The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-30
Sacred to the Memory of "
HUGH MERCER. "
Brigadier General in the Army of :
the United States. "

the United States. I"
He died on the 18th of January, I"
1877, of the wounds he received on =
the Bird of the same month, near =
Princeton, in New Jersey, brave =
ly defending the liberties of .
America. The Congress of the >
United States, in testimony of his =
virtues, and their gratitude, have =
caused this monument to be erect i"
49, .sss.~
1t is not usual for army officers to
desert, and yet too or three cases are
now before the War Department.
Lieut.. Victor c. Lewis, of the artil-
lery corps, a New Yorker by birth,
and a Spanish war soldier, abandon
ed his wife and child in California,
and eloped with a Miss Elizabeth
Bergman, a trained nurse, and of a
good family, and they are now liv-
ing in Colina, Mexico. Another case
is that of Lieut.. Francis M. Boon Of
the Nineteenth infantry, who resigned
and disappeared under charges that
prohibited the acceptance of his
resignation, and caused him to be a
deserter. He was born in Texas and
promoted from the ranks in 1899, but
had proved unworthy of the honor.
He is reported to be of Indian descent,
which, If true, makes him the third
Indian to hold a commission In the
United States army. Lieut.. David
Moniac of Ala, and Brevet Brig. Gen.
Ely S. Parker, of New York, are the
other two. Moniac graduated at West
Point in 1922 and resigned from the
army the same year. He was however.
a major of Mounted Creek volunteers
in the Seminole wars in Florida, and
was killed, Nov. q, 1886, while leading
his command In the battle OF Wahoo
swamp, aged thirty four years. He was
a son OF the noted Sam Moniac, a warm
friend of the white people. Parker was
a New York Seneca chief of the
famous Parker family, and was mill
tary secretary to Gen. Grant, and
prepared surrender papers for him at
Appomattox for Gen. Lee.
Miriam Grant, eldest daughter of Mr..
Ulysses S. Grant, I'd. Of San Diego,
Cal, to Lieut.. Ulysses S. Macy, United
States navy, will interest her many
Florida friends. The family spent a
winter at Altamonte Springs, near
Maitland, and Miriam and Julia
Dent were great favorites. Although
Lieut.. Macy is U. s., II is not Ulysses
Simpson, like Mr.. Grant, but Ulysses
Samuel Macy, "a native of Missouri.
49, The marriage of Miss Margurent
Hubbell in the chapel at Governors Is
land, N. Y, where she wis christened
years ago, to Capt. Jas. A. Wood
ruff, United States engineers. at West
Point, N. Y, will interest some Geor-
gia readers. as Miss H, is niece OF
the wife of Maj. Joseph B. Cumming
of Augusta. and daughter Of Col. H
W. Hubbell, of the Artillery Corps in
command at Pensacola, Fla. -
The army and navy register has All
editorial on THE Race Question" In
which It refers to the attempt to in
troduce the race question into the army
as pernicious. Well that editor is a
back number" as the race question
has been in the army for many years.
The case Of the hospital soldier is not
an ordinary race question affair, but
one as to whether or not miscegena-
ton shall be allowed in the army, which
is a very different and more serious
question. This editor favors the inn
mediate discharge of the soldier who
married a negro woman. who had nurs-
ed him in sickness. No other course
can avert serious trouble in the hos
pital corps.
Sidney Herbert.