The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-30
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
NAVAL COMMANDERS OF THE CON-
FEDERACY NEGLECTED.

FEDERACY NEGLECTED.
The old General Wayne HoteIe of
Germantown, Pa. - A Suggestion
Made by the Marietta (Ga.) Jour-
nal Relative to COnfiscated Lands
in California of G. b. F. Mcdonald.
reference to "a Sketch of James
Barrow Hope-Comments ON the
Observance of Flag Day-The En-
terprise of a Drug Company at the
Memphis Reunion-rhe Talk About
a southern Man for President.
Places That Have Been Filled by
Confederate GeneraIs-0ther Mat
ters of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa. Maitland, Fla, June
sa-In my last letter / intended to state
that there was a Gen. George B. Nc
Clellan, but no McClelland. in the Union
army, and a Maj. George B. Mcclellan
mo G in the Confederate army. Gen.
John A. McClermand was in the volun-
teer Union forces. Just COM
nlaint is made that while monuments
and statues have been raised to Davis
Lee. Jackson and other Confederate
generals. few honors of this kind have
been paid to the great naval comman-
ders of the Confederacy. The most con-
spicuous monument, II not the only one
of Importance, seems to be that to Ad-
Miral Semmes, in Mobile. re-
ferred to the death in battle of
Second Lieutenant Waiter H. Lee
U. s.. A., engineer corps. because
he graduated into the army only
few months ago with the brightest
prospects. Gen. Gillispfe. chief of en-
gineers, pays tribute to his high char
acter as a man and a soldier, of which
North Carolina may we'll be proud.
II NAV interest Savannah readers Of the
Morning News to know that in German
town, Pa, a fiourishing but ancient sub
urb OF Philadelphia, there is an old-fash-
toned hip-roofed venerable building called
the Gen. Wayne Hotel from the fact
that during the battle of Germantown 1t
was the headquarters of Maj. Gen. An
thony Wayne. 1t is over century and
half old, and for many years was head
quarters of the Germantown Blues
famous military corps of the long ago.
The Marietta (Ga-) Journal, re-
ferring to the restoration of the Lee
family relics to Gen. Lees daughter, sug-
gests that the heirs of c. b. r. McDon-
aid might recover his confiscated lands in
California. l hardly think so. as the two
cases are not at all similar. The Lee
relics were the heirlooms from the Wash
ington-C Gusts family, belonging to Mrs.
Lee, and not to the General The case
of Gen. Buckner was similar but it re-
quired all of Gen. Grants powerful infiu-
ence to have property returned 10 MRS.
Buckner and children in which Gen. Buck
ner had no interest. Neither of these
cases forms a precedent for claim in
behalf of the Mcdonald heirs. The Jour-
nal errs in saying Col Mcdonald resigned
as a lieutenant in the United States army.
and went into the Confederate army.
He left the army, after two years gal
liant service in the Mexican War, in 1S4S.
OF Memorial Day scenes at Arlington
National Cemetery, near Washington, the
Star reporter says: MANY and impressive
were the incidents, and two which came
under our notice were marked. Shortly
before noon Senator Fairbanks approach
ed the tomb of Gen. Waiter Q. Gresham
and placed upon the sod above that great
mans remains an exquisite cluster OF Eas-
ter lilies and white peonies. A few min
utes previously an old, decrepit man,
whose face was wrinkied and sore, hob
bled to the commanding shaft that marked
where the famous Gen. VIM. s. Harvey
lies and scattered at its base few gar
den roses and a handful of ivy leaves.
He was one of the few survivors OF the
peerless Second United States Dragons,
paying homage perhaps for the last time
to his old commander. They were both
touching tributes, showing how the high
and the humble alike pay reverence on
Memorial Day" Gen. Harvey was
Tennesseean, and the most noted Indian
fighter in the old regular army. His wild
ow now resides in Orlando, six miles from
here, where he died many years ago. One
of his greatest Indian battles was at Fort
Mellon, on Lake Monroe about a mile
from Sanford. When the Grand Army
Veterans met in that city to organize
post, Gen. Harvey had that day died over
in Orlando. so they named ID Gen. Har-
ney Post, and later Mrs. Harvey present.
ed portrait of the General to the post
Very little seems to have been ssid
about Josiah Meigs of Connecticut, at the
Georgia University centennial, and yet he
was the first president OF the old Frank
lin College, and remained such for ten
years. his son came with him. and late:
on the son graduated in medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania, married and
came to Augusta, Ga, to live His first
child was named Montgomery c. Meigs,
who became the most noted quartermas-
ter general the United States Army ever
had. Although an infant when his par
ents returned North with him. Gen
Me.gs was always proud of having been
born in Augusta. Writing to me few
years before his death he said: II am
proud to say that / am a native of Geor-
sia," The daughter of Gen. Meigs mar
ried the famous British war CORRESPOND
ent. Archibald Forbes. What a galaxy of
heroic generals of the noblest type good
old Augusta has given to the country.
Meigs, Wheeler, Walker, McLaws and
Gardner. Col. VIM. Cumming of Augusta