The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-04
HE KNEW JOUBERT
WHEN A CONFEDERATE.


fus who IL mt the Head
Of the Bocr Army.
CAPT. r, O.. CRAIG. of Spokane, well
~ remembers Gen. Joubert. military
head OF the Transvaal government As
a young man Joubert was active energetic
and full Of enthusiasm His hobby was ar
tiliery, and he seems to have followed his
old methods OF campaigning. IL knew
Joubert quite we'll" said Capt. Craig to
the Spokane. Sunday Call I'm the spring
OF 1851 l was lieutenant in .he Confed-
crate army and had charge of the freight
steamer Robert Haversham running
coastwise between st. Marys and Savan-
nah. Ga. We carried all sorts Of supplies
for the various Confederate camps. At
that time Lieut. Col. Marks. of the Fourth
Louisiana battalion was stationed at Sa-
vannah.
Lieut. Joubert was also with the
Fourth Louisiana battalion, and one day
Lieut.-Col. Marks called me to his head
quarters and introduced me to a rather
short. clear-cut, extremely affable young
man, who had to go on a secret mission
down the coast and must go on my boat
The young man was Joubert.
The next morning he came on board
remember there were good many Con-
federate officers at Savannah at that time
| recall Col Clark. Capt Gothiel, Gen.
Jerdardi and Gen. Beauregard There had
been much consultation among the off,
GERS. and we all knew there was some
thing In the air.
For several days there had been ru-
mors OF operations at Fort McAllister
and learned afterward that Joubert's
mission took him there.
ION board the steamer Jouhert and
mad several conversations obout the war
and the method OF campaign being car
ried ON. Joubert was enthusiastic on the
Lao n mr. Th,.t
his special hobby. and long afterward
learned that he knew about all there was
TO learn about artillery tactics He told
me his name was Pierre. and I noticed
every one who knew him at all well
called him by his first name. pronounoing
II like Perry.
"Afterward when Commodore Dupont
hombarded Charleston, Joubert sIstin-
guished himself at Battery Wagner
II met Joubert again in Savannah In
the spring of 1862. He told me he was
going TO Join Stonewall Jackson. He must
have gone with Jackson for he developed
Jack-on's style OF fighting StonewaIl
Jackson would have handled the campaign
IN Africa exactly as Joubert IL doing. I
am Thoroughly convinced that the English
are up against the old American methods
which they know are pretty effective.
on the ath of June 1865, | went on
board OF the bark Lord Baltimore, In New
York harhor. and the first person / met
was Pierre Joubert. He was bound for
Rio de Jsneiro. Brazil and so was I. We
were overjoyed To he again I'm each other
company, and I didn't think | was ever
happier than on that sixty-day VOYAGE.
We sat az the same table az meals, played
cards together and took the sun together
on the deck In good weather
III was In August when we landed at
Rio lie Jsneirn, We We're Joined by col
Celery, who had been on hls STAFF we
knocked about town for week. unde-
cided what TO do. One day our soldier
blood WAS stirred al an oneg Of commits
sions In the brazilian army Pierre lou
bert got majors place. and | a cap
talncy They sent us 20 Assumption. in
Paraguay. There Joubors took charge ~
the battery OF small field guns, and the
way he scattered the enemy makes me
shudder fer the poor British now. The
var was between Brazil Uruguay, Argen-
tire and Paraguay We had a picnic
at Assumption unti one DAY a piee, az
shell struck 1oubert in the shoulder. ana
he was taken To- Montsyiieo. where he re-
manned IN he hospital two months After
he go, Wen we reElsned our commissions
He didn't know whether 20 so TO gapo
Town or Egypt
II Vas considered not very far 20 either
place nom Monieviieo The last ! Jaw
% him ne was aboard az sailing vessel
bound for Care Town. I went To- Manila
aud Afterwards knocked about som. ami
lately came to this state"