The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-06
STRIKING JAPANESE VOTE
TO RETURN TO WORK
KAAHAUKUKUI BATTERY IS
NAMED AFTER ARMSTRONG

reeted that the seacoast battery to be
erected on Kaakaukukui Reef, on the
Waikiki side of the channel leading to
Honolulu harbor, be named Fort Arm.
strong, in honor of General S. C. Arm
strong of Civil War fame. General
Armstrong went to Washington from
| Honolulu, entered the Union Army, and
| achieved distinction as as commander
| in many battles. The action of Sec
rotary Dickinson follows a request from
George w. belong Post, Grand Army
of the Republic, of Honolulu, that the
War Department perpetuate General
Armstrong; fame in naming one of
the batteries or posts after him. The
| government will maintain a saluting
battery on Kaahaukukui Reef at first,
and later on will install large coast de.
Tense guns there, similar to the batter.
les already being erected at Waikiki.
Samuel Chapman Armstrong was born
in Wailuku, Maui, in 1889, while his
father was missionary on the Island
of Maui, and moved with the family
from there to their old homestead on
Beretania avenue next to what was
then known as the John Dominis Place
and opposite the Central Union church
as it stands today. The old coral built
house still stands and has been con-
verted into a school connected with St.
Andrew s cathedral, nearby. He spent
his boyhood days in this old house built
of coral blocks and went to Punahou
school of which his father was one Of
the trustees at that time.
He was quite lively boy and there
/. are many tales told of his escapades
! with others. He at one time created
quite disturbance in Honolulu because
> the British Consulate flag was lowered
= to half mast and residents anXiously in
= quired at the Consulate. 1t was found
y that Sam Armstrong; dog had died
,, and the boys had set the flag at half.
mast
He took the ordinary high-school
course and then went to Williams Col
lege about 1858. He graduated in 1860
at the time the war broke out. AL
though he had only been in the United
States two years, his father was q
: Pennsylvania man and his mother was
from Springfield, Mass, and he did moi
wait to deliver his valedictory address
but wrote it out to be read for hin
and rushed to the City of Troy where
he organized volunteer company o.
which he became captain and enlisted
in the Civil War. On account of hi
: youth, he had considerable trouble t,
. make the United States authorities ad
nit him to a commission in the regula
army upon examination, though hi
high standing in the mathematics of tn,
subject, persuaded them to allow him t.
e take the commission as captain.
o His company was among the volun
l. teers from New York and its campaign
d ing was done with the army of tn
k Potomac. He was in most of the biz
D battles in which that army was en-
n gagged and at the battle of Gettysburg
l. won promotion for bravery. He hat
If been promoted to the rank of colone
% and was mustered out at the end of tn
IT war with the rank of brigadier-genera
After Lincoln's Emancipation Procla
h nation, he was appointed to the CON
mand of negro troops made up fror
emancipated slaves and this acciden
i. shaped his career thereafter. He wa
se at the head of negro troops at the bal
~ tie of Gettysburg and he found ther
" brave soldiers under good leadership.
Is His altruistic spirit gave him NOR
he than passing interest in his men, an
ia he tells how, after the surrender of Let
-, he was the first to enter Richmond, be
cause it was feared that the surrende
y would result in an ambush, and the
&c sent the negro troops in first to stan
" the brunt of any street attacks. Will
~ taking these troops on transports
Fortress Monroe at Hampton Road
there to be mustered out, the questio
came into his head in logical conne
tion of what these negroes were to d
after they ceased to be soldiers. The
were no longer slaves, and they had n
HI training as Independent free men. Will
they were provided for during the wa
the future was all an unknown field
them. Those that had had good master
nj were worse off than before, so far @
: personal comfort was concerned, an
N none of them knew where they stoo,
al While camping at Hampton, Virgins
Id with these troops this question was fe
be menting in his mind, and the result wa
an application to the War DepartmeT
w for leave to organize school and a
Segment by MN to duty to train thes
v. negro troops to be useful citizens.
al This condition of things, howeve
could not last long, and did not surviN
" the reconstruction period. General Arm
y. strong became enthusiastic upon I'll
N, problem of organizing school whel
en- this inferior race should be trained
be the rudiments of an education of Il
mind in reading, writing, and arithm
ct tie, and some other subjects neeessal
ca TO make them intelligent citizens an
u to make them pay for their educatc
by manual labor and especially /
ry skilled manual labor. lie threw hin
ct, self into this work with such ygor thi
III he had soon obtained donations sui
eient to build hall and buy land {
In which 20 farm. The principle of Il
eli school was 10 train the hand as well
ne the head, and the pupils did not ri,
IA, especial attention TO theoretical ed
ON cation, but depended upon the produc
of their hands 10 help pay the expeus
! nj flf4 school taFa A. g .