The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-02-24
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BY SIR ARTHUR JAMES LYON-FREMANTLE,
KcM G. c. B. now Lieutenant-ceneral British Army.

The country is very pretty, and is irrigated
in an ingenious manner by bitches cut from
the river IN all directions. 1t is thus in
great degree rendered independent of rain.
At San Antonio Spring we were enter
tanned by Maj Young, a queer little naval
officer; why a Major | couldn't discover
! Mrs Bankhead is violent SOutherner.
! She was twice ordered out of Memphis by
| the FederalS OH account of her husbands
| principles; but she says that she was treated
with courtesy and kindness by the Federal
| Gen. Sherman, who carried out the orders OF
! his Government with regret.
None OF the Southern people with whom
! | have spoken entertain any hopes OF a
! speedy termination of the war. They say it
must last all Lincon's Presidency, and per-
haps a good deal longer.
In the neighhorhood of San Antonio. one
third of the population is German, and many
of them were at first by no means loyal to
the Confederate cause.
They objected much to the CONSUMPTION,
and some even resisted by force OF arms, but
these were soon settled by Dui1's regiment,
and it Is said they are now recOnciled to the
new regime.
My portmanteau, with what was in it-for
/ gave away part of my thin.s-sold for 1923.
It's value in Eng and couldn't have been more
than IS or go The portmanteau itself,
which was an old one, fetched sol; very old
pair of butcher boots, $50 five shirts, SAP ;
an old overcoat, SO.
April 26.-McCarthy drove me in his buggy
to see the San Pedro Spring which is in
feror in beauty to the San Antonio Spring.
A troopof Texan cavalry was bivouacked there.
We afterwards drove to the missions Of
Son loo apl Inan ~ onl min miles
from the town. These were fortified con
vents for the conversion of the Indians, and
were built by the ,Jesuits about one hundred
and seventy years ago. They are now ruins
and the architecture is of the heavy Cas-
titan style deliberately ornamented. These
missions are very interesting. and there are
two more o. them, which did not see.
In the afternoon ! saw many negroes and
negresses parading about in their Sunday
clothes silks and crinOlines-much smarter
than their mstreSses.
! dined with Col Bankhead, who gave an
entertainment, which in these hard times
must have cost a mint of money. About
fourteen Of the principal officers were invited;
one Of them was Capt. Mason cousin to the
Londoa Commissioner, who served under
StonewalI Jackson in Virginia. He said that
officer was by no means popular at first.
/ spent a very agreeable evening, and
heard many anecdotes of the war. One Of
the officers sang the Abolition song, John
Brown" together with It's parody, Pm
bound TO b. soldier in the army of the
South" a Confederate marching song, and
another parody, which is a Yankee marching
sopg, well hang JEFF Davis or a sourapple
tree
Whenever / have dined with Confederate
officers. they have nearly always proposed the
Queens health and never failed to pass the
highest eulogiums upon her Majesty.
April 27.-Col. Bankhead has given me
letters of introduction to Gen. Bragg, to Gen.
Leonidas Polk. and several Others.
i called on Mrs. Bankhead to say good-by.
She told me that her husband had two brothers
in the Northern service-One in the army and
the other in the navy. The two army brothers
were both in the battles of Shiloh and Perry
ville on opposite sides. The naval Bank