The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-16
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
AN INNOVATION THAT IS NOT
STARTLING or NEW.

Worthy observation-disclosures Officers
to BE Appointed to West Point Ca
detships-The Blindness of Charles
Broadway ROuss-Lovers of His
tory Have Great Regard for Facts.
Some Comment on the Proper
Spelling of the Name of Gen.
Greene-other Matters of General
Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland. Fla,
March ia news item misled me to
credit the portrait of Major Mark
Newman of Sandersville, Ca, to the
Daughters of the Confederacy, but it
was the gift of the people of Washing
ton county to their faithful, efficient
and beloved ordinary. The Daughters
were present on presentation day, but
the eminent priests" should have been
eminent jurists." N. B. Baird,
travelling passenger agent of the Cotton
Belt Route, No. POS Equitable building,
Atlanta, Ca, is sending out a splendid
picture of Gen. Robert E. Lee, with his
farewell address attached, to U. c. v.
delegates and others who propose to at
tend the Dallas (Tex) reunion. This
beautiful picture should be framed and
be in every Confederate camp in
the South. While it is true
that the Grand Army Posts in the
South are small, week and poor, at the
North there are many that are rich.
Theodore Winthrop Post of Chelsea,
Mass, has nearly 500 members and
owns over $4,000 worth of unencum-
bered property. Lafayette Post of New
York city, however, is the most gener-
Gus and has the most cash in hand.
The announcement that President
Roosevelt is going to appoint worthy
non commissioned officers in the regu-
lar army to cadetships at West Point,
is not a new or startling innovation.
The second cadet, who went into the
Academy in 1902, was Simon NJ. Levy,
of Maryland, who was appointed on
account of his good conduct" as r.
derby sergeant in the battle of Mou-
NEE Rapids, in 1884. He is supposed
to have died in Savannah, Ga, in
1907. At the close of the Civil War
numerous appointments of this kind
were made, one Of the most notable
being Maj. John NJ. Glen, U. 5. A.,
of to-day, then the famous Drummer
Boy Johnny Glenn of Shiloh" and a
protege of Gen. Grant The proposed
appointment of Gen. Chaffees son as
a cadet is also following an cid estab-
lished practice. Gen. McArthur'S son
and Gen. Fred Grants son are now
classmates of Julian Larconlbe Schley
CT Savannah, in the second class. Capt.
Henry j. Reilly, killed in China, also
mas son there.
ba Taclzcopyi1Ia MofronoIiS Ire of
the late Charles broadway Rouss as
"a poor Confederate soldier and blind"
who acquired fortune and fame in
New York after the Civil War" All
this is true except the statement that
he was blind" Had this been the
case his prospect for acquiring fortune
and fame would have been slim. His
blindness came to him after he had Sc
cured a fortune and become famous
for his deeds of charity and generous
gifts to Confederate associations. New
York is full of old Confederate SOL
diers who have won fame and fortune
there. an evidence that the war was
over" so far as they were concerned,
in private or business affairs, or in
public matters. Mr. Rouss was a very
shrewd business man, and rapidly es-
tablished a paying trade, largely with
the South through a sort of commits
sion arrangement with Racket Stores"
and similar concerns. 1t was his mis-
fortune, deeply regretted by his friends
and, especially his old Confederate
comrades-that closely following for
tune and fame came the blindness that
darkened his last years. He has, how
ever, left behind him monuments of
generous giving that will keep his
memory green.
Adjt. John L. Albritton of Francis
S. Barlow Camp, u. c. ", at Barlow,
Fla, responds to my request for in
formation about Gen. c. C. Crews. He
writes that Gen. Crews raised and
commanded Company G, of the Second
Georgia Cavalry, in and around Cuth-
bert. but has not heard of him in that
vicinity of late years. He thinks the
general joined a Confederate Colony"
that went to Brazil after Lees sur
render, and is still in some foreign
country If alive. Adjt. Albritton is
| of the opinion that Gen. Crews would
have been heard from in public life if