The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-13
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
CONFEDERATE HERO WHOSE
PATH HAS BEEN sTREWN WITH
ROSES.

Georsta's Daughters who Have Mar
rfed Army Omcers-One From Mil
ledgeville Lately Married to n
Captain of the Third Infantry-A
President Who Did Not Serve In
Any War-A Defense of Gen. Cor
bin-President Roosevelt and His
Cncles-The Man Who Refused to
Marry His Lady-LOVe Not an Off,
Ger of the Army-Other Matters OF
General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa. Maitland, Fla, Oct.
12.-My old friend, Maj Thomas G..
Jones of Georgia-Alab ama, is one of
the young Confederate heroes whose
pathway in war and in peace has been
strewn with flowers. He was one of
Gen. John B. Gordon's most trusted
staff officers, but when the war closed,
like Gen. Gordon. he bent all his en-
ergies to rehabilitate the South and
reunite both sections in an indestructi-
BILE union. He first came into notice
by his famous Decoration Day" ad-
dress that breathed such a spirit of
Cancellation and good fellowship that
1t brought to him a beautiful silver cup
from some Northern lady in token of
her appreciation of his patriotic sentl-
ments. Other honors followed. the
highest being that of Governor of his
state. But gallant TON" Jones has
never had any honors from public Of
flee equal to the love and esteem OF
his fellowmen of all classes and con-
ditions. / have known him for thirty
years, and am sure that he will go on
to the bench of the United States Dis
trict Court of Alabama, not as DEM
ocrat or a Republican appointee, but
as an impartial jurist, fearless in the
discharge of every duty that devolVes
upon him. That is tom" Jones'
changeless policy.
Georgia is not only represented by
her gallant sons in the regular army,
but scores of her fairest daughters have
married officers from other states.
Very few, if any of the Georgia Off
GERS, come home after wives, preferring
to take them from other states. the
| latest marriage of a Georgia maiden
| to an army officer, is that of Miss An
ME Lawson Mapp of Milledgeville, TO
| Capt. Fielder NJ. NJ. Beall of the Third
| United States Infantry. Capt. BeaH
| is a Marylander and entered the SER
vices as a private in the Signal CORPS
from which position he has won MS
! way UP to his present rank in the IN
| fantry branch of the army. The Third
| Infantry has two captains and nVe
| lieutenants, who have come up from
! the ranks. *++* Georgia volunteers
! are being literally rewarded for their
| gallant services in the Spanish-Ame
| lean war in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. Wilcoxen. Kendrick,
| Brown, Winship, Smith, and a dozen
| more have been given heutenancles IN
! the regular army, and several Geor-
| gians in the regulars have been pro-
NOTED to captancies, including spence,
Hamilton, Joe Wheeler, Jr., and others.
| But some of the Georgia papers are
too previous" on the youngest cap
| tain" matter, and also as to "brllnant
| services. Most of the promotions nave
| been in regular order, and as to the
youngest captain it would puzzle a
| Philadelphia lawyer to tell who ne is
or what state he comes from. Geor'
gia has two claimants, with otnel
states to be heard from.
The editor who asserts, as one mas
| done. that President Roosevelt is the
| first man to sit in the chief executive
| chair since the war between the states
| who was not a veteran or that war,
| has a very short and faulty memory
| If President Stephen Grover Cleveland
| ever served in any war, history falls
| to record it. Washington, jackson
| Harrison, Taylor Pierce, Grant, Gar
field, Arthur, Hayes and Harrison were
| generals; Lincoln was a captain, ano
Mckinley a major. If Col Theodore
Roosevelt of the Spanish
war, is made a brevet brigadier- gen
eral, then President Roosevelt can be
added to the list of general-Presidents
| Some of the earlier Presidents had sub
| ordinate military titles, but l cannon
| now recall them. This date In
| history, Oct. 5"-ready plate matter
notes the defeat of the British and In
dams at the Thames, Ontario, and the
killing of the noted Chief Tecumseh
by Gen. VIM. H. Harrison, in 1913. This
reminds me that Col. VIM. Whitley, OF
Virginia, followed Daniel Boone tc
Kentucky and built the first brick
'Sportsman's Hin'-in the
state, where the first white child was
born. Although an old man, Col. w
enlisted in the war of 1872, and was
killed in the Battle of the Thames. II
is claimed that he, and not Col. Rich
ard NJ. johnson, killed Tecumseh. The
Louisville and Nashville Railway OF
| LOUISVILLE n.y. idS PoDiAShCA oAA NAS7
CANT little book called Kentucky, the
Beautiful" which contains picture OF
"Sportsmans Hill" and also Mrs. Sal
| lie Higgins, granddaughter of Col.
Whitley, who holds in her hand the his
| toric old rife with which Col. w. is
supposed to have killed the famous In
dian chief.
I am not an admirer of Adjutant
| General Corbin, but the attacks upon
him because he chooses, since his re-
turn home from foreign lands to wear
"a fatigue uniform" are not well
founded. 1t has been one of the de-
| fects in our military system, and
think a serious one, that officers on
duty have been allowed to wear civil
ian clothes. There is no more reason
why Gen. Corbin should wear his uni
| form In a. courtmartial than in his
office during business hours. l remem-
| Der that Gen. Miles, Gen. Brooke and
| Gen. Ruggles accompanied President
Mckinley to the meeting OF the So
ciety of the Army Of the Potomac at
Fredericksburg. Va, last year, and
each wore citizens clothes and a
| Het nina - much tn the disgust