Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-10-21
CAPT. WP SNOWDEN
A Tribute to the Memory of Three Old
Friends by big Bud"

night of last week, and on Satur
day morning, soon after entering
my office, came the sad and uneX-
Dected news of the sudden death of
my good old friend, Capt. w. p.
Snowden, who expired while on
his way from his home to Brooks
vile.
And a few hours after hearing of
Capt. SnOwden'S death | was in
formed that DR.. Hamilton had
died on the train returning home
from New Orleans And the same
evening | heard my old friend,
William Macon, of Citronelle, Ala,
had also sank to rest. My heart
was filledwith sadness at the deaths
OF these three good friends. DR..
Hamilton had come to BrOokSvil!C
as a young phyiician, but he soon
became o Ie of the leading physi-
clans of that place. He removed
some few years ago to Meridian,
where he soon reached hign rank
in his profession. He was always
good friend of mine and | was
glad that | was able to render him
good service in his efforts to
build up the medical college of Me
ridian.
| first met Bill Macon in OctO- !
Der 1861, when l joined the Davis
Guards, Co. A., 10th Miss. He
was orderly sergeant of that COM
pany, and his brother, Jake Ma
con, was captain, and | never knew |
more devoted brothers. Bill Ma
con made splendid orderly ser
geant, filled that place, which is
the hardest place in the company |
to fill, with great credit to himself |
and was very popular with the en-
tirely company. His brother Jake
was desperately Wounded in the
first battle of Williamsburg, and |
when l saw Bill Il few years ago at
CitrOnclle he told me he visited
his brother the morning after the
battle and told him he wanted to
stay with him. as he heard the
army had to retreat that day.
Jake told him "NO, the yankees
will not l0l YOU stay with me and
it is best for you to go with the
cOmpany.' Bill then said he
wanted to leave his negro with
him, but the captain said, ''NO, l
do not think it will do any good
Bill, you Will have to leave me
alone to my fate. Bill said he
marched out of Williamsburg with
the saddcSt heart ever in a mans
bosom, leaving this brother to the
tender mcrcics OF the enemy. The ,.
Yankee surgeons amputated the
captains leg and he died on the I
table Bill Macon was a generous I
and kind hearted man. He mar :.
ried Julia, the daughter of Colonel
BiniOn, who died few years ago.
| had hoped to have seen him at
least one more time before we ;,
parted to meet no more on this
earth.
/ was not in the same regiment :.
with Walter SnOwden; l was in
the 10Th Mississippi, Feather ,
stones brigade, and he was in the
11th, Davis brigade. But be en-
tered the army in the very first
company that left Aberdeen, Van
DOrn's reserves, and promoted
soon afterwards. He was orderly
sergeant and filled this place so
we'll, that he was made captain
and commanded the company, as
at Gettysburg, where
he was desperately wounded and II
captured. | have met some of his q
Did comrades who always bore will II
ng testimony to his record as a u
soldier, but no man who ever knew u
Walter SnOwden would doubt that III
le would make good i'll any capac C
ty he was placed in. Removing pe
O Noxubee in 1875, l first met &c
i'm in the red shirt procession, eC
nd from that time to the day of