The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-30
II WAS NAMED FOR AN INDIAN.
orr oF THE TOWNS ON THE A., v. &
~ ROAD CALLED MONIAC.

Ube Indian W as " VI "S9N
notwithstanding Facts of His Ca
..r-Ixind Words Tor the Late
can't satterlee-He Was "A Chris
.,on we'll as n SOIdier-The Place
NJ viii rim in History.
r,u. Crest villa, Maitland, Fla, July 90
IAN, Glad 10 see that the new Atlantic,
v,l+osta and Western Railroad Company
named one of it's towns 'MOniac."
Tss will perpetuate the honored name of
-. ,,-v Indian who ever graduated at
u.st Point Military academy. David
,,oriac was the son of Sam Moniac, a
Ao,f.brsed creek Indian in Alabama, who
married a Scotch woman, Betsey, daugh-
Tor If sehoy Mcpherson, kin TO the late
rjge Berrlen of Georgia. In those early
5avs there were frequent intermarriages
of tbe Scotch settlers with half-breed In
dams on account of Sans friendliness
10 tbe whites, and his valuable services to
the regular and volunteer army officers,
his son David was sent to West Point,
and a Younger daughter was happily mar
red TO Can't. Shumac of the volunteer
army Sam Moniac also rendered valua-
bic assistance to Col. Ben Hawkins and
others on the Georgia side of the river.
David Mon.ac entered West Point in Sep
temter. 1917. and graduated in July, 1922,
bling made breVet second lieutenant of
the Sixth Infantry But with the close of
his leave of absence, Dec. 81, 1922, he re-
signed bis commission without having seen
any service in the army. In those days
there were very Limited educational faCili-
ties for The best of Indians, yet David
M1niae seems to have done very Wei
graduated next to last in a class of forty,
ths end man being Cadet Henry Clark of
Connecticut who died in 1886. Cadet Samuel
Wragg OF South Carolina, who died in
1928 was next ahead of Monac, who was
Killed in 1895. A Singular fatality, one aged
only 20 another so. and the last 81. out
Of this class came Gen. J. X. f. Mansfield
Second n grade) who built Fort Pulaski,
Gen. D. Ii. NiutOn Gen. David Hunter,
Gen. Geo A, Mccall, Gen. j. j. Abercrom-
lie. all distinguished union officers in the
lae war and Gems. Isaac R. Tjnble and
Walter Gwinn, Of the Confederate army.
i viii be seen that Moniac had a most
excellent environment at West Point.
History does not tell us what became of
Lieut. Monidc from 1922 till 1895, but he
could not have been idle, for in the latter
year he reappears upon the stage of action
as captain of a company of Mounted
Creek Volunteers" in the war against the
Seminole Indians here in Florida This
was in August, and his valuable services
won him the rank of major two months
later but six days after, on Nov. q, 1885,
he was killed in battle. The bloody battle
OF Wahoo swamp had many victims, but
no Drawer or truer soldier fell in that ter
rble conflict than Maj. David Moniac,
VINO heroically led his troops across diff
cult moraSs in the face of the deadly fire
Of the savage Seminoles sheltered behind
Trees on the opposite bank Thus bravely
fea in the storm of battle the first and
only Red Nan of the Forest" who ever
graduated at West Point Military Acad-
envy. And he died at the hand of the
Indian foes OF the new republic. The town
Of Moniac should feel honored to bear
this hero's name.
The military of Savannah honor them
selves in the prompt and generous tribute
PAID by them to the recently deceased
Capt Charles 3. Satterlee of the Sixth
United States Artillery. OF him it could
with truth be said, He was a Christian
Soldier and gentleman" No higher praise
was needed. Here in this Episcopal do
c5se OF South Florida, we also mourn
him as "A Soldier of Christ" Here he had
church having applied to Ri. Rev. Will
IAN Crane Gray, the missionary bishop Of
lne diocese, for deacOn's orders. Already.
as lay reader in the churches at Key
west ana other places where his official
army duties called him. he had done noble
service for the cause of Christ, and a
DfsAt aud useful future was opening up
uelo'e nun. His happy marriage to a love
y daughter of Bishop Ellison Capers of
frrrL,.a Loo n
'ohlederate generaD, had added greatly to
MS future promise of valuable service in
Nie ministry. But the Spanish-American
war suddenly burst in upon all his plans
III ms direction, and like the lamented
hisnop Gen Leonidas Polk he felt that
"si's graduate of West Point he must
give ms services as a soldier to the country
uhll peace was proclaimed.
ana Just here it may be well to call
attention to the unjust and unwise at
'achs made on military education by peo-
re Who claim that it creates warlike
oug oioodthirsty ambition in the hearts
Sll MINDS Of the young. Surely Capt.
rta.'eIlee religious bent fatty contradicts
US l'e" So does the case of Rev. Rob
w W. b. Black, late of Athens, Ca, but
pasl winter rector of the Episcopal
~ "o,eh az Miami, Fla. He was a son
~. VIZ I3'e Congressman, Col George R.
DC va LeoISl VINO had MIN entered
- V41e. at West Point but he pre-
~ ,eo TO he soldier of Christ rather than
te soldier of his country, and to-day he
Pm good service for the Prince Of
eira-. % ! might go on back to 1926 and
era 49, OUT The eminent divines that gradu-
w. 0I were cadets there for a time) from
eIe, 04Nt Military Academy. l might
inent' s5e"l an astonishing array of prom
for ,'leotors who also left the army
rl'0eIui pursuits.
rao+'.t't TO Capt. Satterlee in this con-
IN. because he was the last of long
feel IGNORED graduates in the army to
VIA .%Hso 10 the higher and holier SER
lf.r .e great Captain of our Saliva
AMI b. "iin his noble qualities of head
T. ,tt and his domestic environment,
be-, t 10 predict that in case he had
epis, ,.'le1 until the close of the war TO
MAJ. ."e sacred ministry, he would have
ton lIi himself a record full of devot-
deser,..53 we church, and crowned by justly
su13sr Honors. Despite the fact that
hon 4eath in war time blasted his
ra,c. usefulness in the ministry of
Woo5t-'S name will stand with those of
VIM --Re and Hackley and Parks and
ar5 ~. ana Polk and Bledsoe and Shoup
dla,o.. h ana Park and Deshon and Pen
sons or ~.P Bryant and the heroic Par