Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Answers to Questions of Interest
Raised by Curious Readers.
GENERAL LEES OLD REGIMENT.
A Iody Of eficers Who Became Famous
Upon Both Sides
ANCIENT AND MODERN INFORMATION

Who were the field and line officers Of Gen :
eral R. E. Lees Regiment previous TO the
War of the Rebellionf A. p. B.
The regiment was the Second Cavalry.
Lee was assigned to it as Ii lieutenant
Colonel in May, 1855 The Army Register
for 1856 gives these as the field and princi-
pal line officers for that year: Colonel, AL
bert Sydney johnson, who resigned in
April, 1861, and entered the Con federate
army, dying as General in 1862; lieutenant
Colonel Robert E. Lee, who resigned from
the First Cavalry in 1861, and became Gen
eral in the Confederate army. William j.
Hardee was senior Major; he entered the
Confederate army, became q general and
died in 1873. The junior Major was George
II. Thomas, who became q general in the
army, and died in 1870 The senior line
officer was Captain Earl Van Dorm, who
resigned January 81, 1861, became a Major
General, c. S. A, and was killed in a per-
sonal quarrel in 1868. Edmund X. Smith
was second captain, and other officers who
are remembered only as names
were Captains William R. Bradfute,
Charles E. Travis, and Charles j,
Whiting James Oakes commanded the
color company; he became Major in 1861,
Colonel in 1856, and retired in 1879 Innis
Palmer became Colonel in 1868. and retired
az Colonel. George Stoneman, JE., who
commanded the fifth company, became
Colonel Of the Twenty.frst Infantry,
Major General, and retired in 1871; he was
Governor of California in 18S3-S7. Captain
Theodore O'Hara commanded the sixth
company in 1855, but he resigned in 1856;
he became editor of paper, and served as
a Colonel on the staff of General Albert
Sydney johnson, G. S. A., during the war;
he died in 1867. His famous poem "The
Bivouac of the Dead" was written in 1848
for the retGrn of Missouri regiment OF
| volunteers from the Mexican war. Next
to the last among the Captains was Albert
G. Bracket, who became Lieutenant Col
onel in 1868, Colonel of the Third Cavalry
in 1879, and retired as Colonel in 1891. The
Quartermaster was Lieutenant Richard W.
johnson, who retired in 1875 as Brigadier
General, disabled by wounds, and the Ad-
jutant was Lieutenant Kenner Garrard. It
was great regiment, of6cered by many ia
nous men.
! Please give me. the Democratic and whig
votes at the Presidential election OF 1864, OF
the States that passed ordinances Of seces-
sion. - L. A. II.
South Carolina chose her electors by
vote of the Legislature, so no figures can be
given. Georgia gave 16, ,66O votes for Scott.
the Whig candidate, and 81, ,705 for Pierce;
Mississippi gave 1888 Wing votes, 26, s76
Democratic. Florida cast 2,S75 votes for
Scott, against 4,31S for Pierce; Alabama,
1905 for Scott, &c, ,881 for Pierce. Loui-
siana, II, ,255 for Scott, 18,647 for Pierce.
Texas gave Scott 1895 votes, and Pierce
| 13, 552 votes; Arkansas Joined in with Z, 404
ior the Wings, and u, ,173 for the Demo-
Gratis Virginia gave Scott 81, ,132 votes,
Pierce 72, Ais; North Carolina gave Scott
80, ,O58, and Pierce 9,744 votes. Tennessee
favored the Wings, giving Scott 58,89S
votes and Pierce 81, ,018; Kentucky followed
suit, with 81, ,068 Tor Scott, against g. .Sc6 for
Pierce Maryland gave the Whig ticket
81, 5,o77 votes, and the Democratic ticket 40.-
O92; while Missouri cast 29984 votes and
38, 1853 votes for Scott and Pierce respec-
lively.
Tell me something about the explosion OF
q gun on . Governments vessel some years
ago, by whicn some cabinet officers were
killed. +. l. IL.
The vessel was the O. 8. s. Princeton,
built BY Ericsson, and having screw-pro-
psllsE On The 2sth u February, 1sz4