Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-07
HONOR TO DEAD COMRADES
cAnPHARDEE EMBAlMs THEIR MEMORIES
Tributes to Hon. G. w. Hewitt and Dr. Dow sing-Words of Brave Men About
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dee, United Confederate Veterans:
 Goldsmith ". Hewitt was born Febru- ary IA, 1894. in what is now Jefferson coun- ty. and died at his residence in this city on the 27th day of May, 1925, in the 62d year of his age. His ancestors on his fathers side were Irish, and on his moth- CTS side were Scotch. He was therefore Scotch-Irish. His father came to what is now Jefferson county, then a part Of the county of Blount, and here settled before the admission of the state of Ala bama into the union. Here he received his academic education, began the study of law in the office of Judge Mudd at Elyton, where, after graduating at the law school at Lebanon, Tenn. he settled and began his practice. He never had any other residence than Jefferson eoun- ty. He never attempted any display of oratory. but always spoke with earnest ness, to the point and with effect. He was lover of the truth for truths sake, and always responded with alacrity in the defense of truth and innocence. It was his ready response and exhibition of genuine sympathy which placed Colonel Hewitt In touch with perhaps more of his fellow citizens than was the lot of any other man who ever lived in this county. He readily attained and easily held commanding position in his profession, not only at home, but throughout the state.
 But it is of Colonel Hewitt as soldier in the Confederate army that you as Confederate soldiers. will most delight to hear When the alarm of war sounded in 1861, he promptly responded to the call, donned the gray and enlisted as a. pri- vate soldier in the company which was organized in this county, afterwards be- came Company B of the Tenth Alabama regiment of infantry. In that company he served as a private and was afterward elected orderly sergeant. The Tenth regi ment learned its first lessons of the du- ties of a soldier under the command of Col. John H. Forney, under whose lead ership it received it's first baptism of fire at the battle of Drainsville, in which Col onel Hewitt took part in October, 1861.
 Interesting no doubt would it be to you, comrades, but especially interesting to the members of that grand old regiment, who yet survive and are here present. if time would permit for us to tell you of the camp life of Colonel Hewitt as a member of that command during the fall and winter of 1861, as it stood sentinel on the outposts of the army of Northern Vir- ginia on the Potomac under Joe John-s Ston, and during the spring and summer of 1862 in the Peninsula and around Richmond. and far more interesting still would it be if we could tell you of the fighting history made by that grand old regiment later on under Colonel Wood. ward and afterwards Col. William Henry Forney in the battle of Seven Pines, Cold Harbor and Gains mill. in all of which Colonel Hewitt took part.
 He was wounded at the battle of Gains Mill On each and every one of those. bloody fields the Tenth Alabama regi- ment performed deeds of heroic valor of which the Confederate soldier will ever be proud, never forget and never grow too old to repeat to those who wore the gray. Recovering from the wound he re- ceived at Gains Mill, Colonel Hewitt was elected and promoted to be captain of company which was raised in this coun- ty, and which became Company in the Twenty-eighth Alabama infantry. It was as captain of this company that he took part in the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn, and afterwards in the battle of Chickamauga, where he received wound that disabled him from further service in the field and ever afterward made him limp. His devotion to duty as an officer of the line in the Twenty-eighth regiment and the exhibition of all those qualities which make up the true soldier were as marked when in command of his company as when he served as private during the first year of the war.
 When peace came in 1865 Colonel Hew- tt resumed the practice of the law in Elyton. With his accustomed will and courage he led in the effort to restore the waste places which marked the track of the invader and in the restoration of civil government.
 His first wife was Miss Sarah Nor row who died in 1863 He afterwards in 1868, married Mrs. Perkins, daughter of Dr. Samuel Earle. It was in those dark days QS6S to 1S7D of reconstruc- ton, when carpet-baggers -raided over our land, held high carnival in disgrac- ing the legislative halls of our state. that the courage and integrity of Ala bama's manhood was in even greater de- mand than during the period of civil war. So it was that in 1870 Colonel Hewitt again came to the front and was elected and served in the lower house of the Alabama legislatures; and two years later he was elected to the state senate and served with conspicuous ability. He was elected to represent this district in the house of representatives of the United States congress, and there served eight years. Time does not permit to speak with particularity of the promi- nent part which he took ir that body, further than to- say that he soon nade his influence felt and served his country and his people with an unselfsh devotion to duty. He ranked high as wise leg islator was very popular with and highly esteemed by his democratic brethren of the house of representatives.
 With becoming modesty alwayshe wore the honors which he had so worthily won But the best remains last to be said of him-that he was Christian gen tleman; firm believer in the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ and long member of his church. With humility he kneeled at the foot of the Cross of Cavalry and in his dealings with fellow men practiced the precepts of that religion which had been taught him in early childhood by a devoted mother. who was daughter of the Rev. Mir. Tarrant, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church.
 We recommend the following resolu- tions: ,
 Resolved, That in the death of Col. c, ". Hewitt the legal profession lost one of it's ablest and most honorcd members the state one of it's most patriotic citi- zens. wise and safe councillor, and this camp one of it's bravest, truest and best soldiers.
 Resolved. That we mourn his loss and hereby express to his family in their be- rcaVement the deepest sympathy of this organization.
 Resolved, That copy of these reso- lutions be spread upon the minutes of this camp and the original resolutions be forwarded by the secretary to the fam fly of our deceased brother.
 JAMES E. WEBB,
 w. C.. WARD.
 GEO. L. THOMAS,