The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-02
BARLOW SURVIVORS
WILL HAVE A PROMINENT PLACE
IN To-MoRROw'S PARADE.
THEY FOUGHT AT MANASSAS.
WILL BE HONORED IN HONoRING
BARLOW AND McLAWS.


Veterans Monument Committee and
Those Who Are to Aid 1t Will Be
Busy To-day and TO-MOrrOw Max
ing the Final Preparations for the
dwelling of the Monuments To-
morrow AfternOOn-Names of the
OgIethorpe Survivors of Manassas.
speech That Was Made by Capt.
harlow when He Received the
Flag Upon the Day of the Depart
ure of His Command for Virginia.
Members of the Monument Commit
tee of the Confederate Veterans and
those whose aid they have enlisted in
the preparations for the unwilling of
the monuments to Gen. Lafayette Nc
Laws and Gen. Francis S. Barlow will
be busy to-day getting everything in
readiness for the ceremonies of to-mor-
row afternoon, when the Confederate
flags that will deck the memorial busts
will fall away, to float to the breeze.
and leave disclosed the ikenesses in
bronze of the two intrepid soldiers
whom Savannah and the South honor.
To-day or tomorrow Mr.. s. E. The
us will perfect his plan by which the
EMBEDDING flags will be drawn from the
busts and thrown to the wind. This
will be the effect of the unwilling, as
no simple casing of cloth is to be pull
ed away to fall idly at the bases of
the monuments. With the pull of a
cord Miss Gertrude McLaws, a grand
daughter of that distinguished officer
whose memory the veterans revere,
will remove the flag from the McLaws
monument while that to Gen. Barlow
will be similarly unveiled by Miss
Francis Barlow King, a grandniece of
Savannah's gallant soldier, who gave
up his life upon the battlefield of Man
assas.
A feature of the parade tomorrow
afternoon will be the participation of
the surviving veterans who served in
the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Gen.
Bartow's own company, at the battle
in which he was killed. Invitations
have been extended these veterans es-
pecially, and some of them have ac-
cepted. They will have places in the
lire of carriages. The following are
the survivors: Maj. w. S. Rockwell,
Savannah; Capt. NJ. p. Usina, Savan-
nah; Mr.. James Hunter, Savannah; Mr.
S. P. Goodwin, Savannah; Mr.. H. A.
Crane, Savannah; Mr.. w. H. Bennett.
Savannah; Col ]. H. Estill, Savannah;
Mr.. B. Donovan, Savannah; Mr.. F. B.
Bevill. Savannah; Mr.. A r. Tinsley.
Macon; Mr.. r. b. Sandiford. Oxford:
Mr.. S. T. Islar, Orangeburg, S. c.; Mr..
S. j. Mcdonald, Darien; Mr. E. S.
Law, Thomasville; Mr.. ]. l. Martin,
Wrightsville, Mr.. B. NJ. Zettler, Macon.
and Mr.. E. N. Shell, Richmond, Va.
Confederate Veterans of Savannah
and many ladies of the city will recall
that eventful day, in May, 1861, on
which the Oglethorpe Light Infantry,
under command of the gallant Barlow,
left to join the Confederate forces in
Virginia. The military pageant on that
day was the most imposing that had
ever been witnessed in Savannah.
Bands were playing, soldiers were
marching, and thousands of people
lined the streets to witness the COM
mands on the march. The Republican
Blues, the Georgia Hussars, the Chat
ham Artillery, the Savannah Artillery,
the Savannah Volunteer Guards. the
Irish Jasper Greens, the Phoenix Rifles
the Irish Volunteers, the City Light
Guard, and the Oglethorpe Light In
fantry were all in line.
The column marched to the residence
of Col. Thomas H. Holcombe on CASTOR
street, now the Falligant residence, in
the vicinity of which an immense con-
course of ladies and gentlemen had al
ready assembled, and where a beauti-
full silk Confederate flag, the gift of
several young ladies, was presented
through F. w. Upper. Esq, to the
Oglethorpes. Mr.. Upper made an elo-
quent and stirring speech, thrilling his
hearers with the patriotic principles of
the times, for which Southerners were
ready to die, to which Capt. Barlow of
the Oglethorpes replied as follows
Mr.. Upper and Fair Ladies: Lam
guage fails me in attempting to give
expression to those feelings which your
gift, presented in such eloquent words.
has awakened in mel have no set
phrases to convey to you the gratifed
sentiments, which. rising from my
heart, choke my utterance.
You have been pleased to allude to
patriotic zeal, which has fired the
hearts of my corps. You have done
them but simple justice. l have not led
them to this fight; they have led me.
But with this banner presented by
your fair hands 1 promise to lead
them hereafter.
Il would have no little hesitation in
carrying this corps to Virginia did 1
think they were actuated by a desire
for what is vulgarly called glory. They
are actuated by purer. higher motives.
They go to fight the battles of their
country-to drive the hireling horde
that would pollute with their unhaI-
lowed tread the soil that holds the
ashes of our Washington. They go to
defend all that man should hold, and
does hold, dear upon earth-to defend
with the last drop of blood that flows
in their veins our mothers, our wives.
our sisters, our children.
These are the feelings which your
words have called into existence, if
indeed, they have not already been
awakened in this corps. They will pre-
serve 1t pure and unsullied, and I
pledge you this day in their behalf
that, should they fail to bring back
70 you this flag, it will be because
there is not one arm left among them
to bear it aloft."