The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04
JEFFERSON DAVIS HOWE.
THE PLAN ADOPTED BY THE FAH7I-
LIZ REGARDING 1T.

takes About Jefferson Davis Cor
rected-Other Matters of General
Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, March
3.-rhe family of the late jefferson Dav s
have adopted plan to keep his name s.
cure in their own ranks. Mrs. Varina
Howell Davis has adopted the name of
Varina jefferson Davis, while the marty
young son Of Mrs. Hayes her daughter
has become Jefferson Hayes-Davis, While
the Oldest daughter perpetuates her hon
ored grandmothers name as Var.ra
Howell Davis Hayes. The Grant family
I is also keeping up the old family names.
/ and we have little Ulysses 8. Grant III,
! and Julia Dent Grant III 1t is
/ good plan thus to transmit to
/ posterity the names of our great heroes
/ and statemen through living monuments.
! To-day, in our regular army, score or
more of gallant young officers are adding
lustre TO the honored names of their faith
err which they bear in fun and some of
them in regiments in which their fathe
! Cater on generals) served in early life.
The Confederate Veteran of Nashville,
Tenn, for February, contains a picture
and quite an excellent sketch Of the late
Dr.. George Baskerville Douglas OF Scrav-
en- county a gallant soldier and skilled
surgeon in the Southern army and after
the war a member of the Savannah Con-
federate Veterans Association. Posterity
will owe a deep debt of gratitude to tn 5
monthly magazine, and others of like
character, North and South, for such val
liable sketches as chat OF Surgeon Doug
las whose military record forms a bright
page in Confederate war history.
/ knew him well, some years ago, and
/ pleasantly remember him as a highly cut
/ tured genial Southern gentleman of the
old school The last fight of the war, of
any consequence, found him ministering
to the wounded and dying Georgia SOL
diers. II
/ some one has been inquiring through the
J press if Gen. Andrew Jackson was not
/ tempted at one time to make himself die
/ tator of the newly acquired territory OF
! Florida Now, while il is true that he
was vested with remarkable powers, some
! of them GU side of the constitution OF the
| United States, the idea of dictatorship
never for a moment entered his MIND.
In dealing with the former Spanish Off
cials of Florida he was compelled at times
TO use harsh and extreme measures ana
/ in some cases he aroused bitter censure,
but only an iron hand like "Old Hickory
welded could have successfully conducted
the public affairs of the new territory.
While he depored the use of che remark
! able and TO him, in measure, question
able powers conferred upon him as mill
tary governor, he felt that the crisis
through which he was passing required
| their proper exercise
President Hadley of Yale University
proposes a boycott as the proper remedy
| to be applied 20 trusts that are dangerous
in their operations. This remedy is,
| think, of military origin, and was first
used against Post Sutler Dewitt of the
| United States Military Academy az West
| Point, New York in 1913, who had in some
| way offended the cadets. An agreement
was drawn up not to trade with Dewitt
except in case of necessity, and this was
signed by thrty-four cadets, among them
| such distinguished Union and Confederate
generals as L. H. Grant afterwards o..
S. CD S. G. French. r. S. Ripley, J. }.
| Peck, Rufe Ingalls, Frank Gardner, F. T.
Dert, j. j. Reynolds, Isaac F. Quimby,
| Henry NJ Judah and j. II. Potter. The
most singular fact of all is THAI no one of
the cadets ever revealed the nature of the
offense that lead 10 the boycott. OF the
thirty-four signers l think, only Gen.
| William b. Franklin is now alive.
Il may be true in some cases, as claimed
in newspaper articles, that lieutenants in
the army are addressed as Mr." but 1
never knew of its being done in my active
career in the service. l was lieutenant
of infantry, cavalry and dragons, end
saw some temporary service with the ar
tilery, yet no superior officer of any rank
ever addressed me as Mr." nor would
/ he have done il the second time, for I
should have resented the insult on the
spot The humblest corporal in the ARMY
is entitled to be called corporal and not
| Mr." Nearly all my service was as a
staff officer, and this brought me con-
stantly in contact with colonies and gen
! erals, from Sherman down, but l never
heard lieutenant called Mr." l well
remember one night in his room at the
Kimball House in Atlanta, the visit paid
Gen. Sherman (after the war; by second
! lieutenant. AS soon as he presented him
| self Gen. Sherman said: 'Wen, Lieu
tenant, what are you doing here?" Tho
! reply was: I'm on my wedding tour" To
! which Gen. Sherman answered sharply,
And you a second lieutenant; i'll had
/ my way I'd put every second lieutenant
that married to work on a farm" Sml-
ngly the lieutenant, who was little but
loud" replied: Just give me a farm,
General, and I'll go to work on it," This
| caused Gen. Sherman and Gen. Augur
10 laugh heartily, and the former simply
added: We'll, l can't blame you, witt;
such examples as you have had before
you, for Augur did the same thing when
he was a poor second lieutenant
| have had occasion to correct two false
! reports about the late jefferson Davis,
! one IN regard TO the house he was said
| 10 have built on the frontier, and the 9TH
ar about his supposed grandson-Lleut.
/ Wood-in the Transvaal. And now comes
Mrs J. H. Rabb of Nncennes Ind, with
another fiction. in which The courtship Of
Lieut.. Jefferson Davis, u. 8. A. and Gen.
Zachary Tayor's daughter figures in a
/ sensational manner. The whole story is
without foundation. in fact. Lieut.. Davis
never met the daughter of Gen. Taylor at
| Fort Smith, nor did he court her sitting
on the rock Mrs. Rabb has moved TO her
place and proposes TO celebrate over as
! valuable relic. 1t is possible that Mai.
John Bliss, u. >. A., who married Miss
Bette Taylor, the sister of Mrs. Davis
may have done some counting at Fort
Smith, and used that rock 10 sit on. The
daughter that Lieut. Jeff Davis married
was never at Fort Smith with her fai her
nos did Lieut.. Davis serve at that posi-.
| He was most of the time on frontier duty