The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-26


hi a ht habit in c .de.s hnally led 70
the criminal practice IN Tire ra-i of
army officers Of duplicating their psy ac-
counts 10 raise money for ext,aveg.nt
purposes.
Issue With Johnston.
I have never been able to quite Under
stand why Gen. Joseph E. Johns t5n, c.
: A, usSs the Il wing lar gu. &c in
his Narrative Of Military Operations"
page %: NO o her officer Of the United
States Army of equal ra-k that of brig
adler general. relinqri h@d his 20, ition in
i. 70 J in the S-uth IN Conf ederacy." No
rtfertnce is made BY him IN til conuec-
Il to the case of Big. Gen. David +.
Twiggs, L. s A, who al so was a brevet
m@jor general, both comm ssions dating
back TO the Mexican war at viii h time
Johnston was simply aptain. 1t is true
that Gtn. TwiRgs was dismissed March
J. 1S5D from the army, because he was
supp sed TO have yielded imp oDery to
Southern demands. sill he WI no doubt
have res gned at the proper time and
jo ned the Confed rate army, Il houga
very old man at that period. This vet
eran sCldi-r entered the g ular a my n
81 as a ca- tain in the famous Eighth
Infantry. largely c -mpoeed of Georqi3ns.
utd Col Pa rick JACK. and whsu the
army was reorEsnized in 1875 he wa; ma
"
was reta ned in the servica as CaD+an
OF the Seventh Infantry. Passing all the
other grades, his galiantry in The Next
can war made him a brigader geuer al
ana brevet major gfnsral in 1876 Gen.
Johnston became the brigadier general o.
the quartermsster's department. il 1862
and could not. l think. ella m pre- ,eTence
CT Gen. Twiggs in this matter without
explanation.
The Two AuderGOnx
Readers of the histories of the Civl
War. including official reports are badly
puzzled to know which Cen r. H. Ander-
son is often referred to. as there were two
officers of that name Richard II. Ander-
son of South Carolina and Robert H An
| derson of Georgia. both graduates of West
Point Military Academy. In some cases
| 1t Is easy from the context to designate
them, but in many instances it is hard 10
tell which Gen. r. H. Anderson is referred
to. In army circles they were. however.
familiarly known as Dick" and BOB"
and both were dashing cavaliers The At
lanta Constitution of Monday contains a
fine picture Of Capt. Robert H. Anderson.
United States Army. of the famous Ninth
Infantry. who has distinguished himself
out in China, as young Joe Wheeler has
done in the Philippines. These gallant
young warriors, chips of the old blocks"
serve to recall the stirring lyric of that
gifted poet. DR.. Frank A. Tlcknor of Co
lumbush Ga, about the ''Virginians of the
Valley
we thought they slept: the sons who
kept
The names of mobiles sires
And slumbered while the darkness crept
Around their vigil fires"
God bless and protect the brave sons
who bear the names of noble sires whar-
ever freedoms Flag" is unfurled for
God, for Country, and for Liberty to the
oppressed everywhere. A Summer,
Lee, Wheeler an Anderson a Benton,
a Henry. Bell, Butler. a Hagood, an
Elliott. a Hams, a Casey a Pope. a Stur-
gis, Vessels, a Worth-all, and others
now bear their honored fathers names in
! the ranks OF an army to which these gal
| liant sires in the past gave their best serv
! ices, and some of them in the same regi-
ments in which their fathers once served.
| This is the case with Capt. r. Fl. Ander
| son. although the newspapers report that
! the Ninth Infantry was organized by JEFF
| ferson Davis while Secretary of War in
1855. is not sufficiently explicit. Congress
authorized this organization in March of
| that year, but in March, 1859. Congress or
| dered it reorganized by the consolidation
| with 1t of the Tweniy-seventh Regiment
of Infantry. The son is serving as cap
! tain in the reOrganized Nlntn, III WINCH
/ before this reorganization, his father
! Gen. Robert Fl. Anderson. Sr., was a sec
ond lieutenant QS5O, resgning in May,
1851, to enter the Confederat tie service.
! l am glad TO see that a patriotic Ken
lucky woman, Mrs. Susan B. Dixon, of
| Louisville, is making a strong protest
! against the action of Mr.. George W.
Rauch of Lexington, KY. in 'tinkering"
Col Theodore O'Haras immortal poem.
The Bivouac of the Dead This is no
new protest, in one sense. for l made the
same protest years and years ago, after
an acquaintance with the gifted poet, gal
liant soldier and brilliant journalist, which
ended only with his death in Alabama,
near Guerry1on. l do not believe, a s Mr..
Rauch asserts that Col. o. Hara ever con-
sented to his revising the poem as he has
done Take, for instance, the line, Sons
of the dark and bloody ground so APP
propriate 10 the historic past of Ken
| tucky-which this reviser renders. Sons
of our consecrated ground" There are
other minor changes that mar the force
and beauty of the original poem, and
vet. marred as 1t is or may be, there Is
enough merit in it to carry O'Hara's
name down the col ridors of time, while
the ages last and the heroic dead are re-
membered. and his immortal lines remain
over the entrance to out national cene-
| teries-
ION Fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent cents are spread;
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bvouac of the dead"
Sidney Herbert.