The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
OPPOSED BY THE GENERALS.
But MISS WHEELER WENT WITH
ARMY TO CUBA.


tvs Alumni Reviewed-some Prom
inent Names Left Out-some Facts
About Admiral Bullock - 4 Few
/ Facts of History HecaIIed-Refer-
ences TO Changes In the Republic
can PartX-Other Matters of Cen
eraI Interest.
Pine Crest villa, Maitland, Fla, Feb.
I'll find that the histo ical comments
l wish to make on my Christmas mil tary
gifts will fill an entire letter. and so
they are further delayed; also. some com
ments on Mr.. Riley Boyd S letter to me
/ in regard to ca. diaal Gibbons peace ser
mon. So many current topics arise IN
week that l cannot catch all Of them on
the wing Col Robert 3. III mt Of
Tampa, has died since my last reference
to him. He did rot. as his funeral notice
says, leave the L. s A. for the c. S. A,
as he resigned from the former in 1885
and did not enter the c. 5. A. until 1851.
My West Point additional facts on
discipline are held over until final action
at Washington.D D. c. of invest gait. com
mittee, and also the final result Of Presi-
dent Halls effort 10 discipline students at
the Tech" IS made cl ar. The result at
/ the University of Alabama is a victory
| for disorder y, T. subordinate cadets. But
| for the fact that President Hail is a West
/ Point graduate the same re ut would
no doubt have been reached at the
/ Tech" Parents nowadays don't want
/ their children properly disciplined, and
! educators who enforce strict discipline
! are therefore unpopular
! Since writing the above my views have
! been confirmed by letter 70 me from i
member of the Board of Visitors Of the
| Virginia Military Institute, in which he
says: II nave just read your intensely
! interesting article in the Savannah Morn
| ing News of Jan. q. The article, through
! and through. is worth reading, and l have
sent ii TO Gen. Scott Ship the superin-
tendent of the Virginia Military Institute.
! as 1t may have some influence with him
! IN making his report. OF course
| the board will sustain the superintendent
in whatever he recommends" The re
port referred to is in regard to a cadet
expelled last October for hazing. And yet
this l6-year-old boy bears the name OF
one of the most gallant and distinguished
OF living Confederate generals. and mis-
| mother writes to this member of the board
| a six-page letter, asking his influence in
the board, to reinstate her son. Like the
Atlanta parents of the suspended Teen
students, this mother wishes discipline
tramp.ed under foot that her boy may
be reinstated. But my views are more
fully Endorsed by Cen Charles King. in
spicy article on West Point, in the Phil
adelphia Saturday Evening Post of Feb.
2. 1t is "a clincher."
! read with considerable interest, in last
Sundays Morning News, the article IN
the alumni of the University of Georgia,
| BY Chancellor Walter B. Hill, and WAS
/ surprised to miss the names of MAJ.
/ Mark A. Cooper, Rev. Thomas G.. Pond
and DR.. W. II. FELTON,. If they were in
| the list l failed to see them. l am sure
| that Mai. Cooper was deserving of
! place with Georgia's old-time developers
| and philosophical men. | also missed
| the names of Gen. Stephen V. Bennett.
/ L. s. A, and Capt. Henry Coppee. Z. 5.
A, both far more eminent than many
who are mentioned. Col. Robert L. Ber-
ner included in list of United States Army
officers, was never in the army, simply
! serving colonel of Georgia Volunteers
| In the Spanish-American war. Chancellor
| HiA should have given the names of the
alumni or none as he has overlooked
many very worthy names.
| One Of the brightest weekly papers in
| Georgia, the Waycross- Journal, gives an
/ account OF a meeting of South Georgia
/ Camp Confederate Veterans under this
| Objectionable heading, The Old Vets
! Met" AS Editor Sweat is a sharp critic
himself, am sure he will pardon me for
saying there is no such thing as an "Old
! Vet" Cor veteran) as applied to soldiers.
| The term veteran Itself, applied to any
man, means old, therefore we should say
old soldiers or veteran soldiers, and not
old veteran, or old veteran soldiers. How
ever, the error into which the Journal
has fallen is common one, but 1t should
most certainly be corrected. The same
might be said of such errors as court
martials for courts-martial and adjutant
generals for adjutants general, and or
derby sergeant for first sergeant, and
aide e-camps for aides-de-camp-al
common errors, although orderly sergeant
/ is permissible but not preferable. The
use of ordnance, a strictly military term,
| for the law making term of ordinance
| is also common error.
1t is gratifying to hear that Miss An
| nile Early Wheeler, daughter of Gen. Jo-
| seph Wheeler, u. S. A. (retired), is con-
valescent from her recent critical illness
| in New York and will soon be able to
| leave the hospital. She is the noble
| young woman who won fame and a ma
TONS gratitude for her heroic services as
| an army nurse at Santiago and later
at Montauk Point N. Y. Few people
however, know what a struggle she had
| to get to Cuba. Coming ashore one
| afternoon from Gen. Wheeler's headquar-
tiers on the steamship Allegheny. at Port
! Tampa, l met Miss Annie. whom l had
! known from early girlhood, sadly de-
! pressed. She said to me: Major"
! every body calls me Major, although
twenty times or more a Colonel, 81 want
| you to help me- Father don't want me
to go as a nurse; Gen. Miles does not APP
| prove of it; Gen. Shafter says / shall not
go. Now, you must help me-" To which
/ 1 replied: "Of course, 1 will, and you
| shall go. / have some official paper and
| envelopes at home which l used as sur
| geon and chaplain OF the United States
! Sanitary Commission, and ] will run up
/ and get some tonight and write Miss Bar
! ton letter that will carry you through"
| The rest of the story the world knows
/ and 1t has made a heroine of this brave
! girl.
Mr.. julius i. Brown, who was one OF
! the gallant Georgia military cadet SOL
! diers has given an Atlanta paper an in
! terview about admiral" James d. Bull
loch but l have not been able to officially
| grade him higher than captain, although
! he Justly deserved to have been made
rear admiral. When Semmes surrender
| I he ~