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CONFEDERAT Distinguished Survive yews and The appointment of Gens. Lee, j Wheeler and Butler to high commands in the volunteer army has served to call attention again to the surviving Confederate commanders, of a ma? jority of whom little has been heard in recent years. Beauregard, who died several years ago, was the last full general, butjof the lieutenant generals, seven sur? vive-Simon B. Buckner, Wade Hampton, Stephen D. Lee, Joseph Wheeler, AlexanderF. Stewart, James S. Longstreet and John B. Gordon. Of these all but Hampton, Lee and Gordon are graduates of West Point. Buckner and Grant were classmates at that institution, and in this con? nection au interesting and little known story is told. A few we,eks before the first Bull Run, several Confeder? ate officers were dining together in Bichmond. The talk at table turned upon the merits of the men who then held high command " in the Union Army, and it was the opinion of the majority that the ablest soldiers of the old army had cast their fortunes with the South. Buckner was the only oue present who failed to agree with, this belief. ' "Gentlemen,1' he said, "there was a man in my class at West Point whom you must not omit from your calculations. He left the army years ago, and I don't know whether he is still alive or not, hut if he is and turns up on the Northern side, ho will cause us trouble. Perhaps some of you remember him. His name is Grant." Buckner proved a true prophet . During the following four years three of the men at the Bichmond dinner table-Lee, Pemberton and Buckner himself-surrendered their armies to Grant, who, in 1861, had fallen so completely out of sight that his old classmate did not know whether he was dead or alive. Gen. Buckner, who is a veteran of two wars, was elected Governor of Kentucky in 1887. Since his retiremept from that office he has lived a quiet life, with v his family and servants about him. His home is in the mountains of Ken? tucky, and is only to he reached hy water on his private steamer, and, although only a hundred miles from Louisville, it requires an entire day to make the trip. He keeps a large retinue of ante-bellum dependants, and probably is as nearly a feudal lord as can be found in America. Than Wade Hampton no braver man served' in the Confederate Ar? mies. Among the earliest in the field; he led the "Hampton Legion" at the first Bull Bun, in which battle he was wounded, butas soon as pos? sible resumed service in the army, and j was wounded for the second time in the battle of Seven Pines, where he commanded the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. Later he com? manded the cavalry operating in Vir ginia, was wounded the third time at ; Gettysburg, and was leader of the rear guard which fell back before the victorious advance of Gen. Sherman. When the army in which Gen. Hamp? ton was serving surrendered to the Union forces, his military experiences were ended. His public career since then is a similiar story. Gen. S. D. Lee, of South Carolina^. ? another civilian general conspicuous for skill and bravery, is now a farmer and president of the State Agr cul-|M tural College of Mississippi; Gen.. A. P. Stewart is a member of the Ohicka mauga State commission; Gen. Joseph Wheeler, before the opening of the present war, was for several years a member of Congress from Alabama, and Gen. James A. Longstreet has lately been appointed a railroad com? missioner by President McKinley. Gen. Longstreet, or "Old Peter," as he was called by his men, is counted by many careful students of the civil ws-r the ablest of all the Confederate captains. Cautious, clear-headed, and a master of military science, no sobri? quet fits him so well as the "Thomas of the Lost Cause." - John B. Gordon was its Murat. The son of a Baptist minister, Gen. Gordon, when the war broke out, was trying to develop a coal mine in Northwest Georgia. Down there in the mountains he raised a regiment of natives and reached Virginia in time to take part in the opening of the war. In the first engagement of his hardy mountaineers two-thirds of them were killed or wounded. Every officer ex? cept Gordon was slain, and his escape was a miracle, his clothing being rid? dled with ballets. The mark of a minie ball in Gen. Gordon's cheek is a reminder of the bloody and wrathful day when the battle of Seven Pines was fought. The 6th Alabama, commanded by Gordon, was at the front of the fight. Suddenly there came an order, from whom was never discovered, directing the regiment to charge across an open field and capture a battory that was stationed in a thicket, and pouring a terrible fire into the Confederate E GENERALS. >rs Still Accounted for. ! Courier. ranks. It was like the charge of the Six Hundred. Some one had blun? dered. But at the head of that yell? ing and racing thousand of men and in the face of that murderous fire Gordon sprang to obey the fatal com? mand. "When the shattered remnants were hurled back across that death strewn field its colonel, bleeding and wounded in five places, was carried to the hospital tent, where for weeks his life was despaired of. Nevertheless he recovered, and within two years rose, by hard fighting and merit as a commander, to the rank of lieutenant general. As commander'of the Con? federate 2d army corps he was the first to attack Gettysburg, and he held the last line at Petersburg, fighting with stubborn valor for every inch of space. Yet Gen. Gordon had not had a parti?le of military training, and when the war closed was only 30 years of age. Since then he has been twice Governor of his State and twice a member of the Federal Senate. Among the surviving Confederate veterans wiho held the rank of major general are John H. Forney, who is living in retirement at Jenifer, Ala. ; Samuel C. French, now a plante: in Florida: William L. Cabell, a mer chant in Dallas, Texas; James R. Chalmers, of Fort Pillow memory, at present a leading member of the Nash? ville Bar; G. W. C. Lee, until lately president of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington. Va., a post his father, Robert E. Lee, held before him; Matt. Ransom, long a United States Senator and Minister to Mexico under Cleveland; Matthew C. Butler, who lost a leg at Brandy Station, and who, after three terms in the Federal Senate, is ending his public career as a major general of volunteers; and William B. Bate, Thomas L. Rosser, and Fitzhugh Lee. Gen. Bate went into the army as a private and rose by stout fighting and successive promotions to the command of a division, being three times dan? gerously wounded in battle. After the war he was elected Governor of Tennessee, and since 1887 has sat in the Senate at Washington. Gen. Rosser was one of the most daring of the Confederate cavalry leaders. In a great degree ho resembled Gaster, whose classmate he was at West Point. Once at Buckland Mills, in Virginia, as he was driven out, he left a mes? sage with stonie ladies at a farm house for the gallant leader who died on the big horn: "You have disturbed me at my breakfast. I owe you one, and I'll get even with you." He was as good as his word. He allowed Custer to cross the creek, then ' swooped down upon him while his command was brewing coffee. It took Custer twenty-four hours to gather his men after this dash. Ros? ser is now Et rich man, and it is inter? esting to record that it was his old chum Custer whd helped to make him one. The surrender of Lee left Ros? ser penniless, and, with a wife and children to support, he was glad to accept an humble place in the con? struction corps of the Northern Paci? fic Road. There Custer ran across him, quite by accident, and seeking out the chief engineer of that road, said: "There is a man named Rosser un? der you as a construction boss?" "Yes," was the engineer's reply, "and one of the best men I ever had. Anything wrong about him/" "No," replied Custer, "but he was at West Point with me. and after? wards a major general in the Confed? erate Army. Can't you give him something better than the work he is doing?" "Why, I have been looking for just such a man," said the engineer. And so Rosser, through Gen. Cus? ter's kindly ?nices, was made second in command of the engineer corps. When, a few months later, he became its chief, he made such shrewd use of the opportunity the position afforded him for speculation and investment that to-day he is worth half a million dollars. Custer, on the other hand, died a poor man. Like Rosser, Fitzhugh Lee is best remembered by his old comrades in arms as a dashing cavalry officer, and as brave and light-hearted a trooper as ever led men into battle. When the war began he was a lieutenant colonel under "Jeb" Stuart; when it ended he was a commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. Be? fore that he had been a lieutenant in the old army. After the war he be? came a farmer in Virginia. "'I had been accustomed all my life," he said, not long ago, "to draw corn from the quartermaster, and I found it hard to draw it from an obstinate soil; but I did it." In 1884 Gen. Lee was made Governor of Virginia, and in the spring of 1896 President Cleveland appointed him consul general at Ha? vana, a post in which he was continu? ed by President McKinley. The surviving Confederate brigadier generals still number upward of four score, a few of whom call for individ? ual mention. Francis M. Cockrell and John T. Morgan are members of the United States Senate; William R. Coxis sergeanb-at-arms of the same body, and E. P. Alexander, Lee's old chief-of-staff, president of the Central Railroad of Georgia. Bradley T. Johnson is a lawyer in Baltimore; Basil W. Duke follows the same vo? cation in Louisville, and James A. Walker is a member of Congress from Virginia. Moxley Sorel is superin? tendent of the Savannah Steamship Company, and Henry H. Walker a prosperous banker in New York city, where Roger A. Pryor is serving as Judge on the local Bench. All these men long since accepted the war as a fact accomplished, and a touching token of the new order is the dearly-prized memento which Gen. Buckner displays to most visitors to his Kentuoky home-the note pen? ciled by Gen. Grant when Buckner visited him at Mount McGregor. tJI have witnessed since my sickness," wrote the dying and speechless cap? tain to his old friend and comrade, "just what I have wished to see ever since the war; harmony and good feel? ing between the sections. * * * The war was worth all it cost us, fear? ful as it was. Since it was over I have visited every State in Europe and a number ia the East. I know as I did not before the value of our in? heritance." R. R. WILSON. . Unwritten Law. It is an unwritten law in America that when persons or vehicles meet on a thoroughfare each must turn to the, right. The law everywhere understood and obeyed saves endless confusion, collision and delay. The American passes to the right because in firing, the gun is directed by the left hand. He offers his defensive side to the stranger. In Europe they turn to the left. That is because the spear was pointed and the mace yielded with the right hand. It i s remarkable how many of our manners are feudal and military -pretty much all of them, ia fact. A respectable bow is a concession of su? periority, a survival in much modified form of the oriental prostration. The military salute is a token of surrender. The finest of all salutes is the lifting of the hat. It is an act of homage, an acknowledgement of moral worth; and, unlike the others, has no pretense of humanity in it. It is reserved for the most part for estimable ladies, and it is remarkable how much discrimina? tion is shown in yielding it to men. Touching the hat is a military salute and means comradeship. There is an extended code of the unwritten laws of social life, but they are mostly nat? ural and therefore obeyed spontaneous? ly. The unwritten law of the highway is that, in meeting, each must give half, but if one is light and the other loaded the light must give all. Peo? ple do that because it immediately ap? peals to the sense of appropriateness and right. One who disobeys these laws is regarded as more than uncul? tured-he is regarded as morally coarse. The obedience of the crowd to the policemen is an intelligent obedience. The people know that good order is necessary to progress, and that disre? gard of the policeman's orders lead to discomfort, confusion and collision. Nothintr is more conductive to happi? ness than the spirit and habit of obedi? ence to lawful authority. The boy who is not trained to obey his parents is left to incur a word of trouble in life. ._ - The king of Greece, when con? versing with the members of his fami? ly, never employs any but the English language. He seldom speaks French, and only uses Greek when compelled to do so. Thoroughly healthy girl? hood means) happy wife? hood and ca? pable motherhood. A new fangled prudery prevents many girls from learning things that they ought to know before they assume the duties of mat? rimony and maternity. Athletics alone will not make a young woman thor? oughly healthy. The wise counsels of a good mother or some older woman are indispensable. The best and noblest mis? sion of a woman is to bear and rear healthy, intelligent children. In order to do this, she must be healthy and strong in a womanly way. Both the intel? lectual and physical future of her children depend largely upon the mother. Dr. Pierce's Favorite; Prescription is the best of all medicines f or maids, wives and moth? ers. It is intended to do but one thing and does that one tiling thoroughly. It acts directly on the delicate and important or? gans concerned in wifehood and mother? hood and makes them strong, healthy, virile, vigorous and elastic. Taken dur? ing the time of preparation, it banishes the trials and dangers of maternity. It insures the well being of the mother and the robust health of the child. It is the greatest of nerve tonics and nerve builders. 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A In paper covers, 21 one-cent stamps; cloth binding, ten cent<i extra. Dr. Pierce's Com? mon Sense Medical Adviser. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. ? A War-Time Luxury. While some of thc "old boys" wer talking over the stirring times whe they played so prominent a part th colonel took a hand, with hardtack a his subject: "I never saw a company of volun teers go out yet," he said, "that the, did not kick good and plenty agains the army cracker. It was so when was a lieutenant with a lot of raw re cruits. There was next thing to mutiny. They vowed that hardtacl had less taste than air, water, spong or cork. They designated it as solidi fied nothing brittled in a desert heat The Government was inveighed agains as the worst kind of a provider am the growlers would punish each othe by telling what good things they use? to get at home. I have heard a groai from a hundred throats when som* fellow would yell 'pie' just as a taun and self-relief. "On the first expedition intruste< to the boys I managed to have brea? issued for them, and they were tick led beyond expression. Before th< end of the second day the bread wai sour. The next day it was far worse and simply defied anything bette: than a starving appetite. Before w< got back to camp they were fairly crying for hardtack as children do fo; gingerbread when on a pic nie excur sion. Later we had a worse and mor< convincing experience. Our armj was making a forced march, and ran out of regular rations. Flour wai issued instead of crackers. Occa sionally orders to advance came before we had time to prepare any sort ol bread, and away we'd go carrying om allowance of flour. When caught in a rain storm the flour would be changed to paste, and when we tried to cook it in this form it was about as digestible as grape and canister. We had half baked dough that would send an alli? gator to the hospital, flapjack that reached the stomach with a dull thud and rolls that justified their name only in the subsequent effect produced upon the eater. When we struck a point where hardtack could be issued the boys cheered as lustily as though they had won a hard battle. "We men who have been through it know that this same despised hard? tack is the mainstay and comes to be the solace of the army. It is as good wet as dry, if not better. If crumbled till you have to eat it with a spoon or by the handful, it is just as palatable as when it i's intact. The man that invented hardtack did a whole lot to fight the battles of the world." Detroit Free Press. - America is the most thickly wooded quarter of the globe, but the extensive lumber trade and the annual destruction of thousands of acres by fire is causing a rapid denudation. The official figures for the United States alone show a yearly loss of over 10,000,000 acres, valued at over $25, 000,000, Tennessee leading with 985, 000 acres, while the loss in the Indian Territory was but 1,000 acres. - Nature has given us too ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak._ Excursion to >'ew Territory. The first excursion from the south to Cuba and Porto Rico will probably leave Savannah sometime in the first week of October. ? splendid steamer has been char? tered, it is said, and the gentlemen in charge of the proposed trip are Atlan tians. Realizing that nothing could be of-more interest just at present than Cuba and Porto Rico, several gentlemen have been negotiating for a couple of weeks for a safe, com? modious and well-equipped steamer. These negotiations have proceeded far euough to warrant the statement that there is almost a certainty that the complete arrangements for the trip will be made known shortly. The steamer will accommodate be? tween 200 and 300 passengers and the trip will occupy about three weeks. The ?rst stop will be made at a point in Cuba, and the next stop will be at Ponce, Porto Rico. It is needless to say that if the plans of the Atlantians are carried out that there will be a large number of Atlanta people to avail themselves of the opportunity to make the trip The danger season will be over and there will be no fear of yellow fever. The weather, too, is extremely pleas? ant at that time.-Atlanta Journal. - Rev. Mark Grier who has been in China some years as missionary from the Presbyterian church here, is now in America and is visiting his wiie's people in the North. Mr. Grier is at home for a year and comes for his wife's health. He was married in China to Dr. Henrietta B. Donaldson also a missionary. Rev. and Mrs. Grier will come south in the late fall and spend a while with Mr. Grier's people at Due West.-Abbeville Medium. - John Seay, who was shot on the day of the campaign meeting at Lex? ington, has since died of his injuries. A Critical Time Daring the Battle of Santiago. SICK OR WELL, A RUSH NIGHT AND DAY. The packers at the battle of Santi? ago de Cuba were all heroes. Their heroic efforts in getting ammunition and rations to the front saved the day. P. E. 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