The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-31


grasping his hand. remarked, I'm gald
to meet you corporal for you are the first |
damned enlisted man l have seen since |
the war; OF course this peculiar and |
forcible greeting brought the house |
down." While IL is true that only a
few great commanding generals used pro-
fame language, 1t is true that many of the
famous subordinate lighting generals, In
both the Confederate and Union armies
were habitual swearers. In fact, from
my personal observation, am sure that
both armies would have suffered severely
If swearing generals had been sent to
the rear.
The Washington correspondent of the
Morning News announces the forthcoming
visit of U. S. Grant, Srd, to his mother,
Mrs. Gen. Fred. Dent Grant, and to his
grandmother, Mrs. Gen. U. S. Grant,
Sr., in that city. Cadet U. S Grant comes
from the military academy at West Point,
where his father and his grandfather.
and his uncle, Gen. Fred T. Dent, gained
their military education. Some three
months before he died, at Mt. McGregor,
the illustrious grandfather dictated let
ter to some future president of the United
States asking him to appoint Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Srd, to cadetship at
West Point. Col. Fred d. Grant quietly
quietly signed and sealed it, in the pres
ence of solemn stiffness that fell upon
all present, who realized the solemnity
of the act A dying man, the nations
greatest hero, asking that his illustrious
name, borne by a then little grandson,
might, at the proper time. again appear
in the register of West Point Military
Academy. When, years later this letter
came to President Mckinley 1t was like
ga hn nd he
hesitate to make the appointment asked
for. This son, whose father is now a
brigadier general in the regular army,
and whose sister is a Russian princess,
has future of great prominence
I am astonished and panied to see so
good a paper as the Marietta Journal
publish an irresponsible attack upon the
character of Gen. Il. r. R. Cobb, as a SOL
der, in the statement that one of his
men killed him out of pure malice for
fancied insult During the meeting of our
Society of the Army of the Potomac, in
Fredericksburg, Va, last May, 1t was my
pleasure to visit the house where Gen.
Cobb died, and to learn some particulars
of that sad event. While it is true that
Gen. Cobb was a strict disciplinarian, he
was not surpassed in his noble Christian
character by "Stonewall'' Jackson, and
to the humblest soldier in his command.
AS Gen. Cobb, like Gen. Bishop Polk,
was killed by a shell or cannon ball, the
story that private soldier shot him with
a bullet is too absurd to be considered,
for a moment Editors of reputable news
papers should be very careful in handling
such unreliable and sanderous commune
cations, the proper place for which is
neither in the columns of a newspaper
> oefo bot hut hn re
they may be destroyed as far as posi-
BILE without delay. The character of one
| of Georgia's noblest heroes is too dear to
grateful people to be thus publicly SLAM
dered in an old and reputable newspaper
like the Marietta Journal. Somebody has
| Numbered inexcusebly.
Clara Morris, in her very interesting
| Autobiography" now being published
in the Sunday issue of the Morning News,
tells how her family name aecidently be-
came contracted from Morrison to Nor
| ris. Some one remarked that her name
was Clara Morris, or Morrisey, or Nor
| rison, or something like It," and the
manager wrote down the shortest and
| best name, and thereafter Clara Morrison
= was Clara Morris, a name, her genius as
| an actress and writer, and Womanly
woman-has made famous. Gen. Grant
|
ner, by the congressman, who appointed
him, and when Ulysses Hiram Grant got
to West Point Military Academy, he was
obliged to enter as Ulysses Simpson
| Grant Capt. Stuart when he enlisted
! as a private in the regular army, was
| enrolled by the name Of Stewart, and thus
| 1t ever after remained. But people are
| so fond of tinkering their own names that
| they ought not to object when others
perform that service for them. Lieut..
| Slideli, of the navy, many years ago.
| charged his name to Mackenzie, and John
| Paul became John Paul Jones, and were
severely criticised for so doing. but now
| adays such changes are common. Steph'
en- Grover Cleveland becomes plain Grow
er Cleveland, and Vice President Henry
Wilson comes out of jeremiah Colbraitn,
and Senator John Nipple Mitchell was
once Mr.. John Mitchell Nipple. Presi-
dent James K. Folks family name was
originally Pollock. Bishop Coke of West
ern New York, had a good old father
named Rev. DR.. Cox, who once said to
me, in New York City, my name is plain
Samuel Hanson Cox, and that's good
enough for me; but my high falutin son.
the bishop, calls himself A. Cleveland
| Coke" Sidney Herbert.