The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
GUSTAvE ECKSTE|N g. co.
I3 and 15 Broughton Street, West.

William w. Hubert, division superin-
tendent at Atlanta of the Southern
Express Company. and known and be
| loved everywhere as Gallant Billy
| Hubert. Gen. Henry D. Clayton and
capt. Hubert were the first Confed
| crate friends i made in the South
thirty-two years ago, and / can bear
witness that no better man ever wore
the Blue or the Gray than BILLY"
Hubert, whose generous devotion to
and love for the Lost Cause" and its
battle-scarred and aged defenders,
grows stronger and warmer as the
years roll on. The West Point Guards
were in the Fourth Georgia Infantry,
and attached to the Boles-Cook Brig
ade, not, as the paper says, ito Cook
Dale's Brigade" Col Geo. Doles of
Milledgeville was succeeded by Gen.
Phil Cook in the Fourth Georgia, and
so 1t was called the Doles-Cook Brig
gade. Gen. Doles was. think, a tailor,
but fond of military pursuits, as he
was a natural born soldier. He was
killed at Bethesda Church, Va, on May
80, 1854 and yet Stovall and Walker
and myself (see my last letter. failed
to include him in our lists, for which
we should feel very much ashamed.
Capt. Hubert, who married a Miss
Hollister, Of Savannah, has done much
to honor the memory of Gen. Doles
and to keep alive and make successful
the annual reunions Of the DoIes-
Cook Brigade and the Fourth Georgia
Regiment The large colored enamel
badge of the Survivors Association is
one of the most beautiful in all the
South. the pictures of Doles and Cook,
thanking brilliant Confederate battle
flag in the center.
There seems to be an epidemic of
fault-finding, North and South, with
our national, or semi-national songs
and tunes Some don't like "Ameri-
ca" either the words or the melody;
others howl about yankee Doodle"
and Dixie" Well, when Home,
Sweet Home" goes to its grave INV
Country, IT'S of Thee" will be buried in
the same coffin. Both are simple in
words, sentiment and melody; but. as
Ben Hill said of the Confederates, in
their Fathers House." they are here
to stay The sensible editor of the
Augusta, Ga, venerable Chronicle.
says: The words of Dixie and Yam
kee Doodle may be absurd, and the
tunes may we cheap but, neverthe-
less, they are Yankee Doodle and
Dixie, and that is all that most of us
care to know" Now as to these alb
surd' words and cheap tunes. 1 have
copy of Songs of the South" pub
lished by |. w. Randolph, in Richmond.
Va, in 1863, when the Civil War was
red hot and still a-heating," and u
find that Yankee Doodle" and Dixie"
were the most popular tunes. Two are
named Yankee Doodle" and one
starts off thusly:
yankee Doodle had mind
To whip the Southern traitors.
Because they didn't chose to live
On Goldfish and potatoes"
The other one begins with Yankee
Doodle ran away. Dixie he ran after "
Then there is a Southern Yankee Doo-
die and also Dixie Doodle" which
OF course, indorses both COMPOSITIONS
Now, it is strange, yet true. that
Yankee Doodle" was the more ponu-
lar as this song book only contains
Dixie" and "Dixies Land" and
Awake to Arms in Dixie" Again. n
is remarkable fact that Dixie or
"Southrons, Hear Your Country Call
You" by Gen. Albert Pike, C. S. A..
was written by Yankee Doodle
Dixie, as the General was North
ern man, with Southern principles"
and Joined the G. S. A., rendering great
service among the Indian soldiers. |
reckon that the editor of the New Or
leans Picayune, and Maj. Asa Bird |
Gardner. u. s. A. (retired), and Vet |
eran T. b. Catherwood and their assoc |
elates had better become reconciled TO |
the absurd" words and cheap" tunes |
Of America" and Dixie" and YAM |
kee Doodle" They have been here a |