The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

" i'll Break Iifis RECORD by Sending
Major Stednlan.
Ely THOMAS J. PENCE.
Washington, d. c., Aug. 5.-Neter-
ans of the great war Of 1875 who
have been honOred with public office
are growing fewer just as the ranks
of their comrades in the private walks
of life are sadly diminishing. The
number of the veterans of that war in
congress is less than at any time since
the cessation Of hostifities.
North Carolina has been the only
Southern State during the past de-
cade-with the exception OF South
Carolina-shat has not sem an ex-Con-
federate soldier to Congress. But this
record is going to be broken in the
SiXty-second Congress, for it is about
as certain as anything can be politi-
cally that Major Charles NJ. Stedman.
who fought for the COniederacy. will
b. d emb of that body. The last
Tar Heel Confed crates who served In
Congress We're John W. Atwater and
ROmulus Z. Linney. 1t is a striking
coincidence h a both OF these wear
ers Of the gray died during the past
year. They were last elected to Con-
gross in 1899. retiring to private life
with the adjournment OF the Fifty
sixth Congress.
At the beginning Of present Con-
eress, serving in the Union and Con-
1ederate sides, were the following
veterans:
Senate-Jnion: Bulkeley, of Con-
nectjcut; Burrows. Of Michigan: Du-
Puat, Of Delaware; Nelson, Of Mime
sofa: Scott, of West Virginia; Warner,
a. rCD - - e y"-~
minG-7.
Confederate: Bacon. OF Georgia;
E&nkhead, of Ala barna; Daniel, OF
Virginia; Johnston, of Alabama; Nc
Emery, of Louisiana; McLaurin, OF
Mississippi; Martin. OF Virginia; Mon
g, Of Mississippi, and Taliaferro, Of
FIorjda.-9.
ti"u&e OF Representatives-Union:
Alexander and Bradley, of New York;
BARCLAY and Bingham, OF Pennsylva-
MIA; ~Calderhead, of Kansas; Capron,
"I Rhode Island; Gardner, OF New Jer-
SeN; H0llingsworth, Keller and Sher-
wood. Of Ohio; Howell and Wiley. Of
New jersey; Hull, Of Iowa; Morgan,
81 Missouri; Graham, OF PennsylVa-
nia.-15.
Confederate-Esto ptnal, OF Louis
laha Gordon, OF Tennessee: Jones and
I"f1b, OF Virginia.; Livingston, Of GeOr-
Gj&; Richardson, OF Alabama; Spight,
W "'lNS417l ppi, ia1OOll, % ma J hdilG
and Taylor. of Alabana.-s.
ihis gives a total of forty veterans
ct The war in the Senate and the
house at the beginning of the present
congress. Their number has been re
ouced by three through the death OF
tHrce notable Confederate veterans,
Senators Daniel, McEnery and MclAu-
rim. This gives just seven per cent Of
the membership of the S~ixty-frst Con
sfeSS who were veterans of the ClVll
war. Nearly half the membership OF
congress twenty years e were Union
and Confederate veterans. In the Con
ETess Of that time-the fifty-frst-
there were twenty-seven Confederate
veterans in the Senate and nine Union
veterans, while in the House there
We're seventy. Confederate veterans
AND forty-two who served in the Union
army. Considerably over half the
NH from the Southern States
'aIl-or forty-four per cent-of the
membership of the ffty-hrst Congress
were Veterans of the war.
hten who entered the army for the
war ot'l861-5 when in their teens are
no" Old men-many of them great
veterans Of the Senate is sixty-nine
years. The average age Of the veter-
ans OF the HOuse is SiXty-seVen years
mus the average age Of these veteran
statesnen, when the war began IL
1oo1' was nineteen years The oldes'
oh1on veteran is General Isaac X
representing the Ninth Ohio
Uistrlct, who is s~eventy-tve. The oldes'
Nphlederate veteran is private Leon
iuaS Livingston, of the Fifth Georgia
oiSF1ct, who is seVenty-eight years o.
@st' The youngest Union veteran is
Representative Alexander Of New
4ork-sixty-four years Old. The
S'UhSeSt Confederate veteran. is Rep
'tSen'at1ve George w. Taylor. OF Ala
sixtyone years old. The Ala