The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

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| rade, Col. John Encill MCGOWAN mot
| Mac) of Chattanooga, Tenn, leads me
to credit him with being the only old
soldier, so far as 1 know, that failed
to use his brevet title of brigadier
general. He entered the service as
second lieutenant in the Twenty-first
! Ohio Infantry, in April, 1861, and came
out March 81, 1866, as colonel of the
First United States Colored Artillery
(not First United States Cavalry, as
stated) and brevet brigadier general
for faithful and meritorious service
i work during the war. His modesty
prevented him from using this latter
| title and he lived and died, respected
and honored, as Col. MCGOWAN. He
| was a man of fine journalistic quail
tiles, and his daughters, Alice and
Grace, are two of the most gifted and
successful story writer's in the South.
The modesty of Col. MCGOWAN is
quite in contrast with that of another
| Union soldier who prints a picture of
his many wounds on the back of his
! business card, and adds, after his
name, "Cannonier." His spelling is in
keeping with his modesty if he was
"Cannonneer," or, in French, Can
nonier" The name of Mai.
Gen. Evander McIver Law, c. S. A.,
of Barlow, Fla, has been proposed for
state superintendent of education in
Florida No better man could be
named for that position. Gen. Law is
South Carolinian by birth, but was
a well-known educator in Alabama
when he entered the Confederate
! army; and since the war he has given
himself to the same profession and is
amply qualified to succeed. Supt.
Sheats. He recently retired from the
South Florida Military Institute at
Barlow, but still resides there, and is
commander of the Florida Division,
U. c. V. al. Orme, Esq, just
appointed solicitor of the City Court
in Atlanta, is an honored graduate of
the Virginia Military Institute, of the
Glass of 1898. Georgia numbers among
her most useful and honored sons
many talented graduates of this fine
military school. Aside from the Off
GERS it gives the army, it has a distin-
guished list of clergymen, lawyers,
doctors, engineers, farmers, merchants,
etc, to its credit.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle lately
republished an article on 1.-The Daring
Acts of Brave Old United States Com
modore," being some startling adven-
lures of Capt. Robert F. Stockton, u.
S. N, of New Jersey, who was made
a MILDLY" in 1911 and resigned in 1850
as a captain. The narrative is based
on "the log" kept by an Officer named
Squibb, on the store ship Erie off
Gibraltar in 1S49. Although some parts
of the narrative are rather "fishy," 1
presume they are very nearly true, for
I am sure that the Officer named
squibb" was one Edward R. Squibb
(whose son, Charles S. Squibb, now re-
sides in Brooklyn, N. ", then an as
sistant surgeon in the United States
navy, which he entered in 1S47 and
left in 1857. 1t is claimed that Capt
Stockton went ashore at Gibraltar and
fought a duel with a British officer
On his way back to the landing he
was stopped by a guard and. Crap
ping, they together fell over a preci-
pice forty feet high, neither being
killed. Capt. S. then fought three more
guards and in a half dead condition
got back to the Erie. He then chal-
lenged the whole regiment. The orig
inal challenge was to avenge an insult
to the American consul, an old man
of family, who could not resent it,
The Nashville (Tenn.) American adds
two more to my roll of surviving Con-
federate congressman. They are the
well-known journalist, Col. A. S. Col
var of Nashville, Tenn, who was in
the second Congress, and DR.. Thomas
o. Menees, who was in the first and
in the second Congress. / think
that ex-United States Senator
George G. Vest of Missouri
is the sole survivor of the
Confederate congressman who serv-
ed in the Provisional, the First and
the Second Congress. During his last
year in the Second Congress he was
promoted to the Senate, and he and
Judge Augustus E. Maxwell NOW very
ilD are the sole survivors of that au-
gust body. Very few men were honored
with seats in all three of the Con-
crosses. 1 know of only the follow
ing: George w. Ewing and John M.
Elliott of Kentucky, John Perkins, Jr.,
Duncan F. Kenner and Henry Mar
shall of Louisiana; A. H. Conron and
George G. Vest of Missouri; w. N. H.
Smith of North Carolina; Robert John
son. Thomas S. Bocock. Charles w.
Russell and Walter r. Staples of Vir-
GINA; Gen. Thomas r. r. Cobb of Geor-
gia is credited with that honor, but
having been killed in battle on Dec.
10, 1862, he could hardly have served
in all three congresses.
Just think of it, Lincoln and Johnson
and Hamlin and Colfax and Davis and
Stephens, all dead, and Postmaster