The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-10
CAME MILITARY MATTERS.
u,r GEN. WILSON WHO HAS BEEN
PROMOTED.

,,ore About Burial Place of Gen.
..oue-An officer Who Refused to
Used for Political Purposes.
"a About the Cadets of Vir-
Ia Military Institute Some
z,,r About the Banks County
c.rds-Comment on the Eff
,,ency of japanese Soldiers - The
cause of the Newspaper NotOriety
,u5ext Podnt-Gen. Miles Appoint
,+--other Matters of General
Interest.
Dine Crest Villa, Maitland. Fla, Feb
ITov,ever much the Morning News may
onDosed to expansion, there is one
.rirter in the composing room who seems
:. ,,-actice it, for he makes Gen. Stephen
- pe,nett" out of my "Benet," which
- the sound of B-na. He was an old
t. resident of st. Augustine, Fla. 1t
SINGULAR fact that Capt. Henery Cop
- name ends with the same sound
po+b were the most distinguished gradu-
la Of the University of Georgia, or
TDr,rlr1in College, to go into the United
safes army from West Point.
:, &c not Gen. John M Wilson. who is
o,rsadv chief of engineers, and a
,.-,,adier general, U. S. A. but
Taaos II. wilson, West Pointer and
"a army officer now volunteer gen
40, whose promotion is sought in resu-
ary,v. Atlanta is frequently
400 previous in her sensations as in
4,o Ease Of Rear Admiral Watson, U. S.
n. whose presence in Atlanta was OIL
,.r,, arnounced while he was hundreds
:, niles away and not coming.
~ robert H. Hill, reported as one OF
tba new generals, is Hall, formerly aoJu-
-. of the United States Military Acade-
INV and a fine officer. AuihlIal
ti..,r,oe mentioned in my last letter, was
~ the only-naval brigadier general as
commander r. L. Page, C. ). NJ earned
40 same title and his name, but not that
~ Admiral Semmes, appears in rosters OF
confederate generals.
n,harA must have been a strong impress
Ion abroad at one time that Gen
Greene's body was removed to Dungehess
Car final interment, as l had occasion III
1na Of nv early letters to refer 20 what
7 .bought was an error on the part oil the
Iamented Mayor of Macon. Gen. francs
" Greene sent him some books TOT MS
4ros library. and in his letter of acknowl-
el.enent he mentioned the grave OF Gen.
creeue's iilustrious ancestor as oelhg Oh
cumberland Island.
=. ia announced that Col. A. S. Daggett'
NJ the gallant Fourteenth United states
infantry. is booked for brigadler gem
eralship lin the sweet bye and bye.
That is all very well as far as II goes
hut Gen. Daggett is a breVet orlgaulef
general and was strongly pressed by Gen.
Chaffee for one of the present appoint
rnents for heroic conduct in China. But II
&c recorded in political circles at Wash
4nqton that Col. Daggett, during recon
struction DAYS in South Carolina, Georgia
and Alabama, refused to be used for pollt-
zeal purposes by the Republican BOSSES
Consequently he has seen officers from
his own command promoted over his
head because they were more
nolitieians than soldiers This is plain
talk. but it hits the bulls eye in this
case.
The correspondence item in the Morning
News recently that Rev. DR.. Edward Eg-
gieston the distinguished author, Is at
brownsville Ca, and is now writing
'History of the United States, Is evil
IDENTIFY an error, as he wrote that history
some years ago and it is now In use III
many Georgia schools, although Gov.
Gambler condemns it as sectional. Eggles-
ton. however, is Virginian, and has Just
published his latest historical work, THE
Transit of Civilization From England to
America in the Seventeeth Century.
This is no doubt the book the ThomasV1lle
correspondent had In mind, but is already
out.
"Harry-dele Hallmark" who is Miss
Annie Rittenhouse formerly of the Au-
gusta. Ga. Chronicle, in an article in the
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
speaks of Lieut.. Gen. John B. Gordon as
''the famous Confederate cavalry leader.
! had always supposed that Gen. Gordon
was colonel of the Sixth Alabama lnfan-
try until he was made a brigadier general
and later commander of infantry, cavalry
and artillery-but not as a cavalry gen
eral.
The cadets of the Virginia Military In
stitute won an enduring fame for their
heroic conduct at the battle of New Mar
ket, Va, where over fifty out of two
hundred were killed or wounded. Next
TO these gallant boys stand the cadets or
the Georgia Military Institute, under
Gen. Frank w Capers, who so promptly
and bravely came to the defense of the
state against Gen. Shermans march 20
Savannah. Not long ago 1 was in jack
sonville and met my old friend, Capt
John L. Howard, so like the lamented
Col. John B. German, editor and writer
general superintendent of the Clyde
steamships in that city, and was sur
prsed to learn that he was one of those
heroic cadets. He assisted in bringing the
body of Cadet Marsh off the railroad
trestle and cut the pine knots to make
light for the surgeons to amputate the
wounded arm OF Cadet Scott, now DR.. j.
s. Scott of Atlanta. They were boys in
years only, for in action they proved
every inch men OF nerve and courage and
fortitude. The state Of Georgia should
have given each of those cadets a Medal
IT Honor for their gallant services.
Writing Of 1.-THE Humorous Side OF the
Georgia Legislature" in the Atlanta
journal, correspondent says: IT under
stand Representative Thompson is one of
the famous Banks County Guards, who
curing the war required their command
ing officers to preface all commands with
Gentlemen of the Banks County Guards
VIII you please, etc. They were all gal
!ant fighters, but were prejudiced against
the formal terms used i'm Tardee's tao