The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-17
WAR AND
ITS RELICS
Argument in Favor OF
Establishing a
Museum.

Representative William Hughes, OF
New Jersey, has presented IN the house
a statement of exhibits of the proposed
museum of war in this city, which was
sent to him, by instruction, by National
Historian J. Walter Mitchell, OF the
Spanish War Veterans. says the Wash
ington Star. The paper recites that the
writer sends to congress the requests OF
the Spanish War Veterans. the Amer
lean History clubs and other kindred
organizations for tie establishment or
national museum of war in the city OF
Washington, D. c., as provided by house
of representatives bill No. 6788, intro
duced by Representative William
Hughes, of New Jersey. He mentions
some of the exhibits and relics OF war
which are already in possession OF the
United States government, and which
would, in his opinion, form splendid
nucleus for the proposed museum.
Taking the National Museum at Wash
ington first, he said, and noting some OF
the most important and interesting war
exhibits in that institution, l found there
the valuable and imposing collections OF
| Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Han
| cock and other famous American cap
tains, the camp outfit and military para
pnernalia OF General George Washington,
the pathetic Capron collection, father and
| son. both of whom gave up their lives on
the altar of their country III the war with
Spain.
The Grant relics are said to be the most
| interesting. historical and valuable OF the
MANY collections IN the extensive national
museum They represent many phases IN
fine eyentful career of the great military
leader. from his boyhood days in ILLINOIS
| TO the last hours of his existence on
F! Mount McGregor Preserved with the
greatest care by the great soldier during
| his lifetime, these relics are even more
zealously guarded by the nation which ne
served so periodically and effectively III
the DAYS Of its greatest peril. The IN
trinsic value of the collection IS great
its sentimental value to the republic can
not be expressed IN words.
The war relics in the national museum
can be c1assed under these heads: nose
of the Revolution and the war OF 1917
the war with Mexico, the Civil war III
dian campaigns, the war with opaln' t,ie
insrrrection in the Philippines and the
cornpaign in China. / he civil war rei1c,
form a most interesting study OF thS
deadly strife in the COS, and the gias:
cases containing them are nearly always
surrounded by eager throngs OF people
The central piece of the exhibit is sec
" ton of large oak tree, which STOOD III
- side the Confederate instrenchments nea
III cnottsvlvania Court House, Va, the tre'
II being literally cut down by musket ball
1 / during the attempt to recapture IN
works previously carried by the secon'
corns. army of the Potomac, during tn
II battle of Spottsylvania Court House, Ma
4 70 1864. Near the bullet-torn oak stunl
II IS all that remains or United otdte
II flag as it came out OF the three oayS
II fight at Salem Church, Salem HeigntS
II Va. early IN May, 1903: here are Dul
i few faded shreds OF silk let eliilgllls :
II section of the flagstaff. While carryln
1 4l;s aao three color sergeants were Kill
Il ad and several others seriously wouno
Il ed. The adjoining exhibit IS model
| fbe limited States ram, Monitor, arme
| With two e1even-inch Dahlgren cannon
which craft, known TO the Confederate
as s.the Yankee cheesebox, defeated II
1 for,o,1s Southern ram, MerrlnaC'
| Hannton Roads, March 8, 1862.
In the collection of flags is the garrlsc:
aao which hoated over Fort Moulul
- Cbar1eston harbor, S. G., when Mac
Robert Anderson evacuated the 1oi
- I1ecember 20, 1860. Then there IS the liz
= ~ the Kearsarge, which Hoated fro
her peak when she caused the surrenq
of the Confederate cruiser .Aiabafna di
the first Union flag holsted IN KicIllloi
after its evacuation, which was uSsu
headquarters flag by General Org WI
he took possession OF the Coiiieoei .
capital. -, ,,t;
81 Ellsworth was shot and killed
Ia,,,as F Jackson, in the Marshall hou:
HIexandria Va, is another tragic re
ID - the early DAYS OF the Civil war.
- side IS the regulation army rihe w
r9,ord bavonet with which the death
Ii1s,yorth was promptly avenged
n Pro,,,,1ell one OF his soldiers. The pc
We daro,,s kew of the old war departmf
b,,;id;no ON Seventeenth street, VIII
,ra;ebs nearly five pounds, is among
I'D relics OF the Civil war IN the
''o NJ are exhibits from the Conteder
ia 81 the strife lacking. There are
several STYLES of gray uniforms worn
\ Southern officers and enlisted men,
u Guiding the military coat worn by
Il ot,eI Iohn. s. Mosby, the partisan rang
\ and a Confederate regulation sword ="
4 buckskin belt attached which was ora r!
4 e e.orn, the ordnance department at RI
4 m mono by Lieutenant Patriok MGDe 1'
4 the Confederate army in 1868. A clun
Il loo looking ten-barreled revolver, lie n
4 natent' carried by a Southern c a ', !,
4 man and picked up on the battleh esl
4 Wilson'S Creek, Mo, August 10, looi
on exhibition Another Confederatfe
II hibit of interest IS large decorated
4 ma punch boyl, the former pro proper
President Davis, when was sap - ~
" the :'VVhite House OF the ColileG IL.