Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-29
GEN. SCOTT.
Three Interesting Anecdotes About
Him

| An old army friend of mine. saws a
washington correspondent, who remem.
bers Gen. Winfield Scott as a tall. fine.
looking old man, with white hair, strict
martinez, with good head and a bic
neart, gives me story or two about him.
In his latter years Gen. Scott was very
lrasclble. A great many people knew
that' out lew knew that he was alwavs
sorry for hasty word. While he was
still at the head of the army with his
| ofdce on Seventeenth street. inst onnosita
Ine ar department, he was coming out
one DAY 10 enter his carriage. cane in
hand. A volunteer orderly. who knew
nothing of ScOtts views of military
prOpflety, approached him with
a letter from a War Department
Bureau, which he had been directed 10
denver to Gen. Scott at once. The orderly
recklng nothing Of Adjutants General or
Chiefs OF staff, interpreted his order lite
RAINY, ana hastily giving careless salute.
Oesah. Oh, General, here's a paper /
want You TO look at before vou-v For
moment the proud COmmander-in-Chief
seemed petriied. Then. raising his cane.
ne SAID IN loud voice: "Clear ont sir.
clear out Of the way" The startled
orderly sprang to one side, and the Gem
eral got into his carriage and was driven
away. The soldier then delivered his let
ter to some one in the office and walked
slowly out. Gen. ScOtt's carriage had
not gone thirty rods before il sfonnad
and turned about. The driver.
raising his voice, summoned the Offend
ing orderly 10 the door, Trembling in
every limb, cap in hand, he approached.
Gen. scott asked his name and regiment.
he gave them. swell, sir" said the
General, ''repOrt to your Colonel that Won
were guilty Of gross disrespect to Gen.
scout as an officer, and that Gen. Scott
MAS guilty OF gross disrespect to you as a
man. zen. scott begs your pardon. Go
10 your duty, sir" In 1861 lady passing
the season here was very anxious to gef
Gen. Scotts autograph. He was very
DuSy, and she found her task very diff
cult. one day the happy thought struck
her that her pretty little 10-year-old daugb-
ter might be able in this case to do what
she herself could not. So she sent the
charming little girl to the Generals office
WIN the autograph album. The orderly
told her that she could not see the busy
General. She would not be denied, She
would wait, she said. At the end of half
an hour the Orderly took her request to
the AdJutant. The latter admitted her
put told her she could not possibly see the
General. She said she must. Atlast tha
AdJutant showed her the door leading to
Oen: scotts office, and told her she could
go IN If she dared. Taking him at his
word, she marched right in. This is her
description of the call given at the time:
81 was afraid at first when he looked mn.
put as soon as he saw it was only me he
SAID right pleasantly: "Well, little girl.
what DO you want" and / told him my ma
wanted him to write his name i'm her
book; and he looked sharp at me and then
smiled little bit, and shook hands
with me and asked me who my ma was.
ana told him, and l told him my pa was
In the army, and ma was all alone with
me, and then he just kissed my cheek and
wrote In mas book and said good morn
ing to me, and l came out and nobody
didn't hurt me at all.v This is what he
wrote: Treason is the greatest crime
Winfield ScOtt.' Just one more: One
saturday afternoon in the summer. before
scott LETT the army forever, President Lin
coin with some friends sat on the balcony
at the rear of the White House. listening
to the music of the Marine Band. when
Gen. scott was announced. The Presi-
dent immediately advanced to meet
MN. and returned with the Lieu
tenant General, in full uniform. on
his arm. The crowd on the lawn
saw the President the white-haired
veteran, stopped talking, looked at the
PAIR Tor moment, and then broke forth
INTO applause. The General at once
stepped to the front and raised his hat in
Acknowledgements. The band very appro-
priately played Hail to the Chief" while
the crowd continued the clapping of
hands. "YOu've got good many young
Generals, Mr.. President" said the old
hero, turning to Lincoln; ''but they don't
forget the old General yet, do thew,
1--WE could spare a hundred of them,v
said the President, helping the General
to seat, ''better than him." 81 thank
you, Mr.. President; L thank yOu,v said
the General, with tears in his eyes.