The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts of Interest to Confederate and Union
Veterans and Others.

ers in another. The Norwegian tramp
steamer Hero, which was wrecked and
then rebuilt in Baltimore, Nd, lost
her Norwegian papers, and now that
she is rebuilt she has no nationality.
and therefore no flag under which to
clear from any port. She cannot be
registered as an American ship, and
as she lost her Norwegian papers she
is called Ship Without Flag"
Veteran w. F. Pennlman of Savan-
nah dropped in on me in my den"
last Tuesday, between trains, and spent
what to me was most delightful but
fleeing hour and a half. His acquaint-
ance with so many people l know in
Maine and Connecticut and his serV-
ices in the battle of Olustee or Ocean
Pond, Fla, gave us plenty of food for
conversation. I have seldom met a
more captivating talker, and his gen.
eral knowledge is most remarkable. No
circle of veteran soldiers can have a
dull moment when such ready and well
equipped takers are in it. / shall long
cherish the memory of his CHEEKY visit
to my quiet little den" !
have several times alluded to Rev. Cy-
rus Townsend Brady and his historical
novels In which Capt. John Paul Jones
and Capt. Blakely figure so promi-
nently. Brady is rapid and an i'm
aginative writer, and he seems to put
! no limit to his flights of imagination.
This has led Munsey's Magazine to call
his writings History and Poppycock."
How does Brady know what really oc-
CURED on Jones' vessel, the Bon HON.
me Richard, or on Blakely's vessel, the
Wasp? The latter was lost at sea, and
never heard from, and yet Brady tells
all about these war vessels.
A meritorious officer from Mar
shallville, Ga, is Maj. Daniel A.
Frederick of the Adjutant Generals
department. He is transferred from
the Department of Luzon, P. l., tc
Iloilo, in the Department of the VII
sayas, to be Adjutant General of that
department. = Capt. Manley B.
Curry, son-in-law of Senator Bacon
who has been acting as chief paymas-
ter of the Department of the Gulf al
Atlanta, is succeeded by Mai. Elijah
w. Halford, formerly private secre-
tary to President Harrison, and whose
return to Atlanta will be cause of re-
| joicing on the part of the Y INCA. as
the major is a devout and active Chris
| tian worker and an entertaining
| Speaker. Captain Curry, who is a son of
the late Rev. DR.. j. l.. M. Curry, will
remain in Atlanta as an assistant tC
Maj Halford.
| 1t is evident that Capt. Cowles, U.
S. N, being the Presidents brother
in-law, was "whitewashed" by the
court of inquiry in regard to his col
| lision of the Missouri with the Illinois
/ Although the court gave it's opinion
| that no further proceedings shall be
had in the matter" it clearly gave ex-
| preston that Capt. Cowles was really
| guilty of neglect of duty in this Off
cial statement: Whatever expedienI
| he adopted, however, had his course
| been Immediately communicated to the
| Illinois by the prescribed signals the
| latter could have Unanswered to avoid
| the collision. Notwithstanding the
omission of signals noted on the part Of
the captain and the officer-o the deck
Of the Missouri, the court recommend
no further proceedings. Now, marx
It, here is a collision that is to cost the
government over 100000, and the court
/ says proper signals by Capt. Cowle:
would or could have prevented it, ye
mo further proceedings" are to bt
taken in the matter. Only a blind mar
/ can fail TO see Goat of whitewash'
in this transaction. It would hurt tbs
Presidents feelings to have his favored
| brother-in-law court-martialed for 6
! $4,000 blunder like this collision.
| The death of Col. Burton N. Harri-