The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-14

himself and others. Those who read
the book will know wh~ Southern
men fought for the South and why
Gen. Lees soldiers rechristened him
"Marse Robert" Mention of many
Georgians is made in the book. In Sum
days Morning News a long extract
was given containing accounts of two
Savannahians. A story of another
Georgian will be read with interest.
1t is of Maj Mcdaniel, and is as fol-
lows:
He was seriously wounded at Get
tysburg, and, of course, in the hos
pital. His friends who had been cap
tured and We're about to be marched
| off to prison, came to bid him good
by; but he declared he. would not be
left behind; that he could and would
go with them. Both his comrades and
the Federal surgeons and nurses, who
were kind and attentive, protested that
this was absolutely out of the Ques-
tion-that he would die on the road.
Very good, said MCDANIEL; I'll die
then. l am certainly. going, and if
you don't bring a litter and put me
on it and carry me, then 1 will sim
ply get up and walk till drop
Finally the surgeons yielded, say
ing that, in his condition, it would
be as fatal to confine him forcibly in
bed as to lift him out and attempt
to transport him; that either course
was certain death. So the litter was
brought, he was placed upon it, his
friends sadly took hold of the bear
ing polls and started, feeling that the
marching column of prisoners was
really McDaniers funeral procession.
THE journey would have been try
ing enough, even for a sound. strong
man, but for one in McDaniePs con-
dition it was simply fearful. Why he
did not die they could not see, yet he
did seem to grow weaker and weaker,
until at last, as the column halted
in a little Pennsylvania town, and his
bearers put the litter down gently in
the shade his eyes were closed, his
face deadly pale, and the majority of
those about him thought he was gone.
The whole population was in the
streets to see the Rebel prisoners go
by, and some stared, with gaping Gu
riesity, at the dead man on the stretch
er. His most intimate friend, Col Mes
bit, stood nearest, keeping a sort of
guard over him, and just as he made
up his mind to examine and see if in
deed it was all over, Mcdaniel opened
his eyes and then beckoned feebly for
Nesbit to come close to him. AS he
reached his side and bent over him,
Mcdaniel took hold of Nesbit's coat
and drew him yet closer down, until
their faces well nigh touched, and.
then, with a great effort and a voice
scarcely audible, Mcdaniel whispered
his name-'Nesbitn
"Nesbit says he confidently expected
some last message for his family, or
some tender farewell to his friends,
when, with extreme difficulty, his sup
posed e-dying friend, pointing with
trembling finger, uttered just these
words:
:" Nesbit, old fellows did you ever
see such an ungodly pair of ankles
as that Dutch woman standing over
there on that porch has got?'
"Of course such a man could not
be killed and would not die; and it
was not a matter of surprise to me
when, a few years later, he was elect
ed Governor of Georgia by hundred
thousand majority
-Four Years Under Marse Robert"
will make its way into the affections
of the reading public The old SOL
diers Of the Confederacy will like it,
for il recalls to them with striking
vividness scenes and incidents of the
civil struggle. and their children will
like it because they Will find in 1t
phases of the Civil War they can find
nowhere else