Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-19
CADETS At WEST POINT
LOYAL TO CONFEOERACY
When Final Break Comes They Arc
Found Returning to Fight
for Stars and Bars.
SOME "REMINISCENCES OF 1soo-o1
IN November 4, 1860, Eighty-Six
Southern Boys Were Students at
Academy, and OF These Sixty-Five
Entered Confederate Service.
by KATE MASON ROWLAND.
CONTINUED from Last Sunday)

ny IHATE MASON ROWLAND.
CONTINUED from Last Sunday)
There were various Southern officers.
instructors at West Point In 1860.
'" iliihin j. Ilardcc. Of Georgia. the
pest commandant the corps OF cadets
yer had" as Major Wright AYERS. re-
signed from West Point tho 3lst Of
january, 1861. TO become distin-
eulshed lieutenant general in the Con-
federacy. One of his former cadets.
ltoxton, of Virginia. was his artillery
commander. Another cadet, Nathaniel
r. Chambliss. OF Tennessee was his
'hicf or ordnance. Major Chambliss TO
pflicial ties with his former command
ant added personal ones when he mar
Fled daughter of General Hardce
And the son OF this marriage. Hardee
'hambliss. worthily represents the
name to-day. Caleb Huse. OF Massa-
chusetts. also n teacher at West Point
N 1860. resigned and went South. doing
good service for the Confcdcracy in the
purchase OF arms for the government.
Major Huse published a pamphlet in
count OF his labors-"The Supplies Of
the Confederate Army; How They
were obtained In Europe and How
Paid For"
LIVES TO ILLUSTRATE
CIVIC VIRTUES OF RACE
Among the Southern cadets who sur
riHcd the war, and lived to illustrate
atcr. In the PROSTATE fortune Of their
country. the civic virtues OF their race.
Robert Henry Logan deserves mention.
A native Of Roanoke County, Va, OF
the class OF 1857. he left West Point
az the same time with James Gearing
and Jack Garrett. They went of at
night. and made their way with some
difficulty to their homes In Virginia.
Logan served on the STAFF OF General
John B. Floyd, and was captured at
For, Donelson. He made his escape
by !caping from boat as ne was
brought over the river and swimming
ashore. He concealed himself in the
bushes, and was three days without
food. AS lieutenant colonel OF the
Forty NTH Virginia Infantry, he made
later splendid record for gallantry.
being three times wounded and having
three horses shot under him. At the
close OF the war Colonel Logan. like
$50 many others, was utterly without
resources. and he went into the woods
with his AK. where he hewed tie tim
her which ne sold to the railroad" In
this way he made money 10 enable him
10 study law. becoming an ornament
pf his profession. Colonel Logan was
|of heroic Scotch ancestry, being a
iineal descendant OF Lord Robert Lo
gan. who was kniShted BY James VI, o.
Scotland. for bravery In battle.
Llcwellyn Griffith Hox,on was born
n alcSAnuTli, ' Il, III 1870 fiG mao
ost his parents At an early age, and
was the ward Of Dr. Ben Jumln King.
He entered West Point June. 1856. and
graduated in 1861. He immediately
afterwards resigned. entering the Con
fcdcrate service, and was assigned TO
duty with General Hardee.
For two years he WAS chief of ar
kilery In Hardee's Corps. Army OF
Tennessee. And in the important en-
;agemen, Of Franklin. Tenn. Colonel
,yln,I
posed 10 General Thomas. Al one
line In this campaign. II is related,
re remained on horseback, with very
blight internisson. for forty eli. At
hours. After Johnstons surrer or.
Colonel Hoxton returned to Virs mia
and was cmploye SUCCESSFULLY "a
tcacher In two private schools in
Maryland until 1870. He then accept
ed the position Of mathematical in
structor in the Episcopal High School,
near his old Alexandria home. after
wards becoming associate principal.
Here he died in 1891. after more than
twenty years OF faithful service to
the youth OF his State and OF the
South. Colonel HoXton's character Was
pne OF great nobility and sweetness.
and his example remains benefac-
tion to those who grew UP under his
uitioU.
ROOMMATE; At WEST POINT
WAS HENRY DU POST
Cadet HoNton's roommate at West
Point was Henry y. du Pont. OF Della
warc, now Senator from that State,
who retains vivid recollections OF the
attractive personality OF his Virginia
friend and classmate.
Major Wright. in describing his first
dinner at West Point. pictures the Nir-
t;lnia youth who was later to become
his roommate: II talked TO my unhappy
looking neighbors. and found one
kvae named Washington. another Buc-
taron, and before night formed the
acquaintance OF my classmato. Tyler.
nd they were all genuine presidential
stock. Washington was my roommate.
He cultivated the methodical habits
of tho head OF the family. but he did
not habitually adhere to them. Once
towards morning I advised him to put
AWAY his pipe and go to sleep. In
melancholy voice he told mo that
bnan In love could not sleep. and that
pipe was the only solnca OF unre-
quited affection. On another occasion
he followed me to the hospital when
I was taken suddenly i'll. and on tho
surgeons unexpected approach got un-
der the bed on which lay. He had
h fearfully unpleasant evening, for the
surgeon thought me very i'll. and
worked with me n long time. TIc was
h straight, handsome fellow ut all time.
but when the Prince OF Wales came
fnto oar room and stiffly bowed over
the frigidly formal Introduction to It's
occupants, but relayed into gracious
ness on hearing the name of Washing
ton, and turned nquirinRly to the Of
Ulcers with him, he Strengthened into
F,n immense StraiShtncss that did credit
TO the colonies in the presence OF Brit
bsh royalty" After his resignation, on
bis way home. Washington probably,
like Cadet Rowland, had his "adven-
turc." for Major Wright says that
when it did not look healthy for him