The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
SIDNEY HERBERTS LETTER
Many Matters Of Historical Interest to Confeder.
ateS and Others.

Gov. George r. Gilmer, however, serv-
ed in the regular army as first lieu
tenant of the Forty third Infantry,
from Aug. 4, 1873 until the army was
reorganized in 1915. Duncal L. Clinch
was lieutenant colonel and Theo. L.
Gourdin and Edward F. Tattnall were
captains. Clnch was transferred TO
the Tenth Infantry and Andrew Pick
ems, Jr., became his successor in the
Forty third Infantry. One of Floridas
early territorial governors-1S41 to 1874
Richard K. Call, was a most gal
liant regular army officer under Gen.
Andrew Jackson. He entered the
army from Kentucky, in 1914, as first
lieutenant in the Forty-fourth Infan-
try, and four months later, was made
a brevet captain for gallantry in action
at Pensacola. and New Orleans. He
was transferred to the First Infantry
in 1915, and promoted to be captain in
1915 but resigned in 1922. He became
a general of volunteers and did gal
liant service in the Seminole indian
wars in Florida.
I see that Gen. Harrison Gray Otis,
late of the volunteers, who is home
from the Philippine war, does not ap-
pear to be in harmony with some 9TH
ers who have been or are now IN au-
thority over there. This reminds me
of that older and better known Harri-
son Gray Otis of Boston, in years long
gone. One day Judge Thomas Dawes,
Gather of Hon. Rufus Dawes, who
was a very smart and witty, as well
as very short little man, was standing
in a group of six very tall men, one
of whom was Harrison Gray Otis, VINO
looked down upon Dawes and asked
Judge Dawes, how do you feel when
- n Wy
are?" The judge quickly responded:
Just like fourpence halfpenny
among six cents" His son, Rufus
Dawes, was a poet and lecturer of
considerable ability and spent his last
years as a resident of Baltimore and
Washington.
1 see that Congress is being asked
to vote an appropriation for monu-
ment to Gen. Daniel Morgan of the
Revolutionary army. This reminds me
that 1 was present with Maj. Gen.
Henry j. Hunt, U. S. A., at the UNI
yelling of the Memorial Column" of
the Cowpens Centennial, at Spartan
burg, S. c., May IL, 1884, and that the
column was surrounded with bronze
statue of Gen. Morgan, which was un-
yelled by his descendant, Lieut.. Daniel
Morgan Taylor, U. S. A. l have ma
IlOlldl IdB III NY NOllCCIlOil AAeNNC AAAS
toric by use on that occasion as Ia
BILE cover. At one end of the table,
with his hand resting upon this flag,
stood Lieut.. Gen. Wade Hampton, Z.
S., A., when he delivered his grafton,
and at the other end of the table
stood Col. Thomas w. Higginson, U.
S. ", with his hand resting upon this
flag while delivering his grafton. 1t
would be hard indeed to find a great
10 ,oYNfT,
largest slave owner in the state, and
one of the Souths most devoted de-
tenders; Higginson noted abolition
list and colonel of the first cOlored reg
iment formed in the South for the
union army. Higginson was a
preacher, an author a soldier and
politician, and last Sundays Boston
Herald shows him up as he was and
as he still is, in photo engravings of
considerable interest as showing the
changing career of a noted man.
Some time ago 1 told of the drunken
passenger on Conductor Sanford Bells
train who said he was going to hell,
and Sanford replied, Give me 90 cents
and get off at Carterville." 1t seems,
however, that there is place in Nor
way called HELM California one called
Hell-fer-Sarten; while in Dakota there
is a Hens Half Acre; all of which
have postoffices with these red hot"
names. California shows up with
"Yuba DAM" which is quite as objec-
tionable and leads to the natural in
quiry, "Why does a Christian govern
ment allow such names to be accept
ed and maybe a part of its postal sys-
temp. There is no accounting for
tastes in such matters. The we'll
known hotel man, A. ]. Dam, of New
York, called his place the Hotel
Dam" But when a passenger came
out of the Grand Central depot and
asked a policeman where that Dam
Hotel was, he was arrested under the
new Dam" law in that state. He
should have called it the Hotel Dam"
But strange to say, a Baptist preacher
here in Florida, in his local county
paper, in telling of the removal of Rev.
Mr.. Damm's family to join him in his
new church, very innocently, of course,
said: And now the whole Damn
family is gone" Even preachers are
thus careless in their expressions.
Sidney Herbert.