The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

| Paul O. Hebert (No y and McCown.
r. 5. Ewell, Martin, Bushrod R.
Johnson, Maclay and Jordon. Maclay
was from Pennsylvania and Johnson
from Ohio. There were three Con-
| federate generals with Lee in the class
of 1S29-Joseph f. Johnston, Theophi-
| lus H Holmes and Albert G. Blanch-
ard of Massachusetts. Many classes
gave some ten or twelve graduates to
the c. S. A, but not all generals. /
think the class of 1850 was the banner
| class, as it put seventeen in the Con-
| federate service, seven Of whom be-
came generals. Gen. L. NJ. Walker
was killed in a duel by Gen. J. S. Mar
maduke and Col. William r. Calhoun
was killed IL a duel by Maj. Alfred
Rhett of the same First South Caro-
lima regular) artillery command. Gen.
Mouton and Gen. Winder were killed
in battle.
Florida is interested in the late Skin
mish runs at Fort Riley, Kan, as Capt.
w H Hay of the Tenth United States
Cavalry is a Floridian. graduating
from West Point in 1886 and from In
fantry and Cavalry School in 1891. His
record at Fort Riley was SO points out
of a possible 100. Capt. Hay has a
brother and two sisters living in jack
sonville. Capt. Herbert Deakyue,
United States Corps Engineers, (of
Delaware), another prize winner, now
at Fort Leavenworth. Kan, was re-
Gently in charge of engineer work at
Tampa, Fla. and a reader of the Morn
ing News. - "A Graduate" gives
the American Boy, (September issue)
of Detroit, Mich. an excellent illustrat-
ed article on My Four Years at West
| Point" Every boy who aspires to be-
| come a cadet in any military school,
high or low. should read what this dis
tinguished West Pointer has to say. He
was an alternate, the regular appoin-
tee, having failed to hold his own,
and for this reason the advice as to
how to stick" is worth a great deal
to boy with military aspirations.
Women colonies on Governors STATS
in this country are bad enough, and
women honorary colonies of regiments
in Europe are little better; but the
baby boy business caps the climax. 3"
The son of the late Shah of Persia, who
is a dozen years old. is a full general
in the Persian army. with
infant son of the Gar of Russia, is
given high military titles. 1t makes a
war veteran sick.
Col. Ben. F. Hawkes. of Washington.
D. c.. the bushy-headed "comrade of
Gen. Grant at West Point" yet who
was in fact no "comrade," now claims
to he one of the pioneer founders of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and yet
lie lacks considerable of getting thar. -
1t is true that he was one of the early
Ohio men to join the new organization
and help on the movement, but he was
not founder" simply a promoter. Z"
: Sundays Atlanta Constitution
contains a picture and sketch of the
old house in Louisville, Ky, in which
Jefferson Davis married Miss Knox
Taylor" But he was not Eat that time
a young soldier" having resigned from
the army. Nor did his bride almost
as soon as she had reached" his home
in Mississippi. "fall ILL.," jefferson Da-
Wis did not elope with Sarah Knox Tay-
lor. and while Col. Taylor opposed the
match, they were married quietly at
Col. Taylor's sisters home in Louis
vile. This was in June. 1895. and it
was not until September, while they
were visiting MIR. Davis sister, near
Bayou Sara, in Louisiana, that his
bride was stricken with malarial, which
finally caused her death soon after.
Mr.. Davis was also quite i'll, but re-
covered. AS this marriage was one of
pure love and devotion, the early death
of Mrs. Davis proved a severe blow to
until 1915.
The Bishop Potter Cocktail" which
has already reached Florida saloons,
reminds me of another bishop and the
famous Cordial made by the holy
monks of Saint Bernard. This bishop
invited Pat into his house one day to
take some of the Benedictine in the
diminutive glasses in which it is serv-
ed. Handing Pat the glass the bishop
said: "Now, this is a very delicate
and beautiful cordial, and you must
sip ii slowly and get the benefit of
its aromatic flavor" Pat did as he
was told, and when he had emptied
the little glass, the Bishop asked him
how he liked it. Like it, your rever-
ence. its fine; Gods blessing on the
holy monks that brewed the punch,
but to hell with the man that made
the glasses" 49, In the Cosmo-