The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-05

his own personal use, and it was de-
stroyed by a fire at his private resi-
dence and not at the college.
Our great great grandmotherS of Revo-
lutionary days would no doubt turn
over in their graves if they knew the
D. A. r. is called the best dressed wom-
ans organization in the United States.
But worse than this, an Atlanta paper
says "the press reports indicate that
the d. A. Il. convention at Washington
made more noise than poultry show
at which every hen had laid an egg
All these envious masculine critics of
our patriotic, if ambitious women.
President Roosevelt and Congressman
Bartlett and Senator Tillman will do
we'll to notice that HELL" or "Hades"
and you are a liar" we're not in the
proceedings of the D. A. r. during the
liveliest ''cacklings," so called.
In my list of Confederate Congress-
men who were also generals, given in
one of these letters several months
ago, 1 neglected to include the name
of Gen. John Gregg, a native of Ala
bama, but a resident of Texas when
the war broke out. He was elected
to the Provisional Congress and then
became colonel of the Seventh Texas
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was promoted to brigadier general and
was leading Fields Division in an as
sault at Fort Harrison. on the Oar
bytown Road, Va Oct. Z, 1864, when
he fell with his face to the foe in de-
termined effort to regain lost ground.
The Confederate Congressman who
fell in battle were Gen. Gregg. of Texas;
Gen. T. r. K. Cobb and Gen. Francis
S. Barlow, of Georgia; Gen. A. G.
IT. ~. 7 ~
of Virginia. 1 think Gen. Jenkins died
from wounds in battle. 1t is very
hard work to obtain reliable data Of
this kind, and even officials records of
this late date are not to be depended
upon for accuracy of detail.
The death of Henry B. Plant Fitzger-
aid sewers a tender link which bound
his father, Capt. ]. w Fitzgerald, to
his old-time friend, President Henry B.
Plant The name now remains with
Morton F. Plants little son, H. B.
Plant, and Col. B. w Wrenn's older
son, Henry B. Plant Wrenn, of New
York. Monuments are good things in
their places, but it is far better to be
honored, after DEATH by having some
worthy man bear your good name into
future generations. In our army and
navy to-day can be found the names
of heroes long since gone to their
graves, borne by worthy sons or grand
sons. Gen. John B. Gordon
as commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans, has appointed
Miss Louisiana Breckenridge Gibson,
niece of the late Gen. Omitted States
Senator) Randall Gibson, C. S. A, chief
maid of honor for the New Orleans re-
union. She is a relative of the John
c. Breckenridge who figured in the
Louisiana Purchase, and he named her
grandmother Louisiana Breckenridge
Hart, which name this granddaughter
now bears. A most appropriate name
for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
year.
A Savannah reader of these letters
writes me as follows: Both you and
your friend, Ravens, are mistaken
about the Bechtler gold dollar being a
Confederate coin. l saw and knew of
the circulation of this kind of money
several years before the Civil War
While it was minted in North Caro-
lima, l don't know the history of the
mint; but l do know that it did not
pass for a standard United States gold
dollar as it was worth only about SIS
cents, and the people did not like to
be bothered with them. The
Bechtler gold dollar was well known
and circulated among the people in the
upper part of South Carolina before
the war, where l became acquainted
with it.. 1t is now up to Havens to