The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
INTERESTING REFERENCE TO VIR-
GINIA'S GIFTED POET.


Georgia Girls Marrying Army on
GERS Who Are Natives of other
States-The MOdesty of Col. McGO-
wan Commented UpOn-SOme Facts
About Capt. RObt. f. stockton of
the United States Navy-JOhn H.
Regain the Only Cabinet officer of
Either Side of the Civil War Now
Living--COl. EstilI's Sketches of
Counties Comm ended-Other Mat
ters of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, April
lS.-It was Gov. Brown, not Gen.
Brown, who Endorsed President Davis
suggestion to arm Georgia troops with
Pixies" $50 The Troy, Ala, Mes
senger notes the arrival in Montgomery
of Gen. John S. Mosby." 1t is true
that Col Mosby earned the title of gen.
eral by his raid around Washington,
yet he is only a colonel. Like Malone
and I.ongstreet and Chalmers and
Rosser he yielded to Republican infiu-
ences for the sake of an office. y
The appointment of David ]. Gilmer of
Washington, D. c., as second lieuten-
ant in the Philippine Scouts, recently
made, gives that branch of the provis-
ional army, two negro officers, the
same number that is in the regular
army,not counting two negro chaplains
This reminds me that the an
nouncement of the approaching mar
riage of a Georgia girl to Capt.
TASf I'D afac
Navy" is misleading. Captains Of
army transports are not officers of the
United States Navy, nor are officers OF
the Porto Rico forces and Philippine
Scouts officers of the United States
Army. Sailing masters are some
times appointed captains in the navy
but are not in line of promotion. This
was the case with the famous Capt.
Samuel C. Reid, in 1S43, who had pre-
viously been captain of some noted
priVateers in the service of the new
republic. = = The death is announced
of William A. Smith, a Noted Confed-
crate General" at Huntington, West
Virginia. l never heard of a noted
Confederate general of that name.
There was Gen. William Smith of Vir-
ginia, so we'll known as Extra Billy"
and Gen. William D. Smith of Geor-
gia. 1t should be noted" 1 think, tbat
he was not a Confederate gen.
eral. Possibly he was an attorney gen.
era1 or a solicitor general, as these civil
officials are often called generals.
see that Edward Young Clarke Jr.,
refers to the gifted Virginia poet as
James Barrow Hope" Now, 1t is
true that the name of Barrow is an
honored one in Georgia, yet the poets
name is James Barron Hope, given him
in compliment to Capt. James Barron,
u. S. N. = = A press telegram from
Pensacola refers to Maj. Gen. Whis-
tier" 1t should have been Maj. Gar
land N. Whistler, U. S. A, of the Ar
tillery Corps at Fort Wadsworth, n.
Y. = Rev. DR.. George G.. Smith,
say of Atlantas origin: 1T soon be-
came evident that the village would
be a city, and Mr.. Garnett and Mr..
Peters decided good name for 1t
would be Atlanta. 1t was manufac-
tured name, agreed on by the eng1n-
GERS, and the town of Atlanta was In
corporated." This is rather lame his
tory, so called, unless am greatly mis-
taken. Mr.. J. Edgar Thomson, in aft
er years the famous president of the
great Pennsylvania Railway, was with
Col. "Dick" Peters and Garnett, one
of the engineers who gave Terminus,
or Marthasville, her first railroads, and
he it was who suggested the name OF
Atlanta for the embryo city 1t was
manufactured" from ATLANTA and At
lantic by Mr.. Thomson and accepted
by his associates as the proper caper.
Georgia girls are still marrying reg
ular army officers not natives OF the
state. As 1 have before noted, the
Georgia born officers get their wives,
as rule, from other states. Judge w.
T. Newman's daughter is soon to mar
ry an officer at Mcpherson Barracks,
near Atlanta, which reminds me that
l failed to notice the marriage of Maj.
Brad. Dunhams daughter, Miss Emma
Craik Durham, to Lieut.. John w.
Norwood-a North Carolinian-of the
Twenty-third United States Infantry,
at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y, which
occurred at Montgomery, Ala, in Feb
ruary The list of such marriages in
Georgia has been largely increased of
late years, and the good work still
goes on" The Geographic an
nouncement of the death of my old 4