The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-22

one of the public addresses of the oc-
/ casion, in which he paid this deserved
| tribute to Cen Robert e. Lee: while
| he may have had peer in Gen. Grant
! he did not have a superior anywhere
I stood on that stricken field
Of Gettysburg when Gen. Lee, your
| great commander advanced. l com
manded the skirmish line that met him.
What a super-human effort was put
forth on that day! During all
the months we encountered Lee, his
great generalship allowed him to meet
us at every points And l want
further to say, as a Northern soldier,
that the Confederacy did what no 9th
er nation l know of could have done
In the four dark years of war" Col. G.
n Saussy, in his article on Gen. Lee,
of which / wrote last Sunday, quotes
from Gen. Wosely of the British army.
in praise of Lee, I rate as more Valu-
able the praise of Gen. Sewell and
Gen. Chamberlain and other Union
generals who met him in battle.
I am glad to see that the u. D. c.,
at its recent general convention, adopt
ed a resolution in regard to sponsors
that only one from each state or divis-
ion, with one maid of honor, hereafter
Bt StltNltQ ~ diLtllu lilG - -. '. gen
eral reunions. This is a step in the
right direction, coming from the proper
source, and will be heartily Endorsed
by the veterans, most of whom are too
old and feeble to indulge in grand SO
cial entertainments, such as occur
where the sponsors are numerous. The
U. D. c. also favored the movement
to abolish military titles in the U. c.
", except as to veterans who won
them in actual service. But this move
ment, to my mind, is not wise one.
The u. C. V. and the G.. A. R., being
in one sense military organizations, have
a right to use military titles. Shall
they be denied a privilege granted to
the Uniform Rank of knights of Pyth-
las and Uniform Rank, Knights of
Honor? I argue not. There are bogus
military titles everywhere that should
first be suppressed before the reform
movement tackles the old soldiers.
The announcement that President
Roosevelt and family are to spend
Christmas with Gen. Bradley T. john
son, G. S. A, of the famous Mary
land Line" at his Virginia home, may
cause some Rip Van Wrinkle to wake
up and renew the old cry of alarm
THE Confederates are in the Saddle
Again." Although Gen. Johnson did
not, like Wheeler, Lee, Butler and 9th
err Confederates, wear the Blue" in
the Cuban Spanish-American cam
paign, he went over there as news
paper correspondent, perhaps, and
viewed the landscape DER" and If
Rough Rider Teddy" wishes to dis
cuss the Cuban situation over his
Christmas dinner he will be able to get
many fine points from Gen. john
son. And if the Schley- Sampson mat
ter happens to come up for discussion
the atmosphere of the place will be
quite favorable for some sly digs at
the naval conspirators who must be
known to an ex-Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, like President Roosevelt.
! am indebted to Mr.. John w. r.
vine of Cincinnati, the popular and eff
ficient passenger agent of the famous
Big Four Route, for an elegant badge
of costly design of George H. Thomas
Post, G. A. r., of that city. Having
been commander of a George II. Thorn
as Post in Florida, this valuable gift
Is one that ! shall highly prize. Mr..
Irvine was the most polite and eff
cient railroad official that the Grand
Army men found anywhere in going
to the late National Encampment at
Cleveland. He brought order out OF
confusion at Cincinnati and personally
conducted the special train to CIeve-
| land In view of all that l saw and
enjoyed of his cheerful and unwearied
| labors for our comfort on that trip,
| shall highly prize his Kind thought
fulness has added to my military
collection. The time is not far distant,
think, when this collection will go in
to the possession of some institution
like the Georgia Historical Society, for
the benefit of the public.
There is d mistaken view out in re-
gard to the Memorial Bridge" over
the Potomac river to connect Wash
ington with the National Cemetery at
Arlington. Congress appropriated over
81, 900 for plans and surveys, and Pres
dent Mckinley, in his message to that
body said: THE bridge would be con-
venience to all the people from every
part of the country, who visit the Ma
tional Cemetery, an ornament to the
Capital of the nation, and forever
stand as a Memorial to, American Pa
triotism." After his death, however a
movement was started to erect at the
Washington end of the bridge Mem
oriaI Arch" in honor of the late Pres
ident. 1t is this proposed change in
the original bridge plans that is eaus-
ing conflict with the movement to
erect a Mckinley monument at Can
ton, O., and has led to a suggestion
that Congress appropriate money for
the arch" The Canton movement also
has other drawbacks. After securing
the cooperation of the Governors of
states, the association put all the post
masters into the field to collect sub
scriptions, hence a conflict of authority.
wv. b. Borough '-probably intend
ed for w. b. Burroughs-"late SER
geant Company G.. Seventh Regiment,
Georgia Cavalry" writing for the war
article page of the Saturday Atlanta
Journal Offering to assist Comrade
Thompson of Florida in locating some
OF his old comrades in that regiment,
says: II will always deem 1T a pleas