The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-01

at Seven Pines, all of the fights in the
seven days around Richmond, also sec
ond Manassas, Bunker Hill, Va, Cedar
Creek, Charlottesville, two fights al
Fredericksburg, Fishers Hill, Gettys-
burg, Pa. Locust Grove, Monosacy,
South Mountain, Nd, Spottsylvania
court house, Wilderness, two at Win
chester, SO and 81. He was wounded
slightly at Malvern Hill, painfully at
South Mountain and seriously at the
bloody angle, Spottsylvania.
He was detailed on recruiting duty
when communication with his regi-
ment was interrupted by Sherman
march to the sea. He Joined and COM
manded a troop of furloughed soldiers
under Buford and surrendered with
that command
After the War.
After the war there was nothing
doing in the courts, these having been
prostituted by the carpet-baggers and
scallywags. Something must be done
to buy food and citizens clothing. He
was elected marshal of Tuskegee and
held this office for two months at a
salary of $50, when an offer was
made him to take a country school
near Tuskegee. Teaching this for eight
.'Tate's Select School for Boys at Tus-
kegee. and was assisted by his brother,
Prof. Clarence Tate.
Came to Florida.
ReSigning from this school he came
to Powelton on the invitation of Dr..
w, P. Dickinson, fell in love with the
country, took charge of the Powelton
school and has been with it ever since.
In 1867 he married Miss Sallie Clark,
Joined the Methodist Episcopal church
in 1859, was licensed to preach in 1875,
and ordained as local deacon by Bishop
Keener at Evergreen, Ala, in 1880.
Record as a Teacher.
Prof Tate has the following record
as a teacher: IL years in Alabama, So
years as principal of Roberts High
School, seven years of six months
terms at Ferry Pass, "a years of three
months terms as principal of a SUM
mer school for teachers and advanced
pupils"
This all aggregates a little more
than fifty years in Florida. estimating
a school term as six months.
His graduates number LOT. and some
of these are prospereusly located in
nearly all the states of the Union.
He has prepared 81 of his pupils for
teaching and these have been licensed
in the counties of Eseambia and Santa
Rosa. Florida, and adjoining counties
of Alabama.
He has married over two hundred
one hundred and fourteen
being his former pupils.
He has baptized over one hundreo
infants.
He has buried more than three hun
dred dead, and frequently this mas
been done at a considerable expense to
him personally.
He has lived to see his pupils mem
bers of congress, Judges, lawyers, ply |
sicians merchants, hookkeepers, etc. !
Above all, he rejoices in the fact that
he has seen eight of his former pupils !
ministers in the Alabama conference, |
two as Raptists and three as Christian
ministers.
Teaching has been his life's work |
and he congratulates himself on haV- !
ing laid aside the law to assume a !
more eongenial avocation-that OF
teaching the young idea how to shoot |
He has not accumulated much of the
filthy lucre" but he has managed to
support his family and
4is widowed daughter and his three
yrandsons. His house is always open,
he latch-s string hangs on the outside,
md invites his numerous friends to
share his hospitality.
Prof Tate, while not rich in money,
S nevertheless many times a million
lire in the affections of his friends.
md his Hfe's work will constitute
iner monument than any that could be
rected of marble or bronze.