The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06


because we have "" suppose
therefore, if we had no there would be
none of this Mamye and Kathryn and
Gussye foolishness. Just think or
George Washingtons mother as Mamye
Washington.
A few weeks ago referred to the
many errors in the History of the Con-
federate Memorial Associations of the
South" recently published by the Par
ent Associa ton in New Orleans. / did
not point out half the errors that fell
under my notice on first examination
of the volume. The most serious. l
think, is the failure to include sketch
of the Columbus, (Ga.) Memorial Asso-
citation, in which the Southern Deco
ration Day''-now called Memorial
Day"-originated. In his sketch of JEFF
ferson Davis, Introductory to the histo-
ries, Judge Fenner refers to Fort JEFF
ferson, near st. Louis" In this he is
wrong, as Fort Jefferson was in Ohio,
near Greenville, and was established in
1871. He evidently meant Jefferson
Barracks, near st. Louis, established in
1926, and to which Lieut.. Davis carried
the famous Indian chief, Black Hawk,
after his surrender. Gov. Andrew of
Massachusetts, is called Andrews. and
Thad Stevens, called (Stephens).
MIS-. f1dlBIeQ De
S. Gen. w. Y. Slack, / think. should
be George William Y. Slack. Capt
McLellen is likewise called Mcclellan.
Rev Robert Elliott should be r. W..
B. Elliott. Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee should
be F'itzhugh Lee. Gen. William B.
Bate is printed Bote several times, and
]. c. C. Black, as ]. c.. B. Some of
these are trifiing errors, and yet they
are no less, errors. .s
The death of Maj. Chas. H. Smith,
, of Gainesville, Ga. revives the story
about his advent as a humorous writ
err and the choice of BILL Arp as his
pen name. 1t was the family name of
a cracker humorist up about Rome,
Ga, who consented to the arrangement.
My old newspaper friend, Charles T.
Brown, of Maine, when he entered up
on a similar career, took for his pen
name the family name of. one of Amer
ica's most eminent men and revolution
airy heroes. ARENAS Ward. And yet
very few people who heard the humor-
Gus article, of '"Artenias Ward of
modern times ever dreamed of such a
distinguished origin for his monde
plume. Major General ARENAS Ward
was the first officer of that rank at the
| siege of Boston and commanded the
right wing of the army on Dorchester
Heights He graduated at Harvard
before he was of age, having been born
in 1927, and became a member of the
general assembly, but later served as
Major Lieut.. Col. and Brig. Cen, at
which time he was nearly fifty years
old. On leaving the army he was
chosen chief justice of the court of
common of Worcester county, Mass.
He also served in the Legislature, one
term as speaker, and as president OF
the Executive Council, and four years
in Congress. And yet, with all these
civic and military honors his name
lies in memory mostly in connection
with Charles Browns legacy of hui
NOR under the pen name of "Artemas
Ward" Such, alas! earthly fame.
Chas. H. Smith lifted up the low born
obscure name of Bill Arp and gave it
a worldwide fame, while Chas. F.
Browne obscured the highbred, distin-
guished name of Gen. ARENAS Ward
with his fun and frolic. So runs the
world away. we are told. 1 venture to
assert that not one out of ten history
scholars in our public school can tell
who ARENAS Ward was. They will
stop at Browns pen name.
Sidney Herbert.