The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-07
PATRIOTIC ENVIRONMENTS.
These Are What Our Venerable City
Presents.

9lnS crest \ MA Id NON. O'-4u no
city of the South could the soldiers of the
Seventh corps find so many and such i'll
spring memorials of heroes and patriots
or heroic deeds and sumblime patriotism.
as greet them on every side in the grand
old city OF Savannah. Nor can they any
where find older, better disciplined or
more prosperous local military organiza-
tons than the Savannah Volunteer
Guards Battalion, the First Georgia Regl-
ment the Chatham Artillery and the
Georgia Hussars all fragrant with memo
ries of wars in the Ions ago.
What object lessons every good soldier
in Gen. Lees command can find wherever
he walks or rides about the venerable
Forest iCty," if he have an venerable
eye and a thoughtful mind. BY careful
investigation he can find traces of the con-
fiicts that took place in and around the
city between. the British troops and the
Liberty Boys Of the then struggling coll
onies. He will find the famous Jasper
spring, where Sergt. Jasper so illustrated
the herosm of the private soldier and
gave his life freely to his country. And
near the De Soto Hotel, occupying a con-
spicuous place in the square, he will also
behold a beautiful monument erected 10
the memory of this valorous young soldier
In the Park Extension, surrounding the
| magnificent Confederate monument, ne
win also set the figure of a private SOL
der, honorcd by the people in whose
cause he fought and fell.
And the cavalry officer or soldier. as
he stands before the monument to Brig.
| Gen. (the Count Casimir Pulaski will be
inspired by the thought that this patriotic
Polish officer fell in the cause of American
| independence, at Ghe head of his cavalry
| command near that city, on Oct 9, 1779,
/ ,rl,.r
! Greene monument will remind him that
Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Greene, the personal
friend and trusted commander of Gen.
| Washington, lived his last years in Sa-
vannah, where he died and was buried
| with the highest military honors on April
! 20, 1885, More than this he will learn that
! the illustrious Marquis Lafayette, during
his visit to this country, on March q, 1926,
| laid the corner stone of the Greene monu-
ment with imposing and appropriate cere-
| monies.
Pulaski, Greene, Lafayette, Light
Horse" Harry Lee, all once trod the streets
| Of Savannah. And Washington, "the Fa-
| Their of His Country" also rode through
| those same streets A visit to the armory
of the venerable and gallant Chatham Ar
! unery, the escort Of Gen. Washington,
while in the city, will enable the soldiers
of the Seventh Corps TO see and inspect the
French captured cannon presented to the
! Chathams by Gen. Washington.
| Any soldier who is religiously inclined
viii find food for pleasing thought in
! viewing the ancient Christ Church edifce,
! in the original structure of which the inn
mortal John Wesley once preached as the
rector of the church. A short ride to the
suburbs wilf also show him the Bethesda
| Orphan House, established by the Illus
| trious Rev. George Whitefeld, in 1910 The
Oldest institution of its kind, as we'll as one
of the best, in America.
When the observing soldier has finished
a seurvey of the early heroes and events
of the city founded by Gen. Oglethorpe,
he will come to modern scenes and events
full of military and patriotic inspiration.
He will learn of Gen. Lachlan Mcintosh
| of Gen. Anthony Wayne, The famous
| Mad" Anthony, who was general-n"
chief of the army from 1882 10 1895, when
he died. He was once a citizen of Geor-
! gia, and for a short while represented the
Savannah district in Congress. He will
also learn of Gen. David e. Twiggs, U. s.
| A, and commodore Josiah Tattnan, u. 5.
| N, who was to the navy what Gen. Scots
was to the army in 1861, when he resigned
and came South. The attractive Gordon
| monument will also win the soldiers at
tention, and upon inquiry he will learn
that William w. Gordon graduated from
West Point Military Academy in 1915, and
|
ing on the staff of Gen. e. P. Gaines, U.
| S. A., for few months, when he resigned
from the army and became lawyer in
| Savannah. He was captain of the Geor-
gia HussaTs as early as 1882, and his SOM
! Gen. w. W. Gordon, u. S. ", and grand
son have since commanded The same troop.
| His fine training at West Point enabled
him to be of great service in building the
! Central Railroad, of which he was the
/ q me-
| in the minds of grateful people by this
| monument and Gordon county Is nameo
for him.
The Lawton Memorial Church will also
suggest the name of another West Polhs
graduate, Alexander r. Lawton, OF the
class of 1889 who resigned from the Flrst
| United States Artillery in 1910. He also
became lawyer and railroad official in
Savannah, and was colonel of the FIRST
Georgia Regiment. now commanded by mis-
son, Col. A. r. Lawton, L. S. v Cen
Lawton was quartermaster general of the
Confederate army, and a distinguished cit
izen, whose private and public life reflect-
ed honor upon West Point and its most
eminent graduates His estimable wife
was a sister of Gen. L. Porter AleXan-
der, another West Pointer, and a sister OF
the wife of Gen. Jeremy f. Gilmer,
West Pointer also, and chief engineer OF
the Confederate army In Savannah Cen
Robert II. Anderson and Gen. Lafayette
McLaws, both West Pointers and old army
officers, lived and died.
Fort Pulaski and Fort McAllister and
a score of field batteries around Savan-
nah were noted in the civil war, and
were the scene of some very gallant eN-
PLOTS by the army and navy. The slzs
of Savannah in 179 and during the civh
war will afford the soldier who cares to
read war histories some valuable and sug-
gestive topics for consideration from mlI-
itary standpoint. In the rooms of the Geor-
gia Historical Society can be found por-
traits, views charts, books, pamphlets
and relics Of those days and scenes OF
bloody conflict and patriotic devotion 20
the cause of liberty and good government
1t will be well for the officers and 'ol-
diers Of the Seventh Corps during tFelr
stay in Savannah to visit Bonaventure
cemetery. the Bethesda Orphan Home