The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-05
SIDNEY HERBERT's LETTER.
WITH WHOM CoNFEDERATE
sotDIERs WILL sYMPATHIsE.

Account of Three Captains in
.he Regular Army-One Distin-
.,shed Eather-The Benefits That
uouId Accrue From Historical
ua.ords Compiled When Facts
,re ObtainabIe-The Occasion
where Good Generalship Is
shovn-To Lead an Army Away
r-om Defeat and Prevent 1t From
uocominE Demoralized Requires
tho Highest Generalship-Point
about Brigadier Generais-other
waters of Special Interest.
pine Crest Villa. Maitland, Fla, JAM
An unfortunate "out" in my last
,o+ter seemed to make me endorse Miss
Dunovant's are" we, although I fully
believe we Ais" nation.
The London Globes criticism Of
astates and Monuments" reprinted in
tbe Morning News, is a timely and
;-,st protest against some of the I'M
SSiohtlv statues and monuments to be
oar in almost every country in the
,ror1d Gen. John A. Logan has an
onnestrian statue in Chicago that would
make a blind man weep, and L might
Inention other similar failures of art
~ ,+on,J nature. Lieut.. Col.
0sceola Kyle, Of the Alabama Nation
al Guard, is on trial by court-martlal
for calling Col. e. l.. Higdon, his COM
-oander. "a scrub" and other bad
. macs in a letter. His military de-
fsnee is that it was a personal not
an official letter. Kyle is judge and
Of an old aristocratic family, while
ITigdon was once a poor boy in Attain
90 If is a bad mess" for any reg1-
mental officers to be in.
rsrelessness is responsible for more
han half the errors in various publ
cation. Think of a head line like this:
"The Hand That Rock the World'S' over
Vim. Ross Wallace's beautiful poem,
sTbe Hand That Rules the World.
And the closing line of each verse
"rocks" for rules" as follows
"For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world
see that the late Senator w. ].
seweU of New Jersey, is referred to as
Major General of Volunteers" IN
the Spanish American war, which is
misleading. He was a brevet major
general of volunteers in the Civil War.
and was appointed a major general of
volunteers for the Spanish American
war. but the point was raised, and
finally sustained, that he could not be
a senator and general both at the same
time. and he preferred to remain in
the Senate. A prominent Georgia editor
argued to the contrary, and cited the
case of Senator Z. D. Baker of Ore
gon In one of my war letters from
Tampa, at that time, l explained that
Senator Baker was never a general,
but simply held coloners commission
from his own. state; yet, as such, he
commanded a brigade and was killed
in the Inflated battle at Balls Bluff,
Va AS | was an A. A. d. c. on his
staff | have one of the last orders he
issued before he fell in battle, and 1t is
signed II. d. Baker, colonel COM
handing"
am sure all old Confederate SOL
diers will sympathize with Col. Ben
nett Fl. Young, of Louisville, Ky,
whose tongue and pen, eloquent and
gifted, have done such good service
for the Lost Cause" in the sad death
of his beloved son. Stuart r. Young.
l Judge that his full name was Stuart
Robinson Young, given him by his
fond parents in infancy in honor of
the lamented Rev. DR.. Stuart Robin
son, an eminent Presbyterian clergy
York after the Civil War and estab-
lshed church for Southern Presby-
terians in that city. 1t was my privi-
!ege to know him there, and to listen
TO some of his eloquent and able SER
mons. Unlike Rev. DR.. C. F. Deems.
the eminent Methodist divine. who also
went to New York from North Caro-
ma and established the Church of the
strangers" and secured big donations
from Commodore Vanderbilt, the Rev.
Or. Robinson kept his Southern views
and principles always in sight, but
EeVer offensivelX. He was an humber
sincere Christian, but he loved the old
Ccnfederates to the last.
me late Commander Charles Vim
son u, ). N, married the widow of
1dpt. Erastus A. Capron U. s. A., a
west POINTER. who was killed as a cap
tam OF the First Artillery in the bat
ue OF Churubusco, during the Mexican
var. recent sketch of her death and
oI the Capron heroes refers to them as
henIee allyn Caprons." They were,
HOWeVer, ErastuS A, and ALVIN. and
Allyn K, all captains in the regular
army except the latter, who was a leu
Ugnaht OF regulars. but captain of the
,hougn Riders" in the Santiago bat
tes, where he fell, like his grandfather,
~ mexico, leading his command to
,ntcIoTy He was not a West Pointer
Ae MS rather and grandfather. vet
e was fine soldier and died a hero's
Geatn. his father, captain in the First
"a "a uIiery, was in the same battles brt
ECU 10 come home and die in Wash
r ris ION OF fever contracted in Cuba
s,n three generations of heroes lie
cue py side in the National Cemetery
az arlington, Fort Capron, on the east
tSUast OF Florida, is named for Cant
1 ~ astuS A. Capron and Fort Capron
ra a charleston, S. c., is named for
:. apt allyn X. Capron, whose brother
Soldier. anu aiso De
o Last week alluded to sons of great
I'LL I'LL. especially presidents of the
tba gu states. Since then have seen
Of w7oiIpWlng in the National Tribune
,as1lllngton, d. c., about the dis
Tae 1iLtSnea son of President Zachary
tho So Much the brightest man in
Gov 1o9uthern Confederacy was Lieut
ana p5chara Taylor, son of old Rough
not diNe,auy. President Taylor was
On tbn s.l,ngulshed by wit or eloquence.
10 .h ne otner hand, he talked little hut
for bi,, POINT and let his deeds speak
sidon But Gen. Dick TAYLOR he
s ,ues being an able soldier Az
o opssr and a writer of moro than
80 mary talent, was a briIlian+ aa,.
Tna me world, and when he Went 70
tb as after the war he canttvated
of ~ lihce of Wales set ono
Cbrtn s daughters recently died at pass
Wv IAN La. Two of her sisters sur-
~ her but IL is not lno,,,,, 80. 49,