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SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
SOME ADVICE ABOUT CORRECTING
ERRORS.


ERRORS.
Errors in School HistOries-They
Are Not Complained of by south
ern Writers AIone-NOrthern Crit
les Also Find Them and Point
Them Out-An Essay on the Jones
Family-A Islander on the Name of
JOnes-SOme other Matters of Gen.
eraI Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland. Fla,
March 21.-This date, however, will
find me in Fitzgerald, Ga. where 1 go
with Commander-in-Chief Thomas j.
Stewart, G. A. r., to attend the De-
partment Encampment of Georgia and
South Carolina. There are three G. a.
r. posts in Fitzgerald, and with the
Woman's Relief Corps and Ladies' of
the G. A. r.. they will make everything
in the Colony City" as free as water
1t promises to be a most delightful re-
union of the veterans and their fami-
lies. From there we go to Birming-
ham, where the Department of Ala
bama will hold its encampment on
March "a. I am indebted to
Hon. William A. Courtenay of "Innis-
fallen" at Newry, S. c.. for a beauti-
full booklet history of the famous
Washington Light Infantry of Charles
ton, of which he was the popular COM
mander from 1872 to 1874. and from 1877
to 1879. Founded in 1907 by Capt.
William Lowndes, the centennial of
the q q hand n n
its youth in 1860 and was the first COM
pany called into actual service (early
in November of that year, for the de-
Tense of the Southern cause. serving
until the close of the war. This
gives it the longest war-service of any
Southern command. shall refer to this
valuable booklet in future letters.
Whenever the readers of the Morning
News see Admiral of the U. S. A"
or General of the y. S. N" in these
letters they will surely know that it
was not my blunder. 1 do not deem 1t
necessary to correct such plain and
frequent errors for which am not re-
sponsible. E Y. Clarke, Jr.,
has an illustrated article in last Sun
days Constitution on Fulton County's
Juvenile Industrial Farm" or Reform
atory. My old friend Prof. Means
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reforming work for the boys put under
their care. One of the illustrations
shows the Military Squad" in review.
Prof. Means finds this feature one of
the best mediums to tone up and in
spire the boys with a manly spirit.
The same paper has a four-inch
picture across an entire page, showing
the "Marist College Cadets" on parade,
Maj. Eugene Schmidt in command
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it's managers seem to know the value
of a good military corps of cadets in
the institution. AS have so often said
in these letters, it is useless to try to
keep the military feature out of schools
of a high grade, or Juvenile reforma-
tories There is no substitute for 1t in
setting up" the boys and giving them
more manly appearance. My
old one-armed Confederate friend,
Capt. e. Troup Randle of Union
Springs, Ala. fell dead recently at the
gate of his sons residence. He was a
lieutenant colonel on Maj Gen. George
P. Harrisons U. c. V. staff, and they
gave him a military funeral such as
he deserved. But the irrepressible
headline man" put it, Capt. Randall
Falls Dead" Alas! for a hero's fame
as Lord Byron once said.
An appreciative reader of these let
tiers, one who thinks I know more
than I really do. asks me to tell who
was the actual Confederate command
er at the Battle of Honey Hill. To me
it seems a little mixed-somewhat like
who actually commanded at the Battle
of Olustee, or Ocean Pond-an absent
or a present officer-in fact, a Samp-
son or a Schley. I may possibly be
able to get at the facts in the case.
Atlanta has honored herself in
selecting Capt. VIM. w. Hubert. d.
vision superintendent of the Southern
Express Company, to be grand mar
shall of the Memorial Day parade on
April 26. There vas no better or brav-
er soldier in the Confederate army
than Billy Hubert of the West
Point, Ga. Guards. And since the war
his whole heart has been given to
keeping up the Doles-Cook Brigade
Survivors Association. Nor has any
old soldiers widow or orphans ever
appealed to him in vain for needed
help. Modest as he is brave, he has
| never sought the honors many covet
| but unselfishly labored in humble Do
sitions. That is why 1 say Atlanta has
honored herself in seeking out this
worthy veteran, whose "silver threads
among the gold" bear witness to his
| long years of faithful service. He was
| it is true, foot sore" soldier in war
| but his martial figure will match or
| horseback that of any of his big staff
of more experienced riders. Col. HUI
bert is a halfway Savannah man, his
estimable wife being a Miss Hollister
of that city. Maj. Van Holt Nash is
to be chief of staff, which means a
magnificent parade of the military and
Confederate veterans.
Col. Thomas J. Appleyard of the
Lake City, Fla, Index, having stated
that mo one is more thoroughly post
ed on military matters than the writ
er of these letters Editor Carter of
the Jacksonville Metropolis indorses
the statement, but hints that I must
keep a scrap book" The highest COM
pliment I have received. however.
comes from a learned and eminent
public man of Savannah who was
kind enough to express the opinion
that, considering the wide scope of my
letters, and the great variety of topics
covered, they were mot only remark
able, but wonderful in their accuracy
and comprehensiveness." But he also
limited at my having full supply of
encyclopedias. scrap books, old army
registers, histories and biogra plies ga
lore, etc. While I fully appreciate these
compliments, unsought and perhaps
undeserved, I must protest in all kind
ness against the suggestion that I am
indebted to scrap books, encyclope-
dias, army registers, ETC., for my sue
cess.