The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-04
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
Many Matters of Historical Interest
to Confederates and Others.


to COnfederates and Others.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, Oct.
81 wrote in my last letter that Faith
er Deshon was a man of rare piety,"
but it appeared rare quiet" which
his long and active career disproves.
Also. Montgomery May Advertiser
should be Ala, instead of May, and
writers letter" should be previous
letter." Prof. Frank Moore
Colby, one of the editors of the New
International Encyclopaedia" by Dood,
Mead & Co. of New York, in response
to an item in my last letter, writes me
that June 10, instead of Jan. 10, 1907,
as Gen. R. E. Lees birthday, does not
occur in the present edition, which is
really a new book. This typographical
error did occur in former editions.
I don't take any stock in the
mutilated quotation, "The Pen is
mightier than the Sword" still think
Col Estill, who has been welding the
sword for some weeks past, had better
lay it aside and again take up his
pen and finish his historical sketches of
the Georgia counties he visited. He
might also add a few military sketches
of historical interest to the Morning
News readers.
Traffic Manager E. H. Hinton of the
Tennessee Central Railroad sends me
some valuable little historical booklets
to which l shall refer in future letters.
Other matters, already written up, have
been put over to KY next letter, by a
rush of current topics Only re-
Gently l spoke of Capt. John l.. How
ard, Columbus (Ga) boy, but for
several years superintendent of Clyde
steamers of Jacksonville, as one of the
brave Georgia Military Institute Ca
diets in the Confederate service. And
now he is dead, and a wide circle of
loving friends lament his sudden death.
My old friend. DR.. E. A.
Llewellen of 1.-The Rock" in Epson
county Georgia, calls me "a kid" as
compared to him, he being now sc years
old. Well. l am a pretty tough old
kid for he and genial Col. William
Rogers of Savannah are the sole sur
vivors of my earliest circle of railroad
officials. King, Grant, McRae, Brown,
Wadley, Powers, Johnston, Adams, Nut
ting, SCreven, Plant, White, Foreacre-all
gone over the river" DR.. Llewellen
was always an active, spare man, and
tough as whit-leather," and 1 am dit
to, while Col. Rogers is of good old
Scotch ancestry, and has lived pru-
dent life. .-la,--
Maj. Gen. John c. Bates, U. S. A, in
command of the "Gane of War" at
West Point, KY, bears striking re
semblance to Maj. Gen. George II:
Thomas, U. S. A., Familiarity called
old Pap Thomas by the soldiers who
loved him so we'll. He was man
OF somewhat stern demeanor, but OF
solid, sterling qualities. And in this
respect Gen. Bates resembles him al
so. Thomas was a Virginian ana
Bates is a Missourian, son of Hon.
Edward Bates, of that state, who en-
tered President Lincoln's cabinet as
Attorney General in March, 1861. Two
months later the son was appointed
nrSt Lieutenant in the Eleventh U. 3.
Infantry, and since that time he has
passed through all the grades 10 MS
present high rank. In 1898, ne was
colonel Of the Second Infantry, when
made brigadier general of volunteers.
Later a major general in the Spanish
American War. Like "Old Pap
Thomas" he is strictly business" and
quietly attends to his official duties.
l see in the Morning News of Tues
gay cock and bull" story of one
,Oapt. Manigault. u. S. A." copied
rom the New York Herald. The state
ment that Paul Manigault was edu-
Cated at West Point in a class that
%lt out many officers who achieved
gESlinction in both Confederate and
FEDERAL armies" is the merest bosh. |
NO such cadet as Paul Manigault or
any other Manigault, was ever "edu-
galed at West Point" Equally false
~ me statement that he resigned from
me U. S. A. in 1851 and went to- Eng
ta'l1 with his Northern wife, he being |
a south Carolinian, and she not wish |
,is MN to enter the Confederate Army \
tsoW' there have been only two officers
~ me I. S. A. named Manigault, one
r. H. Manigault, from 1913 to 1917, ana
hLuWard Manigault, from 1S47 to l84S
poth from South Carolina. Maj. Ed !
~ Manlgault became major OF
sae IWenty-sixth South Carolina regi-
n anegl in the c. S. A. Somebody has
eeg.Luently sold the Herald a very hot
sou brick" Capt. G.. H. Manigault
VS. IN 1918, In the Forty-third u. S.
,.aldhtry of which Duncan l.. Clinch
T TeS Lieutenant colonel, Edward F.
4ta.lnall a captain, and aide to Gen.
A.! 40; ana Governor Geo. R. Gilmore
"ISt lieutenant.
zen. William L. Cabell of Dallas,
~, - mas written history of the Con-
reuerate battle flag, but it contains
ono'nlng very new in regard to the
NJ ~s'sln' etc, of the flag. Nearly all
A., me facts were known to me twenty
ss years ago, given me by Gen. Jo-
Yilp,n L. Johnston during one of his
o ,Sits to my sick room. Gen. Cabell is
ssued a Confederate lieutenant gen.
MMsL which is not correct He holds
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