The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-02
Confederate Heroes.

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has undertaken to present to the Con-
federate museum at Richmond por-
traits of Confederate heroes to the
value of $50, 900. At Charleston the
last week he exhibited portraits Of
Lee. Stonewall Jackson, Forrest,
Gordon and Wade Hampton. He has
set about the work of collecting the
fund Of $500 with characteristic
energy and enthusiasm, and he will
not be happy man until that labor
is accomplished. That he will sue
ceed no one who knows the man
doubts. 1t is prompted by sentiment,
but sentiment that has patriotism
for it's inspiration, sentiment that
ennobles human nature.
In talking of his plans few days
ago, Mr.. Underwood told me that he
could give but four pictures Of Vir-
ginians-Lee, Jackson, johnson and
Stuart. I urged him to add A. P.
Hill to the list. a. P. Hill was the
last name pronounced by Robert f..
Lee in delirium, just before death
struck down the noblest character OF
profane history. A. 2. Hill was the
last name pronounced by Stonewall
Jackson in delirium just before death
summoned that demigod to 'cross
over the river and rest under the shade
Of the trees. - Both ordered that
superb commander of that incompara-
BILE infantry to advance. In death
Lee and Jackson again fought their
battles, and both summoned the Ney
of the army to lead the attack.
kentucky will have three places
Breckinridge, Buckner and Morgan
and Kentucky will be splendidly rep
resented. Tennessee will be repre-
sented by Forrest and Bishop Polk.
The portrait of Forrest represents
him at the head of his command, dis
mounted and Standing beside his
horse. His ample ovelcoat is bespat-
tered with mud, and his long and
heayy sabre is .erasped in his left
hand. The countenance is stern, even
fierce, and reminded me Of what | had
read of John Graham, of Claverhouse.
l urged Underwood to add the por-
trait of Isham G. Harris to the Ten
nessee contingent He was the great
est of the "War governors, North or
South. He ought to have been the
president Of the Confederacy. Had
he been at the head Of the government
at Richmond, history would be diff
fercnt story. Jefferson Davis vas a
great man: he had that greatest attri-
butte of great man-an attribute that
was lacking in Marlborough and in
Napoleon, in Richelieu and in Bis
marck-a pronounced and exquisite
sense of justice. Burke himself did
not have loftier hatred Of tyranny
than did Jefferson Davis. And in all
the South Jefferson Davis was the
most intensely Southern man. There
was but one chance for the South, and
that was dictator in the executive
mansion at Richmond. Davis would
have preferred defeat, with his head
the stake, to dictatorship, even with
himself the autocrat. Not so with
Harris. A greater Carnot, he would
| have created twice IA armies and or
ganized victory in every one Of them.
Mississippi will be represented by
President Davis, Stephen D. Lee and
Edward G.. Walthall.
Admiral Semmes, Braxton and Jo-
seph Wheeler will represent Alabama.
Longstrcct and Gordon came from
Georgia, and old Joe Brown might be
added, for he was no slouch of swar
governor" himself. Wade Hampton
and Kershaw are from South Carolina.
The portrait Of Hampton, already
painted, is Of full lifc-size-and rep
resents him standing in the full vigor
of his youthful prime, the handsomest
man Of his day, in colonel's uniform,
with that sword his grandfather cap
tured from Lord Rawdon in the Rcvo-
lutionary war. The scabbard is tor
toisc she'll. richly mounted in gold;
the blade is Toledo steel, as trusty
as any of the proudest uncovered
Spanish mobiles wore on his thigh in
the presence of his king or welded in
battle at St. Quentin or at Lepanto.
But Wade Hampton is out of fashion
in South Carolina now Marion and
Sumter, Haync and Pinckney, Cal
houn and Lowndcs, McDufie and
Preston, too, would be out Of fashion
in the old State now if they were in
the flesh.
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