Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-04-30

quhrTel, WHICH nearly leu 10 pGrSOuul
collision 32 years after the battle of
Fort Fisher, was not simply a misun.
Outstanding over history as some one
else wrote it, The seeds were laid be
fore the battle of Fort Fisher, and any
affair in which the two actors in the
quarrel were conspicuous would have
led to trouble.
1t is doubtful whether Generals Long.
street and Stonewall jackson would
have served longer in the same army
had jackson lived. Longstreet had been
detached before Charlottesville. He
said that be saved jackson from de
struction at Second Bull Run and got
no thanks for it and that it was more
than jackson had done for him in q
similar crisis. He thought jackson g
Harper's Ferry affair sort of fool bust
ness and that his reputation was built
up by newspaper booming. There would
not long have been room in the same
army for men so opposite in temper and
methods. And there is mystery still
over the charges in Lees corps com.
manders after the battle of the Wilder.
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seemed to occupy the same relative posi-.
ton that they had before, while Jubal
Early and Ewell were given everv
chance. History tells how they used
their opportunities.
A strain Of bad blood lingering be-
tween generals ID fatal to the effective
ness of the army, and while violence,
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is deplorable, a cause is served by such
sudden outbreaks as that between Gen.
eral William Nelson and jeff 9. Davis
during the Confederate invasion of
Kentucky in 1862. Nelson had been
sent into Kentucky to organize Federal
forces for the defense of the state, to
foster Union sentiment, and, in fact, to
do anything and everything to save
Kentucky. Davis reported to him for
duty and was assigned to the defense of
Louisville. To Nelson s mind Davis was
not as active as he might have been. On
calling him to account he was met with
4 spirit of characterization, and Davis
was ordered to leave the city. About
that time there was change in the
commander of the department which
enabled Davis to return to Louisville
with sanction higher than Nelson's.
Sustained by several personal friends,
among them western governor, Davis
sought Nelson, and, meeting him in
the Gait House, forced a quarrel, which
Nelson tried to avoid. When blood was
up on both sides, partisan of Davis
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shot Nelson fatally. Davis was never
tried and served faithfully to the end
of the war.
1t is easy to see how incalculable in
jury might result from personal quarrels
between generals. 1t is not human ma
ture to believe that Davis would have
worked heart and soul to give Nelson a
victory after that first tilt. Honorable
men boldly state their differences and
are separated in command, SO that the
service will not be the loser. 1t was a
common thing to make rnges of COM
mand on both sides dung the war in
order to avoid evil results from personal
feeling. Hooker in the northern army
and Bragg in the southern were marked
men in respectto the confidence and de-
votion of their subordinates. Neither
had the confidence of his army, and it
was marvellous that the feeling did not
end in open rupture in each case.
In one instance in the Confederate
army i'll the west war quarrel was set
tied by an appeal to the code, surely a
more manly way than the one adopted
by General p5tf g. Davis in the affair
with Nelson. This quarrel grew out of
a battle. In the defense of Little Rock
in 1868 the Confederate cavalry was led
by General Lucius NJ Walker, under
whom General }. S. Marmaduke COM
manded division. After the battle
Marmaduke asked that his division be
attached TO another corps. Walker took
offense and said Marmaduko request
must be explained, for it cast an impu.
tation upon his (Walker's) courage
Marmaduke responded that no had never
accused Walker of cowardice, but that
he would not longer serve under him.
When Walker found that Marmaduke
not only would not explain but aggra
waited the original offense, no sent him
challenge and the pair met at o'clock
on the morning of Sept. o, at farm
near Little Rock. The weapons were
colts navy revolvers, with load in
every barrel. Taking position o PAGES
apart the duelists prepared to shoot,
until disabled or satisfied, with those
terribly murderous weapons, Two shots
were fired simultaneously without effect.
At the second fire Walker fell mortally
wounded aud died next day.
During the Revolution there were sew,
eral military duels but the causes were
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