Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-22
xI-I,rE. FINrGAN AM LoRING.
- arout some Need South
erners.
From he Neqo York T"'e

N nv mind a pleasant montl at ferhaN
alma in 1865. spent much in Company VII
the ex- Confederate Joseph Finegan' Wh
nod heen associated with Yulee in raj
roading at the commencement of the wa
and who was one OF the most charms
norsons have ever met anywhere. f.
ioon was an Irishman by birth, and slu
90 mo one dav: Il will tell you seCe!'
Accordmg to her voting population r. ~.
Az furnished more men for the Con Sho
ota army than any other state %,
furnished $4,000 soldiers anC o 'GI
General officers. One GenerS 0I ~
cnr was killed-Gen. Geojo. ,;n,,
Ward. who was shot dead wblis Ha,,ss
q charge at Williamsburg-siiu a1ou u,
900 officers and soldiers wereN5li;tnoua ~
oction or died from wounds q, ,'"roI
Rnt this is not the secret - ~
Finegan, ''more than 5000 ~ ~ y,
Is 600 deserted during the eisU '9n
There were only two batts VIZ anJ ~ 20
the name fought in Florld I"i my - 'n nc
fonr wears of the rebellion, nu , IN JIG VI
these (Olustee) our Gen. ey huu las moo
defeated by Finegan, WISE .n ~ ~ W Ia%Uo
/ have mentioned, and IN 49, 80"
raj Bridge our Gen. NeWu ""S " ~ -
bv Gen. Miller, who wa to om, ~ i rror
Yankeeland several yea before lhe wal
e. not the honors OF Ontederate gener-
oIshin were not due to lose natlVe anu
- tha manner born" Ter an, out TO
Yankee rebel and toan ArlSh leoel Ae-
spectively. hao do,,,;so hoo
But more Of YuIe'Wnose demise mas
been gazetted: All Ihe papers, III sn .hI
obituary notices, que LlentIon ~ tn NC
fact that many yea ago ne hau nau inS
name changed frOmeNy W u4T n i',,l
m@S on %, f. saw lat his grandfather's
r "1m had been wee until he changed it
80 Leyy-which as also lact. l qiee
" ~ ,hor yUast one time Grand Nizler
81 monocn0 ardgas detnroned by one of
VI nv 800 80 rot loses, the father of the
ne-id WHO led last week, however.
To ~ his vo,table head from the razor
aSood Nv dads grandfather skipped
N6roooo nv lie light of the moon and
fatnhed nm atibraltar, where he changed
his name i'm Yulee to Levy, partly
bocansa thj return of any member
n tho YuIeaamlly to Morocco had been
interdictedh penalty OF dealh ana parity
because TIN self-eXiled Moor had repu-
dated the Gohammedan Tor the JeWlsn
faith Solr as has EN- known 1ulee's
grandfatb', while Grand Nlzler, lved
almost asrandly and ostentatlously az
the FmncOr misunderstanding and eating
and Enchanting III apartments OF raw
ishin0 slender, ornamented with mOsa-
ics velgts, laces, costly woods and sill
ver andold. He took with him to Gil
hraltarA son and daughter, who, after
their fther's death, as Moses Il. and Ra-
cbeI migrated to one OF the West Indies
st thomas, | believe. The son soon
afterfard, while on visit to England,
marIed an English lady of good
fanny, and the issue was a
bow who was called David L.
Lev. In 1915 Moses 4. and his family
mNed to Florida, and the senior Levy
was soon made the recipient of number
o. Spanish grants, and became quite a
pbwer in the land, which he maintained
until he died at st. Augustine in 1850.
Long before this, however, David had his
name legally changed TO the original.
Yulee's vile was a Miss WickHtte, OF
Kentucky, daughter of Pierce's POstmas-
ter General, and one of the most beautiful
women of Washington generation ago,
when there we're many queens of fashion
and beauty at the national capital, too
among them Mrs. Aaron Y. Brown, Mrs.
Douglas, Mrs. Fremont, Mrs. BOuligny,
and many others.
Six years ago | again visited Florida,
and staid at the st. James Hotel (Jack-
sonville) during two rainy weeks in No
Eember. One evening / beard fine look
ing old gentleman eXtolling the United
states government, and saying many
kindly things of Lincoln and of Grant. |
also noticed that he carried upon his
right side an empty sleeve, which he at
last alluded to indirectly by saying: 81
lost one arm IN the service OF my country
at the storming of the citadel Of the City
OF Mexico, but have another left which
IS always ready and loyal to do her bid
dlng.' then asked who the gentleman
was, and was informed that it was ''Old
billy himself" THAT'S all right"
| said. Pm mighty glad TO know
IL is dear, good old Billy himself,
out VINO is old Billy?' why" eX-
claimed another, "ifs Gen. Loring.
VINO has lately returned from Egypt,
Wnere he has spent a number of wears in
the service Of the khedive. There is no
man more warmly embosomed in the
asarts OF Florldlans than gen. LOring.
lie mas been a soldier since 1885, when he
par eIclPaled as a volunteer in the ranks
" lne IeXas army; he became a Captain
soon alterWard aud fought Indians from
rIorloa to Oregon; then he rose to the
RANK OF Major and distinguished himself
al Cerro GordO, COntreras, Chapultepec
ana Vera Cruz. During the Indian bat
ne OF Ocachoba, in this State, every officer
was Killed but himself, John Green and
u Zachary Taylor. He was with
fremont cut in California In 1919,
ouI When the war was q fixed
iiaacI ne linked that left arm with
hIpy omlths, and the two were placed
" command not far distant from each
o1n5l' ana while Aoring watered his horse
~ me ONO river Smiths charger roamud
among the nutritious grasses upon the
Selopes OF Cumberland Gap. | guess YOU
AnoW the rest. How he went to Egypt,
tot 10 exile himself from his country,
out % make living in the prac tice OF his
Pilleseion, and, If possible, to win dis
my sIS Vioh, Which he did not seem to have
Sau me power or opportunity OF doing
ing our civil war" | became quite
III iuate with LOring before | left jack
IIou1lIle, and he used often to relate
~ ten. Grant saluted him
~ Tue presence Of q hundred thousand
:. ~ H. ptlans at Alexandria by exclaiminc:
PIi"loo1 there is Chapultepec and the
. DTtau uate' BE said 10 me on the train
aiming between Jacksonville and st.
IN ~ ustlne: - doubt il there is u man
m . ,Is South, and even place Mr.. Davis
rate ..sl' VINO would accept OF sepa-
gIS, nationality If ne could obtain it as "A
f." ., No. SIR; we are truly loyal and low
o. 80. % me Union. The South is ten times
~ Jaler tAan II could possibly have been
tb1U we succeeded, and to-day we have
in pssI ana sublimest government
ri,ti Lue world. We have our asso-
snd ' ,s and our "reminiscences,
es,s "e are soldiers, you know. OF lost
M ", ans, although we cannot reverse
NJ .rooIUH anu declare thai we Wero All