The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-06

years ago, purporting to be Chaplain Dun
can, the blind preacher at the bedside of
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. The friends
of both men remarked that it was well
that one was blind and the other going
to die, consequently would never see that
awful caricature of solemn incident. So
I thought of this model-Lieut. Brunlby
is dead and will never know what an
"outlandish" figure his friends propose to
set upon a monument in his memory. But
heroes in other lands and earlier days
have suffered as our modern heroes do
| by such caricatures on their monuments.
| A visitor to famous old Westminster
Abbey. where Great Britain honors her
illustrous dead will see a statue of a
noted British Admiral one Sir Cloudley
Shovel who was lost in a wreck in 1791.
| This figure is clothed in a Roman culrass
and sandals, but wears an eighteenth
| century wig. Another figure, that of
| George Villiers, who was the then Duke
of Buckingham and favorite minister of
| Charles the First, is robed in the costume
of Roman Emperor. but his wifes statue
is clad in a court dress of the reign of
George the First. Generally. / think,
our military and naval heroes are the
more frequent victims of this careless, II
not reckless, manner of embalming their
memory in bronze or marble. Equestrian
statues of generals are too often made
ridiculous by war steeds of impossible
poses or shapes. And sometimes a modest
hero who never wore top boots is to be
seen on a monument with his trousers
in his boot-legs. Lieut.. Brumby, the
hero of Manila's tropical cline, arrayed
in an overcoat, will only add one more
to these monumental monstrosities.
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Prof. John Fiske has contributed to the
10 he hi
of Boston a very interesting historical ar
ticle, entitled 1.-The Story of a New Eng
land Town" that town being Middletown
Conn, over $50 years old. In speaking
of the era just before the Civil War, he
SAYS: How well l remember the days
when the gallant Commodore Tattnall
last commander of the Merrimac, used to
be seen on our Streets side by side, per
hans. with Gen. Mansfield, who was pres
Gently to yield up his life on the field or
/ Antietam, our hero of the Civil War;
as Mejgs and Parsons were our heroes OF
the War of Independence" No mention
is made of the Hon. Ebenez-
err Jackson, the brother-in-law
whom Commodore Tattnall Vislteo'
one of the most accomplished and ele-
CANT gentlemen-of dignified and stately
| bearing-I have ever known. Gen. Mans
6eld and Commodore Tattnall were great
! friends as the General built Fort Pulas-
! HI and lived in or near Savannah some
twenty years, during which time their
warm friendship was formed
| II is a singular fact that ooth OF these
| eminent soldiers of land and sea, were
| in Middietown when the Civil war broke
ont and were my frequent companions
! one sad day three men stood in the RAN
road depot of Middetown with teartul
| ewes and sorrowing hearts. They were
! Commodore Tattnall, his brother-in-law
ana myself. The former had been called
home by the secession of Georgia. ana
we whose sympathies were with the
Union cause, were touched by the gal
amt old Commodores reference to the
"stars and Stripes" and his dong and
honorable service beneath their foids'
like many other distinguished southern
ers he was opposed to the war, but yield
| Cd 10 a sense of duty to his native state.
! There is no memory of that bloody con-
| eict that has a dearer place in my heart
| than that pathetic parting scene. Not
iong after my dearer and more intimate
friend. Gen. j. K. +. Mansfield, U. >
! A was ordered to Washington, ID. G.,
ana nlaced in command Of the District OF
Columbia. under Lieut.. Gen. Scott. VIII IN
we parted | did not expect to go into the
army. but the Baltimore attack upon
Massachusetts troops aroused my right
oous Indignation and / organized the
Mansfield Guards and joilned the General
IN washington Immediately after.
sidney Herbert.