The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
But HAD NEVER HEARD OF At
LANTA.

A Blow Dealt the Gate City by One
rOrs of Prominent Army Officers.
Gen. John B. Gordon Cordially
Welcomed by Grand Army Posts in
the North-The Revival of the
Question as to GeOrgia's Repre-
sentative in Statuary Hall at the
National CapitaI-The New York
Tribune's Weak Effort to show
That Ex-President Patton OF
Princeton Has a Dual Citizenship.
Robert Morris the Backbone of the
American Revolutionary Cause.
Other Matters of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla,
July 12.-During my present illness /
have had an unusual number of let
tiers of inquiry from old soldiers and
others, but 1 have been unable to give
any attention to this correspondence.
AS soon as / am ION my feet" again
each letter will be given prompt at
tention. In my list of West
Point soldier preachers the names of
Parsons and Bryant appeared as Par
son and Bryan. The name of Rev. DIR.
GEM F. A. Shoup seems to have been
overlooked by me. The Navy
Department is wise in looking after
Capt. r. P. Hobson's eye trouble. A
man who can travel all over the coun-
try, in the glare of electric lights, and
the dust of railways, holding public
receptions and making speeches as a
war hero" ought to be able to do a
little quiet work in the Navy Depart
ment. Too much hero worship" APP
pears to have had a bad influence
upon this young officer. 1
have often referred to Mr.. Justice John
A. Campbell of Georgia as a notable
example of a great man who did not
graduate at West Point. He went to
the Military Academy in 1926, when
only Is years old. but came home three
years later, without graduating, on ac-
count of the death of his father. AL
though called a man of "all head and
no heart" in manner "frigid, taciturn
and repellant." he won extended fame
in high positions.
About the hardest blow Atlanta has
had dealt to her inordinate ambition,
comes from J. Carroll Payne a prom
iiltnl anu NCdlhAy ldHy CT VI that Wy
He is a distinguished Roman Catholic,
and with his wife and two little girls
recently had an audience with the Pope
at Rome. He spoke to me-" says Mr..
Payne asked where Atlanta was
knew Savannah, where he had a bish-
op." Eye Gods and little fishes!" Think
OF it; the Pope of Rome, mentally
very alert" says Mr.. Payne, knew
about Savannah. but had never located
Atlanta. The next step will be to move
Bishop Keiley's headquarters to At
lanta. Col. Estill, in his admi-
rable sketch of Whitfield county, says
Dalton has a Bryan NJ. Thomas
Chapter. Daughters of the Confed-
eracy," but he failed to state that Brig. |
Gen. Bryan M. Thomas, C. S. A, is
still alive and is the efficient superin- !
tendent of public schools in Whitfield |
county. He is a Georgian who grad |
uated from West Point in 1858 into the |
Fifth United States Infantry, from
which he resigned in April, 1861, to en-
ter the Confederate service. think he
and Gen. Alfred Cumming of Augusta,
are the only Georgia West Pointers of
ante-bellum days now residing in the
state.
have several times corrected dis
tinguished army officers who referred
to Gen" E. d. Baker of Oregon, who
was simply col. commanding" A
friend sends me from Oakland.
Cal, a Memorial Day" programme
on which l find Col. E. D. Baker
Camp, Sons of Veterans" 1t Is true
that Col. Baker was appointed a major
general of volunteers on Sept q, 1861
but being United States senator he
did not accept the appointment.
/ wonder if Col Theodore Roosevelt
was not named after his mother, The |
odore Bulloch Roosevelt? The reason l /
ask is because have handsome pic !
ture of him, sent me from Washington, |
D. c., under which appears the name |
Of Theodore B. Roosevelt" Like |
President Stephen Grover Cleveland he |
may have d. .pped part of his name |
1t is fashionable to do so, as my dear |