following are
examples: “Ethnogenesis,” “Charleston,” “A Call to
Arms,” “Spring,” and “The Unknown Dead” by
Henry Timrod: “Our Martyrs.” “Stonewall Jack-
son.” “A Sonnet on the fallen South,” and the
prize “Poem in Laudation of the Confederate Sol-
dier” by Paul H. Hayue: “Lines,” written for
the Memorial Association of Fredericksburg, Ya.,
“Prayer of the South,” “The Conquered Banner,”
“Sentinel Songs,” “The Land of Memories,” “Our
Dead,” and “‘file Sword of Robert Lee,” by Rev.
Abram J. Ryan. The following is the closing verse
of Sentinel Songs:

“YVii.it though no sculptured shaft

Commemorate our bravi
What, though no monument epitaphed

i te built 11 hove their grave?
When marble wears away

Ami monuments are dust.
The songs that guard our soldiers’ elav

Will still fulfill their trust.”

All are Familiar with the words of “The Con”
quered Banner,” and there is nothing more sublime
in the English language than this verse trom “The
Sword of Robert Lee.”

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“Out of its scabbard! Never hand
Waved sword from stain as free.

Nor purer sword led braver band.

Nor braver bled for a brighter land.

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Nor brighter land had a cause as grand,
Nor cause, a chief like Lee!”

J no. R. Thompson gave us “Lee to the Rear,”
“The Battle Rainbow,” “The Burial of Latane,”
“Gen. J. E. B. Stuart,” and “Music in Camp.”
Mr. Thompson was editor of the old “Southern
Literary Messenger” at Richmond, Va. He was a
man of a most charming personality. After the
war he moved to New York, and there became a
contributor to various periodicals. He died a few
years after his removal.

John Esten Cooke, better known by his delight-
ful books than his poems, has written “The Band
in the Pines,” and “The Broken Mug.”

“The Band in the Pines.

(Heard after Pelkam died.)

Oh, band in the pine-wood, cease!

Cease with 3’our splendid call;
The living’ are brave and noble,

But the dead were bravest of all.

They throng to the martial summons,

To the loud, triumphant strain;
And the dear, bright eyes of long dead friends

Come to the heart again.

They come with the ringing bugle,

And the deep drum’s mellow roar;
‘Till the soul is faint with longing

For the hand we clasp no more.

Oh, band in the pine-wood cease!

Or the heart will melt in tears,
For the gallant eyes and the smiling lips

And the voices of old years.

The following poems are by Jas. R. Randall,
“John Pelham,” “The Cameo Bracelet,” “The Lone
Sentry,” and “There’s Life in the Old Land Yet;”
these by A. J. Requier, “Our Faith in Sixty-One,”
“Hymn to the Dawn,” “The Oriflamme” and
“Ashes of Glory.”

Mrs. Margaret J. Preston wrote “All’s Well,”
“The Soldier’s Prayer,” “Virginia,” “Song of the
Snow,” “A Hero’s Daughter,” “The Color Bear-
er,” “Slain in Battle,” “A Dirge for Ashby,”
“When the War is Over.”

While in prison in Camp Chase, Ohio, Col. W. S.
Hawkins, of Tennessee, wrote the following beauti-
ful poems: “The Victory of Faith,” “Captain
Beall,” “The Last of Earth,” “The Hero Without
a Name,” “My Friend,” “True to the Last,” and
“Exchanged.” He was exchanged near the close
of the war but to reach home and die.

The poem “Somebody’s Darling,” written during
the war by Miss Marie Lacoste, of Savannah, Ga., has
found a place in one of the school readers.

L. T. Wallis, of Baltimore, confined in Fort
Warren for “treasonable utterances,” wrote “The
Guerillas,” “The Blessed Hand” and “A Prayer
for Peace.”

Mrs. C. A. War field, of Ky. : “Fort Donelson,”
“On the Death of Stonewall Jackson,” and “Our
Failure.”

Major McKnight (Asa Hartz) of Gen. Loring’s

aff, while a prisoner of war at Johnson’s Island,
gained some reputation by his “In Prison on Lake
Erie,” “Mail-day in Prison,” and “A Confederate
Officer to his Ladye Love.”

The following poems of a high order of merit are
by Dr. Frank 6. Ticknor, of Georgia: “The Vir-

ginians of the Valley,” “Page-Brook,” “Mary,” and
“Little Giffen of Tennessee.”

Harry L. Flash wrote the memorial poems, “Jack-
son,” “Zollicoffer,” and “Polk.”

Miss Mollie E. Moore is the author of “Of very
Faithfulness,” and “Minding the Gap.”

The “Lines found written on the back of a Con-
federate Bill,” beginning,

“Representing nothing on God’s earth now

And naught in the water below it,
As a pledge of a Nation that’s dead and gone,

Keep it, dear friend, and show it.”

were written by Major S. A. Jonas, of Louisiana,
Chief Engineer of Gen. S. D. Lee’s staff.

Mrs. Fanny M. Downing, of North Carolina, wrote
“By the Camp Fire,” “Confederate Gray,” “Deso-
late,” “Dreaming,” “Dixie;” while Mrs. Mary Ba-
yard Clarke, of the same state, gave us: “General
Lee at the Battle of the Wilderness,” (descriptive
of the same event also so graphically written of by
Thompson in his “Lee to the Rear,”) “The Rebel
Sock,” and “Robert E. Lee.”

The poem, “My Father,” much sung in Southern
homes during the war, was written by Brigadier-
General Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia. The first
verse:

“The tattoo beats — the lights are gone.
The camp around in slumber lies,

The night with solemn pace moves on,
The shadows thicken o’er the skies;

But sleep my weary eyes hath flown,
And sad, uneasy thoughts arise.”

“First Love” is by Col. Buchring H. Jones, and
was written by him while at Johnson’s Island: “The
Empty Sleeve” is from the pen of Dr. J. R. Bagby
of Virginia, and “The Soldier in the Rain,” by
Julia L. Keyes. Dr. J. W. Palmer, of Maryland,
was the author of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”

William Gilmore Simms, of South Carolina, an
author once very popular, gave us among other
poems, “The Sweet South.”

“Yes, Call us Rebels,” was written by Albert Pike
of Arkansas.

I do not know the authorship of the following
beautiful poems, so full of pathos and tender senti-
ment. Will not the readers of the Veteran assist
in naming these sweet singers of the South? The
lines “Enlisted To-day,” were said to have been
found on the body of a young soldier belonging to
one of the Alabama regiments in the army of North-
ern Virginia. The first verse,

“I know the sun shines, and the lilacs are blowing,
And slimmer sends kisses by beautiful May —

Oh! to see all the treasures the spring is bestowing,
And think — my boy Willie enlisted to-day!”

“The names of the authors of “A Picture,” “The
Return,” “The Brave at Home,” “Your Mission,”
“Missing,” and the “Unreturning,” are all desired.
“The Bivouac of the Dead,” was written by Col.
Theodore O’Hara, of Kentucky, a gallant soldier,
who served on the staff of Gen. Breckenridge. The
lines were written by him before the Civil War, and
were in memory of the Kentuckians who fell at
Buena Vista. Col. O’Hara died a few years after
the close of the war, but not before he had seen
lines from his poem engraved on hundreds of mon-
uments. In every United States cemetery ‘in the

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country are to be found tablets with verses from this
noble poem.

The above poems have been gathered byme, some
from scrap-books, some from Miss Emily Mason’s
“Poems of the War,” and many have been given
me by the writers themselves. The material is
abundant, but I have mentioned those only that
possess a hiyh order of merit. Heavy calamities
and crushing sorrow wring from bruised hearts
words that live. The trampled Bower gives forth its
sweetest odor, the swan sings its divine notes only
when dying. Much of this Southern poetry will yet
find a place in the hearts of its people. The trials
and the suffering endured and the heroism display-
ed by a people during four years of bloody war are
more faithfully portrayed in these verses than in
any history. It is only in poetry and song- that the
emotional nature declares itself without reserve.

Why our Southern school readers are not full of
these beautiful poems is something hard to under-
stand. That Head’s “Sheridan’s Ride,” and Whit-
tier’s “Barbara Freitchie,” (the scene described by
the first having but little foundation, and the latter
none at all) should be read in preference to Thomp-
sons “Music in Camp,” and Miss Moore’s “Minding
the Gap,” is a reflection upon our public schools.

Has the old time sentiment of the South departed
from its people. ? Has the old time patriotism and
love of truth that characterized the old South given
place to business expediency in the New? One
would surely think so from the carelessness, not to

say indifference, with which it accepts the school

histories tilled with misleading and false statements
concerning the civil war.

Why should not a true history of that war be
written thirty years after its ending?) •

Why should the South be charged at this day
with going to war in defense of slavery? This in-
stitution was a mere incident of a sectional animos-
ity. Measures for the gradual emancipation of the
slaves were being considered in the South before
the war began. Gen. Lee suggested the freeing of
them and the enrollment of the men as soldiers.
The character of the two peoples of the North and
the South, the habits and customs, the adverse in-
terests, the belief that the legislative power would
be used by the North to foster that section at the
expense of the South, produced a desire to leave a
union which was no longer considered desirable.

The Southern people believed they had both a
moral and a constitutional right to withdraw from
a union into which they had voluntarily gone. In
defense of this abstract principle of right they free-
ly gave their lives and fortunes, and for four years
resisted the overwhelming forces of the North.

Who shall say they were wrong?

Mr. Webster said our forefathers of a hundred
and twenty vears ago “went to war against a
preamble.” The South withdrew from the Union
for a sentiment. Our ancestors rebelled against
the king of Great Britain, We rebelled against
nobody we had 110 masters. We attempted but
to dissolve a union which we ourselves had
helped to form. The agreement made among the
States to concede certain rights to the general gov-
ernment — to reserve forever other rights to them-

selves — being broken by encroachment on those re-
served rights, why should not the States withdraw?

Why should we teach our children that we were
wrong, when we know we were right?

Grant, if you will, that such action on the part of
the South was unwise and ill-advised, and must, have
inevitably resulted in its destruction. The charac-
ter id’ the Southerner was not such as could calmly
consider the expediency of coercing his quick-tem-
pered cavalier brother of South Carolina.

By all means should the true story of the mighty
conflict be written. There is nothing so good as
truth. The heroic struggle of the South, and the
Southern veteran will be a theme of inspiration to
the youth of future generations; and shall we of the
present for one moment, in our upbuilding of the
New South, forget the glorious memories of the Old?
“Gather the sacred dust

(If the warriors tried and true.
Who bore the flag of our nation’s trust,
And fell in a cause, though lost, still just,

And died for me and vou.

And tin’ dead tints meet the dead.

While the Living o’er them weep;
And tlie men whom Lee and Stonewall led.
And the hearts that once together hied.
Together still shall sleep.”

“Oh, the sweet South! the sunny, sunny South!

I. and of true feeling, land forever mine!
I drink the kisses of her rosy mouth.

And my heart swills as with a draught of wine:
She brings me blessings of maternal love:

I have Iter smile, which hallows all my toil;
Her voice persuades. Iter generous smiles approve.

She sings me from tile sky and from the soil.
iih! by her lovely pines that wave and sigh,

Oh! by her myriad flowers, that bloom and fade,
By all the thousand beauties of her sky.

And the sweet solace of her forest shade,

She’s mine sin’s ever mine!

(Hi! by her virtues of the cherished past

By all her hopes of what the future brings —

I glory that my lot with her is east.

And my soul flushes and exulting sings:
She’s mine she’s ever mine!”

This article on Southern Songs will be continued in
the February number of the Veteran under the
heading Southern Sentiment.

Send the names at once. — Request comes from
Farmington, Tenn., worthy of attention:

In October ’63, during Gen, Joseph Wheeler’s
raid in Tennessee, a part of his command engaged
the enemy at Farmington, Marshall County, at
which time he lost several men who were buried on
the field of battle. Their names are unknown, but
their graves are well cared for, being enclosed by
a stone wall, and a nice monument lias been erected.
These graves are decorated annually by the noble
women of our county.

We are anxious to get the nanus of those who
were killed, with their Company and Regiment, so
that we can have them engraved on marble slabs.
Will comrades or others who know send this infor-
mation? Address, with particulars, B. F. Chapman,
Farmington, Tenn.

QD^federate l/eterap.

CAPT. JOHN MITCHEL AT FORT SUMTER.

Miss Claudine Rhett, of Charleston, paid tribute
to the memory of Capt. John C. Mitchel some time
ago, which paper was promptly forwarded to the
Veteran by Miss Martha B. Washington, Corre-
sponding Secretary of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy in Charleston. Capt. Mitchel was of the
First South Carolina Artillery, and lost his life
while in command of Fort Sumter.

SCENE ON THE DOCK AT CHARLESTON, 1863.

Capt. John Mitchel was a native of Ireland, and
came to America under peculiar circumstances. His
father was a leader of the home rule party in his
own country, and was tried for high treason against
the Crown, along with Smith O’Brian and General
Meagher. Their estates were confiscated, and all
were sent to Australia. John Mitchel, Jr., although
a mere lad when his father was brought to trial,
manfully stood by his side in the dock, and even
accompanied him to the prison in Australia, to
prove to him that a faithful heart was willing to
share evil, as well as good, fortune with an honored
parent.

After his arrival in the United States, young
Mitchel received his education at Columbia College,
New York, and from that school of engineering
went to Tennessee, where he was engaged in laying
out a railroad when a call to arms resounded through
our land. In obedience to this martial summons,
the young engineer at once engaged in the military
service of the South, embracing the cause of consti-
tutional liberty with ardent enthusiasm. In the ag-
gressions of the North upon the rights of the South-
ern States, he saw reflected the same unjust desire
of domination evinced by England towards Ireland,
which had been so often resisted in his native land;
and, with the generous zeal of an earnest nature, he
gave to the country of his adoption the full support
of an intrepid spirit and a warm heart, not stopping
+ o count the possible cost to himself.

Appointed a Lieutenant in the Battalion of Ar-
tillery stationed at Fort Sumter in the winter of
1861, John Mitchel entered upon the discharge of
those duties which were to end onl}’ with the close
of his life, three years later.

Major Anderson, having retired to Fort Sumter
twith the United States troops, it became incumbent

upon the Confederate forces to drive him thence and
to get possession of that post, the key of Charles-
ton Harbor. In accordance with this intention,
by order of Gen. Beauregard, the Commander-in-
Chief of this military district, at about 3 o’clock on
the morning of April 12, ’61, a bombshell was fired
from Fort Johnson as a signal to the other forts and
batteries around the harbor to begin the attack. No
sooner had the roaring meteor sped across the bay,
than an answering light was run up to the head of
the flagstaff at Fort Moultrie, and behold! the fight-
ing for Charleston, which was to continue until
Feb. 19, ’65, had begun.

The following day, April 13, about 8 o’clock, in
the thickest of the bombardment, a thin smoke was
observable curling up from Fort Sumter. It grew
denser and denser as it steadily rose in the air, and
it soon became apparent that the wooden barracks
within that Fort had been set on fire “by a red hot
shot, thrown from an 8 inch Columbiad gun at Fort
Moultrie by a detachment of Company B,” (Mitchel’s
company, reports Gen. Beauregard). This confla-
gration occasioned Major Anderson’s surrender, as
it endangered his powder magazine.

As soon as the Fort fell into our possession, this
same Company B was sent over to Sumter, and
Mitchel, therefore, formed one of the first Confed-
erate garrisons of that post.

At the capture of the Union gunboat, “Isaac
Smith,” he commanded a battalion of infantry, and
for this brilliant affair, Col. Yates, who commanded
the entire expedition, received the thanks of the
Confederate Congress, for himself and for his gal-
lant comrades.

On the ever memorable 7th of April, 1863, when
the ironclad fleet of monitors advanced to the at-
tack of Fort Sumter, Capt. Mitchel’s company not
being directly engaged, he volunteered his services
in the defense of this important post. It is hardly
necessary to state that the “Keokuk,” one of the
best monitors, was sunk by the guns of Fort Sum-
ter, and that the others were triumphantly repulsed
by the Confederates. J j

Four months later, Aug. 10, on a terribly hot
morning, the Union forces opened fire upon Morris
Island, the out-post of Sumter. This attack lasted
three hours, and was made with more than four
times the number of guns and troops we had; fifty-
five cannon, of the heaviest caliber, poured shot
and shell upon our small force, (the monitors as-
sisting with their cross-fire in enfilading the posi-
tion of the Confederate batteries). Our soldiers
fought as long as their posts could be held, Capt.
Mitchel commanding the artillery. In killed,
wounded and captured, we lost in this action 294
men. Among the mortally wounded was that fine
young officer, Lieut. John Bee, also Capt. Chas.
Haskell, who was as handsome and accomplished
an artillerist as the State could ever hope to pro-
duce. His last words to a comrade were, “Tell my
mother that I died for her and for my country.”

The Confederate forces, having been obliged by
superior numbers to retreat to Battery Wagner,
were not allowed much rest, for that very night the
Union troops made their first assault upon this im-
portant position. Capt. Mitchel on this occasion

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commanded the Confederate Artillery, and, as was
always the case, the guns in charge of the First
Regular South Carolina Artillery were remarkably
well handled by those extraordinarily skillful gun-
ners.

Some of the Union soldiers actually g-ot within
Battery Wagner during this attack, but the assault
failed and their forces were repulsed, they having
lost 330 men by death, wounds and capture.

After this, Capt. Mitchel was assigned to the
command of the Confederate Batteries at Shell
Point on James Island, whence he kept up a sus-
tained fire until February, 1864

When Col. Stephen Elliott was promoted and
sent to the field in Virginia, Capt. Mitchel was se-
lected by those in authority to succeed him in the
command of Fort Sumter- the most important mil-
itary post in the Harbor of Charleston May 4, 1864.
Here, by his untiring energy, administrative ability
and vigilance, Mitchel proved himself worthy of the
confidence of his superior officers, and of this high
honor.

Major John Johnson, the resident engineer officer
stationed at that post, thus writes: “Capt. Mitchel
was unremitting in the discharge of all his arduous
duties. Allowing- himself but little rest in the day-
time, he was particularly alert to guard against as-
sault by night; and the constant watchfulness of
this spirited young officer became imparted to his
whole garrison.”

During the morning of July 20, 1864, the sentinel
on the parapet of Fort Sumter requested permis-
sion to withdraw into the shelter of the bombproof
sentry box, on account of the extraordinary severity
of the firing- by the enemy from Morris Island. At
first. Capt. Mitchel refused to permit him’ to leave
his post of observation, deeming a seeking of safety
whilst on duty a bad precedent to establish; but
when the soldier sent him a second message, he as-
cended the ramparts to ascertain for himself if the
man should indeed be withdrawn.

Mitchel had been there but a short time when a
mortar shell of the largest kind was thrown from a
Union battery, and came on its awful mission of
destruction, roaring- and hurtling through the clear
summer sky, towards Fort Sumter and its doomed
Commander, who could, however, have found securi-
ty from this terrific projectile by simply stepping
within the adjacent sentry box. But, with a high
sense of honor, Capt Mitchel considered it his duty
to stand his ground upon the ramparts, having
Obliged the sentinel to remain for a time exposed to
similar danger, and, with his elbow resting on
the parapet, and his field glass raised to his eyes,
which were fixed upon the fleet, he ncer moved
from his original position. None, save those who
have heard the appalling sound made by a bomb-
shell, can fully appreciate the cool courage shown
by the young officer in thus disregarding that voice
of woe. Bursting overhead, a large fragment of
this shell struck Capt. Mitchel to the ground, and
he wasborneto the hospital below mortally wounded.
He lingered in great agony nearly four hours, and
expired about five o’clock of a bright summer’s
afternoon, having died, as he had lived, a true sol-
dier, repressing every outward manifestation of suf-

fering, solicitous that he might teach his garrison
by his example how a brave man should meet death.
Once, when the pain overcame him and he groaned
aloud, checking himself, he looked up, attempted to
rise, and gave command that the men should not be
allowed to pass and repass the hospital as they
were then doing-, lest they should overhear some
other expression of suffering. Later on, upon being
asked by Major Johnson what could be done for
him. he replied. “Nothing, except to pray forme.”
All in Charleston were greatly pained when the
fall of the gallant Commander of Fort Sumter was
announced. His remains were brought to the city
that night, and lay in St. Paul’s Church under
guard of the Cadets until the following after-
noon, when the burial service was read by the late
Bishop Howe. A large concourse of friends gath-
ered there, mingling with the military and naval
officers, who were anxious to do honor to their de-
parted comrade.

Quiet and still in death lay the soldier, “life’s
fitful fever o’er,” the star-crossed Fort Sumter flag
his pall, upon which rested his sword, a wreath of
laurel and some white roses.

When the solemn burial service was concluded,
the fine brass band of his old regiment, the First
Artillery, played a plaintive dead march, and, es-
corted by the Cadets, bearing their arms reversed,
Gen. Jones and Staff, Gen. Ripley and Staff, and
many other officers, dressed in full uniform, the
cortege wended its way to Magnolia Cemetery,
where he had desired to lie laid.

A peculiar gloom was added to this sad scene by
the approach of a heavy thunder storm. The sky
had a dark and lowering appearance; fitful yusts of
wind swept through the church; brilliant flashes of
lightning gleamed incessantly, whilst loud report?
of heaven’s artillery reverberated from on high and
mingled their awe-inspiring fury with the organ
tones and the wailing cade nces of the dead march.
Some years later his comrades of the first Artil-
lery placed a granite column over the grave of their
brother-in-arms, at the suggestion of Lieut. Henry
Frost; but. as long as the waves beat against the
ruins of Fort Sumter, that war-worn fortress will
be John Mitchel’s best and most enduring monument.

Col. Samuel McFarland, of the Nineteenth Iowa
Regiment, was killed in the battle of Prairie Grove,
Arkansas. His sword was found by Captain J.
H. McClinton, of the Thirty-fourth Arkansas In-
fantry, and was presented recently to members of
that regiment. At a reunion they returned formal
thanks to Captain McClinton. and gave the sword
to a son of the former owner, an editor at Marshall-
town, Iowa.

In answer to inquiry in Veteran for July, Com-
rade T. F. Moriarty, of Natchez, Miss., names Dr.
Wm. Maguin as author of poem, “The Soldier
Boy,” and makes reference to Ford’s National Li-
brary, Ballad Poetry of Ireland, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 161.

At the regular meeting of Camp Isham Harrison,
No. 27, U. C. V., Columbus, Miss., on November
7th, Dr. A. C. Halbert was elected Commander and
Thomas Harrison, Adjutant.

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LETTER TO “CHARMING NELLIE.”

J. B. Polley, Floresville, Tex., sends another treat
in excerpts from another yellow-stained letter to the
same lady referred to on page 362 December Vetek an :
Bull’s Gap, Tenn., March 25, 1863.

Charming Nellie: — By a masterly stratagem, a
ragged private secured a seat at a table on which
was spread a bountiful dinner, prepared especially
for a pompous Confederate General. The officer
made no objection, but wishing to be sure that the
soldier knew what distinguished company was pres-
ent, very condescend ingly asked: “Do you know,
Sir, with whom you are dining?” “Indeed I do not,”
answered the soldier, “I used to be particular about
such matters, but now, so the dinner is good and
abundant, I don’t care a who eats with me.”

You would have complimented me on my resem-
blance to that private had you seen me hobnobbing
with General Jenkins last Christmas Eve. There
was a symposium at his quarters, “a feast of reason
and flow of soul,” under the exhilarating influence of
unlimited quantities of apple jack, and the Colonel
and Inspector-General of the Division invited me
and others of his old company to attend. After the
third drink, a Brigadier-General sank in my estima-
tion to the level of a private, and I sought and ob-
tained an introduction to my host. He treated me
with distinguished consideration, talked with me
until I got sober enough to be ashamed of much that
I had said, and invited me to call again. I alluded
to a former interview with him concerning a hog
that met death and destruction by my hands at Chat-
tanooga, but he waived all further discussion of the
subject, saying kindly: “That was official inter-
course, Sir; this is purely social.”

Three weeks ago, while we were at New Market,
twenty-five men under command of Lieut. Crigler,
were sent over to the French Broad to capture some
Federals who were depredating on our side of the
river. Ed. Crockett and Pengra were sent ahead as
scouts with instructions not to show themselves or
make an attack, the rest of us following leisurely.
Arrived within a quarter of a mile of the river and
hearing nothing from the scouts, we deployed into
a skirmish line with its center on a road that led to
the ferry the Federals were in the habit of using,
and advanced slowly and cautiously.

To the right of the road, on a hill and about a
hundred yards from the water’s edge, stood a large,
roomy house, surrounded by a plank fence. My po-
sition in the line was such that, going straight for-
ward and keeping the proper intervals between me
and comrades on right and left, I marched toward
the back door of this house. I was within fifty feet
of the fence and was deliberating whether to g-o
around or through the mansion, when the sound of
two rifle shots at the river broke upon my ears. A
moment afterwards a volley was fired from the op-
posite bank — several of the balls striking the house
— a woman screamed, and I rushed forward. I had
not gone ten feet when a very handsome girl, prob-
ably eighteen years old, sprang out of the open

door, ran to the fence and climbed it without regard
to ankles and other unmentionables, rushed down
the hill toward me. Frightened out of her wits,
she ran squarely into my arms, which of course were
in proper position to hospitably receive such a love-
ly bundle of womanhood. In fact, they had been
extended as instinctively and involuntarily as they
closed when she came within their circle and — as
confidingly as I hope she will some day — throw her
own around my neck.

“Save me! — save me!” she exclaimed in terror-
stricken accents, and not a bit unwilling to be a
savior of such a beautiful creature, but honestly
glad of the opportunity so unexpectedly afforded me
of acting in that capacity, I bent every energy to the
delightful task, and drawing her closer to me, as-
sured her of absolute safety as long as she stayed
right there. She evidently believed me and seemed
to find as great comfort in doing the clinging as I
in being stay and support, and we stood there in the
attitude of lovers just met after years of separation,
until the enemy was driven to shelter beyond gunshot.
The one drawback to supreme felicity was my
gun. Too wary a soldier to drop it — much as 1 de-
sired to do so in order to have both hands free — I
clung to it and the girl to the last, but held the piece
of ordnance in such a position I imagine that it would
have puzzled a man to decide which was holding it.
One time in my life the enemy’s retreat was too
precipitate — one time in my career as a soldier I
prayed that the fight should continue; for as long as it
lasted the captive was content to find shelter in my
fervent arms, but when it ceased, blushingly and with-
out the least aid from me, she released herself and left
me only the cold, inanimate gun to hold.

She was no bashful country girl. The moment
we got far enough apart to obtain a fair view of each
other, she said: “Please excuse me, Sir — I was so
frightened by the guns and balls that I didn’t know
what I was doing, and I fear have given you a great
deal of trouble.”

“Not a bit, not a bit,” I hastened to reply. “It
was a delight that I would suffer much to enjoy
again,” and noticing that she found it difficult to
stand on the uneven hillside, I pretended great solici-
tude, and asking: “Are you sure you no longer need
support?” stepped toward her with extended arms.
She blushed like a rose, but by a graceful motion
of a little hand waived further assistance, and then
glancing roguishly at me, said : ‘ ‘Thank you, I do not
need to trespass again on your endurance and gallan-
try. Will you not go to the house and let me intro-
duce you to my sisters and mother, and tell them how
kind you have been? Sister Mary looked out of the
door while you had your — I mean while we were
standing so close together.”

I had not seen- Sister Mary at all, for the maid
with whom I had been so pleasantly engaged came
at me with such force that her momentum swung me
around with my back to the house. But I was still
game and said — quite impudently, I reckon you will
think — “You must introduce me as your lover then,
for that I am now and forever. You are the cap-
tive of my arms, and I will not consent to waive a
single right or privilege.”

My fair captive was good pluck too. Her black

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eyes flashed with mischief as she said: “Let us go
to the house— and we can discuss your rights there.”

As we walked slowly up the hill, she turned to the
right, as if to go around the yard fence, and when
I demurred and suggested climbing it, shook her
head in protest and remarked: “No, indeed — fright-
ened as I was a moment ago, I got over it with more
speed than gracefulness, I fancy; but now the dan
ger is past, I fear to attempt it again.”‘

By the time we entered the house — it took us
fully twenty minutes to walk the twenty yards — we
knew each other’s name and I was introduced to her
mother and sisters, nice attractive and intelligent
ladies, wife and daughters of a Baptist minister by
the name of . Sister Mary smiled signifi-
cantly as I took her hand and the erstwhile tenant
of my arms showed her colors most charmingly. * *

Much against inclination, I said good-bye; not,
however, without giving the late occupant a panto-
mimic invitation to return to my arms, at which
Sister Mary laughed merrily. My comrades, who
had been too intent on war, anxious to learn of my
good fortune, looked puzzled, and my charmer,
blushed, smiled invitingly and gave me her hand.

Remember, please, that I relate this incident for

your entertainment alone — not to be told to .

She might discover treachery and disloyalty in it,
when, really and truly, it is the first and only ad-
venture I have had since this cruel war began, in
which lovely woman had a part.

EORGIA is doing nicely in
the cause of the Veteran.
The following article is
copied from the “Nashville
American.” It has not been
the custom to reproduce any
thing 90 complimentary to
the Editor, but there is a
business motive in doing it.
It is proper for him to attend reunions, to mingle
with comrades as often as practicable, and he often
goes at sacrifice of time and comfort. On such oc-
casions he is ever greeted by leaders, but rarely pre-
sented, and afterwards comrades write to express
regret at failure to see him. Since his work is so
prominent and so universally approved, his presence
at reunions ought to be made known so that comrades
might at least attend to business that could not be
so easily- transacted by mail. It requires unceasing
diligence to maintain the Veteran.
Here is the article:

A letter to “The American” from a “A Georgia
Vet.” at Atlanta, Ge., gives an interesting account
of the visit of S. A. Cunningham, editor of the CON-
FEDERATE Veteran, to the Confederate Veteran
Camp in that city. Gen. Evans was presiding, and
he made a felicitious speech in welcoming Mr. Cun-
ningham. He spoke of the great work of the Con-
federate Veteran in the most praiseworthy man-
ner. The introduction of Mr. Cunningham was re-
ceived standing, with applause. Mr. Cunningham
responded with feeling and earnestness, saying that

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his work on the Confederate Veteran was a labor
of love, and that he was trying to make it worthy
of the brave people and the memory which it repre-
sented. For three years the Veteran had been go-
ing into Southern homes, and he spared no pains to
make it an acceptable visitor. He felt that he
could honestly receive the praises which had been
given to his Confederate Monthly, for he knew the
pure motives of the undertaking, as well as the labor
which had been bestowed to make it successful.
Gen. Evans sends out this order to Georgians:
Headquarters Georgia Division, U.C.V., /
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 20, 1895. \
General Order No. 1 1 . * * *

3. — The CONFEDERATE Veteran, published at
Nashville, Tenn., at the low price of $1.00 per an-
num, is such a worthy and valuable medium of com-
munication among Confederates and Confederate
Camps, that it is hereby selected as the official organ
of this Division, and the Commanding General would
be pleased to have it taken and read by the members
of all Camps in this State. Clement A. Evans,

A. J. West, Maj.-Gen. Commanding.

Adjutant-General.

Morrisiown, Tenn., Gazette: The Confederate
VETERAN is, beyond question, second to none of the
war magazines published in the country. It is his-
tory for the younger generation, teeming with stir-
ring incidents recounted by eye-witnesses and par-
ticipants in many thrilling scenes of the Lost Cause.
To the Veterans themselves it is a treasure book
filled with reminiscencies of heroic deeds of broth-
ers in arms, intermingled with humor and pathos
of the environments of the times. Mr. Cunning-
ham is one of the best known newspaper men in the
South, and richly deserves and enjoys the gratitude
of his comrades and the South at large for claiming
from oblivion and preserving to posterity such val-
uable contributions to Southern War literature as
is contained in his Confederate Veteran.

In his salutatory as editor of the National Senti-
nel, just started at Washington, D. C, Prof. J.
Fraise Richard says:

Our purpose is sincere. The Sentinel realizes that
it has a mission, and expects faithfully and conscien-
tiously to discharge its obligations. Its field is
broad; its resources for gathering material are am-
ple; and its loyalty to those who patronize its pages
will never be questioned.

We invite the co-operation and sympathy of all
who love truth, justice and good government, in our
effort to make the paper a power for usefulness in
the land. With the desire to instruct, to bless, to en-
courage, to elevate humanity, we send forth this
sheet and invoke upon its mission the blessing of
Him who delights in justice, mercy, and truth.

Surely the professions of Grand Army Veterans,
since what they have seen and felt within the last
six months, will encourage such a publication in
preference to the ugly ultra sentiments contained in
some other Grand Army papers. Another right spir-
ited journal is the Grand Army Gazette in New York.

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Confederate Veteran.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DEATH OF
PRISONERS.

John Shirley Ward, Los Angeles. Cal.

Prejudice is said, by one of our modern writers,
to be unlike Achilles in that it has no vulnerable
part. Prejudice is often transmitted from sire to
son ajid i; based entirely on hereditary transmis-
sion, regardless of the facts of co-temporaneous
history. Majority do not like to have the dreams
of their lives dispelled, even by *he light of truth;
they are read}’, like the Jews of old, to cry out,
“Crucify him! Crucify him!” and take the chances
of believing a lie.

The treatment of “prisoners” during our Civil
War, except so far as it may be necessary to estab-
lish the responsibility for the thousands of deaths
which occurred in our prisons, will not be discussed
in this article. The question as to who was respon-
sible for most of the deaths of prisoners, is speci-
fic, and can only be answered by the facts and
official actions of both Confederate and Federal
Governments at that time, and we propose to treat
of the authoritative acts of each government, in-
cluding such acts of officials as have been endorsed
and sanctioned by their government.

TWO THEORIES IN REGARD TO THE WAR.

The South made no preparation for keeping pris-
oners. Her idea was to, as far as possible after
every battle, exchange the captured, man for man,
and officer for officer, thus avoiding the necessity of
prison-life with all its attendant horrors. The
United States Government, believing the war would
be over in ninety daj*s, and knowing, from its popu-
lation, it could put three or more men in the field
to each one of the Confederates, expected, by hold-
ing every prisoner, to close the war by having cap-
tured the entire Confederate Army. With this idea
dominating the Federal Government, the question
of exchange- of “prisoners” was hardly thought of.
This theory was based on the supposition, after-
wards verified by the facts, that, with an enlist-
ment of Union soldiers of 2,778,304, after capturing
the entire Confederate Army there would still be a
United States Army of 2,168,304 soldiers. This
was a fine theory, if the 600,000 Confederates had
made up their minds to be captured, but their pro-
tests against this idea at First and Second Manas-
sas, around Richmond, Fredericksburg, the Wilder-
ness, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Chickamauga, proved
that they would not submit to being captured upon
that plan.

From the inception of the war, the South thought
it better to fight her enemies than to feed them,
and she began paroling Union prisoners before any
Cartel for their exchange was agreed upon by the
respective governments. A proposition to exchange
prisoners was first made by the South, and at the
time the Cartel was signed by the two govern-
ments the South held a large excess of prisoners
over the North. The Cartel was dated July 22,
1862, and its terms were to exchange “officer for
officer of same rank, and man for man, and to pa-
role all officers and men then left in prison on either
side, till they should be regularly exchanged.” The

South, holding at that time a large preponderance
of Northern prisoners, was the loser by such agree-
ment; but she liberated her excess of Northern pris-
oners and sent them home. By this means the
prisons were empty, but, governed by her sense of
honor and common humanity, she stood by the Cartel.
Exchange went on with some degree of regular-
ity till July 3, 1863, when it was known that on the
next day the entire Confederate Army in Vicks-
burg would become prisoners, and thus give the
Nonh an excess of prisoners; then the following
order was issued:

War Department, Adjutant General’s Office,
Washington, D.C., July 3, 1863.
“It is understood that captured officers and men have
been paroled and released on the field by others than com-
manders of opposing- armies, and that the sick and wound-
ed in hospitals have been so paroled and released, in order to
avoid g-uarding- 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 soldier who gives such a parole will be returned to duty
without exchange, and moreover, will be punished for dis-
obedience of orders.”

(Signed) E. D. Townsend, A. A. G.

In regard to the above order from the Federal
War Department, we deny that the Confederate au-
thorities ever failed to recognize the validity of
paroles given by their sick and wounded when cap-
tured in Confederate hospitals by the Federal Army,
and demand the proof. If such a thing occurred
during the War, it is an easy matter to state time
and place. An order from the War Department,
while a Cartel for the exchange of prisoners,
mutually beneficial to both sides, was still in exis-
tence, says that “Prisoners who have been paroled
by other than the commander of an army,” and that
the “sick and wounded in hospitals” who have
been paroled, because, perchance, their captors could
not remove them, “shall be disregarded,” also that
the poor wounded soldier who had done his best
for his country, and the officer who led him, accept-
ing such parole, shall be ‘•’■returned to duty without
exchange and, moreover, will he punished for dis-
obedience.'” If the mere fact of surrender is a stain
on a soldier’s honor, then the bravest men who ever
walked the sulphurous edge of battle in all the
armies of the world, bear it

International law, as laid down by Vattel and
other recognized Publicists, have said that soldiers
captured in battle and beyond the control of their
government and beyond any relief from their gov-
ernment, had the right of self-preservation, and
hence the right to give a parole not to fight against
their captors till they were regularly exchanged.
The laws of civilized warfare recognized the right
of the captors to send sick and wounded prisoners
to the rear, even if at the cost of much suffering.

The United States Government, claiming not
only to be a civilized nation, but a Christian Nation,
assumed to absolve honorable soldiers captured on
the field from their paroles given to an enemy re-
cognized as belligerents by the usages of Wu.r!
Moreover, these officers and soldiers, though they
may have been captured when charging the guns
of the enemy, and then paroled, were to be “pun-
ished for disobedience of orders.”

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Preposterous the idea that if a brave soldier, who
had perhaps fought fifty battles with the stars and
stripes in his hand, having- always been ready to
march upon the enemy at the tap of the drum, if in
a great battle his eye should be shot out, or his ley;
should be taken away by a cannon-ball, that he
should be “punished for disobedience of orders,”
simply because he gave his parole of honor not to
fight against his opponents until he might be ex-
changed! It was Andersonville, or a parole, with
the captured. Having done all that bravery and
endurance could do, was it not adding insult to
their condition to propose to punish them, because
they preferred to give the parole of an honorable
soldier, to taking their chances in prison life?

Under the order of the War Department, which
was dominated by Secretary Stanton, neither officer
nor soldier captured on line of battle was allowed
the benefit of a parole, and if they accepted it they
were dishonored for disob :dience and sent back into
the ranks to be treated by the laws of war, as trait-
ors if they should be re-captured by the Confed-
erates.

The Confederates captured nearly 6,000 prisoners
at Gettysburg”, and proceeded to parole them on the
field, but when ihiv had given parole to about
2. into, this order of the Dark A.ges from Secretary
Stanton came to hand, and the other 4,000 had to
foot it to Richmond, a weary march of several hun-
dred miles, to undergo the discomforts of Libby or
Andersonville. Was this torture needed to make
these brave men respect the dignity and power of
their government, when each one knew that such
an order was a violation of the solemn honor of his
government, which it had willingly carried out
whenever the South In Id more prison, rs than it did?

Aiter thousands of Union prisoners bad been pa-
roled and allowed to go home till they were ex-
changed, the War Department of the federal Gov-
ernment modified the Cartel, under which a general
exchange of prisoners was agreed on, and limited
the exchange to “these held in confinement.” This
order could only mean, to people of ordinary com-
mon sense, that those who had been paroled are
safe at home, and we will not allow the Confeder-
ates to use them as exchanges for prisoners after-
wards captured. Hail the Confederates not regard-
ed i be honor of these they would have kept them in
prison. The Confederates expected that the United
States Government would stand by the obligations
of her soldiers, many of whom had been captured
close by the cannon’s mouth. But this order send-
ing them back to the army, though their parole of
honor was then in the hands of the Confederate
War Department, and, if violated, would bring them
to the gallows or other ignominious form of death,
by the laws and usages of war.

The 4,000 prisoners captured at Gettysburg were
marched back to Richmond under all the hardships
of a Government unable to furnish anything, ex-
cept the scantiest supplies to her own soldiers, and
were sent to their necessary doom at Libby or
Andersonville, when, according to the Cartel, they
should have been sent home to their families, as
brave soldiers of the Union, until the number of
prisoners on each side justified an exchange.

We do not desire to avoid any question which
gave the Federal Government a plausible excuse
for not carrying out the Cartel. One reason given
by its authorities for a failure to carry out the con-
ditions of the Cartel, was that the South had vio-
lated it in refusing to exchange negroes equally
with white soldiers. Did this refusal to recognize
the late slaves of the South as legitimate prisoners
of war justify the Federal Government in permit-
ting her brave white soldiers in Southern prisons
to die, in-order to force the Confederate Govern-
ment to exchange as prisoners some of their former
slaves?

The South’s position on this question is best es-
tablished by a review of the expressed animus of
the United States Government at the beginning of
the war and its aims.

When Mr. Lincoln was on his way to be inaugu-
rated, and also in his inaugural address, he denied
any desire to interfere with slavery in the States,
and his Proclamation of War against the South
was not because of her acceptance and endorsement
of slavery, but because of her effort to dissolve the
Union, It was this call to save the Union which
thrilled the heart of the North from Maine to the
Pacific. If these thousands had been called to blot
out negro Slavery there would never have been a
Union Army. Even after the war was under full
headway and the Federal Army had crossed into
Kentucky, there was no evangel in its front, pro-
claiming the emancipation of the negro, ami there
was not a day in the year 1862 when a Kentucky
slave-holder, who was raisins’ a regiment to save the
Union, could not have sold his own negroes on the
block without molestation. Mr. Lincoln, in his
first annual message, asked Congress to pass an
Act for the abolition of slavery in the year nineteen
hundred, each slave-holder to be compensated for
his slaves. This he thought would save the Union.
He closed this message with a paragraph that all
the loyal of the South “should be compensated for
all losses, by acts of the United States, including
losses of slaves.”

In the first part of this message, Mr. Lincoln was
in favor of paying for all slaves emancipated, brought
about by the United States Army, in addition to
the value of the slaves. Mr. Lincoln in his Eman-
cipation Proclamation did not offer to every slave
the guerdon of freedom, as he excepted thirteen coun-
ties in western Louisiana, the City of New Orleans,
all of West Virginia, and several counties in old Vir-
ginia. The fact that he did not offer freedom to
the slaves in this territory is proof conclusive that
any man or set of men who were enlisted in the War
for the Union had the legal as well as the moral
right to hold their slaves. To every mind capable
of a logical deduction of this, it meant at that time
the moral obligation of slavery depended on the loy-
alty of the owner to the Union. This fact led the
Southern Government to decline to recognize ne-
groes as prisoners of war who had been decoyed from
their homes by promises of large bounties for en-
listment against their old masters; and it was in-
tended by the Cartel that it should include the ex-
change of only free soldiers. This was not a ques-
tion of color, for the South was willing to regard as

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prisoners free negroes who had been captured in
the Union Arm}-.

It follows, therefore, at the time of making- the
Cartel neither Congress nor Mr. Lincoln had made
any movement looking to the emancipation of the
slaves, and ever}’ reasonable mind must conclude
that the negro soldier, ivho under the law was yet a
slave, was used as a mere subterfuge in order to
prevent all exchanges. This ma}- have been com-
forting to the captured negroes, but it peopled the
graveyards of the South with thousands of the
North’s best white soldiers. If the widows of those
who died at Andersonville, or the children of those
who died in Libby, can extract any comfort from
their death, from the fact that they died as martyrs
to preserve the military equality of the negrowith
the white soldier, then a Pantheon should be erect-
ed to protect their remains when they die, as speci-
mens of the loftiest self-abnegation the world has
ever known.

General Butler, while Commissioner for exchange
of prisoners, an intense hater of the South, know-
ing there were only a few hundred negro soldiers
who were prisoners, and knowing they were accus-
tomed to a Southern climate, and the “hog and
hominy” diet of the Southern soldier, insisted on
the United States Government waiving their ex-
change in order to release thousands of her bravest
white soldiers, leaving the question of the status of
the negro soldier to be settled in the future. We
ask, was it better that ten white soldiers should die
in prison than one negro should fail to be exchanged?

We propose to show who was to blame for failure
to exchange prisoners, and consequently who is re-
sponsible for the thousands of graves under the
pines of Georgia.

1st. The South was opposed to all prisons — pre-
ferring to exchange all prisoners on the field.

2nd. The South first proposed to enter into a Car-
tel for exchange of prisoners, and at a time when
she had thousands more prisoners than were held by
the North.

3rd. She carried out this Cartel faithfully — deliv-
ering thousands of prisoners, on their parole, be-
cause the North did not have prisoners to exchange
for them.

4th. The North, then having many of her paroled
prisoners at home, and on the eve of the surrender
of Vicksburg, knowing the Confederates to be capt-
ured there the neit day would give her a prepon-
derance of prisoners an order was issued by Secre-
tary Stanton, disallowing and revoking all paroles
by other than the commander of an army, of either
sick, well or wounded, ordering them back into the
ranks to be punished for disobedience of orders.

5th. The North, after getting an excess of prison-
ers on hand, proposed to continue the exchange, con-
fining it to prisoners then in confinement, thus at-
tempting to evade an honest compliance with the
Cartel by declining to exchange paroled prisoners
for those of the Confederates then in their prisons.

6th. The South humiliated herself by parading
before the United States Government the unhappy
condition of Northern prisoners and which she was
powerless to mitigate.

7th. The South, after confessing her inability to

furnish Northern prisoners with proper food and
medicine, and not wishing them to die in prison,
submitted to Major-General Hitchcock, the Federal
Agent for exchange, the following proposition:

Confederate War Department,
Richmond, Va., January 24, 1864.
Sir: In view of the present difficulties attending the ex-
change and release of prisoners, I propose that all such on
each side be attended by a proper number of their own sur-
geons, who, under rules to be established, shall be permit-
ted to take charge of their health and comfort. I also pro-
pose that these surgeons shall act as Commissaries with
power to distribute such contributions of money, food, cloth-
ing and medicine as may be forwarded for the relief of pris-
oners. 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 ex-
change, to make reports, not only of their acts, but of any
matters relating to the welfare of prisoners.
Respectfully,

Robert Ould,
Confederate Commissioner of Exchange.

When Judge Ould offered the United States Gov-
ernment the right to send by her own surgeons and
medicines for Union prisoners, the medical supplies
in the South had long been exhausted.

Quinine was then worth in the South $60.00 per
ounce, while it was worth onl} T $5.00 in New York.
As thousands of Union prisoners died from malarial
diseases incident to the Southern climate, who might
have been saved with the proper medicines, does
not the refusal to furnish such medicine fix the
responsibility of their deaths upon the United States
Government?

This broad Christian offer was never noticed by
the Federal Government. Finding that the United
States Government paid no attention to this Christ-
ian proposition, then the Confederate Government
ordered Judge Ould to propose to the United States
Government to furnish, without equivalents, 15,000
of their sick and wounded at the mouth of the Sa-
vannah River as soon as they would furnish trans-
portation. This offer was made early in August,
1864, but not a vessel reached the mouth of the
river to receive these prisoners till late in the fol-
lowing December, thus allowing death to reap its
greatest victories during the months of September,
October and November. The South turned over to
the North on the arrival of the first ship 13,000 sick
and wounded, and many strong, healthy men, re-
ceiving only 3,000 sick soldiers in lieu thereof.

Prompt acceptance of this humane proposition
would have returned to their country and families
thousands of those who now sleep under the pines
around Andersonville.

8th. The South, moved by the sufferings of Union
prisoners, and being utterly without medicine, pro-
posed to the” Federal authorities to buy medicines
from them, paying in gold, cotton or tobacco, at
even two or three prices for the same, for the Union
prisoners, pledging the honor of the South not to
use one ounce of it for Southern soldiers. This was
declined or never accepted.

Was it Christian to refuse to sell medicine to their
own men who were dying for the want of it? If it
was, the Sermon on the Mount ought to be relega-
ted to the land of fable.

9th. We now come to the final” reason why it was
best that Union prisoners should die in prison, rather

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than to be released to their homes. It is the argu-
ment of military necessity. It zvas a question of the
few dying for the many.

General Grant had said in his dispatch to General
Butler, August 18, 1864:

“// is hard on our men held in Southern prisons
not to exchange them, but it is humanity to those left
in the ranks to fight our batt/es. At this particular
time, to release all rebel prisoners North -would insure
Sherman’s defeat, and would compromise our safety
here.” 1

Did any one ever think that if the ‘)5,000 Confed-
erate prisoners then in Northern prisons had been
released, it also released 95,000 Union prisoners?

If General Grant regarded each Northern soldier
equal on the field to each Southern soldier, what
difference would this exchange have made in the
relative numbers of the two armies? The truth is.
General Grant never hoped for success except in
overwhelming numbers. Asa General he was wise,
prudent and brave, and knew that the greater mill-
stone must ultimately wear away the lesser.

Military Necessity. The refusal to exchange pris-
oners and the enlistment of negroes were a military
necessity, and this won the fight.

The battle of Gettysburg ended on July 3, 1863.
On the next day, General Lee, finding himself en-
cumbered by many thousands of prisoners, addressed
General Meade, proposing to exchange them. To
this note General Meade replied by telegram to
Major-General Halleck:

A proposition made by General Lee, under flag of truer.
to exchange prisoners was declined by me.”

(Sig-ned) Gkorgk C. Meade,

Major-General.
Gettysburg-, July 4, 10 p.m.

Was this not the day of all the days in the year,
when a General, who, for three days, on inaccessi-
ble heights, with ”5,000 men, had hardly held at
bay an army of 65,000, should, knowing his inability
to prevent General Lee marching these prisoners to
Libby or Andersonville, have gladly accepted an
opportunity to exchange them on the field, and thus
save them from the long tramp and prison life?

In October, 18(>4, General Lee wrote to General
Grant as follows: “To alleviate the sufferings of
our soldiers, I propose the exchange of prisoners of
war taken by the armies operating in Virginia, man
for man, upon the basis established bv the Cartel.”

On the next day General Grant replied as follows:
“I could not of right accept your proposition further
than to exchange prisoners captured within the
last three days, and who have not yet been delivered
to the commanding General of prisoners. Among
those lost by the armies around Richmond were a
number of colored trocps. Before further negotia-
tions can be had upon the subject, I would ask if
you propose to exchange these men the same as
white soldiers?”

General Lee said, in rejoinder: “Deserters from
our service, and negroes belonging to our citizens,
are n.it considered as subjects of exchange.”

Jefferson Davis in 1864, seeing the distress and
death among the Union prisoners, which he had no
power to avert, sent a commission of Union officers
from Audersonvilre to Washington to presenl their
situation to Mr. Lincoln and insist on an immedi-

ate exchange, but they failed to get an audience
with Mr. Lincoln, it is believed by the influence of
Mr. Stanton, and no satisfactory results were ob-
tained. All the reasons heretofore given are subsid-
iary and lead up to the one reason in the mind of the
United States Government against the exchange of
prisoners.

It was set forth in General Grant’s reply of April
1, 1864, in which he forbade General Butler, “To
take any step by which any able-bodied man should
be exchanged till further orders from him.”

Taken in connection with his order to General
Butler heretofore referred to, it was the enforce-
ment of the idea of military necessity — that last plea
of despots all over the world. Here was the wisdom
and cunning of a Bismarck allied to the utter dis-
regard of human life or suffering which character-
ized many of the Generals of the Dark Ages. Here
was the policy of the Spanish Inquisition to murder
the innocent rather than give equal advantage to
the enemy.

Mr. Lincoln, in his great heart, was ready to do
justice to friend and foealike, butbaekof him stood
Phillip II. of Spain in the person of Stanton, who
said by every act* “It is better to have every Union
soldier die in prison than to turn loose an equal
number of Confederate prisoners.”

This military necessity grew out of the fact that,
whereas the South had enlisted in her armies 600,-
000 soldiers, the North had only 2,778,304 soldiers on
her rolls.

Search the annals of warfare from the days of
Xenophon down to this, and there cannot be found
one instance where an army numerically four times
as strong as its ememy has deliberately allowed its
own soldiers to die in prison rather than liberate
an equal number of the captured.

Without any regard to the “treatment of prison-
ers” by either side during the war, and it was bad
enough on both sides, we ask every sane, thinking
man to fix the responsibility for deaths occurring
in prison where it belongs. Tf the South held her
captives in order to persecute and tortute, she
ought to be anathematized by the Nations, but if
the South was always ready to give up and parole
her captives, and thy Union Government was not
willing to receive them, because every Rebel releas-
ed meant a recruit to the Southern Army, then his-
tory must aflix on the United States Government its
lastimr condemnation.

Comrade Marsh Atkisson, Commissioner of the
General Land Office at Seattle, Washington:

Enclosed I send S3 with which to pay one
year’s subscription for Vhtkkan, and give balance
as “Contribution for Monument to be Erected in
Honor of Samuel Davis.'” I notice that Stonewall
Jackson Bivouac, of McKenzie, Tenn., to which I
have the honor to belong, and served two terms as
President, has made a contribution to the Monu-
ment Fund. Let every ex-Confederate soldier in the
world, who is able to do so, make a contribution for
this noble purpose; — to commemorate the heroism of
one of our gallant soldiers, who performed the
grandest act which’is possible to be done on ( ;irt1i

” To die for liis country.”

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MARKSMANSHIP IN THE ARMY.

B. L. Ridle} 7 , Murfreesboro, Tenn., writes:
I want to ask old veterans about the best shots
they saw or heard in our great war. Let sharp-
shooters, musketeers, cannoneers, all tell of some of
the shots worth reading- about. Shots that now
and then turned the tide of battle perhaps. It is
stated that the Texas Rangers could knock out an
eye from on or under his horse. Quantrell’s men,
they say, could cut a ribbon or strike a ke}-hole on
a dead run. They used to entertain themselves
shooting- at doorknobs on entering a hamlet or town.
Champ Ferguson’s Company of Confederate Bush-
whackers could place a ball at any given point, and
his antagonists, Tinker Dave Beatty’s Company,
were cracksmen of the mountains equally good.
How was it with the old squirrel hunters of the
armies? Bogardus is said to be the crack shot of
to-day at close distance in civil life, but I want the
Veteran to have in its pages, for the future histor-
ian, some examples of the marksmanship of soldiers
in action, who had no improved weapons, but who
learned to use an old musket with the skill of a
“Wild Bill,” and the unerring aim of a Boone. In-
stances speak more forcibly of the. perfection at-
tained in this art than anything else. Here is one
related of Porter’s Battery at Fort Donelson:
A sharpshooter, about three fourths of a mile off
on the Federal side, had climbed midway a large
tree and was picking off Porter’s gunners. A six
pounder was aimed at him and he fell to the ground
dead. At Belmont, Maj. Stewart (afterwards
Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart), who commanded the
forts and water batteries, directed the famous gun,
known on the Southern side as “The Lady Polk,”
at a column headed by a horseman, who afterwards
turned out to be General Grant. These shots
turned the tide of that battle, and caused the Fed-
erals to retreat to their gunboats.

At Rocky Face Ridge, near Dalton, John King of
the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment, raised his tel-
escope to his Whitworth, and dismounted an officer
commanding a skirmis’h line a mile away. Gener-
als Johnston and Stewart estimated the distance for
him and saw the shot. It is said that Captain An-
derson, of Quantrcll’smen, would, in a charge, take
his bridle reins in his mouth and use his pistols in
both hands, to perfection. They claim for him such
coolness under fire that he could strike any button
on a man’s coat that he wanted to. At Adairs-
villc, two Yanks behind a tree got one of our skirm-
ishers in a similar position. When his body by his
movements would appear out from the center, they’d
fire and shoot his coat sides, until that garment was
in shreds. Notwithstanding this, that old soldier
watched his chance, and finally, in an unguarded
moment killed both, and coolly said: “Now, I
reckon } T ou’ll quit your foolishness.” At Resaca,
Brown’s Brigade displayed fine marksmanship over
a disputed battery that both sides were trying to
hold, but neither could get away. The Federals
would raise a hat from behind their breastworks on
a stick, and the Brigade would shoot it into atoms.
On the march to Tennessee, a herd of frightened
deer rushed through French’s Division; several

were killed while at full tilt, on the jump and run,
although the Division was in panic with “Buck
Ague.” Some of John Morgan’s boys could get a
bird on the wing with pistols, and this was not
uncommon with the Arkansas, Missouri and Texas
soldiers.

In the First Tennessee Regiment at Shelbyville,
in 1863, a target in the shape of a man was put up
at 800 yards, and a medal was offered for the best
five shots; Wm. Beasly, of Ledbetter’s Company,
put three shots out of the five in the target, any
one of which would have proved fatal. He not only
got the medal, but was detailed as one of the five in
his division to sharpshoot with a Whitworth.
One of Ward’s pickets, in John Morgan’s Cavalry,
near Monticello, Ky., one dark drizzly night heard
an awful rustling in the leaves near him; he was in
Tinker Dave Beatty’s beat, and this sound raised
the hair on his head. He hallooed out, “Who
comes there?” There being no answer, he fired
and fled. The next morning it was found that at
this shot he had fired at the sound had pierced a
hog through the heart, killing him “too dead to
squeal.” At New Hope Church, a Texas Brigade
(Granbury’s) rushed for a hill on our flank; they
poured one volley into a Federal Brigade, which
had just reached the crest, and their unerring aim
left seven hundred and seventy bodies on the field.

The secret of marksmanship is not in the practice
alone, but in the perception and education as to dis-
tance. At Missionar}’ Ridge and Lookout Moun-
tain we found that we invariably overshot the
enemy from high eminences, and that they in the
valley overshot us. It takes judgment from posi-
tion and experience as to the inflection and deflec-
tion of a ball from the force that propels it to per-
fect one in this science. One day near Kennesaw
Mountain, the writer witnessed three Federal Bat-
teries playing on one of ours, endeavoring to silence
it. They shot down the horses, cut down the
wheels of caissons and carriages, and were so ex-
pert in marksmanship that every gun but one was
dismounted. The killing of Gen. Polk at Pine
Mountain was an exhibition of marksmanship on
the part of the Federals. At Stevenson, Ala., Gen-
Forrest sighted a man on top of a stockade, half a
mile off; he seemed to be so defiant, ’tis said that
Forrest dismounted, got hold of one of Morton’s
pieces of artillery and took aim; he cut that man
half in two. At Shiloh, the Twenty-third Tennes-
see, in resisting a charge, poured a voile}- into the
enemy. At this time there was a Major on horse-
back in hot pursuit, some distance ahead; although
the whole of Captain J. A. Ridley’s Company fired
on him, yet one of the soldiers of said Company
alone claimed to have killed him. The Company
challenged his right. The soldier said: “If you
find that the ball entered under the right arm pit,
he’s mine; if not, I’ll give it up.” On investigation,
the shot was found there. Abbe Hill, also a sharp-
shooter from the Twentieth Tennessee, made a fine
shot at Decatur, Ala., in cutting a soldier down as
he walked across a road 800 yards away. Also,
Green, of Florida, from behind the same log killed
a man 1,200 yards off. In the estimate, he had to
consider the speed of his walk as well as distance.

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At Ringgold Gap, the well directed shots of Cle-
burne’s Division beat back and mowed down Sher-
man’s Army and saved the Army of Tennessee.
That was General Pat Cleburne’s great right, the
Major General who was afterwards killed at Frank-
lin, and who died the “death of honor in the arms
of glory.” At Bainbridge, the gunboats made a
desperate attempt to strike Hood’s pontoons and
impede the crossing of the Army of Tennessee.
Our land batteries knocked those gunboats into
smithereens. During the siege of Vicksburg, one
of the Yankee Signal Corps planted himself on a
high stack chimney, and was signaling with his
flag. Sam Rayburne, of Montserrat’s Battery, got
permission from the Captain to direct one shot at
him, the distance being estimated at one mile. At
the crack of his Napoleon, the ball knocked the
chimney off eight or ten feet, and down came the
Yank, brickbats and all.

Nor was our Naval Department behind. It is
said in the engagement between the Confederate
steamer Alabama and the Federal steamer Kear-
sarge that Admiral Semmes directed a shell to be
placed in the most vulnerable place in the Kear-
sarge. It turned out afterwards that his gunner
had done as directed, and if the shell had exploded,
the Alabama would have added another star to her
already brilliant crown of victory. The little Bat-
tering Ram Arkansas was the grandest achieve-
ment in the way of a gunboat that the world has
ever witnessed, absolutely baffling an organized
fleet. Neither Decatur in his feat of burning the
Philadelphia on Tripolitan shores, in lso4. nor
Capt. Richard Somers in his dare-devil attempts to
blow up the Tripolitau Beet, was more daring than
Capt. Isaac Newton Brown, Commander of the Ram
Arkansas, in his drive out of the mouth of the Ya-
zoo, thirty miles to Vicksburg, to destroy Uncle
Sam’s Navy.

In a number of the VETERAN, an article from
some one states how effective the sharpshooters were
in Lee’s Army; but instances attract an old soldier.
and a comparison between the old dead shots of the
armies and the pretended headlights of to-day in
that line, is the most interesting. Veritable facts
during the war almost equal Munchausen’s myths.
At Harrisburg, Mississippi, just after the battle
Morton’s Battery sighted a Yankee one and a
quarter miles off, ascending a ladder from the road-
side. Capt. Morton directed a gunner to pick him
off. At the crack of the gun, the ladder and the
fellow came down. It was discovered afterwards
that he was prowling around a widow’s corn crib.
At Paris landing, before Johnsonville was destroyed
— a gunboat approaching, two guns of this same
battery open fire. The boat in motion — guns chang-
ing position. Boat over shooting and the guns
striking in the broadside all the time until she
handed in her checks.

At Nashville, Gen. Hood, Stephen D. Lee and a
group of general officers were on Ridley Hill, two
miles south of Fort Negley. A citizen warned us
that they would attract a fire from Negley. By the
time thev moved down the hill a shell exploded on
the spot’that they had left.

At Athens, after Campbell surrendered the fort of

1,800 men to Forrest bluff game), a Dutchman
commanding a block house filled full of negro sol-
diers refused to surrender to Morton’s Battery. The
first shot struck a port-hole, killing a number. The
second shot did likewise — the third brought out the
Dutchman with the white Hag.

[An article from Lee’s Army in February. — En.]

TRUTH OF HISTORY.

W. Gart Johnson, Orlando, Fla. : The article of
J. B. Policy, in the October VETERAN, is calculated
— as the boys say — to ” bring on more talk.” Who
saved the army at the Wilderness? In the first
place, it was not lost. In the second place — for the
sake of argument— if it was. no one regiment or
brigade can claim that honor.

As I understand it. the VETERAN is the medium
through which we. who were on the ground, and
personally participated in the e-reat struggle, may
communicate the incidents as we saw them, and
thus bring out the truth of history.

Mr. Cayce was unfortunate in saying that two
Mississip] i regiments saved the army at the Wil-
derness; and Mr. Polley is equally unfortunate in
giving that credit to the Texas brigade.

It Mr. Policy will take the trouble to examine tin
VETERAN of July, 1893, he will see an article headed
“Bark.idale Humphreys Miss. Brigade,” in which
the author, in describing the movements of that
brigade on that memorable morning of May, ’64,
uses almost identically the same language he him-
self does in telling the movements of the Texas
brigade.

Our brigade had done some good lighting before
that, but 1 thought we rather reached the climax on
that occasion. My own company lost one lieuten-
ant and sixteen men killed ami wounded’ out of
thirty-four in about live minutes. I think the
other companies and regiments suffered likewise.
In that dense thicket we got all mixed up with the
Georgians and the South Carolinians, and every fel-
low seemed to be doing his best. So I concluded
we all had a hand in making Mr. Grant get out of
the Wilderness. And I still think we ought to
“kinder divide up” the honors. Seems to me it
would look better in print, and I think it would ac-
cord better with the facts.

“Battle Above the Clouds.” R. J. Dew,

Trenton, Tenn. : Comrades, we hear so much these
latter days about the great battle above the clouds,
that I am anxious to read a true account by
some comrade who was on Lookout Mountain
and knows the facts. We are all aware of the fact
that Gen. Hooker maneuvered and carried Lookout.
We could see the whole thing from afar. Our com-
mand, Cheatham’s Tennesseans, being at the time
stationed on Missionary Ridge. What command
was it up there, and what was the Confederate loss
in killed, wounded and missing? I am impressed
that our force was small. Am I mistaken? It has
been a long time (thirty-three years), and we are
forgetful. Now, who will treat us to the true
story of that “Battle Above the Clouds?”

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(^federate l/eteran.

S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Prop’r, S. W. MEEK, Publisher.

Office: Willcox Building, Church Street, Nashville, Tenn.

This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All
persons who approve its principles, and realize its benefits as an organ for
Associations throughout the South, a^e requested to commend its patron-
age and to co-operate in extending ; t.

The movement inaugurated two months ago to
erect a monument to the memory of Samuel Davis,
the Confederate scout whose honor and whose cour-
age in submitting to an ignominious death before
he would reveal a secret involving his word — and
by the manner of which act put to grief the United
States Arm)’ encamped about Pulaski, Tenn., on
that eventful, fatal day, Nov. 27, 1863 — is the theme
above all others with the Veteran.

It asks the consideration of the men who were
his fellow Confederates, of the women who toiled
and prayed for success of the cause; it asks the ear-
nest co-operation of their Sons and Daughters indi-
vidually and collectively; it asks the co-operation of
the Union Veterans, to whom indebtedness is freely
admitted, for the inspiration that his career gives;
aye, it asks the co-operation of every American,
and of every man and woman who believes in truth,
honor and Christianity to study the character and
example set by this young man.

We comrades, under the flag that he honored,
may now well look at life as a sentiment. All else
fades and disappears. Many of us have to labor
hard for every dollar that comes into our possession,
and there are ever pressing demands upon us.

True, a monument to Samuel Davis the third of
a century after he certainly was called to a higher,
holier sphere, can do him no good, but for our com-
fort, and as an example in honor for the greatest
sacrifice ever made, the extraordinary circumstances
considered, let us construct a memorial and have
our names enrolled as contributors. Let us thereby
testify our sincerest admiration and affection for a
private Confederate soldier who stood firmer than
“the boy stood on the burning deck,” and with a
heart in deepest heaviness cried in his anguish at
the charge of being a “spy” and the execrable gal-
lows, but who midst it all, against earnest pleading
in the black night of death, stood firm in his tracks,
remembering the holiness of truth and of honor, and
as the tempter appealed again in behalf of his lib.
erty and restoration to his command, where he would
not have had to suffer alone, he had the Christian
courage to declare that his word was of greater
value than his life, and so went to his God.

Many a man has given his life for his country,
and loyal as was young Davis in this dark period,
when it seemed that the cause of his people would

be lost, he still maintained his honor, given in
his’ woid and to it he was firm exactly after divinity.
Tennessee has the honor of this perfect hero, it
being hare that he was born and here that he died,
but this appeal comes from a source regarding the
entire South and her faithful people as sharing alike
in his glory. Let the top line of his epitaph be

SAMUEL DAVIS, AN AMERICAN,

the next should be that he was a faithful and

A TRUE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.

Blank notes will be sent, payable July 1. 18%, to
any who will subscribe, and to those who will solicit
subscribers. The writer would like the tribute of a
simple granite block, when dead, with the words,
“Founder of the Confederate Veteran,” but he
Pleads for this tribute to the greatest man of the
war. Let us, comrades, see that a worthy monu-
ment is built, and take the matter in hand now.

Ever since the Veteran became established, the
editor has felt that if he ever achieved enough
through its influence to make comrades and South-
erners anxious to honor him, he would ask their
contributions for a monument to his Brigadier Gen-
eral O. F. Strahl, killed at Franklin, but this theme
to crown a private soldier who had not the unavoid-
able ambition of an officer, who had only the motive
of faith to his word and honor induces a surrender
of other aspirations for the time. It cannot be
more gratifying to receive money for the Veteran
than to this most worthy cause.

With pathetic anxiety to print just what ought to
be on this subject, and no more, the appeal is ear-
nest that all who are moved by it co-operate at”
once. Notes payable July ’96, gives abundant time
so that thousands can act at once. Such co-operation
as could be given in thirty days would be an honor
to the Southern people and to all others who may
want to co-operate with them.

Since the above has been in type much additional
thought has been given the subject and the conclu-
sion is clear that it is not well to prolong the plea
in succeeding numbers, for all who have ■read the
wonderful story know its merits, and if they intend
to co-operate they can do so at once. On the note
plan they can do what they intend. Let every one
who will join in this sacred cause write for blank
notes during this January. On the next and suc-
ceeding pages the cause is renewed carefully. The
father, mother and grand-mother, whose pictures
are given, rest in the same enclosure with the true
soldier and true man, under an Italian marble shaft.
There are no other graves at the place. Efforts
have been futile for years to secure his picture.

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An embarrassing’ and a ludicrous error occurred
in the December Veteran by crediting the address
of Mrs. Judge Clopton of Alabama to Mrs. C. Helen
J. Plane of Atlanta. Mrs. Clopton is the eminent
lady who added to the fame of Clement C. Clay
and who has maintained distinction as wife and
widow of Judge Clopton. This is a final note for
the January Veteran. It was delayed in the hope
of procuring the address of Mrs. Plane — which
created a profound and patriotic sensation on
Daughters Day at the Atlanta Exposition.

Hon. James D. Richardson of Murfreesboro,
Tenn., has presented a bill in Congress looking to
the establishment of a National Military Park to in-
clude the battle ground of Murfreesboro or Stones
River and the National Cemetery there.

This movement ought to meet with universal ap-
proval if any other National Parks upon the battle-
fields of the South are to be established. The his-
toric worth of the place, to the arms of both sides,
the accessibility, the natural advantages and the
evident economy to the Government in the purchase,
argue well for this patriotic movement.

Many readers will be surprised at the denial of
statement in last Veteran that the building on $20
Confederate note on its title page is not that of the
Tennessee Capitol. It is so much like it that but one
reader has written about it. This matter will have
attention next month.

St. Louis comrades have inaugurated active
methods to prevail upon United Confederate Veterans
to have their reunion in that city in 1897. Baltimore
is ahead, having- gone to Houston equipped with
beautiful souvenirs and made a plea for that
splendid city in 1897. Their special argument for
next year is that it will be their centennial. Members
of the Baltimore committee weakened their cause by
advocating Richmond-tor this year, as it woukl bring
the two reunions so nearly to the same locality-.

The present Congress of the United States has
shown a very patriotic spirit in repealing prescrip-
tive legislation against the men who fought in Con-
federate armies. It is well. If they had done it
thirty years ago, and other matU 3 of State had
been done likewise, there would have been better
results already than can be expected in the future.

Kerrville Encampment, U. C. V. No. 699, at
Kerrville, Texas, has seventy-six members, R H.
Colvin, Commander; G. W. Colvin, Adjutant; 7,. I.
Williams, Quartermaster. Meetings are held the
last Saturday in each month. Veteran interests
are well represented by Comrade D. G. Home.

Dr. J. A. Wyeth of New York City adds to a sub-
scription letter: “I will contribute fifty- dollars to
the Sam Davis Statue in Nashville.”

The Chicago Tribune sent out this sagacious’
suggestion upon the Venezuela question, in which
war with Great Britain is threatened:

“To the Confederate Soldier! Johnny, gfet your
gun!”

A gentleman living far away from Nashville
treasures in memory one of the inscriptions upon
the Confederate monument here: “It is the magnan-
imous verdict of mankind that he who lays down
his life for a cause he deems just is a hero.”

A Chicago lady- who was much interested in the Con-
federate relics in the Atlanta Exposition, seemed sad-
dened at the lack of care given the old uniforms, and
said: “Union bullets were more considerate of them
than Southern moths.”

Vivid accounts of the Union soldiers homage to
Sam Davis when his body was brought home and
buried and the experience of his sister-in-law are to
be in the next Veteran.

An omitted note about Capt. H. I. Smith, whose
pathetic tribute to Samuel Davis in December Vet-
eran, is that he was a Captain in the Seventh Iowa
Veteran Infantry, that he is a member of C. H. Hunt-
lev Post 42, G. A. R., Society of Army of the Ten-
nessee, and that he belongs to the medal of honor
legion. All honor to heroes of the Union who have
the heart to pay such tribute to Confederates!

Captain Smith was not at the execution out of
curiositv. It was the sad assignment of his com-
mand to be on duty there.

At a regular meeting of the Daviess County Con-
federate Association, held in Owensboro, Ky., Dec.
20, 1895, the following resolution was unanimously
adopted, viz. :

“Resolved, That the Daviess County Confeder-
ate Association recommends to the members, and to
all lovers of truthful history, the CONFEDERATE
VETERAN, published at Nashville, and we appoint
Comrade J. II. Bozarth agent for the same.”

C. N. Pendleton, See.

Such commendation is ever pleasing, but this is
more. It is gratifying that comrades so enterpris-
ing and exacting for the truth’s sake give such
hearty endorsement and commendation to the work
of the Veteran. C. H.

The Lucy Minton Otey Chapter Daughters of the
Confederacy at Lynchburg is in a prosperous con-
dition. Mrs. Norvell Otey Scott is President and
Miss Ruth Jennings the Secretary. Nine new mem-
bers were reported at the meeting’of November 23rd.

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Confederate Ueterag.

THE SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM,

THE LATE DR. JAMES A. RIDLEY.

Which has been advertised splendidly in the Vet-
eran, is the most elaborately illustrated book that
ever came to this office. There must be one thous-
and Southern beauties in it.

Send to the Sponsor Souvenir Compan}’, Houston,
Texas, $3.00 or S4.00, or get clubs of subscribers to
the Veteran for it. For ten subscriptions and
$10.00 the $3.00 book will be sent, or thirteen sub-
scriptions with as many dollars sent during- Febru-
ary and the finest edition will be sent.

CHICAGO MONUMENT SOUVENIR.

Gen. John C. Underwood has about completed the
preparation of a magnificent volume which is to re-
port proceedings incident to the erection and dedi-
cation of the Confederate Monument; reception and
entertainment of distinguished Southern Generals
at the banquet at Cincinnati, and the greeting at
Fort Thomas, Ky.

This is perhaps the handsomest volume of its kind
ever published. In nearly every instance there are
two pictures of the General or other person; one an
etching at war time age, and the other a modern
photo engraving of the finest possible quality.

The expense of this work is so great that the
author is not taking the risk of a large edition.
The Veteran commends it unstintedly and urges
every friend who desires a copy to order it at once.
The price is but S2.50, and that includes the stamp-
ing of the name in gold on front page of cover.
Gen. Underwood richly merits orders from thou-
sands. If the book is not ordered quickly it cannot
be procured at any price.

It will be sent with the Veteran subscription for
$3, but will have to be ordered immediately.

The monument to Second Minnesota Infantry in
Chickamauga Park eclipses all others.

This regiment went into the battle with 384 men,
had thirty-four killed, 114 wounded, and fourteen
were sent off on detail. “There was not a man un-
accounted for.” The motto of “Old Hickory”—
“The Union, it must and shall be preserved” — is
engraved upon it.

Another handsome monument there is to the
Sixty-fourth Ohio Infantry which was organized by
John Sherman.

The monuments tell of the fighting qualities of
the Confederates in that terrible battle. The Six-
teenth United States Infantry had nineteen officers,
289 men, and lost in killed and wounded, fourteen
officers and 187 men.

The 15th United States Infantry, with fourteen
officers and 262 men, lost eight officers and 158 men.

In the Eighteenth United States Infantry 587 men
were engaged, and lost over half, as follows: killed,
forty-five; wounded, 159; missing, ninety-one.

James Clayton, Murfr^esboro, Tenn.: Being fa-
miliar with the military record of the late Dr. James
A. Ridley, and knowing him to have been a patriot
and soldier, I wish publicly to add my testimony to
his worth. For a long time I was associated with
him, the gallant James Neal and Col. Richard H.
Keeble, as messmates. In every battle from Shiloh
to Chickamauga, the tall form of the noble Captain
Ridley could be seen always leading that band of
gallant soldiers.

After the battle of Chickamauga the regiment
was sent with General Longstreet to Virginia, but
Captain Ridley, being afflicted with rheumatism,
went to his sister’s house in Georgia, and remained
there until he was again able to assume his duties as
a soldier, when he joined the First Tennessee Regi-
ment, in which he had a favorite nephew. He re-
mained with that regiment, where he was in the
front ranks at every battle, from Mission Ridge to
the close of the war. M3′ long and intimate acquain-
tance and close relations with him, in the army and
since the war, gave me opportunities to know him
well, and it affords me pleasure to say of him that
he was an accomplished gentleman, as brave a man
and soldier as ever espoused the cause of his beloved
country, or drew a sword in defense of its rights.

In connection with Comrade Clayton’s tribute, the
extraordinary fact should be recorded that after
going through the battles as described, he was ac-
tive as physician and surgeon on the battle field,
doing what he could to alleviate pains of the
wounded.

REBEL YELL AT CHICKAMAUGA.

In a very entertaining address to the Frank
Cheatham Bivouac upon the great battle of Chick-
amauga, Dr. W. J. McMurray stated: “When the
struggle had been to the death f&r quite a while,
and many had met it, the Confederates saw light
ahead and then with shot and shell they over-
whelmed the confused and terror stricken ranks of
Rosecran’s magnificent army, as it retreated in
the direction of Chattanooga.

“When this was done there was a Rebel yell that
went up from Bragg’s Army, the like of which has
never been heard before nor since on this earth.
The mountains and valleys seemed to take it up
and echo it and re-echo it, as if the thunder of the
great mountains was giving praise to the great God
of battles for this grand victory.”

Dr. M. S. Browne, Winchester, Ky., would like to
hear from any member of Captain Roddy’s Company,
37th Tennessee Infantry.

Rev. A. T. Goodloe contributes ten dollars from
sales of his books through the Veteran for the
monument. Order it and help the cause.

Dr. S. W. Brown, Waverly, Mo., reports the or-
ganization of Camp John Percival, No. 711, at that
place, with H. J. Galbraith as Commander.

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THE THREE WHO ARE BURIED WITH SAMUEL DAVIS, NEAR SMYRNA, TENN.

OHAS. LOUIS l> AVIS— FATHER.

Samuel Davis rests by a
erected by his sorrowing father, back of the little
garden at the old home. The parents are under the
sod in the same enclosure, but there should be a mon-
ument in the most prominent spot in Tennessee, so
grand that people passim,’- will ask about it, and
where all of the population will know to tell in
brief the story of his noble life.

Under the bold heading “Kept His Word,” and
“even unto death the Confederate boy was faithful,”
the Cincinnati Enquirer states:

The Confederate Veteran is engaged in a

noble work in its effort to have a monument erected
to the young hero, Sam Davis, who died the death
of a spy rather than betray a secret that would have
saved his life, but doomed another to the same
death. Sam Davis was a special agent for General
Bragg, and he had obtained valuable information
given him in confidence, and on the promise that

he would never betray the source of his.information.

*****

His life and a
safe escort into
the Confederate
lines were
promised to him
if he would give
the name of the
informer, but
he chose to die
instead. He
was but a boy,
and the tempta-
tion must have
been powerful.
But he was a
hero. No mar-
ble shaft or stat-
ue in bronze
towers over the
pieck of sam itkl davis’ vest. dustof a nobler

SIMMONS- I’ \ Tl UN Al.
1 , MRS., I ANE SIMMONS D w IS— MOTHER. GRANDMOTHER,

handsome monument life than that of this fair-haired stripling who kept

his faith and his honor, and died rather than break
a promise.

Hon. C. H. Bailey, Clarksville, Tenn.: At a meet-
ing of Forbes Bivouac held to-day, I brought the
matter of the Sam Davis Monument to their atten-
tion, after a hearty endorsement on the part ol each
member who addressed it, a motion by J. L. Lockert
was unanimously carried, appropriating’ $25.00, and
the choice of location was Capitol Hill Nashville.
There was also a committee appointed to solicit con-
tributions from the citizens to the SamDavis Fund.

Nashville

st

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Born Oct”. 6, 1842
Died JVW- 2 7 I8 6«3

Jlged
ZIYrs iJU.on.rh &Zl~Da.^

He i&id cloiruJus ttje
For bis C ouatry

J\ Teutr Soldier, a puvtr-
Patriot, a insider mtn.’naic
lined. He Sobered dedrh
o;it”he $L6be.t. tathecthm
btttay /ii’sjrien&s ar\d Countiu

Banner: The
Con federate

V E T E B A N i s
making strong
appeals in be-
half of its move-
ment to erect a
m o n u m e n t to
the memory of
the hero- mar-
tyr, Samuel
D avis, the
young Confed-
erate soldier
who gave up his
life rather than
betray a trust.
M r. Cunning-
ham, of the
Veteran, has
entered with all
earnestness i n
this cause and
there should be
a general and
generous re-
sponse.

The press generally commends the movement.

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WM. ROBERTS,

W. H. PORCH.
SAM ROBERTS.

JOHN G.DAVIS,
CAPT. H.B.SHAW,

ROBERT K.COTTON,
.1. M. SHUTE, GEO. D. HUGHES.

Hon. J. E. Washing-ton, M. C, of Tennessee: I
heartily approve of your undertaking-. It is most
laudable, and I sincerely hope that your noble ap-
peal will meet with such a hearty and g-enerous re-
sponse that a handsome and appropriate monument
will soon be a reality — a thing- to worthily perpet-
uate the memory of a brave and heroic man.
There can be no more heroic act than to voluntarilv
lay down one’s life, that a principle may live. I
cheerfully enclose my check for the fund.

Gen. Joseph Wheeler, M. C, from Alabama: I
recollect very well the circumstances attending- the
death of young- Samuel Davis. You are doing – a
noble work. I enclose my mite.

Judg-e L. B. Hall, Dixon, Kj., in remitting sub-
scription, sends a dollar to the monument fund, and
votes “Nashville, Tenn.,” as the place to erect
same, as a greater number of people would see if
there, and be reminded of the virtuous manhood of
him to whom it is erected. Laud his name and
memory to the world, for such traits of character;

Judge Hall was at the Chickamaug-a Park’s dedi-
cation, and is gratified with the addresses of Bate,
Walthall and Oates. His regiment, the Eighth
Kentucky, was there under Forrest. His company
went into the war 116 strong – , but at the last roll
call there were but nine.

Col. A. T. Gay sends four subscriptions, and adds:
Also Young- County Camp No. 127, U. C. V., at

Graham, Texas, sends $5 to aid in building- a mon-
ument to perpetuate the memory of the noble deeds
and sad fate of Samuel Davis, whose illustrious and
conspicuous example — such as never before adorned
and illuminated the annals of history — is an honor to
the soldiers of our Sunny South. Private as he
was, in the bloom of his youth, with loved ones at
home, and everything- to live for, he said he had
rather die a thousand deaths than commit one dis-
honorable act. He belonged to ■ L he Confederacy and
was a perfect tvpe of Southern manhood. My
Camp says build the Monument on the Capitol
grounds in Nashville, near the South entrance to
the State Capitol. I know the chivalrous sons and
soldiers of Tennessee will not object, but if this
can’t be done, then build it in Richmond, Va., near
the Monument of Jefferson Davis, that the two may
unite in honoring- the cause they served so well.
He concludes, “trusting that it will be built and that
the Confederate Veteran will live forever.”

The above group represents Capt. Shaw — known
as ‘ ‘Coleman” — and seven of h is men. The one stand-
ing in rear and center of Dr. Shaw is an older
brother of Samuel Davis. This picture was taken
soon after the war — in 1867. Captain Shaw and
John Davis were killed by an explosion on steam
boat owned by Davis and his father.

It is doubtful if anv picture of Samuel Davis will
ever be procured. He was vigorously rigid in ex-

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acting; justice. At school he would interfere with
boys getting – advantage of smaller ones, and he
would catch and hold a larg-er boy that the smaller
might avenge wrong doing.

He maintained this principle of fairness even to
parental disobedience. He wis so devoted to his
senior brother John, for instance, that he refused to
come to school at Nashville, unless both could come.
It resulted so seriously that he left home and re-
mained until the father sent for him. A compro-
mise of the matter was effected by John going to
Franklin College whiie he came to the State Uni-
versity.

Col. Bennett H. Young, Louisville, Ky., Dec. 24,
1895: My mother once entertained Samuel Davis at
her home during the war. When, a few months
later, she heard of his tragic death, her heart was
touched with deepest sorrow and grief. She often
told me he was one of the most attractive and win-
some young men she had ever seen, and she never
ceased during life to mourn his sad fate. After my
return from the war and subsequent exile, in 1868,
oftentimes, with tears in her eyes and soul oppressed
with grief, she told me the circumstances attending
her acquaintance with him. He deserves a monu-
ment in recognition of his heroic courage — none
surpassed his. He gave his life, not only for the
cause of his country, l>u( also in the discharge of
honorable obligations to those with whom he came
in contact. I send my mite. The Confederates of
his native State (Tennessee) ought to designate the
location where shall be erected the stone to com-
memorate the splendor and grandeur of his character.
He gave all he had ■- his life; none could have done
more and, in so doing, glorified Southern manhood.

V. Y. Cook, Elmo, Ark.: I enclose $2.00 to ap-
ply to Sam Davis Monument Fund.

He was a patriot in the real sense, and died for a
principle worthy of any honorable sacrifice. The
principle and not the mode of dying made the
sacred consecration, and its true patriotism is en-
titled to reward here on earth. Surviving Confeder-
ates and their friends owe his memory a monument.

The now venerable G. W. Petway, of Pulaski,
had the opportunity, and improved it, to visit Samuel

Davis while in jail at Pulaski, previous to his exe-
cution. His recollections of the occasion have been
requested for the Veteran, and in a brief letter of
January ‘), he states:

I was cashier of the Branch of the Planters’ Bank.
The bank was in possession of the commissar)* de-
partment, and only one room of my residence, in
rear of the bank, was allotted to my family. Provis-
ions were to be had only through the commissary
and, under the circumstances, I was forced to board
some of the officers. Among them were two Meth-
odist preachers, I. Teter and T. Audus, Chaplains.
Davis had just been captured, tried and sentenced to
die. Much excitement prevailed and sympathy in
his behalf was general. Mine was deeply stirred
and, procuring access to the jail, which was closely
guarded, only through one of these officers, I sug-
gested to Teter, who was in sympathy with Davis,
that we visit him and offer such spiritual comfort as
was possible to a man under sentence of death. Per-
mission was granted us. We found him sitting on
the floor of his cell, which was too dark to reveal
his features distinctly or to rend to him. I can’t
recall the conversation I had with him further than
his reply to a question as to his spiritual condition.
With tears streaming down his face, he said: “I
don’t fear death, but it makes me mad to think that
I am to die as a spy — I am not a spy.” I made some
comment on the spirit evinced by his words, “it
makes me mad,” but don’t remember his repl v. After
praying with him, I left, deeply impressed by the
interview, that he possessed the elements of great-
ness— of a brave, generous and self-sacrificing pa-
triotism.

Col. J. II. McDowell, Union City, Tenn: I en-
close one dollar for the Sam.. Davis Monument.
Everj Confederate soldier should feel it a duty and
honor, to aid in erecting a monument in memory of
a comrade whose unsurpassed heroism, integrity
and high sense of honor caused him to deliberately
die the death of a martyr rather than divulge a
secret confided to him. * * *

Let it be erected at our State Capital, where vis-
iting thousands may drink of the inspiration that
his memory gives.

SUBSCRIPTIONS to THE SAMUEL
DAVIS MONUMEN C.

Reported in December Vetbb in, $300.26.
M. II. Nelson, Hopkinsville, Ky . $1,
Gen. Joe Wheeler, Washington 1> 0. Si.
Capl H.I. Smith, Mason City, Iowa,$l.
John int-ram Bivouac, Jackson, Tenn,

$5 60

Daviess County Con. Vet. Ass’n.Owens-

boro. Ky . *(i 66.
Judge l. 1′. Hall, l>ixon. Ky . $1.
Dr. W. P Minis. Cock rum. Miss . n.
Marsh Atkisson. Seattle, Wash , $’-‘.
W.N Street, Murfreesboro, $1.
H .1. Street. Dpton, Ky . $1.
.’ M Arnold. Newport, Ky., $1.
W. S Duckworth, Nashville, fl.
J. C. Neiison. Cherokee, Miss., H.
R, M. Knox. Pine Bluff. Ark $6.
J. II McDowell. Union City. Tenn., $1.
T. A Russell, Warrior. Ala, $1.
W. II. Pierce, Collinsville, Ala., *1.

Col Bennetl Young, Louisville, Ky.,.$5.
Capl .1. T. Sn.it 1) . Marion, Ark . >l.
Roherl Walker. Sherman, Tex.. $1
1> Z Goodlett, Jacksonville, Ala., $2,
Roland Gooch, Nevada, Tex . $1.
.1 II Rudy. Owensboro, Ky., $1
II. Ashbrook, St. Louis, Mo., SI
(i N. Albright. W A. Ross, A lonzo Gil-
liam Stanton. Tenn., 50ctseach; I. C.
Newman, II M. Nasi). J. W. Murnan,
d Sehafer J. T Coppedge. J. K. Gibson,
St anion. Tenn . 26 ets each.
W T ‘I hen as. (tin, I.. City, Tenn.. $1.
J>r. M S. Browne, Winchester, Ky , |1.
B I. Dnrrett. Springfield, Tenn., %1.
Bailey Hatler Bolivar, Mo., fi.
J. T. Cargile ^ Leonard Johnson. Mor-
risville. Mo., each send 60 cents ad-
ditional. V-
B i . Jenkins. Nolensville, Tenn., $1.
A (‘. Goirion, Ah Ki nzie. Tenn , *L.
Geo. W. Wright. MrKerzie Tenn., $1.
W W li. ton. McK. nzie. Tenn. $1.
Dr. J, 1′ Cannon, McKenzie, Tenn., $1.

Dr P. I’. Lewis, Coalburg, Aln., $1. rcnj
Young County Camp, < rraham, Tex . $5.
Wm. Montgomery, Arrow. Tenn., ■$ 1 .
E. S. Mallory, .la’el; son. Tenn.. $1 .

Rev. A. T. (too. line, station Camp,

Tenn.. $10.
Cash. ( E T.,1 Nashville, $1 .
J. E. Davis Wesl Point. Miss. $1
Paul D.” Cunningham, Mexican Bor-

.Icr. $1.
W. T. Davis. Nashville. $1,
.1. Ryan, ChicBgo, III $5,
C s. Hayes, Mineola, Tex . $1.
E. II. Welburn, Nashville. $1.
J. A. Templeton, Jacksonville, Tex., $1
Br J. A. V yelh New Yotk. $60.
Toial Amount, $62040.

Later the entire list of subscriptions
Will appear in the Yi’iru.vN from nil
v ho send !f I ( d orover. Item, ml or cer-
tificates of slates will be issued lo all
Vi ho pay as much as one dollar. Let all
who sre raising funds report as soon as
practicable.

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Confederate Veterai).

UNITED CONFEDERATE DAUGHTERS.

Since the meeting- in Atlanta of the Daughters
from the various States that were Confederate,
the sentiment for general organization as it is
with the soldier veterans, assures that with ‘proper
direction of energies the United Daughters of the
Confederacy will be of great usefulness.

Mrs. John C. Brown, of Nashville, the President
— widow of the gallant General, who was after the
war prominent in Councils of State, a Governor of
Tennessee, and who was eminently efficient in the
railroad development of Texas — enters upon her re-
sponsible duties with business sagacity and zeal.

Mrs. L. H. Raines, of Savannah, Ga., the Vice
President, labors without ceasing in the cause.
To her indefatigable energy the life of the organi-
zation may be attributed. This assertion is made
with due deference to many other workers in the
cause. Of the other officials mention may be ex-
pected hereafter. Each one of them was selected
with confidence in her zeal and capacity.

The Veteran attaches the
highest importance to the or-
ganization, and will give space
and labor without stint to its
permanent establishment.

The next meeting will occur
in Nashville during the Ten-
nessee Centennial Exposition,
and it is expected that many
Chapters will be added to the
organization before that time.
Request is made in this con-
nection for a report of every Chapter that has been
organized, with names of President and Secretary.

Texas illustrates what may be done by the
Daughters. In March, 1894, Mrs. J. R. Currie
called a meeting of the Dallas ladies, asking those
who felt an interest to organize as Daughters of the
Confederacy, “The prime object then being to secure
a worthy resting place for Confederate heroes.”

The call was responded to unanimously and in a
short time three hundred ladies were organized.

Each member was assessed one dollar to be paid
annually, and each agreed to use her best endeavor
to increase its membership.

The membership dues were to be used only for
organization or burial purposes. And all money
coming in from non-residents of Dallas to be used
as the ladies deem best, to form a monument fund.
The officers are: President, Mrs. J. R. Currie; Vice
Presidents, Mrs. J. C. Myers and Mrs. Travis Hens-
ley; Treasurer, Mrs. J. S.. Miller; and Secretary,
Mrs. Sallie Cabell Lewis. Officers are elected an-
nually. The Secretary writes that no stone has
been left unturned to make their efforts a success,
“and now, after a little more than a year’s labor,
we have, as a reward, deposited in the National
Exchange Bank of Dallas fully five thousand dol-
lars, and with bright expectations in the near fu-
ture for its increase.

“It is our earnest desire to complete arrangements
so as to be able to receive bids for our proposed
monument as early as June next, and as speedily as
possible thereafter to place in the City Park of

Dallas a fitting token of the esteem we Southern
women bear for the ‘ Lost Cause.” At the. last
Dallas Fair on Confederate Day, which was a great
success, the most charming feature of the enter-
tainment was the singing – of Mrs. L. L. Jester.

MRS. L. L. JESTER.

Every member of the Daughters should become
interested in the general organization. Copies of
Veteran containing the constitution will be sent
from this office for the asking. The officers, in ad-
dition to the President and Vice President, are Mrs.
I. M. Clark, Nashville, and Mrs. J. Jefferson
Thomas, Atlanta, Secretaries. Mrs. Lottie Preston
Clarke, Lynchburg, Va., is Treasurer.

The following list of Chapters has been reported
in the order that they were chartered:

No. 1. Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Jno. Overton.

No. 2. Savannah, Ga., Mrs. L. H. Raines.

No. 3. Charleston, S. C. Mrs. A. T. Smythe.

No. 4. Wilmington, N. C, Mrs. E. H. Parsley.

No. 5. Jackson, Tenn., Mrs. R. A. Allison.

No. 6. Dallas, Texas, Mrs. Kate Cabell Currie.

No. 7. Alexandria, Va., Mrs. Philip Yeatman.

No. 8. Baltimore, Md., Mrs. Louisa Wigfall
Wright.

No. 9. Warrenton, Va., Miss Mary A. Smith.

No. 10. Lynchburg, Va., Mrs. NorvellOtey Scott.

No. 11. Appomattox, Va., .

No: 12. Lexington, Ky., Mrs. C. L. Brady.

No. 13. Gallatin, Tenn., Mrs. I. F. Wilson.

No. 14. Franklin, Tenn., Miss Susie Gentrv.

No. 15, South Pittsburg, Term., Mrs. Will E.
Carter.

Confederate Ueterap.

No. 16. Fayetteville, Tenn., Mrs. F. Z. Metcalfe.

No. 17. Galveston, Texas, Mis. H. L. Ballinger.

No. 18. Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. C. Helen Plane.

No. 19. Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. M. C. Draysdale.

No. 20. Washing-ton*, D. C, .

No. 21. Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Fannie J. Leigh.

No. 22. Augusta. Ga., Mrs. Ida Evans Eve.

No. 23. Covington, Ga., Mrs. V. B. Conyers.

Mrs. John Overton of Nashville, Tenn., Presi-
dent of Chapter No. 1, calls for a meeting of dele-
gates from all Tennessee Chapters to meet here.
January 28, ’96, for the purpose of organizing a
State Division, United Daughters of the Con-
federacy.

The Executive Committee of the Rouss Memorial
Committee expects to hold a session in Nashville at
that time, and other matters of much importance to
Tennessee Confederates are to be considered and
a large delegation of Daughters throughout the
State is urgently requested.

The Georgia State Division will meet in Augusta,
February 4th, for the purpose of framing Constitu-
tion, By-Laws, etc., for State work. The commit-
tee selected to present these papers is composed of
the following ladies:

Mrs. L. H. Kaines, Savannah; Mrs. Hattie Gould
Jeffries, Augusta; Mrs. Virginia B. Conyers Cov-
ington and Mrs. J. K. Ottley of Atlanta.

The Savannah Daughters are to give an enter-
tainment on Lee’s birthday, and the veterans of
that city will be their guests.

Mrs. L. II. Raines the diligent Vice President, is
having printed very handsome certificates for mem-
bers which will be signed by the President and Sec-
retary, officially stamped and supplied to members
for ten cents each. There should be co-operation
by Chapters in ordering these beautiful lithographs,
suitable for framing, which are to be ready about
February 1st.

The history of Virginia Chapters by Mrs. James
Mercer Garnett, has been mislaid. Its substance
is requested again. The Veteran will be impar-
tial among all persons who honor its name and
organize for the purposes indicated by Confederate
Charters.

THE IDEAL SOLDIER.

James Macgill, Pulaski, Va., Nov. 2″, 1895: In
the former Journal of Comrade B. L. Ridley, July
Vetkkan, I find (May 2nd to 5th) that he mentions
the name of Peter W. Haister in several places. It
should be Major Peter W. Ilairston. As Comrade
Ridley says, bis house was the home of all South-
ern soldiers who passed that way, and his entire
family were as true friends to the cause as any in
the South. Major P. \V. Hairston was a member
of General J. E. B. Stuart’s Staff. His first wife
was a sister of J. E. B. Stuart. Her name was Col-
umbia Lafayette Stuart. She died in 1857, leaving
her husband, one son and one daughter. Both the
children died in 1S(>7. Major Ilairston married bis
second wife. Miss Fannie Coldwell, of Salisbury,
N. C., about the beginning ot the war. and lived at
Cooluma Hill, by the Yadkin River in North Caro-
lina. Major Hairston died about six years ago in
Baltimore, Md. His wife and children are now
living- in North Carolina.

The following tribute to “The Soldier” is from
the pen of Hon. M. T. Bryan, of the Nashville bar.
It was written as a school declamation for his son:

The soldier is the guardian of liberty, the pre-
server of peace, the foe of anarchy, and the hope of
the oppressed. For the contest he lives — for vic-
tory he dies. His blood has crimsoned the sod in
every land; his sword has flashed ‘neath every sun.
Loyal to his commander, he follows where he leads,
laughs at danger, and halts not before a soldier’s
grave.

Though he has fought under every banner, has
upheld the tyrant on his throne, and oft defended
the wrong, yet through him has right triumphed,
and in him found its ablest defender. His victories
mark the milestones along the road from Paganism
to Christianity, civilization and enlightenment, un-
til the history of every nation may be read in the
prowess and character of its soldiery.

In this fair land, where the skies are ever blue,
where the flowers in sweet perfection bloom and
gentle winds blow health to all, the ideal soldier
has stamped forever his personality upon the ample
page of history. He was great in war, but gentle
in peace; pure in life, but, with purpose strong, he
lived and died the embodiment of all that was noble
in men. A soldier and patriot, his sword gleamed
in the sanguinary glare of battle, to be sheathed
only when his country’s cause was lost. But

” Never hand
Waved sword from stain us free,
Nor purer sword led braver band,
Nor braver bled fur a brighter land,
Nor brighter land lnid a cause so ^rand.
Nor cause a chief like Lee.”

A STORY OF THE LEES.

The visit of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, says the Louis-
ville Courier Journal, has started a story which he
told on himself several years ago, and which is a
good illustration of the love the Confederate sol-
diers bore toward Gen. Robert E. Lee. As it is
well known, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was at the head of
the cavalry, and these were much envied by the in-
fantry men, who had to walk through the mud and
dust.

After Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered, Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee rode away from Appomattox. While
riding through a lane he met an old North Carolina
soldier.

“Ho, there,” cried General Lee, “where are you
going?”

“I’ve been off on a furlough, and am now going
back to join Gen. Bob Lee,” replied the soldier.

” You needn’t go back, but can throw your gun
away and return home, for Lee’s surrendered.”

“Lee’s surrendered?”

“That’s what I said,” said General Lee.

” It must have been that damned Fitz Lee, then.
Rob Lee would never surrender,” and the old sol-
dier put on a look of contempt and walked on.

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Qopfederate l/eterai).

OLD “LANDMARKS” OF THE ARMY.’

A. S. Horsley writes from Abingdon, Va., Dec,
’95: I enclose $1 for the Sam Davis Monument
Fund. I remember Sam Davis well. He was a
rosy-cheeked, handsome boy, and N. B. Shepard .
used to kiss him “because he looked like a girl.”
He belonged to the Rutherford Rifles. The Com-
pany was a large one, and its ranks were always
full when the battle came on. The company was
like a lot of neighborly country bo3 T s. While our
regiment, the First Tennessee, was camped at
Hickory Grove, on the south bank of Duck River, a
few miles south of Shelbyville, Tenn., the Ruther-
ford Rifles resorted to athletic sports. A favorite
game was ” Leap Frog – ,” the entire company of 110
men getting in single line and leaning over in front,
with bowed head and hands on knees. Felix Col-
lier was the tallest, Jones next, Dave Sublett next,
and Dock Butler next, and so on down to little Mar-
ling Carr. Marling made the leap over Sublett,
Jones and Felix Collier all right, as he was light
and active, although they were immense in bulk,
especially Jones and Sublett. Sam Davis once
stumbled on Dave Sublett’s broad back, and fell
sprawling over Jones on Collier. This was great
fun, and he would laugh and try it again, with like
results. If Edison could invent a camera that
would take pictures from the mind, I could give
you a mind picture of that scene at “Hickory
Grove.” It is now Sam Davis’ tenth trial. He
jumps safely over Marling- Carr, and King, and
Murfree, “the Senator” Wade, the Beasleys, and
bravely mounts Dave Sublett’s great back. Dave
assists him, and he gets over in a stumbling way.
He falls stumbling over Jones’ great bulk, and
Jones keeps him from falling. Big Felix is the
last, and he turns a double summersault and falls
sprawling upon the ground.

Tom Butler, of the Martin Guards, was the cham-
pion wrestler of the Army of Tennessee. I have
seen him throw down a dozen men in one day. He
was a fine fellow and good soldier. I do not believe
he was ever thrown. I wonder if he is still living?

Daring the past summer and fall I passed over
roads that the First Tennessee Regiment went over
from August to December, 1861, in Greenbrier, Po-
cahontas, Randolph and Battle counties. I walked
to the spot where General Lee’s tent stood on Val-
ley Mountain, and from a point near which I could
see Mingo Flats and Cheat Mountain, along whose
great sides we clambered for several days, and
where we had our first fight or skirmish on the
summit, in a blackberry patch. I could also see
where old Colonel John H. Savage marched along
in a deep valley, and captured thirty Yankees by
himself one foggy morning, Sept. 11, 1861. They
were in a house, and their guns were stacked out-
side. His men had captured the Vidette, and he
rushed ahead of the advance guard and, getting be-
tween the Yankees and their guns, made them
surrender.

The Valley Mountain country has’ greatly
changed, an English colony having bought it and
cleared off the timber and made stock farms. It is

a fine bluegrass country. At Big Spring I found
our old camp, through Major Cam. Gatewood, who
pointed out the cold spring, from which I drank
after an absence of over thirty-four years. A store-
house stands where our regiment camped. There
a big white frost fell in August, and one of the
company (Jack Butler’s captain) accidentally dis-
charged his gun while cleaning up for Sundaj^’s in-
spection, and it killed one of Colonel Hatton’s men,
of the Seventh. I saw his grave on the hill in a
grove of locust trees. I remember well his burial
with military honors, the band playing Pleyel’s
Hymn, or funeral march. Sitting here by the cold
spring, I could also see in the distance up the creek
and valley a tree which Captain Hume R. Field —
afterwards colonel — used to shoot against with his
Colt’s repeating rifle, with which gun he killed
and wounded half a dozen Yankees while on a
scouting expedition with Lieutenant Randolph.

I followed the trail of our regiment 140 miles and
stopped at all our old camps. The decades had
made many changes.

I have read with much interest Brom. Ridley’s
narrative. Some mistakes occur, one of which is
where he says Lovejoy Station is where President
Davis visited the Army of Tennessee. “Palmetto”
is the station. I went three miles to hear Mr. Davis
and Howell Cobb speak. Mr. Davis was a charm-
ing speaker, and impressive. But General Cobb was
more impassioned. He was a large, fleshy man, while
Mr. Davis was of the Cassius sort — lean. In a few
days we started on the unfortunate campaign into
Middle Tennessee, which resulted so unfortunately.

While at Meadow Bluff last summer I saw the
spot where we camped on our return from Sewell
Mountain. We put up our tents during a rain, or
water spout, and Corporals Phifer and Schwartz, of
Captain Harsch’s company, had a terrific fist fight
during the heaviest part of the rain. Schwartz had
stolen Phifer’s ten-pound tallow cake out of his
knapsack and replaced it with a fifteen-pound rock,
which Phifer carried all da} r . I was also reminded
at Meadow Bluff of an eighteen-mile foot-race
Billy Whitthorne ran between Meadow Bluff and
Lewisburgh. This is now West Virginia.

Col. Savage was interviewed about the foregoing
and although he replied “not for publication, “history
claims the extraordinary incident. He said: “I cap-
tured three squads (pickets & officers) before captur-
ing the main body — as now remembered, 56 men.’ I
did not get between them and their guns — I rode
rapidl v through them, got in their rear and, drew my
pistol, I commanded them to lav down their arms,
with threats to have them all killed if one of them
fired. It was a rash act. I would not try it again
for all the money of the Rothchilds.” Referring to
the story published in Head’s Campaign of the Six-
teenth Tennessee Regiment, which accuses Coi.
Savage of swearing, he says: “I suppose I did
swear, but I regret it. My speech and manner
saved mj life.”

D. L. Durrett, Springfield, Tenn., member of the
14th Tennessee Regiment, Archer’s Brigade, makes
inquiry for W. A. Motes of the 38th Georgia Regi-
ment, who was a prisoner with him at Ft. Delaware.

V. Y. COOK

WOT LOANAP

A GALVESTON, TEXAS, VETERAN. NOTES FROM WEBSTER COUNTY, KY.

Confederate l/eterai).

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Thos. H. Edgar is popular and well-known. He
was born on Galveston Island, Republic of Texas,

away back in 1837j
of Scotch and
American parent-
age. His great-
grandfather and
grandfather were
Revolutionary sol-
diers and his fath-
er a Texas soldier.
At the age of nine-
teen he was assist-
ant Deputy Post-
master; at twenty-
one married to
Miss Sarah Fields,
daughter of Hon.
Tom Fields, State
Engineer.

On the first of
February, 1861,
when Texas seced-
ed from the Union, he resigned from United States
Postal Service, took the oath of allegiance to the
Confederacy, and gave instructions for a time in
postoffice department, until others were competent
to take charge. He then resigned and enlisted in
the Twenty-sixth Texas Cavalry, commanded by
Gen. X. B. Debray.

[T’He was in active service at the front in every
campaign and battle in which his command partici-
pated, including the Red River campaign of lSt>4,
against Banks. His regiment was disbanded on
the 23rd day of May, 18f>5; since then he has farmed
and served in official positions. He has lived in and
has seen Galveston city grow from three shanties to
a commercial city with a population of 40,000, and
his State from a “population of 20,000 to 3,000,000.

DC F. Waldron, Sergeant Company F, 20th Regi-
ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry: If alive, I would
like much to know the address of the Confederate
who made me a prisoner at the battle of Chancel-
lorsville about 2 p.m., on Sunday, May 3, ’63.
When the Union Army broke up near the Chancel-
lor House, and went in direction of the Rappahan-
nock River, with a comrade I took a path leading
along the hank of a small stream. After some dis-
tance, we crossed over, and were halted as soon as
we got in a field by a Confederate Sergeant, who
stood near a small house on an elevation. I looked
for a chance to get away, but saw the field was
lined with dismounted .cavalry, and some very near
us. At the second command to “Throw down your
arms,” we tossed our muskets, muzzle down, in a
boggy place, and went up to the Sergeant. He had
some more prisoners there, and soon started us to
the rear under guard. In conversation he said,
“Well, Sergeant, this is hard.” I replied, “It is one
of the fates of war.” He was about my age then,
twenty-two.

Judge L. P. Hall, Dixon, Ky. : We have no or-
ganization in this county, and but few Confederates
survive. It saddens me to realize that so many
have gone to the final camp ground. Company A,
Eighth Kentucky Regiment, was made up of my
neighbors and friends in this section. We mus-
tered 116 when we left for the South. We were or-
ganized promptly, with other companies from Ken-
tucky, into a regiment, and served as infantry un-
til we were assigned to General Forrest. Then we
would go into action as infantry or cavalry, as the
case demanded. At the end of the conflict there
were but nine left of the original company.

I was at the Park Dedication at Chattanooga, and
heard the orations and went over the battleground.
Who could doubt our loyalty to the conviction that
we were defending our constitutional rights, our
homes and liberties? Kentuckians could have had
no other motive. Bate, Walthall and Oates were
to represent the Confederates there.

W. H. Ogilvie, Allisona, Tenn., gives this remi-
niscence: When the tocsin of war sounded in ’61,
two neighboring villages, C. G. and E., each began to
form companies. The C. G. boys, fearing that hos-
tilities would cease before they reached the front, con-
ceived the idea of expediting matters by forming a
union with the E. boys. They arranged for a meeting
and conference at E. After much martial music,
speeches were made to arouse the enthusiasm of the
E. boys. But they wouldn’t enthuse, ami declined
the union proposition. C. a hopeful youth of the
C. G. Company, full of enthusiasm, patriotism and
indignation, mounted the stand and declared that
he could drink all the blood that would be spilled,
telling the E. crowd that they could stay at home
and take care of the women and children. The C.
G. Company became a part of the Twentieth Ten-
nessee Regiment, and the E.’s of the Twenty-
fourth. While the Twentieth bivouaced at Mur-
freesboro, after retreating from Fishing Creek, and
the Twenty-fourth passing them, Captain L., of the
E. Company, noticing a tall, pale, “before-taking”
youth, leaning against a tree, the picture of de-
spair, remarked: “I have seen him before — who is
he?” Being told it was C, he exclaimed; “Oh,
yes; he is blood-foundered.” I am glad to record
the fact that C. became a wiser man; that his views
were slightly modified as to the relative fighting
value of himself and a Yankee; also, that he recov-
ered, ami is now a portly, prominent lawyer of
Nashville, Tenn., and always ready to do service
for the old Twentieth.

Gen. R. B. Coleman, of the Indian Territory, sends
a curious document to the Veteran. Coh A. C.
Gould, commanding the Twenty-third Texas Cav-
alry dismounted, discharged his soldiers instead of
surrendering to be paroled. He copies that of D.
L. H. Spugh. Each soldier was “hereby honorably
dischargeil from the Army of the Confederate States,
having remained true to his colors to the last.”
The discharges were dated at Hempstead, Texas,
May 27, 1865.

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QDQfederate Ueterai).

BATTLE ABBEY FOR THE SOUTH.

Active co-operation even in these hard times for
the successful execution of the worthily named
Rouss Memorial is being- had generally through
the South. Wherever the opportunity has been
given subscriptions have quite approximated $1
per member for Veteran Camps. That means as
much as $10 for many of them as the few have ever
to carry financial burdens for the many, and charac-
teristic appeal comes from “Old Tige” of the Trans-
Mississippi Department, U. C. V.

Headquarters Trans-Mississippi Department,
United Confederate Veterans.

Dallas, Tex., Dec. 27, 1895.
Comrades — Our comrade, Charles Broadway
Rouss, now a citizen of New York, proud of his
Southern birth, proud of the fact that he was a
Confederate soldier — a private in the Black Horse
cavalry regiment of Virginia — proud of the unself-
ish and dangerous service in which he shared with
his comrades the hardships and perils of a long and
bloody war, unconsciously becomes the typical
Southern soldier whose name and fame will be con-
spicuous in history, in poetry and song, as long as
the people of this great Southland of ours continue
to admire true courage and true patriotism. To
carry out these feelings of patriotism, of pride and
of love for the cause he believed to be just and
right, and to see that a true history of the heroism,
hardships and sufferings of the Confederate soldier,
and that of the noble women of the South, shall be
handed down to posterity in a correct and proper
manner, but be a truthful history of Southern valor
by historians who can write honestly and at the
same time sympathize with a brave people in their
heroic struggle for constitutional liberty, he has
therefore, in the declining years of his life, proposed
the erection of a Confederate Memorial Association,
a great “Battle Abbey,” in which should be col-
lected, preserved and displayed relics of every kind,
archives containing records and documents of every
kind useful in compiling history. The Memorial
Association is to be composed of Confederate sol-
diers, their wives, children and friends under the
control of the Confederate veterans. He sent to
Houston, Tex., a check for $100,000, which was
presented by Col. Robert C. Wood, and to be deliv-
ered to the Confederate Veteran Association when-
ever $100,000 was raised by our people as an endow-
ment fund and chartered by the Confederate Veter-
ans’ Association. The Association of Confederate
Veterans in session at Houston, Tex., appointed a
committee of one member from each State and Ter-
ritory where Confederate organizations existed.
The committee met at Atlanta, Ga., in October,
and after being organized and adopting certain
plans, appointed an executive committee consisting
of Col. J. R. Mcintosh of Mississippi, Gen. J. A.
Chalaron of Louisiana, and Capt. W. R. Garrett of
Tennessee, who are charged with the execution of
the plans adopted by the committee. The plan is
that all Confederate sympathizers may become
members of the Association by subscribing and pay-
ing for stock (membership) the sum of $1 for each

share. Agents appointed to solicit subscriptions
will give you receipts for all moneys collected, on
prescribed forms, which will be deposited in local
banks to the order of the United Confederate Asso-
ciation; for the use of the Memorial Association.

My old comrades, glorious women, noble sons and
fair daughters of the Trans-Mississippi Department,
this is a grand and noble proposition on the part of
Comrade Rouss— one that should be responded to in
the same spirit that it is tendered to you. I, there-
fore, appeal to you by the memory of the Confeder-
ate dead, who lie buried on ever}- battlefield from
Gettysburg to Fort Frown on the Rio Grande; by
the memories of the sufferings, hardships, trials and
tribulations of our Southern women; I appeal to you
by the luster and glories of our arms, made resplen-
dent by the heroism of both the living and the dead,
to assist in erecting this splendid “memorial hall,”
where the sacred relics of our great struggle for
constitutional liberty may be deposited and proper-
ly cared for. I know you will respond cheerfully
to the sacred duty. And in after years, when this
splendid temple is raised in one of our Southern
cities, it will be the “Mecca” of the South, where
the descendants of the bravest men and the grand-
est women that ever lived in any country or in any
age, will make annual pilgrimages to make their
offerings of love and to breathe the spirit of true
patriotism and true love of country. The com-
manding general of the United Confederate Veter-
ans has by general order designated Maj r 1, 1896,
as memorial festival day, to be set apart for the
wcmen of the South to raise funds for this great
memorial hall or battle abbey. I recommend that
every Confederate camp in the Trans-Mississippi
Department meet on the 1st day of Ma}-, 1S96, and
that every camp take as many shares as they have
members on their rolls. I therefore request and
direct the commanders of every State and of every
division (both State and Territory) in the Trans-
Mississippi to issue the necessary orders and circu-
lars and make the proper arrangements to carry out
the above instructions, and to call co your aid and
assistance every Confederate soldier, their good
wives, their sons and daughters of the Confederacy,
so that we may be able to transmit to Richmond on
the 30th of June, 1896, when our great reunion
meets, the result of your work.

A happy New Year to the brave old Confederates,
their families and friends.

By order of W. L. Cabell,
Lieutenant General United Confederate Veterans,
commanding Trans-Mississippi Department.

Official: A. T. Watts.

• Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

Comment upon this appeal and order is copied
from the New Orleans States: The eloquent order
of the department and division commanders of the
U. C. V. are bearing full fruit. We present to-day
the order of Gen. W. L. Cabell, commander of the
Trans-Mississippi Department. It is a reflex of ‘ ‘Old
Tige” himself. There is no mistaking his senti-
ments in the earnestness with which he gives ex-
pression to them. Whether with the sword or pen,
this gallant veteran always strikes straight and
with effect.

Qogfederate Vetera r>.

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Persons interested in the Rouss Memorial may
address any one of the committee whose names and
addresses are:

General George H. Steuart, South River, Md.

Colonel J. R. Mcintosh, Meridian, Miss.

General Geo. D. Johnston, Tuscaloosa. Ala.

Colonel J. B. Cary, Richmond,’ Va.

General J. A. Chalaron, New Orleans, La.

Captain B. H. Teague, Aiken, S. C.

Major W. R. Garrett, Nashville, Tenn.

Colonel John O. Casler, Oklahoma City, Okla.

General W. D. Chipley, Pensacola, Fla.

Colonel J. C. Cravens, Springfield, Mo.

Captain John H. Carter, Avon, Fayette Co., Ky.

Colonel Howard Williams, Atlanta, Ga.

Hon. W. C. Ratcliffe, Little Rock, Ark.

General W. L. Cabell, Dallas, Texas.

Major Thomas S. Keenan, Raleigh, N. C.

Dr. L. C. Tennent, McAlester, I. T.

Captain John M. Hickey, Washington, D. C.

Captain C. S. White, Komney, W. Va.

A “Memorial Festival Da)'” has been designated
and Friday, May 1, ’96, the date “to be set apart
for the use of the women of the South in raising
funds for this great Memorial Hall.”

All the details and exercises of this “Memorial
Festival Day” are to be planned, conducted and car-
ried out entirely under the orders, control, ideas and
management of the women of the South in their re-
spective localities.

This “Battle Abbey” will not be dedicated alone
to the history and deeds of the civic and military
heroes of the greatest of civil wars, but “within its
sacred portals sufficient and conspicuous space will
be reserved for the names and fame of the Heroines
of the South.”

GALLANT LIEUT.-COL. FULTON, OF N. C.

Some Rebel Relics From the Seat of War. — A
handsome 12 mo. Memorial Volume of 315 pages,
commemorative mainly of the spirit, speech and
manner of life of the invincible “Old Reb” of the
Rank and File throughout the war, and of the
genius and splendor of his Dixie Land. This in-
teresting hook is by Rev. A. T. Goodloe, who was a
Lieutenant in the Thirty-fifth Alabama Regiment.
C. S. A. Those who order this book of us will con-
tribute to the Samuel Davis Monument fund.

M. Dcadv, 132 Yale Strcv t, Akron, O. : After the
battle of South Mountain, Md., September, is<>2, I
was detailed to bury the dead. Among them I found
a Confederate officer, on whose coat was pinned a
paper with these words written in pencil: “Capt.
H. Y. Hyers, Mad River Lodge, North Carolina.”
I am quite sure he was a member of the 12th or 23rd
North Carolina Infantry, as I heard that those two
regiments were in our front. He must have placed
the paper there himself so he might be known if he
fell. He was buried as tenderly as could be under
the circumstances. I cut on a board, letter for let-
ter, what was on the paper and placed it at head of
his grave. This notice may be seen by some of his
relatives, and I shall be glad to supply further infor-
mation. I was a member of Company A, Twenty-
third Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

The following letter written by Gen. I. R. Trim-
ble to the father of Lieut.-Col. Fulton, of Stokes
County, N. C, on occasion of his son’s death, was
printed in the Greensborough Patriot, October 17,
1862, and the bleached clipping comes from Judge
D. C. Thomas, of Lampasas, Texas, to whom it
was handed by E. C. Fulton, a nephew of the hero.

“Front Roval, Va., October 1, 1862.

Samuel Fulton, Stokes County, N. C.

Dear Sir: — The names of those who nobly die tor
their country have ever lived in a people’s grateful
memory. He who falls in battle incribes his name
upon the records of his country’s glory in charac-
ters which can never perish while freedom lives.

Such a man was Lieut-Col. Fulton. At an early
period he entered the army, and joined the Twenty-
first North Carolina Regiment in which, by promo-
tion, he had obtained the rank of Lieutenant Colo-
nel. His regiment was attached to the brigade
commanded by me, and brought into every action
which took place in Northern Virginia from the
battle of Winchester on the 28th of May, to that of
Manassas, on the 28th of August, including all of
Jackson’s battles near Richmond. I knew him
well, and can therefore speak from personal knowl-
edge of his merits. He blended, in a remarkable
degree, kindness and civilty with discipline and
military duties. He was the favorite of every sol-
dier. His merits were exhibited without preten-
sion; and his courage, the chief element of his char-
acter, was shown without bravado.

In many charges against the enemy, the battle
flag was seen in his hands leading the regiment to
victory. His death wounds were received while
thus bearing the colors in the charge at Manassas
on the 28th of August. He expired the next day
with the same \]a^ waving over him, which he had
borne in triumph against the foe.

I have felt constrained, my dear Sir, to offer this
faint tribute of respect to the virtues and gallantry
of your son, whom I considered one of the most val-
uable officers of my brigade, and whose honest and
gentlemanly deportment gained my warmest es-
teem. Accept, Sir, my sincere and deep sympathy
in the distress you and your family must feel forthe
loss of such a son. May this testimony to his
merits and manner of his death, assuage in some
degree, the pangs of those who knew him and loved
him well!

His State should be proud of his name and ever
cherish his memory. Her sons should now and
hereafter emulate his virtues and his patriotism.

I write this from a sick bed. where I am suffer-
ing from a wound, or I would write more at length.”

Dr. M. S. Browne, Winchester, Ky., in sending
contribution for Sam Davis Monument, writes:

I served in ‘<>1 and ’62 in Roddy’s Company, 37th
Tennessee Regiment of Infantry. If any member
of my old Company, “D” is living, I should like to
correspond with him. Lastly, if more is needed
for monument, I shall help. The Vetekan is in-
tensely interesting to me.

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Confederate 1/eterar?.

LEE CAMP SOLDIERS’ HOME.

N. V. Randolph, President of the above named
Home, reports to the Governor of Virginia, Jan. 1.
This institution, under the direction and super-
vision of R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, C. V., has contin-
ued to watch over and provide for disabled Confed-
erate soldiers as far as it was in their power with
the limited means at their disposal.

The main object in the establishm?nt of the Sol-
diesr’ Home was to prevent honorable and brave
Confederate soldiers, who by wounds and disease
contracted in the service of their country, and now
in their old age are unable to support themselves,
from dying in the county almshouses. A few men
from Lee Camp determined that they would build a
Soldiers’ Home, and do all in their power to avert
such a calamity. We have simply tried to do our
duty to our comrades in arms to the best of our
ability.

The Soldiers’ Home was bought, paid for and
equipped by R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, C. V., of Rich-
mond, and for two years supported by their private
funds. In ’92 we entered into a contract with the
State of Virginia, by which we would receive $30,-
000 a year for a period of twenty-two years, and at
the expiration of that time the Home should be-
come the property of the State. * * *

The present income, $30,000 a year, was intended
for the support of 200 men, but the demands have
been so great that we have been compelled to in-
crease the number until we have now present 253
men. Fifty-six are now in the Hospital for treat-
ment. The expenses of the Hospital are about
double the cost of the support of a man in the
Home.

It, therefore, becomes absolutely necessary to ap-
peal to the Legislature of Virginia for additional
assistance; otherwise we must restrict the number al-
ready present, and decline to admit new men except
as a vacancy occurs by death or resignation.

The State has appropriated in eight years $173,-
805.55, while Lee Camp and its friends have appro-
priated $149,563.94. The general hard times have
reduced our income from private donations, and for
the years ’94-95 we have only received $7,216.85
from this source. Every economy has been exer-
cised that was possible, and from tables submitted
in this report you will see that with .a few excep-
tions we have supported this institution at less
than any of the National Homes in the United
States.

We have now thirty-five applications on hand be-
fore the Committee, awaiting admission to the
Home. These men cannot be admitted unless the
State comes to our assistance. In the first in-
stance, we must have $6,000 to build an additional
house and to furnish the same. This will increase
our capacity eighty or one hundred men. We then
must have an additional appropriation of $10,000 a
year for the support of the Home. As the number
of men increase, the percentage or cost decreases, as
the fixed charges of the Home, such as salaries,
steam, heat, &c, remain the. same whether we have
200 men or 300 men.

I believe this appropriation of $10,000 will be
necessary for at least four to six years, as the num-
ber of applicants is constantly increasing, but I be-
lieve that at the end of six years, or 1902, that the
number will begin to decrease, and we could then
support the institution for the balance of the time
for the amount of $30,000 a year. Of course, it is
for the Legislature to say how many men we shall
take care of.

The Board of Visitors serve without compensa-
tion. The only salaries paid are the officers and
employees of the institution.

The Confederate Association of Washington. D.
C, has endowed two cots at $1,000 each, which en-
titles them to keep two men in the Home as long as
the institution shall last. The Board would be
glad to have other cots endowed at the price of
$1,000, and they will enter into a contract with the
donor that he shall have the privilege of naming one
man to occupy the same.

Besides the money appropriated to the Home di-
rect, R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, C. V., has spent $40,-
000 since its organization in providing for the
widows and orphans of Confederate soldiers, and
for their own indigent comrades who are so situated
that they could not be entered at the Home.

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

The Commanding General United Confederate
Veterans, by his Adjutant General, has issued an
order appealing to all Camps to use their influence
in behalf of a movement inaugurated by Confederate
and Union Veterans at Vicksburg for a National
Military Park there. The following appointments
as Aides-de-Camp. with the rank of Brigadier Gen-
eral, have been made:

Frank Phillips, Marianna, Fla.; E. G. “Williams,
Waynesville, Mo.; Peyton Wise, Richmond, Va. ;
Thos. E. Davis, Page M. Baker, H. J- Hearsey, and
Wm. T. Blakemore of New Orleans.

Dates for the re-union this 3’ear are now fixed for
June 30, July 1 and 2, at Richmond, Va.

AN OLD BATTLEFIELD IN GEORGIA.

FRANK I,. STANTON IN TOE CONSTITUTION.

The softest whisperings of the scented South,
And rust and roses in the cannon’s mouth.

And where the thunders of the fight were born
The wind’s wild tenor in the tinkling corn ;

With song of larks low-lingering in the loam,
And blue skies bending over love and home.

And far away — somewhere, upon the hills.

Or where the vales ring with the whip-poor-wills,

Sad, wistful eyes, and breaking hearts that beat
For the loved sound of unreturning feet;*

And when the oaks their leafy banners wave,
Dream of the baltle and an unmarked grave!

A subscriber wishes to procure two C. S. A. but-
tons, size used on sleeves. “Will pay well for them.
He wishes to get their history, with name, regi-
ment, company, battles, etc., of their owner. Ad-
dress the Veteran, stating price.

Confederate Veteran.

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LETTERS FROM VETERANS.

[ John H. McFerrin, Collierville, Tcnn.: By re-
fering to the label on my Veteran, I find that I
am in arrear for 1895. This reminds me that when I
attended school at Florence Wesleyan University in
“ante bellum” time, we published a monthly maga-
zine, edited by the students chosen from the two
Literary Societies, and in the course of time, it was
ascertained that there were a good many delin-
quents; so one of the editors wrote a nice editorial
on the subject and I recollect distinctly that he
closed by saying he hoped his friends, who wished
indemnity for the past, would pay up, and security
for the future, pay down. So I send two dollars
to pay up and also to pay down, please give me
credit for ’95 and ’96.

I have been a subscriber of the Veteran ever
since it was issued. I must confess that while I
was delighted with it when it first came out, I did
not think it could last long, as such beautiful re-
miniscences as you gave would soon be exhausted.
but I declare that instead of decreasing in interest,
it is certainly better and better every publication.
I must also confess that I have not done my whole
duty in assisting the Veteran, but I have given
out many of the copies advantageously. Among
the number was Mr. T. F. Jones, one of our most
prominent merchants, who, although, he was not
old enough to “don the gray,” yet of all the soldiers
that I know, no one takes a greater interest in read-
ing about the war, than Mr. Jones,. lie never
fails to speak a good word for the Veteran, and,
although we live in quite a small city, and our Con-
federates are rapidly passing away— still he has se-
cured about twenty-five subscribers and I really be-
lieve he will advance the number to fifty.

Comrade E. O. Sykes, of Aberdeen, Miss., who mar-
ried a niece of Colonel Rogers sends a photograph
to be engraved herewith, with interesting data con-
cerning Colonel William P. Rogers, of the Second
Texas Regiment Confederate States forces, who fell
at the storming of Battery Robinett, at Corinth,
Miss., Oct. 4, 1862. No braver or nobler soldier
ever gave up his life to his country’s cause
than this brave man. and he quotes from General
Van Dorn, commanding the Confederate troops at
this battle, reported on page 318 of the “War Ar-
chives,” Series 1, Vol. XVII, Part 1: “I cannot re-
frain from mentioning the conspicuous gallantry of
a noble Texan, whose deed at Corinth is the con-
stant theme of both friends and foes. As long as
courage, manliness, fortitude, patriotism and honor
exist, the name of William P. Rogers will be re-
vered and honored among men. He fell in the
front of battle, and died beneath the colors of his
regiment in the very center of the enemy’s strong-
hold. He sleeps, and glory is his sentinel.”

Surely the promised sketch will be in the Febru-
ary Veteran.

James Howard Bush, of Hemstead, Texas, a mem-
ber of J. A. Wharton’s Texas Rangers, died in
Nashville during the war. Miss Sallie McCallum,
of Pulaski, Tenn., has print of a poem found in his
pocket. It is pathetic.

Dr. T. R. Meux, formerly Assistant Surgeon,
4th Confederate Tennessee Regiment, writes from
Fresno, California: There are several hundred ex-
Confed’s in this (Fresno) County. We have an or-
ganization here, Sterling Price Camp, with about
175 members on roll. We have an annual festival
in April, at which time officers are elected.

The other officers are (besides Dr. Meux. Com-
mander): O. J. Meade, Vice Commander; R. G.
Harrell, Adjutant; W. M. Williams, Quartermaster;
T. L. Reel, Commissary; Dr. Alexander, Surgeon;
and J. R. Kirkpatrick, Chaplain. The Doctor
writes that the “gallant Gen. T. H. Bell of Forrest’s
Cavalry, whose Brigade led the charge at Fort
Pillow, is living here, and is hale and hearty,
though beginning to show the weight of years.”

“I lived in Haywood Co., Tenn., where I enlisted
in May, 1861. and served four years continuously in
Cheatham’s Command until May 3, ’65, when 1 was
paroled at Greensboro, N. C. and returned to West
Tennessee. I practiced medicine there until seven
years ago and then came here.”

Comrade James Bailey, foreman of Iron Mountain
Railroad Shops, at Argcnta, Ark., sends the names
of his associates there, and the command in which
they served, representing his own State, South Car-
olina, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. He
commends the VETERAN ” to every one who served
under the folds of our Confederate banner.”

Comrade Ben C. Smith, of Macon, Ga., desires in-
formation about Arastus B. Maxey. an ex-Confeder-
ate soldier, who served from Tennessee.

H. T. Sinnott, of Mosby’s Cavalry: In the VET-
ERAN of December, I notice an article on the death
of Captain William Griffin Waller, in which it was
stated that his brother, John Waller, was killed in
the battle of Williamsburg. That is incorrect.
John Waller was killed near the Plains Station on
the Manassas Gap Raiload, Fauquier County, Va.,
in the latter part of March ’65, by a detatchment of
the Eighth Illinois Cavalry in a skirmish. I was the
only person with him when he was killed. We were
hemmed up in a lane and were ordered to surrender,
but Waller refused and we both commenced shoot-
ing, when Waller was shot through the head and 1
n ade my escape. The officer in command of the
detachment said that Waller was the bravest man
he ever saw, and he refused to let any of his men
touch anything on Waller’s person.

C. H. St. Clair, Morgan City, La.: Although I
was on the Federal side during the war, I take
great interest in reading the articles in the VET-
ERAN relating to its events, and I find those of
which I have anv knowledge correctly stated. I
would be greatly obliged if you would ask for an
authentic statement of the armament and support
of Grand Gulf at the time of its evacuation by the
Confederates, made necessary by the forces of Gen.
Grant threatening their rear and Admiral Porter’s
fleet in front. There surely must be some Confed-
erate veteran living who has a knowledge of the
facts.

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AUTHOR OF “MY COUNTRY ‘TIS OF THEE.

UP TO DATE. JUST PUBLISHED.

The Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, a noted Baptist
minister-author, died recentl}- in his native State,
Massachusetts. He was born in Boston, and always
lived in New England. He was the author of many
spiritual songs, some of which are: “Sister, thou wast
mild and lovely,” “The morning light is breaking,”
“To-day the Savior calls.” His famous song-, that
will live on and on, is:

”My country ! ‘I is of thee,
Sw I’d land of liberty,

Of I hee 1 sing ;

Land where my rat hers died ;

band i if I lie pilgrim’s pride ;

From every mountain Bide
bet fredom ring.

My native country! thee
band of the noble free,
Thy name I love ;
1 love thy rocks and rills.
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.

bet music swell the breeze.
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom’s song ;
bet mortal tongues awake.
Let all that lireal he partake,
bet rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.

(tm- lathers’ God ! to Thee

Aut hor of liberty !

To Thee we sing ;

Long may our land be bright

Willi freedom’s holy light;

Protect us by Thy might,

(irenl God our King ”

At its meeting December 2, ’95, the following
officers were elected for A. S. Johnston Camp, at
Beaumont, Texas:

Dr. 15. V. Calhoun, Captain; W. E. Rogers, First
Lieutenant; G. \Y. Kidd, Second Lieutenant; W.
L- Rigsby, Adjutant; Lovan Hampshire, Ouarter-
master; Dr. A. N. Perkins, Surgeon; V. W. Myrick,
Color Bearer.

The Confederate VETERAN was unanimously
adopted as the official organ for this camp.

A vote of thanks was extended to the retiring
Commander, Capt. T. J. Russell, for his faithful
and zealous manner of commanding and conducting
the affairs of the camp the past two years.

Thanks to the Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home, Rich-
mond, for invitation to their Christinas dinner.
The menu does not say hardtack and corn meal col-
fee, but “Stewed Oysters. Roast Turkey, Cranberry
Sauce, Brunswick Stew, Roast Shoat, Apple Sauce,
Baked Ham, Wheat Bread, Corn Bread, Sweet and
Irish Potatoes, Mixed Pickle, Celery, Cheese and
Crackers, Oranges, Apples, Bananas, Nuts, Rai-
sins, Mixed Candy.

Mince Pie, Fruit Cake, Pound Cake, Currant
Cake, Chocolate Cake, Sponge Cake. Tea, Coffee,
Cigars.

A NEW REVERSIBLE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES AND
OF THE WORLD.

Size, 66×46 Inches.

One side shows ageneral map of the United States,
portions of Canada and Mexico, and a special map
of Alaska, while a table shows the population of
the principal cities of the United States for census
years 1890, 1880, and 1870.

States are separately colored and the boundaries
of counties are shown.

The plates show all the new railroad lines and
extensions, county changes, etc.

All the principal rivers and lakes, mountain
ranges and peaks are plainly indicated, as are also
the leading cities and towns.

The Canadian section of the map gives the prov-
inces of Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia,
while the Southern portion includes the Northern
States of the Republic of Mexico, and the Bahama
Islands.

THIS LIBRARY MAP OF THE WORLD

is “the largest and most accurate map on Mercator’s
Projection ever produced.”

The political divisions are correctly defined and
beautifully outlined in colors.

The ocean currents are clearly shown and named.

A marginal index of letters and figures enables
one to easily locate every country in the world.

Short articles in alphabetical order are printed
around the border of this map in large, clear type,
containing valuable information about agricultural,
mining, and manufacturing.

The area, population ami form of government of
every country in the world is given up to date.

The population of over one hundred of the most
important cities of the world is shown in a table
specially prepared for this map.

The map also contains diagrams showing com-
parative lengths of the principal rivers, and heights
of principal mountains in the world, and an insert
map showing the North Polar regions.

“This new reversible map is the best ever publish-
ed,” say the publishers, for the following reasons:

It is unrivailed in clearness.

The United States side is a complete railroad map
of the country.

It is the largest map of the United States and
world combined ever printed on one sheet.

The best quality of heavy map paper is used,
while the edges are bound with tape, mounted on
sticks at top and bottom ready to hang on the wall.

The VETERAN offers this beautiful map for sale
at $2.25 postpaid. Regular price $5.00. For a
club of six new subscribers it will be sent free.
Order now.

THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN,

Nashville, Tenn.

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GOOD BOOKS WITH THE VETERAN.

As an extra inducement for renewals and to aid in circu-
lating Southern literature, the following list of books will be
furnished on terms designated.

The Other Side, by Virginia Frazer Boyle. A poem. Will
be sent as premium for four subscriptions, or with I he Vet-
er*n for $1.75. Price $100 This is a remarkable poem,
Jefferson Davis being the theme of the gifted author.

Christ in the Camp. 4524 pages is illustrated and character-
istic of the eminent author. Rev J. William Jones, D.D. Price
$2.50. Given as premium for five subscribers.

The American Epic, a Concise Scenic History of the
United States and other poems by Drummond Welburn
Cloth, $100. Sent with four subscribers, or with one and
the Vkteran for $1 50.

Virginia Before and During the War, by H, H. Fariner.
Price 25 cents, paper. 102 pages. Sent with. two subscrip-
tions, or with Veteran for $1.12.

A Tribute in Song from Virginia to Georgia, by Virginia
women, edited by Mary Stuart Smith. Price 50 cents. Sent
with two subscriptions for the Veteran.

Rebel Rhymes, and other Poems, by Elizabeth J. Here-
ford, of Texas, $1 00. Sent with three subscribers.

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade, by John 0. Casler.
Reduced from $2. 00 to $1.50, now supplied with the Veter-
an for $2.00.

Hancock’6 Diary, or History of the Second Tennessee
Cavalry. A large octavo volume, $2 50. This book can be
had for $1 50 if a club of twenty-five can be secured.

The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint, by Mrs. Ann
E. Snyder, of Nashville, can be had for three subscribers, or
with the Veteran for $1.50. Price $1 00

Rebel Relics, by Rev. A. T. Goodioe. Price $1.00 .Supplied
with the Veteran for $1.50, or for three subscribers.

The Sponsor Souvenir Album, advertised on back cover
page by the Souvenir Co., Houston, Texas will be supplied
from the Veteran office also at the publishers prices.

Memoris of Jefferson Davis, by his wife, in two elegant
rolumes containing 1,640 pages. This most entertaining and
valuable book will be furnished by the Veteran with a years
subscription for $5 25.

Campaigns and Battles of the Sixteenth Tennessee Con-
federate Regiment, from its organization, at Camp Trous-
dale, through its campaigns in West Virgina, South Caroli-
na, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and
Georgia, together with sketches of other Tennessee Regi-
ments, by Thomas A. Head. Five hundred octavo pages.
Twenty illustrations. Price $1 00.

The World and How to Take it, by Rev. A. J. Baird, D.D.,
an eminent minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, who was associated with the Confederate Army
from the beginning to the close of the war. Prefaced to the
work is a sketch of the life of the au’hor. by John M. Gaut.
The book is discussed in most attractive style, and illustrates
with interesting incidents, most of the practical problems of
life. Home, Society. Business, Personal Virtues and Vices,
and Life’s Closing Scenes are all treated in the author’s pe-
culiarly fascinating style. The book contains 400 pages with
a fine steel engraving of the author ; is printed on fine paper,
and beautifully bound in cloth, embossed in coiors and gold ;
an apppopriate gift book. Price $1 50 Given with the
Veteran for $2.25 or for five subscriptions..

Annals of an Invertebrate, by Laurette Nesbet Boykin.
“This book is a marvel.” Rev. Dr. Vance, Nashville, Tenn.,
says: ”It is a weird and exquisite poem in pure prose. Dr.
A. J. Battle, President of Shorter College. Rome, Ga , men-
tions it as “the work of a child of genius.” Charles J.
Bayne, Editor Augusta, Ga. Chronicle, asserts that “George
Eliot would have been proud of it.” Lilian Whiting, of
Boston, writes that “It is a wonderful book — as sympathetic
as a human presence.” This book is one dollar. It will be
furnished with the Veteran a year for $1.60, and free for
four subscriptions.

Life of Lee, by Fitzhugh Lee. This excellent book needs
no commendation. Thousands have been sold. It will be
sent as premium for six subscriptions, or with the Veteran
for $2.00.

How It Was, by Mrs. Irby Morgan, Nashville. An account
of thrilling experience during the ever memorable Four
Years. Given with four subscriptions, or with the Veteran
for $1.50.

Southern War Songs. A good collection of songs, ever
popular in the South, neatly bound in cloth. Sent for four
subscriptions, or with the VETERAN for $1 T5. Price $1 25.

Songs of Dixie. Giving words and music, well bound in
paper. Given as premium for t hree subscriptions, or with the
Veteban for $1 50. Price 65 cents.

The Bugle Call. Words and music composed by Col John
Jlilledge^o’ Atlanta. Sent as premium to subscribers sending
a new one with their renewal.

Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales. Well bound in paper,
clear print. The five volumes will be sent as premium for
three subscriptions, or with the Veteran for $1 50. Price 75c.

Captain Phil and Yaller Phil, by Terah Ewin. A story of
love and war. Well bound in paper. Will be given as pre-
mium to any one sending a new subscriber. Price 25 cents.

The following list of Southern books, either by Southern
authors or about the South, will be perused with interest.

The prices are attached to each and friends, who wish any
of them may order in renewing or sending new subscribers,
at one-fifth less the prices as quoted For instance, any book
worth $1.25 will be sent with the Veteran, postpaid, for $2 00.

Hereafter, Veteran subscribers may expect to secure any
Southern book through the Veteran at reduced prices-
Frances Courtenay Baylor— Claudia Hyde, 16mo., $1.25;
Jean and Juanita. Square. 8vo., $1.50.

William Hand Browne — Maryland. 16mo., $1.25.

Kate Chopin— Bayou Folk, 16mo., $1 25.

John Esten Cooke — Virginia, 16mo., $1 25; My Lady Poka-
hontas, 16mo..$l 25.

Charles Egbert Craddock — In the Tennessee Mountains,
16mo., $1.25; Down the Ravine, 16mo., $100; The Prophet of
the Great Smokv Mountains, 16mo., $125; In the Clouds,
16mo.,$1.25; His Vanished Star, ltimo , $1 25 ; The Mystery
of Witch-Face Mountain, 16mo., $1.25; The Story of Keedon
Bluffs. 16mo., $125; The Despot of Broomsedge Cave, 16mo..
$1 25; Where the Battle was Fought, 16mo., $1 25.

Katharine Floyd Dana — Our Phil, and Other Stories, 16mo.,
$1.25.

M. E. M. Davis— Under the Man-Fig, 16mo., $1.25.

Rueben Davis — Recollections of Mississippi and Mississip-
pians, Svo., $3 00.

Parthenia A. Hague — A Blockaded Family, 16mo., $1.00.

Joel Chandler Harris — Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His
Queer Country. Square, 8vo., $2.00; Mr. Rabbit at Home.
Square, 8vo., $2.00: Uncle Remus and His Friends, 12mo.,
$1 50; Night with Uncle Remus. 12mo.. $1 50; Mingo, l6mo.,
$125; Balaam and His Master. 16mo., $1.25.

Charles C. Jones..! r.— “History of Georgia. 2vols , 8vo , $10 00
net; Biographical Sketches of the Members from Georgia to
the Continental Congress, 8vo., $2.00 ; Negro Myths from the
Georgia Coast, lrimo., $1.00.

Henry Cabot Lodge— George Washington, 2 vols., 16mo.,
$2.50; half morocco. $5.00.

Andrew C. McLaughlin — Lewis Cass, 16mo., $1 25.

James Phelan — History of Tennessee. Crown, 8vo., $2.00.

Rev Charles C Pinekney— Life of General Thomas Pinck-
ney. Crown, 8vo.. $1 50.

Margaret J. Preston— Colonial Ballads, Sonnets and Other
Verse. 16mo., $1.25.

F. Hopkinson Smith— Colonel Carter of Cartersville, 16mo.,
$1.25.

Octave Thanet— Knitters in the Run, 16mo , $1 .25 ; Otto the
Knight, 16mo.$l 25.

Maurice Thompson— A Tallahassee Girl, 16mo., $1.00;
paper, 50 cents

Moses Coit Tyler-Patrick Henry, 16mo., $125; half
morocco, $2 50.

Dr. H. Von Hoist— John C Calhoun, 10mo., $1.25; half
morocco, $2.50

Henry Watterson (editor)— Oddities in Southern Life and
Character. 16mo., $1.50.

George E. Woodberry— Edgar Allan Poe, 16mo., $1.25; half
morocco, $2 50.

Messrs. B. F. Johnson & Co., publishers. Richmond. Va.,
whose advertisement has hardly ever failed to appear in the
Veteran, favor it with ”three great books.”

“Southern States of the American Union.” by Dr. J. L. M.
Curry.

“Lee’s School History of the United States,” by Mrs. Si’san
Pendleton Lee. of Lexington, Va.

“Southern Literature,” by Miss Louise Manly, of South
Carolina.

Qpijfederate l/eterai).

These three books are already attracting much attention.
Although but recently issued from the press, it is said that
they have been more extensively adopted and are being more
generally used than many popular text-books that have been
on the market for many years. Two of them— Curry’s’ Soul h”
and Manly’s ”Literature” — supply important places in the
school curriculum. “Lee’s History” is full, fair and satis-
factory. Advanced teachers generally are enthusiastic in
their praise.

Gleanings From Southland. — Miss Helen Dortch, Assistant
State Librarian, Atlanta, Ga., states, wisely and well that
Miss Cumming’s good work for the soldiers of the “Lost
Cause” deserves to be held in grateful remembrance by the
people of the South. Her book, “Gleanings From South-
land,” should have a place in every library in the South.

Gen. S. D. Lee writes: I have rend “Gleanings From South-
land” with pleasure, and it recalled many of the s:nl scenes

and sacrifices incident to Southern society during the great
war between the States.

J. L Warren, in Old Homestead, Atlanta: It unerringly
delineates t he character of the important events which trans-
pired under the author’s personal observation.

This book will be sent as a premium for live subscriptions
to the Vetkran Address,

The Confederate Veteran, Nashville, Tenn.

LETTERS FROM VETERANS.

ROBT. E. LEE.

On the front cover of this Veteran there is a picture of

Arlington near Washington, I>. C, the home of ‘Our I, or’ as
it was before the war — in all its old Southern granduer.
From that porch may be seen in its magnificence the Cap
ital City of the country.

On the 19th of January 1S07, Robt. E. Lee was born. The
Veteran has ever taken pride in presenting the granduer of
his matchless character. In all the world’s history no
greater and purer character has enriched its pages. His
biography should be used as a text-book in our schools —
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has written a charming life of Gen. Lee,
and the Veteran has been zealous to commend this book.
Its large edition has nearly all been sold. The small rem-
nant will be closed out for $1.25 post paid. The book and
Vetkran one year $2.00- The regular price of the book is
$1.50. Order soon or you will miss it.

Confederate Veteran,

Nashville, Tenn.

WHAT IS SAID OF THE PREMIUM WATCH OFFERED
BY THE VETERAN.

Rev. Wm. S. Brown, Beersheba Springs, Tenn : The gold
watch received ; it is more than you claimed for it, and I feel
more than paid for all my work.

Rev. II. M. Skinner and wife, Lapeer, Mich. : The beautiful
watch at hand. Myself and wife join in thanking you.

Rev. W. A. Watts, McEwen, Tenn. : The watch received.
I compared it with a $52.00 one, and all pronounced itequally
as good. “I want another for my wife.

Rev. E. M. H. Fleming, Woodbine, Iowa. : The premium
watch received, it is beautiful and a good time keeper.

Rev. D. McCracken, Dunganon, Va. : I am greatly pleased
with the premium gold watch, accept my thanks.

Rev. J. A Duvall, Rural Retreat, Va. : I have this day re-
ceived the premium gold watch, it is a real beauty.

Rev. H- T. Richards, Monticello, Wis : The gold watch at
hand, and it is a beauty in every respect.

Rev. T. D. Brown, Oxford. Miss. : The gold watch received,
it is much better than I expected, I am thankful to you. It
is all you claim for it-

Lieut. N. M. Berryman, of the First Texas Regi-
ment, writes from Kemp, Texas: In the Vetekan
in a list of lia^s captured is reported that of the
First Texas, claimed to have been captured by the
Lieutenant of a New York regiment mi the 8th of
April ’65, the day before General Lee surrendered.
Having the honor of being one of the eight thou-
sand who “stacked arms” on the 9th of April, I
deny the statement.

After the First Texas learned that General Lee
bail agreed upon terms of surrender, we held a con-
sultation, whether to cut the old flag up and each
take a piece for a relic, or take it with our guns.
The majority favored leaving it “with our arms,”
which was done.

In tliv same number of VETERAN mention was
made of the capture of Hood’s Brigade ll;ii, r , at
Sharpsburg. We never had a brigade flag ami the
flag mentioned there was a blue silk flag, with the
Texas star in the upper corner next to the stall. It
was made of a silk dress and presented to the First
Texas by Miss Wigfall, when the regiment was
first formed at Richmond, in 1861. Her father,
Lewis T. Wigfall, was made Colonel of the Regi-
ment, and the Hag was not captured. The flag-
bearer and all the guard were killed, and the t\.\£
lost in a dense cornfield as we made the charge, and
was picked up after General Lee withdrew from the
field the next day.

W. P. B., St. Louis, relates this true story: In
the bloody cavalry charge at Hartsville, in South-
west Missouri, private Billy Conklin, of St. Louis,
and horse went down with many others and was re-
ported killed. The next day, when retreating, the
Federals pressed our rear guard sharply and Capt.
Jno. W. Howard, of St. Louis, was sent on for re-
inforcements and overtook Billy, on foot, carrying
his saddle, bridle and gun. As there was danger of
capture, Captain Howard offered to carry the sad-
dle and gun. “No, I’d better stick to “em.” “Don’t
you wish this war was over, Billy?” “I’d have you
to understand, Sir, that I’m a warrior of gentle
blood, and peace troubles my soul! If you want
to help me, rustle around and git me a hoss.” And
Billy trudged along, indifferent to the increasing
fire just in rear.

Ira A. Bache, Kansas City, Mo. : During the
naval campaign along the Atlantic seaboard, our
flat bombarded and reduced the Confederate garri-
son at Beaufort, N. C. Among the captured was
Major II. M. Dillard, of the Artillery. While trans-
ferring our unparoled prisoners at Fortress Monroe,
the Major, an intelligent and chivalrous fellow,
about twenty-live years of age, failed to enter the
fort, but took the road toward Richmond. I have in
my possession his commission, his watch, a plan of
the fortifications at Beaufort and some valuable
papers and love letters entrusted to me, all of which
I have been anxious to return for years. The Major
was raised in or near Lynchburg, Va., and was a
student at the University of Virginia in 1S57-8,
1 see from data in my possession. Who can locate
him or his friends for me, if living?

II

Confederate Ueteraij.

NasMe, \Mam & SI. Lis By.

THE GREAT THROUGH CAR ROUTE

VIA

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any in the country, and carries the traveler through
the most picturesque portion of the South. More than
fifty famous battlefields and five National cemeteries
are located on and near this great railway’system be-
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For information with reference to the resources, cl:-
mate, soil, water power, timber, location for manufac –
tories and for colonies or homes for thrif’y settlers’
write J. B. Killebrew, Immigration Agent. Nashville,
Tenn.

“Dixie Fi.tek”

Sleepers, to and from Florida without change.

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Lv Nashville N. C- & Bt.JL 9 15 am

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Fourth St., Cincinnati, O. ; J. H Latimer, South east-
ern Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga- ; J. L. Edmondson, South-
ern Pass. Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn.

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^

^N ENNIAL

2

OPENS SEPTEMBER 1, 1896.
CLOSES CHRISTMAS DAY.
(100 Days, Excluding- Sundays.)

J. W. Thomas, President, E. C. Lewis, Director General,

V. L. Kirkman, Vice-President, A. W. Wills, Com-
j tnissioner General, Leland Rankin, Press Rep.

Confederate Veteran.

m

THE RACE PROBLEM IN AMERICA

A GREAT RAILWAY.

Thomas Edmonston, in the London
Times: It was my fortune to reside for
some little time ill South Carolina while
that evilly-treated State was held in
subject ion by a colored legislature, con-
trolled by a legion of Northern carpet-
baggers, and supported by Federal
troops, contrary to the plainest terms
of the United States Constitution, That
was in 1873; and the conditions of life
for the while population were becoming
so utterly unendurable that the alterna-
tive presented to civilized natives of
the State was to regain possession of
the executive and legislative govern-
ment, or to quit the country in a body.
There was literally no other course,
since men who are of Anglo S:i.vifi and
Huguenot blood, inheriting the tradi-
tions of freemen, could not submit to
live and suffer under a government
scarcely differing in any respect from
that of Hayti and Han Domingo. The

Conflict H’BB bitter, but victory was won
— by what means and at what cost we
must not too closely inquire

We cannot afford to shut our eyes to
facts as I hey exist It is degrading and

demoralizing to a high-spirited race, BC

Customed from old lime to fair ami
constitutional methods of government,
to compel them to resort to electoral

tricks and mean devices because there

happens to exist within their borders
an alien and inferior race, possessing.
indeed, t he right before t he law to equal
political privileges wit h the white popu-
lation, but utterly incapable of using
the electoral franchise for any other
than evil and corrupt purposes. We
ought to wish our kinsmen in South
Carolina all good speed in their efforts,
since these are directed toward true
conslit.nl ion a 1 ism. and not to its reversal

CENTENNIAL WALTZ.

The Centennial Waltz, dedicated to
the management of t he Tennessee ( !en-

tennial 10 x posit ion. by its yout hful com-
poser. Miss Sadie Bishop, promises to
become one of the popular waltzes ol
the day. It is a lively, catchy air. in
waltz time, with but medium difficulty
of execution. The arrangement of the
chords is unique, and it argues well
for the fill ure of this young daughter of
the South. The daily press. Prof. Schem-
niel, of the Nashville Conservatory of
Music, where the young lady is being
educated, and ot hers who have heard
her performance on the piano, expect
much of her.

HOW’S THIS.

We offQr one Hundred Dollars reward foranj
oaeeof Catarrh t hat cnmmt, be oared by Hall’s
Catarrh Curt’.

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We, thenariersigned, have known F.J. Cheney
for the Ihhi to years and believe him perfectly
honorable In all business transactions and flnan-
olally able to carry out any obligations made by
their Drm.

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wai.ih\i;,kis,\an ,v m Aie i\.\\ uolesale Drug-
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Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, act-
ing directly upon the lilo.nl and mucous sur-
taoes of the system. Testimonial sent free.
Price 76c. per bottle. Sold b« all Druggies.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway Company owns and operates ii,-
169 miles of road. It operates its own
Bleeping cars and dining cars. It trav-
erses the best portions of the Stales of
Illinois, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan.
Iowa, Missouri, .Minnesota, Sooth and
North Dakota. Its sleeping and dining
Car 8ervice 18 first-class in every respect.

lr runs vestibuled, Bteam-heated and
electric-lighted trains. It has the abso-
lute block system. It uses all modern

appliances for the comfort and safety of
its pal ron s. Its I rain employees are civil
and obliging. It tries to give each

passenger “value received for his
money, and its! leneral l’assenger Agent
asks every man, woman and child to
bit j tickets over t hi’ Chicago, Milwaukee

& si. Paul Railway — for it is A Great
Railway

THE BELL WITCH.

VI litis ttCATED.)

Story of the Ghost that Haunted the Bell
Home in Robertson County. Tcnn.

Most Startling Recital Now in Print, Giving

tin Authenticated Account of the

Strange and Mysterious

Phenomena

Tins is one of the strangest horks ever written.
By all means gel u Soni by mail prepaid,oa

receiptor $l.oo. i.v i lie publishers,

SETLIFF & COMPANY.

511 Church St. Na.SBVII.LE, TENN.

Frank A. Owen, Kvansville, Indiana:

‘Two Years on the Alabama” came to

mo on New Year’s day. and I am pul-
ling in every spare moment trying to
master its contents, before leaving home

for I lie spring business. We know less

of this part of our history than any oth-
er. The book is a beauty, and iis con-
tents written in such a plain, straight-
forward Btyle thai il carries conviction
of its truth wiih every page.

MEMOIRS
— o f —

Stonewall Jaekson,

BY HIS WIDOW,

MARY ANNA JACKSON,

and ski-tcim s by Generals Gordon, Fitzhugb
Lkk. French. MoLaws, Sutlkr, Bradley
Johnson, Lanf. Taliaferro, McGowan.Hkth,
Mi’kk, [if v. ,1 w . Jones, Viscocnt (uenerai.)
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a ml county. Liberal pat. Address,

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LOO 1st ille, h y.
,\” /,’. — Veterans, Sons <> mf Daughter* <>/ Vet’
< ran* and trtu admin r* oj gre itness every m
tend for descriptive circular.

(ASM PAID FOR OLD LETTERS.

The undersigned will pay spot cash for Ait-
tograph Letters <>f famous persona from Colonial
times up i” ami Including tin’ civil Wa>*, also
tor correspondence oi historical nature \\ rite,
elating generally what yon have or know about.
liberal commission paid to any one who will
Bearcli and help me obtain such manuscripts.

W. E. BENJAMIN, 10 West 22nd St., New York City.

FROM BALTIMORE

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tlemen: On Oct. 23 last, you will re-
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for an Eleetropoise. Since that time I
have applied the instrument to my
ankle ten i imes. Previous to that time
lile was held light ly by me, not being
considered worth living under such a
!• md 1 1 ion of suffei ing as fell to my lot.
My friends know and rejoice in the
change effect ed in me. presumably by
the use of I he Kleel ropnise. 1 no longer
starve myself, but have a ravenous ap-
petite, a good digestion, and if my
friends are to be believed, a cheerful
countenance, but this is all aside from
my main purpose in writing, which is to
order two more of your instruments,

with book of direct ions, etc , of course.
for which you will liud enclosed my
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l’leasc send as soon as possible, as one
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wit li liberal terms for the ult imate pur-
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not familiar wit h the wonderful curat ive

work of the Eleetropoise should write
for booklet giving full particulars. The
Eleetropoise indorsed by thousands in
every walk of life all over the country.

Dubois & webb,

Chamber of Commerce Il’lding,
NASHVILLE, – • – TENN.

In these days of progress and the build-
ing of gieal iioiises. it will be an item of
interest to know that “the largest plate
glass mirror in the world” was brought
from Belgium to New York City recent-
ly. It is V2x\’i’/i feet and V/i inches
thick.

IV

Confederate l/eterap.

[Notice* under thia heading will be inserted
at 20 cents per tine each insertion.]

TJLL kinds of adveitisins; matter carefully dis-
r\ trhiuted. Cards, etc.. nailed lip. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Write for terms and referen-
ces. Jambs L. Hill, Manager, 3l6|i Deaderick
61., Nashville, Tenn.

WAN’TED-The public to know that we are
headquarters for the sale of all kindsof fer-
tilizers, nnd Hint we also pay the lushest prices
for dry bones. J. F. & W. H. Sinuer, »SJ North
College Street.

\A/TIM r I 7 I7n A ” good Southerners to con-
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remember this fa .
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i-94-iy. Nashville. Tenn.

The Miami Medical College,

Of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Regular Session Begins Oct. 1, 1895.

Send for Catalogue. All inquiries receive
prompt attention.

POSITIONS GUARANTEED

under reasonable conditions. Do not say it can
not be done, till yon send for free catalogue of

DRAUQHON’S PRACTICAL

ftedfrtve-dd

Nashville, Tenn.

This College is strongly endorsed by banker
and merchants. FOUR weeks by Draughon’s
method of teaching bookkeeping is equal to
TWELVE weeks by the old plan Special ad-
vantages in Shorthand, Penmanship and Teleg-
raphy. Cheap board. Open to both sexes. No
vacation. Enter now. Railroad Fare Paid.

lift MB CTniW We have recertly prepared
flUUlLi OlUUI. books on Bookkeeping,
Shorthand and Penmanship especially adapt-
ed to “home study.” Write for ■’ Home Study ”
circulars at once.

WE PRESENT HEREWITH

lylr) e/irjrjuetl ©taferrjerji

of the MICHIGAN MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO., and in connec-
tion therewith the following

SUMMARY:

Insurance written in 1894, – $6.2S4.713.n5
Increase of Assets. – – – – {400,87494
Increase of Surplus. – – – – $32,i’21.75
Total amount paid Policy Hold-
ers since Organization, – – $5,264,936.55

OFFICERS:

0. R. LOOKER. President.
JAS. H. CUMMINS. Secretary.

Agents wanted throughout the State. Liberal
commission. Apply for literature to

J. H. JAMESON. General Agent.

Nashville. Tenn.

‘ublislier of The Veteran carries a
$10,000 policy in this Company.

Helen’s Transfer and Storage Co.

EVERYTHING MOVED AND STORED.

Special atteution given to Roxtng Pianos,
Packing Furniture, Pictures, Fine China, etc.,
for Shipment, and Moving Iron Safes. Tel. 941.

Residence: — 420 S. Front St., Nashville, Tenn.
Office:— Manlove it Co., 212 N. College.
Sjy

(Established Nashville, Tenn., 1868.)

DO YOU CHEW? IF YOU CHEW,

YOU CAN CHEW

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OF TENNESSEE.

(Main Office, Memphis.)

A home company for home people. By insur-
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Advisory Board in each county aids agents in
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Are you tired of being put on ”the general
average?” Policy holders participate in the
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helped to send Kast have largely made it rich.

Investigate, it will pay yon. For information
call at the company’s oftice.
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ARTIFICIAL LIMBS,

With all the latest known improvements, at
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[Firms and Institutions that may, be depen-
ded upon for the prompt nnd safisfnetorp trans-
act/On of business.] Mention the Veteran.

MAUK1CE GUCK,

ATTORNEY AT LAW,

Room 54, Chamber Commerce Building,

NA9UV1I.LE.TENN.

BUNDLE & SON— Dealers in Furniture,
Mattresses, nnd House Furnishings, No. 214 N.
College St.. Nashville, Tenn.

TEETH— Extracted, 25c; filled with silver
75c; gold,?l to $2; with white filling, 75c: good
set upper or lower. .$5: very finest, fully war-
ranted and repaired without charge if broken,
$7.50. For these, others charge $20. Teeth ex-
tracted without pain. Representatives will vis-
it monthly. Bell Buckle, Shelbyville, Franklin,
Columbia. Clarksville. Watch local papers for
dates. Persons from abroad can come to city
in morning and wear new teeth home same day.
Mention the Veteran. New York Dental Par-
lors, Nashville, Tenn.

ICE CREAM— The leading ice cream dealer
of Nashville is C. H. A. herding. 417 Union St.
Caters to weddings, banquets, and occasions of
all kinds. Country orders solicited.

BARBER SHOP AND BATHROOMS.
:: C. BREYER, ::

Russian and Turkish Bath

FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY.
No. 318 Church St., Nashville, Tenn.

Nashville Spice Mills,

J. W. THOMAS & SON, Proprietors,

NASHVILLE, TENN

To Oc/r Southern Friends :

We would suggest that a useless expense is
incurred by buying 50 cents Baking Powder.
Tlie highest priced ingredient is Cream Tartar,
to-day selling for 24 cents to jobbers. Thomas*
Pure Baking Powder, manufactured bv J. W.
Thomas & Son corner Cedar and Cherry Streets.
Nashville, Tenn., is sold for 25 cents a pound
and guaranteed the best. Try it. Agents wanted.

Mention Tbe Veteran.

Your Stationery

^2 May be an indication of your g^~

– ~m business judgment. If you £X-

-^g want it neat” and tasty and *^-

-sm cheap. Get it done by 2^~

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AU puiu banished by Br. Miles’ Pain P’lls.

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and Head Noises relieved by using
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Confederate 1/eteran.

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POZZONI’S

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POZZOXPS

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•For Charity Suffereth Long.

Mrs. Laura C. Phoenix, rtllwaukee. Wis.

“Statron of a Benevolent Home

and knowing the goo’d Dr. Miles’ Nervine
has done me, my wish to help others, over-
comes my dislike for the publicity, this
letter may give me. In Nov. acd Dec, 1893,
Tlie inmate* had the “LaGrippe,”
and I was one of the first. Resuming duty
too soon, witlj the care of so many sick, I
did not regain my health, and in a month
I became so debilitated and nervous
from sleeplessness and the drafts made on
my vitality, that it was a question if I could
go on. A dear friend advisod me to try
Dr. Miles’ Restorative Kervine.
I took 2 bottles and am happy to say, I am
In better health than ever. I still continue
Its occasional use, as a nerve food,
as my work is vory trying, A letter ad-
dressed to Milwaukee, Wis., will reach me.”
June 6, 1894. Mas. Laura C. Phoenix.

Dr. Miles’ Nervine Is sold on a positive
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
All druggists sell it at Jl.fi bottles for 15, or
it will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.

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and already Introduced Into every state in Mie
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and got a copy while it i> new. No discount to
dealers.

Confederate Veteran,

Nashville, Tenn.

BUSINESS

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VI

Confederate Veteran.

‘THE THIRD WORLD.”

Thefollowingeditorial paragraph from
the Atlanta Constitution, was written
by Wallace P. Reed, of whom John Tem-
ple Graves wrote : ‘ His is the most elo-
quent of Southern pens since Heury
Grady’s rested.”

In all the long list of holiday novels
there is not one which excels in thril-
ling interest, and which equals in the
fascination of its style, “The Third
World,” Mr. Henry Clay Fairman’s
wonderful romance, which has just
been issued in book form. It will de
light thousands of readers.

MAPLE SYRUP.

If you want to know how to make, in
a few minutes on your kitchen stove, at
a cost of about 25 cents per gallon, a
maple syrup pronounced equal to the
‘•Only Pure Old Vermont,” which sells
at $1.25 per gallon, send $1 with pledge
to keep the same secret, and get the
receipt. Address J. N. Lotspeich, Mor-
ristown, Tenn. The* Gospel Advocate
says : We have tried this syrup and
recommend it.

HAMILTON PARKS,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR
AT LAW, — -v

ROOMS 53 AND 54,
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING

….NASHVILLE, TENN.

THE AUTOHARP.

TELEPHONE 1414.

REFERS BY PERMISSION TO-

Amer’cfln National Bank, Nashville, Tenn.
Union Hank and ‘trust Co., Nashville, Tenn.
Geo. W. Me A I pin <o., Cincinnali, O.
Col. H. E. Huntington, Gen. WananerN. N.&M.
V. Co., Cincinnati, O. 9 94 ly

The public will be pleased to learn
that Mr. J. \V. Johnson, who is so well
known to the patrons of the Market
House, has leased the Southeast corner
of that building in addition to his regu-
lar stalls, and will in the future keep a
sjock of fresh meats, hams, sausages,
etc., unsurpassed by any. The Nash-
ville Packing House supplies him,
which fact tells that everything will be
first-class. Free delivery, urbane sales-
men, low’ prices and the best the mar-
ket affords will be the motto, of Mr.
Johnson. may ly

OXYSAL 5.<*> BPiwioM,

■verr liousriioM. Thn. ,- n-.- iu upplleatlon or harmful In iti

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or f.ir CO ceiitt I will send one month ‘i treatment ntid Bell tbcMCh* ,vl{1 ‘ full dlrre-
i tons tor mtt Kin ■ and inln?, rou trill then be aWe to prepare the Oxv*alt« youmlf
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A G-ood-Natured Musical Instrument.

“EASY TO PLAY.”

“The Autoharp encourages
the musical effort of the per-
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will respond with harmonious
chord to the touch of any-
body It never is ill-tem-
pered; practice cannot dis-
turb those who listen, for it.
knows no discords. People of
more or less musical skill find
it i harming in its simplicity,
delightfully easy to become
acquainted with and com-
paniot able at all times, while
it bathes the attempt of the
skillful to find its. musical
limitations ”

The Veteran will be sent

one year free to any one

ordering an Autoharp at any

of the prices given. Nothing

% could be more suitable for a

(Style No. 2%,\ Price $5.00. Christmas gift.

ABSOLUTELY FREE.

Send us 50 cents for six months sub-
scription to the Busy Bee, a handsome
sixteen-page illustrated weekly, and we
will send you by mail, charges prepaid,
your selection of any three of the fol-
lowingbound volumes: “Black Beauty,”
“The Reveries of a Bachelor,” ‘”The
Scarlet Letter,” “Whittier’s Poems,”
“Premium Cook Book,” “Paul and Vir-
ginia,” “Litlla Rookh,” “Longfellow’s
Poems.” The books are 16mo size, with
large sized type and printed on good
paper. These books on market, would
cost 25 to 50 cents each. Send 50 cents
for 6 months subscription to the Busy
Bee, and we will send your selection of
any three of the above, volumes by mail
postpaid and absolutely free. Address,
Globe Press Bureau,
14-11 South Penn Square,

(City Hall Square.)

Philadelphia, Pa.

“HOT SHOTS”

BT SAM JONES.

A red hot book by the unique and
original Sam Jones. Will sell at sight.
Outfit consisting of full copy of book
sent on receipt of $1.00. Agents wanted.

SOUTHWESTERN PUB. HOUSE,
Nashville. Tenn

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AND

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Both one year for only $2 00 and a 50-cent Cal.
entlar free. This offer is only to new subscribers
to the Companion, but those reuewiug for the
Veteran can take advantage of it

Confederate tfeterai).

VII

LIFE OF G EN. ROB’T. E. LEE FOR CHILDREN.

It is in Easy Words and Illustrated with Colored Plates, and is “Just the Book that has been Wanted.”

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Address CONFEDERATE VETERAN. Nashville. Tenn.

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Tripe of this
book Toots., sent
pos( paid, with
the Veteran
— rene wals or
new subscrip-
tions for $1.40.

Sent free for a
club of four sub-
iers.

T li e Soul hern
C h u r c li in a n
says: In writ-
ing t his “Life of
General Lee” for

the children
W h s e fill hers
wore the gray,
&1 r s. William-
son, who is, liy
the way a niece

of Dr. Gessner

I larrison. of t he
U n I vers it y of
Virginia, and a
cousin o f J| rs.
M ary Stun r t
Smith, lias done
an ex ee 1 1 e n t
thing in an ad-
mirable way.

i.l N. LEE’S ANMin’Y AT (.iKTTYSUURG.

WATCHES FOR “VETERAN WORKERS!

To the iirst[2,000 Veteran workers or subscrib-
ers, wlin between this and June 1st, 1896, send in nine-
teen vearlv subscribers with SI. 00 for each name sent —
and thirty-five cents extra to pay postage and registra-
tion, we will send free one of the VETERAN Watches.

This watch is 14, K., Gold filled. .It is Elgin
movement, Chronometer balance, seven jewel, stem wind,
stem set, hunting case.

It will wear a lifetime, and is an elegant, valu-
able timepiece. It will be furnished in either ladies’ or
gent’s size.

For three additional we will send watch and chain.
Any hoy, or girl for that matter, can secure this
premium in a few days’ work — write for sample copies
and subscription blanks immediately.

ADDRESS

CONFEDERATE VETERAN,

NASHVILLE, TENN.

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THEREWITH is a good illustration of the
J^ fine engraving – of the three famous
Generals, Lee, J. E. Johnston and
“Stonewall” Jackson. The price of
the engraving, the print surface of which
is 18×24 inches, in heavy panel 27×32, is
$7.50. We will be pleased to supply this
picture to camps or individuals at the price
designated, or it will be sent as premium
for fifteen subscriptions.

This splendid picture would be the pride
of every Confederate Veteran Camp in ex-
istence, and nearly all of them could easily
secure fifteen subscriptions for it.
Address,

CONFEDERATE VETERAN,

Nashville, Tennessee.

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Circulation: ’93. 79.430. ‘94.121.64*. ’95. 154.992. $1.00AYEAR.

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF Till-;

United Confederate Veterans,

United Daughters of the Confederacy,

Sons of Veterans and other Organizations.

Embracing Nearly 1.000 Camps and Chapters with over 60.000 Members.

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GRAND AUDITORIUM FOR CONFEDERATE REUNIONS IN NASHVILLE.

Tennesseans”are to have, at their Annual Reunion this Fall, the Orphan Brigade, Morgan’s Cavalry, and other Ken-
tucky Confederate. Organizations. They will have, also, for General Reunion, United Daughters of the Confederacy.

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New V ork C otton E xchan se
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Ruy and sell S tocks . Ronds, Cotton, Grain and Coffee,

for cash or on margin, allow interest on balances

subject to sight draft ;

Correspondence invited

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hopping and annuo-
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Rooms single or rn
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Three Buildings Rooms lor 200 boarders. Forty Officers, Teachers and Lecturers. Session begins September 2. 1895 .

in theVanderbilt University. Eminent Lecturers every season.

Privilege*

In Music two first- class musicians are in charge of the instrumental

and vocal departments. With them are associated other teachers

of fine culture and great skill in the production of the liest musical

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of music.
(»nr Art Department Is in the finest studio of the city, beautifully

lighted, and amply supplied with models. Pupils enjoy from lime

to time advantage* for seeing and studying best art works, such as

oan be found only in a progressive and wide-awake city.
For Scientific Studies our classes have the privilege of attending the

lectures of Vanderbilt Professors in the Laboratories of Chemistry,

of Physics, and of Natural nistory. giving access to the splendid

resources of the leading institution of the South.
i>ur Gymnasium is fully equipped for its work. Every species of

apparatus requisite for full development of the bodily organs is

here provided for our rjouriahiug classes. Both the Sargent aud the

Swedish Gymnastics taught.
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Our Literary Schedule embraces a scheme of education extending
over a period of four years, and a mode of training which is in
advance of competition.

A Kindergarten is in connection with the College; also training elaot
for teachers and mothers who desire to learn Frcebel’s principles of
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An Unparalelled Growth from obscurity to national fame, from flfn
pupils to begin with to over 4,000 from half the Union.

WATCHES* FOR VETERAN® WORKERS!

To the first 2,000 VETERAN workers or subscrib-
ers, who between this and June 1st, 1896, send in nine-
teen yearly subscribers with SI. 00 for each name sent
and thirty-five cents extra to pay postage and registra-
tion, we will semi free one of the VETERAN Watches.

This watch is 14, K., Gold filled. It is Elgin
movement. Chronometer balance, seven jewel, stem wind,

stem set, hunting case.

It will wear a lifetime, and is an elegant, valu-
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gent’s size.

For three additional we will send zvatch and chain.
Any boy, or girl for that matter, can secure this
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and subscription blanks immediately.

ADDRESS

CONFEDERATE VETERAN,

NASHVILLE, TENN.

<?09federat^ V/e tera 17.

Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics.

Price, 10 Cents. / ,. , T y
TEiRLT,*!. I v ol. 1\ .

Nashville, Tenn., February, 1896.

No. 2.

S.A.CUNNINGHAM

Editor.

Entered at the postoffice, Nashville. Tenn.. as second-class matter.

Advertisements: Two dollars per inch one time, or $20 a year, except
last page. One page, one time, special. $to. Discount: Half year, one
tasoe; one year, two issues. This is an increase on the former rate.

Contributors will please be diligent to abbreviate. The space is too
Important for anything that has not special merit.

The date to a subscription is always given to the month hrforr it ends.
For instance, if the Veteran beorder’ed to begin with January. the data on
mail list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that number.

Though men deserve, they may not win success.

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

The “civil war” wa9 too long ago to be called the “late” war am) when
correspondents use that term tin- word “great” (wari will l»e substituted.

So many persons have recently sought for com-
plete files of the Vetkran that an offer is made to
extend the subscriptions of any who have preserved
their files as many years ahead. If those who
have partial files that they would spare, and will
kindly give notice of the dates, the same arrange-
ment may be made.

The superb auditorium on front page will interest
comrades who contemplate reunions in Nashville.

The Orphan Brigade, Morgan’s Cavalry, and oth-
er Kentucky Confederates, and the United Daughters
of the Confederacv have engaged to hold their re-
union here this fall. And the next reunion of Uni-
ted Confederate Veterans will be urged at Richmond.

The eminent evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, hold-
ing a meeting here now, spoke of the “splendid
building,” without which he “should not have
thought of coming to Nashville.” He told of its
value to the city, and the pride that all should
take in it. He held a meeting in the Carnegie Hall
sometime since, and the expense was $600.00 per
day. A hall for a thirty days’ meeting in Chicago
cost $.}(», 000— $1,000 per day. As a matter of local
importance friends of the Tabernacle are reminded
of the great need for completing the gallery whereby
sittings for 2,000 more people will be secured.

To Capt. T. G. Ryman is Nashville indebted for it.

Recent deaths of Southern men remarkable and
well-known are recorded in the Veteran. Wm. M.
Cocke, of the old family for which a Tennessee
county was named, a refined, elegant, Christian
gentleman, died in Nashville recently. Col. Cocke
was a member of Congress fift\- years ago, of which
membership there are but a half dozen or so now
living. His last visit to the Veteran office hap-
pened to be when “Uncle Dan” Emmet was present,

and the two octogenarians enjoyed a long confer-
ence with each other.

Rev. Dr. T. C. Blake, eminent for many years in
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and whose
nephews, W. S. and Ed. R. Bearden, were valiant
Confederates, died at his home, near Nashville.

Bishop Atticus G. Haygood, of Georgia, one of
the ablest advocates the Southern people had, is of
the list. His death was not unexpected for he had
previous attacks of paralysis to the fatal one, but it
was a great loss to the M. E. Church, South, and
to his race.

He was criticised for expressions in “Our Brother
in Black,” but his independent and heroic vindica-
tion of and loyalty to his own people, regardless of
advantage to himself, reacted to his honor and
those wo knew him best honored him most.

Mr. Shadrach Inman, of Atlanta, but a native of
Eastern Tennessee, died this month, in his eighty-
fourth year. This has been a remarkable family-
It is of Scotch-Irish origin. Before the war he had
accumulated a fortune of perhaps $100,000, but he
was prosecuted by East Tennessee Unionists for sixty
thousand dollars “for giving aid and comfort to Con-
federate soldiers.” He once had an encounter with
forty bushwhackers, who robbed him of all he had.
His older sons, Samuel M. and John H. Inman were
Confederate soldiers.

After the war the family reunited in Atlanta, and
with them James Swann, a young Confederate, from
the Dandridge vicinity, (East Tennessee). Mr. Wm.
H. Inman, a brother, and Gen. Austell, opened a
cotton house in New York City, taking with them
John II. Inman and James Swann as clerks, who
have for several years past been the largest cotton
dealers in the world.

These Inmans have been the most successful
family, in a business way, that ever belonged to the
South. The late Wm. H. Inman, brother of Shad-
rach, told the writer of having made $125,000 the
dav that he was sixty years old. The accumulated
millions of the two generations have enabled them
to control larger corporations than any other men
of the South in the history of the country. The
three sons, John H., of New York, Samuel M. and
Hugh T. Inman, of Atlanta, are all of large wealth,
and prominent actors in the affairs of life.

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There are 235 separate subscriptions to the Sam-
uel Davis Monument Fund and the amount is seven
hundred and one ($701.40) 7 4 ff dollars.

Comrades: Are you content to omit contributing
a share to the honor of that private Confederate
soldier whose sacrifice was complete? The great
war did not furnish a record that will shine so
beautifully in the ages to come. A subscriber said,
on giving his dollar recently, that it was the first
opportunity he ever had had of contributing- to the
honor of an individual private soldier and he would
not miss it. Do let us do what we can in this.

The ladies of Richmond in charge of the Jeffer-
son Davis Mansion — the Confederate White House
— will soon have it open to the public.

A recent issue of the Times announces that
Mrs. Joseph Bryan, the president, has appointed a
committee, consisting of Mrs. Hotchkiss, Mrs. Col-
ston, Mrs. Grant, and Mrs. Putney, with Mr.
Hotchkiss, Judge Christian, and Colonel Cutshaw
as an advisory board, to report a plan for the ap-
pointment of rooms to the various Confederate
States. Their report was received and approved.

The Southern Historical Society has been invited
to occupy two rooms on the first floor, and the invi-
tation has been accepted.

THE LATE MISS HARRIET MARSHALL.

The Veteran digresses from its rule in makinar
notes about comrades, their wives, who suffered with
them, and their children, to pay tribute to Miss
Harriet Marshall, who died recently in Nashville.
Although of New England parentage, this fair
girl, born in Tennessee, was ardently devoted to the
adopted home of her parents, and while a traveler
in nearly every part of the civilized world, it was
known to be her wish that she be buried here in her
native Tennessee, should she die elsewhere. The
first number of the Veteran, three years ago, was ed-
ited from a sick room [this one from circumstances al-
most similar] when this good girl and her mother were
quickly thoughtful, as was their custom, in sending
expressions of sympathy and delicacies to the editor’s
hotel. Besides, her ever constant expressions of
interest and pleasure in the Veteran make it fitting
that tribute be paid to her noble character.

Although advanced in the twenties, she is still
remembered as a child on some sunny slope among
daisies in the spring time, an ideal picture of happi-
ness. Although an only child, without knowledge
of want, save continued health— which had delayed
her marriage — she was considerate of the poorest
and seemed ever anxious to give good cheer, espe-
cially to such. This appreciation was shown at her
funeral, the aisles even being filled with friends,
rich and poor, white and black.

After completing a three years’ ‘course at Vassar
College, where her accomplishments in literature
and in music were very high, she made several

journeys to Europe and an extensive tour of the
Holy Land, from which she brought a multitude of
large photographic views, and these she would
take up in the order of the tour and describe so
vividly that friends became interested next to hav-

ing been with her there. She was a diligently-
studious traveler and ever seemed anxious to impart
to others a share of the benefits she had received.
Her father, Mr. Andrew Marshall (of Marshall
and Bruce) is widely known through the South.

Omission occurred of the South Carolina Gen-
erals from the list furnished by Charles Edgworth
Jones, page 47, until too late for insertion in its
place. There were three Lieutenant-Generals, four
Major-Generals, and twenty-seven Brigadier Gener-
als — thirty-four in all.

In Mr. Jones’ “Barriers Burned Away,” page
43, “so” should appear just a^ter the first word in
last stanza.

Corrections in the Hogan sketch of Marengo, Ala.,
Rifles likewise are made. James Boozer was killed
atPetersburg, John Carter was killed at the “Crater”
and Sam Carter was killed at Frazier’s Farm. Henry
Brame was paroled.

It is painful to chronicle the death of Dr. W.
M. Hoover, an old Confederate soldier. His first
service was with the Eighteenth Tennessee, after-
wards transferred to the First Confederate Regi-
ment as assistant Surgeon. He was faithful and
true to the end. Born, married and died in Ruther-
ford County, Tennessee. All who know him attri-
bute to his memory the greatest of all earthly dig-
nities — that of having been “a good citizen.”

Confederate Vetera^.

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ABOUT SAMUEL DAVIS.

Testimony to his Noble Character — Honors
Paid to His Memory B\ r Union Soldiers.

At the January meeting- of the Tennessee Histor-
ical Society, Mr. John C. Kennedy told the story of
events in connection with Samuel Davis’ death and
burial at his home, which he states as follows:

By request, I write, after a lapse of thirty-three
years, my recollection of the scenes and incidents at-
tending- the going for, the taking- up, and conveying
of the body of Samuel Davis to his parents near
Smyrna, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were not cer-
tain that it was their SOD who had been executed at
Pulaski. The} – had made diligent efforts through
various channels to trace the “Grape Vine” story
that it was their Sam, but were not assured. At List
the time was set to start on the search; Mrs. Davis
gave me a piece of plaid linsey of that used for his
jacket lining, and also described his boots, and told
of other things that only a good and loving- mother
could have thought about. She was interrupted oc-
casionally by suggestions from Mr. Davis.

The start was made with two mules hitched to a
very heavy carryall. We had a meal sack containing
a boiled ham and about a half bushel of corn pones,
on which their son Oscar, a small boy who was
to accompany me, and I were to live while gone.

We reached Nashville that evening too late to yet
a pass, but I procured a metallic case and box and
had them put in the conveyance. The next morn-
ing I went to Gen. Rousseau, who declined to give
me a pass and sent me to Gen. Grant’s Adjutant
General, who kindly and politely, but positively re-
fused also, replying- to all my pleadings for his
mother’s sake: “No sir! No sir! No sir!”‘

I then returned to Gen. Rousseau, whom I had
known in Kentucky in my boyhood days, and again
asked for a pass, which, alter some boyhood remi-
niscences not necessary to repeat, he supplied me
for myself, the boy ami team to Columbia, which
was as far as his lines extended, telling me that was
all he could do. I gladly accepted the pass, which
was written on a piece of paper elegantly printed,
and looked like a large bank note.

We entered the lines at Columbia and drove
straight through town, not stopping until we reached
the picket on the other side, who, after looking over
our pass, but could not read it, and seeing- the coffin
and small boy, permitted us to goon. The same
thing- occurred when we reached the picket at Pu-
laski, who permitted us to enter the town. When
near the Square, I left Oscar to hold the mules while
I went to the Provost Marshal to get a pass or find
out what he would do with us. His office was in
the court house. He asked how I got into Pulaski,
and I handed him Gen. Rousseau’s pass. He looked
Up and curtly remarked: “This is no account here.
What do you want?” I told him I had come for the
body of Sam Davis who had been hanged: that his
parents wanted it at home.

His manner at once changed and, extending his

hand, he said: “Tell them, for me, that he died the
bravest of the brave, an honor to them and with the
respect of every man in this command.” He then
asked what more he could do to help me. I requested
return passes and a permit to take up the bod}-,
which he cheerfully gave. I also asked if he
thought I would have any trouble or interference
while I was at the graveyard: and he replied: “No
sir. If you do, I’ll give you a company — yes, a reg-
iment if necessary.”

Taking: advantage of his cordial words. I asked
him how Sam was captured; as Mr. Davis had re-
quested me to spare no pains to find out how and
when he was taken. lie said he did not know any
of the particulars, but showed me two books in
which records were kept in his office, and the only
entry, after giving his name and description, was, as
I remember, “Captured on the Lambs Ferry road by
Capt. McKenzie’s scouts.”

Before leaving home I was referred tor assistance,
if necessary while in Pulaski, to a Mr. Richardson,
who had been I if not then I the County Court Clerk.
We found him willing and ready to aid all in his
power. The grave digger agreed to take the body-
up for $20. The next morning he, together with
his assistants, Mr. Richardson, Oscar, and I were
busy at the grave when four or live Federal
soldiers came up. One of them advanced to me,
raising his cap politely, and, in a subdued tone of
voice, proffered for himself and comrades to assist,
if desired. I thanked him sincerely, for I did not
know what their presence might mean, but declined
their services. When the box was raised and the
lid removed the cap of white was still over his head
down to his neck, tied with long strings, which
were wrapped around his neck two or three times
His boots were on, but the legs cut off at the ankles,
I took from my pocket the piece of his jacket
lining and saw that they were alike. When I re-
moved the cap I found the face was black, but
recognizable. We then transferred the body to the
metallic case. During all the time the body was
being examined and transferred the Federal soldiers
stood in line with < .i]>s oil. paj ing tribute in acts, ii
if not words. Upon our return from thecemetery, the
Provost Marshal said the Chaplain, who was with
Sam at the gallows, had some keepsakes for the
mother and father. He gave me a little book, in
which was a farewell message to his mother, and
the buttons from his coat and vest.

The Chaplain told me that when at the scaffold,
sitting on his coffin, he talked to him about meeting
his God, that he showed no fear nor uneasiness.
While in the conversation an officer came up an
said: “Mr. Davis, I suppose you have not forgotten
(‘.en. Dodge’s offer.” Sam. not raising- his head,
said: “What is that?” The officer replied: “Your
horse and side arms, and an escort to the Confed-
erate lines, if you will tell who gave you those
papers.” Sim then replied, still not raising- his
head: “I’ll die a thousand deaths before I will tell.”

The officer then said: “Mr. Davis, I have one
more question to ask.” Sam said: “What is it?”
“I want to know if you are the man my scouts
chased so close on Tuesday night that you crossed
the road in front of them, beating their horses in

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the face with jour hat, but got away? Were you
the man?”

The Chaplain says he threw his head back and
looking at the officer said, in a quick, sharp tone of
voice, “How do you know that?”

The Captain answered, “Its sufficient I know

it. Are you the man?”

Sam dropped his head in a moment and replied
quietly, “I have nothing to tell you.”

Sam’s deliberation was clear even then, that if he
confessed it was he, it would implicate some one
who had been kind to him.

In a few more minutes, without sign of fear or
weakness, was ended a life that was an honor to his
family, country and to the human race.

After leaving Pulaski some miles. Oscar com-
plained of being hungry, but the child was sickened
by the odor from the unsealed casket, on which
we were seated.

He tried the bread and meat, but his stomach
would not retain it. Before we reached home, how-
ever, he had lost his squeamishness — hunger pre-
vailed.

We stopped the first night near Lynnville. When
we got to the river near Columbia, we found the
officer in charge of troops at this point had ordered
ferry boats stopped, and there was no way to cross
except by fording, as the pontoon they were con-
structing would not be ready that morning.

I left the conveyance and mules with Oscar, cau-
tioning him not to talk to any body while I would
go and see the officer. He was standing on the
river bank when I approached him and explained
my errand.

He immediately turned to an orderly and said,
“Go down and order the ferry boat to take that
team and corpse over the river.”

I thanked him and started back, when I saw the
conveyance completely surrounded by soldiers. It
was a very steep descent to the ferry, and I went to
the head of the mules, taking hold of the bridles to
hold them back while going down the hill, when
the soldiers said, “Stranger, we know who this is.
You get in the wagon; we’ll see it goes down safe,”
and so they did. They practically carried the
wagon aboard the boat, and would not leave it
when we landed on the north side. The hill was
steeper to go up than the one we came down. They
ordered me to sit there and drive, and again they
all got a hand or a shoulder somewhere and pushed
us to the top of the hill, and when thanked them
they quietly raised their caps. Without further in-
cident we reached Nashville, and drove to where
the Adams Express Company’s office now is, which
was then where our present townsman, Mr. Cor-
nelius, had his undertaking establishment, and
turned the body over to him, with specific instruc-
tions about the shrouding. Mr. Davis had said to
me, “If you think it is best that Jane and I should
not see him, do as you think best about the matter.

On the evening of the seventh day after leaving
home we drove in the big gate, some distance from
the house. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were watching,
and when they saw the casket, Mrs. Davis threw
her arms above her head and fell. All was sorrow
in that home. I had a boy catch my horse to go

home to see my old mother and father, and change
clothing, etc., but Mr. Davis prevailed upon me to
stay and send for what I needed.

The next morning, while standing out in ths
yard, Mr. Davis came to me, hesitated, then catch-
ing his breath almost between each word, said,
“John, don’t you think it’s hard a father can’t see
the face of his own child?”

I replied that I thought it best that he and Mrs.
Davis should remember him as they saw him last.
He turned and left me. I drove the carryall that
afternoon, with the body across the creek to the old
family grave-yard where he was buried.

In a short time my mother died, and Mr. Davis
sent over the same vehicle that had brought Sam’s
body home to take her body to the grave, and when
the boy who drove it over started to get up to drive
it to the grave, Mr. Davis stepped up and, shaking
his head, said, “No — no — nobody but I can drive
that. Get down, and let me get up there,” and he
did. He was a worthy sire of a noble son.

Supplemental to Mr. Kennedy’s reminiscence,
Oscar Davis has written to the Vetekan his recol-
lections of that event. They concur closely with
those of Mr. Kennedy. He states that while Mr.
Kennedy was gone to the hotel to get some things,
some of the Federal soldiers drove up and asked if
that was the body of the young man who was hanged
not long since, and being told that it was, some of
them shed tears, and said: “He ou^ht not to have
been hung, and we will have to suffer for it sooner
or later.”

SAMUEL DAVIS’ SISTER-IN-LAW.

Mrs. Kate Kyle of LaVergne, Tenn., who was a
Miss Patterson and married John G. Davis, an older
brother, writes:

Sam Davis came on his last trip from the South to
my home Nolensville Pike a little before day-
light Sunday morning. He said he would then go
to Rains’ thicket and that I must take his breakfast
and horse feed; also my cousin Miss Robbie Wood-
ruff must go with me, and spend the day.

We found him up, looking as bright as if he had
slept all night, and, oh, he did enjoy his good warm
breakfast, for we rode fast and had his coffee in a
jug to keep it warm.

Two of my little brothers brought our dinner and
we spent a nice, pleasant Sunday together — the last
he spent on earth but one.

On Monday, Oscar Davis, Sam’s brother, carried
him a lot of nice things to eat. He found Sam fast
asleep with his head resting on a grape vine for a
pillow, but he was up in a minute with his pistol in
hand, ready to defend himself.

Sam gave me a list of article* to get for him in
Nashville. I got in my buggy with cousin, and
started for Nashville, got everything he wished,
also a lot of the latest newspapers. We lived nine
miles from Nashville, got back about sundown, and
that night Sam started for the South.

In the large seat of my buggy I would often bring
out cavalry saddles, bridles, boots, spurs, gray cloth,

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and I smuggled medicines such as quinine, mor-
phine, etc. I
have brought
$500 and $600
worth of medi-
cine out at one
time around my
waist. Quinine
and morphine
were very high.
I always kept on
the good side of
the Commanding
General and
could get passes
when I desired to
do so.

I went to Nash-
ville very often,
so I always kept
posted; had many
confidential
friends t h e r e,
always ready to
help m e wli e n
asked. After the
war, Capt. H. B.
Shaw, or “Cole-
man,” made our
house his home
until the fall of ‘(>’>, when he persuaded Sam’s father
and my husband, John G, Davis, to purchase a steam-
boat called the David White, a very large, tine
steamer valued at $150,000, and in 18i>7. February
17th, this boat was blown up on the Mississippi
River below Helena, Ark., and many lives were
lost, among the number my precious husband and
Captain Shaw. Before the war Shaw was a steam-
boat captain.

He told us that from his cell window in the Pu-
laski jail he saw them start with Sam Davis to the
gallows. He said the papers that Sam had were
stolen from Gen. Dodsre’s table, while he was at a
meal, by a negro boy that once belonged to Mr. Bob
English, near Lynnville, gave them to him.

MliS. KATK KYLE.

In subscribing fifty dollars to a monument for
Samuel Davis, President Thomas, of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, desires its use
at Murfreesboro, Davis’ native county town, and
offers any spot that may be selected in the park
about the depot there. The Veteran has stated:

“Then a beautiful granite monument might be
erected in the town of Murfreesboro, the county seat
of Rutherford, honored by his nativity. That
should be located close by the railway station hav-
ing the nicest park of any depot in Tennessee. If
there, tens of thousands could see it. Let that be
as fine as contributions of outsiders who choose that
location, together with county and town pride can
make it.”

lion. John II. Savage, offers five dollars and adds:

I suggest a suitable place for this monument

would be on the battlefield of Murfreesboro, on the

north side of the railroad, at a place equally distant

from the point where Stones River turns northeast
from the railroad to a point opposite to, and on the
other side of, the railroad from the Federal cemetery.
The Veteran has already stated that there shoud
be monuments in Murfreesboro and Pulaski, but it
concurs with three fourths of the contributors that
the principal monument should be at the Capital of
Tennessee. It is sentimental to contribute to the
perpetuation of that noblest character in American
history. Thousands would have done as Sam
Davis did, no doubt, but he, only, was put to such a
test, and he was equal to the demand.

J. A. Enslow, Jr.. Jacksonville, Fla.: Enclosed
find one dollar to help perpetuate the fame of the
hero, Sam Davis.

Dr. L. T. Jones, Commander of Camp Walker,
Franklin, Ky., reports that at their last meeting, it
was resolved to contribute to President Jefferson
Davis’ Monument, Richmond; the Samuel Davis
Monument, Nashville; and to the Southern Battle
Abbey, wherever located.

J. S. Lauderdale, Llano, Texas: I send my mite
of one dollar (wish I could send one hunlred) for
the Sam Davis Monument, than which none otha
ever was, or will he orrlrd to commemorate a purer
patriot, hero or man. Old Tennessee, (my native
State i, ought to be, and doubtless is, proud of her
Hero Son, for he was the peer of any other, either
■ >! ancient or modern days.

N. P. Davidson, Wrightsboro, Texas, sends a
dollar for the Monument, and says: While I am
fully conscious that Pulaski has good reasons for
wiahing the Samuel Davis Monument located there,
at the same time, I think it should be placed where
it would be seen by the greatest number of people,
thereby inspiring future generations with that same
spirit of patriotism and constancy to friends that
caused Samuel Davis to give up his life. There-
fore I will name Nashville as the proper place.

J. F. Maull, Elmore, Ala., in sending renewal
for himself and G. G. Jackson, of Wetumka, Ala.,
sends also a dollar each for Sam Davis Monument,
and writes: It is useless for me to say that you can
always count on me and Jackson for any and every
thing that is connected with the Confederate
Veteran. We “fought, bled and died” together dur-
ing our army life; were captured together, were to-
gether in our prison life, and when that life became
too severe for us, we simply made our escape like
good soldiers ought, from Elmira, N. Y., and walk-
ed home together. Thus it is that you find our
money going in together, and it will be so until
one or the other goes to be with the immortal heroes
who are “resting under the shade of the trees.”

No more honored list of names can be collected
than those who give money to his monument, and
the more remote from Tennessee the more honored.

The following named subscribers to the monu-
ment Fund are omitted from list on page 38:

Cayce, J. K , Hammond, Texas, 50 cents; Beers,
B. F. and Rowan S., Burton, Ala., collectively $1,
and Hughes, E. S., Allisona, Tenn., 25 cents.

It is very desirable that all contrbutors try and
make the sum as much as a dollar.

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FOR SAMUEL DAVIS’ MONUMENT.

Allen. Jos. W., Nashville $100 00

Arnold, J. SI., Newport, Ky 1 00

Arthur, James R., Rockdale, Tex…. 1 00

Asbury. A. E., Higglnsvllle, Mo 1 00

Atkisson, Marsh, Seattle, Wash 2 00

Ashbrook, S., St. Louis 100

Askew, H. G.. Austin, Tex 1 00

Barry, Capt. T. H., Oxford, Ala 1 00

Bell, Capt. W. E., Richmond, Ky 1 00

Biles, J. C, McMlnnvllle, Tenn 3 00

Blakemore, J. H.. Trenton 100

Bonner, N. S., Lott, Tex 1 00

Browne, Dr. M. S., Winchester, Ky… 1 00

Brown, John C. Camp, El Paso, Tex. 5 00

Brown, H. T., Spears, Ky 1 00

Brown, W. A., St. Patrick, La 1 00

Bruce, J. H., Nashville 5 00

Bush, Maj. W. G., Nashville 2 00

Carglle, J. F.. Morrisville, Mo 1 50

Calhoun, Dr. B. F.. Beaumont. Tex… 1 00

Calhoun, F. H., Lott, Tex 1 00

Calhoun, W. B., St. Patrick, La 1 00

Cannon, Dr. J. P., McKenzie, Tenn.. 1 00
Carnahan, J. C, Donnels Chapel,

Tenn 1 00

Cassell. W. H., Lexington, Ky 2 00

Chadwick, S. W., Greensboro, Ala…. 1 00

Cheatham, W. B., Nashville 100

Cheatham, Maj. J. A., Memphis 1 00

Coffey, W. A., Scottsboro, Ala 100

Cohen, Dr. H., and Capt T. Yates col-
lected, Waxahatchie, Tex 14 00

Coleman, Gen. R. B., McAlester, I. T. 1 00

Cook, V. Y., Elmo, Ark 2 00

Cooper, Judge John S., Trenton 1 00

Cunning-ham, P. D., Mexican Border. 1 00

Cunningham, S. A., Nashville 5 00

Dargan, Miss Alice W., Darlington,

S. C 1 00

Davis, Lafayette, Rockdale, Tex 1 00

Davis, R. N., Trenton 1 00

Davis, J. K., Dickson, Tenn 2 00

Davis, J. E., West Point, Miss 1 00

Davis, W. T., Nashville 100

Davidson, N. P., Wrightsboro, Tex.. 1 00
Daviess County C. V. Assn, Owens-

boro, Ky 6 55

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Dean, M. J., Tyler, Tex 100

Deason, James R., Trenton, Tenn 1 00

Deerlng, Rev. J R., Harrodsburg, Ky 1 00

Dixon, Mrs. H O., Flat Rock, Tenn.. 1 00

Douglas, Mrs. Sarah C, Nashville…. 1 00

Doyle, J. M., Blountsville, Ala 1 00

Duckworth, W. S., Nashville 1 00

Dudley, Maj. R. H., Nashville 25 00

Durrett, D. L., Springfield, Tenn 1 00

Dyas, Miss Fannie, Nashville 100

Eleazer, S. D., Colesburg, Tenn…. 100
Ellis, Capt. and Mrs. H. C, Harts-

vllle. Tenn 2 00

Embry, J. W.. St. Patrick, La 1 00

Emmert, Dr. A. C, Trenton, Tenn…. 1 00

Embry, Glenn, St. Patrick, La 100

Enslow, J. A., Jr., Jacksonville, Fla.. 1 00

Farrar, Ed H., Centralia, Mo 1 00

Finney, W. D., Wrightsboro, Tex 1 00

Fletcher, Mack, Denison, Tex 1 00

Forbes Bivouac, Clarksvllle, Tenn.. 25 00

Ford, A. B., Madison, Tenn 1 00

Ford, J. W., Hartford, Ky 1 00

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Foster, N. A., Jefferson, N. C 1 00

Gay, William, Trenton 100

Gibson, Capt. Thos., Nashville 1 00

Giles, Mrs. L. B., Laredo, Tex 100

Gooch, Roland, Nevada, Tex 1 00

Goodlett, D. Z., Jacksonville, Ala 2 00

Goodlett, Mrs. M. C, Nashville 5 00

Goodloe, Rev. A. T., Station Camp,

Tenn 10 00

Gordon, D. M., Nashville 1 00

Gordon, A. C, McKenzie, Tenn 1 00

Graves, Col. J. M., Lexington, Ky…. 1 On

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Green, Folger, St. Patricks, La 3 00

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Harmsen, Barney, El Paso, Tex 5 00

Harper, J. R., Rosston, Tex 1 00

Harris, Maj. R. H., Warrington, Fla. 1 00

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Hartman, J. A., Rockwall, Tex 1 00

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Herron, W. W., Mckenzie, Tenn 1 00

Hickman, Mrs. T. G., Vandalia, 111… 1 00

Hickman, John P., Nashville 1 00

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Hoss, Rev. Dr. E. E., Nashville 1 00

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Hughes, Louis, Dyersburg, Tenn 1 00

Ikirt, Dr. J. J., East Liverpool, O…. 1 00

Ingram, Jno. Bivouac, Jackson, Tenn 5 60

Irwin, Capt. J. W., Savannah, Tenn.. 1 00

Jackson, G. G., Wetumpka, Ala 1 00

Jackson, Stonewall Camp, McKenzie. 5 00

Jenkins, S. G., Nolensville, Tenn 1 00

Johnson, Leonard, Morrisville, Mo…. 1 50

Keerl, G. W., Culpeper, Va 1 00

Kelly, J. O., Jeff, Ala 100

Kelso, F. M., Fayettevllle, Tenn 1 00

King, Dr. J. C. J., Waco, Tex 1 00

Kirkman, V. L.. Nashville 5 00

Killebrew, Col. J. B., Nashville 5 00

Knoedler, Col. L. P., Augusta, Ky… 1 00

Knox, R. M., Pine Bluff, Ark 5 00

Lauderdale, J. S., Llano, Tex 1 00

Lewis, Maj. E. C, Nashville 25 00

Lewis, Dr F. P., Coalsburg, Ala 1 00

Levy, R. Z. & Bro., Nashville 5 00

Long, J. M., Paris, Tex 100

McAfee, H. M., Salvisa, Tex 1 00

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McDowell, J. H., Union City, Tenn… 1 00
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Tenn 2 50

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McRee, W. F., Trenton, Tenn 100

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.Marshall, J. M., Lafayette, Tenn 1 00

Ma’ull, J. F., Elmore, Ala 100

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Meek, Master Wilson 1 00

Mims, Dr. W. D., Cockrum, Miss 1 00

Mitchell, A. E., Morrisville, Mo 1 00

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Neal, Col. Tom W., Dyersburg, Tenn. 1 00

Neames, M. M., St. Patrick, La 1 00

Neilson, J. C, Cherokee, Miss 1 00

Nelson, M. H., Hopkinsville, Ky 1 00

Norton, N. L., Austin, Tex 1 00

Ogilvie, W. H., Allisona, Tenn 1 00

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Owen, U. J., Eagleville, Tenn 1 00

Owen, Frank A., Evansville, Ind 100

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Rohhins, A. M.. Rockdale, Tex 100

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Thomas. W. T.. Cumb’d City, Tenn.. 1 00

Tollev, Capt. W. P., Rucker, Tenn…. 1 00

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W ; lson, Dr. J. T., Sherman. Tex 1 00

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W. Power?. Greensboro. Ala.: J.
W. Oilman and H. Heverin. Nash-
ville; G. N. Alhrifht, W. A. Ross
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TIONS.

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UNITED CONFEDERATE DAUGHTERS.

Something of the Origin of the Daughters of
the Confederacy in the Old Dominion.

In May 1894, at a meeting of the Ladies Confed-
erate Memorial Association of Charlottesville, Va.,
a letter was presented from the John Bowie Strange
Camp of Confederate Veterans, Col. Garnett, Com-
mander, requesting the ladies to become an auxil-
iary of the Camp, to aid in its work of caring for
all needy Confederates and their families.

Mrs. Garnett, having the matter much at heart,
wrote a letter to the Camp offering to form an aux-
iliary, confident of the sympathy of many members
of the Memorial Association, which had recently
erected, near the University of Virginia, one of the
most beautiful Confederate Monuments in the South.
The proposition to the Camp brought the following
response: “At a meeting of the Camp on May 22.
1894, it expressed to Mrs. Garnett its high appre-
ciation of her proposed plan of a Ladies Auxiliary
Association to assist the Camp in its efforts to re-
lieve the necessities of dependent Confederates, and
that she be requested to take such steps as she and
her associates thought best, within the formation
of sucli an Auxiliary Association. A society was at
once formed under the name of “Daughters of the
Confederacy,” and they believe it to have been the
first society in the country to bear that name.

The National Society was not organized at Nash-
ville, Tennessee, until September ID, lS’M.

The Veteran for October 1S94, contained an ac-
count of the Nashville Society.

On October 15, 1894, our by-laws were adopted.
After the Charlottesville Chapter was organized,
at that first meeting, the following officers were
elected: President, Mrs. James Mercer Garnett;
Vice President, Mrs. C. C. Wcrtcnbaker; Secretary,
Miss Cynthia Berkeley; Treasurer, Miss Mary Van-
degrift. Executive Committee: Mrs. N. K. Davis,
Miss Gillie Hill, and the late Mrs. William South-
all, — whose place is now filled by Mrs. Lav.

Letter from the President.

In addition to the benevolent feature, this Society
is historical. Original papers, giving personal re-
miniscences of the war. and other events of that
time to be read at the meetings. Valuable Con-
federate records are being collected and preserved,
and every effort is made to perpetuate the memory
of our Confederate heroes, [twill also be the aim
of the Society to have used in our schools only true
histories, that the youth of the South may under-
stand for what their fathers Fought and died.

The badge oi the Society consists
of an open circle of white enamel
bearing in letters of gold, “Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, l861-’65.”
In the open centre are crossed the
first and last flags of the Confeder-
acy, the colors being beautifully
brought out in red, white and blue
enamel and gold. This badge has been patented,
and is now used as the official Virginia badge. It is
worn b) r our members in Washington, D. C, in St.

Louis, Missouri, and in the States of Montana, Geor-
gia and Washington, and other places. The Albe-
marle Chapter of the “Daughters of the Confedera-
cy,” which began with a little band of earnest Con-
federate women, has, in a short time, attained a mem-
bership of over a hundred. At a meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Committee held April 30, 1S<»5. it resolved to
use every effort to establish other Chapters in Vir-
ginia. The Chapters in the order of organization
with the names of their officers are as follows:

1. Albermarle, formed May 25. 1S’»4. First
meeting held October 15, 1894. President, Mrs.
James Mercer ( iarnett; Vice President, Mrs. C. C.
Wertenbaker; Treasurer, Mrs. N. K. Davis; Secre-
tary. Miss Fanny Berkeley.

2. Newport News, organized in May, 1895.
President, Mrs. Geo. W. Nclms; Vice President,
Mrs. J. Shelton Jones: Treasurer, Mrs. W. Geo.
Kcnier; Secretary, Mrs. W. Filmore Turnbull.

3. Petersburg, organized August 27, 1895. Pres-
ident, Mrs. Robert T. Meade; Vice President, Mrs.
J. W. Roseboro; Treasurer, Mrs. R. L. Watson,
Secretary, Mrs. Richard B. Davis.

4. Roanoke, organized August 27. 1895. Presi-
dent, Mrs. Thomas Lewis; Vice President, Mrs.
Terry; Treasurer, Mrs. Trout; Secretary, Mrs. Grey.

5. Woodstock, organized October 5, 1895. Pres-
ident, Mrs. James H. Williams; Vice President,
Mrs. Miley: Treasurer, Mrs. John Grabill; Secre-
tary, Mrs. Campbell.

6. Staunton, organized October 23, 1895. Pres-
sident, Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart; Vice President, Mrs.
G. P. Wilson; Treasurer, Mrs. E. P. Lipscomb;
Secretary, Mrs. S. T. McCullough. ‘

7. Lexington, organized January 18, 1896. Pres-
ident, Miss Mildred Lee; Vice President, Mrs. A.
D. Estill; Treasurer. Miss Mary Nelson Pendleton;
Secretary, Mrs. Win. Allan.

8. Richmond, organized January 27, 1896. Pres-
ident, Mrs. N. V. Randolph: Vice President, Miss
May G. Baughman; Treasurer, Mrs. Frank T.
Cramp; Secretary, Mrs. Austin Brockenborough.

‘”. Radford, organized February 1, 1896. Presi-
dent, Mrs. Win. R. Wharton; Vice President, Mrs.
Mclngles; Treasurer, Mrs. .1. R. Eakin; Secretary,
Miss Julia V. M. Tyler.

10. Waynesboro, organized February 3, l,s ( ><>.
President, Mrs. Elliott Fishburne; Vice President,
Miss I’.elle Patrick; Treasurer, Miss Annie Fish-
burne; Secretary. Miss Loula Bush.

11. Christiansburg, organized February 5, 1896.
President. Mrs. T. W. Hooper; Vice President, Mrs.
T. W. Ellett; Treasurer, Mrs. M. C. Wade: Secre-
tary, Mis. Sue Hogan Phlegar.

12. Harrisonburg, to be organized on February
7. 1896. President, – ; Vice President, — — ;
Treasurer, ; Secretary, .

Officials of Harrisonburg Chapter not yet received.

With a half dozen Chapters in process of organi-
zation, this Division will number over two-thirds
of all the Chapters formed in the entire South.
The memberships are from twenty-five to Kit). A
more concise report will be given in March Vet-

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EREN. Such a result from the Albemarle Chapter,
the parent Chapter in Virginia will no doubt sur-
prise many readers of “the Veteran,” though the
hi. un facts have been communicated to some of the
officers of the United Society.

These Chapters will soon be organized into a Di-
rision. The five Chapters in Virginia: Alexan-
dria. Warrenton, Lynchburg, Appomattox and Nor-
folk, chartered by the United Society, are most cor-
dially invited to co-operate with us in forming a grand
Virginia Division, established on a sure foundation.

“And their deeds — proud deeds — shall remain for us,
Ard their names — dear names — without stain for us.
And the glories they won shall not wane for us.

In legend and lay,

Our heroes in gray,
Though dead, shall live over again for us.”

Kate Noland Garnett.
University of Virginia, February 5, 1896.

TENNESSEE DAUGHTERS AT GALLATIN.

Clark Chapter of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy was organized October 28, 1895, under the
direction of that energetic and enthusiastic worker,
Mrs. Snyder. It has enrolled already twenty-six
members, and is doing good work. The officers
are Mrs. S. F. Wilson, President; Mrs. B. D. Bell,
Vice-President; Mrs. Addie Cherry, Treasurer; Mrs.
C. W. Meguiar, Secretary, and Miss Martha Rogan,
Corresponding Secretary.

If energy and a true interest in the glorious cause,
such as is felt by these efficient officers, be taken as
indicative of our future, Clark Chapter will soon be
in the advance guard.

The name was given in honor of one of our grand
old families, the homestead of which is upon the
identical spot of one of our pioneer forts, and from
which family went out four gallant sons to face the
dangers of a ruthless war in the cause of kindred
and of home. Three of these went down to death
true to the sentiment of a noble patriotism.

UNITED DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY IN FLORIDA.

The annual meeting of the Jacksonville branch
United Daughters of the Confederacy, was held on
Monday, January 20th; the nineteenth, General
Lee’s birthday, having fallen on Sundaj’. The
election of officers was as follows: Mrs. T. H. Hart-
ridge, President; Mrs. W. M. Davidson, Vice-Presi-
dent; Mrs. R. L. Cooley, Corresponding Secretary;
Mrs. W. D. Mathews, Recording Secretary; Mrs. F.
P. Fleming, Treasurer.

This branch has in hand the marking of all
graves of Confederate soldiers now unmarked, and
the erection of a Confederate monument in some
prominent place in Jacksonville.

Prospects are very bright for other chapters and
a State organization. Those who suffered and lost
feel it a sacred duty to properly instruct their chil-
dren in the history of those sad years, and also a
duty to protect and preserve such mementoes as will
6how to future generations the great sacrifice of
luxury and pleasure cheerfully given up for a great
cause.

The Widow’s Moan. — Mrs. D. C. Harrison writes
from (1619, 17th Street, N. W.,) Washington, D. C:
Can you tell me if there is any one in Nashville to
whom I could apply for information concerning the
burial spot of Capt. Dabney C. Harrison? He
was with his Regiment, 56th Virginia, Company- K.,
at Fort Donelson, and was carried, after being
wounded, on a boat to Nashville. The boat reached
that point, but further than that, in all these years,
I have not known, notwithstanding my unwearied
efforts. * * * Capt. Harrison was my husband.
I need not say how grateful I will be for any infor-
mation concerning this subject.

If the good women who had to do with the burial
of dead from Fort Donelson can give Mrs. H. some
information, it will gratify them as well as her.

OTIS S. TARVER AND HIS FLAG.

The above picture of Comrade Otis S. Tarver, of
Sanford, Florida, will be all the more appreciated
because of the flag which so many thousands revere.
He stood, ran and fought for that flag from August
8, 1861, until the final surrender, and has ever since
kept it at the head of his bed. He is in his six-
tieth year. This comrade is a Georgian, but has
lived in Florida the past fifteen years.

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APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF

FORREST.

By John A. Wyeth M. D.

(Extracts from the Life of Lieutenant General N. B. Forrest.)

General James R. Chalmers, in his address before
the Southern Historical Society,* August, 79, says:

“In February, 1841, when I was but ten years of
age, I remember well a small company of volunteers
which marched out of the town of Holly Springs,
Mississippi, to the relief of Texas, then threatened
by invasion from Mexico. In that little band stood
Bedford Forrest, a tall, black-haired, graj-eyed
youth, scarce twenty years of age, who then gave
the lirst evidence of the military ardor be possessed.
The company saw no fighting, for the danger was
over before they arrived, and the men received no
pay. Finding themselves in a strange country,
without friends or money. Forrest, with the char-
acteristic energy which distinguished bun in after
life, split rails at fifty cents per hundred and made
the money necessary to briny him back to his family
and home.” *

PROPOSE l> sT ATI K To GENERAL FORREST.

Lieutenant-General N. B. Forrest, who was my
immediate commander during the first year of the
war, if not the greatest military genius, was cer-
tainh the greatest revolutionary leader on our
side, lie was restrained by no knowledge of
law or constitution; he was embarrassed by no pre-
conceived ideas of military science. His favorite
maxim was: “War means fighting, and fighting

*dee southern Historical society Pftpors, Vol. vii, p, 464.

means killing.” Without the slightest knowledge
of them, he seemed by instinct to adopt the tactics
of the masters of military art. *

On December 28th, 1861, Forrest, with 300 men,
met the enemy for the first time, about 450 strong,
near Sacramento, Ky. This fight deserves special
notice, not only because of its success and the con-
fidence inspired in the raw Confederate cavalry, but
because it displayed at once the chief characteristics
and natural tactics which were subsequently more
fully developed and made Forrest famous as a cav-
alry leader. He had marched bis command twenty
miles that day when he found a fresh trail where
the enemy’s cavalry had passed. Putting his com-
mand at a gallop, he traveled ten miles further be-
fore be struck the rear guard. His own command
was badly scattered, not half up with him. but with-
out halting be rushed headlong at them, leading
the charge himself. When be bad driven the rear
jjuard on to the main body, and they turned on him
with superior force, be quickly dismounted his
men and held the eneim in check until his command
came up, and ordered them to attack in Hank and
rear. This movement was successful, and the re-
treat of tin- Federals soon began. Quickly mount-
ing his men. he commenced one id’ his terrible pur-
suits, fighting band to baud with pist’d and sword,
killing one and wounding two himself, continuing
this for miles, and leaving the road dotted with liv-
ing and dead. * * * * ”

Major I>. C. Kelly, who then for the first time saw
his superior under (ire. describing the wonderful
changt tb.it took place in bis appearance, says:

“His face Hushed until be bore a striking resem-
blance t<> a painted Indian warrior, and his eyes,
usually So mild in their expression, Hashed witll the
intense glare of the panther about to sprire on its
prey. In fact, be looked as little like the Forrestof
our mess-table as the storm oi December resembles
the quiet ol June.”

General Chalmers relates: “Some of the notable
points in Forrest’s manner of fighting, were I 1 |
reckless courage in making the attack, a rule he in-
variably followed and which tended to intimidate
his adversary; (2 I the quick dismounting ol his men
to fiarht, showing that be regarded horses mainly as
a rapid means of transportation for his troops; (3)
his intuitive adoption of the Hank attack, so demor-
alizing to the enemy even in an open field, and so
much more s-0 when made, as Forrest often did, un-
dercover of woods which concealed the weakness of
the attacking party; i 4 | his fierce and untiring pur-
suit, which so often changed retreat into rout ami
made victory complete; (5) following, without
knowing it, Napier’s precept of the art of war. he
was always in front making personal observations.
This practice brought him in many personal con-
flicts and exposed him to constant danger, and he
had 27 horses killed and wounded under him in bat-
tle. This practice led to imitation by his general
officers, and at Hart’s cross-roads, the day before the
bittle of Franklin, I witnessed Forrest with two
division and three brigade commanders, all on the
skirmish line.

“At Shiloh, Forrest, without orders from any-
superior officer, bad pushed his scouts to the river

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and discovered that reinforcements of the enemy
were coming-. I was then in command of an infantry
brigade, which by some oversight had not received
the order to retreat; about midnight, Forrest awoke
me, inquiring for Generals Beauregard, Bragg and
Hardee, and when I could not tell him, he said in
profane but prophetic language, ‘If the enemy come
on us in the morning, we will be whipped like h — !’
He carried this information to headquarters and,
with military genius, suggested a renewal at once
of our attack; but the unlettered colonel was or-
dered back to his regiment.” *

I recall an anecdote strikingly illustrative of the
esteem in which Forrest was held by the people, and
he always told it on himself with great delight.
When Bragg was retreating from Tennessee, Forrest
was among the last of the rear guard. An old lady
ran out of her house to the gate as he was passing,
and urged him to turn back and fight. As he rode
on without stopping, she shook her fist at him and
cried, “Oh! you great, big, cowardly rascal! I only
wish old Forrest were here; he would make you
fiu-ht!” *****

One of the greatest secrets of Forrest’s success
was his perfect system of scouts. He kept reliable
scouts all around him and at great distances and
often, even daj’s in advance, he was informed of
movements that were about to be made. *

Near West Point, (1864) Forrest soon came up to
where I was standing on the causeway, leading to
the bridge, and, as it was the first time I had ever
been with him in a fight, I watched him closely.
His manner was nervous, impatient and imperious.
He asked me what the enemy were doing, and I
gave him the report just received from Colonel Duff,
in command of the pickets. He said sharply. “Well,
I will go and see myself.” He started across the
bridge, which was about thirty yards long and then
being raked by the enemy’s fire. This struck me
at the time as a needless and somewhat braggadocio
exposure of himself, and I followed him to see what
he would do. When he reached the other bank, the
fire of the enemy was very heavy and our men were
falling back, one running without hat or gun. In
an instant Forrest seized and threw him to the
ground, and, while the bullets were whist’.ing
around him, administered a severe thrashing with a
brush of wood. * *

General Joseph E. Johnston said if Forrest had
been an educated soldier, no other Confederate
general would have been heard of.

Dr. J. B. Cowan, of Tullahoma, Tenn., who was
chief surgeon to Forrest’s Cavalry during the war,
and was intimately associated with Forrest, says
that at the battle of Okalona, where Forrest’s
brother Jeffrey was killed, his grief was overpower-
ing when he realized that the brother whom he
idolized, and who, being a posthumou-s child, had
been tenderly reared and carefully educated by the
elder brother, was mortally wounded. Although
the Federals were in flight with Forrest pursuing,
he seemed for a moment to forget the great respon-
sibility of his position as a commander, in the asrony
of this sudden affliction. He dismounted, picked
up his dving brother and held him in his arms as
he would a child, until his lifeblood was spent.

The wound was of such a character that surgical
relief was impossible, and he bled to death within
a few minutes. The rough soldier kissed his dead
brother tenderly, with tears streaming from his
eyes, laid him gently upon the ground, took one last
look, and then his expression of grief gave way to
one of almost ferocity; he sprang to his horse,
shouting to Goss, his bugler, “Blow the charge!”
and swept ahead of his men in the direction of the
retreating enemy. Dr. Cowan followed as close be-
hind him as he could keep in the pursuit, and the
faithful escort were well up with their great leader.
Half a mile or so down the road they suddenly came
upon the enemy, who had determined upon a stand.
A piece of artillery was placed to sweep the road by
which they must approach, and the Federals, dis-
mounted, had taken a strong position on either side
of the road. As soon as they were observed, the
Federals fired upon them, and Dr. Cowan remon-
strated with the General for thus exposing himself.
Forrest remarked, “Doctor, if you are uneasy, you
can ride out of range;” and the General continued
in this position, making a careful survey of the
enemy’s position. His horse was killed under him,
and he mounted another, belonging to one of the
escort who had just then ridden up. While For-
rest was riding a little further on, on the side of a
little eminence, this horse was also killed. Satis-
fied with the recunnoissance. which had only oc-
cupied a few minutes, he drew his saber and shout-
ed to the escort, “Move up!” This plucky body of
sixty men followed with equal bravery their daring
and now reckless leader.

“It seemed to me then that the General, madden-
ed by grief at the loss of his favorite brother,
wanted to go with him. It was only the matter of
a moment when the General and his escort were
mixed up with the Federals in a fearful melee. I
put the spurs to my horse, ran back in the direction
from which we had come to hurry up help, met
Colonel McCulloch with a portion of his Missouri
regiment, and said to him, ‘Colonel, for God’s sake
hurry down the road as fast as j-ou can. The Gen-
eral and his escort are down there in a hand to hand
fight, and I am afraid he will be killed before you
can get there!’ Forrest slew three men with his
svv’ord in this terrible fight before the Federals
yielded and fled from the field.”

General Richard Taylor, who later in the war
was placed in command of the department in which
Forrest operated, says in his book, “Destruction
and Reconstruction,” (see p. 19).

“Some months before the time of our first meet-
ing * * * he had defeated Sturg-is at Tishi-
mingo, and he soon repeated his defeat of General
Grant at Okalona.

“Okalona was fought on an open plain, and For-
rest had no advantage of position to compensate
for great inferiority of numbers, but it is remark-
able that he employed the tactics of Frederick at
Leuthen and Zorndorf, though he had never heard
these names. Indeed, his tactics deserve the clos-
est study of military men. Wnen asked to what he
attributed his success in so many actions, he re-
plied, ‘I got there first with the most men.’ * * *
I doubt if any commander since the time of lion-

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hearted Richard, has killed so many of his foes as
Forrest. His word of command was unique,
‘Move up, and mix with ’em!’ While cutting-
down many a foe with long-reaching arm, his keen
eye watched the whole fight and guided him to the
weak spot. Yet, he was a tender-hearted, kindly
man. The accusations of his enemies that he mur-
dered his prisoners at Fort Pillow and elsewhere
are absolutely false. These negroes told me of
Forrest’s kindness to them.”

In the closing- campaign at Selma, in April, 1865,
General Taylor says, (see p. 21′)):

“Forrest ordered his brig-ad es to the Catawba cross-
ing, leading one in person. He was a host in him-
self, and a dangerous adversary to meet at any
reasonable odds. With one brigade, Forrest was
in Wilson’s path; he fought as if the world depend-
ed on his arm, and sent to advise me of the decep-
tion practiced on two of his brigades, hoping to
stop the enemy if he could with the third, the ab-
sence of which he could not account for. After
Selma fell, he appeared horse ami man covered with
blood, and announced the enemy at his heels, and
that I must move at once to escape capture. I felt
anxious about him, but he said he was unhurt and
would cut his way through.”

If Forrest was terrible and relentless in battle, he
was by nature gentle, tender and affectionate. His
love for children was very strong. My personal
friend, Colonel R. B. Kyle, of Gadsden, on the 25th
of June 1895, gave me in writing the following- per-
sonal reminiscence of the greatsoldier:

“About May 7th, 1863, as Forrest was returning
from the capture of Streight, at Rome, he stayed
all night at my house. Forrest’s terrific pursuit of
Streight, and the capture of his large command with
a force only one-third as numerous as the enemy, had,
of course, tilled the country through which Streight
had passed with the idea that Forrest was a tre-
mendous fighter, and gave me the impression that
his mind would be occupied only with things con-
cerning the war; but the only thing that seemed to
concern him while in my house for almost a day
and all night, was my little two-year-old boy, to
whom he took a great fancy, holding him on his
lap and carrying him around the place in his arms.
The little child showed great fondness for him and
loved to stay with him. The next day, when For-
rest rode away in the direction of Guntersville, he
took the little fellow two or three miles on the road
with him, holding him on the saddle in front of
him, and I rode along with Forrest this distance
in order to bring the child home to his mother.
He kissed the little fellow tenderly as he bade him
good bye and. turning to me, said, ‘My God, Kyle,
this is worth living for!’

“I again met Forrest in the fall of ’65’ on board a
train en route to Montgomery, Ala., to meet Presi-
dent Davis, with whom he had some correspon-
dence, and who had asked Forrest to come to Mont-
gomery, as he wanted to see him personally. We
renewed our acquaintance, and in conversation he
told me he would not serve longer under Bragg.
He said that he was not competent to command any
army; that the army had whipped the Federals
badly at Chickamauga, and that he, with his com-

mand, had followed them almost to the suburbs of
Chattanooga; that they were demoralized, and
could have been captured, and that he rode back
himself, after sending couriers and getting unfa-
vorable replies, and found General Bragg asleep.
He urged that they move on in pursuit of the enemy
at once, as their capture was certain. Bragg asked
how he could move an army without supplies, as
his men had exhausted them. Forrest’s replv was,
‘General Bragg, we can get all the supplies our
army needs in Chattanooga.’ Bragg made no re-
ply, and Forrest rode away disgusted.”

‘BARRIERS BURXED AWAY.”

A Blue and Gray commingling was in successful swine;
The fraternizing boom” was on. and all thai sort of ihiig —
When, as it chanced, an old Con fed fell chinning with a Yank
Who proved, in sooth a caution as a reminiscence “crank.”

“How pleasant ‘lis.” the latter cried, “to grasp the hand of him
That through four long and bloody years faced us in battle

grim !
And. by the way, was it your luck to fight at franklin? eh!”
“Well, [ should smile,” quoth Stars and Bars; “I lost an ear

that day.”

“Ah ha ! in I hat event I know ’twill please you much to hear
That ’twas a rooster of my size who Bcooped y.-u r missing ear.
1 shot il oil ; it all Comes back ;” bin ere hi’ could conclude,
The Con fed loomed before his gaze in no uncertain mood.

“And ’twas you that did the job. you wretched little Yank I
I’vi’ often wondered if I’d meet the man I had to lliank
For this depletion — as al length I see your form once more,
Take thai, and that, and that, for what you did in Sixty-four!”

Chas Edqb worth .Jones.

AuRU»t».’Gm.. J»n. 14, ’96.

A comrade writes from the Palmetto Home Land-
ing on Yazoo River, Mississippi: On January 25rd,
at 5 a. m., Comrade George W. Daniel answered the
last roll call. No braver or truer patriot ever fought
beneath the stars and bars. He enlisted at Duck
Hill, Miss., when sixteen years old. in Company E,
Fifteenth Mississippi, in which company he served
two years. The last two years he served in Com-
pany II, Twenty-ninth Mississippi. Walthall’s Divis-
ion; was never absent from roll call but once during
the four years, and never had a furlough. He was
in many battles, among them Shiloh, Corinth, Chick-
am iuu r a. Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge,
Dalton, Kennesaw Mountain, Allatoona, Atlanta,
Peachtree Creek, Franklin, and others. He never
knew what fear meant, was true to his God, true to
his family, and true to his country. He loved to
talk of the war, and had a remarkable memory. He
was laid to rest at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Yazoo
County, Miss., wrapped in the Hag he loved and
honored.

Mr. J. Ryan, who served in the Twenty-first
Indiana Battery, and was close enoutrh in great
battles to appreciate Confederates, writes from Chi-
cago, January ‘ s . ’96: I enclose live dollars, which
please credit to the “Sam Davis Monument Fund.”
Think it should be erected in Nashville

I only wish I was able to contribute in proportion
to my admiration of the true manhood displayed by
this man.

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TO CHARMING NELLIE -NOT SO FUNNY.

J. B. Polley, Esq., Floresville, Texas, sends an-
other old letter dated, Camp near Richmond, Va.,
May 19, 1S62. An account of the first battle:

Charming Nellie: * * * Arrived at York-
town, we camped about a mile and a half to the
rear and right of that dilapidated old town. It was
here, you know, that Cornwallis surrendered. The
embankments thrown up during the Revolutionary
War are yet in a fair state of preservation, and
would likely have been very interesting to me had
not the present war, in the shape and terror of a
bomb from a Federal battery, furnished a more
practical subject for reflection. Sutne of my com-
rades grew very enthusiastic over the fact that we
were on historic ground, made sacred by Washing-
ton’s great victory, and eloquently insisted that the
scene should inspire us with extra courage and pa-
triotism. I suspected, however, that the larger part
of their enthusiasm originated in the canteen of
whiskey they bought from a blockade runner. I
tasted it, but it aroused no corresponding senti-
ments in my breast. * * * About two o’clock,
on the morning of May 4th, the pleasing informa-
tion was communicated to the Texas Brigade that
to it had been granted the proud distinction of serv-
ing as the rear guard of the Conlederate Army.
In fact, all the other troops had folded their tents
and, without giving us the slightest hint of their
intention, marched away, hours before, toward
Richmond, and even the compliment paid our bri-
gade failed to relieve us of exceeding lone’someness.

Just as day appeared the gallant Texans took
up the line of march and. anxious to put as much
distance as possible between it and a presumably
fast following enemy, stepped out in their very live-
liest manner. However, either because the Yan-
kees knew that Texans were the riar guard and
feared to attack such desperadoes, or were not fleet-
footed enough to overtake them, they were not mo-
lested, and overtook the main body of the army
about four miles from the old Colonial town of Wil-
liamsburg — the proud and inspiring consciousness
thrilling their bosoms of duty well-performed by
heroic efforts to get beyond reach of a dastardly
enemy. Terribly tired by a rapid eight mile
march over the muddiest road imaginable, we yet
halted not, but, leaving Williamsburg to our left,
went swiftly on. After an hour or two of hurried
tramping, the roar of artillery and the roll cf mus-
ketry, fortunately many miles behind us, smote
upon our unaccustomed ears and gave us an oppor-
tunity to reflect proudly and exultinglv on our good
fortune; the honor and glory of being the rearguard
was ours beyond dispute, and yet we had escaped
all the dangers.

Gen. Hood neither halted, changed the course
of the march, nor furnished us with a single partic-
ular as to his intentions, but hurried the command
on with a speed that indicated a strong desire on
his part to reach a haven of complete safety, a pro-
ceeding which met our hearty approval and co-oper-
ation. At any rate, camp was made that night
in heav}- timber about four miles from Eltham’s

Landing on York River. Here we remained until
the 7th, when before daylight we began moving to-
ward thelandingand the enemy. Gen. Hood and his
Staff were a hundred yards in advance ol the Fourth,
and Company F. next to the leading company. We
were approaching a large, deserted house, situated
on an eminence overlooking the wide valley of
York River. Between us and the house were some
cavalry pickets, who, like veritable dummies had sat
on their horses and permitted a company of Yankee
infantry to shelter itself behind the building. Hood
reached the picket line — which was scarcely a hun-
dred yards from the house — and immediately twen-
ty or more blue coats stepped out in plain view and
poured a volley into us — doing no greater damage,
however, than to give u- a terrible scare.

We were marching at will, in column, and, except
that of John Deal, not a gun was loaded. It was a
complete surprise. We were in a newly cleared
field, full of pine stumps, and, with the instinct of
self preservation, every man, except Deal — who im-
mediately knelt, fired, and mortally wounded the
Sergeant of the attacking force — hastily sought the
protection of a stump, loading his gun as he ran to
it. Hood came dashing back, shouting to the regi-
ment to fall into line, and as every stump I made
for was appropriated by a quicker man — and I had
managed to load my gun, I had no option but to be
among the first to obey orders and place myself in
approved battle array. Not half a minute elapsed
though, before every man of the regiment was in
rank, and then came the order to charge. Rushing
bravely to the crest of the eminence, we were over-
joyed to see the enemy fleeing across an open field
to a skirt of timber half a mile away, but not a man
of the fifty or more in sight and range escaped
wounding or death.

To the right of the house srrew heav}’ timber and
there, after deploying into skirmish line, a number
of Yankees were killed and c iptured. After awhile,
the brigade moved forward across the field and into
the woods beyond, but the Yankee skirmishers
were driven back so rapidly by ours that not a
single enemy capable of doing duty came within
my view. But as long as I kept out of their sight
I was thoroughly content. The other two Texas
Regiments had hot fights, which they won by gal-
lant charges, and in two hours the Yankees were
forced to take refuse in transports, protected by
gunboats which shelled the woods until night.

Thus, Charming Nellie, began and ended your
friend’s first experience under fire. He did not dis-
tinguish himself, but finds consolation in the re-
flection that neither did the enemy, nor the

Cavalry, who by their carelessness almost caused the
Fourth Texas to show the “white feather” in its
first engagement. Here I looked for the first time
on the dead and wounded of a battle. After the

fighting ceased. Jack S and I went to a poor

fellow who was mortally wounded, and filling his
canteen with water, did what we could to make him
comfortable. He admitted being from Wisconsin,
but absolutely refused to tell his command, saying
that was against orders. He was just about my
age, and it was not a pleasant thought that some
day soon I ma}-, like him, be mortally wounded and

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left in the hands of the enemy. I do not often in-
dulge such grim fancies, but in his presence could
not avoid them.

Three days rations had been issued the da.y be-
fore we left Yorktown, and on the morning of the
8th, being- without rations, four ears of corn were
dealt out to each man. Parched, it was no bad
eating – to hungry soldiers, and we soon became gen-
uine Cornfeds. About two o’clock on the morning of
the ‘Hh, the regiment was aroused and informed that
it was to be carried, right under the. noses of the
enemv, out of very dangerous quarters, and that
the most profound silence must be maintained and
not a cup or plate suffered to rattle. Thus en-
joined, we marched out of camp as silently as
Arabs, taking the road to Richmond. The country
was open, but a heavy log enveloped it To the
right ami very near our line of march, we could dis-
tinguish the shadowy forms of horses and riders,
standing quiet and motionless — cavalry pickets,
whose close proximity to the road should, according
to military usage, have indicated the near approach
of the enemy. When, however, it was learned that

the pickets were Cavalry, our fears began to

subside, for we felt that the gallant sabereurs would
keep a careful lookout for their own safety. Never-
theless, the speed of the inarch suffered no abate-
ment, until broad daylight and the lifting of the
fog, furnished ocular demonstration of safety.
Then I drew a long and heartfelt sigh of relief;
for I am philosopher enough to derive much conso-
lation from that noble, soul-inspiring sentiment of
the poet —

He who lights and runs away,

Will live to fighi anol her day.

At ten o’clock a. m., we passed the White House
— the home of the Lee family and the place where
Gen. Washington “caught a Tartar” by marrying
the widow Custer. But as no member of the bri-
gade cared to make historical researches, we pushed
rapidly on until half the Confederate Army lav be-
tween us ami the Yankees. Then, about noon, we
won our most appreciated laurels — being- permitted
to camp in a thicket of those shrubs. In truth, we
deserved them; for little gallantry as we displayed
at Elthatn’s Landing, the Yankees showed less, and
our bold trout prevented the debarkation of Frank-
lin’s Corps and the capture of our immense wagon
train.

What do you think? After going into camp in
the laurel thicket. I witnessed the performance of
a strange feat by a sleeping man — he caught a live
rabbit. It is a solemn undeniable fact, which lean
prove incontestably by a hundred men who failed
to catch the little animal. It was this way; the
rabbit jumped out of a hollow in a stump that some
soldier wanted for firewood, and the moment it was
seen, an immense shout went up and half a thou-
sand men began chasing and grabbing at it. It
ran hither and thither, and finally jumped squarely
on Dansby’s breast, just as his hand, moving- uncon-
sciously, descended to rest on the breast. The two
acts — that of the rabbit and that of the man — were
so nearly simultaneous, that the rabbit evidently
thought it had found a hiding place, for it made no
effort whatever to escape. Dansby drew a long

breath, opened his eyes with astonishment, looked
a moment at the captive, and then sprang- to his
feet, saying with a smile of delig-ht, “By gum —
I’m hongry.” In less than five minutes that little,
trusting- rabbit \,as stewing in a quart cup.

CANNONADING THE MOON.

War anecdote by C. C. Cummings, Commander R.
E. Lee Camp, Ft. Worth, Tex.is:

B. L. Ridley, Murfreesboro, tells of some “Re-
markable shots in lite army” in the Februay num-
ber of the VETERAN, which are good, but a longer
and higher shot than he tells of I recall while
we were at Yorktown, in May, 1S(>2. A party
of my regiment — Seventeenth Mississippi — visited
this historic old town, by leave of absence from our
post on the Warwick (Warrick) River, to see the
monument where Cornwallis surrendered his sword
to Washington at the last battle in our first revolu-
tion. Also to witness the fun with the Yankee
balloonist who had been trying to spy our lines.
Just before we arrived that evening, the balloon
with the Yank in it had started up above the tree
tops from the lines of the enemy, some mile or more
in our front. The battery boys of the breastworks,
however, made him slide down again very quickly
when they tired a broadside at him. The crowd at
the breastworks around the battery were anxiously
awaiting the reappearance of this novelty. The
gunner stood with his hand on the lanyard ready to
bt drive whenever the thing would rise again.
Meantime night grew on apace — the stars crept out
one by one. as if afraid of being shot by the reckless
battery, and the scene was enlivened by the pickets
of both sides rushing to and fro around the monu-
ment of marble standing sentinel between our lines,
first one side ami then the other desecrating it by
talcing shelter behind it. Presently the commander
of the battery exclaimed, “There he s again, boys!
give it lo him good this time!” Bang-! bang-! boom!
boom! roared the battery. The boys raised the reb-
el veil and waited for the smoke to clear away to
see the damage done. Imagine our chagrin when
all we saw was the pale-faced moon riding serenely
above the tree tops and looking calmly down on us.
When we saw the joke our boys guffawed very
coarsely at the artillerymen, which made the battery
boys heartily ashamed of what they had done — had
shot at the man in the moon!

Camp Giles No. 708 U. C. V.. at Union, S. C,
begun the new year in a properly patriotic and en-
ergetic way. Commander J. T. Douglas presided
and the State Constitution of United Confederate
Veterans was read by W. H. S. Harris, and adopted
in its entirety. A committee of five on pensions
was appointed, comprised of Y. S. Bobo, Wm. A.
Nicholson, A. E. Fant, T. J. Hughes, and Com-
mander Douglas.

The Confederate Veteran was ordered for the
Camp. Sixty-six names were enrolled. The next
regular meeting of the Camp will be held the first
Monday in April. Comrade J L. Strain, Adjutant
of the Camp, is at Etta Jane, Union County.

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ROSTER OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS.

Henry E. Claflin, of Arbington, Mass., sends inter-
esting data about our Confederate Generals. While
it is unusually accurate for data of the kind, he ad-
mit ; that it is not absolutely so, because many Con-
federate records were destroyed. His list is as fol-
lows: Full Generals, 8; Lieutenant- Generals, 17;
Major-Generals, 82; Brigadier-Generals, 313; total,
420. He gives the Command and brief sketch of the
full Generals and that of the ranking subordinates
in their order of appointment:

It is sing-ular that so great a discrepancy occurs
in the number of Confederate Generals. Will com-
rades report errors which they ma}- discover?

Samuel Cooper, of Virginia, General Confederate
States Army, May 16, ’61; Adjutant and Inspector-
General C. S. A. from May 16, ’61, until the close of
the war; died Dec. 3, 1876.

Albert Sidney Johnston, of Texas, (a native of
Kentucky), General Confederate States Army, May
30, ’61; killed April 6, ’62, at the battle of Shiloh;
commanded Department No. 2 by special order No.
149 A. and I. G. O., Sept. 10, ’61, known as the Army
of the Mississippi.

Robert E. Lee, of Virginia, Major-General com-
manding- Virginia State Forces, ’61; Brigadier-Gen-
eral Confederate States Army, May 14, ’61; General
Confederate States Army June, 14, ’61; died Oct. 12,
’70. Commanded in Western Virginia, ’61; Coast of
South Carolina and Georgia winter of ’61 and ’62;
assigned to duty at Richmond and charg-ed with the
operations of the Confederate States Army, March 21,
’62; commanded the Army of Northern Virginia from
June 1, ’62, to the 9th of April ’65; Commander-in-
Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States of
America by general orders Feb. 6, ’65.

Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia, Major-General
Virginia State Forces, April 26, ’61; Brigadier-Gen-
eral Confederate States Army, Ma}’ 14, ’61; General
Confederate States Army, July 4, ’61; died March
29, 1891. Commanded at Harper’s Ferry, May
24, ’61; assumed command at Bull Run July 20, ’61;
commanded Department of Northern Virginia and
Department of Norfolk and Peninsula from Oct. 22,
’61, +o June 1, ’62; commanded Department of the
West, including commands of Bragg, Kirby-Smith
and Pemberton, Nov. 24, ’62; commanded Department
of the Mississippi, March 9, ’63; assigned to the com-
mand of the Army of Tennessee, Dec. 13, ’63; remov-
ed July 17, ’64; reassigned Feb. 23, ’65, and com-
manded until the war closed.

Pierre G. T. Beauregard, of Louisiana, Brigadier-
General Confederate States Army, March 1, ’61;
General Confederate States Army, July 21, ’61;
died February 20, 1893; assigned to command at
Charleston, S. C, March 1, ’61; assigned to com-
mand Army of the Potomac, May ’61; commanded
Army of the Mississippi from March 5, ’62; in com-
mand of the Department of South Carolina and Geor-
gia, Aug. 29, ’63; commanded at Petersburg and
Drewry’s Bluff April 23, ’61; commanded Military
Division of the West Oct. 17, ’64; commanded oper-
ations at Charleston, S. C, winter of ’64 -’65; an-

nounced as second in command to Gen. J. E. John-
ston, Feb. 25, ’65.

Braxton Bragg, of Louisiana, Brigadier-General
Provisional Army Confederate Slates, March 7, ’61;
Major-General P. A. C. S., Sept. 12. ’61; General
Confederate States Army, April 12, ’62: died Sept.

27, ’76. Assigned to command of Army of Louisiana,
Feb. 22, ’61, to defences of Pensacola’Oct. 29, ’61, to
to Department of Alabama and Florida winter ’61-‘2,
to right wing Army of the Mississippi at Shiloh
April ’62; commanded Army of the Mississippi March
’62 to Nov. 12, ’62; commanded Department of Ten-
nessee, Aug. ’63 to Dec. 22, ’63; assigned to duty at
Richmond, Feb. 24, ’64; commanded Department of
North Carolina, Nov. 24, ’64.

E. Kirby-Smith, of Florida, Brigadier-General
June 17, ’61; Major-General Oct. 11, ’61; Lieutenant-
General Oct. 9, ’62; General Feb. 19, ’64; died March

28, ’93. Chief-of-Staff to Gen. J. E. Johnston, June
and July, ’61, Division composed of Brigades of
Trimble, Taylor and Elzey; commanded Depart-
ment of East Tennessee, afterward Trans-Missis-
sippi Department, Feb. 11, ’63.

John B. Hood, of Texas, Colonel 4th Texas Infan-
try, Sept. 30, ’61; Brigadier-General P. A. C. S.,
March 3, ’62; Major-General Oct. 10, ’62; Lieutenant-
General Sept. 20, ’63; General (temporary rank),
July 18, ’64; died Aug. 30, ’79. Commanded’Brigade
composed of the 1st, 4th, 25th Texas and 18th
Georgia Infantry and Hampton’s Legion, Army
of North Virginia; Division composed of the Bri-
gades of Robertson, Law, Benning and Jenkins,
Army of Northern Virginia; commanded Army of
Tennessee, July 18, ’64, to Feb. 23, ’65.

LIEUTENANT-GENERALS.

James Longstreet, of Alabama, the senior Lieu-
tenant- General, is reported as follows: Brigadier-
General, June 17, ’61;Major-General Oct. 7, ’61; Lieu-
tenant-General Oct. 9, ’62; commanded Brigades com-
posed of the 1st, 7th, 11th and 17th Virginia Infan-
try, Army of the North Potomac, ’61; Division com-
posed of the Brigades of Kemper, Pickett, Wilcox,
Anderson, Pryor and Featherstone, Army of North-
ern Virginia; commanded First Corps of Northern
Virginia from Aug. 13, ’62, to Aug. 14, ’63; com-
manded left wing of Army of Tennessee from Oct.
to Dec. ’63; commanded from Dec. 5, ’63, to April
12, ’64, Department of East Tennessee; commanded
First Corps, composed of Pickett’s, Field’s and Ker-
shaw’s Divisions of Infantry and Alexander’s Divis-
ion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, from
Oct. 4, ’64, to the close of the war.

MAJOR-GENERALS.

David E. Twiggs, of Georgia, was the senior Ma-
jor-General May 22, ’61; died Sept. 15, ’62. He was
assigned to the Command of the District of Louisiana
April 17, ’61, with headquarters at New Orleans.

Barnard E. Bee was the senior Brigadier of South
Carolina who named the great Jackson “Stonewall.”
Brigadier-General June 17, ’61; killed at Bull Run
July 21, ’61. His Brigade was composed of the 4th
Alabama and 2nd and 11th Mississippi and 1st Ten-
nessee Infantry and Imboden’s Battery, Army of the
Shenandoah.

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CONFEDERATE GENERALS BY STATES.

Charles Edgeworth Jones, of Augusta, Ga., has
taken much pains in a compilation of statistics about

Missouri — Four Major-Generals and twelve Briga-
dier-Generals — 1<> in all.

Tennessee — Two Lieu tenant-Generals, eight Ma-
jor-Generals and thirty-four Brigadier Generals — 44
in all.

Kentuky — One Lieutenant- General, five Major-
Generals and sixteen Brigadier Generals— 22 in all.

Maryland — Three Major-Generals and six Briga-
dier-Generals — V in all.

CONFEDERATE MONUMENT IN \l SI 81 ‘A, GA.

our Confederate Generals. He reports the total as
474. Mr. Jones gives them by States and as follows:

Virginia — Three full Generals, five Lieutenant-
Generals, seventeen Major-Generals, and fifty-four
Brigadier-Generals — 79 in all.

North Carolina — Two Lieutenant-Generals, seven
Major-Generals, and twenty-nine Brigadier-Generals

38 in all.

Georgia — Three Lieutenant-Generals, seven Ma-
jor-Generals, and fortv-two Brigadier-Generals — 52
in all.

Florida — One General in Provisional Army of Con-
federate States, three Major-Generals, and ten Briga-
dier-Generals 14 in all.

Alabama Due Licutenat-Ceneral, six Major-
Generals, and twenty-nine Brigadier-Generals — 36
in all.

Mississippi — Five Major-Generals and thirty Brig-
adier-Generals 35 in all.

Louisiana Two full Generals, two Lieutenant-
Generals, four Major-General.., and twenty-two Brig-
adier-Generals -30 in all.

Texas One full General with temporary rank,
three Major-Generals, and thirty-six Brigadier-Gen-
erals — 41 in all.

Indian Territory— One Brigadier-General (Stand
Watie).

France -One Major-Genera] (Camille J. Polignac).

Arkansas — Four Major-Generals and eighteen
Brigadier-Generals — 22 in all.

MAJOR JNO. W. DANIEL AT LEE’S GRAVE.

Father A. J. Ryan wrote the New OrleansTimes-
Democrat soon after dedication ol the recumbent
figure of Gen. Lee, in the Chapel of Washington and

Lee University, an account of John W. Daniel’s ora-
tion, stating:

He began his oration in a simple, yet striking,
way, alluding to the home of Lee before the war.
It was only the preface to a glorious oration.

He rose as he proceeded as a man in climbing the
slopes of a mountain to see the setting sun. Half
wav Up the slope he seemed to rest, but you could
see in his face and hear in the tremor of his voice
and his graceful swaying gestures that he rested
for a purpose. I think it was the glory-hour of his
address. When he swung back his classic head, he
alluded to President Davis, with his heart in his
voice and in words that were royal.

It was the grand Southern amen to words grand
as they were, and grandly spoken of a man grander
than any words. Some eyes were moist with tears
then- tributes to our president, who suffered for us
all.

God bless him. The orator went on, rising high-
er and higher in his eloquence, and when he con-
cluded there was one man in that audience who
said to himself “the orator equals the occasion.”
Then General Early spoke briefly. He commanded
your humble servant to come forward and face a
crowd already entranced witli glorious eloquence.
I obeyed, said a few words, recited the “Sword of
Robert Lee,” and stole away. Stonewall Jackson’s
daughter. Julia, unveiled tin- statue. Crowds went
in and came out, and the faces of many were sad.
Clouds were gathering way over on the mountains.
The sun went down and Lexington will never see
such a day again, because the world will never know
another Robert Lee.

A. Forrest, Sherman, Texas: I have in my pos-
session one pocket Bible which I would like to re-
turn to the original owner, if he can be found.
There is written in the back “Water Valley, Miss.”
“I had rather lie a minister of the gospel than to
be king over all this earth” is also written on it,
“Shelbyville, Tenn.,” and signed “Hugh.” He
was, I think, in 29th Illinois Regiment, which was
captured at Trenton, West Tennessee, early in 1863,
by one of General N. B. Forrest’s men. I am one
of them, and stuck to Forrest when the others left
him at Plantersville, twenty-two miles North of
Selma, Ala., near the close of the war.

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S.A.CUNNINGHAM. Kdhor and I’rop’r. 8. W. MKKK. Publisher.

oiHce: Willcox Building, Church Street. Nashville, Tenn,

This publication is the personal property of s. a.. Cunningham. All
persons who approve its principles.aud realize its benelits as an or^an for
Associations throughout the South, a’e requested to commend its patron-
age and to co-operate in extending ; t.

THE BATTLE ABBEY MOVEMENT.

Tennessee Confederates have not shown greater
patriotic zeal since the war than is now being- man-
ifested in behalf of the Confederate Memorial Asso-
ciation. Col. Robt. C. Wood, of New Orleans, in
special charg-e of the work for promoting- this great
enterprise, will occupy many pages in the Veteran
for March in this interest. Abundant space has
been tendered and he will give an account of what
is being done. In a note he says: “I thank you for
the kind proffer which you make. Appreciating-
the value of the Vetekan as a vehicle of communi-
cation with the Confederate element of the country,
and having a higti estimation of its influence, it
will afford me pleasure to prepare for your March
issue a statement of the progress of the work of the
Confederate Memorial Committee.”

NATIONAL SOLDIERS’ HOMES.

It will be interesting to Confederates generally to
know that twenty thousand Union veterans are be-
ing provided with homes by the general govern-
ment. They are located at the following- places:
Dayton, O., 5,189; (Northwestern) Milwaukee, Wis.,
2,448; Leavenworth, (Kan.), 2,492; Hampton, Va ,
3,126; Augusta, Me., 1,977; Marion, lad., 1,501;
and Santo Monica, Chi., 1,455. There are twenty-
two Soldiers’ Homes in as many Northern States.

With the seven National Homes there are 422,770
acres of land which cost $234,577.84, and the im-
provements cost $4,461,190.30.

The aggregate cost of maintaining these homes
from the beginning to June 30, ’95 was $38,487,700.

The expenditures in the seven branches are be-
tween $2,500,000 and $3,00.000 a year.

All the foregoing is independent of pensions. It
is estimated that four-fifths of the benificiaries of
the National Home draw pensions averaging $10
each per month. Pensioners getting less than $16
are entitled to the benefits of support at this Na-
tional Home without any deduction from their
pensions.

The writer had the courtesy, recently, of escort
through the various departments of the Milwaukee
branch by Col. Cornelius Wheeler, Governor. There

were present that morning- 2,448 inmates while
300 were absent on leave. It was most interesting
to go through so many large buildings so thoroughly
provided for comfort. Ah! the memories of those
four terrible years which were aroused!

It was gratifying- to see such liberal provision
for the maimed old men, and the impulse to com-
mend the unstinted liberality of the government in
so providing was checked by taking a broader view,
in which equally unfortunate American citizens en-
gaged in that same great war with juster cause —
the defense of home and other property guaranteed
by the constitution of the country — were known to
be destitute. What mysteries in this world!

The Veteran for January solemnly commended
the action of Congress in repealing the “prescriptive
disabilities” of Confederates, but an omission of a
story occurred which was not intended. It was to
have been an illustrative comment, and is here given:
In the writer’s regiment eight men deserted while
stationed at Port Hudson, La. They were arrested,
returned to their command, kept under guard and
on extra duty for months. During- the siege of
Jackson, Miss., they were released and given three
years.

The above mentioned circumstance furnishes a
reminiscence: On a hot August day during the
siege, when fifty volunteers had been called out to ad-
vance our skirmish line, and hnddone so, one of these
eight was lying near the writer on the South side of
a fence, when he began to murmur, saying volunteers
had been called and he was detailed. Soon one of
the hard, harsh minie balls struck the small fence
post back of which he sought protection. The un-
fortunate soldier was struck and, glad of an excuse,
started to the rear. When he had gone but a short
distance he fell upon his face in the plowed ground
— dead.

The Governor of Texas, Hon. C A. Culberson, is
wisely giving to the people of his great State an ac-
count of what had been done through the year by
legislative enactments, and an account of his own
(the executive) department says:

The Confederate Home was formerly supported
by fees received from several State departments.
As these fees were uncertain and varied in amount
from time to time, the efficient maintenance of the
home was doubtful and precarious. By an act of
the last legislature all question is removed, and the
home has been established upon a permanent basis
by appropriation from the general revenue, where
disabled veterans of the Confederacy are generously
provided for.

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Mrs. Jolin A. Jackson, of Pulaski, has been re-
ferred to in connection with the execution of Samuel
Davis. She ardently espoused the Union cause and
was specially favored by its general officers. She
had influence with the authorities, and she often
used it effectually in behalf of Southerners. Gen.
Dodge, in his deep anxiety to save the life of Samuel
Davis, sought to have Mrs. Jackson visit him. and
in a recent thrilling accountof those days and nights
of anguish she writes to the Giles County Record,
after referring its readers to the VETERAN con-
taining an elaborate account, states:

“With moisture in his eyes. General Dodge spoke
of Sam Davis as no common young man — one full of
energy and promise, and one he would be glad to
save from so sad a fate. He urged me to go and
see Davis. I felt it would be useless. Nor would I
have tried to influence him in his strong determina-
tion, and contrary to his ideas of right. 1 knew
his sympathies were intense in the Southern cause.
Peril could not daunt his manly courage; and if. as
he said, he had given his promise not to betray, be
would give his life to shield the betrayer. Vet it
has been one of the regrets of my life that I did not
visit him in his prison cell.

The thought has come to me since those dark-
hours, freighted with terrors, siyhs and tears, that
I might, in kindly ministrations, have lightened the
gloom of his surroundings, and brought comfort to
the poor boy in a strange place, away from his loved
ones, fettered in chains and looking an ignominious
death in the face. The human heart sometimes
grows faint, sick, and weary; and feels powerless,
however the will may urye, to goastep farther, and
thus it was with the writer. How little I feel able
to explain myself. However, out of this seeming
wilful neglect of duty, to human eves, came deep
regrets that so preyed upon my heart, 1 determined,
God willing, that all other poor sufferers similarly
situated should have all the aid that I could bring
to lessen the ills of life.”

Sam Davis is tried and condemned to death as a
spy. The citizens shudder. The sound of the saw
and hammer are heard. The gallows is built on
East Hill. All eyes involuntarily turn and look once
on the hideous thing. The day of execution has
come. The windows and doors of every home are
closed. The deepest agonies fold their wimrs in the
soul. The young soldier’s fate has been heard with
tears, pity, and sympathy wherever the English
language is read.

COL. TILLMAN IN SOUTH AMERICA.

General and Governor Churchill, of Arkansas,
who telegraphed Senator Berry at Washington to
offer his services to the President in the event of a
war with England, explained:

“I did this to show that the South and all the
old Confederates .are loyal to the Union and are
willing and ready to defend the Government from
all foreign foes. The crisis has come when we must
either uphold the Monroe doctrine or abandon it
altogether, and I am in favor of enforcing it.”

This Veteran acknowledges an interesting letter
from Hon. J. 1). Tillman, Minister to Ecuador.
While Colonel of the Forty- first Tennessee Regiment
to which the writer belonged and served much as
Sergeant-Major there was much that created memo-
ries winch last. Col. Tillman’s temper could be de-
tected by his address to the Sergeant-Ma jor. If all
went well “Sumner” was the pleasantly familiar
term used but if he was angry with anybody in the

regiment he would emphasize “Sergeant C .”

Minister Tillman writes from Quito, beginning
his letter in this good-natured way:

Legation of the United States, Ouito, Nov. 12,
1895. The sound of the brass bands for six months,
of the roll of the kettle drums night and day, and
bugles at all hours almost of the night, have caused
me to think frequently of our campaigns of thirty
years ago, and with these thoughts of the great re-
bellion have come memories of many id’ my old com-
rades. As these memories have passed through the
mind, I have now and then written a few lines to
some ol the old soldiers of our regiment and brigade.
If I could have forgotten von under the circum-
stances the s i o’ 1 1 1 of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN
would have brought you to memorv. I have received

in the last tour months all the numbers of the Vet-
eran except October, which I expect to receive to-
morrow, and with it, or in it, a full accounted’ the
dedication id” Chickamauga Park. That park is a
great work and I am glad that ourcountrv has been
so generous and impartial in committing to bronze
and marble the names anil deeds of heroism of the
men who have contributed to all the great achieve-
ments of the North American people in commerce.
agriculture and manufacture and in eloquence
and art, added a reputation for courage and devo-
tion to principle not excelled even by Rome or
Greece. A man. who leaves the United States to re-
side in other countries, old or young, needs no other
incentive to patriotism than absence from his native
land, but it is well to keep alive, by monuments and
literature, the recollection of the struggles for liberty
and principle in our own country.

Basil L. Neal. Cleuese, Ga., color bearer of Com-
pany I), 12th Georgia Battalion, or 6th Georgia
Regiment, S. T. writes: I would like to know who
has the flag of tht» 6th Georgia Regiment. I have
the belt and sword I carried when we disband-
ed. Our Colonel’s name was Henderson, of this
State.

E. A. Perry Camp, No. 150, U. C. V, of Lake
City, Florida, held memorial services on the 20th of
January, commemorative of the birth of R. E. Lee.
About seventy-five Veterans were in line. A din-
ner was served at the Watz House, and from
1:30 to 4 p. m., the old soldiers enjoyed the oc-
casion.

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MARENGO (ALA.) RIFLES.

BY N. B. HOGAN.

The first Company organized in Marengo County,
Alabama, was the “Marengo Rifles,” which became
Company A, Eleventh Alabama Infantry on being
mustered into the Confederate service at Lynchburg
Virginia, earl)’ in June, 1861.

This Company was composed principally of school
boys from the Linden Academy and other schools
of the county, though subsequently receiving a num-
ber of recruits to fill vacancies occasioned by the
casualties of battle and the ravages of disease, and
but a few of these recruits were married men.

I well remember, on the day the Company was or-
ganized and as the boys, one by one, attached their
signatures to the Company roll, while old man Jim
Welch (my cousin) beat the long roll upon the old
drum he had used in the Mexican war, how I
was so thrilled with excitement that I trembled as I
ascended the stairway of the old court house in Lin-
den to place my autograph along with those who
were offering their lives in defense of their homes
and loved ones. I was just seventeen years of age,
and the youngest member of the Company.

When the Company was organized (in the early
spring of ’61) the volunteer spirit was so great that
it had to be announced long before the close of the
day that no more names could be enrolled. There
were 105 names on the list. The Company was or-
ganized under a call from G. M. Moody, a hotel-
keeper of Linden, and he was made Captain. Thos.
H. Holcombe was elected First Lieutenant; John B.
Rains, an attorney, Second Lieutenant; and Wm. B.
Young, a seventeen-year-old Tuscaloosa cadet,
Third Lieutenant. All these are dead now except
“Billy” Young, who is a Circuit Judge at Jackson-
ville, Florida. I want to say here that no greater
hero ever unsheathed a sword than this young officer,
and it was owing to ‘his thorough knowledge of
military tactics and manly bearing that the Company
gained such proficiency in the drill, on the skirmish
line and amid thunder and carnage of battle.

After Rains became Captain he would take the
Company on the drill ground and, having no knowl-
edge of military tactics, soon got the boys all “tan-
gled up,” and not knowing how to “straighten ’em
out,” would say to Lieutenant Young, “Oh, — !
Billy, take the Company; I can’t do anything with
them.” Billy would give one. or two commands and
every man would be in line.

After the election of officers preparations were at
once made for going into camp. The citizens of
the count} 7 contributed money to buy tents and all
necessary camp equipage, besides a handsome and
costly gray uniform for the Company. The women
(God bless them) presented us with a fine silk flag
at a cost of $150.00, which was never allowed to trail
in the dust.

A beautiful location was selected at the Hogan
Spring, two miles east of Linden, for our Company
camp ground. We pitched our tents, run our flag
up to the breeze and went into military life in
earnest. During the spring and early summer we
were marched twice a day to the drill grounds and

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under the training of Lieutenant Younsr became one
of the best drilled companies in Lee’s Army.

On the 17th day of June, 1861, we broke camp and
set out for the front and it was not many days un-
til we got a scent of the smoke of battle.

While doing
picket duty on the
Rappa h annoc k
above Fredericks-
burg, beating
time in the snow,
a letter was hand-
ed me bearing the
postmark of Lin-
den. I opened it
and it contained a
letter from Miss
Susie Marshall.
On one of the
sheets of paper
she had printed a
facsimile of our
flag, and under-
neath it had writ-
ten, in matchless
chirograph} – , these
n. b. hogan. memorable lines:

”For me A soldier’s true friend,
Nobly your glorious banner defend-”

Susie, (I dont want to say “Miss”) had capital-
ized the “A,” giving it such emphasis as led me to
conclude that she was the “true friend” ol some par-
ticular “soldier.” Ever after the receipt of this
missive, when the conflict raged in merciless fury’
around me, those lines would come unbidden to
mind, and under the influence of their magic words
I would be urged on, thinking only of home, coun-
try, that glorious banner and Susie

To the devotion, fortitude and self-sacrificing
spirit of the women is due most of the credit for the
glory that surrounds the soldiery of the South.

In a former article I have told of our confronting
Patterson at Winchester, of the march to Manassas,
and the wounding of our Brigade Commander,
Kirby-Smith, on July 21st, near the Henry house.

There is a singular coincidence in my own depart-
ure and return home. On the 17th day of June, 1861,
I left home for the front, and on June 17th, 1865,
just four years afterwards, I left Fort Delaware,
where I had been held a prisoner since ‘he battle of
Gettysburg, July 2nd, 1863. I had never been home.
The roll of this Company illustrates forcibly the
ravages of war.

COMPANY ROLL AND CASUALTIES.

Adams, J. E. (“Dock”), killed at Seven Pines.

Adams, Chas. J., killed at Seven Pines.

Adams, John J., killed in Texas.

Adams, J as. E., badly wounded at Seven Pines.

Adams, Thos. J., died.

Brown, Albert, killed in Petersburg.

Bruce, Henry, wounded at Petersburg, Oct. 22nd.

Brady, Wiley, died.

Brame, Henry, died.

Brasswell, Elias, died.

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Breckenridge, John, died at Richmond.
Breckenridge, E., died at Bristo Station.
Beasley, Benj., mortally wounded at Gettysburg-.
Boozer, Harry, killed at Petersburg.
Bullock, Jas., transferred to Georgia Reg’t; killed

at Frazier’s Farm.
Carter, Sam’l, killed at the “Crater.”
Coats, John, killed at Sharpsburg.
Crawford, Lucius, killed near Petersburg.
Crawford, James, killed at Frazier’s Farm.
Cleland, Jas. H., discharged; died.
Daniels, Nathan, discharged.
Doss, C. W., killed at Gaines’ Mills.
Daniels, L., killed at Gaines’ Mills.
Daniels, Jesse, killed at Gaines’ Mills.
Elmore, Benj., killed at Gaines* Mills.
Eskridge, Nathan, killed at Gaines’ Mills.
Filer, John, killed at Frazier’s Farm.
Ford, Henry, died near Centerville, lSf>2.
Gamble, Joe, killed at Sharpsburg.
Heath, Wm., only deserter in Company.
Holcombe, T. H., Capt., killed at Frazier’s Farm.
Heard, J. F., died a prisoner at Ship Island.
Heard, T. S., died in St. Chas. Hotel, Richm’d, ’62.
Hogau, N. B., wounded and captured at Gettysburg’.
Hayes, Win., killed at Petersburg – .
Hawkins, .las., killed at Petersburg.
Jolly, John, killed at Frazier’s Farm.
Jolly, Thos., killed at Appomattox.
Johnson. Thos., killed at the “Crater.”
Johnson, A. A., killed at Gaines’ Mills.
Johnson, M. M., death wound at Salem Church.
Keller, Jas., taken prisoner at Gettysburg.
Land rum, E. D., died at Williamsburg.
Mcintosh. Win., killed at Frazier’s Farm.
McLaughlin, W. A., captured at Cettvsburg.
McDonald, .las., killed at the “Crater!”
McNeil, Chas., killed at Frazier’s Farm.
McNeil, Wm., killed at Frazier’s Farm.
Moody, Y. M., Capt., resigned, raised 43d Ala. Inf.
Moore, Moses, died.
Morgan, P., died at Mt. Jackson, Ya.,
Morgan, M. J., died from wound ree’d atPetersb’g.
Nored, Wesley, killed at Seven Pines.
Nored, Marshal, killed at Seven Pines.
Nieols, Moses, died at Richmond.
Ogletree, Jas., died at Richmond.
Ogletree, Benj., paroled at Appomattox.
Ogletree, S. D., paroled at Appomattox.
Post. Ceo., a New Yorker and good soldier.
Pearl, Thos., died of wound ree’d at Frazier’s Farm.
Poellhitz, Jas., discharged.

Rogers, Hugh, made prisoner at Frazier’s Farm.
Rogers, Henry, killed at Frazier’s Farm,
Ross, T. F.. killed at Frazier’s Farm.
Ross, W. C, killed at Frazier’s Farm.
Sollie, F. E., taken prisoner at Gettysburg.
Singleton, Jas., killed at Gettysburg.
Steadman, John, wounded; discharged.
Spivey, Jas., killed at Spottsylvania.
Stephenson, W. H., hospital steward.
Shaw, Paul G., killed at Petersburg, June 22, 1S(.4.
Thomas, “Dock.” discharged.
Tyce, Dan’l, killed at Frazier’s Farm.
Tyce, Frank, killed near Asheville after surrender.
Tucker, Henry, died.

Tucker, James, died at Manassas.

Tucker, Thomas, died in Fort Delaware.

Yarner, James, killed at Frazier’s Farm.

Yarner. Sam., killed at Frazier’s Farm.

Wade, Thos., killed at Frazier’s Fram.

Walker Nath., woune’ed at Petersburg, died.

Wade. Wm., died of wound received at Richmond.

Worthington, Wm.. died.

Witherspoon, Thos. M., Adjt. Gen. forW. H. Forney.

Williams, Joe, died.

Williams, Wm., wounded.

Woodson. Rev., lost an arm at Manassas.

Woodson. Lev., killed.

The following were paroled at Appomattox:

John B. Rains, Captain: Wm. B. Young, First
Lieutenant: John Adams, Second Lieutenant; Thos.
M. Witherspoon, Adjutant General; Henry Brame,
John Llaekwell, John Hlakenev, W. C. Morgan,
Frank Tyce, Ben McClinton, Wm. Griffith. Robert
Allen. S. I). Ogletree, Benj. Ogletree, and William
Worthington.

These additional names are given without report
as to what became of the men.

Allen. Robt.; Llaekwell. John; Bush, Dock.; Blake-
ne\ , John; Carter, John: Eskridge, J. ; Earniss, Wm. ;
Fifer, Chas.; Griffith, Wm.; Gilmore, Thos., Basil
and Alban; Huckabee, Lucius: Jones, Wm.; Jolly.
Wm.; Lee, Jas. E. ; McFarlane, Thos. ; McClinton,
Benj.; Morgan, W. C. and A. J.; Norris, Frank;
Pearl, Jas.; Rogers, E. ; Reeves, Wm.; Rains, Jno.
B., Captain; Suggs, Simon, Smith, Wm.; Stevison,
Frank; Yarner, John; Walker, Wm.; Wilkerson, J.;
Wayne, Alex.; Witherspoon, Dr. Wm. ; Young, W.
B., First Lieutenant.

Comrade Hogan resides at Springfield, Mo.

Confederate Relics fob the Centenni m.. –Com-
rade W. J. Travis, Tullahoina. Tenn., has a collec-
tion of some 300 Confederate relics which will be on
exhibition at the Tennessee Centennial. In the lot
there is a “well-preserved pie” in a glass case, baked
by a Confederate soldier in 1863. There are spe< i-
mens of carpets woven during the war, and a piece of
the tree under which Gen. Starucs was mortally
wounded, near Tullahoina, in 1863. Friend Travis
has a large apartment of old guns, sabers, shells,
canteens and many historical documents. This relic
feature should be very prominent at the Centennial.

W. G. Whitefield, Paducah, Ky.: I wish to know

the name of Confederate officer who was killed at
Wautaga, Tenn.. Sept. 29, ‘<>4, live miles below Car-
ter’s Station, in a hand-to-hand encounter with the
Fifteenth Pennsylvania and Sixteenth Kentucky
Cavalry, Gi Hem’s Command. He was tall and slender,
wore long black whiskers, and rode a black horse.

Comrade Geo. D. Branard, Secretary of Hood’s
Texas Brigade Association skives to the press that
“already the old members of the brigade have begun
planning to attend the next reunion, which will be
held in Huntsville, June 27, and that many of the
old soldiers wall go from there to Richmond, Ya.,
to attend the reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans.”

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SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
By Daniel Bond, Nashville, Tenn.

(Continuation ol Article in Januftr; Vltkban.)

The South again having- entered the Union, sur-
rendered all that was claimed of her. To the new
Amendments of the Constitution she is as loyal as
she was to the old. In fact, the Constitution rinds
its true defenders from this section. It is as much
our Union and our flag- as it ever was. Brave sol-
diers will spring- forward from this section as quick-
ly as from any other to defend it against foreig-n foe.

Tennessee is to-day as much an integral part
of this Union as Vermont, and is just as proud of
our great Republic; yet the Governor of this State
was quite rig-ht when he told the Governor of that,
at the dedication of Chickamaug-a Park, we would
certainly teach our children that in the great
struggle — in which thousands gave up their lives
at Chickamauga and elsewhere — we fought for
the right. And our war Governor was right
in his reply when President Lincoln, on the 15th of
April, 1861, called upon the Governors of the sev-
eral States for militia — 75,000 in the aggregate — to
suppress ‘-certain combinations” in the seceding
States.

“Tennessee will vol furnish a single man for coer-
cion, bit t jo, ooo, if necessary, for the defense of otcr
rig his or those of our Southern brethren.’ 1 ”

Yet, I think all resentment against the North on
the part of the people of the South died with the
closing of the war. Having submitted their cause
to the arbitrament of the sword, and the decision
being against them, they quietly submitted. In
place of this, there was a warm feeling of friend-
ship for the Northern soldier who had fought so
bravely for a restoration of the Union.

On the contrar}-, I think a hatred of the South
began at the North only with the close of the war.
Else, why the hanging of the helpless man Wirz,
for not feeding sufficient!) – the prisoners of war that
were refused exchange by their own people, when
our own soldiers were starving? Why the hanging
of poor, innocent Mrs. Surratt? Why the order com-
manding every rebel soldier to cut off the buttons
from his old gra\ jacket? Why the manacling and
chaining of Jefferson Davis in a casemate of a fort
from which there could be no possibility of escape?
And yet they dared not submit the question of his
treason to the courts!

What a commentary it would have been — after
fighting four years to make treason odious, after
destroying the South — to find there had been no
treason!

Why such expressions from representative men of
the North like this from Henry Ward Beecher, who
said in a sermon: “Those who suffered in the South
were not mart}’rs in a good cause, but convicts in a
bad one,” and “who shall comfort them that sit by
dishonored graves?”

Why should our brothers at the North approve
the attempt by the old fanatic, John Brown to
massacre the slave holders of Virginia with the help
of their slaves? Why do they eulogize him as the
noblest of heroes? Why should the conquen d South
have been subjected to the bitterness of reconstruc-

tion, her people refused the privilege of the ballot,
and the heel of the ignorant negro placed upon the
neck of the proudest people of all America? Why
should the Secretary of Staie have inlormed the
Pan-American Congress that there was nothing
worth visiting South of the Potomac River?

It has been said that the injured one can always
forgive, but that he who maliciously wounds
another can never forgive his victim.

The writer saw armed Federal soldiers guarding
the graves of the few Confederate soldiers buried in
a corner at Arlington, on the 30th of May, 1868, to
prevent the Southern ladies of Washington from
placing flowers on their grazes.

Is there any one in the whole South who can un-
derstand the wild frenzy and rabid utterances of a
Governor of a Western State at the prospect of a
return of some old flags to certain organizations in
the South — who wished them as souvenirs — twenty
years after the war was over? Why is it that par-
tisan school books and histories must be continually
written, filled with such falsehoods, when the au-
thors could easily discover the truth if they desired
it?

Why should continual effort be made to impress
the seeker after truth with a belief that the South
attempted to destroy the government by making
war upon it, when that South attempted peaceably to
secede from a contract after the conditions were
broken?

The South to-day thoroughly appreciates Abra-
ham Lincoln, and is proud of him as an American
citizen. The children of the North are still taught
the silly old lie of Jefferson Davis’ capture in women’s
clothes. That it has been disproved again and
again, by his actual captors, and never had any
basis except a waterproof cloak, seems of no conse-
quence.

A prominent statesman, afterwards a candidate
for the Presidency, declared on the floor of the House
of Representatives that the Southern leaders in the
war were more cruel than the Duke of Alva in the
Lowlands, and further stated that he fully realized
the awfulness of such a charge.

He knew, of course, that there were fewer deaths
and more prisoners in the South, more deaths and
fewer prisoners at the North; that food and medi-
cine was scarce in the former, and plentiful in the
latter. He thought the horrible lie would be useful
politically.

I have never seen a solitary instance, in the
Northern so-called histories, of a battle in which the
Union army was defeated but what the relative
strength of the two armies was falsely given At
Chickamauga recently a Northern statesman, in his
speech, draws the inference from the number of reg-
iments engaged on each side, that the Southern troops
outnumbered their adversaries, while scarceh a
Southern regiment contained more than three hun-
dred men. Vol. 50, fficial War Records, show the
Federal force to havi been fullv 90.000 men: while
Gen. Bragg’s report and Maj. Falconer’s statement
Vol. 52, War Records, show the Confederate forces
to have been 48,000.

The surrender at Appomattox is a favorite theme
for misrepresentation and falsehood. (The truth

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Yacht Deerhound
(Royal Yacht Squadron.)

Tliis fast blockade runner (Engraving from Lieut. Sinclair’s Two Years on the Alabama) lay in the
dock at Galveston, ready to carry money to Cuba lor President Davis, who expected to escape From I
gia to that Island, and then join Kirbv-Smith in Texas to make a final struggle tor the Confederacy, when

it was ascertained that “.ill was lost save honor.

there can never suffice the average Northern writer. >
That Lee’s small army of less than 2(>,ililii men, the
most of whom had been without food lor two days,
should have been all that were conquered there by
the great Army of Grant, seems rather to reflect a
glory on the Rebels than upon the Northern soldiers,
and will not do.

Gen. Grant says he recognized the famishing con-
dition of Lee’s Army and offered to supply it with
rations, which were gratefully accepted by Lee.
Upon inquiry by him as to the number of men in his
army, Gen. Lee replied about 25,000 men. It was
afterwards found that there were i ot nearly so many,
as some thousands had straggled off during the re-
treat in search ol food. AreGenerals Lee and Grant
to be believed ?

The scenes connected with the surrender must
also lie productive of false and foolish fiction.
The average school boy can dramatically recite how
Gen. Grant refused to receive the tendered sword of
Gen Lee: but with noble mein and gesture bade him
keep it. as he knew no one more worthy to bear it.
The fact that both of these Generals denied that any
such incident occurred, that any sword was either
offered or returned, goes for naught. Lately, the
Secretary of the Navy, a Southern man, gave his
high authority to this silly tale.

Lit us have a true history of the Civil War. It is
quite time, since that war ended more than thirty
years ago. Let every statement be verified by its
author. If the total strength of the Southern
armies was less than 700,000 men, ami that of the
Northern armies was greater than 2,700,000; if the

disparity in regard to arms and supplies wis infin-
itely greater; il one army was well clothed, well
fed. and well paid; while the other was clothed, not
by the Government, but by friends at home, with
homespun cloth woven in their looms, was p. orly
fed, and not paid at all. i or what amount-
nothing, the little pay that was finally given the
soldiers being treated by them as a joke); if the
smaller army resisted the greater for four years and
was the victor in nearly every contest where the
forces were anything like equal if these are facts,
then by all means let the generation growing up be
duly informed.

There is nothing so good in this world id’ ours as
the truth.

If it is true that the Rebels killed more men than
they had in their own entire army before they sur-
rendered ; if it is true that the ( lovernment is pa ying
pensions to more persons than were in that army,
let it be so written.

If the number of Northern soldiers who were
wounded, Frightened or badly demoralized during
the war. and if persons who were dependent upon
them, amount to more than nine hundred and sixty
nine thousand, and may soon reach a million, and
the amount ptid them fast year was more thai
hundred and forty million dollars, let the historian
note the fact that the last gun was fired more than
thirty years ago. Many id’ these pensioners must
have reached the age of a hundred \ears, in fact, all
of them who entered the army at sixty-live. Mar-
velous fact for the future historian lo note! All
who enlisted at the commencement of the war at

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the age of thirty-five must now be three score and
ten.

Commissioner Win. L. Lochren, of the Pension
Office, in his late annual report, and commenting on
above figures, says:

“Those men who entered early and fought the
battles of the war were not moved by mercenary
considerations, and unless actually disabled did not
show the haste in applying for pensions manifested
by those who enlisted near the close of the war for
large bounties, and did little active service and who
are now the noisiest in clamoring for more pen-
sions. As compared with this latter class, the real
soldiers of the war have been modest in preferring
claims for pensions.”

Now, if Mr. Lochren is telling the truth, make a
note of it, and if he speaks falsel}-, let it be shown.

We must not forget the glorious memories of the
Old South. The “business interest” must not be
allowed to destroy all sentiment. Enterprise and
thrift are well enough, but there are some signs in
this desire for an exchange of old ideas for the new
that stem but taking the false for the true.

The old time Southerner, with all of his exagger-
ated pride and pompous manner, was a man of un-
flinching probity and would not lie nor steal.

Some of the financial agents of the New Regime
can do both. The defaulting trustee, the “piomo-
ter” and the tramp, unheard of under the old dis-
pensation, are very much in evidence under the new.

And the old time hospitality of the South! It is
going too. Perhaps there is none of this charac-
teristic mark of the dear old days left — so illustra-
tive of a warm, unselfish heart — save in portions of
old Virginia and the Carolinas.

Business suggests that we entertain those who
entertain us, or worse still, that we do it as a stroke
of business advertising; and selfish greed is now
really the basis of this old Southern virtue. There
is not much of it left but a conventional fiction.

A very large immigration to the South is not, I
think, to be desired. The occupation of this fair
land by millions of people not to the manner born, as
is the case in the northwest, means an end to pa-
triotism and noble sentiment. Though we stock
the land with people as thickly as China, though
we build factories upon every hillside and pollute
every beautiful stream with their refuse, though
we erect palaces for the men who own the factories
and possess a hundred million dollars and ten thou-
sand slaves, — whom they do not even feed or clothe
— the tin-bucket brigade, who work in factories —
yet the change is hardly to be desired.

There is something better than wealth, some-
thing dearer than success. Let us cultivate and
renew the virtues of the Old South, while we gather
from our Northern brethren whatever they can give
us that may be of present use. And let us ever
keep fresh in our hearts proud recollections of the
patient endurance, the indomitable resolution, and
the matchless heroism of the Rebels of ‘7f> and ’61.

There will come a time when justice will be done
Southern song. Southern sentiment, and South-
ern heroism. Wise statesmen will 3 r et arise who

will realize, as Charles Sumner did, that since the
Union has been restored, it is not the part of the
patriotic lover of that Union to attempt to perpet-
uate by emblem, device, or statute the fact that one
part of the country had subjugated another part,
that brothers of the same race had once been en-
gaged in bloody Civil War.

Is there any distinction made to-day in England
between the descendants of – the followers of the Red
Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York?
Those who followed the Duke of Monmouth and those
who remained true to King James the Second have
become merged into one family. This, despite the
fact that King James, with the help of JeiTrys the
brute, seemed determined to hang every one of the
“base rebels.” Again, when this same James is con-
quered in turn by the Prince of Orange, does our
mother country attempt to brand the adherents of
either with shame? Though Cromwell’s body was
removed from its grave to be brutally mutilated by
royal authority— that treason be made odious — the
English historian of the present day writes him
down the hero that he was.

Can there be any doubt that the future will do
full justice to the South’s heroic struggle, her brave
soldiery, and her great Captain?

The Southern soldier gets no pension from his
Government, and does not wish it. The graves of
our bravest are unmarked, while those of the Union
soldier are grouped in beautiful cemeteries. But
these very differences serve but to defeat the pur-
poses — to place a false stigma upon the South and its
heroes. Love is stronger than hate, the touch
of nature that makes the whole world kin warms
the heart, and universal sympathy is poured out for
the unsuccessful and the vanquished, and not for
the fortunate and the conqueror.

The monuments at Chiekamauga Park, which
show the position of the various Union regiments
and batteries at the time of the battle, serve but to
cause the inquiries: “Who were the troops who
opposed them? Where were the men posted who
drove this great army from that field? It is of
these I desire to hear.”

Oh! Men of the South, only be true to yourselves,
and your vindication is as certain as the final tri-
umph of truth itself.

Let your loyalty to our Government be unques-
tioned, but do not for one moment forget the dear
and tender memories of the old time.

In your enthusiasm for the old flag, and an

appropriation, do not stultify yourselves by one sin-
gle word against that cause for which the noblest
heroes that song or story ever recorded so freely
gave their lives.

How could Phelan, in his history of Tennessee,
written more than twenty years after the war, omit
all mention of that mighty struggle, and the part
borne in it by Tennesseans! Great tragedy of
Hamlet, with the part portrayed by the Prince of
Denmark omitted!

Let us unite with generous Mr. Rouss in build-
ing a beautiful Memorial Abbey, wherein may be
treasured the dear mementoes of our glorious strug-

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gle and the records of heroism displayed by the gen-
tle and brave Confederate soldier;

“The knightliest of l he knightly race,

Who since the days of old.
Have kept 1 he lamps of chivalry

Alight in hearts of gold —
The kindliest of the kindly band

who. rarely hating ease,
Yet rode with Smith around the land

And llaleigli round the seas.”

TRIBUTE TO PATRIOTIC CITIZENS.

In connection with what I have written about
Southern sentiment, I’desire to ask the assistance of
the veterans in preserving the life of that glorious
songster of the Southland, the mocking bird.

He has been well nigh exterminated. The young
negro with gun and pebble-shooter makes continual
war upon him. He seeks the society of man for his
protection, but is no longer afforded it. The nest
near the country farm house and in the village gar-
den becomes the prey of the small boy, who has
found that the Northern visitor is willing to pay a
small stipend for a young one. Every spring the
Northern visitor, returning to his chilly climate,
must take home one of these birds in a cage. The
poor exile soon dies — he cannot live outside of
Dixie. The “business interest” of the English
sparrow does not permit a song bird in the towns,
and every year the mocking bird becomes scarcer.

Will not every Southern Veteran assist in putting
a stop to the extermination of this bird?

There is a provision in the laws of this State —
Tennessee — applying to a few counties only, which
make it unlawful to kill or capture any song bird or
destroy the nest or eggs of same; but it does not
serve the purpose for which it was intended, even
in the few counties to which it applies, because a
prosecutor is required.

What is needed is a statute making such an out-
rage a misdemeanor, for which a grand jury can
present an indictment, and the penalty should be
fixed at a fine not less than ten dollars.

Let us unite in saving our sweet singer from de-
struction, whose notes so faith lull v translate and
portray the mj-steries of human sentiment— its
joys, its hopes, its bright aspirations, its sorrows
and its miseries in tuneful melody. Let us ask the
help of every member of every Legislature of every
Southern Slate, and the Governor of each State to
save the mocking bird before it is too late. Once
gone, he is gone forever.

Maj. R. G. Cross of Rome, Ga., who was Adju-
tant of the Twentv-fifth and Forty fourth Tennes-
see Regiments under Bushrod Johnson in Lee’s
Armv. writes a vivid account of a visit by citizens
of Richmond and refugees who were stopping
there, to the front, and of Gen. Lee’s gracious atten-
tions to them. It was a beautiful autumn after-
noon and, as it happened, all was quiet at the front.
Gen. Lee was gracious in his greetings, and as his
visitors bade him adieu his manner indicated his
implicit confidence in his army. It was a pleasant
and certainly a memorable event to those who were
present.

Mrs. M. C. Saufley sends the following note and
original official letter:

As one of the ladies of McMinnville who found a
genuine pleasure in contributing in any way to the
advancement of a beloved cause, I send this paper
for publication in the VETERAN. I was at that time
a very young girl, and have preserved this paper as
a highly prized relic of the war.

Headquarters Ninth Texas Infantry, [
McMinnville, Dec. l, 1862. I

The Colonel commanding the Ninth Texas Infan-
try, desires, upon leaving, to express in behalf of his
Regiment the sincerest thanks for the kindness and
patriotic treatment they have experienced at the
hands of the citizens of McMinnville and vicinity.
And especially are we grateful to the ladies fur their
kind attention to our sick.

The remembrance of our stay at McMinnville will
long continue to be a bright ground of the privations
and hardships of war. In return, we can only
promise that we will vie with the boldest and brav-
est of your noble sons ami brothers in defence of
your altars ami firesides. By command of

Col. Wm. II. Young.

R. T. LUCKETT, Adjt.

A VETERAN’S GOLDEN WEDDING.

A Confederate comrade requests the following:
Capt. J. C. Dodds, Company “D” 177th Regiment,
New York Infantry, and his wife celebrated their
golden wedding on the 20th of Nov. mber last.

Capt. Doilds was born in Scotland in 1820, came
to the United States in ’44, c ist his tirst vote for Gen.
Tavlor for President. On President Lincoln’s call for
troops, joined the Regiment named above, which
embarked for New Orleans. He was wounded at
Port Hudson. Capt. Dodds considers that the war
ended at Appomattox, and is a true friend to all
poor worthy Confederates. To them, as well as to
the old Union soldiers, he is a comrade in every
sense of the wo r d. Capt. Dodds has resided in St.
Louis for fifteen years.

H. M. McAfee, Salvisa, Ky., in renewing his
subscription and sending contribution to Sam Davis
Monument, says: I loved the Confederate cause,
and mv heart was almost broken when it went down
in defeat. I belonged to Gen. John II. Morgan’s
Command, and was with him on the raid through
Indiana and Ohio. Was one of his scouts that cap-
tured the two steamboats by which he crossed the
Ohio to the Indiana shore.

I was captured in Ohio and languished in a
Northern prison nineteen months, two lon>. r , cold
winters at Camp Douglas. Was sent around to
Kichmondjust before Lie surrendered, and walked
from Richmond, Ya.. to Danville, Ky., across the
mountains where there was hardly enough to feed
a bird, and had no one to help me along but the
bushwhackers, and they assisted me very often by
shooting at me from high places.

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RUNNING FIGHT OF ROSSER AND CUSTER.

Comrade C. H. Vandiver, who was a lieutenant in
the Seventh Virginia Cavalry, writes from Page
City, Mo., Aujc. 2Uth ’95: The cavalry fighting be-
tween our brigade (Rosser’s) and the Federal cav-
alry under Custer, the 4th of Way, 1864, on the
Catharpin road, just preceding the Spoltsylvania
series of engagements between the torcesof Lee and
Grant, was one of the hottest in which we partici-
pated during the war, and as the fight was attended
with incidents that ma)- interest the old soldiers
and amuse some, I relate what memory retains of
that thrilling conflict. Early in the morning of
that day our pickets were run in and the stirring
bugle call summoned us “to horse.” As it turned
out, General Custer, with a heavy body of cavalry,
was making a reconnoissance on this road. General
Rosser met him with White’s Battalion, supported by
our regiment and followed by the Eleventh and
Twelfth in the order named, li was a running fight
for several miles, and principally a charge in col-
umn of fours, the head of the column doing most of
the fighting, the flanks being so obstructed by thick
Undergrowth that rapid advance was impossible.
And as the Federals were falling back, the line of
battle receded faster than the flanking squadrons
could move in the brush.

Owing to the capture and imprisonment of Capt.
Kuykendall and Lieut. Parker, I commanded Com-
pany F. As we charged down the uneven old plank
road, the rattle of small arms, and shouts in front,
indicated where the worst of battle raged, and the
wounded being carried back, the prisoners under
guard, here and there a dead blue or gray draped
cavalier, told of the execution in front.