The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-25
;FORGlA's BRAVE GENERALS.
,,,,oss NOW AT REST UNDER THE
SHADE OF THE TREES.


otr Graves with Flowers
n -, biography of Each of the
= whose Names Are Loved From
= strands of the Ocean to the
,,oaven-pOinting Tips of the
Mountains.
rro-morrow, wherever sleep in their quiet
80 the soldiers that followed the bat
eoes of the confederate armies. loving
80 will strew fair and fragrant flow
and martial music will again sound
.a- their resting places, while eloquent
e,a.aes shall rehearse the never-to-be-
<orTotten story of their valor. In >Geor-
io,s soil lie thousands of such nameless
ssross while scattered here and there,
lam therein honored commanders of high
rank
In the following brief chronicles have
.ought to embrace full list of those com
handlers. and if a single one has been over
looked it was unavoidable, with my scan
~ sources of information.
ANDERSON, ROBERT H., was West
Pointer and army officer, and made a fine
record as a confederate cavalry comman-
der. After the war he was chief of police
in Savannah, where he died.
4 BARLOW, FRANCIS s., went out as
colonel Of the famous Eighth Georgia In
fantry and fell While gallantry leading his
command against the enemy in the first
battle of Bull Run. He was a distinguish
ed lawyer and a member of the provisional
confederate congress.
n BOWEN, JOHN s., graduated from West
H Point into the Mounted Rifles in 1853 but
resigned three years later; was a major
general in confederate army and died in
1868 at Raymond, Miss, from exposure,
etc, in the field.
BROWNE. WILLIAM NJ, was born in
Ireland and served on President Davis
staff. after which he commanded a brig
ade in the field. At the time of his death,
some years ago, he was a member of the
faculty of the Georgia State University
BENNING, HENRY L., graduated at the
old Franklin College in 1884; was an emf
nent lawyer and justice of supreme court;
was bngadier general in the war and his
eal.antry won for him the title of ''Old
Rock" He died at his home in Columbus
many years ago.
BRYAN, GOODE, was a West Pointer.
graduating into Fifth Infantry in 1884, but
resigned within year. His home was in
Augusta of which city, I think, he was
clerk at the time of his death, few years
since.
COLoUITT, ALFRED H.. was of dis
congress in early life and was made addi-
tional paymaster in the army during the
Mexican war, from June. 1916 to January,
1913 After the late war was governor and
United States senator, holding the latter
office at the time of his death
Chiffon, ROBERT H., was a Virgin
ian, but lived in Columbus, Ca, many
years at close of the war. and died there.
He graduated from West Point into the
Dragons in 1887, and resigned as major
and paymaster in 1861 to enter confederate
army in which he held high and impor-
tant confidential staff positions.
COBB, THOMAS r. R., like the lament
ed Barlow, had been one of the brilliant
young orators and statesmen of Georgia.
and like Barlow, fell before the fire of the
enemy (at Fredericksburg, Va), in a
bloody conflict. He graduated at the old
Franklin college in 1871, and was a mem
Der of the confederate provisional con-
gress.
COBB, HOWELL, was an older brother
Of Thomas r. r. Cobb, and had been
speaker of the House of Representatives
at Washington, and Secretary of the
Treasury. Before entering the confederate
army he was president of the provisional
congress at Montgomery.
COOK, PHILIP, came Of good old fight
Ing stock and his career in the confeder-
ate army was highly honorable. After the
surrender he served several terms in con-
Secretary of State when he died, a few
years ago, in Atlanta.
CREWS, {. c., was cavalry command
er under Lieut.. Gen. Joseph Wheeler. He
was captain and then colonel of the Sec
ond Georgia Cavalry, before becoming
brigadier general, and this is all the record
can make of his life or death. think he
was from Southwest Georgia.
DOLES, GEORGE, was a citizen of
Mllledgeville, and being a natural-born
soldier, interested in the volunteer mill
tary, he early entered the confederate
service. From colonel Of the Fourth
georgia Infantry he was promoted to be
brigadier general, and was killed, 1 De-
AeVe, at the battle of Bethesda Church.
DU BOSE, DUDLEY M, was a native
OF Tennessee. but became a Georgian by
residence in the state. He married a
daughter of Gen. Robert Toombs, and
was member of congress from the dis
trlct In which Gen. Toombs resided.
GILMER, JEREMY f., born in North
Carolina, graduated from West Point in
1883 INTO engineer corps, resigned in 1861
to enter confederate service, and was
made chief of engineer corps. After the
war he resided in Savannah, where his
widow. a sister of Gen. L. p. Alexander
ana Mrs Gen. A. r. Lawton, died some
months ago.
GARTRELL, LUCIUS j., was a mem
Der OF congress before the war and also
member of the confederate provisional
congress. From colonel of the Seventh
Georgia Infantry he was promoted to be
brigadier general. After the surrender
ne was a prominent lawyer in Atlanta,
where he died a number of years ago.
GlRARDEY. VICTOR j. b., was, /
think, brother of Capt. j. p. Girardey
of Augusta, whose battery did fine SER
vice during the war. Young Girardey vas
made a brigader general for his heroic
conduct on the field, and lost his life IN
the famous mine explosion at Petersburg,
Va while serving as captain on Gen. Ma
homes staff
DARLINGTON, ALFRED c., of South
Carolina, resided for many years in At
lanta, Ca, and his son, Ernest A. CARING
ton, Is now a major in the United States
army. Gen. Darlington graduated at the
old Franklin College in 1912, and after the
war was journalist and lawyer in At
lanta.
HARDEE, WILLIM j., graduated from
West Point into the Second United States
Dragons in 1898, and resigned as lieuten-
ant colonel OF First cavalry in January,
1851, 10 enter confederate army. He was