Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-25
THOSE SWORDS.
How RuIIcr Captured General
rwigg's swords and SiIver-WhO
should Now Have Them ?

How Batter Captured General
TwigR's swords ana SiIVer-Whu
should Now Have Them ?
Augusta tGa.l Chrenicle
A Chronicle reporter called on Judge
d. D. d. Twiggs yesterday, and inter
viewed him in reference to the three
swords presented to General TWiggs AID
now in the Treasury building at Wash.
ington. Judge Twiggs said that when
the Federals invested New Orleans, Gen.
Twiggs left his silver plate and the three
swords in the carr Of two LADIES in that
city-Mrs. Florence aud her daughter.
When B. +. Butler took command OF
New Orleans, he ordered these ladies to
give up General Twiggs' property, and
upon their refusal to do so incarcerated
them in prison. In order to escape fur
Their imprisonment the ladies finally gave
up the plate and swords. The latter
Butler sent to Mr.. Lincoln, who not
knowing what else 10 do with them
placed them in the treasury department.
The plate has never been heard OF since
it came into Buffers possession. In
Api.l, 1877, Judge Twiggs received a let.
ter from Governor Joseph <. Brown, in.
closing one to him from NIT. I. Eaton,
of Petersburg, Va in reference to the
swords. Mr.. Eaton said that a short
time previously be went to the treasury
building at Washington, and in a vault
in the bureau OF printing aud engraving,
which visitors were rarely admitted into,
be was shown, among other things, the
swords of General Twiggs-Cne pre-
scented to him by congress, one by the
State of Georgia aud one b. the city OF
Augusta. The aggregate value of these
swords is estimated at from $50, 900 to
$40, 900. Mr.. Eaton said it seemed to
him that the time had come when the
representatives Of General Twiggs might,
by proper effort, recover the swords, and
that all that was needed was simply an
order from Mr. Hayes that they be r
turned. Butler took them without any
legal process, and no legal process should
be needed to return them. Upon receipt
of these letters, Judge Twiggs wrote to
Baltimore to Colonel A. C. Myers, who
had married Miss Marion Twiggs, Gen.
Twiggs' only daughter, putting him
in possession of the facts as de
tailed by Mr.. Eaton. General Twiggs'
son, John Twiggs, was then and
is now in San Francisco. These are
General Twiggs' only heirs. Colonel
Myers replied to Judge Twiggs, stating
that be had already taken steps to re-
cover the swords, and hoped to get them
by the coming winter THAT of 1870. BE
said General TWiggs had devised the
swords to his cbildren-that presented to
him by congress to his son and the other
two to his daughtet-and that when be
got them he would turn them over to the
heirs as designated by the testator. This
showed most conclusively, said Judge
Twiggs, tina. General Twiggs has made a
will and devised the swords to his chill.
dren, and that he could not therefore
have given them to any one else. Either
the story about the claim of an English
woman to the swords was a hoax, or If
there was such a woman she was putting
in a claim without any foundation for it.
he had heard nothing more from Col
ouel Myers since the letter received in
May, 1877.