The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
SOME WELL-KNOWN POEMS.
CONFUSION RESPECTING THE AU-
TRORsHIP OF THEM.

A Point About Civil and Military
Letters--A Mixture Allowed by MIL
ftary Usage-A Poem That Contains
Both Truth and Poetry-A Publica-
ton Tint Is Doing Excellent Ser
vice-Other Matters of General In
terest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland. Fla, Feb. TO-
In referring TO Bayard Taylors noted
war poem, Give Us a Song the Soldiers
Cried,' in my last Sundays letter,
should have mentioned that Gen. Horatlo
King, of Brooklyn, N. Y. for twenty-five
years past corresponding secretary of the
society of the Army of the Potomac, and
poet-musician of considerable talent,has
set this poem to music and made 1t pop
ular song in military circles
Since my last letter was written, which
touched on hasty crediting of songs ana
poems to other than the real authors,
NEST remarkable case of the kind has &C.
Cured in Georgia talented journalist
from an old and eminent Georgia family,
gives the authorship of THE Last Rose
of Summer to a Georgian, a careless
blunder without excuse He evidently
had in mind Richard Henry Wides ia
nous poem, my Life is Like the Sum
mer Rose"
l notice a reference to Capt: John Pcs
tell, Esq.," in the Morning News, which
reminds me that some people object to
mixing civil and military titles in this
manner, and yet the practice is as cid as
our republic. 1t was a common thing TO
see the name of Gen. George Washing
TN1z. cd A huf
duellist. Col. Lay, used to sign himself
Col. B. ID. Lay, NJ. D." Military usage
allows this mixture.
1t will be remembered that during the
campaigns in Cuba. where our army was
encounterfng barbed wire barbados, l took
issue with Gen. C. A. Evans of Atlanta,
who considered that means of delaying
the attacking forces is of little value But
the experience of our troops in CuA and
the Philippines, as well as that of the
British troops with the Boer defenses, fully
vindieates my claim as to the value of
barbed wire barricades. There are only
two things more to be dreaded-the hind
feet of a mule and a buzz-saw, as l once
before said.
Commander-in-C Chief Albert D. Shaw, of
the Grand Army of the Republic, has ar
ranged to attend the annual encampment
of the Department of Florida, to be held
early in March, at Sanford. He will also
be at the Georgia and South Carolina en-
campment in Atlanta a few days before.
However that department has been thus
honored before. but Florida encampments
have never been given the pleasure. Col.
s. Herbert Lancey, of this city, the special
| aide of the icommander-in-c in charge
of military instruction and patriotism in
the public schools will meet the COM
| nander-in-chief at some point on the
Plant System, and join his official staff
escort.
There was as much truth as poetry in
| Charles Fenno Hoffman's stirring poem,
Monterey" in my last letter. He did nov
Tlace too high an estimate upon the ca
allied honor of being a participant In that
famous and bloody battle. Not only Geor-
gia, but tine entire South, was represented
by some of her most accomplished SOL
diers. After Gen. w. o. Butler was
wounded his command fell upon Gen. D.
E. Twiggs, U. S. A., of Georgia, who be-
came second in charge of the attacking
army and Gen. Taylor highly compl-
| mented his ganantry, as also that of Col.
jefferson Davis of the Mississippi Volun-
teers Mai. Mansfield, who built Fort Pu-
| laski, was wounded in this battle, and
Lieut.. James Longstreet did noble service.
| Cen Mira beau b. Lamar of Georgia was
| conspicuous for his efficient service, being
orc of the heroes of the day. Lieut. w.
| w. Mackall, U. S. A. was also highly
COMMUNICATED for gallantry on the field.
The Lost Cause, a monthly illustrated
| Confederate magazine, published at Louis
willie, KY, by the United Daughters of
| the Confederacy of that city, and edited
| by Mrs (Gen) Basil w. Duke, sister of
| Gen. John II. Morgan, is doing excellent
and timely service in publishing pictures
| of the various Capitol buildings of tie
states composing the Confederacy and also
| pictures of the signers of the Confederate
states constitution So far In the work
| Georgia is represented only by Alexander
| II. Stephens, A. H. Kenan. Gen. Thomas
r. r. Cobb and Gen. Francis S. Barlow
! South Carolina has Gen. Barnwen Rhetr.
| Judge Thomas ]. Wthers and Gen. James
Chestnut, Jr. Florida has pictures of
her state Capitol and Gen. j. Patton An
derson. When completed this will be a
valuable contribution to Confederate an
nails
The editor of the Daily Key West, Fla,
| Herald, the genial Col. Thomas ]. Apple
yard, who served both in the Confedero tie
| navy and army from Virginia, is kind
| enough TO make the following reference
to my military letters, as many others
| have done in private letters to encourage
me to keep on writing them:
Among the pleasant articles In the Sun
| day papers are Maj. Sidney Herbert s
| weekly contributions to the Savannah
| Morning News The old Major,
| whom we have known and loved for near
| ly thirty years, Is a veteran soldier, and
| no one\s more thoroughly posted than he
| on military matters.n The latter statement
seems to have struck the Daily Metropolis
| of Jacksonville. as the editor gives it a
hearty Endorsement, only qualifying that
| Endorsement by limiting that a SCRAP
| book" may be an important source of n
| formation. Sidney Herbert.
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