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DR.. Curry, gave his early years TO Ala
bama, where he first practiced law. and
later, in 1S45, at the age of % years,
came to Florida, where he held many
high offices of honor and trust. Georgia
should be proud TO have given to Ala
bama and Florida so gifted and useful
a public servant, one capable of filling
with credit the highest offices bestow
ed upon him.
The change that made Lieut.. Col. ].
Van Holt Nash a major, at his own re-
quest, reminds me of Gen. Forests
order: Lieutenant, lower your gun a
leetle higher" 1 congratulate Nash
that he has lowered himself lit
tie higher by the change. There is
some honor in being a Georgia ma
jor," but nowadays the Georgia Col
oneP' is too often an object of ridicuIe.
The Confederate veterans will
be interested in "A Historical Sketch
Of the Confederate Navy" by C. H. NJ.
Blair, in the May issue of the United
Service, a New York military and ma
val magazine published by the L. R.
Hamersly Company. Gen. Charles
King also has an article in the same
issue on Gainesville, 1882" being a
lively account of "StonewalP Jack
sons rapid movements around Gaines
vile and Manassas. more practical
and important paper, however, is that
on THE Evolution of Army Reform"
by Brig. Gen. William H. Carter, U. S.
A. which will be read with great
profit by National Guard officers in
connection with the new STAFF Corps"
reform in the regular army.
There seems to be an epidemic of
Georgia girls marrying United States
army officers from other states. In my
letter of a few weeks ago l said the
good work is still going on" and now
l can add, With a rush." as three
such marriages have since taken place
~ that of Lieut.. Charles M. Bunker
at Fort Ethan Allen, VT, and Miss
Daisy Davenport Bryan of Savannah,
daughter of Mr.. John M. Bryan. The
groom was born in Connecticut, but
entered the army in 1901 from Mime
sofa, after serving in the Spanish
American War. The fair bride is one
Of Georgia's choicest young women and
represents in her family some of the
states bravest men and MODEST wom-
en-; (2) Lieut.. Kelton Lyon Pepper of
California, in the Twenty-second In
fantry, has recently married a daugh-
ter of Supt w. T. Gentry of the Bell
Telephone Company, in Atlanta, and
will carry his lovely bride to Fort
Reno, in Oklahoma; (S) the third mar
riage-Miss Tindall of Macon-I have
already mentioned. These three run
the list up to over a dozen. T"
Capt. Frank B. Mccoy of Augusta, Ca,
of the Third Infantry has just been
sorely bereaved in the death of his
beloved daughter, whose remains were
brought back to his old home for
burial. His Georgia friends deeply
sympathize with him in his sorrow
She was his youngest daughter, and a
bright and popular student at Bonner
College, in Milwaukee, where Capt. Nc
Coy is now stationed.
In a recent letter 1 corrected the
statement that Gen. Albert Pike, C. S.
A., wrote the original Dixie" Since
then, in another manufactured "Ques-
tons and Answers" department, find
the statement that Dan Emmett wrote
a Walk around song called Dixie"
in 1859, and little more than a year
later Gen. A. H. Pike of New Orleans
collected the fugitive verses, wrote
some new ones and reconstructed 9TH
ers, and published it." / admit that
Dan Emmetts version of Dixie" was
first sung in New Orleans in 1860, but
Gen. Albert Pike without the HI did
not reconstruct it, but simply changed
and used only two lines out of the
chorus. Emmett's reads: I'm Dixie land
I'll took my stand, to lib an die in
Dixie" But Pixies reads: For Dixie's
land we'll take our stand, and live
or die for Dixie" Emmett's was a
medley of nonsense rhymes and negro
dialect, while Gen. Pixies was a stir
ring, dignified war song, entitled,
"Southerners, Hear Your Country Call
YOU" adopted to the tune of Dixie"
and using two lines of Emmett's chorus
changed in a most appropriate man
ner. There was another Dixie war
song, Awake! To Arms in Dixie" the
two lines of it's chorus similar to EN-
mett's and Pixies reads: From
Dixie land we'll rout the band that
comes to conquer Dixie" There are
not half dozen lines in Emmett's
song worthy of perpetuation by the
U. D. c. or the u. C. ", and the move
ment to have more appropriate words
welded to this stirring and popular air
of Dixie" is commendable.
In War Papers" Volume of the
Wisconsin Loyal Legion, being papers
read at meetings of the commandery.
in an address by Lieut.. Col. e. A. Cal
kins, u. s. ", on 1.-THE Wisconsin Cav
airy Regiments he refers to Lieut..
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, c. S.
A. as zen. Napoleon bOndpdrLe FOR
rest" This reminds me that some writ
srs call him Forest" and the Me-
tropolis cartoonist refers to the Pine
Sapling Forrest" Of Florida, which
shows how common bad spells" are.
The Home Magazine of Wash
ingtcn, d. c.. (only rs oenta a year) is
doing an excellent work for the South
IN giving It's readers condensed state
histories. II has just finished North
Carolina, frena the pen of that scholar
ly gentleman, Hon. Kemp p. Battle,
LII. D., and is now publishing one OF
Geuth Carolina, by Historian Robsrt
Wilson. The May issue also has a
full page picture of Gen. Lees old man
sion at Arlington, and the monument
to the Unknown Dead" in the Ma
tional Cemetery. The Atlanta
Constitution Is quite right in assert
ing that Gen. Niles treatment ef JEFF
ferson Davis at Fortress Monroe was
more cruel and inhuman that anything
he reports as occurring in the Philip
pines. Miles IL the last man on earth
20 attack army officers in that far
OF barbarous country for inhumAnities
that have characterized every war the