The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-02-27

| teenth Georgia Regiment, to Color Ser
geant Theodore PaTkman of the Forty
| fifth Massachusetts, Regiment, who fell
in the engagement of Whitehall. N. c..
December 1G, 1862 Lofty inches in
the temple of fame may Columbia claim
for its iilustrious dead and prominent
! on the honorable roll will be found re-
! corded. besides the name of General
| Kearny Colonel Orlando w. Morris of
| the Sixty-sixth New York Regiment,
killed at the battle of Cold Harbor,
whose gallantry in previous battles had
| been recognized by his fellow-citizens
| by the presentation to him of a sword
at the Metropolitan Fair a short time
! before his death: Lieutenant Colonel
| William Cary Massett OF the Sixty-f first
| Regiment. killed at the battle of Fair
| Oaks. and Captain Thomas Golden
Cooper of the Sixty-seventh Regiment,
killed at the battle of the Wilderness.
No less than five of Columbia's gradu-
ates, including Phil Kearny, became
General officers-Henry E. Davies. Jr..
Stewart L. Woodford. Thomas Swords
and Edward E. Potter. Twenty-Five of
the graduates served in the Seventh
Regiment, six in the Seventy first. nine
/! in he Twenty-second and the remainder
in smaller numbers in other regiments.
HEROIC DE PEYSTER.
| 1t was a graduate of Columbia, the
| late Colonel J. Watts de Peyster, Jr.,
Chief of Artillery Of the Second Divis-
ion of the Sixth Corps, who, at the bat
tie of Charlottesville, fought his guns
with such skill and bravery in covering
the retreat that the corps was enabled
I .r,,l xx-;< hi, al
onel de Peyster was brother of Colonel
Johnston Livingston de Peyster, who
! first raised the stars and stripes over
the Capitol of the Confederated States,
when the Union troops entered the city
of Richmond in 1865, and was also a
brother of the late Major Frederick de
Peyster, Jr., who, like his brother j.
Watts. died of disease contracted in the
service of his country. All these gallant
men We're sons of the historian, j.
Watts de Peyster, who was himself ed
ucated at Columbia College.
| Several of the graduates served in the
medical department and it was repre-
scented in the sanitary commission by
| the late DR.. Cornelius r. Agnew, Dr.
Oliver w. Gibbs and George T. Strong
The whole moral force of the college
was actively exerted in behalf of the
! Union. DR.. F. A. p. Barnard, who
was chosen President in 1864, had suf-
! fered for his loyalty while teaching in
! the South, and made his way North
through the Confederate lines only after
many hardships and detentions. The
carly and devoted services of Professor
Francis Lieber. in connection with the
| work of the Loyal Publication Society,
! did much toward strengthening the pa
! triotic impulses of the North. The
generous labors too, of President
Charles King. President Barnard's pre-
decessor, and Professor William G.
Peck. in every loyal enterprise. are
enough to show that the faculty OF old
| Columbia were not backward in sus
| tanning the cause for which SO many
of its graduates were battling on land
and sea- President King had himself
] been a military man; in his earlier
years he was the first Colonel of the
Second State Militia Regiment. known
as The Washington Guard organized
| in 1924. A Columbia graduate. who.
like President Barnard. suffered in the
| South for his convictions, was Rev.
| Cecil Duncan, who stood out boldly
against disunion. and was forced at
! last to fly from New Orleans. leaving
his family behind him.
| NEW YORK COLLEGE BRAVES. 9
| The city's two great conspicuous in
| situations OF learning-the College of
the City of New York and the Univer-