The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-18
A MILITARY MEDLEY.
SOME LONG STANDING POPULAR Err
RORS CORRECTED.

The Mistake of Col. Jack Chinn-The
Last Meeting Place of the Confed-
crate Cnbinet-Other Matters of
Special Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, June
H-One of Georgias leading dailies an
nounces THAI there will be no more court
martals' of so.Giers guilty of state Of
lenses, who are to be turned over to the
civil courts. AS there are no "martials"
in the army, but courts, which of neces-
sity are martial courts" the only proper
term to use is courtsmartial. The same
is true Of adjutants general and knights
Templar. And yet the error is one that
often occurs.
Miss Elizabeth Legere Fleming of jack
sonville has prize essay of Stonewall
jackson in the Times Union and Citizen
of Wednesday, in which she states that
Gen. Jackson received his death wounds
from his own soldiers, accidentally. Now
IL is the positive testimony Of the famous
surgeon. Dr. Hunter Mcclure, that the
wounds were not fatal, and that Gen.
jackson died from pneumonia, after a Sc
we're Illness following the sad mistake
which leo TO his accidental wounding.
Nearly all published rosters Of Confeder-
ate generals have the name of II f..
Rhodes in them as do some official re-
ports. The name should be Rodes The
name Of Gen. George II. Steuart is fire.
quenfly spell Stewart, and Gen. Paul o.
Hebert is made Herbert. Gen. o. NJ.
Mitchell of the United States army has
several Grand Army posts named for hun,
and yet half of the time they write his
name as Mitchell. Yet there is on.y one
%" in It, Then Gen. Bradley T. John
son Is made Johnston and Gen. Joseph
p. Johnston transformed TO johnson. Half
he ftftaa l-Gr1 loo nd TF.ss
Longstreet are given a middle name 10
which they do not answer.
One of the common errors OF the day,
past and present, is 10 refer 20 men who
die as having graduated al West Point
Military Academy. In some cases the
as cadets at that institution, while in
other cases they were there only a few
months and resigned. or were dis
missed, or discharged" OF the latter
class Robert G. Barnwell Is. c.. 1880,
Christopher Columbus Coffee Georgia,
1886, John II. Hewitt (New York, 1873.
Marcellus A. Stovall Georgia. 1885,
Simply mention these as samples. Hewitt
died when 80 years old and his obituary
says he graduated in 1922 as second lieu
tenant OF cavalry, but was not satisfied
and resigned Immediately, came to Au-
gusta, Ga, and practiced law and music.
He never graduated at West Point ana
was never made second lieutenant.
But errors in regard TO dead people are
excusable, and may be wholly due TO
unreliable data However, there are cases
on record where living persons have been
guilty OF claiming a West Point and army
reputation not due them. One Richard
Thomas Zaroona, in June, 1861, applied
TO Gov Letcher of Virginia for a place
in the Confederate army, claiming to be
a graduate from Maryland of West Point.
and so he was made o colonel Of yolun-
teers. on Sept. a. 1862. one Clay Craw-
ford of Missouri, a prisoner of war at
Madison, Ga, wrote Hon. William II.
Crawford, formerly United States Secre-
tary of War, to help secure his release.
He claimed that he was appointed a
cadet at West Point by Crawford while
secretary, In 1850, and wnen Sumter was
fired upon he resigned his commission
In the regular army and returned 70 Mis-
souri, all of which was a lie. Both these
men were military frauds, and could very
easily have been detected as such by a
prompt investigation.
A great many well read people speak
Of the surrender Of Gen. Lee TO Gen. Grant