The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-18

,I1onourable" London Artillery, but
one who set the press telegram
,roro washington gave the company
~ legal name. "Honourable, not
honorable" 1 see that the dreadful
rr5aadIine" man is still at large. He
s,ts ID. A. r. Badge" over an item
.hout a ~. D. c. Badge" Then a.
-oo5 old "Dunkard" Baptist preacher
bsadlined as a "Drunkard." An
.,,+ in my item about Gen. Lees sur
,onaer utterly ruined the sense.
,.rote that Gen. Grant-Whose name
i left out-in offering terms to Gen.
r 80 did not use the phase, "So-called
confederate States" but put it simply
1tbe Confederate States" Even long
A.fore this, in official correspondence,
Ibs "so-calIed' prefix had been drop
ped.
The press telegram that Capt. S. 1.
stauber, who was first lieutenant in
,barge of the troop of Michigan caval-
" that captured Jefferson Davis, has
list died at Hutchinson, Kan, is cor
,pct Silas I. Stauber was first lieuten-
mt of Company G, and shared in the
reward offered for the capture of Mr..
Davis. The Montgomery (Ala~)
Advertiser, follows the Morning News
In an editorial against new words for
nDixie." Admitting that the present
words are silly, it says the same is
true of the words to yankee Doodle"
and yet both of the songs will live
till the world comes to an end. The
hest song for Dixie / have ever seen
was written in 1861, by my then old
friend, Mrs. l.. N. Porter, of the Green
Vile Ala, Advocate, but now Mrs.
I NJ. P. Ockenden, of Montgomery.
If new words were adopted, nothing
better than her dignified, patriotic and
inspiring song could be selected.* =
Some time ago I told how a theatrical
manager recorded Clara Morrison as
Clara Morris, and this changed her
name for life. Now comes Ada C.
Rhean with the same complaint, her
family name being Crehan. In the
same way U. H. Grants name was
changed to U. S. Grant. and later, Capt
L. G. Whites, GU. S. Al changed to
L. S. G. White. And so the world
or change rolls onward.
I have several times noted the fact
that the head" of the class at West
4 Point did not always turn out the best
man in the end, citing the cases of
q Mai. WATSON and Capt. Carter AS to
tail end" members of the class I cited
the cases of Gen. Harry Heth and Gen.
George A. Custer and Gen. George E.
\ Pickett l refer to this matter again
because the Youths Companion of Bos-
4 ton, Mass, touches upon the same line
quoting from Rev. DIR. Dwight's Me
noirs Of Yale Life and Men" My old
friend Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon, and
a Rev. DR.. WOolsey were classmates, the
former near the head and the latter
near the tail of the class. The matter
Of preparing a class address came up,
at a class meeting, and Rev. DR.. Wool
sey proposed that Rev. DR.. Bacon pre-
pare it, as he was a leader a gifted
student and at the head of the class.
But Rev. DR.. Bacon declined in favor
4 Of DR.. Woolsey, and said There are
some animals, and the class of 1920 is
one of them, whose strength is in their
Il tails. And this may we'll be applied
q to some of the classes at West Point
Military Academy.
The Morning News recently MENTION
4 ed the presentation of a portrait of
4 Brig. Gen. John c. Sanders, c. S. A,
of Alabama, to the Archives Depart
nent of that state, and called him
the Youngest general in the Confed-
arate service. He was not the youngest,
being nearly rs years old when he fell
IN battle, but he was one of the bravest
and his heroic conduct i'll several bloody
battles brought him many severe
Wounds before he fell in a. charge upon
he enemy in his last battle. His name
Nas John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders
lot j. c. S.-given him by his South
Carolina parents who had moved to
Tuscaloosa. Ala, where he was born.
His father, DR.. Sanders, was from
Charleston and his mother, Miss
Thomson, was from Anderson district,
alabama, when her capital walls shall
De hung with portraits of all her he
'olc Confederates, old and young, Will
De able to show the portraits of no gen.
sral of high or low rank, whose record
tor heroic deeds and bleeding wounds
aXcels that of Gen. Sanders. Why is
Il that the great Empire State of the
South, as Georgia is called, has so long
neglected to gather up portraits of her
ssroes of many wars, and also to pre-
pare and preserve a history of their
gallant deeds? She had some very
Young generals who bravely fell in bat
lie in the Civil War.
Congressman Livingston. no doubt
nnocently-has done Gen. Iohn u
Black, great injury by naming MIN
Tor vice president on the Democratic
ticket and referring to his Commander
ln-Chiefs position in the G. A. X. as
likely to win him votes. The G. A. X.
and the L, c. V. are out of politics
and not allowed in any way to name
Ut support candidates or discuss pollt-
IeaI questions, Gen. Black is SOUND
democrat yet his election was Won
ueIully unanimous even with a pres
MENTAL contest close at hand. There
iore' in view of this high tribute TO
ms worth as a G.. A. R. man. it. is
IL very bad taste to bring him out
a. Democratic candidate for any
PoHucal Office. Gen. Ell Torrance. or
minneapolis, Mimi. who was COM
mdnuer-in-chief two years ago, and
aaS very popular in the South because
II II ms appeal for Confederate Soldiers
-ipoines' is being put forward as a run
IIHs mate for President Roosevelt.
,ie Is a fine campaign speaker, an ac-
w popular citizen and would make
Sood run. He is a broad-minded Re-
pupIcan and would run we'll independ-
enl OF the G. A. R.
me Confederate Veteran, of Nash
sn1e Tenn, is a. monthly magazine,
n nf.u not a newspaper, and being the
'idi organ of the u. c. v. and U.