The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-03

Ly ICCI lOll5 anu lllC lctI SCoI III bAAS lection. He has two other flags or which the history is lacking. One IS Confederate and has thirteen bullet holes and the other United States flag bearing in gilt on the bars, AL taking of Alexandria" and At Manas- sas." It also bears a gilt ''F," appa- rently indicating the company. Mr. Eldridge thinks the flag belonged to a Michigan regiment, and it was found in sale of unclaimed matter held at an Adams express office in South Dakoto
 Among the swords is one carried by Colonel A. L. Follansbee of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers. At the time the regiment was nodded while pass ing through Baltimore Colonel Follans- bee, then a captain, was in command of the three fighting companies, and carried the sword then and through his term of service.
 The ships lantern of the Harriet Lane, the first naval vessel captured by, the Confederates, is shown and near by is a section of the armor plate of the Confederate ironclad Merrimac, and also a section of one of her spars. In connection with the naval relics may be mentioned rare cup and saucer once part of a set made in England for the cruiser Alabama. The arms of the service appear on each piece surround ed by wreath of poppies and forget me-nors and underneath is the motto Aide toi t'Aldera," and the letters "C. s, A." Around the lip of the cup runs a wide band of maroon and at the bot tom is a slender thread of the same color. MT. Eldridge does not know what became of the rest of the set, but collectors of rare china would be nigh ty glad to know. A beautiful piece of work is 8 Mexi- can blanket with a Mexican coat of arms It is seven feet long and three feet wide, with a siX-ineh fringe at each end. The blanket was officially presented to General Robert E.. Lee and was given by Mrs. Lee to Henry Gull lame, noted artist, who painted a por- trait of General Lee. The blanket was bought of Guillame's son by Mir. FL dridge.
 MT. Eldridge has a conical rife shell fired from a Confederate gun, which has the distinction of falling the near est to Washington of any cannon ball during the war. It was fired during Earlys raid in 1864 and passed over Fort Stevens and struck in an old building off the Seventh street road about four miles from the White House.
 An army surgeons field chest picked up on the battlefield of Chickamauga still contains it's bottles and they are filled as they were forty years or more ago. Uncorking a bottle of opium and camphor pills, the characteristic odor was noticed as plainly as if the pills were made yesterday.
 tMr. Eldridge has right hand gaunt- let glove once owned and worn by Stonewall Jackson. This also came from Guillame, the painter, and was given to him after Jacksons death by his widow. It is in excellent condition, and is one of the most interesting rel ics in the collection.
 There are two drums of considera- ble note. One is bass drum once one of the instruments in Dodworth's band; 1t was heard at the inauguration of ten different presidents; was at the | first battle of Bull Run; was used at i Ford's theatre the night of the assas- sination of President Lincoln and at his funeral ceremonies, and was also ] used at the reception of Kossuth, the 1 first Japanese embassy and reception to Jenny Lind. The other drum has less history, but more pathos, for ii came from the Wilderness and Is spat- tered with the blood of the boy who was carrying it.
 ! When Sherman's men marched to the sea they made many articles which they called Jeff Davis neckties. J These were made by tearing up a sec l tion of railroad, piling the rails on the
 ties and burning the heap. When the l rails were redhot they were twisted around some nearby trees, making the necktie. MT. Eldridge has one of the rails, which by the way is much small CT than any now used for trolley lines l AiNSlV 10 C Sall6 WcNy DOdIu HUH II dl
 raguts ship, the Hartford, well pol ished by the hands of the admiral and other officers, bearing the city's coat ot l arms carved upon it. Not far from i l is a pine table taken from the Snod. | grass house and on which Genera
 Thomas spread his war maps and
 wrote his dispatches during the battle
 of Chickamauga.
 MT. Eldridge has one relic which it
 generally supposed to exist only In sto.
 ries, as it is New Testament tha saved a soldiers life. The volume is g
 small one and it's owner, private 1T a Maine regiment, wore it when it was
 a good thing to have. A bullet strucl
 it near the upper right hand corner
 carrying suspended buckle into tht
 book with it and about two thirds O l the way through. The bullet is mush
 roomed and the end of it protrudej
 from the book.
 l There are many Lincoln elics, mostly
 relating to his assassination, and al
 many more of Grant, one of the latte
 being Grants revolver carried by hin
 through the war. Relics of Sherman
 and Sheridan are equally numerous
 and well authenticated. There are sig
 nificant reminders of Fredericksburg
 Gettysburg, Antietam, Cold Harbor
 South Mountain and of all the grea
 battlefields of the struggle. Among thu pathetic ones are Confederate sol
 diers homespun coat and blanket. Int
 sleeves of the coat had evidently worr
 out and its owner had replaced then