The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-25
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts of Interest to War Veterans and others

4.-ln reply 10 many inquiries from
readers of these letters, I will simply
state that a second amputation has
been necessary In my wife's case, and
her condition is now more critical. Her
crushed foot and leg were covered with
coal dust and dirt, and blood poisoning
was the result. . A sketch of the
late Col. John T. Wood. c. S. A. in
the Confederate Veteran, for this
month, says he was a son of Gen.
Robt. c. Wood" which is very mis-
leading. His father, a native of Rhode
Island. was an assistant surgeon gen
eral, U. s. A, but at the close of the
Civil War the brevet rank of brisa-
der general was conferred upon him,
and eleven other surgeons, for merito-
rious services. Col. Wood, the son,
was born out in Minnesota, and enter
ed the navy. while his brother, Robert
c. Wood, Jr., chose the army. Both
finally entered the Confederate service
although the father was still in the
u. S. A. 49, Old Confederates who
wish to read a most remarkable nam
Confederacy, got its arms-not it's legs
they should send twenty-five cents to
]. S. Rogers, Esq, Room u.s. Barris-
ters' Hall, No. Is Pemberton SQUARE.
Boston, Mass, and get the narrative
of Maj. Caleb Huse, c. S. A, Massa-
chusetts West Pointer. who was pur-
chasing agent in Europe during the
war. His trip from Alabama to Eng
land reads likes a romance and shows
how Confederate agents were constant
ly in danger of detection by secret serv-
ice men.
People who wonder at the remarka-
BILE success of the army and navy COM
manders of Japan, in the present war
with the Russians, must not forget
tnat many OF them were educated in
this country, and not a few have wives
who were educated here. For example.
Field Marshal Marquis Oyama, the he
roic commander-in-chief has such a
wife, and she is one of the best edu-
Gated women in Japan. She spent sew
eral years in the family of Rev. DR..
Leonard Bacon, at New Haven, Conn.
where she was prepared for Vassar Fee
male College. After spending eleven
Al 1AAS SOunN1y SIG IGluIuGu
home to become the wife of one of ia
pans most famous soldiers. She has
very handsome and bright daughter
and two fine, manly sons, and their
home is one which shows the refining
and elevating influence of a wife and
mother whose education and associa-
tions in America have made her a
model for the wives and mothers of her
native land. American institutions
have hnlTaAd n Af "a
foremost nations of earth.
The State House reporter of the At
lanta Constitution ought to read up a
little in Confederate military history.
He says Capt. (Col) Robert E. Park
Is making a collection of living Con-
federate generals and colonels of Geor-
gia, and that Brig. Gen. c. A. Evans
and Brig. William Phillips are the only
generals now living. Well! Well!
There is Brig. Gen. Bryan NJ. Thomas
of Dalton and also Brig. Gen. Alfred
Cumming of Augusta, both West
Pointers and old United States officers.
Then there is Brig. Gen. Alfred liver
son, now living at Kissimmee, Fla,
and Brig. Gen. George P. Harrison, liv-
ing at Opelika, Ala, and Brig. Gen.
E. Porter Alexander, living in South
Carolina, and Lieut.. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler of Wheeler, Ala, and Brig.
Gen. William r. Boggs, a West Point
er, now in North Carolina, all Geor-
CLANS by birth and all Confederate
heroes. Mai. Gen. Cullen A. Battle is
q native Georgian, but he entered the
service from Alabama. Five of the
eleven colonies said to be living, are
named. / would add Coils. McGlashan,
Prather, Olmstead, Magill, Harris Is.
W.) and T. ]. Simmons. 1 think, how
ever. that there are more than eleven
Georgia Confederate colonies now liv-
ing. Alas! What a remnant weak
and small" is this of the once splendid
array of heroic commanders.
The announcement of the marriage
of Miss Marie F. ''Blandford." grand
daughter of the late Judge Marcus
Hardin Blandford," needs a little cor
recting. When l knew Associate JUS
tice "Blandford" his name was Mark
Hardin Blanford, with only one d. He
was not named for Marcus Aurileus,
but for Capt. Mark Hardin Of North
Carolina, a hero of the war of 1872,
who served under Lieut.. Col Duncan
L. Clinch of the Tenth North Caro-
lina) Infantry. Col. Blanford was
worthy of the name of a brave SOL
der, for he lost his arm in the Con-
federate service. If the Bal
timore American said the Russian Cos
sack was 1.-The rough rider" like our
American Rough Rider" it has SLAM
dered as brave and cultured young
men as ever drew a sword or handled
a carbine. Col. Roosevelt is not con-
sidered in this item. But Sergt. Ham
ilton Fish of Harvard University and
Lieut.. Tiffany of New York are in he
roes' graves because they were Rough
Riders" at Santiago. 1t is true there
were rough cowboys from the West in
that command, but there were brave
young men of wealth and culture there
who offered their lives to their coun-
try. Such young men are not in the
Russian Cossack ranks.
w. T. Cowles complains in the Jack
sonville (Fla-) Metropolis that he pur-
chased a high-priced encyclopedia from
prominent publishers only to find II
full of errors, and cites the case of
Lieut.. Gen. r. S. Ewell. c. s. A, who
is reported to have served under Cen
T ]. Jackson at the battle OF Ma
nassas, as a major general. Mr.
Cowles shows that Ewell was not
major general and did not serve un-
der jackson. II is true, however, that
he was under Jackson at the Second
Manassas, and on Aug. % lost his leg
IN a fight on the Warrenton turnpike,
md his division then came under the
command Of Brig Gen A. R. Lawton
of Savannah. There were two Ewells
in the Confederate States army, both
born in the District of Columbia, but
appointed to West Point from Vir-
ginia. A biographer of r. S. Ewell