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directly opposed to five in heavy bat
ties. These were Generals Badly"
Smith during the Chattanooga cam
paign, General McCook at the battle of
Stones river, and again at Chick
amauga; General Howard in the At
lanta campaign, and also Cox and
Palmer Before going to the west,
General Badly Smith, a favorite lead
er in the army of the Potomac, had
many bout with the forces of Long
street and Hampton. Smith originally
commanded the famous Vermont bril-
gade but when the heavy fighting came
on he was in command of a division in
the Sixth corps. In front of Richmond,
and during the Seven Days battles, as
we'll as throughout the Maryland and
Fredericksburg campaigns Of 1852.
Smiths division and his corps, for he
at one time commanded the Sixth
corps, were directly opposed by Long
streets corps, and by Wade Hampton,
who was commanding a brigade in Jeb
Stuart's cavalry. Badly" Smith was
noted fighter, and after the fall Of
Chattanooga he came back to the army
of the Potomac and had command of
the Eighteenth corps in the battle of
Cold Harbor and the attacks on Peters
burg. On both fields he encountered
Longstreet's troops.
General John G. Parke must be put
down as commander of the Ninth army
corps, the body of troops made famous
under General Burnside. This corps
fought in the east and west. Long
street was encountered by Parke on
both fields. It was at the assault on
Knoxville, Tenn, In 1853, that Long
street and Parke were opposed. In the
west, previous to that time, General
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SURVIVING CORPS CoMMANDERs OF THE CIVIL WAR.

intention was to delay Hood and grad
ually withdraw the whole force to
Nashville, where Thomas intended to
give battle to the Confederates should
they be hardy enough to attack him
there.
About 4 o'clock on the goth of No
vember Hood threw the largest part of
his force against the intrenchments of
the Fourth and Twenty-fourth corps.
From that hour until shutdown ragged
one of the severest battles of the civil
war. More than 5000 Confederates were
killed and wounded, and within a very
narrow space in the center of the bat
tlefeld. a point in front of the strong
hold of Schofeld's line, there were Is
dead and wounded Confederate gen.
erals. Of the defenders of Franklin,
Schofield and Stanley and Cox are now
living. Of the southern corps COM
manders who led the terrible attack,
there now survive Lieutenant Generals
A. P. Stewart and Stephen D. Lee.
General Stanley was the hero of a
personal episode at Franklin. The Con-
federates sprang their attack very sud-
denly, and at that time General Stanley,
being in very poor health, had crossed
the Harpeth river and was in consul
tation with General Schof1eld some dis
lance from the firing line. At the first
sound of the attack he threw himself
upon his horse and dashed to the fight
at a galloping pace. Now, when he
reached the center of the Federal line.
he found that his troops were in mo-
ton and engaged in a countercharge.
He went in with them and soon re-
ceived a very painful and disabling
wound in the neck. General Cox in
that battle handled the troops of the
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Sigel, Cox, Sickles, Palmer, McCler-
nand and Wilson. The interesting thing
about these rosters is that the dis
tinguished names on them represent
soldiers of the north and south who
fought directly against each other in
the civil war, and are now, and have
for many years, been united by ties
of friendship.
General Schofield won his greatest
fame in battle fighting against Stewart
and S. D. Lee. At an early period Of
the war General Schofield served beyond
the Mississippi, and, while his services
were valuable, they were not indie
pendent or prominent, but it so hap
pened that the results of Sherman
march to the sea made it possible for a
decisive battle to be fought upon a
comparatively small scale in central
/ Tennessee, and of that battle General
at Franklin, Nov. So 1864.
Taking advantage of Sherman's alb
sence marching through Georgia, the
daring and indomitable General ]. B.
Hood set out with his 10000 seasoned
! troops to dash upon Nashville Louis
vile and possibly Chicago. There was
no organized army in the west to op-
pose this movement. General Thomas
had been ordered to gather his scatter
ed forces at Nashville and attempt to
keep Hood south of the Ohio river, al
least. In order to delay the march OF
1 Hood north of the Tennessee, Thomas
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BOILING EGGS FOR THE BISHOP.

Bishop Paret (Episcopalian) of Balti-
more some time ago was the guest Of
an Episcopal family in West Virginia.
Learning from the bishop that he liked
hard boiled eggs for breakfast, his
hostess went to the kitchen to boil them
herself.
While so engaged she began to sing
the first verse of the we'll known hymn
Rock of Ages" Then she sang the sec
ond verse, the bishop, who was in the
dining room, joining in. When it was
finished, there was silence. The lady
herself came into the room a few min
utes later, carrying the eggs, and the
bishop remarked:
"Why not sing the third verse;"
1.-THE third verse?'' she replied. ooh,
that's not necessary"
81 don't understand" replied Bishop
Paret.
'Why, you see, bishop" she replied,
when I am cooking eggs I always sing
one verse for soft boiled and two for
hard boiled"
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by General Alexander Mcdowell Nc
Cook, who commanded one corps of the
Federal army, as Longstreet did his
own eastern corps of Virginia troops.
1t was Longstreet's corps which over
whelrned McCook's at Chickamauga
and precipitated that disaster to the
right flank which very nearly terminal
ed fatally to the Federal cause. Cen
eral McCook fought with two others of
the living lieutenant generals of the
Confederacy-viZ, Wheeler and Buck
ner. Buckner's division was opposed to
McCook's at the battle of PerryVllle,
where a disaster quite similar to Chat
tanooga was visited upon McCook' s
corps, lying off at one flank. This bat
tie of Perryville took place in Ken
lucky, where Wheeler was in command
of the Confederate cavalry. In the bat
tie of Stones river, which followed Per-
ryville, General McCook's corps was
also on the exposed flank, and during
the battle Wheeler's cavalry circled
about the Federal army and captured
the supply trains of McCook taking
provisions and ammunition to the bat
tie of Stones river.
General Lew Wallace of the Federal
army is another survivor who fought
in the east and in the west. The first
fight of Importance in which Wallace
was engaged was the battle Of Fort
Donelson, where he commanded a divi-
sion, and was engaged in a brilliant as
sault upon the Confederate lines COM
manded by General Buckner. Coming
east in 1864, Wallace had command of
the column which was sent out from
Baltimore and Washington to head off
Early's raid upon the Federal capital.
/ With comparatively small force, Wal
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looking on, exclaimed, And they are
all Americans!"
What he saw was the then COM
mander of the United States army, Gen
eral James M. Schofield vis-a-vis with
Fitz-Hugh Lee, and Merritt, once the
right hand man of Phil Sheridan,
touching elbows with Longstreet, a
hero known as the "Old War Horse" of
Hampton, S. D. Lee, French and But
Ter smiling across the tables at their
old antagonists, Palmer, Fallows and
Black. No doubt, some who read of
that notable gathering considered it
premature and only the dim foreshad-
owing of a reconciliation which must
be postponed to the next century, to the
time when the descendants of the vet
Grams of the civil war would be bound
by natural ties which shall tear asun-
der old enmities. Thoughts of that ma
ture. pertinent then, have been made
obsolete by the national uprising of
1898.
There are lis ex-generals Of the Con-
federacy now living, rs below Mason
and Dixon's line and Sc in the very
heart of the Union which they fought
against in the north and in the west
No word of protest against the unan-
imous support of the flag in the war
against Spain was heard from any state
of the old Confederacy. Wheeler, Lee
Rosser, Douglas, Butler and score OF
colonies took down their tried battle
swords and put on the national blue in
1898. About an equal number of Off
GERS appointed from civil life to serve
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lace met the enemy at the crossings Of
the Monocacy, and, although he was
defeated and had to retreat, he held the
enemy for a whole day. In this battle
Wallace was also opposed by three
other Confederates who now survive,
but whose names are not included in
the list of corps commanders. They
were Generals Imboden and Rosser,
noted cavalry leaders in the Shenan-
doah valley and General George H.
Stewart, who was in command of the
Maryland brigade in the Confederate
army Gordon also fought Wallace at
Monocacy
Howard has already been spoken Of
as the antagonist of A. P. Stewart, Joe
Wheeler and S. D. Lee in the west. He
also had for an antagonist in the At
lanta campaign General S. G. French,
who still survives. The most brilliant
opponent of Howard now living, or,
at least, the one with whom he
was more directly in contact, was
General John B. Gordon. Howard
and Gordon fought on opposing sides
at the battle of Fair Oaks, Vir-
ginia, in May, 1862, and it should
also be said that General Long
street was engaged on the Confederate
side of that battle. Howard and Cor
don were again opposed at the battle
of Charlottesville, and Howard and
Longstreet at the battle of Fredericks-
burg. AT the battle of Gettysburg
Howard's corps and Gordon's division
were engaged in the fierce struggle
north of the city on the LIST Of July
Seven of the living Federal generals
were directly opposed in some of the
severest battles by General Longstreet.
Among these Smith, Parke, McCook and
Howard have already been mentioned.
During the heavy battles in 1862 Cen
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from civil life to fight in the Spanishs
American war, as were Fitz-Hugh Lee
and Rosser, fought both of these Con-
federates in many sword combats, as
he did also that other brilliant cavalry
man, now surviving, General Wade
Hampton.
Many times since 1866 the feeling has
been current that the determination of
former foes would be accelerated if the
nation engaged in a foreign war. The
restored Union, combining under one
flag the martial valor of the north and
the south, could stand against the
world The suspicious hour for this
demonstration was deferred until 1898,
when the once noble ranks had been
gathered in by the reaper, death. So,
one can imagine Columbia, had she
been called upon to face the allied pow
ers instead of pitiful Spain, lamenting,
like Napoleon on the eve of Waterloo,
the absence of those marshals who had
led embattled hosts to victory on
hundred battlefelds. Gone on that
Hateful day in 1915 were Murat and
Kellerman and Macdonald and Au-
gereau and Lannes and Desaix. No
more would Massena and Marmont and
Victor and Soult, Oudinot and Bern
adotte with their indomitable legions
defy all Europe to still the magical cry,
''Vlvc L'Emperuer!"
But, though the republic has now no
Grant no Lee, no Sherman, no Jackson,
no Hood no Thomas, there still remain
a Miles and a Wheeler, Wilson and a
scion of the great Lee, representatives
of the younger blood which followed
those mighty captains in battle And
these surviving leaders, together with
the shades of their fallen compeers,
gave martial spirit to the newer gen.
GRAFTON of warriors. There was no Far
ragut in 1898, but there was a Dewey,
trained in his school; no Gushing from
the north, but Hobson from the south
answered for him when the hour called
for hero. A northern Ellsworth there
was none as first offering to the god of
war; but there was southern Bagley to
die at the dawning of the conflict, no
BILE witness that at the end of the CEN
fury the republic knows no north and
no south in patriotic devotion and mar
tial honor.
The once foes are friends, the once
enemies are comrades in battle. Their
nantes and the nantes of those who
have crossed to the immortal bivouac
must fall upon gallant shoulders, and
the spectacle the close of the century
presents makes the lover of his country
feel that never in the history of that
country was there a filter time than
this to wish long life to the army, long
life to the triumphs Of American valor.
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! eral Franklin commanded the Sixth
corps, which was opposed to Long
streets troops at Gaines Mill, during
the Seven Days fight, on Malvern Hill
and in the Maryland campaign; also
at Fredericksburg after which Frank
lin was transferred to the west. In the
same battles LOngstreet was opposed to
F1tz John Porter, but the most dramatic
meeting Of these two renowned fighters
was at the second battle of Bull Run,
the conflict with which General Fitz
John Porter's name has been associated
in history. It was Longstreet's corps
which Fitz John Porter held up at the
second battle of Bull Run, and pre-
vented from giving the army of the
Potomac it's finishing stroke and it
was Longstreet himself who gave evil
dence of this fact and reversed the ter
rible verdict which military court had
placed against Fitz John Porter. Not
less dramatic in it's startling military
features than the encounter with Fitz
John Porter at Bull Run was Long
streets meeting with General Daniel E.
Sickles at the battle of Gettysburg, July
/ 2, 1863 LongStreet headed the attack
against the angle at the peach orchard
held by Siekles. The collision led to the
remark on the part OF Lincoln CnaI
Sickles deserved we'll of his country for
having shown fight to Longstreet,
thereby bringing on the decisive battle
/ of Gettysburg.
| OF the other survivors of the Fed
erals, Palmer was opposed to the Con-
federates French, Wheeler, Buckner
and Stewart.
General John A. McClernand, who
took prominent part in the battles of
the Mississippi river up to and includ-
ing the battle of Vicksburg, met during
those fights both Stewart and S. D.
Lee.
| James H. Wilson. who was called
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By CAPT. GEORGE K1LMER, LATE U. S. VOLUNTEERS

against Spain came from old opposing
armies.
The rosters of famous corps generals
of the civil war on both sides now liv-
ing form an interesting study. OF the
lieutenant generals of the south there
remain Longstreet, a. P. Stewart Ste
phen D. Lee, Buckner, Wade Hampton,
John b. Gordon and Joseph Wheeler.
OF about the same rank in the northern
army and exercising commands Of
about the same Importance there are
now surviving Is major generals class
ed strictly as corps commanders. These
are Generals J. M. Schofeld, the prede-
cessor of General Miles as the COM
mander of the United States army;
William F. Smith, usually called "OId
Badly" D. S. Stanley, John G. Parke,
A. Med. McCook, Lew Wallace, the SOL
dier-author; o. o. Howard, the Christian
soldier; Franklin, Bitz John Porter,
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FOR ONE GRAND NATIONAL
MILITARY ORGANIZATION.

i Twentythird c6fpss in the intrench-
ments. His chief opponent that day
was General A. F, Stewart. Both Cox
and Stanley had previously met Stewart
and Lee in battle During the Atlanta
campaign. All af the troops engaged
at Franklin had taken part in the
campaign from Dalton to Atlanta,
the results of which led Sherman
to set out on his. march to the sea. In
this campaign, also, General Wheeler
was brilliant participant, having COM
mand of the cavalry. While his force
was comparatively small, it was very
active in defending the flank of the
Confederates during the several battles
which took place in front of Atlanta
and after the army had become cooped
up, so to speak, in the city, Wheeler
was active in raiding behind the camps
of the enemy.
OF the Is corps commanders on the
Federal side now living, Wheeler was
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TT IS conceded by Grand Army men
that the proposal to take i'll Spanish
h war veterans, which is to have a
rehearing at the encampment in Phil
adelphia, Sept. to II, is an extremely
radical measure. Should it prevail, the
character of the order Will be revolu-
tionized. But the opponents of the
measure are men of the broadest views,
and as compromise it will be suggest
ed that new order of American veter-
ans be formed to which every old SOL
der of good record shall be eligible. A
society so constituted would be the
realization of the dream of a quarter
of century, the permanent reunion of
the blue and the gray. That the time
is ripe for it no one who has observed
the spirit of former foes for the last
decade or more can doubt.
At the blue and gray banquet in Chi
cago in 1895 an enthusiastic patriot,
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Burnside advanced from the north to
Nashville in order to draw the Con-
federate troops away from the force
defending Chattanooga. He succeeded
in tempting the Confederate commander
to send Longstreet against him, and,
as Burnside retreated into Knoxville,
Longstreet drew his division up and at
tempted to carry the place by assault.
1t was terrible fight, and Longstreet
was defeated.
Longstreet, it will be remembered by
those at all familiar with the his
tory of the war, was an eastern COM
mander, and, as stated elsewhere in
this article, was known as the "Old
War Horse of Robert E. Lee. With
the exception of this expedition to the
west in 1862 which brought him into
the battles of Chickamauga and Knox
vile. Longstreet always fought with
the army Of northern Virginia. At
Chickamauga he was directly opposed
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An Important Question Called Up by the G. A. R.
Encampment In Philadelphia Surviving Corps
Commanders Who Wore the Blue or the
Gray In the Titanic Struggle of lS6l=5

sent General Schofield forward with such
troops as could be rallied from those
which Sherman had left behind as rail-
way guards and re-enforcements or
dered up from different points in Ten
nessee. He was himself the COM
mander of the Twenty-third corps, and,
having that command as well as the
Fourth corps under him, he was Ill
point of fact the leader of a small army.
After some skirmishing and fighting
retreat from Columbia to Franklin on
the Harpeth, he settled down to the de-
Tense of some old intrenchments COW
ering the crossing of the Harpeth. The
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fusal assigned was that in acquiring
examples regard must be had to the
celebrity Of the person represented
rather than to the merits of the artist
Harry G. Steele of Ashland, Pa, has
reached Dawson City, Alaska, and will
launch into polar journalism The Daily
News. The paper is to sell for 25 cents
copy, and advertising will be rated
at $40 an inch month. Job printing
charges will be for lots of 1000 as fol-
lows: Business cards, $25; letter heads,
$40; ne-sixteenth sheet dodgers, s22;
one quarter sheets. $50, and envelopes.
! $40.
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hands appear to move by magic. The
secret lies in concealing the works at
the edge of the case and communicate
ing the motion to the hands by means
of a glass disk.
Colonel Rice of the Twenty-sixth in
fantry was a college mate of Admiral
Dewey at Norwich university, Vermont.
A Port Angeles man took 800 chickens
to Dawson last summer During the
trip they averaged three dozen eggs a
day, and the eggs were sold for 81 a
dozen.
Pope Leo has refused a business offer
which the projectors asserted would
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trial heats. The crowd demanded that
the race should be decided on its merits,
and the judges postponed it indefinitely.
There are 10000 locomotives in use on
American railroads.
Mascagni has written hymn in hon.
or of Admiral Dewey and the victories
of the American nation. When per-
formed at Pesaro for the first time in
the presence of 1000 people, it was de-
clared to be one of the best things the
composer has written.
A curious watch has been brought out
in France. The dial is transparent, but
there are no works behind it, and the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-27
HOW PEOPLE SAY "GOOD MORN
INGY

"How can your" That's Swedish.
"How do you are?" That's Dutch.
''How do you stand?" That's Italian.
60 with God, senor." That's Span
ish
How do you live on?" That's Rus
sian.
''How do you perspire?" That's
Egyptian.
How do you have yourself?" That's
Polish.
Thank God, how are you?" That's
Arabian.
May the shadow never grow less"
That's Persian.
How do you carry yourself?" That's
French.
How do you do?" That's English
and American.
BE under the guard of God" That's
Ottoman.
How is your stomach? Have you
eaten your rice?" That's Chinese.
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bring him as much revenue as Peters
pence. The wine made from the grapes
of the Vatican gardens was to be put
up in bottles and sold at the Paris ex-
hibition under the label Vino Leonino
di Sua Santita" C'His Holiness Wine").
Perhaps the only word that is the
same in all languages is the hello in
response to the telephone call. Wher-
ever there is a telephone line the word
is in use, and means just what it does
in English.
Candles which are wont to light the
path of the weary wayfarer to bed at
many country summer resort may be
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made to do almost double duty. at least
in lasting, by being kept in an ice box
during the daytime. They will burn
twice as long and drip only quarter as
much when subjected to the cold tenn
perature.
A queer excuse for refusing to buy a
portrait of Queen Victoria by Wilkie,
and pictures of Charles 1 and Queen
Henrietta Maria for the National Por-
trait gallery has been given by the
British treasury. 1t was doubtful
whether the artistic merit of the pic
lures justified the purchase at the price
asked, but the official ground for re-
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Fingers are valued at high price in
Australia. A Melbourne boy of had
his fingers crushed in gate at a level
crossing, and one had to be amputated.
An action on his behalf was brought
against the state railway department.
The jury awarded the full amount
claimed, $1,000.
A Wesleyan preacher named Houlds-
worth, who had preached for so years,
died recently in the Halifax (England)
almshouse, aged 81 years. He began to
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THINGS IN GENERAL.

preach at IA. and when so years of age
Travelled Is miles on a Sunday to con-
duct services in five places.
Kaiser Wilhelm's personal ideas
about sport have caused trouble at
Mainz. The emperor had offered prize
for bicyclists, and a large crowd as
sembled to see the final heat Of the
race. At the last moment a telegram
was received saying that the emperor
wished that the prize should go to a
particular oneof the three winners in the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-29

Ill; Colonel Dan. Reina de Los Angeles,
JOY; Imitator, Nunoomar, 109; Magnus,
ia; Don Luis, 116; Schnitz, Defender,
III; Madrone, 119; Road Runner, 121.
Second race, six furlongs. purse
Gualalla, 81; Crossmollna. Petal, Genua,
1o2; Racivan, 1o4; Malay, Cavatoi, 1903;
Obsidan, Limewater, 112.
y Third race, three and one-half fur
longs. 2-year-olds, purse-Infinity. 80;
Bathos, 1902; Nomadic, 1902, and Pres
tome, liz (B. & w. entry); Innovator,
104; Fidalia, Belle of Palo Alto, 112;
Ella Boland and Mortgage, 112 Marcus
Days entry).
Fourth race, one mile and a six
tenth, purse-Morinel, "a; Thyme, 101;
David Tenny, 1o4; Granger, 1o4; DIR.
Sheppard, 124.
Fifth race, seven furlongs, selling
Rosemaid, High Hoe, So; None Such.
Lomo. Castake, 100; Coda. Lady Britain
mic, New Moon, Kamsin, 101: Ben
Amelia, 1903: Frohman, 104; Alicia, 105;
Topmast 119.
Sixth race Futurity course, selling
Nora Ives. "a; Clarendo, 80; Rey Hook
err. Faversham, 1O4: Midlight ITO; Fly.
112; Cyril. lib: Highland Ball, 116; Dick
Warren. Howard, III; Mainstay, 120.
Weather clear; track fast.