The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-02-04
hay AND HIS MEN
|.ov,yrrc YONG cA'Ah'E"s
hO or OLD VIRGINIA


4 ,.or 1882 as Ashhy's cavalry
% aver the stony pike from
\ , % winchester, a young lien-
n shoeless prisoner iimpins
,bo side of the road. where his
s,5 carried him TO prevent his
beIpc cut by the loose mocadom'
nr,soper. now a weli-lmown St
,n,,ness man. was then a private
Iosio regiment. boy of Is, and he
on Justly Indignant with JEFF Davis
p. southern Confederaoy when, after
',n,re the colonel Of Louisiana
T., had made him and other Fed
.-,soners pull off their boots that
|. borefooted Louisianians might be
Dnelo said one of the Federal pris-
1--WE would not do you that way
Laa captured you"
Ier mind Tint" said the colonel;
M those bootsH
was the unitarian view of war. Il
/. Al war. Ideal war was illustrated
Eby's lieutenant when, findinS the
III umpinc along in his stocking
h dIsmountad and set him on his
s,nsnt." said a Confederate officer
AZ lieutenant walking at the side
horse ana holding by the stirrup
n keep up "do you suppose the
L would give you a horse to ride
were prisoner
1 makes no difference, major" said
|oung Virginan, His feet are
h was magnificent, but it was not
50 General Sherman might have
Il he had heard the story, and
Iuh have been right.
natter of fact the whole career
tner Ashby and his Virginia gentle
las magnificent, but it was not war.
/ Edward, the Black Prince, crossed
tsnnel and invaded France. it was
/, srisrro rnriish trade. hut 10 yer
aio his e,il.s Va r,,.nya ~
va .n.-,,.,,-,. -. -,
1 ~e'', i.-,s,Is - - -"
sA9" n'.'.s'i.. 80 49, ~
3nmous to the conquered. Bat when
Brown invaded Virginia ard started
Il Ashbv 10 drilling the Young sduirCs !
Eneighborhood, the change from the
lft to the Industrial civilization had |
Iblace Ia both Old and New England. !
&ople Of both We're ready enough to |
IA occasion. but they had passed the |
4hen thsy could risk their own lives |
a - sr,oynent They were alw4,..
u n sgbt chen threatened Win any |
( 800 s,,.5,,,',,,,,.. ,,,,,iy.h ,,,tg',. H., /
4. A.. sas.i.,..",,,,1 80, ,,,',.i.z ~.
, " HeIs,@S 2t, 49, 81. go. -,
mus .'.us'' ~ - - w. -,
n ps' 'ae iV'i','',s .,'' ''H' "u' VI
ri lAey OelJise4 10 'i'c ase Oh steam
|4ai per ceaI'
1in many OF the Virginia counties II
|aafersnt You might easily find there
y lnclation OF English as old as the
4 P,iaAesie3 e--7utH Il remuneration
En Randolph stood ready TO defend
al England as the only corrccg
\ Of spaliiins the language. And by
pc rule Of survival You might find
E quiet and retired spots, far with
from the great, pushing, crowding
ci change, such simple, generous,
blinded gentlemen ms the middle
Iald produce naturally, because 1t
.ehigalrous age, an ace in which
had nothing TO do EXCEPT to keen !
I'D sharp and his morals pure. Per
E might have kept his morals not
hector or u .boon,.' Town sir,s
lie Of these Virginia Galahads have T.
and no matter how well they nnya
Cd they have asaurcdly found 1t
ihan b. the old days when there [
town hooms in Virginia, and when /
Of the manor never came nearer /
aegcialism than in raising tobacco /
through his commission merchant. 1
Ne Tuner Ashby, ]. e r. Stuart
nowan Jackson we're representa- /
eh in his way. of the spirit Incl
thIsVrgiala life. Jackson was
51ar than either of the others. for