The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-31

a second lieutenacy in 1891. This regi-
ment has four captains, two first lieu
tenants and six second lieutenants pro-
NOTED from the ranks. The colonel is
from the volunteers, the lieutenant
colonel from civil life, apd two majors
from West Point; also, six captains
and one first lieutenant. Maj. Ames
was a cadet at West Point for about
four months in 1874 There are two
Georgians in this regiment, First Lieu
tenant Blanton Winship, graduate of
the University of Georgia. 1898, and a
captain of volunteers in the Spanish
American War; Second Lieutenant
Walter o. Boswell, from the Mercer
High School at Penfield, who was a ca
Diet at West Point about a year and a
half 1S9S-1900. He then went into the
regular army and won his commission
in June, 1902. Georgia has several such
plucky boys who failed at West Point,
but did not give up the ship They
went into the ranks and worked their
way up to be commissioned officers.
And they have made good records.
Gov. Longino, of Mississippi, went
to the U. c. V. reunion in New Orleans
and slept with Gen. Joe Wheeler. AS
result he declares: He is the gent
lest warrior l ever saw. His manner
is as soft. as a woman's, and he is one
of the most perfect gentlemen l have
ever met" Well, the Governor has at
this late day discovered what 1 knew
of Gen. w. more than thirty years
ago, and 1 did not sleep with him to
find 1t out. l have known the entire
family-the living and the dead-and
as husband, father, friend and neigh
Dor he has lived up to the highest
standards of excellence. AS a soldier
of the Confederacy he was among the
first in the field and was captured
with President Davis 'in the last
ditch" and with him sent to a military
prison. What is true of the
u. c. Y. reunions, as to army gen.
erals, is also true of the G. A. r. en-
campments. Few general officers at
tend them, and few such officers are
elected to high positions. Gems. Cor
don, S. D. Lee, Cabell, Harrison, Law,
G. W. Gordon, Evans and Ellison are
the most conspicuous. Gen. Robert
Lowry of Mississippi, and Gen. Joe
Wheeler of Alabama, were about the
only visiting generals 1 saw mention
ed. The widows of Gen. Bragg Gen.
T. ]. CStonewalPO Jackson ana Gen.
Edmund Kirby Smith seem to have
been the most distinguished guests of
honor. Also. Miss Lucy Lee Hill of
Chicago, daughter of the lamented
Lieut.. Gen. A. P. Hill. Miss Hill was
not, as reported rendered" the title
of Daughter of the ConfederAcy"
when Winnie Davis died. Such a move
ment was discussed, but Miss I'LL
promptly stopped the discussion.
The recent death of Gen. Vim. Far
rar Smith, U. S. A., better known as
Badly" led me to refer to him as
the last general upon whose staff I
served in the Civil Wa. He commend
ed division of militia composed of two
brigades under Hall and Even of New
York. and two brigadas under Knipe
and B"isbin of Pennsylvania. wti;ll
moved from Harrisburg after Gen.
F1tz Lees cavalry at Carlisle barracks,
and thence to join Gen. Meade 1T Get
ysburg. From Carlisle I was sent
ahead as bearer of dispa+ ches to Ge.l.
Meade, but was delayed in reachin2
him by Lees cavalry which wounded
m and captured my horse. Il took to
the woods and finally reached
Meade's headquarters on the latte
field. am now the sole survivor If the
little group of officers-Meade, Butter
field, Warren, Pleasanton and Dahl
gren, who there held a council of w3r.
I refer to this event because the state
of New York, through it's New York
Monuments Committee" of which
Maj. Gen. Daniel e. SickIes u. S. T..
retired, is chairman, has just sent me
three superb volumes-"New York at
Gettysburg''-as a testimonial of it's
appreciation of my services on that IA
nous battlefield. The books are 9x11
inches in size and cover 1852 pages,
and all the illustrations are full page
photo-engravings They include every
New York monument on the battlefield
and pictures of all the New York gem
erals engaged in the battle. No state
in the Union has given her Gettysburg
heroes such a magnificent and costly
testimonial, one that in the distant
future will be priceless for reference.
In addition to- history of each COM
mand there is given a full report of
the exercises at the unwilling of every
monument After my death my copy
goes to Savannah.
The Rev. DR.. W. S. Rainsford of st.
Georges Episcopal Church in New
York, would have been popular chap
lain in the army under Sherman or
Hooker, or "Old Jube" Early or Wal
kerr all noted cussers. Rainsford says:
II hate. when 1 come into a gathering
of men, to have them drop their voices