The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-24

that Gen. Joe johnston was not Johnson,
nor Gen. Bradley Johnson Johnston. No
wonder Prof. Scomp of Emory College
was mad when the college paper said:
Prof. Scamp" had returned from Eu-
rope.
One of the dearest soldier friends / ever
had was Capt Hugh Dunno, who com
nanded an Ohio company during the
civil War, but after the surrender lived
In Georgia and Florida. A few years ago
he became monk at the Abbey Of
Gethsemani-(not Gethsernane, as was in
CORRECTLY stated in my letter some
months ago, when | gave an account of
my visit to his grave there) He was in
life brave soldier and a Grand Army
man true to every principle of that or
der. His son, Frederick also a Monk at
Gethsemani, on March l "a card just re-
ceived by me states), was fully raised to
the Holy Priesthood" of the Trappist
Order. He is also vice director of the
Gethsemane College, and a young man OF
great promise. Georgia will yet be proud
of him as an educator and divine of a
high grade. His sister, Mrs. Katie Dunno
Miles, resides at No. 412 Macon street,
east, Savannah, and the rapid promotion
OF her talented brother is a matter of
local interest to the Grand Army men
and Sons of Union Veterans in that city.
The Abbey is called Gethesemani, but the
college takes the name OF the postoffice
and railroad Observation-Disclosures, Nelson
county, Kentucky, the county where the
famous medicinal Belle of Nelson" whis-
ky is made. There are five distilleries I'M
sight of the depot, and the cornnelds
Whereabouts are simply immense
/ am really glad that Capt. Lee Of the
British army, now IN Parliament has
had the moral courage to praise in high
terms the American soldiers before that
august body. No foreign military at
tache was 50 generally popular with our
army during the Spanish-Amercan War,
and my frequent personal experiences
with him led me to rate him very high
as military officer and cultured gem
tleman. Capt. Lee and the able and ex-
perienced war correspondent of the Lon
don illustrated News were close stu
dents Of our entire military system, and
often spoke to me Of its strong features.
AS to the pluck and heroism of our SOL
diers in battle, they said they had never
seen the equal to such endurance and
heroism in any previous war in any
country. The United States not only
have the best soldier material in the
world but West Point Military Academy
out education OF its graduates, any sim
liar institution in the world The Vir-
ginia Military institute, the old Georgia
Military Institute, the Kentucky Military
Institute and many in the North have
given our country q class OF accomplish
ed and heroic soldiers such as no other
people can boast Of possessing.
In a recent letter 1 claimed that the
-
was responsible for the Civil War that
destroyed slavery in the South. I see
that Mr. Robert Whittet the gifted Vr-
ginia poet In his recent volume of Son
nete," mostly on religious themes. under
the title, THE Battle Is the Lords" thus
expresses a similar view:
Speak not as II the carnage and the
blood
Were Gods own willing work, and that
the wreck
The misery and the ruin left In track
OF dreadful war, were his who giveth
with lavish love, and who hath guardian
stood
DER an his owni Nay but contentious
break
From out sims fury. and the fighters
wreak
Their deadly vengeance In Sins vengefui
mood.
"Gods hand hut shapes the victory, ana
that he gives
with judgment that errs never. for he
knows
From which contending side will surely
come
The GOOD he purposes, ana which re-
ceiyef
The meted punishment from Gin that
flow
Ana 70 ihe issues. with Gods Will strike
home "
n ~ no doubt true MAJ war n never
"God's own willing work" nor d. n the
willing work ~ thousands vino engage in
o. Many ~ our greatest EontralF, from
Bunker nlu down ~ ths present dsy.