Evening star., 1936-09-06

in the Great Northwest or his brief
but brilliant military service in the
Civil War, in which he paid the SOL
dier's supreme sacrifice.
When the war came on, Maj. Ste
vens was quick to respond, and on
May % offered his services to Presi-
dent Lincoln and after much delav
was, on July 80, given the command
of the 18th Highlanders, New York
Volunteers, which had been badly cut
up at the first battle of Bull Run,
July 81, 1861. This regiment was then
camped on Meridian Hill, and Col.
Stevens found them in a state OF
mutiny. Their colors were taken away
and they we're severely disciplined be-
fore order and obedience could be re-
stored. But the result was magic, and
after the engagement at Lewinsville,
Va, their colors we're restored iii
recognition of their soldierly conduct"
ON SEPTEMBER % President Lin
coin promoted Col. Stevens T.
the rank of a brigadier general OF
volunteers, and on July 4, 1862, h
was made a major general Of volun-
teers, and in the battle of Chantilly.
Va, September /, following, he was
killed when leading his beloved High
landers. An account of his tragic
death, printed at the time, says:
Having made his dispositions. he
led the attack on foot at the head OF
the 10th CHighlanders). Soon meeting
withering fire, and the color ser
geant, Sandy Campbell, grizzled old
Scotchman, being wounded, they fall
tered One of the color guards took
up the flag, when the general snatched
it from him. The wounded Highlander
at his feet cried, For Gods sake, gen.
eral, don't you take the colors; they'll
shoot you if you do The answer was,
Give me the colors! If they don't
follow me now, they never will; and
he sprang forward crying, We are all
Highlanders; follow Highlanders; for
ward my Highlanders!' The High
Ianders did follow their Scottish
chief, but while sweeping forward,
ball struck him on his right temple.
He died instantly. An hour after
ward, when taken up, his hands were
still clenched around the flagstaff.
"Just before Gen. Stevens death,
his son and aide, Hazard Stevens, on
receiving a wound, exclaimed, father.
I am wounded!' Gen. Stevens replied,
Well, son, have no time to take care
| of you now,' and turning to a SOL
dier, said, Corporal, see to my boy
At the moment of attacking Gen.
Stevens sent back for support. His
aide applied to several generals. who
answered that they had other duties.
but when he came to Kearny. that
lamented general said: I won't re-
fuse to stand by Stevens Lieut..
Belcher was the officer who went for
assistance"
Gen. Stevens had the following
children: Hazard, Julia, Susan, Ger
trude Made and Kate, the latter being
born in Washington. D. G. OF these.
Susan Stevens married Col. Richard
I. Eskridge, their issue being Maud.
Richard, Hazard, Virginia, Oliver and
Mary Peyton, the last named the wife
of Charles Mckinley Saltzman. re-
tired major general, u. s. A., who now
reside at Burnt Mills, In nearby Mary
land.
Their son, Charles Eskridge Saltz-
man, was brilliant West Point
graduate and. like his grest-grand-
father, Gen. Stevens. led his class at
the Military Academy, and was the
winner of the Rhodes scholarship and
spent three years at Oxford Univer-
sity.
There was much in common be-
tween Gen. Stevens and his descend
ants and this city, for it was here that
young Saltzman received his high
school education, attending Central.
where in 191e-1920 he was captain
Of the cadets.
After finishing his course at Oxford
he returned to the States q lieutenant
in the Corps Of Engineers. U. s. A..
and was made an aide de camp to
President Hoover.
In addition to the Fort Stevens oi
this city there is also a Fort Steveni
in the State of Washington, wheri
the relics Of Gen. Stevens are On dis
play, and at Chantilly there Is
; monument erected to his mem4y.