Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-26
SOLDIER STATESMEN
Sixty-Eight Members of the
Present Congress
FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR
Twenty-Four Senators and Forty-Four
Representatives.
"YANKS' AND JOHNNY REBS'
Three Medal of Honor Men in the
National OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
of Deeds of Daring.
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star
If, on next Wednesday, the members
of Congress who fought either in blue
or gray Were to proceed in body to
Arlington, there to strew with brave
impartiality the graves of Union and
confederate dead, twenty-four senators
and forty-four representatives would
compose the little band. If the veterans
of the Spanish American war were in
cluded the column would be augmented
by one senator and eight representatives.
over one-fourth of the Senates mem
bership Is made up of civil war veter-
ans-eleven federaIs and thirteen con-
federates About one ninth of the total
Premiership of the House took part in
the great struggle, those who fought for
the Union numbering thirty-two and
against it, twelve. All told, forty three
ex-Union soldiers and twenty-five eX-
confederate soldiers are now serving the
whole country in its Legislative body
The Congresses Immediately following
the close Of the civil war were largely
made up of former Union defenders.
Some of the most prominent men in
both branches of the Congress would
be in the fower-laden procession, and,
yes, there would be hating steps in
that procession and an empty sleeve, as
well as an empty trousers leg-that is, II
artificial limbs were not worn.
Arbitrarily pairing the Union and confed-
crate senator's, there would march ceme-
teryward, blue arm touching gray, Alger of
Michigan and Morgan of Alabama, Burrows
of Michigan and Pettus of Alabama Bulke-
ley of Connecticut and Berry of Arkansas
Proctor of Vermont and Bacon of Georgia,
Spooner of Wisconsin and Daniel of Vir-
ginia, Nelson of Minnesota and Blackburn
of Kentucky, Scott of West Virginia and
Martin of Virginia, Warner of Missouri and
Money of Mississippi, Depew of New York
"a nd MrI a a
Wyoming and Mallory of Florida, with For
aker of Ohio as standard bearer and ITALIA
ferro of Florida, McCreary of Kentucky and
McEnery of Louisiana as color guard.
Distinguished Soldier Representatives.
Among the representatives in line
Yank and Johnny Reb could not be paired,
since the former outnumber the latter al
most three to one-Iowa would have three
nationally distinguished sons. Huh, Hep
burr and Lacey. and Hedge. besides Kei-
fer and Grosvenor, together with the les
ser known, but equally brave Scroggy,
would represent Ohio. The leader of
Pennsylvania corporal guard of six
Bingham, Dale, Deemer, Mahon, Graham,
Palmer-would be Bingham. father of the
House." and sometimes known Hand
some Harry" in his home city of Philadel-
phia.
Illinois which sent boys in blue by the
tens of thousands to the front, would be in
evidence in Knopf, and Indiana in Holli-
day. Kansas would have Calderhead, Mas
sachusetts, Lowering; Michigan, trio
Gardner, Bishop and Darragh; New York
five, Goulden. Bradley Ketcham, Wads-
worth and Alexander; Little Rhody, Cap
ron; Vermont, Haskins; West Virginia,
Dovener; Wisconsin, Minor and Jenkins
New Jersey, Howell and Wiley
The armies of the gray would be repre-
scented by Gray, Richardson and Bankhead
of Alabama; Lester and Livingston OF
Georgia: Meyer of Louisiana; Talbot of
MARYLAND; Spight of Mississippi: Field of
Texas Jones, Slemp and Lamb of the Old
Dominion.
If the Spanish-American war contingent
were to fall in the rear there would march
70 decorate the graves of Lawton and others
who saw service in Cuba. Porto Rico and
the Philippines, Senator Dick of Ohio, who
was with the Sth Ohio in Cuba; representa-
tive Wiley of Alabama, who, as lieutenant
colonel of volunteer immunes, served in
Cuba on Lawton's staff; Dickson of Illinois;
Ames Gardner and Weeks of Massachu-
setts the first two seeing service in Cuba
and Porto Rico; DENLY of Michigan, who
vas a gunner's mate, third class on the
Yosemite; Humphreys of Mississippi, who
served under Fitzhugh Lee and whose father
was a confederate general, and Aiken OF
south Carolina. II this little band marched,
Ames and Humphreys paired, and swing
ing down Pennsylvania avenue side by side
It would typify the spirit of the reunited
Ames father. Maj Gen. Adelbert, who
forcibly elected Humphreys father, Brig.
Cen Benjamin G., from the executive man
sion of Mississippi, in s. and succeeded
him as military governor of the state.
Ames is. also, the grandson of that Union
general who. in the heat of war, was the
most intensely hated of all Union COM
MISUNDERSTANDING f. Butler.
The Boy Soldiers of Congress.
1t has been said time and again by en-
inent authorities that the civil war was
fought to finish by boys. It is a striking
fact that If the Union and confederate vet
Grams in Congress were to set the country