The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-24
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts Of Interest to War Veterans and others

Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, July
23.-My correspondents must have pa
thence with me. as l am very much
behind in my work. Delayed letters
will be attended to as soon as possible
The crank who wanted to con-
suit President Roosevelt on names,
that Mr.. Merchant should be mer-
| chant, etc, has some disciples. Eleanor
Livingston tells us in her Corner on
Ancestry" that people used to be
named for their occupations, etc. But
| the latest proposition is to use the
| front name-Merchant Smith or Printer
Jones or Carpenter Brown. We now
have Mr.. Wagonseller and Mr.. Sleigh
maker, Mr.. Hem and Mr.. Chicken,
so l don't think we can make it much
worse And now, my dear old
friend, Hugh Dempsey, of Augusta, has
crossed over the river to his final rest;
and what a blessed rest it will be.
| We who mourn the dear old man whom
everybody loved. need not pray, God
rest his soul in peace" for he so lived
| in his long and useful Christian life
| that he fully earned that rest which
| remaineth for the people of God" AL
| though a devout Roman Catholic, two
of his pallbearers were Rev. DR.. Will
| liams, an Episcopal, and Rev. DR..
! Plunkett, a Presbyterian. This was a
| noble tribute to a good man gone be-
! fore, And his old associates of the
| Southern Express Company came from
near and far to lay their tender tributes
upon his grave. O'Brien, Leahy, HUI
| bert, Cronin, Hockaday, Sadier-how
| they will miss the hearty cordial greet
|
their time-honored associate. OF Hugh
| Dempsey it can well be said:
| when hearts whose worth is proven,
Like thine. are laid in earth.
There should a wreath be woven,
To tell the world their worth"
Maj DanT. A. Frederick, U. S. A.,
of Marshallvile, Ga, is on duty in the
! Military Secretarys Department, and
now serving in the Philippines, but
his family is spending the summer at
| Ocean City. Md. The U. S.
cruiser Dixie is with the Naval Mill
J tia of New York state for a practice
cruise of about ten days. She goes
| to Buzzard's Bay, where the Naval
| Battalions of New Jersey, Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island. will join the
| New Workers in target practice. The
Dixie ought to come South and give
! the Savannah battalion a cruise.
| to know that their old friend Maj
John B. Bellmger, u. S. A. is to be
one of the quartermasters at the Ma
nassas encampment, and my old friend
| Capt. Adelbert Crokhite, U. S. A., Is
| to be another The Quarter
master Generals department has paid
| out to old Confederate soldiers whose
horses and side arms were taken from
| them improperly after the surrender
| $751;, S39 20. Other claims are yet to be
paid out of the $225,000 appropriated
| for that purpose. Dixie seems
to be a popular name, as there is not
| only a u. S. Cruiser Dixie but a u.
| loading a cargo of live animals at San
| Francisco, Cal. for the Philippines.
The death of Brig. Gen. Joseph H.
Lewis, c. S. A., in Scott county, Ken
lucky, leaves, I think, only three sur
viving Confederate generals in that
| state-Buckner, Lyon and Duke. Gen.
Lewis was universally beloved, and as
| the last commander of the famous
| Orphan Brigade" he was widely
| known. He had been a member of
| Congress and judge of the Court of
| Appeals. The burial was ait Glasgow,
KY where his son, Capt. Jack Lewis,
resides. The Morning News
editorial on Estate Names for Regi-
ments" in the regular army calls to
mind the early practice of so naming
such commands. In 1914 the First Reg
| iment of Infantry was New Jersey,
| the Second Louisiana, the Fifth Penn
sylvania. the Seventh Kentucky, the
| Eighth Georgia, the Twelfth Virginia,
and So on. The idea is a good one
and in time might be carried out
| The old Eighth Infantry, under Col.
| Patrick Jack, was really a Georgia
command, and had in it Majs. William
Cumming and Phil Cook and Capts.
ID. e. Twiggs, Chisolm, Hamlin Cook,
Gignlliat, Warning, Wayne, Lamar and
other we'll known names. Few people
are aware of the large number Of
Georgia officers now i'm the regular
| army, many of them coming up from
privates in the ranks.
II the Georgia cavalry is to make
| a good record at the Manassas en-
campment IL should become familiar
with Lieut. John ]. Bonface's excel
| lent work on THE Cavalry Horse and
| His Pack" which covers every detail
| of a cavalryman's duties. The book
is issued from the military publishing
! house Of the Hudson Kimberly Com
pany at Kansas City, Mo-. and is pro-
fusely illustrated. AS Lieut.. Boniface
went into the service as a private and
won his way up to first lientenancy
in the Fourth United States Cavalry
he is familiar with every detail OF
duty in that branch of the service.
/ am sure that Col. Meldrim's best
troopers can be improved by care
ful perusal OF this book Having been
cavalryman and a dragon myself
l know whereof do speak. 's' I no.
tice an item IN the Morning News as
to why Brady Prefers Fiction" Well.
there seems 20 be good deal OF nc |
ton about Rev. Cyrus Townsend |
RradV One rnnar calln hin, nIllalrr,