The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-30
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
SOMETHING ABOUT CONFEDERATE
MONUMENTS IN GEORGIA.

Ing NeWs-M1stakes Maue Ia Meier
ences to Pulaski and JasPer-Tiie
Circumstances Attending the He
mOvaI of the Remains of Gen.
Montgomery RecaIIed-The suS-
EestiOn Relative to Children in
Public schools singing THE star
SpangIed Banner"-Other Matters
of General Interest.
Pine Crest villa. Maitland, Fla. Nov.
29.-Hon. George n. Nichols of Savan-
nah, my old legislative friend, writes
me in regard to Maj. ]. L. Locke, who,
he says, married a daughter of Mr..
w. B. not w. H. BullOch, the latter
being a bachelor. He also gives me
some needed information as to Maj.
Lockes editorial and military career,
for which he has my thanks. Col. P.
w. Meldrim also sends me some inn
portant data as to Maj. Locke's mill
tary record. Mr.. NJ R. Tunno
renews his opinion of Gen. Longstreet,
which may apply to Savannah Con-
federates, but not to all other sections,
at the unwilling of the Ben Hill statue
in Atlanta, next to President Jefferson
Davis, the most distinguished and hon
ored guest was Lieut.. Gen. James
Longstreet, in his old Confederate uni
form. He had been a very
sorry "scalawag" and deserved
to be, as he was for years,
Stunned by patriotic Southern
people. But as was the case with ex-
Gov. Joseph E. Brown, he has somehow
outlived the spirit of ostracism, and
although still a Republican, he meets
and mingles with the old Confederates
in seemingly happy manner.
1 am this week trying to get some
where near even with my heavy ac-
emulation of correspondence since my
recent relapse. former Savannah
veteran, way out in Mississippi, writes
me: Il cannot help letting you know
how I appreciate your letters. Your
mention of the first Bull Run reminds
me so much of my early war expert
ence, burying the dead Monday July
%, 1861. l was in Savannah
when Sherman's army came Holly Es-
till and 1 were on the Little Ogeechee.
lie writes such interesting articles 1
would like so much TO SCI one from
him about the evacuation of Savannah.
We were with Wheeers dismounted
cavalry under Maj. ". F. Shellman. l
am an ex-lieutenant of the S. V. G.,
and Silva, Catherwood and others men
toned by you are old acquaintance.
May you live long and keep up your
very interesting letters" This letter
is from wv. H. t." formerly of Com
pany K, Twelfth Mississippi, who was,
l think, telegraph operator in Savan-
nah after the surrender.
A prominent patriotic lady of Sa-
Vannah writes me about Confederate
monuments in Georgia, and 1 have re-
| piled fully by mail. l think the ST.
James NJ. e. Church, South. Sunday
school, of Augusta. was about the first,
If not the first. to start a monument
in 1865. The movement at first was
for the members of the school who fell
in battle, but later on it embraced the
| city and county and covered some 300
| names. The monument was erected on
| Greene street, and many years after
the larger and more imposing monu-
| ment was erected in the center of
| Broad street I have an in
| quiry from a granddaughter of the
| German Gen. Butcher, who was in our
Revolutionary army, in regard to what
our government did for the old hero,
| but l am not able to give her, in her
| Florida home. the desired informa-
ton. In my letter of Nov. 16
7 spoke of the Rev. DR.. r. G. Foute,
formerly of st. Phillips Church in At
| lanta, but later of San Francisco. as
a survivor of the gallant men who
| fought the Merrmac. or Virginia,
against the Monitor: but 1 failed to
add that he was a midshipman in the
| class of 1858 at the United States Ma
val Academy, but resigned from some
cause and three years later entered
the Confederate navy.
Some one wrote Rev. Robert M W.
Black of st. Bartholomew Church
Pacific street near Bedford avenue.
Brooklyn. N. Y, that 1 had mentioned
him and his distinguished father and
grandfather, and although not having
seen the notice he sends me a very
kind letter full of filial affection, for
he had parents worthy of all honor
and love. OF his work in his new and
broader field of Christian endeavor he
says: TT is gratifying to find here in
| Brooklyn a deep, pervadng religious
life. am most happy in the new work,
but sometimes am troubled by the re-
sponsibility of a parish where there is
so much to be DONE" I do not think
this rising young divine will be long
troubled" over his work. | notice that
the newspapers publish his sermons
and state that his delivery of them
makes "a deep impression" I am sure
that the legion of friends of his rever-
ed father will be glad to know of the
sons success as a soldier of Christ
rather than of his country. I repeat
that if he lives he will write his name
high on the scroll that contains the
eminent names of West Point Soldier
Preachers"
1t seems to me that nearly every
body reads the Morning News, for I
hear from my letters in every direc-
ton. Mr.. w. c. Leigh, formerly of
Newman. Ga, and now with one of
the biggest wholesale grocery houses
in Jacksonville. Fla. writes me: IT
read your letters with interest and am
impressed with the belief that you
strive to make nothing but accurate
statements, therefore, / know you will
pardon me for correcting a slight error
in your letter of two weeks ago rela-
tive to the parentage of Col T. J.
Berry 1t seems that he was the elder
brother and not the son of Hon. w. B.
Berry, just deceased, his father being
the late Hon. A. ]. Berry. l was aware
of that fact, but in my sickness I con-
founded Col Berry with the late Judge
Berry, his nephew l thank Mr.. Leigh
for his correction, and congratulate
him that his ACCOMPLISHED brother,
Prof, S. E. Leigh, has been elected to
succeed Mr.. Berry in the Legislature.
He is a distinguished graduate of the
University of Virginia Law School, and
a gentleman of high character.
One of the most eloquent and hon.
ored of the d. A. r. speakers referred
to Pulaski as q major general and las