The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-07

eminent soldiers who with him gave hon.
or to the ante-bellum regular army and
then Joined hands to uphold its flag in
civil contest FOR its supremacy over this
continent, from Maine to California, We
owe too much to these old warriors-Un-
ion or Confederate-to throw a shadow
over their last days on earth. Badly"
smith may have been mistaken in his
claim; II so, it was an honest mistake.
Dr. e. R. Anthony OF Griffin has re-
Gently read paper before the Current
Topics Club of that place on THE Ma
uonal Flowers OF the World" In IL is
asked the question, Where is that of the
United States?" The nearest 1 can come
to answering this question is to refer TO
the poets lines
England has the Lily,
France has the rose;
Any one can tell you
Where the Shamrock grows.
Scotland has the Thistle,
Blooming on the hill,
But the Emblem of America
Is a One-Dollar Bill"
If this be true, as some people claim, in
view of our greed for THE Almighty DOL
lar" the history of our military career In
all the past shows that a dollar emblem
is more potent than flower emblem"
and at the present day fear the Lily.
the Rose, the Shamrock and the Thistle
combined could hardly conquer our "One-
Dollar Bill"
Brig Gen. Charles King, U. 8. ", In
the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
OF March 80, has an excellent article on
THE Men in Command of Our Fighting
Force" in which he sketches the shake
up" of officers at the close of the Civil
War, and then refers to recent promotions
in the regular army. knew many of the
old army officers intimately, having served
on the STATS of Halleck, Banks, w. F.
Smith, Terry Casey, Tyler. Schenck,
Morgan and Couch, and when 1 remem-
bered all their sad disappointments at
the close of the war; 1 wept freely when
this paragraph fell under my eye: The
Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Po-
tomac, veteran though he was, had to be
content with his lieutenant colonelcy, and
II was one of the sad issues of long neg
lected service that such men as Hunt and
Getty, generals of the war days, should
finally have TO retire, long years after,
with no higher rank than colonel" All!
what letters l have from Gen. Henry ].
Hunt and Gen. John NJ. Cuyler and others
seeking my influence to secure the promo
ton so justly due them. And 1 never read
those old letters now without an aching
heart.
There is an old saying that borrowing
dulls the edge of husbandry, but in one
instance, however, ii had a prominent
part in giving to the United States of
America her most illustrious military
chieftain of modern times. When Ulysses
Hiram Grant was a well grown youth his
mother sent him to neighbours house to
borrow some butter for breakfast While
there 'T,Vsz I'd
from the neighbours son, then at West
Point, that he had failed to pass in the
examination and was coming home Here
was a chance for another boy, and before
Grant had eat his own breakfast at home
the congressman in that district had
promised to appoint him to the vacancy.
In doing so, however, he sent In the name
of Ulysses Simpson Grant by mistake, as
Mrs. Grants name before marriage was
Simpson. That is how the boy U. H.
Grant was made Cadet U. s. Grant at
West Point and the error was never cor
rected. The quick movements of young
Grant in securing the promise of the con-
gresham no doubt made his appointment
certain but all these movements grew out
of what he heard while borrowing some
butter for his mother. Now, borrowing in
this case did not "dulr' anything, but
1t sharpened the wits of an ambitious boy
an illustrious soldier.
- A syndicate newspaper article on the
Selfridge family, with photos of Rear Ad-
mfral Thos. o. Selfridge, ST., and Rear
admiral Thos. o. Selfridge, Jr., and Com
mander James R. Selfrdge, is headed a
"a Family Record Unparalleled in Ma
val Annals" While this may be true, so
/ far as the u. S. N. is concerned, there
are other families in which the army and
, navy, combined, make a better showing.
Major Gen. Silas Casey, Sr., on whose
staff served as inspector general, had
a most remarkable family record. His
+, son, Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Casey became
chief of the engineer corps, while in turn
his son, Thomas L. Casey, Jr., is now
major in the engineer corps. Rear Admit
raj Silas Casey, Jr., U. S. N, was recently
placed on the retired list. Another son,
Lieut.. Edward w. Casey, of the Twen-
ty-second, u. s. Infantry, was killed by
the Indians several years ago in the
West. One of the Generals daughters
married the late Col. Robert N Scott, of
the Fourth United States Artillery, who
was in charge of the publication of the
Rebellion Record" at the time of his
death. l think another daughter married
an army officer. However, this family re-
cord surpassed that OF the famous Self
ridge family record in many respects.
Sidney Herbert.