The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-07
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ner, G. s. A., and gives me some inter
esting facts about the the Eighth Geor-
gia at Bull Run, where he was also
wounded. AS July 81, this year, comes on
Sunday, I will keep his facts and my
comments for a letter on that date. It
will then be just forty years ago that
he and l met in deadly conflict on that
famous battlefield, and yet far more than
twenty-five of those years we have been
as brothers A thousand similar cases
prove that it was a war without personal
hate or bitterness. Commander
in-Chief Rassieur of the G. A. r., at st.
Louis, seems to have been prompt to ten
der aid to the comrades who lost their
homes, stores or other property in the
Jacksonville fire. Adjt. Gen. Sterrett
writes as follows to Brig Gen. s. Her
bert Lancey Of this city: THE com
mander-in-chief desired the comrades in
Jacksonville to give information as to
who had lost, what they had lost, wheth-
er any insurance, etc, and yet to these
plain inquiries, several times repeated
none of our comrades have specifically
replied. Had they done so he would have
drawn from a fund which he knew could
be used for the purpose of relieving all our
comrades in Jacksonville who suffered
from the fire. Sorry they did not give
him the information desired to enable him
to act in their behalf"
Ex-senator Higgins OF Delaware, in his
address before the Yale Alumni, at the
recent commencement, referred in terms
of high praise to Minister Conger in
China and Consul Adelbert Hay at Pre-
toria, as Yale men who had honored
their classes. He might have added the
names of Gen. William w. Gordon, u.
s. v, and Gen. Andrew s.. Burt, U. s.
", and Colonel, U. s. A., who did good
service in the Spanish-Amerioan war.
Gen. Gordon, as a member of the Porto
Rico Commission, made a most excellent
record, and his name will worthily hold
high place on the alumni roll of grand
old Yale, as It now does in the list of
Georgia's most honored sons.
More than twenty-five years ago I ed
tied the Troy, Ala, Messenger, making
it the gold medal paper OF the state,
and it's publisher was William ]. Blan,
an old Confederate soldier and a fine
printer. But, best of ALL he was a true
hearted Christian gentleman. After be-
came editor Of a daily paper In Column
bus Ga. a son was born to my old asso-
ciate, and he did me the homer to name
him Sidney Herbert Blan. That boy grew
up to be a most excellent Christian young
man, and to-day is the editor Of the Troy
Daily Messenger. On June 20, in the
morning, he married lovely and talent
ed young lady OF Troy, and at the meet
ing OF the Alabama Press Association,
held in Montgomery that afternoon, she
was elected Essayist for 1902, a token of
the high esteem in which her husband was
held by his editorial associates. have
had many honors conferred on me during
the past thirty years, some of them Of
high degree, but this tribute of esteem
and affection from an old Confederate SOL
der holds a warmer and dearer place in
my heart than all the others combined.
With tears in my aged eyes / pen these
lines, for IL is a comforting thought to
know that after more than fifty years
OF journalistic work, a talented young
man of noble character, taking up the
same profession, will bear my name into
other generations.
The marriage Of Gen. Fltz Lees daugh-
ter to Lieut.. Rhea, u. 8. A., puts the
Lee family I'm 1t" as to being an army
family" The General and his two sons
are In the regular army. and there is
still another daughter who may marry
and officer. Old Gen. Zachary Taylor mar
ried his three daughters into the army.
And more than this, his father was an
old Revolutionary officer and his wife a
daughter of Maj. Walter Smith, u. s.
A., and she had a brother In the Marine
Corps. Gen. Taylors daughters married
as follows: Anne to Surgeon r. c. Wood.
u. 8. A.; Sarah Knox to Lieut.. Jefferson
Davis, u. s. A.; Elizabeth 10 Col. wal
liam W. 8. Bliss, U. s. A., known at
West Point. whore he was universally
popular Oike Gen. r. y. Leo. as Per
feet Bliss" and his charming and lovely
wife was called BEETLE Bliss Richard
Taylor, named for his heroic GRANDPA
Their. was never IN the regular army, but
booame a lieutenant general in tho Con-
federate service. Mrs. Taylor. was rs-
lated 70 the Mackalls Of Maryland. an-
other noted military family. 50 far /
think the Taylor family has the high
est record. although the late Gen. y. v.
Sumner y. 3 A.. and Gen. siiss Casey
went pretty high
Tho death Of Gen. Tilz John Porter, U.