The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-22

Gen. John A. Logan, who came from civil
life and was extremely popular with the
volunteer soldiers. Howard is a very
p Gus man and has been called the Gen.
Havelock' of our army
The going of Gen. T. l.. Rosser, bag and
baggage" over 10 the Republican party,
will not surprise any one who has watch
ed his career during the past few years.
For a time he was "unreconstructed,"
and kept his more patriotic Confederate
comrades in hot water by his rash
speeches and imprudent acts. 1t is hardly
probable that Rosser will fare as well as
did Gen. Malone, or Gen. Walker, or
Cen Longstreet, in the matter of .politi-
cal Offices. He is now a candidate for
Congress from his district in Virginia. 1t
will amuse many readers of the Morning
News to know that eX-Gov. Rufus B.
Bullock cf Atlanta, once Republican
governor of Georgia, talks about I'VE
Confederates who surrendered in good
faith" etc. And yet, even before the Civil
War fairly opened Gov. Bullock, then
resident of Augusta was in the Ogle-
thorpe Light Infantry of that city when
it stormed the Sand Hills heights and
after a bloodless battle of words captured
the United States arsenal from Capt.
Arnold Ely, U. S. A, later a general
i'll the Confederate service. Governor Bull
lock is United Confederate Veteran and
at present very respectable Republican.
The movement of Camp Benniug, U. c.
V, Of Columbus Ga, to secure autograph
letters from diving Confederate generals is
a good one. But why confine the move
ment to living generals, now so few and
widely scattered? Letters of this kind
written by Confederate generals before
they fell in battle, or died of wounds or
disease, would prove equally as valuaole,
if not more So as only a few of the IA
| nous generals are now living. I would
not part with my own collection of such
| letters and autographs for any amount
| of money. Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr.
used to write the handsomest of letters
nearly every one looking Ike copperplate
| engraving. Gen. William I. Sherman
wrote nearly all of his letters and they
were exceptionally neat. He learned the
art, so he told me. while banker N
! California. Gen. Winfield Scott Han
| cocks signature was frequently taken
! for Miss T. Hancock" even by experts
! in the matter of handwriting.
! DIR. j. c. Pelot of Palmetto Fla, tells
| the Tampa correspondent of the Times
| Union and Citizen that according to the
! best information obtaina ble he was the
I last officer to serve in the Confederate
| army He bases this statement upon the
fact that he remained two weeks at An
| jacksonville prison as a surgeon, with rank
] vi captain aIIeT the Union authorities
! took charge. Granting this to be true. it
| would hardly Justify the claim that he
was the last man in the procession. -
| There was no formal muster out of Con-
| federate officers and soldiers when the
! collapse came. Detached commands were
! scattered everywhere, and they went out
| of commission pretty much ION their
own hook" al their own time and in
| their own way | question very much If
| s4-H-.
was the last to be mustered out much
less the last commissioned officer. 1t was
| cla!medfor the late Maj. Gen. S. w
| Crawford, L. S. A, that he heard the
! first shot of the Civil War as a surgeon
| at Fort Sumter and the last shot of the
war as a general at Appomattox. I'm
fortunately, however. the last shot" was
not fired at Appomattox.
I'VE chaplains," writes Rev. f. ]. Har-
| dy, in The Sphere Magazine, "see war lit
orally in cold blood. We have not the wild
! pulsation of the fight to sustain us. Our
| place is with the wounded on the field
| after the battle and in the hospitals and
| there is no romance in war there" Now
| Chaplain Hardy can speak for himself and
! the chaplans like him, but he certainly
! misrepresents the better class Of chaplains
| as knew them, in actual warfare. He
| reminds me of an incident or accident in
| father. With other preachers he was once
rolled down a bank in a stagecoach. As
| they all pulled themselves out of the over
| turned coach a rather too previous"
| brother thanked God that they had escap-
ed injury. Rev. DR.. Lyman Beecher tart
| ly informed this brother that he could
speak for himself the others might
not view 1t in the same light. So 1 say to
Chaplain Hardyhe can speak for himself
but the records show that many a jealous
and faithful chaplain, of the Blue and of the
Gray, went to his death in the storm of
battle while mnistering 10 the wounded
and dying. mo romance there?" Well
Well. And then, too recall the brave NO
men who as army nurses have been
wounded on the field of battle. But Chap
I lain Hardy very kindly admits that there
are chaplains who considered il their
duty TO be in the thick of the fight" Yes
and there is where duty calls every brave
and faithful chaplain whenever wounded
or dying soldiers need his ministrations.
The chaplain is the last man that should
|. fear danger or death Sidney Herbert