Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-01

Carolina thousands were already IN the
field Students fastened home from col
leges and schools to arm, and men Of all
professions and trades shouldered their
firelocks and took their places in the
ranks Fathers stood shoulder to
shoulder with their sons, and mothers
buckled on the Announcements, and with
tears III their eyes bade them GOdspeed.
Whole families joined the army. From
that of Judge Lumpkin of the supreme
court of Georgia went four sons, two
in-law, two grandsons and six
nepheWs. Thousands initiated the ex-
ample, and to-day many a sire and
matron are treadlng down the slope of
life alone because their boys never came
home from the battlefield.
Two distinct military organizations
were at first created in the South, re-
spectively known as the regular and the
provisional or volunteer army. The
former belonged to the general or state
governments. The latter was the Off
spring of the people. One was intended
to be permanent; the existence of the
other depended on the duration of the
war. In measure, however, the regu-
lar army was merged in the provisional
organization, and its officers, who were
generally graduates of West Point and
other military schools, were transferred
to the volunteers and promoted to high
grades. The men were not unlike those
of the regular seESice in all civilized ma
tons, and restrained by the same rigid
discipline. On the other hand, the vol
unteers were free.a easy lot, who
fraternized with their officers, and until
the seYerer lessons of the war were
taught, tanned 89 equal footing
with them. l recall an ;altercation that
took place one da$~between a captain and
one of the privates in his company, who
was in every way, socially and intellect
ualIy his superior. In the course of the
conversation the:subordinate made some
irritating remark when the officer eX-
claimed: eff you repeat that again l III
lay down my rank and fight you. -
clay down your rank?'' was the indig-
nant response, "that won t make you q
gentleman. A coward ought to fight
with straps on his shoulders, but 1t takes
a gentlem an to fight for 81 month. -
The organization of many of the COM
panies at the beginning of the warz was
remarkable. The first mounted eoIn4nand
that / saw in the field was the Black
Horse cavalry, Capt. I9adford, which
was stationed at Manassas Junction, then
(MaY, 1861 ) only post of observation =.
1t consisted of seventy FIVE or eighty of
the young planters of Fauquier and the
neighboring counties, each OF whom
owned his own blooded animal and was
attended by his negro servant, who also
had the care of a led horse. To all ap-
pearances they were at that time a jolly
picnic party. 4 few days later l rode
into a camp at Harper's Ferry where the
captain was an old one-armed officer OF
the Mexican war, the first lieutenant an
ex-member of congress, the sergeant a
Judge, the corporal former United
States consul to Cuba, and the men in
the. ranks were composed of lawyers
doctors, solid business men and planters
representing altogether wealth OF sew
eral millions. of dollars. Among them
was the striking figure of an old gentle
/, man seventy odd yeafsof, age. For fifty
years he had been a minister of the Cos
pei, and as he stood there leaning against
q tree with a Sharp 8 rife In his hand ano
a blanket rolled around his shoulders
| awaiting the orders to march TO some
! neighboring point, he looked, with hi
stern lace and white hair, like the incaF
| nation of grim visaged war. In thi