The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02

would always refer to the fact that he
had been slave, a private, a privateers-
man and was Burr's body servant on the
day of the famous duel of Burr and Ham
ilton.
1T was very gay in those days. II seems
as IL we were older than you boys. Things
began TO grow dark in 1859 and there was a
good deal of smothered feeling, everyone
felt anxious and nervous and that was not
conducive to good temper, and moreover
every one felt he was right, infallibly
right. You know that when man gets
into that state qf mind, there Is no good
debating. Old friends began TO drift apart.
class feeling gave place to sectionalsm,
chums broke off from each other and even
in the fraternities many of the men bare
ly spoke to each other The southerners
were hot tempered and never failed to
make their opinions know, and the north
erners were just as fierce and did not go
out of their way to avoid debates upon
dangerous subjects, and all the while mat
ters grew darker and darker In 1860 1t
was one continual blaze of temper
You have heard OF the Hugg-Trlpp af-
fair? Trip was a South Carolinian and
Hugg came from New Jersey and was a
great leader Of the union crowd and was
president of the grand tribunal or some-
thing of the sort. They determined to
teach Trip a lesson and laid their plans
to get hold of him after chapel. Trip
found IL out in some way and made him
self ready for the day. When chapel was
out Hugg and his crowd made rush for
him, but In a second Trip drew der
niger and fired point blank, but provi-
dentially missed and his friends seized him
and hurried him away. Both men left
college soon after and Hugg was killed at
the Crater before Petersburg in "a. This
affair in college led to number OF chai-
lenges, but the cooler heads took matters
into their own hand and put and end to
that business after good deal of trouble
1.-THE class dinner that year was a miser-
able affair. Some one proposed a toast TO
the union, but while many rose and
drank, the southern delegation sat silent
Every one felt badly, many of the men
would have been glad to have made friends
again, but things had gone too far. When
the winter vacation came the aspect of
affairs was so alarming that most OF the
men from the southern states did not re-
turn.
Then came the firing on Fort Sum-
ter, but most OF the southerners had left
by that time and the union men had things
all their own way; the few Of us who re-
NAMED packed our trunks and started
south Immediately. and there were after
all some very sad partings at the thought
that when we again met it might be as
opponents in deadly conflict. The class or
SO volunteered for the union army or on
tered the navy almost to a man, as Gideon
Welles, who was the Secretary Of the
Navy, was great friend Of
the college and lived in Hartford. The
last two or three years of the war IL Is
said the college was almost deserted and
IL took years for It to grow to its old
standard. Few men from the south came
up for many years, as many of the wealth.
lest families had lost their all.
whats that? Did any of the men who
had been friends encounter each other?
Oh, yes Kempe and Vincent fell oppo-
site each other at Gettysburg. They
were members Of the same fraternity
had been friends and used to visit each
other during vacations. Vincent was a
major-general, commanding the Pennsyi-
vania reserves at Little Round Top on the
third day, when Hoods Texans made their
desperate attack on that position and
Kempe was colonel of a Virginia regi-
men in Hoods division. Hoods men came
on like mad and drove back In disorder a
part of Sykes's corps. When Vincent
swung around on the left and took thom in
flank. Kempe's regiment faced around and
there was a terrible hand-to-hand conflict
Kempe's horse was shot from under him.
but seizing the colors he rushed forward
into the fight. Suddenly he spun around
on his heel and plunged face downward
with bullet through his heart, and a few
moments later Vincent was shot through
the head and fell under his hors0 Nead.