The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-19

chusetts, has led some newspapers to
state that Rhode Island has also hon
ored her gallant son. Gen. A. E.
Burnside, with a monument. The mon
ument is all right, but Burnside was
son" of Indiana. born there and en-
tered West Point from that state. At
the close of the Mexican War he served
at Fort Adams, r. l., one year. then
came back there for another year in
1852, but resigned in October, 1853, and
became manufacturer of fire arms at
Bristol, in that state being the in
Ventor of breech-loading rifle. How
ever, he went West in 1858 and became
cashier and, later treasurer of the Ill-
nols Central Railroad. From this DO
sit1on he resigned in 1861 to accept the
colonelcy of a Rhode Island volunteer
regiment. After the war he was Gov
ernor of Rhode Island and United
States senator Hooker went to West
Point from Massachusetts, but when he
resigned from the army in California,
in 1883 he became a farmer out there
until 1861. when he entered the Union
Army s a brigadier general, and at
tanned the same rank in the regular
army in 1852. He was retired as
major general, in 1868, for disabilities.
1 should have stated in my last let
ter that membership in the select Aztec
Club of Mexican War officers. was he
reditary, as in the Society of the Gin
cinnati and the Loyal Legion, and that
several such members live in Geor-
gia. Judge Pope Barrow of Savannah,
married for his first wife, Miss Sarah
Church Craig, the daughter of a Mexi-
can War hero, and being his only child
his membership fell to her Oldest son,
Middleton Pope Barrow. The insignia
of the club is very elegant, green and
gold, suspended by a dainty ribbon. and
to be worn on the breast of the coat.
OF course the young man feels great
pride in this badge of his revered
grandfather's heroic conduct in several
bloody conflicts including Monterey,
Contreras and Churubusco. The club
was organized in the City of Mexico by
regular army officers, Gen. Scott being
at the head of the movement. Capt.
Lewis S. Craig of the Third United
States Infantry, was a Virginian who
entered the army as a second lieuten-
ant of dragons in 1887, yet he came
out of the war with the brevets of
major and lieutenant colonel for his
gallant and meritorious conduct on
many hard fought fields, especially
Monterey, where he was under the hot
test fire as his regiment entered the
city. True, as the words of Poet Hofr-
man say:
We were not many-we who pressed
Beside the brave who fell that day
But who of us has not confessed
He'd rather share their warrior rest
Than not have been at Monterey"
A personal item in Tuesdays Morn
ing News calls Sir Moses Ezekiel a
famous Cincinnati" sculptor. This
robs his native state of Virginia of
the fame due her heroic and gifted
son. Nor was his room-mate plain
Thomas Jefferson but Thomas Gar
land Jefferson, remotely related to
Thomas jefferson, and the Garlands
and Egglestons. He was a private in
Company B, and Moses j. Ezekiel was
a private in Company c of the Virginia
Military Institute cadets at the battle
of New Market, to which the Item re-
fers. Jefferson was a noble Christian
young man and when he fell, mortally
wounded and two comrades halted to
aid him, he bravely said: You can
do nothing for me; go to the front;
there is the place for you" War is
a fearful thing, but when a noble
Christian young man yields to a sense
of duty to his country and his God,
he meets whatever fate is in store for
him with a heroism and sublime
faith that puts to blush the rampant
defamer of American soldiers. No
wonder Sir Moses Ezekiel. who was in
the rloody battle-when fame and for
tune had come to him-created the
beautiful monument that he has had
erected to the memory of his dead
comrades.
Gen. John B. Gordon's article, Get
tysburg," in the July Scribner, is open
to criticism, but the errors are no
doubt the fault of the publishers of the
magazine. We have Gen" Long
street, "Gen." Lee and Cen" Pickett.
One a lieutenant general, another a
eral. Now, bear in mind this would
be all right if we didn't have in the
same article Lieut.. Gen" Early and
Lieut.. Gen." Ewell and Gen" z. P.
Alexander, a brigadier general There
is a group Of pictures of Gen. Hancock,
II. S. A., with Gems. Barlow, Gibbon
and Binney. But the latter should be
Birney-Gen. David B. Birney of Penn
svlyania Gen. Gordon refers to Gen.
Farnsworth's cavalry attack on Gen.
Lees flank, in retreat which resulted
in the generals death, as he met a
desperate repulse from Lees veterans.
7 had been previously wounded by
Cen. Fitz Lees cavalry and was sent
To the sanitary commission surgeon,
Dr. Steiner, at Frederick, lying along
side of the dead body of Gen. Farms
worth in an ambulance. 1t was grue-
some night ride l shall never forget.
Gen. Gordon's account of Lees Wad-
ers" crossing the Potomac az
Failing Waters during the night
of July 1s is quite anus
ing. on Sunday afternoon, July