The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-21

ness, and no Southern library can af-
ford to ignore them on this account.
Historian Salley Of South Carolina
publishes letters from Andrew Jack
son to show that he did claim South
Carolina as his birthplace. But it was
by a mere scratch" as his parents
were travelling southwark and hardly
crossed the North Carolina border be-
fore his birth occurred. And now w.
j. Rees of Statesburg, S. c., comes out
in the News and Courier and gives
no thanks to Historian Salley for set
ting the long vexed question, and then
proceeds to give Jackson a terrible ar
fragment, as a bad man from way
back" and no honor to South Caro-
lima. 1t appears to be a case of a
live jackass kicking a dead lion" The
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle well says:
South Carolina might at this distance
of time, forgive his faults and take
pride in his valiant and noble quail
ties" My esteemed old friend
Col. James r. Randall of Maryland
Georgia, ought to feel proud of
the popularity of his famous war song,
Maryland, My Maryland" as the Bos-
ton Herald of Sunday gives a full page
to war songs and pictures of their au-
thors, and Randall and a verse of his
song is the only Southern one includ-
ed. The picture of Col. Randall is an
excellent one and is accompanied by
nice little biographical sketch The
Herald beats the Globe in it's G. A. R.
souvenir issue. and is a valuable pa
per for the old soldiers to file away
for future generations to read. On
that same page with Randalrs are
excellent pictures of my dear old
ifHiends Mrs Julia Ward Howe of
Boston and Edmund Clarence Stedman
of New York, and their war songs.
Rear Admiral Bartlett ]. Cromwell.
U. S. N. (retired), is spending the sum-
mer with his wife at Buena Vista
Springs, Pa. The admiral is Georgia's
ranking officer in the navy. 1
am indebted to Commander Badger,
U. S. N, in charge of the Naval Acad-
envy during the absence in Europe of
Supt. Brownson, for a list of the fol-
lowing Fourth Glass Midshipmen'' at
the academy: G. c. Barnes of Bull
lochville; D. H. Mcdowell of Blakely;
H. c. Hamilton of Dalton; T. H Jones
of Waycross; w. ]. Rountree of Quit
man; all in Georgia. r. L. De Saus-
sure of Charleston; K L. Hill of OAR
lington; j. c. Hilliard of Lancaster; all
in South Carolina. J. r. Beardall of
Orlando and E. H. Lotion of Pensa-
cola, Florida. r. E. Trippe was not
born in Georgia, but his father, Capt.
Percy E. Trippe, U. S. A., is Geor-
gian. The Metropolis refers to
Gen Albert Sidney johnson. c. S. A..
as killed in action, but his name was
Johnston. Lieut. Gems. Polk and Jack
son were not killed in action" The
former was killed by exposing himself
on Pine Mount and putting himself in
range of a Union battery which he
| had no occasion to do. as no battle was
in progress and he was not in COM
mand of troops. ''Stonewall," not
Stonewall Jackson, was accidentally
| shot by his own men, but not fatally.
| He died a week after from a severe
attack of pneumonia. 1t was Gen. Ben
McCulloch, not Mccullough" who was
| killed at Pea Ridge. Brig. Gen. Paul
]. Semmes was not killed at Gettys-
burg. but died a week later of his
wounds. Mai Gen. w. D. Pender,
| however. did not die until July IS, and
Brig. Gen. George B. Anderson.
| wounded at Sharpsburg. or Antietam
did not die until Oct. 16, 1862. These
corrections may not seem important.
but thew are.
I have corrected two writer's about
the Liberty Bell and Chief Justice
Marshall, but l will give the official
record July :, 1850. Inc BelIS last
tolling. John Marshall died in Phla,
on the sixth day of July, 1885, his re-
mains were on the day Of this ami
versary borne to Virginia for burial
The Bar of Phila united with their
fellow citizens to do honor to his
memory; with them walked, with fall
| tering steps of extreme old age-his
| eighty-eighth year the venerable
| Bishop White, the first chaplain of the
| Assembly of our State. and to the Con-
| gress of the Revolution. 1t was during
his funeral solemnities that the bell,
while slowly tolling, without other vio-
lence. parted through its great side.
and was silent thenceforth forever So
il was ordered by the Great Disposer
of human events that he who was
Chief Justice of the nation and it's
most illustrious judicial name should
die almost within the shadow of that
hall whence the people took down the
Kings arms from Kings court, that
so justice might endure. And that this
bell, its mission for our independence
completed. should have its last asso-
citation with his venerated name. In