The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-06
TIMELY MILITARY TOPICS.
Love in Military Life-The AbIest
Cavalry Leader.

laughter of Brig Gen. Fred Dent Grant,
r. 5. v, to foreigner forget that her
INDUSTRIOUS grandfather, Gen. U. S. Grant,
allowed his only, idolized daughter, Nellie,
to Marry a foreigner. In love-the world
oyer-religion and nationality are not con-
sidered. Love goes where it is sent and
often tramples creeds and allegiance TO
native land under foot The South rose
M in protestation, as it We're, when the
lsmented Miss Winnie Davis accepted a
sliror for her hand from New York. and
the alliance was finally declared off
Love brought into the Confederate army
many of its noted generals of Northern
birth. who had married lovely and accom-
pHshed Southern women. When the civil
war opened up they unhesitatingly es-
housed the cause naturally upheld by their
wives il was this that brought such dis
tinguished generals as Cooper of New
York Pemberton of Pennsylvania, Oracle
of New York, Shoup of Indiana, French Of
New Jersey. Gardner of New York, Lead
better of Maine and others into the Con
federate service.
Gen. Horatio King, LII. D. of Brooklyn
n Y. secretary of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac, in a recent publ
y
eblest cavalry leader in the Southern
armies" And yet 1t is matter of record
which I confirmed by the assertion of the
gentleman himself to me, that Gen. Rob
ert F. Lee during his last visit to Sa-
vannah, told a distinguished citizen of
Macon now deceased, that the honor of
being the ablest cavalry leader in the
Southern armies. was equally shared by
Gen. Stuart and Gen. Joseph Wheeler
one thing is certain, the future historian
who critically scans the entire operations
Of the Confederate cavalry in the civil
war. must accord full honor to "Old joe
Wheeler.
Ii seems hard to make even state mill
tav officials recognize the difference be
tween the regular army and the volun-
teer force. Adjt. Gen, Phil Bird, in an
official order. has capt. Cleveland Will
coxon. Twenty Regiment, L. 5.
A" Now, it is a Well-known fact that
this officer is simply in the volunteer ser
vice and attached to a provisional regi-
ment. There are only twenty-five infan-
try regiments in the regular army two IF
which are cOlored troops. Every day the
announcement is made that somebody's
son has been appointed a lieutenant in the
army" when it should be in the "volun-
teer force" So contract surgeons are
reported. and yet they occupy the seine
relation to the medical corps of the army
that contract" civil engineers do to the
engineer corps of the regular army. They
are simply employees and not officers.
These various distinctions are important
and should not be lost sight of in scan
ming the military field.
Too much is being said in the newspap ers
about jealousies in the army-reguar aud
volunteer. One would suppose it to be
new disease, and yet it came into the
nited States army from the old CONT
mental army, and it has been there ever
since. At intervals it breaks out in an
epidemic that attracts unusual public al
tention. In the days of Washington and
Hamilton and Knox and Pinckney and
WukersOn and Scott and Jesup and Clinch
and so on down, il has had its victims
Aud the same disease broke out in Rich
mond when the Confederate army was or
ganlzed, and the recent publication of Of
fetal war records shows some of the bit-
terest wrangles ever known in military
circles. The cases of Kirby Smith and
Dick Taylor and Bragg and his enemies
were fun of hot stuff" So Fitz John
Porter and Don Carlos Buell. and Gen. c.
p. Stone suffered in the Union army, not
TO speak of Mcclellan and Halleck and
Stanton and Sherman, Nothing in the
present war-not all cOmbined-equalS the
fght between Sherman and Halleck and
Santon-which was simply disgraceful.
There ere several errors in the New York
Herald s. sensational article on Beautiful
Kate Chase and Her Dizzy Career If
she and Gov. William Sprague met and
were mutually lin love" at Cleveland, o..
IN 1860, she was wen over her infauation
IN 1851, at which time. Of my own per
sonal knowledge, she was engaged in
desperate Irritation" with a handsome
forelgn-born young general in the On on
army at Washington. In fact. the af-
tar finally became almost a public scan
daL Nor was Gov. Sprague colonel of
kslI@ Ill, HI
military reputation could not have ell
hanced the first impression he made upon
Miss Chase" Gen. Ambrose e. Burnside
was colonel of the Rhode Island regiment
referred to. 1t was not m the battle of
Blackburns Ford on July is, 1851, but Col
Burnside and Gov. Sprague rode down to
the battlefield near the close of the fight.
mad been severely wounded by the fire
OF She famous Washington Artillery of
New Orleans, and they found me lying on
the ground, unattended. They at once
procured an ambulance and had me taken
pack 10 camp at Centerville for medical
attention. Therefore l felt kindly to-
ward those unfortunate gentlemen, both
bg-aearted and patriotic. The marriage
Oh GOV. Sprague to Kate Chase, the bril-
Aant hirt was the cause of his bank
fuptcy and moral degradation
Opposition 10 permanent expansion" is
one thing, and hearty support of The
LoNC4HlHtul 10 end the present wal III lHe
philippines is quite another proposition
The complication is not new one by any
means. During all past wars in this
country there have been abe oppone ITS IF
expansion both in and out Of Congress.
tut the best of these-the clearest headed
ana most patriotic, like the Morning News,
sustained the government in ils efforts 10
bring the war to an honorable termina-
l4on. II is 10 new thing to have men kept
from joining the armies in the field by tell
ing them Of The horrors of war and the in
sdious diseases of a foreign cline. Re-
cruIts were held back from enlisting in
the Florida war, he Mexican war and the
aVil war by such means To-day We
near the same old wall. the same old ia
mAar warning, and yet brave and patri-
Otto men are hourly coming forward TO
enter the provisional army that proposes
10 speedily bring 10 a close the bloody cam
paisns IN the Philippines.
The ate Hon. Henry w. Hilliard, the ia
nous Whig orator, on the floor of Con
Eless, uttered sentiment in rega:d to the
Alex con war (wh Oh he depl1IeO hat are