Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-04-16

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N./4I/N% hero of the stars
IH and bars has also
been heard from,
General Wade Hampton, the fighting
South Carolina cavalryman who left a
leg en- some Virginia battlefield. Hamp-
ton is So years old. He does not offer to
fight and urges his people to let the
north do it. OF course that is idle talk.
The south will not forget the butcheries
of gallant Crittenden and his band by
the Spaniards, nor the slaughter of
Captain Fry, who had BLEED for the lost
cause, and his crew of the Virginius.
Howard will have many imitators
among the old leaders of the Federal
hosts and Hampton few, unless he
changes tone. At the head of the army
stands Miles, who is SO years old, the
youngest soldier of high rank in the
war now living. He is at the age of al
bert Sidney Johnston when killed at
Shiloh and Of Robert e. Lee at Apo
mattox. Miles gallant deeds in the civil
war were too many to be repeated here,
He entered the service as a lieutenant
and by personal courage ON the battle.
field won promotion step by step until
he became major general of volunteers.
He was always ready, sword in hand
fighter, the type of soldier to be appre
ciated by Hancock, with whom he
served. Since the war he has had enough
practical work on the plains to keep him
out of the rut of the mere military the
orists
Under Miles are the major generals,
Merritt and John R. Brooke. Merritt
was a cavalry soldier with Sheridan
and is CO years old. Brooke was vol
unteer and won his way step by step by
gallantry in action. He received brevets
in the regular army for his conduct at
Gettysburg, Spottsylvania and Cold
Harbor.
The hrigadier generals, Otis, Coppin-
ger, Shafter, Graham, Wade and Mer-
RAM, were soldiers of the civil war of
subordinate rank. They have all served
ON the plains against the Indians. AT
the outset there would be old war lead
ers enough for 100, 900 men, and the
men and leaders would be of the best,
the regular army and crack militia.
In rallying and organizing the masses
the old soldiers will be a power, and
there are left scores of them of brilliant
record able to take the field. One of the
best brigadiers of the Army of the Poto-
mao, General George @. Greene, was
So years old when he led his command
in battle in 1864. General Mansfield
was killed at Antietam, leading the
Twelfth corps when he was gray hair
ed veteran of so. Wade Hampton is
among the youngest of the Confederate
leaders now living. Fitz-Hugh Lee is
the same age, 63. He was always jolly
fellow as a soldier and is now in the
best of health. In the army he was
called Fitz Lee, and he made that name
famous in Virginia. AS brigade and
division leader under Jeb Stuart he
helped to win renown for the cavalry
corps which gave no peace to Fitzpatrick,
Custer, Gregg, Sheridan and the rest of
the valiant troopers in blue.
Here is list of living generals of
note who are 60 and under and still
active men of affairs in and out of serv
ice: J. @. Caldwell, S. ID. Lee, Frank
Wheaton and E. M. McCook, 65; J. W.
Forsyth, Ga; Wade Hampton, Fitz-
Hugh Lee, Adelbert Ames, Alexander
Webb and A. G.. McCook, So; Joseph
Wheeler, T. l.. Rosser, NJ. @. Butler,
Wesley Merritt and W. H. jackson, 81;
J. H. Wilson, Gil; John r. Brooke, 60;
Nelson A. Miles, SO; E. S. Otis, the
ranking brigadier of the army, 58; A.
w. Greedy, the soldier and explorer, is
81, and one of the fighting McCooks,
who commanded regiment in the war,
John James, is So.
A few of the very brightest and
bravest generals of the Confederacy
figure in the list. Fitz- Hugh Lee rode
with Stuart S cavalry before and after
the fall of the leader of that famous