The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-08

stained. until the end, tho honor of | the Confederate States. To speak their 1 name. Is to invoke their presence, those valiant ones lying
 Hinder the dew and rain
 Awaiting the Judgment day"
 Deep in Louisiana's memory. for all | time, with love and pride and sorrow, | Is that of her martyred son. William | B. Mufnford, who in the bravery and dash of youth. for an act of patriotism, | was executed by the order of General Butler, that monster of iniquity. Oh, the bitterness. the cruel malice. the l horror of that despotic rule.
 Lord God of hosts. not yet, not yet. | Do we forget, do we forget"
 | How her heart throbs as her valiant | son, Peter Gustave Toussant Beaure- 1 gard passes before her mental vision. l Of French-Canadian descent he was | born near New Orleans, on his father | plantation in 1877. Graduated at West Point in 1888, won his brevet of cap tain at the battle of Contreas in Mex | ico. and of major at ChepuIepec, where | ne was twice wounded. When Louisi- ana seeded, he was appointed by the 1 Confederate government to the com-
 mand at Charleston, s. c. April Il he | began the war, by the bom mbardment | of Fort Sumter. March 5, 1862. he took command of the Army of the Missis- sippi tunder c. A. s. Johnson). After holding General -falieck fin check for | two months, failing health compelled him to retire from active service for | time. In 1862 he defended Charleston. | in 1864 commanding at Petersburg, aid I ed General Lee in the defense at Rich mond. Since then he has been presi- i dent of the Mississippi and Now Orleans Railroad. In 1866 he visited London and Paris. being received with highest | distinction. He has also been in the | service of the Kh edive of Egypt.
 Other sons. just as brave. Follow fin succession like panorama. Francis Tillon Nicholls born in 1884. | Donaldson, La, graduated at the United i States Military Academy. He took part | in the Seminole War in Florida. and | was afterwards stationed at Fort | Yuma, Cal When the tocsin of war sounded. he promptly raised com
 pany. of which he was made captain. l in his native state. October IA, 1862. l he was made Brigadier General. In 1 the Battle of Winchester, he lost his
 left arm May 1862. At Chancellors-
 vile, May 25. 1863. his left foot was
 torn off, by shell His days of ser | vice at he front were ended. He has |
 has had distinguished career as Governor of Louisiana. from 1877 to | 1881. and as Chief Justice of the | Supreme Court of Luosiana from 1892 | to the present time.
 l No name shines with brighter lustre l than Harry T. Hays. Singularly cool l in danger and strong in attack. and conspicuous for daring on the field of battle. The elan of Colonel Hays, was to find voice in a proverb, which ran | like red line, through the fighting l years of the Confectionery. "Dashing as Harry Hays" army and press combined | to make it a war -proverb in the years 1861 to 1865. July 25. 1862. he was made Brigadier General May. 10. 1865 he was appointed Majo General in the Army of the Confederate States. But the Confederacy had ceased to exist.
 except where he was, in the Trans | Mississippi department. May 25, that department gave up the fight and the
 war was ended Afterwards General Hays resided in New Orleans utnil his | death August 21, 1876.
 light in Iberville Parish, December 12, 1878. Graudated at West Point 1888. l He entered the United States service 1S47 as Lieutenant Colonel under 1 General Franklin Pierce. he was ire | quently mentioned by his commanding
 officer, as the gallant young Creole l Colonel. At the Battle of Molina del
 Rey, his gallantry was so conspicious, | that he was brevetted Colonel, In 1852 he was elected Governor of Louisiana. | When the Civil War was declared,
 Hebert was very zealous In the cause
 ofthe South. In August 1861 he was
 commissioned Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army. He performed with
 fidelity all the duties of his command,
 and acquitted himself in such man.
 ner. as might have been expected from
 a man of his courage. After the war he resumed business in his native state.
 and died in New Orleans, August 29'
 1880.
 Alfred Mouton, (son of Governor
 Mouton) was born in Opelousas. h.
 July 1, 1929 From 1850 to 1861 he was | Brigadier General of the State forces
 of Louisiana. From that time until his
 death, he was distinguished on the | le-fields. everywhere gaining fame
 as a skillful and dashing leader. In
 the Battle of Mansfield. April s. 1861,
 at the front of his soldiers. Mouton g
 noble life ended. in the high tide of
 victory. San puer has been in life
 in death his fame was rounded, sans
 reproche.
 In the broad annals of the Confed-
 eracy no more gallant spirit shone than | Henry Gray who entered the servlce l.
 commission as colonel. The gallantry | of his troops was enhanced by their | excellent discipline. and no veteran sol l diers excelled them. So well did he
 conduct himself that he was made brig
 adler general in the Provisional Army
 of the Confederate States, dating from
 the battle of Mansfield May 8, 1864 '.
 General Gray resided in Louisiana until | his death, December 13, 1892.
 Henry Hopkins Sibley. born at
 Natchioches. La. May 25, ls16, gradu- ated at West Point. 1888, He took part
 in the Florida war. was also in the
 Mexican war. At the siege of Vera
 Cruz. for gallantry. was breveted ma
 jor. On the day he received his com mission he resigned to enter the ser
 vice of the Confederate States. On
 May 6, he was made colonel. July IT
 he was promoted brigadier general.
 After the close of the war he went
 abroad, and served as general of ar
 tillery in the Egyptian army from 1869
 to 1874. His last years were spent Tn
 i'll health and strengthened circum-
 stances He died at Fredericksburg,
 Va. General Sibley was the inventor
 of what Is called the Sibley tent.
 1t has often been a matter Of com
 ment that some of Louisiana's bray
 est defenders were of Northern birth
 but she does not care whence they came or why, she only knows that they