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SIDNEY HERBERT's LETTER.
AN ERROR IN CONNECTION WITH
THE NAME of EBERT COUNTY.

Another Barefoot Boy POem-The
Cost of Entertaining Great Soldier
Gatherings-Georgia Cadets Who
Served ina the confederate Army.
Some Facts About the Late Eccen-
tric American Artist, James A.
WhistleI-A Reference to the
Death of Rev. DIR. RObt. G. FOute.
Distinguished widows at the Con-
federate Reunion ut New Orleans.
other Matters of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla.
Aug. 1.-The negro, William Murrell.
just appointed chief messenger of the
new Department of Commerce and La
Dor, at Washington, D. c., is a Geor-
gia-Alabama ex-Confederate negro,
and was a cabinet messenger of the
Confederacy at Montgomery in 1861.
But he soon after followed an Alabama
regiment to the war He has, how
ever, been a messenger in the Treas
ury and at the White House in Wash
ington for several years past. Two of
his sons were sergeants in the famous
colored Ninth United States Cavalry,
but were killed at San Juan, in the
Spanish-American War, and were CIV
en- burial in the National Cemetery at
Arlington. 1t is a high tribute to
this negro, who served the Confed-
eracy in civil and military capacity,
that he has by his efficiency and good
conduct won the important position to
which he has just been assigned. His
case clearly proves that the negro
who respects himself and his employ
ers has every chance, North or South,
to rise in the world and make a good
living.
In roster of. the SArmy of Northern
J Virginia, made on Feb IS, 1865, / find
in Kersham's division the bridage of
Gen. Goode Bryan of Augusta, Ca,
| composed of the Tenth, Fiftieth, Fiji
ty-first and Fifty-third Georgia regi-
| ments, in command of Col. Peter Nc
| Glashan, acting brigadier general.
1t may seem strange to us, in
| these days of cables and wireless tele-
6 apis, when a battle fought in the
| Philippines to-day is fully reported to
| Washington by tomorrow, that the
official report of the first Bull Run, or
Manassas battle, July 81, 1861, did not
reach the Confederate War Depart
ment in Richmond, Va, until Oct. Is,
nearly three months after the battle
was fought. The G. A. r. vet
| Grams at the San Francisco encamp-
ment will meet a sure nuff' veteran
! soldier-one w. 0. Clark, who enlist
| ed seventy-one years ago, at the age
of Is, and served with Capt. Abraham
| Lincoln and Lieut.. jefferson Davis in
the famous Black Hawk Indian War.
He went to California in 1850 and has
lived there ever since. His old flint
lock musket saved many women and
children from massacre in the Black
Hawk war.
Sam w. Small, in his Fourth of
July" address in Atlanta, said Ebert
county was named for Col" Samuel
Ebert of Revolutionary fame. This is
a "sam-Sam" mistake, for Congress,
on Nov. 8. 1888, passed a resolution,
that Col. Samuel Ebert be promoted
to the rank of brigadier by brevet."
1 am glad that the cavalry
camp in Savannah was named Camp
Pulaski" instead of in honor of poll
tician. Count Pulaski was appointed
brigadier general of the First Lee
gion of Cavalry and Infantry" author
lied by Congress, in 177S. and he fell in
battle at Savannah a year later. His
Legion fought under beautiful red
silk flag, in the center of which was
an eye surrounded by stars and the
motto, Mon alius regit." There was
a sunburst around the eye. and mar
row. square. gilt border enclosing all
the designs. No drawer soldiers ever fol-
lowed a more heroic and patriotic lead
er under any flag, and the Georgia
cavalrymen are to be commended for
the honor paid that noble Revolution
airy cavalry general, Count Pulaski.
Another Barefoot Boy" poem is go
ing the rounds of the press. It's a live
ly little one of two stanzas, by Bur-
ges Johnson, in Harper's Magazine.
But the poem on this subject by Gen.
Henry r. Jacksonfi referred to in my
last letter. is the oldest and longest
of any 1 have ever seen. 1t was
printd over fifty years ago, long be-
fore Whittier wrote his most eXcelletn
poem on the same subject.
Capt Earle Darcy Pearce of the Coast
Artillery at Honolulu is visiting At
lanta, and the papers call him Earl
Dorsey Pearce," and such is fame. But
Brig. Gen. T. N. Waul, a South Caro-
linian. who emigrated to Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Texas, and representa- the
latter state in the Prov Confederate
Congress. and in the army, is referred
to as Gen. Wane" and Gen. Waugh"
rev JOnn .. moore, -. H.,
of Mississippi is another distinguished
preacher who was a gallant Confeder-
ate soldier. He was in the Fifth Ala
bama and was wounded and prisoner.
Mr.. William B. Collins of
Thomson. Ga. contributes a very valu-
able article on the Crawford Burnside
duel" of 1.-The long ago" to the Gulf
States Historical Magazine of Mont
gomery, Ala. Mr.. Collins is giving
considerable attention to Georgia his
torical matters.
AS Savannah thinks OF inviting the
big United Confederate Veterans re-
union to meet there in 1905. or later,
1t may be we'll to take a hint as TO the
cost of entertaining these great SOL
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