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A SOLDIER WHO LOST HIS NERVE.
BY JAMES E. TANNER, LONOKE, ARK.
I was a Confederate soldier, and on the second day's battle at Nashville, Tenn., I had a trying experience. Our brigade was at the foot of a steep hill, and the Federal cavalry attacked us. A Texas brigade was in our front, and we were ordered to its assistance. Having been wounded at Franklin, I could not keep up. The regiment was within a quarter of a mile or so of the brigade, and I was in sight, when the Federals came swooping down the hill. I started to climb the hill, when I came across a young man behind a tree, hallooing out, "I surrender." I asked him what was the matter and assured him there was no danger, telling him to go with me and we could escape over the hill. He said he would not try, as he would be killed. I refused to leave him there alone, and said: "Go to that next tree." When we reached the point, I said: "Now, shoot!" "O, I can't," he said. I assured him that he could, then we both fired, and went on to another tree. In this way I managed him until we reached the top of the hill, when he straightened up and said: "Thank God, I am safe." He then asked my name, which I gave, and told him I was from Arkansas, and he said: "I owe my life to you. I would have stayed right there until I starved to death if they had not come after me. I am of a good family and my parents think I am doing my duty, and here I am acting the coward. I would not have them know this for anything, and I will never surrender." I hope he may see this, and write to me.
Confederate Veteran August 1911
SOLDIER'S BODY UNEARTHED AT SELMA.
REPORT BY COL. D. M. SCOTT, SELMA, ALA.
On Sunday, June 25, 1911, Camp Jones, No. 317, U. C. V., at Selma, Ala., interred all that was left of the remains of an unknown soldier who was evidently killed in the battle of Selma, Ala., on April 2, 1865, more than forty six years ago, when Wilson's raid invested Selma.
We are not certain whether it was a Confederate or a Federal soldier, but a resolution was adopted at the regular meeting of Camp Jones Friday night, June 23, that the skull and a few bones found should have a respectful burial in the Confederate lot in Live Oak Cemetery at the ,base of the monument erected by the Ladies' Memorial Association to the memory of the Confederate dead.
A few days before a lad in his teens, Robert McCord, of Selma, while digging bait on the banks of Beech Creek, near Selma, struck with his hoe a piece of rotted plank. Removing the plank, he discovered a human skull and took it to the Selma Times office.
The editor, Mr. John M. McCully, phoned the Commander of Camp Jones, asking whether any fighting occurred at the point named.
After a conference the next day, Mr. McCully, the editor, and young McCord made a thorough examination of where the skull had been found, and they unearthed bones of the legs and arms. They also found a piece of bright metal with the letter "B" and what appears to be the broken point of a sword. These articles are being sent the VETERAN, to be used as illustrations. Mr. McCully discovered also the visor of a cap and a piece of gold braid which when taken in his hands "crumbled to dust."
When the Confederate lines were broken in the northern suburbs of Selma by Wilson's overpowering forces, the stampede was general, and organizations were completely divided. A matron of Selma, though then a mere girl, states that she saw a small band of Confederate cavalry attempt to cross Beech Creek, southeast of Selma, and the creek being greatly swollen, two were drowned. The remaining few passed her home, going in an easterly direction up Beech Creek. Soon afterwards they heard firing, and Federal cavalry came from the direction of the firing. They reported that they had killed a "Johnny" on the edge of the creek and left him where he fell, but that the remainder escaped.
The following day by order of General Wilson all soldiers, both Confederates as well as Federals, were buried where they fell. After the war closed, the Federal government, as is well known, had all the Federal dead removed and sent to national cemeteries.
Many years ago the Ladies' Memorial Association was organized in Selma, and the remains of all Confederates that could be located were removed to Live Oak Cemetery.
Our Camp gave respectful interment to what we could gather of the remains of this poor soldier regardless of whether he wore the gray or the blue. Doubtless he was reported as "missing," and his family never knew his fate.
The Camp met at 3:30 P.M. The remains, reposing in a small case, covered by a Confederate flag, were placed in a carriage and escorted to Live Oak Cemetery, accompanied by a goodly number of our veterans. At the grave a few explanatory remarks were made by the Commander, after which Hon. H. S. D. Mallory, a comrade, offered a fervent and patriotic prayer. "Taps" was sounded, and the solemn hearts left the cemetery gratified in the belief that they had honored a soldier who gave his life for a principle.
Confederate Veteran August 1911
RAYMOND, MISS, IN WAR TIMES.
REMINISCENCES BY ONE WHO WAS A CHILD AT THE TIME.
BY ESTELLE TRICHELL OLTROGGE, JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
I was only six years old when the war began, but I recall July 4, 1863, when Vicksburg surrendered, and May 12, 1863, when was fought the battle of Raymond, Miss. My first idea of soldiers must have been early in the spring of 1861, when it was reported in our little town of Raymond: "The soldiers are coming!" (I did not know what soldiers meant, and my mother told me they were men who were about to fight each other, so. I called them "Fight each others.") Early that morning my mother had me gather a bunch of flowers to throw at the soldiers passing by, yet when they did come along, I was too bashful to throw it, although one of the soldiers called to me: "Give me that." My conscience hurt me for years for not throwing the bouquet to him.
Near the beginning of the war the ladies of Raymond gave two concerts for the benefit of the company that went from that town. One of the songs was that sweet old quartet, "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming," sung by the Misses Calhoun, of Jackson, and their two brothers. There were also tableaux, and in one I was a fairy. The other concert was given in the courthouse, and "The Bonnie Blue Flag" was sung by several young ladies, each representing a Southern State and carrying its flag. After that our entertainments were few, for as the war went on news came of the death on the battlefield of so many of our brave young men, and so many families were in sorrow that no one had the heart to dance and sing. In 1862 my mother began to teach school, for she knew that if we were not victorious some one would have to make the living for the family, besides, she had to support our negro cook, who had four children. The rest of our slaves went to the Yankees.
Some time prior to July 4, 1863, several families refugees to Raymond from Vicksburg to avoid the horrors of the siege and the shells from Yankee gunboats. Among these was the family of Mr. Walter Brooke (later U. S. Senator Brooke). These families brought from their homes some furniture.
My mother and Miss Martha Dabney were in the habit of taking long walks before breakfast, and sometime would walk toward Cooper's Wells, a summer resort four miles distant on the. road to Jackson, or Bolton. One morning they had planned to walk in the direction of Utica, when Judge Dabney sent a note to say that as there were rumors of a battle he thought it best for them to postpone their walk. That was the day of the battle of Raymond, May 12, 1863. Of course there were more Yankee soldiers than Confederates, and we were defeated, but they had more killed and wounded than we. The day after the battle General Grant with "sixty thousand men" passed through Raymond on his way to Jackson, Miss. As they neared Jackson the home of General Freeman was passed. Miss Freeman stepped to the door with a Confederate flag in her hand and sang "Bonnie Blue Flag," whereupon the Yankees promptly burned down her house. This was only a beginning, for they burned so many houses in Jackson that the town was called "Chimneyville." The incident about Miss Freeman and the flag was told us by "Uncle Tom," the carriage driver of General Freeman. His wife, "Aunt Mandy," belonged to us. "Uncle Simon," carriage driver for my
great-aunt, who lived in another town twelve miles distant, came one day with a message to my mother that a party of Yankee soldiers had visited a neighboring plantation, gone to the family vault, and taken
there from a small metallic coffin containing the body of a baby, and kicked the coffin all over the yard. An account of this vandalism was afterwards published in a Mississippi paper. Some years later while looking through our family Bible I found a clipping telling of the incident.
One of the first things the ladies of Raymond did was to organize a sewing society for the benefit of the soldiers. The Episcopal church (St Mark's) was the place of meeting, and the Misses Peyton, Dabney, Nelson, Gray, Belcher, Alston, Mrs. Gibbs, and my mother were prominent in the movement. From time to time boxes of clothing were sent to the soldiers. Our church bells were given to be made into cannon.
But to return to the battle of Raymond. The battle began early in the morning, and all day long people lined the streets
listening to the boom of cannon and rattle of smaller firearms. The first wounded soldier I saw was a Yankee, a young officer. He was brought into town riding behind one of our soldiers. I remember the officer had red hair, and he leaned his head on his left hand and held on to the captor with his right. I felt sincere pity for him, even though he was a Yankee. Late in the afternoon the battle ended, and instead of coming into town by the roads and streets the swarming horde came pell mell across lots, through yards, breaking down fences, tramping over gardens and flower beds. At the very first the Confederate wounded were housed in the courthouse and in the ballroom of the Oak Tree Hotel, but soon they were all put in the courthouse, and the ladies of the town helped to nurse and care for our heroes. Every morning my mother and a servant went to the hospital with delicacies for the soldiers. I was always with my mother, and nothing passed me unnoticed. For instance, there was a Dr. Dysart in our hospital who had become the owner of a Yankee overcoat. I was a curly headed girl, and received much notice,. but Dr. Dysart could not get me to make friends with him, so my mother asked me the reason, and it was understand when I explained that I thought he was a Yankee on account of his overcoat. The Yankees put their wounded in four places Odd Fellows Hall and the Methodist, Episcopal, and Baptist churches. A few dangerously wounded soldiers occupied a private residence. Two of them died and were buried in the yard, but were afterwards transferred to the National Cemetery at Vicksburg.
On the day of the battle of Raymond we were very much amused by my grandmother, who kept on knitting socks for the soldiers. She did not look at her work, but kept on, and by dark bad knitted a sock as long as a ladies' hose.
The first Confederate victory was celebrated in Raymond by the ringing of church bells. Miss Lizzie Dabney and my mother rushed next door to the Baptist church and rang the bell themselves.
My father died before the war) so I am not a lineal descendant of a Confederate soldier, but his brothers and my mother's brothers were in the war, as was every male relative I had on either side over the age of fourteen. My claim as a Daughter of the Confederacy is good from these records, also my grandmother and my mother gave "loyal aid" to the cause, and my first husband, Private George Mixon Hayden, served through the whole four years.
The fall before the war my mother went to Vicksburg and bought a black silk velvet bonnet and a black silk velvet cloak, just imported from Paris. It was many a day before we could get anything of that kind again. * * * A countryman who sent several children to my mother's school let her have a small spring wagon and a one eyed mule, which afterwards proved more valuable than money could have been, for when there were no groceries to be bought in town, Aunt Mandy would hitch up "Old Beck" and drive far into the backwoods where no Yankees had yet been and buy farm produce. * * * But there was no coffee to be procured, so parched corn, browned meal, parched and ground peanuts, and sweet potatoes cut in small cubes dried and parched and ground were used as substitutes. I'm glad I did not have to drink it. The homemade sugar was dark, and so was the "homemade" salt.
On July 4, 1863, Vicksburg surrendered, and the next day we watched our poor, starved troops march through town. Grandmother had a large wash pot full of vegetable soup placed in the yard, and many a poor soldier partook of that soup. Her storeroom was always well stocked with grape and blackberry wine and cordial, preserves, and pickles, and though she had only corn bread to offer the soldiers, these delicacies accompanied the bread and made it acceptable.
Some time after the battle of Raymond a Yankee soldier came up to our house and said he was sick and asked permission to enter the house. He could have gone to the hospital next door, but I suppose the poor fellow thought of "home and mother" when he saw grandmother sitting on the gallery. He was shaking so hard with the ague that he could hardly talk. Grandmother invited him into the parlor and let him lie on a large sofa and had a servant cover him and give him hot sage tea) and soon the chill left him. I do not remember how long he remained, but he was deeply affected by my grandmother's kindness and was profuse in his thanks to her and took great notice of me.
At the end of the war the very first greenbacks my mother acquired were from the sale of a beautiful silk quilt that she had pieced together. A young Jew started a dry goods store in Raymond and got married, and he gave mother thirty dollars for the quilt, which he gave as a bridal present to his wife. The next greenbacks were from the sale of old Beck and the spring wagon.
Those who have dead buried at Raymond and all friends who can do so should aid the people in the erection of a monument to those who fell in that severe battle on May 12, 1863. Nobler men never went down in battle. The people of that town and vicinity have done well in building at a cost of $4,000 a splendid monument to the dead of Hinds County (see VETERAN for 1908, page 441) and caring for the cemetery in which are the dead of that battle. The grounds are well kept and the place inclosed by handsome iron fence. (See picture.)
The noble women of Raymond have ever been gratefully remembered by survivors of that battle who fought against fearful odds: and when their Chapter the N. B. Forrest Chapter is ready to undertake the monument, there should be prompt and zealous cooperation. Mrs. J. R. Eggleston, active then and now, has the cause ardently at heart. Any who may be interested in that cause may learn from her.
WHERE GENERAL ARMISTEAD FELL. Milton Harding, Asheville, N. C., of Company G, 9th Virginia Infantry, writes : "The June VETERAN contains an account of the part borne by my old commander, Gen. L. A. Armistead, in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863. The account accords with my recollections except in a few minor details. General Armistead evidently received his mortal wound immediately after crossing the stone wall at that point. I was within six: feet of him to his left, and observed that he staggered painfully, and could barely keep his feet until he reached the enemy's guns (Cushing's, I think), some sixty feet from the wall, although he continued to lead the charge like the hero he was. As he slapped his left hand on the gun he sank to his knees, and then fell full length to his right. I asked him if I could do anything for him. He requested me to get a small flask of brandy from the satchel he had carried by a strap from his shoulder, and from this he drank a swallow or so. I asked where he was wounded. He replied that he was struck in the breast and arm. In answer to my offer to assisthim, he advised me to look out for myself. About that time the enemy recaptured the guns, and I, with others, retreated to the stone wall, where I was taken prisoner. I was carried first to Westminster, Md., and next to Fort McHenry, in Baltimore Harbor, then to Fort Delaware, and later to Point Lookout. In February, 1865, I was exchanged and returned to Richmond.
ALABAMIANS IN A TENNESSEE REGIMENT.
BY CAPTAIN JOHN W. GRAYSON, COMPANY E, THIRTY SEVENTH INFANTRY.
Captain Grayson was born May 23, 1838, in Madison County, Alabama, and has lived in that county all his life. He was educated at the Cumberland University, Tennessee. His father was a successful farmer. His grandfather, John Grayson, came from Virginia to East Tennessee and married a Miss Carter, and moved to the then Territory of Alabama, now Madison County, in 1806. In 1810 he bought lands from the government, and much of it still remains in the family.
Early in 1861 John W. Grayson and Thomas H. Owen raised a company in Madison County Owen becoming captain and Grayson first lieutenant. They joined the Humphrey Brigade at Decatur, Ala. Neither the State nor the Confederate States being able to arm the brigade, it was disbanded, but this company joined a Tennessee regiment then being organized, and became Company E, 37th Tennessee. Moses White was elected colonel, R. Dudley Frayser, lieutenant colonel, and Hunter P. Moffatt, major. One company, Captain Hunt. was from near Winchester,
one, Captain Tankesley. from Chattanooga, and seven were from East Tennessee. The regiment first belonged to General Carroll's brigade, under Zollicoffer. It was afterwards in Cheatham's Division, and in the end in Bate's Division.
This regiment participated in the battles of Fishing Creek, or Mill Springs, and Perryville, in Kentucky, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Stone's River, Murfreesboro, Shiloh, Franklin, and Nashville, in Tennessee, Dalton, Jonesboro, Peach Tree Creek, and Atlanta, in Georgia, Bentonville, in North Carolina, and a great many skirmishes. After serving their term of enlistment, one year, the company reenlisted for three years, or during the war, then Lieutenant Grayson was elected captain, and served in that capacity till the Confederacy fell.
This company was at many, many places: Decatur, Ala., Germantown, Knoxville, Fishing Creek, Nashville, and Shiloh, Tenn., Corinth, and Tupelo, Miss., Mobile, Ala., up the Alabama River to Montgomery, Chattanooga, through Tennessee and Kentucky, under General Bragg, by Sparta, Tenn., Glasgow, Mumfordsville, Bardstown, and Perryville, Ky.: Cumberland Gap, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, back to Chattanooga, and Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, the retreating battle to Atlanta, by Decatur and Tuscumbia, Ala., to Franklin, and Nashville, Tenn., then back to Florence, Ala., to Columbus, Macon, and Augusta, Ga., to Columbia, S. C., to Raleigh, and to Bentonville, N. C., where the last battle was fought east of the Mississippi River, March 19, 1865, save the one at West Point, Ga. In the fight at Bentonville the Confederate army was successful, driving the enemy back and holding its ground till next day, then falling back in good order. From Bentonville they marched to Raleigh, to Chapel Hill, on to Greensboro, where Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered.
There were not one fourth enough trains to transport them, hence most of them had to walk, and catch trains occasionally.
Captain Grayson arrived home May 20, 1865. He found his father and father in law dead, his mother's residence burned, and a general scene of devastation. He first taught school, then engaged in farming, in which he was successful, accumulating some property to sustain him as age advanced.
He married a Miss Sarah Allison about a month before joining the army. They reared four sons and one daughter. The daughter, Nannie P., married Mr. Murphy Laughinghouse, and is now at the Huntsville Female Seminary at Huntsville, Ala. His four sons are James Gordon, a life insurance agent in Birmingham, David A., a lawyer in Huntsville, Ala., Dr. Ambrose Tilden, a physician in Madison County , and Claude A., a lawyer in Mobile, Ala., at the University of Alabama.
Captain Grayson was among the foremost of those Democrats in Alabama who overthrew the carpetbag government in that State. He served in his State Legislature in 1870 72 and in 1884 85, the State Senate in 1873 75, and the Constitutional Convention of 1901. He was appointed a member of the Convict Bureau by Governor Gates for 1896 and 1897, and has taken an active part in every political campaign since the war.
He has always been lavish with his time and means in helping the cause of education and all efforts for the upbuilding of the country.
When our army retreated he was left in the hands of the enemy at Mill Springs, Ky., on his supposed deathbed, but he recovered and made his escape through the mountains of East Tennessee, where many escaping Confederates were murdered by the Tories.
He was severely wounded at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Tenn., but returned to his command in about two months.
Captain Grayson, now seventy three, still superintends his farm near Gurley, Ala., where he has resided for forty years, and in seven miles of where he was born.
CONFEDERATES WHO ARE CONGRESSMEN. (William Harder, in Courier Journal.)
Fifty years after the first guns of the Civil War sounded the Congress of the United States is most creditably represented by the Confederates. If the battle roll of the House and Senate were called to day, it would show more Confederate veterans in each branch of Congress than survivors of the armies of the blue.
In the Senate there are six of these Confederate warriors, three of them, Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and Senators Johnston and Bankhead, of Alabama, were captains in the Southern ranks, the others, Senators Martin, of Virginia, Thornton, of Louisiana, and Tillman, of South Carolina, were either privates in the regular army or members of cadet corps enrolled for active service.
In the House of Representatives there are eight Confederates: Brig. Gen. George W.Gordon, of Tennessee ,Maj. Charles M. Stedman, of North Carolina, Capts. John Lamb, of Virginia, and William Richardson, of Alabama. The other Confederate Representatives are: Talbot, of Maryland, Rucker, of Colorado , Taylor, of Alabama, and Estopinal, of Louisiana.
Representative William Richardson, of Alabama, tells a thrilling story with the memory of nearly fifty, years undimmed as to its important features.
He was less than twenty years old when he was, made a captain in the 26th Alabama Regiment. He enlisted in Company E, from Athens, Ala., with eighty seven other young men and boys. The command went through many campaigns, and young Richardson was desperately wounded at Shiloh ami captured. He was sent to an Indiana prison. His wound healed, and after a time he escaped and made his way South to Nashville. The city was then in the control of the Federal forces, and Richardson, though among Southern friends. was unable to get through the Union lines for some time. His friends finally, however, found a man who was going on and who knew all the winding paths by which such a feat could be accomplished. Richardson started with him, and the two dressed in citizens' clothes and made their way safely to the vicinity of Murfreesboro, where the guide's plans went wrong, and the Federal troops capturad them. To Richardson's horror, the Union pickets found upon his companion evidence that he was an important spy in the Confederate service, and the circumstance resulted in his also being held as a spy.
The two men were court martialed, and both were condemned to be hanged. The sentence of death was passed on them July 12. That night a provost marshal came to the jail where the two men were confined and informed them that they were to be hanged at sunrise next day. The opportunity was given young Richardson to take the oath of allegiance, but he refused to do this. A minister who had known him in Athens happened to be in Murfreesboro, and after his efforts to secure the Confederate captain's release had failed, he went to the cell on the night sentence was given and spent part of the night with the two men.
In the meantime word was gotten through to General Forrest, and help came just before daylight on the day of their proposed execution.
I was lying asleep in the cell,
says Mr. Richardson, "when I was awakened by Paul's tugging at my arm. 'Wake up!' he cried. 'Listen! It's Forrest coming. We are saved.' At first I was too dazed to realize more than that there was a sound like an approaching storm. We jumped up on a box so that we could see through the little grated window, and in a few seconds the noise resolved into distinct hoofbeats. A few minutes more and the advance of Forrest's Cavalry stormed the jail where we were confined. That Rebel yell was the sweetest music our ears had ever heard. Our boys began to break down the jail from behind, while they kept the Federal guards busy in front. The jailer had gone with the keys, and during the fighting that followed the jail was set on fire. The Confederate cavalrymen, led by Forrest himself, had to break their way through all the outer defenses of the jail and into our cell corridor. Even then we were released only after the had pried our cell door up with an iron bar."
That attack upon Murfreesboro was the turning point in Forrest's career, and established his reputation as a commander. He had pushed his men on a long, forced march, thrown a small body of troops into the town, surrounded the jail, and sent the remainder of his force in two bodies against. the Michigan and Pennsylvania troops that were on opposite sides of the town. Before the Union forces were awake or armed the Confederate cavalry had ridden them down, killed hundreds, rescued the condemned men, and the Federal troops were forced to surrender.
The only Confederate general in Congress is Representative. George Washington Gordon, of Tennessee. At the recent Confederate Reunion at Little Rock, Ark., General Gordon was a prominent figure as the Commander in Chief. His history is interesting. He was captured three times, dangerously wounded once, and slightly wounded several times. He was in every important battle participated in by the Tennessee troops, and was taken prisoner at Franklin and removed to Fort Warren, Mass., where he was held until three months after the war was concluded.
General Gordon graduated from the Western Military Institute at Nashville in 1859, enlisted in July, 1861, as a drillmaster of the 11th Tennessee Regiment, and soon was transferred into the regular military service of the Confederacy. He became captain, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and finally brigadier general in 1864.
Two men in the House of Representatives, Capt. John Lamb, of Virginia, and Maj. Charles M. Stedman, of North Carolina, were with the 1,200 Confederates who fought the battle of Bethel, the first battle of the war, and were with the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox April 9, 1865. The records show that only twelve men enjoyed this distinction.
Captain Lamb was a cavalryman, and finally as a captain commanded his regiment, every field officer having been killed. The last lieutenant, a relative of his, fell dead at his side the day before the surrender at Appomattox.
Major Stedman, commanding the 42d North Carolina, fought with Lee throughout the war. He was often wounded. He participated in the thrilling campaigns through the Wilderness, Spottsylvania C. H., and Petersburg.
There were thirty two Confederates in the House and sixteen in the Senate when I came here in 1897,
says Captain Lamb. "We used to have Confederate gatherings in Washington then, with an evening of story telling and reminiscences. Some of these men have died, some have become Governors of. States, and within the last year or two some have been turned out of Congress by the younger boys."
Major Stedman was asked as to his most lasting impression of the great Confederate leader, General Lee, and he replied: "The picture of General Lee that stands out most clearly in my mind is that of Spottsylvania C. H. General Lee, mounted on his horse, held a place at the front of the line and close to a brick kiln, against which the Federal bullets and shells
were constantly pounding. I remember that he had on a new uniform, and the brick dust sifted over him from head to foot. During much of that fight I was within twenty paces of General Lee. Our line was intrenched behind hurriedly raised earthworks, but our artillery had their guns so trained that when the Federal infantry, masking their attack behind an artillery fusillade, would reach a certain point in the field in front of us, our guns would rake their line and shatter it. Time and again the Federals made this advance upon us. 0one of the last charges part of the Federal infantry got up within twenty yards of our line. There the fire became so terrific that some of the Federals to escape it dropped to the ground and crawled inside our lines, giving themselves up. Two of them came through the lines close to General Lee's position. Raising themselves from the ground, they caught sight of the striking figure on horseback, 'Is that General Lee?' asked one of them. We assured him that it was. 'Well, I don't wonder you fight for him,' said the Federal."
Captain Lamb tells a striking story of General Lee's characteristic reverence for the rights of noncombatants. After the battle of Gettysburg, as the Confederate forces formed the next morning for the march, an artillery team turned out of a farmyard through a rail fence that had been lowered for the purpose. The artillerymen left the rails down, and General Lee coming up shortly after, saw the gap in the fence. He dismounted, put the rails back into position, and said to an officer near him: "Our men are too careless about not putting things back into condition."
The great grandfather of Captain Lamb, who was a private in the Revolutionary army, had between forty and fifty sons and grandsons in the Confederate ranks. In the company in which Captain Lamb enlisted there were fifteen of these descendants.
Atterson W. Rucker, now a Congressman from Colorado, went through a trying prison experience as a fifteen year old boy. He enlisted from Missouri with the Confederate forces, was with Price in the battle of Lexington, and figured in the long running fight under Shelby and Marmaduke from the Missouri River to the South. Before this fighting retreat was ended Rucker and many others had been captured. They were turned over to the Federal forces, and, with twenty six other men and boys, Rucker was imprisoned at Springfield, Mo.
There were twenty seven of us put into the Springfield prison,
says Congressman Rucker, "and within six months after I left I was the only one alive. I helped to dig the graves of twenty four of my comrades. Two were in prison when I left, and were soon removed to St. Louis, but within six months they had both died from the effects of their imprisonment. I don't know why I lived," Mr, Rucker added. "I've always thought it was because they made me work so hard burying the others."
Mr. Rucker was paroled November 23, 1862, but was never exchanged back into the Confederate ranks.
The Confederate battle record of Senator John H, Bankhead, of Alabama, runs through a notable list of engagements. He enlisted with Company K, 16th Alabaam, as a second lieutenant in August, 1861. In 1863, when the captain. Rev. Wm, Powers, resigned, young Bankhead was elected his successor.
Through Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Atlanta, and Franklin Senator Bankhead fought his way. He was wounded desperately in Buckner's charge at Chickamauga, and was wounded three times in other engagements. He served throughout the entire war.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, likewise had a long and prominent service in the Confederate ranks. He enlisted at the beginning of the war, and served during 1861 and 1862 as adjutant of the 9th Georgia Regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia. Later he was made a captain and assigned to staff duty, and continued in that rank to the end of the war.
Senator Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, attained the rank of captain in the Confederate army when he was only eighteen years old. The circumstances of his enlistment at the head of a company were peculiar. He was born in North Carolina, but had gone to Shelby County, Ala., at an early age to be under the care of his guardian. He was in a military school when the call was made for troops. The class went into the army in a body, and Senator Johnston became its captain as the head of the school company. His service was almost continuous throughout the war except when his four wounds kept him out of action. He was in some of the most important engagements of the army.
Senator Martin, of Virginia, was seventeen years old and a student at the Virginia Military Institute when he was enrolled with other students as a private in the Confederate army. He served throughout the last year of the war, until Lee laid down his arms in April, 1865.
The Virginia Military Institute had an important place in the education of the men who led the Confederate forces. That school furnished five major generals, twenty one brigadier generals, eighty nine colonels, and one hundred and seventeen captains to the Confederate forces.
Senator John R. Thornton, of Louisiana, has a long record of Confederate service as a private soldier throughout his entire enlistment. At the age of seventeen years he left the Louisiana State University to enlist, and he continued in the ranks as a private until the close of the war.
Representative Albert Estopinal, of Louisiana, served more than three years in the lower Mississippi Valley. He was in the siege of Vicksburg and in the Mobile campaign. He joined Company G of the St. Bernard Guards as a private, and with that company went into the 28th Louisiana Regiment. He commanded the squad which took prisoners from the Indianola to Libby Prison, served later in the quartermaster's department at Meridian, Miss., and surrendered with his regiment to General Canby at Meridian in March, 1865.
Representative George W. Taylor, of Alabama, went into the army from the schoolroom. He enlisted at the age of fifteen in November, 1864, from an academy in Columbia, S. C. He procured employment as a courier on the coast near Savannah with the South Carolina State troops. Then he enlisted as a private in Company D, 1st South Carolina Regiment, and served with that command until peace was declared.
Representative Joshua F. C. Talbot, of Maryland, the oldest Democrat in point of service in the House of Representatives and the member who administered the oath of office to Speaker Champ dark at the beginning of this Congress, served during the last year of the war as a private in the 2d Maryland Cavalry.
(The foregoing has been condensed, but all facts retained.)
LIEUT. 'CHARLES N. VAUGHT, OF COLEMAN'S SCOUTS.
Charles Nathan Vaught enlisted at Columbia, Tenn., on April 20, 1861, in Company H, 1st Tennessee Infantry, commanded by Col. George Maney. He was promoted on January 1, 1863, after the battle of Stone's River, by General Bragg to first lieutenant and ordered to report to "Coleman" (Shaw was his proper name), commander of scouts for the Army of Tennessee. Captain Shaw was captured in Pulaski, Tenn., two days before Sam Davis was taken, and was in jail at the same time. Davis was one of the special courier scouts, and had been given the dispatches by Shaw that: were found on his person when he was captured.
Lieutenant Vaught was captured, on the same day that Captain Shaw was, by Major Fitzgibbon, of the 14 Michigan Infantry, about fourteen miles south of Columbia, and was taken to his home town and paroled under $20,033 bond from day to day until sent to Louisville, Ky. He was kept there until February l, 1864, on which day he was started for Johnson's Island with twenty five other officers. He escaped that night near Seymour, Ind., and went to Philadelphia, Pa., leaving that city for Dixie land on the loth of February, and reaching Mount Pleasant, Tenn., on the 13th. He captured a Yankee courier on the next day and took his horse, and on the night of the 15th he left for the Confederate lines, which he reached safely on the l8th. He surrendered at Memphis, Tenn., May 14, 1865.
(The foregoing came written on the picture of Lieutenant Vaught. A singular statement is that "he was paroled from day to day" or for a minute at that critical
period.)
MAJ. WELLS J. HAWKS, C. S. A.
AN APPRECIATION BY HIS SON, A. W. S. HAWKS.
A good many years ago up in the bleak hills of Massachusetts a young boy whose father had been killed at a barnraising was "farmed out" to an old farmer. The farmer was a good, kind hearted man, but his wife was a termagant, mean and cruel. Besides the boy, there were two orphan girls, Trypheny and Tryphory. One day the boy saw the farmer's wife take one of the little girl's hands to use as a protector in taking the hot frying pan off of the stove. That night he ran off with both of the girls, left them with a relative, and worked his way to New Haven, Conn., where he learned the trade of a wheelwright, saved a bit of money, and went to Winchester, Va., where he entered the carriage business with Hugh L. Gallaher. The firm prospered, and shortly after my father went to Charlestown, Va., bought an old church, and turned it into a carriage factory. He was married three times, his first two wives being daughters of Dr. Smith, of Massachusetts. His last wife was Miss Sarah Worthington, my good stepmother, who is buried by my father in Charlestown.
My father prospered in his business, became an ardent Democrat and an intensely devoted Southerner. He served the State for three terms of the legislature, and was an officer in the militia. I was with him at Harper's Ferry, when .1 first saw Gen. Robert E. Lee. During the trial of John Brown and his men General. August and his staff were my father's guests.
Governor Wise often visited in our home, and I remember hearing John Wilkes Booth read Shakespeare in our parlor.
When the War between the States broke out, my father went to Harper's Ferry with the 2d Virginia Regiment, and received his first commission as captain and commissary of that regiment. Afterwards he received his commission as major, and served on Gen. Stonewall Jackson's staff until the General passed "over the river" to "rest under the shade of the trees." And among the last words of Stonewall Jackson were these: "Tell Major Hawks" I am very proud of that.
After the passing of General Jackson, my father served on the staffs of Ewell, Early, and in Pennsylvania on the staff of General Lee. He had charge of the money presented to us by the people of Pennsylvania, and I never will forget how we hustled that money from Gettysburg to Winchester. He paid a great deal of it out in the Valley for flour, meat, cattle, etc., and they came in very well shortly afterwards.
In my father's department served Capt. J. J. Lock, James Campbell, William Gallaher, and J. Fred Blessing, all of Charleston, and James North, of Barber Hill..
I was a mere boy, but my father took me along with him, and I acted as a sort of courier. My recollections of that eventful period are all pleasant, save about thirty days spent in prison at Harper's Ferry. Father came out of the war as so many other good folks did broken down in health, spirits but went hard to work to build up his shattered fortunes.
DR. HERBERT M.NASH.
The death of Dr. Herbert M. Nash at the Sarah Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, Va., following a surgical operation, cast a pall of gloom over the entire community, where he was so widely known and so. universally esteemed.
Dr. Nash, for more than half a century a practitioner of medicine and surgery, was born in Norfolk May 29, 1831, the son of Thomas and Lydia Adela (Herbert) Nash.
The Nash family was founded in Virginia by Thomas Nash and his wife, Annie, who with their servants settled in Norfolk County in 1665. They were adherents of the Church of England, and Thomas Nash received land grants in the Virginia colony. The fourth Thomas Nash, the great grandfather of Dr. Nash, was a vestryman of St. Bride's parish, in Norfolk County, from 1761 until his death, in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The fifth Thomas Nash was born in 1758, and when a youth was wounded in the battle of Great Bridge. He subsequently served his country during the period of the Revolutionary War, and lived to render conspicuous service in the War of 1812. His eldest son served in the artillery at Craney Island and took part in the repulse of Admiral Cockburn's fleet. Thomas Nash the sixth was the father of Dr. Nash. The Herbert family, from whom Dr. Nash descended in the maternal line, settled in Norfolk County, Va., in 1650, and for one hundred and fifty years its men were prominent in public and business affairs.
Dr. Herbert M. Nash attended the classical school of the late James D. Johnson and the Norfolk Military Academy. In 1851 he entered the University of Virginia, and graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in June, 1852. He received clinical instruction in New York City in both medicine and surgery.
Dr. Nash began practice in Norfolk in 1853, and was the last survivor of the physicians who encountered the yellow fever epidemic of 1855. His general practice was interrupted by the War between the States.
In April, 1861, Dr. Nash was appointed assistant surgeon of the State forces of Virginia and attached to the post at Craney Island until May, 1862. After the evacuation of Norfolk in May, 1862, he was with the command at Seven Pines, and subsequently with the Confederate army in the battles around Richmond, ending at Malvern Hill. He was also with the troops on the Rappahannock in pursuit of Pope, and was detailed to care for the wounded in the different skirmishes. After the injured were sent to the general hospital, he rejoined Lee's army as it recrossed the Potomac after the repulse of McClellan at Sharpsburg. As surgeon Dr. Nash served with Mahone's Brigade at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He was then ordered to the artillery division of A. P. Hill's corps, and was with it at Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania C. H., Hanover Junction, Cold Harbor, and in the siege of Petersburg, where he was placed in charge of the medical department of the artillery of the third corps as its chief surgeon. Dr. Nash was disabled and captured in a cavalry charge upon the Confederate reserve artillery on the evening of April 8, 1865, the evening before the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Dr. Nash returned to Norfolk in 1865, and soon regained a good practice. The surgical training received during the war was by him utilized in a branch of surgery then new to Norfolk. He gave attention to plastic surgery and gynecology, and was the pioneer of such work in Norfolk.
Dr. Nash was a member of the Norfolk Medical Society from its organization, and served several times as its president. He was a member of the Virginia State Medical Society, and had been its president. He held many other positions of distinction.
In February, 1867, Dr. Nash was married to Miss Mary A. Parser, the daughter of Nicholas Wilson Parker, of Norfolk, Va., a representative of one of the oldest families of Southeastern Virginia. He is survived by two daughters (Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, widow of Edwin G. Lee, and Mrs, Edward Brockenborough) and one sister (Mrs. P. H. Dillard, of Rocky Mount, Va.).
His funeral was conducted by Bishop A. M. Randolph, and Rev. James M. Owens, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
AMES WRIGHT GILLESPIE.
James W. Gillespie, whose death occurred at his home in San Antonio, Tex., on July 9, 1910, was a native of Tennessee. He was born on the old family plantation in Fayette County on November 2, 1844, a son of Andrew Jackson and Julia Wright Gillespie. The Gillespies were an old and prominent Tennessee family, well known in the early history of that State. On his father's side he was descended from the Virginia Edmondsons, Gen. Edmondson Jones, of Confederate fame, being a cousin. On the maternal side William Gillespie was descended from the Wrights of North Carolina and the Philpotts. During the war he served with distinction as a member of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, under Forrest. After the war he completed his education in Europe, spending some time at Heidelberg, Germany, and Oxford, England. Upon returning to America he went with his family to Texas and settled in Colorado County. Later he removed
o Dallas, and there married Miss Fannie McGary in 1873. In 1895 he became a resident of San Antonio, and had been one of the most active members of the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, U. C. V., of that place. He had been interested for years in the land and mining business. Surviving him are his three daughters and two sons, five brothers and two sisters.
Comrade Gillespie was known extensively over Texas and loved for his genial, kindly personality. He was a true type of the courteous Southern gentleman, a consistent Christian. His friends were numbered among all classes.
DR. M. R. BANNER.
A committee composed of Rev. J. B. Fletcher, J. M. Hughes, M. V. Alien, and J. A. Hudson pays tribute to Dr. Banner, in which the following facts in his history are recounted: He was born in Germantown, N. C., March 27, 1827. On June 12, 1856, he married Miss A. B. Barrett, of Charleston, Tenn. To them were born five children. One child died in infancy. He resided for some years before the Civil War at Dalton, Ga., and practiced dentistry. At the commencement of the war he volunteered in the 39th Georgia Regiment. He was a personal friend of Gen. J. B. Gordon, who visited him at his home in Jacksboro some years ago.
Comrade Banner commanded the signal service corps during the "Battle above the Clouds." He commanded the sapper and mining corps at Vicksburg, and was promoted for his efficient service there. He was wounded three times.
In 1881 he located in Jacksboro, where he and his wife "did more than all others to promote its cause." No man stood higher than he in the town, and he was loved and honored as a gentleman and worthy citizen by all who knew him. On a beautiful May evening he was laid beside his loved ones gone before. His children were all present. To them Camp R. E. Lee tender their heart felt sympathy and love, hoping that they, as well as all the members of the Camp, will emulate his virtues and that all of us may meet again in that beautiful home in the grand camp above.
DEATH OF COMRADES IN LEBANON, VA.
The Commander of Camp McElhany, No. 835, of Lebanon, Va., reports the following deaths: Henry Steele, T. J. Statzer, Capt. L. Finney, Dr. S. H. Speer, John Smith, A. Castle, Joseph White, J. L. Smith all honorable citizens and appreciated members of the Camp.
LAURENCE L. PRINCE.
Laurence L. Prince was born in Cheraw, S. C., in 18471 and died in St. Louis, Mo., March 10, 1911. He was the eldest son of the late Gen. W. L. T. Prince, a distinguished lawyer of South Carolina. The son was ambitious to follow his eminent father in the legal profession, but his education was arrested by that stormy period of the sixties. He joined Charles's Battery of Light Artillery, and served as a cannoneer in the defense of Charleston Harbor. Cheraw, his home, was in Sherman's path, and suffered accordingly.
When the war was over Laurence Prince faced the necessity for immediate work. In 1868 he went to Baltimore and secured imployment with a cotton commission house, and in 1877 he went to St. Louis and founded the firm of L. L. Prince & Co., cotton buyers. He did an extensive export business. and bought largely from New England mills. He became prominent in the business world, and served as President of the St. Louis Cotton Exchange.
In 1879 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Duvall, of Baltimore, who survives him with six children. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars and, best of all, a Christian.
T. M. LAKE,
So peaceful was the end of life to Thomas Lake, of Higginsville, Mo., that those who watched beside him hardly knew the passing. In his death the community lost one of its most useful and beloved citizens, and his long and honorable career was closed. As a soldier and citizen he had served his country and community faithfully and well.
Thomas M. Lake was born in Virginia in 1828, the son of Isaac Lake, who had twenty five children, of whom two sons are now living. He was educated in private schools, and was a man of business in his section of Virginia before the war. He served in the 7th Virginia Cavalry during the war, and had many thrilling experiences.
He removed to Warrensburg, Mo., in 1868, and later settled at Higginsville and engaged in farming. He removed to Kansas in 1880 and opened a store at Eureka, but returned to Higginsville in 1891 and started the present remarkable store of T. M. Lake & Sons. He was married in 1850 to Miss Almira Harding, of White Ridge, Va., and to them were born nine children, five sons and four daughters.
MRS. HELEN V. DAWSON.
Mrs Helen V. Dawson was born in Little Rock, Ark., in 1836, and died at her home, in Causey, N. Mex., on May 14, 1911. She left two children, a daughter (Mrs. Mary Frances Hart, who was living with her) and a son (John Bostic Dawson, of Dardanelle, Ark.). Her husband, Tolliver Bostic Dawson, enlisted in the first company of volunteers at Dardanelle, Ark., and was killed at that place in 1864. His brother, Henry Clinton Dawson, enlisted in the same company, and was killed at Oak Hill, Mo., in August, 1861.
No soldier in the Confederate army was truer to the cause than was Mrs. Dawson. She went through all the hardships of a soldier's wife, and with her son, Thomas Barclay Moon, then eight years old, toiled by day and far into the night to keep a home and bread for themselves and three younger children while the husband and father was away fighting for their beloved Southland. She was ever ready at the risk of her own safety to help any Confederate soldier who came her way, and now will enjoy the reward that comes to those who were faithful to the end.
CAPT. DANIEL B. EDWARDS.
Daniel B. Edwards, third son of Littleton Edwards, was born April 10, 1836, in Dallas County, Ala. He died March 19, 1911, in the same county in which he was born and lived the whole of his long life of seventy five years.
His boyhood and young manhood were passed in the pursuits common to sons of the planters of that period. He attended the neighborhood schools, and later completed his education at Howard College. At the age of sixteen he joined the Baptist Church, and thenceforth was a faithful member of that Church, holding its office of deacon for the last fortyfive years of his life. In 1860 he married Miss Lou E. Traylor, of Benton, Ala.
In the spring of 1862 he enlisted and was chosen third lieutenant of Company A, 44th Alabama Infantry Regiment. On March 8, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and on May 16, 1864, he was commissioned captain of his company, in which capacity he served until the sad days of Appomattox. He was captured near Suffolk, Va., in 1863, but was exchanged within a month. The only Minie ball that ever touched him buried itself in a Bible which he carried into all of his battles. Once, during the early days of '65, although only a captain, he commanded the 44th for a week, all of its field officers having been killed or disabled by wounds.
Captain Edwards was a brave, faithful, and typical soldier of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia "the grandest army that ever trod the face of the earth, an army that fought with more success for a longer time against greater odds than any other army that ever engaged in battle."
Terrible as was the War between the States, hardly less so was the war of Reconstruction that followed. Captain Edwards, returning to his devastated home in '65, began hopefully nay, cheerfully to rebuild his shattered fortune. But the sky was soon overcast with clouds. Carpetbaggers, the scum of the human race, the refuse of the North, marshaled negro voters to the polls. The noblest men of the land charged with crimes they never committed, with manacles on their hand, were carried by negro guards before strange and infamous judges. The substance of the people was wasted in onerous taxes which were stolen by corrupt officials. The situation for eight years, twice as long as the war, was appalling, until finally it became intolerable. Then it was that Captain Edwards and about sixty more true men of Dallas County of like mind, braving the power of the Federal government, choosing if need be a Federal prison or even death for the sake of the principles for which they had risked their lives on many battle fields, rose in their might and rescued Dallas from the carpetbaggers and their negro allies. An important part in this reconstruction was performed by him.
At the time of his death he was a registrar for the county, and also a member of the County Board of Education, both offices of honor rather than of profit.
Besides his second wife, Mrs. Fannie A. Edwards, to whom he was married in 1882, he left a daughter, two sons, two grandsons, one sister, and one brother.
Captain Edwards was a brave, faithful, and typical soldier of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia "the grandest army that ever trod the face of the earth, an army that fought with more success for a longer time against greater odds than any other army that ever engaged in battle."
Terrible as was the War between the States, hardly less so was the war of Reconstruction that followed. Captain Edwards, returning to his devastated home in '65, began hopefully nay, cheerfully to rebuild his shattered fortune. But the sky was soon overcast with clouds. Carpetbaggers, the scum of the human race, the refuse of the North, marshaled negro voters to the polls. The noblest men of the land charged with crimes they never committed, with manacles on their hand, were carried by negro guards before strange and infamous judges. The substance of the people was wasted in onerous taxes which were stolen by corrupt officials. The situation for eight years, twice as long as the war, was appalling, until finally it became intolerable. Then it was that Captain Edwards and about sixty more true men of Dallas County of like mind, braving the power of the Federal government, choosing if need be a Federal prison or even death for the sake of the principles for which they had risked their lives on many battle fields, rose in their might and rescued Dallas from the carpetbaggers and their negro allies. An important part in this reconstruction was performed by him.
At the time of his death he was a registrar for the county, and also a member of the County Board of Education, both offices of honor rather than of profit.
Besides his second wife, Mrs. Fannie A. Edwards, to whom he was married in 1882, he left a daughter, two sons, two grandsons, one sister, and one brother.
S. W. WHITMORE.
S. W. Whitmore, of Maricopa, Cal., who died on January 6, 1911, was a faithful member of Sterling Price Camp, of Fresno. His service for the Confederacy was as a member of Company E, 14th Virginia Cavalry. He was highly esteemed for his noble character wherever known. His wife survives him with several children.
DEATHS IN HATTIESBURG (Miss.) CAMP, U. C. V.
James B. F. Bruce was born in Laurens District, S. C., February 25, 1825, and died near Hattiesburg, Miss., August 25, 1910. He was buried at Decatur, Miss. In 1848 he was married to Miss Emily Brown. He served in Company H of the 1st Regiment, commanded by General Forrest.
George S. Edmondson was born in Perry County, Miss., October 12, 1840, and died near Rawles Springs, Miss., September 24, 1910. He served in Company B, 4th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. He was married to Miss Eliza A. Norris in 1859.
John W. Rush was born in Jones County, Miss., September 12, 18431 and died October 20, 1910. He served as second sergeant in Company B, 7th Mississippi Battalion, and was in prison at Camp Chase for several months. He was married twice, to Misses Matilda and Margaret Hamilton, sisters.
O. H. P. Bennett was born in North Carolina in 1833, and died in Hattiesburg, Miss., November 28, 1910. He served in Company A, 31st North Carolina Regiment, and was slightly wounded at First Manassas. He was educated at the University of Virginia.
Benjamin F. Rawles was born in Perry County, Miss., August 18, 1828, and died near Rawles Springs, Miss. He served as second lieutenant in Company B, 7th Mississippi Battalion. He was married to Miss Charity Duckworth in 1849.
Thomas C. Boucher was born in Fayette County, Ala., March 9, 1833, and died at Hattiesburg, Miss., March 28, 1911. He served in Company G, 31st Mississippi, and also in Company F, 8th Mississippi Cavalry. He was married to Miss Mary Fulford in December, 1859.
JAMES HARVEY CLARIDGE.
James H. Claridge died at his home, in Huntsville, Ala., on January 5, 1911. He was born in Memphis, Tenn., February 5, 1847, a son of Dr. Henry Claridge and nephew of Col. James Hamilton, of Huntsville, Ala. He enlisted in the Confederate service as a private (Captain Manning's company) in the 18th Mississippi Cavalry in August, 1864. He was later discharged on account of disability. At the time of his death he Color Bearer of the Alabama Brigade, Forrest's Cavalry, U. C. V., with the rank of Captain.
JUDGE JAMES BERRY MILAM
James B. Milam was born in West Tennessee, near the line between Henry and Weakley Counties. His father died during his boyhood, and his mother was left with a family of seven sons and five daughters and in straitened circumstances. On arriving at manhood James Milam engaged in teaching school, but when the tocsin of war sounded in 1861, he and five of his brothers enlisted in the Confederate army, four of them: serving in Company C, of the 5th Tennessee Infantry. One died at Chattanooga and one was killed on Missionary Ridge, another died in Paducah, Ky., since the war. One brother now lives in Jacksonville, Fla., and the other is Treasurer of Union City, Tenn.
Judge Milam served as sergeant during the first year of the war, and was then promoted to lieutenant. He was seriously wounded in the hip at Perryville, Ky., and captured, remaining in prison until the summer of 1863. Meanwhile: his company was consolidated with another, and he became a supernumerary officer. In conjunction with Capt. J. P. Cooper (now of Paris, Tenn.) he secured permission from the Secretary of War to raise a company of cavalry, but unhappily he was again captured and sent to Fort Delaware, where he languished and suffered until exchanged in April, 1865.
James Milam again entered the schoolroom and taught several years, during which time he married Miss Mary E. Milam, of Henry County, a most estimable woman. Later he conducted the Paris House at Paris, Tenn. The health of his only son induced him to move to Florida in 1881, and he located at Leesburg, where he again engaged in the hotel business, and was successful. He also served as town marshal and in other positions until 1899, when the Governor appointed him judge of Lake County, which position he held until stricken with paralysis in September, 1910. On the 20th of that month he was called to his reward. In all the walks of life as son, husband, father, teacher, judge, and as neighbor he proved himself worthy and stood in high repute wherever known. As Vice Commander of Lake County Camp, U. C. V., he showed his interest in the Confederate cause and his affection for those who had touched elbows in the days that tried men's souls.
His frst wife having died in 1883, Judge Milam married again a few years later, and this wife survives him with one son and two daughters.
DEATHS IN CAMP CABELL, No. 125, U. C. V., VERNON,
TEX., SINCE APRIL, 1910.
W. C. Grice, Company B, 24th Alabama Regiment, Edward Wiltse, Company A, 1st Virginia Reserves, H. Feely, Company B, 20th Georgia Infantry, B. G. Kelley, Company I, Brown's Texas Regiment Infantry, Shem E. Hatchett, Company C, 7th Ark. Comrade Feely was a veteran of the Mexican War. He walked one hundred and fifty miles in order to join the army and go to Mexico. B. G. Kelley was also a Mexican veteran.
THOMAS J. CARTER.
Thomas J. Carter died from general debility at his home near North Fork, Loudoun County, Va., on April 12, 1911. aged seventy one years.
Mr. Carter was a private in Company C, 8th Virginia Infantry, Hunton's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, and was with the 8th in her many struggles until the famous charge of this regiment in the battle of Gettysburg. where he was taken prisoner, and was not paroled until the close of the war.
He was a true and faithful soldier, and was proud to be called a member of the 8th Virginia Regiment. He was a consistent member of the Baptist Church, and fought the battles of life in true Christian spirit, with Christ as his Commander, and died as he had lived, trusting in his Saviour and leaning upon his everlasting arms.
DEATHS IN DICK DOWLING CAMP.
Adjutant W. C. Kelly, of Dick Dowling Camp, at Houston, Tex., reports the following roll of the dead comrades of Dick Dowling Camp, No. 197, U. C. V., Houston, from March, 1910, to April, 1911: J. S. Swope, second lieutenant Rip Ford's command, died March 23, 1910, J. J. M. Smith, Company K, 35th Georgia Regiment, May 25, 1910, William H. Martin, Company B, 13th Texas Volunteer Infantry, June 6, 1910, C.H. Schmeltz, Company G, Elmore's Regiment, August 6, 1910, Paul Lesesne, Company K, 46th North Carolina Regiment, December 13, 1910, J. H. Cox, Company A, 6th Texas Infantry, January 30, 1911, T. H. White, Company C, 5th Texas, March l, 1911, C. S. Bordenheimer, Company A, 3d Missouri Cavalry, March 26,1911. The present Commander of the Camp is J. J. Hall.
CHARLES HORACE GALLAHER.
Charles H. Gallaher, son of the late Horatio N. and Adaline B. Gallaher, and the last of his father's family, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Davenport, in Charlestown, W. Va., on January 29, 1911. He was born April 17, 1838, and nearly all of his life was spent in that community, the four years of war and a brief residence in Washington and in Philadelphia comprising his absence. He was of genial disposition, and his loss is deeply felt by family and friends.
Comrade Gallaher belonged to the Botts Grays, organize before the war, which became Company G, 2d Virginia I fantry. Stonewall Brigade, with which he made a fine record as a soldier during the entire war. He is survived by a daughter and two sons. He was a devoted Christian and a loyal Mason
H. B. LOVE.
H. B. Love was born in Montgomery County, Ala., and when quite young went to Texas with his parents. In 1861 he returned to Alabama and entered the Confederate army from that State, joining the 4th Alabama Regiment of Law's Brigade. He saw much hard service in the Virginia Army, and was wounded in three engagements. He returned home on crutches after the war. He settled in Lamar County, and, as did all true Confederate soldiers, resolved to be a good citizen, and that he kept this resolution is attested by those who knew him best. His death occurred on January 14, 1911 in his seventy third year.
Comrade Love was a Christian gentleman whose memory it is a delight to honor. He was an enthusiastic member of the Camp U. C. V. at Paris, Tex., and was appreciated for his sterling worth.
COL. W. B. JKNNINGS.
Col. W. B. Jennings, one of the best known and most highly esteemed Christian gentlemen of Moberly, Mo., died from an operation on May l, 1911.
Comrade Jennings served throughout the war in Clark's Battery, afterwards King's and then Farris's, most of the time in Forrest's command, until the close of the war. He was a good and faithful member of Marmaduke Camp, V. C. V., arid he was in the service of the Wabash Railroad Company for forty years in the freight department. He was a noble soldier, true to any trust imposed in him, and as a citizen commanded the respect of all with whom he came in contact. A good comrade is gone. Peace to his ashes.
(G. N. Ratliff, J. W. Martin, and G. E. Green, committee.)
T. O. C. MURPHY.
T. O. C. Murphy entered the Confederate service in 1861 as a member of Company A, 61st Virginia Infantry, and participated in many important battles during his four years' service, among them being Hampton Roads, Gettysburg, and the Crater. After the war he was a useful citizen of Arkadelphia, Ark., esteemed for his integrity and public spirit. His death is a loss to the community.
There can be no better eulogy on the life of a brave man than has been given of Comrade Murphy by Col. William H. Stewart, of Portsmouth, Va., who wrote of him to the Daughters of the Confederacy at Arkadelphia in September, 1910: "This is to certify that I was captain of Company A, 61st Virginia Regiment of Infantry, and was promoted to major and later to lieutenant colonel of the regiment, commanding it in many of the battles in Virginia. T. O. C. Murphy, of Arkadelphia,
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Ark., was a private in my Company A, and was faithful to the end. He was one of the bravest and truest men of the regiment. He well deserves a Cross of Honor."
What Colonel Stewart said of him during those four years of war may be truly said of the remaining years of his life. Honorable in all the walks of life, a true husband, an indulgent father, a helpful neighbor, his blameless life was an example to the young people of his community.
CAPT. "DICK" STEELE.
Captain Steele was born in Bedford County, Tenn., September 23, 1836, and was seventy five years of age. He entered the Confederate army at the breaking out of the Civil War, serving in the Rock City Guards of Nashville, Company A, of the 1st Tennessee Regiment (Maney's), and was desperately wounded in the battle of Perryville, Ky., during a charge upon a Federal battery. The battery was captured, but at a fearful cost, as more than three fourths of the gallant regiment were dead or wounded. Among the wounded was Capt. B. P. Steele. He never recovered fully from the wounds, but for nearly half a century suffered cheerfully.
Captain Steele was well informed concerning the battle of Perryville, Ky., and he wrote many reminiscences of it, including a clever poem.
Capt. B. P. Steele was united in marriage with Margaret, daughter of former Governor Swayne, of North Carolina, in May, 1875, and of the union two children survive Mrs. W. T. Kirk, of Plainfield, N. J., and Miss Willie Warder Steele, of Asheville, N. C. The last named arrived Sunday morning, and was present at the last sad rites at the church, but arrived too late to be at the deathbed scene.
The beautiful and impressive burial ritual of the Episcopal Church was used in the service, which was conducted by Capt. B. H. Wilkins. The remains were taken to Asheville, N. C., for interment.
FELIX E. BLOUNT.
Felix E. Blount was born in Washington County, Ala., July 12, 1828, and died in Hattiesburg, Miss., July lo, 1911. He served in the Western Army under Generals Bragg, Johnston, and Hood, being a member of Company G, 32d Alabama Regiment. He was in most of the battles fought in Tennessee and Georgia. He was captured twice, once at La Vergne, Tenn., in 1862, and again at Nashville, Tenn., in December, 1864.
Comrade Blount was twice married, his first wife being Miss Annie Smith, who died about a year after their marriage. In 1855 he was married to Miss Mary Miller, of Mobile, Ala. His life was spent in Washington and Escambia Counties, Ala., and Winn Parish, La. He had been a Methodist for about sixty five years. His body was taken to Brewton, Ala.
COL. LEVIN LAKE.
Col. Levin Lake, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lida Owen, in Grenada, Miss., in January, 1911, was in his ninety fourth year, having been born in Dorchester County, Md., September 7, 1817. He went to Mississippi in 1834. and except for a short residence in Tennessee his home had been continuously in that State. He was a pioneer merchant of Grenada, and his first goods were brought there on barges up the Yalobusha River.
He was twice married, the first wife living but a short time. He was married the second time in Maryland to Miss Harriet Ann Crawford, who died in 1905. Of their nine children, only two daughters survive, but there are twenty four grandchildren and ten great grandchildren, to whom he left a legacy that "neither moth nor rust can corrupt" by the example of an incorruptible life.
Colonel Lake was a valiant soldier of the Confederacy, and was the first quartermaster ever to receive the title of major. He became a Mason in 1836 and went up step by step in Masonry, and it is said he was the oldest Shriner in the world.
Illustrative of Major Lake's patriotism attention is called to a letter from him to Col. C. G. Armistead, of Demopolis, Ala., who was paymaster at Demopolis and colonel of the 12th Mississippi Cavalry, urging that a stop be put to traffic with cotton in sections adjacent to Memphis, although Colonel Armistead was a large planter and might have obtained large pecuniary benefits. Colonel Armistead referred the letter to the adjutant general, Maj. Douglas West, with earnest commendation of Major Lake "for his integrity and reliability."
JUDGE J. LEE BULLOCK.
In Washington, D. C., May 9, 1911, the spirit of Judge J. Lee Bullock crossed over the river to "rest under the shade." He was seventy five years of age, respected and loved by all who knew him. Judge Bullock was the last member of his family. A son, three years old, died in 1864. His wife, who was a daughter of Col. Wm. M. Voorhies, of Columbia, Tenn., died some years ago, leaving two daughters, who had also preceded their father to the better land.
Judge Bullock was a Confederate who never became "reconstructed." The "blessed cause" was still right to him, though he was liberal in mind and heart. He joined the Confederate army in the early sixties, was captured in 1863 and sent to Johnson's Island, where he was kept for about eighteen months, then exchanged. He was afterwards with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's command until the surrender.
Though a lawyer of much prominence, he never prosecuted any one, saying, "I would rather free a wicked man than hang a good one." He was a man of deep convictions right was right and wrong was wrong with him. He possessed a keen sense of humor and had an irresistible fund of wit.
His body was laid to rest in beautiful Rose Hill cemetery at Columbia, Tenn.
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WILLIAM BOLD M'KEE.
Born February 10, 1843, Died May 8, 1911.
H. S. H. in a memorial tribute states that he first knew William Bold McKee in 1863, then fresh from the South Carolina Military Academy, and a lieutenant in Schultz' Battery. White's Battalion, to which this battery was attached, was in service on the coast of South Carolina. Extracts are given:
It was a period of incessant campaigning from Charleston Harbor to the mouth of the Savannah River. The Federal forces had gained a foothold upon the intervening sea islands, and the Confederates were defending the main land from invasion. Lieutenant McKee was appointed adjutant on the staff of Colonel Kemper, chief of artillery in that district. He was a bright young officer, erect in stature, precise in deportment, and efficient in the discharge of duty.
It fell to the writer's lot to be placed in charge of the railway equipment that had been pressed into service by military authority and which had been assembled at Florence. There one day he was summoned to the hospital at the request of Lieutenant McKee, who had been seriusly injured by the explosion of a caisson. When he became convalescent, the writer provided for his journey in comfort to the home of his family in the up country. * * *
"Under his intelligent and tactful handling soon after the war the work of reconstruction of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad was fairly under way, when the writer was called to the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad and invited his friend to accompany him to Savannah.
For thirty years thereafter we were closely associated in business and personally. Together our field of action was broadened, until he became assistant to the General Manager and Vice President of the 'Plant System.' In all that time he retained the characteristics which had marked his early years, ripened in efficiency by experience. He never failed in fidelity, he never faltered nor quailed in the presence of danger. When the angel of death was hovering over every household in Savannah in the yellow fever epidemic of 1876, he was indefatigable in attention to the sick and in rendering the last offices to the dead. After two years with the Southern States Freight Association, he returned in 1897 to the 'Plant System,' being now merged with the Atlantic Coast Line, and while in that service he was unexpectedly summoned to answer the last call in the ranks of the living.
He received the announcement from his physician with characteristic equanimity. On February 1 in a letter to the writer he said: I shall have to face the sufferings which must now come to me. I have made up my mind to be as cheerful as I can and to keep at my work as long as I can. I have forbidden long or doleful faces at home. I have been associated with you so long that I want you to write a little sketch of my services with you.' On May 5 he wrote me a few lines: 1 have managed to keep at the office until yesterday, when I had to give up so weak and exhausted.' Three days thereafter our friend passed away.
This tribute is but the bald recital of the service in which he was so long engaged. It affords but a shadowy semblance of a life which was passed in the faithful discharge of important duties and in assistance cheerfully rendered to those about him who stood in need of works of help and charity. It has been prepared by one who knew and appreciated him more intimately than any other person not of his own family, one who valued his friendship as a precious possession, and who will treasure his memory for the remainder of his own life.
SARAH ELIZABETH GABBETT.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Gabbett occurred at her home, in Atlanta, July 16, 1911, after a few weeks of serious illness, although she had been failing in health for a year or so. Mrs. Gabbett was a mysterious person to many Daughters. Because of her great zeal and excellent taste in designing the cross of honor, which was conceived by Mrs. Erwin, sister of Miss Mildred Rutherford, of Athens, Ga., she became one of the most conspicuous women in the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was very peculiar, not in every way amiable, but she was devoted to the cause second to no other woman. She was independent in her manner, and rarely surrendered a prejudice. Many Daughters will agree that her life, in the latter part at least, was pathetic. She was regarded as wealthy, but through no boast of her own, and while not specially popular, she was admired for her ability to carry her point in conventions, and she deserves the kindliest remembrance of the Southern people. The Atlanta Constitution gives this interesting sketch:
The widow of a Confederate veteran who, coming to this country from his native Ireland wielded a sword in defense of a cause which he considered righteous, she threw herself into the work of immortalizing the men in gray with an energy which amounted to a passion. The busy world around her, save in so far as it related to the past, seemed to interest her little. Wrapped in an atmosphere of a by gone day, cherishing an abiding love for her dashing, hero husband, she
was all but a recluse. Only for the betterment of the Confederate veteran did she mingle with the outside world.
Mrs. Gabbett was the eldest and only surviving daughter of the late eminent Dr. Cosmo P. Richardsone. She was born in Savannah July 16, 1833, and her early days were spent there. Her mother, who was Miss Margaret Bailey, of Hancock County, Ga., died while she was a young girl, and her father died in 1852. In that year she married William Gabbett, of Mount Minnett, County Limerick, Ireland. Some time after their marriage they came to Savannah from their home in Ireland, and resided there for several years.
Mr. Gabbett enlisted in the service of the Confederate States as captain in the engineering corps, and served through the four years with distinction. Shortly after the war Mr. Gabbett's father died at the ancestral home in Ireland, and Mr. Gabbett came into possession of the old family estate. He returned to Ireland, where he lived until his death, which was the result of a sunstroke received during the war. In 1896 Mrs. Gabbett returned to Georgia, and made her home in Atlanta. After her return to this country, Mrs. Gabbett interested herself deeply in the Daughters of the Confederacy.
It is said that Mrs. Gabbett chose her design for the cross of honor from an old tombstone in Ireland. For many years she was the active custodian of the crosses, and later became the honorary custodian for life. Mrs. Gabbett is the last of an old and distinguished Southern family. Dr. Richardsone, her father, was considered one of the most brilliant and prominent physicians of his time. His residence in Savannah was considered the finest in the city just before the war, but on the eve of Sherman's march into the city it was burned. She had no children, and none of her brothers or sisters have survived her. She was a woman of much refinement and cultivated tastes. She was deeply interested in art and music, and spent several years in the music and art centers abroad.
Mrs. Gabbett was an inveterate collector of curios and works of art. Her house on Bedford Place, where she lived alone save for a companion and a servant, was filled with rare pictures, handsome silverware, and yards and yards of exquisite old Irish lace which had been handed down by the Gabbett family. One of her hobbies was dogs. She had six blueblooded pugs. In addition, she had some twelve or thirteen nondescript canines which she had found wandering homeless around the streets. These she provided for with care. They had a special yard to themselves, and were fed as carefully as her more aristocraitc pets.
One of Mrs. Gabbett's priceless possessions is a string of huge amber beads such as were worn only by Ireland's kings. These beads were dug up on the estate of her husband by some peasant children. Mrs. Gabbett discovered the children playing with them, and they were rescued. Mrs. Gabbett owned a large amount of property on Bedford Place, and her estate is considered a valuable one.
Mrs. Gabbett is survived by the following nephews and niece: Dr. H. Clay Foster, of Union Point, Ga., John Foster) of Augusta, and Miss Eugenia Foster, of Savannah. Her surviving first cousins are: Miss Elizabeth Bailey, of Rome, Mrs. M. B. Hill, of Rome, Mrs. J. C. Nesbitt, of Chattanooga , and Alfred Bailey. Two of her first cousins once removed, A. H. Bailey and H. C. Bailey, live in this city.
At the time of her death Mrs. M. B. Hill, of Rome, was with her, having been summoned to her bedside some four weeks ago from Kentucky, where she was visiting,
The funeral services were held at the residence Sunday afternoon at five o'clock. Rev. Dr. Pise officiating. Escorted by a guard of honor composed of Confederate veterans, Mrs. Gabbett's body was taken to Savannah for interment."
(Upon leaving the Little Rock Reunion Mrs. Gabbett missed a train and seemed confused in finding her way, when the Editor of the VETERAN had this last opportunity of serving her. She possessed many excellent traits of character, and was steadfast in Confederate loyalty. She left an estate of $10,000 or more. Her jewelry is to be sold for the Home of the Friendless, and $500 was left to St. Philip's Cathedral, Atlanta. The remainder goes to
relatives.)
GEORGE F. AMOS.
G. F. Amos, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, and one of the oldest men of Etowah County, Ala., died at his home, in Short Creek) on July 3, aged ninety two years. He was born in Spartanburg, S. C., in 1819, and lived in that State until 1844, when he migrated to Georgia, and then married Miss Emmeline Satterfield in 1845. To them were born nine children, seven of whom are still living. He enlisted in the war against Mexico in 1846, and served to its close, when he returned to his home in Georgia. In 1859 he removed to DeKalb County, Ala., and when the Civil War began, he enlisted under Capt. W, B. Beeson, and served through the great conflict as a private, doing his duty valiantly until mustered out at Memphis in 1865.
In many ways the coming generation can afford to emulate the life of "Uncle Frank," as he was familiarly called. He was fearless and courageous and daring in the expression of his opinions, yet accorded to others the same freedom. He was a close student of events transpiring in his day, and retained his interest in public matters even to the last.
Capt. W. B. Beeson, under whom he served as a member of Company G, 49th Alabama, writes from Collinsville, Ala.: "In the early days of the Civil War George F. Amos was mustered into service at Nashville, Tenn., and he was one of the finest looking soldiers I ever saw. He was six feet two inches in height, weighed two hundred pounds, and was as straight as an Indian, and every fiber of that great body was made up of gallantry and courage."
Guy Sandefur, of Carrollton, Ky., wishes to get into communication with some comrades of his father, John Tandy Sandefur, who was a member of Graves's Battery of the Orphan Brigade. He enlisted at Bowling Green, Ky., was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson, and sent to prison at Indianapolis. He was exchanged, again went South) and was in the battles of Chickamauga, Atlanta, and other engagements.
Mrs. A. S. Atkins, of Brewton, Ala., is applying for a pension, and wishes to hear from some comrade who can testify as to the service of her husband, A. S. Atkins, who enlisted at or near Mount Willing, Lowndes County, Ala. Address her in care of W. K. Kelley, Rural Route No. 1, Brewton, Ala.
GENERALS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY,
1861 65, WHO WERE BORN IN THE
SOUTHERN SLAVE STATES. Scott, Winfield, Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief of the United States army, born in Virginia.
Major Generals.
Birney, David B., Alabama.
Blair, Francis P., Kentucky.
Brannan, John M., Maryland.
Buchanan, Robert C., Maryland.
Buford, John, Kentucky.
Buford, Napoleon Bä Kentucky.
Canby, Edward R. S., Kentucky.
Clay, Cassius M., Kentucky.
Emory, William H., Maryland.
Fremont, John C., South Carolina.
French, William H., Maryland.
Love, John, Virginia.
McClernand, John A., Kentucky.
Mitchell, O. McKnight, Kentucky.
Nelson, William, Kentucky.
New, John, Virginia.
Newton, John, Virginia.
Oglesby, R. J., Kentucky.
Ord, Edward O. C., Maryland.
Palmer, John McC., Kentucky.
Pleasanton, A. J., District of Columbia.
Pope, John, Kentucky.
Prentis, Benjamin M., Virginia.
Reno, Jesse L., Virginia.
Reynolds, Joseph J., Virginia.
Rousseau, Lovel Hä Kentucky.
Sibley, Henry H., Louisiana.
Smith, Giles A., Virginia.
Sykes, George, Maryland.
Thomas, George H., Virginia.
Ward, E. O., Maryland.
Wood, Thomas J., Kentucky.
Brigadier Generals.
Abercrombie, John J., Tennessee.
Adams, William A., Georgia.
Ammen, Jacob, Virginia.
Anderson, Robert, Kentucky.
Boyle, Jeremiah T., Virginia.
Brownlow, James P., Tennessee.
Burbridge, Stephen G., Kentucky.
Burke, Martin, Maryland.
Callis, John B., North Carolina.
Campbell, W. B., Tennessee.
Carrington, Edward C., Virginia.
Carroll, S. S., District of Columbia.
Carson, C. ("Kit"), Kentucky.
Carter, Samuel P., Tennessee.
Cooper, James, Maryland.
Cooper, Joseph A., Tennessee.
Crebs, John M., Virginia.
Crittenden, Thomas T., Kentucky.
Cross, Osborne, Maryland.
Davidson, John W., Virginia.
Denison, Andrew W., Maryland.
Denver, James W., Virginia.
Jackson, James S., Kentucky.
Johnson, Andrew, Tenn.
Johnson, Richard W., Kentucky.
Johnson, Robert E., Virginia.
Judah, Henry M., Maryland.
Kenly, John R., Maryland.
Landram, William J., Kentucky.
Lauman, Jacob G., Maryland.
Loan, Benjamin F., Kentucky.
Lockwood, Henry H., Delaware.
Long, Eli, Kentucky.
McCormick, Charles C., District of
Columbia.
Mcintosh, John B., Florida.
Manadier, William, Maryland.
Marshall, Thomas, Kentucky.
Martin, James S., Virginia.
Meredith, Solomon, North Carolina.
Murray, Eli H., Kentucky.
Orme, W. W., Maryland.
Paul, Gabriel R., Missouri.
Pennick, William M., Kentucky.
Prevost, Charles M., Maryland.
Dewey, Joel A., Georgia.
Duval, Isaac H., Virginia.
Edwards, John, Kentucky.
Fletcher, Thomas C., Missouri.
Fry, Speed S., Kentucky.
Gaward, Theophilus, Kentucky.
Goff, Nathan, Virginia.
German, Willis A., Kentucky.
Graham, L. P., Virginia.
Graham, W. M., District of Columbia.
Hamilton, A. J., Alabama.
Hammond, William A., Maryland.
Harris, Thomas M., Virginia.
Hawley, Joseph R., North Carolina.
Hawley, William, District of Columbia.
Haynie, Isham N., Tennessee.
Hays, William, Virginia.
Henderson, Thomas, Tennessee.
Hobson, Edward H., Kentucky.
Hobson, William, Kentucky.
Hill, Bennett H., District of Columbia.
Hillier, W. S., Kentucky.
Price, Thomas L., Virginia.
Ramsey, George D., Virginia.
Reynolds, Alex W., Virginia.
Sanders, William P., Kentucky.
Shackleford, James M., Kentucky.
Smith, Green Clay, Kentucky.
Spears, James G., Tennessee.
Stevenson, John D., Virginia.
Stokes, James H., Maryland.
Strother, David H. (Porte Crayon), Virginia.
Taylor, Joseph P., Kentucky. '
Terrill, William R., Virginia.
Thurston, Charles M., Kentucky.
Tidball, John C., Virginia.
Todd, John B. S., Kentucky.
Torbett, Alfred T. A., Delaware.
Wallen, Henry D, Georgia.
Ward, Durban, Kentucky.
West, Joseph R., Louisiana.
Whitaker, Walter .C., Kentucky.
Wilson, T. J., District of Columbia.
Wright, Thomas F., Missouri.
Brevet Major Generals.
Birney, William, Alabama.
Chellain. Augustus L., Missouri.
Cooke, Philip St. George. Virginia.
Crittenden, Thomas L., Kentucky.
Croxton, John T., Kentucky.
Donaldson, James L., Maryland.
Dyer, Alexander B., Virginia.
Easton, Langdon C., Missouri.
Garrard, Kenner, Kentucky.
Getty, George., District of Columbia.
Gillem, A. C., Tennessee.
Harney, William S., Louisiana.
Holt, Joseph, Kentucky.
Hunter, David, District of Columbia.
Hurlbut, S. A.., South Carolina.
Manadier, Henry E., Virginia.
Meigs, Montgomery C., Georgia.
Morrow, Henry A., Virginia.
Powell, W. H., District of Columbia.
Shanks, John P., Virginia.
Thomas, Lorenzo, Delaware.
Williams, James A., Kentucky.
Brevet Brigadier Generals.
Abert, W. S., District of Columbia.
Alexander, Andrew J., Kentucky.
Alexander, Barton S., Kentucky.
Alexander, Edward B., Virginia.
Bankhead, Henry C., Maryland.
Barriger, John W., Kentucky.
Bell, George, Maryland.
Benton, W. P., North Carolina.
Brice, Benjamin W., Virginia.
Cutts, D. R., District of Columbia.
McFerran, John C., Kentucky.
McKeever, Chauncey M., Maryland.
McParlin, Thomas A., Maryland.
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Otis, Elwell S., Maryland.
Phelps, John E., Missouri.
Roberts, Joseph, Delaware.
Sewell, Washington, Virginia.
Tompkins, Charles H., Virginia.
Ward, William T., Virginia.
Watkins, Louis D., Kentucky.
Cuyler, John M., Georgia.
Dandy, George B., Georgia.
Gibson, Horatio G., Maryland.
Hagner, P. V., District of Columbia.
Hall, James A., Texas.
Wherry, William M., Missouri.
Whitely, Robert H. K., Maryland.
Williams, Robert, Virginia.
Wilson, Thomas, District of Columbia.
From Alabama, 3, Delaware, 4', District of Columbia, 14 ', Florida, 1, Georgia, 6,
Kentucky, 50, Louisiana, 3,
Maryland, 27, Missouri, 7, North Carolina, 4, South Carolina, 2, Tennessee,
10, Texas, 1, Virginia, 40. Total, 172.
FOREIGN BORN MAJOR GENERALS IN UNION ARMY, 1861 65.
Andrews, Christopher, Ireland.
Cox, Jacob D., Canada.
Kautz, August V., Germany.
Osterhaus, Peter J., Prussia.
Shurz, Carl, Germany.
Sigel, Franz, Germany.
Smith, John Eugene, Switzerland.
Stahel, Julius, Hungary.
FOREIGN BORN BRIGADIER GENERALS IN
UNION ARMY, 1861 65.
Armstrong, S. C., Hawaii Islands.
Ashboth, Alexander S., Hungary.
Blenker, Louis, Germany.
Blumenberg, Leopold, Prussia
Bohlen, Henry, Germany.
Bengen, Louis, Germany.
Busteed, Richard, Ireland
Leslie, Thomas J., England.
McArthur, John, Scotland.
McDougal, Clinton D., Scotland.
McGroarty, Stephen J.. Ireland.
McNiel, John, Nova Scotia.
Owen, Joshua T., Wales.
Patterson, Robert, Ireland.
Cluperet, Gustave Paul, France.
Conner, Patrick E., Ireland.
Corcoran, Michael, Ireland.
Cummings, Alexander, Ireland.
De Trobriand, Philip R., France.
De Villiers, Charles A., France.
Duffie, Alfred N., France.
Ferrero, Edward, Spain.
Fuller, John W., England.
Gamble, William, England.
Garesche, Julius B., Cuba.
Geddes, James L., Scotland,
Graham, Samuel, Ireland.
Hall, Robert M., Scotland.
Heg, Hans C., Norway.
Karge, Joseph, Prussia.
Koltes, John A., Prussia.
Powell, William H., Wales.
Prime, Frederick E., Italy.
Salm Salm, Felix P., Prussia.
Salman, Frederick, Prussia.
Solomon, Frederick, Prussia.
Schoeff, Albin, Hungary.
Shields, James, Ireland.
Shummelfussing, Alx., Germany.
Smyth, Thos. A. Ireland.
Steinwehr, A. W. T., Germany.
Stolbraud, Chas. J. N., Sweden.
Sullivan, Peter J., Ireland.
Sweeny, Thos. W., Ireland.
Turchin, J. Basil, Russia.
Weber, Max, Germany.
Young, Thomas L., Ireland.
FOREIGN BREVET MAJOR GENE. ALS.
Jackson, Richard H., Ireland.
McMahon, M. T., Canada.
Minty, R. H. G., Ireland.
Willich, August, Prussia.
FOREIGN BREVET BRIGADIER GENERALS.
Agnus, Felix, France.
Andrews, Timothy P., Ireland.
Bouneville, B. L. E., France.
Conrad, Joseph J., Germany.
Johnson, Lewis, Germany.
Meagher, Thomas F., Ireland.
Michie, Peter S., Scotland.
Milhan, John J., France.
Morgan, M. R., Nova Scotia.
Nugent, Robert, Ireland.
GENERALS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY,
1861 65, WHO WERE BORN IN
NORTHERN FREE STATES.
Cooper, Samuel, Adjutant and Inspector General, New Jersey.
Pemberton, J. C., Lieut. Gen., Pa.
De Russy, L. G., Maj. Gen., N. Y.
French, L. G., Maj. Gen., N. J.
Gardner, Franklin, Maj. Gen., N. Y.
Johnson, Bushrod R., Maj. Gen., Ohio.
Lomax, L. L., Maj, Gen. R. I.
Lovell, Mansfield, Maj. Gen., Pa.
Smith, Martin L., Maj. Gen., N. Y.
Withers, Jonas M., Maj. Gen., Wis.
Armstrong, F. P., Brig. Gen., Pa.
Blanchard, A. G., Brig. Gen., Mass.
Dimmock, Charles, Brig. Gen., Mass,
Duncan, J. K., Brig. Gen., Pa.
Frost, Daniel M., Brig. Gen., N. Y.
Gorgus, Josiah, Brig. Gen., Pa.
Leadbetter, D., Brig. Gen., Maine.
McClay, Robert P., Brig. Gen., Pa.
Pike, Albert, Brig. Gen., Mass.
Reynolds, D. H., Brig. Gen., Ohio.
Ripley, R. S., Brig. Gen., Ohio.
Ruggles, Daniel, Brig. Gen., Mass.
Sears. C. W., Brig. Gen., Mass.
Steele, William, Brig. Gen., N. Y.
Stevens, W. H., Brig. Gen., N. Y.
FOREIGN BORN GENERALS IN THE CON
FEDERATE ARMY, 1861 65.
Cleburne, P. R., Maj. Gen., Ireland.
Polignac, Count C. J., Maj. Gen., France.
Henningson, C. F., Brig. Gen., England.
Von Borke, Brig. Gen., Germany.
DISTINGUISHED SURVIVING CONFEDERATES. COL. CARRICK W. HEISKELL.
Col. C. W. Heiskell was born near Knoxville, Tenn., July 25, 1836, a son of Frederick S. Heiskell, a native of Virginia, who made his home at Knoxville in 1814.
Carrick Heiskell was one of the founders of the Knoxville Register and its editor for more than twenty years. Through his mother, Eliza Brown, Colonel Heiskell is of Scotch Irish descent, and of kin to Col. Joseph Brown, soldier of the Revolution. He was educated at the University of Tennessee and Maryville College, graduating at the latter school. He studied law at Rogersville, Tenn., and was admitted to the bar in 1857.
At the beginning of the. war he enlisted as a private in Company K, 19th Tennessee Confederate Infantry, the first company raised in Hawkins County, and at the organization of the regiment in June, 1861, at Knoxville he was elected captain of Company K. He commanded his company through Zollicoffer's campaign in Eastern Kentucky, and was in the engagements at Barboursville and Fishing Creek. After the battle of Shiloh, in the reorganization of the regiment, he was reelected captain of the company. Just after the battle of Murfreesboro, in which Maj. R. A. Jarnagin was killed. Captain Heiskell was promoted to major of the regiment,
Of the battle of Chickamauga, where the old 19th suffered a much heavier loss than any other regiment of Strahl's Brigade, General Strahl said: "Most of the field officers on my right were dismounted by having their horses shot from under them, and Major Heiskell, a very gallant officer, was severely wounded in the foot." The wound was so grave that it was several months before he was able to rejoin his regiment, and then on crutches. Some time after the death of Colonel Moore, early in 1864,nd before the death of Colonel Walker, Major Heiskell was made lieutenant colonel of the regiment.
After the battle of Jonesboro, Ga., Atlanta Campaign, and death of Colonel Walker, Heiskell was promoted to colonel.
In the battle of Jonesboro, Ga., although not able for duty, he remained with the regiment through the battle, but the wound gave him so much trouble that he had to remain absent longer from his command. He next joined the regiment at Columbia, Tenn., after the battle of Nashville, and took command of Strahl's Brigade, which he kept until the close of the war.
Colonel Heiskell was a witness of the dispute between Generals Cheatham and Forrest as to who should cross the river at Columbia first, the two generals having reached the river at the same time. He took part in and witnessed the fight of the barefooted boys at Anthony Hill and Sugar Creek. He commanded the brigade in the gallant charge under Hardee in the battle of Bentonville, N. C., in which General Hardee lost his son.
At the close of the war Colonel Heiskell removed to Memphis, Tennä where he resumed the practice of his profession. He was on the bench as judge of the Circuit Court for eight years, and served as City Attorney for four years. After four years' service as City Attorney, he resumed the practice of law, and so continued until his seventieth year, when he retired, and now, having passed the seventy fifth milepost, he states that he is proud of four things in his career: That he was a Confederate soldier, that he is a prohibitionist, that he is a Presbyterian, and that he is a citizen of the United States.
He is brother of the venerable Confederate Congressman and father of the young men who have made so great a success of the Arkansas Gazette at Little Rock.
A DISTINGUISHED TENNESSEEAN. HON. EDMUND COOPER.
It is interesting to consider the career of a man who for fifty years was conspicuously the leading man of a county from which emanated many eminent men. Hon. Edmund Cooper was born in Williamson County, Tenn., September 11, 1821, died in Shelbyville, Bedford County, July 21, 1911.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror,
For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
He was educated in Maury County, and graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1841. He at once commenced practice at Shelbyville, and was eminent as a lawyer the greater part of seventy years. In 1844 he was married to Miss Mary E. Stephens. There were three children by this marriage: Horace S. Cooper, deceased, Mrs. Sallie C. Hoyt, and Edmund Cooper, Jr. His wife died in 1863, and in 1868 he married the beautiful Miss Lucy R. Bonner, of Fayetteville, Tenn., who died in 1890. Of this marriage Ernest B. Cooper, of Nashville, is the only child.
Mr. Cooper was a devoted member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and out of his private means he erected the Church of the Holy Redeemer at this place as a memorial to his first wife. Through disastrous cholera epidemics in Shelbyville he remained and lavishly supplied the needy.
Before the great war Mr. Cooper was a stanch Whig, a conservative Union man, and actively opposed to secession. Through all the years of the war he was considerate and helpful of those who differed with him and a valued friend of Confederate soldiers when they returned to their homes. After the war he affiliated with the Democratic party.
He was a Bell and Everett presidential elector in 1860 and again was a Tilden and Hendricks elector in 1876. He was Private Secretary to President Andrew Johnson, and as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Hon. Hugh McCulloch signed the draft to the government of Russia in payment for Alaska. He was a member of the Thirty Ninth Congress, and was a valiant foe to the evils of Reconstruction. In January, 1865, Governor Brownlow tendered him the appointment circuit judge, but he declined to accept. The Shelbyville bar in a memorial tribute said: "So many were the marked characteristics of this great citizen, though in no sense eccentric, so many sided and varied was he in his activities in his long, fruitful, and useful career that we cannot within the limits of a memorial sketch for record attempt to depict in barren words this splendid life, so high in its ideals, so lofty in purpose, and so lustrous in all the charms of goodness and courtesy to his fellow men.
His professional life affords a most attractive retrospect, especially to the busy lawyer who loves his profession. It possesses and presents a regularity, a well rounded symmetry, a methodical promptness, and uniformly courteous demeanor in the discharge of every professional duty and obligation to all of the courts before which he appeared and to his brother lawyers, which always commanded respect and admiration.
During the entire active years of his professional life, even until the infirmities of age compelled him to retire, he retained a large clientele composed of the old, substantial citizens of the county, who clung to him with unfailing loyalty. They confided in him absolutely, never doubting his skill and ability to manage successfully the business intrusted to him. He never lost a client who once engaged him with his business.
His wonderful skill and adroitness as a practitioner was exemplified in the conduct of his cases before the courts and juries and in the examination of witnesses. He was never uncandid with the court. He never attempted to
brow beat" in the cross examination of adverse and unfriendly witnesses. His remarkable skill as a lawyer was never more conspicuously shown than in this particular. In cross examinations he always manifested a considerate and affable spirit. His manner at once assured the witness he would be treated fairly, and thus he secured the witness' confidence, which enabled him to uncover his obliquity, if such existed, and to obtain the very truth. This we may term masterly tactics and profound knowledge of human nature. It has been a common saying for years that no witness ever left the stand who did not feel that Edmund Cooper was his friend. His argument was always short, pointed, and helpful. * * *
His courtesy to all who came in contact with him throughout his life sat upon him as a charming grace and stamped him as a cultured and refined gentleman. He was the highest type of the learned, resourceful, and capable lawyer.
Each of us feels a real and personal bereavement in his death, and with aching hearts we lament the loss from our ranks of this foremost chief and exemplar."
There were attached to the memorial the names of Chancellor Walter S. Bearden and sixteen other lawyers.
The Editor was a lad at school in a village of Mr. Cooper's county during the early excitement in regard to secession when the eminent statesman and matchless orator, Meredith P. Gentry, was announced to speak in favor of secession. Edmund Cooper, of Shelbyville, rode eleven miles to make reply. Conditions were extraordinary. Companies were being organized for the war. The drum and fife were in evidence daily, and the beautiful "Stars and Bars" was floating defiance to the Union. Yet the eminence of these men secured respectful consideration throughout, and Mr. Cooper expressed his opposition to secession without reserve.
Mr. Cooper and W. G. Brownlow both visited Camp Morton prison in the spring of 1862 for the purpose of inducing the prisoners to take the oath and return to their homes, then in the Union lines. Mr. Cooper had a respectful audience and sowed some evil seeds in the prisoners' idea of patriotism and honor. Brownlow's visit was on another date, and a large assembly say 2,000 prisoners of the 4,000 there gathered around the speaker's stand. With haughty manner he began: "I'll tell you, men, that your Jeff Davis Confederacy is about out of soap." (Excuse the space for giving the entire speech.) When Brownlow had gone that far, a shrill cry of indignation arose, and the men scattered as they would from a hornet's nest. They bleated like cattle and hissed him, but waited not for another expression.
MAJ. CHATHAM ROBERDEAU WHEAT.
Chatham Roberdeau Wheat was born in Alexandria, Va., on April 9, 1826. His father was an Episcopal clergyman and of an old Maryland family, his mother was a granddaughter of General Roberdeau, a Huguenot and the first general of the Pennsylvania troops in the Revolutionary War, who built a fort at his own expense and furnished the outfit for our first Commissioners to the Court of France.
Mr. Wheat was graduated A.B. at the University of Nashville, Tenn., in 1845. Having been chosen the year before as representative of his literary society in the junior competitive exhibition of oratory, he departed from the established usage by making an extempore address which gave bright promise of the eloquence for which he became afterwards distinguished.
He was reading law at Memphis at the breaking out of the Mexican War, and was among the first to volunteer. His father, then rector of Christ Church, Nashville, had written to advise him to wait awhile and promised he might go if there should be another call for volunteers. Before he could get his father's letter (the mail by stage then being four days between the two cities) one was sent him to this effect:
Dear Pa: 'A chip of the old block,' I knew you would be ashamed of me if I did not volunteer as soon as the call came. My name, I am proud to say, is the very first on the list. I have been unanimously elected second lieutenant in a company of cavalry. Please send Jim by some careful hand.
Jim was a fine blooded horse, whose doglike training and wonderful sagacity made him a chief actor in many scenes both tragic and comic and a universal favorite in his master's regiment.
Upon the expiration of the twelve months for which they had enlisted, this regiment was disbanded at Vera Cruz, and most of the men returned home, but Wheat raised a company of one hundred and four men and was chosen captain. The night before they left the city he was seized with yellow fever. In a hammock swung between two mules he was carried to Jalapa, where he arrived in an insensible condition. As soon as he was able he reported to General Scott, and was detailed for special service as a separate command. His men being well mounted, handsomely uniformed, splendidly equipped, and perfect in drill "did the ornamental," as he laughingly said, "on great occasions for general officers and triumphal entries into conquered cities." Accompanying a party making a reconnoissance, as they drew near to the City of Mexico, he pushed ahead and was the first to catch a distant view of the city as it lay, to use his words, "glorified by the morning sun in the midst of the loveliest landscape the eye ever beheld."
Captain Wheat was several times honorably named in General Scott's official reports for important services and gallantry on the field. His command having suffered severely in killed and wounded, he was sent home soon after the taking of the City of Mexico to fill up his ranks with new recruits. These he soon obtained at Nashville, where a flag was presented to his company by the young ladies of Christ Church School, on which occasion the color bearer had on a complete suit of armor helmet, breastplate, etc., of polished brass taken from one of Santa Anna's bodyguard.
Returning to Mexico, Captain Wheat was detained at Jalapa until the close of the war. He used to regret that the government of the United States did not keep permanent possession of what he pronounced the finest country in the world, insisting that the present occupants, were as incompetent to develop its resources as the Indians whom the Spaniards had supplanted. He thought it would be a charitable proceeding as in the interest of civilization and reformed Christianity. He regarded the corrupt Church in Mexico as the curse of the country.
After the war Captain Wheat settled in New Orleans and resumed the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, and early acquired considerable reputation as a criminal lawyer. His very first effort resulted in the acquittal of one of his former command charged with murder and after the senior counsel had given up the case as indefensible.
In 1848 Captain Wheat was elected one of the representatives from the city of New Orleans to the State legislature. He also canvassed the State for the Whig candidates in the pending presidential election by request of the central committee, and he had no little success as a stump speaker. His father having deprecated his frequent introduction of scriptural language and illustration into his political speeches, he was equally surprised and aggrieved, saying he had found nothing so telling and effective with the masses, and that he had not felt it to be a desecration of God's Word, for which, being familiar with it from his childhood, he always had the profoundest reverence.
And now we come to the period when he entered upon a new military career that has been much misunderstood as to its character and motives, and was generally stigmatized as "filibustering." His was a far nobler purpose. He was induced to join General Lopez's first Cuban expedition not only from an impulse of philanthropy but from a patriotic purpose i. e., to maintain the equilibrium of the States by strengthening the South. Several prominent statesmen, who were also his warm personal friends, urged him to embark in an enterprise which promised great national benefits as well as personal fame and fortune.
In the coming sectional strife, which was then casting its shadow before, he and his friends fondly believed that the acquisition of Cuba as a new slave State would enable the South to withstand the further egressions of Northern fanaticism and maintain her rights under the Constitution. Several leading men had promised their open cooperation as soon as it was expedient. The public authorities did not interfere, and the expedition sailed from New Orleans with the sympathy and good wishes of the entire community. So far from being regarded as Quixotic, it was universally expected to be completely and at once successful. The Cubans were represented as only waiting the landing of an organized force with a supply of arms and ammunition to rush into its ranks and fill up its skeleton regiments with patriots yearning for freedom. To those who quoted the philosophic aphorism, "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow," Colonel Wheat (so commissioned by the Cuban Junta) was used to say: "Suppose a weak woman, gagged, manacled, dungeoned, and completely in the power of a brutal ravisher, would you hesitate a moment even at the risk of your life, to attempt her rescue? Every sentiment and instinct of manhood answers, No, a thousand times no!" It was from General Lopez that he got the full information which won him to the cause of Cuban independence. All their subsequent intercourse did but deepen his first favorable impression of Lopez as a pure patriot, an accomplished soldier, and a truly Christian gentleman.
In planning this first expedition especial care was taken not to compromise the neutrality of our own government. The place of rendezvous was in midocean, beyond the limits of the United States. There the "emigrants," as they called themselves,were first formally made acquainted with their destination and its ulterior objects.
While the Creole was getting water at the island of Mugeres nearly all of the Mississippians and Louisianians determined to abandon the expedition. Colonel Wheat's eloquence was called into requisition, and, assembling the men upon the beach, he addressed them in a brief but stirring speech which so rekindled their enthusiasm that they unanimously resolved to persevere in their undertaking.
The place of landing on the island of Cuba, as it turned out, was ill chosen, and without concert or cooperation with the Cubans the invaders were unable to hold it. In the night attack upon Cardenas Colonel Wheat was severely wounded, and when they had returned to the steamer, they narrowly escaped capture by the Spanish warship Pizarro. The "Filibusters," as because of their failure they were now first called, pursued by the Pizarro, found refuge within the harbor of Key West.
Colonel Wheat did not accompany Lopez in his second expedition, having been providentially prevented, very much to his chagrin at the time, though, as the event showed, most mercifully for himself, for his strong attachment to Lopez would have made him cling to his friend and share his fate with the gallant Crittenden.
It was a generous sentiment for the oppressed everywhere, and not a mere restless spirit of adventure, which next led Colonel Wheat to join Carrajaval in his effort to put down the Church party in Mexico and give that beautiful land our free institutions instead of the effete misrule of a licentious priesthood. And again, when Walker, who had been his classmate at college, was in imminent peril of his life after his defeat at Rivas, faithful to his friend in adversity he hastened to his relief. It was in Nicaragua that he met with the most wonderful of his numerous escapes from death. By the explosion of the boiler of a steamboat he was blown from the hurricane deck into the river, but so entirely without injury that he swam to the shore with ease, taking a wounded man with him.
When Alvarez "pronounced" against Santa Anna and the Church party in Mexico, Colonel Wheat accepted a command in the patriot army. As general of the artillery brigade when Alvarez became President, he received permanent rank and pay under his administration, with official commendation and thanks for his services. When afterwards, by reason of age and its infirmities, Alvarez resigned the presidency and retired to his hacienda, at his earnest solicitation General Wheat went with him. The old hero would fain have persuaded him to remain there for the rest of his life as his adopted son, but being now in the fullest flush of a matured manhood, he could not be content with a life of inglorious ease. As the world was just then beginning to resound with the name and exploits of Garibaldi, General Wheat determined to gratify a long cherished wish to visit Europe, now become doubly attractive by the rapid march of events in the historic changes of governments and peoples. He landed in England and joined a party of congenial spirits who were going to Italy for the purpose of tendering their services to Garibaldi.
They stopped a few days in Paris, and General Wheat had a most informal yet a most agreeable exchange of salutations with no less a personage than the Empress Eugenie herself. Having driven to the Bois de Boulogne, she had alighted from her carriage, and, followed by her ladies in waiting, was walking leisurely down a shaded avenue, when General Wheat, arm in arm with an English officer, came suddenly before the Empress. His friend, from the impulse of his national sentiment that no one may presume to come unannounced and without previous permission into the presence of royalty, turned instantly and beat a hasty retreat. Not so General Wheat, who, believing that his reverent salutation to the woman would not be resented by the Empress, tendered his homage by expressive look and gesture, and the lovely Eugenie promptly acknowledged it by a bright smile and a gracious inclination of the head. That interchange of grave, sweet courtesies would make a pretty picture, for General Wheat was a man of as noble and commanding presence as she of queenly grace and beauty. Over six feet in height and finely formed, he had a dignified carriage and a polished ease of manner and address.
General Wheat's reception by Garibaldi was in every way gratifying a hearty welcome and the offer of a position on his staff. Promptly accepting it, he engaged at once in active service, and in several engagements which quickly followed his dash and gallantry were the frequent theme of the army correspondents of the English press.
REPORT BY O. V. ANDERSON, TULLAHOMA, TENN.
In the June VETERAN I note' the article by Judge J. H. Henderson, of Franklin, Tenn., in regard to the killing of Capt. Samuel Freeman, of Freeman's Battery, Forrest's Cavalry. I was a member of that battery and in the fight that day on the Lewisburg Pike near Douglas Church, and was taken prisoner with twenty eight others, as brave soldiers and noble men as ever lived. Lieut. Nathaniel Baxter, now Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate, was of the number. My recollection is that General Forrest was moving on Franklin that day, intending to make an attack. Our videttes on the east side of the pike were captured by the United States regulars, then they charged our battery. We were completely surprised, and they were on us before we could unlimber and load.
After Captain Freeman had surrendered, a Yankee cavalryman rode up and shot him in the head while he was still on his horse, and Captain Freeman fell to the ground. I was within ten yards of him. His horse ran back toward General Dibrell's regiment, which was in our rear. General Starnes's regiment was in front of us in the line of march. The Yankees double quicked us out of the way, they came in and threatened to shoot us if we did not keep moving. Dr. Skelton, our company physician, was wounded, as was Dick Ron ton also. We were guarded that night in Franklin, and taken to Nashville next day and put in the penitentiary. From there we were sent to Louisville, Ky., and thence to Baltimore, Md. Later we were sent to City Point, Va. We were among the last prisoners exchanged.
I don't know who the young man was who was crying and cursing the Yankees for the brutal murder of Captain Freeman, but my impression is that it must have been Glewes McWhirter or Tom Alien, for we three were the youngest of the company each about seventeen.
General Forrest loved Captain Freeman devotedly, and I heard that he burst into tears when he heard of Captain Freeman's fate. Our battery always held to the name of Freeman. In the noted West Tennessee raid made by General Forrest he took our battery with him, and we were in the battle of Parker's Crossroads, where we captured a battery and a brigate of Yankees, When shot and shell were flying thick as hail. Lieutenant Baxter (we called him "Nat") walked among his men, encouraging them with. his manly bearing and words of cheer. At one stage of the battle, when part of Dibrell's Regiment was supporting our battery (and braver men than Dibrell's never lived), they moved a little farther to our right. Not being aware of what the move meant, Lieutenant Baxter ran up to them and said: "Boys, for God's sake, don't leave us. We will whip them." They soon convinced him that he need have no fear of their leaving him, and then they poured the shot into the Yankees thick and fast.
I think, with Judge Henderson, that a shaft of some kind should be erected on the spot where the gallant Freeman fell.
WHO WAS LLOYD?
BY R. G. ROBERTS, OXFORD, ALA.
I would be thankful for information as to the nativity, life, and family connections of Lloyd, who was killed by Croxton's (Federal) Raiders at Oxford, Ala., April 23, 1865. At that time Lloyd was stationed at Oxford as a clerk in the commissary department of the C. S. A., under Captain dark, a government agent.
When the raiders passed through this part of Alabama, they were resisted occasionally by small bands of Confederates. Captain dark, operating in this way, killed a Federal and shot down his horse as the troopers came into Oxford. In the melee that followed dark and Lloyd were captured. The captors of Lloyd demanded of him to tell who did the shooting. His reply not being satisfactory, they threatened to kill him. He asked as a last resort to be allowed to run for his life, which they granted. He then darted through an alley, followed by a fusillade of bullets, but his only damage was the taking off of one of his fingers. When he had proceeded the distance of about two blocks, the troopers headed him off and effected a recapture. Then marching him back to where the dead Federal lay, they renewed their demands of him to divulge the name of the man who did the killing. Upon his refusal to tell they shot him.
At the time of the sad tragedy Lloyd's wife, in delicate health, was living on a hill overlooking the scene. She soon afterwards gave birth to a child. After the war was over, Mrs. Lloyd went away, perhaps to her home in Mississippi, where her husband was said to belong, and has not been heard from since. The remains of her heroic husband lie in the Oxford Cemetery. Hence to start a monument for a suitable memorial the writer would be pleased to be placed in communication with the family of that true soldier.
436 Confederate Veteran September 1911
But the truer life draws nigher every year, And the morning star climbs higher every year, Earth's hold on us grows slighter, And the heavy burdens lighter, And the dawn immortal brighter every year.
DEATHS IN CAMP JACKSON, MONTICELLO, ARK.
Death roll of Camp James A. Jackson, U. C. V., Monticello, Ark., 1910 11: J.T. Dunlap, Company B, 1st Arkansas Cavalry, T. C. Erwin, Company A, 26th Arkansas Infantry, G. H. Owen, Owen's Arkansas Battery, W. D. Roddy, Company I, 1st Arkansas Infantry, A. W. Lowe, Company B, 26th Arkansas Infantry, Sam Hathaway, Company F, 2d Arkansas Cavalry, Ed Bowden, Company C, 3d Arkansas Infantry, J. A. Priddy, Company I, loth Missouri Cavalry, J, A. Berryman, Company B, 2d Arkansas Cavalry, M. G. Hogue, Company F, 18th Arkansas Infantry.
DR. A. M. TRAWICK.
A. M. Trawick was born in Carroll County, Tenn., October 8, 1846. His death occurred at Nashville, Tenn.
In a reminiscence of his service in the army he wrote that he was residing in Clinton, Ark. when the war began and that he sought to join his brothers George and John, who had enlisted in the 10th Arkansas Regiment, but as he was under fifteen years, he was not allowed to go. In October, 1861, when another company was organized, he left school to go with it, and Was sworn into the 16th Arkansas on October 29, 1861. He gives in his diary a history of the movements of the regiment and their severe experiences in Arkansas.
In March 16, 1862, they started on a forced march for Corinth, Miss., arriving there on April 12, a few days after the battle of Shiloh. When the army fell back, Bragg started into Kentucky, and the 16th Arkansas went under Price to Tupelo, Miss., remaining there until September 15, when it moved back to Iuka, where they had a hard fight on the 19th. They fell back again after that battle to Baldwyn, Miss. About October 1 Generals Price and Van Dorn joined forces, and on the 3d and 4th a terrific and disastrous charge was made on the Federal fortifications at Corinth. The 16th Arkansas was ordered about November 1 to Port Hudson, where they went into winter quarters.
On February 18, 1863, young Trawick was promoted to a lieutenancy. On March 14 the Federal fleet under Farragut advanced up the Mississippi with gunboats and mortars. Two ships, the Harvard and the Monongahela, passed by the forts, but the famous old war ship, the Mississippi, was set on fire and destroyed. This is a memorable event to all survivors of the forces there. Admiral Dewey was of those captured upon leaving the burning ship. The mortar shells, thrown with great diligence during that engagement, created consternation, as they could be observed by burning fuse going very high in the air and exploding with well ordered fuse as they fell. During that siege Lieutenant Trawick was a volunteer with some men to occupy a most perilous position. In his written record he does not refer to it, yet he gave a thrilling account of it at a meeting of the Frank Cheatham Camp, U. C. V,
After the surrender of Port Hudson, Lieutenant Trawick was of those sent to Johnson's Island prison. He carried with him three books that he took from home: a Bible, Davies's Arithmetic, and Smith's Grammar. As soon as practicable he added to his books a list of useful ones, and became quite a close student. He read the Bible through twice and the Testament seven times. He. was baptized in Lake Erie on March 27, wading through the ice to proper depth. His diary tells briefly of hardships in prison, and that they were kept on Johnson's Island until March 21, 1865 and thence sent to Fort Delaware, and kept there until June 13, 1865, when they were released.
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