The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07
born in that state of South Carolina

born in that state of South Carolina
parents.
Col. Park Woodward. G. S. T. (re-
tired of Atlanta announces the Sep
TENDER marriage of his daughter, Mary
Davis Woodward, to First Lieutenant
Roscoe Hugh Hearn of the Ninth
United States Infantry, at Fort Thorn
as, KY. Lieut.. Hearn is a Texan, and
entered the army i'm 1898 as a private
in the Fourth United States Cavalry,
and won a commission in 1900. =
Gen. Horatio c. King, president Of the
Society of the Army of the Potomac,
is not only gifted poet and song writ
er, but a musical composer of equal
merit. His music for Bayard Taylors
famous poem, Give us a song, the SOL
diers cried" has made that poem an
army song the world over. His latest
poem, Gettysburg" dedicated to Maj.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickels, u. S. A. (re-
tired originally published in the
Brooklyn Eagle. the home paper of
Gen. King, has been printed in sheet
form, with a handsome military Dor
der and appropriate illustrations, and
is a gem worthy of a handsome frame.
If any of SaVannah's heroes of the
Gettysburg fight would like a copy to
frame, l presume my generous and pa
triotic Democratic friend, Gen. King,
No. 375 Fulton street, Brooklyn, N. Y,
will cheerfully send it, for he is a no.
bie-heagted all-round good fellow.
Here's a sample verse of the poem:
, I'm thought newborn nation rose to
sight.
With Stars and Bars unfurled in
glorious light.
On, on they came, nor faltered in
their tread
Each man hero-giants at their head.
We stood amazed at courage so sub
lime
No drawer record on the page of
time"
The press kilograms announcing the
death in Washington. d. c.. of Gen.
Thomas r. Howard of the Confederate
army was surprise to me. as |
never heard Of Il Gen. Howard
in the c. S. A. But such errors are
OF common occurrence nowadays
Capt. John Williams of the
United States Marine Corps. whose re-
mains were recently removed from St
Marys, Ga, to Arlington National
Cemetery. entered the service as a sec
ond lieutenant I'm 1905. became a first
lieutenant in 1907 and a captain in 1911.
The sketch in the Morning
News OF Pierre Charles L'Enfant calls
him major but he was only a captain
or the Engineer Corps, but Congress.
on May ,, 1888. gave him the brevet
OF major. In those early days all our
best engineer officers were foreigners
mostly French. The survivors
Of the Confederate navy met at the
U. c. V. reunion In Nashville. but they
were mere handful Lieut.. II. b.
Littlepage of Washington. u. c.. was
elected commander for the present
year He was a midshipman on the
Merrimac and a lieutenant on the At
lanta. Orderly Sergeant William NJ.
Mccoy of Evansville. Ind. was the
only survivor Of the Alabama present.
Midshipman william +. Clayton OF
Florence, 5. c., was reelected secre-
tary OF the Survivors Association. The
survivors of the navy are few and far
between. and only bakers dozen were
present at Nashville This paragraph.
and the two following. should have
been IN my last letter, but were mis-
laid.
The "ad" OF the South Carolina Mill
tary Academy refers to Brig Gen. E.
A. Darlington, L. S. A." which is
one notch too high. as he Is only a
colonel, but the ranking one In the
inspector generals department, which
makes him very efficient and desir-
able candidate for inspector general
when Gen. Burton retires.