The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-17
VERY FEW ARE LEFT
EX.CONFEDERATES NOW In THE
SENATE and HOUSE
Only TWELVE ALL TOLD


Story Giving Representative Lamb,
of Virginia, Credit for Being Only
Confederate Veteran In House
Proves Erroneous, as There Are
Several in the House and Five in
Senate.
Several days ago the following
press dispatch was sent out Of Wash
ington with reference to the proceed
ings Of the House on the previous
day:
"An appropriation Of $4,000 to
enable the Federal Government
participate in the celebration OF tie
fifteenth anniversary Of the battle
of Gettysburg passed the House amid
cheers, which followed spirited ap-
peal by Representative Lamb, OF Vir-
ginia, a Democrat, and the only Con-
federate Veteran in the House. He
spoke in favor Of the appropriation"
The fact that an experienced OBJ
server at Washington thinks that
Capt. Lamb is the only Confederate
Veteran left in the House of Repre-
sentatives is an indication Of the ef-
feet OF the passing years upon class
OF public men whom the South has
delighted to honor. They are nearly
all in the other world or too old and
feeble to stand the duties Of public
Office. But it is incorrect to say that
Capt Lamb is the only Confederate
Veteran in the House.
Picking up the last issue OF the
Congressional Directory, the very
first name that metts our gaze in
the list Of biographies Of the Repre-
sentatives now serving is that Of a
Confederate Veteran-George W.
dS tcI, O1 I1S 4SS A4G GOcAc O1S IL 4SS-
Congressman Taylor entered the Con-
fe6erate army at the age Of fifteen
years, when he was student at an
academy at Columbia, S. c., and
served until the end Of the war as a
private and later as courier in the
lst South Carolina cavalry. On the
next page is the name os Represent
etiye William Richardson. Of the Sth
Alabama district, who was severely
wounded while serving in the Confed-
crate army at the battle Of Chicka-
mauga-
Judge Atterson ". Rucker, mem
Der for the LIST Colorado district,
was for four years in the Confederate
army, entering it from his native
State OF Kentucky, where he was
born in 1s47. Another Confederate
Veteran who saw strenuous service
is the Hon. Albert Estopinal, of the
ist district Of Louisiana, and Repre-
sentatives J. F. C. Talbot, Of Mary
land, was in the Southern army dur
ing the wars last two years.
Major Charles N. Stedman, OF
Greensboro, n. c., who represents
the 5th district Of that State, has the
distinguished Confederate record OF
having served throughout the war,
beginning at Bethel and ending at
Apponattox.
Though a little over seventy-one
years Of age, Major Stedman looks
to be only little over sixty. He has
az ereots form and strikingly hand
some face, with snow-white hair, and
a short beard Of the same color Sew
eral times during the pension debate
visitors IN the House galleries have
guessed that he was Gen. Sherwood,
of Ohio, patron Of the celebrated SER
vice pension bill for Union veterans,
who is also Democrat. Major Sted-
man looks exactly the part Of vet
eran soldier who has held and deserv-
ed high command.
Though Capt. Lamb, Virginia's
Confederate Veteran member, is only
six months older than Major Sted-
man, the Virginian is much less ro-
bust in physique and shows much
more plainly the impress Of his three
score and eleven years. Capt. Lamb
was also thrice wounded.
Confederate Veterans are not so
few in proportion to the Senate's
membership, which is OF a higher
average as to age. Il has been said
that the surest way to make man
live forever, is to elect him to that
distins 1ished body, where the Hon.
Henry Gassaway Davis, West Virgin
eeen chatting meCrily with former
colleagues, some Of whom look older
than he does, though they are really
from ten to twenty years younger.
Both Of Alabama's Senators are
Confederate Veterans, Senator Bank
head having been wounded three
times in the war and Senator John
ston four times; Senator Bacon, o;
Georgia, entered the Southern army
at the beginning OF hostilities; Seu-
ator Thornton, Of Louisiana, vclun-
teered in 1858, when Re was seven
teen, and Senator Martin, OF Vir-
Ssnia, who was a cadet at the Vir-
ginia Military Institute in the last
year OF the war, served with the in
s'i;ute catsllion during the most Of
that TIME n the Confederate army,
participating IN the enga cement at
Newmarket, where the cadets aid
slch noteworthy work.
Thus there are now seven Confad-
crate Veterans IN the House Of ReJ.
resanrat:yes and five in the Senate
only a Gozen in the whole Congress.