The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-25
WORLDS TALLEST SOLDIER.
A GALLANT EX-CONFEDIGIs ATE.

A GALLANT Ex-CONFEDlsIsA Ate.
Lieut.. FiokltnR, OF CoIumbla 10 tho
Tallest Man OF tho WorId's Grcnt
Armies.
The Columbia State.
Tho Confederate army poBscsBod tho
tallest soldier Of which any authentic
record can DO found. Thnt soltllor WAS
native OF Columbia and ls still
resident, and 1t may bo said just hero
that thoso who woro tho comrades OF
Lieut.. Eldred s. Tickling will toll any
ono that no truor, bravor or cooler sol.
dior ovor drew sword. Llout. Flick
ling's courage has boon Lostod on many
occasions and HIS comrades tales OF
his docds arc familiar to many. CO.
umbians remember, too, tho occasion
not SO many years ago whom no, thCn
chief OF police, Quellod riot practi-
cally single. handed on Market square
with the assistance OF Is baseball bat
he picked up In front OF s,oro. This
man now quietly servcs his city In tho
capacity OF u patrolman, having somo
years ago left tho railroad business
In which ho WAS engaged for IL long
period.
He is d son Of the lato eminent law
yer, f. w. Fickling. He won't to the
front with lieutenant's commission
and saw his first service with tho
South Carolina artillery in Charleston
harbor.
The veteran soldier stands + foct Q
inches in height, and when he ap-
peared at the reunion in Charleston,
havingtgone from the desire to visit
the scene OF the glorious past and
shake the hands Of comrades, ho at
tracted universal attention.
1t happened that the Now York
Herald the Sunday before tho reunion
had published in its magazine supple
ment carefully prepared article, at
tractlvely illustrated, on the subject
OF the tallest soldiers in the armies OF
theI world, and giving all the facts
and figures obtained after careful re-
search.
The tal.est soldier that could be &C.
counted for either in the past or at the
present time lacks one inch Of coming
up TO the eX-COnfederate lieuterants
height.
Probably the tallest officer in service
to-day, the Herald says, IS the English
guardsman Capt. Oswald Ames, Of the
Second Lie Guards, who headed the
Queens jubilee processeSion, and who
measures feet ; inches. 1t WINS at
the personal request Of the Prince Of
ales that Capt. Ames rode alone, the
nrst n all that brilliant gathering. \
giant MusCovite is the Grand Duke
Dmltrl honstantiEovitch, cousin OF the
cHar, and colonel commanding the regi-
lnent OF Grenadlers Of the Imperial
Guard. The grand duke is i feet
inches, which is SO immensely tall tha,
enough to accommodate him comfort
a ~ , h,,i1
IN sections, which travels with him.
and Is put up by a special mechanic.
told OIL for TIE purpose. III der the su-
perintcndence Of the royal valet. An
other gigantic European officer is Col.
Won Phiskow Of the First regiment Of
l'russian Guards. He is over feet 6
inches, and he headed the delegation
of officers, all Of them over t feet, lent
by Emperor William to the funeral Of
the late President taure. Won Phis.
kow IS the taliest officer In Germany
and his regiment stationed at Pots.
dam, Is the same, that WAS the play
thing OF that old soldier Frederick.
Capt. James Nj. Forsyth and Surgeon
}. r. Gardner are tho tnllest officers in
the United States navy, and both OF
them closely approach the elk feet five
inch mark. Capt. Forsyth comes Of "
tall family. His father WAS & feet 5
Inches, ono OF his brother six feet
seven inches, another six feet five
inches, and his own son, who Is 20
years old ard Rnon-cOmmissioned Of
fccr In the Pennsylvania Boys bri-
gade, 1s six foot Six inches.
Another tine specimen OF an army
oilicor is Col. Helm, First cavalry, W no
is commandant Of cadets at w est 'oint.
ana who Is six feet two and half
inches.
Col. Dan" Appleton, OF tho Seventh
New York regiment, needs no mon
tiOn beyond tho fact that ho belongs to
q family OF tall mon. The colonel Ia
Six foot two inches, and his father, tho
late Col. John a. Appleton, was tho
Same height.
Another tall officer is Gen. Lswton,
his height boing 6 feet i inches.
Richard Wand Groon yelling Ia do
cidodly u long name, but 1t It's tho tall
gentleman who carries it, for ho is 6
feet and q half inches without his
boots
Tho United States volunteers havo
also some tall and distinguished o1i-
cors. John Jacob Astor, who was
among the earliest to answer tho pres-
ident's first appeal for mon and money
is over & feet and a half inches.
The Rough Riders, celebrated In
many other ways, had also worry tall
man among thom, In tho person OF
William Taylor dc Hychlinski, VINO Is
% trino over fcot 8 inches.
Speaking OF tall soldiers In general,
the writer In The Herald says :: "It
would be hard to namo q country or an
ago In which those fine fighting mon
have not bccn hymncd and sought
after. We read OF them In the liomorlc
wars, and We cannot help admiring
those among them who are described
as outtopping their fellows by the head
and shoulders. a tall man Hector
must have bocn; otherwise how could
he have handled his spear, which was
30 "pondcr0us, big and tough - In
tho army Of Hannibal the astutc Car
thaginlan, were many mon OF this
daredevil, picturesque type, just ~
there wcro at another time In the army