Confederate Magazine 1894 Volume 2

CEN. NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST.

Born in Bedford County, Tenn., July 13, 1821 ; died Rl Mi m-
phis, Tenn., October, 29, 1877. He removed to Hen
Miss., m 1842, and was a planter until 1852, when he removed
i.i Memphis

General Forrest was one “f the mosl remarkable men de-
veloped by the war. In fighting he was the Stonewall Jack-
son of the West. United States Senator John W. Daniel, of
Virginia, in liis groat Bpeech as orator for tin 1 United Confed-
erate Veterans, al their reunion in N^» Orleans,in April, 1892,
said: “Forrest, the ‘Wizard of the Saddle,’ oh whal genius
was in that won. Infill man! He fell the field as Blind Tom

touches tin’ keys <>f a piano. ‘War means killing,’ be said,
‘and tin- way to kill is to gel there first with tin- most men.’
There is military science— Napoleon, Stonewall ami lee -in a

nutshell. He was not tau>_’ht at West Point, hut he gave les-

sonstoWesJ Point.” Erroneous statements have been pub-
lished, even in Encyclopedias, concerning his illiteracy.

His lovely Christian wife died in Memphis only a year or
two sine.’, i if his family now living there are t Saptain William
Forrest and his three children— Mary, Bedford, and William.

CEN. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CHEATHAM.

Born in Nashville, October 20, 1820; died Sepreml

rved as Captain of Volunteers in thi Mexican War, and
distinguished himself in the -. \ i rest hatth s there. On return-
ing from Mexico he was appointed Major General of fchi

• Militia.
In the Confederate service lie was at one., ma.le Brig

General, and soon afterward a Majoi General. He w

many tierce hattles. an.l always was the pridl ildiere.
In tie- Hood Campaign he commanded one of the three Corps.
“Mars Frank” was the familiar term under which any pri-
vate soldier \\ u him. who hesitated to ask th<

things of their regimental commanders, Aftei the war he
engaged in Farming, and when he died was Postmaster al Nash-
ville. The honor ami affection in which he was held was
verified by his having “thi funeral that has evei 1″ en

held in Nashville.” The procei S more than a mile in

length. His faithful, lovely wifi ed over tb* river” not

ftei him. Their live children— three sons ami two
.laughters are all doing well, ami live in a good boip
Nashville, provided by their parents.

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Confed erate Vete ran.

Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics.
VSSk^tF™- \ Vol. II. Nashville, Tenn., January, 1894. No. 1. {

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With tlii- greeting to patrons of the Vetj ran for
the nevt year there musl be explanation and apology
for delay in issue. It was difficult to determine about
certain changes to be made in the new volume, basing
all upon tin’ price. When it was decided to in<
tlir price it was determined to improve tin- quality of
materia] and, it” possible, the matter, lor the new year.
\ Budden ami unexpected illness intervened just as
matters « ere under way for having the V i tbb v\ com-
pleted by the L5th, which compelled some delay. The
articles in this number will he found very good, yet
greater disappointment than ever ha- been hail in
promised articles of much strength ami historic ben-
efit, which it was expected would begin the new year’s
volume. Some of these may be expected in February,
Review of many hooks ami matters of interest to com-
rades has been unavoidably delayed. However, with
better facilities than ever, with restored health, ami
with the assured approval of all people who honor the

name Confederate, it is believed that in future the

Veteran will he better than it has ever been.

The time of issuing the Veteran has been from the
12th to the IMh of the month, although it has heen
designed to bring it to the first. It is considered best,
however, to have publication day at about the middle

of the month. Therefore patrons every where may not
expect it before the 15th, close to which day it may he

expected in the mail to .’very suhsc riher.

cut nIT from public patronage. In b such men

I am impelled to commend tin ration of com-

rades. Ought we not take Buch action a- opportunity
that will hring about a co-operative spirit with
tin in and assure them in every possible way that they
have not only our gratitude, hut that we are deter-
mined to CO-operate at any time in such mi
will enable them to , ien ise such influence upon the
administration of government as their patriotism and
their steadfastness merit’-‘ Tl ■ be no spirit

truer than that which inspires thi- sentiment. In
their and our powerless condition three decades have
elapsed, and we have never manifested to them the
regret we feel and thi’ high regard we entertain for
them. So much a- a Suggestion. Let it he said that
the \’i iikw is for smh patriots, and is for making
known that Confederate veterans have a thoroughly
fraternal regard for the men who fought us only to
maintain the Union, and we would gladly CO-operate
with them for the common good of our gnat country.

FEDERATE VETERAN sol vi Ml;

Sim i; having in charge the highly responsible work
of Sending out the CONFEDERATE VETl RAN to 80 many
thousands who arc its loyal and firm supporters, the
grave responsibility weighs heavier and heavier. A
sentiment ha- I ieen growing for month-, to which refer-
ence is now made, which is in behalf of Union soldiers
who were tired hy the kind of patriot ism that inspired
Andrew .lack-on to say. ‘The Union! it must and
shall be preserved.” who fought its battles to a vic-
torious ending, and who. with admiration for the
courage of Confederates and highest personal esteem,
felt the great injustice of depriving them of property
by confiscation, and have all these decades continued
in a political minority whereby they have heen wholly

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To met a demand from every section of tie South
t,,, issues of the Veteran tor I893, which cannot be

supplied, it has heen determined to publish a- a Sou-

venii all the best articles ami the many splendid illus-
trations which appeared in that volume. TheSouvenir

will contain I < M > page-. }„■ printed in -uperh Btyll
nicely hound. Tin price will he twenty-live .
It is furnished free to all subscribers who have remitted
II. It cannot he supplied to those who

renewed at fifty cents, hut they can have it by
remitting twenty-five cent- M 16 expected to have
the Souvenir ready for distribution at the P.irmingham
reunion. April 25th, about which time it will he de-
livered through the mails. Advertisements will bje
taken for this Souvenir edition at liberal rates. This,
will he an excellent opportunity for first-class adver-
t Lsers, as the Souvenir will he one of the most popular
productions ever issued in the South. The forms

reotyped, and it is believed that m vera] editions
will he demanded.

unsettled was the question of price of tie Vi i-
eram for so long that it has heen decided to accept re-
mittances that have heen made at fifty cents to date
and through this month. Such subscribers, however,
will not he entitled to the Souvenir. All subscriptions
received during December at one dollar, which cam,-

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through the Liberality of friend-, were entered at the
T reduced rate, therefore making the time two years for

one dollar, tin- even ogainsl their protest. Since Jan-
uary remittances at one dollar have 1 n entered for

the year with the Souvenir, and remittances at fifty
■ • ms have been entered for the year without the Sou-
renir, and to show the most Liberal spirit possible this
‘ edition will continue until the end of this month.
.fter which no subscriptions will be entered for less
T than one dollar, except renewals without the Souvenir,
which will he accepted at seventy-five cents. All dol-
lar subscriptions will include the Souvenir. It is be-

b^ lieved. with this statement and the editorial on this
Bubject, page L 6, that patrons will lie universally sat-
isfied with the chain

FRAMED COPIES <>F CONFEDERATE FLAGS.

A misleading proposition was published in the De-
cember Veteran. It was that “Flags of a nation
_ that fell,” and pictures of Gen. Lee and of Mr. Davis

would he furnished (Valued for thirty cents. It was
not intended to offer hut one frame and glass for the
thirty cents. The design was to give the preference
to friends? as between either of these eminent men or
I the Hags. A contract was made with factory agents

■r to supply cherry frames with glass, to be supplied by
the Vi ii ran, at thirty cents, just as the factory shut

> down, and there lias been annoying delay in getting
il ‘Values made at the very low price named. It is
understood now that during the next week they will

b. be sent in by the hundred, so all the orders received

\\ can lie filled without any further delay. Remember,

— that all who wish the four Hags framed nicely under

– g I” supplied by remitting the thirty cents.

The offer to supply the Davis ami I ,ee pictures in
these frames is recalled. These plates cannot he
“made ready” and printed at the small cost in orders
of less than one hundred copies.

I i was designed to review somewhat fully in this
I’ VsTEBANGen. Gordon’s great lecture. “The Last Hays
of the Confederacy,” by referring to and quoting from
it in BUCh way as would not detract from the interest
l( ,’i,i Cjf audiences to whom he may yet deliver it. The
,n ” review has been deferred, however, as have many oth-
er, ers on account of sickness. In introducing Gen. Gor-
‘”,’ don Gen. W. II. Jackson, the Major General command-
>*’ ing Tennessee Division U. C. V., paid fine tribute to
pi ti e lecturer. He asked, Whocould so well portray the
11 closing incidents as the hero of the closing scenes, who
>■• was one of the leaders of the “forlorn hope” at Appo-
mattox, leading that last charge, which is unsurpassed
in history, who was the trusted Lieutenant of tin’
i peerless and spotless Robert E. Lee, and who was the
typical soldier, promoted from Captain to Lieutenant
Bt General by merit alone? He mentioned the loyal de-

Oen

votion of the speaker to hi- chief, and recited the in-
cident of hi- taking fee’s bridle reins in the battli
Sharpsburg. When Lee -aid to Gordon, who was com-
manding the center of the line. ” 1 have no support
for you.” ( rordon Stood there like a stone wall, with a
hall in his right leg and another in hi- left arm. com-
pletely shattering it. yet he still refused to leave the
field. Finally, when shot by a minnie ball in his left
shoulder, and terribly shot in the face, he was carried
from the field unconscious. The speaker has been
Governor of the empire State of the South, and twice
elected to fcne United state- Senate, lie is Senatoi
now. and is Commander of the United Confederate
Veterans

“The Confederate Soldier in the Civn War”

needs at tent ion. A clever Hep u Mi can. who has changed
his residence from the North to the blue grass region of
Kentucky, has inaugurated another great scheme for
getting tin- Confederate soldier’s money, lie ha- -cut
out an elaborate circular, not to the Veteran, anil has
gotten it up so ingeniusly that theauthoi ship appears as
Hon. Jefferson Davis, associated by Hon. A. II. Ste-
phen.- and other Confederates. Then (lens. I!. E. Lee,
Albert Sidney Johnston and others “describe” the
battles. Admiral Franklin Buchanan describes the
naval battles.

Oh the engravings! They are to exceed one thou-
sand in number. The “partial table of contents” is
a stunner. It is represented under twenty-two dif-
ferent heads. The author’s patriotism t ‘! i has stirred
him to the depths. ” The publications of ‘The Sol-
dier- in our Civil War.’ ‘Harper’s Pictorial History,’
and ‘The Pictorial Battles of the Civil War’— ‘ the
three greatest ami most stupendous pictorial histories
ever published in this or any other country — renders
necessary a companion volume giving the Confederate
side,'” etc. The author advertises himself as “more
the master of the subject than any man living.” He
is a daisy. Don’t forget that he will not let you vet-
erans nor other people have this great book except by
subscription, and at $s or $12. The pictures are old in
the main, hut they were made North and will be re-
printed there. 1 d’nl not intend to not ice further your
enterprises lor enlighten ing the Confederate elements,
not even to protest against the Washington Post’s in-
direct charge that the VETERAN, by its ” sensat ional
war stories,” is ” inferior” hut you are amusing. If
you will he candid and tell how your marvelous
hook will he published, the Veteran, which will not
he put under a bushel, will print it gratis cordially.

Ho he manly and see how much better you will feel.
If you will send your politics to Kansas, ami demon-
strate that you can turn the vilest of partisan pictures
to good account, making them serve exactly the oppo-
site purpose for which they were designed and made,
you will have the fraternal regard of heroes.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

VAGGIE DAVIS HAYE& AND WINNIE DAVIS.

These are the two surviving children of Jeffi
Davis. The elder, Mrs. Hayes, was born al the Na
tional Capital, while her lather was Becretary “I” War.
Shr is the wife of Joel Addison Hayes, who is a native
of Mississippi, bul whose ancestors were of the oldest
families of Nashville, which is now the home of his
mother and sisters. Mr. and Mrs Hayes reside in
Colorado Springs, Col. They have four children living.
two each, daughters and sons.

Miss Winnie Davis, horn near the close of the war,
is everywhere known as “The Daughter of the Con-
fedi racy.” Both daughters honor their distinguished
parentage.

Cant. B. H. Teague, Aiken, s. C: Inclosed find
postal note. This has been handed me by a worthy
veteran who lost his arm while wearing the hhie at
Jackson, Miss. 1 lenl him my Confederate Veterah

and he wa- so well pleased that he desires nie 1
you to send it lor the ensuing year.

Col. 1 >. H. Ri \rk.. writing

a. O. F. Strahl, killed al Franklin, says: Hi
1 Hrst nut as students at the Ohio Wesleyan Univer-
sity in 1851 or 1852, and we left there al the clos< of
it in June, 1854. Prom thai time until
his death we were more or less intimately acquainted.
We read law in the office of Judge John W, Harris in
Somerville, Tenn . and were admitted to the bar there
in 1858. shortly after I went to Arkansas and he
went to Dyersburg, Tenn., where be engaged in the
practice of law until he entered the army in 1861.
Gen. Strahl was one of the I ‘est nun 1 ever knew. He
was intelligent, true and brave. He was generous.
\- such men always are, he was patriotic, and a true
friend to his fellow-man. [ Both of these loyal South-
ern men were horn in Ohio in 1 *:’._’.]

Master Jefferson Hayes Davis, whose name was fit-
tingly changed by legislative enactment, is a bright
healthy lad ami proud of his ancestry. The father
tribute for which the South should be mindful

ndering his own name in the chain

TO I YANKEE CAPTOR, 1892.

BY. B. II. T.

You ask for a line about Blue ami Gray
” Your rebel” has this to say.
lie has fought hard in many a fray.
And saw the lives of many pass away.
Bine and i rrey.

Bat with the lights oi the present day
He wonders why the mighty array
Was permitted for one’s victory, the

other’s dismay,
Why did we not the golden rule obey?
Blue and (irav-

Write and suggest names of pel
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noon’s < AMPAIGS is TENNBSS1 I ■

Every subscriber u> the Veteran, and every friend
tn the cause espoused, n ho realizes the importance of
true history, will be gratified by the great kindness of
Mrs. W. I». Gale, daughter of General and Bishop
Leonidas Polk, for the contribution of personal letters
by her husband in connection with the eventful times

in Tennessee during II I’s campaign. Mrs. Galeis

doing jusl as every patriot Bhould do in giving to the
public, through this important channel, the facts as
brought put by witnesses :it the time. Col. Gale was
Adjutant General “I’ Stewart’s Corps.

The entire letter is given, the references to family
in which bare-footed children an- mentioned being
given as illustrating vividly the situation at the time,
as there was iml a family in the State whose condition
had been better to feed and clothe the household than
had been this.

Headquarters Stewart’s Corps, Near Tupelo,
January 14. 1865. — My Darling Kate: Your dear let-
ter of December 20th received and read with what
avidity you can well imagine when you learn that the

last I had received was of November 6th. lam glad to

find you in Midi good spirits, ami hope you may bear

up and keep well. 1 feel indignant when I hear thai
Fanny and Dudley have nut had their shoes. How
the little darlings must suffer from the biting cold!
Now that we are to go into winter quarters I hope to
be able to attend BOmewhat to your comforts, and
will try and have some made them, but it will be BOme
time yet before you will get them.

1 wrote ymi a slmrt account of our battles in Mid-
dle Tennessee and our flight from the State. I now
give you some of the particulars in detail. After
three weeks’ preparation at Florence we finally
crossed the Tennessee on the 20th of November and
moved forward toward Mt. Pleasant. Gen. Thomas
at that time had his army at Pulaski. When we got
to Mt. Pleasant he had fallen back to Columbia. We

got’ to Columbia on the 26th and invested it. On the

night ol’ the 27th it was evacuated. On tin’ 28th this

and Cheatham’s Corps began one of the finest moves

of the war — in conception worthy of Stonewall Jack-
son, and in execution feeble and disgraceful —to cross
Duck River above Columbia, anil by a forced march

overbad roads and through the woods and fields to
strike the pike at Spring Hill, and cut Schofield off
from Nashville or strike him in the Hank. The move
made and all was a success up to the time of
striking the enemy. We struck the pike at Spring
Hill lU8t as the retreating enemy were moving by,
completely surprising him. Put strange to say. we
remained all night in sound of the voices of the men
as they retreated in the greatest haste, and not a blow
was Btruck, though orders were sent by Gen. I loud

several times to attack at once. One time Gov. Har-
ris himself carried the order to Gen. . Gen.

Lee was left in Columbia to cross and attack in the
rear. He failed to come up also, and thus Tennessee
was lost. Gen. Stewart was ready and anxious to
had his corps to the attack, but was not ordered, as
the other was in front. The next morning we pushed
forward in pursuit of the Hying column, the road
strewn everywhere with the wreck of a Hying army.

Wagons, just set on tire and abandoned, were saved
from destruction. When we got near Franklin we
found the enemy in line across the road two miles
from town. Preparations were made to turn the posi-
tion by a Bank movement, when the force fell back to

their entrenchments mar the town. Preparations

were made at once to assault the town. Franklin is
in a bend of tin- Harpeth, and the enemy’s line was a
circle, each wing resting upon the river.
It was one of the strongest places in tic world to de-
fend. Our men went boldly up in the face of 20,000
musket- and at least T< J pieces of artillery, many of
the bands playing our favorite pieces. The enemy
was easily driven from the front line and Bought
safety behind the inner line, where his artillery was.
( >ur line moved forward and closed around the enemy
Poring on the right. French next, then Walthall,
then Cleburne, linn Brown, then Pate. Johnston’s
Division — the only one of Pec’s corps that was up —
was held in reserve, and afterward was put in where
Bate and Brown were. The fight was furious, and the
carnage awful beyond anything I ever saw . ( >ur men
were mowed down by what is called an enfilade and
reverse fire, i.e., in the side and rear, in addition to
that in front. The enemy fought with great despera-
tion. Our men were Hushed with hope, pride, and
ambition as they fought for Tennessee. They felt that
the eyes of the men and women all over our country,
as well as Tennessee, were upon them, and the Yankee
Army which they had followed so long was before t hem.

Wave. Munich! all thy banners wave.
Ami charge with all thy chivalry!

The chivalry of the South did charge, as bravely as
they charged Agincourt or Cressy, and Marathon and
Therinopylea were not more grandly fought than
Franklin. Charge after charge was made. As last as
one division was shattered and recoiled, another
bravely went forward into the very jaw s of death, and
came back broken and- blood v. again rallying quickly
with their heroic officers, and again went forward to do
what seemed impossible — or die. Such men a- Poring,
Walthall. Adams, Cock rill, dates. Feat hers ton, Shelby,
Reynolds. Cleburne, Strahl, <;ist, and others, should
live in prose and poetry as long as the story of
the war is written or read. No pen can do justice to
the gallantry of these men. Walthall had two horses
shot dead under him. The field was covered with the
wounded and the death The enemy’s line had been
crossed in one or two places, but no man who went
over was ever known to return. Many hundreds lay
all night in the ditch separated from the enemy by

the thickness of the embankment. * While

the officers were collecting the scattered ami broken

ranks I went with Gen. Stewart to Gen. II I’s head-
quarters. He had determined to renew the attack in
the morning. The plan was that all our artillery –
100 pieces— which had been brought up, was to open

on them at daylight, and at 9 the whole army was
to assault the works. You may well think it was a
bitter prospect lor our poor fellows. We rode up to a
part of the enemy’s line, which we still held, to place
Strahl’s brigade in position, when I was struck by the
stillness in the enemy’s works, and asked the officer
nearest me if the enemy had not gone. He said that
they had, as some of his men had been down and
found no one there. Further examination convinced
me of the fact, and I rode back to our camp-fire, and
just as day was dawning I dismounted, wet, weary,

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hungry, and disheartened, telling Gen. Stewart that
Schofield was gone. A half-hour’s rest, do! sleep, mi
the wet ground and I got up, drank a cup of coffee
and went to my daily work. I rode over the field
early in the day, before the details winch I had or-
dered, had begun to bury the dead. It was awful!
The ditch at the enemy’s line— on the right and left
of the pike — was literally filled with dead bod
lying across each other, in all unseemly deformity of
violent ‘hath. Gen. Adams lode his horse upon I
brenst- works and both horse and rider fell tb<
Cleburne was thirty yards in front of his division
when he tell, shot through the heart. But I am tired

of the sickening details, and you all must I”‘, too.

You can Bee our dreadful loss from published accounts.

I have now one more scene to paint, one more story
to tell you. and 1 am done. 1 wish 1 had a pen to do
justice to tin- subject, tor in all the annals of this war.
tilled as it i- with the great and noble deeds of great
and noble men and women, none exceed and fi w
lal in true merit the noble sympathy of Mr-. John
McGavock (Miss Winder’. When day dawned we
found ourselves near her house in her lawn — which
was in the reai of our line. The bouse l- the

large old-fashioned country houses of the betti
in Tennessee, tfl – nigh, with many room- and

every arrangement for comfort. This was taken ac
hospital, ami the wounded in hundred- were brought
to it during the battle, and all the night after. Even
room was filled, every bed had two). ling fel-

lows, every -pare space, niche and corner, under the
stairs, in the hall, everywhere hut one room tor her
and family. And when the noble old house could
hoi. 1 no move, the yard was appropriated until the
wounded and dead filled that, and all were not yet

provided for. < lur doctors were deficient in I ‘a ml a:
ami -he began by giving her old linen, then her
towel- ami napkins, then her sheets and I ths,

and then her husband’s shirts ami her own in

its. During all tin- time the surgeons plied
their dreadful work amid the sighs and moans and

death-rattle. Vet, amid it all, this noble woman, the
y impersonation of Divine sympathy ami tender
pity, was active ami constantly at work. During all
tie night neither she nor any one of her househ
slept, hut dispensed tea and coffee and such stimu-
lant- as she had. and that. too. with her own hands.
unaffrighted by the sight of blood, unawed by horrid
wounds, unblanched by ghastly death, she walked
from room to room, from man to man, her very skirts
Stained in blood, the incarnation of pity and mercy.
1- it strange that all who wire there praise her and
call her blessed? About nine in the morning she
t for us — General ami staff- ami gave us a nice.
warm breakfast, and a warmer welcome. The brother
of one of my clerks • McReady i was very badly wounded,
and then in her house. I bespoke her kind attention.
which she gave till he died.

Manx v. ars ago 1 was in tic same house, and in the
sane room, on a visit. < In one side of the tire sat the

father of Mrs. McGavock, then an old man. lie
nidi particularly glad to see me. ami told me that
he was a soldier in the w.n of 1812, and was at the
battle of New Orleans. When on his way hack the
troop- marched by the plantation of my grand-
father Green, below Katchez, ami his regiment was
entertained by him and furnished with milk in great
quantities. 11<- spoke of the gratitude of the men.

There wen- beeves killed also, and a great treat given
them. Is it not strange- that after fifty years a de-
scendant of that generous man should receive hospi-
tality on a bloody field of battle from a descendant of
tin’ tired and hungry soldier?

I will leave the balance of the campaign for future
letb

\”t a drum was In ard, nor a funeral i
A- – we liurrii .1 ;

Not ■< -.;.! i. r tire. I :t farewell shot

v e buried.
The Generals were buried at Ashwood Cemetery.

THE CARPET-BAG /./”/<• V OF TERROR TN ARKANSAS.

Ill N OMAN.

During the dark days in the last year of the %
war t..r Southern Independence, the diet • suf-

fering throughout the South tiie ps, no parallel

in history. With nciliatorj

from the general Government, and our afflicted people
turned to their work with sorrowful hut determined
hearts, feeling confident that tl brave

men who ha. I fought would he

fully respected liut the carpet-bag thieves who in-

the en- – h had I
none for the live- it the

honor and virtue of | – were

doomed at this period to such painful experiei ■
fell t>> the fate of Arkat

In a most valual ntertain i tied.

‘•Tin’ Brooks ami TV of the l,\ ■

i notion Period in Ark black and

murderous record of the carpel in that State

i.- for tin- first tun. put in lasting shape and placed be-
lie peoph. I ii. aul hor of tin- book i- ‘ ii n. John
M Harrell, of Hot Springs, at present Brigadiei ■
eral commanding the United Confederate Vet<
for the Southern’ Disti

m, and passii • – that par-

alyzed th – ‘ and drenched it with

the blood of u- people, it i irly fortunatt

Arkansas that Gen. Harrell has rescued from oblivion
these important I iiortly must have

> for want of proper attention. Mis
work was um intervals during a laborious

life, and so w ritten ‘ Localise it had to b( one

else would undertake it.” It should he in the hands
of every patriotic citizen of Arkansas, and t 1
student’ of history will want it. The hook i^ i
fully and forcibly written.

In the light of tl – therein presented, a more

unprincipled villain ne Arkansas with his

citizenship than Powell Clayton, the prince of carpet-

ore the war he was a pro-slavery Demo-

me a federal officer during the war. and

afterward the “black Republican” Governor of Arkan-

self-installed by means of the most outrageous
measures of undisguised fraud and force. He
native of Pennsylvania horn in 1833), and afterward
lived in Delaware. In 1855 he emigrated to K
and in 1862 he turned up in Helena. Ark., at the head

regiment of Federal cavalry. He went into that

with ”a sword in one hand and a torch in the

other.” After semiring th. ‘ Governor, with a

gang of thieves, hacked up by their negro soldiers, he

proceeded to roh the people and State hy every mean-

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which he could devise and execute. \\\> spacious
home, at that time on a ridge overlooking the Arkansas
r, was known as the ” Robber’s Roost.”

In January, 1869, the Louisville Courier-Journal pub-
lished a letter over the nom di plum* of “A Fair-minded
Carpet-bagger,” which contained these statements: “I

served with Gov. Clayl luring the war. I was born

in Massachusetts, was educated at Harvard, and bave
always been a Republican. I voted for Fremont, twice
for Mr. Lincoln, and recently for Gen. I .rant, for Presi-
dent. My purpose give a lair not inn <>l’ the con-
dition ol affairs in Arkansas. That condition is ter-
rible. Nothing like it exists this side of the Cretan

islands. Comi i i very-day events remind me of the

of Warren Hastings, in India, or of Mustapha
Asaph, in < freece.”

His acts of oppression and cruelty have made his
namea6tench in the nostrils of all Arkansians, and
it will remain odious for all time to come. Among
the many bloody murders committed by his hirelings
and supporters was that of an old man by the name
of Hooper, who was tied to his horse and shot dead
at Plummersville. Strange to say that at this same
place, where old man Hooper was so foully murdered,
Clayton’s brother, John M. < llayton, was himself mur-
dered only a few years ago. In order to carry out his
schem livided the State into three military dis-

tricts, and placed them under martial law. Then fol-
lowed scenes of bloodshed and murderous executions
in all pan- of the State. The most respected citizens
were dragged from their families and openly murdered,
and that without cause or form of trial. His negro
militia ran riot, an I women were outraged in the very
presence of their helpless husbands! Relief only came

to tin- suffering | pie when Clayton was elected to

i In- United States Senate, many good Democrats voting
for him as Senator in order to rid the State of his
presence a- Governor, knowing that as Senator he
would at once sink into utter insignificance.

Gov. Elisha Baxter succeeded Clayton, and he had

hardly taken his seal before one Joseph Brooks, a rev-

i hypocrite and scoundrel, who lived in Helena,

ami who had opposed Baxter for Governor, declared

himself elected and forcibly took possession of the

House. In thiscontest ••tie- Brooks and Baxter
war” was brought on, and the State was still further
disgraced. Knowing that Baxter had been madeGov-

ernor by ( llayton, many g 1 citizens supported Brooks

in this infamous contest, believing in his protestations
of reform, and knowing his then bitter hatred of
Clayton. Fortunately for the state. Brooks was finally
overthrown and Baxter, the rightful Governor, took

it. Brooks would have I □ as unscrupulous as

Clayton, and would have taken up reconstruction
where the latter left off. W. L. Stephenson, of Helena,
figured as one of the judges during Clayton’s rule.
Baxter was undoubtedly the best man for the people
that the Republicans could have furnished. His final
opposition to the monstrous bond scheme, by which
the State was plunged into ilebt. lo-t for him the sup-
port of ( llayton ami his gang.

Ihe days of carpel bag rule in Arkansas will always
recall painful recollections in the hearts of our people
who passed through that fearful time. Gen. Harrel]
has performed an inestimable sendee to Hie people

and State by his faithful record of that black period
in the history of the state.

MIKI-: KELLY.

a V i AIT. HKN. m’i ri lo, ii HOED, wmiviiii., i i:\\.

IB- was an Irishman by birth and a blacksmith by
trade, but gave up his bellows and tongs to follow his
gallant countryman, Gen. Pat Cleburne, into the Con-
federate Army, and become a gunner in a battery that
was organized (?) by that peerless soldier. In many
of his characteristics Mike was strikingly like hi-
Captain. Though possessed of a rich vein of Irish

ml humor, he did not have that volatile, bub-
bling overflow of spirit SO natural to his peopli
the contrary he was quiet, and rather retiring in his
disposition, even to apparent timidity. His only form
of dissipation was tobacco. 1 well remember his dirty
little coo pipe, black with age and tobacco, with a Mem

of the same Color and from the same causi S, not three

inches long. Every old soldier who saw much active
service in the Held, in thinking of the close places he
has passed through, will recall vividly the sunburnt
fa e mil form of some comrade, friend or acquint
conspicuous for his courage, brave when- all were
braves, hut he the bravest of them all. In tin-
dear old lion hearted Mike Kelly always appeal- to

me. With the courage of a game cock, the i

of a woman, and a sunny temperament, he was i
able companion, and when by your side in uction
made you feel as if you had two right amis a
double pair of eye,-. Il is not. however, to -peak of

In- courage, but some ludicrous incidents that hap-
pened to him after he “jined the cavalry,” that I write.
Mike was torn nearly in two by a canister shot at
Shiloh, and as soon as he was able to stand the journey
his surgeon sent him home to Helena, Ark., to die,
which Mike, with an Irishman’s perversity, refused to
do, hut which he explained to me afterward in a half
apologetic tone for not doing, that the shot didn’t
damage his ” in ‘an Is.” It, however, incapacitated him
for serviic in the infantry, and as the yankees by that
time had the river as far down as Vicksburg, lie
not well get back to his old command, so he reluc-
tantly joined the cavalry. I say reluctantly because
while he knew every hour ami nerve in a horse’s
and was perfectly at home when he had that article
between his knee- tacking on a shoe, put him on a
horse’8 back and he was as helpless as a new-horn babe.
I doubt if he was ever on a horse a half dozen times
in his life he lo re he joined ( ‘apt. Ruf. Anderson’s com-
pany of scouts, of Col, Dobbins’ Regiment and Walk-
er’- Brigade of Arkansas Cavalry, of which I was at
that time a member. Seeing him one day shortly
after he had joined hesitate on the hank of a little
stream as if debating with himself which would be

wiser, to ride across or to get down and wade ami i ad

his horse, I called out to him, “Grip him with your

knees, Mike, and your back will keep dry.” “Grip
him with me knase. is it,” he replied: ‘■thin h’ jim-
miiiy I’ll wade, for I’m as how legged as a barrel hoop;
its me grub and not me hack 1 want to kape dry.”
(apt. Anderson was a superb horseman, having

spent many years of his life on the frontier of Texas.
He could perform all the tricks in the saddle thai are

common to the cowboys of the present day, such as

” – ping down ” and picking from the ground his hat,

six shooter, glove or handkerchief, wdth his horse at
full speed. The freipient encounters his company had
with the cavalry of the enemy made him pretty well
known and much sought after by them, and through

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the citizens they had obtained not only a good descrip-
tion of him, but also knowledge of bia dexteril
rider. < >n one occasion our seoute reported thai a tor-
aging train was coming out from Helena, escorted by
only a squadron of cavalry. Wetherly, our First
Lieutenant, was in command of our troop that day,
Anderson being absent; and as “the old man” never
lost :m opportunity to pick a fU6s or make a Gght, in
or “ut of the army, we wore soon in the saddle and on
<>ur way to strike the escort of the P We were

considerably outnumbered, but Wetherly tb
that if he would dismount part of Ids men, place
them in ambush, and when they opened tire on the
blue coats charge with his mounted men on their rear,
the advantage of the surprise would about even the
thing up. So part of us weir dismounted, Mike and
I of the number, and were placed in a dense thickel
not more than twenty parrs from the road. The Fed-
eral column so, ,n rode in. and at the word, “Fire!’ 1
tin thicket blazed, and at the Bame time Wetherly
charged, as he thought, on their rear with his mounted
men. A Dumber Ol horses and men went down from
our lire, and the head of the Federal column was
thrown into confusion, hut only for a moment, lor we
had struck the Fifth Kansas, commanded by Maj

Sam Walker, a- good body of cavalry and as brave an

officer as thru- was iii the Federal Army. At com-
mand they wheeled and formed, fronting the thicket,
and charged in the face of our second – \t the

same time a yell distinctively yankee and a heavy
discharge of carbines further down the road to our
right told us as plain as if we had Been it that Weth-
erly had wedged himself between the advance guard
and main column of the enemy. At this unexp
turn in affairs, with nothing but our six shooters to
hold back bui h odd- we did not have time to reload
our trims — it did not take long to determine what to
do. “Fall back to your horses,” was the order, and
we fell. Mike and [ were together. Partly on account
of his old wound, hut mostly. I think, on account of
his contentious disposition under such circumstam i b,
lie was the poorest runner 1 ever saw, and when we

reached our horse holder he was mounted, the others
gone, and. throwing the reins to us. he followed in hot

haste. 1 was in my saddle instantly. Mike was not
so fortunate. His horse, a loDg, lank old bay, as thin
as a rail, excited by the shouting, shooting ami run-
ning, was plunging viciously around in the brush,
draging Mike, who was pawing the air with first one
foot and then the other in fruitless efforts to catch the
stirrup, at the -ame time keeping up a continuous
string of comments upon the situation generally, in-
terspersed with hits of ad\ ice t,, me and curses at his
horse, such as “Give’m a taste of your shouting, boy;
whoa, you d n old Look at the blue devils how they
-warm. What ad — n fool old Wetherly was -truck
’em in the middle. Divil take the cavalry service.
Woah ‘. ” In the meantime the Yankees. I’m, ling noth-
ing in front of them, were coming on as fist as the
nature,,!’ the ground would admit, Bring at random,
for the hushes were SO thick they could not see till
feet in front. Although expecting to show a clean
pair of heels to the enemy, I had instinctively drawn
afresh pistol from my holster w hen I mounted, and,
according to Mike’s advice, was using it to the best
advantage 1 could, at the -ame time watching his cir-
cus performance and inwardly praying that it would
come to a speedy close, or both of us would he either

killed or captured in a half minute more. I couldn’t
leave him. for he had more than once stood between
me and “the other shore.” and to leave him now
would show rank ingratitude and cowardice.” “Turn
him Loose, Mike, ami jump up behind me. it’s our
chance,” I yelled, and at that instant the front line of
Yankees burst through the thicket into the open woods
within thirty steps of us. “Bang, bang, hang’ halt!
halt ‘ surrender’ surrender! ” they called out. 1 turned,
to pick up Mike if possible, and take my chance run-
ning, just in time to see hi- horse lunge forward, and
lying like a sack of meal crosswise in the saddle,
with one hand clutched in the male about midway

k. My first impression was that he had )■•
-let. ami 1 ■ • him wiggh- hi- leg over

his blanket, which was strapped to in- and

lighten up. Our horses wi i at racing speed,

ami Mike was doing some wonderful riding. Neither
foot was in a stirrup, and he showed no partiality
any particular place to sit. Every time his old ho
made a jump Mike would come down on him u
different place— behind tie cant li
the pummel cm hi- neck, then back again, up one side-

d down the cither lie literally rode the old hay

from his ears to bis tail A fallen tree Mont of

us, both horses took the leap at tin 1 same time, and
Mike disappeared on tie- far side of h Gone

this time sure. [ thought, but the next instant, ba
headed, he bounced hack on top. Our pursuers, not
liking to follow us too far in the woods, tired a parting
volley of lead and curses at us, pulled up. and a hun-
dred yards oi ber we run into our own scattered
squad that had halted and reformed. An hour la!
Wetherly, having gotten the compai we
were pegging away at tin rear of tin Federal column
surely fell hack into Helena, having senl
their well loaded wagons on in front. I stopped a
moment to get a drink of water the
I ■ derals had ju-i left. The old man had a Bon in our
company, and was very anxion- to hear the news of
tic -kinin-h. “I tell you thev lighty Ql

getting (‘apt. Anderson, he said, after learning that
his hoy wa- all right. ” How’s that.” I a-ked : “Ander-
son wasn’t in the skirmi-h at all.”
that yankee Captain that just left here said he rode
right on Anderson, knew il wa- him from his riding,
never saw BUch devilish line riding in his hi
played along in front of him cutting up all kinds of
antics on his horse, and if he hadn’t been afraid that
he was doing it just to decoy him into another am-
hush he could have caught him.” I knew at 01

that Mike’s remarkable performances had been taken

for Anderson’s skill. The story wa- too good to keep,
and no one enjoyed it more than (‘apt. Anderson.
When the hoys run it on Mike, however, he replii
” It’s all right, me lads, hut there’s no danger “f any of
you blackguards ever being mistook for your betl

Mike did not have to wait long, however, before he
had his ” inings” on our friend- in blue, though he
did not come cut a- scarleoe as in the scrape just men-
tioned. Our pickets reported a body of Federal cav-
alry advancing toward I, arrange from Helena, mi the
St. Francis road. The regiment was badly scattered,
having to picket some twelve or fifteen miles of coun-
try, hut at the sound of” hoots and saddle” a hundred
and ten or fifteen men “fell in,” and. with the (o|,, nil
at our head, we went trotting through l.a(i range to mi
the enemy. Some two or three miles below the litl

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village the road run.- through one of those large planta-
tions common in that section, with a high, .-till’ rail

fence on either side. In the w Is just at tin- end of

this lane there was a heavy growth of young paw-
paws. Dismounting Wetherly, who had meanwhile
been promoted t<> a captaincy, with thirty live or forty
■ if hi- men, had them placed along the road with
instructions t<> open on the enemy as soon a- they
came up. The Colonel took the rot of the command,
skirted the plantation, and came to tin’ lam- a half
inili- lower down. We had scarcely reached this posi-
tion and formed before Wetherly’s guns opened. We
Bwung by fours out in the lane, ami with a yell went
at them under lull -peed. Col. Dobbins and (apt. An-
derson, the hitter’s company being in front, leading
the charge on the right and left of the column. The
road was a- open and level as a billiard table, and
every man was driving the steel into his horse. The
rear companies of tin- Federal squadron promptly
wheeled to meet us, and poured a steady fire from
their carbines on us as we came up. I happened to
be one of the first fours, and was within a few feel of
tin- Coloml when I saw him glance over his shoulder,
slacken his speed somewhat, throw up his hand and
call to (apt. Anderson, ” Let the column close up!”
At the rate we had been coming we were necest
badly strung out. ami tin- federals wen standing solid
the entire road not Beventy-five yards from us.
1 hail half turned my head to look back when, like a

red streak, a trouper dashed by me. There was no
mistaking tin- rider. The rein- were flying loose, the

old horse’s hlood was up. and SO was Mike’s. lie
couldn’t have stopped him if he would, and he
wouldn’t if he could, for “charge” to Mike meant “go
in.” whether there was one man or one thousand at
his hack. He was drawing his gun as he passed, a

double barrel Bhot-gun loaded with buckshol and hall,
and by the way. the best gun that cavalry can have
for close quarters. “Cavalry are of no service in ac-
tion unless they do come to close quarters.) 1 had
only time to see him, when the Colonel again gave

tie- order to charge. The delay was only a fracti I

part of a Becond, hut .Mike was then flying fifty yards
in front of US. r saw two puffs of smoke fly over bis
bead, and be disappeared in the cloud. The next in-
we were “mixing with ‘m.” as Gen. Forrest
aid. The action was sharp and fierce,
the federals using the sahre and we sixshooters. It
was too hot to last long. Their rear gave way. we
v.eni through, joined Wetherly, and never gave them

time to reform until they had been driven inside of
their lilies. ] was hurrying hack to the place when I

had la.-t seen Mike, when I came upon our surgeon

ng into a poor fellow after a hall, and inquired if

he had found Mike’s body. “Yes.” “Dead.'” “No,

bul wounded, and he’s in the ambulance on ahead.’

I didn i have an opportunity to see Mike until s e

tin* after midnight. I found him, with others.

hed on some straw in a ham t li.it had been con-
verted into a hospital. His head was swathed in
bandages,and looked as big as a half bushel. His face
was so swollen he could not see, and the poor fellow

w as delirious.

From the surgeon I learned that Mike had marched
a couple of pris irs up to him, Baying, “Take charge

of ‘m. Hoe,” when he keeled over at his feet with an

empty sixshooter in his hand. An examination
■ showed that his head had been terribly beaten, the cuts

were to the >kull in live different places. I afterward
learned from Mike, as soon as he was able to see and

suck his coli pipe, that after emptying hi- gun he did
not have time to draw his pistol before he was w.
in the Federal column, ami clubbing his gun lie was
“knocking the spalpeens” right ami left, when some
“dirty blackguard” struck him over the head, knock-
ing him from hi- horse. In falling he was caught be-
tween the horses of a couple of Federals, his arms
pinned to his Bides as the horses were crowded to-
gether, and the last he remembered their riders were
beating a tatt in his head. When he recovered con-
sciousness he was lying in the timber, and two federal
soldiers standing close by undecided whether to try to
escape or surrender. Mike decided the matter for
them. Struggling to liis feet and taking a pistol from
the ground, having lost his own. douhtlcss. in his
tumble, In- promptly ordered them to throw up their
hands, which they did. and were marched back as
above stated. Neither Mike nor his prisoner- knew
at the time that the pistol he pointed at them was
empty.

Mike was a favorite with the Colonel, who. like the
reel of us, would occasionally joke him about his rid-
ing. Shortly after these incidents, when Mike was
able to crawl out and sun himself, the Colonel passed
by and began to rig him about letting his horse run
awa\ in the charge and carry him into the yankee
line:-.

“Run away, is it.” said Mike. “Och, Colonel, its
yourself that’s fond of a joke. Now when we swung
into the lane and you Ordered US to charge, if ye had
just tipped me a wink and -aid, ‘Mike. I don’t mean
it: I’m only joking.’ my head would he a- sound as
yours this minute.” The laugh wa- on the Colonel,
and he joined in it heartily.

The story of Mike Kelly is longer than was intended,
yet this is hardly a beginning of the many stories that
seem fitting while writing of him. He actually mad)
a cannon by a process of rings, and welding them suc-
cessively, and with it he fired on a government trans-
port containing the pay for Hanks’ army.

Lakeland. Fla., Oct. L6, 1893.— My last messmati
fell iii the battle of franklin. When we buried him
we placed at the head of his grave a plain wooden
slab, with this inscription, “W. J. Edgar, Co. H., 5th
Trim. Reg.” In a printed list of Confederate dead
interred in McGavock Cemetery, I see his name is \v.
.1. Egar, the “d” being omitted. Will some kind
friend make the correction on the stone?

.1. M. Fraser, Morgan city. La.: I wa- one of tie

youngest soldiers in the < ‘on I’c ‘derate Army. 1 icing onl\

en years old when 1 started as bugler in a C

pany Ol independent rangers in Texas. I like the

Veteb \\ because it speaks the truth, and I shall have
all of the copies hound, so that my children can read
them. 1 belong to the Berwick Camp. 1 havespoken
to the editor of tin Independent Democrat to mention

the V ETERAN in his paper, and he w ill do SO.

Billy Blatter, Winchester, Tenn.: Now you know I
am an old and practical printer, and I am persuaded
that you will have to increase the price or lose money.

Skitter will not take advantage of your oiler to accept
fifty cents for a renewal, hut will send you one dollar,
ami I want all the rest to do likewise.

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THE COSFEDEIIATE CAUSE IX MARYLAND.

A history of the Maryland Line Confederate Home
is now in press at Baltimore. The Veteran has ad-
vance prooi sheets, and makes liberal extracts. The
‘•”Id United States Arsenal,” of which there is a brief
account, covers an area about equal to two Bquaree in
a city, and, furnished as it is. entitles it to considera-
tion as “the best soldiers’ home in the United States:”

Thai there was a division of sentiment in Maryland
upon the causes which led to the war between the
States ii” one will deny, yel the large preponderance
of public opinion was heartily in favor of the cause
of the South. Maryland. L»y reason of her geograph-
ical location, close commercial interests with the to-
bacco and cotton-raising States, similarity of institu-
tions and intimate BOCial and natural relations with
the people south of the Potomac, was emphatically b
Southern State, notwithstanding it had come to be
classed with that division of the country lying north
of the Potomac and south of New England called the
Middle States. Of the same ancestry, prevailing cus-
toms and ha hits, and do- eh welded by internum
together with the memories ol the past Btruggle of the
c Monies in the French and Indian wars, and of the
free and independent states which determined to
throw off allegiance to Great Britain and King G*
— with the same views ol the character ol the Federal
Union, and the rights and privileges which were re-
served to the state- under the Constitution of 1789, it
Would have been unnatural to have found her people
engaging in a fratricidal war ol desolation and inva-
sion of those communities, to which she was so bound
by historic and sympathetic ties.

The conservatism of her people misled pome to in-
dulge the hope that what was popularly called the
“loveofthe Union” would overcome the considera-
tions of honor and the associations of years of com-
mon struggle and danger ; but such conceptions were

as unfounded as they were insulting to the maul 1

and integrity of her people. The right of self-gov-
ernment had. on this continent, no firmer supporters
and defenders than in Maryland.

Allusion is only made to these circumstanot
explain why it i- that we have here in Maryland—
a State that was not “out of the Union” — a home for
Confederate soldiers. Her sons were in the Confed-
eracy, the hearts of her women were there, and the
great body of her people were in sylnpathy with the
cause oi’ constitutional government,

A- a border community in a sectional quarrel, this
feeling could not be unanimous. ‘There were some
who were loyal to the Union, and this minority, ob-
taining control by reason of the bayonets of the Fed-
eral power, gave the weight of state authority to their
claims, ami we find Maryland regiments and Mary-
land batteries Maryland at least in name,) respond-
ing to the call of the Federal President, .It

is conceded that there were those who 1 10 nest ly SU] >-
ported the national authority, and the brilliant record
of Maryland soldiers who “wore the blue” is cher-
ished and prized as the common glory ><( the State
by none more dearly than those of her sons who
” wore the gray.” As in the days of the Stuarts, the
hearts of the loyalists were “o’er the water with
Charlie. ” SO was it in Maryland. Her body hound
and shackled, her heart was unchained, and her sym-

pathies were with the followers of Lee and Jackson
beyond the Potomac. * A prominent officer,

after inspection of the records of the office ol the
Adjutant-General of the army in Richmond, esti-
mated that tlea, w.re 20,000 Marylanders in the
service of the Confederate States lie organizations
officially recognized as from Maryland were as fol-
low-: Firsl and Second Maryland Infantry, First and
d Maryland Cavalry, First Andrews and De-
ment), Second Baltimore Light . Third (Latrobe),
Fourth (Chesapeake), Maryland Artillery. Their ag-
gregate strength was some 1,000 men. with tl
ception of the last named battery, which served with
distinguished honor with the army in the West, it is
enough to say, in the language ol Gen. Ewell, refer-
ring to the Hret Maryland Infantry: “The history
of the First Maryland Infantry is the history of the
valley campaign;” the history of the Army ot North-
ern Virginia cannot be written without giving the
history of these commands “( the Maryland Fine.

From the early days ol the war. from Manasas to
Malvern Hill, from the valley to Gettysburg, from
the d< \ ppomattox, w a- their

valor and efficiency conspicuous.

From the beginning at Harper’s Fei ry, in ’61, t<
end at Appomattox, in ’63, they maintained the same
high character and bearing, and the record ot their

deeds, the icputation of their commanders of Buch-
anan and Hollins. of Trimble, Flzey. Winder. Stuart,
Johnson, Herbert. Rid iwn, Gilmor, Ant

Wm. I’.roun. and Breathed, are held in veneration
and affection by all familiar with the military history
of the Confederacy, and have made for Maryland a
name equal if not above other name- in the admira-
tion of a heroic people.

The State of Maryland can well be proud of it-
of the Maryland Fine of 1861 ways

been of their forefather– of the Revolution and the
subsequent war- of [812 ami with M« sico An hon-
orable, brave people are Q< their vet-
eran soldier-, ami the fact that the Federal

ment ha- ously provided for those of lei sons

who wore the blue but make more pronounced the
obligation of our Mother State to e;ire for their unfor-
tunate brothers who. in ragged gray jackets, repre-
sented Iter in the Confederate ranks: and. to their
honor be it said, in this pious purpose the Union citi-
zen^ ot’ the State have been willing and earnest in

their co-operation.
Sad indeed w a- the heart of the poor Maryland l

federate, alter the days of Appomattox — the cai
which he had devoted hi- best years, and for which he
had so freely risked his lite and shed his blood, had
failed — as the ?ad good-bye was spoken to associates.

The Association of the Maryland Fine was fori
in 1880, to assist the disabled and the destitute.
There was already in existence the Society of the
Army and Navy oi’ the Confederate state- in Mary-
land, which was organized in 1871, shortly after the
death of Gen. Fee, and it was not proposed to in-
croach upon, or to displace this organization, bu1
to cherish it a- the parent society, or center of Con-
federate influence and work. Under the direction of
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, and largely aided by his
material assistance, the Association of the Maryland
Fine made up a fairly complete roster of the various
Maryland organizations. In this work they were
largely aided by the courtesy of the War Department

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in permitting acre-.- to Bucb muster rolls as were found
in the records of the Adjutant-General’s office at Rich-
mond, and which were removed to Washington al the
close of the war.

Under the auspices of the Society of the Army and
Navy of the Confederate States in Maryland, was
held in Baltimore, in 1885, a most successful bazaar,
the proceeds of which, -nun- 131,000, were being de-
voted to the care of indigent Confederates and the
burial of the dead. Through the medium of this
fund, and the contributions of generous friends, t ti< ■
duty of ministering to the wants of the unfortunate
was faithfully performed, but as the years rolled on it
became painfully apparent that the means at hand
aot equal to the i ency, and that the appli-

cations sterna were far beyond the ability to

It was ascertained that a Dumber of thesi
lant old soldiers were finding refuge in the alms-
houses of the State, and not a few, instances came to
light of the burial of dead in the unhallowed graves
of Potter’s Fields. After careful consideration, it was
determined to make an effort to establish a Soldiers’
Home in Maryland, and to ask that the property
known as the Pikesville Arsenal be devoted to that
purpose. To thi- memorial the General Assembly
gave ready ear and took prompt affirmative action,
and in February, 1888, this property was given by the
State to the Association of the Maryland him- for the

purpose indicated, and an approprial ion of $5 000 pet
annum was voted lor the repair of the property and
maintenance of the Home. This property was singu-
larly adapted to the purpose by reason of the charac-
ter of the building and convenience of location.

During, or shortly alter, the Confederate war was
over, the arsenal was abandoned as a military post.
and in 1880 the Federal Government relinquished the
game to the State of Maryland. The commandant in

I860, just preceding the commencement of the war.
was thai distinguished soldier, Major, afterward Lieut.-
Gen. Huger. The State, after taking possession of

the property, made no practical use of it: in fact, it
was an item of expense for several year-, by reason
of the salary of a custodian. No repairs had I. .’en
placed on the property for a period of some twenty

■and lie- condition at the time of the transfer to
the care of the Maryland Line was little short of that
of a ruin. Work was at once commenced to rest
from this Bad plight in April. 1888, and in June, the

vear.it had -o far progressed as to admit of the
formal opening and dedication. Appropriate exer-

were held, with a large attendance of citizens
from Baltimore and the neighboring country. Every
year since reunions and like celebrations have taken
e, which have been frequently attended by dis-
tinguished Confederate., many of whom have been
prominent in the national councils of the country.
The administration of the Home rest- with a Board

of i rover S of the Association of the Maryland Line.

[a nn. ler the immediate supervision of a Hoard of
Managers, v, ho are largely aided in their duties by the
labors of ■■< Board of Visitors, which is made up of
well-known ladies, who give the benefit of their coun-
sel, and are untiring in their efforts in caring for the
sick and ministering to their wants. The command
of the Home is intrusted to a superintendent, Mr. W.
II. Pope, a gallant soldier of the Maryland Line, who,
with his devoted wife, have faithfully given their en-
tire service to the institution.

It was determined from the tir-t to make the insti-
tution in fact what it was in name— a home for those
who Bought it* sheltering care- and this view «
held in the furnishing of the room-, and the rules
enacted for the government of the inmates. These

la-t have been framed BO a- to insure the least re-
straint possible with the maintenance ol proper dis-
cipline and decorum. The separate buildings have
been named after distinguished Maryland t Confederate
soldiers, or Bailors, and tin room- have been furnished

a- memorials by the friends or relatives of sonic loved
one who gave hi- life for the cause, or who was con-
spicuous foi’ his gallantry or devotion. These rooms

have 1 n furnished in a substantial manner with

many of the comforts and elegancies found in private
homes, and at an estimated cost of $10,000, which ex-
pense has been defrayed by the generous friends un-
dertaking this important and interesting feature. As
a result, the management have been relieved almost
entirely of the great expense incident to the furnish-
ing of the Home, ami their mean- made available for
the necessary repair- of the property and the purchase
of proper equipment ami supplies required by an in-

st it ution Of this character.

The State has continued to make appropriation,
which, supplemented by generous private contribu-
tions, both in money ami material, have enabled the
management to maintain the high standard of com-
fort orignally had in view, and, at the same time, there
has been due regard to proper economy.

The total admissions, from the opening in June,
1888, to December 1. I893,.a period of nearly live and

a half year-, have been 139. Of this number twenty-
seven have died, three have been suspended or other-
wise discharged ; the number now borne on the roster
is 109.

The library is supplied with many valuable ami in-
teresting books and periodicals, the gift of friends, and
many newspapers regularly mail their i-sues without
charge.

The total receipts of the Home to September 130,
1893, were $37,620.40, and the expenses $38,195, leav-
ings deficit as of the above date, $574:60. Of the re-
ceipts, the state of Maryland has contributed $27,500,
ami the remainder is the result of private subscrip-
tions and the proceeds of entertainments, held at va-
rious times in tin’ interest of the 11, .me. Included in
the item of expenses is the sum of $8,118.42, the e,,-t
,,f repair- to the property.

Here will be found a noble charity, creditable to the

honor of our State ami the public Spirit of our citi-
zens. It i- a comfort to the old veterans, who ted
that if adversity proves to.. Btrong for them in their

declining years’ a haven of rest is here provided, to

which they may retire and find refuge, ami at the
same time’ lose ‘none of their self-respect, nor suffer

in the estimation of those whose experience in life is
more fortunate; and it is a standing illustration to
the VOUng that our loved Commonwealth reveres
manliness and courage, and is proud of its military

r. rd of the past, and is not unmindful of it- heroes

in their ..Id age.

John Harleston, Charleston, S. C: “I have been a
subscriber to your paper since March. Have taken
nearly all that have been published since 1865, and
know’ of none superio.i to yours, and wish you all pros-
perity.”

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DVRIAO THE FIRST SIEGE OF VICKSBVRG

FROM fllE DfARI “1 V KKNTleKI SOLDIER.

In tlic summer of \^>1. during the firel
Vicksburg, the First Kentucky Brigade was Bent to
that city as a sort ol guard of honor to tin- heavy
batteries then Lining the shores of the Mississippi
above and below Vicksburg. The regiments did duty
in town alternately, wh dated mainly in lying

under the Bhade of the trees in tl lautiful gi

lawns, with which the city and its suburbs abounded,
and. at night, watching the course of the immense

rtar shells fired from the yankee Beets above and

below the city. These shells generally passed over us
apparently a half mile high, and their course could be
distinctly traced by a burningfuse attached to each.

On the morning of the Ith day of July, 1862, we
naturally supposed the Federals would celebrati
day by an extraordinary bombardment >>( tin- city,
and thus make things somewhat lively for us. The
sun arose with unusual splendor; i xpectatiou iviih “ii
tip-toe; but to our surprise a silence, profound as
death, rested upon the combatants until just a; noon,
when both fleets opened live with every gun. They
rent the heavens with the fury of exploding shells ;
the shore batteries instantly responded, and for half
an hour these tremendous engines of death vomited
forth their horrible contents, and then ceased ae
denly as they began, not another gun being tired dur-
ing the day.

On the following day the Fourth Regiment, with a
battery, was ordered to a point on the Mississippi
River jusl below Warrenton, fourteen miles from
Vicksburg. This place was a wide, swampy bottom
on the east side of the liver, ami occupied abend in
the river, which, with the bluffs on the east, inclosed
several hundred acres. This bottom hail been over-
flowed, and the cottonwood tree- which grew on a
considerable portion of it had caughl and held
quantities of brush, drift wood. etc. Our mi
was to conceal ourselves and our battery in this drift,
the river, and pounce upon any steamer which
might undertake to pass up the i i\ er. It did not take
ns Ion-,’ to conceal ourselves in this wilderness, and
plant our guns along the river bank. Of coursi

nicely masked sentinels were posted down the
river. Five days passed in the pleasant occupations
of eating, sleeping and fighting mosquitoes without a
single alarm or sign of the enemy. On the fifth day
the pickets sent in information that a small craft, w itii
several men in it. was crossing the river from the
Louisiana shore, a mile or so below us.

The Colonel immediately ordered Sergeant

to select a squad “t six men to investigate the move-
ment. As one oi’ this detachment, we proci
down the river as fast as possible, and concealed our-
selves in the bushes, near the point which the batteaux
seemed to he making for. The moment it struck
shore we sprang from our hiding places, with cocked
guns, and demanded a surrender. The enemy con-
sisted of four lusty negro men and one woman.
With these we captured several bundles of old cloth-
ing, bed-quilts, and other trumpery prized bj neg

Had we dropped from the clouds, out. of a clap of
thunder, the poor darkies could not have been more
astonished and terrified. With dilated eyes and
trembling limbs they awaited death, which they evi-
dently thought was at hand. In answer to the Ser-

geant’s inquiry, “Who are you.’ Where an- you
going? ” one of them answered supplicatingly, ” We ‘se
nothing but poor niggers, massa, trying to git wid our
folks mi dis side of de river.” Ordering them tri

shoulder tlieii . we led them to the Colonel,

who gathered from them that they were th<

a Louisiana planter, who had thd from his hoi,

the approach of the yankee.-. leaving I take

■ themselves; and they, being scarcely 1> –
rified at the name of yankee than their master, were
seeking to reach their friends and relatives in M
sippi. The Colonel sent them on their way.

On the morning of the 12th day of our anihusli.
about an hour before dawn, the picked reported a
Bteam boat coming up the river. Winn she had ar-
rived nearly opposite the battery the guns opened on
her with shot and -lull. Her light- were almost in-
stantly extinguished, and her -peed ii . but

before she con >ul of range a number of -hot

struck, a- we could distinctly hear them crashing

through her timber- They tailed, ho- I dis-

able her. and she sped on her way up the river. It
was now apparent t hat on would bi

lerals would aln
gunboat to in ,lt it pos-

sible. We had no particular rj ine of

-. so we limbered up and pulled up
pulled Out about dawn, and in a leu hour- had g
iniinit of the high bluffs back of \\’ :i

few miles nearer the city, when

\ – we i ame into view a flat I
lainous-li inboat v If in

the rivei opposite our recent hiding place: and it was
with some satisfaction that we contemp
distan be poured a broadside from her I

into the um helled the

i-

A. P. HILL’S RPS.

II \\ M ANSON, ROCKW

This did nol big army of men, with guns,

drums and flying artillery. A. P.Hill’s signal cor]
consisted of Cant. R. H. T. Adams, o! Lynchbui

geant Pat Vermillion, also of Lynchburg; Win.
Daniel, ex-St I uator, from Clarksvi n.;

John Muring, of I hi ma in V C. w In n last Inard from
he had finished eight year- in tin ter

Eaves, from Rutherford ton, N

Christian and brother Have, of Appomattox, Va
James Featherston, of Vii of; Jan

Driver, of the First Tennessee died of smallpox ; Hal
W. Manson (the writer), of I – nth Ten
was detailed to take his placi . Henry B. Pope, of
Rome, Ga.; Ii. F. Mayhew, of New Berne, X.c. now

dead, and a few other- that were detailed for divis
headquarters.

These young men for most of them were under
twenty-one -wen used to transmit messages by optii
telegraphy from one part of the army to the other.
Sometimes the lim would extend as fa
and. as in the case of Harpi r’s Ferry, the plan of battle
was telegraphed over tie line. T!

were made with different colored ll;i.
Hag a yard Bquare with a red square in center. This
(lag was used when they had a green background, SUCh
as pines, or a wheat field or grassy knoll. Win
had the sky for a background, as from the top ol

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mountain, a dark Bag, with ;i white Bquare in thi
ter to distinguish it from a black one, was used. At
night torches of copper tubes filled with turpentine
1. one placed on the ground in front <>f the
operator and the other on the end of a -hurt po
his hand, which he moved right and left, front and
circle, making movements that ■milil be easily under-
stood with the aid of a good glass from ten to twenty
miles at the next station, ft On the march the signal
men could not be used as such, and wen- used as
couriers and scouts. Another of their duties was to
late messages into cipher and back again. Thus if
Genera] Lee wished to communicate witn President
Davis the message was put in cipher, Joe Cabiness
alone knowing what it was at Lee’s headquarters, and
a trusted man at the President’s office would read the
message to him.

I cannot hope to follow the fortunes of the
•• knights of the crossed flags,” all the way from
the day I was detailed and reported to Capt. Adams.
and was placed under the management of Harry
Pope to learn the signal alphabet on the heights of
the Rappahanock, or the long march at Gettysburg,
where the first bullet was fired at a signal man. We
returned *■<•> Orange County and spent the long winter
on Clark’s Mountain. Then came the march and
fighl from 1 there Ed Richmond and Petersburg, until
the final charge of Grant, the ‘Jd of July, 1865, when
ourbeloved Hill was killed. .IneCabiness was shot in
the neck and captured ; the writer lost a leg, and was
captured also.

Our life in Camp was one round of fun and gaiety.

G ge Christian’s yellow hoy, Jess, did the cooking

and stealing foi- our mess, and (His McClellan’s pop-
eyed negro Tip, with his assistants, kept up the cor-
ners For tie couriers, fed his Mars tins’ horse, blacked
hi- hoot-, washed his clothes, ami brightened hissabre
and spurs. Gus himself was a character, lie was a
brother of tin- great Alabama writer, “Betsy Hamil-
ton.” lie could sing a song, tell a good story, dance
“Lucy Long.’ and would light the d— 1, ami “give
him the go.” Never did old Talladega send to the
war a braver soldier than Gus, or a more faithful
negro than Tip. (ins i- dead, and Tip was caught by
a bright-eyed dusky damsel about Petersburg and re-
turned to Alabama to visit “Old Marster and Mars
tins,” after twenty years’ of hard work, thinking and
dreaming of “old Talladega. Ala.” Alas’ bis home-
coming was sad in the extreme! He went at once
from tic station to thi’ old plantation, through the
Gelds, over the well-known foot path straight to “Old

Marster- n .” lie would see him that night, and

his brothers tin next day. When he knocked on the
door he was answered by a stranger. He called, “Old
Marster, it- me, your hoy Tip what went with Marse

(ills to tin- war; I made money nuf to come hack,
and I is here. Open the do’, please sir!” Hut the

place was in the hands of strangers. “Old Master”

was under the marble, “Marse” (Jus dead too, and
the other- scattered in different States. Hut his mis-
tress, “Betsy Hamilton,” has told this story and
placed it where it will live and he draniati/cd when
she, too, shall have been gathered with the sleepers
under the oaks.

During tin’ several months seven of the signal corps
were stationed on Clark’s Mountain, in Orange
County, Va. Here at the station we spent the day.
leaving the guard, consisting of a Lieutenant and

ten men. to look after it in tin’ night. We would
mount our horse- and ride down to the house — T.
Preist’s whose cottage nestled in a cove at- the head
of a valley. <>n his table the best of garden truck
was found, and in his cellar were divers keg- ami
long necked bottles tilled with blackberry and cherry
brandies. This was our boarding-house. Across the
field was Bob Sales’ place and hi- lovely daughter,
over the hill was the Bushrod Brown and the beau-
tiful Epperson girls also. At the Rapid Ann Sta-
tion was Mi,-.- Genevieve Peyton, and on the moun-
tain side the Misses Terrell. Down near the river
was the regiment of I’.arksdale’s M ississippians in

oni company of ninety men “seventy-five were g 1

fiddlers.” We cultivated these fellows and they culti-
vated us. We had a dance three nights out of tin-
week, and went courting two out of the other four.
We were in full view of the enemy’s camp acros- the
river, and hundreds of officers, citizens, and ladies usi d
to visit the mountain-top and our courtesy would be
at times taxed to the utmost to show them the attcn
Don we w ished to.

Gen, Lee would come up and spend hours study-
ing the situation with his -pleiulid glasses; and the
glorious Stuart would dash up. always with a lady,
and a pretty one, loo. I wonder if the girl is yet
alive who rode the General’s line horse and raced
with him to charge our station. When they had
leached the level plateau, and Stuart had left her in

care of one of us and took the other oil’ to one side
and questioned the very sweat out of him about the

enemy’s position, he was Gen. Stuart then, hut when
he got hack and lifted the- beauty into the saddle and

rode oil’ humming a breezy air. immortalized by

Swiney and John L-ten Cook, he was Stuart the beau.
The next day his command was on the enemy’s

Hank thirty miles away. The great Gordon came up

and showed us how to steady the eyes with the fin-
gers BO as to look a long time. Old lien. (Dwell, with
his old flea-bitten gray and crutches, wa- a frequent
visitor.

A WAR WAIF IX Till-: ARM).

HY A. 1.. SLACK, T M.I.I I. AH, I.A.

I enlisted as a private in the Second Louisiana Vol-
unteers in 1861. My first real soldiering was on the
Yorktown Peninsula, in Virginia. While there, or at
Suffolk i 1 forget whichi. there strolled into camp a
young hoy. scarcely over Id or 12 year- of age. who
attached nimself to one of the neighboring regiments.
Who he was, or where he came from. I cannot now
recall. He was looked upon a- ” no man’s chi Id,” and
as such found genial fellowship among the soldiers,
I BOOH realized thai he was a Cosmopolitan, and at
home anywhere, for I next .-aw him the pit of the

First South Carolina Volunteers, 1 low long he stayed
with them 1 cannot say. It was fully a year before I
saw him again. His small form and boyish face win
it contrast to the men among whom lie mingled

I remember then how odd it seei I to gee that lad in

a camp, hut he was truly ” the child of the regiment.”
After we had fallen back to Richmond, and after those
terrible seven days’ of battle, the army was reor-
ganized and the troops brigaded by States, so 1 lost
sight of our Carolina neighbors, and also the boy.

At the second battle of Manassas, on the 29th of
August. 1862, our brigade iStark’s — poor fellow, he

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fell at Sharpsburg). was lying in the woods nearly
opposite that “terrible deep cut” when the dripping,
Bpattering lire of the Yankee skirmishers drove in

our out-looker? (as “Old Jack ” did n’t have a < ounter
skirmish Unci the cry “F-o-r-w-a-r-d” rang along our
lines, and we advanced and ran almost into the Yan-
kees, who. giving ue a deadly volley, fell hack rapidly
across a Held and into the woods beyond, where a bat-
tery, supported by a swarm of troops, was posted.
Nothing checked us. Under a withering fire of min-
nies and canister we pressed on, Bradley T. Johnson
riding ahead, with his sword run through hi- hat.
waving us on, until we waved him out ol our line of
lire. When we arrived within aboul one hundred
yard- of the battery the line was halted, and under
this raking lire the allignmnit was I. and the

men “right dressed” t” be Bho1 down.

I have thoughl often since that the command of
halt, under BUCD a tire might have been heroic’, hut it
certainly was not wise. However, not a man faltered.
Again. “Forward!” and we drove straight for the
gun-, .lust then I felt a thud, a Bting, a twist around
and fell. A minnie had struck my pocket Bible edge-
wise, and passing nearly through tie’ New Testament
part, dug a trench across, my left ride into the flesh.
With the blood spurting from the wound 1 started

rearward, while our boys bravefellows went up and
over the battery, scattering it- supports like chaff*.

As I struggled back over tie field, the (had anil
wounded, blue and gray alike, lying around, I heard
a great rumbling on my left and turned and saw
that our guns were plunging to the front, Under la-h
and shout, to -ei/e the hills whence to pour shot into
the then retreating foe. I can -ee them now tumbling,
bouncing, and surging to gain that front. Whal
did I see’.’ So close 1 could nearly touch him, the little

boj sitting on the limber of one of the pieces, his
aflame, his hat waving, his treble voice shoutingex-
citedly, and his whole being lit up and aglow with
the terrible magnetism of battle, cheering on the line.

That was the last that 1 saw of him. lie passed on
and was lost in the cloud and smoke of the field, hut
the memory of that inspiring -eene will never t

It has well been said that truth is -trangcr than
fiction; the sequel to the above sketch (which is ab-
solutely true proves the truth of this adage.

The sketch was first published in the Detroit Fret
Pnse on the 23rd of April. 1891. Finding out the
address of Col. Bradley T. Johnson 1 -cut him the
M.S., which he published in the Baltimore Sun in the
December following. 1 received from the Colonel a
most Mattering letter, in which he said: “Your graphic
description ol the ” War Waif” touched mv heart. I
have given it to the Baltimore St«. That defense of
the railroad cut was a feat of arms. I had 800 mus-
kets and Stark hardly 900, and we held it again-t
18,000 (Fitz John Porter’s whole corps). We did as
well as men could do. hut the real work was done by
Stephen ]>. l.ee’s guns, on our right, which enfiladed
and tore up the assaulting column. But that charge!
Wasn’t it glorious? There was genuine, real, soul-
stirring, blood-thrilling gavdium certamini .’ Those
days of our golden prime! ”

The Colonel, in the above, has confused the de
<>f the railroad cut with the charge I describe. The
incident 1 refer to occurred on the 29th, while that
defense of the railroad took place .in the 30th of

August. L862. But this is not the coincidence 1
started out to refer to.

It so happened that when the -ketch appeared in
the Fret Presi that the hero of my sketch was a sub-
BCriber to that paper and ” read himself” in the article.
He at once wrote to that paper inquiring who the

author was, a- only m\ initial-. “A. 1.. S.” were
signed to the pice. Tie information was furnished
him and 1 received several communications from him.
That lie i- the identical “hoy” 1 have no douht. A
few days before last Christn aid me a visit, and

we passed several days recounting tl sin “Old

Virginny.” Hi- name is W. .1. Pucket, and hie

Win-tead. Mi- He tells me that at the
time referred to he was just 13 year- of age; that he
belonged to the Louisiana Guard Artillery, and that
he surrendered at Concord station, near Appomattox,
when our cause finally collapsed.

Cleburne’s Ban Shiloh. — J. A. Wheeler,

Salad- Texas I give tie Veterak a brief account

of Shiloh a- I -a” it. hem- a private in the Twenty-
third Tenneseei Regiment Pat Cleburne’s Brigade .
On the morning of April 6, “62, when the entire line
moved forward, our brigade had to face a battery of
twelve gun- : eight 20-pound rifles (1 id four 12-

pound Napoleon guns. We were ordered to halt and
lie down in a deep ravine while tin- battery was
shelling our position at a fearful rate, .lust in our
front was a ridge, a peach orchard, and the Federal
encampment. General Cleburne told us to prepare
for a charge. Soon it wa- ordered and we moved for-
ward at double-quick, passed through the encamp-
ment, down the -lope on the norti the ridge
near to ,, branch. Here :i line of infantry rose up
and poured such a destructive volley into our ranks
that we recoiled and fell hack to the first ravine. Here
we rallied, and General Cleburne came to as again
and said. “Boys, don’t he discouraged; that is not
the tir-t charge’ that was ever repul-ed: fix bayonets
and give them steel,” Then he ordered. “Forward!
Charge! ” We leaped forward with a deafening cheer
and drove the infantry out of the ravine, but firing
from the Lattery and a line of infantry was so heavy
just in rear of the battery that we again fell hack,
‘with great loss, but soon reformed, and were ready for
the third charge, when a Louisiana brigade was

brought up to our support. Another charge was or-
dered and we moved forward over the dead and
wounded, (hi- time to reach the goal that had cost
the live- of many of our best mi n. But the struggle
was not yet over for the battery, as the hoys in blue
tired some of the guns when we were within ten feet of
their muzzles. Here we had a hand-to-hand co
over the gun-, hut we were triumphant, and this fine
battery of twelve guns was ours. Cleburne’s Brigade
wa- composed of the Seventeenth. Twenty-third
and Twenty-fourth Tennessee and First Ark
Regiments.

1 cannot close this article without saying that the
men of this battery were the bravest men we ever had
to deal with. They were worthy of our steel, not one
of them surrendered with a whole hide. They had
been in the United States sen ice for twenty years.

If this should fall into the hands of any soldier, on
either shh- in this charge. I would be glad to
spond with him.

M

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

FEASTING AND FIGHTING.

BY wm. B. -r. ,1 iih, KA8HVILLB, TBNN.

The following incidenl is but a remnanl of the
spice-box that, like pride, had a fall, or rather a more
expeditious send-off during Gen. Forrest’s raid on
Paducah, Ky.: .Maj. Thompson led an attack on
Fort Anderson, a huge affair, Burrounding the Marine
Hospital. Close by and overlooking the fort was the
two-story brick building of l>r. Bassett. Some six or
eight young Kentuckians, among whom were the
Douglas an<l Meriwether boys, thought that this house
ated some fine strategic points of value, both as
a commissary department and “shooting-box;” the
big 32-pounders in the fort could not he handled with
any degree of safety if any party of sharp-shooters
should happen to occupy the upper story. Accom-
panied by their Captain, the house was at once taken
–ion of. and .Mrs. Bassett, delighted with the
of the ” Southern hoys,” made at once extensive
pr< paratione for their comfort. The large dining
talile was taken up-stairs. for the greater convenience
of her guests, and heaped with all the delicacies and
good things that the house, cellar or pantry afforded.

And nobly did the famished defenders of a lost cause
tespond to the tempting viand-. The battle had now
begun in earnest, ami ‘• the hoys.” with their mouths

full, sent their unerring missiles mi” the enemy’s

can tiers, to their utter discomfort and demoraliza-
tion. The huge thirty-two in front of the house could
not he fired. Every time a head appeared it was
promptly scalped. The hoys enjoyed the fun im-
mensely, and divided their time between “shootin’

an’ eatin’.” After many failures, one artilleryman
eded in pulling the lanyard, and a Btorm of
grape and canister whistled through the bouse, with-
out, however, touching the hoys or the “viltels.”
Douglas remarked that this was the best place to light

In- had ever struck, and as long as the ammunition
on the table held out he was willing ”to light it out
on that line if it took all summer.”

The enemy made great efforts to reload the gun.
hut every time a man appeared a whistling messen-
ger, laden with “pie,” stopped the perl’c nana nee. It
had become intensely interesting and amusing on one
side, and exceedingly dangerous on the other. The
enemy soon realized the state of affairs, and took all
available means to dislodge the sharp-shooters. The
trouble was that the little hand in the ” I ‘.asset t house ”
had command of nearly every gun in the fort, and
not only stopped proceedings against themselves, hut
hampered and annoyed the gunners on the opposite
side, so as to prevent anything more than straggling
shots, that did little or no execution. The gunboats,
however, made active demonstrations in favor of the

fort, and nf the -hell,-, intended no doubt for the

Bassett house, cut Maj. Thompson in two. Hut the

end was nearer than “the hoys” imagined. An un-
lucky shell from the enemy, striking a little lower,
hit the edge of the table and made a promiscuous
mingling of china, wood, meat, iron, vegetables, glass-
ware and pie, the “tout ensemble” of a well-regulated
dinner-table. It heat a ” hull in the china-shop.” To
see the heautil’ul walls plastered with pie, and the
blackberry jam and preserves dripping mournfully

from the ceiling was just a little too much for them.
“Boys,” -aid Meriwether, “let’s go.” The Captain
tearfully removed a lump of plum jelly from hi- eve
and. said. “You’re right.” The defenders having
left, tin- enemy immediately riddled the house with
-olid shot and grape, making a complete w reek of the
noble building.

Meeting a refugee from the fort some months after-
ward, and regaling him with the narrative above
stated, he remarked that he was one who tried to

work that gun. ami escaped the “rebel bullets;”

” hut.” says he. “1 sun-It t he patching ! ” “Ilowwa-
that?” 1 answered. “Well, they scuta ball right un-
der my nose, taking off a part of my mustache.”

‘GENERAL LEE TO THE REAR.”

B. J. (DOCK) I’AKHKNT. WACO. TEXAS.

• Since the columns of your magazine are open to
answering queries relative to Incidents of the war. I
reply to (‘apt. \V. T. (iass. of Camp Ben McCulloch,
Mt. Vernon, Texas, relative to General Lee at the

Wilderness: 1 was a member of Company 1>, Fourth
Texas Regiment, Mood’s old brigade, commanded at
the time by General Gregg, Field’s Division, Long-
street’s Corps. A. X. \’a. Our brigade was composed
of the First, Fourth and Fifth Texas, and the Third
Arkansas: our regiment ( Fourth Texas i. if 1 remem-
ber correctly, was on the left, center of the brigade,
and the Firsjl Texas was formed on our left. We had
just filed off of the road, in which we had been moving,
and formed in line of battle in an open space a few
yards in front of the timber. About that time 1 saw
General Lee ride up and stop on the left wing of the
First Texas. A number of us, mostly of the First
Texas, gathered around him and begged him to go to
the rear, some of the hoys saying that they would not
go into the light unless he retired. There were a good
many, both up and down the line, yelling, “General
Lee to the rear.” 1 was standing by the side of his
horse and placed my hand on him : one of the First
Texas had hold of his bridle-rein. I do not remem-
ber whether his hat was oil’ or not at the time. I
know we told him that if he would go to the rear we
would whip the yankces. 1 am confident that no one
man is entitled to the credit or honor of causing

General I to go to the rear; every man there would

have gladly died to save one drop of his precious
blood, and” I am confident that General Lee saw a
determination in the fares of his men to conquer or
die. and felt Confident that he could trust the battle lii
them, lie turned his horse and was soon out of sight.
We were then ordered to charge, and the result oi
the day’s work is well-known.

I am sure (here are some of our old brigade yet liv-
ing who remember the incident as vividly as I do. 1
was detailed as division scout, and had the privilege
of going and coming as 1 pleased, but when my Com-
pany was ordered into action, 1 always went witli
them.

1 am a member of I’at Cleburne Camp, No. 222, U.
C. V., Waco, Texas, and am highly pleased with the
Confederate Veteran, and think that every Con-
federate soldier should subscribe for it, and keep it
always before his children.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

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The “Jackson Day” (January 8) occurs so near pub-
lication time of this Veteran thai reference to the
Hermitage, by which is Located the Tennessee Soldiers’
Home, Beems appropriate. The picture is an excellenl
vic« of the grand hallway at the Hermitage, and gives
at once an idea of the dimensions of the home built
by Genera] Jackson for bis fireside pleasures. The
building was constructed upon a broad and liberal
plan characteristic of the man. The house contains
eleven rooms, all large and superb in style of archi-
tecture. The wall paper appearing in the picture,
with its liberal background of trees, foliage, ami beau-
tiful landscape, is a scene from the history of Tele-
machus, and represents Ulysses on the Island “i < lalyp-
son. It has been preserved carefully by the 1 a
Hermitage Association, although it was “in shreds
upon the walls” when they got possession. The
Bcenes are iii an excellenl state of preservation. The
grand stairway is one of the most imposing in any
house in the country, and leads to an upper hall of
equal dimensions, and ornamented with the same
scenes from Tclemaehus. General Jackson procured
this paper from Paris in 1836, when the Hermitage
was rebuilt after having been destroyed by tire while
he was President.

Joseph Branson, Aiken, S. C, Dec. 24; “1 see the
inquiry concerning who it was that took General Lee>
horse by the bridle in the battle of the Wildenn
prevent In- personal peril, and the three versions of
Hair. I was then a member of A. I’. Hill’s corps,
Wilcox’s division and McGowan’s brigade. We had
been fighting all day and all night. Early next morn-
ing we were being Banked by the enemy, and were
falling back, when we net Lonj corps. They

formed on ,>ur right. I remember it well. 1 v
glad to see them. Only a veteran can appreciate the
situation. 1 saw General Lee ride to the left of the
line and then to the front, as though he intended to
lead the charge. He was in front of a ‘I’. \a> brigade.
I saw a private go from the rank- and catch his horse
by the bridle and lead him to the rear, ami then the
brigade charged. I couldn’t hear a word that was said.
By all means give the Texas private the honor of the

noble deed.

A pathetic poem, but ton long for use here, comes

c ruing Lieut. Josiah W. Nance, who served under

Gt neral Forrest and was killed near Cuba Landing on
the Tennessee River while bearing dispatches for his
commander. June 10, ’64. He lies buried in a quiet,
well.kept graveyard neai thi Bceneof his death. “Lov-
ing hands plated his body in a hen’s grave, and lov-
ing hearts will cherish the memory of Ids brave deeds
and truth and loyalty forever.”

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

2Mic (Confederate Uctcvan.

One Dollar a Year. 8. A. CUNNINGHAM. Editor.

Office hi The American, Corner Churcb and Cherry si-.

PRICE OF THE VETERAS FERSOXAL.

Much has been said concerning the change in price
of tin 1 Veteran. It has been explained that the
publication was made larger and finer, from necessity,
after the first issue. The universal acceptance of the
publication by comrades and people who are friendly
to it. and the unstinted assistance gratuitously fur-
nished it. created and maintained a high ambition to
continue it without change. In view of that, how-
ever, friends who have had much experience in j ■ » n r-
nalism have urged the necessity of increase. Then
the demand for making the Veteran better in every
way. and perhaps larger, contributed to this decision.

In the year’s work of unprecedented prosperity.
excepl as to advertising, excess in outlay over re-
ceipts was about 81 .nut). This fund has been shared
unstintedly by a young man — whom 1 have not seen
since long before the Veteran was thought of, but
who has lived a soldier’s life, tenting on snowy moun-
tains in winter, and pressing in his work through
deserts where life was impossible through summer —
wdiose heart is as loyal as any battle-scarred Confederate.

The general public has but little idea of the expense
in establishing a periodical to a paying basis. Pub-
lishers will doubtless regard this excess in expendi-
tures as remarkably small, considering the superb
record the little journal has made. The price, while
nominally one dollar, is hardly seventy-five cents, for
the souvenir promised in April is well worth the dif-
ference, and it gives the publication two years prac-
tically for one dollar.

This candid statement will be sufficient for every
friend, the assurance being that their continued zeal
will assure every patr >n a publication better and bet-
ter in proportion. The small amount extra, while a
light tax on the multitude, will be a most important
benefit to 1 he great cause in hand.

( loncerning the price let there be no misunderstand-
ing. It is not increased as a -peculation. Friends

who have been SO diligent that any favor asked by

them would be granted occasionally say thai the money
was handed them and by some mishap they failed to

send it in time. It is considered necessary and right
to increase the price, as there are many ways for
helping the cause espoused which will be a tax upon
the Veteran, -lust as fast as practicable it will be
entered for comrades who cannot pay, and in inisters
will be supplied at seventy-live cents. By the by,
Rev. W. A. Nelson, of llawkinsville. 6a., in sending

a dollar, writes that he did not renew before January

so that he might semi that amount instead of fifty
cents, ‘•because it’s worth a dollar.”

In this spirit a Confederate organization is raising a
fund to supply the Veteran to those who can’t afford

tO Subscribe. It was expected to report its action in

this Veteran. One man subscribed ten dollars to the
fund, and it was expected to secure ten times as much

before reporting.

•I. W. ‘fucker, Beachville, Trim., the first person to
call at office and renew at the increased price, wasa
veteran with no hand left and but one arm. The
clerk had to finger the money from bis pocket. Such
a man should have the VETERAN free. Part of his
money was promptly re-mailed to him. Hasten the
day when such a man will be required to have no
thought of the morrow as to life’s necessities.

0, W. Case, Superintendent of the Pacific Express
Company. St. Louis, was the first to remit at SI for
the Veteran. He is a Union veteran: “Herewith is
81 to pay for subscription to your magazine for 1894.
I like its kindly tone. I rather think 1 am in favor
of the organization of the ‘United Veterans of
America’ as begun at some point in Texas.”

RECORD THE TRIT1I FOR HISTORY.

The Veteran is published in the interest of Con-
federates. It is patriotic and progressive. Its wish is
to forgive and forget bitter memories of the war in the
broadest sense. A digression, however, from this
rule is apparent in the article about “Carpet-bag Rule
in Arkansas.” Its author has the bitter memory of a
murdered father. He simply reviews the ” Brooks
and Baxter war” in Arkansas. Is it well to reprint
these facts now? This query is of the Union veteran.
There is back of it a much graver question. It con-
cerns prison life. The most singular exactions from
our victorious compatriots is their general unanimity
of sentiment against publishing the history of prison
life from their side. Dr. John A. Wyeth, of New York,
who served in the Confederate army from Alabama,
dared to write an article on the subject, entitled “Cold

Cheer at Camp .Morton,” and it stirred the enmity of
Grand Army veterans to a shocking degree. He en-
gaged to deliver a professional lecture at Indianapolis

afterward, ami the bitterness engendered by his truth-
ful narrative was so great that his friends advised him

to decline the invitation. Dr. Wyeth is one of the
best accredited men of the entire South, liefore this
thing occurred one of the first surgeons who served in
the Federal army told me that beloved Wyeth so well
that he didn’t like to think they wvrr ever against
each other. Why not let the whole truth be known’.’
A young lady of Rock Island, 111., was deploring the
treatment of Union soldiers in Southern prisons to a
Confederate when be asked her to remeni bet; that with

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all the advantages of the Union Bide in medicine, him to deduct the cost of remitting subscriptions. It

clothing and food, the percentage of deaths was greater is pleasant to see in the Washington Gazette this

among Confederates in Northern prisons, she was strong tribute” from Mr. Motte Smith, that ” Mr. Cordes

astounded at the remark and said, ” Did we have your lived more in touch with more people than anybody

men in prison?” she had been reared close t<> the else in Wilkes County.”

place thai many gallant Southerners laid down their 1 lenry Cordes was a German, and 59 years old. He
lives, and yet had do conception that these deplorable enlisted with the [rvin Artillery in 1861, and served
conditions ever existed but on one side. Do On to th the war. In compliance with his re-
sirs, let the truth be recorded. It will help your chil- quest, this ” bouI of honor'” was buried in his < Jonfed-
dren to appreciate the sacrifice of your, and their, fel- erate suit, with badges attached. The coffin was
low citizens in the South for the principles in-tilled draped with a genuine Confederate battle flag. The
by the founders of our great republic. funeral procession was one of the lon§ > in
We are not afraid to publish the truth, but in doing Washington. “All the carriages and I I the
SO we want to feel that vou concur in the spirit that town were in it.” and many from the country. Con-
ours were not more heartless and barbarous than your federate veteran- wen pall bean da-
own leaders. We all remember that war is terrible, way’s company, the Irvin Guards, served as guards of

ami are not complaining. One g 1 moral effect honor. Comrade Cordes left five daughters, two ol

would be to discourage rash people from agitations whom are married. The youngest child is the only

that threaten the peace of the general public.

Cur. L J. Dawdy, a Union veteran, of Peoria, 111.,
-ays : ‘■ Through the kindness of my old friend. ( ‘apt.

B. F. Smith, Of Sin Ibyville, Teuil., I have received

each number of t he first volume. 1 have

read each number of the \” 1. 1 bran with much int

I like the spirit of fairness toward soldiers of the

Union army which seems to pervade its columns, and

which, 1 believe, will cause its acceptance by any vet-
eran on either side, Brave men are always generous.
and as no greater sacrifice and heroism were ever
shown than by soldiers in the late war. none should
be more generous with each other. Many incidents
have Keen published with which I am acquainted, and
I could not Help being interested in seeing the stand-
point from • tother Bide.’ ”

son. Comrade, brother, farewell. No friend was more
faithful to the Vi rERAN, and it- editor honors your
memory with a grateful h(

IU-:\TU OF CORPORAL HENRY CORDES

A\ exquisite Christmas remembrance come- to the
Veteras from Richard R. Foster, Adjutant of the
Massachusetts Soldiers’ Home. On the front a tat-
tered flag, th ind -tripe-. 1- suspended in the

blue sky. and an eagle has lighted upon it, hi> broad
wings SO extended that he Seems to support rather

than be a weight to the limp ensign, the -hied- of
which are not rippled by breeze. Thanks are return’. 1.
Brave Southerner- will ever return the -pirit of greet-
ing from valiant foes who bring the olive and extend
it as to equals in all that makes manly men and true
patriots.

A WRITES in the – that there are (00,000

more pensioners on the i_’o\ eminent pension mils than
there were soldiers in the Confederate service. \ –
ond curious fact, derived from another source, is. that
while our pension li-t has grown enormously in num-
bers in recent year-, the list of pensioners on tin State
of Georgia, which pay- a certain amount to n
wounded in the Confederate service, has steadily and
regularly decreased.

One of the most beautiful women residing now in
the national capital, expressing her regard foi this lit-
tle periodical, said. ” 1 had rather have my picture ill
the Veteran than in the White House.” Honor to
her. She represents a sentimenl that will live beyond

her generation.

At its last reunion the Forty-fourth Gi ted

plain, true man has Keen a peculiar pleasure. He was the following officers Maj. John C. Key, President;
made aid to staff of General Evans, of U. C. V., but Col. J. W. Beck, Vice-President; S. M. Buchanan,
claimed the title still of Corporal. His home standing Secretary. They -elected Fayetteville as the place of

was not known, but he had rallied again and again meeting in 1894, and Wednesday after the lirst Sun-
his people in behalf of the Veteran, and 1 had to urge day in August as the time.

The V 1111; \\ begins it- second vear in deep Borrow
for the death of Mr. Henry Cordes. of Washington,
<ia. The sad announcement came by postal, and then
in papers by Miss Gertrude Cordes and R. T. Rich-
ards. Pneumonia was too severe upon the infirm
patriot. Henry Cordes wrote more letter- and senl
subscribers at more different times to the Veteran
than any other person, and never asked a favor of it.

By agreement we Were to meet at the Augusta

reunion in November, and in describing himself he
wrote: “When you see a man in a suit of Confederate
gray, with a small cane as a Staff, and the ugliest man
there, he will be yours truly, Henry Cordes.” He was
sought and found promptly, and the memory of the

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

‘./ VERAL EARLY’ii CAMPAIGNS.

James T. Lyon, of the Forty-third Battalion, Vir-
ginia Cavalry : I have never criticised or undertaken

:icit any article appearing in the Confi
aii. \ i 1 1 kan. bo dear to u- old Confederates, but
tin article of James B. Clay, in the September

number, recting one published in the Si. Louis

Globe-Democrat on the “Campaigns of General Early
in the Valley,” is al6o erroneous. He fails to men-
tion General Rhodes and his Division. That brave
and patriotic officer deserves to be mentioned with
honor in the battle of Chancellorsville, under ( ieneral
Jack.-*n. He distinguished himself, and in every bat-
1 1 « ■ thereafter fought by the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia he bore a conspicuous part, up to the 19th of
September, 1864. At tin- battle of Winchester, in his
heroic attempt to stay the tide of battle and t<> re-
trieve the fortunes of thi day, he fell at the head of
hie spendid Division, lamented by all who knew him.
Now, after Early took command in the Valley, there
was but one ( ‘orps permanent then’, and lliat was the
old Second Corps, commanded by General Early in
person, and it comprised the Divisions of Generals
Rhodes, Ransom, Breckinridge, and Gordon. Breck-
inridge never commanded a Corps under Early. Gen-
eral Heath’s Division was nol with Early in his Mary-
land campaign. Heath belonged to the Third Corps,
under A. P. Hill, and on the 10th of July, 1864, ac-
cording to the returns of the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia of thai date, was with his Corps at Petersburg.
General Marly never commanded in Southwest Vir-
ginia, and was never removed from his command, and
never went to Europe until after the war. After the
battle of Winchester General Breckinridge was sent
tn command in Southwest Virginia, and appointed
from there to the War Department in February, 1866.
We find Genera] Early in command at that time—
the early spring of 1865 at Waynesboro in the val-
ley t’i protect and defend Rock fish Gap, in the Blue
ridge Mountains. About that time Sheridan moved
up the valley with 9,000 cavalry and mounted in-
fantry. Early only had a small force, consisting of
Wharton’s Division, 1,800 infantry, a small force of
cavalry, and some artillery— a force entirely inade-
quate for the task. There was a good deal of disaf-
fection among the troops, and, without hardly a show
of fight, Sheridan broke through the mountain, passed
into Eastern Virginia, laid waste to that country, and
joined < Irant at Petersburg. We here find Early, with
hi- faithful few, following and harrassing Sheridan at

every turn. It is said that Early displayed re

heroic valor with his faithful few than he iliil with
his victorious army in Maryland.

II. M. .Miller, of We-t Point, Va., who was of Cox’s
Brigade, and Rhodes’ Division, writes: In the Sep-
tember Veteran appeared an article headed, “.luhal
A. Marly and His Campaigns.” in which James I’..

Clay. i’f (ieneral Breckinridge’s stall – , defends “Old

.lulu’ – (as his boys loved to call him). General Early
needs no defense from any one. History will take
care of him. Comrade clay is “mixed” on the bat-
tle of Winchester. He says that Marly had engaged,
at the battle of Winchester, the Divisions of Gordon,
Wharton. Ransom, and Heath. Now, where was our
glorious Rhodes, who was killed that day at the head
•f his Division? I don’t think General Harry Heath

could have been there in Rhodes’ place and I not
have known it, and then General Rhodes was killed
that day, as I understand it. The Tnion Army were
at a place called Smithville, between Winchester and
Harpi r’s Ferry. Ransom was left at Winchester. Gor-
don ami Rhodes left for Martinsburg, Rhodes stopping
at Bunker Hill and Gordon going on to Martinsburg.
Gordon had arrived at Martinsburg, where he was ex-
I to remain all night, but was ordered back, as
Sheridan had attacked Ransom. Ransom held him

in cheek until Rhodes go1 up fr Bunker Hill, and

then the fight was continued until General Gordon
came up. We were compelled to fall back through
Strausburg to “Fisher’s Hill” (not Fisher’s Mill),
n here we stopped. This is a plain statement of facts.
I could write all night on ” Early’s Vallej Campaign,”
but I could not have I Ieneral Rhodes left out after the
glorious fight he made that day.

CONFEDERATE DEAD AT INDIANAPOLIS.

During the last session of the National Encamp-
ment of the G. A. II., at Indianapolis, the New,ot
that city, published everything obtainable that was oi
interest to visitors. The following is an extract: The
graves of rebels who died in Indianapolis prisons lie
leveled and unmarked in the old cometerv at Green-
lawn. Coming North in the time of winter, thinly
clad and nearly starved when captured, to a climate
of rigors to which they were strangers, they died in
large numbers in spite of the humane care extended
to them by the citizens. Every available building
was converted into a hospital, and all these were filled
by the prisoners. The firm having the contract to
bury the prison dead was required to keep a record of

the grave of each lor future identification. The man
who made the burials still lives in thi.- city. He is
Elijah Hedges, 83 North Noble street. lie has the
name, command and address of all those who wen
buried by him during the war, when he was in the
employ of Weaver A- Wil Mams, the linn having the con-
tract. Mr. Hedges states that there were -J . 1 7 “J rebel
prisoners buried by him in the old cemetery at (ireen-
law n. I have a list showing the location, by number.
of each grave, so that, with the exception of eleven
who were not known, all can be identified if desired.
There is a grave every two feet, containing a prisoner.
The largest number buried in one day was nine. In-
quiry was made some months ago by those interested

in these graves as to whether they could be identified,

and what the cost would be of putting in order tin-
plat occupied by them. The promoters of the plan
were much pleased, but stateil that owing to the de-
pletion ol’ funds collected for the purpose, in putting

in order other cemeteries, the improvement of the
plat here would have to be postponed until more

I icy could be secured. The hope was expressed

that by next year the graves might receive the atten-
tion they SO much need. At one time, owing to the
advance ol’ business interests in that part of the city.
it was found necessary to remove 300 or |im of the
prisoners’ bones to another part of the graveyard.
Talking on the subject, Mr. Hedges made this re-
markable statement : ” Muring the war I buried in all
12,000 persons, and, according to the habit of under-
taker-, I have the names and addresses of all who
were known. During my lifetime I have buried I’.t,-
.S7’_’ people.”

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

19

THE BATTLE OF STAUNTON RIVER BRIDGE, YA.

1. BASON, COLD WATER, MISS., WHO SERVED IN THE
BEVENTEBNTH MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT.

In June, 1864, Major Cooper, of Memphis, then
Quartermaster of the Forty-second Mississippi In-
fantry,and I were returning from short furloughs (my
first and (inly one during the war) to our homes in
Mississippi. We were halted at Danville, Va., and
informed that a division of yankee cavalry, under
General Kirkpatrick, were near Burkesville Junction
trying to makes circuit of Lee’s army, and were de-
stroying much of our supplies They were tearing up
tlic railroads and threatening great disaster to our
already greatly impoverished men. Danville, being
one of our chief supply depots, was a point of great
importance. It was understood that the enemy would
aitempt the capture of Danville, and if successful, then
Greensboro, X. C, Raleigh, Goldsboro and possibly
Wilmington. They were well mounted and equipped
for tli is hold raid, and were pursued by Gen. W. II 1
Lee’e division of cavalry, which was poorly mounted,
and of course outdistanced by the enemy. Calls wen
made for volunteers From Boldiers cut off at Danville

to gO to Staunton River to assist a company of 125

disabled soldiers, working in the arsenal at Danville,
and a battalion of 350 Virginia State troops, old men
and boys, armed with Bhotguns, squirrel rifles, etc., to
defend the bridge and frustrate the plan of the invad-
ers. 1 was among the fifty-nine soldiers that cheer
fully agreed to go under Lieutenant Colonel Jackson,
of North Carolina, who was then suffering from a
wound in liis leg. Colonel Jackaon assumed command
of the little army of defense, and made a spee< b to the
militia, telling them of the importance of defending
tlie bridge, etc., and very wisely removing all means
of retreat to the other side of the river (several bat-
teaus), hastily throwing up earthworks on side of ap-
proach, each wing resting on the river, forming a semi-
circle. We also had two cannons, old howitzers, with
a lew trained artillerymen to work them, on opposite
side. .Our preparations were very hastily made, for
the enemy SOOn made their approach known by the
cloud of dUSt in the distance. Soon they opened up
with their field guns, trying to burn the bridge and
dislodge or frighten the d-d Virginia militia, as they
termed Us. The shells striking the thin roof of the
bridge made a tearful racket, scaring some of the small
boys into outbursts of weeping. They then dismounted,
deployed a strong skirmish line, supported by several
regiments, that seemed eager for the fray. We reserved
our lire until in close musket range, and then poured
volley after volley, repulsing their first attack with
ease This greatly encouraged some of the militia,
who had refused t” light. The enemy soon rallied

again, and with reinforced numbers charged with re-
doubled real, only to meet defeat at the hands of our
little Spartan hand. When they heard the old rebel

yell given by us their efforts were less vigorous.

In the meantime General Lee had hurried forward
with his poor, jaded horses, and we soon heard his
guns firing on their rear guard, and we felt assured
that we had won. and had saved the Confederacy mil-
lions of dollars worth of supplies and ordnance that
we could ill afford to lose. The enemy soon with-
drew, and were hard pressed by Lee’s cavalry, forcing

them to retreat toward Petersburg, directly in tie

neral Lee’s main army, when Wilcox’- splendid
division of infantry attempted to intercept them, hut
Gray’s regiment of Pennsylvania ” Bucktails” actually
led and charged through our lines, thus saving a huge
pint ol this now thoroughly disorganized command.
The result of Our tight was eighty-five Federals killed,
wounded and captured. We had three men killed
and -even wounded. A member of the Thirteenth

Mississippi Infantry was my companion, and was
badly WOUnded by a yankee Lieutenant, w ho shot him
twice at close r.niL’e with a pistol. 1 left him in the
hospital at Danville and have never heard from him
since. The next few day- the woods were full of ne-

who had attempted to escape with tin- enemy

hut were foiled hv their defeat, and were anxious to
return to their old lion

This is a brief account of one of the most hotly con-
I little hatths I ever participated in. and 1 was
in most all the battles f<>u>_dit by the Army of North-
ern Virginia. Yet then has been no mention made
of it hv any historian

f’lCISITVDES OF i PRIVATE SOLDIER.

.1 W. Johnson, Toone, Tenn., write- I jive you a

short history of my sold in Harde-

man County. Tenn., went to Texas in 59, and was

wle n the racket commenced betw<
I volunteered in the fourth Texas Cavalry, served

seven months, when we wen’ dismounted. W’a- at

Corinth under Generals VanDorn and Price; tl
to Tupelo; thence to Chattanooga, and from there
into Kentucky under General Kirby-Smith. With
he whipped Bull Nelson at Richmond with
18,000 men. < hit of thirty cannon we got twenty nine
of them, only leaving him one to salute hi- friends
with when he got to Cincinnati, where we stopped
running him. 1 Fought at Perryville, was captured
ami paroled. I thi i down here where I was

raised. After awhih General Forrest came al
1 went with him for a spell, until the report got cil
ciliated in Camps that he was going to send all old

soldiers back to their old commands at twenty-five

dollars per head. I told” the hoys that 1 was not for
sale, and so one of the darkest rainy nights 1 ever saw
a lot of us ran away, and going down a long red hill
south of Jackson, Tenn., one fellow’s nag fell down
and Bwapped ends, lie gol up, fell about for bis

and got hold of his tail. He said, ” l’.oys. my
mare has broke her neck.” and it was true. 1 then
went back to the Tennessee Army at Dalton, Ga., and
on to Atlanta. Then around Sherman and on to
Nashville by way of Franklin. I was in G<
French’s 1 livision, Stewart’s Corps, after » ieneral Polk
was killed. That occurred June 14, ’64 We did not
stay at Nashville; we left there and went south be-
tween Nashville and the Tennessee River. On the
25th day of December 1 gave a fellow $15 tor a plug
and a half of tobacco We crossed the Tenm
River and went into Mississippi, and thence to Mobile,
Ala. I was in seige there tor two weeks We left

for Meridian, Miss., and there we Mowed the
hounds off.

John s. Pierson, New York: “Please find im
my subscription for 1894. I make it one dollar, being
more convenient to send, and because 1 think the
magazine is worth it.”

20

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

AFTER THE BATTLE OF FRAZTER’8 FARM.

i <i\< El:.\l\>, THE BIRMINGHAM REISIOS.

A. I.. SI. II K, T Will. A, I.A.

It was . I une 30, l s “_. Struggling along the Charles
City road in tin’ black darkness, keeping Btep to the

cannon’s 1” i, we reached Frazier’s Farm just as the

hist shot was red, abou( 1 1 o’clock at aight.

Frazier’s Farm possessed great advantages to the
Federals, because tiny brought every piece of their
artillery to bear with deadly effect, while, owing to
the configuration of the Held, tin- Confederate guns
could be used with hut feeble success.

Tired and exhausted from the long march and heat,
we dropped upon the ground, near where seventeen

guns of the enemy’s artillery had been charged and

capti 1. I could not sleep. From the hlue and gray

alike came piteous calls tor water or help, so I anil
others arose and did all we could to alleviate their suf-
fering. Save these piteous cries, the Bickering lights
about the dead or wounded were all there was to tell
that we were upon a battle-field, so ominous had
grown the >tillne.-s and so thick the darkness.

Bui when morning dawned the whole indescribable
scene hurst upon us. Yonder stood those grim guns;
yonder lay tin- dead from the Federal infantry sup-
port^, behind improvised breastworks of rails, sods.
anything, however frail, that promised protection from
the leaden hail. On the right of these guns stood a
small cabin, literally honey-combed by shot. Around
in ghastly neaps lay the dead mole of the gray, alas,
than hlue! Gallant fellows! How could they stem
that torrent of flame and capture those guns, whose
grim mouths were then black from hurling death!
But the cabin told its own story, which I read from
the surroundings as I stood therein ranks. A mother,
whose home was this humble cabin, startled by the
awful proximity of war, had seized her young child
and fled for safety, and was now hack, not hearing
the battle renewed. She had crept to her threshold
with a scared look, her 1 itt’e child clasped in her arms.
She stood gazing upon the bloody scene. ‘■’•’■ *

But “Right face! Forward, march!” This is

the first of July, hoys, and soon evening’s shades will
see us where “dear old .Malvern Hill is wreathed in
flame.”

It fills my heart with the saddest thoughts to recount
and live over these old memories, hut I find as I grow
older 1 live more and more in retrospection, and thai
these scenes of my golden prime will continually pass
in review before me. I do not know, but somehow 1
feel that 1 would not forget them if 1 could.

Wants to Hear From His Comrade. If D. Guice,
W’oodville. Miss., November 13, 1893: In September,

1865, On my way to my home in Tensas Parish. I. a.,

from the Army of Northern Virginia, I parted on the
wharf at Memphis, Tenn., from my old comrade, Ike

Caiues, of Company It. Seventh Regiment of Virginia

Cavalry, and since then have never heard a word from

him. Have written letters of inquiry toseveral news-
papers, but to no effect, and now write this to you
with the hope that some one will see it that knows or
knew him, and tell me of his whereabouts or of his
fate. It would afford me much pleasure to bear from
him, as we went through many hard struggles and
trials together.

Cn. W. L. Cabell, Dallas, Texas, says : Our people,
Trans-Mississippi veterans, are well pleased with the
time, as it enables the farmers to take advantage of

the interval between planting com and cotton and
making the same. You may look for a fig crowd from
this Bide of the river, as the camp tires are still burn-
ing west of the Mississippi. I shall issue my orders
in a few days in reference to the reunion, ami appoint
the necessary committees to look after railroad I
portation and the comfort of every one going to Bir-
mingham, anil the dedication of the Confederate
Monument, erected at Chicago to the six thousand
brave men who died at Camp Douglass during the
war. This is a sublime monument, and as it is the
first erected in the North in commemoration of the
heroism, braverj and patriotism of the Confederate
soldier. Every i !on federate soldier who is able should
go from Birmingham to see the monument and to take
part in the dedication ceremonies. 1 hope that you

will urge the veterans all through the South not only

to go themselves, hut to take their noble sons and fair
daughters to assist in strewing flowers over the graves
of the tried and true men who are buried there. Gen-
eral Underwood deserves great credit for his noble
work, and in behalf of forty thousand Confederate
veterans I say that he has our sincere thank- and as
much praise as we can give him.

FATHER IDAS TO GE.X. BUTLER.

When den. Butler was in command at .New Orleans
during the rebellion, he was informed that Fat lei
Ryan, priest and poet, had been expressing rebellious
sentiments, and had said he would even refuse to hold
funeral service for a dead yankee. Gen. Butler sent
for him in haste, and began roundly scolding him for
expressing such un-Christian ami rebellious senti-
ments. “General,” the wily priest answered, “you
have been misinformed; 1 would he pleased to con-
duct funeral services for all the yankee officers and
men in New Orleans.”

The foregoing was sent by ” Hick” Reid, of Nash-
ville, who -‘ivcd in I’elham’s Battery of Mounted
Horse Artillery, under “Jeb” Stuart, in Army of
Northern Virginia. Comrade Reid has a vivid
memory of many thrilling events in the war. ami
he promises to give them to the VETERAN. He adds:

I inclose you a (dipping out of the Washington Re-
publican, organ of Grand Army of the Republic, and

it was so much like what Father Ryan would saw I

thought it ought to he published in the Confederate

VETERAN. And while on this subject, it has occurred
to me, that this great and brilliant man, the author of
of “Lee’s Sword” and “The Conquered Banner,”

should not he allowed to remain in a lonely grave, at
Mobile, without even a stone to mark his resting
place. II’ we all would give oil cents or $1 each, we
could place a nice monument over his grave, en-
grave the Conquered Banner on one side of it, ami
Fee’s Sword on the other, and it would he an
honor to all Confederate soldiers who contributed to
it, long after we have all crossed over the river and
are resting in the shade with the great and glorious
Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

21

REMINISCENCES OF THE SEVENTEENTH

TENNESSEE REG I VEST.

I . T. ilIBSON, COWAN, 1 K\v

Please give me space in the Veteran tor ;i few
words aboul our command. I enlisted in Company I.
Seventeenth Tennessi e, on April 25, 1861. We moved
as follows: Camp Harris, thence to Camp Trousdale,
from thereto Bristol, then to Cumberland Gap, then
to Big Creek Gap and back to Cumberland Gap, and
then to Cumberland Ford; we fortified that place; we
made a raid to Goose Creek Salt Works in Kentucky;
we went down Straight Creek, crossing it fifty •
times in three miles -| ?En.], then we came back to
Cumberland Ford, where we remained several days.
We marched to Wild Cat, where we had our first bat-
tle, but we did not Bucceed in getting the “Wild Cats”
out of their den. Then we fell back to Cumberland
Ford, inarched back through < lumberland Gap and on
to Mills Spring, Ky., where we went into winter quar-
ters, and remained there for Bome time. Wee:
Cumberland River on a Bteamboat and marched ten
miles through the rain, snow and mud to Fishing
Cre< k There we lost our noble Zollicoffer. I 9
the field with Mm when he “a- shot ofl of his gray
horse by Colonel Fry. of the Fifth Kentucky Yankee
Regiment.

There ii;i- a Colonel in our brigade who. in march-
ing his regiment into the battle, commanded, ” Heads
up! Byes to the front and Btop your dodging.” At
that time a grapeshot came Dying by and the old
man. turning to his men. said. ” Dodge the bigg
them, boys.” We had held the yanks at hay about
five hours, when we got orders to fall hark in good
order which we did to our fortilicat ions at Mills
Spring. A funny incident on the field : We had or-
der- to lie down, and did it: one of our Lieutenants
lay so that his overcoat collar was sticking up, and a
rabbit run down his hack. “Cousin Ike ” pulled it
out, and told the Lieutenant to ” hush hollering, it is
only a rabbit, and not a cannon-ball.” Colonel
Miller, of our regiment, ordered him to turn tie
liit loose, and he told him lie could not let it go tor he
w a- out of meal. BO he carried it hack to cam 1 1 and we
bad rabbit for Bupper. When we not hack to Mills
Spring, about twelve o’clock that night, we had orders
to abandon everything we had except our guns and
one blanket. Early next morning we took up our re-
treat toward Nashville. We marched from there to
Murfreesboro through the rain, snow and mud. On
this retreat we Buffered a great deal by exposure and
lack of food. When we arrived at M ni fi’eeshoro we
got plenty to eat. stayed there a tew da\ -. and took up
our farther march to ” l>i\

l». G. Fleming. Ilawkinsvillc. (.a.: “In the la-t
number of tie Vetera* I notice that information is
asked of 1>. IF Mason. Wright’s Brigade, thought to
have been killed at Manassas, Probably a mistake is
made as to the name of the brigade. One Daniel II
Mason was my dear friend and messmate. IF’ was a
Sergeant of Company 1. 1 Pulaski Volunteers . Eighth
Georgia (Barton’s) Regiment. Enlisted at Hawkins-
ville, May, 1861, made a most excellent soldier, and
was wounded in arm at first Manassas (arm amputated),
from which wound he died a few weeks afterward.”

GOSSIPY LETTER FROM H<>T SPRINGS, ARK.

G( n. John M. Harrell writer : I wrote from a -:ok-
room, down with la grippe. Your gossipy, genuine,
genial “old Veteran” comes to cheer inc. When I
get about again I am going to strive to do something
for you. With your ridiculously small subscription
price you should have l .1 h n 1 n in subscribers out of the
12,000,000 Southerners.

1 congratulate you on republishing the “Dead Con-
federacy” ol Fannie Borland. How appropriate it is
now. and was when written, by a girl ol not then
twenty. It reads to me like a fragment from Keato.
owswith pa — ion, hut illine in its pride,

mournful and graceful as wintei ami night, which it

invoke-. Mi-s Borland was a niUS who per-

ished too son. I knew her. and saw her in 1870, when
she completed ara ted, beautiful girls,

that fori 1 the family of 1 len. Pike, in Memphis, the

other- s Pike and I Miss Sallie Johnson,

now Mrs. Cabell Breckinridge, each a type of surpass-
ing beauty. Mi– Johnson was sole aaughb
Senator K. W. Johnson, and Mi-s Borland, •
daughter of ex-Minister Solon Borland.

I must send you my “History of the Brooks and
Baxter War.” in which, on page 102 or in:’.. 1 g,» into
that “Hampton Roads Conference” with some care.
I should Jike you to read it : and, I want my hook to
supplied by you.” It has cost a considerable
sum, because I would have none hut the hest paper
and appropriate binding, making it a veritable volum
‘/< luxe. I have dedicated it to the United Confeder-
ate Veterans, for whosi 1 saltation, and honor

it was solely written. They saved us from complete
slavery, and w ill yet gave their principles will) this
same nation. Fet u- stay on our own platform, ami
all other state- w ill come to it. Even the States ol
Europe are infatuated with the simplicity and <
iveness of home government.

Wc are ■• all right ‘ hen- in Arkansas, only wi
very poor— taxed to death. The manufacturer- and
gold- bugs come to tin- resort and spend money like
water, hut they have no notions above money, and
believe the old Confederate- are enemies of thi
eminent, whom fear alone keeps ui

Christmas Dinner, Soldiers 1 Home, Richmond. —
Onder a superb picture of General 1 ee, came this hill
of fare in English :

Richmond, Virginia.
CHRISTM \s DINK! l; l«
( ‘ofl Cornel Beef. Rorseradisb.

Turkey, Cranberry Sauce. Roast Shoat, Ipple Sauce.

Baked Ham.
sweet Potat Celery. imed Irish Pot

Mixe.l Pickles. Wheat Bread, 1
Apples. Oranges. Bananas. Mixed Nuts. Ra

Mixed Candy. Sponge Cake. Currant Cake.

Chocolate Cake. Mince Tie.

Tea Cot Cigars.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth pea
I will toward men.”

In your hearts may bells of gladness
Ring their happy chime ;

fain would we that naught of sad c

Cloud thi- blessed time.

The hill of fare is printed on tine paper and illus-
trated by ” fruit id’ the vine.”

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

BATTLE-FIELD OF CHICEAMAVGA

<;. E. Dolton, of St. Louis, write-: Of theConfed-
erate regiments, batteries, etc., that took part in the
battle of < Ihickamauga, there are 1 1 I from which there

ifficial reports published, and without m

definite information than can be gleaned from the
meagre brigade and division reports, justice cannot
possibly I”- done them in a history of the battle.
Even the official reports of commands that are pub-
lished, 129 in number, are so general or conflicting,
that without much additional information a truthful
ml lit’ the battle is impossible For these reasons
I am anxious to get all the information I ran from all
participants, and especially from those of the com-
mands not reported, which are as follows:

Alabama: Infantry Stone’s Battalion of Sharp-
shooters, Regiments 4th, 15th, llth. 17th and 48th,
and (8th Battalion. Artillery— Dent’s, Kolb’s, and
Lumsden’s. Cavalry Holloway’s, Lenoir’s, and Ma-
– Companies, and l>t. 3d and 51st Regiments.

Arkansas: Infantry- -First Mounted Rifles (dis-
mounted), Itli and 31st Battalions, consolidated to
1th, 2d and 25th Regiments; Wiggins’ Battery and
3d Regiment of < ‘a\ airy.

Florida : Mc( ants Battery.

Georgia: Infantry First Battalion of Sharp-shoot-
ers, Ri – 2d, 15th, 17th, 20th, 25th, 29th, 30th,
16th, and 8th Battalion. Artillery -Harris’, How-
ell’*, Massenburg’s, Peeples’ and Wolihin’s Batteries.

Cavalry Regi tits 1st, 2d, 3d, 1th ami 6th, and Co.

< i. _’d Regiment.

Kentucky: Graves’ Battery, and ‘_!d and 3d Regi
ments of < lavalry.

Louisiana: Infantry First Regiment and Itli Bat-
talion. Artillery — LeGardeur’s and section of

Robinson’s Batteries. Cavalry- Dreux’s and Green-
leaf’e < lompanies and 1st Regiment.

Mississippi: 1 nfantry Pound’s Battalion of Sharp-
shooters and 13th, 17th, 18th and 21st Regiments.
Artillery Darden’s and Stanford’s Batteries. Cav-
alry- Fowle’s ( lompany.

Missouri : Barret’s Battery.

North Carolina: Infantry Nineteenth and 39th
Hints. < avah y Sixth Regiment.

South Carolina: Infantry Third, 7th, 8th, I5tb
and ‘Jlili Regiments and 3d Battalion. Artillery
Culpeper’s Battery.

inessee: [nfantry Third, 10th, 30th, 34th and
list Regiments and ls1 Battalion. Artillery Bax-
Carnes’, Eiuggins’, Huwald’s, Mebane’s, Morton’s
and White’s Batteries. Cavalry (‘lark’s and Jack
son’s Companies; Rucker’s 1st Legion, composed of
12th and 16th Battalions; Shaw’s Battalion, composed
nf Hamilton’s Battalion and Allison’s Squardon, Regi-
ments 2d, Itli, commanded by Col. McLemore, and
4th, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Anderson, 5th, 6th,
8th, 9th, 10th, llth and 18th.

Texas: Infantry Seventh and 9th, and 10th, llth
and 32d, dismounted cavalry. Cavalry Eighth arid
. J 1 th Regiments.

Virginia: Jeffress’ Battery.

Con lleiiulars: Cavalry First, 3d, 8th and

10th licgiinents. and a detachment of John 11. Mor-
gan’s men.

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.(..hi, m. McKleroy, W. ll.
Williams

a s stockdale, DLl ampbell

John W. 1 hui! . In-. I I. i
I i i .nnli hi.

< i l ‘. smith, Jamea ll
W. K. Jones, V 11. Sewall
It ii.i.ii,. -. p K McMIUer
in. Johnson, R. A Ji

.ml. .1. H. Foster
M. 1,. Stausel, It. L’pchurch

– Powi rs, .1 A. l-‘.llioii
I ll Brook, I:.- w Barnbarl
,W C Mcintosh, Win. I.. Rows
W r in om n. i .1 Burton
i. li. Cole, F. ll. Mundy

P I i lion I, B,

A. M. i I’Neal, i M ‘ row

.1 N Da\ Idsou, a I’ McCartney

.lie. A Iken, Jos. I: Uui

l: K w I, i. W B Bell

a. \i. ivorj . E. I . Pasteur
ushaw, F 1

. . W N llal-ev

K T Coles, i I. Bui Re

\ .1 Hamilton, .1 F Hamilton

.Matt K Milium, T .i Sin

P. Turner, \V M Ersklne

.1, ll. i i.i.i w. n. i.. \V. Granl
.1. .1. Robinson, Geo, 11. Black

in hapman,

n U Poi ii-. \ .1 MeC ell

.1 I. Hint CD Whitman

.1 i ii l M Thomas 1 1 udson

w I • Kohl !•: w

ll,,,- i Roeln . •» hi E Mlckle
W W McMillan, 1′ I. Se\ I lie
I ‘.in in. t i I lebcls, .1 II 1 1
I; M. Greene, J, ‘!■ Burton
I’h. i- II Barry, John T Pearce
,W K Painter. .1 I. Williams

J S n i. I. I ergusou

Jim Pearce. F M I

w . \. Handley, B. M. Mi –

nagby

I K J -. W li WheUI

K. L. Smith, W. ‘!’. Johnson
i II Voin.K, J P Harris
R. ii. r„ llamy, P \ i ■ re.
Thoa P w hltbj . Edw P Gall
A. W. Woodall, w J. Sprulell

A JTli |. .J Lstrlckland

A T Hooks, J M Pel ham
K.I Morrow . I: B Cater

w .1 K lea, I T Dyi

Jus N i allaban, Geo B Hall
A. II. Keller, l. P. Guj
.A C Hargrove, \
.W.D.Henderson, L.H.Bo

.— . i ‘ i ■ . in i

K. Wells, .1. A. Mitchell

.1 P Young, T M W Is

J. K. Maull, llul T. Walker
C.C. Enloe, R. B. Pati

\i;k \nsas.

\lnn. Cabell 202…Jamea E. Smith, J. i :

Bei i * ■• ■ Id 1 1, Dodd 16 –ii Wbltthome, I ‘ E Shoe-

ma i.’-i
Bentonvllle… Camp Cabell B8 N. 8. Henry, A. J. Bates

l; levllle Camp Evana 155 G W Evans, D BCastleberry

I’ehtre Point Haller. 192. ..J. M. Somervell, J. C. Ansley

Charleston .Pal Cleburne 191… \ SC ill.

i Ouwaj .. i, ii I >a\ i- 218 .A. P. Witt, W. 1′

hiv.’ii. ■■. ill. W. H. Brooks 216…T. M. Gunter, I. M. Pati

Fori sin iih BenT DuVal 148 M M Gorman, Col R M Fry

i lm Co. V. \
..Ben Mel lullocb

Stonewall

.Gratiot

Allien Pike

1 1 n in i ii j i,,n Stonewall

Little Rock . .. ‘ r R Weaver

Morrllton..

■ i H 1 1 >
W I.

Hacketl Cltj

i [ope

Hi. I Sp

mi

..IK 11

! nnli. \ Mllum, M Stroup

I i: ! ■
208 .N. W. St. wart, John F.Si
.. n In., m Harrell, A i ‘url

I89…L ll Lake, A II Qon

Win I’.;, 1. 1|, i. ,11. .1 ll Paschal
Roberl W Harper 2H7…W. B. m. una. R. W. Harrison

Nashville In.’ N.al 208… W E Cowling, EG ll

irl rum ll.n.liiiaii 818… ,T. T.Ward

Pari- Ben McCul gb 888 .1 1 1 Sadli r, w m Snoddy

Prairie Grove …Pralrii Grove 884… . Win Mitchell

i 11 Walter Bragg 128… W J Blake, O S Jones

Van iiniei. lohn Wallace ‘Jim ..John Ulen.J m

on Sterling P ill .LPFuller, V M Fullei

Woo-i.-r rosephE Johnston 181 w A Milam, W J Sloan

FLORIDA.

I’.aiiow Francis B Bartow… 284 w n Reynolds, J A Vrmistead

Brookville w. \v. Loring 18…J. C. Da van t, K. L. Robertson

Chlpley McMillan 217…S M Robinson, G w Cook

Dade City Pasco C. V. \— ‘n. ,. ‘.7…Ja- E Lee, A H Ravesiea

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

23

THE HAR1> TIMES LONG AGO.

LPT. GBO. \ DlGGONS, lis 1 11 I’ 1 vv. IMVSTRV.

When I look in the mirror to-day,

And Bee tlir locks fast turning to gray.

As many a wrinkle I Badly trace,

By time ami Borrow lefl “ii m>

When 1 miss the bright, the youthful glow,

I think of the ban I times long ago;

( if the bard times, old man,
Tlij bard times long

How shabby the clothes we used to weai ‘
How many burdens we had to bear!
How hungry often, but oh, 1h>\\ sweet,
The bacon and bread we go) to eal ‘
Yel hope, I we still, though rations van low,
Soldiering in the hard times long ago;
In the bard times, old man,

Ttie bard times long ;e_'”.

Who can the gloomy nights

When stamlini; |.n kit. nr lone * idette.

With bin four 1 Boff and two hours

Tired and sleep] In longed for the dawn?
Or the ride, or tramp, through ram in snow,
lie made in the bard times long ago;

In the bard times, old man.

The bard times long ago.
None can forgi t the sudden alarm.

The ski rni is 1 1 line ami the battle storm :
The faees sad, round the lire at night,
Thinking of the boj s *\ ho fell in the fight
Alas’ o’er many the daisies grow,
\\ ho died in the bard tit

I n 1 he hard times, old man.

The hard times long ago.

But, oh! how lovely the girls were then.

And ^r 1 »:b net the master ol men :

And nol for wages we fought, but lore,
And faith we had in a heaven abo 1
And .Hi 1 n’t profess ” no God to know,”
We boys “t’ the hard times, I. ,1

Of the hard times, old man.

Tin 1 hard times long ago.

When I ,all In mind old times to-d

Ami think of the hoys who passed away.

I remember soon must comi the time
When all ..I 11* must fall into line
With the gallant boys we used to know

Who died in the hard times long a)
In the hard times, old man.
The hard times long ago. .Ions l’.i TTi I

SWEET PEACE.

WRITTEN 1 OK Till VETERAN IIY Rl’HY BERYL KYLE.

The drum’s; loud call, the war of battle,
The foeman’s cry, the dread death rattle.

Is heard no n
The cause is lost, but it was just.

Though Pixie’s hope lies low ill dllst.

We mourn no more.
For Peace— Sweet Peace! hath said to-day:

” Look up. fair South, thy fame’s aln

iile once ■

Grandson of \ Vi lERan.— Willie Callan, Menard-
ville, Tex., Bays: “Grandpa sent me the Confedi
Veteran for L893. I do not want to lose a number.
Enclosed find subscription for the new year. I am not

the son, but the grandson of an old veteran, ami I love
them all. and also tin cause in which Ihey lost all but
principle and honor.”

FLORIDA— C*ml

POSTOf i h p,

Defnniak Sptp E. Klrby-Smitb
demanding \ .–..
Inverness. 1 …… T. Ward

Jacksom II le 1; 1 ■ . 1 . .

Jacksoni Iile Ji 11 I> ,\ Is

Stewart

Juno Pattoi

ilntv

Marianos M lion

Hontlcello. Pattoi

Ooala Mai Ion Co. C. V. A

Orlando

Palmi

Pensaoola. Ward C V. ■

Qulncy D. I. Ki 1

NO.
KM..

155…

In
HO

Kirl.y Smith

S:inf’ii,|

st Petersburg ‘ amp

. tndls I

Ilia.. ; \ \

I F.RS.

Btubbs, D. G. Mi
W. N. Thompson, I. A. Hall
.W C Zimmerman, W S Turner
I .,. W w 1
E. Merrll 1 I
bt. .1. Stewart. J. K. Hauna

. .1 F Hiith-iintli

\\ li. Moore, W. M. Ives
W ]> Barnes, 1 T;

W G .1

.1. 1 ‘. Pelot. J. W. N

ompKon, |{ ,1 Jordan
U. H. M. Da\ IdBon, 1’ M. Me-
Mlllan

.t A I

A. M. Thrasher, 1 H. 1.. n. r
W.C Dodd, 1 wick

David 1 ong, R \ \\ liitt
I W. Mi 11 111. II

I II Blaki .

Atlanta 1 .iii.m Count ■

KM.”

..in 1

Rabun < – ■

son
‘ Jow ph KJok nton

Vet. H’l

I :.’.!

Rome

•spring I

W 1 > Mil
nli

I W I

.11:

I’ll. .in

Wrt-I

\ Inn

M’ .1 Whltsitt, 1; 1

n, W. It. 1
IS 1: .. v

! . W II Pbl

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II. I.I-

– .1 W White, 1; 1

IM’I \\ I ERRTTORT.

Ardm

Mc LIB) 1 B. Coll na U

KIN Hi KY.

August lui B B001 ey, 1 1:

H. Kills, . I
Brlen, W J I
lietliel 1

Bowling
Cam pi

i

Lilian
Kmiie nci 1

B. Johnston 233 Wm Stanley, JnoW Hi flia

Frank

1IM fl W Jo [ S I .1,1,

Harrodsburg.. Wm Prestoi 9 Bush W. Ulin.J

•1 Hardin Helm .101 ..P. H. Thom

Mt Stei

Nlcholasvirie Humpb’y Marshal T. I.illard

Padui pson I74…WG Bullitt, J. M. Bn

lohn II. Morgan.

mond.. Thomas I’. 1
lohn W. 1 ‘al
lobn H. \v
Winchester.. Roger W. 1 1

1 T. Forsyl – lines

\u- Bufor I

I OUISIAN \

. I I.Watts,W.W.Wb1tt
Amite City Sunt. City – L.P.Ric-hai

»-…… ……A n A. 1 “leu

Baton j. McUrath, r. \\

Benton ! 109.. .S M Thomas. B B

I 1 1 Brlen
Com pie i ap Perot 11 Hamilton

38 SAP
Evergri
Kuril,. 1 \ iile C. V.A.i ■■ ■ ,-, I> Arenl

Franklin Floilao Con W R Collins, Tho

Uoniales P. O…I 11 1 . Brown

Jackson I

Laki V.t.

1. l’r

II. M,i lei land
‘ \ . K 11.1 1,|.. \\ . !.. Hi it. I, lugs

Manderrllle. Gen Geo.Moorman..270…Jos. L. Dicks, R. O. Pizzetta

Mansfield Moo ton tl 1 .Schuli

Merrick Isaiah Norwood…. 110. D. T. Merrl, lylor

Monro,- Henry W. Uleo is: W R

Natchitoches, Natcbtto, – 10 .1 A Prndhomme, W D Har-

kins
leans. LrmyofN.Vi : W. R. Lyman, T. B. O’l

x. ^ ‘ irleans. Army of Ten 1 ■ 1 any

N, « Orleans Vet-Con.States Ca\ B Wm. Laugblln, E. R,

24

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

THEY GOT Till WATERMELONS

LOUIS] \N A Continued.

D. Caldwell, Division Freight Agenl of R. & l>. It.
R. Co., Columbia, S. •’.: “1 take the Veteran, and
enjoy it. I notice you address it to ‘Col. I». Cald-
well.’ 1 was not a Col ‘1 when I was in the «ar, I

was l’in a private. I was a boy ami pulled tin lan-
yard t<> a gun in McGregor’s Battery, Stuart Horse
Artillery, which formerly formed part of Pelham’s
Battery, Army of Northern Virginia.

“I am glad to see thai you often tell of the bravi
deeds ami great achievements of our armies. 1 am
also glad to see that you give the private soldier a
chance, ami tell some of his personal exploits in
camp. Here is one that took place late in the sum-
mer of HI. when the cavalry was trying” to hold the
Van kees back from tin’ Boydton |>lank road ami the
Welden Railroad : < >ne hoi afternoon our battery was
ordered into camp near Jones’ farm. When we had
Spread our blankets and unsaddled —that was all we
had to do. as we had no tents— some of the hoys went

out to see wdiat the neighborh 1 afforded in the way

of something to eat. very soon one of them returned
with information that Mr. Jones’ watermelon crop had
not been harvested, but lay in full view, and that the
ground was fairly covered with luscious melons. The
fellow who brought the news was asked why lie did
not bring in a sample, when he informed us that
there was a guard over the patch. For a moment the
situation was gloomy. Soon Joe Pearl, rarely ever
downed by trifles, said : ‘Boys, I’ve got it; get ready
to ‘at Jones’ melons.’ Do you tellers join me! 1
will go on guard in the field myself and you hoys lay
along the fence in the bushes and I’ll mil out the
melon-. We had great faith in Pearl as a manager,
hut did not see how he would L’et away with the guard
already in charge. Well, we did as he directed.
With a sabre banging to hi- belt he mounted the
fence and boldly advanced on the ‘true, true’ guard,
who. in time, challenged, ‘Halt!’ Guard Pearl did
not stop, but he commanded, ‘Halt!’ ‘Who are you?’
” I am on guard here.’ he answered. ‘ Whose command
do you belong to?’ demanded Pearlin haughty tones.
He replied, to ( Iraham’s Battery. Ah! that ‘sail right.
said Pearl, I am from McGregor’s; you watch that
end and I will watch this, and the goose said ‘all
right.’ In a few minutes our ‘guard’ began to roll

out the largest and best melon- n mlcr t he fence. We
held a council of war to decide whether we should give
our officers any of them or not. finally we decided

to roll a melon or tWO down to where they had their
bivouac, and it was noticed that not one of them even
cared to know where they come from. One was a
preacher, too.

” None of these young men ever went to the peni-
tentiary. Since the war some of them have been really
good men.”

(apt. I!. II.Teague. Aiken, S.C.: ” This makes two
subscriptions to the Veteran that this noble minded

ex-federal veteran. Rev. T. S. Bailey, ha- given to hl-
brothers in gray.”

C. T. ford write- from ( I reenton, Mo. : ” 1 am a sub-
scriber to your staunch magazine, and am exceedingly

pleased with it as a medium for interchange of thought
between veterans, whose thin gray lines arc getting
farther apart each year, and will so < ontinue until the
last tattoo will he sounded, and we will ‘ cross over the
river to rest under the trees.'”

PO8T01 I II I . CAMP.

NewOrleans.. ..Wash, Artillery..
New Orleans…., Henry St. Paul…

1 lakley robn Peck

< Ipelousas R. K. l

NO.

., 18
..188.

14..

Plai|iiemine Il.ervillc IB.

Rayvllle.. Richland 152..

Rustin Ruston 7.

sport- U .n LeRo] Stafford

Tangipahoa Camp Moure Rl

i hi laux Braxton Bragg 198

or I ICHK.S.

It K Bahelman, L A Adanu

J. Demoruelle, \ li I; i,

w. s. Peck, J. w. Powell
I.. 1 1 la. -i ..n. I!, in. …mil. I<1
< !.H.Dlcklnson .1 .1.. I tardenne
.1. s. Bnmmerllu, u. T. smith
.A. Barksdale, .1. I.. Bond
w K Innej . w H Tunnard
0. P. a ma. a;, i …. i: Taylor
B.T.Grlsamore, M. N.Coulon

MISSISSIPPI.

Amory Stonewall Jackson 127 W A Brown,

neviUe w. Jl. H. Tlson ITS D. I . Reals. J, W. Smith

Brandon Rankin 285.. Patrick Henry, R.S. Maxe]

Brookhaven Sylvester Qwln 285…J.A. Hoskins, J. RDaugbtry

Canton E. Giles Henry 812…E. C. Postell. .1. M. MUle

” hi -i. i I: ■ . la. « hi 138 .1 II Evans, w M I: Tts

COlUmblU Ishalii Harris.. li 27, E I, I. in. -..111. K P Richards

( Irystal Sp’gs.. Ben Humphreys., i” ..C. Humphries, J. M. 1 1

Edwards..

Fayette

Qreeuwood..

tireenvllle .

w. a. Montg rj 26 w . \. Montgomery, ‘I’. 11. w.

Barrett
W l. Stephen, T B Hammetl
i; w w illtamson, w a Gil-
lespie

Ueu.S.W. Ferguson, W.I

1..1. Whitney •-“-‘

Hugh A. Rl x n.. I. Is. -JIS

,.W. A. Percy

Grenada w. H. Barksdale, 1KB…J W Young, Julius Ash

Harpersville… Patrons tJnlou 272. M W Stamper, C \ Una

Hattlesburg Hattlesburg 2I…O. D. Hartfleld, E. II. Harris

Hernando DeBoto 220…Sam Powell, C. 11. Robertson

Hickory Flal .. Hickory Flat 219…W. A. Crum, J. J Hicks

Iuka Tl8l Ingo C. Vel l23…Geo P Hamm

Hollj Springs Ell Molt.

Jackson Robert A Smith….

Lake Patrons Union

Lexington Walter I. S> im

Liberty Amite County

Louisville lolin M Bradley…

Mabi n Stephen D Lee…

Macon i: is Longstreel

Magnolia Stockdule

Meridian Walli all

Miss, city Beauvoir 120

Natchez Natchez 20,

NewAlbanv Oen M P Lowrj I-‘

Fori Gibson Clalborn 187

..190..

. VJ..
311

Rolling Fork. …Pal R Cleburne.,

Rosedale Montgomery

Sardis .In. i I! Dickens..

Senatobia Bill Feenej

Tupelo I.ilin M. Stone..

Valden..* Frank Liddell.

Vicksburg Vicksburg

Winona M. Karivil

Woodvllle Woodvllle

Yazoo City Yazoo

. i ■’. Faut,S. n. Pryor
ji … ii .1 \ Smith, USG
272 M. W. Stamper, C. A. llud-

.ll-sl. Ill

898 ii .i Keld, F a Howell
228 P K Brewer, Geo A McGehee
852…M A M i it -. Jno B Qage
2! i . .. is. Cooke, J. L. Sherman

1KU…H. W. !•’, .1. 1.. Griggs

824 K II Felder, 8 A Matthew
25… W. F. Brown, B, V. White
Uen. .1. u. Davis, E. s. Hewen

.F.J.V. I. ml. K I.. Hopkins

i ‘ s Robertson, U F Rogers
A. K. Jones, W. w . Moon
.1 C Hall, Jno – Joor
F A Montgomery, CC Farm
It II Taylor, .1 It it mthe
. . n Shonds, I P Hill
Gen l M st«ine, P M Savery
..■.-.as. C. Balnes. w. J. Booth

82 n \ i lampbell, .1 1> Laughiln
.81I…J. K. Blnford, C. 11. Campbell

.. in … i. n. .loins. P. M Stocketl
178 s n Robertson,! U DuBulsson

MISSiil’ltl.

Kansas city Kansas City…

..!..- W Mercer, Geo It Spratl

NORTH CAROLINA.

Bryson ciiv Andrew Coleman., 801

Charlotte Mecklenburg 882

Clinton Sampson 187.

Concord Cabarrus Co. C.V. \ 212

Hickory – Catawba 182

Littleton Iiinins Daniel 828,

Hi 1 1 si. in. i I.e. ii i i.las J .M in i 1 1 is,

Ryan Confederate iit.

Salisbury i barles F. Fisher 809

Salisbury Col i has F Fisher

States vl lie i ‘..i R i ‘ pbell

Washington Bryan i Irlmee

Wilmington I tape Fee r

Winston Norfleel

OKLAHOMA.

El Reno El Reno 848

Guthrie Camp Jamison 847..

Norman h B Gordon 200.. TJ Johnson, w C Renfro

Oklahoma City ..D H Hammons I77…J W Johnson, .1 OCasler

SOUTH CAROLINA.

I-:. Everett. B. ll Cathey

. ..l Roessler

R ll Holllday. Jno \ Beaman

.1. F. Will, foul. C. M.l aid

.!. U. Hall, L. It. Whin-ma
.John P. l.i i rli

W I, I don, II A London

. . T MoByrde

.1 no K Ramsay, .1 ‘ ‘ Bernhardt
Big . Col ,i i; Crawford, C R Barkei

894 ..PC Carlton,

124 R R Warren. C (‘ Tl s

254… W. f. l’i ‘II i. Win. Blanks

i is I .1 Brown, Sam’l ll smith

Abbeville Seci Bslon ll”.

Aiken Barnard K. Bee… B4.

Anderson L’ump Benson 887,

Beaufort Heaufori M

Charleston Camp Sumter 2-iO.

Charleston Palmetto ‘ luard 81 i

CberaW ,1 It Kershaw i 1

i lolumbla Hampton

I iinieans I lean

Kasie\ …Jasper Hawtborn…. 286.

Edgefield CH. \i r Perrlu W

Florence Pee 1 890

Glj mphvllle Ulympb\ llle 899

— , W A Templeton

it H. league, J. N. wlgfall
M p Trlbbe, i N Vandlver

Tli”- B While,

R, n . I Johnson, .1. W. Ward

i Bulst, a Baron Holme*

TheoT Malloj .so. lodfrey
A P Brov ii. |. R Flennikln
\ n Dean, J V iii-.li
It. E. It.. wen. J. H. It. .”.n
,i 1 1 Brooks, Thos w Carwile
E w Lloyd, Win Quick
i, P Milter,

Greenville R.V. Pulltam 297!.”j. W. Norwood, P.T, Hayne

< Ireenwood I ‘ W\ai I \ iI..n 182

Ml Pleasant Thos M Wagner 110

Newberry lames l> Nance 886,

Pickens w,.if Creek 412.

Rock inn Catawba 278,

Socastee routed. Suv. Vss’n.,418

Spartanburg ….Camp Walker 885.

Sumiiierv ille lien .las I ‘on nor 874.

Sumter Dick Anderson

St. Georges Stephen Klliott 51.,

s Porches, .las R Tomlluson
, .1 W Gary, C F Boyd
Jae \ Griffin, ll B Hendricks
i ladr Jones, w It imnlap

Jeremiah smith,

,i,,s walker, A B W Iruff

i leo Tupper, P ll Hutchinson
.1 n Graham, P P Ualllard

R W Minus. .1 Ote\ Reed

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

V, Y. CO

WOT LOAN>

25

THE <>L1> SONG.

1:1. \ . \\ . ITM h \ POWERT.

Down in iht’ lowgrounds, where the rustic cabin stands,

A ml pine* lean gauol against tlx sky,
I lii-it r again the weird carousing of the bands;
I’ll t-ir low mm’ I quaint old lullaby;

Moaniug, and crooning, mm. I strong,
Through tin’ grove it swells along,
The st. 11. Bad, negro’s song,

n ’tis moonlight in a year long gone away ;
The summer breeze a perfume brings
From down the meadow sweet «nli new mown hay,
Ami chant 1 ‘i one » In. sings,

(loaning, and crooning, and

It Sweeps through tin 1 grove along,

‘Ihi’ low. Bad, negro’s Bong.

Now like the soughing wind, in solemn, rhymeless lay,

Bo ~”ii. and l<>\\ . an. I Bad it ewt
‘I’ll. 11 stronger still the chorus bursts in sadder way.
As it si. in. • superstition t-

Moaning, ami ci Pong,

Through the grove it Bweeps along,
‘I’lif low . sad, negro’s Bong.

1 md il”‘ li.’l.ls an. I distant w Is the music 1

and tlits :
Then as inspii ed bi gins >
The bending pines, harmonious »iili their plaintive
sighs,
I’, in! kin.lh tt ill. 1 I Bl tain :

Moaning, an. I crooning, and –
Through the grove it swells along,
The Bolt, Bad, negrt ■ – sung.

o night “I year from out my happy past remain I
( ‘..int’ back in. n 1 ..ni those .lav-. 1 1

softly, in 11 iin nr. .in. .n ye men its old refrain ;
M y memory ln>ltls it \ el too Btroi

Moaning, ami crooning, an. I Btrong,
li sv\ eeps through 1 he grove al
I’lif low, Bad, negro’s song.

A. S. Colyar’s Tribi it I.. .1 11 1 ERsoti Davis.— Hon,
Washington Gardner, of Michigan, writes While
not wishing t” It a party to anj controversy, it is bul
justice t.t all interested t” say that my
of the reply of tin’ Hon. Mr. Colyar t < > the question
in regard t’t Mr. Davis could give no offense to his
most ardent admirers. He replied in substance, and
almost in thf following language, according to my
best recollection ; “I think Mr.” Davis was thoroughly
honest and – He had become bo imbued with

thf history “t Washington ami his strug om-

patriots, and so accustomed t < > see analogies in thf
Confederate situation, that he believed Providence
would in some way bring relief and the Confederacy
would succeed in its efforts t.. establish a permanent
government.”

Tin: N. B. Forrest Camp, Chattanooga, Tenn., passed
resolutions in honor of Joseph F. Shipp, who has
served that Camp faithfully ami well for seven con-
utive years a- Commander, ami now retires from
that office of his own choice. The resolutions were
adopted unanimously ami by a rising vote, not in thf
meaningless manner usual upon such occasions, l>ut
in all sincerity and truth, that “The thanks of this
Camp be extended to him for his wise and impartial
rulings at all times, his universally courteous man-
ner, ami hi- earnest ami energetic w>rk tor thf i_”>t»l
ni’ tho Camp, to which is largely due its success ami
importance that it has attained; also, thai resolutions
be spread of record, ami that thf Adjutant present
Commander Shipp with a copy i>t” tin

TK.NN

POSTOI PICK.

CAMP.

Browos\ ill. Hiram S Bradford

Chattanooga N. B. Forrest

Clarkt-n 11 ■ 1 orbes

Fayettevtlle. .Sbackelford-FultOD.

Franklin.. Gen. J. W si

Jackson Jno tngrara

Know ,1. Felix K. Zolllcoffer.

I ‘red A tilt
Lewlsburg Dibit

McKenzie Stonewall Jackson

Memphis Confed. Hist. Ass’n

Murfreesboro. J.

Nashville Frank Cheatham.

Win. 1
Tullaboma.. Pierce B. In

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Thos II Smith, J PHI
J. M. Hastings. J ti

Mill

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Alvarado. \ arado.

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El Paso I

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Florest W son I Ounty

Forney

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n loung Count]

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i View .1 I Johnst

Josi pit E JnhiiHtn

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Hamilton \. B. Jobnsti

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Hendt rson. Ras Redv

Henrietta Sol K”-~ IT-‘

Hill Count]
Hone] Gro> e. 1 ogan 1 t;t\
Houston Dick 1

Huntsvllle., John C Upton
Jacksborougb …Camp Morgai
Jacks Ubmp Hnghes .

Kaufman .
Kilgore. Buck 1

Kingston I. 8. Johnston 71

Ladonls Rob! .1.1 ee
LaGrange 1 ol. B. Tlmn •

. . I W Daugberty.

II. I„ Bentley, Then n
Jesse w Hi

Wm Hart, Uf H H To
.1 M Jones, W ‘ ■ !
II .1 Brooks, I M •
It M. Morgan, w I

tinson, J. N. Simmons.

t , W s
W M

II M Cook, 1: II I

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.1 P. lli.ln.
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W I ‘■
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II B Stoddard, w II lln

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.1 11 King, J 1 Matlhi

tliain. H F Kel-

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ml. .1 M. V

an, .1. M. W

1.; 1 1 C 6

I. F. J

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n w \ m

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i.”i Hugh tirton.

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John W. M 1 ■

w 1 • i

W 1 Igd VI’ t

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V B Fraser, w \1 (

M. 1 W :tkf-

.1 M msi

T N W Mill. 1 W HSlllllgtOII

. nider*.

.1 I Martin, W II Thompson

Lampasas R. r Lee

I,i\ ingston Ike Tu I

Lubbock F. li. Lubbock

Madisonvllle Jno Q Walker

Martin Willis I

Mi in phis Hall t “nuniy

1. \ King, .1 T Owen

.. w Tipton
Mena’rdvllle .. .Henardville . — 1 M Kitchens,

ill. t;iniil-
Wm [lodge* \\ 1
V G Gray, V M Kdwai
J.A.I

■ 1 Hatfield
w S Ward, a II Hefnei
Voln

Battle I .hi. 1. A 11 Snt
V. B. Thornton, S. Bchwars.
.1 M Mays, ‘

. c. B. Patti
. Win w i
.till

W. Lambert, s.K
.1 M Smlther, K K Gon
s w Eastln, w .1 Dent
s II Hi. ■ . -. \ I
JOS. 1 1

w \ Miller, 1; *’ Wyiui

I
w B Merrill, .1 R Arthur
. .1;. II. Phelps, N. HoJn

11 Haynle

W. D. Crump, ‘-. W. Shannon

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26

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

TEX \- I

SO- 0F1 [I

.115 RoW Donnen. .1- W. Utams.
:■• J. r Tucker, \. \. Baker.
••I c I. Watson, h w Williams
.1 11 HuOmaster, T .1 Goodwin
T. Turner, B. Blrdwell.
c. L. DUlahunl y, J.C. Turner.
R Bean, K. D. Rugelej .
W ll Harris, n \v Sadler

274..

I [I K • AMI’.

Meridian \. B. Johnston..,

Merki . Mi rki

Mexls I”« Johnston

Mlnneola W 1 < bounty. .

Mi. Bnterprlse..Rosser

Mi. Pleasant . ‘ <•!. I iud Jones

Montague i’..a> stone

i amp Mel iregor

UcKlnm ) i ollin C itj 109 T M Scott, II C Mack

Mt Vernon Ben Mcculloch BOO W T Gass, J J Morris

Nuvasota Hannibal ll B le IW W E Barry, las H Freeman

New Boston Sul Ross G oH Rea, T J Watllugton

Oakvllli Jonn Donaldson 195 ,C. C. Cox. T. M. Ch

Palesl Ine Pali si Ine n

Paradlsi I

Parle \. -. Johnston 7u

Patnl Rock Jell Davie

” Hardeman 290.

Richmond Frank Ten J

Ripley i Jen Hood

Rockwall Rockwall….

J.W.Ewing, J. M . In lliuwldei

\ ,1 Jones, I . I Ma»ou

i m ■ i ‘, r, S s k nl

W. I. Melton, J. W . Katcbford.
R M Harkness, Henry Maney
r. v.. Peareson, B. F. atuart
liter.Joo ii ll. i,i<i
:i M. s. Austin, N. ‘ . Edwards

Robj ,.W. W. Lorlng ra .DKpeer, IPKellej

Antonio A.S.Jobnston l44…Joha 8 Koi I lark

San VugU8tIne..JeffDavi6 886… , WAFIi

San Saba W P Rogers. 322 George Harris, A Duggan

Santa inna LQOLamui L M Cravens, W1U Hubarl

Seymour Bedford Forrest

man Mildred Lei

south Prali
twater. E. ( . Walthall. ..
Rulphur Sp’gs… Matl Ashcrofl

Taylor …… A 8 i i»ton …

I E B sunn i

irkana A P Hill 26B

ryler \. s. Johnston.,

vemon C p < ‘a bell l~”>

Nil T. Hi. Peery, R. J. Browning.

W .1 r Wilson, Robl Walker.

9 W 1. II. In. i.

82 W. Ii. Keall, J. ll. Freeman.

IV.

:.. M. Henderson, M.G. Miller.

I’.. .\l RoSS, Perrj Hawkins

i \ \n! bony, V ‘.■ Relnhardt
w .1 mi. ii. i Li lea \ Hooks
J P ] houglas, si.i s Johnson
s. i- . Hatchett, u. D. Mavis.
‘Aa… ….Pat Cleburne 222 ,C L. Johnson, W. C. Cooper

Waxalia.-hi… \\ innir I I i\ |. KW I. .in YateS, J | ‘(‘,„, j,,. ,

Waxabachie ….. Parsons Cav. Ass’n..290… . \ M Dechman

Weatherford Tom Grei a 169 J. P. Rice, M. V. Elnnison.

ngton Collingsworth Co 25″ J H McDowell. J M Tatee

ion Bucbell 22* I N Dennlr, II T ‘ lomnton

Wbitesboro Geo] I 288…J \» M Hughes, B M Wright

Wichita Falls… W.J. Hardc-i 78… W R Crockett. Nt A Robinson

Will’s Point…… Will’s Polnl 02 \> Uford. W A Benham

VIRGINIA.

Harrisonburg SBGibl – i 88 D H Lee Martz, J S Messerlj

Reams Statlou-.J. E B. Stuarl 211. ..M A Moncure, A BMoncure

Richmond. …. E Picketl an..

…..RE Lee

Roanoke William Wntts., 205

Weal Polnl rohn it. Cooke. L8i

irasburg..McQrudei Ewell ..210 T J Stubbs, H T Jonee
Winchester. Gen Turner Ash bj 240. ‘ bas W Mc Vicar, E G llollis

WASHINGTON, D. C.
Washington Wash, city Confed 171 ..J G M •e.TW Hungerford

.l: N Northern, r Mc( lurdy
A W M.hi i. .1 T Stratton
S S Brooke, Hugh \v Fry
ll. M. Miller, w. W. Green.

RAISING THE PRICE OF THE VETERAN.

■I. .1. Callan, Coleman, Texas, says: Tliis brings my
list up tu sixty-one. I do nut know if this puts Cole-
man at the head of the Texas list, for I do not know
how well other comrades are doing; hut I do know-
that in i in )] miii inn in population Coleman stands away
above Nashville. It’ Coleman, with L,200 inhabitants,
furnishes sixty-one subscribers to the Veteran, in the
-.inn. ratio I ‘alias, headquarters of the Trans-Missis-
sippi Department, should have at least 2,000 subscrib-
ers. What a magnificent monument we could build
to a nation’s glory if all Southern cities ami towns
proved their devotion as this little Texas village in

this drought afflicted region has d il 1 hope they

will. If they will get up a generous rivalry they can,

Now, comrade, permit me, too, to offer a little gratu-
itous advice: Keep the subscription at 50 cents for
1894. I do nut write in my own behalf, for ours are
paid all. lint there are thousands of veterans in Texas
who fared badly this year mi account of drought.
Even old subscribers, who would not take the price of
,i whole year’s subscription tor any one number, are
unable to renew, [n God’s providence they will he in
better shape next year, and I have no doubt there will
he a unanimous vote for increase of size and price.

R. A.Owen, Port Gibson, Miss.: The Veteran is
worth over a dollar to every veteran household, and
must In- put at a price that you can afford to keep ii
to the front.

John M. .lolly. Marlin. Texas: 1 note what you say

in regard to the price of the Veteran after January 1,
1894, ami in soliciting subscriptions for same will do
80 at $] per annum. This remittance will make
twenty-eight subscriptions 1 have sent you. including
my own renewal. 1 shall continue to do all I can for
the Veteran, as I wish every Confederate veteran liv-

Ould read it.

c. 1.. Edwards, Esq., Dallas, Texas, whose adver-
tisement in the V ETERAN wa- paid for in advance, -ays:
The dollar sent in renewing subscription for the Vet-
eran Was for .me year. You rnli yourself when you
credit it for two year.-, and although lawyers ari

considered as being entirely above predatory incur-
sions upon their fellows, I don’t ted exactly right
when despoiling an old brother Confed. of his hard
work at less than half its value.

G. W. R. Bell, Cedar Springs, Ala. : To me the Vet-
eran i> not only instructive ami entertaining, hut it
is inspiring and elevating. It is my opinion that to
continue the Veteran at the present price will accom-
plish mure g 1, for the reason that the circulation

will I., greater. I had rather forego the advanti
improvement than deprive my brother of its benefits.

M. T. Ledbetter, Piedmont, Ala.: Comrade N. I’..
Hogan, of Springfield, Mo., writes my sent in nut-, lie

says: “We Ought indeed to make the VETERAN of

world-wide reputation. Every Confederate and Con-
federate organization should indorse and push its
claims until it is firmly and securely established. I
never go out without taking a sample copy, and never

fail to show it and talk up its merits. 1 don’t know
who might want it. so I never fail to show it.

frank A. Owen, Evansville, lnd.: I saw the first
copy of the Veteran to-day. Inclosed find my check

f..r si. it’s a .as,, of love at first sight. I will keep
the machine greased at any price you put it. as long
as you print it, or until the long roll is called. 1 have

not been in Nashville since the war. hut remember
with much love such names as Col. Kite. Maj. Dick
\l. la nn. (‘apt. Cox. Lieut. Tindle. and others, on John-
Son’s Island, winter of ’63. 1 remember Capt, Cox
died of blood poison from vaccination.

Thomas !:. fowler, Rfurfreesboro, Tenn., wrote some

time since concerning an article in the October VET-
ERAN, by Robert M. Frierson. in which the following
statement appears: “When we were making tin- as-
cent the horse of Adjutant Fowler, of the Second

Tennessee, got into a bees’ nest and rushed through
the brigade riderless over sleeping men.” I suppose
that lam the Adjutant fowler referred to. hut 1 de-
sire to state that [ was not, at that date, the Adjutant
of the Second Tennessee, and was not the owner oi a
horse, I was then a Lieutenant of the line, hut was
afterward Adjutant in Mate’s old Second Tennessee
Infantry. My recollection of the event referred to is,
that the command was toiling slowly up the mountain,
weary and footsore, hut not “sleeping,” when the
horses attached to a caisson, from some cause, became
unmanageable, and the head of the infantry column
found it necessary to promptly open ranks and yield
the road. The ‘night being dark, this movement

brought on a im ntary panic in the rear, when

quite a number, now “veterans,” who had faced death
mi many bloody fields, took to their heels and to the
w Is.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

27

WIH-: RE THE VETERAN GOES.

SOI 111 C VR0LINA.

The following list includes the subscriptions at
places named where there are four or more. There are
over’ 7,000 paid subscriptions .-it over 1,600 po
in more than 12 States and Territories. There are
printed of this edition 10,000 cop

\ 11 niston 5

\i liens 22

1 ‘.< ‘ I I 1 1 M I 1

Birmingham .. 3u

I Mlll’l’ll

I ;i 1 rollton

1.1 u ml v lie

Elk mon 1 In

II .. 4

A. LAB UIA.

1 : 1 1 1 : 1 \v I

1 lorence

Knin. In

Fullertou..
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Hiintui lll<

Arkade! i

Bentouvllle

Boone*
< Jamdeu

Washington, D.

7

11

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ARKANSAS.

1 1 J . M. \

Hoi Springe
Little Rock.

M. .111 11. Ml

II

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11

1 1 1

FLORIDA.

!• Vi “liatldl mm

Jacksonville

1
Lake Wi li

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ii

in

L.IW ||. |. Sl. Mill 11

Lower PeaCht 1 1
Montgomery
Mon ndvllle

I’m iltii.iiil . H

Scottsboro

Snowdoun

Preacott
[dali

\ n n i;ui 1 1

\. worth 1

\ i in us 1

\ 1 1|_ 1 1 -I :■ III

l ‘union. 17

ere vl 1 1 i

‘ UlcngO, Illinois.

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cun

. isboro .

Hau i-

S

Macon..

i in. pa

Tl His vile. I”

Welborn i

iinali..

Wl.si

E\ hum llle H

\ rdmore i ;

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\datrvllle

\nllioslon I

\ ii- HSlB I

Bell

Bow ling Ureen in

Ington i

Ellzabet htow n ■’•

< leorgetown 7

Harrodsburg 17

Hendetson …. 67

Hopktnsvllle li

Ber« Ick 111

Jackson
Luke Charles.

Baltimore.. …. 54

INDI \N.\.
INDIAN II Kill mi; .

KANS 18,

B I N II i KV.
.1 list i<-.

Lav n mi burg
I iew1*burg
Lexington
I …ins\ , ii. :,!i

M Idfl :iv I

Morgai Held B

Owensboro 20

Owlngsvllle i

Pari* Hi

i’. in broke . 21

l.oi isi.w v.

i iki Pro Idence., 7
Mansfield.

Morgan i iiy i

M Wl’i I \NH.
Cheltenham I

I n.linli.ili. ills

McAllsUl li

II ill. Ins. in I

PlneOrove i

aichm ii. I . in

Rugse i

Shi Ibyvllli
Stamping Urout

StUrgll

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mtown. …..

\ ersallles
\\ Inchest’

New ‘ irleans….

Mi it\ eporl . .

i lumberland Hi

PlkCSl ,11.

31, Paul, Minnesota

Andlng i

Canton n

Ceii t re v 1 1 li . …. 7

i .,l,li\ :il, i !l

Columbus..

<‘r\ stal Springs. li

Ceotralla. B

Dexter 7

• lolde j

Hamilton
Huntsville

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MISSISSIPPI.

l-‘.lw ards I

ip.

Greenwood «

Jackson …… i

Mcl .mil. i ‘It) . . .i

Meridian 15

MISSOURI.

i
i .. is Summit.
Lexington

l loulslana i

Marshfleld
Moberly 9

Pass i ‘hristlan 5

tobln 7

i ilea i.

Walthall

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ioCRj 20

n. , ads .

Palmyra 12

in
Springfield

M. I… nis 27

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Brj s..n i ii i :,

Mi. Airy. i

NORTH CAROl IN \

Raleigh 7

Salisbury

Waynesvllle 13

Wilmington ll

\\ Inston l.’i

Cincinnati, i iblo

Oklahoma Cltry, Oklahoma Territory

Norman

Philadelphia, Pennsj i\ anla

n

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12

Alkln.

23

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Bradj < llli

Shelbi

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II. i,.i. rsonville

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II

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Yorki llli

Dyersl
Kd«< « I

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Antelopi i

lustln
Ai liens

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Bon ham

Calvi n

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Crocki ii
Cuero

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Di Kalb. i

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Denton i

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VIRGINIA.

I’. IM 11

I

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Tehuacaua

i

Tylei

Van

Viesca i

W:<.-< .

Walder… i

Waxahacbti
Weatherford
wills- Point.
Wrlgbtsboro. -‘I

\ lexandi la
Culpepei ;

Freaertcksb
Lynchbnrg 19

\\”:i rin S|i
West Point . ..
Williamsburg

Norfolk

Portsmouth is

l|. .i.i i.l

■ burg

Huntington, Went Virginia 7

Tin’ V ii i ran goes t” about five times as many )>ost-
offices as are named above, yel at 1 hese 3 12 offices there
are 5,773 subscribers.

The John II. Morgan Camp at Ardmore, Indian
Territory, has made the Veteran its official organ.
‘I’, I’., King and 1′. \V. McCoy w ted First

d Lieutenants, ami M. Wheeler, Quartermaster.

Judge D. C.Thomas, Lampassas, Texas: 1 am not
prepared to ex] opinion as to whether or not it

will he best to increase the price ui’ tlio Veteran, hut
will say this, that in my judgment 1 it would he a very
cheap publication at one dollar; and further, I would
nut take fifty outs each tor my copies of this year’s
subscription. In fact, they are not for sale.

.1. W. Corman, Brooksville, Pla.: Inclosed i
rind postal order for SI 4 for twenty-eight subscri
sixteen old name- and twelve new ones. I havt
sick and unable to do any more.

28

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

‘ ONFEDERATE GENERALS
LIVING.

YET

^ D.u.i is, Tex is, Dec. 10, 1893.
EditorCoNj ederatj Veti ran : As
your splendid magazine is to be
found in the house of a great num-
ber of “Id t ‘onfederate veterans in
tlii— Department, I hope that the
i be said of the Eastern
Department, and read nol only by
the “Id hero and his good wife, but
also by his noble sons and beauti-
ful daughters. I send you for pub-
lication ii roster of the living Con-
federate Generals up to the 1 < m h of
I ‘. ci ml. it. 1893, compiled from the
most reliable data to be had.

During the war there were 198
officers commissioned as < lenerals
of all grades in the Confederate
Army. < If this number not more
158 are living. Sinn’ Jan. 1. 1893,
two i lenerals, two Major Gi m rals
and four Brigadier < lenerals have
died, leaving 158 living out of the
… I number. I hope thai e\ ery
old ( ‘onfederate living will pi ruse
this list, as it will recall many noble
dents of the war:

1 • El M.S.

sti phi ti D. I.ee, Stark ville, Miss.
James Longsl rei t, Gainesville. Ga.
a 1 1\ . l,\ nchburg, Va,
. B. Buckner, I- rand tort, Ky.
\ la.
Alexander P. Stewart i bfekamauga, Ga.

« ill Hampl i olumbtn, s. i :.

John B. ‘ tordon, At lanta, i

M Aim: i .i.ni.iiai.s.
(iustaviiK W. Smith, Kcm fork.
Lo Fuj el te M.l.iu s. Savannah, ‘ ■ .>
S. <i. French, Winter Park, I- la.
John 1 1 . Forni \ , .li-n i i,i. A la.

Dabm v 11. Maury, Rtcl I, Va.

!!• iirj ii. ih. \iiii, t : , in Battle Field Survey,

Washington. l«. i .
J, I.. Kemper; Orange Court blouse, V’a.

ii F. Hoke, Rali Igh. v I
Fitzhugb Lee, « ilasgou . V’a.
W. B Bate, I . s s, nate.
.1. B. Kershaw, i ‘amden, S, i ‘.
M.C. Bui lei i 8. Si nate.

I-:, i ‘. Wal I, I . s. Senati .

1.. l.. I… max, Wa bhigton, D. C.
1*. M. l:. ifoung, I arterM in.., i la.
T. I.. Rosser, Charlottesville, Va,

W. W. \ll.-li, M..HI \I.|.

s. B. Maxey, Paris, I

William Uaboue I 5, Va.

‘ .. w . i ii.iis i. , . Lexington, K* .
William B. Taliaferro, Glouo sti r, Va.
William T. Martin, Natchez, Miss.
‘i. Pollgnac,! irleans, Fram
E. M. Law, Yorkville, s i
Richard I ratlin Fort smith. Ark.
Mai i Ransom, U.S. Senate,
smith. Jackson, Mi-.
William It. Forney, Jacksonville, Fla.

. AI.1KK lies 1 i; \ 1 s.

1 ii.i. rson, \ ston, Ala.

I . Armstrong, Washington, D. C.
!■:. P. Alexander, Sai annab, < ■:..
Arthur S. Bngby, Texas.

Lain. s. l:,k,-r, >ntt,,lk. Va.

Plnck in > I ». Bowles, \ labs I
Rufus Barrlnger, i hs rlotte, N. i ‘.
s,-iii M. Hail. .ii. Fredericksburg, Va.
John Bratton, White Oak, S. I

l. L. Br. hi. Baltii v. M.I.

C. A. Battle, Alabama.

Hamilton P. B*e, San Antonio, Ti

W. R. Bogus, Winston, N. C.

T\ ree II. Bell, Tennessee.

William i . . abell, Dallas, Texas.

K. i Papers, i lolumbia, S. i ‘.

James it. Chalmers, Vicksburg, Miss

Thomas L. Clingman, Asheville. v. i ‘.

. i:. i :osby, Sacramento, Cal,
!■ in ncis M. i ‘ock rell, U.S. Senate.
A II. Colquitt, U. s. s, nate.
Phil Cook, Atlanta, <e,.
M. D. ‘ “i Re, Alexandria, Va.
John B. Clark, Jr., Rockville, Md.
A Ifred Cumming, Augusta, Ga.
X. II. |)i Ki’..y. Austin, Ti \.
u llllain Ii. Cox, Raleigli, N. ‘ .
Joseph I til is, M isst«6ij.pl Cll v. Miss.
I ! ]:. Davidson, < laiifornia.
T. P. Dockery, Arkansas.
Basil W. I’M ke. Louisv] i |o, Ky.
-I..IHI Kchols, Louisville, K y.
C. A. Evans, At lanta, ( Ja.
Sam mi \\*. Ferguson, Greenville, Miss.
.1. .1. Pinh-y, Florida.
1). M. Frost, St. Louis, Mo.
Richard M. Gano, Dallas, Tex.
James X i leorge, Jackson, Miss.
William L. Gardner, Memphis, Tenn.

I ,. \\. i i.u.li ,ii. Memphis, Ten n.
H. i Govan, Arkansas.

.Juliii-i Barnwell, s. r.

i leorge I’, Harrison, si.. Auburn, Ala.

A. T. Hawthorne, Atlanta, < la.

Eppn II n 1. 1 ., a. I’ s. Senator, Warrenton, Va.

William P. Hardeman, Austin. Tex.

N. ii. Harris, Vicksburg, Miss.

i leorge It. 1 lodire, Kent uck >*.

Louis II ii. Breaux, l.a.

J. n. I mhi di ii. s,,ui Ii west Virginia.

I I ■ . 1 1 ry It. Jackson. Sa> anna b, Ga.
William II. Jackson, Nhs1i\ Hie, Tenn.
Bradlej T. Johnson, Baltimore, Md.
\. R, Johnson, Texas.

George D, Johnston, Civil Service Commls-

t, rt ashingl D. C.

Robei i I ‘. Johnat> n, Birmingham,
J. D. Kennedy . i iimden, s. i .
William ii. King. Austin, Tex.
William W. Kirkland, New x. ork.
James 1 1. Lane, Norl b i laroU na.
A. R. Law ton, Savan aah, i la.
T. M. Logan, Richmond, \ a.

i: 1 1 Lowry, Jackson, Mis-.

JoRcph ii. Lewis, Frankfort, Ky.
W. II. I ,ewl8, Parboro, N. < ‘.

\l:i

William McComb, Gordonsvllle, \ …
Samuel McUowan, Ai.i..-\ ill, . 5. >

I McNnlr, It xburg, Miss.

John T. Morgan, r. S. SenaU .
r i Muraford, Unlontown, Ala,
Manej . Vish\ in,., t.-uh.
B. McGlathan, Bavannab.Ga.
John McCausland, Mason C. 11-. W. Va.
Henry E. Mel nil… h. Segulu, Tex.
W. R. Mill s. Mississippi.
William M ia.

John ‘ ‘ M . I, Mis.

band ridge McRne, Searcy, Ark.
Francis T. N Icholls, New ‘ irleans, La.
R, L. Page, Norfolk, Va.

W. il i’;i\ ii. . Warrenton, Va,
W. I-‘. Pen j . I llendale, K> ,

. \. Pryor. New York City.
r. w Phj I. r. Mls8lssl|
w. ii, Parsonr, Philadelphia, Pa.
\. B. Pearce, Galnes> lile, Tex,

E. W. Pi tins, Selma, Ala.

w. a. Qnarles, Clarks\ I lie, Tenn.
B. ii. i: rtson, Washington, D. C.

F. II. Robertson, Waco,Tex.

< ■■ ■ irge W. limns. \ ugusta, I la.
Daniel Ruggles, Fn d< rlcksburg, Va.
Charles v. Ronald, lllacksbtirg, \ a.
D. II. Kej nolds, Arkansas Cltj . Ark.
William P. Roberts, Raleigh, V .
L. S. Ross, i ollege station, Tex.

3bai i’. Jackson, M Iss.
Joi Sbelhs , i larthage, Mo.

Cbarli • M Sbi Ibj . Bl nu i, aim.

James I , Slaughter, Washington, D.C.
r. \ . sboup, Sewanee, Ten n.
Ti.. .urns B. smith. Bolivar, Tenn,
1 1. M. Sorrell, s : ,\ anns h, I (a.
i leorge II. SteM art, Ball Imoi <■. Md,
Marci Hue \. si,,\ all. Vugustn, i ta.
Edward L. Thomaa, Washington, O.C
w. R, Terrj . Richmond, Va.
.1. C. Tappan, Helena, \ rk.
Robert B. Vance, Asbe^ ill.-. N. c.
\. .1 . Vaughan, Mini pb i . ivnn.
James \. Walker, Wvt h.’\ Hie, Vn.
D. A. « eisger, Richmond, Va,

. ■ r. Wbarl New River, Va.

Marcus .1. Wrlehl w nsliinj ton, D. C.

n. .1. Wright, Grlffln, i .;.

w. s. Walker, Florida

M. ii. w alker, New ■> ork.

W. II. « allace, Columbia, S. I ‘.

‘I’. N. Waul, < i : . i s eston, rex.

John s. Willi. ‘i ii I-. Mount Sterling, Ky.

/..■i, nl. .a Vol k, Baton Rouge, l.a.

w. 11. voung, s.ni Antonio, Tex.

Eight Lieutenant t lenerals li\ ing.

Twenty -eight Major Generals liv-
ing.

( >ne lm ndred and twenty-two
I ‘.i ‘igad ii r I lenerals living.

Should there be any error, 1 hopi
that i he living, or some of his
friends, will notify you, as one bj

we are all “crossing the river.

Your friend and comrade,

W. [,. C M’.l I I .

/./. hi. i .. a. U. C. I’.. Tmn ‘/
sippi Department.

i:n Other Side. The letter from Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis,
from which the following are extracts, wa9 written last sum-
ni.i to Mis. Virginia Frazer Boyle, of Memphis. The title of
i ‘ik \\ ; i s liisi designated as “The Prisoner of State.”

TI Kit title, however, was afterward reserved as the second part
or division of the poem: “.My Dear Voim.; Friend— I have
often wished to utter the gratitude my hearl lias has long
cherished toward you for your noble poem, ‘The Prisonerol

State,’ which you kindly read i • in Memphis, while ii was

nfinished. Then it gave ran. pr ise of excellence,

attained, « Inch, I understand, it has more than fulfilled

since that ti Could the deal Prisonerof State havelivtd

to see it, ii would bave been a rich reward, after his protracted
sufferings, to kimw that his noble patience, under wrong, had

inspired his young country « an, who «as an infant when

he Buffered, to « rite bo great n poem as a tribute tn his memory
and to the truth of history. Your unfeigned desire to tell onlj
the exact truth, setting down nothing in malice, rather under,
than overstating the circumstances attending the outrages

coi itted ii|niii a helpless prisoner of stale, touched me

greatly, and if possible, increased my respect for you, and 1
can vouch for the exact accuracy of your narrative, fn the
nai I Mr Davis’ descendants [thank von.”

CONFEDERATE VETERANS IN TEXAS, AND WHERE THEY ARE FROM.
As a matter of general interest the Veteran pursues this inquiry so as to make historic record of the
Confederate soldiers who now live in Texas. Texas Commanded and Adjutants will please give attention to
i lii- report al once, so it may be published as complete as possible in the February Veteh vn. See the Hecem-
ber Veteran, page 381. Circulars, « ith blanks, will be sent to all Texas Camps.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

29

One ‘it’ the jollies! comrades al th< I oi 1 iderate re-
union, Versailles, Ky., was Ben S Drake. He told
stories to the delighl of his auditors, and this one is
printed: As Indian Agent, during Mr. Cleveland’s
first administration, he took much interest in the ad-
vancement of the Red Man. Through his intelligent
interpreter he sought to inform a group of them about
the telephone. He told him to explain to them that
two Indians could talk to and understand each other
one hundred miles apart by using an electrified tele-
graph wire. The interpreter hung his head and
seemed not to understand. The explanation was
made again with same result. Still the interpreter
remained -ilent as it’ in deep thought. “Why don’t
you tell them?” said the Kentnekian. ” Ah’ Too
nmeli a dam — lie,” w as the respone

Capt. Will Lambert, commanding Dick Dowling
Cam]), Houston, Texas, writes : Two of OUT comrades
have ” crossed over the river,” comrade -I . W. I’m ford, of
Company A. first Kentucky Infantry. He wae at
Hull Run and Appomattox. What better record could

lie given a Southern soldier ‘ Tl ther. comrade \Y.

T. Johnson, served in Walker’s Division of Texas In-
fantry, and was in all the fights participated in by
that splendid command. They were Both ardent
members of our Camp, loved the history they helped
to make, and were buried by their comrades with rev-
erence and affection. May angels guard their tombs.

We all like the true ring of your expose of the Frank
Leslie si ‘heme, and will stand by the VETERAN. <o”l
prosper you in your noble work,
.lames c. Percival, Staunton. Michigan. December

29th, semis for the V I PER w and Souvenir and write-
I was for nearly three years a member of the Eighty-
third Pennsylvania, ami had the pleasure of meeting

some who are now ( ‘on federate veterans a number of
times from IMiJ (,, jsi;.’, in Virginia, Maryland and

Pennsylvania, and one of my greatest pleasures now

is to read of those times and those n timjs. and I

like to read the writings of those on both sides. I
have quite a war library. * * I have no doubt

hut I shall find some articles in tin •. that I

cannot agree with, in fact, I find in the copy I have
that you say. “I had rather he tin- representative of
those who fought the battles of the Confederacy —the
women as well as the men — than of any other people
on the earth,” and it sounds as though you still think
Bei 1 ssion was right, and arc sorry you did not win.

[Good sir. such a sentiment did not have to do with
the quoted paragraph. I have never written a word
about whether we had a light to secede. It would he
useless discussion. We join you heartily in the sen-
timent of one country and one tlag because we think
it is best. We honor you veterans of the Union army
who give us credit for as courageous patriotism as
nerved the best of you to face death for your convic-
tions. The paragraph you quote is the truth, and I
would not change it as my last assertion.]

The Sterling Price Camp, at Dallas, Texas, has

firmed the appointment, by Commander Storey, of
Maj, George S. Pearn as Adjutant of the Camp to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Col. W. L.
Thompson.

P. J. Bond, Roseburg, Oregon : Had it not been for
a friend in New Mexico, who sent me the VETERAN for
one year, 1 might never have known of your valuable
publication. For the back numbers 1 would pay any
reasonable price.

SOLID TESTIMONIALS.

Separate Cards From Nashville Bankers -Eight
of Jennings’ Graduates In One Bank.

Nashville, Tenn., December 14,

I 1:111 -late with much pleasure that I have known Ml. K. W.
Jennings lor more than twenty years, both as a wholesale mer-
chant ami afterwards as the Principal of Jennings’ Bu-
College, an. I that I esteem him man an. I a but

man. and believe that t he in st ruction given the students in his
will be of great benefit to thei Fourth National

Bank now baa in its emploj eighl ot the graduates of that

BCl 1. S on 11 .1 K hi 11.

Pri -1. lent Fourth National Bank.
N esu\ nit. Ti nn . 1 1 cember 15, I

I am pleased to state that for many years I have known Mr.
l;. YV. Jennings a- one of our in si 1 li/> ns. an. I as a hu-
man. His Business College, where Bookkeeping is taught,
stands as first class Mi own son graduated tin rein, and was

afterwards, witli other graduates of that school, employed as
clerk in the Capital City Bank. THOMAS I’l aiki:.

President Capital City Bank.
N tSHVU LI, Ti nil.ei 1 4. 1 –

I have known R, W. .1, Doings since 1861, when we wen- l».tii
bookkeepers in the Planters’ Hank of i . nd later aa

a wholesale merchant of the highest integrity, ana after this as
the Principal ot Jennings’ Bosh ge. The teller of this

hank is a graduate of that school, ar f my pons.

I can. therefore, commend it to all those who may dl

practical equipment for the business of life.

President Union Bank and Trust Co.
\ \ -m ii i i . Tiw . December 14, 1893.

1 take pleasure in Stating that I have known Mr. R. W. .len-

nings, Principal of Jennings’ B i _•■ . Nashville, long

and intimately as a I in, and believe that the instruc-

tion given si ii. lent s in hi- college will be of irreat value to them.
We now have employed in the American National Bank four

graduates. A. \V. H ■

shier American National Bank.
N >sn\ ii i k. Tkw. December 14, 18
1 have known R W.Jennings -m ‘ which time he

1 1 ployed as an expert pnt a.. T. Stewart A Co.,

ol \. w York, and afterwards for twenty years I knew him as
a wholesale merchant in Nashville, and still later for many

at the head of Jennings’ Business College. I consider

this ..ne of the befit schools of its kind in the (Jnitl

J. N. Sl’KRRV,
President Merchants’ Bank.

n i-iiv mi. Tk.nv. December 14, 1893.
nt my son t.. Jennings’ Business College, with results

highly beneficial to him and satisfactory t.. me. I therefore

commend it unreservedly as a school high standing ami of

iblished reputation. H. W. GRANT) 1KD,

Cashier First National Bank.

Confederate Stamps.

We buj < .mfclerat. Postage Stamps, used or unused. Stamp

Collectors will do well to send for our Approval sheet of For-
eign and Domestic Stamps, as we allow half commission. II.
Stonebraker & Co., kil’1 Eutaw Place. Baltimore Md.

Rt mi w i i- p. i.e in Nashville, Watkin’s Hall. February 6tb,

1 by s.une of the beet musical talent of the time. It IS

a treat that will he appreciated by the finest element in the

City. That the entertainment is in charge of Mrs. M. Henry is

assurance that its purposes are for some special benefaction.

One of the most charming hooks about the South is that of
*’ Stonewall JackFon,” by his wife.” It is handsomely .

up by “tie of the first publishing rirme in the country.
Anxious to benefit the worthy author. I have bought a supply

from the publishers, and will send them postpaid to any
address at the publisher’s price. $2.

(bn. John M. Ilarrell’sbook, “The Brooks and Baxtei War,”
a history of Carpet-bag reign in Arkansa-

Miss Keller’s two books are still supplied at 50 cents each.

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Books Supplied by S. A. Cunningham,

Nashville, Tenn.

THE NAWVILLE TABERNACLE.

People interested in Nashville will read with in-
terest a brief notice of its “Union Gospel Tabernacle,”
erected a few years since, and in use, though not yet
complete, [tssizeis 118×178 feet, a superb brick on

elegant st – foundation. The roof is a steel truss

and weighs 130 tons, with Btren’gth to sustain a rail-
way train. About$70.000 have been expended already,

and $25,000 will complete it in satisfactory style.
This would include a gallery, giving to the Taber-
nacle r n for about 5,000 people Capt. T. < r. Etyman

has heen the leading man in its construction from the
beginning.

It Pays.
It pays In read tin- papers, especially your own farm paper,
for often in this way good business opportunities are brought

to y ‘attention. It may be that yon wish to secure a bargain

in implements, or a situation tor one of your boys, or J on wish
to use your spare time to good advantage; [fso, B. F. Johnson
A– d.., of Richmond, Va., have an advertisement in another
column that may interest you.

” Life and Letters of Thomas J. Stonewall i Jackson.” by his

wife. Mary Anna Jackson. This IS an elegant I k. being in

large, clear type* ami printed on very tine paper. –

_-ht ski.’.- an. 1 Dark Shadows,” by Henry M. Field, D. I’.
{1.50. This book comprises a series ol letters on the South.
Fifty pages are devoted to the battle of Franklin, and the au-
thor is especially complimentary to this editor The closing
chapters are on Stonewall Jackson and Robert I-‘.. Lee.

“The Civil War lr a Southern Standpoint,” by Mrs. Ann

E. Snyder. |1.
“Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade,” by J. 0. Casler, $2.

■’ Hancock’s Diary, Or History of the Second Tennessee Cav-
alry. A large octavo book, with many portraits and biographic

sketches. The ii . .in ispi.ee is a line steel enKTaving Of ” ■ « ■ T I

N. B. Forrest $3.50.

John Ksten Cook’s c pl.-te works, eleven volumes, 89.

“Sketch of the Battle ..f Franklin, and Heminiscen. • –
Camp Douglas,” by John M. Cop|.-\ ,

“Memoirs of Mrs. Sarah CbiMress Polk, Wife oi the Elev-
enth President of the United states.” bv Anson ami Fanny
Nelson. This is an elegant book, and charmingly written $1.75.

Messrs. T. II. Hani A: Co. have on hand copies of Anson an. I
Fanny Nelson’s Memoirs of Mrs. James K. Polk. It

“The Other Side,” a thrilling poem of M00 lines, Mr. Davis
being her theme. $1.

“How It Was, or Four Years With the Rebel Army.” a
thrilling story by Mrs. Irby Morgan, of Nashville This i- a
charming hook. SI .

“The Southern Cross.” by Mrs. Lizzie Rozzell Messen-
gi i. $1.25.

“That Old-Time Child Roberta,” by Mrs. Sophie Fox Lea,$1.76.

“The Battle of Franklin and Prison Experience at Camp
Douglas,” by John M. Copley, SI.

“Immortelles,” by Maj. S, K. Phillips. Chattanooga, 50 cents.

“Immortelles” is a pretty little volume..!’ poems by Major

s. K. Phillips, of Chattanooga. It was written for various

memorial occasions, or upon the death of some C0n8pJcU0U8

Confederate and Federal leaders from I86ti forward. “Lee
Before Richmond” is a Sne tribute to that grand man. lie has

not neglected the gallant dead of the Federal Arniv. Ills

“<>dc on the heath ot Con. Grant” “is the finest tribute to

the man written by any author.”

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Rbv. Henri M. Fisld, D. D., in a Preface to her 1 k:

“Stonewall Jackson was the most picturesque figure in the war.
In him there were two men in .me; he united qualities that
are no) only alien to each other, but that B’ em almost incom-
patible-military genius of the highest order with a religious
fervor that bordered on fanaticism ; a union of the poldier and
the saint, for which we must go back to the time of (‘rum will.
Inthpgival operationsof war he was Silent and uncommuni-
cative ; wrapping himself in his n bi i ve as in a military cloak ;
Baking nil advice ; forming his own plane, which those n< an st
to him could not penetrate and hardly dared coconji cture, and
were disclosed even to his military family only when he pave
his orders f >r the march and the battle. While the world saw
only tlm soldier with a coat of mail over his breast, t lose VI ho
knew him best s:nv under it a (treat human heart. • * *

“Killed with such memories, it is but the impulse of loyalty
to the dead that she should wish that others should know him

whose name she be a is as she knew him ; that the world sin mid
appreciate not only the soldier, hut the man ; that they should

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ill tin great histories of the war will turn with fresh
sttothigf ry, written out of a woman’s heart.”

CENERAL BRADLEY T. JOHNSON,

PRESIDENT MARYLAND LINE CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION.

I’o MH kv T. .hiUNs’ \. Baltimore, President of the Con-
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Tysons Nashville Sanitarium,

FOB THE CURE OF

ALCOHOL, OPIUM, MORPHINE AND TOBACCO HABITS.

No. 710 Church Street.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

PURELY VEGETABLE. NO INJECTIONS.

The Tyson Sanitarium is conducted bj as reputable gentlemen as live in
Tennessee. The location is in the Cole mansion, centrally located, on tbe
most popular thoroughfare in the city. Read what is said of its treatment :

A Marvelous Cure From Morphine and Whisky.

R. ii. PORTER. Nashville, Tenn., October 16, 1898: To Dr. E. H.
Jones, Physician in Charge Tyson’s Nashville Sanitarium. Dear Doctor—
Ii has been three weeks since you gave me my Last dose of morphine,

ami over a week si i you discharged me from the Sanitarium as

cured from tbe opium and whisky habit. It is almost impossible to

realize the changed condition ol ny present exlste as compared

with that ol elglil rears ago, when l was constantly under the influ-
eoceol morphine. Then, with the exception of a few weeks at the
commencement, nlghl was rendered unpleasanl i >> hideous dreams,
and my mind was befogged and under a cloud. Now my sleep a1
night Is qulel and refreshing, and my head as clear as a bell, lam
rapidly gaining both in flesh and strength. New blood seemstobe
infused in my veins. My whole being becomes dail: more buoyant
with new life, and I feel like a new man altogether.

The coi •im. in, ni c,i m\ taking morphine dates back to an

amputation performed about eight years ago, when morphine was

for a long! i administered tomebj a physician, a- you are aware,

when I .Hi. red i Sanitarium I was taking from 20 to 125 grains of

morpl ■ per daj bypodermlcally. From the very beginning of

your treatment I Blepl well, and during I he enl Ire course fell better

physically and mentally, and suffered leBslm renience than I did

when l was inking n plate. Sou withdrew the morphine so

gradually, building up the system at the same tl ,that before I was

aware of ii I was entirely out from under the influence of the drug.
[ have no desire for o|iiu in. wliisky or slim ii Ian Is of any kind.

my God I when I look back over fifteen of those years, I shudder with
horror at tbe misery, trouble and sorrow thai I have suffered and
have caused to be Buffered by my dear wife and children, w ho have

i a good and kind to me. Well, I tried every remedy thai I could

in .in’ of. mi d spent nit the money I could earn i rylug to cure mj self,
but found i hem worth b ss. l i hen beard oi I he great gold cure, which
l ;iK. . tried, inn that was tbe last straw thai broke the camel’s back,

for Instead ol curing me ii ‘•:, very near killing me. Ii broke me

down mentally and physically ; it en used my hair to turn gray w Ithin
:. month after I had taken It. I went down blllsteadllj until I saw
nothing but a wreck, [had got so bad I could neither eal nor sleep.
1 would st n it anywhere after something, and before l could get it I
would forget what I wenl alter, ami would have to go home without
it. Weil, I badafrleud thai was cured of the whisky habit by the

“Tyson cure,” and he said he knew you could oure but I did not

much believe bun. 1 saw in the paper where Prof. Wharton bad

analyzed n Tyson cure,” and I went to him. He said tome that

I. was not n mineral poison, bul that it was a vegetable compound

well adapted t.> tbe purposes claimed tor it, and would do no

harm. Then 1 concluded to trj It, and now] thank God that I did,

for In the short Bpaceol five weeks I was i le a new and well man,

cured of all desire for morphlue, and fulls restored from the awful
habit.

Any Drunkard Can Be Cured.

After Twenty Years With Morphine.

.1. s. HART, 1108 Second street, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. U, 1898:
Ladles, Gentlemen and Fellow-Students o( Dr. Tyson’s Sanitarium of
Nashville— Let me sn\ to you that today I am one of the happiest
in. ii in Nashville or anywhere else. When they can cure a case like
mine I know it will cure any one. I am a man fifty years of age, and
have been taking morphine rortwenty years, and have taken from
thirty to lift v grains e\ ery twenty-four hours most of that time, oh,

JESSE KENNEDY. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. I. 1893: T» Tyson’s
Nashville Sanitarium. Gentlemen—] took the Tyson treatment for
alcoholism In the months of February and March, IS98, and can tes-
tifj to the merits ol the Tyson cure, I don’t, care how long any man
has been addicted to the habit, If he has an honest desire to quit, I
know ilia t you en n cure in in, ami Hint he will sutler no Inconvenience
ordistresB. He will commence to Improve from tbe very beginning.
1 have never laid l be least desire for whisky since three days after J
commenced treatment, For about twenty years I was an “artist” in
the business, squandered all I bud, and for three years resorted to all
the tricks and devices known to the professional drunkard to get
j usl one more drink.

Qotyfederat^ l/eterap.

Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics.

Price, 10 Cents.
Yearly, tl.

Vol. II. Nashville, Tenn., February, 1894. No. 2. { a A ‘ S^f AM ‘

Knlered at t lie PoetofflC6| Nashville, Tenn., .1* second-class matter
Adi ‘ertlsements : Two dollars per lncb one time,orfSOa year,ex«

eept las! page. One |»:il’» . “in Mint-, special, MO. Discount : Half J ‘ :ir.
one-issue ; one year, one issue. This is ;in increase <>n former rate.

Contributors will please be diligent to al rhespaoi

Important for any thing that bas not sp. eial merit.

The date t’l subacripttone le always given to tbe month ‘
ends. For Instance, if 1 lie Vbtbrah be ordered to begin wit h Janu-
ary, the date on mail lisi win he December, and the subscriber enti-
tled I” that nam tier.

Thb Bplenrjid illuetrationa of Confederate Home for
Maryland were supplied to the Veteran compliment-
ary. The souvenir volume containing all these and
many other pictures, in handsome gray cloth and
gold, with a complete roster of the Confederate army
and navy from Maryland, ran be had on application
to W. H. Pope, al Pikesville, to the Commercial Print-
ing Company, in Baltimore, or it will be furnished
from this office. Price 51 ‘ cents.

The Veteran thank- II. M. Miller of Weal Point,
Ya.. for notice of error in letters by himself ami by
Comrade Lyon, whereby they are both misquoted in
the use of Ransom for R imsei \\. « hose division they
referred to in reply to article by -las. B. Clay, of Ken-
tucky. General Ramseur was killed at Cedar (reck.

.1. M. McReary, Comanche, Texas. give- testimony
concerning the malicious treatment of Clayton’s men
in Arkansas, when ordering General Harrell’e hook,
“The Brooks-Baxter War.” Much similar testimony
as his might be given. The taking of property and
life unjustifiably was a common occurrence.

From a correspondence not in hand at writing the
statement was made that William Compton, of Fort
Royal, Va., was the Boldier who took General Let –
horse by the bridle at the battle of the Wilderness

when the soldiers told him to go”tothe rear” and
they would whip the enemy.

I\ sending copy of the poem, ” Before Richmond,”

Claudine Rhett, of Charleston, states : ” I have never
seen it in print in any paper or magazine since I cut
it out of the Charleston Mercury in December, 1864.”
To her are we also indebted for the Earl of Oerhy’s

lines to General Lee.

J. F. Kvsak, of Little Oak. Ala., wants to put a mar-
ble slab to his father’s grave in the Confederate Cem-
etery at Chicago. As there is but one grave in the six
thousand marked, those who have fathers and broth-
ers there would do well to contribute to inclosing the
lot ornamented by a superb monument, after that is
paid for.

W. C. Cooper, who has been an active worker in the
Pat. Cleburne (amp at Waco. Texas, conceived the
idea Of placing dismantled cannon at the Coi
Cemetery in Waco, and has pressed the matter with

tl and discretion through Congressman George C.
Pendleton. It is stated that a Virginia Camp took up
the idea, and wait successful in the application, and
has Becured several old cannon and some cannon halls.
Compliance with Mr. Cooper’e request would show a
worthy spirit, and it would do much good.

venerable Mrs. S. I ‘. Gordon Law. of Mem]
remit- I ased price of the Veteran and adds:

“If 1 were not an invalid, having been confined to
my home nearly nine months. I would solicit suli-
Bcribers for you. but at my advanced age. now in my
hty-ninth year. 1 cannot do more I -how it to all
visitor-, and try in that way to send you suhscriC
Mrs. law- published “Reminisi the Wai

tic si \ties ” will furnish readers of thi Veteran some

thrilling stories at an early date She is known a- the
Mother of the ( lonfederacy.”

Tm Veteran greets most cordially I f the

!A, published at Jacksonville, Fla., and edited by
Mi- May and Bessie Williams. It is an ex-

quisite historic and biographic publication, and cham-
pions specially the Florida Confederate Home. Mi–
Caroline Love Goodwin tist, and the page il-

lustration of the trio of beauties threat)
proposals for changes of name- / ‘,., | South

recalls. in its elegant typography, tl lub-

li-hed in Jacksonville nearly twenty years

Much controversy is had in Congress concerning
pension frauds. It i- strange that claimant- who
are receiving their pay regularly, and are entitled to
it. should opp.-e investigation. A worthy pensioner
is willing to l.e investigated every day. and the more
careful should he he to have unworthy claimants chal-
lenged. Mr, EDnloe, of Tennessee, has Bought to i>en-
efit the worthy by exerciBing vigilance against those
who have secured payments fraudulently. Tie
should be no politics in the question.

A TRUE Southerner at the North, anxious for Con-
federate literature, says he take- the “Frank Leslie
printed at Lexington, Ky.,” adding that it recalls to
his mind “a stray copy of an illustrated Northern pa-
per which we would occasionally get through the lines
during the war.”

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

THE <:<>SVEl>EK.\TE VETERAN AND SOUVENIR.

TO SEW sp A PEP PCHLISHERs.

Every reader and friend of the Veteran is solicited
to become agent for the Souvenir of* its Bret volume.
During 1893 there were many splendid illustrations
on the cover and in the body of the Veteran, all of
which are to be republished on fine paper in a volume
e hundred pages. This publication is designed
mtain the best articles published during the year,
and so condense the other articles as to give in sub-
stance all of their most desirable features. This Sou-
venir is being published to meet a demand which could
not I”- met in the supply of back numbers. It is to
be furnished free to all subscribers to the current vol-
ume who pay$l, and will be furnished independently
for twenty-five cents. It is very desirable to secure a
large number of orders fortius Souvenir, and an addi-
tional copy will be furnished free to those who procure
four subscribers at twenty-five cents each.

Advertisements will betaken supplemental to this
volume at $30 per page, or a quarter page can be had
for 110. Friends of the Veteran can do it a valued
service by inducing advertisers to take space at these
raic-. The forms are to be stereotyped, and however
many editions may be ordered, these advertisements
will be good for all without increased price.

ADVERTISEMENTS AXD SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Friends of the Veteran: A multitude of you have
shown as zealous and earnest interest in behalf of the
Veteran as could lie expected. Your attention has
been almost solely to increasing the subscriptions.
That is well, but if you had a conception of the extra-
ordinary merit of the VETERAN as an advertising me-
dium, with its circulation of more than ten thousand
copies, you would not only do the Veteran a valued
service, but would do general advertisers a favor in
commending the Veteran to them. Try it, please.
Since the edition of the Veteran has become so large
the responsibility has increased in proportion, and the
dependence upon its friends has in like mannerin-
ed. Many of you realize that times are so hard
that multitudes who would like the Veteran do not
feel that they can afford it. Remind such of the high
benefit that increased patronage will be. If each sub-
scriber would renew and send another, the reputation
of the Veteran would excel any publication in our
history in behalf of the South. Therefore, let patri-
otism induce sacrifice and renewed zeal, that the ag-
gregate strength will arouse universal pride and give
the Veteran such prominence as it should have.

An official indorsement of the Veteran comes from
the Joseph E. Johnston Camp at Childress, Texas,
It is of record, and a copy has been received at this
office, signed by E. J. McConnell, Commander, and
L. C. Warlick, Adjutant.

The Confederate Veteran is not being Bent asa
regular exchange in any instance. Its territory covers

the area of bo many thousands of newspapers that it
would be impossible to supply a general exchange.

No publication is requested in exchange, but the Vet-
bran will be sent to any publisher who desires it. and
will write a card, with the understanding that its mer-
its will be considered and report made accordingly.
Many editors and publishers are regular subscribers.
This does not seem fair to them, and payment of sub-
scription is not asked of any editor. All that is
wanted is assurance that they are interested in it. and
will give attention to it when received, editorially.

Supplemental to the “Call of Comrades to Duty”
in this Veteran these statements are made: Ollicials
should have been criticised nearer as were newspapers.
Mr. Johnson, editor of the Courier-Journal, writes: “I
take pleasure in making the correction you ask. I
mail you a copy of the weekly Courier-Journal contain-
ing this correction in the same department in which
the error occurred — the ‘Answers to Correspondents.’ ”

Cor.. BICKMAN, Secretary, is sending out the sixth
annual report of the Association of Confederate Sol-
diers in Tennessee. The meeting was held in Jack-
son, October 18th. Anticipation of this report is an
apology offered for less notice immediately after the
reunion. The hospitality of Jackson was a credit to
that people and to the State.

Of the thirty organizations reported twenty contain
an aggregate membership of •_!,(>!(;. The X. B. Forrest
Camp, Chattanooga, with a large membership, is not
included. Besides the Forrest Camp there are fifteen
of the thirty Bivouacs members of the Cniteil Con-
federate Veteran Association.

The number of pensioners in Tennessee is 571, 316
of whom are in Middle Te issee, I II in West Ten-
nessee, and 111 in Fast Tennessee.

The Confederate Soldiers’ I Ionic at the Hermitage
represents an investment of S(iS,’.l7S. Bi. < if this fund
the state has contributed $58,125.

Steps were taken, through suggestions of (‘apt. J.
W. Morton, looking to the erection of monuments to
Generals B. P. Cheatham and X. B.Forrest. Comrade
F. S. Mallory proposed greetings to the Confederate
Veteran Association then in session at Pallas, Texas.
The greeting was wired to Dallas with the wish that
their lives ” be lengthened as they have been glorious.”‘
The addrc– of the reunion was by Rev. Dr. J. E.
Martin, in a eulogy upon St ‘wall Jackson. It grati-
fied this great audience, and when the formal address
was finished Br. Martin said, after a, pause, “Now 1
must say more or 1 will die.” Then he gave a perora-
tion that thrilled the multitude.

The neat pamphlet of sixty-six pages contains a
vast amount of valuable information. Along with
the Veterans the Sons are well attended in the report.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

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FATHER RYAN’S GRAVE.

In the January number of the Confederate VETERAN there
is a statement that Father Ryan’s grave is “without even a stone

to mark his resting place.” This is quite an old story. I here
Bend you a sketch I have made from the “lonely grave” to let

the readers of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN know that Father
Ryan has not been so neglected. The flowers in the howl and
the nicely clipped grass around the slab show thai -nine one
visits the place. Father Ryan has a very handsome monument,
though it is not very elaborate, and is of the finest marble. At
the base of the cms,- is inscribed: ” Father Ryan; may he rest in
peace. Born May 12, 1840; died April 22, L886.” At the head
of the slab is a circle, within which is carved the Confederate
flag, and beneath is, ” Rev. A. J. Ryan, died April 22, 1886. Priest,
Patriot and Poet. K. T. P.” While on a visit in the North last
year I heard the same statement, that Father Ryan’s grave was
neglected, and as a Mobilian, and a daughter of one of the boys
who u ore the gray, 1 felt some pride about the matter, and when
I got home I Bet to work to inform myself on the subject, and
found, in the little Catholic Cemetery, this beautiful monumenl
instead of a lonely grave covered with weeds. I.i 1 1 Toomi

CONFEDERATE VETERANS IN TEXAS. AND WHERE THEY ARE FROM.

A- a matter of general interest the Veteran make- this inquiry so as to complete historic records of the
Confederate soldier- who now live in Texas. Texas < ommanders and Adjutants will pit attention to

this report at once, so it may be published as complete as possible in the February Veteran. See the Decem-
ber Veteran, page 381. Please fill out report for your Camp below.

LcK \ rio» and N ami oe Camp.

Belton Bell Do. Ex-Confed. Ass’n

Canton- J. L.Hogg Camp

Coleman — Coleman Camp

Dublin— Erath and Comanche Camp
El Paso Jno. C Brown Camp

Bvllle Joseph E. Johnston Camp..
i . G. Kej ‘ lamp

m — Young Counts Bivouac

Grand* i-« —J, l ■’. Johnston Camp

Ladonla -Robert K. Lee Camp

Lampassas K. E. Lee Camp..

Marlin— Willis L. Lang Camp

Mexla -Joe Johnston Camp ….

Paradise— Pal Cleburne Camp

South Prairie— J. K. B. Stuart Camp

Tyler — Albert Sidney Johnston Camp….
Will- Point-Wills Point Camp

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W. A. sims. Adjutant, Gainesville : Sony [cannol give you a complete roBtei bo man] registered without giving where from. We
ha\ e ftbout 800 ni our Camp.

There are 1,615 subscribers in Texas at 320 postoffices. Please compare your list with the names at other
postoffices. Surely all Camps will become interested in the Veteran it’ they can Bee it. The Veteran has
been made the official organ of many Camps in Texas and in every other Southern State. Various not-
to be added when the list is completed.

Comrades and brothers, why do you delay? Prepaid envelopes with printed blanks, at considerable ex-
pense, were sent to every Camp. Let each send statements similar to the above without delay.

36

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

‘./..V. /./•;/•; ABOUT TO ENTER BATTLE.

N.i other circumstance of the war has attracted more
attention than the reference- to ‘ leu. Lee when, in the
crisis between defeat and victory, he rode in front of
soldiers, ready to lead them in the charge. An old cir-
cular coiiic> from Texas with an account of an exhibi-
tion in which Lee is reported by the Galveston News
in the picture as follows: This heroic man, generally
so calm and self-contained, Barnes like an archangel
above the wreck of war. ami inspires all around him
with his own elevated yet steadfast intention.
“gen. LEE To the re \K.”

Col. W. L. Goldsmith, Meridian, Miss., writes: The

Texan, in Last CONFEDERATE VETERAN, is correct, and
BO wen- other writers who saw Gen. Lee turned back.
All are correct, but, strange to say, no one gives dates.
This would correct every thing. I happened to wit-
both events. One occurred on the nth of May,
L864, early in the morning, when A. P. Hill was being
withdrawn to place Longstreet’s corps in position, be-
cause of the severe fighting of Hill’s Corps on the 5th
of May. The Federals, by a strange chance, attacked
Hill’s Corps while withdrawing, which was thrown
into great confusion, and retreated fighting. Long-
street’s column was just coming up. Gen. R. E. Lee
started to lead them into action to check the wild rush
of the Federals. .Many of us heard the Texas soldier
tell Gen. Lee to go to the rear. 1 was in a few feet of
Gen. Lee for a long time that morning, while trying
to rally the retreating Confederates. Be was on Old
Traveler.

The second occasion occurred just six days there-
after, early on the ever-memorable 12th of May. 1864,
when Hancock, by night surprise, had captured the
angle occupied by Gen. Johnson, and captured nearly
his entire division, with many pieces of artillery.
Gen. R. E. Lee again attempted to Lead the fresh troops
coming up to retake our Lost works. 1 was there, and
saw the gallant John l’». Gordon remonstrating with
Gen. Lee to go to the rear, which he finally did, and
Gordon led brigade after brigade against the enemy,
my own included, and we recaptured the works in our
front and held them all day. and until 10 P. vi., when
we were withdrawn to form the new line. 1 remember
sending Capt. Perry, of my regiment, back that awful
12th of May, 1864, to tell our artillery to elevate their
guns, as their shell- were exploding just over US and
killing my men. Capt. Perry returned and said, ” My
God, they are yankee battenesl” At this battle the
musketry rolled for twenty hours continuously. So
you see “this matter, which seems to be in such great
confusion, happened twice, and comrades write about
each without giving dates, and hence the conflict.
I commanded the fourteenth Georgia Regiment,
Thomas’ Georgia Brigade, Wilcox’s Division, and A.
]’. Bill’s Corps, and saw both occurrences, and all
writers nearly are correct.

Capt. R. D. Funkhouser writes from Mauvertown,
Va.: The details of the ” Lee to the rear” incident
are given at the request of W. T. Gass, of Texas. The
claims of Alabama and Texas are correct. Their ac-
count occurred on the 5th or (>th of May, 1NH4, at
the Wilderness proper. The battle of Spottsylvania,
or Horse-shoe, occurred on the 12th of May, fifteen or
twenty miles distant.

I was First Lieutenant of Company D, Forty-ninth
Virginia Infantry (the famous Extra Lilly Smith’s
old regiment up to the battle of Spottsylvania. After
thai 1 commanded my company, and was captured at
Hare’s Hill, or Fort Steadman, March 25, L865, in
front of Petersburg, along with one hundred and
eleven oilio r- and nineteen hundred men. The Forty-
ninth Virginia Regiment was in Gordon’s Division,
Jackson’s old Corps, afterward Early’s and Gordon’s
successively.

General Grant commenced his ” on to Richmond”
by crossing the Rapidan River, May I, 1864, the terri-
ble battles of the wilderness, or Parker’s store, taking
place on the 5th and 6th of May. < Irant being worsted,
he commenced his slide around or Hanking policy, only
to find General Lee boldly confronting him on the
heights at Spottsylvania on the evening of Sunday,
the Nth. after a tortuous march through the Wilder-
ness, which was on lire, and burned up to the road on
both sides, and in very warm weather too. It had
been evident that preparations were being made for a
tremendous conflict, and it came. In the meantime
the famous horseshoe and other earthworks were cre-
ated, and a sortie was made by the enemy on the
evening of the 10th on a portion of our works a little
to the left of the toe of the horse-shoe, and it was car-
ried, but speedily retaken, with considerable loss on
both sides. On that day and the next, the 11th. our
brigade, or division, was used as a supporting division,
consequently we occupied a position in the rear. On
the morning of the 12th we were moved up to the
front line, a little to the left of the toe of the horse-
shoe, the latter being a thicket. Our position, a small
open field, connected with another Held a little farther
to the rear by a narrow strip of land like an isthmus.
We were doubled upon or supported the Louisiana
brigade. I said to one of the Louisiana Tigers, ” What’s
the matter here? You’ve had us waked up before day
and brought out of our shelter into the rain.” He
replied, ” We will have the yankees over here directly
to take breakfast with us.”

It was hardly dawn, and pouring down rain, when
Hancock landed bis forty thousand men against
Johnson’s division, in the toe of the horseshoe,
when his thirty-six hundred as brave men as the
world ever saw, with its commander, who had won the
sobriquet of “Hull” Johnson, were overpowered and
captured. We, being immediately on their left, of

course the enemy were to pay their respects to us next.
A gallant officer sprang oiit of the ditch and said,
“Men, don’t be scared; be steady and follow me ; I’ll
take you out.” We had not gone more than two
hundred yards before we were halted by Col. A.. I.
Pendleton’, who said to me, “Captain, stay here at all
hazards till I return,” and started for General Swell’s
headquarters in a gallop. My attention was called to
a thicket which we would either have to pass through
or flank around through the little opening already

described, and t y horror the yankees were going

up an old road at trail arms and double quick to cut
us off. I called Colonel Pendleton and pointed to-
ward the yankees. With a motion of his hand he
directed us to Hank around the thicket, which we did
in a hurry, marching within fifty or seventy-live yards
of the yankees, who seemed to be forming to charge
us. When we got around the thicket and in the
second field we came to a halt without any orders from
anybody, and on looking around I saw Gen. R. E.

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37

Lee, alone I think, calmly sitting on his gray horse.
I said to Capt. J. B. Updike, “Here is General Lee!”
He joined nie and others in saying, “General Lee to
the rear.” General Gordon then rode up and said,
“General Lee, these are Virginians; they have never
failed to do their duty, and they never will, lmt they
don’t want you to uselessly expose your life. You go
to the rear and they will follow me ; won’t you, boys? ”
All echoed “Yes,” when Sergt. Wm. A. Compton, who
had volunteered at the age of seventeen Li’ is now
Sheriff of Warren County. Va. i, took hold of the bridle
of General Lee’s horse and led him back through the
ranks of my company and regiment. ‘ leneral Gordon
Immediately spurred hi;- horse into the thicket, saying,
“Charge! men, follow me!” and in the language of
John R. Thompson, the poet,

” Like the waves of the sea

Tliat burst the dykes in t lie overflow .

Madly the veterans burel on the fi

Their ranks were torn and their columns riven, the
breastworks retaken, and the day was ours, General

Lee was reported to ha \ e -aid : ” The crisis had come.
The army was cut in twain, and I was willing to risk
all on the one issue.” And he won.

A MOST WORTHY PLEA FOR HELP.

Capt. John M Sloan, Pontotoc, Mis-.. Dec 27, 1893,
writes to comrades: 1 was Captain of Company G,
Forty-fifth Mississippi Regiment, Wood- and M. P
l.ou iy’s Brigade, Pat Cleburne’s I >ivision, in our greal
war. 1 was fearfully wounded ami disabled in the
memorable battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
When in command of my company, in front of the
enemy’s lines, and under a heavy tire of shot and
shell, I had the misfortune of having my under jaw,
upper teeth, and pari of my tongue shot away, and
my fare terribly mutilated bj the explosion of a shell
from one of the enemy’s guns, Since thai time I have
had to lie on my hack when taking my meal- and he
fed by others on fluids. 1 cannot masticate any food

whatever. Notwithstanding my unfortunate and irre-
parable condition, 1 managed so ae to support myself
and family tor twenty-live years, lmt am unable to do
so longer without assistance.

Comrades. 1 dislike to beg 1 had rather that it was
different, hut 1 cannot help it. 1 received this ugly
ami unfortunate wound in a just and honorable cause.
1 did my duty in defending our beloved Sunn\ South-
land, homes, property ami firesides. Will you please
Bee to it that myself and family do not suffer for the
necessaries of life ? 1 baveawifeand two daughters
dependent on me for a support, and one of the daugh-
ters has been an invalid for the past eighteen years.
Please contribute something to our relief, and I assure
you that the amount will be gratefully appreciated by
us. [Signed], Your comrade, John N. Sloan.

C. If Mitchell and Frank Sauter fully indorse the
above statement of (apt. .1. X. Sloan, ami say he is
very poor, -i good, moral man. a law-abiding citizen,
ami merits all that can he .ion.’ for him.

Rev. (‘has. ll.Otken. Summit. Miss., Jan. 1,1894:

1 was the Chaplain of the Forty-fifth Mississippi Regi-
ment. I saw Captain Sloan on the held of Chicka-
mauga. Sept. I’ll, 1863. Four surgeons pronounced his
case hopeless. The chin dangled in front of his breast.

The shell made a gash from the outer edge of the
right ‘ eye to the corner of the mouth. From Sun-

day noon until Tuesday about ‘2 p. m. no relief was
given him — not a drop of water could he given him.
[obtained private physicians from Ringgold, Ga. They
cut away the chin and sewed the nose to the face. An
old physician who had Berved in the Mexican war,
and who saw him, said that he knew of only one man
similarly wounded on record. Captain Sloan was
frightfully mutilated. For over thirty years he lies
down supine three times a day on two chairs and is
fi<l as a child. I have made several efforts for relief
in his behalf. To the last, the first response came
from Hon. (i. F. Rowles, of Natchez — a negro— a rep-
resentative of Adams County. He -cut $25. The
next came from Mrs. Sarah F. Marshall, from Bartow
on the Sound. Westchester County, N. Y. she -cut
$10 to me through Rev. l’r. Stratton, of Natchez. M tee .
and $10 direel to me from her home. Dear Comrades
of the Lost Cause! I know no! how to commend my
friend to your generous consideration.- He is now an
old man, has an afflicted family, a ml is poor. I am sure
that as long as there are surviving Confederates who
can aid, Captain Sloan ought nol to Buffer for material
comforts. Shall we not let a little BUnshine into this
dreary ho ?

Gen. S. D. Fee. Columbus Miss . -Ian.. 18, 1894, in
official letter: Comrades of the Division, and Unat-
tached Veterans The inclosed appeal ol Comrade
John K.Sloan, Forty-tilth Mississippi Regiment, M.
P Lowry’s Brigade, Cleburne’s Division, Army of
Tennessee, is before you. He ha- done nil he could
ami supported himself for twenty-five years. Now he
call- on us for aid. Fet those of us who w ei . spared
and were more fortunate now come forward
our scanty purses and means, as we did our haversacks
and canteen- during the war. He i- now old ami can-
not help himself. His is an exceptional case. Prob-
ably no other such disfiguring and disqualifying wound
was received on either sid< during the war. Fetus
all, comrades and charitably disposed persons, con-
tribute of our means to this unfortunate soldii
well vouched for. He was a splendid soldier, and was
disabled while fighting for our 1. cloved Southland.

Since receipt of above I learn the State has given

Capt. Sloan $150. Contributions will be accepted for

him at this of]

Mi I’M. s fob Confederate Soldiers. — Southerner,
Dyersburg, Tenn. : Among my friends is a deserving
Confederate veteran who is unable, as a re-ult of a
wound received during the war, to earn a living in the
ordinary pursuits of life. One day 1 said to him,
“Captain, why don’t you apply for a pension; you are
entitled to it under the laws of T( “1 do

not want it,” he replied. “1 did not fight for money.
but 1 believe thai a medal ought to be issued to each
deserving old soldier.” This is an idea that 1 would
be glad to see carried into effect. If each Southern

State would issue a t la] to its honored Confederate

veterans, and to the families of the dead who fought
to the death, it would do much to keep alive I
lire- that should burn forever in our hearts. The
medals would become precious heirlooms to which
eaeh Southerner and Southern family would point
with pride, and the holiest principles for which mor-
tals ever fought would still live, and the memo)
our glorious heroes would be consecrated in undying
love. Could not a movement looking to this end be
inaugural

3§

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

ELIGIBILITY TO YETERAX MEMBi:i:>H IV.

Col. Jno. P. Hickman. Secretary of the Tennessee
Division of Confederate Soldiers, has kindly furnished
the Veterak the following from the Minutes of the
meeting held at Jackson. It will show how very
strict the Tennessee Division is as to the eligibility of
membere :

The Secretary read the opinions given 1 > v the State
( tracers as to eligibility of members, in answer to cer-
tain questions asked by one of the Bivouacs. Said
questions and answers were taken up, and each an-
swer was unanimously indorsed and adopted by the
Association. They are in substance as follows:

Question i. If a Surgeon in the Confederate Army resigned,
not from any physical disability, and came home, took the
oath of allegiance to the Federal Government, and remained

within the lines of tlie 1,0.1:1! forces, would he be eligible to
our Association?

Answer. Tin- act of resignation is honorable ; but the mo-
ment an officer forswears his allegiance to the Government, he
loses the honor of his resignation, ami can only be classed as
having abandoned the country winch he swore to support, and
cannot I a member of our Association.

Question L’. If a man was discharged from service for sick-
ness the first year of the war, and was afterward able for ser-
vice and did not re-enter the army, would he be eligible ‘.’

Answer. If a soldier was discharged for a real physical dis-
ability 1 sickness, not minority or over-age) under our Consti-
tution hi- is eligible. Oar members should only be men who
did their whole duty, without shirking or equivocation.

Question 3. If a soldier joined the army and served one
year, ami then hired a substitute, came home, took the oath,
ami remained within the enemy’s lines, would he be eligible?

Answer. A man cannot join our Association on the ser-
vices of a substitute, but the service must have been performed
in person, otherwise a man could join on the services of a son
who was a minor, for he owned and was as much entitled to
the services of his minor son as he was to the services of his
substitute. A man’s financial ability to hire a substitute did
not relieve him of his duty to his country, nor does it make
biin eligible to our Association.

Question 4. What is meant by “honorably released from
Service,” as appears in the third Article of our’Coustitution J

Answer. If a soldier was released from one branch of the
service to join another, or was released from service to take
some civic ollice which was necessary to the maintenance of
bis government, or was released on account of some physical
disability, not warranting a regular discharge, be would be hon-
orably released. This Instance is cited : Hon. Howell Cobb,
of 1 norgia, was Colonel of a regiment, and was elected to the
( ‘onlederate Congress ; the records say ” be was honorably re-
leased from S01 vice.”

It can readily he sen that if a soldier was fortunate enough
to hold a commissi. .11, resigned it, went in the lines of the
enemy, took the oath Of allegiance to the government of the
enemy, that was not an honorable release, and such soldiers
cannot become members of our Association.

S. S. .Meyers, of Jackson County, filed his applica-
tion with S. S. Stanton Bivouac to lie,,. me a member.
Said application was fully considered by the Bivouac,
and it appeared that he had taken the oath of allegi-
ance to the federal Government before the surrender
of the Confederate Annies, lie had never been dis-
charged for a real physical disability. His application
was rejected by the Bivouac, and he appealed there-
from to the state Association. Comrade S. F. Wilson

moved that the appeal lie laid upon the table, as S. S.
Myers, never having I .eon a member of the Association,
had no right to appeal thereto. Whereupon (‘apt. W.
W. ( ‘antes offered the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted :

Resolved, by the State Association of Confederate Soldiers,
that the appeal of 8. 8. Myers be laid on the table, S. S. Stanton

Bivouac being the soje arbiter and having exclusive jurisdic-
tion in his case. Hut nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued as in any way abridging the State officers’ right to
i. jeel members received by the Bivouacs, or to purge Bivouacs
of unworthy members.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN (‘AMP OF SEW YORK.

This Camp has an auxiliary membership. The eli-
gibility of members is officially reported as follows:

‘flu’ immediate descendants and relatives of those
who honorably served in the Army, Navy, or Civil
Service of the Confederate States of America, and
their male relatives, shall be eligible to admission as
auxiliary members of the Confederate Veteran Camp,
provided they shall have attained the age of twenty-
one years.

Auxiliary members are entitled to all the privileges
of the Camp, excepting that of voting before attain-
ing the age of twenty-live years, or 01 holding office
or membership in the Executive Committee before at-
taining the age of thirty-live years. But no auxiliary
member shall be eligible to the office of Commander
or Lieutenant Commander before attaining the
forty-live years. Nevertheless, auxiliary members
having attained the age of twenty-live years, are eligi-
ble to appointment on any or till special or subcom-
mittees.

woman’s auxiliary of this. camp.

To foster and encourage co-operation in the charita-
ble, social, and other appropriate works of the Camp,
the Executive Committee may authorize the forma-
tion of one or more associations of ladies, to be
known as “Woman’s Auxiliary of the Confederate
Veteran Camp,” membership therein only to be held
by wives or daughters, granddaughters, sisters, nieces,
or cousins of those who honorably served in the Army,
Navy or Civil Service of the Confederate States of
America, or relatives of auxiliary members of the
Confederate Veteran Cam]). No dues or U-r< shalj be
levied by the Camp on such Associations, or the mem-
bers thereof.

A Confederate Monument to re Erected at
Franklin. — The ladies of Williamson County are en-
gaged in raising funds with which to erect a monu-
ment to the memory of Confederate soldiers, the living
and the dead. It is their purpose to place iton the
Public Square, where it may be seen of all men. We
are going to succeed, and will have a monument of
which any city would be proud. Some time ago
Charles Hills, of Chicago, a Federal soldier who fought
here in November, 1864, was on a visit looking over

the battle-ground, and heard of this monument un-
dertaking, when he volunteered to give ten dollars
toward it. This is one of the many incidents that
occurs during life’s journey to show us the kin-hip
of men. 1 don’t know what his polities are, and 1
■ 1 < piil care. I venture to say he is a gentleman of the
highest order, and was a brave soldier. 11.

Mrs. S. A. A. McCausland, Lexington, Mo., in send-
ing subscription to the Veteran, Bays: I want the
Hag.-. In the beginning of I he ” late unpleasantness ”
I suffered many things because of a refusal to surren-
der a Confederate Hag to a regiment in blue, so now I
“even up” by keeping the colors always in sight on
my own domain.

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39

Too late for suitable notice conies the announcement
that Gen. Lucien B. Northrop, Commissary General
of the Confederate States and classmate of Jefferson
Davis at West Point, died at the Maryland Confeder-
ate Home.

It is well to give in the Veteran notice of the death
of Mrs. .lane Washington, mother of Hon. Joseph E.
Washington, member of Congress from Tennesset
She was a Miss Smith, of Florence, Ala., and became
the second wife of Col. George A. Washington, whose
father, Joseph Washington, came from Virginia in
1798. II” bought sixty-live acres of land, to which he
and his son added by purchase nearly 1’J.inki acres
more. It is doubtless the largest body of improved
land ever owned by one family in Tennessi e \ mag-
nificent home was buill nearly three-quarters of a cen-
tury ago. Colonel Washington was buried there a
little more than a year ago, and now his wife.

During the war, while submitting to legal authori-
ties. Col. Washington determined to resisl hand- of
guerrilas who infested his home, and was given per-
mit by General Rosseau to keep fire-arms in his house.
He resisted as many as eight marauders at one time,
assisted by two faithful slaves, to whom he gave guns,
while young Joseph carried ammunition for him. He
shot one of them, and by that means traced some
of the others so the authorities secured and executed
them. Again he killed a man while taking a horse
from one of his stables, who happened to be a soldier,
It created a great sensation. Two companies of sol-
diers went to the house to avenge the death and quar-
reled about the prey until a regiment arrived for his
rescue. Meanwhile one of them shot him a flesh
wound, and was about tiring again when the faithful
wife rushed between them. The coward tired at her.
but one of his comrades knocked up the pistol and
the hall passed over the heads of them both.

(‘apt. Thomas E. Mallory, who served four years
in the Confederate army, died in Montgomery County,
Trim., February 9th. He was a member of the church
and was buried by his brother Masons.

An exchange reports “a big funeral” by the colored
people in Jacksonville, Florida, to Or. A. H. Darnes,

colored. The deceased was a prominent Mason. No-
tice here is given because of his service through the
war with Gen. 1-‘.. Kirby-Smith. Of the many manu-
scripts that have awaited space in the Veteran there
i- one from this Dr. Panics setting forth the noble
character of his master.

F. O’Brien, Birwick, La., notes that Comrade James
Malcolm was huried February Ith. He was in his 74th

year. Adjutant O’Brien adds that the Yi ii i,\\ im-
proves all the time, and says. ” 1 think you will get as
many subscribers at si as you would at fifty cents.”

Nat. D. Colhoun, who was a member of Company
C, Second Louisiana Cavalry, died at his home at

Stanton Depot, Tenn., January 19th, aged .”> I years.

DELIVERING THE VETERAN IX SASHVlLl.i:

Effort i- being made to chancre the general postal
law in regard to delivery of periodicals in the cities
where published. The Veteran weighs about two
and a half ounces. Postage upon it is one cent per
pound to every place in the United States, and deliv-
ered by carrier the same as letters, except in Nashville,
where prepayment by postage stamps is required at
two cents percopy. The largest magazines are maila-
ble at the same price. Twelve copies of the Veteran

may he delivered throughout the suhurhs of the 1;
cities for what it costs to mail one to a Nashville suh-
Bcribi r. By the libera] favor to publishers of hooks
the I tepartment sends all that are admitted as second-
da– matter at on, cent for four ounces, yet the Vet-
eran a- other small monthlies), entitled to the gen-
eral mail at one cent per pound, must pay two cent- per
Hy of publication. Mr. Washington.
Representative of the Nashville District in Con

bill before tie House for a change in the law.
Cen. Wheeler, of Alabama, Member, and Gen. Bate,
of Ti – itor, are co-operating with Mr. Wash-

ington in behalf of a change whereby periodica
four ounces and less may he mailed for one cent. Ap-
peal for favorable consideration ha- been made to
Postmaster General Bissell, who ms satisfactory

interest in it. This publication explains to the hun-
dred- of subscribers in Nashville whose copies of the
Veteran arc not promptly delii hey should he.

Rev. C. G. Reagan, of Itasca, Texas, in his mi –ions
of peace, forgot that he left with Mr. T. J. Glasscock,
of Marshall. Texas, his sword about the close of the
war. Thomas Brooks, editor of the Washington
County Review, printed a letter about it. and Rev. Mr.
ii secured the sword. It was presented to him
by Col. J. R. Pettigrew.

The next Veteram is to contain an elaborate his-
tory of postage -tamp- mad, m Confederate time-.
There are about forty illustrations to be in the sketch
referring to many curious characteristics about them.

A Confederate Camp was organized at Pikeville,

Tenn.. January 19th, and named in honor of Col. H.
M. Ashhy. who commanded tie Second Tenn

Confederate Cavalry. 1.. T. Billingsley W8
Commander, and Z. M. Morris. Adjutant. Another
meeting to perfect the organization i- to he held on
the 17th of February.

John W. l’oo-er. Marianna, Fla.: Inclosed find $2 for
.■ al-. We have been reading the Veteran now

for twelve months, have become much attached to it

and can’t do without it.

Geo. E. Hardwicke. Sherman, Texas, February 12th,
in sending $5 for live subscribers, states; All you lack
of getting on. hundred subscribers here in Sherman is
somebody to rustle for them. I simply mentioned the
paper and they immediately subscribed.

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

COMMENTS OF COMKM>i:s.

H. K. Hill, Comanche, Texas: * * * And be-
sides, I never wrote any thing for publication in my
life. I regard Forrest as the greatest cavalry officer in
our war. I firmly believe bad Stonewall Jackson lived
and been given 50,000 infantry, and Forrest given
15,000 cavalry, they would have wiped tin- thing out
and “carried the war into Africa,” instead of standing
on the defensive and being worn out, as we were. I
belonged tn Itoss’ brigade, and was under Van Dora
until he was killed. After this we wen- sent hack to
Mississippi, and covered the gloomy retreat oi Joseph
K. Johnston from Big Black to Jackson, and afterward
went to Georgia and skirmished for Johnston’s left
from Rome to Atlanta. We were at New Hope and
Jonesboro, and captured McCook and I Jrown low’s out-
fit at Xewnan, and followed Kilpatrick down to Love-
joy. The description of the Confederate
soldier by Mr. IJaskette, in December Veteran, was a
very fine production. He must have been one of
them. I was well pleased with the letter of Mrs. Sarah
K. Brewer, some time ago. God bless her, she has my
permission to have her say. a- she called it. 1 wish
you good success. Don’t let your journal get into the
hands of a cold-blooded mob north of Mason and
Dixon’s line, and my opinion is it will flourish. Mind
you. 1 have not written this for publication.

Wm. C. TimminS, Of Houston, Texas, hopes tO lo-
cate :i sword presented to his uncle, Lieut. Col. Wm.
C. Timmins, of the Second Texas Regiment, when he
first left to join the Confederate Army as Captain of a
company raised in Houston. It was appropriately en-
graved, and had his name Inscribed thereon. Col.
Timmins was wounded during the siege of Vicksburg,
and died soon afterward in vicksburg, and is buried
at Houston. Texas. 1 am pretty certain that the
vankees did not get it, hut some Confederate officer
brought it away from Vicksburg.

John \V. Rogers, manufacturer of fine carriages. Bal-
timore, writes an earnest commendation of the Vet-
eran with his left hand. He lost his right arm in the
battle of Gettysburg, in Company C, Twelfth Virginia
Infantry.

• lames D. Odom, Boz, Texas: Go on, sir, with your
noble work, and may the God of our beautiful South-
land bless you and all worthy ex-Co nfederate soldiers.
One dollar is quite reasonable for the Veteran. Let
us have it, thai we children may know more of our
fathers’ experiences during those stormy days.

W. A. Campbell, Columbus, Miss.: 1 wish I could
write for the Vj teran Gen. S. D. Lee’s speech to us

last night, lie gave incidents of the war, illustrating

the daring and valor of the Southern soldiers, and he

Baid, in the course of his remarks, that as time passes
history will recognize the sublime courage of the
Southern soldiers. He told of seeing a company of
boy-, about 125 strong, in which there were none ex-
cept the officers -1 years old. go into battle to sup-
port artillery at Sharpsburg, and that although about
twenty-five of the boys were shot dead from the ranks
they faltered not.

GeorgeN. Ratlifif, Huntsville, Mo.: * * * By the
way, I am coming back to Franklin to visit again” that
battle-field. There are 1 III M issourians buried there.
and I knew them every one. 1 was with them for
nearly four years.

W. A. (‘.. ( olumbus. Miss. : Let each Camp have a
visiting card, to give to any member who is traveling.
signed by the Commander and Adjutant, stating that
he is a member in good standing Any man can buy

01 f the Confederate buttons and pas- as a veteran.

We intend to do this in our Camp, and a notice in
the Veteran may induce other Camps to adopt the
plan. It will at least bring out a discussion of the
matter, and may lead to something better. ( >ur regu-
lation button, as you know, can be bought in many
places of jewelers, and by any one. as Captain Shipp’s

plan of having the button copyrighted has not so tar
been successful.

Rev. Thomas M. Cobb, Lexington. Mo.: I am de-
lighted with the Veteran. Success to you. 1 was a
member of Company 11. Second Missouri Infantry, C.

s. A.., Senator Cocknll’s old regiment and company.

I was severely wounded at the battle of Kennesaw
Mountain. Georgia, and sent to the hospital at Barns-
ville, Ga., where I lay with wound and gangiven for
two months. My nurse was a Mr. Elder, a wounded
and disabled soldier from Tennessee. My recollection
is he lived in or near Murfreesboro. If he is living I
would like to hear from him, and would take it as a
great favor if any one would inform me about him.
I hope to give you some incidents interesting and
thrilling soon.

C.J.Holt. Haley. Tellll. : It does my soul good to

read of the daring deeds of those heroes who donned
the gray and kept step to strains of martial music
made from such airs as “Maryland, My Maryland,”
“Bonnie Blue Flag,” “The Girl I Left ‘behind Me,”
or the soul-stirring strains of “Dixie.” The proudest
heritage I claim is my birthright in the sunny South-
land, and the son of a Confederate veteran who tramped
the hot sands of Virginia and other Southern States
four long years.

Messrs. P. L. Smithson and J. L. Gee, of Williamson
County, Tenn., have a very pleasant recollection of
Gen. John C. Breckinridge at Shiloh. It was on
Tuesday after the fighting of Sunday and Monday.
They had been sent early on detail for some guns, and
while in execution of the order they were met by Gen-
eral Breckinridge, who asked what command they be-
longed to, and on being told, he said, ” Soldiers, you
seem to have had a bad night” — they were wet from
the excessive rains — “and 1 expect have not had any
breakfast.” They promptly responded that they had
not. “Neither have 1,” said the General, ” but 1 have
two biscuits. 1 will give one to you two and divide
the other with my Aide” They will ever remember
thecourtesy and kindness of the eminent Kentuckian.

Capt. B. M. Hord, Nashville, Tenn., desires to know

of Ed Moore, of t he Washington Artillery, who shared
bed blankets with him at Lock Island. 111.

I!. I!. Hancock, Auburn, Tenn., desires the address
of any members of the Second Missouri Cavalry.

•lames Archer, Stanton, Miss., would like to know
what became of the three stall’ officers of Gen. Bush-
rod Johnson— Snowden. lilakemore, and Black.

A. .1. Cowart, of Little Oak, Ala., wants the address
of Spotswood Garland, who was Captain of Company
G, Sixty-third Alabama Infantry. He was wounded
and captured in the battle of Blakely, (?) April 9, 1865.

R. II. Phelps, Esq., LaG range, Texas : Send me the
old list of subscribers, giving date when subscription
expires, and I will try to get them to renew.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

4i

MARYLAND LINE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS’ HOME

The January Veteran contained quite a thorough
account of the Confederate cause in Maryland with ref-
erence to the Confederate Soldiers’ Borne at Pikeville,
a small tillage eight miles from Balti-
more, which is reached by splendid driv-
ing roads and by electric cars. Thei
mand of the Home is intrusted to W.
11. Pope, who was a gallant Confederate
soldier, and whose whole heart is en-
listed for its success, lie has been zeal-
ous tor the Veteran from the tirst. The
total expenses of the Home at the last
annual report, September, 1893, were
$38,195. Of this sum the state has

trihuted $27,500. The Maryland Line
created the influences whereby the Home
was established.

maintained the same high character and bearing, and
the record of their deeds is held in veneration and
affection.” All honor to Maryland I

The superb record made by soldiers

from Maryland in the Confederate Army
is attributable mainly to the First and
Second Regiments Infantry, the First
and Second Regiments < Javalry, the First,
Second. Third and Fourth Companies of
Artillery, numbering in the aggregate
about four thousand men. From the be-
ginning, at Harper’s Ferry, in 1861, to
the end at Appomattox in 1865, “they

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INTERIOR OF COURTYARD, MARYLAND CONFEDERATE HOME

OCCURRENCES AT LEES SURRENDER.

denta is due to the fact
that the narrators of such
tiling do not always con-
fine themselves strictly
tn the Btat< men! of what
they did themselves, but
are much disposed to in-
clude in their reports
what they think was
done or omitted to be
done by others. At the
battle ‘it’ Fredericksburg,
for instance, fiehting
took place on the right
and Left of the ( lonfeder-
ate army, it- center not
bavins been engaged at
all. < fen. Longstreet, “it
i be I onfederate left, had
repulsed the repeated at-
tacks made u po D t he
troops posted at the foot

Col. Charles Marshall of Baltimore, delivered an ad-
dress in that city January 19th, the birthday of Gen.
Lee, in which be described graphically the great sin-
render at Appomattox . 1 1 is large audience comprised
many members of Congress who had gone over from
Washington. On the platform, in addition, were
Cardinal Gibbons, Gen. Wade Hampton, and other
distinguished visitors. The twin daughters of Gen.

II I were there with their chaperon. Gen. Bradley

T. Johnson introduced Col. Marshall as “the right
hand of Lee,” and who was with him in the last hours
of an expiring tragedy. Col. Marshall was received
with great applause. Part of his address follows:

When old soldiers and sailors meet to talk about the
war, it must be admitted that they some-
time- forgel the reverence due the divin-
ity commonly Bpoken of as the Goddess
of Truth. This tendency to exaggerate
and invent in describing events that ex-
cite great interest, and particularly such
as appeal to the feelings and passions of
men, makes itself felt long after the

events hav icurred, and impairs the

value of history. We d t yet know

with certainty the Tacts of the battle of
Waterloo. As to Cliancellorsville and
Gettysburg, although I witnessed both,
1 sometimes think, in view of the abso-
lutely irreconcilable accounts we have of
those two engagements, a Bishop Whate-

ly might readily create historic doubts

as to whether either was, in (‘act, fought.
It. was my duty during the latter half of
the war, tO prepare the reports of Cell.
Lee under his directions, and one of the
most difficult things I had to do was to
reconcile the many conflicting accounts
of the same affair submitted by com-
manding officers. Much of the confu-
sion and contradiction of statement mad e
by narrators or writers of historic inci-

of .Marye’s Hill, and Cell, .lackson had repulsed the as.
sault made on our right near Hamilton’s Crossing.
The distance between the two scenes of combat was
between three and four miles. In the afternoon I

came across Gen. 1>. H. Hill, of Jackson’s Corps, who

thought Ids wing had been doing all the fighting,
while the left had not been engaged at all. Nearly
fifteen hundred Federal dead lay in front of Marye’s
Hill, and Gen. Hill did not know that there had been
any fighting there.

With this full knowledge of this tendency to error,
I now come to present to you, as accurately as 1 can,
the facts of the surrender ot’Cen. I.ee at Appomattox,
about which you have asked me to talk to you on this
occasion, when we are met to celebrate his birthday.
I know of no other event in his life which more
strongly illustrates some of the great qualities that
adorned the character of our great chieftain.

1 shall begin my narrative with the opening of the

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MEMORIAL HALL AND LIBRARY, MARYLAND CONFEDERATE HOME

correspondence between Gen Lee and Gen. Grant.
After the disaster of Sailor’e Creek, the atmy, reduced
to two corps, under the command of Gen. Long!
and Gen. Gordon, moved through Farmville, where
rations were issued to some of the starving troops.
The ‘lose’ pursuit of the overwhelming army ol
Grant made il necessary to remove the wagon trains
before all the men could be Bupplied, and the remnant
of the great Army of Northern Virginia, exhausted by
fighting and starvation, moved in the road to Appo-
mattox Court House. On the afternoon of the 7th of
April i .en. (.rant Bent to Gen Lee the first letter, so
well known to readers of history, pointing out the
hopelessness of longer contining the struggle, and ask-
ing the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Gen. Lee, you remem-
ber, replied, disagreeing
with Gen. Grant’s view
of the hopelessness of the
struggle, but inquiring
the conditions of surren-
der Gen. Grant might
oiler. The next day,
April 8, < Jen. Grant re-
plied, ” Peace being my
:it desire, there is but
.me condition I insist
upon — namely, that the
men ami officers surren-
dered shall be disquali-
fied for taking up arms
again against the Gov-
ernment of the United
States until properly < \
changed. 1 will meet
you, or will designate
Officers to meet any offi-
cers you name for the
same purpose, at any

ing definitely the terms
upon which the surren-
derofthe Armyof North-
ern Virginia will be re-
ceived.”

h will be observed that
Gen. Grant, in this let-
ter, manifested that del-
icate consideration for
his great a d v e r-a ry
which marked all his
suhse.|Ucnt conduct to-
ward him. He offered
1,. have the terms of the

arranged by
officers to be appointed
for the purpose by him-
self and ( ren. l.ee. I I

the latter the

and mortification of

conducting person ally

the arrangements for the

niy.

When Lord Cornwallis

opened hi- correspond-

■ with Gen. wash-

;ton. which ended in
rrenderat Yorktown, his lordship proposed that
two officers he appointed on each Bide to arrange terms
of surrender. This letter, ami ( lornwallis’ subs<

nation to attend the ceremony of the sum

of his army, deputizing Gen. < I’Hara to represent him,
slowed that he Bhrunk from sharing with hi- army
the humiliation of surrender. Gen.t .rant offered

ii opportunity to avoid the trial to which the
British commander felt himself unequal. But
Lee was made of different stuff It is not without in-
terest to recall what ■ ren I • i – father, I ight I
IImm Lee, in writing of “this episode, said that I

nothing with which Cornwallis could repi
himself nor his brave and faithful army, and by fail-
ing to appear at it- head in the day of misfortune, as

point agreeable to you,
for the purpose of arrang-

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ENTRANCE TO LOUDON PARK CEMETERY, BALTIMORE.

he had always dime in the .lay of triumph, the British
General dimmed the splendor of hia lung and brilliant
career. Little did the father think when he wrote
these wonls that he was marking the arduous path of
duty along which his son was one day to be railed
upon to walk. That son was worthy of such a father
and of Buch teaching. As I said on another occasion
of Gen. Lee’s conduct through the pain and humilia-
tion of his position, his great career about to close in
defeat, and all that he had done about to be made un-
availing, he saw the path of duty, and he trod it with
as firm a step and as brave a heart and as lofty a mein
ae if it had been the way of triumph.

The march was continued during the 8th of April
with little Interruption from the enemy, and in the
evening we halted near Appomattox Court House
Gen. Lee intending to march by way of Campbell
Court House through Pittsylvania County toward
Danville, with a view of opening communication with
the arm v of General Joseph E. Johnston, then retreat-
ing before Gen. Sherman through North Carolina.
Gen. Lee’e purpose was to unite with Gen. Johnston
to attack Sherman, or call Johnston to his aid in resist-
ing Grant, whichever might be found best. The ex-
hausted troops were halted for rest on the
evening of the 8th of April near Appo-
mattox Court House, and the march was
ordered to be resumed at 1 o’clock a. m.
1 can convey a good idea of the condition
of affairs by telling my own experience.

When the army halted on the night

of the Mh, General Lee and his staff

turned out of the road into a dense wood

!; some re-t. The ( leneral had a

conference with some of the principal offi-

eei-s.at which it was determined totryto

ur way the next morning with the

troope of i lor don, supported by the cav-
alry under Gen. Kit/.. Lee, tin- command
of Longstreet bringingup the rear. After-
ward we laid upon the ground near the
road, with our saddles for pillows, our
horses picketed near by, eating the bark
from thi’ trees for want of better proven-
der, our faces covered with the capes of
our overcoats to keep out the night air.
After 1 o’clock I was aroused by the

Bound ot a column of infantry marching;
along the road. We were so completely
surrounded by the swarming forces of
General Grant, that at first when I awoke
I thought the passing column might he-
Federal soldiers. I raised my head and
listened intently. My doubts were quickly
dispelled. 1 recognized these troops as
they passed along the road in the dead
of night by hearing one of them repeal
the Texan version of a passage of Script-
ure with which I was familiar — I mean
the Texan version. That version was as
follows:

“The race is nut to tliein that’s got

The longest legs to nm ;
Nor the battle to that people

That sheets the biggl si gun.”

This simple confession of faith assured
me that the immortal brigade of Hood’s
Texans was marching to battlein the dark.

Soon after they passed we were all astir, and our
bivouac was at an end. We made our simple toilet,
consisting mainly of putting on our caps and saddling
our horses. Somebody had a little corn meal, and
somebody else had a tin can, such as is used to hold
hot water for shaving. A fire was kindled, and each
man in his turn, according to rank and seniority,
made a can of corn meal gruel, and was allowed to
keep the can until the gruel became cool enough to
drink. General Lee, who reposed, as we had done,
not far from us, did not, as far as 1 remember, have
even such a refreshment as 1 have described. This
was our last meal in the Confederacy. Our next was
taken in the 1’nited States, and consisted mainly of a
generous portion of that noble American animal whose
strained relations with the great Chancellor of the
German Empire made it necessary at last for the
President of the United States to send an Ohio man to
the court of Berlin.

Genera] Cordon had already begun the attempt to
open the way, hut informed Ceneral Lee that it was
impossible to proceed farther. General Lee had
already written to Ceneral Grant, stating : ‘”1 cannot
meet vou with a view to surrender the Army of

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Northern Virginia ; but, so far as your proposal may
affect the Confederate Southern fonts under my com-
mand, and tend to the restoration of peace, I should
be pleased to meet you at 10 a. m., to-morrow, on the
old stage road to Richmond, between the picket lii
of the two armies.” No reply to this Letter had l>een
received on the morning of the 9th, and General I i
attended by myBelf and with one orderly, proceeded
down the old stage road to Richmond to meet < reneral
< rrant, and while riding to i he rear for this purpose he
received the message of General Gordon that his ad-
vance was impossible without reinforcements. We
rode through the rear guard of the army, composed of
the remnant of Longstreet’s corps. They had thrown
up substantial breastworks of logs across thi
leading to the rear, and cheered General Lei as he
passed in the way they had cheered many a tune be-
fore. Their confidence and enthusiasm were not i
whit abated by defeat, hunger and danger. A- soon

1 reneral Lee received the report of General Gordon
as to the state i. f affairs in front, he directed that oil
to ask tor a suspension of hostilities, and proceeded at
once to meet General < rrant.

General Lee, with an orderly in front bearings flag
of truce, had proceeded but a short distance after pass-
ing through our riar guard when we came upon the
Bkirmish Line of the enemy advancing to the attack.
1 went forward to meet a federal officer, who proved
to be Lieutenant Colonel Whittier. > Whittier

delivered to me < reneral < (rant’s reply to i . ■
letter of April 8th, declining to discus- the terms of a
general pacification, on the ground that ( ieneral Grant
possessed no authority to deal with the subject, < ien-
eral I.ee immediately sent a letter requesting an inter-
view for the purpose of arranging tie terms of sun
der. There were indications that the advance of the
Federals would booh get into a brush with our troops,
and I expressed to Colonel Whittier the hope that the
hostilities would he -u.-pelided until the letter reaehed

(ieneral Grant. Colonel Whittier soon afterward
ported that an attack had been ordered, but General
Meade, upon learning the nature of the note sent Gen-
eral Grant, assumed the responsibility of suspending
hostilities for one hour. 1 have said that as General
l.ee passed through his rear guard the men cheered
him as of old. They were the flower of the old Army
<<( Northern Virginia, and 1 felt quite sure that if the
officer commanding tin’ advancing federal troops
should consider himself bound by his orders to re1
my request for a suspension of hostilities until Gen-
eral Lee’s letter could reach (ieneral Grant, the rear
guard of the Army of Northern Virginia would secure
all the time necessary.

Colonel Babcock, of General Grant’s staff, soon ap-
peared with tie’ reply to (ieneral Lee’s note, He and
1 then rode to Appomattox Court House to secure a
suitable room for the meeting. This we found in the
house of a Mr. Mid. can, who had moved there. from
the battle-field of Bull Run to get out of the way of
the war.

General Lee, Colonel Babcock and myself sat in the
parlor of this house for about half an hour, when a
large party of mounted men arrived, and in a few
minutes (ieneral Grant came into the room, accompa-
nied by his staff and a number of Federal officers of
rank, among whom were General < >rd and (ieneral
Sheridan, (ieneral Grant greeted General fee very
civilly, and they engaged for a short time in conversa-

tion about their former acquaintance during the Mexi-
can war. Some other federal officers took part in the

conversation, which was terminated by General Lee
Baying to General Grant that he had come to dif
the t’rins of the surrender of his army, as indicated in

te of that morning, and hi’ suggested to Get
Grant to reduce his proposition to writing.
( i rant assented, and < ‘olonel Parker, of his staff, moved
a small table from the opposite side of the room, and
placed it by General Grant, who sat facing G

When ( ieneral Grant had written his letter in
pencil, he took it to (Ieneral Lee, who remained
seati d.

eral Lee read the letter, and called General
Grant .”ii to the fact that he required the

der of tl of the cavalry a- it thej

public horses. He told General (‘rant that Confed-
llrymen owned their horses, and that they
would need them for planting a spring cropt Gen-
eral < irani pted tie n. and inter-
lined the i i. allowing t lie retention by the men
of the horses tl iged to them. At the dire
of our superior ‘>;; | Parker made a copy
of thif in ink, and 1 wrote out (ieneral Lee 8
acceptance, both ol inkstand.
In the midst 1 Grant, who was
talking with < i urned to Gei

that he has gome 1,200
of our people i with his men,

ami that none of them have anyth iti How

many ration- can you B] J Sheridan

1. “About twenty-five thousand.” (ieneral <
turned to General Lee and said. il, will that be

enough?” General Lee replied, ” More than enough.”
Thereupoi oJ Grant said to General Sheridan.

” I (irect your commissary to send twenty-five thousand

nmissary.” (ieneral Sheri-
dan at once sent an officer to giv< the necessary orders.
When Coloml Parker had completed thecopyii

it down at tl little

table and wroti er. I have yet in

my possession the original draft of that answer. It
began: “1 have the honor to acknowledge.” General

truck out tin-, words and made the answei
as it now appears. His reason was that the c
pondence might not to appear as if he and (ieneral
Grant wen not in immediate communication. When
(ieneral < i rant had signed the copy of his letter I

by i olonel Parker, and General Lee had signed the

answer. Colonel Parker handed m J. Grant’s

letter, and I handed to him (ieneral Lee’s reply, and
the work was done. Some further conversation of a
general nature took place, in which (ieneral Grant
said to (ieneral fee that he had come to the meeting
a- he was. and without his Bword, because he did not
wish to detain lee until he could send hack

to his wagons, which were Beveral miles away. This
made by any one to the subject
of dress on that occasion. General Lee had prepared
elf forth Qg with more than usual care,

and was in full uniform, wearing a very handsome

sword and sash. This was, doubtless, the reas tf

eral (.rant’s reference to himself.

At last General I.e. took leave of General Grant.

saying that he would return to his headquarters and

mate the officers who were to act on our side in

arranging the details of the surrender. We mounted

our horses, which the orderly was holding in the yard,

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and rode away, a number of Federal officers standing
on the porch in front of the house looking at us.
When General Lee returned to his line a large number
of men gathered around him. to whom he annou
what had taken place, and the causes thai had ren-
dered the surrender necessary. Great emotion was
manifested by officers and men, bu1 love and sympa-
thy for their commander mastered every other feeling.
According to the reporl of the chief of ordnance,
less than 8,000 armed men surrendered, exclusive of
the cavalry. The others who were present were un-
armed, having been unable to carry their arms from
exhaustion and hunger. Many had fallen from the
ranks during the arduous march, and unarmed men
continued to arrive for several days after the surrender,
swelling the number of paroled prisoners greatly
beyond the actual effective force.

THE SOLDIER’S GRAVE.

COXFKDKRATF DISASTER AT NASHVILLE

AXOTHF.R LETTER FROM Co!.. W. J’. HALF. TO Ills WIFE
AFTER HOOD’S DEFEAT BEFORE NASHVILLE.

HY PEARL RIVERS.

Tread lightly, ’tis a soldier’s grave,

A lonely, mossy mound ;
And yet to hearts like mine and thine

It should he holy ground.

Speak softly, let no careless laugh.

No idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps

The hero in his rest.

For him no reveille will beat
When morning beams shall come;

For him, at night, no tattoo rolls
Its thunders from the drum.

* s- #

Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed,

Ere laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his native laud,

His gallant soul to God.

BEFORE RICHMOND.

[From the British Army and Navy Review, December, 1864.)

” Grant will hurl a thunderbolt
At the heart of the revolt; ”

We shall see!
Other men have tried and failed,
Other men have blenched and quailed,

Forcing Lee.

What though Jackson, dear to God,

Lies beneath the battle sod,

Dark and cold ‘.’
What though Stewart in earth is laid ;

He who won in rapid raid
Spurs of gold’.’

Longstreet in his anguish lies;
Tears are making soldiers’ eyes

Strangely dim ;
And we hold our breath and say,
“Does Death’s angel come this way,

SeekiiiL’ him ? ”

For the Lord of Hosts, who gave
These great men our land lo gave,

Knoueth best.
We to the last man shall light,
Doing battle for the right —

His the rest.

On, then, ( rrani ; we sec the gray,
Kill your myriads that ye may

Crush the free!
But ‘here are great deeds to do,
Ere your mercenary crew

Passes Lee.

-Mortimer t ‘ollins.

Headquabtkbs Stewabt’s Coin-.. Tupelo, Mis-.,
January 19, 1865. I now resume my story, and will
give you some account of our doings in front of Nash-
ville. We left Franklin on the second day after the
tight and moved on toward Nashville, our army in
mourning. When we got to .lohn Overton’s place I
saw some ladies by the roadside in high excitement.
and on riding up found them to be Mary Bradford,
Miss Maxwell. Miss May. Misses Becky Allison, Mary
lladley and Buck Coney. Mary lladley was married
to Maj. Clare, of the Staff of Gen. Hood, and was left
behind after her three days’ honeymoon. Our corps
then moved across to the Granny White Pike, through
Mr. Lea’s [dace, and went to Mrs. Johns’ house and es-
tablished headquarters there. Our first line was from
the Franklin Pike, near Mr. Vaulx’s, along the ridge
in front of father’s, by Montgomery’s house (burned
some time ago), across to the Hillsboro Pike, near Mr.
Rains’. This corps on the left, Lee in center, and
Cheatham on the right, extending over toward and
near to the Murfreeshoro pike. We remained thus for
two days, entrenching and building redoubts on our
left. The yanks were in line, plain in view along the
high ridge just back of Mr. Lawrence’s and in front of
Mrs. Acklin’s.

There was a force under Rousseau holding Murfrees-
horo which Gen. Hood was anxious to capture. He
detached the most of Forrest’s Cavalry and Bate’s Di-
vision to that work, hut they failed. Bate was then
ordered back, leaving Forrest. Here we remained
watching each other and entrenching as hard as we
could until the morning of the 15th of December.
On that morning about 9 o’clock it was reported to me
that the enemy were advancing in heavy force on the
Hillsboro pike and in front of Gen. Loring. Generals
French and Walthall had their troops in bivouac along
the east side of the Hillsboro Pike ready to move. I
informed Gen. Stewart, who mounted and rode to the
point, leaving me to keep my office open and send dis-
patches. I had a signal station, and sent dispatches
to Generals Hood, Lee and Cheatham, and received
others. In a short time the tiring began and grew
heavier as the enemy advanced. It was soon perceived
that his main attack would be here, as his whole army
appeared to he in our front. * * * They then
stormed and took redoubt 5, our forces being entirely
too small to keep them back. The reinforcements sent
to us did not arrive in time. Walthall’s troops, sta-
tioned along the pike in front of these works, were
then driven in ami the enemy were in the rear of Gen.
Loring, which, of course, compelled him to fall back,
as did the whole of our line, until dark. 1 remained
in my office until the yankees advanced to within
three hundred yards. I then mounted and made my
escape through the back yard with my clerks and
joined Gen. Stewart in front of Mr. Plater’s, where
Gen. Sears lost his life very near me. * * * As
our men fell back before the advancing yankees Mary
Bradford ran out under heavy fire and did all she
could to induce the men to stop and light, appealing
to them and begging them, but in vain — Deas’ brigade

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was here. Gen. Hood told me yesterday that he in-
tended to mention her courageous conduct in his re-
port, which will immortalize her. The men seemed
utterly lethargic and without interest in the battle. I
never witnessed such want of enthusiasm, and began
to fear for to-morrow, hoping that Gen. Hood would
retreat during the night, cross Duck River, and then
stop and fight; but lie would not give it up. How-
ever, he sent all his wagons to Franklin, which pre-
pared the men still more for the stampede of the next
day. * * * The enemy adapted their line to ours,
and about 9 a. m. began the attack on Cheatham, try-
ing all day to turn him and get in bis rear. They suc-
ceeded about 2 or 3 p. m. in gaining the pike behind
the gap, and in crossing got in the rear of Gen. Stew-
art’s headquarters, which were on the Bide of the knob

looking toward Nashville. We could see the whole

line in our front every move, advance, attack and
retreat. It was magnificent. What a grand Bight it
was! I could see the < apitol all day. and the chun hee
The yanks had three lines of battle everywhere I could
sec. and parks of artillery playing upon us and rain-
ing shot and shell for eight mortal hours. 1 could Bee
nearly every piece in our front, even the gunners at
work. They made several heavy assaults upon Gen.
Lee’s line near John Thompson’s, and one in front of
Mrs. Mullins”. At length, having trained oui
about 4 P. M. they made a vigorous assault upon the
whole line right and left. Bate gave way. am) they
poured over in clouds behind Walthall, which, of
course, forced him to give w a v. and then by brigades
the whole line from left to right, l.ee held on bravely
awhile longer than the center and left.

Here was a Bcene which I shall not attempt to de-
scribe, for it is impossible to give you any idea of an
army frightened and routed. Sonic brave effort was
made to rally the men and make a stand, but all control
over them was gone, and they flatly refused to stop,
throwing down their guns and, indeed, every thing
that impeded their flight, and every man tied for him-
self.

Reynolds’ Brigade was ordered to go to the right
just before the rout began, and got to where 1 was
when 1 halted it and got the General to form it in
line across the point of the knob just in the path of
the Hying mass, hoping to rally some men on this and
save the rest by gaining time tor all to come out of the
valley. Not ■ < man would stop.’ The First Tennessi i
came by, and its Colonel, House, was the only man
who would stop with us, and finding none of his men
willing to stand, he, too. went on his way. As soon
as I found all was lost, ami the enemy closing in
around us, 1 sent a courier to Gen. Stewart, who had
gone to Gen. Hood’s headquarters in the rear of Lea’s
house, to inform him of the fact, that he might save
himself. This courier was mortally wounded, and left
at Franklin. Finding the enemy closing in around
us. ami all indeed gone, 1 ordered the couriers and
clerks who were there to follow me, and we rode as
fast as we could to where 1 thought Gen. Stewart and
Gen. Hood were. They were gone, ami in their plai es
were the yankees. 1 turned my horse’s head toward
the steep knobs and spurred away. It was the only
chance o( escape left. The first place I struck the
hill was too steep for any horse to climb, and 1 skirted
along the hills hoping to find some place easier of as-
cent, hut none seemed to exist. Finally 1 reached a
place not bo step, and in the midst of thousands of

retreating soldiers 1 turned my horse’s head for the
i-i cut. resolved to try it. The bullets began to come
thick and last. Now. I found my saddle nearly off,
and was forced to get down, but on 1 went on foot.
All along the poor, frightened fellows were crying out
to me, “Let me hold on to your stirrup, for God’s
sake.” “Give me your hand and help me, if you
please.” Some were wounded, and many exhausted
from anxiety and over-exertion. On 1 struggled until
I. too. became exhausted and unable to move. By
tin- time the enemy had gotten to ihe toot of the hill
and were tiring at US freely. What was 1 to do
twisted my hand in my horse’s mane and was borne
to the top of the hill by the noble animal, more dead
alive. 1 wa- safe, though, and so were my men.
We descended the southern slope ami entered the deep
valley, whose shade- were darkened by approaching
night. The woods were tilled with our retreating men.
1 joined the crowd and finally made my way to the
Franklin Pike, where 1 found Gen. Stewart, who was

much relieved, for I had been reported as certainly
killed or captured. All night long we tied. The
Harpcth wa- crossed and a few hours of rest allowed.

when we started on lor Columbia, then Pulaski, and
then Bainbridge, lour miles above Florence. Every
mind was haunted by the apprehension that we did
not have boats enough to make a bridge. On we
marched, through ice and rain an.) snow, sleeping on
the wet ground at night. Many thousand- were bare-
footed, actually leaving the prints of blood upon the
ground, as the enemy pressed u- in the icar. When
• it the |dke at Pulaski we had an awful road,
strewn with dead horses and mules, broken wagons,
and worse than all. broken pontoons. We counted,

as we passed them, one. two, three, to fifteen.

Thus we toiled ..n. till Christmas day, cold, drizzly
and muddy we camped on the bank ot Shoal (reek,
and our cups formed line of battle to protect the rear
and let all cross, if the bridge could be made Roddy
bad captured the enemy’s pontoon- at Pe, atur, and

they were Boated down over the shoals. The bridge

Was made and the crossing began. Then cane the
tight with the gun-boats, which tried to destroy our
bridge. They were driven back and wecrOSSed. “All
i- well that ends well.” Every wagon, every cannon,
every horse, every mule, the hog-, beeves, cavalry, in-
fantry, and finally every Bcout crossed over. The re-
treat continued to this place, and here we are. daily
expecting orders. There were many things in this
memorable campaign never to be forgotten. I shall
never forget the passage of Duck River — Washii
rig the Delaware was insignificant.

1 wish 1 could send you something, my darling, but
von know 1 have no ‘means. 1 do not despair, but
hope to send you and the little fellows a lew things
some of these days.

General Hood has been relieve, 1 ami Taylor is in
command. What next ”

Jno. W. Dyer. Sturgis. Ky.: Allow me to «•■
my appreciation of the not crumbs, but solid. Bquare
meals of satisfaction I have enjoyed by reason ot’ the
Y i i i R w for the year past. May the good Ford pros-
per the Veteran and those int< in it. We old
Confederates only can know how dear the reminis-
cences ami acts of fortitude, heroism and bravery
recorded on its pages are to those who participated in
them.

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

JThe (Confederate U etc van.

One Dollar a Year. S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor.

Office at The American, Corner Church ami Cherry sis.

This publication i^ the personal property <>f S. A. Cunningham,
rsone who approve such publication, and realize i i ^ i,,
as an organ tor associations throughout the South, are requested to
commend lis patronage aud to co-operate In extending it.

RECORD OF CONFEDERATE DEFEAT.

Tins issue of the Veteran contains two interesting
papers. The one from Col. Charles Marshall aboul
the surrender of General Lee will be perused with
pathetic interest. His vivid and certainly accurate
report may be embodied in the history of both sides.
The chief of Staff to General Grant would hardly
wish to pay finer tribute to him than Colonel Marshall
has paid. An interesting bit of history already ac-
‘i pted by millions of people is changed so us to honor

General Lee first c terning the horses. He ob-

I to the surrender of them to the United States
Government, explaining that they were the per-
sonal property of his soldiers. It was then thai Gen-
eral Grant is supposed to have said. “The hoys will
need their horses to make a crop.” < Irant’s deference
i” I reneral Lee in explaining that he was not willing
to keep him waiting while he could have sent for his
sword was worthy the spirit of a great man. The
Southern people are gratified that Colonel Marshall is
so honored a living witness to that historic event.

It is a more courageous thing to print the letter of
Colonel ( lale than has often come to the Veteran. In
it the Confederate soldiers engaged under Hood, from
perhaps every Southern State, an- reported as running
from the enemy and being utterly stampeded. It is
the truth, but they can stand the reputation. Aye,
they had established enough of courage, endurance
and undying glory. The Federal army at both places
realized their incomparable advantages, and it ani-
mated their cowards even to press on to the front.
It was time for every fellow to redeem his reputation.

The situation of the army in front of Nashville was
extraordinary. We were on a range of hills near the
Granny White pike, and so situated that for more
than a mile to our extreme left the overwhelming
forces of the enemy could be seen pressing our flank
in so that each private soldier could see for himself

that (Hir only avenue for retreat would soon be cut oil’.

The Federal army overwhelmed us. My personal ex-
perience is as vivid as anything in life. ( )ur line was
broken only a few yards to my right, and the prospect
of getting out was so hopeless that my immediate
companions refused to undertake to retreat, ami re-
mained there to surrender. I had gone about an
hundred yards, when 1 stopped and, turning upon a
handsome young Federal, was about to fire upon him
and stopped, with the sentiment that he was ton brave
to he killed, and just then he “pulled down” on one

of our fellows, when with quick, careful aim I tired
once more for ray home and native land.

That awful, awful day! Hood’s army was crushed
at Franklin, and his soldiers, in going on ami on. Buf-
fering all that is possible, did it almost without hope;
but they would have died a thousand deaths rather
than be untrue. No apologies are offered for the rout
from before Nashville. No braver and truer men ever
existed, ami the remnant yet alive care not for the
record of thai day. They realize that man is not om-
nipotent.

CALL OF COMRADES TO DUTY

A lady writes that she has an article in her scrap
book that she will send to the Y ETERAN if wanted, and
if not she will send it to ” the other publication.”

Rivalry in journalism begets ill feeling, and the
general conclusion is that the controversies come of
business encroachments. If the Veteran has ever
lost a dollar or a cent because of that ” other publica-
tion ” I do not know it. But its relation to the South-
ern people, who arc not only zealous but enthusiastic
for it, imposes a duty that will be performed regardless
of consequence-.

The use of the word “Confederate” in a periodical
publication should engage an active interest by every
man and woman to whom it is sacred. The Confed-
erate Veteran was started specifically to give the
public knowledge of moneys received by me as agent
t’orthe Davis Monument. My appointment to that
important position was made by the Executive Com-
mittee of the Southern Press Association, and I
assumed use of the name because I was a Confederate
soldier, and every instinct of my nature was of defer-
ence and honor to the spirit embodied in it.

To the thousands of noble men and women in every
Southern State, who have been so zealous for the VET-
ERAN, 1 appeal concerning a principle that is of con-
cern to us all. Soon after the popularity of the VET-
ERAN was established a combination was formed
whereby the word <: Confederate ” was to be prefixed
to a monthly half this size for republishing some
blood and thunder pictures gotten out in New York
during the war. It was started in deceit and falsehood,
and has been so continued. To emphasize the situa-
tion, I will write of my own record and then repeat
what has been already published of the others who ask
Confederates for pat ronage,

1 am a. native Tennessean, was a volunteer soldier
in the Forty-first Tennessee Infantry. I did my
whole duty. I don’t remember an engagement with
tin’ enemy in which any soldier or officer went farther
than I did, except at Franklin, where a few got over
the last entrenchment, but 1 did more effective light-
ing from the t mbankment. In the battle of .lonesboro,
where we faced two lines of infantry behind breast-

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works, one above the other, on a hill in the woods, the
most awful firing of small arms that I ever heard, I
had advanced beyond :ill my fellows, not realizing
that they had fallen hack. On seeing that I was
within about seventy yards of a thousand men. each of
whom could have killed me in a twinkling, 1 saw near
me Lieut. W. s. Bearden, commander of his company,
standing by a small tree, the Mood pouring from a
hole in his trousers above the knee. I assisted in his
support to the rear, and went in again, leaving otl
to care for him, [ He is :i true man in every sense, and
at present an able Chancellor in Middle Tennes
An elaborate official report kindly sent me recently
by Dr. S. II. Stout, Medical Examiner of the West
Army, begins with the killing in that battle of my
Lieutenant. Hardy Jones, and the wounding of Lieu-
tenant Bearden.] I never held a commission, but was
Corporal, First Sergeant, and served as ; til Major

of my regiment Once 1 was ordered to wear a sword
and take eomn mid of two companies in an important
task. There was no hoy soldier in the command bet-
ter known, perhaps, and to thi B( ?i ie rans 1 submit for
testimony. Because I was”so small, and a good sol-
dier,” by special favor of my Colonel, J. D.Tillman,
now a hanker and lawyer at Fayettex ille. Tenn,. I was
permitted to carry a short Enfield rifle. However, it

was an effective gun— it was submerged in hi 1 at

Franklin. I was faithful through the war, and if I
ever fail murder me, cover me in a ditch and mark
not the spot. Now for the Frank Leslie:

A. Confederate Lieutenant Colonel was so unpopu-
lar that he was not I’e-ele. ted. hilt left out to gO ill

the ranks because of his , who through political

favoritism secured an appointment as Brigadier <
eral, and was put in command of brave men. Theii
testimony is that he left them under fire, never to be
seen again except on Post duty at the rear. Continued
preferment from a political source secured to this man
a position in the War Records office at Washington.
This position enabled him to control in a great m<
nre publications there that would have placed him in
a had light, and so there was good reason for securing
to him this position, Authors and witness) – of tin-.
reports are yet living, and will bear testimony at any
time. Think Ol the insolence to the Southern people

of this man engaging with the Frank Leslies to repro-
duce their filthy, falsifying pictures under the name
” Confederate,” and engaging a trusted Republican,
who removed from the North to Kentucky, so as to
locate it at “Lexington. Ky.,” as well as New York.
That feature takes SO well that they recently trans-
posed publication offices, and put Lexington. Ken-
tucky first.

The enterprising LaBree, who is to publish that
wonderful hook, ” The ( lonfederate Soldier in the Civil
War,” and claims to be “the most capable person liv-

ing for that work.” advertises himself in that circular
as the editor i I onfederate”(?) war journal.

Now . comrade-, brothers, 1 call upon you to do your

duty. Help me to expose this falsity and hypocrisy.
Your adoption of tic VETERAN as your organ was
good; hut ought you not to formally repudiate that
New York sheet with a Kentucky imprint ‘.’ Some of
you are negligent, and your newspapers publish
long advertisements of that falsifying thing. Even
the ‘ i/, the editor of which I know is my
friend, has, on tw asions, in its local department,

w hen asked questions about w here the CONFEDERATE

Veteran is published, replied, at Lexington, Ky.

I his is the last notice referred

< ‘ wen, \. 1 1. i , n called the CoNl i i

Where is it publial T. \\

We understand thai there is such a paper pul l.cx-

Ky.

These things come from harmful lack i

I ■ I ■■■■ ery ( lamp of Confi tat an Historial

Committee look- into this matter, ami it I represent

corn ■ that the vile si Vou

take my statenn lit lOtiveS, I know.

but if you suspect mistake by me, interrogate rigidly,
and 1 will n : all

of this infamy to be exposed by me. If

faithful comrade, who marched and fought
and suffered with you while these old war plates w
being made— which should be thrown into Vesuvius
should be sustained, Bay so. < otherwise declare against
it. I beg you, comrades, to give this attentioi
you go to Birmingham, Cany or -end such commen-
dations to that me. tine as you think you Ought.
Months ago 1 told yon that certain prominent men
would commend that sheet. That prophecy was ful-
filled before the Veteran’s expOsi in December. It
came ol’ desire for press favor- Such is natural,
■l -ii ill know that I hive honored our Cont’d!

-fully, although the Veteran ha- been the
special channel for private soldiere’ experiences but
I d( ‘la re now. that by tin memory of our dead, sacred
only second to the memory of the world’s Savior, that
1 shall defer to no man’s rank, now or In , in

the performance of duty. If you believe in tin \

\ goto Birmingham prepared to speak for it. If
you doni go believe, repudiate it. < >f one thing
assured, I shall not swerve from my duty to my people
foi money nor from peril. For the indorsement of so

-amis I bow in meekness, and will pi
with vigor on in their service as lam capable of know-
ing my duty. I f these fellows will tell the truth about
themselves and what they are doing, the Veteran will

let them alone. This slimy scheme to make money,
if successful, would be a disgrace to our people.
If you patronize that thing you force the Y i
into comparison with not only what is worse than de-
sertion, but with a crowd chuckling over the gulli-
bility of our people. Take up the Blue and Gray if

you will, take the Bu i: by itself, a thousand times
rather than contribute to that which is an insult to
every holy memory.

5°

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

THE SOVTH IS AMERICA*.

Joshua W. Caldwell, in the Arena, furnishes some
remarkable statistics. Extracts from his article:

The war ended twenty-eight years ago, but it is still
the habit of the North to think of the people of the
States which attempted to secede as enemies of the
Qnion and of the Constitution. * * * It is one of
the hopeful signs of the times that throughout the
South there is a positive and growing interest in his-
torical research. * The founders of Virginia
and of the other Southern colonies were average nun
and women of the seventeenth and eighteenth centu-
ries, and had their Cull share of the vices and their full
share of the virtues of the times. * *

of all the British colonies Virginia was the most
English. In blood the Virginians were not more En-
glish than the Puritans, but they held to the English
forms and methods, social, political, and religious,
whereas the New Knglanders attempted to set up a
theocracy which should realize the ideals of the Puri-
tans of old England and of the Covenanters of Scot-
land. In Virginia institutions were as English as the
people. * * *

Maseai husetts and Virginia appear to have been es-
sentially unlike, hut in reality a likeness was essential.
Their people were of the same race, and had the same
conception of liberty and the same love of liberty.
In the end they two were to lead all the other colonies
to the establishment of their common principles. * *
Massachusetts was turbulent, Virginia placid; but
when the time came Virginia was as quick as her
Northern sister to declare for freedom. When Massa-
chusetts defied England it was George Washington, of
Virginia, who declared that to aid her he was ready to
raise and subsist a regiment at his own expense. If
Massachusetts gave Otis, Hancock, Adams, to the good
cause, Virginia gave Randolph, Marshall, Madison,
Jefferson and Washington. Thus it appears that Vir-
ginia, the typical and dominant Southern colony, bore,
in the struggle for independence, a part no less trying,
no less important, no less honorable, than Massachu-
setts. As Virginia had been the richest and most in-
fluential of the Southern colonies, she became the con-
trolling Southern State. Indeed, for a time she led all
the States of the (“nion, but gradually the larger North-
ern States outgrew her in population and in wealth.

* # :|: * * * * * *

The Puritan influences of New England and the
Dutch influences of New York never reached the Car-
olinas nor Georgia, but overall of them the Virginia
influence was supreme. Socially, politically, and re-
ligiously the Southern colonies were of the same type;
and it was mainly, almost exclusively, Virginia and the
Virginians that shaped their institutions and deter-
mined the character and quality of their civilization.

The Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the South has never
been overcome. So far as other white races are con-
cerned, it has never been threatened. The white pop-
ulation has always been American and homogeneous.

¥ % % sf* -£ •[‘■ A : -fc #

New York is more Jewish than Jerusalem ever was;
more German, probably, than any city except Berlin:
more Irish than any except Dublin ; more Italian than
any except Naples. Chicago is American only in ge-
ography and politics. Of the fifteen million descend-

ant- of the Puritans, Boston retains very few; and
New England has been so overrun by French Canadi-
ans that recently it is reported that some of them had,
in an outburst of Gallic enthusiasm, proposed the es-
tablishment of a new Latin republic, with Boston as
n- capital. But statistics are more convincing than
general statements. In order to show how thoroughly
American the population of the Southern States is, I
present the following statistics, taken fresh from our
new census. I confine my attention to the white pop-
ulation and omit the odd hundreds.

According to the census of L890 there were for every
100,000 native born Americans 17,330 foreign born.
The State .if New York has 4,400,000 native and 1,600,-
000 foreign bom citizens, being 35,000 foreign for every
100,000 native. In Illinois for each 100,000 native
born citizens there are 28.2oi i foreign born; in Michi-
gan, 35,000; in Wisconsin, 44,400; in Minnesota, 56,-
600; in Montana. 18,400; in North Dakota, 80,400.

When we turn to the Southern State- the contrast
is impressive. The white population of Tennessee is
1,336,000, and of this number 20,029 are foreign born;
that is to say, for each 100,000 native born whites
there are 1,500 foreign born. North Carolina is the
most American of all the States, having a native born
white population of 1,055,000, and foreign born of
3,702, or for each 100.000 native born 370 foreign born.
In the other Southern States the figures are as follows :

Native. Foreign.

Alabama 833,000 15,000

Arkansas 818,000 14 0(10

Florida 225,000 22,000

Georgia 078 000 12,000

Kentucky 1,000,000 50,000

Mississippi 545,000 8,(100

Louisiana 558,000 40,000

South Carolina 462,000 6,000

Texas 1,700,000 152,000

Virginia 1,000,000 18,000

West Virginia 730,000 1 8.000

The total foreign born white population of the South
is about 380,000.

Massachusetts alone has a foreign born population
of 657,000; New Jersey. 32H.O0O, or nearly as many as
the whole South; New York, nearly 1,(>(H),000, or four
times as many as the South; Pennsylvania. ,845,000;
Ohio, 459.000, or more than the entire South ; Illinois.
sl-2,000; Michigan and Wisconsin, each over 500.000;
Minnesota, nearly 500,000; and California, 366,000.

If we omit Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas, the lit-
tle State of Connecticut has (iO,0(IO more foreigners
than all the remainder of the South; and wee Rhode
Island, as large as an average county, has within 14,1 100
as many foreigners as the entire South, omitting the
three Stales named. * * *

The proportion of adult men among immigrants is
much larger than in settled societies. For instance,
of the 1,571,000 foreign horn citizens of New York,
1,084,000 are voters I that is, of voting age), while of
4,000,000 native born citizens only 1,769,000 are voters.
In percentages the foreign born vote of New York is
38.73; Illinois, 36.39; Michigan, 10.22; Wisconsin.
52.93; Minnesota, 58.55 ; North Dakota, 64.89; Nevada,
51 II : California. 50.21.

These are foreign countries, and it is a positive re-
lief to turn to the South and feel that there are still
some Americans left. The percentage of foreign born
voters in some of the Southern States is as follows:

Tennessee, 3 percent; Kentucky. 7: Alabama, 2.50;
Mississippi, 2; Louisiana, 10; Texas, 14; Arkansas, 3;

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Virginia, 3; West Virginia, 5 : North Carolina. 0.61]
South Carolina, 2; Florida, 11: Georgia, -. I have
used the word “voters” to describe the class of immi-
grants last referred to. It is not a fact, however, thai
they all are voters: more than a million of them .ire
aliens, and thirty two per cent of these foreign Amer-
icans cannot speak the English language.

A comparison of census reports for I860, 3 v 7< ‘. 1880,
and 1890 shows that in none of the Southern States
except Kentucky, with the large city of Louisville.
Louisiana, with the large city of New Orleans, and
Texas, lying upon the Mexican frontier has there
been any increase of foreign population since I860.
We know that there was oone before that time ‘lie
white people of the South arc almost exclusively the
descendants of the Americans of 177″‘. Upon the
other hand, it is safe to say that of the males of VOtil
age in the Northern and Northwestern States, not lees
than fifty per cent are foreign born, or the sons of for-
eign born parents.

The white people of the Smith are nut only Ameri-
can, they are. in the main, the descendants <>f a race
which from the days of Tacitus has been known in
the world’s history as the exemplar and champion of
persona] purity, personal independence, and political
liberty. For them no life but one of freedom is possi-
ble, and can never believe that the hybrid population
of Russians, Poles. Italians, Hungarians, which tills mi
many Northern cities and States, has the same love

for our country, the same love of liberty, as have tie

Anglo-Saxon Southerners, whose fathers have always
been free. The strongest, most concentrated force of

Americanism is in the South, and Americanism is tie

highest form of Anglo-Saxon civilization. There is no
part of the globe, except the kingdom of England,
which is so thoroughly Anglo-Saxon as the South.

But it will lie said, admitting that the South is
American, and has preserved the Anglo-Saxon trait-,
nevertheless a war was necessary to keep her in the
Union. To this matter my own inclinations, no 1
than limitations of space, require me to refer very
briefly.

The excellence of the American Union is in the
principles upon which it is established — that is to say.
in the Constitution. Surely no man will say that it
is more important to preserve the physical integrity
of the Union than the principles of the Constitution.
We claim for the South, in the war between the states.
absolute good faith. Whether she was right or wrong,
the impartial judgment of the future will fairly deter-
mine. I affirm that the South has been, from the first,
absolutely faithful to the principles of the Constitu-
tion, as she in good faith construed it. Let me indi-
cate briefly the extent of her participation in the form-
ation of the Constitution and the establishment of the
Republic. It is correctly said by a Southern states-
man that the Constitution was “adopted and promul-
gated by a convention in which Southern influences
predominated.” The heading of one of Bancroft’s
chapters is, ” Virginia Statesmen Lead Toward a Let-
ter Union.”

Virginia did lead the movement for the establish-
ment of the Constitution, and the reader who wishes
to know the extent of the influence of George Wash-
ington, of Virginia, in this movement, is referred to
the pages of John Kiskc. of New England. Rutledge
and Pinckney, of South Carolina, were the most im-
portant contributors to the form, a- to the substance,

of the Constitution, with theexception of -lames Mad-
ison, of Virginia, who justly hears the name of ” Father
of the Constitution.”‘ The Bill of Rights is mainly
the work of Thomas Jefferson.

Luring the first century of our national life South-
ern statesmen held the Presidency and shaped the
policy of the Government. They acquired Florida.
and extended our domain to the Rio Grande and to
the Pacific. The Constitution was first construed by
John Marshall, of Virginia. The school of strict con-
structionists, « hich made a fetich of the Constitution,
was founded ami supported by Southern men. When
the Southern Confederacy was formed it adopted as
ganic law the old « Constitution, unchanged in any
essential resp< 1 t

There ia no fact nor logic which can prove that the
South ever deviated from her fealty to the Constitu-
tion, or ever shed a drop of blood except in defei
its principles as she 1 ocstrued it.

Tic w .11 construed the Constitution, and the South
has in good faith and unreservedly accepted every le-
gitimate rcMi’t of thi war. No man who is le
and who js adequately informed will say thai her peo-
ple are not absolutely loyal to the Union and the Con-
stitution. I go further, and affirm thai in the troubles
which the future is Bure to bring, the principles and
the institutions of American liberty will rind their
mosi loyal and steadfast support in the twelve millions
of Southern Anglo-Saxon Americans.

THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN -A TOUCHING INCIDENT.

l:\ \ B. I t\. SPRINGFIELD, HO.

It was on Sunday, May 3, 1863, while Lee at Chan-
cellorsville was hurling his heroic and victorious bat-
talions against the dense masses “f Hooker, that
wick, with the deign of falling upon Lee*s rear,
crossed the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg with his
magnificent Sixth Corps, 20,000 strong, and marched
hurriedly along the Fredericksburg and Orange Court
House plank road, following the retreating brigade of
Alabamians, under command of • Gen. C. M. Wilcox,
who had attended the military school at West Point
with General Sedgewick.

Wilcox’s brigade numbered leSE than 3,000 effi
men. while his antagonist wa*fe the flower of all the
corps embracing the Federal Army of the Potomac.
numbering not less than 20,000. Against this ho-t ot
veterans it would seem worse than folly to make any
show of resistance, but the glorious Wilcox had un-
bounded faith in the heroism and courage of his oft-
tried Alabamians. and relying upon their unfaltering
devotion and determination to conquer or die in tip-
holding the righteous cause they had espoused, halted
his small command at Salem Church, a large brick
edifice, about four miles west of Fredericksburg, on
the south side of the plank road. Just west some
thirty yard- from tin- church was drawn up in line of
battle the Tenth Alabama, supported by the Eighth a
few paces to the rear of the Tenth, their left resting
near the mad. Immediately across the road lay the
Eleventh, my own company in it, near the road, and
to the left or north lay the Ninth and Fourteenth
Regiments. The ground in front of the Tenth was
clear of underbrush. A grove of oak timber sur-
rounded the church, in which had been posted a Bmall

52

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

squad of sharpshooters, who did irreat execution in
the battle which followed.

This was the Spartan hand of bronzed braves which
was tosave the rear of Lee’s victorious legions from
an attack by an army nearly as large as thai with
which he was driving back the shattered hosts of
Hooker, and nobly did they do their duty.

In fronl of my nun regiment was a thin brush fence
about waist high ; outside of that was a skirt of tim-
ber — iak, gum, etc.- -with some undergrowth. While
we thus lay, waiting and watching, about t o’clock p

m. a magnificent scene burst up »ur view in the

open Held beyond the skirt of timber in our front.
Fhe -round in our fronl sloped gently from us. and’
up tins irentle slope approached the dense columns of
blue with steady tread, with banners fluttering and
nmg stee] glimmering in the sunlight. Three

columns deep this array pressed u] the -mail Land

ot he,-,,,- before them, little dreaming that in a few
•”•” ; moments they would be hurled hack with fearful
havoc to then- shelter beyond the Rappahannock.

General .Wilcox had ordered us to withhold our fire
until we could look into the eves of our enemy, which
order was literally obeyed. The first assaulting line
approached fc within twenty paces, when we rose and
poured a deadly hailstorm of lead into it. which was
-o destructive that our fire was not returned, and that
first column disappeared. The second column ad-
vanced with unbroken front, and met the fate ol’ the
first; and s,, the third, and as we poured our minies
into the serried ranks our line bounded forward and
swept the entire Federal corps from the field, killing
wounding and capturing thousands.

That nighl Sedgewick recrossed the river in the
darkness. The magnificent fighting of this little brig-
ade and good generalship of Wilcox saved Lee fro in
a rear attack and enabled him to inflict a terrible de-
feat upon Hooker, with his large army. It is strange
that so little attention has been given to this impor-
tant battle by historian-.

I now come to a touching incident in this battle:
As the last assaulting column of blue approached,
Capt. John P.. Rains, commander of our company | A i,
was patting me on the shoulder and repeatedly saying’
as I loaded my Springfield rifle as rapidly as possible!
“Give ’em h . Xeclham ; give ’em h— — !” , Need-
ham is my first name.. Suddenly an officer, mounted
on a line, swift horse, aame at a racing run along the
plank road from theyankee lines, and it seemed that
I was the first one to notice him. and I called to the
boys to •■shoot the man on the horse,” at the same
time liring obliquely toward him. The gallant fellow
reeled am I fell a corpse on the hard plank of the road.
H” borse turned and ran to the rear. After the bat-
tle was over, and we returned to the bloody ground

where we made the stand. Captain Rains, I and
others went to where the dead officer lav, whom Cap-
tain Kains recognized as a schoolmate ‘of his at the
Philadelphia Law School. The gallant Captain burst
mi” tears over the fate of his old-time friend, lie
was i olonelofa Pennsylvania regiment, but I have
forgotten his name. Several of the boys fired al the
Same time. -,, none of us knew who sent the fatal ball
and I am glad of it.

Gen. John C. Underwood, Chicago: 1 am glad t<>

learn that you have increased t he subscription price
of your valuable paper to 81 per annum, and herewith
inclose to you my check.

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERAN CAMP8.

>B Gordon, General Commanding Ulanta on

Hal Gen Geo Moorman, id l and Chtel ol Bt^NewOrleans La.

ALABAMA.

M ; ,’/ ” ! •■;’ P I ■’• rguspn, Commai r Moi.Utomerv

SS^EE ne’rit™* ‘ 8 *” – ” S!

rem
Jno M McKleroj . Brigs

POSTOFFICB.

Aim, i PO

Inntston

‘ A MI ‘- NO. ,,i i n

Cap! \v \ Handle; 851. \i v Mniiins. n a limn

CampMlller S85…W II McCordl AstrSS

1 ■ Martin, E T Clark

Alexandria .Alexandria
Alexander! Its Lee

Andalusia . ,

101 R M Thomas, A a smith

Harper 266 j,„,. p. Thomas, I. M.Robln-

AnniM ” n Peluam 258 John ll ia\ r, McKleroy 1 w. h.

••••Henry p. Clayton …827. A S^s/ockdaJe. 1
. si. i talr.

Ashvllle

Alliens -I’ll, is I. Hobba

Auburn lubui a

..in | , i ••- 1 1
08 John w. [nger,Jas. D. Truss

Bessemer…,
Birmingham .

la i-i-ip.,1 1

‘ . mden

Carrollton ….
Carthage..
Coal burs
Dade^ 111,

I iessemer…,
w .1 Hardee

JO W’l !

.Franklin K. Beck…224
Camp Pick, a

. .HHI

2«0.

-Ion,

O. D. Smith, James II. Lane
w. B, Jones, N. ll. Sewall
l; i: Jones, P K McMlller
‘• ll Johnson, I:. A. Junes
K. Qalllard, J. P. Poster
M. L. Stansel, I’.. Upchurch

r v ‘”” 89 JnoS Powi i-. .1 \. Kiia.n

Frank Cheatham ,. 134 .1 n Brock, Jas W Bai

■a 3 w i Mcintosh, Win. I.. Havre
359 W !■ Howell, TJ Hurl, ,n

” j Oeo. ii- 1 p. h. Mil

138 l’l> Bowles,

298 a. M. O’Neal, J, VI. Crow
.203.. J N i ia \ i, K,, I,, .\ P McCartney
.275 -Ins. \ i u ■ m, Jos. It. Hug

1 rawf-Kimbal

Bdwardsvllle ..Camp Wiggonton

Eutaw Banders..

Evergreen Capl Wm Lee

Florence E. A, I I’Neal

Perl I ij in , w \ i Bti s

Gadsden Emma Sanson’.

■ ville i- ii ii r, i n no

asboro \ lien i ‘. Jones

1 Ireenvilie Bam’l I. Adams

Uuin Ex r, di rati

Guntersville Mont. Gilbreath…

..Mao, ,n i oiini \

.Friendship

..Egbert .1 Jones .
Col. .las. B. Martin

.A. A. Greene

‘ tamp Sumter
Low’rPeachtree.R II G Gaines
Lowndesboro …T J Bullock

Marlon I w Barren ‘.’.””

Madison sta \ a Russell

Mobile Raphael Bern s.

Mnnroevil rge w Poster

Mutitsuniery I.mnax

Gpellka I County.

Oxford Camp Lee

8? arh Ozark

Piedmont Camp Stewart

ivain’s Min Robert i: Lee
Roanoke. \ikcii-sniii h

Hamilton
Hartselle

Hmitsvilh- ….

Jacksonville.

LaFayette

Livings ti

Robinson Spr

Rockford

Bcottsboro

Beale

Selma

4II…BF Wood, G W K Bell
206 a. M. Avery, E. T. Pasti
d Crenshaw, F E Dey
. w N Halsey

R TC s..i i, Burke

346 A .1 Hamilton, .1 F Hamilton
383 Man K Malian, T .1 Simpson
3o7 Geo. P. Turner, \V M Ersklne
..292.. .1. II. i laldwell, I.. W. Grant
310 .1. J. RobiiiM.ni, Geo. 11. Hliiek

.. ■’■’■ ;- i: i bapman,

370 .nil i’,, nis. n .i McConnell

…'(.’11. …I I. Hlnson, CD W’l, an

. 2, 7. …I Cal Moore, Thomas Hudson

108 w T Garner, Robl E Wl
.. ii Ti,,,s t Roche, arm E Mlckle
w W McMillan, l> I. N. \ tile
,.151…Emmetl Lionels, .1 ll HIgglns
all R Mi Ireene, J, Q. Burton
..:.’; i Thus ii Barry, John T Pearoa

880 ..W R Painter. .1 I. Williams
..378 -I N Hood, I. Ferguson
.lini Fearce, F M Clark
.W. A. Handley, B. M. McCon-

naghy
I E Jones, \v n Whetstone
,F. L. Smith, W. T. Johnson
I II Voung, .1 P Harris
R. II. Bellamy, I’. A. Greene
‘l’h, ,s p Whitby, Bdw PGalt
A. W. Woodall, w J, Sprulell
A J Thompson, J LSI rlckland
\ T Hooks, J M Pelbam
Ed Moi row, It B Cater
W .1 Rhodes, 1 T Dye
■ las N Callahan, Geo B Hail

• James Deshler 818.. A. II. Keller, i. p. Guy

‘ ■'””i’ g°dcs 282 .AC Hargrove, A P Prince

,’.'””i’ Ruffln 820… W.D.Henderson, L.H.Bowles

1 Calema 129… .CCCarr

v ;:, ;;;”■’ ‘■'””‘ ”-s'” m K – WeIls ■’■ A – Mitchell

™, ,’ , ,: CampONeal 858…J PYoung.TM W s

W • I u .’•’, ‘:'””.” V ‘,'”””> 265 .1. F. Manll. Hal T. Walker

wedowee Randolph 816…C. C. Knlue. H. s. Pate

ARKANSAS.

Min ‘,,,, ii m Moore, Commander p or | Smith

i!,’ , m r’.”,.Ti’iV. l, ‘” : ‘;” General and Cblei ofStaflf Van Bun .,

jno m Hai i, ii. Brigadier General
J M Bobart, Brigadier < leneral

POSTOFI hi. OAMP,

A-lma Cabell

Benton David 0. Dmld .,

Bentonvllle lamp Cabell

Boonevllle Camp Evans

1 ei iv Polnl Haller.

1 iharleBton Pal I He -m-

Conway i,n Davis

Hayettevllle w. n. Brooks

Fori Smith 11,-n t DuVal

..Tom McKelthen ..

.Henry w. i ,,\
N ii Forresl
..lames F. Wadil, II
Catesby R Jones..
Springs ill.- . S|,nii„\ ilk

sln,ll ‘l Camp McLeroy

si. Stephens ■ • ■ i ■ ■ ■ James

Summerfleld I tol. G»rr< it

Talladega
Tbomasi ill,- .

I’llsruiii 1,1a..
Tuskalunsa..

Troy

I IliulltuWI

.872,
293

896 .

.27lj..,
I ;n
288
.’117.
228
356
10
381

.. Charles M.Shelley! 246

l.eaii,],-i Mrr’arlam]. .117:1..

Hut Springs

Benton villi

e

NO.

..202.
..825.

Ml

■ ii !• n his.

■ lames E. Smith, .1. T. ,| s

s ii Whltthorne, C E Sboe-

nialier

N. s. Henry, A. J. Bate*

■ ■ w Evans, i> i: Castleberry

I lulip

-192 .1. M. Somervell.J. C. Ansley

..191… A s Cabell,

..213.. .A. P. Wilt, W. D. (‘

• -in. /r. m. Gum, r, i. m. Patridge

M8…M M Gorman, Col R M Fry

“”. x , ‘ aj Co. V. Ass’n… ::;.’, . .1 R Hodee

|’| , ., , ‘u,T;’;”,V J;'”‘ M “- Oh. 194… I ley .Milum.MsT,,

gackettcitj Stonewall 198 LB Lake – —

”j’sl :?;;;■- Vu'”? 1 ,;-., – (t: N – w – Stewart, John F.Sanor

r,o, v ” rl ‘ ‘,,” 840…QenJno M Harrell, A Curl

1 ‘,’ ” ‘.-“;” stum-wall 199…L B Lake, A H Gordon

LtttleBock Orner It Weaver 854 Wm PCampbell.J H Paschal

>.isi.\ Hie j„e Neal 208…W K Cowling, EG Hale

Newport Tom Hendman 818… , T. T. Ward

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

53

CIRCULAR LETTER ABOUT THE REUNION, ETC.

Lieut. Gon. W. L. Cabell, Commander Trans-Missis-
sippi Department, Dallas, Texas, Jan. 30, I s ‘- 1 1 : Com-
rades — I greet you, my old comrades, with a heart full
of love and affection. A kind Providence haa extended
His sheltering wings over us another year, and our
Association is still growing. The number of Camps
in each state and Territory, not only in this Depart-
ment, but throughout the South, is increasing, and
our noble Association has nearly live hundred < amps.
Our comrades are becoming more familiar with the
workings of our Benevolent, Social and Historical
Associat inn.

Although several of our “Id comrades bavi
the river, yet the death roll is not as great as we might
have expected after twenty-eighl years. <>ur dead
have been properly cared for, and the living Confed-
erate veterans, incapacitated by sicknese or wounds
from makings Living, have been provided with good
houses, amply provided with raiment and food and

shelter, where they can spend the evening of their
lives in quiet and peace, as the honon – of the

great States of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and the Ter-
ritories. Monuments to commemorate the heroism of
the dead have been erected in a number of pla
One at ( lakwood ( lemetery, Chicago, to the memory of
6,000 Confederate soldiers buried there -soldiers true

to their cause, who died ill prison tar from hone anil

loved ones, and who preferred death to dishonor. It
is a grand monument, over twent\ feet high, -ur-
mounted with a statue eighl feet high of a Confeder-
ate soldier — the worn warrior looking down on his

6,000 sleeping comrades heroes from every Southern
State — who

■■ Loved their country with a love Eai brought.”
1 call your attention to the fact that every (amp.
not only in the Trans-Mississippi Department, but in

the Department of the Bast, has been called upon to

COntributl a -mall amount to complete the payment
of the monument, on which a small sum i- due. and
to properly inclose and beautify the grounds. This
monument is the work of our faithful and true com-
rade, General Underwood, aided by the good citizens
of Chicago. Not over $10 will be required of any
Camp. It should be forwarded to Gen. J. C. Under-
wood, Omaha Building, Chicago, 111.

1 urge you. my old comrades, to press forward our
good work. Organize new Camps, send on your an-
nual dues and make every arrangement to lie fully
represented at our great reunion, to 1m- held at Birming-
ham, Ala.

Let every Camp be represented by as large a delega-
tion as possible, and let them he fully authorized to
act for the (amp. When the Camp cannot attend,
send a proxy, properly signed by the officers of the
Camp, to some oihcr Camp or comrade.

The Committee on Transportation, composed of
good business men, Gen. S. 1′. Mendez, chairman, will
secure reduced rates on all railroads leading to Bir-
mingham. Local committees can communicate with
them.

Let us rouse up and -end from this Department

mole Camps, more Confederate Veterans, a greater
number of the son> and daughters of Confederate- to
the unat reunion at Birmingham, April 25th and 26th,
and to Chicago, April 28th and 2&th, than ever left
this Department at any one time.

ARKANS IS -CbnMmMrf.

P06TO] I CAMP. NO. hi l li BIS.

Paris Hen McCulleOgb 888 .’ Sadler, Wm Bnodd]

Prairie Grove Prairie Or U „ . Win Mitchell

Prescotl Waltei Bi — — WJ Blake, O 8 Jones

Van Bnren John Wallace 200 Job II Allen, .1 K i

Waldrnn sterling Price 414… L P Fuller. A M Puller

Wooetei Joseph E Johns ton 181 w A. Milam, W J 81oan

FLORID \.

M.i Gen J J Dickteon, Commander.

Robertson, Vi I General and Chief of Stall Brooksvllle

W I 1 1 Ihlpley, Bi ! ” rat P

Wm Baya, Brtgadlet G Ocala

Gen si Winter Park

PICK. ■ IMP. Ol I II

Hart, ivv Francis SB WHReyi Is, J \ Unilstead

BrookvlUe WW 1 I Da van t, F. L. Robertson

Chlpley. McMillan ITi B M Robinson, O W Cook

. , v, tss’i si i … \ ii ii:. \ esiea

Kirl.v-Sin i .1. T. Blubbs, D. G McLeod

Fernan.liic Nassai WM W. H Thompson, T \ Hall

r. Ward i i v wi Zlmn BTurnei

Jacksonville ,.H i Lei ■- Wm Baya, W Vi rucker

Jacksonville Jeff Davis. 280 C. E. Merrill, C.J. Colcock

Jasper Btewarl 166 U.J.Stewart. J. B. Banna

Juno Patton 244…- , J F Hlghamltn

LakeCllj Columbia Count] 150 W. R. Moore, W. M. Ives

Marian oa. Hilton i : -‘ W 1′ Barm s, 1 P

MontlcellO Patton W. C. Bird, B. W. Partridge

Ocala MarionCo.C. V. A 58 .Sam’l F Marshall, Wm Foi

Orlando… W G Johnson, B M 11oMhroi>

Palmetto.. Geo. T.Ward 58 3 C. Pelot, J. W. Nettles

i Ward C. V. Aas’n 111 w 1 lnderson,.R J Jordan

yninev D.L. Kenan. lin K. H. M. Davidson, D. M Mc-
Millan

St. Augustine K.KIrby Smith 178 .1 V Enslow, Jr.,

Sanfor.l Gen Joe Flnnegan uw A. M. Thrasher, C. H. Lefler

v i odd, D. 1.. South* 1oa

Tallah _. I; \ Whitfield

Tampa … Hlllsboro I W Merrln, II. 1, i

Tttusvllle .. Indian Rlvei \ 1’ Cohen

Dmatllla.. Laki Co.C. V. A 279 l ll Blake,

i.i ORQl L
Mali I lei

. i West, Id atanl Q< LUanta

POSTOl nil. CAMP. WO, OFP1

Atlanta Fulton County “‘•■’ ‘ Edwards

– rvh Vss’n 135 F EEvi I M st..\ all

Carnesvllle Mlllgan Conf. Vel 118 J( McCarter, J M Phillips

Polk Co. Con. Vets 108 .1 M Vrrington, J 8 Stubbs
S M Beck, W II

Covington i GDHeard.JW Anderson

Daltoii Joseph B Johnston 84 v P Roberts, J. A. Slant

Dawson I…J W I i…« n y. Wm Kaigler

Harrisbure .Chattooga Vel ,LR Williams

Jefferson …..Jackson County 140 Thos L Roes,T H Nlblocn
l tGrangt ..Troup Co.Con.vets..405 J L Schaub.ET Winn

Morgan I ilhout nVt t 108 P I Boyd, A .1 Muni

Ringgold Ringgold 808 ..W .1 W nil-it I. H BTrlminler

i , ,i , .. . ■. \ – | G Yelser, J T Moore

ice… Jno. R Gordon i «’ii«ni. w. II. Ramsey

Thomiun llli W 1> Mltchi N Hopkins

l, lootton i BSmlth W II Phllpol

Washington … John T Wit CEIn lien

\\ aj in Bbor rdon >x, B H Full

Zebulon Vel 121 G W Strickland, W O Gwya

NOI8.
Ms I i len i ndcr. ‘ ‘hli

I IMC.

nfed. Km’n I i W Whltt . R !■ • l ranee
seyvllle Benev. ex-Confed…J04 Fob – I in Morris K. Ixicke

1N||| \N TERRITORY.

\i Gen IS r Guj . Command i ‘ : ■

It B Coleman, Adjutant General and Chief of Stafl McAlet

.Tie. t. Gait, Brigadli r … n. … Vrdi

1> M Haley, Bi l|

POSTOl I li i .IMC. “II

Ardmore lim ll Morgan … 107…W w Hydi … I ■• B

• man

KENTUCKY.
.i .i John Boyd, Command, i
Col Jos M Jones, Adjutant General and ( in. f ol Staff. i

POSTOl inc. iimc. pro.

John B. Hood 288 Jno. –

: own Thomas H, Hunt

Benton Johnston 176 J P Bi li n, W .1 v

Bethel Pa ‘ Arrasmltb, A.W.C

en.Bowllng Green… 148 W. F. Perry, Jas. A. Mitchell
, ,mpton i leorge W Cn Jos C Lj klms, o o Hanks

i ;,i lisle Peter] ‘ Taylor

Cj utbiana . C n Desha …. M D \i Bnj der. J w …
Danville . J. Wat ren Grl( [,Bau( innan

E. lCiii. i Smith – .1 w.i.i rabb, J.8. i
FlemlugBburg… Albert 8. Johnston. .282 Win Stanley, Jno W Heflin

mas B Monroe 188 A W Macklln, Joel E Scott

etown Georgi W Johnson 98 I. H Sinclair, J Webb

dsburg.. Wm Preston W. Allln, John Kane

Hopklnsvllte ..Ned Merrlwether ..Ml . ‘ l Jarrett, Hunter Wood
Lawrei. ;i Hardin Helm…l01…P. H. Thomas, ,i- p. Vaughn

Lexington ..J. & Breckinridge 100. John Boyd, G. C. Snyder

Mt. Sterling Roy B. iluke 2»l…ThOB. Johnson, W. T. Havens

54

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

GRAVES OF OUR DEAD AT RE8ACA.

Calhoun, Gta., January 19, 1894.
Editob Confedeb ate Veteran There is a Con-
federate cemetery on the battle-field of Resaca, sis
miles from tlii- place, which is in a most deplorable
condition of neglect. About five hundred soldiers are
buried there. They are from every Southern State.
The fence which once inclosed this consecrated ground
has fallen away, and the whole is fast becoming over-
grown with underbrush. An Association has been

organized here to look after it, and Lf 92 -an be

raised the Association will see that the work is dune
and that the cemetery is looked after from this time
The State of Georgia, just alter the war, appropriated
sufficient money to build a fence around thecemetery
and buy iron headboards for the graves of the men
whose names were known. The unknown were
buried in a circle and wooden headboards placed over
them. These have decayed and fallen away. The
soldiers of the different States are buried together.
The fence built by the State has fallen down’. The
Association wishes to get sufficient funds to inclose
the grounds with a good picket fence, construct one or
two rustic bridges across the little stream running
through the cemetery, cut oil’ the undergrowth, and
prepare graveled walks around the unknown circle
and between the different States. The State Legisla-
ture is now precluded from making an appropriation
by the State Constitution, so whatever is done must
be by private subscription. We therefore call on every
one who feels an interest to contribute a small amount.
If every reader of the VETERAN will send a small
amount the success of the enterprise will be assured.
The money can be sent to the Bank of Calhoun, with
instructions to place to credit of Resaca cemetery fund,
or it may he sent to .(.(). Middleton, Calhoun, Ga. A
list of contributors will he kept, and all money re-
funded if the effort lie unsuccessful.

KENTUCKY— Cbnttnued.

Nil.

OF1 II

CONFEDERATE VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS.

Florida Division, U. C. V.— Brig. Gen. Win. Baya
furnishes this list of officers: W. R. Moon-, of VVel-
born, Inspector < leneral and Chief of Stall’: .1. A.
Enslow, Jr., of St. Augustine, Adjutant General; W.
II. Young, of Jacksonville, Judge Advocate General;
William Fox. of ( Icala, Quartermaster General ; H. 11.
Linvill, of Femandina, Commissary General; A. I >.
Williams, M. 1».. of Jacksonville, Surgeon General.
They are all to rank as .Major, and to he obeyed and
respected accordingly.

The Mississippi Divisit f United Confederate Vet-
erans is in healthy working condition. Gen. S. D. Lee,
i he I lommander, begins his second term with his old
-tali: Gen. Robert Lowry, of Jackson, and Gen. J. R.
Binford, of Duck Hill, are Department Commanders.
\\\< genera] stall’ i- a- follow.-: Col. E. T. Sykes, of
Columbus, Adjutant Genera] and chief of stall’; Col.
P. M. Savery, of Tupelo, [nspector General ; Col. Ad-
dison Craft, of Holly Springs. Quartermaster ( reneral ;
Col. S. A. Jonas, of Aberdeen, Commissary General;
Col. J. II. Jones, of W 1 v i lie. Judge Advocate Gen-
eral; Col. B. F. Ward, of Winona, Surgeon General:
Col. II. F. Sproles, of Jackson, Chaplain General; Ft.
Col. W. W. Stone, of Jackson, Aid-de-Camp; Maj. I>
A. Campbell, of Vicksburg, Aid-de-Camp. There are
•over forty Camps in Mississippi and others forming.

I’osron n k. CAMP.

N lchola8vllle…Humph*y Marshall. is: Geo. B. Taylor, K. T. I.lllard

ruitucan A P Thompson 171 …w u Bullitt, J. M. Brow n

Paris l.ihn ii. Morgan B6…A.T. Forsyth, Will A. < mines

Richmond Tl las B. Collins.. 216…Jas. Tevls, N. B. I >i-:it li<-rnee

Russellvllle John W. Caldwell… l;w J, P.. Brlggs, w. B. McCarty

Sbelbyville I ll. Waller 387, ,W. F. Beard, R. T. ‘ »wen

Winchester Rogi r W. Hanson…l86…B. F. Curtis. J. i„ Wh

Versailles \i« Buford 97 r C Bailey, Jas W Smith

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Maj Get Watts, Commander Alexandria

Col T I. Macon, Adjutant General and chief of staff New i Irleans

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Alexandria I. ll Dai is 8…G.0. Watte, W.W.Whlttlngton

Amite City Imlte City 7H…A.P.RIchards,G.W.Banltston

Arcadls Arcadia. 229 James Price. John A. I >den

Baton Rouge. .. Baton Rouge. 17…J. McGrath, F. w. Heroman

ton Lowden Butler 109 8 M Thomas. B R Nash

Berwick Winchester Hall .. its .T.I Royaler, FOl

Compte Cap Perot .. 897 …Leopold Perot, TH Hamilton

Donaldsonvllle Victor Maurln 88 SA Poche, P Garrel

Evergreen K. L.Gibson 88… Wm. M. Ewell, I. C. Johnson

Farmervllle C.V.A.of Union Par.879…J K Ramsey , l> a rent

Franklin Fiona n (‘ :e. a”, w R Collins, ThOS J shatter

Gonzales P. O.-.Fred N. Ogden 247 ..Jos.GonzalesSr,B T. Brown

Jackson Feliciana 264 .Zacb Lea, K. ll. Mel lelland

Lake Charles… .Calcasieu C. Vet H2…W.A.Knapp,W. L. Hutching*

L. Providence …Lake Providence lit!.. ,1. c. Bass, T. P. McCandless

Mandervllle Gen Geo.Moorman..270…Jos. l.. Dicks, U. < I. Plzzetta

Mansfield Mouton 41. C. Selniler. T. <i. Pegues

Merrick Isaiah Norwood Iln . Ii. T. .Merrick. .1, .1. Taylor

Monroe Henry W. Allen 182… W. R. Roberts, ll. Molse