The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
GEORGIA BOYS CADETS AT WEST
POINT FROM OTHER STATES.

The First Georgia West Pointer to
Resign From the Army and Es-
pouse the Cause of the SOuth-A
CabIegram That Needs Correction.
IL Announced the Death of Francis
y. Muller, an Aged Physicinn-The
General Observance of Flag Day"
in FIorida-MnnY other Important
Matters of Highly Interesting
Character.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland. Fla, June
21.-The name OF Stephen Elliott Hab-
bersham, a war graduate of 1910, was
overlooked in my list, and there were
few typographical errors in my last
letter. In the list of graduates, Henry
Coffee should have been Coppee pro
nounced Coppa). an eminent educator,
president of Lehigh, Pa, University,
and a regent of the Smithsonian Inst-
tuition when he died, in 1895. James
Tochett should be Lockett, son of the
late Col Ben. G. Lockett of Albany.
Capt Lockett is in the Fourth U. S.
Cavalry, but was colonel of the Elev-
enth United States Cavalry in the vol
unteer service in 1899. Cornelius De
Witt Wilcox should be Cornelis. The
name of Cen Edward S. Willis is in
ore place given as Mills. He and Lieut..
Col. James Barrow were among the
young heroes who fell in battle, during
the Civil War. Lieut.. S. NJ Rains
(born in Michigan, was killed on July
8, 1877, in battle with Indians in Idaho.
Gen. David r. Jones (born in South
Carolina), died in the c. S. A. army in
1853, and Gen. John S. Bowen died the
same year in Mississippi. Gen. VIM. d.
Smith. c. S. A, died at Charleston in
1862 Gen. w. H. 7. Walker fell in the
battle of Atlanta, on July p, 1864 By
some oversight l omitted the name of
Capt Thomas Rush Mcconnell from
the list of graduates. He was a MeXi-
can war hero and died in the c. S. \.
at Mobile in 1861. The first Georgia
graduate to fall in battle was Lieut..
VIM. Z. Basinger of the Second L. S.
Artillery, who fell in the awful Dade
Massacre, in Florida, on Dec. %, 1885,
when the Seminoles ambushed and
slaughtered all but three private sol
diers, who escaped.
According to the report of Gen.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, u. S. ", then
a captain in the First United States
Infantry, who visited the battle-ground
two months later, the officers and
men were shot at their posts of duty
and then the most of them were
scalped. The fight lasted nearly all
day, and during a cessation of the
firing, when only about thirty were
left, it is said that brave Lieut.. Bas-
niger, with undaunted courage, thus
appealed to his men, Now, my boys,
let us do the best we cam l am the
only officer left" But two hours be-
fore the battle was over he, too, had
fallen with his face to the relentless
foe. There is a monument at St
Francis barracks, in st. Augustine,
Fla, and more beautiful one a West
Point Military Academy, in honor of
heroic "Dade and His Command" At
ter such an awful massacre as this it
is no, wonder that over one hundred
young officers resigned from the army
'in a lump" rather than come to
Florida, to 1.-THE Court of Death and
Danger" 1t was this bloody affair
and the Custer massacre of more re-
cent years, that led the poet. Richard
Henry Stoddard, to write thus severe
ly of the Indians:
'sThese bronze barbarians of the Past.
Cast in the moulds of hell, are
gone.
Their world was wanted; far and fast
We drove them towards the setting
sun.
Aye-and if future need should be,
Wen drive them in the Western
seal"