The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09
sidney HERBERT'S LETTER.
REFERENCE TO Ex-GOv. RUFUS
n. BULLOCK.

Word of Cheer for Thosc VINO La
,or i'm a Good Cause-COmment on
the Alleged Reply of Gen. Miles to
Question of Representative
pixcy-sam Davis and Nancy Hart
overIooked by Play Writers-The
@oted West Point Glass to which
CON. I.Ongstreet BelOnged-Other
Matters of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland Fla, Feb.
- find myself overwhelmed with
,,orrespondence this week. much of
which. in whole or in part, is for pub
rcation. An eminent congressman,
Who was a brave Confederate officer,
vonds me some facts in regard to one
If Georgia's heroic generals, which I
shall use in the near future. He also
adds this word of encouragement: II
have read with much pleasure your
articles reminiscent of the late war"
An eX-Confederate of eight
ING family" writes me forcibly in favor
of War to the Knife" against "bo-
gus military titles" I fear, however,
the war will prove useless as long as
Florida and Georgia editors refer to
surveyors general and controllers gen.
eral and attorneys general, as Gen.
Red. and Gen. Black and Gen. Smith.
And even solicitors general are also
ION the list"
few months ago I had occasion to
refer to eX-Gov. Rufus B. Bullock, the
distinguished New York Georgia Re-
to
eran. his first service dating as early
as the bloodless march ''up the hill and
down again." to capture the United
States Arsenal, at Augusta, in the
ranks of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry
Of that city. This called forth a prl-
yate letter to me from Capt. James
Lachlison of Darien, who claimed that
the only original simon pure" Ogle-
thorpe Light Infantry was in Savan-
nah, as "any school boy ought to
know" Well, l have just found out
who misled me into the error. 1 have
it in a local item, some years ago, in
the Augusta Chronicle, as "Oglethorpe
Light Infantry This misled me to
look into my roster of the Georgia
troops. in 1873, where I find only the
Oglethorpe Infantry, Capt. c. e. Cot
fin, and the Clarke Light Infantry,
Capt. j. O. Clarke of Augusta, and
the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Capt.
Robert Falligant of Savannah.
The Confederate Veterans monthly of
Nashville, Tenn, for January, presents
its readers a fine photo-engraving of
Col j. HI. EStill with an interesting
sketch of his life and character. As
he served in the Confederate army and
navy it Is suggested that he is the
proper person to be Governor and COM
mander-i in-chief OF the army and navy
of Georgia" the official title of the Gov
ernor. l know of only one other news
paper man who has this distinction,
and he is Col. Thomas j. AppIeyard,
now Of Lake City Fla, who as boy
in Virginia served in the Confederate
navy until old enough to go into the
army. Speaking of gubernatorial can
didates, my old friend, Dupont Guerry,
says he is 1.-The first choice of the peo-
Pile If so he breaks all Democratic
records since the Civil War, as Georgia
has never had Governor with only
one given name, except James johnson,
provisional, and Ben. Conley. ACTING,
and both were Republicans. Following
this choice of the people" Dupont
Guerry is not lin it."
Veteran p NJ Newton of the
Eleventh Alabama Infantry, writing
from Grandview, Tex, to the Atlanta
Journal, gives his experience with
Gen. Kirby Smiths brigade at battle
Of Manassas" also called the First
Bull Run" Writers of such articles
should give full name of officers, not
Kirby Smith, nor Tige Anderson, nor
StOnewall Jackson, nor r. H. Anderson.
nor Patton Anderson; but Edmund
Kirby Smith, George T. cold Tige'O
Anderson Thomas J. c'Stonewalr'D
jackson, Richard H. Anderson or Rob-
ert II. Anderson and J. Patton Ander-
son. There We're three Kirby Smiths
in the United States army at one time.
TWO Il. Kirby and one ]. l.. Kirby
Smith. Veteran Newton refers to Gen.
Barlow of Cartersville, which should
be Savannah. The error arose, L pre-
sumo, from Cartersville being in Bar
tow county, named for Gen. Barlow. II
have a walking stick" be writes, that
cut July % close to where Gen. Bar
tow of Cartersville fell. The Masons
met there to raise a. monument over the
place where he fell and L cut the stick
from a cedar tree that was shot of by
cannon ball close to that place.
will take it to Dallas to the reunion,
where l hope to meet some of my OLD
regiment"
word of cheer is always appre-
ciated by one who unselfishly labors IN
good cause, and such words come 10
ne often from distinguished readers
& Of the Morning News. The last letter
4 Of this kind came to me q few days
i ago, and is from noble woman, the
daughter of a brave Confederate gen
eral; now dead, who is quite promi-
nent in patriotic societies. She begins
long and interesting letter, full OF
historical matter, with these words OK
Cheer II have so enjoyed your let
ters which appear in the Morning
News and have often thought of writ
ing to YOU. We all owe you debt or
gratitude for keeping alive the tender
memories Of our Lost Cause" While
old all l could as a Union army officer
20 make Secession a Lost Cause l
nave never ceased to respect the no
ole women and brave men who upheld
us banner until the hast ray of hope
nad gone out forever. No slurs by Bill
arp or any other bitter writer can
se' aside the fact that we were brave
american soldiers, battling against
sdcn other as no other people could
ndVe fought against either army. The
war is over and we are a reunited ma
non honoring the heroes of the Blue
and the Gray.
IN commenting on the Fire Drill,
dN between "a Aabn1Orp