The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

James j. Jervey, Of the engineers, was
born in Virginia. hut appointed from
Georgia. Capt.s Percy E.. Trip
( should be TripPe. : First Lieut..
| James Heidi should be Capt. Heidi,
| and he should be in the list of those
who enlisted in the army and won
commissions. He was in West Point
two years, but did not graduate.
The name of Second Lieut. Guliemus
" HEIDI is not recorded. yet he won a
commission as private. - First
Lieut.. James NJ. limbaugh should be
Kimbrough., - Capt. John Conline,
retired, is a Vern1onter, but appointed
! from Georgia. -~.--
II -ss oyvotY - ...
A press telegram in the Morning
News of Tuesday. from New York,
| told of divorce case of a "son of Gen.
George Lindsay Gordon, who was kill
ed in the Civil War" If any Gen. Geo.
| Lindsay Gordon was killed in the Civil
War;. on either side. l never heard of
1t before, Brig. Gen. James B. Gordon
G. s.. A., of North Carolina, who fell
at Yellow Tavern, va, May II. 1864.
was the only Gordon killed in any
army during the war. Nor do l think
there was a Gen. G.. L. Gordon in the
war; dead or alive. DIR. r. P.
Myers, formerly surgeon in the C. S.
navy, nov residing in Honolulu,
Hawaii Territory. sends me a copy Of
the Sunday Advertiser of that city,
which l find quite an up to date jour
nal, finely illustrated. An excellent
picture of Mother" Gulick. the oldest
white woman in Hawaii. appears on
the first page in report of her 99th
birthday. She was born in old Leban-
on, Conn, where her father. Gen.
Thomas, was gallant soldier of the
war of 1872, commanding the fort at
Lebanon. In early life she was a noted
educator in Kentucky and Tennessee,
in the latter state having the friend
ship of Gen. Andrew Jackson and fam
ily More than fifty years ago Mrs. G.
and her husband went around Cape
Horn to Hawaii and taught jointly at
Waialua and later opened a boarding
school in Honolulu. Mother" Gulick
now lives with her daughter-in-law,
and is quite active in household mat
tiers, as well as an interested reader Of
the newspapers. Few women have had
so long a life of continued susefulness
in religious and educational circles.
I thank Mr.. T. S. Lucas for correct
ing my Lafayette" error in the name
of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry. but
am sorry his zeal led. him into much
graver and an inexcusable blunder.
He says: Every school boy in Geor-
gia knows that his name was Jabez
Lamar Monroe Curry" and yet / call
him Lafayette. Now, I'll bet dollars
to doughnuts' that not one school
teacher out of ten, and not one school
officer out of twenty in Georgia knew
his name was Lamar" at the time /
wrote it Lafayette" Such rash as
sertions are too ridiculous for any
thing. When the press kilograms came
that Or. Curry was dying at Ashe-
vile, and il was stated that he was
horn in Alabama, not a single editor,
20 far as saw. IN Alabama or Geor-
gia, corrected that error, and was
the first person to do So / am not so
we'll informed al every school boy in
Georgia." and sol referred to Hon.
Willis Brewers 'ff1istory of Alabama"
for the full length of DIR. Curry's
elongated name, and there found La
fayette." not Lamar" No Alabama
or Georgia editor has yet noticed the
error which this, historian (2) led me
into. ] also CORRECTED the oft repeated
statement that DIR. Curry was an of
ficcr" in the Mexican war, and Mr.. Luz
cas- says he was only a private. But
he fails 10 state that DIR. Curry was
defeated for the Second Confederate
Congress and then. late In the war,
entered the Confederate army, as
some time ago stated In these letters.
Although my good friend Henry cabi-
ness says the Lord created me % cor
rect errors, there are a good many
things ! don't know. ara a thousand
errors I cant correct. ! say this IN al
Kindness ~ 81. Lucas. who classes me
lower than every school boy IN oeor-
GA" eal I viii chesffullY give him