Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-26

a fine example in Memorial day chivalry by
marching together to Arlington the wit
nesses of the unique procession would be-
hold valiant band, over one-half of whom
were boys when they enlisted to fight either
for or against their country. And some
were still boys in years when they returned
to civil Hfe-to preparatory schools, col
leges and business.
Senator Berry had passed his majority
only few months when he lost a leg at
Corinth, in the bloody attack that Van
Dorm made on Rosecrans. He had then
been second lieutenant of the 18th Arkan-
sas Volunteer Infantry more than year.
Senator Mallory was sixteen and his col
league one year older when they joined
Lees army, Taliaferro leaving the school of
William Dinwiddie, at Greenwood, Va, to
volunteer. McLaurin of Mississippi was
, also sixteen when he went from his neigh
borhood school to the confederate army as
a private.
Foraker of Ohio likewise lacked five years
of his majority when he enlisted as a pri-
vate in the S9th Ohio, in July of 60. He
was in the battles of Missionary Ridge,
Lookout Mountain and KeneSaw Mountain.
He marched with Sherman from Atlanta to
the sea, and when he was returned to civil
life he was only nineteen. The latter part
of his service he was attached to the staff
of Gen. Henry w. Slocum. A daring and
brilliant boy warrior was ne.
Senator Daniel of Virginia had been twice
wounded before he was twenty-One; the
first time at the first Bull Run, before he
Md, when he was first lieutenant and adj
jutant of his regimet, the 18th Virgiia in
fantry. His fighting career was brought to
a close when third bullet found him at
the battle of the Wilderness. He enlisted
as a private. Mr.. Daniels colleague, Mr..
Martin. was still under seventeen when, a
cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, he
first served with that Institutes battalion
in the defense of Richmond
Knute Nelson of Minnesota was only
twenty when confederate bullet pierced
his thigh and he fell disabled and helpless
under the breaStworks of Port Hudson,
June H. 1868 There he lay till a confe1-
crate picket discovered him and took him
a prisoner Corp Nelson remained in the
confederate hospital until the place fell, on
July g. With the possible exception of Pet
tus he is the only man in the Senate who
ever had to live mule meat. During the
last ten days of the siege this and misera-
BILE cornbread and sassafras tea comprised
the food which he and the others in the be-
sleged place had to eat.
A Medal of Honor Boy.
Senator Warren of Wyoming lacked six
days of being nineteen when, In the siege
of Port Hudson, he performed the deed of
gallantry thatwo for him a congressional
medal of honor. He went to the defense of
the Union as a private in the 10th Massa-
chusetts, and he was mustered out non
commissioned officer of that regiment.
1t is interesting to note the coincidepces
in the careers of Senators Warren and Nell
son. Each showed his fighting blood at
Port Hudson. Each served as a private
and then as a ''non-com.' Each is in the
SO me senatorial class and rank; and each
has been governor of his state, to which he
removed from another.
Senator Scott of West Virginia was
twenty when he gave his services to the
Union, and Spooner of Wisconsin was also
under his majority when, like many an
other soldier-congressman, he enlisted
private, to come out an officer-a captain,
and major by brevet.
All told eleven of the twenty-four war
senators were boy soldiers.
OF the twenty-five representatives who
were boy soldiers, three-Taylor of Ala
bama, Jones of Virginia and Alexander of
New York were only fifteen when they en-
listed. They began their fighting careers
earlier than any of the other members of
either branch of the present Congress
When Alexander was mustered out he pre-
pared for college, being at the proper age,
eighteen. Jones, as military cadet, aided
in the defense of Richmond. Taylor left a.
military academy, in 1854 to join the list
South Carolina Cavalry. and was a courier
from then on until the south laid down her
arms.
spight, Mississippi. had attained the rank
of captain before he was twenty-one. He
was the youngest officer of that rank in the
famous "Walthalrs Brigade He was
yerely wounded in the battle of Atlanta,
and what remained of his regiment (the
in April of '65, when the rest of Joseph e.
Johnston's army stacked arms.
A Boy Who Raised a Company.
At nineteen Dovener of West Virginia
raised a company of loyal Virginians and
served with it throughout the war. Knopf
of Illinois was sixteen when he enlisted and
eighteen when he was mustered out at Sa-
vannah after marching from Atlanta to the
sea. Lacey, Iowa, was only twenty when
he started on his career from private to the
staff of Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele Cal
derhead of Kansas gave up preparing for
college, and, at eighteen, enrolled as a pri-
vate in the Goth Ohio. Meyer of Louisiana
was two years older when the war fever
claimed him and he threw down his books
at the University of Virginia. He served
from 1864 to the close of the war on the
staff of the Confederate Brig. Gen. James S.
williams, finally filling the post of assistant
adjutant general.
Gardner of Michigan was in his twentieth
year when he was severely wounded at
Resaca, Ca He fought for his country
over four years, being mustered out IN