The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-10
SOME WAR "REMINISCENCES.
CHAPLAINs WHO DISTINGUISHED
THEMSELVES.


Otis Was West Pointer-WhRt
Yale College Did During the War
with Standardization Not over
IooISed-Much Pension Money Dis
tributed in Georgia and Florida.
Pine Crest Villa. Maitland Fla, July g.
Rev. W. \. Parks IS writing for the Wes-
Ieyan Christian Advocate. OF Atlanta, a
series of interesting articles ON his expert
ences as chaplain in the Confederate army.
In his last article he pays high tribute
to the preacher-soldiers who fell in The
fighting around Marietta. They were
Bishop GEM Polk, Rev. CAIaj) Scott.
both of Louisiana. one an Episcopalian and
the other a Cumberland Presbyterian:
also, Rev. J. W Brady, a Methodist, of
Georgia. Chaplain McMulleu, an aged
Presbyterian. ed a regiment into the field
al Resaca. and both he and his SON were
killed. Mention is also made of Rev.
George G. Smith of Georgia, who was ter
rDly wounded in the Virginia campaign;
yet sun lives to use a prolific pen for his
church.
Whatever else may be said of the
preachers. generally, they are never lack
ing in patriotism. or heroism. I might
name twenty bishops who We're baptized
i'm the smoke Of battle during the civit
war. Such names as Elliott. Peterkiu.
Capers, Harris, Beckwith, Pierce and
Quintard are familiar to the Morning News
readers. Bishops Fauows McCabe and
others of the North might be added Then
We could name Rev. Drs Pondleton.
-bOup Rte11oa IFyare Tapas G1,it,
johnson and other eminent divines The
first three named. Inc Bishop Polk, we're
graduates OF West Point Military Acad-
envy.
Few readers of the Morning News are
aware that Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray
Otis of California, who has been advisine
the President about the Philippines cam
palsn, Is graduate of West Point Mill
tary Academy, class of 1874. in which he
stood No. 10 out of forty-one members He
was assigned as second lieutenant of the
Fourth Cavalry and did good service on
the frontier. Ear.y in 1877 he was trans
ferred TO the Fourth Artillery and assign
ed to duty at Artillery School at Fort
Monroe. Later he was in the Nez Perces
expedition, and then sent TO California
where he resigned. after few years ser
vice. When appointed a brigadier general
OF volunteers last year he was an editor
at Los Angeles.
80 ''iN u my wal cilSlltS from tampa
Bay Hotel during the Rocking Chair
Period of the war in Cuba. I referred
to the unpa triOtc course of President
Eliot of Harvard University and claimed
that our colleges and universities were
the nuseres of patriots and heroes, and
that he was entirely out of place. as Har.
ward did her full duty In the civil war
and sent Col. Roosevelt and many others
to the Spanish-American war, both as pa
triOts and officers
The War Record Number of the Yale
Weekly June T. shows 300 of
the alumni of Yale University in the
Spanish war, in the army and
navy OF these 215 were graduates and
So undergraduates. The Academic DEPART
ment sent 1875. the Scientific School n and
the Professional Schools 12 Out OF this
there were two brgader generals three
colonies five lieutenant colonies, ten ma
jors, twenty-one captains and ffty-five
lieutenants, the balance, in the army being
non-cOmmissioned officers and privates
Savannah had the honor of furnishing
one of the generals-Brig. Gen. William
w. Gordon. class of 81 whose picture APP
pears in the Weekly Brig. Gen. Andrew
S. Burt, class of 1861 now colonel of the
Twenty-hfth Infantry, U. s. A. was the
other Lieut.. William w. Gordon Jr
OF the class of 1886 Scientific School. Is
also mentioned as A. D. c.. on his fathers
GERS are given, including the famous Yale
Battery, and the corps mounted; also Col.
Roosevelt and Lieut. John c. Greenwav
yale, 1880 on horseback The record of
the gallant 300, as printed in the Weekly.
is indeed "A roll of honor of which old
Yale may We'll be proud. and seek to put
il into imDerishable form.
The Atlanta Constitution, in copying my
article on Georgians in the regular army.
intimates that l overlooked Capt. Fred G.
Hodgson of the Quartermaster's depart-
menC As he is serving as major in the
volunteers, l simply laid his name aside
| fer special mention, but in very hastily
| closing my letter l neglected to do so. Capt.
| Hodgson is an Old friend and l am
| proud of his fine record in the army Some
of the new appointments escaped nv no
| tice. ak the army list" unlike the army
register, gives no residences of officers
named. First Lieutenant Campbell King
| of the First Infantry, and Second Lieu
| tenant Graham L. Johnson of the FIT
! teenth Infantry, assigned to duty as col
! hector of customs al Arroyo, in Porto Rico.
were of this number. The name of First
| Lieutenant Henry Greene Cole of the
| Twenty-thrd Infantry seems 10 have been
! overlooked, as well as that of First Lieu
tenant Edward S. Wright of the Seventh
Cavalry
There is a great deal of United States
| pension money distributed in Georgia.
| Florida and South Carolina, and il may be
| well to have it known that this money is
not only exempt (under the laws of the
| United States), from any kind of attach
ment for debt, but any article necessary
to comfort etc, purchased by this money
| is also exempt in the same manner. A
! district school tax collector in New York
state levied on a pensioners coal, but the
| higher court reversed the decision of the
| lower tribunal. and the coal had 10 be re-
| turned TO the Old soldier l don't suppose
state pensions are thus protected by law
| from attachments.
Charles Rich Johnson of Toledo, O., and
| Charles Edgeworth Jones of Augusta
| have recently published lists of "Surviv-
| ing Confederate Generals but there is
no classification of the survivors into
regular army, provisional army or
state troops officers. None of the fun
| generals in any class are now alive, and
only seven of the lieutenant generals, OUT
of nineteen of the latter Sixteen out of
! eighty-one major generals ore survivors,
! and also ninety-two of the three hundred
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