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WAR STORIES. "Wheeler's Cavalry Last C onie derate Troops With ^President DaviK. Atlanta Journal. Thc opening address at thc reunion of Confederate veterans at Memphis was made by Colonel Bennett II. Young, himself a gallant follower of destroy Hood's communication? This consisted of H.tiOO of the flower of the .FederaJ horse, whose object was, after destroying thc West Point and Macon the peerless John H. Morgan. In railroads, .o liberate the 35,000 pris niaking comparison of thc achieve- oners confined io Andersonvillc. menta of the cavalry of thc Annies of Wheeler with 3,800 men completely Tennessee and Virginia, Forrest and , defeated aud dispersed this grand ag Morgan are prominently mentioned I gregadoo-Appleton's Annual Cyclo and Wheeler only incidentally. Private ' pedia for 1804-6i putting the F?d?rai W. C. Dodson, of this city, ever on tuc alert where his old command is concerned, writes thc following well timed rejoinder for publication in Thc Lost Cause, and which we are permit ted tu print in advance. It contains some matters of history uot generally known, and will be read with interest by all ex-Confederates, and Wheeler's cavalry especially. His rejoinder is as follows: I have just read the splendid address of Col. i?ennett ll. Young at the open ing of thc reunion at Memphis. Jn makiDg comparison of the achieve ments of thc Army of Tennessee with that of the Army of Northern Virgin ia, he has done something 1 have for years wished to see done, and no one could have done it better, as his ad dress is admirable in temper, conser vative in tone and eminently patriotic du sentiment. As he t?uly states, the valor 'displayed by Southern arms challenged tho admiration of the world, and thc record is the herita, * of nil Confederates alike, no matter ?o what army they belonged, and in call ing attention to what was done by thc soldiers of the West he detracts noth ing from those of the East, but sim ply adds to the glorious legacy be queathed by the men of 'lil to 'C5 to their children and children's children for all time. I am not one who insists that every man who served in the Confederate army was of necessity a horo, but tho men who followed the failing fortunes of our army from Kcntuck> to the Carolinas-passing and repassing, as many of them did, almost literally by the doors of their homes-who with, never a leader who commanded their entire confidence, yet who fought al most to annihilation and remained faithful to the cud-1 wish to go on record as saying that they had in them the stuff of which heroes arc niadc. I wish, too, to say that I endorse all that Comrade Young says of Forrest, Morgan and Wheeler, though I might change the order in which he mentions thom, in my estimate of the value they were to the Confederacy. I might even go farther and make com parison of the different conditions un der whioh our cavalry leaders of the Western army oarnod their well de served reputations, and emphasise the advantage possessed by an officer with an independent command, free to ad vance or retreat at will and to select his own time and place for fi?, h tin g. over another attached to and forming a part of a large army and that army almost continually in retreat; forced often to fight when defeat was inevita ble; forced to protect front and flanks of his army with picket lines some times nearly a hundred miles in ex tent; with no base of supplies, and no time or place co rest or reoruit either men or horses. But I will suggest this comparison in the same conserva tive spirit which Colonel Young dis plays in discussing thc armies of Ten nessee and Northern Virginia, and without any desire to detract from the fame of Forrest and Morgan for whom I have the most profound admira tion. This address must have given great . pleasure to the survivors of the Wes tern army, and to the cavalry especial ly, though to the men who rode with Wheeler the pleasure was not unmixed with disappointment that their ser vices to thc common cause were not considered worthy of special mention. Surely this omission could not have been for lack of material, for is there not official record of tbomastorly man ner in which they covered Bragg's re treat out of Kentucky, in whioh they were engaged twenty-six times before the pursuit was abandoned at Kock Castle; their grand raids around Rose .eran's army during the battle of Mur frcocboro, which so crippled the Fed eral commandor'e resources that he was not in condition to resume his ad vance for four months; their participa tion in the battle rf Chickamauga, in which they killed, wounded and cap tured as many men as they had engag ed; their destruction of Rosecran's .wagon trains in Sequatohoe valloy af ter this battle; their protection of the rear flanks of Johnston's army in thd ctreat from Dalton to Atlanta; their ting in thc trenches during the mc, i of Admita, holding their part sf / thc ii LC as steadily as v?t?ran infan try, and of .their destruction of the grand raids seut out by Sherman in a .last Iii*! effort? to use his cavalry to loss at l,f>00 killed and wounded, 2,000 prisoners, and 12 pieces of artillery. Probably no cavalry achievement of the war surpassed, if auy equalled, this in importance ?nd far-reaching results, for had iiood ? cnrnrnuriicn tions been destroyed and the Federal prisoners released, the campaign, if not the war, would lave ended at At lanta. I could mention many other notable exploits of the "war child of the Con federacy" and his men, but these will be sufficient to show that they contri buted their full shun; to tho record for valor achieved by Southern horse men. But the most beautiful tribute I heve seen paid to our cavalry is con tained in an article by Colonel Young in "Campfires of thc Confederacy," in whhh ho again gives instances of the prowess o? Stuart, Forrest and Morgan, but makes no mention of Wheeler or his men. The article concludes with the following eloquent peroration : "There carnea time even when hope failed; when armies were shattered and scattered; when Lee had surrendered and Johnston had capitulated; when the illustrious army of Northern Vir ginia was paroled, and its bronzed vet erans turned their tear-stained faces toward their desolate hemes and took up anew tho burdens of life; when the army of Tennessee, where thc rate of mortality reached the highest point, and whose unconquerable courage nev er failed in defeat; when all the migh ty legions cast of the Mississippi, which for four years had withstood the mightiest of conflicts, had stacked their arms and accepted war's stern decree; when tho president of our na tion went forth from its seat of gov ernment aud, in sadness and gloom, yet undismayed, sought refuge south of Virginia, there were still sum) who clung to his fortunes and defended his person in thut period of completest gloom and anguish. Even hero a pity ing providence provided thc retreating chieftain with protectors whose hearts still bled for the first and only Con fed?ralo president, and with him went some who, even in his reverses and humiliation, were ready to offer their lives to guard him and his cabinet from tho pursuing foe. "When the darkness of death was hovering around and over tho South ern causo, when tho last oounoil of war had been called, when all was lost, there were those, even in such an hour as this, who made declaration of their oonstanoy and devotion to that cause to which they already had sacrificed their fortunes and now anew tendered their lives, and the history of that moment glorifies the manly courage and gives those who participated in it a plaoe on tho brightest page whioh perpetuate human heroism. "When tho last sun which should ever shine on the Confederate States as ?in organized nation waB lengthening its rays, and finding repose in tho mys terious depths of its westward course, and was sending forth a fading but sympathetic light to illumine the sad and dreary scene of a nation's dissolu tion; when its departing shadows made glorious and immortal the faces of tho heroes who, in silent solemnity and reverential awe, looked upon the death throes of the Confederacy, it appeared to those who stood amid the terrible ness of that moment to become fixed for an instant, as if to paint in fairest, brightest and eternal oolors, the line aments of those Kentuoky and Ten nessee cavalrymen, who in that au prcme momont remained with i's de fenseless prosident. Fate denied us victory, but it crowned us with a glorious immortali ty, and thoso are some of the leaflets which the cavalry of the Confederate States offor as their contribution to the superb record of patriotism, valor, chivalry, courage and devotion, which make up the illustrious volume of Con federate history." As the author docs not mention it, I would in conclusion ask what ^en were these who were as ready to serve the president of the dying Confedera cy in his darkest hour as when he had benefits and emoluments to bestow? Of what command wore they, who | were thus faithful even unto the end, and who wore the last Confederate troops Mr. Davis was to see before ho entered into captivity? Colonel Young may or may not have known it in pen ning his beautiful panegyric, but it is a matter of history that they belonged to'the very command which he ignores while extolling others, viz : the little appreciated, hard-riding and bard figuting, ragged and reckless Wheeler's Cavalry. (Private) W. C. DODSON. Had Fought its Last Fight. The surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston's army found Walter's Bat tery, (Washington Light Artillery,) South Carolina Volunteers, en-amped near Bush Hill, a small hamlet in Randolph County, North Carolina. Two days thereafter orders were re ceived by Capt. Walter to carry bis guns, horses and equipment to Greens boro, distant about fifteen miles, and turn them over to tho United States authorities. For good and sufficient reasons, known at the time, but for gotten now, none of the commissioned officers cared to perform this sad and unpleasant duty, so the execution of the orders was delegated to one of thc sergeants; the drivers only being di rected lo accompany him. The horses were harnessed to their respective guns and caissons, thc command, "By piece from the right front into col umn!" given and the last march of the Washington Light Artillery be gan. As the column moved off the other members of thc company, animated by the desire fer a parting look at the guns they had manned scgallantly and followed s . long, assembled of their own accord, without military forma tion, and silently gazed on them as they were driven past. There was no demonstration whatever, but all felt that this was indeed a surrender, and the scene before them brought a reali zation of that fact with mournful em phasis. Just at sundown, about midway be tween the camp and Greensboro, the battery came to a halt on the top of a high hill, and while standing there it was proposed to fire one of the guns. To this suggestion was feelingly add ed, "Boys, we no longer have a flag to salute, let as salute the setting sun." These words mot an eager response tho "first" gun was loaded with a blank cartridge and fired. The noise of the discharge aroused several of the residents of that neighborhood and the question was anxiously asked if the war had begun again. "No," was the reply, but as our company has fired one of the first guns in this war, (alluding to the firing on the Star of tho Wont from Fort Moul trie, January l>, 18l?l,) we thought we would give thc last in Johnston's army." In all probability this was the last pieco of artillery fired by the troops under Johnston, and certainly thc last time that any of the guns of Walter's battery were ever heard. The battery reaction ..ireensboro af ter dark that same day, and the guns were parked in a small yard, surround ing a dwelling house, the men sleep ing under and around them. The next morning the horses were harnessed and ridden off, the guns be ing left where they were placed the night before, to a placo near the rail road, the harness thrown in a heap on tho ground and the horses taken to an enclosure on the outskirts of the town. The streets of Greensboro were crowded with Confederate soldiers, but no Federals were seen, except one offi ocr, who was walking about and scorn ed to be paying little attention to what was going on around him. The officer to whom the horses and harness were delivered was a Confederate, and, judging from his uniform, was either a quartermaster or belonged to. the staff of some Confederate general. JOHN A. KIRKPATRICK. Montgomery, Ala. Ejection by Compromise; Tho fellowing is related of an auc tioneer who was provokingly annoyed, while in the exercise of his profession by the ludicrous bids of a fellow whose solo objeot seemed ti be to make sport for the buyers, rather than himself to bay. At length, enraged beyond en durance, the knight of the hammer, looking around the room for a cham pion to avenge bis wrongs, fixed kia eyes upon a biped of hage dimensions, a very monaroh in strength, and oried out: "Marlow, what shall I give you to put that fellow out?1' "FU take one sovereign." "Done ! Done 1 You shall have it." Assuming the ferooious, knitting bis browB, spreading bis nostrils like a lion's, and putting on the wolf all over bis bead and shoulders, old Mar ? low strode off to the aggressor and seising the terrified wretoh by the col lar, said to bim in a whisper that was heard all over tho room : "My good friend, you go out with mo. and I'll give you half the money." "Done!" oried the -fellow. "Hurrah 1 Hurrah 1" shouted the au dience. Tho auctioneer had tho. good sense to join tho laugh, and coolly handed over tue sovereign. .- rn?. - Thc Best Prescription For Malaria Chills and Fever is a bottlo of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio. It is simply iron and quinine in <a tascless form No cure, No pay. Price ??o. Tapped thc Ancestral Brandy. "The progress of Georgia is a mag nificent thing,'' said Judge Thomas D. Weller of Havannah, at the Ral eigh, according to the Washington Post. "I have witnessed its tremen dous strides ae a commercial center pf th South with great pleasure and gratification, but for myself, my peo ple before me were cotton planters, and I have been content to follow in their footsteps. "I know no news that would inter est you, but I can tell you of the nar row escapo one of my dear friends and companions had from carrying in his home circle the curse of a violator of holy tradition. This gentleman after thc death of his first wife married a maiden lady, the daughter of a house famous in the Southland. She is a moat estimable person, and is much opposed to the use of liquor. A jong the relics she had brought from her ! old home on the occasion of ber mar riage was a bottle of French brandy, which had belonged, it was said, to ibo ?on of Governor Oglethorpe, her ancestor. A violent storm arose one night recently, and she caltcd her husband to fasten the shutters of the hou.ie, which were flapping noisily. He did so, but when he raised the window a gust of wind swept in, wet ting him to tbe skin. My friend had provided himself with a drop of com fort, but had consumed this and was at a loss for a preventive against cold until he thought of the ancestral bran dy. He went to thc pantry, found the precious bottle, anJ-, discovering that he had only pajamas on wheo he reached for his corkscrew, impatient ly broke the neck off the sacred bottle, and took a big swallow of the excel lent liquor it contained. Shortly after his return to his bedroom, his, wife sniffed, suspiciously and said she smelled 'spirits.' My friend assur ed her that it was purely imagination, until she suggested that in ber belief the bottle of French brandy of her ancestor had been blown over by the storm and was broken. My dear friend leaped from his bed at the sug gestion, rushed to thc pantry, took another big drink, poured all but a spoonful of the precious liquor re maining into his pocket flask, and then returned to his wife with a con firmation of her fears. Thus was do mestic peace maintained." Exacted Strange Oaths. Georgo Hazel, of Helena* Mont., in speaking of the formerly great influ ence wielded by the justices of the peace on the frontier, told the follow ing story: "In tho Pre-Statc day of Montana thc justices of the peace reigned su preme in the land. They joined men aod women in life, buried them in death, were general peacemakers in the community at large and judges of dogfights. Their position in Western communities was unique, and the stories that bavo been told about them have been innumerable. Oae of the most peculiar characters to be found in Washington, however, was one Heed, J. P., who ruled over the towo of Belknap, Mont., since deceased in the early seventies. ,:He performed a' Bslknap in the winter of 1878 a tiarri je ceremony that is classic in Western annals. He made the bride swear that she would support the constitution of the United States and the organized Acts of the Territory of Montane; that she would be ever willing to defend-with her life, if necessary-the honor of ber God, her country and her flag. The bridegroom was compelled to swear that he would split the wood, carry the water, shovel tbe snow, build the fire and under anv and all circumstan ces try to be a perfect gentleman. In stead of returning her devotion with slurs ind scowls he to repay it with kiss es and kind words. If he ran shy of kisses he was to oall on the justice of peace, wuo was long on kisseB, but short on girls. Reed wound up this unique ceremony by making the cou ple recite the Lord's Prayer in uni son. And tbe ceremony ended with a crack of a revolver and a pop of beer corks."-Itew York Tribune. Two Passengers Dislikes. A lady of truly masculine spirit, accompanied by a small poodle, is said to have failed sadly tbe other day in an attempted reformatory movement. She entered the smoking ear of u sub urban train and sternly refused, when approached by tbe conductor to go into another oar,;obaerving that her presence woald keep the other occu pants f ro'^ smoking. One thick-skinned wretch, how? ever, insensible to the. claims of re finement and reform, began to enjoy bis accustomed cigar, which was sud denly snatched from his lips, with the remark of a high treble: "If there to anything I hate it ii tobacco smoking!" ? For a time *be offender was motion less, then gravely rising, amid tbe cu riosity of the assembled smokers, he took th*t little poodle out of the lady's lap and gently threw him through the window, sighing: "If there ia any thing I do hate it is a poodle."-Chi cago 'Tribune. Horses Not Hardy as Men. There have beeu many instances in which 5ghtB have beeo lost or won ao ooiding to the number and condition of the horses engaged, When tho siege of Plevna commenced the Rus sians were bringing all their stores and food from Sistova by the aid of 66,000 draft horses, and at the- end of the siege it was found that no less than 22,000 of them had died from, hard work and exhaustion. The want of food and rest tells os a horse far more than ona man, for-in the case of tho latter there are stimulat ing influences of patriotism, the glory of victory and other feelings whioh are not existent in the nature of a horse. Quite half*th? horses in Eng land sent to the Crimea never return ed, most of them having, died from hard work and starvation. Indeed, only about 500 were killed'in action.. So reduced and starved have the poor beasts become on occasions of this kind that they have been known to eat one auoiher's tails-and to gnaw the wheels of the gnn carriage. Na poleon took with bim across the Nie man 60,000 cavalry horses and on his return in six months he could muster only 16,000. More than half the horses which were engaged in our Egyptian war of 1882 were disabled. Six hundred of these were killed and and only three-fifths slain in action. In the Afghan war of 1838 it is stated that 3,000 camels and half the horses engaged were lost in three months. It will thus be seen that aotual fighting does not claimso many horses as starvation or overwork. Defective shoeing, sore backs, want of food and rest and other similar causes go far toward rendering horses useless for ! practical warfare. One more and im ? portant cause needs careful attention, I and it is the danger of* injury horses [ run when being shipped across the sea. They are in constant motion. ! They continuously fall, many of them to be trampled to death, and the rest become frightened, kick and batter one another about and are rendered useless. As an instance of thia it WQB found that one regiment on the way to the peninsular war was depri ved of just half of its horses on the voyage.-London (Holden Penny. when you are well, to rub and scrub, but when the back aches and the head throbs, a woman's work is hourly torment. No woman can be strong* and healthy of body who is the vic* tim of those womanly diseases which are often responsible for feminine sufferings. Women who have used Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription.for the cure of diseases of the womanly, organs, say.- that work doesn't tire them any more. 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