The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-06


will be the first officer in the regular
army to come up from a private in
the ranks to that now highest rank
in the service. Lieut.. Gen. Young
was a private for three months in
Pennsylvania volunteer company, but
not in the regular service. Gen. Chat
fee enlisted as a private in the Sixth
United States Cavalry in 1861 and has
worked his way UP step by step. He
jumped the rank of brigadier general
in the regular army, having held that
rank and the rank of major general
in the volunteer service while colonel
of the Eighth Cavalry. His remark
able career shows what a private SOL
der of good habits and worthy am
bition can accomplish. His son, who
bears his name in full, goes into the
army, if he succeeds in graduating at
West Point, as a second lieutenant.
1t is a pleasing fact that Ulysses S.
Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, Fitzhugh
Lee Jr., and Joseph Wheeler, Jr., have
put back on the army rolls the old
familiar names of ante-bellum Off
GERS.
DR.. r. P. Myers sends me from
Honolulu, II. H. handsome illustrated
double folder of Hawaii territory,
which is described as modern para
dise-no fogs, no hurricanes, no ma
laria, no sunstrokes, no sandstorms,
no tidal waves, no typhoons, no rep
tiles, no wild beasts, no poisonS, and,
most wonderful of all, no beggars.
This is the beautiful, sun-blessed is
land territory that now belongs to
Uncle Sam, and over which our army
and navy stretch their protecting
arms Such a land as this, if truly
described in the beautiful folder,
should be eagerly sought for and
rapidly increased in population. With
Florida and Porto Rico and Hawaii
and the Philippines the United States
has an abundance of tropical and
semi-tropical territory for all the in
valids in the world. How it would
warm up the shivering Pilgrim Fa
theirs to be able to view this land
scape DER.
A year or so ago, it will be remem-
bered, Capt. James LachlisOn got aft
er me with a SHARP stick" because L
referred to the "Oglethorpe Light In
fantry" of Augusta, when every school
boy in Georgia knew that the only and
original Oglethorpe Light Infantry was
in Savannah. Well, after awhile L
traDped the guilty party who had mis-
or reporter of the Augusta Chronicle,
and lust now the same chap, or an
other one as careless, is up to the same
trick He calls the Oglethorpe Light In
fautry of that city the Oglethorpe Light
Infantry, which is the name of Capt.
Lachlison's old company in Savannah.
In my roster of Volunteer Military Or
CARNATIONS in Georgia, published in
1873, l have Oglethorpe Infantry, Capt.
c. E. Coffin, Augusta; Oglethorpe
Light Infantry, Capt. Robert FALL
CANT Savannah. The Chronicle should
be more careful and not mix these two
companies.
My good friend Harden does not meet
the question squarely, in regard to Gen
Greene's name. l have not denied the
Nathaniel nor the Greene, but wanted
to know why Georgia historians for
years and years, with hardly an eX-
Ception, put it Nathaniel. The case OF
Gov. TrouD and Sir Thomas More are
not similar. Nor an occasional A. H.
Stevens, or Houston, or Trutlen, OF
Northern for Northen. The Nathanlel
occurs nine times where the Nathaniel
occurs once. Nobody denies that
Greene was originally plain Green, and
Gen. Washington and other eminent
men stuck to the old style. The jour
nal of an old Revolutionary otncer'
printed in the United Service" mag
azine has it Green. And yet the writer
has Gen. McDougle," which should De
Gen. McDougall, although some writer
put it McDougal. Such errors In names
are of common occurrence.
TO show the widespread prevalence
of Nathaniel, and that it was early
applied to Gen. Greene, l cite the case
of Gen. Alexander Hamilton, U. ;. A.
who at one time stood next to WASH
ington He used Nathaniel in prefer
ence to Nathaniel as does the author
of American Literature" But Mont
gomery in his book, Leading Facts
of American History" follows the fam
lily style of Nathaniel. Mr.. Harden GER
tainly failed to read my last letter, tor
in it l stated that 1 had never read
the inscriptions on the Jackson medal;
therefore, his allusion to my eyeslght
is entirely out of place. Ny copy OF
the National Portrait Gallery is the
1894 edition of Philadelphia. There are
just five letters in the family name.
If an can be made, followed by an
e, then 1 can manipulate any name to
suit my taste. The signature IN my
book is Nath., not, as Mr.. Harden
claims was Greene's habit of signing,
Nathl. But enough. 1 simply wanted
to know why iel has so long and so
universally displaced ael.
Some of the older readers of the
Morning News have heard of the Mil
ledgeville hotel keeper whose dining
room was not larg enough to hold the
members of the Legislature and the
other guests at the same time. He,
therefore, put up notice that the
members would eat at the first table
and gentlemen" at the second. Elk
Congressman Willis Brewer, in his
History of Alabama" makes a SINH
lar blunder in his sketch of Judge
Toulmin. He says: "One of his daugh-
tiers married Mai Gen. E. P. Gaines,
Y. S. A., and the other six married
respectable gentlemen" ] have al
ways understood that Gen. Gaines was
q respectable" gentleman. AS
special aide to Gen. John G. Black, the
commander-in-chief of the G.. A. r., 1
was invited to the splendid reception
given him and Gen. Roster, commander
of the New York department, by La
fayette Post of New York city, the
richest and "swellest" of all G. A. r.
posts. The friends of Gen. Black will
regret to learn that he was present in
a roller chair and bundled up in blan-
kets. Only recently he left the Car
field Hospital in Washington, and is
still a great sufferer from rheumatism.
But he has gone to Boston in his roller
chair to consult the committee on the
next encamDment.
The military feature seems to have
spread into nearly all of the old-estab-
l!shed prominent orders, and the
knights of Pythias are no longer con-
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