The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-15
g9syED DANGERS OF WAR.
.... IENANDER FORsNTHE, WHO
,I,,.D n THE SMOKE or CANNON.

~, husband killed I'm Battle-He
IN IN the Last Day Of the War nj
.t. Fau Of PetersburE-His Wife
Rurird Him in the Uniform which
a.. Wore when He Was Killed
Mrs.. Forsythe Is sister Of Gen
John Morgan.
From the Philadelphia Times
--r American women have had their
,..-.. 81, crowded with dramatic incidents
Airs Alexander ForsyJhe Of Chicago
-.--... NJ Gen. John Morgan, whose daring
-.a made him conspicuous in two CONT
Ltuts-
r-,- four years Mrs. Forsythe lived IN
e.r the smoke Of the cannon, being one
NJ The soldiers wives who went through
,te entire civil war with her husband
Thrice welded and thrice widowed twice
-r- mother Of a posthemous child. and
se..n on the last day Of the war left desc
7a-4 with tiny baby in her arms her eN-
r-r.ence as wife and mother is almost uh-
--.r-Iented. Fortunate in her marriages
the wine OF life has been sweet, but IL
lr.ss exceedingly bitter.
Aftr the death o fher first husband, Cal
Win NcClung, she married Gen. A. = Hill'
one of the most distinguished generals
fg The confederate army-a man whose
name was on the dying lips OF StoneWau
Jackson and Robert h. Lee
AS "a bride she went to the 'front.' with
her husband and was actively interested
iu the cOmpany-the lnvinclbles, mir
tenth Virginia.
with a handsome silk flag. but during an
eugagement the color-bearer's arm was
sh0, off. and the flag, gripped IN the
bloody hand, was captured by union
soldier. Mrs. Hill promptly made an
other and it is now hanging in the white
house az Richmond. Gen. Hill was killed
the last day Of the war at the fan OF
Petersburg. Gen. Lee made charge ana
recovered his body, and a few moments
after the general had parted from his
wife he was brought back to her shot
through the heart. his wedding ring still
on his finger and his cape covering his
dead face. That night the army retreat
Ell in haste and Mrs Hill was the last
woman 10 cross the pontoon at Peters
burg II was an awful journey for the
roads We're choked up with. disorganized
troops. Some times they were in the enc
my's lines and again in their own, but all
through that dreadful night Mrs. Hill
sat in che ambulance by~her' dead hus-
bands body, holding her baby and little
daughter in her arms. The wheels on the
Ambulance Belonged 70 four different We
hicies and the variation in size and tire
added to her discomfort, but the soldiers.
carried it over the ravnes and places
where 1t could not be drawn by horses
She buried Gen. Hill at Goochland Va,
laid him away in the uniform he wore
when he fell; In his fighting jacket and
famous red shirt, glOved, booted and
spurred, for I'm his tomb are the spurs that
the southern women melted their silver
spoons TO make. Afterwards he was
removed to hollywood, but a few years
ago Mai. Ginter donated the SPOT in Rich
nj hi Are
company and his body was taken there
and splendid monument erected to his
memory
His youngest daughter. Miss Lucy Lee
Hill, the babe Of the retreating army
as now a beautiful woman and was one
OF the board Of lady managers at the
worlds fair from Kentucky. She is Gen.
Lees gOd-daughter and his tears fell on
her baby face as he held her IN his arms
at the. baptismal font. Some years after
Gen.. Hills death Mrs. Hill married DR.
Alexander Forsythe. Since his death she
removed 10 Chicago and now resides a
IVl Pine street. She was a noted beauty in
her youth and her gracious cordiality en-
uears her TO friends new and old
me nome life of the Morgan family
was singularly happy, for there were
SIX sons and six daughters to fill the big
Hospitaoie home with merry-makink. Gen.
Morgan was the oldest child. He was
IlgasSlonatelyt fond of children and Mrs.
orsythe says that on Sunday morning
ne used to take a quantity of bread and
an immense bright tin pan full of molass-
- ana gather all the plantation picka-
tbo ESQ, on me lawn and let them sop
ne sweet STUN to their hearts content
In me winter the poor, both black and
WHaie had the freedom of his great wood
yard back of the factory.
Inc betrayal and death of Cen Mo-
sah Is never mentioned in the family cir
re ana the narrowing details were care
IuI.y withheld from the grief-striclren
WISH 9Sn5 IT. IN, me general was on his way to
~ ms Wlfe, to whom he had not long
been married Worn with travel he st J,Is
Leu Tor the night at a lonely farm bousa
"a ne people were ardent southern svmna
,Ia ,,Ie5s ana personal friends, but the
NausHteF mad sweetheart in the union
army. AFTER the family retired she stole
Oul' saddled horse and rode to the near
- camp with the startling news that
borro 'HVl sah was asleep at her mothers
nome; AS the night was wild and stormy
M ms retreat obscure, Gen Morgan
~ perfectly secure and slept soundlv I'M
" ~ movement in the yard aroused him
az ~ Ibp'dhg out OF bed and rushed out
NJ 'n ne mousse IN his night clothes He
- Immediately surrounded and shot ana
oTlUre MS heart ceased beating his nm
e e15 BODY was flung across horse
countrT S9 W. 20 a tne camp. On the way the
L.ahl cries; We have killed Morgo,
I4e great confederate rebel NJ s'ii'
ii Is matter of history, that from the
EHI who betrayed him to the man ~ III
S.rnot him, all have suffered violent da. wiio
1nsIe are but two portraits of Gen Nor.
5aI IN existence. One taken as a chiid
al ms Inother's arms, holding a pet dove
9r ~ tne other in his regimentaIs Rotb
gre SELL hanging on the walls of fbe ola
c 1lolne IN Lexington, now owned bv "a n
ois =. Forsythe's youngest brother Fran
~ ny PANIED after his cousin. author
~ me star Spangled Banner" inberited
So ne leaTIess family spirit. When a hahV
49, aole 10 toddle he was discovered ~
NJ pursuit of vicious old porlxer Cen
c5j,S an, then a young man, rescued the
J5nI9 and then reproved him for bie
tseIoQs sport But, with snarx1inec
ne exclaimed: N"NS hsp,
SIN III connie, mosted killed the big for 7
bip him =, MIN and slapped him and slapped
of t 4en IA ne climbed up into the cupola
fr-1Cog5e academy at Lexington ana nm
s susle ec, the confederate nag The civ
-, 81 ined with union soldiers and 4
oulu nave gone hard with the lad baI
Hot been spirited away in a c,osad
se- age About this time Gen Morger
SH, trusty Irish boy with iet -tt0r 5 ~ ~
g ,,-I other His bride reins were mi oe
91.u collars and he succeeded in rnpniy ~
rival Olo @g safely. But after his re