The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-08
WHEELER'S SENSE OF DUTY.
SOME CONSPICUOUS EXAMPLES OF
IT.

References TO the Campaign of 1856.
West Point Appointments Which
| viii BE Well Observation-Disclosures a
Losing Gamc-Many of Those who
Attain Prominence soon Forgot
| ten-OtheF Matters of General In
tercst.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, July
! I'm reply to an invitation to attend the
grand Blue and Gray Reunion in the
J trenches around Atlanta, Ga, where he
! fought as "d.smounted cavalry" in July,
! 1864. Gen. Joe Wheeler, U. S. A, writes
| from Fort Sheri an, near Chicago, that
he will be there if he finds that he can
DO so, and not neglect any of his duties
as commander of that department. And
in this statement lies the secret Of Gen
duty, as Daniel Webster once said, has
pursued him ever. and he, like Gen. Rob-
/ ert E. Lee, has considered duty the sub
| FINEST word in the Eng sh language. Dur
ing the Civil War. it was because Little
Joe Wheeler was prompt and ready to
serve anywhere, at anytime, efoot or a
horseback, whore duty called, that he
became the youngest lieutenant general
in the Confederate army, and in Gen.
Lees opinion, shared The honor with Gen.
+ j. f. B. stuart of being the best cavalry
! general in the South What a sublime pc
/ ture of obedience to duty did Gen. Whe ell
/ er pres MT WIZ n he tui d away from the
newly filled grave OF Cadet Tbs mas Harri
! son Wheeler l. 6 N AT Vvbea or Ala
| the idol Of his heart ana bowed ,,,ith
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IS the hIst Instance Wherc an ehtlre com,
pany u tiiis cnai a0'eI mas palaueu
| : --.-
see that they hao some OF enc ola Ere
IloIN HePupiiCah ue.es"'es az 'he recent
| fhiIaoeiphla Convention An me VIVA,
campaign ma Wds-a illn,aly nero anu
ms accomplished we as the pat'le cry.
fTernont ana Jessie was the cry All
over new Ehslahu ana the women ana
chlldren look up the siosan' now Wen
| 40 remember the uepIeteu schools' the
| disrupted sewing circles the olsturpeu
| churches that maze the campaign no
! torious. In some towns IN Name chlIdren
| OF Democrats were actually driven QUO OF
schools and their mothers out OF sew
Ing circles, etc. knew OF Democratic
| families that were compelled 10 move TO
| more congenial surroundings IN other
| towns.
The failure to locate with certainty the
grave Of Gen. Nathaniel Greene i'm the old
! cemetery at Savannah, recalls the similar
| fate of three gallant New York officers
| in the War of 1912. of whom II can be
said, as of one of old mo man knoweth
| his sepulchre." When Chauncey Depew
was a young politician. Gov. Horatio Sey-
mour of New York, then an old man. tried
to persuade him that il was losing game
in the end to devote oneself to politics
Failure and obscurity in the end had been
the fate of many, many of his early asso-
ciates To Illustrate Rip Van Wrinkles
Idea of how soon are we forgotten thu