The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-27
WILL HAVE THEIR REUNION AT
AT SPRINGFIELD SEPT. 8.
A BIG TIME is EXPECTED.
ESPECIAL WELCOME is AWAITING
EFFINGHAM HUsSARs.

In Steiner Times, Those of the
Civil War, They Showed That
There Training Had Made Fight
ers-something About the Service
of the Troop.
The Confederate veterans of Effing
ham county are expecting a big time
at Springfield Sept. s, when there will
be reunion of all the Efhngham sur
vivors who served in the Confederate
States army.
The bingham Hussars will make
the event one of especial Importance.
Efforts will be made to get all the sur
vivors possible of that old command
together, and the interest that is
shown in the approaching reunion
would indicate that there will be many
of the troopers who rode with Ander-
son, Bird, Davant and other gallant Of
ficers to gather and fight over their
battles again.
From Maj. ]. ]. Brewer, who signs
a call as captain of the Confederate
Veterans of bingham county," has
come the bidding to attend the reunion.
He wants all the old Effingham soldiers,
the ex-Confederates who will laughing
ly slap one another on the back and
call one another "old rebel" but who
will summon up fighting blood even yet
if any one else uses tls% word, TO meet
at Springfield and enjoy the return to
the old county site and the hospitality
of its people.
mt hn veto
Particularly do they want those who
served in the troop-who wanted to
have a good time and therefore follow
ed Gen. Jeb Stuart's advice and lined
the cavalry" Present members of the
HusSars are talking about the reunion,
and they will be proud to meet the
ex-Confederates who so bravely upheld
the reputation of the Hussars during
the little family row that was kicked
up between the states.
Effingham is a great old county for
cavalry. 1t has had a crack command
ever since the oldest inhabitant can
remember. The Hussars have been
that command. and their fame long
antedates the Civil War. 1t is an adj
mitted fact that cavalrymen of the
finest sort are grown in the wide lands
of Georgia. Planters, riding about on
their places, get the practice that
boyhood they ride, and. when they be-
come of age for enlisting, they are
ideal horsemen.
Before the war the Effinghams used
to come to Savannah for the squadron
tits. The Liberty troops used to fore
gather with them and the Georgia
Hussars, and there were big times.
Great tits there were in those days,
and old members of the Effinghams
and of the Georgia Hussars recall.
when reminiscent, the struggles that
occurred between the commands.
But the Eff1nghams, along in the mid
die fifties, got ii in on the Hussars.
They put the Savannah troop out of
business altogether for awhile. 1t was
all through Trooper Shearouse. who
was the finest sabreur known in that
day. He had a horse that was as good
filter as he himself. Trooper Shear
ouse had fitting on the brain. He
thought about it by day and dreamed
about it by night. He had a private
tiltyard of his own. 1t was on his way
to his fields from his home. He rugged
up few rings and a few heads and
rode his good old horse through every
day, taking rings and looping heads.
Against such practice as that the
choicest spirits of the Effinghams and
of the Georgia Hussars could not stand.
The noblest of them all went down in
defeat. Shearouse was simply invinci-
BILE. He took all the prizes Why it
was said of him that he could carry
full glass of water on that horse, go
ing at full speed. Trooper Shearouse
had to be debarred from all tits. He
couldn't enter at all, his prowess was
so great, The restriction extended to
the horse, too, because nobody else
could get an animal that could touch
Shearouse's in smooth running.
When the call for trOonS for tho do
Tense of the South came the Effing-
ham Hussars got in the game at once.
They left for Savannah, and it was at
Isle of Hope that they formed their
first camp. After a short stay there,
they came to the city, camping at
Camp Berrien, which has now become a
thickly populated quarter in the south
eastern section. There they were mus
tered into the Confederate service,
some sixty-five strong.
The Efhnghams became a part of the
Fifth Georgia Cavalry, in which Troop
B of the Georgia Hussars also served,
Troop A going to the Army of North
ern Virginia. Capt. Edward Bird was
in command of the Effinghams when
they were mustered in, but he got pro-
NOTED after time, becoming lieuten-
ant colonel, and then colonel. His ad-
vance to the latter grade was upon the
promotion of Col. Robert H. Anderson
TO be Drigadler. Maj. Brewer was
lieutenant in the Effinghams.
When Capt. Bird became lieutenant
Colonel, Lieut.. II. ]. Strobhar was
elected captain, and he remained at the
head of the troop until a wound re-
ceived at Noon Day Church, north of
Atlanta, when Fifth, saber in
hand, charged and drove the Federals
past three lines of breastworks. The
men in blue were not idle all that time,
however, as their marks were left. One
of them was borne by Capt. Strobhar.
who caught a bullet in the knee that
sent him home on leave. Capt. w. T.
Gibson was a lieutenant in the troop,
and was in command for a while,
though Lieut.. Brewer succeeded Capt.
Strobhar, when the latter had to give
up his command to recover from his
wound.
The first service the Effinghams were
assigned was post duty. They were
put on guard at one point after anoth-
er along the Georgia coast Their first
campaign was in Florida, when the
Federals, who had captured Jackson
vile. dispatched a force to take or
threaten Savannah from the South.
About 1900 Confederates, the Effing-
hams among them, were sent against
this force, which had taken Lake City
and other important points. The Fed
erals outnumbered the Confederates,
ut the latter met and defeated them
at Olustie, driving them back to Jack