The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-11

discussion, President Jefferson Davis.
OF the Confederate States, was also
what may be called "a stickler'' on
this subject. Brig. Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston, U. s. A, was quartermas-
ter general, and Col. Albert Sidney
Johnston, of the Second United States
cavalry was brevet brigadier general
when they resigned and went into the
Confederate Army. Now, Joseph E.
Johnston was simply a lieutenant colo
mel of the First U. S. Cavalry when.
in June, 1860, he was made quarter
master general, with the rank of briga-
der general. President Davis ignored
the STAFF rank, and the brevet rank
of the Johnstons and appointed Col.
Samuel Cooper, U. S. A. (adiutant
generaD, the ranking full general of
the Confederate States Army. Cooper
was a New Yorker, who had married
a Miss Mason, of Virginia, and was
made colonel in 1852, while A. S.
Johnston was not made a colonel until
three years later. But there was gal
iant old Col. Thos. f. Fauntleroy, of
the First U. S. Dragons. a Virginian,
VINO was a colonel in 1850 So the
world goes-inconsistent!
Second Lieut.. Walter G. Cooper of
the Philippine Scouts has been sus-
pended from rank. Day and command
and given reprimand for facing his
battalion the wrong way during a fight
with the Moros. Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood, U. S. A, in his reprimand, saws:
More keenness to meet the enemy.
ana less vigor in going to the rear
for reinforcements would have been
more in the line of soldiers duty"
waiter q. Cooper is a familiar Attain
Ia name, but l don't know that this
one halls from that city. The
atlantic coast, from Savannah to Cape
Hatteras, is to be patrolled by the
revenue cutter Seminole, under Cant
Foley, with her headquarters at Will
mlngton, N. c., her mission being to
AFFORD aid to vessels in distress She is
aIso arranged with dynamite apparatus
10 blow up all derelicts that cannot
be towed into port. have
many applications from persons who
wish TO join the Daughters of the Rev.
olution, the Daughters of the American
revolution, the Colonial Danes. the
Daughters of the War of 1872 the Sons
or the Revolution, ETC., for information
as to their ancestors in the wars of
those periods. l am always more than
glad to give any information possible,
but what these persons need is official
information, and this must come from
official records, duly certified. Mai.
Gen. f. c. Ainsworth, u. S. A., the
military secretary at Washington, d.
C., should be able to give this infor-
nation of tell where it can be oh
tained. Each state ought to have in
its adjutant generals department the
record of all its soldiers from the Con-
cord and Lexington period down to the
present day Georgia, 1 am glad to
see, is waking up TO this idea.
Some time ago I spoke of Veteran
K. ID. Dumply, who lost both arms un-
der Farragut in the famous battle of
Mobile harbor. He recently died in
Vallejo, Cal. and Admiral McCalla
sent the marine band and a squad of
marines and "bluejackets" to Join the
Grand Army and naval veterans in
giving the old hero an imposing bu-
rial. by all his country's honors blest.
Secretary +. A. Easton of
Worcester, Mass, sends me a very
handsome little booklet, the Roster
of the Cavalry Society of the Armies
of the United States" As my name
appears in this roster. with the rank
OF colonel" / am glad to place it in
my collection OF war memorials. no
tice several errors in rank. among
them Maj. Gen. j. f. Wade, u. S. A..
as brigadier general, and Brig. Gen.
Carl A. Woodruff. u. $. A. (retlred),
as a colonel The War De-
partment appoints cadets from mill
itary schools of the various states to
second lieutenancies in the regular
army. Among those TO take the usual
examination are Charles Manly Drum
mond and George Walker White.
principal and alternate. from the South
Carolina Military Academy Cthe cita-
deb at Charleston, and Ralph Ber-
nard Claggett and d. Cecil Pearson Of
| the Virginia Military Institute at Lex
| ington, Va. The last Congress
gave Capt. John r. Bartlett, u. S. ~.
| the rank of rear admiral, but failed