Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-27
COL. j. PHILLIPS DEAD.
National Leagues First President
Passes Away Peacefully in
his Seyen1y-SiXth
Year.
New York, February IA.

than whom fruit AND produce com
mission trad. q the United States held
no more distinguished or revered a
figure. is dead, and the National
League of Commission Merchants has
lost it's first president. The end came
peacefully al $3.50 Tuesday morning at
Col. Phillips NV York residence, 53
West Seventy-second street, with his
wife and his only surviving son, &. c.
Phillips, at the BEDSIDE.
Death was in reality q merciful re-
lease. For months the sands of Col.
Phillips life had been running lower
"a fact that none knew more thoroughly
or accepted more philosophically than
the old gentleman himself. For a great
many years he had been a sore and
constant sutferer from stomach trou-
bln-an ailm-nt due originally to a ter
rihle wound received at the battle OF
Gettysburg. Within the past year or
50 this old trouble which at one time
OF his life prevented him from sleeping
in "a bed and forced him to take his re-
pose sitting in n chair. developed into
cancer of the stomach. Never the!same
man since the untirnely death of his
eldest son, w. j. Phillips, a yea and
two months ago, the C%olonel's physi-
cal failure during the past tew months
had been rapid, but his brilliant in
;elIect and indornitab BILE spirit and
clieerfulness burned brightly to the
sery last. Since the middle of Sept
80 - - 80 $780, - ~-f,
i've times and that for short spells
merely. Since the first of December
he had been confined to his home and
for the past six weeks to his bed. The
historic letter written by him to the
National League and read before the
Convention at Savannah was the let
ter of a dying man who wrote it when
he, even better than the doctors who
were attending him, Knew that he was
dying. 1t was the last "charge'
shouted to his troops by the leader
reeling in his saddle-knowing that he
had received his mortal wound. And
when death came in time to merciful-
lily end sufferings which those who low
ed him thanked God had not reached
their climax, it found him ready for
the last roll call. his house set perfect
~ in order. master of the Situation to
the end.
II want no moaning at the bar when
[ go out to sea-"
That was one OF his last admonitions
to his family. What more perfect ex-
preston of fearlessness; of cheerful
resignation to the inevitable; Of the
unselish desire at that supreme mo-
ment to hearten up his beloved ones
could one desire?
II want no moaning at the bar when
| have gone to sea-"
Surely a parting word from a veter-
an OF se~venty-six years worthy to rank
with Col. N~ewcom,'s classic "Adsum.'
A veteran of seventy-six years, Col.
Phillips was born the % of January.
1882, in Nansemond county. Virginia.
During his long career he played many
parts-a11 with honor 10 the great State
that bore him. He was scientist, inathe-
matlcian, tactician, chemist, farmer,
soldier and merchant and in every vo-
cation he made for the top of b lad.
ELer. A graduate OF the Virginia Mill
tary Institution, he started active life
on his own account as a professor In
that same establishment, making 8
speciality Of mathematics and tactics
Later he started a school of his owns
: military institute in Nansemond county
and was the principal of this wher
the Civil War broke out.
From the theory of war to it's prac
> tice was the most welcome of changes
. for young Phillips, a soldier to hi
Virginia as captain and finished tn
war as colonel OF the same regiment
And if eve a man saw the progress o
the Civil War from start to finish iron
lie. stand point of a constant and activ'
participant, it was Col. Phillips. HI
served with his regiment from tn
opening OF the war till three month
after the close. His extra term of ser
vice-if such it may be termed-cam
r about in this way. He was captures
by Custer on April 6. just three day
> before the surrender at Appomatto:
and was taken to Johnson's Islam
and kept a prisoner there till July
His record OF battle is practically tn
record of the principal battles of tn
war. He fought at the first and secon
battle OF Manassas, ut Cold Harbol
. Antietam, Seven Pines. Drury's Bluff
= where he was shot in the leg-the Wi
derness and Gettysburg. He was wit
Pick ett's Division at Gettysburg an
~ Joined in the ever famous charge. HI