The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
FACTS ABOUT SOLDIERS.
No MORE CIVIL WAR VETERANS
FOR PR ESJDENT.


/ Was Dismissed From the Army.
/ other Matters OF General Interest.
I Zine Crest Villa, Mai land, Fla, Sept %.
In he opinion Of Mai. Gen. DAME! E.
( sickles. L. S. A. GetredD, Mai. william
+ Mckinley viii be asst Of the civil war vet
Grams 10 roach the presidential char. His
/ eI,cdcn gave Ohio four Pre- idens-Gr Mt,
/ Garfield, Hayes and McKicfey-three gen
erals and one major. But strangest Of all,
the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry
gave The last three ramed 10 the country.
This IS a record unsurpassed by any resi-
ment in any war in this country. We have
had a dozen or more military Presidents
from capita MS o generals in rank, but they
! were from different states and regiments
and served in vari1us ars. from The revo-
luuonary struggle to the civn war.
The. e s one important roiat in Admiral
George Dewey's carly care in Vermont
that should lie carefully NOEL. ss it ox-
Plains in rart the noble character of this
famous naval hero He had for an i1slruc-
tor Capt. A den Partridge, who hal te2n
an engineer in the army ard commandant
of cadets at West Point Military Academy.
He proved to be leo strict in his discipline,
7 so resigned in 1878, ana went back to YER
mont ard started private military ac91-
envy that turned a score of heroic so a ers
and sailors, Dewey being the INST il
.ustrious. Than there was the late Maj.
Gen. Den Carlos Bueh and Maj Cen. Gre n
Vile NJ. Dodge, and The gallanL Col. True
man b. Ransom. Killed in the battle of
4 Chapultepec, during the Mexican war. Nor
-lN NO, op7- tTa hy4 Of
Z. Dennison, L. S. ~. who was morta.ly
wounded at the batt'e of MuTfreesboro
Tenn. Trained in such school as tns,
and with such heroic young cadets about
him, il is not strange that Admin al Dew V
became man of such substantial and he
rCic qualities.
There is in some sections Of the North
ard West a very erroneous impression as
/ to the character of Gen. John H. Morgnh.
4 c. S. A, on account of his famous raids
4 into Indiana, Ohio and other border states
/ Gen Morgan was gentleman by birth
ard education, his mother, Mrs. Henrietta
Hunt Morgan, being the daughter of
Kentucky millionaire who. in 1898 mar
| ried Calvin c. Morgan, of a good old Vir-
/ ginia family. In The civil war no South
crn woman was more patriotic or brave.
! for she gave SIX sons-Gen. Morgan being
/ the most COnspicuous-tO the Confederate
army. and Two lovely daughters to be
Z Ia
/ Gen. Ambrose p. Hid and Moi. Cen Basil
I W. Duke. II was this class of patriotic
I women North and SOuth-that kept ihe
contending armies in the field supplied with
new recruits. When one son fell in bat
! lie they unhesitaunglY sent the next odd
est to the front 10 fill the vacant place.
This has been the history of woman in
/ all ages and in nearly every land The
old Spartan spirit early took root in our
soil ana yet fourishes like the green bay
! tree
The friends of Lieut.. Albert ]. Dillon
, of Jacksonville, Fla. recently dismissed
from the Twenty -nin.h United States Vol
unteers, in Atlanta, censure the military
/ authorities without just cause He was
not dismissed simply because of his alb
sence from Fort Mcpherson for two davs
/ without leave but on account of his fail
/ ure TO properly show good cause for his
detention beyond the time granted in his
| leave of absence He claimed to have
! been suddenly taken sick in Atlanta and
went to hotel, from which. he saws.
! he sent word to Col. Harden, out at No
/ Pherson barracks, of his detention. He
! failed, however, on his return to duty, TO
! verify these statements by reliable wit
/ nesses and hence his dismissal. The same
! is true of the young private solder In
| Manila. who wrote home ptifu tale of
| his degradation and imprisonment for sim
! ply writing a letter direct to Gen OILS
/ asking for promotion. The record. how
! ever, shows gross deception on his part.
| lie forged the names OF non-commissione1
/ officers of his company TO q Defitjon IN
! Gen. Otis for his promotion to @ neuten
ancy. His punishment is light compared
! 70 the character of the crime committed
! by him
| In our zeal to honor the heroes of the
y Spanish-American war we should MOI for
get that in previous wars we have had off
! nd nriVQta
I as brave and patriotic. The most that any
! soldier can DO is to offer his life TO his
/ country whenever and wherever and
! however it may be demanded by the ext
! gencies of war. Hobson's exploit Win
/ snip $ ana Blues heroic deeds, as well as
/ the sublime manner IN which several sail
! ots on the Inflated Maine went boldly 10
! their death under orders of Cant Sigs
! pee, nave been duplicated many times over
/ in the past 1t Is of record that some ha1f
/ dozen daring officers and soldiers. at DIFF
! Iefent times and in different battles, rush
] ed forward and threw shells over the ram
parts before they could explode, and send
! death and destruction into the ranks of
/ their comrades. Nothing could be more
! herolc than such an act as this. and Geor-
! gla Confederate soldiers We're among these
! heroes
The last official order given by the Con
! federale government was dated Nav
]
the late Mai Raphael j. Moses. chief com
mlssary of Longstreets corps, and a dis
| uhgulshed lawyer of Columbus Ga. He
| was the father of Sergt. Albert Moses Iu
! RIA, the added this old ancestral name at
| ms fathers requesO, of the Columbus
Guards, who at Sewell's Point. Va, early
IN the war, In defending a temporary forf
/ nero eally picked up a nine-lnch shell fired
| INTO the fort from the Union batteries and
! dropped 1t into a tub of water before II
! had time to explode Later he was nro-
NOTED TO a lieutenancy in a North Carolina
regiment. and at the battle of Seven Pines
mel his death in a most heroic manner
| The regiment had become denoralizpd ana
Lieut. Luria, in the midst OF the confu-
SION seized the flag and made an effort
20 RAINY the men, but the enemy opened
IIe On MN and he was mortally wounded
! dying the next day, aged only "a wears M,
Jay lie sleeps in quiet grave at the beau
utul country home of his lamented father
near columbus At the head of his grave
2 Gin nk III