The National tribune., 1893-05-04
INAUGURATION ECHOES.
How Gen. Dick DonneiIy Showed Up on TIL
Great Parade,

How Gen. Dick DonneiIy Showed Up on the
Great Parade.
Many visitors at the Inauguration remarked,
as the Jersey line passed, that the handsome
and sodierly Marshal took the bakery. Gen.
Dick Donnelly is capable of just such feat.
Virginia boasted much Of her Lee and his
elegant appearance, though il was quite mani
fest that he being relative of the great
Robert T. caused the admiration. Jersey
men feel proud of Dick; the name or action
of others than himself have no part in
bringing him TO the surface. He has been
simply Dick Donnelly from 1861 to date
He was a member of Co. l. 1st N. j., and Of
Tent No 8, Hulls own. He was Serg't Dom
nelly at the Battle of Gaines's Mill, Va, and
badly wounded and discharged for disability,
otherwise brillian. military career would
have followed.
Gen. Dick was twice elected q member of
the Legislature mot when owned by race-track
gamblcrs). whom clean and able men filed
both Houses: twice elected Mayor of Trenton
a Republican city-though he is Democrat :;
was promoted from the Colonelcy of the 9th
n. j. n. g. to Quartermaster-Ge General of the
State which position he now holds He makes
friends. regardless of party, and holds them
because OF his genial manners. He could not
be Tarsney. We're he elected to fill seat in
Congress, Senate, or the Presidential chair !;
he would maintain his fsalty to his old COM
rades.
Come wag tells the story of Dick as saying
that his only Gipin.like ride for life was on a
mule at Gainess Mill, Va. when. badly
wounded and lying on the field, or rather in
the woods, Charlie Hopkins, member of his
company, came near him, and at his request
gathered up the long frame Of Donnelly and
backed " him over q thousand yards through
the hottest kind of cross FIRE at close con-
tact-an actual hail of bullets-to place of
safety, as supposed. Dick appreciated the act
of this mule. and Congress acknowledged it as
an act worthy of the precious Medal of Honor,
and Charlie is rightfully proud of it.
Those of his company knew Hopkins to he a
mule, indeed, when stubborn fighting was re-
quired, and mulish to tho last shot; otherwise
this Joke has application, as ho was always
good natured, good and kind-hearted. true to
friends close i'll friendship, lenient and inde-
pendent to those he distrusted as enemies
Donnelly and Charlie have been fast friends
these long years, and the Great Reaper can only
sever the cord. Hopkins was bad dly wounded
few minutes after aiding Dick out of deaths
jaws and left for dead. was an inmate Of two
Confederate prisons (Andersonvlle and Flor
ence) with Hopkins, aud know some of his met
tie. he would face the brute Stanton, and
| never finch, though thousands did and suf-
fered. When sick from disease and starvation,
almost skeleton, he was sought for by the
| off, of the prison and proticred q job with
| good pay, comfortable quarters, and sufficient
| clothing if he woud sign the parole or take the
galvanized oath and 20 10 Columbia, S. c., and
take charge of factory for the manufacture of
| saddles and harness for the Confederacy. He
! refused promptly the $500 per month in gray
| backs, good board bed, and clothing.
AS persuasion failed, they Numbered. Those
| who knew Charlie knew when he was riled
| that somehow he could make things blue by
his vigorous language, and when informed he
| must go, willing or unwilling las they were
wanting such men very badly, then they
aroused the mule In him, and he said emphatic
ally he would not go; the whole Confederacy
| could go to -, aud no to his grave, rather
than be galvanized or aid them; one country
to serve, one flag to maintain, one oath to full
| fill, and one death to die was all he could
or would do.
They left him, and the mule came pretty
near kicking up his heels to stay; strong
spirit. good constitution, and mulishness saved
him. Though 215 pounds in weight May 5,
1864, be weighei-two weeks after feeding at
Annapolis-l233 pounds year later. How is
| that for Tarsney's second- class hotelf How
| did Tarsney fare? He says he was there. III
the Sons of Veterans of Massachusetts, go down
| May 30 to decorate Apdersonville graves,
would suggest that they ask Tarsney to crate
| on the occasion.
Hopkins has carefully kept diary Of his
| whole inprisonmsnt-3D MESS, 9TH DE-
| TAcHMEET, Boout0n, N. ].