The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-17
PART TWO.
He IS SOLE SURVIVOR.
LAST MAN IN GREAT PROCESSION
OF CONFEDERATE LEADERS.

postmaster General of the COnfed-
crate States, Now Has the Honor of
peiug sole Survivor of His Eminent
Associates.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, Sept. H.
i know that Savannah is not a modern
eitv of clap-trap attractions. to draw a
crowd on any occasion, yet I feel sure that
7 am safe in suggesting that the import
epce, pleasure and profit of the state Con-
Tolerate reunion within her borders dur
ing November would be greatly enhanced
nv the presence of Hon. John H. Reagan
of Palestine, Tex, the sole survivor of the
once proud and powerful administration
civil and military-of the Confederate
States of America.
And what does sole survivor mean in
This connection? Not that he has simply
oltived President Davis and Vice Presi-
dent stephens, nor Toombs and Hunter
and Benjamin, the Secretaries of State;
nor Trenholm and Meminger, the Secre>
taries Of the Treasury; nor Walker RAN
do.ph, Seldom and Breckenridge, the Sec
retaries of War; nor Mallory, the Secre-
tary Of the Navy; nor Watts and Davis
and Others the Attorneys General, all Of
whom have passed from earth, but he sur
wives a host of other civil and military
leaders, among whom are the presidents
Of the Senate and the speakers of the
House and more than two-thirds of both
branches of the Confederate Congress; also
nearly every member of President Davis
staff; Adjt Gen. Cooper, Commanding
General Robert E. Lee, Chief Engineer
Jeremy +. Gilmer, Quartermas ters Gener-
al Norhrop, Myers and Lawton, Surgeon
General Moore, Commissary General st.
John, Chief Of Ordnance Georges and
Gems. Winder, Preston, Rains, Ou.d and
others, heads of departments.
In the navy he has survival all it's prom-
inent officials and heroes, for Tattnall,
Buchanan, Semmes, Forrest Maury, Hob
lns White, Ingraham and other gallant
tars have joined Secretary Mallory in the
other world, and Adjutant General Kell.
Of Alabama fame lives a feeble veteran at
Griffin, Ga. OF all the full generals of the
Confederate armies, not one survives, and
Of the many lieutenant generals only seven
are now alive, while but little more than a
third Of the generals of lesser rank still
answer TO reunion roll calls.
The Confederate commissioners-like
Mason, Siidell, Campbell Yancey, For
syth, Roman Crawford, Faulkner, Mann,
Lamar ali, all are gone. And Bledsoe,
Kean Rhett, Morton, Darlington, Rhodes,
Baker, and others who were conspicuous
about the departments at Richmond, are
in their graves.
IL survivor Reagan were to come to Sa-
Yannah there is not now living a single
war Governor" of the Confederate states
awe to bid him welcome TO a state where
he was the most prominent figure, next to
President Davis, when the Confederacy
Went to pieces. Watts and Brown and Bon
nam and Smith, and Vance and Harris and
MaSfah and others are sleeping in their
hohoied graves. OF the nearly fifty dele
gates who signed the Confederate consti-
luton, hardly ten are to-day alive, and
SURVIVOR Reagan is one of them, and Hon.
), l.. M. Curry of Alabama. general agent
OF Inc Peabody Educational Fund, is an
other, and, / think Gen. T. n. Waul of
Texas, and of members of the Confederate
congress, Senate and House-What little
hdhdiul could be gathered together now
u nnal reunion? Here and there, in all
the southern states, two or three can be
found
Kun your eye over all this record of NOR
aLAS gentle reader, and then think of
what solemn thing ii is to be the sole
statesmen Of the Lost Cause!" What
depressing memories must weigh down
upon survivor Reagan's heart when he
ied.lzes that he is 1.-THE last man in the
procession of Confederate leaders Spared
ny the grace of God to a ripe old age, he
IS yea man of public affairs, being at The
mead OF the Railroad Commission of Tex
US and able to attend and participate in
'ne recent convention of railroad commits
9t1t lofo ri
rays ne has resigned to attend TO his own
private business, as his son goes to the
IHnppineS. lie will be, in November,
poodoIy, Tree 10 come to Savannah, If III
HCed TO meet his old comrades there
one chief reason why Survivor Reagan
nOuia be invited to Savannah, Is that he
was me most conspicuous figure, as | have
aIeady said next to President Davis, at
T We mai collapse of the Confederacy at
Washington, Ga. In their hurried and
WaI Iassed retreat from Richmond to
~ "dshlnston Ga, Secretary of War John
n nfecklnridge and Postmaster General
,easan were the most vgilant and active
ana eiilcient of President Davis advisers
SS,N uelpers. And when the end came, on
10y o, 1850, II was Postmaster General
SoHh H. Reagan who when the cabinet
Ihapg,sed, eacn man his own way, staid
~ ms chief and shared in his captivity
I'VE Gays later near Irwinville, Ga. And
~ tns, he was a sole survivor" for
un me others, civil and military, had
S1usht safety from capture in hight-each
me- own chosen way-and Reagan's chosen
Davis A''0 u
NV What grand thing 1t would be to have
WIS WIS heroic cd Confederate at the Sa-
'Sunan reunion and at It's close start an
,e,,ei to Washington, Ga, 10 hold a
SolNoh at the famous Heard House."
Wygl 10 lie made into court house for
s "-lA YES county If Hon. j. l.. NJ Curry
IN ftu zen. 7. N. Waul and Col. Burton N.
f larson, the private secretary of Presi-
adil5 Jaws twho ! think is alive could be
co,'' gG 20 the party, what grand affair it
sg, ril De made. And they invite the few
soll,,Nhs Confederate senators and repre-
cena ives TO be present. With Postmaster
q ,,elal Reagan in the center it would be
stoup nat would call out a Rebel yell"
10 s. could be heard, as Gen. Toombs used
From Tybee light,
To Rabun hight"
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