The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-05

sword Of Gen. Lee" is too ''ishy." as
Lee never offered his sword 10 Grant:
and IL he had offered it Wheeler was
never in a position to witness the act.
Srch yarns won't do TO tell even 20
the horse marines. Hon. Edwin G.
Milliken, distinguished Grand Army
of the Republic. official of Portland,
Me-. enlisted and carried a gun when
only 13 years old, and there are others
in the Union army still younger.
The New York Herald's last Sunday is
sue has a valuable illustrated magazine,
SUI plement for Memorial Day." con-
tanning pictures of Union and Confed-
crate army and navy officers. Also VAL
liable matter from collection OF Baron
| Won Chosen, who served with Count
Rochambeau under Washington. But
| Nelly Gusts Is called Curtis, COM
mon error and Albert Sidney johnston
| is johnson, another common error.
worse blunder is Gen. Tho r as Shields
| for James Shields. Capt. Thomas
| Shields left the United States Army IN
| 1913 and was a lieutenant colonel OF
| Louisiana infantry in the Confederate
| States Army, during the CtvH war:
| John Porter was a major general anu
! not a brigadier general, as stated IN tcc
| Herald.
| I have a very welcome and inter
esting letter from Comrade w. A. WI
| ley of Madison, Ga, now visiting MS
nephew, the well-known Edwin Broo-
| ston, at Jacksonville. Veteran Wiley
was in the grand old Third Georgia In
| fantry, one of the first commands that
rushed to Virginia's defense. My refer
| enee in recent letter to my priced
honorary membership in the Survivors
| Association of that regiment, called
| forth this much enjoyed letter. There
| never were bigger hearted, better sol
| diers than formed the historic OLD
| Third Georgia. l was their guest AT
| the first Union Point reunion, and Ia
1 ter went as their honored guest with
| them to Portsmouth and Norfolk, Va,
4 where they received a welcome never
| surpassed by that given any conquer
| ing heroes returning home. Alas
| since those days many OF my dearest
| friends in the association-including
| Capt. A. A. Winn of Savannah-haNe
| crossed over the river to rest under the
| shade of the trees. Veteran Wiley adds
| this postscript to his letter: Your
| reference to 'you'uns and 'we'uns.' IN
| the Morning News. has suggested
| postscript 1t is in the mountainous
| regions of Northeast Georgia and ex-
| tending into North Carolina, that the
| natives almost commonly say we uns'
and 'youuns.' The bit of doggerel
| tnaJ YOU quote Is not lllGt eils 40 4 h1N0
| known it, so | give it here as copied by
me during the war while in the army.
| l think from a Richmond paper, IN
which it was headed "A North Carolina
| Girl to Her Sweetheart in the Army
| ITS hard for you'uns to live in camp;
It's hard for youuns to fight;
It's hard for you'uns thro' snow TO
tramp,
In snow to sleep at night
But harder for we'uns from you'uns
to part
| Since you'uns has stolen we'uns heart"
| Veteran T. b. Catherwood, u. G. ",
writing from "Mary's Rest Cottage"
| at Lake Mary, Fla, under date of
| May 20, says: II have to-day's Morn
| ing News before me and also one OF
the 'StonewaP jackson medals, on
| which the names you mention are
! clearly cut, reading thus: 'Kernstown,'
Front Royal 'Strasburg,' in center
! of the medal, and Shephsrdstown on
| the wreath. l was one of the parties
who found these medals in the ware
| house where they had been stored for
some years. and apparently lost sight
| Of or. rather was present when the
| party found them, and was given TWO.
| gave one to an old comrade, and
| have the other before me as / write.
| These medals when found each rest
| ed on a velvet or plush-covered base,
| and was protected by an oval and
| eoncave glass cover. l have only the
medal now, the base and glass being
| broken and lost. 1t is evident that
| there must have been at least two
| dies from which these 'Stonewan'
| Jackson medals were made-that Is,
| at least two sets were ninted, II I
| may so express it. On this hypothesis
only can the difference in spelling be
accounted for. The head on my medal
| Is not at all a good likeness of the
great soldier, resembling no one of the
| photos that l have ever seen. The
beard is very thin, and runs around
the law in a narrow line, not running
half way up to the lower lip; the up
per lip is clean shaved. We miss the
heavy moustache and heavier growth OF
beard so familiar to us. The Daugh-
ter of the Confederacy who wrote you,
undoubtedly has one of the medals of
the lot from which mine came, while
yours was taken from another die My
supposition Is based, of course, on the
assumption that the Savannah Press
has printed the names as they show
on the medals, but there have been
such things as errors of the compos-
itor, which failed of correction by the
proofreader. When you mentioned
these medals some months ago, / wrote
statement for you similar to this
one, but found later on that it had
not been mailed. and as the matter was
then rather old, ] did not then send
the letter" 1t may be posi-
BILE that there were two dies used in
striking these medals, but my eye
sight is too poor for me to closely
examine the medal sent me by the
Good Samaritan" of Savannah. Ny
corrections have all been based upon
the inscriptions given in the Savan-
nah newspapers. My last reference to
the subject was made simply because
the errors were printed in special
issue edited by the u. d.
c., and an official of that organiza-
ton had "set aside" my previous corr
rections In communication to the
Morning News, she claiming that the
inscriptions on the medal were correct,
which agrees with Veteran Gather
woods statement. Either there are
two sets of medals or the newspapers
have erred in printing the inscriptions
Sidney Herbert.
Harlan p. Hall of St. Paul. one OF
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