The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-10
OF BIRTH 0B
 TWO FAMOUS coNFEDERATEs


 Confederate veterans and their sons and daughters will today honor the memory of two eminent defenders of the lost cause, the occasion being the centennial of their birth. Gen. John Clifford PembeEton, although he fought under the Stars and Bars, was a native of Philadelphia, where he was born August 10, 1874. On the same date William Iowndes Yancey. one of the foremost statesmen of the Confederacy, was born at Ogeechee Shoals, Ga.
 Both Pemberton and Yancey served the United States, the former as a soldier and the latter as a Congress man, before the slavery question aIienated their allegiance Gen. Penn berton was educated in the science of war at West Point, and saw his first active service in Mexico, where he distinguished himself in the battles of Monterey and Moline de e1 Rey. He was a captain when he resigned from the United States army in 1861 to enter the service of the Confederacy. I His first commission under the new flag was as lieutenant in the Virg ginia. l militia, but in short time he was made. brigadier general. In 1882 he l was placed in command of the de- partment including South Carolina, Florida and Georgia In 1863 he con- ducted the campaign around Vicks- l burg but was defeated when he faced Grant at Champion Hills and Big Black River. He remained in command until the surrender Of Vicksburg on July 4. 1863.
 l Pemberton's defense of Vicksburg | has often been criticized. Johnston, after the first battle. of Jackson on May l4th. had in vain sought to in duce Pemberton to join him and 1 fight a decisive battle outside of l Vicksburg.. Instead of following this counsel, Pemberton entered the for tif1cations of Vicksburg, where for nearly seven weeks he successfully withstood the assaults of Grants ov- l empowering army. The first and sec 1 ond assaults on the town were re- pulsed by Pemberton,s men, just as l Sherman's previous attempts had failed, and Grants already large ar 1 my was reinforced by 70, 900 men be- fore vicksburg was taken Penberton surrendered 27,0e0 men, 12S pieces of artillery and eighty siege guns Af- 1 ter the close of the war Gen. Pember- 1 ton settled in Virginia, where he died | in 1881.
 l William Lowndes Yancey, who served the Confederacy as a states l man and diplomat, was a native of Georgia, but in his youth he removed l to Alabama, where he studied law and began to practice in Montgomery. Later he entered politics and engaged in journalism and after serving in
 both houses of the Alabama legisIa- I ture he was sent to the United States l Congress in 1844. At Washington he was one of the leaders of the pro- l slavery party, and was famed for his
 speeches in support of the institution
 He resigned from Congress to resume
 the practice of law, and did not take an active part in politics until 1861 l when he reported the Alabama or
 dinance of secession to the convention
 in Montgomery. Just before that he
 had made a tour of the North, Easi
 and West, defending. slavery and urg-
 ing the defeat of the Republican can
 didate. Early in 1881, when Mont.
 gomery was the seat of the Confed-
 crate government, Yancey was sent to