The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-31
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts of Interest to Confederate and Union
Veterans and Others

Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla,
Jan. 30.-A reader of these letters. S. l..
Ayers of Alliance, Fla, sends me a list
of regular army officers who resigned
TO enter the Confederate service.
am obliged to him for his trouble, but
have my old army register of 1861,
which is fuller and more reliable.
see that he falls into the common err
ror of spelling Gen. George H. Steuart's
name, as the Morning News printers
often do in my letters. Stuart or Stew
art. Even THE Lost Cause" month
ly. of Louisville. KY, prints Gen.
Steuart's picture with Stuart" under
it. / have often stated in these letters
that it is ]. E. B. Stuart. and George
H. Steuart and A. p. Stewart. The
Steuart name is a famous Maryland
one. and yet there is a "Steuart" street
way out in San Francisco There is
TOO little attention given to correct
spelling of names. and this is true as
70 official circles. The official Regis
ter of the United States Army con-
tinues to carry the name of "Reynold
NJ. Smith Kirby" son of Gen. e. Kirby
Smith, whose name is Reynold Marvin
Kirby Smith.
Several matters intended for this let
ter have been crowded over to next
Sunday, or later. A Georgia lady
] know is a genuine LADY because
she encloses a postage stamp for reply,
which many people forget to do-writes
me about a pension for her aged and
feeble father. So far as / know the
only Confederate pension for him is
by the state, and application, l think,
is made through the Ordinary of the
county. Here in Florida all Confed-
crate pensioners applications have to
be approved by the county commits
sioners when in regular session. Geor-
gia gives $50 a year to INDECENT vete-
rams, and to wounded veterans sums
ranging, / think, from $50 to 800. The
Ordinary of any county ought to be
able to give full information on the
subject The death of Bishop
Dudley of Kentucky. removes one of
the heroic young Confederates who be-
came bishops. There were Quintard-
FIliott-Capers - Dudley-Weed-
ris-Gray and Peterken. that / know
of, and doubtless the list could be en-
1arged. Dudly and Elliott were staff
officers and for a time served near
each other.
About the first of this month Charles
O'Neil was promoted from captain to
rear admiral in the United States
navy, but the announcement, 'yester-
day a captain and to-day a rear adj
xniral," is misleading. O'Neil has been
chief of Bureau of Ordnance since
June, 1897, with the rank of rear ad-
miral, and his final promotion to that
rank in fact as well as in name. is
reward his long and faithful service
well deserves. Like Gen. Chaffee, he
started in as a common sailor and is
the first one to win the high rank
of rear admiral He was born in Eng
land. but entered the navy in 1862, from
Massachusetts, and reached the grade
of captain in 1897 However, there is
an exclusiveness in the navy that never
has and does not even now favor the
promotion Of worthy non-coms. And
yet the army Is full of distinguished
officers who have come UP by merit
alone from the ranks
In last Sundays Times-Union Of
Jacksonville, a Lieut.. John J. Thomp-
son Of a Florida regiment publishes q