The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-11

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| cence of divinity. The meteor flag had
passed across the heavens and left its
track there forever.
/ RIGHT TO BE PROUD.
| Gen. Gordon said that the southern peO-
| pie have as much right to feel pride and
| interest in the flag Of their united country
and in their countrys glory and achieve
| ments as those Of any other section. No
| other section, he said has given more
| Industrious names to its history, and none
other has q greater heritage in the proud
| achievements of the forefathers of the re-
public. 1t is due to the ability and states
| manship of southern men, he said, that
| there are so many stars in the flag
| of the country to-day. Jefferson 5
| purchase of the Louisiana territory from
| the French, extending from the Gulf of
| Mexico to the British possessions, and
| from the Ohio river to the Rocky Noun
tains, and the war with Mexico con-
| Quoted under the administration of Polk
| by which another immense territory was
acquired, were instanced as the accom-
plishments of southern men for the ma
| zion.
| ON GETTYsBURG's FATAL FIELD.
Gen. Gordon spoke of the invasion of
Pennsylvania by Lee. 1t was an effort
crates on tine part ..it of the .. confed
the extent of northern hospitality.
! I'VE wanted to get close up to our
northern relations, and when we did we
wished they had taken Scott's and Gree
| ley's advice and stayed at home and let
the south go off by itself If 1t wanted to.
We crossed the river cheerfully and rap
idly, and we recrossed more rapidly and
| less Cheerfully. We made very uncere-
monious leave-taking, Notwithstanding
the fact that we had made arrangements
TO stay away all summer. When next we
| visited the state, peace had settled over
| the land, and our national flag with its
red stripes glowing all the brighter for
| the southern blood which had been
| Spilled
TALE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Gen. Gordon amused his hearers with
anecdotes of some of his experiences in
| Pennsylvania. when we crossed into
Pennsylvania" he said, Gen. Lees COM
mand went one way and | went another
My way led through the districts in
habited by the Dutch settlers. One day
several horses belonging to the natives
found their way into our camp, evidently
without their owners consent. 1t was
| a curious coincidence. | thought at the
time that the horses were prob
ably southern sympathizers, or, per-
haps, they had been drafted under our
conscript laws. At any rate they were
| there, and one day Dutchman came to
me and said had his mare After a
while, as l didn't pay much attention to
him, he limited that hadn't paid him. 1
confessed the omission, and offered to do
so-in confederate money, which was not
very agreeable to the Hollander, | then
pro fered a draft on President Lincoln,
which suited the fellow better, although
he couldn't exactly understand what au-
thority had for such d STEP"
AMONG THE DUTCHMEN.
Gen. GOrdon's own command, he said
became separated from the rest of Lees
army, and he found himself up in the
region peopled by the Dutch whose thrifty
toll was observable in the farms and the
big barns and the horses, that seemed
almost as big as the barns. 1t was not
surprising that by some means or other
many Of those horses were found picketed
in his camp. He didn't know how they
got there, as he had never seen fit to
make inquiries. One day a Dutchman
came to him and complained that his COM
mand had taken valuable mare and
he wanted payment for it.
II explained to him that the union
soldiers had taken our farmers horses in
the south, and we were only taking tit
for tat. He was obdurate and demanded
money. l offered to pay him in confed-
crate money, but he refused. l then
offered to give him an order on President
Lincoln, but he was dubious about my
authority. At last he said L hat peen
married dree dimes, but l woot not gif
dose mare for all dem vomans"
This produced general laugh. Gen.
Gordon returned the Dutchman's mare.
woNAN's HOSPITALITY.
TWAS in this same region that his COM
mand reached a town which was on fire
and saved it from utter humiliation. A
lady whose property had been thus pro-
tected invited himself and staff to break
fast. They were treated so well that
Gen. Gordon imagined that she was
southern symrathizer, and intimated as
much.
"You should have seen the superbly
proud manner in which she drew herself
up. She said to me: Gen. Gordon, I
cannot afford to be misunderstood. You
saved my property, and desired TO tes-
tify my appreciation of your kindness in
this manner But l am union woman. l
have husband and son whom l cheer
fully gave to the union cause, and my
daily prayer is that my country may be
victorious Such woman deserves an
exhalted niche in patriotism's temple"
He said he had been familiar, of course,
with the heroic sacrifices made by south
ern women who knew and thought moth
ing of themselves as they cheered up
their boys in the hour of defeat and tenn
y
Il have seen the southern women
among the sick and wounded and dying
and marveied at their sanity spirit of
martyrdom, and | have marveled still
more as they still stood bravely facing
fate while their faith in the eventual sue
cess of the southern cause wraathed a
heavenly halo around their pale faces
And while the women of the south laid
down their sweet offerings that were so
cruel to the givers, there were tens of
thousands of northern women of whose
trials and sacrifices the world and his
! tory will never know"
HIS MEETING WITH BARLOW.
One of the most interesting of Gen.
! Gordon's anecdotes was that of his meet
! ing with Gen. Francis G. Barlow, of New
York, upon the field of Gettys burg and
their subsequent meeting years after,
when each supposed the other dead. 1t
was when Gordon's command had pushed
their way furthest into the enemy's
territory and won victory for the confed-
crate armies in the first DAYS
fight that while pushing the enemy
, across clover field Gen. Gordon found a
wounded ma or general of the union army
lying bleeding upon the field. He had
him removed to the shade of tree A
bullet had passed through his body,
striking the spinal cord and paralyzing
| the lower half Of his body, and death APP
peared imminent. He proved to be Gen.
/ Barlow, of New York. After thanking