The National tribune., 1908-12-17
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BY Frank Milton Bristol Pub
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Co, New York. Price, $I50.
Few men outside of their immediate
commanders stood so near to the hearts
of all veterans as the Rev. Charles c.
McCabe, Bishop Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. When the war broke
out Comrade MeCabe WAS an earnest,
fervid, eloquent young Methodist
preacher in charge of a church in south
eastern Ohio, and he threw himself into
the struggle for what he considered the
sacred cause of humanity with all the
fervor known to the. old-time Methodist
ministry He came of that intense,
earnest Scotch-Iris1 stock which has
country, and which Is everywhere and.
all the time marked by its courageous
devotion to principle and infiexible de-
termination in support of the right as
Is given IL to see the right. The Me-
Cabes came from County Tyrone, IRE.
land, ard first settled in Tyrone, Pa.
The. family. as is common in the Scotch
and Irish families, divided into two
parts, known as the black and red
headed McCabes The bIack-headed
clan moved to Ohio and the red heads
to Virginia. The McCabes interrnarried
with the McCrackens, and Bishop Nc
Cabe's father was the son of Robert
MeCabe and Polly McCracken McCabe.
Charles CardweIE McCabe was born in
Athens, O., Oct II. 1886. He was
brought up in the most careful way by
his mother. a woman of sanity men,
ory, and at IA years of age experienced
conversion and united himself with the
Church.. After the, usual education in
the country schools he. entered the Ohio
Wesleyan University, whence he matrie-
uiated in the Fall of 1854. For awhile
he taught school, and then was assigned
to a. charge in what is now Zauesviile,
10. The firing on Fort Sumter aroused
all his indignant patriotism, he soon
distinguished himself by his eloquence
and earnestness in his patriotic appeals.
and he helped very much to raise the
122d Ohio. of which regiment he be-
came Chaplain. He was a working.
fighting Chaplain, always present with
his regiment on every OCCASION, cheer
ing and encouraging the fighting men.
caring for the wounded and visiting the
sick in the hospital From the day of
his muster he became attached to the
veterans with hoops of steel. and the
sight of the bronze button was one that
could never become casual or indiffef-
ent to him. This biography tells one
instance of this. He had come to Tren-
ton, N J., to assist in the services at
the burning of a mortgage paid off on
the Warren Street Methodist Episcopal
Church. AS he stepped out of the cars
to go, to the church he saw a man wear
ing a G. A. r. button staggering along
under the influence of drink The
Bishop stepped to his side. took his
arm, greeted him as a friend and
walked along with him for some time,
telling how sorry he was to, see an old
soldier in that condition. 1t was thus
that the good Methodists of Trenton,
who had. turned out to greet their Bish-
op. met him. Altho he had an unusual
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er. of virile, forceful.. elean-cut English,
his greatest fascination was in his Won
derful singing. He had a marvelousIy
sweet voice, full of expression, and the
first notes of which warmed all hearts
to him. Another story told of him was
that on one occasion he was holding a
good, old-fashioned Methodist revival in
camp, and the proceedings had become
so animated that when the bugle sound
| ed for dress parade the soldiers for once
paid no attention to it, The Colonel
I sent his Adiutant to hunt up the men,
and found them in church. He then
sent an order to McCabe to dismiss the
injecting. but McCabe replied that the
work was going on so satisfactorily that
he could not do it. Naturally, the Col
onel then sent a guard and brought him
to headquarters, where he gave him the
sharp end of his tongue. McCabe rather
Isulked over the thing for two or three
days. but finally his good sense asserted
itself, he. went to the Coloners tent and
said manfully, Colonel. you were right
and wrong. Henceforth will obey or
ders." After that he had no better
friend anywhere than the Colonel
When Milroy made his ilf-judged stand
| at Winchester, the 1920 Ohio was one
| of the regiments overwhelmed and
/ forced back with a loss of many men.
Chaplain McCabe and the EeeimentaI
| Surgeon, DR.. William M. Houston, could
have escaped with the rest. but they
bravely determined to remain with the