The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-31
SIDNEY HERBERT's LETTER.
INTERESTING MILITARY MATTERS
GATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES.

GATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES.
some Interesting Facts About Mem
bers of the Walker Family-PlucLy
GeOrEia Boys Who Failed at West
POint-Gen. Wheeler Has Lived Up
to the Hishes Standards of Excel
Ience-An Interesting Reference
to Gen. VIM. Farrar smith-sOme
Generals who Would Swear in the
PRESENCE of observation-disclosures
on This Line by Rev. DIR. w. S.
RainsfOrd-Other Matters of GEN
eral Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, May
3O.-When Jacksonville printers make
"W. H. Nebsatt" out of "W. H. Mel
rath" it almost keeps me from COM
planning of the Savannah printer who
made Johnson" out of my John
ston" in two instances in my last let
ter, and Mccall out of one Mac
kali" Also Lieut.. "Asquitte" should
be "Asquith." My copy is sometimes
bad, but not responsible for those err
rors. - l am indebted to Mr..
neat booklet, 1.-THE Monroe Doctrine. A
Complete History" compiled by him,
end illustrated with an excellent pic
ture of President Monroe. This is a
valuable reference publication for
writers and orators who wish to dis
cuss the Monroe Doctrine, now so con-
spicuous in the public press and on the
Tn nj n
nah inquirer 1 will state that I have
written Mr.. William Estill, the Bull
street news dealer, to order some cop
les of the June issue of THE United
Service" magazine, in which my next
article appears. The price is now only
10 cents a copy.
Mrs. Julia Bradley of Savannah had
a brother, J. W. Carey, bright young
fellow, who was paymaster's clerk on
the i'll fated Confederate ram Ala
bama After his capture he was con-
fined at Fort Warren in Boston har-
Dor, over year, and l have a let
ter written by him in December 1863,
to his mother. and a more, cheerful,
brave letter 1 never read from a young
prisoner of war. 1t was this hopeful,
brave spirit in the boys of the South
that made them so valuable in the
army and navy. Young Carey was
killed while on his return from a trip
with other prisoners who had been re-
fused an exchange. 1 remember visit
/ paid with the adjutants general of the
states to old Fort Warren, when Gill
mores famous band played Dixie" in
front of Col. Harry Gilmores prison
door,
The notice of the promotion of Mr..
Lapsley G. Walker to be editor-in-chief
of the Chattanooga Times says he is a
son of the late Gen. Francis M. Walk
er of Kentucky, who was killed in the
historic battle of Atlanta" So far as
I know the only Walker killed in either
army during the Civil War was Gen.
William H. T. Walker, c. S. A., who
fell in the battle of Atlanta. Francis
M. Walker was a second lieutenant of
the Fifth Tennessee Infantry in the
Mexican War, but 1 do not think he
ever rose to be a general in the c. S.
A. and l know he was not killed in the
battle of Atlanta holding that rank
One Gen. Lucius M. Walker, c. S. A.,
of Tennessee, who graduated from
West Point in 1850. but resigned from
the United States army in 1852, was
killed in a duel with Gen. Marmaduke
in 1868. A special to the Au-
gusta Chronicle states that Lieut..
Ward B. Walker of Appleton, S. c.,
has been killed in action in the Philip
pines. Inc telegram says 1T is not
known how long he had been in serv-
ice" There is no such name on the
register of the regular army as late as
April, and l think there must be an
error in the report. He may have been,
however, like Lieut.. Reese of Georgia
an officer of Philippine scouts, or in the
constabulary. There is great care
lesness in making these reports, and
volunteers, scouts, ETC., are badly mix
ed with regular army officers.
Lieut.. Joseph w. Lacour of the Six
teenth United States Infantry, report
ed as a deserter from Mcpherson Bar
racks at Atlanta, was not, as stated, a
regular graduate of Yale University,
he having only attended the Law
School. Nor does the April ARMY Di-
rectory' rate him higher than second
lieutenant. He was born in Mary
land, but entered the army as a private
from Ohio, in 1898, became an acting
hospital steward, then was promoted to