The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-29

pers and Peterkin are notable exam
pies. Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor
of Tennessee is one of the most active
and efficient promoters of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans.
Some editors are poking fun at
Grover Cleveland because he address,
ed a letter Mr.. Elliott Flower, Esq"
Well, how about the old-time Gen.
George Washington. ESQ.," and Capt.
John Paul JONES' ESQ.," or the modern
col. B. D. Lay, NJ. D." and others 4?
Grover was simply following a prac-
tce older than this republic.
Other editors are kicking because
Bishop Saterlee of Washington, D. c.,
introduced Teddy" Roosevelt as His
Excellency the President" etc. Well,
again, how often have our generals
and Presidents and Governors been
called His Excellency' or Your Ex-
cellency" by equally as distinguished
persons? AS late as the recent Span
sh-American War, at Santiago, the
Spanish Gen. Toral addressed Gen.
Shafter of our army in the following
bolnbastic and incorrect style: ITO
His Excellency the Commander-in-
Chief of the American Forces" And
yet neither title belonged to Gen.
Shafter
Col. Bennett H. Young of Louisville,
, Ky, a famous Confederate veteran, in
an article in 1.-THE Last Cause" maga-
zine, refers to Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnson, and yet this magazine is
published under the auspices of the
Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, U. d.
c. Why do intelligent people SO mix
the Gems. johnson and Johnston? Even
the president of the Alabama u. d. c.
has recently stated that she organized
an Albert Sidney Johnson Chapter of
the Children of the Confederacy. AL
bert Sydney Johnston is also incor-
rect, as his name was Sidney. There
were four Johnstons who were gener-
als-Albert s., Joseph F., George D.
and r. D., and four Johnsons-Ed.,
Bradley T., Bushrod r. and Adam r.
There was a McRea and a MacRae.
M. p. and Robert Lowry were broth
ers, yet one is recorded Lowrey and
the other Lowry. Williams C. Wick
ham is put down William. Rodes is
often called Rhodes. The three gener-
ais, Stuarts, Stuart and Stewart, have
their names often confused. Hebert is
made Herbert and Hagood made Hay
good. Bate often becomes Bates and
Doles is made Dole.
Veteran B. F. Carlisle of Talbotton,
Ca, lately deceased, was said to be
$50 devoted to the Lost Cause that he
would never wear blue clothes" Well,
that cost him no privation, and he
lost no salary by it. But Conductor
Frank Burnett of the Georgia Railroad
from Macon to Aug usta, threw up his
fine position rather than don the blue
uniform prescribed under a new man.
agement He was a Confederate will
ing to make a great sacrifice for the
gray uniform that had so bravely con-
tended against the blue. The
statement that Brig. Gen. w. H. Car
ter, u. S. A., of the general staff. -
that the title of commanding general"
was a mere Fiction" leads me to name
another title that was a fiction" The
Rt Rev. Thomas NJ. Clark of Rhode
Island, lately deceased, was called the
presiding Bishop" and yet he never
presided He was, in truth, however,
the senior Bishop" and also the last
Bishop to die who was consecrated
(1S5D before the Civil War Bishop
Henry B. Whipple of Minnesota, who
presided for Bishop Clark until his
death few years ago, was conse-
Grated in 1859. There is now no Bishop
living-I think-whose conservation
dates before the Civil War. Bishops
Quintard, Dudley, Weed, r. w. B. Ell