The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-23
SIDNEY HERBERTS LETTER.
DAUGHTERS OF THE CoNFEDERAoY
AND THE LOST CAUSE"

Gen. Mcclellan Called McCIelIand I'm
an Account of His Virginia Cam
paign-The United States els a Ma
tion"-so Decided by a south Cnro-
lima Federal judgement Point
Cadets who Have Changed Their
Names-The Youngest Confederate
Brigadier GeneraI-Gen. Towards
Sketches of His Early Career as n
Soldier Confederate Generals
Honored at West Point-Other Mat
tiers of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland Fla, June
22.-The United Daughters Of the Confed-
eracy, at their last general convention
had before them a resolution to never
again use the term Lost Cause" but
il was strongly opposed by Mrs. Virginia
Clay Clopton and others, and overwhelm-
ingly defeated. have added a
new name to my list OF preachers who
we're West Point Cadets, but failed to
graduate. James H. Perry of New York
entered the Military Academy in 1888, but
did not graduate. He became a volun-
teer officer in the Mexican war and was
quite a hero. Returning home, he en-
tered the Methodist ministry and was
preaching in Brooklyn when he resigned
to become colonel Of the Forty-eighth
New York Volunteers, in the Civil War.
His command assisted In the assault on
Fort Pulaski in April, 1862, and in June
Col Perry died from apoplexy.
Rev. DR.. Walker Lewis of Atlanta is out
in scorching article against improper
pensions to Georgia veterans. He calls
for revision of the pension rolls. wild
ows, orphans and solders-and smart
reduction in the total pension fund. Not
a dollar, he says, 40 any one but an 'fn-
digent." Then the indignant will howl
long and loud.
/ recently saw an account of Gen Nc
Clellan's West Virginia campaign in
which his name was given a dozen times
as McClelland, an error which occurs,
also, in the Morning News of Wednes-
day. There was a Gen. George b. Nc
Clelland, the last of his name in the reg
George B. Mcclellan in the Confederate
army. There is, however, only one in
the latter name. Lieut. George c. Nc
Clelland, the last of ris name in the reg
ular army, was 'cashiered" in 1S47
The Sunny South of June Is, contains
a valuable illustrated article on "Decora-
ton Day at Johnson's Island" Many gall
liant Georgia Confederates remember their
imprisonment on this island during the
civil War, and are glad to know that the
e. A. r. veterans of Ohio are now ten
derby caring for the Confederate graves
there. Ex-Gov. Mcdaniel Col. Claiborne
Snead, Maj. Slaton, Controller General
Wright, the late Adjt. Gen. John A. Ste
phens, and Col. C. D. Phillips of Mari
eta, and DR.. Fred B. Palmer of Atlanta
were among the captured Confederates
who were sent to Johnson's Island.
Some weeks ago l referred to Miss
Dunnovant's spirited address at the limit
ed Daughters of the Confederacy Con-
vention in Montgomery, Ala, in which
she argued that this is not and never has
oeen a Nation. Now comes Judge Braw-
ley Of Charleston. s.. c., a brave. one
armed Confederate soldier. and says:
The war has settled one question and
settled 1t irrevocably. and that is that
the United States is a Nation; that John
Marshall was right, and henceforth there
Is no room and no disposition to doubt
what duty and honor and interest require
OF us. A notice of President
Mckinley's marriage speaks of him as
capt William Mckinley. taking an Ohio
Regiment into the war. Young Mckinley
$3.50 OAAAJ ~ years Otu Wnen ne went into
the war as a private soldier, and later
on became a commissary sergeant. As
such his heroic service in feeding hum
cry soldiers in the trenches won him
neutenancy and the brevet of ma ior
his highest military title. He endured
hardships and braved dangers with de-
Votion TO duty that made him universally
popular in his regiment.
Mayor Asa B. Gardiner, U. s. A. Ere
tired, is one of the many army officers
who have changed their family names by
adding one letter. He entered the army
in 1861 as Gardner and remained so until
few years ago. when the change was
made. More than hundred cadets from
West Point have made similar changes
of one letter in their names, or more rad
ical changes, like Matthew r. T. Harri-
son of Georgia, 1921, who changed his
name after graduating. to Matthew ].
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