The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-22
SHOULD INVITE THE GENERALS
MAJ. HEHnERT OFFERS A SUCCESS
TION TO The COMMITTEE.

BE InVifed-GeOrgia Generals Who
Have Crossed Over the River.
other Matters Military.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla. Oct. p.
Il think il would be an excellent idea for
the Confederate Reunion Committee 10 in
vite all the surviving Georgia Confederate
generals 10 become the guests of the city
during the Savannah reunion. There are
but few-ah, very few-left of the old he
roes. Gordon, Lee and Evans viii be
there officially of course, but Wheeler is
in far off Manila serving his reunited
country, like The true patriot, in his Old
age. Gen. George p Harrison, Jr., the
hero OF Olustee, Fla, lives in Opelika.
Ala; Gen. w. r. Boggs can be reached
through his brother, at Livingston, N. c.;
Gen. Bryan NJ. Thomas, a West Pointer.
lives at Dalton, Ga; Maj j. B. Cumming
Of Augusta can give present address of
Gen. Alfred Cummings and Gen. William
Montgomery Gardner, two distinguished
West Pointers; Gen. E. L. Alexander, I
think is serving on some commission and
Gen. G. Maxley sorrel is well known 10
the committee and needs no tracer to find
him; as Gen. w W. kirkland is an inva-
lid in Virginia he could hardly be expected
to come; Gen. William Phillips resides a
Marietta, Ga, and Gen. George 7. cod
Tige'D Anderson at Admission, Ala; Gen.
c. A. Battle, l think, is now living some
where in North Carolina. l suppose Geor-
ga claims Lieut.. Gen. James Longstreet,
residing at present in Washington, ID. c.
Gen. Alfred Iverson is living in retirement
at Kissimmee, Fla, and would hardly
make the trip. Gen. Ellison Capers of Co
lumbia, s. c., would be an honored guest
as the father-in-law of the late Capt. Sat
terlee. Gen. Wade Hampton and Gen. M.
c. Butler are also near at hand. Gen.
Vaughn OF Memphis, Tenn, has recently
died and Gen. Bate, / presume. is in
Washington. Florida has only Gen. e. NJ.
Law, Gen. Robert Bullock and Gen. Viii
liam Miller probably available as guests,
as Gen. j. j. Finley Is now confirmed in
valid. Gems. Loring, Anderson, Perry,
Finnegan. Davis Smith, ali are with the
dead, and Gen. Finley may soon join them,
after a long life of unusual activity and
many deserved honors,
Compare the foregoing meagre list OF the
living generals with he following long line
of the heroc dead aimed by Georgia
through biith or residence in the state:
Gems Hardee McLaws, Walker, Law on,
Clayton GIlmer, ColQuitt, Young, w Ills,
Bowen, Williams, GaTtrel Capers, Wilson,
Crews, DuBose, Girardey, Phillips. DoleS,
Cook Smith Clanton, Stovan, Walker,
Sommes, Henderson, Simms, Carswen,
Jackson, Wayne, Harrison, Jones, Martin,
Mercer, Jackson. Tw ggs / cry, Anderson,
Barlow, Cobb Browne, Do shier, Cobb,
Toombs Thomas, Ector,' Tracy, Young,
Bryan, Benning, Wright, Mccoy Foster,
an all, passed away, and with Lee and
Jackson and Johnston and HIN and Polk
and smith, their former chiefs, are now
resting under the shade Of the trees
where wa S rude alarms can never distu b
their eterral peace. After a few more re-
unions there viii not be a Confederate
general living 10 greet his old comrades.
Those who may be living viii be too old
aud feeble to ave their homes. The last
man" in the great Confederate procession
win be the ever present, always reliable
Private Soldier"
Gen. Alfred IversOn.
MY old friend, Col G. N. saussy. writes
from Baiub idge, Ca, 10 know about Gen.
Alfred VERSIONS present oca ton, which
promp's me to give some interes ing facts
about him and his family. As the son and
namesake of Uniled States Senator Alfred
Iverson, of Georgia, he was made first
lieutenant of the FIRST L. s. Cavalry, on
March 3, 1855, but resigned TO enter the
Confederate service on March Il, 1871 The
same month Gov. Brown put him in the
state service with Cen p NJ. b, Young,
Gen. w. w. Xii kand, Cen Robert II. An
derzon, and en- George p. Harrison Jr,
Then followed his appointment in the Cen
fedgrate STATES Army as a cap ain In Co.
Earl Van Dofn's infantry regimen, with
Lafayette McLaws and AIRED Cumming
OF Gecreia al majors. Robert G. Co and
william S. Walker were also captains in
this regiment, and credited to Florida.
From This time on Gen. IVersOn career
/ was upward and ouWard' and he became
Z kl4.. oil ~ an atfi ~ "
/ airy commanders in Cen Johns TONS army.
/ have seen several official requests from
prominent generals calling for his services
with their commands and highly eXtolling
/ his military ability. After the war he
/ quietly settled In Florida, and for several
years mad q lovely suburban lakeside
home here in Maitland, but for some ten
years or more he has lived down at Kis-
4 simmee. where hunting and fishing, his
/ faVorite recreadons, are more attractive,
and where he leads a quiet retired life.
! II will not be out Of place here to mem
/ ton his estimab'e brother, Col. John +.
/ Iverson, of Columbus, Ga He was prom
nent insurance agent when he died. a
/ dozen years or more ago, and his bright
! and noble daughter Immediately took
charge Of the office and successfully car
| ried on the business. She was the first
| female insurance agent in Georgia, so far
as I know, and the claims of Mrs. w. L.
I 9
Atkinson OF Newman, as set forth in the
Morning News yesterday fan to the
( ground. The widow of Capt, r. T. Pat
! ton who died in Savannah about two years
ogo, is a daughter of Gen. Alfred Iver-
son. and she went 90 Atlanta and opened
an insurance office, which also puts her
ahead of Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Atkinson
in that supposed new departure for wo-
| men"
Fist Fights at West Point.
In recent article in the Morning News,
copied from a Northern paper the sub
ject OF hazing and first fights at the West
/ Point Military Academy was discussed and
| the names of some distinguished generals
given as victims OF the hazing process
1t is claimed that the hazing at the acade-
my was generally mild, but there We're
occasions when that mildness was not Wis
ible 20 the poor devil who was hazed OF
a cold winters night with nothing on but
a summer bathing suit. In the palmy
days of Benny Haven's, Oh" previous
10 1877, when his blind tiger was in
! ful ODera lions many Of the cadets rise1