The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-15
MILITARY MUSINGS.
Capt. RO|veIIs Death Brings Sadness
to Many Hearts.

to Many Hearts.
Tampa, Fla, July 1f.-Many hearts in
Georgia have been saddened by the death
of Capt Charles w Rowell, of the Second
United states Infantry, who fell in the
later battles around Santiago He was a
New Yorker and graduated from West
Point into the Second Infantry in 1874, and
had remained there up to the time of his
heroic'death. lie was d handsome, accom-
plshed and popular officer, and married
a daughter of his old colonel, Maj. Gen..
Frank Wheaton, u. S. A.. and a grand
daughter of Gen. Miller OF the old army,
wcll known to ante-belum residents of
Savannah. Nomore highly esteemed young
officer was ever stationed in Atlanta than
Adjt. Rowel whose early death, even on
the field of battle, is a sore bereavement.
During reconstruction times in Georgia,
and just when the Southern people We're
getting the control of public affairs into
their own hands, a newspaper correspond
ent from New York, named Howard Car
roll, representing, 1 think the Times, made
his appearance in the state, and wrote for
his paper some very obnoxious letters.
remember that the good people of Column
bus were SO stirred up that they were anx-
ious for a chance to give him a coat of
tar and feathers Like Whitelaw Reid and
John Hay, he later on married a rich wife
and got I'm the social swim" in New York,
so that now he is Gen. Howard Carroll,
being paymaster general on Gov. Blacks
staff. lie was here a few days ago to pay
off the New York Volunteers, and looked
very unlike the old correspondent knew
in reconstruction days.
In my last letter / alluded to some gem
erals who are weighted down with great
kklf..
I see that the New York World has dIs-
covered, or thinks It has, that this evil
really exists. ut is understood" says
the World, that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is
kicking a little at some of the details
made for his staff. While Harrison, Ho-
bart and Sartori's are very nice fellows,
all the officers see that Gen Lee should
have had experienced men to aid him in
getting his corps In order" But the ques-
ton then arises what would have been
done with the great mems sons" etc,
who had to be provided with soft snaps"
Neither the Immune Regiments" nor
the Volunteer Engineers" battalion could
have taken them all in "out of the wet"
Great mems sons like Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
and his comrades went early to the front
as enlisted men who really desired to
serve their country.
The retirement of Capt. Colon Augur,
u. S. A, recalls the fact that during Gen.
derby:
II want to -
The orderly soon returned with the gem
erals son and announced:
Here's your -
Now this Is far better than the coal
merchants, who wrote:
To which the shipper replied:
Because the latter is coal on and the
former a genuine colon" Both are fine
specimens of the shortest shorthand sys-
tenn.
A military writer in the Morning News
of Sunday last notes the fact that we, as
a nation, are far behind the English in
doing honor to the flag of our country,
and to our national airs, when played or
sung, and he notes two instances to prove
his assertion. l am sorry to be able to
add third, and one that even in lis
suddenness rebuked my own want of
alertness. At the banquet In honor of
Queen Vicotria's birthday, held at the
Tampa Bay Hotel, I had the honor to be
seated with the army officers and news
| paper correspondents of Great Britain,
Just after we had taken our seats a band
outside the dining room suddenly and
unexpectedly to us struck up God Save
| the Queen" In an instant every En-
glishman was on his feet, and so quick
were their movements that we Americans
| were for n moment mb-founded And
! so when THE StarSpangled Banner"
and ''Hail Columbia" and other national
airs were played, every Englishman in
stantly rose to his feet. l need hardly say
that the force of their example VIII long
be felt by every one present on that occa-
| sion.
! The Jacksonville Metropolis says Capt.
! Pegram of the Fourth Virginia Regiment
| in camp there, is a thorough believer in
strict discipline for his men, Recently he
/ sentenced a soldier to forty-eight hours
| guard duty for splitting in the ranks. ,"
/ Now II the editor OF the Metropolis had
| ever been a cadet at West Point Military
! Academy he would know what strict mil
| itary discipline means. Only a few years
ago a cadet while out on drill felt a bug
| crawling into his ear, but he dared not
| raise a finger to stop Ii on account of dis
| cipline. Three years later, this cadet then
! "a promising young officer in the army. died
! from the effects OF the present of that bug
| in hts head. And yet, a simple dash OF
! the hand over his ear while on drill would
! have knocked the bug away and saved the
| valuable life OF this young officer to his
| country. The trouble, however, lies in
! knowing Just how to regulate discipline to
| meet such cases. Sidney Herbert.