The National tribune., 1892-05-12
PERSONAL.

division of cavalry in Alabama, below Talladega,
hot, dusty day In July. when the blue clothing
of his troopers gray with dust, he halted his
column along the road, and he in person. with his
staff. had gone to the house of q planter, who
kindly met him the front porch. The General
asked for water. which brought him, and as
the party sat on the porch in conversation. the
General saw in n stableyard across the road quite
number of good mnles. The General remarked
TO the planter: My good sir fear that must
take some of your mules" The planter rcmou-
strated saying he had already contributed literally
TO the good cause Tint only last week he had
given TO Gen. Roddy 10 mules. To this Gen. Bous-
seau epled: well in this you should be Mt
least neutra-that is. you should be as liberal to
us rs 10 Tsoddy" IN rebel cavalry Genera). well,
ART you on our side?" asked the planter Ne
said Gen. Rousseau, AZ Gen. Rousseau, aud
oil these men you Yanks." Great
God Is it possible?" asked the planter;
"are these Ynnks? Whoever supposed they
would come away down here in Alabams?" 1t is
hardly necessary to say that Gen. Rousseau got
the mules.
II is said In military circles that general assault
all nong the line will soon be made on Gen BeB-
jamin F. Buffers book. Gen. Badly"
Smith will lead column of attack, while the
friends OF Admiral Porter will lead another. Gen.
Butler is in the hands of his friends so he says.
is one thing about the matter. however, which will
tickle the old warrior and that is that there will
be come glorious advertising for bis book In
this proposed assault. upon 1t. and there is 1T
tie likelihood that the bluff old hero OF New
Orleans will lose much sleep over these attacks OF
his enemies. Having been before the public nearly
all his life the General says he has the hide Of
alligator to withstand all the abuse that can be
heaped upon him.
Gen. Thomas Reynolds. Lieutenant-Colonel OF
the 10th Wis. was n very witty man. He WAS shot
in the leg on the Goth of July 1884, In front Of At
lanta and was so severely wounded that the Sur
geoIfs of the Seventeent Corps debated for some
time the propricty of amputating his leg. Col.
Reynolds overhearing this conversation begged
them 10 spare his leg, it a valuable one,
being m imported leg" Col. Reynolds being of
Irish birth. this well-timed pleasantly and wit
saved his leg for the Surgeons thought if he could
perpetrate joke at such time they could trust to
his vitality TO save his limb He thus saved hsleg
and afterward commanded his regiment. and was
brevetted Brgadier- General for conspicuous gal
lantry.
Young Ralph Ingalls,, the son of ex-senator John
j. Ingalls,, who was made comrade OF the Grand
Army of the Republic some time ago is said to be
his father over again In attenuation of figure. rs
we'll as in elcquenee and readiness OF retort While
college youth he took part in an intercollegiate
oraiorical contest. speaking the subject of
Kansas and Her Great Men" in manner, it Is
said that held his hearers spellbound, as they put
| il now-a-days. When he came to his perioration
he said: "Gentemen. the rest of my subject is
| soon disposed Of Kansas has produced but two
| great men-John ]. Ingalls, and John Brown"
| With this he quit speaking and made great hit
| Mrs Bette Taylor cambridge, Of Winchester
Va. the daughter of President Zachary Taylor, the
| hero of the Mexican war, who, during the Presi-
| dency of her father, was the Lady of the White
House. at that time the wife of Col. Bliss. of
| the q. s. Army After the death of Col. Bliss she
| married Mr.. Philip cambridge, whom she survives
Mrs. cambridge and Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, of
| Baltimore are the only survivors of the long line
| Of distinguished women who presided over the
| White House before Gen. Grants Administration
| Mrs. johnson the niece OF President James
| Buchanan, who bachelor. and this ia how she
| came to be the first lady of the land.
| Gen. Frederick George D'Utassy, Of Baltimore,
| Md, General Manager Of the Phoenix Insurance
! Company ofthst city, asphy xiated By escaping
gas at the Hotel Willis. In Wilmington, Del, Sat-
| urday, April 90. The General went to Whining
ton Friday. April %, on business, and at 10 p.
N. was assigned to room. He objected to the
| room and was given another room near by. II was
| subsequently discovered that there was pane Of
! glass of the transom In the room he objected to-
When he retired for The night the General securely
| fastened the window and transom of his room, and
stopped every erevice to prevent the gas from es-
| Gaping. He blew out the gas and jumped into bed.
1t is the belief that the General committed suicide.
| He WAS found unconscious on the following morn
ing. and he remained in this condition until Mon
| day May g when he died. The body taken
| to Germantown, Pa, for burial. Gen. DUtassy
| was the Colonel OF the 39.h y. Y, and was dis
| missed from the United States service May 90,
1868. Depression of mind on account Of the death
OF his daughter is thought to have caused him to
| commit the rash act.
| The statement that Gen. James Longstreet.
| Commander of the First Corps of the (rebeD Army
| of Northern Virginia. was ignored by the Confed-
| crate veterans Mt their recent gathering at New
| Orleans has gained considerable currency at the
| North. II said that this was because Gen.
| Longstreet had for many years been Republican
and had held office under Grant and other Admin
| istrations. A Northern paper which had CORE
spondent duty in New Orleans who had been 8
rebel army officer denies that Gen. Longstreet
| ignored. This correspondent says that he saw
Gen. Iopgstreet several times, met him in the
clubs and elsewhere and testify that the latter
was cordially received on every hand. The old war
horse has become infirm with years. He is now
| Quite deaf and conversation with him has to be
| negotiated through ear-trumpet. It is quite
possible therefore, that majority OF his OLD COM
| rades contented themselves with such greetings
| lent themselves readily 10 gesture and pantomine.
the average citizen not being fond of the
| trumpet as O medium Of "Reminiscences and con-
| VITALITY"
| The gavel welded by the Oregon Department
Commander of the Grand Army of The Republic Is
| a gruesome relic of the murder of Gen. Candy and
| Rev Dr. Thomas the Modoc Peace Commissioners.
The gnye is of white pine and is made of part of
the raIlovs on which the Modoc murderers-Capt
Jack, Boston Charley, Black Jim and Schonchin-
| were executed.
Gen. E. H. Hobson, of Greensburg. KY, the new
Department Commander Of the Grand Army of
| that State Is a veteran of the Mexican well as
the late civil war; and highly respected citizen.
Capt William Hall, 5th U. s. Cav, advocates the
use of the revolver by mounted troops in place of
the saber which, he says, is useless a weapon in
actual warfare. This has long been the theory of
Col John S. Mosby. the rebel guerrilla. who con-
siders the saber very pretty toy for dressparade.
but really a detriment to a trooper in close combat.
Col Mostly had this belief as far back the late
unpleasautness, when he directed his command to
discard their swords and rely on their revolvers
Mrs Annie Hyde, of FishkiH Landing. on the
yersary of her birth at that place April %. Mrs.
| HYDE was born the 2Sth of April. 1889 just two
DAVIS before the Inauguration of George Washing