The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-21

lative's horses by day and going TO the
dances in the neighborhood at night.
In 1912, when Is years old, hear
ing that the cadet from his district at
the United States Military Academy
at West Point had, for some cause,
given up the place, he packed his
wardrobe in a pair of leather saddle
bags, and in homespun garments start
ed to Washington to see Mr.. Samuel
Hays, his representative in Congress.
Once there, he presented himself to
the secretary of war-a mountain boy
seeking military education. The
indomitable pluck of the youth won
deserved success. He was appointed
cadet and graduated, and was COM
missoned as a lieutenant in the first
Regiment of Artillery, United States
Army, in 1916. In his book of
maxims he had written: "You may be
whatever you resolve to be-" He de-
cided to be a soldier He was a sol
| dieri And now what are the wild
waves of the gulf of Mexico saying to
the unfedged young officer, as he
listens to their ceaseless roar, when
entering upon his first active military
service? The surging billows tell him
that the ascent to the Temple of Fame
for the soldier is dangerously steep,
and the whole world has seen but few
of them reach the very summit of the
dizzy heights. Is he dismayed? Does
he falter? All, no! He Is resolved to
climb it; and the rising fame of young
soldier lights up the glorious track
made by the gallant heroes of Winfield
SCOTS army, from Vera Cruz through
Cerro Gordo, Cherubusco, Molino del
Rey, Chapultepec to the City Of
Mexico; and when the stars and stri pes
waved over the halls of the Monte
zumas the Muse of History had already
opened one of her brightest pages and
upon it recorded the deeds of his
daring. The captain of his battery,
in an official report then made through
the assistant adjutant general of Gen.
Pillow, says of his lieutenant: eff
devotion, industry, talent and gallantry
are the highest qualities of soldier,
then he is entitled to the distinction
their possession confers." The captain
of that battery whose heart dictated to
his pen those sentences thirty-fve
years ago, was knightly ''Prince John"
of the United States army, the gallant
John B. Magruder, of Confederate
fame; the adjutant general was Capt.
Joe Hooker, afterwards Major General
Hooker, who commanded the Federal
army at Charlottesville; while the
orphan boy of ClarksbuTg, the chill
and fever patient. of the Mississippi,
the West Point cadet, the lieutenant
of artillery, whose track was first blaz-
ed through the burning sands of old
Mexico, was your own glorious Com
mander, Stonewall jackson To-day,
my countrymen, his fame fills the
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sweep over his grave bear to every
part of the habitable globe the memory
of his virtuous life and the universal
sorrow felt for his untimely death
Upon the second of May, eighteen
years ago. another report was made to
Joe Hooker. This time the place was
the wilderness of Spottsylvania county,
Va. It told him that his comrade in
Mexico was in his right rear, and with
hostile foot cavalry" too; that there
was blind panic" and "great con-
fusion" there, $50 o. O. Howard re-
ported, who commanded his right,
that the attorney generals department,
as then run by Devens, who command
ed on Howard's right, was sadly tele-
scoped into and mixed up with the in
terror department, which Schurz, who
was next, was then running with to the
interior; that Sehimmeifennigs and
krzyanowskit, and Bushbecks and
| Steinwehrs, and Wiederichs and the
foreign allies there, composing the
Eleventh Federal Corps, were also
generally trying to get back to their