The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-21

the cross without the crown OF glory,
and now sleep in nameless graves.
Their good swords rust.
Their bodies dust.
Their souls are with the saints, we trust''
THE MARYLAND ROOM.
Maryland occupies the room which was
during the war Mrs. President Davis
dressing room. A relic of great interest is
the pistol that was worn by that gallant
cavalier, Mai. Breathed of Maryland, of
whom Gen. Lee Is reported to have said;
with an army OF Breatheds, I could con-
quer the world
In the retreat from Petersburg to Apo
mattox Mai. Breathed of Stuarts Horse
Artillery was in command Of several troops
of cavalry. When near the high bridge
above Farmville, the enemy pressing be-
hind in great force. Gen. Rosser ordered
Mai Bheathed to turn and charge them
with his men. The major repeated the
order to charge" and dashed ahead on a
magnificent bay. At the same moment
two union officers, mounted, spurred out
from the enemys lines and came on. They
met midway between the advancing lines.
Pell-men the yankee horscmen fell upon
the confederate major, single and alone.
They had almost borne him down when
Breathed spurred his horse and pointing
his saber as the animal sprang forward,
put its steel through the breast of one Of
his assailants The remaining yankee
made a tremendous sweep with his saber,
and Breathed, to avoid the blow threw
himself forward upon his horse neck,
lost his balance and fell The union Of
flcer with yell sprang for him. IN Illl-
ing Breatheds boot and caught in the
stirrup. He fought upon his back, and In
a moment the union officer would have
had the advantage when sergeant or
the majors command dashed up and shot
the union officer dead. Maj Breathed
sprang up. and with one boot oil ana tlle
other on mounted the union officers horse
led the charging column against the enc
N.Y. routed them, and took many pris-
oners Mai. Breathed sent the sword.
ring and papers to the wife of the union
officer he killed, writing to her that he
died a brave and noble soldier. The pis-
tol he kept, and at the close Of the war
presented it to Miss Shepherd of shep-
herdson. w. Va.
Among the other relics of this room
may be mentioned a roughly made table,
upon which Gen. Lee and his stan ON
GERS used to play chess; crucihX OF bull
lets taken from the Crater, and pocket
handkerchief which belonged TO Gen. Lee.
THE NORTH CAROLINA ROOM
North Carolina occupies the room which
was the nursery in the home of President
Davis. It has a magnificent view OF that
part of Richmond known as Church Hill.
1t was given to North Carolina as one of
the choicest apartments in the mansion,
because of North Carolina's brilliant rec
ord during the war. To corroborate the
number of troops claimed, and substan-
tiated by war records, they have me-
mortal from the soldiers of Cleveland
county, neatly framed. It exhibits this
most honorable distlnction-that out of
voting population of 800 in 1860, Cleveland
county gave the confederate army $500 sol
diers. In one case is small card, with
a little sprig of cedar attachedsto 1t, with
these words: "Cut from the spot where
Col. Charles F. Fisher of the Sixth North
Carolina Regiment, was killed, at the first
battle of Manassas; July q, 1861" only
little piece of cedar, small and insgnifi-
cant as it is, it calls to mind that thirty
six years ago one of natures nobemen
laid down his life on the altar of his
country. He was among the first to re-
ceive from the governor of North Caro-
lima (Johu W. Ellis) the commission of
colonel of the Sixth North Carolina regi-
ment which regiment he raised and
equipped at his own expense. In less than
two weeks from the time he left his home
he was brought back a corpse. The I'M
fading honor that he won at that glorious
victory of Manassas, July q, 1861, was at
a fearful cost to friends and country.
Here also is the picture of Henry Wy
att, the first martyr of the war, killed at
Bethel Church, June TO- 1861, as well as
and generals In an individual case are
the effects of the gallant Major General
William Dorsey Fender; the suit of gray
in which he was killed; his two commits
sions-one as lieutenant in the United
States army, given by President Davis,
then Secretary of War in the cabinet of
President Pierce: the other his commits
sion of major general in the Confeder-
ate States army.
A beautiful flag adorns the wall, which
was given by the Edgeworth girls, of
Greensboro, N. c., to the Guilford Grays,
commanded by Capt. John Sloan, of the
Twenty-seventh North Carolina state
troops. OF the gallant Gen. l.. OBJ.
Branch, they have his pistols and holster
and his glove.
A large frame is filled with important
dispatches from President Davis to Gov.
| John ". Ellis of North Carolina; also, one
| OF coincidence to his wife on his hearing
of the death of Gov. Ellis. There is also
the flag that was presented to the COVER
nor by Mr.. r. Mayo's girls, of Raleigh the
same flag which draped his coffin.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA ROOM
Col. Wade Hampton, of revolutionary
fame, captured from one of Tarleton's le-
| gion a sword of finest steel in scabbard
beautifully overlaid with tortoise she'll. He
1 used II during the war of the revolution
| and in the war of 1912. 1t descended as an
|
| Hampton. The sword once more saw SER
| vice at First Manassas, welded by that
1 gallant cavalry leader. Sheathed now and
| crossed with a long sabre, also historic
from having been used by the noble
Hampton, IL stands in the uniform case in
| the South Carolina room, close to the uni
| forms QS6l-lS65) of Gen. James Conner,
Gen M. w. Gary. Gen. T. NJ Logan, Col.
Il. p. Harlee. Col Perrin, and others.
Standing guard over the 325 records and
relics hangs a full-length oil portrait of
Gen. Hampton in uniform. taken during
| the confederacy. Around him are Gems.
MCGOWAN, Butler, Conner. Stephen Elliott.
| s. ID. Lee Bratton. Wallace, Hagood, Col.
| Hagood Cthe youngest colonel i'm the con-
| federate army, Capt Langdon Cheves; the
| South Carolina war-goVernor, Pickens
| Hon. w. Porcher Miles, and other heroes
of the old Palmetto state. All these por-
traits were collected through the personal
efforts OF Mrs II. w Richardson of Col
| umbia 5. c. A tablet case contains Valua-
| bic papers, letters, war-music, memorials,
etc. Among the battle-scarred flags in an
other case rests that of the Eighth South
| Carolina regiment, which was borne
| through twenty-nine battles. Although in