The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-14
The Likeness Of. Major General Wi
COLONEL ANDERSON'SS ADDRESS.
He Paws n Beautiful Tribute to the
Memory of the Gallant Confed-.,-
CT ate Who was Virginia's
oversno r.

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With BETTING reverence and without
undue praise. able tributes to the memory mem
of Major.General William Smith were
paid last night.
The occasion was the presentation to
the camp Of an oil portrait OF the Sal1ant
Confederate
The exercises were opened with PRAYER
by Rev Landon r.. Mason: after WHICH S!
Commander D. C. Richardson introduced
Colonel Archer Anderson. who Delivered
the presenta ton address. He referred 10
the Heroic and gallant deeds of MAJOR
General Smith during the civil war, and
his remarks were well received. HIS ad-
dress was very eloquent, and was listened
to with the greatest Interest by those
present. Colonel Anderson said. in part:
in April. 1861. Governor Smith had
passed the middle point of his siSty-fourth
year. after the most strenuous slabors and
marked success at the bar. on the plat
form. and in the fields Of legislation and
administration. His pure life. his tenn
perance. his Strong intellect, his physical
endurance, his keen interest in public al
fairs. the lofty maXims of the old moral
lists which he early adopted as the guide
Of his conduct, his great gift Of persua-
sive public speech, and his magnetic in
fluence as leader Of men had endeared
sonality on the policy of the State.
GRESHAM AND GOVERNOR.
with a record of distinguished service
in the Senate of Virginia. four times
elected to Congress. chosen Governor OF
the Commonwealth in his absence and
without his knowledge, having lived down
by the charm of a character innately no
Bile and pure all the asperities engendered
in the heat of party conflict. universally
tai a11yai n q
statesmen of experience and wisdom who
might we'll in his sixty-fourth year claim
his discharge from active labors. or, at
least when war convulsed the land. con-
tent himself viii service in the Cabinet
or in Congress- Such a suggestion never
found acceptance In his active Draln.
Feeling In himself all the energy and
spirit of youth. he could not brook the
notion of doing less than a mans duty
in the field And his very first contact
with the enemy showed an aggressive
ness and a practical aptitude for putting
men into fight which gave token of the
resolute and sharp-eyed soldier he was
soon TO appear. How the noise of That
night skrmism at Fairfax Courthouse on
the list Of June, 1861, rang through the
land!
UNDER ENEMYs FIRE.
Governor Smith without any commits
and no doubt inwardly burning to look
the enemy in the face, had gone out with
his rifle to the outpost of Fairfax Court
house, and, after visiting the camp, had
retired to bed at the house of a friend
in the neighborhood Suddenly reused
before daybreak by the enemy's fire, he
gave proof of that o'clock in the morn
ing courage which Byron Thought SO
rare Dressing himself hastily and
snatching UP his rifle. he rushed out into
the darkness to find N1arr's company, our
only available force, deprived of their
leader by his sudden death, Instantly him
self took up the vacant command and.
throwing this handful Of raw recruits
into a good position, directed fire which
promptly dispersed the enernys Cavalry
It was an affair of a few minutes only.
But it stamped the veteran statesman as
fit to lead men in battle.
COLONEL OF VOLUNTEERS.
"Goyertfor Smith was soon commits
stoned Colonel of Virginia volunteers, and
when the fateful day Of Manassas dawn
ed. he had assembled about half 2 regi-
ment. And now apparel III 1t aggressive
and impetuous courage, that intnative per-
ception of the decisive needs of The crlti-
cal moment of battle, that contagious
energy expressed in look and act and
word, that heightening and developing to
larger efficiency of all the faculties of the
man in the presence OF danger and deatn
and that electric power Of moving SOL
diers with a common impulse proceeding
from one overmastering WILL which at
once marked him out as fit to command
in war. On that stricken field, where
Barton Bee paid the last debt of patriotic
devotion, and Stonewall Jackson, giving
presage of his ma tdhless fortltude,
stemmed the rushing tide of the enemy's
attack, William Smith was recognized as
worthy to stand by their side. Quickly
obeying the order to advance, catching
promptly the spirit of Beanregard's meas
ures by personal contact with him, seiz-
ing strong ground on Jackson's left and
attracting to his own small force two
companies drifting without orders. and
again two regiments that, hitherto I'M
placed, now felt the sway of his ma gne-
tic example he kept his vision clear and