The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-25

lis OF lHtes rum cary
childhood. He might as well offer,
through his Rhode Island Society, a
sold medal for new tune to Home.
Sweet Home or Praise God From
Whom All Blessings Flow" l know
we old fellows cling to many sacred
things of the long ago" but it will be
sad day when the rising generation
shall succeed in sweeping them away
for something new.
1t seems strange 20 me that so much
surprise is shown over Lieut.. Gen. J.
Nj. Schofield's remarks as to the su
periority of the old army officers who
went into the Confederate service.
His utterance was not an opinion or
his own, but a simple statement of
fact, as win he seen by reference to
the old regular army register of 1861.
An almost unbroken line of resigna-
tiOns can there be found of gallant
and accomplished officers who became
famous Confederate generals. In
many respects they were the flower"
of the old army. West Pointers who
had won renown as Indian fighters in
Florida, as we'll as in the Mexican war.
Many of these gallant soldiers were of
Northern birth, like Cooper, Ruggles,
French, Leadbetter. Shoup, Frost,
Pemberton. Gardner Walker, Oracle
anu ONntISs nearly thirty III dAAs yet
they preferred to cast in their lot with
the South. Some had married South
ern ladies and others were out of the
army and living in the South. West
Point gave the Confederacy a. brainy,
heroic, well-trained corps of command
ing generals.
was in Jacksonville on Wednesday,
where 1 met an old Savannah man,
who told me that Capt. w. A. Shaw,
for some thirty years past most
popular steamboat commander on the
st. Johns river was the sole surviving
commissioned officer of the Savannah
Cadets during the Civil War. This led
me to go up to the government build
ing, where Capt, Shaw and Capt. Spen-
GER now United States inspectors of
steamers, have fine offices, and investi-
gate the matter, Yes" said Capt.
Shaw, Il think that the statement is
correct. The officers of the Cadets
during the war were Capt. John w.
Anderson, First Lieutenant II. NJ.
Branch, Second Lieutenant c. C. Hun
ter, Junior Second Lieutenant William
A, Shaw. AS l am the only one of
these officers now alive, 1 presume l
am the sole survivor. as you say The
genial captain is proud of the grand
record made during the war by the
gallant Cadets, and he speaks in tender
terms of his recent visit to Savannah
his old home, where he met and min
gled with some of the war veterans Of
the Cadets,
Wallace P. Reed, the well-known
journalist, in an excellent sketch of
Lieut.. Gen. Wade Hampton, refers to
him as a son of Maj. Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton. U. S. A.. which is an error, as
that illustrtous soldier of 1909 to 1914,
was his grandfather. 1t was the SON
Col. Wade Hampton-who was the
father of the third Wade Hampton.
whose career as soldier and statesman
and cultured gentleman added honor
and virtue to name already illustrious
on the Scroll of Fame" In 1918 Mai.
Gen. Wade Hampton. U. S. A., com
manded the right wing of the army on
Lake Champlain, In the Ninth Military
district and in 1S14-15. Col. Wade
Hampton, U. S. ". was aide to Gen.
Andrew Jackson, u. S. A, command
ing the Seventh military district. and
the hero of the battle of New Orleans.
In 1864 Lieut.. Gen. Wade Hampton, c.
S. A, was one of the most dashing
cavalry commanders in the Army of
Northern Virginia. And to-day, in the
soil of their beloved South Carolina,
side by side. these three heroes rest in
honored graves.
Remembrance. long, shall keep alive
their fame,
And future infants learn to lisp their
name.
read with much interest, in a re-
cent issue OF the Morning News, a tab
ulated statement of the Maximum
Percentage OF Casualties" in both
armies during the Civil War, as my
brother, Col. John A. Lancey of Chel-
sea, Mass. was a lieutenant in the
First Maine Artillery. a regiment that
lost more men than any other regiment
in either army, according to the official
reports. 1t is credited in the state
ment above referred to as losing at
Petersburg, Va, out of $50 men, killed
115, wounded 4S9, missing 2S. But this
| is only for one battle, as are all the
other percentages" At the battle of
Seven Pines the Fourth North Caro-
| lima, out of SIS men, lost in killed "a,
wounded 2S6, missing 6. The Eighteenth
Alabama. at Chiekamauga, out of 527
men. lost Al killed. 256 wounded. The
Forty-fourth Georgia, at Mechanics
Vile, out of 514 men, lost II killed and
264 missing. The Fifteenth Massachu-
sets, at Antietam, out of Cos men, lost
65 killed, 255 wounded and "a missing
The Ninth Illinois, at Shiloh, out of