The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-22
THE SOUTH AND THE WAR.
(Chicago Times Herald.l

tCmlcag0 lHmeS- Hefald)
The long list of officers killed and
wounded during the struggle of the last
eighteen morlhs itcllides n large share
of Southern names. As large a share
of the names knowa T. the Southland
may be foun in the l1St of the officers
of the Amy sfpl Navy who during the
same time have distinguished themselves
for herNsm. saffuid. killed Saturday
at the head of his mear in a charge at
Noveleta i'm the philippines. claimed the
same Alabama home as does Hobson of
Merrimac fame. Worth Bagley, the only
naval officer killed during the Spanish
war, came from North Carolina A ne
gro was killed by fragment of the
shell which struck Bagley down. The
dying ensign asked that the negro re-
ceive the first care. Victor Blue, South
erner and Annapolis graduate, dared the
fate that overlook Nathan Hale during
the Revolution by fraversing with Il sim
gle companion the island of Porto Rico,
subsequently reporting to the American
authorities the disposition of the island $
defensive force. Andrew S. Rowan, Vir-
ginfan and West Pointer, dared death
in a similar way by piercing TO the heart
of Cuba before any other American sol
dier had set foot on it's soil.
Twenty years ago there entered West
Point with the writer of this article two
Southern boes-Will;am E. Shipp and
William III. Smith. They met each other
for the first time as they left the ferry
boat to toll up the steep hill leading to
the hotel Their orders of appointment as
cadets gave them until the next day to
report for examination. The two young
Sontherners occupied the same room ut
the hotel; they passed their examinations
together: they tented together during the
troublesome months of pleb camp; they
roomed together DURING the four years
of their cadet course, and finally joined
the same regiments as Second Lieuten-
ants, the Tenth United States Cavalry.
We used to speak of Shipp and Smith as
Damon and Pythias, and more than once
it was loosely remarked that in order to
carry the comradeship to a dramatic end
they ought to die together. Smith and
Ship were shot and killed within five
minutes while they We're leading their
dismounted black troopers up theeslopes
of San Juan Hill
In the same West Point class was
John W. Heard, of Mississippi Heard
| Is HOW II 0dpldIH III tle 1IMTu O1hlIeQ
States Cavalry. On the way to take part
in the battles before Santiago 1.-THE trans-
port to which Heard and his immediate
command We're assigned ran close to. a
point off land where a large body of
| SpamiardS were i'm ambush. The decks
Of the transport were swept by Mauser
bullets for half am hour. 1t was neees-
say to transmit orders from forward to
aft. This could only be done by the APP
| pointment of man to do the duty. Ev-
| cry step of the messengers way was one
of imminent danger, though this fact at
first was not realized Two men were or
| dered to the dangerous duty, and they
were both shot i'm quick succession. Capt.
Heard said: "I'll ask no more of my
men to expose themselves. Give me
your orders" For twenty minutes he car
ried messages from one end of the vessel
to the other, though Mauser bullets cut
his blouse, srattered the deck and sDlin-
= ne ratings about him. Every
stride of his way was marked by the
| leaden volleys, yet he came through un-
| scaahed He now wears the medal of
honor given "FOr Valor."
In the blood of its sons in Cuba and
/ the Philippines THE union of North and
South has been cemented. In the WHIP
ing out of sectional Lines the nation finds
full compensation for the cost of the war.