The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-15

~ s1,Pr, Prp,alIpd him for the last thirty
iiD9ier an,c commandBnt of cadets at
|Fsft Stonewall Jackson left the IN
|is VIZ, ~ the Confederate army. he
tiIuts ~, Vnoaition until 1890, when, upon
~ tna. n.pment Of General Francis H..
" % ie'n he was made superintendent
'.iih p;lIv,j n, WAS commandant of the
'on ." cadets on May 10, 1864, when
tVs ~ we're taken from school OF
~ p0s real battle, and saved the day
10 in'0 confederate forces under Gen
'iIobn c. Breckinridge at the battle
A tkcwmnrket. /.
Federal army under General Sieel
a nm the valley from Martinsburg,
ss' sn;a AZ Newmarket they met
fPh,u,nr;dpe's command Of 5000. men,
nonfederate chicftan had called on
sT;ro;n,a s T;, Military Institute for and,
55i boys, many Of them but IL
IA and none over 60. responded TO
.m As thcv marched ont the vet
ST three wears in Virginia cam.
" "olled to them. "Don 7 YOU want
&asraG1', &as ':Whv don't you 90
ota mammy?H Under this sar-
.hs bovs were mute, but their de-
r.tion was as firm as their lips
|Is silent,
q, Klciser's battery of the Federal
W ,ycnf into position on the crest
L'h;,l from which the ground sloped
~ fnr several hundred yards TO a
G This slope was as green and
',sb as well kept lawn and offered
4 onteciion whatever for an attack
rrty The Federal soldiers saw tne
Ia forming at the foot or the hih
~ rayine. "What are they7 Reg,
,ss'' was the question, so nattN ana
was The appearance of the beard
rouths. Soon the Federals saw the
1dvancc 1t came on steadily IN
fsse of the fire from Won Kleiser 5
ms Here and there one fol- out Of
INT Ehat the bows measured the distance
,,oscd y ND The gaps as if they were
,,,de Common time, double time,
tbe charge-on they came. Final
s,;r havonrts we're at the breasts OF
Rle;ser's men and they had cap
Ls,bc bat,cry. More than that, they
SsId fhe center. they had frustrat-
As mans of the Federal commanders
ES,d actually won the day for the
.hern army. Scott Sbipp command,
tbem, but he fell severely wounded
|.,rs the charge was we'll started. IN
.r,iors Of age and experience com
k,ld at the beginning: but when
ksriad fallen. BOYS took command ana
|ns the cadets on to victory zap
\ Z franklin 4. Town, an officer IN the
I,.aI army, who was i'll the hight,
Eof the charge: 81 do not believe
Il ibe history OF war contains rec
III IA deed more chiyalrous, more he
+ more daring OF more honorable
'E The charge OF those boys 10 a VIC
III which would have been an honor
.,ssoned veterans, The grizzled
Enns in gray who had that morning
kdM them as babies cheered them
II the widest Of rebel yells from the
aksnt thev went under the FIRE Of the
Nral batteries. and they won their
liz Of knighthood then and there.
knl Shields, of the Federal army,
bred that such a school for soldiers
y the school for him. and. like Cap
flown. afierward sent his son there
~ educated. More than fifty of the
IA lads fell on the field, and eight
hsm we're killed. At thc grave OF
n them in the churchvard at Lex
"a is a monument with the sword
Y hfaaos upon II. This stone inspired
" Margaret i Preston TO write the
J. .|if,l and popular poem some
4 IA Darling On MAY 10. 1901,
= than seventy Of the cadets who
\ l|sipatcd in the battle were IN Lex
'ilpu al the unveiIiug of the monu-
y 10 their bovhood schoolmates who
al Newmarket. "Old Billy Shipp
= the hero that dav. When he an
f.sed his retirement a few weeks
Iie was the recipient of many gifts
men all over the country who have
pat V. N, !. IN The last forty-tive
~ Straight and tall, win gray
n musiache and goatce, ne is a twp
Virginia officer, His voice is deep
reund. and while every Y. NJ. ].
has loved him as father. none has
= m TO disobey this stern sticklcr for
= fpllnc and hope for immunity For
n Senator e. j. Faulkner Of West
Eeln'a former Con0ressma John >.
I'ss Of Virginia and New York, and
Hy, other men who have come into
Ngnence We're in that cadet corps
fh marched out 10 battle al New
P'set under cold Silly 50 orders,
'oud they are. and proud they may
OF that page Of their hoyhood his
rP5s nut nrouder no man can be than
scoft Shipp Of his forty,odd classes
II virginia Military Institute cadets
Eiy one of which he believes would re
me glorious event of Newmarket
III devotion 10 an ideal that brings
Ipecuniary profit is so unusual in
!. .Je!.lovlng America that the de
IF is set apart as one 10 be mar
t(Eo over and admired, Such an ob.
" lor maryelling and admiration is
Ueakln, the California artist
n apafly thirty wears Mr. Deakin has
Fo himself almost entirely to one
T,"ors-that Of preserving on can
me picturesque architecture and
peanly of the old California
s' There were originally twenty
W these stations built by good
N Juiipcro Sierra and his follow
ihough three have ALREADY become
VI inc past and others are fall
Alapoly 10 decay. To preserve
VI canvas, since negligent peo"
~ nor preserving them in reality,
afdk H. almost a religious conviction
4 w Deakln, and as early as 1870
|ssu making sketches for his work.
10y With the Dolores mission in
eneisco: In 1875 he went ia
.LNEn california ana studied the
M In or San Buenavcniura and
W nnst; and from then until 1899
.slen from mission TO mission
assiduously and mtiringly, un
V,her eighteen missions were
on canvas. and $40 preserved
NINI, Three of the missions
II ssra men things of the past, bui
YH rou,.ml WIN purpose was not tc