Confederate Veteran

1894

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COMMENTS ABOUT THE VETERAN.

P. A. Green, Seale, Ala., I have just finished reading the December number of the VETERAN, and wish that every Southern soldier could have the good fortune to do the same. I feel sometimes that four of the best years of my life were as thrown away, and that the dangers, privations and hardships endured by the soldiers of our dear Southland were not appreciated, but when I read the VETERAN I am cheered with the hope that, although unsuccessful, history will tell to future generations the justice of our cause and the undying devotion of the Southern soldier to his native land. Please, send the VETERAN to Capt. Thomas H. Hardwick, Hatchechubble, Ala. He was one of the most gallant soldiers in the Southern army, whose company captured on the bloody field of Chickamauga a yankee battery, but whose affliction has confined him to his bed for six long years.

W. Fort Smith, Esq., Brazoria, Texas: I am very much interested in your enterprise, for I feel that we should educate our children in the true faith while we live, so that when we have bivouacked on the other shore our cause will live. By "our cause" I mean the right of self government and American manhood. Let us teach them to love the Republic our fathers bequeathed to us) the Republic of equal rights for all the States. Teach them that the followers of Sidney and J. E. Johnston, Forrest, Wheeler and Hood, fought for the preservation of civil liberty against centralism and the downfall of American liberty.

R. W. Crabb, Uniontown, Ky.: Find inclosed my check for $1.30, to renew my subscription for the VETERAN and for the " Flags of a Nation that fell," framed, also the Souvenir. I am in time to renew at fifty cents, but I do not want it at that price, it is worth one dollar. I feel now that you will make it a success. Now, we have had enough of this surrendering, what we old Rebs want is a magazine that will stay by us, and is not for sale, a magazine that will publish "our side" of history as it actually occurred from '61 to '65, without prejudice or partiality. Do this, and we will stand by you until the last ditch is reached and the last round is fired.

SHERMAN, TEXAS, January 28, 1894. At a meeting of Camp Mildred Lee, United Confederate Veterans, last night, these resolutions were unanimously adopted:

Whereas, we have observed with pleasure and profit the publication of historical and instructive incidents relating to our side in the late war, in a neat and handsome little journal by S. A. Cunningham, at Nashville, Tenn., called CONFEDERATE VETERAN, therefore,

Resolved, I, That we commend the spirit and patriotic intent of this attractive journal, and send fraternal greetings to Mr. Cunningham, assuring him of our sympathy and good wishes in his praiseworthy efforts, and hope the CONFEDERATE VETERAN will be well sustained, continue to improve, and publish all of the truth relating to the history of the "lost cause."

Resolved, 2, That we indorse the publication of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and adopt it as the official organ of Mildred Lee Camp.

Resolved, 3, That this preamble and resolutions be spread upon the records of this Camp, and the Adjutant be instructed to transmit a copy to the editor of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN. Long live the VETERAN.

Fraternally, ROBT. WALKER, Adjutant.

TEXAS Continued

POSTOFFICE. CAMP. NO. OFFICERS

Paradise........... Pat Cleburne ......... 363 A J Jones, L T Mason

Paris................. A. S. Johnston....... 70 O C Connor, S S Record

Paint Rock....... Jeff Davis............... 168 W. T. Melton, J.W. Ratchford.

Pearsall........... Gotch''Hardeman. 290 R M Harkness, Henry Maney

Richmond....... Frank Terry.......... 227 P. E. Peareson, B. F. Stuart

Ripley Gen Hood.............. 280 W R M Slaughter, Jno H Hood

Rockwall......... Rockwall 74 M. S. Austin, N. C. Edwards

Roby.............. W. W. Loring.. 154 D Speer, A P Kelley

San Antonio.... A. S. Johnston 144 John S Ford, James Clark

San Augustine. Jeff Davis. 386 , W A Field

San Saba........... W P Rogers 322 George Harris, A Duggan

Santa Anna..... L. Q. C. Lamar ...... 371 L M Cravens, Will Hubert

Seymour......... Bedford Forrest.. 86 T. H. C. Peery, R. J. Browning.

Sherman......... Mildred Lee.......... 90 J T Wilson, Robt Walker.

South Prairie... South Prairie....... 393 W L Hefner, .

Sweetwater..... E. C. Walthall.. 92 W. D. Beall, J. H. Freeman.

Sulphur Sp'gs. Matt Ashcroft......... 170. R. M. Henderson, M. G. Miller.

Taylor............. A S Johnston......... 166. M Ross, Perry Hawkins

Terrell........... J E B Stuart............ 45. J A Anthony, Vic Reinhardt

Texarkana...... A P Hill.................... 289. W J Allen, Charles A Hooks

Tyler................ A. S. Johnston......... 48. Bryan Marsh, Sid S Johnson

Vernon............ Camp Cabell............. 125. S. E. Hatchett, M. D. Davis.

Waco............... Pat Cleburne........... 222. C. L. Johnson, W. C. Cooper

Waxahachie.... Winnie Davis........... 108. Tom Yates, J P Cooper

Waxahachle... Parsons Cav, Ass'n.. 296. , A M Dechman

Weatherford... Tom Green............... 169. J. P. Rice, M. V. Kinnison.

Wellington .... Collingsworth Co..... 257. J H McDowell. J M Yates

Wharton......... Buchell..................... 228. I N Dennir, H T Compton

Whitesboro ... Geo E Reeves ........... 288. J W M Hughes, B M Wright

Wichita Falls... W.J. Hardee............ 73. W R Crockett, N A Robinson

Will's Point..........Will's Point 302. A N Alford, W A Benham

VIRGINIA.

Maj Gen Thos A Brander, Commander........................... Richmond

Col Jos V Bigood, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff........Richmond

T S Garnett, Brigadier General...............................................Norfolk
Micajah Woods, Brigadier General................................... Charlottesville

POSTOFFICE. CAMP. NO. OFFICERS

Harrisonburg ... S B Gibbons ............ 438. .. D H Lee Martz, J S Messerly

Reams Station.. J. E. B. Stuart......... 211... M A Moncure, A B Moncure

Richmond......... Geo E Pickett ......... 204.. R N Northern, P McCurdy

Richmond ........ R E Lee..................... 181... A W Archer, J T Stratton

Roanoke........... William Watts........ 205 .. S S Brooke, Hugh W Fry

West Point........ John B. Cooke......... 184... H. M. Miller, W. W. Green.

Willlamsburg.. McGruder Ewell.... 210... T J Stubbs, H T Jones

Winchester....... Gen Turner Asbby.. 240.... Chas W McVicar, E G Hollis

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Washington...... Wash. City Confed.. 171... J G Moore, T W Hungerford

The Southwestern Journal of Education: The Southern people have been much dissatisfied for years with partisan history concerning their section and the part they took in, the war. Occasionally books and pamphlets have been printed in refutation of these objectionable histories, but they have frequently been extreme on the opposite side. The soldiers of the two sections have always been friends, except now and then when controlled by partisan politicians, who have created and continued sectional bitterness for personal advancement. The VETERAN espouses zealously the cause of the Confederate soldiers, and is very diligent to give just credit to soldiers of the Union Army " who realize that the war ended in 1865." The editor of the VETERAN was a soldier and carried a gun. He has a wide acquaintance throughout the South, and has the benefit of public confidence. It is refreshing to read a publication so courageous as the VETERAN, and yet so carefully deferential as never to be offensive to true men who are equally zealous for the Union.

Angus P. Brown, Commander Camp Columbia, S. C. : The VETERAN has been made the official organ of this Camp. Long may you be spared to preside at the helm of a magazine that has done so much to furnish the facts for the future historian of the South. Success to you in your great enterprise. It is the duty of every Confederate soldier to sustain you in your laudable work.

W. S. Hanna, Morrilton, Ark.: But for the very hard times I would be able to send you another list of subscribers for the VETERAN. I will not, however, relax my exertions, and hope to be able in the near future to send you additional names.
S. D. Van Pelt, Postmaster, Danville, Ky.: Inclosed find $1, for which please place my name on your subscription list for the CONFEDERATE VETERAN. I saw a copy of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN this evening for the first time, and read it with a great deal of interest. I served three years in the Federal army as a soldier. Am a Republican in politics, but I love the true and brave Confederate soldier. I am his friend. The truest and best friends I can boast of are men who served in the Confederate army, and I love them. I heartily approve of the publication of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and wish it success.

J. K. Merrifield, St. Louis, Mo.,, sends a dollar for the VETERAN and writes : Allow me to thank you for the kind words you say in your letter about Opydike's brigade. We were always ready and willing to do our duty, and every historian who has written about the battle of Franklin gives our brigade the credit of saving the Army of the Cumberland from destruction. Had our brigade not charged and recaptured the works from you after you had possession, you could have whipped the right or left wing in detail, and what you did not kill or capture would have been drowned in the Harpeth River, so that Hood with his army could have marched to Louisville or to Cincinnati without a stumbling block in their way except what few Home Guards they might have come across, but the veterans of your army would have swept them aside like chaff before the wind. * * * While they are dealing out medals in Washington for brave acts done that accomplished but little, they might give a medal to every man who was in the charge with Opydyke at the battle of Franklin, Tenn.

W. J. Ervin, Hamilton, Mo,: As a private I bore an humble part in the late struggle from '61 to the close. Received five wounds, participated in every engagement under the Missouri State Militia until the organization of the Fourth Missouri Brigade, C. S. A., at Springfield, Mo., in the winter of '61 2. Arriving at Corinth a few days late for Shiloh, participated in all campaigns and engagements from that to Altoona, Ca., November 5, 1864, where I received my last and lasting disability.

A. H.Sinclair, Georgetown, Ky.: "Camp Geo.W. Johnson, at its regular meeting in September, unanimously indorsed the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and recommends it as the organ of the Confederate Veterans." It gives me pleasure to bear testimony to your unfaltering devotion to the lost cause, and I trust every Confederate veteran and their friends will become subscribers.

Gen. John Boyd, Lexington, Ky,: It is mighty hard work these times to get renewals at any price. In several instances I have paid the renewals for poor old soldiers whom I knew could not spare the money and who like the VETERAN. I could not think of taking any remuneration for the little aid I have given you. I only wish I could do more. I pray that God will bless you and prosper you in the good work that you are doing, and that he will incline all Confederate hearts to feel that they cannot do without the VETERAN. I am always * * *

Wm. E. Underwood, Black Jack, Tenn.: * * * No, I never have seen any thing like a history of the war that pleases me as well as the VETERAN, I enlisted in May, '61 (30th Tennessee), and at Chickamauga I lost my left arm.
R. A. Venable, Bowling Green, Ky., who served in Company A, Twenty ninth Alabama: I am glad you have put the price of the VETERAN to $1 per annum. It is worth five times as much to the old Confederate. Capt. Andrew Brown, Florence, Ala.: A. M. O'Neal, Commander of our Camp, which was named for him, is the Captain of the Wheeler Rifles of this place, and was a second year's cadet at West Point Military Academy when he resigned to join our army.

Adjutant B. M. Robinson, Orlando, Fla.: Please find inclosed postoffice order for $7.50 for the VETERAN. I will forward you another order soon. Our city council recently donated to Camp No. 54 a burial lot. We intend to have it taken care of properly, and hope to erect a monument some time in the future.

Dr. W. M. Yandell, El Paso, Texas: I do not feel competent to advise you as to raising the price of the VETERAN. It is worth a dollar, unquestionably, but would it not be well to run another year at fifty cents, until you have run the subscription list to 10,000 when your advertising patronage ought to be valuable?

T. F. Prewit, Killeen, Texas: I have often desired such a publication as the VETERAN to place in the hands of my children, and they really appreciate it almost as much as myself and wife. I am pleased with the idea of organizing a benefit association in connection with the Confederate Veteran Association. I indorse the suggestion of J. L. Burke.

A. B. McMichael, Healdsburg, Cal.: Inclosed find renewal for VETERAN. I would not take a dollar a piece for mine. I was a member of A. S. Marks' regiment, the Seventeenth Tennessee. * * * I think the troops George E. Dolton, of St. Louis, refers to were Longstreet's men. We lost eighty men, captured, from our regiment, but we captured some artillery.

J. T. Eason, Coldwater, Miss.: Find inclosed five subscriptions. We are all delighted with the VETERAN. I served in the Seventeenth Mississippi Infantry from April, 1861, to the surrender at Appomattox.

R. T. Owen, Adjutant John H. Waller Camp, Shelbyville, Ky., sends a dollar to the VETERAN and adds: Like the regiment I belonged to, at the end of our first twelve months we re enlisted for three yeers or during the war. You can count on me to be with you until you hand down your colors.
J. Coleman Gardner, Springfield, Mo.: All.who take it here are well pleased. The thirty seven subscriptions I have sent you were secured at random, or as I had time to see after introducing it.

A Dallas, Texas, Confederate: Here is a dollar from Ben. F. Hendricks, an old soldier who served on the other side in the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry. A good and true man he is, too. He wants the VETERAN.

W. A. Campbell, Columbus, Miss.: The war journal was mailed me. I showed it to an old soldier and told him not to subscribe for it, as it did not at all represent the old Confederates. He said, "I would not take it at 25 cents, and would rather pay $3 a year for the VETERAN." He takes the VETERAN and was a good soldier. He carried a minie ball received at Chickamauga for about fifteen years, and is yet lame.

Mrs. Keller Anderson, Memphis: Here is a good word from one of your subscribers. Mr. W, W. Shouse thanked me for calling his attention to the VETERAN, and said, "I would not take ten dollars and do without it."

MISS MARIE LOUISE BAILEY.

A Nashville girl is just beginning a tour in the South as a pianist, with a record that will please the Confederate veterans on learning that her father is one of them. This is from the Washington Post:

It is a pleasant task always to record the success of a young American girl in foreign lands, and this is the good fortune that Miss Marie Louise Bailey, of Nashville, Tenn., has achieved across the Atlantic. Though only eighteen years of age, the King of Saxony was so delighted with her playing that, after two or three performances, he conferred on Miss Bailey the title of Royal Court Pianist, an honor rarely given, and never, as his majesty himself told her, bestowed before on one so young. In Leipzig she made her debut, and it was a decided success, to be repeated at Berlin, Dresden, and other cities. The best critics gave her instinted praise.

Miss Bailey is able to play from memory three hundred solos and concertos, and her repertoire runs from Bach to Liszt. Chopin is her favorite, for under the guidance of her Polish teacher she learned to bring out all the beauties of the great composer. She expects to make a tour of the South, and has already received good offers from well known managers.

Replying to an inquiry from the writer, her mother gave briefly an account of her beginning as a pianist. She herself was teaching, and taxed with the care of twenty pupils She was impatient with the little tot's persistency in getting at the keys of the piano, and she kept it locked when not in use. Members of her class, however, were fond of the child, and helped her. On returning to the house one day after having been down town, Mrs. Bailey found that her little Mary was in great glee, playing for the family servants. That performance created in the mother interest and hope. Not long afterward the child played at the Nashville Exposition, when a gentleman offered to buy her any thing there. Of course she selected a large doll. The little girl's ambition was to play an octave, but her fingers were too short. She happily overcame that by tying hair pins on the back of her little hand so that she could touch the necessary keys.

BAZAAR FOR THE STONEWALL BAND. C. Harry Haines, Secretary of the Stonewall Brigade Band at Staunton, Va., writes: " We are going to hold a bazaar in this city for the purpose of purchasing new uniforms, and we shall appeal to all Southerners, and especially to all survivors of the glorious Confederacy, for assistance in our undertaking. I mail you a copy of a little sheet gotten out by the band in the interest of the bazaar." These things will be of interest, specially to the old Stonewall Brigade.

The managers of the Nashville Keeley Institute are well known Southerners. Those who were thrilled with the "Rebel Yell," as published last year in the, VETERAN, will observe the author in the Secretary and Treasurer.

ANNOUNCEMENTS DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENN.

For County Trustee.

W. H. HIGGINBOTHAM hereby announces himself as a candidate for Trustee, subject to the action of the Democratic party. Your support cordially solicited.

For County Judge.

R. R. CALDWELL is a candidate for re election to the office of County Judge, subject to Democratic primary.

JNO. THOMPSON announces himself a candidate for County Judge, subject to Democratic primaries.

For Sheriff.

W. J. HILL is a candidate for Sheriff. Is competent and solicits your support in Democratic primaries.

For Criminal Court Clerk.

A. B. (BUSH) SPAIN is a candidate for Criminal Court Clerk, subject to Democratic primary. Election first Thursday in August, 1894.

For Circuit Court Clerk.

ALEX. J. HARRIS has announced himself as a candidate for Circuit Court Clerk, subject to Democratic primary.

WILLIS J. SULLIVAN is a candidate for Circuit Court Clerk, subject to Democratic primaries. Election August, 1894.

For County Court Clerk.

P. A. SHELTON is a candidate for County Court Clerk, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries. Election August, 1894.

For Register,

JNO. P. HICKMAN is competent, desires the emoluments, and solicits your support for County Register.

EWING CHADWELL is a candidate for re election to the office of Register of Davidson County, subject to Democratic primary.

For Tax Assessor.

WE are authorized to announce the name of JOHNSON V. LINTON for the office of Tax Assessor of Davidson County.

TIM M. HANIFIN is a candidate for Tax Assessor of Davidson County, subject to the Democratic primary.
Too LATE for this issue comes the correction of several errors in Camp officials. There are more from Tennessee than the other States. To be supplied are numbers 367 and 432, then from 440 to 461 consecutively. Please report all corrections due, so that the veteran list at Birmingham may be faultless.

INCREASED interest will be had in the article by Rev. J. H. McNeilly on "Last Days of the Confederacy," by the statement that the proof was submitted to Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who replied, "Acceptable, accurate, and absolutely true."

G. W. COOK, of Chipley, Fla., in sending subscriptions for himself and S. M. Robertson, says: We both left one of our arms on the battlefield, one in Tennessee, the other in Virginia.

ADJ'T. GEN. H. B. STODDARD, of Bryan, publishes a card urging a large attendance of Texas veterans at the annual reunion to be held at Waco on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of April. The VETERAN will be represented.

IT is definitely settled that the corner stone to a Confederate Monument, to be erected in Capital Park, Birmingham, will be laid during the reunion in April.

J. T. BUCK, of Jackson, Miss., an ordnance officer, and being at Clarksville to forward ammunition to Fort Donelson, escaped capture in that surrender, pays fine tribute to Maj, Jacob Culbertson, who being without a command was in the fort and did effective firing of one of the large guns maybe Long Tom upon the Federal gunboats. Maj. Culbertson died at his home near Jackson some years ago, leaving a family.

COMRADES in the vicinity of Dover, Tenn. (Fort Donelson), have for a long time been trying to organize. Last month, on the thirty second anniversary of the last day's battle, a meeting was held and a large committee was appointed to insure success of a meeting for organization the second Monday in April. All the people of that section should take a pride in its success, as Fort Donelson is one of the most noted battle grounds of the war. Foreign visitors to the place will conclude that all the killing at Fort Donelson was by Confederates, as on the high hill in the suburbs of Dover, there is a well kept cemetery of the Federal dead. Maybe the Union veterans will yet send up a great petition to the National Legislature in behalf of honoring the Southern hero who gave his life for his convictions. The Confederate dead at Donelson should have a cemetery fragrant with cultivated flowers and made beautiful with marble and bronze. Comrades or others who may wish information about the meeting may address Dr. Steger, at Dover.
N celebrating Washington's birthday by the Southern Society of New York, speakers waxed warm in reply to Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, whose comparison of the Southern leaders of the present with those of past generations was disparaging. James Lindsay Gordon of New York, a native Virginian said: " Nor must it be understood that Southern statesmanship is at a discount to day. The Treasury is guarded by a Southern man, the great Navy of Uncle Sam is being built under the direction of a Southern statesman, a Southern man is in charge of the Interior Department, and a Southern man presides with dignity and ability over the deliberations of the House of Representatives, a Southern man, great, pure and spotless, has been raised to the Supreme Court bench, and a Southern man is responsible for the new tariff bill. This is the record of the men of the South to day. They are Southrons, they are statesmen, but above all they are American citizens."

Confederate Veteran March 1894.

COMRADES, ATTENTION! ROLL CALL! FALL IN

Hurry up, boys! Don't you see the Colonel is putting on his sword, and negro Bob has his horse ready! Hallo, you boys in that tent! Hurry up, or I'll report you to headquarters.

Are these expressions from the Orderly Sergeant familiar to you? And then from the Captain: "Attention, company! Right dress! Call the roll, Sergeant." If so, note them now for a practical application. Suppose you had not answered to your name? Suppose you had not done your part as a soldier? What would have become of the army? You know.

Comrades, don't forget that life is a struggle from the first sound of the bugle to the last "tattoo." One of the ordinary soldiers in the service happens to have the responsible charge of presenting that great epoch, and he is as powerless to accomplish its patriotic and holy purposes as would have been our army commanders to win victories without the co operation of the soldiers. This statement must meet your approval. Your reputation and the memories of your comrades who never returned are involved. The VETERAN is the most important medium that has ever been printed to represent the principles for which you suffered. If it be worthy you should stand by it, and if not you should protest against its use of the sacred name. Roll call is at hand. Do you answer, "Here?" You can tell by reference to the date of your subscription. If it indicates that your time is out you should answer, " Here!" If you can't pay say so, and the VETERAN commander will excuse you. He has a limited number of excuses for comrades who are not prompt at roll call, especially if they be cripplied from the service. Contrary to business rules, the VETERAN will be sent to comrades who can't pay, as liberally as possible.

It is useless to appeal to the noble women whose enthusiasm kept them animated to the end of the struggle. To the daughters and sons of Confederate soldiers who answered to their names faithfully, but can't do so now, the merit of this plea is made. Let all who believe in the good faith of Confederates rally now to their advocate, and the world will yet honor them more and more in what they did.

This organ of the Southern soldiers in the war of '61 5 has been amazingly popular from the first issue. It was started in January, 1893, with an edition of 5,000 copies, and for the past six months more than 10,000 of each issue have been required to meet demands. Every public spirited and patriotic person South should take pride in its prominence and merit.

Charles Todd Quintard, Bishop of Tennessee who has ever been an honor to comrades at home and abroad:

SEWANEE, TENN., March 7, 1894. Dear Mr. Cunningham : The CONFEDERATE VETERAN comes to me full of good things, and I wish to thank you for your faithful work in giving to the Confederate soldiers such an admirable and accurate record of the days that "tried men's souls." The typography, the illustrations, and the whole "get up" of the paper, leave nothing to be desired. The editorials and letters of correspondents are full of interest to one who took part in the struggle to preserve the constitutional rights of the States. I am yours with all good wishes.

Lt. Gen. S. D. Lee, Agricultural College, Miss.: I consider your last two issues as splendid, and had made up my mind to write you especially commending the February number. The material is just what it ought to be, and I wish you eminent success in your work. I wish you had started such a monthly ten years ago.

Nashville Christian Advocate, organ of the M. E. Church, South, March 15: The CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Nashville, Tenn., S. A. Cunningham, editor, is well on the way into its second year. From the first number it has been a pronounced success. It is patriotic and progressive. Cheerfully accepting the present, it at the same time loyally clings to the memories of the past. * * * We do not see how any old Confederate can get along without this periodical.

R. H. Adams, Adjutant, Radford, Va., March 5, 1894: At a meeting of G. C. Wharton Camp, No. 28, Confederate Veterans, Department of Virginia, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

Whereas, the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, published at Nashville, Tenn., by our esteemed comrade, S. A. Cunningham, is a faithful and true expounder of the principles dear to us, and for which Lee fought and Jackson died, therefore, be it

Resolved, That G. C. Wharton Camp, No. 28, Confederate Veterans, Department of Virginia, express our gratitude to comrade Cunningham for such a welcome visitor.

Resolved, That this Camp hereby adopts the CONFEDERATE VETERAN as its official organ.

Capt. R. D. Smith, Columbia, Tenn.: On March 7th we had a very satisfactory meeting of our old Bivouac, the first that has been held since March, 1891. We reorganized, and by unanimous vote made the VETERAN our official organ. On the 17th of this month a mass meeting is to be held to perfect the organization of the county association.

J. A. SMITH, of Kaufman, Texas, in a letter of February 27th, inclosing $10 for ten subscriptions to the VETERAN, names his mess mates of Company A, 4th Tennessee Cavalry, and wishes to hear from them. They are, J. P. Tippit, Bass Marlin, Dave, Stanley and Tom Ivey. He was known as " Little Bret " Smith.

P. F. LEWIS, of Aurora, Texas, inquires of Henry Dennis, who was about thirty five years old, was wounded and being cared for near the line of Louisiana when he last heard from him. Does not even know Dennis' command.

AMONG matters deferred for April VETERAN are notes about the Stonewall Jackson medals, of which much has been published, and about which some controversy as to ownership exists.

A GREAT many official endorsements by Camps will be acknowledged in the April VETERAN.
GEN. W. L. CABELL,

COMMANDER OF TRANS MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, U. C. V.

His prominence in Confederate matters makes this personal and official sketch all the more interesting :

Gen. Wm. L. Cabell was born in Danville, Va., Jan. 1, 1827. He was the third child of Gen. Benj. W. S. and Sarah Eppes Cabell, who lived to see seven sons and two daughters grown. Six sons held prominent positions in the Confederate Army. The seventh, Dr. Powhattan Cabell, died from the effect of an arrow wound received in Florida just before the Confederate War began.

Gen. Cabell entered the Military Academy at West Point in June, 1846, graduating in 1850. He entered the United States Army as Second Lieutenant, and was assigned to the 7th Infantry. In June, 1855, he was promoted to First Lieutenant and made Regimental Quartermaster of that regiment. In March, 1858, he was made Captain in the Quartermaster's Department and ordered on duty on Gen. Pessifer F. Smith's Staff, who was then in command of the Utah Expedition. After Gen. Smith's death Gen. Harney assumed command, and Capt. Cabell remained on Gen. Harney's staff until the close of the expedition, when he was ordered to rebuild Fort Kearney. In the spring of 1859 he was ordered to Fort Arbuckle in the Chickasaw Nation, and in the fall of that year to build a new post about 100 miles west of Arbuckle, high up on the Washita River in the Indian country.

When the war became inevitable Capt. Cabell repaired to Fort Smith, Ark., and from there went to Little Rock and offered his services to the Governor of the State. On receipt of a telegram from President Davis he went to Montgomery, Ala., then the Confederate Capital. Capt. Cabell reached Montgomery April 19th, where he found the acceptance of his resignation from the United States Army, signed by President Lincoln.

He was at once commissioned as Major under the Confederate Government, and under orders from President Davis left on April 21st for Richmond to organize the Quartermaster Commissary and Ordnance Departments. He remained in Richmond attending to all these duties until June 1, 1861, when he was ordered to Manassas to report to Gen. Beauregard as Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac.

After the battles of the 18th and 19th of July Gen. Joseph E. Johnston assumed command and Major Cabell served on his staff until January 15, 1862, when he was relieved and ordered to report to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, then in command of the Army of the West. He was assigned to Gen. Van Dorn in the Trans Mississippi Department, with headquarters then at Jacksonport, Ark.

He was next promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, and assigned to command of all the troops on White River, where he held the enemy in check until after the battle of Elk Horn, March 6th and 7th. After that battle the army was transferred to the east side of the Mississippi. The removal of this army, which included Price's Missouri and McCulloch's Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas troops, and his own command, devolved on Gen. Cabell, and was performed within a single week from points along White River.

Van Dorn's Army continued, after reaching Memphis, to Corinth, and Gen Cabell was assigned to a Texas brigade with an Arkansas regiment attached. He commanded this brigade in several engagements around Farmington and Corinth, and commanded the rear of Van Dorn's Army on the retreat from Corinth to Tupelo.

Gen. Bragg's Army was ordered to Kentucky, and Gen. Cabell was transferred to an Arkansas brigade, which he commanded in the battles of Iuka and Saltillo in of his command was temporarily assigned to the 1st Missouri Brigade under Gen. Brown. He was ordered to the Trans Mississippi Department to recuperate and inspect the Staff Departments of that army.

When sufficiently recovered for duty in the field he was, February, 1863, placed in command of all the forces in Northwest Arkansas, with instructions to augment his command by recruits from every part of the State. He was very successful, and organized one of the largest cavalry brigades west of the Mississippi. He commanded this brigade in more than twenty battles. On the raid into Missouri under Gen. Price he was captured in the open field near Mine Creek in October, 1864, and was taken to Johnson Island (in Lake Erie), and later to Fort Warren near Boston, until released August 28,1865.

Gen. Cabell went from Boston to New York, and thence to Austin, Texas. He subsequently lived at Fort Smith, Ark., and engaged in the practice of law until he moved to Dallas, Texas, in December, 1872. He was Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in Arkansas, and Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic delegation that went to the Baltimore Convention which nominated Horace Greely for the Presidency. He was four times elected Mayor of Dallas, was a delegate from the State of Texas to the Convention that nominated Mr. Tilden in St. Louis and President Cleveland at Chicago in 1884 and 1892. He served as U. S. Marshal under President Cleveland's first administration.

Gen. Cabell is Lieutenant General of the Association of United Confederate Veterans, commanding the Trans Mississippi Department, embracing all the country west of the Mississippi River. He is ever zealous in forwarding their interests.

Gen. Cabell married the daughter of Maj. Elias Rector, of Arkansas, a woman of great intelligence and courage, and noted for her ready wit. During the war she followed her husband and did much to relieve the sick and wounded. Her name was " Shingo," an Indian name, meaning " Little Bird," and the soldiers thought no name so sweet or more appropriate as she came from near or far to answer their cries for aid when in distress. His oldest son Ben. E. Cabell, was Deputy U. S. Marshal under his father, and is now Sheriff of Dallas County, Texas, being the youngest man ever elected to that office in the county. Three other sons, all noble boys, and one married daughter, Mrs. J. R. Currie, whose husband is a Mississippian, form his household and share his love for the South, and prize her noble and wonderful history.

A Georgia private tells a thrilling story of Sergeant Oakley, who " carried the colors of his regiment two hundred yards in front of the line" at Murfreesboro, December 31, 1862. He did this, and waved it conspicuously to determine whether a certain battery was Confederate or Federal. After showing the colors to assure the identity of his command he deliberately returned with them to his line. In June of the next year Gen. Leonidas Polk was on an inspection, and when at the 4th Tennessee Regiment he called for the Color bearer, when he ungloved his hand and said, "I must shake hands with you." Then raising his hat, the General continued with great feeling and real martial eloquence: " I am proud to uncover in the presence of so great a man." The effect was fine, and a great shout rent the air.

Gen. E. D. Hall, of Wilmington, Department Commander of North Carolina, is very much the type of Old Hickory. He raised the first volunteer company in that section, if not in the State, and arrived at Manassas just at the close of that memorable victory July 21, '61. Soon after this he was appointed Major of the 7th North Carolina Regiment, and so acquitted himself in the battle of New Berne that he was elected Colonel of the 46th North Carolina, although a personal stranger, even to its officers. His regiment was put in Walker's brigade, afterward famous as Cook's brigade, and it is said they were in every battle in Lee's army. Gen. Cook was wounded several times, so that Col. Hall, being senior Colonel, had to take the command. This he did at Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Mary's Heights, and Bristow Station. He declined the appointment of Brigadier General, although A. P. Hill insisted upon it, in loyalty to his friend's (Gen. Cook) approaching recovery. In December, 1864, he resigned active service an account of disability. After his health improved he was elected to the Senate. He took strong ground, when necessary, in behalf of his people in the period of reconstruction. He was nominated as Lieutenant Governor and canvassed the State, but with 25,000 white people disfranchised and the ballot given to the negroes, there was no chance for success. Gen. Hall has ever been zealous for the old veterans, and may be credited with getting pensions from the State. He was unanimously elected President of the North Carolina Veteran Association. In their reunions Gen. Hall has secured remarkable favors, so much so that veterans could attend practically without money or price.
RESPONSE TO CAPT. SLOAN'S APPEAL.

The pathetic plea by Capt. J. N. Sloan, of Pontotoc, Miss., has had attention in various sections. The VETERAN is pleased to note the following contributions:

From Nashville, Tenn., Capt. Thos. Gibson.......... .........$ 0 50

From Goodlettsville, Tenn., Capt. J. O. Bass, $1,

J. N. Crosswy, $1, W. B. Clark, $1,

R. A. Cartwright, 50 cents: B. F. Myers, 50 cents. 5 00

From Morgan City, La., Malcolm Fraser procured from

father, brother and sister, $2, D. W. Hays, $2,

Susie Vinson, $2, Edwin E, Roby, $1 .............. .... 7 00

From St. James, La., W. B. Calhoun, $2.50,

James K. Tucker, $5, Dr. B.F.Chappin, $2.50,

John A. Miller, $1, Emil Schmidt, $1,

F. Green, $5, M. McMeans.,. 20 00

From Tolu, Ky., R. A. Moore, in 10 and

25 cents contributions ........................................ . 3 75

From Baltimore, Md., George Savage ......... ......... ........ 2 00

From Sharon, Tenn., E. T. Hollis and others................. 2 50

From Gallatin, Tenn., J. W. Blackmore. ...................... 5 00

From Jacksonville, Fla.. John A, Brittain................... 1 00

From Mount Pleasant, Tenn., Mrs. Lem Long............... 4 00

In commenting upon the subject the Goodlettsville parties regard it as worthy a plea as was ever made.

J. Mal. Fraser, of Morgan City, La., writes that his little Malcolm, eleven years old, procured the $2 in the family. He sent the other amounts.

Folger Green, of St. James, La. (St. Patrick, P. O.), in sending $20, says he is without doubt of its right appreciation, and adds, "Some of us have fought and bled. while others are sons of fathers who 'stood the test.'"

R. A. Moore, of Tolu, Ky., sends $3.75 from "dime collections," started while a few friends sat by the fire in his store. Of the contributors there were three who were Federal soldiers, two of whom gave 25 cents each. Mr. Moon suggests that ten cents collections be started in every village, and adds that the result would be amazing, and Capt. Sloan be put above want,

E. T. Hollis, who sends for himself and others at Sharon, Tenn., $2.50, says that reading the VETERAN "arouses strong love and sympathy for all old rebs."

George Savage, Esq., in remitting, from Baltimore, $2, and adds, I have read with sympathetic heart his appeal, and wish I could do more for the brave and worthy old soldier. Mr. Savage served as private in Otey's Battery, Army of Northern Virginia.

J. A. Brittain, Jacksonville, Fla., quotes the beautiful sentence, " Let us share what we have, as we did our haversacks."

Mrs. Lem Long adds her "mite," $4. In his acknowledgments for these favors Capt. Sloan writes: " Please tender my grateful and sincere thanks to each contributor. May God bless them ! " Again, in accepting the remittances from St. James, La., and Tolu, Ky., he says, " I pray God's richest blessings on each and all."

The $150 referred to as given by his State was a contribution by members of the State Legislature. The VETERAN has procured for him only about $100 so far, and it ought to be at least $1,000. Dr. Wm. M. Yandell of El Paso, Texas, sends this

comforting postscript to letter. He is a member of John C. Brown Camp: "Our Camp gave $10, and Ferrell and myself, as committee, raised $66.25, total $76.25, for Capt. Sloan. Will send you note of it when I collect it all."

Maj. W. P. Gorman, agent of Camp Hardee, has gotten out a neat circular to the coming reunion, which he is sending broadcast over the country, giving information about hotel and railroad rates.

Adjutant Browne, of Paducah, Ky.: Tn the press of business, or want of it, or something, I have neglected to advise you that our Camp has unanimously voted the VETERAN an indorsement as its organ.
GEN. FREDERICKS. FERGUSON.

Frederick S. Ferguson is a native of Huntsville, Ala., was graduated at the Wesleyan University, Florence, Ala., in July, 1859, and until the war taught school and studied law. In January, 1861, he was with the expedition commanded by Col. Lomax, which captured the navy yard and forts at Pensacola, Florida, and soon afterward was appointed Second Lieutenant of artillery in the regular regiment raised by Alabama and transferred to the Confederacy. Having passed the examination for a commission as an ordnance officer, he served in artillery, and was staff officer to Gens. Gardner, Higgins and Page. During the seige of Fort Morgan he commanded one of its batteries with the rank of Captain, and was captured with its garrison in August, 1864, from which time until June, 1865, he was a prisoner at Fort Lafayette, N. Y., and Fort Warren, Mass.

LIEUTENANT GENERAL S. D. LEE.

Born at Charleston, S. C., September 22, 1833. Graduated at West Point, in 1854. In the United States Army until South Carolina seceded when he resigned in 1861. He was one of the officers who carried Beauregard's demand for the "surrender of Fort Sumpter, and afterward the order to open fire on the fort. He was Captain of Artillery, Hampton's Legion, in Virginia, then Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of artillery, and was in the battles of the Peninsular campaign from Yorktown to Richmond, Seven Pines, Savage's Station and Malvern Hill. He did gallant service also in the battles of Second Manassas and Sharpsburg. He was promoted to Brigadier General and sent from Virginia to Mississippi and commanded batteries and garrison of Vicksburg under Gen. M. L. Smith. He defeated Sherman at Chickasaw Bayou, in the winter of 1862 and 1863. Three horses were shot from under him at Baker's Creek. After the siege of Vicksburg he was made Major General to command all the cavalry in Mississippi, Alabama, East Louisiana and West Tennessee, He was again promoted to Lieutenant General and placed in command of that department. He organized cavalry regiments, confronted Sherman's army of 30,000 men with his cavalry force of 2,500 men from Vicksburg to Meridian, fought with General Forrest the battle of Harrisburg, Miss., against A. G. Smith's army, where the odds were 5,000 against 16,000 Federals. The latter withdrew toward Memphis. Later he was assigned to command of Hood's Corps, Army of Tennessee, before Atlanta, and was in the battles of 28th of July and also at Jonesboro. He was with Hood in his Tennessee campaign, his corps was left at Columbia with two divisions, artillery and wagon trains of the army, while Hood made his flank movement at Spring Hill, arrived at Franklin in time to take part with one division in that terrible battle, having marched from Columbia after the balance of the army had reached Spring Hill, was in the battles around Nashville, and repulsed the enemy in his assault on Overton Hill, which was held until the left and center of our army was driven back in disorder. He covered retreat of the army, after its disastrous rout, his corps being the only one with organization intact. During the next day after the rout, he presented a defiant front, repulsing every effort of Wilson's cavalry, from early dawn to 10 o'clock at night. So successful was this persistence that little or no effort was made for battle afterward. On the second day of the battle, a rear guard was organized under the command of Generals Walthall and Forrest, the latter having arrived from Murfreesboro, but the pursuit was feeble after the first day, no fight of consequence occurred, and Hood was allowed to re cross the Tennessee River. Gen. Lee was severely wounded while with the rear guard in the afternoon of the day after the rout. He surrendered with his corps, under Gen. J. E. Johnston, in North Carolina.

Since the war Gen. Lee has been a planter, and President of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, which position he now holds. He has represented his county and district in the State Senate, and was a member of the convention which framed the Constitution of his State. He was sixty years of age September 1893. He is the third officer in rank of living Confederates, Generals Longstreet and A. P. Stewart having older commissions.

W. L. GOLDSMITH, OF MERIDIAN, MISS.

He is too modest to speak of his own brilliant achievements. I knew him in the Army of Northern Virginia. The world knows what S. D. Lee did at second Manassas how with eighteen guns he contributed so largely to win that great victory. Just after the bloody battle of Sharpsburg, in 1862, when the army had recrossed the Potomac, Gen. R. E. Lee sent for Col. S. D. Lee and told him he had recommended him for promotion as Brigadier General, and that he wished to place him in command of all the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia. A few days after this Col. Lee was again invited to Gen. Lee's headquarters. On arriving Gen. Lee handed him his commission as Brigadier General, saying that President Davis had ordered him to select the most accomplished artillerist in the Army of Northern Virginia and direct him to report to Gen. Pemberton, who was then at Vicksburg, Miss. Gen. Lee told him that he would be compelled to select him for that duty, as he had already made him his Chief of Artillery,

H. D. Watts, Americus, Ga.: I wish I could get a hundred for you. I believe if you would send a canvasser here you could get many subscribers. I do not have time to attend to it, or I would and not charge any thing, for you are engaged in a noble cause. I came out of the war without a dollar or a change of clothing, and I have had to work hard ever since to make a living. Accept this as a token of my appreciation of your noble effort to keep alive the sentiment that prompted us to go forth in defense of our country in 1861

LAST DAYS OF THE CONFEDERACY.

LETTERS FROM JEFFERSON DAVIS DURING THAT PERIOD

During the civil war it was nay fortune to be rather intimately associated with the Hon. Jos. E. Davis, the elder brother of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States. He impressed me very much by the keenness of his intellect, the extent of his information, and the force of his character.

In the fall of 1863 I was nearly blind from exposure in the campaign around Vicksburg. I was sent to the hospital at Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, under the care of my friend, Dr. Robert Anderson, who had been, for several years before the war, Mr. Davis' family physician. Mr. Davis and his family, finding that he could not live on his plantation on the Mississippi River, had moved to Lauderdale Springs. It was there at his home, and at the residence of Dr. Anderson, that I met him and frequently heard him talk.

During my stay in the hospital Mrs. Davis died. She was a lovely woman of devout piety, and a member of the Episcopal Church. In the condition of the country at that time it was impossible to secure the services of a clergyman of her own church, and Mr. Davis asked me to conduct the funeral services of his wife. He was devotedly attached to her and he felt profoundly her loss, coming, especially, as it did, upon him in his old age, and away from his home. My conduct of the funeral, he was pleased to say, gratified and comforted him, and he always afterward expressed for me the kindest feelings, and admitted me to a confidence, which, otherwise his great superiority in age, station and ability would have precluded.

As soon as I was well enough I returned to my regiment, and was absorbed in the activities of the campaigns of 1864 in North Georgia and Tennessee, not seeing Mr. Davis, and only occasionally hearing from him during that time. After the disastrous battle of Nashville, I was in the rear guard of Hood's Army. By incessant marching and fighting, under the genius of such Generals as Forrest, Walthall and W. H. Jackson, we escaped across the Tennessee River. There I found that the terrible exposure had rendered me nearly blind again. I was again sent to Dr. Anderson, who was then in charge of the hospital at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Mr. Davis and his family were boarding with Dr. Anderson, and so I was thrown into daily intercourse with him until the 20th of May, 1865, when I was finally paroled a period of nearly three months.

Mr. Davis was a great reader, and as soon as my eyes became strong enough, I went daily to his room and read to him. He was at that time reading with enthusiasm, again, the history of Herodotus. I forget in what translation. I was constantly impressed with his wide information and also his breadth of view. On the political history and principles of our Government he had thought deeply. Like many another Southern gentleman, he studied history to learn lessons which he might apply to our own political affairs.

He seemed to know and understand all of the great movements of the day, social and ecclesiastical) as well as political. One day, in speaking with him, I made some reference to the disruption of the Church of Scotland, and the origin of the Free Church, in 1843, and I was surprised to find him thoroughly familiar with the movement, its history and underlying principles.

His affection for his brother, the President, was intense and seemed to deepen with years. I have heard that Jefferson Davis gave great regard to the opinions and advice of this elder brother.

Mr. Davis often and freely spoke of the situation of the country, and of the difficulties with which the Confederate President had to contend. He was a man of positive convictions and warm feelings, and he criticised, often sharply. But he strove to be just in his judgments. He was, perhaps, eighty years old, and doubtless age and experience had chastened the order of his feelings, yet, one could see even then that he was a man who held his opinions tenaciously, and was not afraid to express them. Of course, as was natural, he entered into the policy and prejudices of the President, and stood by him firmly.

One of the most loveable traits in the character of Jefferson Davis was his tender love and deep respect for this old man. I think that nearly every week, in spite of the huge cares that oppressed him, he wrote to him sometimes only a brief note, sometimes a long letter, discussing the condition of our country.

Mr. Davis often permitted me to read these letters, and I was deeply impressed with the President's sincerity and his consuming love of his country. Two letters especially I recall, possibly the last written from Richmond, that were full of personal tenderness, lofty patriotism, and an unspeakable sadness. I can not pretend to give the exact words, but the substance I remember.

In one the President spoke of the harsh criticisms upon him and his administration. He said that numbers of his countrymen would think of him as a dictator, who substituted his personal judgment and will for the action of Congress, who refused to execute the will of the Congress. He said that there had never been a day that he had not been willing to carry out the measures approved by the Congress, that where any action had been taken he had honestly and faithfully tried to execute it. But he said the difficulty was too often that Congress had no policy of its own members could not agree among themselves, and wasted time in fruitless talk only eager to oppose his ideas. He said that often the condition of the army or the country urgently demanded some relief measure, immediate action of some kind was imperative, inaction meant ruin, in such circumstances he always had his plan, which, of course, he urged upon Congress. But he was also always willing, if his plan was not adopted, to try any other which they might suggest. But they would not accept his plan, nor would they adopt one of their own. In this emergency, he said that something must be done to avert ruin, and he was forced to carry out some plan, and of course he acted on his own ideas in the absence of any action by Congress. Then he was charged with being a dictator.
In the other and later letter he was speaking of the disasters that had befallen our arms, and the terrible straits to which we were reduced. He felt that the worst feature of the situation was the tone and spirit of discouragement among the people. He believed that in spite of our lack of resources, in spite of our crippled condition, if the people would make one
mighty effort would rise to the height of the occasion and. show their willingness to die rather than yield, then God would interpose for our deliverance. He thought that a people showing themselves thus worthy of independence could not be subdued. He expressed his cheerful willingness to die, if by the sacrifice he might rouse the people to the supreme effort. Then speaking to his brother the earnest desires of his heart, he said that he hoped God in mercy would spare him the sight of the overthrow of his country, and the humiliation of his people. He trusted that before the end came he might have opportunity to give up on the field of battle the life that he had devoted to the service of the Confederacy.

Both of these letters impressed me with the President's unselfish and conscientious devotion of himself and all of his powers to the cause which with all his soul he believed to be righteous.

Before I close these reminiscences, let me speak of an incident showing Mr. Joseph Davis' physical courage. While in Tuscaloosa it was his habit to drive out every day for his health, for he was quite feeble, as well as very old. He had a pair of good horses, which he retained after giving up almost everything else to the cause. One day he drove out across the Black Warrior River, northward, accompanied only by his negro driver. Now the country north of the city was infested by bands of marauders, who claimed to be guerrillas, but who were in reality deserters from our army. They pretended that they took their plunder for the Government, that they were authorized to "press" horses, provisions, etc., for the Confederacy. Often, if they met resistance, they killed the owners of the property.

On this day Mr. Davis had gone several miles, when in a lonely part of the road he found himself confronted by one of these lawless bands. The leader, catching the horses' bits, threw them back on their haunches, and Mr. Davis was thrown forward in his barouche, but, recovering himself, he straightened up with a pair of pistols in his hands, pointing right into the face of the leader. The fellow was cowed at once, for he saw that Mr. Davis would certainly shoot him. In other words, the old gentleman "had the drop" on him. He was told that if he attempted to leave he would be shot like a dog, and that his crowd must withdraw. He was held there until they had gone, and then he was allowed to depart, and Mr. Davis drove back, and in a few minutes was in safety. Of course the crowd were cowards, but the old man's courage was manifest.

After I was paroled I never saw Mr. Davis again. He died not long after the war.
M. LOOSCAN, ESQ., of Houston, Texas, writes as follows concerning the coming East of Albert Sidney Johnston, referred to at length elsewhere:

I well remember the meeting of Gen. Johnston and Gen. Baylor, who was then in command of Arizona, in July 1861, when Gen. Johnston was on his way from California to Richmond. He stayed with us about a week resting his animal.

Mr. Looscan refers to confusion of Gen. Baylor's name with that of Col. George W. Baylor, who came East with Gen. Johnston, and was with him as staff officer when he was killed. Col. Baylor is still living, and resides in El Pago County, Texas.

BESIDES sketches of other Major Generals, pictures of all the lady representatives of States will be in the April VETERAN.

REMINISCENCES by the " Mother of the Confederacy " are in type for the April VETERAN. They are thrilling and pathetic.

AN exquisite picture of the lady who said, "I had rather have my picture in the VETERAN than in the White House," has been made for the April issue. Her presence at the Birmingham reunion is fondly anticipated.

THERE is an omission from article about postage stamps, pages 77 and 78, which may be of interest to some of our people. Local stamps of large cities are so abundant that they are of but little value, but there are others of small places like Athens, Goliad, Madison and Livingston, that command high prices, ranging between 25 cents and $100. The Livingston, Ala., stamp is in greatest demand, one of which sold for $576 in New York on March 15th.

IT seems that the notes about Gen. Lee being ordered to the rear had been sufficiently explained in the last VETERAN for there ever to be further reference to it, yet some correspondence has been received from high authority, including a letter from Gen. Gordon and a quotation from Gen. Lee himself, so that some interesting notes will occur in regard to that.

THE people of Murfreesboro are zealous and faithful in their efforts to build a monument to the Confederate dead there buried. It is a cause that will enlist an interest in every Southern State. Has it occurred that you might raise a fund in your vicinity by some pleasant entertainment ? The valor of many a Southron was immortalized there in the spirit that will live forever. Let it be symbolized by marble and bronze.

COL. JOHN ANDERSON, who commanded the Donelson Brigade of Tennessee Infantry while Colonel of the 8th Tennessee, tells an interesting story of a man who belonged to Company A, and ran away in face of the enemy during the battle of Murfreesboro. The poor fellow was sentenced to be shot, and was in jail at Shelbyville. Maj. Burford, of the regiment, who was a very sympathetic man, visited the condemned man and was so affected that he prevailed on Colonel Anderson to do so. Before going he had a talk with Gen. Cheatham, and it was understood that although Gen. Bragg was not to know of it, he, Anderson, would write his own order for release, which he did, and carried it with him. He called on Capt. Charles W. Peden, Provost Marshal at Shelbyville, and told him he must have that man. The prisoner said they must save his life that he had a wife and small children, and that if they would release him he would try and make a good soldier for the future. True to his word, he did the best he could, and improved in each battle. At Franklin he fell far to the front with his face to the foe.

THE General Assembly of 1891 passed an Act appropriating $60,000 annually to the maimed and indigent Confederate Soldiers of the State who could not, on account of their family relations, receive the benefits of the Tennessee Confederate Soldiers' Home. The pensions bestowed under the Act were as follows: First class, a soldier who had lost both eyes, both arms, or both legs, $300 per year, second class, a soldier who had lost one arm or one leg, and a disability to the other arm or leg, $120 per year, third class, a soldier who had lost one arm or one leg, or a disability equivalent thereto, $100 per year. Under the Act it must clearly appear that the disability was incurred from active service, that the soldier is in indigent circumstances, and that his record as a soldier was free from dishonor.

Under the Act there are five Pension Examiners, and they are allowed a Secretary. The Pension Examiners receive no salaries. The Attorney General and Comptroller of the State are members of said Board by virtue of their positions. The Tennessee Division of Confederate Soldiers name the other three members of the Board, and they are commissioned by the Governor.

The Board is at present constituted as follows: Attorney Gen. G. W. Pickle, Comp. Jas. A. Harris, Lieut. George B. Guild, Ensign Frank A. Moses, and Lieut. George F. Hager, with private John P. Hickman as Secretary. Tennessee now has 571 soldiers on its pension roll, and it has also eighty six soldiers in the Confederate Home. None of the latter have families.

A Camp has been organized at Greeneville, N. C., named in honor of Pitt County's gallant son, Gen. Bryan Grimes. B. F. Sugg was elected President and E. A. Maze, Secretary. " We had a general good time. Many war incidents and anecdotes were recited. The old veterans broke camp to meet again next year. H."

A comrade, member of the Forty eighth Tennessee Regiment, demurs at some statement as to who comprised Cleburne's brigade at Shiloh. His regiment was held at Decatur, and " the other regiments of Cleburne's brigade were the Second, Twenty third and Twenty fourth Tennessee, and Fifteenth Arkansas Regiments."

THE GALLANT JOHN PELHAM.

John D. Renfroe has written a thrilling story of Maj. John Pelham, "the boy artillerist," for the Courier Journal, from which the following is taken:

He was of " Kentucky stock," but born in Alabama, September 7, 1838. The London Times said he excelled any man of his age, on either side, in the great conflict.

Young Pelham was at West Point, and would have received his commission in a week, but he resigned and came South to enlist for his section. As a cadet he had dash and soldierly bearing. He always walked straight as a "bee line," and never looked back) no matter how much noise the other cadets made in his rear. He was considered the best athlete at West Point, and was noted for fencing and boxing.

Then as now,

said the writer, " at the academy, a cat, with its reputed plurality of lives, would be dead a dozen times in taking half the chances those laughing cadets would eagerly seek in the cavalry drill, but Pelham excelled them all." The Prince of Wales was struck with his horsemanship when he visited the academy in 1860. His horseback riding was marvelous, ana went down from class to class as a sort of tradition, and years afterward the cadets would talk of John Pelham's wonderful riding.

It is said he got through the lines into Kentucky by a fair Indiana maiden whose affections he won, which were stronger than her true patriotism. He reported at Montgomery, the Confederate capital, and was sent to Virginia. At Manassas he so interested "Jeb" Stuart that he had him organize a six gun battery. Of this battery were forty men from Talladega, under Lieut. Wm. McGregor, now living in Texas, and others, in charge of his " Napoleon " gun, from Mobile. This six gun battery became the nucleus of " Stuart's Horse Artillery."

At Cold Harbor he advanced one gun a third of a mile to the front, and for more than an hour it was the only gun on the Confederate left firing, drawing the attention of a whole Federal battery, until Stuart said to Stonewall Jackson: " General, all your artillery on the left is idle, nobody is firing except Pelham." After the battle the warm pressure of Jackson's hand told how well he had demeaned himself. Shortly after this Pelham drove a gunboat from the " White House" with one gun. He again received the thanks of Stonewall at second Manassas, where he thrust his guns forward almost into the enemy's columns, and used them with bloody effect. During this fight Jackson said to Stuart, pointing to the young artillerist at his guns: "General, if you have another Pelham, give him to me." He was then twenty three years old.

In the bloody repulse at Shepardstown his guns roared for hours. It was in this gory track that an instance occurred which illustrates his courage. He was with one gun far in advance of the others, when the enemy almost reached him, and Stuart ordered him to retire, but he begged successfully to be allowed to remain a little longer, but his cannoneers " scampered away" and left him alone. He loaded the piece and fired almost in the face of the enemy surging forward like a great billow, and then) mounting one of the lead horses, began to gallop away with the cannon, but had not proceeded far when the horse was shot from under him. Quickly cutting the traces, to be free from the dead animal, he mounted another, and it, too, was shot down immediately. He escaped with the gun only after a third horse had been shot.
At Sharpsburg he commanded nearly all the artillery on the Confederate left, and rent the blue lines with shot and shell.

But it was at Fredericksburg that the zenith of John Pelham's renown was reached. The flower of the South's young manhood was on the heights in double lines behind bristling and glimmering guns. Every soldier knew there was to be a fearful fight before the sun sank behind the western wood. The Federal army had crossed the Rappahannock, and was forming line of battle under cover of the river bank. Jackson, Stuart and Lee rode down the Confederate lines to the extreme right, followed by waves of cheers, where the Stuart Horse Artillery was parked. Stuart called to Pelham and said something. Then Pelham turned and galloped to his guns. Immediately he dashed down the heights, followed by one gun, at a gallop. It was the " Napoleon Detachment " of Mobile Frenchmen. Onward they rushed, far down to the foot of the heights, where the road forks. There they halted, unlimbered and prepared for action. Soon they saw moving toward them steadily, with measured tread, a long, compact blue line, their bayonets glistening in the streams of sunshine. There was a flash, a boom, the earth shook around Pelham'sNapoleon. Then there was a shrill, hideous, indescribable shriek of shell as it swirled through the charging lines of blue. The surging mass recoiled, halted, hesitated, then, with a demoniacal yell, pressed forward toward the single gun. The yell ceased, and for a moment there was a ghastly hush. And then there came thundering through the air from across the Rappahannock boom on boom. From southeast to east, from east to northeast! Then from the north came huge shells whirling death in their arms. Pelham had drawn upon himself the concentrated fire of half a dozen batteries twenty four guns, yet his gun continued to roar, and never failed to slaughter. No other gun on the Confederate side had yet opened, but this lone war dog howled on. And in the half lull between the boom of the cannon there floated above the noise a sound that seemed strange on that day of multitudinous terrors the Napoleon Detachment singing the Marseillaise as they fought their gun. Like infernal imps in tophet they flitted about in its smoke. Two armies looked on while the Mobile Frenchmen wrote history with blood. Time wore on. Still the gun roared, and the sound of its roaring thundered through the air. Gen. R. E. Lee said: " It is glorious to see such courage in one so young." In his report of the battle he spoke of no one but Pelham below the rank of Major General, terming him "the gallant Pelham." Pelham delayed the battle an hour. When his ammunition was spent he retired, and was assigned to the command of all the artillery on the Confederate right.

Amid shot and shell he had opened the great battle of Fredericksburg, and had become immortal. He was a Major of artillery then. His commission as Lieutenant Colonel was issued soon after, and only waited confirmation when he was killed at Kelly's  Ford, on the Rappahannock, March 17, '63. He had gone to visit some ladies in Culpeper County, when he heard the cannonading and hurried to the scene. His artillery had not come up, but he galloped to a regiment that was wavering, and shouted: "Forward, boys! forward to victory and glory!" and at that moment was struck by the fragment of a shell that penetrated the brain, and he died shortly after midnight.

Gen. Stuart telegraphed to Hon. J. L. M. Curry, at present trustee of the great Peabody Fund, who then represented Pelham's Alabama district in the Confederate Congress:

The noble, the chivalric, 'the gallant Pelham' is no more. He was killed in action yesterday. His remains will be sent to you to day. How much he was beloved, appreciated and admired let the tears of agony we shed and the gloom of mourning throughout my command bear witness. His loss is irreparable.

His remains were taken to Richmond, and lay in state at the Capitol, viewed by thousands. He was buried at Jacksonville, Ala., amid the scenes of his childhood. Gen. Stuart's general order to the division, announcing his death, concluded:

His eyes had glanced over every battlefield of this army from the first Manassas to the moment of his death, and, with a single exception, he was a brilliant actor in all. The memory of 'the gallant Pelham,' his many virtues, his noble nature and purity of character are a sacred legacy in the hearts of all who knew him. His record was bright and spotless, and his career brilliant and successful.

He was calmly and recklessly brave, and saw men torn to pieces around him. without emotion, " because his heart and eye were upon the. stern work he was performing." Such is the brief but resplendent career of the "boy artillerist."

The deeds of Pelham's nephew, who was a private in Terry's Texas regiment, caused the Texas Legislature to enact that, as he, "a hero in more than a hundred battles," had fallen while charging the enemy at Dalton, Ga., leaving no issue, the name of a certain child, a nephew, should be changed to Charles Thomas Pelham, to perpetuate his memory.

NOBLE UTTERANCES FROM MAINE. Gen. Charles W. Roberts, of Bangor, Me., who commanded the Second Maine Regiment, replies to R. F. Dahlgren, of Atlanta, in which he makes an effort to secure the return of the flag of the Fifth Alabama. He writes: For some years I have tried to trace the whereabouts of the Fifth Alabama flag, but have been thus far unsuccessful. At the battle of Games' Mill I saw the color bearer of the Fifth Alabama fall, and ordered a private of my regiment to take the colors. He did so, and delivered to me. I sent them to Bangor, where my regiment was recruited, and they were deposited in our city building. When my regiment returned my colors were deposited in the city building also, For several years they were paraded through our streets together. Becoming tired of such an exhibition, I ordered the colors (yours included) to be sent, for preservation, to our State house at Augusta. Our colors were sent, but yours could not be found, and what became of them. I never have known. If I can ever find your flag nothing will give me greater pleasure than to return it to you, for with me the war entirely closed when Lee surrendered.

BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK TRIBUTE TO EARLY.

By Capt. S. D. Buck, THIRTEENTH VIRGINIA INFANTRY,

CONFEDERATE VETERAN As you paid me the compliment to copy my letter to the Baltimore Sun, " Burning Bridge over Rappahanock," I send you, from my manuscript, an account of the battle of Cedar Creek. I have written 170 pages of manuscript of the war as I saw it, and this article is part of a chapter. The battle was fought October 19, 1864.

No one can appreciate the desperation of this grand move without closely examining a war map. Having been born and raised almost in gunshot of this field, I see every road and defile as I write. Gen. Early has been accused of recklessness in fighting this battle. Such was not the case. It was a necessity, as the only possible way to prevent troops from being sent to Grant from the Valley. Hazardous? Yes, so was every move we made. Gen. Early, one of the best and bravest Generals of the war, was sent to the Valley to fight, though a forlorn hope, and no man in the army could have done more. Why Gen. Sheridan did not crush him in two weeks has always been a mystery to me. Four to one were the odds we had to contend with. Sheridan had as many cavalry as we had in all.

Minute description of the surroundings is necessary for a correct understanding of the move in contemplation. Our army was in camp on the old line known as Fisher's Hill, over a mile south of Strasburg, while Sheridan was camped north of Cedar Creek, a small stream flowing southeast and emptying into the north branch of Shenandoah River. The Valley Pike crosses Cedar Creek two miles north of Strasburg, and Sheridan was strongly posted on its high embankments, rendering a direct attack simply hopeless. Our right rested on the Shenandoah above Strasburg, while our left was on the same river below. Upon our right was Maurerton Mountain, and the Shenandoah River, a swift stream, fordable every few miles, hugged the base of this mountain for several miles. There was no road between the river and the mountain, yet Early dared to separate his army and send half of it, under command of the gallant Gordon, in single file, through the bushes where it was often almost impossible for men to stand, a distance of over three miles. The march was made cheerfully in the dead of night when the only sound was the continued tread of the men and the oft repeated command, "Close up." On this memorable night our division this was accomplished we hurried to the river and waded through, without considering the disagreeable wetting to be endured. The cavalry had crossed and captured the pickets. Gordon's men followed and soon struck the extreme left and rear of Sheridan's line. It was a complete surprise. Men were captured in bed, not knowing we were nearer than Fisher's Hill. Gordon's and Ramseur's divisions were in front, and ours in reserve. These two divisions drove every thing before them, and while this was being done Gen. Early had worked his way close up to the enemy in front, and at daylight he struck a terrible blow, driving them back upon us only to be pressed out of shape, a broken, routed army. On they rushed to Belle Grove, three miles, where they were in readiness with a fresh division to meet us. Upon these fresh troops many stragglers had rallied. Our division was ordered forward, and in a few minutes were hotly engaged. Driving the skirmish line in, we struck the line of battle, and as we got closer found a heavy battery on our left doing much damage. Our brigade, commanded by Col. Hoffman, bore to the left and charged, driving the artillerymen from their guns and the support back. Here, to my surprise, we were halted and ordered to reform. Col. Hoffman could not see well, or he would not have stopped at this point, so I called him as he was passing, on horse back, and pointed out our danger, but he still insisted upon reforming before making a second charge. Seeing the enemy advancing upon their battery, which would be turned on us again, I urged Col. H. to allow me to move with a few men and hold the battery. To this he consented, and with about fifty men we charged across the river, captured the five guns, turned them on the enemy, and held them until Col. H. came to our assistance. Gen. Pegram came up at this time and Col. H. told him of our charge, and the General said he would have those guns christened to my honor, but Sheridan objected, and in the afternoon the battery was recaptured.

I was a member of the 13th Virginia Infantry, organized by Gen. A. P. Hill, molded by the bravest of the brave, Gen. James a Walker, and made invincible by the courage and example of Col. James B. Terrell. No command could boast of three such officers, hence the reputation it gained. For an opinion of this gallant body of men I refer my reader to an oration by Gen. Walker at the unveiling of the A. P. Hill monument at Richmond. From this charge we gathered solidity and moved on, driving the enemy into and through Middleton. Here we were halted over night upon Valley Pike, north of the town and at the toll gate. We remained at this point all day waiting for orders to move forward. A great victory had been won only to be thrown away not lost, as many suppose, and as history claims, by the return of Sheridan not one bit of it. The fault lies at our own door. Our men, feeling victory was complete, gave way to the disposition to clothe themselves from the enemy's camp, deserted their comrades. Fully one third of our army could have been found away from their commands, and by so doing sacrificing their country. Comrade, was you of this number? If so, you caused the disaster, not Sheridan. Shame, shame! Had every man been at his post we would not have lost this battle, and none of the poetry of Sheridan's ride would ever have been written. We held our position until ordered back, and we (Pegram's brigade, commanded by Pegram in person, also Johnson's North Carolina brigade) marched in line of battle from Middleton to Cedar Creek, where we had to break to cross the bridge. At Stickley's, south of the bridge, Gen. Pegram rallied about 100 men) and we again checked the enemy's cavalry, but soon a brigade charged us, and we made the best retreat we could. Knowing the country thoroughly, I went to the mountain and got into camp at Fisher's Hill by 10 o'clock that night, taking a pretty good regiment of men with me who were lost in the stampede. Most. of our artillery was lost near Strasburg, occasioned by the breaking of a small bridge, and could have been saved had any one in authority known of it. In my retreat that night I met with an officer whom I piloted to the river, where we both jumped in, and where the Colonel disappeared, either killed, drowned or taken prisoner. If he is alive and sees this article I would like to hear from him. We retreated up the Valley next morning. My mother and sisters went over the battle field next day expecting to find my dead body, but I was very much alive, in a foot race for safety further South. Gen. Gordon did some beautiful fighting at Cedar Creek, but when he is accredited with planning the battle I feel it is an error. It was Gen. Early's plan, and it bore his ear marks daring in the extreme fully in keeping with the man and all of his movements in front of Sheridan. Suppose Early had had as many men as Sheridan, does any sane man for one moment believe the Valley of Virginia would have fallen into the hands of the enemy? Never! Many good soldiers criticise Gen. Early, but one moment's reflection should change their harsh judgment to praise and admiration. For weeks he confronted Sheridan's hosts with a mere handful of men, knowing all the time how he was outnumbered. His duty was to keep Sheridan from sending troops to Grant, and he did this, but not until 40,000 marched upon 10,000 could Early be shaken off. Gen. Lee's letter to him removing him is a deserved compliment. Early was the only man in the army who would have dared to have taken such chances. He sacrificed himself for his country, and in future years will be regarded as one of our ablest Generals.

Sheridan's loss, according to Maj. Pound's History of the Valley Campaign, in this battle, was 569 killed, 3,425 wounded, and 1,770 missing, total, 5,764. Our loss was 3,100 killed, wounded and missing.

J. T. Lyon, of Forty third Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, writes again : Farmwell, Va., Feb. 2. In my article published in the January VETERAN there is a mistake. It should have been Ramseur's division, not Ransom's. He too was killed at Cedar Creek, when General Gordon made that Jacksonian move, surprising Sheridan's army, routing and driving them in great confusion toward Winchester. Early's troops, instead of following up their victory, fell out of ranks to plunder the yankee camp. Sheridan promptly reformed his troops and returned the same day and defeated Early, and caused him to lose all he had gained and more too. But if ever soldiers were excusable for such conduct Early's poor half famished men surely were. They had been marching and fighting from the first of May, at the Wilderness, at Cold Harbor, at Lynchburg, at Salem, West Va., and then to Washington and return. It is estimated that from June to September Early had marched his little army over four hundred miles.

Confederate Veteran March 1894.

HISTORY OF CONFEDERATE STAMPS.

Mr. F. A. Nast, (P. 0. Box 959), New York City, one of a committee engaged in the preparation of a book on the postage stamps of the Confederate States, favors the VETERAN with the following carefully prepared "History of Postage Stamps used in the Confederate States of America."

South Carolina seceded Dec. 20th, 1860, and was quickly followed by Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana. Jefferson Davis was elected President, and was inaugurated at Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 18th, 1861. Up to the firing on Fort Sumpter (April 11th), the postal affairs seem to have been carried on with fair regularity. Letters continued to be mailed throughout the South, bearing U. S. stamps, during the first few months of 1861, but the supply of these stamps was soon exhausted, and most of the Postmasters were soon unable to furnish stamps or envelopes. To those situated in small towns, this made but little difference, but in commercial centers much inconvenience was realized.

An agent of a prominent Bank Note Company, of New York City, was in Montgomery in Feb., 1861, for the purpose of making a contract to supply stamps to the new Government, but the bombardment of Fort Sumpter made it evident that goods could not be delivered and negotiations were discontinued. The Confederate Government, however, succeeded in buying a large quantity of paper in New York City, which was forwarded to Louisville, Ky., and from there run through to Montgomery, Ala. This paper was afterward used for the manufacture of stamps issued by the general Government.

On the 11th of March, 1861, the permanent Constitution was adopted by Congress, and in it a clause providing that the Post office Department must pay its own expenses, from its own resources, after the first day of March, 1863.
The Postoffice Department was at once organized, with John H. Reagan as Postmaster General, but the chief work devolved upon H. St. George Offutt, who, from his long connection with the Postoffice Department, was eminently fitted to perform the difficult task. Mr. Offutt occupied the position of Chief Clerk of Auditor's office, at the secession of South Carolina, but relinquished that position to join the Confederate. Army, although his native State, Missouri, did not leave the Union. The valuable library of postal works (the only complete one in the U. S.), which he took with him, must have been of incalculable benefit in starting such a complicated machine as a Postoffice Department for a large country, however, on the 1st of June, 1861, we find the Department prepared with everything necessary for the successful operation of the offices contained within its territory.

The following gentlemen occupied the principal positions in the new department: John H.Reagan, Postmaster General, B. Fuller, Chief Clerk, H. St. G. Offutt, Chief of the Contract Bureau, J. L. Harrell, Chief of Finance Bureau, B. N. Clements, Chief of Appointment Bureau, Boiling Baker, Auditor.

Most of the old U. S. Postmasters were retained on their taking the oath of Allegiance to the Confederate States, and in one case, at least, a competent man was allowed to keep his post without taking the prescribed oath, the few Union men who held office at the South were compelled (?) to retain their offices until new appointments could be made. A majority of the Postmasters remitted the full amount due the United States Postoffice Department up to the 31st of June, and returned all the stamps and Postoffice property that was in their charge. Others either kept the property, or turned it over to the Confederate Department. Subsequently, the Department issued a circular ordering all Postmasters to send all U. S. property, stamps, etc., to Richmond, where they were utilized in various ways, but this was not till after the war began.

Many of the most enterprising Postmasters in the South asked and obtained permission to issue stamps pending the preparation of those by the general Confederate Government. Probably some of the Postmasters of the smaller towns issued stamps and stamped envelopes on their own responsibility. How many offices issued these temporary stamps is not known, but philatelists are constantly on the watch for new and hitherto unknown varieties.

The following letters will show how and why Postmasters were obliged to make these stamps:

DEAR SIR: In reply to your note of the 12th inst. I would say that the stamps you inclosed me were got up by me here in Memphis. When Tennessee passed the ordinance of secession, the old Government stamps were worthless, and as I found it impossible to get along without stamps, I asked and procured the consent of the Government at Richmond to get up temporary stamps until the Postmaster General could furnish me with regular stamps. Those you inclosed me were in use several months, and were the only ones used. A stamp was shortly afterwards manufactured at Richmond, after which those I issued were taken in and destroyed.

Respectfully yours, Memphis, July 17. M. C. GALLAWAY.

DEAR SIR: Yours of the 29th inst. is at hand. As I happen to have the stamp alluded to, I inclose one for your benefit. It was used by me expressly for the Rheatown office, from about August, 1861, to midsummer, 1862, until Confederate stamps were distributed for general use.

These stamps were used merely as a convenience during the absence of Government stamps, and of course were only received at the Rheatown office in payment of postage. All letters bearing it were billed "paid in money, 5 cents." The inconvenience of country people sending money by servants and children to pay postage, and the remarkable scarcity of small change at that time, were the principal objects for procuring this stamp.

Yours truly, Rheatown, Tenn. D. PENCE.

The general Government issued the first Confederate postage stamps on October 18th, 1861, a 5 cent green stamp (No. I of the illustrations). This was soon followed by the 10 cent blue stamp (No. 3), the 2 cent green stamp (No. 2), and the green ink being exhausted, No. 1 was printed in blue, and No. 3 in red. All these stamps were prepared by Messrs. Hoyen and Ludwig, of Richmond, Va. Later on Messrs. De La Rue & Co. prepared the plates and furnished the stamps of the 5 cent blue (No. 7), and a 1 cent orange which was never used. The plates of the 5 cent blue (No. 7) were afterward used by Messrs. Archer & Daly in printing the regular supply. They furnished also the IO cent blue (No. 6), three varieties, and the 20 cent green (No. 4).

A short time after the first 10 cent blue stamp ( No. 6) was issued, President Davis met Col. Offutt and asked him if he remembered a W. Brown's objection to the portrait. Upon an affirmative answer being given, the President remarked: " I was walking across the park to day, on my way to my office, when I met a tall North Carolinia soldier, who accosted me: ' Is your name Davis?' 'Yes.' 'President Davis?' 'Yes.' 'I thought so, you look so much like a postage stamp."'

In addition to their use as postage stamps they were used as small change by the soldiers and citizens, just as U. S. postage stamps were used for the same purpose at the same time in the North.

Letters were sent through the lines by special arrangement between the U. S. A. and the C. S. A. The following notice is a sample:

TO THOSE WHO WISH TO SEND LETTERS NORTH.

HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF NORFOLK, } NORFOLK, January 9th, 1862. }

Persons wishing to send letters to the United States will observe the following directions:

1. Letters must have on the envelope, in addition to the address of the person to whom they are intended, " Via Norfolk and Flag of Truce."

2. Write no more than one page.

3. Enclose money to pay the United States postage.

4. Do not address letters to Gen. Huger.

BEN J. HUGER, JR. First Lieutenant and V. D. C.

In May, 1865, the plates, stamps, archives, etc., were surrendered to the U. S. authorities at Chester, S. C., and were probably transferred to Washington. The full history of the Postoffice Department of the Confederate States cannot be written until these archives are open for examination.

Six months elapsed between the firing on Fort Sumter (April 11th, 1861), and the issue of the stamps by the general Government (October 18, 1861), and the mails were transported regularly. Many millions of letters were forwarded during that time. The bulk of these were probably destroyed at the time, but there must still be in existence an enormous quantity of letters bearing the stamps used at that period. Some of these stamps are quite rare, and possibly there may be some varieties not hitherto known to stamp collectors. Many of the temporary or " loose " stamps were used after the general stamps were issued. Indeed some seem to have been made by Postmasters in 1864:

The scarcity of stamps was, generally, in proportion to the number of the inhabitants using them. Below is a list of most of the known stamps, with the number of the illustration.

Illustration No.

Athens, Ga............ ...... 8

Charleston. S. C........... 11 12

Danville, Va................ 36 14

Goliad, Tex................. 16

Kingston, Tenn.......... 18

Lenoir, N. C................. 21

Lynchburg, Va........... 23

Madison, Fla............... 26

Memphis, Tenn.......... 28 29

Nashville, Tenn.......... 31 32

Petersburg, Va............ 34

Pleasant Shade, Va... 37

Ringgold, Ga.............. 39

Tellico Plains, Tenn... 42

Baton Rouge, La......... 9 10

Columbia, S. C............ 13

Fredericksburg, Va..... 15

Greeneville. Ala.......... 17

Knoxville, Tenn......... 19 20

Livingston, Ala.......... 22

Macon, Ga.................. 24 25

Marion, Va.................. 27

Mobile. Ala.................. 30

New Orleans, La.......... 33

Pittsylvania, Va......... 35

Rheatown, Tenn......... 38

Salem N. C................. 40 41
Victoria, Tex............... 43

General issues, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Of Nos. 6 and 7 many millions were used and a large quantity was in the different offices at the close of the Civil War. Hence they are often offered, in quantities, unused. A few of them are very rare.

NOTE Any information as to the general or special conditions under which the mails were transported, or any other postal matters will be gladly acknowledged. Please address F. A. Nast, Box 959, New York City, He would be glad to purchase the stamps or stamped envelopes. Mr. Nast is commended as a thoroughly trust worthy gentleman.

REMINISCENCES OF CHICKAMAUGA.

A. M. Chandler, West Point, Miss.: I was engaged in the battle of Chickamauga, belonged to the Forty fourth Mississippi Regiment, Patton Anderson's Brigade, Hindman's Division. Our brigade, on Saturday, September 19, '63, held the bridge at the Lee and Gordon mill until 12 o'clock. Then we were ordered to the right and forded the river to reinforce other portions of our line near Crawfish Springs. We were marched from point to point until dark, and then ordered to the rear to dry our clothing. At that time we were near the spot where the brave Gen. Preston Smith was killed. On Sunday morning we relieved Deas' brigade after they had carried two lines of log breastworks. In our charge we ran over Deas' brigade, where they were lying down in an old field near where you have figure 11 marked on your map. Our regiment captured the Federal battery there. We also got the colors of the Seventy fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, one of our company making a crutch of the flag staff. In this charge we, our brigade led by General Hindman, broke the Federal line and drove them nearly one mile, when we were recalled and reformed, and marched back to the old field, which was literally covered with dead and wounded yankees. There General Hindman stopped his horse in rear of our company, when I said to him, "General, we are the boys to move them!" He replied, '"You are, sir." We were then ordered to the foot of a long ridge, heavily wooded. After remaining there lying down for some twenty minutes, the yankees charged our brigade, just as Barksdale's brigade of the Virginia Army charged on our right. I do not know the name of this old field we charged through in the morning, nor the name of the ridge where the yankees charged us at about 2 p.m. I hope this may be of some service to the history.

MAKE UP OF A COMPANY FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.

Capt. B. H. Teague, Aiken, S. C.: In a recent number of the VETERAN you gave an account of a Virginia company which had on its roll several brothers of the same name. Below I give you the roll of a company from South Carolina which I think will head the list for number of relatives and similarity of names in one company. It had 142 men, and among them were 28 by the name of Gunter, 13 of Jones, 8 of Garwin, and 5 of Gantt. Of the Gunters it is said sixteen played on the violin. The regiment to which it belonged served most of its time on the sea coast of South Carolina, consequently it suffered little loss, as it was not in many engagements, but during the last year of the war it was ordered to Virginia, where it did hard and noble service. At first, not being accustomed, like Lee's soldiers, to take care of themselves, and led by field officers the "bravest of the brave"who encouraged them to " stand square up in line," they suffered terribly in their first fights with the enemy, losing in a short time their gallant Colonel and other field officers. Their numbers were so full when they landed in Virginia that their fun loving neighbors in the army called them "the Twentieth Army Corps." But the twentieth proved to be of the " best metal," and made an honorable reputation as a part of the glorious Army of Northern Virginia.

Capt. Teague kindly sends a roster of the company, giving the names of its membership, and reports the living and the dead.

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