The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09

ground, fought against each other in some Of the mightlest battles of the civil war.
 Although they are not in the same brigade it is hoped of their officers and men that they will be marching side by side through the streets of Berlin when Emperor William unbuckles his sword and word is sent to the peoples of the world that the brave sons of valiant fath- CTS from the north and south of the great United States have helped to make the world safe for the democracy that tt ey love and cherish.
 The important part played by the Six ty-ninth and the Fourth Alabama in the civil war would probably have passed unnotieed at this time had it not been for the Rev. Emmet F. Smith, chaplain Of the Fourth who gave up the pastorate of the Midway Baptist church, because his present work gave him "a great op- portunity to do good was telling of the valor of both regiments as he sat in Father Duffy's tent. Both clergymen have become fast friends. and the Bap- cist chaplain made a hit with the men of the Sixty-ninth last Sunday when he attended the o'clock services.
 "'It Is a strange coincidence that the Sixty-nnth and the Fourth should be il. adjoining camps said MT. Smith. In locking up the history of my regiment I found that it and the Sixty-ninth had fought against each other in some of the most important battles of the civil war. They were in the opposing armies at Gettysburg Manassas, Cold Harbor, Fredericksburg and the siege of Peters, burg.
 And here we are today continued the clergyman, under the smiling sum- mer skies of the north, friends and com rades who are marching forth to fight and die together I do not think you will find in the history of the civil war two regiments with such records of bravery and daring as the Fourth and Sixty-ninth. And, stranger still a good percentage of the men Of the Fourth are sons of men, some of them still living, who were marshaled against the forces of the regiment whose guest I now am. My own father for instance, fought against the Sixty-ninth. So did the father of Colonel William P. Screws, our com- mander.
 " The fathers of many of our officers and men,, Father Duffy interrupted to say, fought against the fathers of the boys with whom they are now playing baseball over in wonder field
 " The Fourth was one of the greatest of sonthern regiments continued Chaplain smith, who, by the way, has had six ancestors fighting in all the wars of America since 1872, and who looks more like General Phil Sheridan than a sky pilot The Fourth lost 25 per cent of it's effective fighting strength at Gettys- burg, and in the period of the war five of the bravest colonels that ever drew a <word In any cause
 "It was at Cold Harbor that the 1 fighting Fourth almost annihilated the 1 Sixty-ninth. At Fredericksburg 1t was again pitted against the Sixty-ninth and repulsed it. So, you see, we have met be-
 fore
 | Colonel Screws who Is a graduate ot the military academy at West Point is
 a veteran of three military experiences
 the Spanish war. the Philippine and the l Mexican expedition of last year. He Is a 1 son of Captain Screws and a nephew o1
 the late Mai. Wallace Screws, who is the
 editor of the Montgomery (Ala) Adver- l tiser. He is a descendant of one of the
 oldest families in the south
 Ninety per cent of the Fourth are ma. tiyes of Alabama. On it's way north il
 received continuous ovation. The great
 est reception, according to Colone I Screws was north of the Mason and Dixon line. Inscriptions on the cars told 1 where the regiment was from. When the,
 were read persons in towns and cities cheered Dixie
 l Colonel Screws says the band is prac 1 titif-- Dixie night and morning. .Yo, see, said rAe coonel, who is only 40 year, old, we are7gcs1g to play Dixie as ". l march into Berlin. and I want 1t played I right"' .