The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-06
sIONEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
REPORT THAT RECALLED a
c.ILANT GEORGIA SOLDIER.


q, plate Was Mnde-Gen. Fftzhugh
- and the Position of Minister
cnha--The Question of a Flower
,,,t1em for the United States BE-
.uitated by the WOmen-An
1+..astfnR Historical Sketch by
can. william C. Oates-The Many
as of Heroic or Eminent Men
-. to sight-Some other Matters
of General Interest.
pine Crest Villa, Maitland, April g.
,o+ice that Mrs. T. M. Green OF
-,-a-bineton. Ga. in writing of her
s;stinguished father, Judge Garnett
.ndreyvs. refers to Augustus Clayton"
CO.. must have written very hastily,
che is a lady of fine culture, and
sbould have known that it was Judge
.,,oustin S. Clayton. The old Latin
nco+aloeus Frankliniensis' has 1t
down in 1904, as "Augustinus S. Clay
49, which is "the same in Dutch.
In the March p issue of
crown and Country" of New York,
.bare is a handsomely illustrated arti-
ola nv j. j." on Savannah" being
ooo If q. series on 1.-THE Social Life of
American Cities" Speaking of the
p Shotter suburban home, the
writer says: "It was here, to the
home of the Bowens, that d Estang,
wounded on the field of battle. and
that brave soldier, his brother in arms,
pulaski. mortally hurt, were brought
N he nursed by loving womanly hands.
Here in the night, Pulaski died, with
onlv his soldiers and comrades about
him. At Greenwich there is hal
loved spot, long and carefully tended
os his grave by the devoted family,
Who had watched his last hours"
Now. if all this is true, as it may De,
have been fooled many years into
believing that Pulaski died on ship
hoard and was buried at sea between
Savannah and Charleston.
The report in the Morning News of
the annual meeting at "Old Midway
Church." in Liberty county, reminds
me that a gallant Georgia soldier, a
graduate of West Point Military Acad-
envy, was buried in the old church
ward in 1861, the year of his death.
Cant. Thomas r. Mcconnell, of the
famous class of 1916, twice breveted
for gallant and meritorious conduct"
in the Mexican war, resigned from the
army and became commandant of ca
diets at the Georgia Military Institute,
at Marietta. In 1859 he left the insti-
tute to become engineer of the Ma
rietta and Ducktown copper mines, but
died in April, 1861, at Mobile, Ala, or
Marietta, and was buried at the "Old
Midway Church." Robert Mare,
of Port Royal, S. c., sends me an ac-
count of a Confederate flag raising at
St. Marys, Ga, the flag coming from
Nassau, N. P.,which shall use later on.
I am indebted to some kind
friend for a copy of Vol. of the His
torical Collections of the Joseph Hab-
ersham Chapter, Daughters American
Revolution" of Atlanta, Ga. The NOV
ing spirit in this publication is Mrs.
William Lawson Peel, of that city,
daughter of the lamented Gen. Phil
Cook, and a woman worthy of her rev.
dictionary ancestry. She is not only
abundant in her labors, but quite as
unselfish. and these volumes of His
torical Collections will be lasting
monument to her generous and I'M
wearied labors in the great work I'M
dertaken by Joseph Habersham Chap
ter.
In looking through the booklet
Pleasure Guide"-by the lamented B.
H. Richardson, then city editor of the
Morning News QS75), it appears that
Gen. Nathaniel Greene" died near Sa-
vannah in 1856. From recent advices
it seems that somebody put Nathaniel
Greene" on his coffin plate after he was
dead But this is only lin passing"
my object being to refer to Editor
Richardson's sketch of "Brewly' or
"Beaulie" or, finally, "Beaulieu." He
says is was called "Beaulie" because
the Duke of Montgomery had a SINH
lar place, called by that name, in Eng
land. How it was changed to Beau
lieu" says Mr.. Richardson, lis not as
certained." Perhaps l can throw some
light on this subject. There was a
gallant French officer in our old Revo-
lutonary army named Beaulieu, and
on Sept. 80, 1888, Congress recognized
and rewarded his gallant and patriotic
services by promoting Lieut.. Beaulieu
to the rank of brevet captain in the
army of the United States. 1t is pos
sible that the present style of spelling
Beaulie may have originated in the
name of Lieut.. Beaulieu.
The suggestion that Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, U. S. A, retired) has now a
good position in the army, and might
hesitate long time before giving it
up to be Minister to Cuba, IS entirely
ont of place. Gen. Lee has now no
position" in the army, hut is simply
on the retired list. ana can accept any
JOB that comes in his way and still
draw his retired pay for life. Dan.
Sckes, also on the retired list, had
Deen q member of Congress- and also
Minister to Spain, with a big monthly
pension thrown in, giving him three
bites of the cherry" in the public
treasury. Gen. Lee is now supple
mentlng his retired pay as a lecturer,
"Hie Gen. Wheeler is president of
gun manufacturing company. Maj.
asa Bird Gardiner U. S. A, (retired),
, ,,as been drawing retired pay" since
1000 and yet he has led a very "stren-
uVus hfe' in New York as district at
1orney Even retired chaDlains, who
are supposed to be unfit for active SER
wee become pastors Of churches and
w harder work than would have fallen
10 them in the army. The whole sys-
Just
me women of the United States are
I5 Solh agltating the adoption of
liver Emblem for this republic The
1olden Rod proposition seems to have
sven place to one in favor of Indian
,' I'm. Mrs. George Cabot Ward has
suolIshed n strong appeal in favor of
e I'm an emblem One Of her strong
49, arg Qments is based upon the fact
80 80 indian Corn kept the Pilgrim
s+ ae.IeTs and other early settlers from
aOIon- Should this emblem be