The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-26

work is still going on" referring to
Georgia girls marrying U. S. army
officers from the other states. Since
then Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Tindall, of
Macon, have announced the marriage
in June of their daughter, Fanny
Berry. to Second Lieut.. Chas c. Burt,
U. S. A, artillery corps, Fort Schuyler,
n. Y. The groom is from Coshocton.
o., entered the service as a private
in 1899, passed through the non. com.
grades of his company and became a
lieutenant in 1901, which proves that
he is a meritorious young soldier and
deserves one of Georgia's lovely daugh-
tiers as a bride. 80 1t is only a step
from the house of feasting to the
house of mourning, and / next note
the death of my old journalistic
friend of Atlanta, for over twenty
five years-Wallace Putnam Reed. I
Joined the Georgia Press Association in
1875 at it's Atlanta meeting and there
first met Reed: and for many years
after we were intimately associated in
journalistic wokr. AS the Atlanta
Journal says, Poor Wallace; 1 was
his friend" Despite his one oft con-
quering weakness, against which he
fought many hard and successful bat
ties, he did an immense amount of
good work to the last. No journalist
in Georgia was more careful and con-
scientious and painstaking and he had
wonderful fund of local historical
and biographical knowledge stored in
his active brain. Many sorrows and
bereavements burdened his last years,
yet he bravely held on his weary and
sometimes painful way till death came
to his release. And there is not a.
journalist who knew his gentle nature
q hiC trials who will not
in all sincerity. Poor Wallace; God
rest his soul in everlasting peace" AS
the Constitution says-"there will not
be a whitening garland on his grave"
1 am much indebted to Capt S. A.
Cook, a prominent citizen of Milledge-
vile, and a standard writer on agri-
cultural matters, for his confirmation
of my statement, in a recent letter,
that it was not the Leyden house, but
Judge Lyons residence Gen. Sherman
occupied in Atlanta. Capt. Cook writes
me as follows: Il know positively that
it was the Judge Lyon residence (cor-
ner Washington and Hunter streets).
1t is singular that the Constitution
should be so misinformed. On my
way to Atlanta from Andersonville,
where 1 was stationed, 1 met Judge
Lyon in Macon, and he informed me
that Gen. Sherman used his house as
headquarters, am asked me to go and
see what condition it was in. This was
two weeks after the evacuation. 1
rode from Griffin to Atlanta horseback,
and spent the night in the same room
that Gen. Sherman used for his office,
and had just vacated. There were evil
dences all about the building of his
occupancy. Furthermore, my brother
had called on the general there to ask
for an officer to be quartered at my
mothers house on NcDonough street
(now Capital avenue) for the sake of
protection. For the kindness and help
shown to my mother and brother in
those dark days, 1 have ever had a
grateful remembrance of the federal
Butcher l read your war memoirs
with a great deal of satisfaction" /
know of many homes in Atlanta that
had been cheerfully given" kindness and
help" by Gen. Sherman, whose regard
for the then Maj. Calhoun was almost
brotherly.
Criticising a History of the United
States" by C. A. Adams and w. P.
Trent the Outlook says: 1.-THE story
of the fight between the Alabama and
the Kearsarge gives the wrong impress
sion that it took place in the harbor
OF OHeEDOTS, D6lIS WlllOSSeu ny LllOu-
sands Of people on the banks" This
is a. very lame criticism, as it is true
that the fight was witnessed by crowds
of people on the shore. Technically
speaking. the fight was not in the har-
Dor proper. but it was on the edge of
it, only some half dozen miles from
the shore: SO near. in fact that some
of the crew of the Inflated Alabama
swan ashore. 1 think this will be the
testimony of the few survivors of both
vessels, which, probably, number less
than a bakers Dozen" The battle
was fought on Sunday, and this may
account for the large crowds of spec
tators which lined the shore to witness
it, for a distinguished officer of the
Confederate navy testified that thou
sands of people gathered on the south
ern heights overlooking the British
channel to witness the combat" The
same statement has been made to me
personally by one of the six survivors
of the United States steam corvette
KearSarge.
1t may interest the survivors of the
Confederate cruiser Alabama to know
that one of their comrades recently
died in Birmingham, Ala, where his
widow and son still reside. During my
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