The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-07
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The Chicago Inter-Ocean seems to
think that ex-Chief Justice Augustus
E. Maxwell, of Florida, recently de-
ceased, was the last survivor of the
Confederate states Senate 1t claims
that Missouri did not secede and join
the Confederacy, therefore Senator
Geo. G. Vest, was not in fact Con-
federate senator. This is rather a weak
claim, as Vest was a representative
from Missouri in all three of the Con-
federate Congresses. and on Jan. IL,
1865, went to the Senate. The case of
Missouri was duplicated in that of
Kentucky and Tennessee was largely
represented in the Union army. The
1nterOcean is very much mistaken in
asserting that 1.-THE two most conspicu-
GUS members of the original Confeder-
ate Senate were from Georgia-Robert
Toombs and Benjamin H Hill"
Toombs was never a senator-it being
Hill and Herschel V. Johnson, with ].
w. Lewis to fill a brief vacancy. Geor-
gia's senators were able men, but they
were not the largest pebbles on the
beach" The May issue of
Scribner's magazine contains the first
of Gen. John B. Gordon's articles on
his early experiences in the war. The
picture of Gen. Gordon at 25 years of
age. very much resembles the early
pictures of Gen. Toonlbs. The other il
Illustrations show the Whitehall street
railroad crossing in 1851, and the "Rac-
coon Roughs" under Capt. Gordon,
passing the old Intelligencer office. The
article is written in Gen. Gordon's best
style and will be read with deep in
terest by his thousands of friends all
over the United States. We cannot
have too many such historical articles
of the war.
1t was a very graceful compliment
the Morning News paid Veteran Bor-
ebert, who came back to his old home
as a delegate to the Southern Baptist
convention in Savannah. I notice in our
G. A. r. Department Encampments
that comrades are anxious TO be dele
gates to the National Encampment
when 1t meets in their native state.
And all this prompts me to say good
word for Col Thomas J. Appleyard of
the Lake City Index, who is going back
TO his native city of Richmond, Va, as
a delegate to the Supreme Lodge
Knights of Honor. a position he has
ably held for four terms, yet two
terms is the rule. He is or has been.
colonel Of the Uniform Rank In Flor
ida, and as secretary of the Florida
State Senate and Press Association for
years, he has become one of the best
known and most popular men In the
state. AS q boy in Richmond he en-
tered the c. s. N, and later the c. S.
A., and was among the bravest of the
boy soldiers of that day. After the war
he was a printer in Columbus, Ca,
where he married his present estima-
BILE wife. That was thirty years ago,
and I have known him ever since and
can testify that his big body encases a
big heart. He left Richmond in 1871
and he goes back full of years and
honors" to revisit the scenes of his
youth and renew old friendships. And
he carries with him one of the bright
est of his half dozen or more smart
children-Miss Alice-who is well
known in our literary circles as a
young writer OF verse and prose with
a bright future.
II IS a matter of deep regret that the
Confederate Southern Memorial Assoc
citation OF New orleans has published
its History OF the Associations Of
the South" in a hasty and careless
manner. Some OF the blame must rest
with ~. Louis Benton Graham and her
pr0ofreader. Such familiar names as
Mrs. Robert Emory Park and Mrs. J.
Florence Minis should not be- printed
ss POLK" ard "MinnE" Mrs. Basil
Duke should be Basil W. Duke. Mrs.
y. b. Randolph should BE- n. ". y.
Gen. J. y. Gordon is referee 20 81