The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09
SIDNEY HERBERTS LETTER.
LIGHTNING CAMB NEAR PUTTING
AN END TO THIS CORRESPOND
ENCE.


ans of Pike County, AIa--Grand
Army Veterans on Their Way to
san FranciScO-Referenc to Mrs.
MitcheIFs Songs of the Con-
federacy and Plantation MeIO-
dies"-CoumisSera for Gov.
Pennypacker, Who Objected to
..Dixie" The Kind Reception
That GOV. wheeler Received Mt
Detroit-Other Matters of General
Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, Aug.
S.-These letters came very near end
ing with that of last Sunday. On Tues
day Of this week. during a severe thun-
der storm, lightnong struck telegraph
pole in front of my little cottage. ana
as I was only about thirty feet distant
it knocked me over, and gave me quite
a shock My head is so badly affected
that I can scarcely hear at this time,
and being an invalid, / feel the shock
"an over me" as the boy said when
the mule kicked him. 1t was very
narrow escape, and not being a candi-
will not hit me again. "a The Con-
federate Veterans of Pike county Ala,
held their annual reunion at Troy, last
week, and favored me with an invita-
ton to be a guest of honor and
make an address, but I was not able
to travel. No county in the South sent
more or drawer soldiers to the war
than old Pike, and as I lived there a
., b. /
9he country had no better citizens than
those gallant survivors. Pike county
is a brag county now, and Troy is
city TO be proud of in all respects.
To-day many of the old G. A. r.
soldiers are on their way to San Fran
cisco whore a grand entertainment
awaits them on their annual encamp-
ment. Gen. Thomas J. Stewart, has
put in a good years work, is Com
mander-in- Chief, and will probably see
Gen. John c. Black. of Chicago, cleo
ted as his successor, he having been
Gen. Stewards shapest competitor for
the honor last year Gen. Black is a
Democrat, was Commissioner of Pen
sions under Cleveland, but he is a most
eloquest orator, a fine lawyer and an
accomplished gentleman. If there are
mo politics in the G. A. R." as claim
and active service in the Order that
he now be given the highest position
in the gift of his comrades. At this
writing 1t seems to me that his cleo
tion is assured on the first ballot
Mrs. A. L. Mitchell of Paris. Ky,
has selected and arranged and pub
Ashed Songs of the Confederacy and
plantation Melodies" under the aus
Of h. al.
OF that city. It is one of the most ele-
CANT little publications 1 have seen of
the kind. The colored cover design, by
Mrs. Albert Adair, is very attractive,
being a combination group of the Con-
federate States flag, the battle flag
and the Bonnie Blue flag Most of
the songs, like THE Homespun Dress"
have the music accompanying. Mrs.
M. is selling the song book for fifty
cents, and the object for which it is
published should insure a big sale. =
Joe Oil has published full page
sketch in the Atlanta Constitution
handsomely illustrated of a number of
popular Georgians in the regular
army. Capts. Butt, Jim" Heidi. Per,
cy Jones, Bob" Spence, Blanton Win
ship, L. F. Garrard, Jr. nephew Of
Col. William Garrard and Lieut.
Fortson, are the ones given pictures
from Augusta, but-he has made
splendid quartermaster. All the Geor-
gia boys have done nobly several COM
ing up from the ranks in a short time.
The reported killing of the venerable
Brig. Gen. John Henry Hobert Ward
OF New York city by a railroad train
contains two errors. He is called u.
Hobart WARD and referred to as SER
Of he
United States Infantry. He was a pri-
Vate, corporal and sergeant before he
reached that rank, serving from April.
1872, to April 1847, and was one of the
bravest and best soldiers in the Mex
lean War. He was also colonel and
brigadier of volunteers in the Civil
War, and after Gen. Sickles was
wounded at Gettysburg he command
ed the Lewiston in that great battle
Gen. Ward was so years of age and for
q long time had been a conspicuous
Mexican War veteran and honored
citizen of New York. Despite his ad-
vanced age, like the Rev. John Pier
pont. the poet, he was performing
clerical work, being special term clerk
of the Supreme Court of New York
The tragic death of this old hero re-
moves well-known figure from mill
tary circles.
1t is said that Gov. Pennypacker of
Pennsylvania got mad at the state en-
campment of the National Guard be-
cause the band played Dixie" Poor
old fellow! He ought to take lessons
from genial Gov. Bates of Massachu-
sets. When the naval brigade passed
him in review at the Hooker monu-
ment unwilling the band struck IN
Maryland, My Maryland" and the
commander-in-chief did not get mad
but put on an approving smile. The
people of the North and West gen
orally like to hear the bands play
Dixie" and Maryland, My Maryland
These airs are inspiring aside from
their war history, and will always be
popular in any part of our country
Gen. William c. Oates OF
Montgomery, Ala, a one-armed hero
of the Civil War, eX-congressman and
Ex-Governor, was a guest of honor al
the Troy, Ala, Confederate reunion
and made an elegant address to his old
comrades. l wish to heartily indorst
his suggestion for a regular, old-time
and the sons. All honor to the U. D
c. and L. s. c. ", but there are times
when the old soldiers would like K
get away from all modern social func
lions.
Mr.. E. ]. Hickey of Augusta, Ga
tells the Chronicle of his trip ovel
into Canada and a stop in Detroit
Mich, to see the reunion of the San
tiagO veterans, of which he says: II
was a grand parade and the centra
figures We're Gems. Shafter, Chaffe,
and Wheeler. The doughty little South