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DEATHS OF CONFEDERATES IN MEMPHIS, TENN.
The following members of the Confederate Historical Association, Camp No. .28, U. C. V., Bivouac 18, C. V., of Memphis, Tenn., died during 1910:
R. P. James, second lieutenant Co. A, 19th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted June 1, 1861. Paroled at Richmond, Va., June 2, 1865. Died February 19.
J. R. Keamey, private 21st Tenn. Inft. (Col. Edward Pickctt). Enlisted May 15, 1861. Paroled May 10, 1865. Died March 9.
Clarence B. Hall, died March 28, 1910. Hiram A. McCrosky, private Co. B, 9th Miss. Inft. Enlisted March 28, 1861. Paroled May, 1865. Died April 18.
W. King Poston, private Co. A, 4th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted May 15, 1861. Paroled May 23, 1865. Died April 18.
G. A. C. Holt. Enlisted in 1861, was first lieutenant Co. H, 3d Ky. Inft., afterwards became lieutenant colonel, then colonel of 3d Ky. Inft., which was afterwards mounted, and served under Forrest and surrendered with him at Gainesville, Ala., in May, 1865. Died June l.
Minor Merriweather, major of engineers. Enlisted October, 1861. Paroled May, 1865. Died in St. Louis, Mo., June 6.
T. Galen Tate, Co. A, 7th Tenn. Cav. Enlisted April, 1861. Paroled May 11, 1865. At the time of his death, June 18, he was sheriff elect of Shelby County, Tenn.
J. H. Jarnigan, captain 9th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted May, 1861. Paroled May 16, 1865. Died June 18.
Thomas B. Turley, private Co. I, 154th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted in the spring of 1861. Paroled March, 1865. Was ex United States Senator. Died July 31.
W. R. DeLoach, private Co. D, 5th Ala. Inft. Enlisted April, 1861. Paroled from prison June 2, 1865. Died August 5,
George Roden, private Co. A, 1st Miss. Cav. Enlisted June 13, 1861. Paroled May, 1865. Died August 30.
Leo Watermann, bugler Co. D, 9th Miss. Cav. Died in Los Angeles, Cal., in August.
Joe Jones, private Co. K, 2d Ala. Cav. Enlisted May 15, 1861. Paroled from prison June, 1865. Died in Bolivar, Tenn., in September.
W. C. Dunn, private Co. C, 9th Miss. Cav. Enlisted March, 1861. Paroled May 12, 1865. Died in Texas October 18.
Robert J. Black, lieutenant Co. B, 7th Tenn. Cav. Enlisted May 31, 1861. Paroled at Gainesville, Ala., May 11, 1865. Was one of the charter members of the Confederate Historical Association. Since has been one of its most earnest working members. Died November 7.
James N. Smith, private Carnes's Battery. Enlisted April 1, 1865. Died November 12.
George W. Lewis, sergeant Co. D, 4th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted May, 1861. Paroled April 17, 1865. Died December 9.
William D. Beard, major on staff of Gen. A. P. Stewart. Enlisted in 1862. Paroled at Houston, Tex., in June, 1865. At the time of his death, December 7, he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee.
DEATHS IN PICKETT BUCHANAN CAMP.
The following comrades were lost to the membership of
Pickett Buchanan Camp, U. C. V., Norfolk, Va., during 19101 Abraham Myers, major and assistant quartermaster A, N. V. Charles C. Reid, private Smith's Battalion of Artillery. Theo F. Rogers, private Norfolk Light Artillery Blues. J. H. Baughan, captain and aid in Jubal Early's division. Robert W. Goode, Company G, 1st Virginia Cavalry. George C. Reid, captain and assistant quartermaster A. N. V. William Ashby, 61st Virginia Infantry. John G. Wallace, captain Company E, 6th Virginia Infantry. Joseph Solomensky, corporal 4th Georgia Infantry,
Again the shadow of gloom has fallen upon the Hankina Camp, U. C. V., in the loss of Comrade T. W. McCown, who passed to his reward October 5, 1910, at his home, in Lockesburg, Ark.
Comrade T. W. McCown was born in 1846, and reared in Sevier County. When the war of the sixties began, he volunteered in Company H, 19th Arkansas Regiment, and made a valiant soldier until the surrender.
After the war he engaged in the mercantile business until a few years ago, when he engaged in banking. Comrade McCown was successful in his business life, and was noted for his honesty and fairness in dealing with all men. He had strong convictions for the right, and ever frowned upon dishonesty or false pretense of any kind. He was ever zealous in the upbuilding of society, a friend of the cause of temperance, and ready to help when appealed to. He loved the U. C. V.'s, and took great delight in adding to the pleasure of the old soldiers.
Appropriate resolutions were adopted by the Hankins Camp, and were signed by W. E. Dooley, F. C. Floyd, and Alex Luther. They were approved also by J. M. White, Commander of the Camp.
MEMBERS OF CAMP AT LEBANON, VA.
McElhany Camp, No. 835, U. C. V., of Lebanon, Tenn., has lost some valuable members in the deaths of Dr. J. H. Duty, Chaplain, E. D. Miller, Adjutant, and Daniel McGlather. They were gallant soldiers and honorable citizens.
DR. J. A. LEAVY.
Dr. J. A. Leavy, of St. Louis, whose death occurred on October 24, 1910, was a man most remarkable in his achievements during a life of seventy eight years. He was born of Irish parents in Philadelphia in 1832, the family removing to St. Louis in 1836. Before he was eighteen years of age he had been principal of one of the St. Louis schools, and afterwards, though he had not taught for fifty years, he continued interested and prominent in schdol affairs of the State. When the war broke out, he enlisted as a private, but was soon made a surgeon, having picked up a knowledge of surgery while attending to other duties of life. He was in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Dalton, and on to Atlanta and Jonesboro. He served with Hood in the Tennessee campaign, and crossed into the Carolinas with the same troops. Later he was medical director under General Hardee, serving General Pettus's brigade. He was captured at Demopolis, Ala., and after being exchanged was assigned to Floyd's Brigade. He had served with Gen. Martin Green about Vicksburg, and saw that general die a week before the fall of the city. He surrendered with Johnston's troops in North Carolina ten days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Dr. Leavy then returned to St. Louis Mo. and began the life of simplicity which had since characterized him. He was married to Miss Mary Lester, whose father was a cousin of Carl Schurz, some thirty eight years ago.
Some months ago Dr. Leavy took up the study of Spanish, and when asked if he did not find the study tedious at his age, he replied: "Why, I am not old enough for that. I take a great deal of pleasure in the work." And he was interested in all work of a literary or scientific character. He completed his reminiscences of soldier days after he was seventy, having kept a diary of those days of hardship, and his research into the field of medical science was zealous.
DEATHS OF CONFEDERATES IN MEMPHIS, TENN.
The following members of the Confederate Historical Association, Camp No. .28, U. C. V., Bivouac 18, C. V., of Memphis, Tenn., died during 1910:
R. P. James, second lieutenant Co. A, 19th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted June 1, 1861. Paroled at Richmond, Va., June 2, 1865. Died February 19.
J. R. Keamey, private 21st Tenn. Inft. (Col. Edward Pickctt). Enlisted May 15, 1861. Paroled May 10, 1865. Died March 9.
Clarence B. Hall, died March 28, 1910. Hiram A. McCrosky, private Co. B, 9th Miss. Inft. Enlisted March 28, 1861. Paroled May, 1865. Died April 18.
W. King Poston, private Co. A, 4th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted May 15, 1861. Paroled May 23, 1865. Died April 18.
G. A. C. Holt. Enlisted in 1861, was first lieutenant Co. H, 3d Ky. Inft., afterwards became lieutenant colonel, then colonel of 3d Ky. Inft., which was afterwards mounted, and served under Forrest and surrendered with him at Gainesville, Ala., in May, 1865. Died June l.
Minor Merriweather, major of engineers. Enlisted October, 1861. Paroled May, 1865. Died in St. Louis, Mo., June 6.
T. Galen Tate, Co. A, 7th Tenn. Cav. Enlisted April, 1861. Paroled May 11, 1865. At the time of his death, June 18, he was sheriff elect of Shelby County, Tenn.
J. H. Jarnigan, captain 9th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted May, 1861. Paroled May 16, 1865. Died June 18.
Thomas B. Turley, private Co. I, 154th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted in the spring of 1861. Paroled March, 1865. Was ex United States Senator. Died July 31.
W. R. DeLoach, private Co. D, 5th Ala. Inft. Enlisted April, 1861. Paroled from prison June 2, 1865. Died August 5,
George Roden, private Co. A, 1st Miss. Cav. Enlisted June 13, 1861. Paroled May, 1865. Died August 30.
Leo Watermann, bugler Co. D, 9th Miss. Cav. Died in Los Angeles, Cal., in August.
Joe Jones, private Co. K, 2d Ala. Cav. Enlisted May 15, 1861. Paroled from prison June, 1865. Died in Bolivar, Tenn., in September.
W. C. Dunn, private Co. C, 9th Miss. Cav. Enlisted March, 1861. Paroled May 12, 1865. Died in Texas October 18.
Robert J. Black, lieutenant Co. B, 7th Tenn. Cav. Enlisted May 31, 1861. Paroled at Gainesville, Ala., May 11, 1865. Was one of the charter members of the Confederate Historical Association. Since has been one of its most earnest working members. Died November 7.
James N. Smith, private Carnes's Battery. Enlisted April 1, 1865. Died November 12.
George W. Lewis, sergeant Co. D, 4th Tenn. Inft. Enlisted May, 1861. Paroled April 17, 1865. Died December 9.
William D. Beard, major on staff of Gen. A. P. Stewart. Enlisted in 1862. Paroled at Houston, Tex., in June, 1865. At the time of his death, December 7, he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee.
JOHN W. REED.
John W. Reed died at Farmington, Ark., late in January, 1911, of the infirmities of age, having lived nearly fourscore and, ten years.
When a boy he went with his father from Lawrence to Hempstead County, where he grew to manhood, married, and resided until 1867, when he moved to Washington County and located at Farmington. He had resided there ever since, fortyfour years. Four of the best years of his life were given to the cause of the South in the sixties, and as a soldier he did his duty well. He was a good husband, a good father, a good citizen, and a devoted Christian. He has gone to his reward. He was perhaps the oldest native in Arkansas.
JOE C. SMARTT.
Joe C. Smartt was born in Warren County, Tenn., December 13, 1844, and died at Manor, Tex., January 8, 1911. He enlisted in Company C, 16th Tennessee Infantry, first commanded by Col. John H,.Savage, in 1862, and served gallantly to the close of the war. He was a participant in the battle of Chickamauga and in Hood's disastrous invasion of Tennessee, and surrendered with General Johnston. He removed to Texas about 1878, and resided in Bell County until his removal to Manor, a few months before his death. He leaves a widow and five children.
In formal proceedings by the Granbury Camp, No. 1023, U. C. V., signed by George C. Pendleton and W. D. Shaw as the committee, his life is commended as an example to the living in that he was a "noble citizen and soldier, a good neighbor, friend, and Christian, an affectionate husband and father."
CAPT. JOHN W. NELMS.
On February 28, 1911, Capt. John W.Nelms, of Atlanta, dropped dead of heart disease. His wife, who was ill the family room with him, was astounded by his sudden death, as he had been apparently in usual health.
Comrade Nelms was born in McDonough, Ga., in June, 1836. He had lived in Atlanta from early manhood, and was sheriff of Fulton County for twelve years. He was a forceful man in his section, a loyal friend of Govs. Joseph E. Brown and Alfred H. Colquitt.
It is reported of him that when the Civil War began he organized a Georgia company and became its first lieutenant, later forming Company A, loth Kentucky Regiment, and becoming its captain. He went to Abingdon, Va., captured many Federal troops, and distinguished himself for valor in fighting around Sterling, Va. Later in the war he joined Morgan, and became one of the bodyguard to that distinguished leader. He suffered hardships and performed deeds of heroism which aided in the capture of Cynthiana.
A conspicuous characteristic throughout his life was his faithfulness to his friends. He succeeded well in business affairs, and left a fine estate to his family.
DR. S. H. WATSON.
Dr. Seaborn H. Watson, who died at his home, in Waxahachie, Tex., on January 20, was a native of South Carolina, a son of D. K. and Sarah Gary Watson, and was born in Anderson County in 1833 He was educated in the public schools of his state and the college at Macon, Ga., where he completed a scientific course, and graduated in medicine in1855.
In 1862 Dr. Watson raised four companies for the Confederacy, which became a part of the regiment under Col. J. W. Johnson, and of which the Doctor became regimental surgeon. Most of his service was under Bragg, and his regiment was engaged in many of the most important battles of the war. After the close Dr. Watson donated his part of his father's estate to a sister and removed to Texas, settling at Milford in Ellis County, his sole possessions being his horse
and buggy, which he had driven through from South Carolina. He there began the practice of medicine in 1867, but removed to Dallas in 1874. In 1879 he retired from active practice and settled at Waxahachie, where he carried on an extensive business in farming and stock raising.
Dr. Watson was married in 1874 to Miss Amanda Beard, of Alabama, who has been a prominent figure in literary and club circles of Texas for several years, and who was State Historian of the U. D. C. for several terms consecutively. She, with four children two daughters and two sons survives "him. Dr. Watson was a loyal church member, and was distinguished as one of the best biblical scholars in the State.
The resolutions passed by the U. D. C. of Texas express the estimation in which Dr. Watson was held and the sympathy felt for his family in this bereavement.
CAPT. GEORGE McHENRY GISH.
Capt. George McH. Gish passed peacefully away at his home, in Roanoke, Va., January 27, 1911, at the age of sixty nine years. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted at Salem, Va., in Company I, 28th Virginia Regiment of Volunteers, and though a mere youth at the time, he served to the end with distinction. Seven years ago Captain Gish was stricken with paralysis, since which time he had been retired from active life. During his last illness, extending over many months, he showed his fortitude in his patience during suffering. Always interested in the affairs of his country and his fellow men, Captain Gish was a splendid type of the true Southern gentleman.
CAPT. J. L. CRABTREE.
Capt. J. L. Crabtree, a pioneer citizen of Wapanucka,Okla., and most highly esteemed, died there on December 6, 1910, aged seventy seven years. He was born and reared in Tennessee, but went to Arkansas as a young man. From that State he enlisted in the Confederate army and served to the end, part of his service being as a lieutenant colonel. After the war he was Tax Assessor of Saline County for eight years, and later on removed to Oklahoma, where he became prominently identified with the development of the State. The following tribute is by Mrs. J. P. Wood, of Wapanucka:
All powder burned, with tired feet, He heard the bugler sound retreat, Safe in camp, brave soldier, stay, Sentries guard you night and day Round the ramparts' narrow way.
No North, no South the closed eyes see, He's facing eastward, Lord, to thee. With folded hands and arms at rest, The Southern Cross above his breast, Gray old soldier, peace is blest.
'Taps' has sounded. Come away, Lights are out till break of day. Angels, keep thy vigils round, And wake the soul at reveille sound In God's eternal camping ground.BENJAMIN E. McDONALD.
Benjamin E. McDonald, son of Daniel and Harriet Carroll McDonald, was born in Jones County, Miss., in 1831, but at the age of three years he was taken by his parents to Jasper County, where he had since resided. On the morning of February 22, he passed quietly into the great beyond, at the home of his nephew, John Dowling, near Heidelberg, Miss.
Though his educational advantages were limited to the country schools of a thinly settled region, he acquired enough for the basis of a useful life. He was by trade a mechanic, honest and faithful. When the South called her sons to defend her rights, Benjamin McDonald enlisted in the first company to leave his county, the Jasper Grays, Company F, 16th Mississippi Regiment, and in his service displayed that valor and devotion to duty which mark the true patriot. His love for the South never wavered. He was a member of Jasper County Camp, U. C. V., and loyal to his Church membership. His passing is mourned by many devoted relatives and friends.
CAPT. ANDREW JACKSON BEALL.
After an illness of several months' duration, Capt. Andrew J. Beall died at his home, in Charlotte, N. C., on December 15, 1910. He was laid to rest in his suit of Confederate gray, in accordance with one of his last requests. Captain Beall was born in 1844 in Murray County, Ga., near Dalton, in which State he spent his young manhood except the time given to service for the Confederacy. He enlisted in 1861, becoming a member of Company B, 3d Georgia Battalion. He was wounded twice at Chickamauga, the second wound being received two hours after the first and in the same place. His loyalty to the cause continued through life, and to his old comrades in arms he was ever devoted.
Captain Beall was married to Miss Amanda Davidson, of Charlotte, in 1875, and two years later he removed to North Carolina and took up his residence at Charlotte, where he held a position as agent for the C., C. & A. Railroad. He resigned this in 1880 to enter the commission business, and later he traveled for the Royal Arcanum. He is survived by his wife and their five children three daughters and two sons. His only brother lives at Denton, Tex, Captain Beall was a lifelong Church member.CAPT. WILLIAM R. DELOACH.
Comrade William R. DeLoach was born June 4, 1842, and reared in Sumter County, Ala., and died in Memphis August 5, 1910 At the age of eighteen DeLoach enlisted as a private in the 5th Alabama Regiment, commanded by Col. (afterwards Maj. Gen.) R. E. Rodes. His service throughout the war was of the very best type. An old comrade once pointed to him. as the only man he ever knew who was absolutely devoid of personal fear. This statement is not literally true. DeLoach's intelligence recognized the hazard of battle, but his true moral courage rose above it. To him "duty" to himself and family and love of country were higher than all else, and made him bear himself as if ignorant of fear. He served with honor in Virginia, being badly wounded at Sharpsburg while climbing over the Federal breastworks, and later on was shot down at Mine Run while voluntarily leading a charge which was the duty of superior officers. He fell at the head of his men, with a jagged hole in the neck, which kept him out of the service for three months. Receiving his promotion at his return, he was assigned to Forrest's Cavalry and made captain of a company of independent scouts. Near Decatur, Ala., he was captured and kept on Johnson's Island until July, 1865.
The hardships of war bore lightly upon the youthful soldiers of the South. Their courage was inherited, the strength and joy of comradeship were theirs, and, like their ancestors, they met the foes of their country with inborn steadfastness. It was natural for DeLoach to fight, he had a knowledge of the questions at issue.
But it was after he returned home in 1865 that the real test of manhood came to DeLoach and to the men of his class. How he met this trial is known only to those who touched shoulders and divided counsel with him at that time. From that day till 1873, when the white people of Sumter came into their own again, was the time that tried men's souls in the Southland. From the town of Livingston, DeLoach's home, to the northern boundary of the county the proportion of blacks to whites was larger than in any other county in Alabama. The negroes almost from the first were under the control of aliens and renegades, and the struggle for existence was on in earnest. Reconstruction, with its deliberate plan to subject the native white people to their former slaves, was an unspeakable horror, to be resisted to the death. If the true story of reconstruction in the Black Belt of Alabama should ever be told, DeLoach's name would be written high up on the roll of honor. His judgment and courage were with him under all conditions. When the struggle was over, his kindliness made him resist any cruelty to, or oppression of, the negroes, when control was absolutely in the hands of the whites. He acted steadily upon this principle during his long service as judge, and no court was ever administered more fairly than his. His reelection time after time, making his term of office thirty four years, was a tribute to his integrity and intelligence.
The writer of this sketch states: "Of all the men whom I have known and of all the comrades I have loved, DeLoach came nearest the right life, and his surviving friends will join me in this judgment of his character."
In 1867 Capt. W. R. DeLoach was married to Miss Susan Gibbs, a daughter of Col, Charles R. Gibbs, an officer of the War of 1812. Theirs was an ideal union. Will DeLoach and Sue Gibbs loved each other from youth through a long life, and parted only through that inevitable decree which "happeneth to all." Four children survive Captain DeLoach: Mrs. McLelland, Miss Rosa DeLoach, Dr. DeLoach, of Memph's, Tenn., and Mrs. R. G. Ennis, of Livingston, Ala.
CAPT, GEORGE M. TODD.
Capt. George M. Todd, one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of Norfolk, Va., died there on February 9, aged seventy one years. He had been prominent in the commercial life of the city, and at the time of his death he was teller of the Citizens' Bank, with which institution he had been connected since its organization, forty years before.
Captain Todd was born in Smithfield, Vaä in 1840, the son of Mallory M. Todd. He went to Norfolk as a boy eleven years old. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted for the Confederacy in Company F, 6th Virginia Regiment, and was in Mahone's Brigade, under Colonel Rogers. He served gallantly throughout the war, and had been Commander of the Pickett Buchanan Camp, of Norfolk. He was also. prominently identified with the musical world of Norfolk, having been one of the leading tenors of Christ Church choir for forty years, and taking part in many musical events of the city.
Captain Todd was a member of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Virginia. He is survived by his wife and a sister, Mrs. C. F. Greenwood, of Norfolk.
S. M. VALENTINE.
S. M. Valeptine was born April 23, 1840, and died November 28, 1910. He was a native of Oktibbeha County, Miss., and enlisted in the Confederate service as a member of Company G, 14th Mississippi Infantry, in 1861, serving till the close of the war. He went to Texas in 1866, locating first in Washington County, then going to Burleson County, where he married Miss Louisa Lewis. About 1883 he removed to Stephens County, where he made his home until death, which occurred very suddenly while on a trip with his wife to visit their daughters in Taylor County. He was a member of Frank Cheatham Camp, U. C. V., at Breckenridge, Tex., and a loyal Church member, loved and respected by all who knew him.
CAPT. JOHN MOHLER WEIDEMEYER.
On the 12th of January, 1911, this noble gentleman and gallant Confederate officer at his home in Clinton, Mo., passed "out of the shadow of sadness into the sunshine of gladness."
Captain Weidemeyer was born at Charlottesville, Va., January 10, 1834, the son of John Frederick and Lucinda (Draffen) Weidemeyer. His father moved to Cooper County, Mo., in 1840, and in 1842 removed to Osceola, St. Clair County, where he and his son, Capt. J. M. W., conducted a wholesale mercantile business until their store and all other houses in the town save two were burned by Jim Lane, of Kansas.
John M. Weidemeyer received a liberal education in the private schools at Osceola, Highland Academy in Jackson County. Dr. Yantis's school at Sweet Springs, and at the famous Kemper School in Booneville. He acquired a taste for literature, and until the time of his death had a fine appreciation of all that is good and pure in books.
Modest as he was brave, he was selected to command a company of one hundred men in the Missouri State Guard at the beginning of the war, and later was mustered into the regular Confederate service in 1862. His company was consolidated with Captain Fleming's, Captain Weidemeyer being the first lieutenant. He served in the Trans Mississippi until after the engagement in the battle of Elk Horn, when the regiment was ordered to join Beauregard at Corinth, Miss.
Upon a reorganization of Missouri troops Comrade Weidemeyer was elected captain, and commanded his company in Little's (afterwards Bowen's) Brigade in the battles of luka, Corinth, Hatchie Bridge, Port Gibson. Baker's Creek, Big Black, and in the siege of Vicksburg, where he was captured. While on parole he Visited his family in Texas, and when exchanged reported to General Cockrell. who appointed him ordnance officer. He then served in that capacity until the surrender at Blakely, Ala., at the close of the war. In the severe battle at Corinth on October 3, 1863, his regiment, the 6th Missouri, was almost annihilated Of three hundred who went into the charge that day, but thirty answered to roll call next morning. Captain Weidemeyer was in every way worthy to command a company in that splendid brigade of Missourians commanded by Little, Bowen, and Cockrell, who won imperishable fame for their State on a score of battlefields. He was wounded three times and lost his two brothers in battle. He was a true Confederate, and died as he had lived, faithful to the South, her history, and his old comrades in arms. He was a member of Norval Spangler Camp, U. C. V.
Captain Weidemeyer was married in 1856 to Miss Lelia Vernon Crutchfield, a lineal descendant of Gen. Andrew Lewis, the Virginian of Revolutionary fame, and of Dr. Gabriel Nash. He was a consistent Christian, and for many years was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Clinton, Mo. His home life was ideal, and the spirit of the devoted father and mother actuated the children so that a beautiful hospitality was ever dispensed in his home. His memory will ever be a rich legacy to his family and all who were so fortunate as to call him friend. He fought the good fight, he kept the faith.
MRS. JANE McDow FULTON.
Mrs. Jane McDow Fulton was born in Greene County, Ala., August 28, 1824, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Fleming Anderson, at Victoria, Tex., on February 21, 1911. She was of Scotch Irish ancestry. Her father was a soldier in the Creek War, and her grandfather fought in the War of the Revolution. She gave all she had to the Confederacy.
JOHN RICHARD MILLS.
John Richard Mills, one of the best and most beloved citizens of Madisonville, Ky., died on July 31, 1910, at the age of sixty six. He was born at Roaring Spring, Ky., February 14, 1844, and was a member of one of Trigg County's (Ky.) oldest and best families.
At the first call to arms in 1861, although only seventeen years of age, he left his home and school, near Providence, Ky., and, in company with several schoolmates, went to Hopkinsville, Ky., and joined a company organized by Capt. J. K. Huey, of Smithland, Ky., which became Company H, 1st Kentucky Cavalry, and became a part of General Forrest's regiment. He followed the fortunes of the Confederacy until the battle at Fort Donelson, where he was captured. He was sent to prison at Indianapolis, Ind., and after eight months was exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss. He was a man of unbending integrity, yet gentle as a woman, of dauntless courage, yet modest and retiring. He was genial, kind, charitable, generous, the very soul of honor, and a humble Christian.
As a soldier John Richard Mills was brave, prudent, faithful. He never shirked a duty or sought an easy place, he cherished fondly the memory of those glorious days. He enjoyed the Reunions and the companionship of old comrades with whom he had served so bravely in years gone by. He was Adjutant of Hopkins County Camp, No. 528.
He worked faithfully and gave liberally of his time, energy, and means for the erection of the handsome monument which stands on Court Square in Madisonville, Ky., dedicated to "Our Confederate Dead."
He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, having been a member for forty years, and for a number of years he had been a consistent member of the Missionary Baptist Church.
His funeral was attended by a large concourse of friends, many from out of town, including old comrades in arms, testifying their high regard for the man, soldier, citizen, and Christian. In accordance with his request, eight comrades in gray acted as pallbearers at the funeral. He is survived by a devoted family a wife, two sons, and four daughters.
GEN. W. L. CABELL.
On the evening of February 21, 1911, gallant "Old Tige" Cabell went to sleep as a. child a sleep that knows no waking. For several weeks he had been ill of acute bronchitis, but had improved. His son, Ben E. Cabell, and the only daughter, Katie Cabell Muse, were in an adjacent room, when the latter, who had been such a faithful watcher of "daddy" for many years, went into the next room and found him lying in an easy attitude with his hands folded across his breast and dead. There had evidently been no struggle. His face bore a rather smiling expression.
When this last illness began, his absent sons were called to Dallas, and with sons and daughter about him "he admonished them not to ask God that he might linger." He told them that the Great Father had been kind to him, and had given him in excess of the threescore years and ten that are allotted to mortals. For this fact he asked his children to offer up thanks to the Almighty. His last words to them on this occasion were: "Strive, all of you, to keep yourselves and the government always pure."
With him until recently were all four of the surviving children. Lewis Rector Cabell was a few weeks ago called back to Cuba, where he is stationed as a civil engineer. Lawrence Duval Cabell, a captain in the United States army, with headquarters at Fort Benjamin Harrison, in Pennsylvania, remained until Monday night, and was then forced to proceed to his station by way of Fort Smith. A telegram reached him shortly after leaving Fort Smith.Gen. William Lewis Cabell was born at Danville, Va., January 1, 1827. He entered the United States Military Academy in June, 1848, and was graduated in June, 1850. He was first assigned to duty as second lieutenant, and in 1855 was made regimental quartermaster. In March, 1858, he was made captain in the quartermaster's department, and was in the Utah Expedition. After that he was ordered to rebuild Fort Kearney, Nebr.
In the spring of 1859 he was ordered to Fort Arbuckle, in the Chickasaw Nation, and during that fall he was sent to build a new post about ten miles west of Arbuckle, in the Indian Nation. He remained on duty at his new post until March, 1861.
When the War between the States became inevitable. Captain Cabell sent his resignation to the War Department at Washington, D. C. Then he went to Little Rock, Ark., and offered his services to the Governor of the State. On receipt of a telegram from President Jefferson Davis he left on April 12 for the seat of the Confederate government at Montgomery, Ala. He reached Montgomery on the night of April 19, and there he found the acceptance of his resignation from the United States army signed by President Abraham Lincoln.
President Davis, who thoroughly appreciated the sterling worth of Captain Cabell, commissioned him as major and assigned him to the responsible task of organizing the quartermaster, commissary, and ordnance departments. These duties obliged Major Cabell to go to Richmond and remain there until June. Upon their completion he was ordered to report to General Beauregard at Manassas as chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac.
After the battles of July 18 and 21 at Blackburn Ford and Bull Run, in which he rendered most efficient services, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston assumed command, and Major Cabell served on his staff until January 15, 1862, when he was relieved and ordered to report to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, commanding the Army of the West, for service with Gen. Earl Van Dorn in the Trans Mississippi Department He joined Van Dorn at Jacksonport, Ala.
Soon after this he was promoted to brigadier general, and was assigned to the command of all the troops on White River, with the important mission of "holding the enemy in check" until after the battle of Elk Horn. After that battle, which was fought March 6 and 7, 1862, the army was transferred to the eastern side of the Mississippi River, and the task of transferring it devolved upon General Cabell.
When General Van Dorn's army marched from Memphis to Corinth, General Cabell was in command of a Texas brigade, with an Arkansas regiment attached. In this responsible position he displayed the highest soldierly qualities.
When General Bragg's army marched to Kentucky, General Cabell was transferred to an Arkansas brigade, which he commanded in the battle at Corinth on September 2 and 3, at Hatchie's Bridge on September 14, and at luka and Saltillo on September 19.
He was wounded in the breast at Corinth while leading the charge of his brigade with conspicuous courage, and was wounded again at Hatchie's Bridge. His wounds having unfitted him for active field service, the remnants of his command were assigned temporarily to the 1st Mississippi Brigade, under General Bowen, and he was ordered to the Trans Mississippi Department to recuperate and inspect the staff department of that army.
When sufficiently recovered for duty, in Northwest Arkansas he recruited from every part of that section of the State. He organized one of the largest and finest cavalry brigades west of the Mississippi, and commanded this brigade at Backbone Mountain, Bentonville, Fayetteville, Poteau River, Antoine Elkins' Ferry, Mark's Mill, Pilot Knob, Rieves Station,
Franklin, Poison Springs, Jefferson, Mo., Garner's Mills, Currant River, Booneville, Lexington, Mo., Big Blue, Independence, West Point, Marie de Cygene, and other places in Arkansas and Missouri. On the raid into Missouri he was captured in the open field near Mine Creek on October 24, 1863, and taken to Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, and from there to Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor, where he remained until August 28, 1865.
The establishment of the Home for Confederate veterans at Austin was largely due to the untiring efforts of General Cabell to better the condition of his comrades in arms. He worked unceasingly to this end, and was pleased when the institution had its birth. Another achievement which owes its creation in a large measure to General Cabell is the fund in Texas for pensions for Confederate soldiers. Since the organization of the United Confederate Veterans General Cabell had given to it much of his time. It is said of him, and doubtless was true, that he knew personally more men prominent in the United States than any other man. Gen. Sam Houston was a warm friend. This friendship began when General Cabell was a young lieutenant and Gen. Sam Houston was a Senator from the Republic of Texas.General Cabell moved with his family to Dallas in 1872, and two years thereafter was elected Mayor of the town. Between that date and 1882 he was again twice elected Mayor. He was a delegate from Texas to the convention at St. Louis, in 1876, that nominated Tilden, and to those in 1884 and 1892 that nominated Cleveland.
General Cabell was Vice President and General Manager of the Texas Trunk Railroad (now the Texas and New Orleans) for four years. He was United States Marshal for the Northern District of Texas during Cleveland's first administration, but tendered his resignation immediately upon receipt of the news of Harrison's election to the presidency. Friends urged him to remain in office, but he said: "I am a Democrat. The Republicans have gone into power. To the victor belong the spoils. My resignation is final."
At the meeting of the United Confederate Veterans held at Chattanooga, Tenn., in July, 1890, General Cabell was unanimously elected Lieutenant General of the Trans Mississippi Division, which position he held until he was elected Honorary Commander in Chief of all the United Veterans.
(Report of military funeral in May issue of VETERAN.)
DEATHS AT HOPE, ARK.
The Adjutant of Gratiot Camp, No. 203, U. C. V., Hope, Ark., reports the following deaths in the Camp membership: A. J. Hawthorn, Co. A, 33d Ark., Jan. 11, aged eighty. L. A. Reese, of a Ga. command, Feb. 10, aged seventy three. G. W. Bowden, Co. C, 20th Ark., Feb. 27, aged sixty eight. These were good soldiers and good citizens. The Comrade Reese mentioned had served two terms as Representative for his county in the State Legislature.
CAPT. W. G. FEWELL.
Capt. W. G. Fewell died at his home, near Granbury, Tex., in January, 1910, in his seventy ninth year. He was shot through the chest at Spottsylvania in May, 1864, and his death was caused by internal bleeding from that old wound. He was born and reared in Pickens District, S. C. He joined Company F, Orr's Rifles, S. C. V., in 1861, and was promoted to captain of his company for gallantry. He was severely wounded four times, but was with that army of gallant, ragged, hungry veterans who surrendered at Appomattox.
CAPT. GEORGE B. LAKE.
A message from Lexington, Ky., on March 20 states: "Capt. George B. Lake, aged seventy, a Confederate veteran, remarked about 6:30 this afternoon while sitting in the office of the superintendent of schools and apparently in good health and spirits that when he died he wanted life to go out like the snuffing of a candle. At eight o'clock while sitting in the Y. M. C. A. rooms watching a game of chess he suddenly fell upon the floor. Friends rushed to his side, only to find he had expired. The coroner was called, and after an examination pronounced death due to apoplexy.
Captain Lake was born in Edgefield, S. C., February 9, 1841, and served in the Confederate army, enlisting as a private in the Edgefield Rifles, in which company he became captain. He was at Petersburg when the fortifications were blown up.
Captain Lake is survived by eight children: John Lake, Baptist missionary at Canton, China, Miss Rosa Lake, city missionary, Lexington, Ky., Mrs. W. W. Brockman, Librarian Y. M. C. A. at University of Virginia, Felix Lake, Baltimore, Md., Calvert Lake, Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. David dark and Miss Clara Lake, Vidalia, Ga., Mrs. Walter Gray, Castlewood, Va. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. R. H. Mims, of Edgefield, S. C. He had lived in Lexington for several years."
(A lengthy sketch of him and his company appeared in the VETERAN for May, 1894, page 153. In it there is a vivid account of his company in the battle of the Crater. He had thirty three men in the battle, and thirty one were killed. The VETERAN would be glad to see a monument to Captain Lake. It was he who at the Birmingham Reunion in 1894 offered the motion to make the VETERAN the official organ of the association which was adopted and remains in
force.)
HON. TIM JOHNSON.
A quiet citizen who had lived in Davidson County, Tenn., for nearly threescore years and ten fell on sleep March 11, 1911, at the family residence. Antioch, near Nashville. A card from Rev. J. Addison Smith, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., states: "It was my pleasure to be with Hon. Tim Johnson some months before his departure. He then felt that he would never recover his health, and requested me to officiate at his funeral when the end came. His request opened up thought of the future with its surging hopes, and he said: I see my way home, and there are no stumps in the way. If you know about farming, you will understand my meaning.' * * * May this be the experience of the dear boys in gray who are falling into the tomb so fast !"***.
Comrade Johnson's remarks recall sacred parables. He was a member of the Southern Presbyterian Church. His deepest regret at having to quit this world was his exceeding desire to live that he might assure friends of his gratitude for their many kindnesses in his sickness.
A special train was sent from Nashville for the funeral service. In addition to the sermon by the minister, the Frank Cheatham Bivouac and Camp used the burial ritual at the church. Comrade Johnson had written the list of his pallbearers. The remains were brought to Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Tim Johnson was the middle in age of three sons of James Johnson, who came from Lexington, Ky., to Sumner County, Tenn., and married Sarah Bruce. The father was a prominent, forceful man. He superintended the construction of the stone work of the Tennessee State Capitol (the building is stone) , and also of the piers to the wire bridge that spanned the Cumberland River and which was destroyed during the great commotion when the Confederates abandoned Nashville to the Federals in 1862. Mr. Johnson died fifty years ago, his wife surviving him a quarter of a century. There were nine daughters of the family, and of the dozen children, the following survive: Mrs. J. W. Quinn, of Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. T. Christianson, of Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. S. M. Dickens, of Mount Vernon, Ind., J. W. Johnson, of McKenzie, Tenn., Ike Johnson, of Nashville, Tenn.
Tim Johnson went into the army at the age of twenty. At the expiration of two years he came home, married Miss Lucy Russell, and returned to the army at the expiration of his furlough. Two years later he returned and was greeted by his wife and babe, who is now Dr. J. T. Johnson. By this marriage there were three other sons Charles, Alien, and Dr. Ike Johnson. By a second marriage, with Miss Catherine Soaps, there are two children, Mrs. Lucy Sanders and Woodall Johnson. By the third marriage a little son, Alexander, is left with his mother, who was Miss Laura Searl.
In early business life Tim Johnson was a merchant, and later he retired to a fine farm. In 1880 he was elected sheriff of the county, and was so efficient an officer that he was urged for reelection, but he would not consent. He did, however, consent to serve a term in the State Legislature two years later, in which service he maintained his high reputation for integrity and wise action in behalf of his fellow men,
Comrade Johnson's greatest pride was in his membership of the Board of Trustees of the Confederate Soldiers' Home, on which he served faithfully and well as a member of the Executive Committee until his health failed.
(It is understood that the two surviving members of the Executive Committee have selected to succeed Mr. Johnson Maj. Charles A. Locke, of Nashville. Major Locke is evidently a wise and worthy selection in every way. He was a gallant soldier in the war, has been successful in business life, and has the leisure whereby he may render this important
service.)
CAPT. S. B. THOMAS.
Capt. S. B. Thomas died at his home, near San Augustine, Tex., on January 4, 1911, after a week's illness. He was eighty years old. At the outbreak of the war he organized a company, went to the front, serving gallantly to the end.
COMMENDS SKETCH OF MR. MILTON H. SMITH.
BY HON. JOSEPH E. WASHINGTON, WESSYNGTON, TENN.
I was so much interested in your excellent article in the February VETERAN on the life and work of Mr. Milton H. Smith in connection with the history and growth of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad that I congratulate you.
The article is in perfect taste. There is in it nothing fulsome or flattering. Your statement of the plain, unvarnished facts does Mr. Smith no more than simple justice. So quiet and unostentatious is Mr. Smith that the general public has no true conception either of his great ability or of the magnitude of his achievements in that railroad work by which he has fostered and promoted the prosperity and developed the resources of that great section served by the Louisville & Nashville south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers.
So little has been said about Mr. Smith in the public press that doubtless many even of those who are connected in a business way with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad have failed to realize and appreciate the full value and the extent of his successful work. On that account your article is all the more timely. It also seems peculiarly appropriate that this tribute should originate with the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, a publication in no sense commercial, and yet devoted to the welfare, advancement, and uplift of all that is best in that section which Mr. Smith has so intelligently and earnestly striven to serve.
The article should be especially commended to the young men of the South to whose ambition nothing can be more stimulating than the history of the life and work of an upright, honest, and most capable man like Milton H. Smith a man with a brain big enough to master every difficulty, coupled with a modesty that shrinks from all publicity. The success that follows doubtful methods is so often paraded in the press that it is well for our youth to know what can be accomplished as in this instance by a modest and scrupulously honest man like Mr. Milton H. Smith.
(Mr. Washington is well fitted to write on this subject. His father knew the arduous labors of the distinguished railroad man from the beginning, and now the son, successor to the father, continues an intimacy with the great enterprise. So he can speak with understanding. Mr. Washington is as loyal a Southerner as those who fought in the war. He was not old enough to be a soldier, but as a lad he joined his father in resisting robbery by Federals. The elder Mr. Washington's Virginia blood was so fired that he fought against hopeless odds, this son loading the guns, until the robbers were forced to retire.
EDITOR.)
To AGENTS OF L. & N. RAILROAD Co.
The VETERAN for February (1911) contained a sketch of the remarkable official career of your President, Mr. M. H. Smith. Such a publication, you may well infer, could never have been procured from him in person. Realizing, however, how loyal was the motive that produced it, he was gracious enough to call careful attention to the errors in the sketch so they might be corrected. That interview, therefore, in justice to Mr, Smith and to the exact truth is supplemented to the VETERAN and in the hope that your great army of railroad employees may learn something of the magazine. Sample copies are furnished to all who request them. The VETERAN is not intended for Confederates only, but all Southerners who appreciate the sacrifice for principle during the four years of a terrible war in the sixties. Address, Nashville, Tenn.
TRUST OF MONEY TO THE CONFEDERATE CAUSE .
The VETERAN has recently been made custodian of an unusual bequest. A gentleman in the North sent with a letter a check for $50, half of which he has directed be used in sending the VETERAN to those unable to pay the subscription, the other half to go to some worthy Confederate undertaking, all as a memorial to his father, whose dying request was that a certain sum be given every year to relieve any Confederate comrades in distress or to bring some brightness into their lives. In response to the request that he write something of his father's service for the VETERAN, he states:
All, or nearly all, of the family history was destroyed in the fire that destroyed our home in Kentucky nearly eighteen years ago. If it wasn't for the fact that I cannot produce proof that my father was a Confederate soldier, I would have made application to enter the Sons of Confederate Veterans long ago. All I have to show are a sword, a gun, and a flag, and the tales of an old negro mammy who died a little while ago.
He enlisted in 1861 in the city of Richmond, Va., and served till the end of the war, except one month when he was in the hospital and the time he spent at Rock Island (by request) some eighteen or twenty weeks.
I don't know whether he performed any great feats of valor or not, but he evidently would fight all day and hike all night just like the rest of the boys, and I reckon he swore just as fervently as any of them and prayed just as earnestly when the occasion called for it.
My father was wrapped heart and so,ul in the South. Out of six brothers who rode to the war, one stayed at Shiloh, two at Vicksburg, one died at Rock Island, one was shot at Gettysburg, and the youngest, my father, came out of the struggle with an arm gone not a bad argument for one family to put up in support of their convictions. Father was just simply a Southern soldier fighting to defend a principle. That's what he asked to be carved on his gravestone.
After the war was over, he went back to his home in 'Kentucky. In the spring of 1893 our home was fired in a feud, my mother was killed, and father died defending her. I was adopted by some Northern friends, and since then have lived in the North, but have gone South every chance.
I do not know whether or not this is the incident which led to father's making the request that I send money to help his former comrades. At the battle of Gettysburg father was wounded in Pickett's charge, and would have been left by, if not on, the Union intrenchments had not six of his comrades come back and carried him off under fire. In later years he learned that one of these men had been turned away from a Home for Confederate Soldiers, as they did not have the funds to care for him, and the man went to a poorhouse. From that time he sent yearly what he could, and when he died he transferred this honor to me by request in a letter. I know he wanted to do all he could to prevent a repetition of that unfortunate affair. Personally I felt that I would be proud and honored to help."
The spirit which inspires the carrying out of this father's dying wish makes him worthy to be his father's son. The VETERAN is proud to share in this trust, and has had part of the fund given to an important undertaking in his native State. For the other part fifty subscriptions will be given, and the request is here made that those who know of worthy comrades unable to pay the subscription will send in their names. It is hoped to have names from all the States.
Confederate Veteran April 1911
PHOTOGRAPHS OF WAR TIMES AND INCIDENTS. "Chasing a shadow fifty years old" is the way that Roy Mason describes a unique trip through the Southern States upon which he was sent by the Review of Reviews during February and March of this year. The object of the trip was to collect photographs of the Confederate armies and fortifications during our great war. At the outset it seemed indeed as "chasing a shadow." He learned that in those days men were half clad, and in many instances were without shoes. The wounded in hospitals suffered for the lack of the simplest remedies. They lay in the open, often shuddering with chills because of lack of quinine. Small wonder was it that few, if any, took photographs in such times.
Curiously enough, photography was one of the means by which the sufferings of the wounded were alleviated. Into certain districts photographic chemicals could be brought. Orders were signed by President Lincoln himself, so some chemicals were brought in. About five hundred photographs were secured by Mr. Mason. Frequently, however, quinine found its way into the Confederate lines under the guise of photographic chemicals. The editors of the Review of Reviews have secured eleven thousand original photographs from which to choose the 3,500 illustrations which are going into their "Photographic History of the War."
The Secretary of the Review of Reviews Company is Charles D. Lanier, and the editor, Robert S. Lanier, is in charge of the text of illustrations. They are sons of Sidney Lanier, one of our beloved Southern poets, who served with his brother, Clifford, in the 2d Georgia Battalion and in the scout service along the James during the entire four years. They were about going to press with the first of the ten volumes when, in order to have enough Southern photographs to balance the large collection of views of the Northern armies, it occurred to them to send a man on a quest, and hence Mr. Mason's rip.
He visited over two dozen cities throughout the South, seeking photographs through libraries, memorial and historical associations, universities, armories, and private collections. He called upon hundreds of photographers, and his success fully justified the trip. The Daughters of the Confederacy loaned him many photographs and referred him from Chapter to Chapter.
Mr. Mason gathers all the data he can in regard to these photographs, so the record may be as accurate as possible. His trip lengthened to more than six weeks.
E. and H. T. Anthony & Co. was the firm of chemists which furnished Matthew B. Brady, the Northern photographer, with chemicals for his work during the war. The same firm ran chemicals through the blockade and furnished them to G S. Cook, who took many photographs in and about Charleston and Columbia, S. C. H. P. Cook, son of the war time photographer, now has a gallery in Richmond, and from him and others some of his father's photographs were obtained. Anthony & Co. also supplied chemicals to A. D. Lytle, of Baton Rouge, La. That enterprising photographer not only took views of the Confederate armies, but made a careful record of every camp, location, watchtower, headquarters, battery, and regiment in Banks's army, and prints of these negatives mysteriously found their way into the hands of the Confederate leaders.
Robert Alison, a Scotchman, visited the South in 1864 and 1865, made a large collection of photographs, and returned to Scotland before the close of the war. Sixteen years ago his son, Stephen H. Alison, brought them back to this country. Mr. Mason discovered them in his possession in New Orleans, and purchased many of them.
The Studios of many Southern photographers have been destroyed since the war. Many have sold priceless negatives at so much a thousand for old glass, and others have sold their old glass plates to florists for roofing to hothouses, but here and there a private collector, a library, or a university has. kept these "shadows of past events," which Mr. Mason found.
He praises the royal hospitality and many favors he has received from the United Confederate Veterans, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and, indeed, everybody in the South to whom he has appealed for help and advice.
Many people,
says Mr. Mason, "have worked as hard for the success of this book as if they themselves were the publishers. I came asking favors, and yet became the guest of many warm hearted Southerners."
WAR TIME PHOTOGRAPHS OF LEE AND JACKSON.
In 1863 Vannerson, of Richmond, took at his studio three small carte de visite photographs of General Lee one three quarter face, one profile, and one standing in uniform with sword and sash. In the latter he wears the sword and sash which were subscribed for by ladies of Baltimore and sent through the lines to him. They were worn by him in the interview with General Grant at Appomattox C. H.
In April, 1865, soon after the surrender, Brady, of Washington, went to Richmond and took three photographs, also small size one of the General seated in a chair, one standing by the chair, and one seated, with Gen. G. W. C. Lee and Col. Walter H. Taylor standing on each side. These photographs were taken at the rear of the basement of his residence on Franklin Street, and can be identified by the chair and the basement door.
All of these photographs have been reproduced many times and in many sizes, but the originals are recorded above.
In the fall of 1862 General Jackson, at the request of the ladies of Dr. Hunter McQuire's family and the insistence of Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, went to Routzahn, a photographer in Winchester, and sat for the full face picture of him seated.
In the spring of 1863, about a week or two before Chancellorsville, and a short time before his death, Minnis & Cowell took the profile portrait of him. This was taken in a tent at Hamilton's Crossing, below Fredericksburg.
These have also been reproduced in various forms, but are the only photographs from life.
All of the above descriptions have been carefully collected from authoritative sources and can be relied upon as conclusive.
(The VETERAN has the assurance of Capt. Frederick M. Colston, of Baltimore, as to the accuracy of the
foregoing.)
PROPOSED HISTORY OF THE FIFTH KENTUCKY REGIMENT. Col. Hiram Hawkins, of Hawkinsville, Ga., makes this appeal to the 5th Kentucky Regiment: "Dear comrades, at the request of the Adjutant General of Kentucky, I have consented to write a brief history of the 5th Kentucky Regiment, its organization and achievements from '61 to '65, and I will greatly appreciate the address of any and all comrades of the gallant regiment I had the honor to command. Reviewing your record and achievements brings to mind glorious memories of the historic past, of which we are all proud. I would be glad to hear from you."
Confederate Veteran May 1911
ADJT. GEN E. T. SYKES, OF MISSISSIPPI.
The military experience of Edward Turner Sykes, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff Army of Tennessee Department, will be read with interest.
He was born at Decatur, Ala., March 15, 1838, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in June, 1858, and from the Law Department of the University of Mississippi in June, 1860. His service in the C. S. A., 1861 65, was successively as color bearer, adjutant, and captain of Company K, 10th Mississippi Infantry. From November, 1862, when Walthall's Brigade was organized, to June, 1864, he was adjutant general to Gen. E. C. Walthall, and thence to the close of the war he was adjutant general on the staff of Brig. Gen. W. H. Jackson, commanding a cavalry division which surrendered as a part of Forrest's Cavalry in Gen. Dick Taylor's department at Gainesville, Ala., May 8, 1865. However, his parole, among the last to be issued in that department, was dated May 18. Gens. E. S. Dennis and W. H. Jackson were the respective paroling officers for the Federal and Confederate armies, and after completing the parole of the troops at and near Gainesville, they went to Columbus, Miss., where they finished the duties assigned them. His duties as adjutant general to General Jackson requiring his official attention, he waited until his chief had completed the duties assigned him. His parole and commissions decorate his office.
He was married November 16, 1863, to Callie, eldest daughter of Colonel Isham and Julia Harrison, of Columbus, Her father was colonel of the 6th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, and was killed on July 14, 1864, while leading his regiment in the severe and important battle of Harrisburg, Miss. Camp No 27, U. C. V., bears Colonel Harrison's full name.
At the organization of the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of Mississippi in Aberdeen October 15, 1889, when Gen. E. C. Walthall was elected its Grand Commander, he wrote his former adjutant general, Colonel Sykes, that he would not accept the honor tendered him unless he would again serve him as his Adjutant General. Accepting the tendered honor, Colonel Sykes continuously served in the position during the successive terms of Gen. W. S. Featherston, Governor (Colonel) Stone, and Gen. Stephen D. Lee.
On the organization of the Department East of the Mississippi, U. C. V., and the assumption of command thereof by General Lee, in orders under date of November 15, 1894, he appointed Comrade Sykes as his Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, with the rank of Brigadier General.
On the adoption by the United Confederate Veterans at their Reunion held in Houston, Tex., May 22 24, 1895, of an amended constitution creating the three army departments as they now exist, and the election of Gen. S. D. Lee to the command of the Army of Tennessee Department, General Sykes was appointed its Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, with the rank of Brigadier General, and has thus continued to serve through the successive terms of S. D. Lee, Clement A. Evans, George W. Gordon, and now under Lieut. Gen. Bennett H. Young as Department Commanders.
From January, 1884, to January, 1888, General Sykes was State Senator for Lowndes County. He is a member of several fraternal orders viz.. Masons, Knights Templars, Odd Fellows, Elks, one of the Past Grand Chancellors of the Knights of 'Pythias of the State of Mississippi, and a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma (Greek Letter) Fraternity. At sundry times and occasions he has delivered literary and commemorative addresses, notably his oration delivered at Munfordville, Ky., September 14, 1885, at the unveiling of the monument erected there to the memory of Col. Robert A. Smith, commanding the loth Mississippi Infantry Regiment, who fell in the battle fought there twenty two years before, and
A Cursory Sketch of General Bragg's Campaigns," both of which appear in the "Southern Historical Society Papers" (Volumes XI. and XII.), published at Richmond, Va. He has likewise written a history of Walthall's Brigade, not yet published, and many other literary and military articles. He has been since the Civil War a practicing lawyer at Columbus.
In compliance with the request of the VETERAN General Sykes has well written a most interesting sketch of early war days, which is unavoidedly held over to the next issue.
Confederate Veteran May 1911
COL. J. A. ORR, OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.
Hon. Jehu A. Orr, of Columbus, Miss., will go as Commander of Isham Harrison Camp, No. 27, to the Little Rock Reunion. Judge Orr is one of the two living members of the Provisional Congress which met in Montgomery, Ala., and organized the Confederate States of America, and the only survivor of the Richmond Congresses. His colleague, singular to relate, is also a Mississippian, Judge J. A. P. Campbell, who served at times as "President of the Congress."
Judge Orr is a native of South Carolina and is a younger brother of the Hon. James L. Orr, who died in St. Petersburg while serving as United States Minister to Russia.
He has been in public life since attaining his majority, more than threescore years. He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate at twenty one years of age and was a member of the Mississippi Secession Convention, voting for secession. He was elected to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, and served in it until February, 1862, when he raised a regiment of fourteen hundred gallant Missiasippians for the Confederate army, and commanded it until he was elected to the Second Confederate Congress, taking his seat in April, 1864, and served until the end of the war. He was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and made the report which led to the celebrated "Hampton Roads Conference."
At the close of the war Colonel Orr resumed the practice of law, and continued in practice until selected judge. He has been an earnest supporter of the State's educational institutions, and for thirty five years has been a trustee of the University of Mississippi. He has long been an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and has striven on high planes to promote the cause of his fellow man.
Col. Jehu A. Orr was announced by President Davis as a member of Congress on April 29, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the 31st Mississippi Regiment September 24, 1862, and resigned his commission to serve again in the Confederate Congress, Lieut. Col. M. D. L. Stephens being promoted to succeed him as colonel on June 8, 1864.
Judge Orr celebrated his golden wedding with his splendid wife some years ago, and he has reached the ripe age of eighty five years.
LITTLE ROCK TO HAVE "REUNION GUARDS."
Plans for the protection of visitors to Little Rock, May 1618, have been prepared by the Public Safety Committee, which includes a volunteer organization known as the "Reunion Guards," composed of members of the local lodges of Elks, Eagles, and others. They will be sworn in as special officers, and will have badges giving them authority to make arrests and take other measures to maintain peace.
Details from the Arkansas Militia will patrol the Veterans' Camp in the City Park. The Little Rock police force, deputy sheriffs, and constables will be aided by detectives of the three railroad trunk lines that run into Little Rock and of the Pacific Express Company.
In addition, letters have been sent requesting every sheriff and chief of police in Arkansas to report to the Public Safety Committee and cooperate with that body in maintaining order.
Trained nurses will be in readiness in case of need, and every possible precaution will be taken for the care of the veterans, most of whom are now very old and feeble. Ambulances will follow each division in the parade May 18.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR VISITORS OUTSIDE OF HOTELS.
Nine of the schoolhouses of the city will be used as temporary hotels, and will accommodate about four thousand visitors. Each will be conducted as a modern hotel, except that the sleeping accommodations will consist of cots. For such places one dollar a day will be charged, no reservations to be accepted for less than three days.
The high school building will be reserved exclusively for women. At this building and also at the Kramer School the Women Teachers' Association of Little Rock will serve meals at moderate prices. These schoolhouse hotels will be open to the public on the night of May 15. Reservations may be made in advance by writing to Rees P. Horrocks, Chairman of the Lodging in Schoolhouses Committee.
The Eating and Lodging Committee has required those furnishing meals to sign a contract in which prices are stipulated.
FACULTY OF ROANOKE COLLEGE "DEFENDED"
J. D. Rodeffer, secretary of the faculty, writes the VETERAN :
SALEM, VA., April 17, 1911.
Dear Sir: I am instructed by the faculty of Roanoke College to send you the inclosed statement of our defense of President Morehead, who has been unjustly attacked on account of his stand for academic freedom. President Morehead's father fought under Lee four years. My father, Mr. M. M. Rodeffer, of Lovettsville, Va., who is one of your subscribers, fought four years under Stonewall Jackson and Longstreet, Most of our faculty are the sons of Confederate veterans, but because we stand for academic freedom, we have been attacked as being anti Southern. Nothing is farther from the truth."
FACULTY OF ROANOKE COLLEGE MAKES A STATEMENT.
To the criticism that has been directed against Roanoke College in connection with the adoption and use of "Elson's History of the United States," the faculty have preferred hitherto to make no formal reply. This course was chosen, not because of our disregard of public opinion when fairly and properly expressed, but because in the first place the main points at issue were covered at some length by the action of the board of trustees, and, further, because the discussion of the principles has been obscured by the introduction of personal issues. But when personalities become such as to reflect upon the honesty and fair dealing of the president of this college a man whom we know to be incapable of any dishonorable act and whom we regard as much with affection as with respect we are impelled to utter an emphatic protest. President Morehead has been away from Salem since the meeting of the board referred to above and is not fully informed of the attacks which have been made upon him, but we wish as a faculty to say in his absence that we are unwilling that he should be selected as the special object of criticism. His views in this matter are precisely the views of every regular professor in the college, and if odium attaches to his course of action, we share it equally with him.
The present statement is evoked especially by the resolutions of the William Watts Camp of Confederate Veterans at their recent meeting in Roanoke. And here we desire to say that we have the highest respect for the Confederate veterans, and feel sure that they have not been fully informed on all points involved in this question, otherwise they would not have passed, among others, the following resolution: "We deplore the stand taken by President Morehead, who, after promising to abolish the history, kept it, and is still keeping it in use."
We regard this as a serious imputation on the character of President Morehead. To all who know him intimately such a charge is absurd. If reference is here made to resolution 9 of the board of trustees passed at its meeting of March 7 upon the recommendation of the president, we desire to say that the charge is absolutely false. The resolution reads as follows: "In view of these facts and in view of the fact Dr. Thorstenberg does not insist on the use of said history, deeming, as he does, the question of a text book not of vital importance, it is further resolved, at his suggestion, that the use of a text book be discontinued, and that his proposal that he assign topics without a text book and that students be required to obtain their material from any accessible sources, without responsibility on the part of the professor, be approved."
That action has been conscientiously adhered to. The professor of history immediately discontinued the use of Elson's book, and since that time has made no reference whatever to it in his work. He has not encouraged any student to use it. The trustees did not direct that the books be taken out of the hands of the students who owned them, and that has not been done. The books are the students' private property. But in order to make more effective the topical method, a number of volumes treating of the period now being studied have been added to our library, which was already well equipped with historical works. It is precisely this method of work the work of consulting various authorities, of getting at different viewpoints, of forming independent judgments, and following no man till he proves his case that has been fostered in the department of history as well as the other departments of Roanoke College.
In view of the many false rumors and persistent misrepresentations in regard to the position of Roanoke College as to the Elson history, we desire to set forth the facts in the matter. The curriculum which went into effect at the beginning of the present session provided for an advanced course in American history. The professor in charge found difficulty in securing a text of suitable scope for the work. While there are numerous elementary texts on the subject, these are much too brief for the advanced course provided for. Other works cover special periods only or are too voluminous and expensive. He adopted Elson's as being practically the only available single volume covering the whole field of American history and discussing the topics with sufficient fullness to stimulate further thought and study. Neither the professor of history nor the president of the college nor any member of the faculty has ever defended the errors of Elson. But we hold that the mistakes of a historian can be met and nullified only by clear reasoning and by the dispassionate presentation of facts.
Roanoke College is a Southern institution with Southern traditions, and its faculty, composed, as it is, chiefly of Southern men, has no desire that it should be anything else. Our professor of history, it is true, is not of Southern birth, but we know him to be a man of irreproachable character, of exact learning, and one who is absolutely above sectionalism and prejudice. We have known him for four years, and trust him. We have not discovered that any student has been rendered less loyal to the South through his instruction. If there should be any anti Southern influence exerted in any of our classrooms, the students would be the first to detect it and protest against it. Every member of this faculty, from whatever section, has the greatest admiration for the men who fought the battles of the Confederacy, but we cannot forget that we are also citizens of the United States. We believe our chief duty is not to resurrect the bitterness and animosities of the past, but to train young men for present day duties and to a patriotism that embraces the whole country.
As the faculty we are not greatly concerned with this or that particular text book, inasmuch as no text book determines the character of the instruction given in our classroom, but we are vitally concerned with the question of academic freedom, by which we understand the right to discuss frankly all sides of any mooted question with a view of arriving at the truth. We are concerned, further, that a professor should be answerable only to a settled and recognized
authority namely, the board of trustees, who can command all the facts and evidence in the cause and render a fair and impartial decision. A professor should not be condemned until it is shown by such process that he is either unfaithful or incompetent. These rights, and particularly the right of free and honest investigation, we believe that every college should maintain if it is to do constructive work and justify its own existence.
COMMENT ON THE PITIABLE "DEFENSE."
When the foregoing was received, the impulse was not to publish it, but recalling the Boyd sketch of Sherman, published in the VETERAN last year, and anticipating that the other side will make protest, accompanied by explanations at the Little Rock Renion, it was decided to publish this rejoinder in the VETERAN.
Reperusal of the letter and a careful study of its import, together with an investigation of the Elson history, creates acute pain and depression. There is no palliation for Virginians in this, and that "the student body indorsed the action of the faculty," as has been published, came like a poisoned arrow to the heart. Anger does not help the situation. In memory of our sacred dead we can but grieve over the situation.
There is just enough of sugar coating by the vile pen of Elson to draw his unsuspecting readers on to the most infamous declarations ever published about the South and about the issues that brought on the war. It is indeed strange that Virginians do not repudiate every sentiment connected with this book.
The "defense" of the faculty, as is here given, but adds to the infamous conditions, "Academic freedom!" Mr. Rodeffer seems to put a Patrick Henry spirit in his comment. To a Southern man who is sane death would be preferred to liberty that licenses the use of that vile history in the schools of the South.
The only pleasing feature of the defense of the Roanoke faculty is the action of the Northern man chosen to teach history in the college who "immediately discontinued the use of Elson's book, and since that time has made no reference to it in his work." Greeting to Dr. Thorstenberg! He may have gotten in his work by introducing this book, but through association with some genuine Southern people and taking inspiration from them the falsehoods and the knavery in the book must have become glaring to him. Let us hope that since his commendation of it the scales have fallen from his eyes and that he now sees the truth in clear light.
Southern people cannot afford to be divided. The noble men and women of Salem and Roanoke who have made this issue, regardless of consequence to the college, will hold eternally the gratitude of the Southern people. The Roanoke Times states on this subject: "It is well to take notice now that if Roanoke College is wrecked or seriously hurt the injury will be the result of the astonishing policy and methods of its own management. If public hostility against the college becomes so intense as to be destructive, it will be because the college, as now conducted and directed, has provoked and invited hostility continually, has opened and maintained a battle against the people of Virginia and the State and their opinions and sentiments."
This history is said to be in use in sixty colleges in the country, and one fourth of them in the South.
Just a few extracts are given herein and they are not the worst to show the trend of the author, Elson. He states:
There can be no doubt of their sincerity. They honestly believed that the continued agitation of the North against slavery threatened the peace and happiness of their homes, and would if continued render life unendurable at the South. The old colonial aristocracy of the South was not without its shortcomings, on the whole, it was chivalric and picturesque, and the small farmers of the South were also a respectable class.
In writing of General Sherman Elson states: "At Orangeburg a slight battle was fought and another before Columbia, the enemy (!) being led by Gen. Wade Hampton, Columbia surrendered on February 17, Hampton escaping after setting fire to five hundred bales of cotton. The fire soon spread, and a large part of the town was consumed. If it be granted that the Southern people were sincere in warring against the Union, how could they be expected on their defeat instantly to denounce the cause in which their fathers and brethren had died as afalse one? Time alone can bring such changes."
Of the capture of Mr. Davis, Elson says: "Davis was defiant and sullen, though he was well treated by his captors."
The Boston Transcript says: "A meeting of the board of trustees was called, and twelve out of the fourteen who responded voted for resolutions sustaining the methods employed in the history course. The faculty and undergraduates took similar action, but still the forces of strife and misconception refused to be quieted."
Elson designates as the "slave holders' rebellion" the war in which many grand men who never owned a slave, but rushed to the fray, went down, and dying, offered gratitude to God that they gave life for the principles of their fathers' government.
TENNESSEE WOMAN'S HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION PROTESTS.
The following resolution, drafted by Mrs. N. B. Dozier and presented by her at the April meeting of the Tennessee Woman's Historical Association, Nashville, Tenn., received the hearty indorsement of this association:
Whereas it has been brought to our attention through various newspapers and the CONFEDERATE VETERAN that there is being used not only in the North, but also in several preparatory schools, colleges, and universities of a number of our Southern States, Tennessee included, a history of the United States of America by H. W. Elson, of Kansas, which contains slanderous falsehoods against the South, her people and institutions, and whereas we have examined this history and found that this statement is correct, and whereas on page 558 he attacks the morality of Southerners in slavery days, also the sacred relations of the home in language which is false, and whereas we know that in no section of this country or in any other country has there ever been a higher standard of morality than in the South, or has the sanctity of the home been more carefully guarded than by the people of the South, and whereas on page 625 he declares that 'slavery, and slavery alone, and not State rights,' was the cause of the War between the States, which he terms the 'slave holders' war,' and whereas we know that a great majority of the Confederate soldiers never owned a slave, and that Gen. Robert E. Lee, who had the honor of commanding the Confederate forces, also the honor of declining to be the commander in chief of the Federal forces, had several years before this war freed his slaves: therefore be it
''Resolved, That the Tennessee Woman's Historical Association make an earnest protest in the name of truth and justice against the use of 'Elson's History of the United States' in any school of this country, and that this association in order that the girls and boys of this country may know the truth exert itself that no history which misrepresents the South, North, or any other section of this country be taught in our schools, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Macmillan Company, of New York, the publishers of this history.
(This association is in no sense political. The wife of a Union veteran and a Republican was the first President, but this outrageous "history" should be repudiated by every American patriot man and woman. EDITOR
VETERAN.)
A last kick: "Another cause must be mentioned the great superiority of Lincoln over Jefferson Davis, * * * It is curious to speculate what might have been had the direction of the migration of these two men been reversed." In his preface to the book Elson says: "As a native and resident of the North, I no doubt partake of the prejudice of my section."' There is nothing in the history of the South more deplorable than that sons of Confederate soldiers attach so great importance to "academic independence" as herein vaunted.
MEMORIAL DAY AT CAMP CHASE.
Notice comes from Columbus, Ohio, that Memorial Day will be observed at Camp Chase Cemetery on Saturday, June 3, 1911, and that Dr. H. M. Hamill, of Nashville, Tenn., Chaplain General Army of Tennessee Department, will be the orator of the day.
Contributions of flowers or money are solicited by R. E. Lee Chapter, U. D. C. Send flowers to Mrs. D. B. Ulrey, 49 Avondale Avenue, and money to Mrs. Clara Kertzinger, 445 Wetmore Avenue, Columbus. Mrs. Leroy Rose is President and Mrs. Ulrey Recording Secretary of the Chapter.
Al G. Field has arrangements in charge. Col. W. H. Knauss must always be remembered in connection with his service at Camp Chase.
WISE AND WORTHY COUNSEL OF A DEVOTED U. D. C. Let us resolve as spring ripens into summer to work in unison with all nature and by harmony and concerted effort crown with success all our various works in the Chapters, the Division, and the general organization. We all have much to do, let no one shirk responsibility.LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS OF CONGRATULATION.
Gen. George W. Gordon, Commander in Chief U. C. V., wired from Washington, D. C., February 22, 1911: "I join you to day in honoring the memory of our gallant and gifted countryman, President Davis, soldier, statesman, and patriot, who died as he had lived, in the unshaken conviction that our cause was just and our resistance an act of self defense."
Among others who sent telegrams and letters from various sections are the following: Gov. E. F. Noel, of Mississippi, Hon. D. C. Richardson, Mayor of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Sarah Polk Blake, the daughter of Gen. Leonidas K. Polk, Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone, Mrs. Virginia Faulkner McSherry, President General U. D. C., Rev. Leslie J. Kavanaugh, Superintendent Catholic Education, Mr. E. B. Craighead, President Tulane University, Mrs. E. Gottschalk, President Louisiana Division, U. D. C., Mrs. Sarah Dabney Eggleston, Honorary President Mississippi Division, U. D. C., Gov. J, Y. Sanders, of Louisiana, Mrs. J. Enders Robinson,
Historian General U. D. C., Mr. Eugene Levy, Dixie Book Shop, New York, Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell, Congressman from Louisiana, Gov. William Hodges Mann, of Virginia, Hon. William M. Kavanaugh, Chairman U. C. V. Reunion Committee, Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. Roy W. McKinney, Recording Secretary General, U. D. C., Rev. R. Lin Cave Chaplain General, U. C. V., Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Gen. V. Y. Cook, Batesville, Ark., Mrs. George K. Warner, St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. R. L. Nesbitt, Marietta, Ga., Mrs. J. C. Lee, Montgomery, Ala., Mrs. Shelton Chevis, Petersburg, Va. (the last four named are Vice Presidents C. S. M. A.), Hon. J. M. Dickinson, Secretary of War, Hon. E. D. White, Chief Justice United States Supreme Court, Washington, D. C., Mrs. Mollie R. McGill Rosenberg, Galveston, Tex., Ladies' Memorial Association of Marion, Ala., Fitzhugh Lee Chapter, U. D. C., New Orleans, La., Col. Samuel Tasco, Commander Florida Division, U. C. V., Mrs. L. H. Raines, Custodian General Cross of Honor, U. D. C., Savannah, Ga., Rev. Charles B. Crawford, rector Church of the Redeemer, Biloxi, Miss., Mrs. D. A. S. Vanght, Chairman Beauregard Monument Committee, New Orleans Chapter No. 72, U. D. C., Rev. Mother Superior, Ursuline Convent, the Louisiana Sunshine Society, President of the Arena Club, Mrs. Julia A. White, President Clinton Chapter, U. D. C., Clinton, La., O. A. Bullion Chapter, U. D. C., Gonzales, La., Johannah Waddell Chapter, U. D. Cä Baton Rouge, the Travelers' Aid Society of New Orleans, Miss Sophie B, Wright.
FLORAL OFFERINGS FOR THE OCCASION.
Many handsome floral offerings were sent to be placed on the monument. Among those who sent flowers are: Stonewall Jackson Chapter, No. 1135. U. D. C., Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association, New Orleans, Junior Confederate Memorial Association, New Orleans, the Louisiana Branch King's Daughters, Miss Sophie B. Wright, Mrs. Benjamin Ory, Mrs. W. J. Behan, Mrs. A. W. Roberts, Mrs. U. J. Virgin, Mrs. D. A. S. Vaught, Mrs. E. M. Harnett, Mrs. Frank Reith, pupils of Jefferson Davis School, "a friend" from Jefferson Davis School, Frank T. Howard School, No. 2, McDonough No. 16. Louisiana Division, U. D. C.
New Orleans Chapter, No. 72, U. D. C., Louisiana Division. Samuel S. Harris Memorial Association, Cape Girardeau. Confederate Memorial and Literary Society, St. Louis, Mo. Miss Nina Holmes, of New Jersey. Coreopsis Branch of Sunshiners. Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
Mrs. William Preston Johnston, Hon. Charles R. Kennedy, Hon. L. D. Moore, Hon. W. J. Hardee, Hon. St. Clair Adams, Hon. Otto F. Briede, Mr. Robert Legier, Mr. J, J. Frawley, Mr. U. J. Virgin, Mr. A. J. O'Keefe, Mr. Charles D. O'Conner, Mr. James A. Robin, Mr. P. J. Greenan, Mr. J. Numa Roussell, Mr. A. A. Harmeyer, Mr. Thomas J. Kelly, Mr. George Ferrier, Jr., Mr. Maurice Woulfe, Mr. J. M. Gwinn, Mr. J. B. Habans, Mr. William Frantz, Mr. Thomas B. Cleary, Mr. Gasper Cusachs, Mr. Thomas Doyle, Mr. Frank Henning, Mr. E. M. Loeb, Mr. E. A. Parsons, Mr. James G. Swarbrick, Mrs. Paul Blanchard, Mr. Simon Levy, Mr. Paul Cire, Mr. John M. Kieth, Mrs. A. Allain, Mrs. Labbe, Miss Doriska Gauthreaux, Mr. James McRacken, Mr. Thomas KilJeen, Mr. M. J. Hartson, Mr. James Grant, Mr, Samuel Gately, Mr. Manuel L. Vila, Mr. Walter Verlander, Mr. A. J. Wainwright, Mr. E. J. Ryan, Mr. Peter Graham, Mr. Rudolph Huft, Mr. Thomas O'Conner, Mr. Nicholas Bauer, Mr. George G. Kronenberg, Mr. E. A. Williams, Mr. Charles J. Colton, Mr. C. A. M. Dorrestein, Mr. John Watts Duffy, Mr. Frank Owens, Mr. William M. Levy, Mr. Joseph Reuther, Mr. William Wild, Miss Lucille Kuhn, Mr. Cleave Joseph, Mr. Philip Blanchard, Mrs. W. G. Owen, Mrs. Gus Weil, Mrs. John T. Benedict, Maj. M. L. Costley, Mrs. M. L. Costley, Mrs. C. H. Ellis, Mr. David McLeod, Rev. I. L. Leucht (in. memory of Thomas Livingstone Bayne), Mr. James Garrity, Master Rolla A. Tichenor, Master Elton E. Mackie, Miss Lilian Prowell, Master George H. Tichenor, Master Ambrose Storck, Master Philip Davis, Miss Celia Vizard, Master Edwin Belnap Tichenor, Miss Bessie M. Tichenor, Miss Ritta Camors, Miss Lucile Prowell, Master Joel J. McGinnis, Miss Ethel Gastrell, Miss Elise Camors, Master Putnam Davis, Miss Lynn Dinkins Robinson and Master James Dinkins Robinson, Leo Catchings Lewis, Col. John Holmes, Mrs. Evelyn D. Edwards, Mrs. Blanche Avery Ehrman, Miss Camille McKeon, Mrs. Ferdinand Arnold, .Miss Irma Schwab, Mr. Leslie Zimmerman, Mrs, Robert McNamara, Misses Olivia Pfister, L. Mayeur, Philene O'Niell, M. Mayeur, Mrs. Stella D. Lennox, R. Itzkovitch, A. Postricke, C. Adoine, Olga Labe, Esther Hiller, E. Zimmerman, M. Rolins, A. Toal, L. Buddendorf, C. Zimmerman, Clare Fogarty, M. Dermares, G. Itzkovitch, E. Shurman, M. Zimmerman, H, Buddendorf, Miriam Longmire, L. Fretis, May McBride, Mamie Buddendorf, Myrtle Constans, Josephine Buddendorf, Messrs Manuel Fernandez, Fernand Arnauld, Joe Zimmerman, Walter G. McKeon, Albert Arnould, M. Donnellan, Theodore Mc Ginnis, Jr., L. F, Ehrman, Robert McNamara, J. J. O'Neill, H. P. Vinet, W. H. Oncken, C. Platz, H. D. Eastburn, T. McChesney, M. Kuitterez, F. P. Bermes, T. J. Suter, W. B. Duncan, Miss Lucile Ellis, Col, John Holmes (in memory of Capt. Toby Hart and Rev. J. K. Gutheim).
NAMES OF PAID UP MEMBERS IN Box.
Mrs. J. S. Alsina, Miss M. E. Blakely, P. A. Bacas, Mrs. M. E. Bullock, Mrs. J. E. Byrnes, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Carnahan, Mrs. H. W. Christian, Mrs. Charles S. Childress, Gen. T. W.
Castleman, C. V. Coello, Mrs. L. S. Cohen, Capt. and Mrs. James Dinkins, Justin F. Denechaud, Miss M, E. Davis, Mrs. Royden Douglas, Mrs. Joseph R. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. George Denegre, Hon. H. Garland Dupre, Miss Kate Eastman, Miss Kate Eastman, Jr., Mrs. I. J. Fowler, Mrs. E. H. Farrar, Mrs. M. E. Forwood, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Graham, Capt. Lewis Guion, Mrs. E. Gottschalk, Mrs. L. C. Godbold, Gen. John W. Glynn, Maj. J. W. Gaines, Ad Grossman, Mrs, Howard Goodin. A. B. Griswold Co., Ltd., Mrs. F. W. Gibson, Mrs, Hammond, Mrs. John G. Harrison, Mrs. M. S. Holland, W. O. Hart, Mrs. Howard D. Holmes, Miss D, M. L, Hodgson, Edwin M. Harnett, Mrs. W. P. Harper, Mrs. Helen M. Keary, Louis Kaufman, Hon. J. L. Kaliski, Mrs. C. Edmund Kells, Jr., Mrs. S. Long, Miss Angela Lobrano,, Mrs. Bessie Behan Lewis, Henry M. Lanauze, Frank Langbehn, Langhoff Bros., Mrs. Orloff Lake, Col. and Mrs. Alden McLellan, Miss Lydie McKeon, Mrs. W. W. McWhan, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mackie, Mrs. A. L. Moore, Fred W. Mathews, Miss Kate Nicholls, J. D. Nix, J. W. Noyes, Mrs. William E. Norris, Hon. James O'Connor, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ory, Mrs. P. F. Pescud, Miss Edith Palfrey, Miss Delphine Points, Miss Agnes Ponder, Miss Mary Rawlins, Mrs. Gordon Sargent, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Swartz, Mrs. J. F. Spearing, Miss M. F. Spearing, Miss Fannie Spearing, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Santana, Mrs. I. D. Stafford) Mrs. H. J. Seifreth, Mrs. C. D. Sauvinet, Mrs. L. E. Seymour, Miss E. P. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Rolla A. Tichenor, Mr. and Mrs. Sumpter Turner, Mrs. D. A. S. Vaught, Mrs. J. D. Weir, Mrs. Emily Wood, Miss Sophie B. Wright, Adam Wagatha, L. George Wiltz, Mrs. Julia A. White, Mrs. George Wiegand, Mrs. Charles Zapata.
CONTENTS OF COPPER BOX IN FOUNDATION OF MONUMENT.
List of officers, State, city and Federal. Silver coin of various denominations. Confederate money and stamps.
Confederate seal (facsimile presented by Mr. W. O. Hart). Invitation to unveiling ceremonies of Jefferson Davis monument. Papers of the day. List of officers and members of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association. Program of unveiling ceremonies. Jefferson Davis calendar started in 1908 by Mrs. John G. Harrison in commemoration of the centennial of Jefferson Davis. Two small flags, C. S. A. and U. S. A. Pamphlet on restoration of the name of Jefferson Davis to "Cabin John Bridge" in Washington, D. C.
Description of monument, souvenir badges, roll of the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division. Roster Washington Veteran Association. History Washington Artillery in war and peace. Charter and by laws Washington Artillery. General Order No. 9, relative to the Jefferson Davis monument and to be read at the unveiling,
Copy of Charter Camp No. 1, Army of Northern Virginia, renewing old charter, granted in 1902.
Copy of menu thirty sixth annual reunion of Camp No. 1, Army of Northern Virginia, with list of toasts and speakers.
New Orleans: What to See and How to See It, by the New Orleans Progressive Union.
Badge of escort of Jefferson Davis's remains to Richmond. Washington Artillery badge. Confederate envelope, 1861. Order of services held in memory of Varina Jefferson Davis in Trinity Church, New Orleans, La., October 28, 1906.
THE RICHARD OWEN MEMORIAL.
Attention, please, to the proposed memorial to Col. Richard Owen, who was commandant of the Camp Morton prison, Indianapolis, in the early part of 1862. Reasons for setting up this memorial were published in the April VETERAN.
It is consistent with Southern people to be slow in action unless they are addressed personally, therefore the projector of this worthy undertaking is not discouraged that prompt response is not more generally made. As the only undertaking of the kind ever known, appeal is made to the Christian patriotism of every Southern man. No doubt is entertained of the result) nor that when it is thoroughly understood and deliberately considered many persons will be interested. Many, many times the writer has been told: "There will be a monument for you when the time comes," Those who entertain such sentiment should be impressed with the fact that this memorial means much for the good of our common country. It is meant to testify to a sentiment that never before found expression in such a form.
The records show no man equally worthy of such honor. The men whom Colonel Owen befriended in Camp Morton are nearly all dead, but every known survivor favors this memorial movement, and the Editor of the VETERAN has in mind a memorial in Indianapolis that will be the pride of the South and elicit more gratitude in the North than anything ever undertaken. Let us, therefore, be diligent in this at once. Don't forget that the legislature of Indiana passed a resolution by unanimous vote authorizing the Governor to permit the placing of the memorial either in the Statehouse, on the grounds of the Statehouse, or on the soldiers' monument in the city of Indianapolis.
A recent publication states of the Governor, Thomas Riley Marshall, who has this authority: "He has stepped into the national political limelight as an avowed receptive candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 1912. He was born in North Manchester, Ind., in 1854. He is a graduate of Wabash College, A.B., '73, and A.M., '76. He has practiced law in Columbia City since 1875, and has long been regarded as one of the shrewdest criminal lawyers of the Middle West. Prior to his entrance upon the governorship in 1909 he had held no public office of consequence. The Governor is a Democrat, a Presbyterian, a Mason, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and takes a prominent part in literary and scientific clubs."
It is very desirable to place this tribute to Colonel Owen during the administration of Governor Marshall.
HOW THE MEMORIAL Is REGARDED BY THE SON.
Mr. Horace P. Owen, President of the New Harmony Banking Company, New Harmony, Ind., writes: "It swells my heart with pardonable pride to contemplate the realization of an idea so unique in conception and so gallant in character. No greater honor, to my mind, could be shown to any man, and so far as I know it is without a parallel in the annals of war. Words, cannot express my gratitude to you for conceiving and executing such a magnanimous tribute to a 'foe in arms,' and the act reflects the true character of a noblehearted, chivalric Southern gentleman."
(The Editor of the VETERAN, who is the promoter of this memorial undertaking, is embarrassed by the receipt of tributes to himself in this connection, and he begs that all who write on the subject will carefully omit any such comment. The purpose of the undertaking is solely to honor the memory of Col. Richard
Owen.)
FROM JOHN H. LENOW, MEMPHIS, TENN.
I read with a great deal of pleasure that a fund was being raised THE COL. RICHARD OWEN MEMORIAL FUND.
Some very encouraging responses have been received to the appeal for contributions to the memorial to Col. Richard Owen at Indianapolis. One of hearty approval comes from George M. Jones, of Springfield, Mo., Commander Missouri Division, U. C. V., who says: "Your proposed tribute to Col. Richard Owen, commandant of prison at Camp Morton in 1862, is so commendable and so altogether unique that I want to be one of the first to make a contribution to it. You do well to popularize it as you have done. All Confederate
veterans ought to have the opportunity to contribute to this worthy cause, and in this spirit I inclose you one dollar. If the response should fail to meet your expectation, I should be very glad to contribute an additional amount."
Capt. L. A. Powers, of Athens, Tex., writes: "I went from Fort Donelson to Camp Morton Prison in February, 1862, and ever since have had a kindly feeling for Colonel Owen. He never forgot to be a gentleman. I am glad to be able to make this small contribution to his memory, and sincerely hope that every one now living who was in prison at Camp Morton during his administration, as well as many other friends, will join in this deserved tribute to his memory."
Albert Thayer, of Indianapolis, also falls in line, inclosing $2, and commends the undertaking.
NAMES OF. FIRST CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MEMORIAL.
G. N. Gardner, Nashville, Tenn., $1, Miss Jessica Randolph Smith, Henderson, N. C., $1, J. H. Gilfoil, Omega, La., $1, W. H. Howcott, New Orleans, La., $10, Col. William H. Stewart, Portsmouth, Vaä $1, J. K. Womack, Eagleville, Tenn., $1, Albert Thayer, Indianapolis, Ind., $2, J. M. Campbell, Martinsburg, W. Va., $1, Capt. George M. Jones, Springfield, Mo., $1, W. J. Miller, Burlington, Iowa, $1, James T. Rice, Iva, S. C., $1, Dr. W. E. Hinson, Charleston, S. C., $2, Arthur Parker, Abbeville, S. C., $1, Capt. L. A. Powers, Athens, Tex., $1, Dr. J. H. Comb, San Marcos, Tex., $1, John H. Lenow, Memphis, Tenn., $1. Total, $27.
ARKANSANS' WORK ON KENNESAW MOUNTAIN. COL. W. H. MARTIN, CLEBURNE'S DIVISION, INAUGURATED IT. Dr. F. W. Bush sends the VETERAN the particulars of an episode in which several Benton (Ark.) soldiers were participants, and vouches for its truthfulness. Bishop Hoss declares that "there is nothing in history that matches it in chivalry," Gen. S. G. French (Confederate) tells of the incident in his autobiography. It was in the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Ga., fought June 27, 1864. On that fateful day
Genera) Sherman made a front attack on General Johnston's lines,
(Her grandfather, father, and five uncles were in the Confederate army.) and was repulsed with awful slaughter, leaving thousands of his dead and wounded, the intrenched Confederates suffering comparatively little loss. The brigade that made the charge, commanded by General Wagoner, was composed of the 15th, 40th, and 31st Indiana, arid 97th New York Regiments.
During this battle,
says General French, "one of the noblest deeds of humanity that the world has ever known was performed." The narrative states: "Col. W. H. Martin, of Little Rock, of the 1st Arkansas Regiment, of Cleburne's Division, seeing the woods in front of him on fire and the danger threatening the wounded Federals who had taken refuge therein, tied ahandkerchief to a ramrod, and, amidst the danger of battle, mounted the parapet and shouted to the enemy: 'Come and remove your wounded, they are burning to death. We won't fire a gun until you get them away. Be quick !' And with his own men he leaped over the works and helped in the humane work. When this work was ended, a noble Federal colonel, John I. Smith, of the 31st Indiana Regiment, was so impressed with such magnanimity that he pulled from his belt a brace of fine pistols and presented them to Colonel Martin with the remark: 'Accept them with my appreciation of the nobility of this deed. It deserves to be perpetuated in the deathless honor of every one of you concerned in it, and should you fight a thousand other battles and win a thousand other victories, none will be so noble as this."
Mr. Bush, John Leech, James Shoppach, Dr. Ben Medlock, of Benton, and John R. Lofton, Sr., of Newport, all remember the incident. In front of their breastworks the Confederates
ad cut down trees and saplings, and had also driven rails in the ground, making it necessary for the Federals to edge their way through, and as they came in sight were shot down. When the woods caught fire, the wounded men were in double peril, and if Colonel Martin had not arranged for a truce when he did, they would have burned to death. The late Capt. Alfred Hockersmith, who was in charge of the Benton company, was one of the leaders in the rescue work.
(Her maids are Miss Mamie Williams, of Houston, and Miss Floy Reta Allen, of Memphis, Tenn., matron of honor, Mrs. Luther Taylor, of Houston, chaperon, Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck, of Brenham,
Tex.)
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