The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-12

National G.. A. R. Encampment in
San Francisco, several months ago,
the most conspicuous figure was Con-
federate soldier in his gray uniform.
On Memorial Day, at Oakland, one of
the prominent speakers was Capt. f.
]. Martin, an old Confederate officer.
The magazine section of the
New York Tribune of last Sunday con-
tains a thrilling story, THE Fire Drill
March," of a fire in a public school
house and how the pupils were all
marched out through clouds of smoke
in perfect order, by the Fire Drill
March" The Board of Education and
the Savannah teachers should read this
story and be instructed by it's valuable
lesson. First Lieutenant Earl l.
Brown, of the U. S. Corps of
Engineers, is visiting his parents
in Carrollton, Ga. First Lieu
tenant Graham L. Johnson, of the
Eleventh Z. S. Infantry, has been
visiting his old friends in Atlanta.
Although born in Alabama. he was
appointed to the army from Georgia
In his sketch of Edenfeld, S.
c., referring to the famous Pickens
family, Larry CAN'T says the beautiful
Douscha Pickens was born while her
distinguished father was minister to
Mexico, and named by the Empress
the word Douscha signifying Darling"
My impression is that she was born
in Russia, while her father was min
lister to that country, and was named
by the Czarine, who was her god
mother.
In my last letter l corrected an err
ror as to the first Southern officer. who
resigned from the U. S. A. to enter
the Confederate service. Since then
l have found the same error in a long
er article in the Atlanta Constitution,
and strange to say, this startling err
ror also appears in the article: "'Stone-
wall Jackson was a first lieutenant
in the Eighth Infantry, and resigned
April l, 1851" Thomas Jonathan Jack
son, called "Stonewall, won rapid
promotion in the Mexican War and
in 1S47 was a first lieutenant, brevet
captain and brevet major in the
First U. S. Artillery. His last active
service was in the Seminole Indian
troubles in Florida, in 1851 after which
the next year he was professor in the
Virginia Military Institute. having re-
signed his commission in the army on
Feb. 29, 1852 This position, Maj Jack
son held when he went into the Con-
federate service, and on Oct o. 1861
writing from the headquarters of his
brigade, at Centreville, Va, he said:
AT the close of hostilities l desire
to resume the duties of my chair" The
NlltST VI NIlS dDOVS reIefrSQ TO,
says 1t is a good while since the war,
and if any mistake in his article, 'let
some Southern vet correct it," l am
not a Southern wet" but have cor
rected the most serious of the errors
in his article. A great many of the
old army officers who joined the Con-
federate cause, resigned long before the
Civil War clouds appeared. Among
these were Early, Polk, Lawton, Lead
better, Shoup. Lowell, G. w. Smith.
D. H. Hill, Ripley French, Frost,
Buckner Maxey and other generals.
Brig. Gen. ]. W. Scully, U. S. A..
(ret), corrects, in the Constitution of
June s, some of the errors which l
corrected in my last letter. as to resig-
nations in 1861 of Southern officers
in the army, but he falls into greater
error when he states that there was
no person on the register of that time
named James H Hallonquist" If Gen.
Scully will look on page GA, of the
Official Register for September, 1851"
he will find this record: Second Lieu
tenant James II. Hallonqust, Fourth
Artillery, Jan. 1, 1861, resigned. And
next and above the names of Gems.
Bryan M. Thomas. Edward P. Alexan-
der and Col. George A. Cunningham.
all second lieutenants, from Georgia,
also resigned. Hallonquist WAS a south
Carolinian, graduating No. in the
class of 1858 at West Point. and was
classmate of Bryan NJ. Thomas and
Leroy Napier, Of Georgia. He served
in the Fourth Artillery until 1850, and
was on leave OF absence when he re-
signed. In the c. s. A. he was lieu
tenant colonel Of artillery on Gen.
Braggs stan, (is62) and In 1854 com
manded the Reserve Artillery OF the
Army OF Tennessee. Gen. Scully, unin-
tenttonally, however. does great in
Justice 70 a gallant and accomplished
soldier OF both armies. Correcfors Of
Lha arnarl OF other writer. ahnallA Il.