The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-22

regiment.
It was during his connection with this
company that his career as scout COM
menced. His success was such as can
| be achieved alone by high-souled men.
religiously determined upon the dis
charge of sacred duties. During this
period he had several rencounters with
detached parties of the enemy, always
achieving success, and rarely losing a
man. What, however, first signalized
his name, and caused him to be pointed
out as an officer of decided capacity and
daring, was his entry into Jackson when
Grants army was leaving that city for
| Vicksburg, in the spring OF 1868. He
| did so while the rear guard of the army
was still at the depot, and with only
twenty men under his command killed
and captured about forty of the enemy,
among whom was Col Cromwell, of the
47tb Illinois, and with his own hand
planted the Confederate flag upon the
dome of the capitol.
His subsequent gallantry and capacity
in operating on Sherman's army, while
on his raid through Mississippi, belong
to the history of the war, and entitle
him to the highest need of praise. His
conduct was "the admiration of one
army and the terror of the other"
During this expedition, with a mere
handful of men, he killed and captured
one hundred and fifty of the enemy.
So telling and well directed were his
efforts, that they did not fail to extort
praise even from the enemy. So much
were they harrassed by his vigor, activi-
ty and daring, they could not be per-
suaded that he commanded less than
| fifteen hundred picked men. What may
be accomplished by few patriotic and
! heroic men, in narrowing the circle of
ruin spread by the march of a numer-
GUS host, was happily illustrated on this
| occasion by "Harvey's Scouts; and
ever blest and honored be their memo
ries for their services to their country
during that hour of trial to so many of
us!
Sherman again found this patriot
hero, during his march from Dalton to
Atlanta, hanging on the skirts of his
army-noW promoted to the rank of
captain, and his little band increased to
about one hundred men. He was five
weeks in the rear of the Yankee army,
exhibiting that sleepless vigilance, ac-
tlvlty and perseverance which always
characterized him in the pursuit of
noble ends. While thus engaged, watch
| ing the movements of the enemy, and
attacking him at every assailable point,
| he cut the railroad in eleven places,
running off and destroying five trains
heavily laden with commissary and
ordinance stores, compelling Sherman to
wagon his supplies, guarded by brigade
of infantry. He did not, however, con-
fine his attention to cutting the enemy's
communications and destroying his
trains. At Tilton, he attacked and
routed force of two or three hundred,
killing and capturing more than his
own number.
| 1t was in reference to such services as
| these-most extraordinary, when con-
| trasted with the inadequate means at
| his command-that Gen. Johnston, in
| his last report of the operations of the
| Army of Tennessee, bestowed upon him
high compliment, creditable alike to
the giver and the receiyer-a compli-
ment less remarkable for the eulogistic
/ terms employed, than for being the only
one received from him by any officer of
his army. This, however, was not the
only complimentary notice of our Ia
mented friends sagacity and gallantry
He was repeatedly recommended to the
| War Department by his commanding
officer for promotion. And, that man
of his extraordinary merits-combining
as he did, all the elements necessary to
the successful conduct of military oper-
ations-did not reach higher position,
is one of the mysteries connected with
the management of the War Depart.
ment, which will, perhaps, never find
any other solution than the misrule that
finally brought disaster and ruin upon
our righteous cause.
But "we came to bury Caesar, not tc
praise" Were eulogy our subject
and space permitted, we might dwell
upon his hundred successful conflicts
with the enemies of his country; We
might linger over the skill, courage anG
galiantry which enabled him, during the
progress of the war, to slay with hi;
own hand, in open and honorable con
flict, thirteen of our Vandal foes, anG
assign them graves in the land they
came to desolate; or we might tell t(
willing ears, how, in his earnest desire
to serve our sacred cause, he had wrap
ped himself in the veil of night, passed
the pickets and explored the camps O.
the enemy. When the historic must
records the events of the war through
which we have passed-if she ever doe:
amid the ruins of our cause.-the name
of ADDISON HARVEY will be found higl
upon the roll of those glorious men wht
were not born to die. Not Light Hors'
Harry nor the Swamp Fox, of revolu
tionary renown, will erjoy more envi
: able reputation than he, when the ap
propriate place of each has been assigned
by the DEGREES of impartial history.
The patriot who has thus so fully anC
so ably discharged his duty-entitlin,
J himself by self-sacri6ciHg devotion ant
heroic achievements, to the benedictio,
, of all who deserve the blessings of free
dom-was native Mississippian. III
grew up from boyhood to mans estat
, in the midst of this community and hi
!, beatified spirit has winged its high
J to God, not one among us would with
hold from him the eommendation frs
, bestowed upon the Chevalier Bayard,
man seitsout fear and ,cithout reprodcl
1t would be difficult for the severes
r criticism, in reviewing his entire life, il
} its utmost minuteness, to fix upon
u VI
] To few others could be so appropriated
T applied the words of the Roman poet:
Totus teres atque rotundus.
Il But, however aecomp plished and vel
, pared to mingle in the great battle Q
. life, and win its highest honors, the in
: exorable grave has closed over his love
remains 0 who, while standing besid
2 that.grave and contemplating his recor
t in connection with the war, which hs
5 terminated so disastrously for cur right
and liberties, does not feel, that if eae
: soldier and citizen had performed hi
e part as well-that if each had entere
!, into the contest withehe same singlenes
e of heart and determination Of purpos,
t we had not now been in the gall &
b bitterness and the bonds of iniquit,
e but the Confederaey, freighted with on
: best hopes, had this day been know
e and honored throughout the world
= But we may not pause to weep owe
/ our fallen fortunes; nor should we wee
e over the stainless hero who has sunk t