The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-26

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 There is no pretense here to write military history. but to preserve rag ments and Incidents of military events, lest we forget: yea. verify, lest we forget. The continuing process or human society contains nothing of endeayor. no purpose nor persever- ance more worthy as example In any of the straits of life, than the true tale of the things done under the name or s.the Army of Tennessee.
 No commander other than Lee could have surrendered the Army of North- ern Virginia ss early as April 3, 1885. hungry. ragged remnant that 1t was. Lee himself could not have surrender- d if thirty days before. The feeble and torn brigades of the Army or Tennessee, rendezvousing in the cen- ire of North Carolina to continue the struggle. saw the paroled men from Appomattox pass through their lines southward, yet were surprised ana eveu resentful to discover Johnston's surrender of them. Alexander Il. stephens relates that he heard the ad- dress of President Davis. delivered sixty days before Appomattox, at Rich mond in the open air of night, to great throng. defiant of every threat of disaster and bouyant in supremest purpose to drive away the Invader. That accomplished critic declares neither ancient or modern oratory ever rose to grander heights. My country! right or wrong, my country" is the true shilbolethy. My country Is as apt to be right as any other country. We await with trustfnl anxiety the election of Mir. Bryan. Even if the principles of reform shall triumph at the ballot box a few days hence, the success thus attained cannot be dlf- ferentiated from the principles upon which the Southern Confederacy was founded. The completest success of democracy can do no more than re- store somewhat of the things lost with the fall of the Confederacy. The Con- stitution of the Confederate States forever settled in favor of Bryan all his issues with Taft.
 General Braxton Bragg was born In North Carolina in 1877. General Will liam s. Rosecrans was born in Ohio in 1919. In the very years of their births the dispute of the sections in which they drew their swords on see- tional sides took earliest form. If was then that the question of admis- sion to the union. with the institution of slavery protected by her laws, arose with great violence.
 Bragg and Rosecrans were both
  ed the army from that sch ool as lieu tenants in the artillery arm. Both resigned before the war to enter pur- suits in civil life. Bragg carried in- to his retirement a military reputa. ton. won at Buena Vista, more attrac- tive to the public that what was known of either Lee, the Johnstons or Beuregard, or Grant, In the war with Mexico. He was. believed to have de. A4x ArA nR kfu AaA the success of Colonel Jefferson Davis and his Mississippi rifilemen. on that neld.
 Tn 1856 Captain Bragg retired to his fine plantation, we'll stocked with negro slaves, in the southern part of Louisiana. He became a notable planter. known for the admirable precislons and method of his business
 General Richard Taylor lived near ciates alike delighting in books and politics Bragg was a Democrat and secessionist: Taylor was a Whig and Unionist.
 General Rosecrans upon retirement fam the army went to live in CIn- cfnnati, where he adopted the voca. tIon of consulting engineer. Wher he offered for appointment in the vol upteer army commisslon was sent [, HtAo Ab colone4 oL dn Onlo heSInen 0f Infantry. Bragg was at once. ap poinfbd Brigadier General and sent C comriand the Gulf coast. with head quarters at Pensacola.
 General Bragg came over to vlsi the posts about Mobile. He went tt breakfast at the Battle House. Al table he enquired, with surprise, wha troops had arrived the night before seeing so large a number of officers about him. The officers boarded a the hotel and rode daily to the camp on the suburbs. Brigadier General | F.. Walker had quarters there in brick residence on Government street The general took a boat to the forts He reported to the government tha too many of the officers at these post were drunk. That night at a privat dinner in the city, given In his honor