The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-07

from Tennessee, but Gen. John B. Cor
don of Georgia was from Alabama,
and Gen. James B. Gordon (killed in
battle in 1869 went into the service
from Wilkes county, North Carolina,
and was second captain of Company
B of the First Infantry. Gen. Simon
Buckner should be S. B. B., and Lafay-
cite, McLaws should not be divided by
a comma. Kirby Smith should be
Edmund Kirby Smith. Rev r. c.
Fonto of Atlanta should be Foute
Mrs. Mary Saussure should be De
Saussure. Col. Thomas Howard should
be T. c. H. Gen. Paul Semmes
should be P. J. s. Col. James Robert
son should be. j. w. R., Stonewall
jackson should be Thomas j. C'Stone-
wall'O Jackson.
AS an evidence of carelessness on the
part of the compiler, a group full page
picture of four Confederate monuments
locates the Savannah one at Sparta,
and I presume the Sparta one is put
in Savannah. Othern similar errors
might be mentioned. A picture is
given of the late ex-Chief Justice A.
E. Maxwell of Florida, but he is called
member" and not senator of the
Confederate Congress. Mrs. Mary
Ann (Howard) Williams of Columbus,
Ga, is very properly given credit as
the founder of the Southern "Decora-
ton Day" exercises, but she is called
the widow of Maj. Charles L. Will
liams. 1t should be Charles ]. Will.
liams, and he was a major in the Mex
lean War, brigadier general of Geor-
gia troops and colonel of the First
Georgia Regulars He was a cadet at
West Point in 1887, but did not gradu-
ate. The volume opens with a bio
graphical sketch of Jefferson Davis, by
Judge Charles E. Fenner of New Or
leans, a lifelong friend But the
judge, in his record of Col. Davis. in
and at the close of the Mexican War,
fails to state that Col. Davis was the
first West Point graduate to be APP
pointed a brigadier general in the
United States army. He had been
severely wounded at Buena Vista
February, 1S47, and in May was ap-
pointed a brigadier general in the reg
ular army, but declined, and was hon
orably mustered out Of the volunteer
service in July.
The name of Maj. Gen. Joseph K. r.
Mansfield, U. S. ", and brigadier gen
erai, U. 5. A, will always be insep-
arably connected with Fort Pulaski
and the early improvements in the Sa-
vannah river and on the coast from
Charleston harbor to Brunswick He
graduated No. in the class of 1922
at West Point and spent the first six
years of his army career in and around
New York, including the construction
of Fort Hamilton. Then he was order
ed South, where he remained until the
Mexican war, which found him cap
tain of engineers. He returned to work
on the Atlantic coast defenses in 1S4S.
but with the brevets Of major, lieu
tenant colonel and colonel for gallant
and meritorious conduct" in Mexico
where he was severely wounded at
Monterey. With short details in Bos-
ton and New York harbors and on the
Pacific coast, all his engineer work was
done in the South. The Civil War put
him in command at Washington, but
later on he took the field and fell.
MORALLY wounded, at Antletam, aged
So years, leaving a record as an engi-
neer, a soldier and a Christian gem
tleman unsurpassed by any graduate
OF West Point. From 1860 TO the day
OF his heroic death he was my dearly
beloved friend, and I pay this tribute
10 him now because his son, Brig. Gen
Samuel N. Mansfield, ". s. A., OF the
Engineer Corps, has just been retired
from active service and taken up his
residence IN Boston. Mass. lie Rradu-
ated from West Point No. Q IN 'he class
Of 1862, and a. an officer IN the field
won the breysts Of captain, major and
lieutenant colonel and since the war
has had charge 81 many ~ the most
important engineer works from hos
ton 70 san Francisco. The old friends