Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-28
THOMAS R. R. Cobb.
!. CUMMINGS CONTINUES MS
"REMINISCENCES.
actors In Lees Army OF
-. yirginin-Death of
~ .,,aadier-GencraI cobb
Of Gecrgia.

,.. s,e 10 the gallant
n y a tiiy !, s,id nudge Cum
q n > MI. memory should be
n 'na' ,hat tbeir motives
ished' az" ,s.,r,ad in history. This
" ps ....aossa,v since for more
sps7laiiy - M section Of this
lnlrN III most powerful i'm
n' unS .sa 400 ooo arnuallv OF ben.
y Of 'iDV''s ~. ,ha natriots has
nonss Ia ard detained the
90 ons ~ a,ns,on mining at nil
70 Jus, much SAFER and
a'as. ~ ,s.ss ,nan .nn,i,ns tr,g.
inple s.aa 30 foe defending
~ W
y niu y e,aorg,a,s most brilliant civ
ne " 80, gai,an, soldiers gave
u'' na,,,emert ~ the differ
M !" me states In the late
= ps'"sN - 90 Con Thomaa u
Wn' -. ua ,,ada 4 h,,rht
ppp u - -. ..,,o to,oro "a
II In MS i"'iN' e Dto
s lawyer ana a law-giNer'
,nrotated Code Of Georgia is q
~ - bis yenius which all
nment a,,.,,.h ri.
rgians uelisht u eie''sh M
ser. Howell Cobb. who was Older
| .atsr national fame as n cab
s aa,. pras,dart puchan.
oiiieer u''N
but those VINO knew pest say
| Thomas r. II. Cobb was his SUI
|, hotb in war and In peace. His
49, -, at,,t.to a.
Ipae was 'i'e s'''''s Wv 'siV" ."
Il. Gen. Lafayette McLaws was
| alvislon ,commander-ano
,,.a, -anou,r
VSn '.
|ssn, Cobb met nus ueath IN repeliihs
N he brigade the impetuous and
4 aatad assaults on Mnyre's
N@ s,.,,,.,s -. ,,...,..
te oil seus"ich CORPS Nieasiler
Irl brigade OF lrishmen was
"A in front in close column by
-. ,t,,,oo,, 40, aa.,, rhts
N'n aV'u'
sda the 18Th OF December, lS6Z' IL
/ q he time when Burnsiue iailed 10
q Richmond, me HeorBlanA ttne
~ diapperS) We're IN front AT tle
~ val, supported py kershaWs
iGltl brigade tine hlce birdsl, anu
4 i1s-Barksdale's mississippi orig
4 q be Mud Turtles) supported them
II aufght Just across the Iusearora
II r. ne carnage was the most fright
ntuy ever witnessed up to that
lcit the war. We were IN posi-
II Mkihat we could see the Irish
h1and their commander In their
4 nnMes.
] m was a plateau of some twenty
4 hi tst in front OF the stone wall,
~ hey would mount out OF de-
rFan next to the river. As soon
ig would come in sight the trig-
A Mlling and death dealing would
~ The Washington artillery was
\ Niyre's Heights helching forth
and thunder with terrific effect,
Irish brigadler when repulsed,
b and again would reform mis- men
Ne depression and, 10 encourage
n Irish souls, he distributed sprigs
adar from the trees growing
nd for them To place in their caps
hamrock-old Ireland's sign of the
III. But the Rice Birds and the
n Nj Grabbers and the Mud Tur-
we're too much for them. When
4 n came they lay in heaps, In some
- three or four men deep.
ft conquered but Bozzarris tell'
allg at every Vein.'
4orgia remembers her cherlshsu
! nm by erecting a-hlarpie l'v giv
Il over the spot where Cobb tell.
with the entire battle helu' Is
m repair uhdet tne a1si ias -
hqies OF tue hlstorlv p'u wv "a =
aricksburg, where heS ehtoll .1','
dust Of Mary Bali MashlHs .ph III.
mother OF the ia'ier VI 'ii'9
sliy. - 49,,
Ftobb Is the author OF ING onls
aHcan text book on the NV o i
try. IT Is an exhaustive NoIh anu
n the slave back to the most an
b times. And though oosoiete'
r. Of the horror-strlcken negro
BIS would learn something OF U.S.
hem, In saving their tears u thes
EA review II. This work came pu'
Ns-four years before the death ~
h cobb. and two years before t IN,
IN broke over the man IN "h'''
~ the man In black. here -
ellace for the man In black 70 ree'
4 \ profit, especially since the iel, lp,
anita wcrlSmen have risen IN aIiil'
Z driyen from competition the plac 81
ia lust after the recent electlon u
pessman Galusha a, Hl9w WIZ WV
argest Republican majority eNe
Aio anyone"
II sc Cummings took from nus laN
II Cobb on Slavery, ana iroi
%el read as follows;
N would require a prophellc Vlslo
latiell the future OF AmeIica
50 iaves. Emancipation III thel
sssem bcation can never be peac'
.g eneced. Until the white race