The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07


clude the button badge of the U. C.
V. In many tsates there is law to
punish any person for wearing the g.
A. r. button unless he is in good
standing" in the order. This law was
needed to prevent unworthy, dropped
or expelled members from imposing
upon a generous public. A
reader of the Morning News questioned
my having received a critical" wound
at Blackburn's Ford, Va, and survived.
In the biographical sketch of the late
Col. Isaac w. Avery. the heroic cav
airy commander, it is stated that he
received shot at New Hope Church.
Ca, (which was declared mortal"
Now, IL Col. Avery, whose mortal"
wound grew more troublesome as the
years rolled on (just as my critical"
wound does), lived until September,
1897, there is nothing questionable in
my being alive in December. 1902.
President Roosevelt never tires
of mis- Confederate record. He tells
the people wherever he goes that his
mother was a Georgian and that his
uncles fought for the Confederacy.
And when an enthusiastic Confederate
at Knoxville said he fit under old Joe
Wheeler" the President smilingly re-
piled, And so did l." He fails, how
ever, to tell how he dined with
Washington" in the White House!
The Jacksonville (FIa.) Times-Union
and Citizen publishes a picture and
sketch of Fort Montgomery, at Rouse's
Point, N. Y, near 1.-THE outlet of Lake
Champlain, but errs in stating that it
was built soon after the war of 1912.
The work of construction was not
commenced until as late as 1871. It
was the third fort of that name in this
country. The first Fort Montgomery
was erected on the Hudson river, west
bank, some half dozen miles below
West Point, in 1775, but has been
abandoned for many years. The sec
ond Fort Montgomery was built during
the Indian troubles in Alabama, and
was located three miles from the left
bank of the Alabama river, opposite
the cut off," between the Tombigbee
and Alabama rivers, and was Destroy
ed after the Indians were removed to
the west. l am glad to see that the
ID. A. X. is looking up the old forts
in Georgia. To leave them out of
Georgia's history would be like Ham,
let's absence from that well known
play. Oglethorpe found forts a great
necessity in Georgia and In a few
years the state was honeycombed with
them. Their names and location should
be sacredly preserved in history.
Bill Arp says a chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy wrote
him for a list of Georgia senator's and
representatives who seeded in Janu-
ary 1861, and also their successors in
the Confederate Congress. 1t is a
case of the blind leading the blind"
as he says: Our senators before the
war were Robert Toombs and Ben
Hill Now, just think of it, instead
of Ben Hill, or Benz. H. Hill, ST.
the ASSONi1 TO with he
Bill Apps own kinsman, Judge AL
fred Iverson, ST., whose son, Alfred
Iverson, Jr., resigned from the United
States army and became a Confederate
general B. HI. Hill, ST., did not go
to the United States Senate until Ste
phens, Johnson, Joshua Hill, DIR. Mil
Ter, Norwood and Gordon had been
elected, after the war. Joshua Hill
got in all right and Dr. Miller was
awarded a seat after a long contest
with Foster Blodgett, but H. v. John
som and A. H. Stephens were never
seated. From 1861 to 1868 Georgia had
no representatives in the Senate
Joshua Hill, a great Union man, was
the first senator admitted.
Bill Arp states that Thomas J. Har-
deman and John Jones were represent
tatives in Congress in 1861. l suppose
hesmeans Col. Thomas Hardeman, Jr.,
and Hon. ]. jerks Jones. In the Con-
federate Senate Georgia had B. H. Hill,
Sr., and H. V. johnson for first and
second congresses, but John w. Lewis
served a short time in the first con-
gress Toombs and Iverson were
both candidates before the Georgia
Legislature, yet B. III. Hill, ST., was
elected on the first ballot, and in the
ballot for second senator Iverson had