Arizona republican., 1901-09-23

ity of the tals. If it were simply cooked up yarn the author would never have thought to put him in two regi- merts.
 The matter of which flag he look must be a bit uncertain. You know. we cd confe6erates were so busy that we could not worry much about the flags. I don't think I had a brigade flag. Rem frew probably got his company flag. as most of the companies had some em- blem or pennon.
 ''I have talked to several Of my nlsn and they say that thsy remember Rem frew personally. He came from some where near Midway. From what thsy tell me he was a gallant soldier"
 The reporter then hunted up one of the men who was |; private under Gen eral Duke.
 "Renfrew?" exclaimed the old so.- die.. .'Of course l remember Renfrew. He was one of the finest fellows in the army. When I knew him he was about % years old and in Bart Jenkins's brig ade. Renfrew, Bayless and Mosgrove were mates They were all college graduates and naturally drifted to- gethcr in the company. They messed together all the time. Bayless now lives in Cincinnati. I know that Renfrew was in that last march as one of Pres ident JeffeI son Davis's escort. Most or that last command surrendered at Mount Sterling. Some of them, how ever. tried to work west to join Kirby Smith. The command split and l lost sight of Rerfrew. Bayl ss of Cincin- nati could tell you all about him" The story is to the effect that out in the far Navigator Isles floats an o.d confederate flag that has never been l Am al the country old soldiers are rouslng them selves and overwhelming General Duke with inquiries concerning the story of l the young Kentuckian who bravely l bore that flag. then willingly eNpa:ri- ated himself rather than sul render 1t. Four ysars he followed it. and then. for twenty-five more. it hoated proudly unsurrendered before his hut on a little l Pacific island.
 1 Now Private Henry Gay Renfrew, c. 1 s. A. lies buried in a rocky headland of | that far isle. lie lies so that. rising.
 his face would look toward the east. 1 toward the land of His youth and his ' love. And over the grave of the dead soldier floats the tattered battle flag g; the stars and bars for which. he gave i up home and friends and al. that made | life to erabls. The native who be- | friended him takes oa:e of the grave.
 Captain Martin Schuyler, forme rly
 captain in the Seventh Ohio cavalry,
 brought back the story from the Phil
 ippines. He told it to Captain T. r
 Allen. also of the Seventh Ohio. Cap
 tain Schuyler met the native and from
 him learned the story Of the flag. ThC
 native told him that many years ago
 an American, who said he had dlifted
 aong the western coast of South Amer
 ia. after passing through Mexico. set
 tied in the Navigator islands and lived
 alone. flying b fore his hut confeder-
 e battle flag. which he said was car
 ried by the cavalry escort that traveled
 with Jefferson Davis in the last stage:
 of his flight from Richmond before his
 capture by the federals- The ex-soldiel
 said that he had escaped with the flag
 which he loved 100 well to permit hin
 to live again under the United State.
 flag. The American rsfugee lived hi.
 Isolated life for years. dying thre,
 years ago and leaving his flag to hi native friend. with the injunction tha he never part with it.
 Captain Schuyler finally got the na tive's permission to examine the deat Amerlean's effects He found paper and diaries eating that the ex-con , federate was Henry Clay Renfrew. , member of either the Second or Fouril ; Kentucky cavalry, or both. in the con
 federate army. In some places he re
 ferred to Colonel Basil Duke as the col
 onel and Captain John E. Castleman a
 his captain; in others to Colonel Henr Gitner and Captain Bart Jenkins a g his colonel and captain, respectively
 He wrote of Bernard Bayless and Dal
 las Mosgrove as his chunls. In one c
 the diaries Renfrew referred at lengt - to the last days of the confederac, Y Then followed the statement that = was with the last body of organize o confederate. soldiers that escorted Jei 2 ferson Davis. General Duke command :. ing. and that when Dukes surrende = was agreed upon the writer took th flag from the staff. concealed it abol r his body and escaped. with the int T Il tion of taking the flag to some foreie r land.-Louisvi.le Courier-Journal
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