The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-25
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
GEN. SORREL WAS SAvANNAH's
LAST CONFEDERATE GENERAL.

The Names of the Only Confederate
Generals Now Remaining in Geor-
gia-0nly n Little Handful Left of
N Once Proud Array of Heroes-A
Few Facts in the History of Gen.
Zachary TayIOr-The 1880 Cabin of
Abraham LincO1n-Mistakes ReIa-
tive to Historical Characters, and
the Need for Correcting Them.
The Last Civil War Battle Fought
in FIOrida-0bjections to the Place
of Holding the SchIey Courtmar-
tial-other Matters of General In
terest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, Aug
PA reader of these letters asks for
a list of the new appointments of Geor-
gians in the regular army. 1t can
not now be given, as an appointment
is one thing and a commission quite
another. Some of the appointments
will be sure to fail as is the case with
cadets at West Point, and when all
the exams" are over 1 will give the
desired list. . The death of Gen.
N3Oll AGhCo away ldol
Confederate general, and Georgia's list
is made smaller. Gordon, Evans, Bry-
an M. Thomas West Pointer) of Dali
ton, William Phillips of Marietta,
think, are the only ones now residing
in the state. Longstreet of South Car
DINA lives in Washington, Cumming
and Alexander 1 cannot locate with ac-
curacy. Wheelers home is in Alabama.
Alas what a little handful of suryiv-
ors is left of that once proud array of
heroes.
w. p. Dale wants to know if Gen.
Zachary Taylor was the son or brother
OF Jonathan Taylor. He was neither.
so far as / know, not having heard of
a brother named Jonathan. His father
was Gen. Richard Taylor of Virginia,
who was an officer in the Revolution
airy War, after which he settled in
Kentucky. In 1880 there was Lieut..
Col. Richard Taylor of the Ninth Vir-
ginia Infantry, in the service, and /
presume that was Gen. Zachary Tay-
lor's father. A Confederate
veteran of Brunswick, Ga, named Tay-
Tor Il. Ferguson, wishes to find any
two comrades who served with him.
He was very young and went into the
war late in Company A of the Sixth
Georgia Reserves, which he says was
soon consolidated with the Fifth Geor-
gia Reserves. He surrended at Green's
boro, N. c., a part of Gen. JohnstorAs
army. / never heard of the Sixth
Georgia Reserves. but Maj. Charles e.
McGregor of Warrenton, Ga, was
major of the Fifth and he might be
able to give Veteran Ferguson some
trace of old comrades. 1 hope so, at
least.
I see that Miss Lima Beard. sister. i
think. of the Artist Beard. has an. illus
trated paper in the August Delineator
magazine showing children how to
make a little log cabin after the model
OF the one Abraham Lincoln was born
in. Unfortunately, the picture given
In the article is that of the log cabin
"Old Abe" and John Hanks built in
1890. in Macon county, Illinois. and not
the Kentucky log cabin, in which he
was born / referred to these cabins
in my last letter and spoke of my
relics of the 1880 cabin and the rails
"Qld Abe" split / accompanied Presi-
den Andy johnson for a time when he
Swung round the circle" with his
mouth open too much, and during our
trip from New York city to West
Point Military Academy, on special
steamer. 1 presented the President with
a beautiful cane made from pieces of
the cabin logs and fence rails. Secre-
taries Seward and Melles and Gen,