The age-herald., 1900-12-17

| ApteT fema1n1ng on the among the wounded, of which I was one, about five or six weeks. was sent to the West Building Hospital of Baltimore, Md, and when I reached that place I was able to move about on crutches, so that after day or two I got around the building to see who was there. I found lying on two couches a badly wounded North Carolina colonel, who at one time had belonged to Laws brigade, and a very aged man whom l did not recognize I inquired of the elder of the two how he was and how both of them were. The elder said to me:
 What regiment do you belong to?'
 'I told him the Fourth Alabama Regi- ment. He said:
 "'Who of the officers of that brigade were killed or wounded and then said to him, | Forty-seventh Alabama'
 q told him of several persons who were keled wounded and then said to him. Your neutenant-colonel was killed.
 He replied, reckon not and I said Yes he was for his regiment said he was killed and the brigade believed he was killed and he must be-
 "But he said, No, it is not so' l '"For the first time l recognized that the l emaciated old man was Colonel Bulger, and my first words were How are you, colonel? | I am glad to see you alive, and we shook 1 hands.
 1 Talking to a live-dead man was some 1 what embarrassing, and as I turned away 1 to get rid of the embarrassment I heard 1 Colonel Bulger say to the North Carolina l Colonel:
 "'That is hard argument, to prove to l man he is dead
 That was the last time I saw Colonel | Bulger afterwards General Buger, until he was present in Birmingham at the general l meeting of the Confederate Veterans in 1893. He was in many instances great man, of the Andrew Jackson type, and it is to be regretted that he has no chronicler." 1 Former Governor William Calvin Oates, who was a Confederate colonel at Gettys- l burg, tells a characteristic story of Gen eral Bulger, an incident which occurred to the great. old man when he lay wounded as | Captain Ward describes. The then Colonel | Bulger lay on the ground desperately wounded, but still retaining his sword, | when a Federal captain approached him l and demanded his sword ;n surrender. "No, sir,' said Colonel Bulger proudly. "I'n not surrender my sword to any cap l tain, or any officer of lower rank than my self"
 captain.
 "Shoot and be damned!" replied the stur- | dy colonel
 | The spirit of the proud old man-he was | then sixty-three and looked oder-so im- pressed the Federal captain that he saluted and walked away. By and by the captain 1,;.. fal colonel, to whom Colonel Bulger silently gave up his sword.
 Three of General Bulgers six children survive him. They are Hon. Thomas L. Buger of Tallapoosa, Rev. Donald Bulger, a Baptist preacher of Escambia County, and Mrs. Shackelford of Trenton, Tenn, who is herself a great grandmother. The late Col. w. D. Bulger of the Birmingham bar was a son of the General, and therefore MT. Bozeman Crabbe Bulger of Brmng- ham is General Bulger's grandson.
 "One' bill involving ten dollars and thirty cents is one of the relief acts which the present Legislature has added to the laws of Alabama" said a lawyer who spent much time at the Capitol during the recent session.
 
 the taxpayers of Alabama were forced to pay maybe ten times that amount, maybe more; and it illustrates anew the utter in- anty of our present methods of local legis- lation. A $103O bill for the relief of Blank Blankety was introduced, referred to a committee, passed by the committee, re- ported back to the House, placed on the calendar taken up and read a third time and passed by the House; sent to the other house, where identical proceedings took place, and having been engrossed and en- rolled, and signed by the speaker of the House and the president of the Senate, it found its way to the Governor, who read and signed it, and then it was sent to the printers-all for the payment of $1030l
 "It will remain for the forthcoming con- stitutiona1 convention to provide methods for county authorities to deal with all local questions, such as now referred to the Legislature.
 Hon. Tennent Lomax of Montgomery, one of the most powerful of the young men of the State was in Birmingham yesterday, returning home from Tuscaloosa, whither he went several days ago to assist in set tling the troubles at the State University. Asked if he would again be candidate for the constitutional convention-he having been nominated for delegate two years ago MT. Lomax replied that he had not yet announced. It is believed he will be can didate
 A large delegation from the Huntsville bar passed through Birmingham yesterday, going to Montgomery to present the name of Hon. E. H. Foster to the Governor for appointment to the judgship made vacant by the death of Judge H. c. Speake.