The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-09
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
GEN. YOUNG DID NOT ENTER THE
ARMY AS A PRIVATE.

The Vanishing Fancies of Our Ear
Iier Ycars-A Movement i'm Favor
of Making the National Hymn
"The Star SpangIed Banner" Pop
uIar-The Army Nurses, n Noble
/ Band of Young Women, Who Have
Been Too Long OverIOO<ed-COl.
EstiIl's Articles on GeOrgia's COun-
ties Commended-Other Matters of
General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla,
Nov. 81 notice that Veteran Lewis
Virgins of Savannah, although over
so years of age, declined to ride in a
carriage at the Columbus U. c. V.
reunion, and marched with the other
veterans. This shows that the march
ing days" of the old Civil War SOL
diers are not-as many writers have
claimed-"at an end" The annual
gatherings of the G. A. r. and the U.
C. v. show hundreds of veterans as
old, and even older and more feeble
than Veteran Virgins, in the parades,
some of them supported by their de-
voted wives or daughters. The ia
and 1t yearly inspires these old battle
Scared warriors to march under the
flags for whose defense and suprem-
acy they heroically battled during the
Civil War. And for years to come,
until wounds, or disease, or general
debility prevents, they will be in the
annual parades, to show that their
marching days" are not over.
Sc 80
William P. White. at one time solicitor
general of the Savannah circuit was
not a graduate of West Point in the
class with Gen. Robert H. Anderson
He was not, nor was he ever at West
Point as a cadet or an officer in the
United States army. l think he was
major of the Twenty-first Battalion
Georgia Cavalry-Partisan Rangers
and colonel of the Seventh Georgia
Cavalry Regiment. Hon. w
B. Berry of Newman, Ga, member OF
the Legislature recently deceased, was
the father of Maj. Thomas j. Berry
of the Fourth Georgia Battalion or In
fantry, and lieutenant colonel of the
Sixtieth Georgia Infantry. He gradu-
ated from West Point in 1857 and re-
signed from the Second United States
Dragons in 1861 to enter the Con-
federate service. He died at the close
of the war Secretary of State
William M. DIN of Massachusetts re-
Gently elected senior vice commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, is a native of Georgia, son OF
the eminent Methodist divine, Rev. Dr.
Stephen DIN, who once resided IN
Georgia and married Georgia lady
He later on moved to Virginia, to &C
cept the presidency Of Randolph Macon
College. His son is a prominent and
highly honored citizen of his adopted
state and also stands high in G. A. r.
circles.
The New York Sun is mistaken In
saying Gen. Young and Gen. Chaffee
entered the army as privates." 1t is
true that Gen. Chaffee entered the
army as private in Company X, OF
the Sixth United States Cavalry, IN
1851, and became a sergeant, then first
sergeant and finally a second lieuten-
ant in 1858. Since then he has passed
through all grades up to his present
rank of major general, and he is every
inch a. soldier" Gen. Young, however,
came into the army in 1856. as second
lieutenant. in the Twelfth United States
infantry. and has passed through all
GRADES except that of first lieutenant.
Inc volunteer, private does not class
YIN the regular army private. Gen.
ioung was private in Company IS OF
me Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry
~ some three months in 1861, but
Nneh he entered the regular army a.