The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-28

ton. But Congressman Joseph Wheel
err of Alabama, went as major general
of volunteers and did not resign. How
ever, he declined to draw his pay as
Congressman during that war.
Brig. Gen. Samuel Wragg Ferguson,
a graduate of West Point in 1857, and
a dashing Confederate commander, was
a native of South Carolina. Historian
Salley evidently puts US on track of
the distinguished ancestor whose name
he bears. The Gazette of Monday, Dec.
8, 1850, says: Last Friday Night died,
Samuel Wragg, Esq, an eminent Mer-
chant possessed of a very large For
tune" - The Sunday News of
Charleston. Aug. 81. contains a four
column article from Rev. Hugh Oliver
of Pinopolis, repeating his old claim
of authorship Of All Quiet on the Po-
tomac Tonight" for his lamented faith
er Thaddeus Oliver of the Second
Georgia Regiment, C. S. A, as against
the claims of Mrs. Ethel Beers and
Maj. Lamar Fontaine. But l fear
that when the Angel Gabriel blows his
horn it will awake three sleepers, each
one claiming to have written this Ia
nous poem. Some controversies are
never settled in this world, and this
will he one of them. = The Boston
4AOi cAANl IGEOIlS MY AilClls ICpt
thirty-eight Florida Posts in the Grand
Army of the Republic parade. l don't
know about the fifty men, but / 90
know that there are only nineteen
posts, good, bad and Indifferent, in the
Department of Florida. However, Gen.
Narcotic seems to have made f1ne
show in the parade and reflected great
credit upon Florida with his three pla-
ICONS armed with palms and carrying
an alligator as a mascot.
The Boston Journal prints a picture
and sketch of Veteran Patrick Haney,
aged 81 years, who was in the First
Regiment, United States "Voltigeres"
in the Mexican War, and in the Third
Massachusetts Cavalry in the Civil
War. 1 suppose the Journal means
the Voltigeurs, a famous light dragon
regiment in which the late Brig. Gen.
William s. Walker C. S. A, of At
lanta, was a brevet captain in the Mex
lean War. One Peter Norton of
Chelsea, Mass, at the recent launching
of the new United States steamship
Cumberland at Boston, was allowed to
break out" the colors because he
claimed to have been on the old Cum
berland when she went down at Hamp-
ton Roads during the Civil War. Bona
fide survivors of the crew came for
wei VI anu BIONGQ llleiI ANOilOIl was Oh
imposter. This is no new trick, as
years ago the Daughters of the War
of 1872" were similarly imposed upon
at the same navy yard by one David
Garland. who claimed to have been
powder monkey on the old Constitution
during her fight with the Guerrero.
Only last winter an Atlanta reporter,
and later, a Savannah reporter, was
stuffed with a big yarn of personal
NsNfN IL, fa,ar. oil
though in each case he pretended to
have been a commissioned officer of
high standing. Such braggarts and
humbugs are to be found at every G..
A. r. encampment and u. G. V. re-
union, and it surprises me that so few
of them fail to be promptly exposed. 1t
is always safe to judge these self-ap-
plauded heroes by the official records,
where their names seldom appear in
any shape as claimed by them.
The editor who said David B. Hill
was barred from the presidency be
cause he was a bachelor seems to have
overlooked James Buchanan and Grow
er Cleveland. two bachelors who be-
came presidents. Lieut.. Rex
Van Den Corrupt (of Atlanta), ar
tillery corps, has recently graduated
at Fortress Monroe artillery school,
Wharf, Va, but goes on duty at Fort
Hancock, N. J. Lieut.. D. Y.
Beckham will be at Bardstown, KY
until Sept. 8. when he will report for
duty at Fort Hancock. The
daughters of Gen. Joe Wheeler are
spending the season at Greenbriar
White Sulphur Springs. and Virginia
Hot Springs, but will rejoin their faith
er in New York later on. Pri-
waite John E. Conley, Fifth Company,
C. A. Fort Screven, Ga, is ordered
to Fortress Monroe for instruction in
the school for master gunners.
At the cavalry competition in the
Philippines recently First Lieut.. James
Dongstreet (Georgian), of the Thir-
teenth Cavalry, was awarded a bronze
medal his aggregate of twelve scores
being 727 Hal Morrison, the
wild game artist of Atlanta, who mar
ried in cambridge, has a bright son,
Hal Morrison, Jr., in the United States
navy, and although only 10 years old,
he has lately been promoted to be a
first-class electrician on the flagship
Brooklyn of the South Atlantic squad
ron.
A Florida editor wants to know why
Rear Admiral Schley can't talk or
vy,-ita about the hattie of gaOtiaco ~