The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24

pear in the December issue Of the Com
| panion, and | am sure that the Daugh-
tcrs of the Revolution and the United
Daughters of the Confederacy will well
come these articles in honor of the he
roism, patriotism and humanity of
their sex Although Nancy Hart, the
! Georgia War Woman" ranks with
| Molly Pitcher and other famous he
! roines il is safe to assert that Georgia
! can furnish a number Of heroic women
who figured in the Revolution, in the
Indian wars, in the Civil War and who
would have been conspicuous in the
Spanish American war had the oppor-
tunity afforded. And yet 1t cannot be
said that women desire war, or that
they seek honor and fame by sharing
in its dangers and hardships. In most
cases lofty patriotism, a love Of home
and country, is the handspring of their
heroism and self-sscrifice in the hour
of peril.
The Sons of American Revolution
and the Sons Of the Revolution, of
which latter organization he was the
beloved chaplain general, will be graf
flied to know that a special edition of
the Church Record magazine Of Mime
apols, MINI, for October, is entirely
devoted to memorials of the late Rt.
Rev. Henry Benjamin Whipple, D. D.,
LII. d. There are several full-page
photo engravings of the deceased, the
most interesting one being that taken
during the Civil War while he was Wis
iting and officiating in the various
camps of the Union army. 1t presents
a strikingly sweet face" one that no
doubt led to his being called the Saint
John" of the blouse of Bishops" AL
though not chaplain, the good Bishop
spent much time in preaching to the
soldiers in the field and in the hospi-
tails. On both his fathers and moth
er's side he descended from heroes and
patriots of the colonial and later wars,
and was every inch" a noble patriot
himself. 1t is well-known that Gen.
Sherman hated Gen. Halleck as the
devil hates a saint" and yet, although
Bishop Whipple and Gen. Halleck were
cousins, there was a warm friendship
between the Bishop and Gen. Sherman
until the death of the latter. A son Of
Bishop Whipple, Lieut.. Col. Charles H.
Whipple, is a paymaster in the regular
army and his son. Charles H. Whipple.
Jr., is a lieutenant in the Twelfth u.
S. Infantry.
In the marriage notices of my old
friend, Brig. Gen. E. Porter Alexander.
c. S. A. 1 see that he is called chief
of artillery to Gen r. E. Lee" which
is an error. Gen. Alexander won his
fame as an artillerist as
chief of artillery to Lieut..
Gen. James Longstreet. But
under an unjust and senseless rule
he was denied a higher grade than
that of brigadier general The same
is true of Brig. Gen. Alexander r.
Lawton, quartermaster general-also a
distinguished West Pointer. and not a
few other able and efficient officers
who were willing, from a patriotic
sense of duty, to fill subordinate places
requiring great skill and military
training, while less competent and
more snowy and ambitious officers were
made major generals, lieutenant gener-
ais and full generals. President Nc
Kinley, to his lasting honor be it said,
broke up this unjust discrimination in
the United States army during the
Spanish American war, and worthy and
capable department staff officers some
Of whom had come up from
the ranks, were put in the
field as brigadiers and major
generals. Not only was Gen. Alexander
denied the rank he deserved, but Gen.
(Rev. Dr. William N. Pendleton-a
West Pointer-who was Gen. Lees
chief of artillery, was also, under the
unjust rule referred to, given no high
er rank than that of brigadier general.
am sorry that a larger audience did
not witness in Savannah the play en-
titled Nathan Hale Its presenta-
ton seems to have been in good hands,
Kyle enacting the character
Of the American spy with rare fidelity.
Having made great success of this
play, the author, Clyde Fitch, is now
writing a NAV entitled "Ma ior Andre -
n which the brave young British spy |
viii be presented in a similar manner. |