The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-20
HIS NAME WAS ZACHARIAH.
1T WAS GEN. TAYLOR's, TAKEN
FROM THE BIBLE.

WAS YEN. IAN IAhEN
FROM THE BIBLE.
Something About West Point Ha-
zInS-COmments on the Protest of
the New Orleans Confederate
Camp-The Attention That Is Be
ing Given to Sketches of the Civil
War by the Newspapers-A Few
Facts About Edmund Clarence
Steadmnn-Mark A. Hardin's Gold
en- Wedding other Matters OF
General Interest.
Pine Crest villa, Maitland, Fla Jan.
1s.-The press telegram from Washing
ton, in its reference to the Southern Re
lief Society entertainment, mentions Mrs.
Fleming, who was famous as a spy dur
ing the war as Belle Boyd. "as among
the distinguished guests" This must
have been the bogus Belle Boyd to
whom 1 referred in my notice of the
death of the "only original" and genu-
inc Belle Boyd" She has been out of
sight so long I had supposed that she too
was dead. Perhaps Mrs Fleming is the
second bogus Belle Boyd"
1t is not generally known that Gen.
Zachary Taylor's original name was
Zacharah. a good old Bible name, but
he modernized it in his later years. I
mention the matter here because Con-
gresham briggs in one of his digs" at
hazing at West Point, when it was stated
that Congressman William Mckinley and
Senator James G. Blaine favored closing
the academy if hazng could not be stop
ped, added, land so did Zachariah Tay-
lor."
A Morning News reader suggests In
your columns that l write something
more about West Point hazing and fist
fights. I can only reiterate what l have
previously said. and challenge any SINH
lar institution to show a better record
or more honorable and useful graduates.
The two investigate have not changed
my mind, as / have in previous letters
written from personal knowledge. Let
Yale and Harvard and Princeton and Cor
nell go through the same searching official
Investigations, ana West Point will come
off with flying colors."
Next Sunday 1 hope to be able to refer
to several valuable books, photographs,
etc, sent me by readers of the Morning
News in Savannah and elsewhere, gifts
that are highly appreciated and will be
used for the public good. l hope event
ually, to place my entire collection OF
war relics. books, maps, etc, in some Sa-
vannah library open to the public.
have heard many compliments paid
the Morning News by Union veterans on
account Of the fair and dignifed manner
in which ii discusses the VeXed questions
that grew out of the Civil War. This
is especially true of the school history
question, although the Morning News
does not Clover it's colors" while discuss
ing the subject. But the highest compli-
ment and best tribute came from an o
Union soldier in Liberty county Geor-
gia, who, in writing me about my letters,
says he has taken the Morning News for
"thirty-two years without break He
is of a class of Grand Army men that
has remained in or come to the South for
the purpose of aiding in its material de-
velopment. Such men are generally good
citizens and hold the confidence and es-
TEEN of the old Confederate soldiers once
pitted against them in battle.
The reported critical illness of Brig.
Gen. Theophiius t. Garrard of Manches-
ter. Ky, reminds me that he and Brig.
Gen. Edward H Hobson of Greensburg.
are the only two living Kentucky gem
erals who served in the Union army dur
ing the Civil War. Both have been men
of great activity and prominence in pub
lie life, Gen. Hobson, especially SO in
Grand Army circles. Gen. Garrard was
a captain in the Sixteenth United States
Infantry. in the Mexican war, from April,
1s47 to August, 1913. There was also
Capt. william Garrard and Lieut. Will
lam Garrard in the regular army during
the Mexican war. Maj. Gen. Kenner
Garrard, U. S. A, and Maj. Joseph Gar
Tard, u. S. A, graduated at West Point.
The General was dashing cavalry COM
rnander with Sherman around Atlanta,
and Maj Garrard, a young post-bellum
graduate, some years ago. was command
ant OF cadets st Dahlonega, Ga. II is a
singular fact, that of the seven Garrards
who have been in the regular army, five
We're from Kentucky and two from Louis
iana.
The New Orleans Confederate Camps
protest against inviting President McKin-
ley TO the grand U. c. V. reunion in
Memphis, is a strong argument in favor
of my Chicago protest against cities
where the G.. A. r. or u. c. V. meet
taking upon themselves the right to invite
outsiders to be guests on those occasions
The invitation of Candidate Bryan to
Chicago was a mistake, just as is the
Memphis invitation to President Mckin-
lev II Memphis wishes to draw big
crowd Independent of the U. c. V. re-
union. let her select some other time for
IT, and not impose upon her invited guests
an Objectionable element of the public
demonstration. And this criticism APP
plies with equal force to Chicago's unwise
action. No city, l claim, has any right TO
inject into G. A. r. or U. c. V. re-
union any outside demonstration. Both
organizations draw immense crowds, ana
both should be left to invite only such
guests as they desire to entertain. Bry-
an was wise enough to stay away from
Chicago, and il is safe to predict that NC
Kinley viii not go to Memphis.
"Pickett's charge at Gettysburg OF
which so much has been written, is again
rehearsed in the Constitution by X. w.
McAdam To my mind as to many others
AZ is gratifying to see the local press CIV
ing so much attention to old war sketches
from the pens Of both privates and com
missioned officers. The Confederate Vet
erap. the Lost Cause, and other lesser
military magazines, do not have a genera
circulation and when our leading dally
Journals and country weekhes publish
such sketches It results in many cases In
corrections or additions from participants
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