The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-25

~ NStL. Although Miss Lucy
Lee Hill has been living in Chicago,
Where she is greatly admired. her heart
has been in "Ole Virginny" an the
time. and she has been in fun syrn-
pathy with the old Confederate SOL
dlers who followed her heroic father.
Lieut.. Gen. mot Maj. GEM Ambrose
T. Hill on many a bloody field. Her
approaching marriage to Col. MacGiu.
distinguished member of the United
confederate Veterans, will soon bring
her back to her native state and to
a wide circle of admiring friends. who
Will give her a cordial welcome.
sketch in the Augusta Chronicle of
the famous family of Richard T. Will
son, of New York, it is stated that he
left small grocery business in Ten
nessee TO enter the Confederate army,
ana rose to a Commissary General
snip. This is purely imaginative
statement. Col l.. b. Northrup and
Brig. Gen. Isaac NJ. st. John were the
eommissaries general of the C. S. A.
There was Mr.. r. T. Wilson in Ten
nessee who was "Commissary Agent ="
ana he was largely engaged in fur
nishlng pork to the army. This is
PROBABLY the only foundation for the
,Commissary Generalship." %The
Ocala, Fla, Star says l failed to men
NASAA COAs 1OAAAA NJ AldfJlu OF lDdI CITY
as a surviving member of the Con-
tederate Congress. That is true for
| did not know he was alive, he has
Kept so quiet during all the discus
slons about survivors. II he is the
Col. Martin 1 met with Maj. Phil L.
Brown in Ocala, some years ago, can
understand his silence. He is a most
estimable gentleman and not a seeker
after newspaper or any other kind of
Nj hn hoe 20,
who is chip off the old block Col.
Martin was a member of the First Con-
federate Congress and is therefore one
of the few survivors of the three con-
crosses.
President Joseph r. Anderson, Of the
V. NJ. l. Association, asks through the
Confederate Veteran magazine of Nash
Vile, for information about Thomas H.
Holcomb, who graduated from the in
stitute in 1856, and who is said to have
been captain of a Georgia company
in the c. S. A. Now, what surprises
me is that in the Register of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, is this line:
No. 29S-T. H. Halcomb, Va, 1856,
major Virginia regiment, c. S. A" In
all the registers it is Halcomb, not
Holcomb. There was, so far is l
know, only one Capt. Holcomb in the
Georgia troops, and he was Capt. J.
W. Holcombe, of Company c, Seventh
Georgia, who was paroled at Gen. Lees
surrender. Again, if Capt. T. H. Hol-
combe, or Halcombe, was killed at
Seven Pines, as reported, he should
have been included in the Memorial
volume of the institute. If President
Anderson will refer to Volume IL, of
the First Series Of the Official Rec
ordS" of the war, he will find there a
reference to "T. H. Holcombe," who
may possible be the graduate he is
searching for. 1 have not the book
at hand, consequently don't know what
the reference may be. This is but an
other case of the hardship one has to
contend against in making up per-
sonal military record. I have borne
this same burden heavily for over
thirty years, and know whereof
speak.
Miss Eta Park, daughter of Col. r.
f. Park, the state treasurer in At
lanta, is making a tour of Europe
with a party under Miss SoSnowski
of Athens, Ca, the distinguished edu-
Gator. The Atlanta Journal publishes
an interesting letter from Miss Park,
in which she tells of the audience CIV
en- her by the Pope at Rome, and of
her visit to many noted places. And
yet all this does not wean this true
American girl from her love of home,
for she writes I'm a month and a
half we leave the old country for be-
loved America. This is a wonderful,
truly interesting country to visit; but
with all it's antiquities, its historic
relics, and its great people, it is far
beneath our own new country in in
terest and in charm for me-" This
is noble, patriotic sentiment, and one
fhaf rahtIlxaC the nf
Americans who prefer to live abroad
and in the glare of royalty. Such
un-American snobs as William Wal
dorf Astor and ]. ]. Van Allen, may
shake the dust from their feet and
leave their country for their countrys
good, but they find few imitators. As
tor is not "a Man Without a Coun-
try" but a Disguised American who
have become a British subject. And
Chump Van Allen is to follow suit.
We can spare all such creatures, no
matter how much money they may
control as millionaires.
The special telegram in the Morn
ing News of the wounding of an
American Generals son." in the Ger
man army, is somewhat misleading.
Mai. Karl Osterhaus (not hass), the
officer referred to, is a son of Maj.
Gen. Peter Joseph Osterhaus U. 5.
", a native of Prussia, but who went
into the Union army in April, 1861, as
major of a battalion of Missouri In
fantry, and came out in January, 1866,
as a major general of volunteers. He
was a distinguished officer and served
here in the South at the close of the
war. His recent return to this coun-
try from a long residence in Europe,
was the occasion of great ovation In
Washington by his old comrades in
arms, and later he was conspicuous
figure at the Boston G. A. r. En-
campment. He has a son, think
Commander Hugo Osterhaus Of Mis-
souri-in our navy, and at present
commanding the United States steam
ship Cincinnati at Chemulpo. There
is also, think, a grandson in the
navy, Ensign Hugo Wilson Osterhaus
Of virginia Gen. Osterhaus Is a
very old man now, and his friends
are moving to have him placed on the
retired list of the United States army.
Gen. Osterhaus commanded the Fiji
teenth Corps in Sherman's army when
Il reached Savannah, and as his corps
and the Seventeenth picked up 10000
cattle between Atlanta and Savannah,
his name ought to be familiar house.
hold word all along the route he came.
Mai. Gen. Henry c. Corbin, U. 8. A.,