The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26

lessons Of the great game even as they may
be applied to the successful Waging or war
fare: and was not SO sure II was the pos
sEbilities he saw in tactics, or his contempt
for the Spaniards, which led him to show
me how easy 1t would be to arm battalion
T re- ssgHs se pasnnn and
have it successfully. shell the best
battery a Spaniard could devise
In front of the general brigade head
quarters at Jacksonville, Fla, saw volun
teers playing ball in the hot sun. Any other
brigadier would have chased them away
but ii was too good sighL 20 General Burt.
That morning he had just come back to
Camp Cuba Libre from Jacksonville, where
he had taken part, with Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
and other army officers, in the unveiling OF
a Confederate memorial It was a most
extraordinary occasion. federal troops prac-
tcally parading in honor of the lost cause,
but IL all went to show how thoroughly the
bitterness of the past mas been submerged,
and how strongly united are the North and
south in the tace of the Nations enemy.
All the participants in the ceremonies did
their best TO emphasize this beautiful rela-
ton of the two sections of the country
There were no harsh words said, and the
blue and the gray paid their tributes I'M
sparingly 10 each other. General Burt. all
ways a stanch Unionist. and a veteran of
6l, has found it just little harder to bend
TO the new order than some of the other
Old Union soldiers, and while ii went a
tribe against the grain for him to take
or his hat in the presence of
thS Stolo dIu UdTS, an ola rene carried
by the Confederate Veterans Society, yet
ne did it, together with the others. 1t was
the first time in his life--but Cancellation
was the thing now. After the speeches the
oIIlcefS gathered at the Windsor Hotel
where old .Confederates. citizens of Jack
sonville, shook hands across the bloody
eI, with the Union veterans still in the
federal army Presently a long-whiskered
FELLOW pushed through the crowd, and,
Shaping General Burt on the back, wanted
TO know if he was addressing General Fitz-
iC hr0n
DO L look like him. exclaimed the gen.
eraL Between him and the ex-consul to
Havana there is a difference of several
hundred in avoirdupojs, the bulk in Lees
favor. The bewhiskered man was insistent.
and, in keeping with the spirit of the day
General Burt engaged in conversation with
him.
ONE OF THE PEACE COMRADES.
That was my old flag proudly boosted
the stranger, pointing to the emblem of the
Confederacy And that was mine," said
General Burt, indicating Old Glory. SO
they bridged the bloody chasm, as others
had done before that day. They went over
the war, soldier fashion, commented on the
herosm of this commander and that COM
mander; Wanted the courage of the Amer
lean soldier against the world, spoke of the
lessons of the great civil war, compared the
hardships of that unhappy season with
those of the present warm fact grew as
chummy as any two old veterans who
fought on opposite sides, but were now
united, might become. The general
"comraded' mis- new acquaintance in the
most generous fashion After a half hour
or so of this the man with the whiskers
blurted out:
General, do you know, sir, always envy
you military fellows"
What do you mean?". asked the general.
Weren't you in the rebel army?''
Not exactly" replied his ''comrade"
somewhat deprecatingly Il sympathized
with the South, but l was a telegraph OPP
orator during the war;
Hell" exclaimed General Andy and he
fit of disgust
To pass through Jacksonville these STIR
ring days and not see General Fitzhugh Lee
is to miss an opportunity. There is no
hedge about this popular idol; any one can
see him. Unlike other major generals, he
surrounds himself with no red tape nor door
functionaries. You inquire at the hotel desk
and the clerk tells you to knock at room
so-and-so. You knock and a CHEEKY voice
bids you come in" At a fiat desk in the
middle of the room sits the eX-consul to
Havana, busy with his papers and over
looking an immense amount of work. yet
courteous to whoever may come. He is a
corpulent man, but his corpulency is sub
ordinate to a military bearing and demean-
or. He has taken to the "Kharki," and his
drab uniform, with its blue trimmings, fits
him quite gracefully. The general is not
committed to any fixed mode of wearing
hair below his lip, and the likenesses which
appear in the public prints would have to
be revised frequently to keep up to date
with the generals fancy. While he is more
frequently represented with a goatee not
unlike an imperial. yet this goatee comes
and disappears as fast as it reaches a fair
growth.
Am l impatient at this delay?" said he
when l asked if rendezvous life was not
growing monotonous. well, a soldier waits
for orders and makes no complaint. Our
present duty here is to season the men. We
have good camp, and the division is grad
tb On esoI;iI oooS ,, u
be improved on in many respects as rem
devious point"
1t is an open secret in Jacksonville that
the disappointment of his life will come to
General Lee if he is not at the head of the
first army that storms Havana. G. L. p.