Times-promoter., 1898-12-03

Adjt. Miley is a good man, no doubt,
but his gun has gone off haIf-cocked
There is not line nor a word in my
letter that reflected on him or his com
rades, or the Ladies' Memorial aSsocia-
ton, or anybody else in Virginia. 4
man would have to be hunting for an
insult to find any grievance in that
letter. There is nothing that an or
dinary mind could twist or torture into
a reflection on Nirginia's civilization or
the kind-heartedness of her people,
There are no injurious statements or
anything that requires refutation.
Hence, | shall not apologize or take
back. quoted Mr.. Hoshour, who lives
in Woodstock, where Mr.. Miley does
Let him shoot at him. But there S
nothing to shoot about. MIR. Hoshour
was seeking the Georgia relatives of
Col. Holt, who died at his mothers
house. That's all-and | make some
remarks about people neglecting the
graves of their kindred. That's all.
did not know of the existence of Shcn-
andoah camp or Holly Circle. | only
knew that there was Col. Holt Of
Georgia, buried at Woodstock, and that
the headboard that had marked his
grave had gone to decay. So sought
to find his relatives, for the IIolts are
a notable and numerous people in
Georgia, | reckon that headboard Is
illegible, for the adjutunt's list gives
him no first name, and has him down
as colonel Of the Eighth Georgia regt-
ment. The fact is, that he was not
colonel of that regiment. The Eighth
never had a Col. Holt. | ought to know,
for | belonged to it. It's colonies were
Barlow, Gardner, Cooper, Lamar ana
last Col. Towers, who still lives, re-
spected as citizen and honored as a
soldier.
But this is enough of Adjt. Mile.
His senseless and groundless charges
make me tired, as if there are peo-
pie upon the earth who have my high
est admiration they are the Virginians,
and the Old Dominion is not only the
mother of states and statesmen. but
of patriots. Long suffering, patient and
heroic as were her soldiers and her pec-
pie during the war, neither they nor
their children have lost any of their
chivalry or tenderness, for the bravest
are the tenderest Some years ago thr
ladies of Fredericksburg appealed to
me to help to procure marble head
stones for the graves of Georgia SOL
diers, and | appealed to our people, and
they responded promptly, and those
graves (274) are all marked. Now
there are only four graves of Georgia
soldiers at Woodstock, and they must
be remarked with marble. The other
40 should be remarked too with marble
by the states they served, for even vel.
low locust will decay in a generation.
Only few miles from my home there
is a confederate cemetery that has
been well cared for by the ladies', but
the headboards have decayed, and our
ladies' are now replacing them with
marble. Each headstone costs only Il
dollar and a half, and the marble man,
who was in the federal army, wrote me
saying: 81 helped to put your brave
boys in those graves and / will help .
mark them at less than the marble costs
me-"
And now let us have peace--peace
at home and peace abroad. Maybe we
can have it with Spain if we will pull
away from the Philippines; nobody II
these parts want them, and everybody
is tired of the war. 1t hasn't done our
people down south any good. It is al;
a job-an octopus with thousand ter,
tacles that draw in the spoils from the