The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-28
SOUTHERN IRREC ONCILABLES
WHO STILL HATE YANKEES.
Some Americans Living Abroad Brood Over Enmes and Can
Never Forget the Failure Of Lost Cause.

- IEUT. c. G. WOOD. OF her Britannia
majeStys North Lancashire regi-
msnt, whoss death at Kimberley
from wounds received In action
against tho Beers YVES reported
In last weeks dispatches was the
grandson Of zachary Taylor. Many Of
his cousins. through the Taylor branch
ct his family, are to BE- found In Ken
tucky and perhaps In othAr parts OF the
Union who are good Americans and
would scorn to be anything else. To
those Americans who. like most Ameri-
cans. have spent all their lives, in their
own country or gone abroad only for an
occasional summer holiday In the beaten
track OF the tourist this announcement
may have appeared = remarkably strange
reversal Of the natural order. 10 those
VINO have roamed much abroad the fact
that Lieut.. Woods father was an ex-Ccn-
1e6erate. living in self-imposed exile. viii
only put the case in line with many others
more or Tess like 1t. There may not ne
many men now serving in the British army
who. like this young officer, are descend
ants OF the makers Of early United States
history, but In the cities of Europe espe-
ciAily London. many an ''nnreconstructe1
rebel has passed way within the last af-
teen or twenty years and Of these many
must have left children, born on foreign
soil, who have never even dreamed that
vHey ought TO be Americans.
Refused TO he Reconciled.
During the decade Immediately following
the close of the civil war many officers
of the heroic but defeated Confederate
army drifted to Canada and some. to the
British West Indies. Some Of them even
fually came back to their old states and
helped on the slow. painful work Of ma
Gcnal reconciliation. In single city just
on the far side of Mason and Dixon's line
N 81 of tt1n tar maj pf <xyAoo tAOt t.rOv
inence in the local Industrial and financial
life would include not fewer than four ex-
Confederates who. In 1885, had turned their
backs on this republic with but little hope
OF ever returning within its borders. Per-
haps some of these can now look back to
the days when they themselves were just
NJ irreconcilable as those others who have
never come back-even as Col. A., some
time Of the Atlanta Light horse. who used
TO explain his position briefly and forcibly
by saying that nothing would ever induce
him to live in country dominated by
those blasted Yankees
All the same. there were two days in
the year when the little cigar store on the
south side of Hanway street, close to the
TUttenham Court road, displayed the
starred and striped emblem of the blasted
Yankees" one was the Fourth OF July, and
Thanksgiving day was the other. Living
In London with which he was wonderfully
familiar, the colonel never ceased to abuse
the climate, the manners. the police, the
cooking. the social and political arrange
fnents OF England in general and London
IN particular. He was much too well bred
to force his criticisms upon strangers or
mere casual acquaintapces, but his friends
and his regular customers. who loved to
tilt back in the chairs and puff pipes or
cigars by the hour in that little shop, would
there hear more invective against their
country than they could hear anywhere
else In the same time
Liked the Invectfve.
And the strange thing was that none OF
them seemed to object or to like the col
bnel one bit less on account Of his candor
But, then. they all knew that he could give
It to the blasted Yankees' even harder
than to tho London fog or the house of
lords, and. with It all, there was the con-
wiction that this perfectly grooned man
with the soldierly bearing and the superb
ly waxed mustache, who would sell you
threepence worth Of tobacco II you wanted
that quantity, and on whose word you
could always rely-who never called a
cigar good unless 1t was good - had fought
and fought hard: led cavalry charges. been
wounded, been made prisoner and had
taken prisoners in the service of the lost
cause, for which most Londoners, II not
most Enslishmen, always had more or less
sympathy-especially after it was lost.
The colonel was Georgian by birth. His
family gave its name to one Of the coun-
ties nearest to Atlanta. His father owned
q large tobacco estate in that neighbour
hood, with many slaves. As boy the col
pnel had been sent to West Point, and
thence had passed into the United States
cavalry. He fought Apaches for several
years, of and on. Many Of his best stor-
les were from that Apache fighting period.
Then, when Georgia seeded, he sent in his
resignation and made his way from Ari-
coma to Atlanta where he Joined the Con-