The morning news., 1899-12-31
GEN. wHnELEn,s WAR HORSES.
He Is TO Write of sixteen killed
Under Him in Battle.

has formally announced his stan as COM
mander Of the United Confederate Vet
erans of this state and he seems to have
made his selections with praiseworthy
care and excellent judgment Col Fred
L. Robertson. the well-known Brooksyihe
editor whose military bearing and Con-
federate gray uniform have always been
| conspicuous at reunions. is assistant ad-
| jutant general. and Col. D. L. Maxwell
/ of the Florida Central and Peninsular
| Railway, IS inspector general a position
/ he - fully competent TO fill He was
! gallant captain in The Confederate army
| and since The war has served several times
on the Governors staff, with credit 10
himself and honor to the state. Before
| his recent severe illness Col Maxwell, IN
manner and movement, as well as in per-
| sonal appearance, resemblcd his old COM
rade, Gen. John Il. Gordon. One of Gen
| Laws aide-de-camps is exGOv. H. l.
Mitchell, Of Tampa with the rank of ma
jor.
| am proud of the many desery ed alb
utes paid 10 Maj. Mark Newman and his
! estimable wife of SandersYille, Ga, on the
recent celebration Of theiSgo.den we 1di ~,
for I never knew more golden hearted"
| lovable gentleman than this once gal aut
| Confederate soldier, and now ho1ored cit
! zen. l first met him at Sardet svilie dur
| ing the famous COrday Harris negro IN
surrection, where l represented the New
| York Herald and the Morning News dur
| ing that exciting time and also at the H.
ter trials in court and to Maj Newman
kindly and generous nature | was In
debted for many appreciated courtesies.
Since then l have met him In various
meetings, conventions etc, and always
found him the same genial. warm-hearted.
| courteous gentleman. ] last remember
him as a conspicuous and honoled delegate
to the Confedera te reunion in Challe sion,
where his old comrades gave him hearty
and sincere greeting. Washington. county
owes Savannah lasting debt of al tude
for giving her not only such Cnrislian
gentleman in private and bus. ness circles,
but the best Ordinary in the nation-as
his twenty or more years Of fai, hful r
vice have proved. The life of such man
cannot be prolonged beyond the limit OF
usefulness to his generation.
Mr.. Charles Edgeworth Jones, in his Sc
rial History of Georgia, speaks of the late
Gen Henry c. Wayne as adjutant gener-
Al of the state at the close of the Civil
War, and then refers TO "Brigadier Gener-
al John Mcintosh Kell. the present adju-
tant general, which Is rather misleading
10 those unacquainted with the facts. Gen.
Wayne was a West Pointer, and an ac-
compllshed regular army officer, and serV-
ed the state when a great war was in
prOgre IS and fun generals and lieutenant
generals as we'll as major generals ana
brigadier generals were frequently on duty
vii hin her borders. Since the war. how
ever the office of adiutant general has
been, some of he time a cross between
military and civil duties, but is now pure
ly military, yet with the lower rank of
colonel Several times the office has been
filed byt near relatives of the Governor,
the appointing power. During my ac-
quaintance with the Georgia military,
I
bigadier general lin it," so far as L
know. Alabama and South Carolina and
Florida, with fewer, and in some cases
poorer, organizations, have had their ma
jor generals and brigadier generals mot
few, however, only on paper) and their ad-
jutants general with rank of brigadier
generals. Here in Florida, with hardly
fun r. regiment-of any--the adjutant gener-
al ranks as a major general. Georgia-with
her full regiments and grand mill tary his
tory-nowhere shows up even single bril-
gadier general.
In the death of Mai. Gen. Henry w
Lawton u. S. ". the regular army has
lost one of it's ablest and most trusty
civilian soldiers. Without the usual West
Point Military Academy training, he went
into the regular army from the volunteers
of the Civil War. and yet In no position
in which he was placed, whether in the
war department at Washington on inspec-
tlOn services dTOunu LnG county, Or DGoN
of ALL displaying his vaFor and fine sol
dierly qualities in the frontier Indian
wars did he ever fall short of the con-
fidence placed in his rare ability, clear
Judgment and superior courage. He came
to the Spanish war in Cuba
model brigadier general, and won there
the earliest honors that have made his
name a household word the world over
| shall never forget the deep impression
my official intercourse with him at Tampa
made upon me, although for years and
wears | had been intimate with famous
generals of much higher rank There
was. to use a homely but good phrase
mo nonsense about him. but In every ac-
ton and expression he showed himself a
horn soldier of the finest type. He served
his country well and died as he had long
wished to die, on the field of battle, with
his face to the foe. He deserves all the
honors his country and his countrymen
can bestow upon his memory
mo storaed urn, nor animated bust
Rack to its mansion calls the feeting
breath;
Nor Honor's voice arouse the sllent uust
Nor fiattery soothe the dun cold ear of
death"
II Is safe, I think, to say that there are
thousands of Confederate veterans who
viii be glad to know that Lieut.. Gen
Josenh Wheeler, Q. S. A., but now a
Brigadier General in the United states
army. has consented to write an article
for the Youths Companion of Boston, en-
titled My War Horses" Now when it
is remembered that this gallant and fear
less Little Joe" Wheeler of Confederate
Cavalry fame. had sixteen horses shot
from under him in his raids and cam
naigns, as well as number wounded, the
announcement means something of un-
usual interest to all classes Of readers
who are always anxious for such war
narratives from either side In the civil
War
"What. sixteen horses shot from under
him and yet he still alive 20 tell the
story?" asks some Doubling Thomas.
Gen. Wheeler may have had charmed
life in battle. but where scores fell close
AT his side the brave little hero himself,
although wounded. escaped the deadly fire
of the enemy. What en- array of killed
and wounded officers the memory OF those
war Horses" calls upl Let me mention
some Of them by way of emphasis: Gen