The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-14
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts Of Interest to War Veterans and others

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Pine Crest Villa, Maitland. Fla, Aug
13.-To-day the Florida Grand Army
of the Republic delegations are on their
way to the great national encampment
in Boston. Some go by land and many
this year by water from Jacksonville
and Savannah. Gen. Henry Narcotic of
St. Augustine, the department com
mander this year. has been very active
in his efforts to have Florida make a
fine showing My own post-the Hen
~ B. Whipple-of Orlando, will have
half a dozen members in the parade.
1t is a post that is always we'll repre-
scented at department and national en-
campments. l see that Savannah gave
the Mayors convention an au-
tomobile ride. but Boston viii put The
Forest city in the shade. She has
400 automobiles engaged to take the
G. A. r. on an excursion over the
route of Paul ReVere's famous ride to
Concord and Lexington, passing many
places of historic interest. 1t VIII ne
the one great feature of the encamp-
ment, as thousands of old soldiers new
er enjoyed an automobile ride of any
kind AS +. w. Kinsley Post, the
friend of "Old Joe" Wheeler, has in
vited a lot of Confederate soldiers to
be its guests during the encampment,
the Blue and the Gray will be happily
mingled.
The Court of Claims at Washington,
D. c.. has allowed the claims of
large number of volunteer officers in
the Spanish American War. l find that
ed af Gn Lip-t
Georgia, gets sos. 33, and Capt. Wal
ter W. Barker of the Second Georgia
gets $50. while Lieut.. David P. Bar
ret. of same regiment, gets $3.50.
First Lieutenant Henry r. Casey, L.
S. A, is assigned from Fortress Mon
roe to the 1O9th Company of Coast Al
tillery, at Fort Greble. near Newport
r. l. Lieut.. Casey is a Georgian, bu
went into the army from the Alabam,
volunteers of 1S9S-1901, in which he wa
a second lieutenant. There ar
fresh army scandals in San Francisco
and of a most disgusting and sensa
tional character. Lieuts. Charles /
Smith and w. w. White of the Thir
tenth United States Infantry are un
der arrest. The former is from Sout
Dakota and the latter from Ohio. an
this is their second escapade wit.
women. The climate of the
Pacific coast seems to breed a gooo
many army scandals of late. = -" Gen
f. A. Carr, U. S. A, (retired), a IA
nous Indian fighter, makes some i'm
portant corrections in Rev. Cyru
Townsend Brady's romances of IN
dian Fights and Fighters" appearing
as a serial in Parsons magazine.
Brady is too prolific to be reliable.
The friends of the late Brig, Gen
George Il. Anderson, c. S. A. born il
Georgia, but who spent his last years
in Admission, Ala, will be surprised
TO know that his old familiar army
pet name. odd Tige," is also claimed
for two other brigadier generals of the
c. S. A. the late William p. Harde-
man of Texas. born in Tennessee, and
William L. Cabell. now living in Texas,
but born in Virginia l had supposed
until recently that my old friend Gen.
"Tige" Anderson as he was familiar
ly called in Atlanta, was the only
original Old Tige. In my last
letter I corrected Ellie Goodies state
meht that John Marshall was the last
signer of the Declaration of
which he was not, as
he did not sign 1t, not being a mem
her of the congress. Historian j. G.
CiSCO Of LenIlNSSees III MS SKETCH OF
Marshall county, says Marshall was
appointed Secretary of War in 1900
and Secretary of State in September of
that year. He was never a Secretary
of War. but on May 10. 1900. near the
close Of President Adams administra-
ton, he was made Secretary of State,
and in January, 1901, appointed chief
justice.
The Georgia friends of Capt. Percy
F. Trippe OF the Twelfth United States
Cavalry, will be pleased to know that
he has a bright young son, Richard E.
Trippe. who has just been admitted
as a midshipman in the United States
Naval Academy. Capt. Trippe was
appointed a Cadet at West Point Mil
tary Academy in 1876 by Hon. Alex
ander H. Stephens. Mai.
James B. Erwin of the Ninth United
States Cavalry is at No. 1923 Wash
ington avenue, st. Louis, on leave of
a bsence. Lieut.. Gen. Chaffee,
L. S. A. recently paid an official visit
to Vancouver Barracks, in the De-
partment of Columbia. and was the
guest of Mai. Fred G. Hodgson, chief
who is an Athens. Ga.
boy. Col. Ernest A. CARING
ton, L. S. A, inspector general on
Gen. Corbin's staff, will be a conspic-
uous figure at the Manassas maneuv-
ers. He is Georgia's ranking officer
in the army. And now Arthur
third, like Z. S. Grant
third, comes on the stage of life. But
he is real army and navy baby. his
father being Lieut.. Arthur Macarthur
u. s. N, his paternal grandfather
Mai. Gen. Arthur Macarthur, U. S. A.,
and his maternal grandfather. Rear
Admiral b. II. McCalla, u. S. n. The
San Francisco papers print fine pic
ture of the baby and predict that he
may live TO be an admiral or a gem
eraL.
THE Sunset" a handsome monthly
magazine published by the Southern
Pacific Railway at San Francisco in