The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, June 24, 1903, Page 2, Image 2
WAR SI
Joint Reunion of Co
Veterans
Thc action of the Oklahoma Depart
ment, G. A. R., in recommend in ii a
joint reunion of former Federal and
Confederate soldiers to take place in
St. Louis next year, is regarded as un
attractive possibility by leading mem
bers of the Grand .Army and of the
Confederate Veteraus in thin State.
The matter is now being discussed in
St. 1 ouis, though it is admitted that
obstacles intervene.
An opinion exists that the time has
come for a formal expression of friend
ship between thc Hluo and thc dray.
That the soldiers of thc North extend
the hand of good will and good-fellow
ship to the soldier of the South, hero
in St. Louis during the World's Fair,
is spoken of by many as a splendid
prospect.
Such an occasion, many think, would
be both a great drawing card for the
Fair and an important event to the
country at large, since the two organi
zations, representing thc remnant of
hundreds of thousands who battled
for what each thought right have
never been conciliated as organiza
tions. No joint ceremony has ever
been held, and tho gap between thc
North and the South which were
divided on muoh beside the slavery
issue, has never been formally bridged.
If tbis could be attained during the
World's Fair, a display commemor
ating un event which was of as great
significance to the South as to tho
Nonb, in tho city whiou is practically
in ?V center of the Louisiana Tcrri
? and of tho Unitod States, it is
thought that thc Exposition will have
brought about a lasting benefit and
one whioh naturally should take place
in tho center of thc Union, upon so
important an anniversary.
Obstacles aro in (be way, say those
who represent both organizations in
St. Louis. These aro not said to bc
insurmountable, but to overcome
them will involve a deal of work and
diplomacy on tho part of those who
are interested.
To Cud a common ground upon
which tho survivors of the bitter
struggle can meet is not easy. It has
been suggested before, but achieve
ment always baa boen thwarted. Tho
chief difficulty lies in that a minority
in both armies of veterans still re
member, only too vividly, when tho
hail of grape and cannon shot* slew
their brethren and their friends.
It is agreed that tho only possible
procedure is through tho national re
union of the Grand Army, to be held
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Oklahoma Department will at that
time present the resolutions it has
adopted. If the national body of tho
G. A. R. takes favorable action, it
cac, through its chief officers, extend
the invitation to the Confederate vet
erans. That the invitation should
come from tho viotors in tho fight is
thought proper.
Captain Frank Gaienno, who com
mands the looal post of Confederate
veteran?, said that in hiB opinion tho
initiative should bo taken by tho
?rand Army. "We wero whipped,"
said he. "We fought as long as we
were able, as long as mon and money
lasted. To the oonqueror inheros
the part of magnanimity. We cannot
ask them to join us. They should
ask us to join them in a reunion, in
whioh differences should be obliter
ated, and in which wo should jointly
proclaim that, whatever the past, wo
stand jointly for tho country as it is.
MK they should say to us something
like tbis: 'Our boys fought with your
boya agaiust the Spaniard. The psst
?aladead and let us live together for
. thc sake of tho present, and let *us
show that the old wounds aro at least
seared over and outwardly healed.'
Then, perhaps, a joint meeting might
be brought about.
"I am afraid it is impracticable,
howevor. Tho Gr rand Army will fear
that to i n vi tc nain that way will mean
acknowledging that they wero wrong
io the great struggle, or will ask a
great occasion at which we will be
Given the opportunity to proclaim
that we wore wrong. Now, we both
believed, and still'believe, that what
wo both fought for was absolutely
right. We will carry tho conviction
to our graves, and unless this fact
can bo satisfactorily bridged, a joint
.convention is an impossibility."
Sam H. Kennard- is another of the
well-known former Confederates and is
Brigadier General of the Eastern
[Division of Missouri: His ideas were
practically synonymous with those of
Captain Gaiennie.
"It is a splendid idea," said he,
*/att*d one which I would Uko to see
materialize. It might be practicable,
.ibut it would haye to be handled 'by
ithe national officers. Now you speak
?of orators. We Southerners are strong
in torat??y. We can get a hundred
. tuon who will demonstrate that wo
weronga t and prove that we. had a
nfederate and Federal
IPlanned.
constitutional right to withdraw from
the ITnioD. But that sort of thing
would not do in a general meet'ng,
but how are you going to got rid of it?
"You speak of a joint parade. Are
you giving thc Johnnie boys the right
of thc line?"
''Not exactly,'' a reporter answer
ed, "hut couldn't you Ox it HO there
would he no right of thc liue and an
equal division of digtr. y?"
"Yes, it might he done, if thc Con
federates were not compelled to sur
render all that they have not already
surrendered-the belief that they
fought for what was right. They did
not go to tho war for the fun of it,
but fur what they deemed a serious
principle. They will admit they were
whipped, but little more, so far as the
civil struggle is concerned. They
will choose former Federal soldiers
for their best friends, and they will
hurrah for the United States to-day,
And they will send their sons forth to a
fight a common enemy; but they can*
not sacrifice their beliefs, for it would
be admitting that they contributed
not to a war to uphold rights, but to
slaughter of enormous proportions."
James Bannerman of the Meyer
Bannerman Saddlery Company is
another Confederate of old standing.
He expressed another phase of the
question.
"You see, some Northerners don't
understand us," said he, "and when
with us are constantly touching a sore
spot and causing unpleasantness, con
sequently there would be friction be
tween certain elements of tho Grand
Army and of our boys. Somehow
somo of those Down East ohaps and
some of the German population don't
'cotton' to our Southern blood. I
can't say tliatwe 'cotton' to them, and
there you aro, Now, if I could choose
thc Northerners I was to meet and
smoke thc pipe of peaco with I'd like
nothing better."
Thc difficulties from thc standpoint
of tho Union men, aB explained by
them, aro even moro serious than
those confronting tho Confederates.
One old Union soldier suggested an
unexpected deterrent.
"The real veterans of both sides,"
he maintained, "are tho best of friends,
but macy auxiliaries figure iu the or
ganizations that nurse tho old fight.
For instance, tho women-they are
said to bo tho most implacable foes.
Why, if you'got the G. A. R. Relief
Corps and tho Daughters of the Con
federacy together there'd be hair pull
ing sure
General John W. Noble talked at
length of the proposed reunion. "You
remember," said he, "of the hot
head's recent utterance at thc Con
federate reunion at Now Orleans:
"Tho time will como when Jeff Davis
will be regarded as tho country's great
est patriot and Abraham Lincoln a
traitor.'
"Now that sort of thing is not con
ducive to a better feeling. Though
we, as citizens, hold former, soldiers
of tho South as our doarest friends, it
is another matter whon we don the
bluo. In a parade I could not consent
to sharing dignity or tho place of
honor with the man in gray. It
would be admitting that tho United
I States had mado its stridos forward
sinco the Civil War because of the
rebellion, and forgetting the faut that
we have risen in spite of the interne
cine struggle.
"Wc must continue to assert that
right triumphed. That oannot bo
buried.
. "As time goos on, tho South grows
nearer and noarer to its former one
mies. The great body of both organi
zations is friendly, and I havo seen
many an incident which demonstrated
that, but I fear a reunion would do
more harm than good. One heated
utteranoo would evoko a torrent of
protest and would reopen tho wounds
that time has closed."
George D. Roynolds also wont
through thc war and is a prominent
member of the G. A. R. He is-even
more positive in discouraging a rc
union.
"I don't think it is practical1 ./
said he. "I don't think it is aovia
able to try it. The ?feeling between
the Union and tho Confederate sol
diers, as years pass by, grows stronger
in. admiration, of each other as types
of American manhood. But you must
remember they not only aro growing
old, but, in all kindness, must be
designated as old men.
"They aro filled with all tho ohar
aoteristlos of old men. If an attempt
is made to bring thom together as one
body and under ono organization,
would givo riso to jealousies and ill
feeling over matters that are potty i
themselves, but would ?row and be
magnified in the minds of old men
Particularly wo??d ihi? be so if the
women's organisations were included."
-St. Louis Republic.
Tue Dattie of Fort Dowling.
Where the Gulf of Mexico comes
into tho Sabine Lake, on thc const of
Texas, Dear tue Louisiana linc, there
is a narrow obaunel of water whioh is
about four hundred yards wide. On
the north bank of this little channel
today one sees the smokestack, a few
feet above the water, of a sunken boat.
Just opposite to it, on the southern
bank, there is a dirt wall, square in
its shape, and about ten feet high,
and over this a painted sign that reads
.'Fort Dowling." That is all that
now lives as evidence of a thrilling
drama, the equal of whioh the world
ha? never seen, and that wis played
out at this place back yonder in the
closing days of our civil war.
Gen. Banks, with plenty of mon
and boats and plenty of ammunition
and supplies had gone up the Ked
river into Louisiana and was hammer
mcring Kirby Smith and Dick Taylor
into destruction. The Federal gov
ernment conceived the idea that Smith
and Taylor might be attacked in tho
rear by an expedition landed on the
shores of Sabine Lake, and consisting
of some ten thousand men, who would
be transported to their landing by a
part of the Federal fleet. To reach
the banka of the lake, of course, it
was necessary to go through the Sabine
Pass-this narrow ohacnel of which I
havo spoken. Richard Dowling, in
command of about forty men, was
acting as a scout for Smith and Tay
lor, and saw the evidence of the com
ing of this fleet of gunboats and trans
ports and with his forty men, took
possession of a little mud fort at the
mouth of the pass, in whioh there
were three or four six-pounders and
perhaps a siogo gun. There he waited
with guns loaded and instructions
given to his mon that they must not
fire until the gunboats eame well
abreast of him, only about 300 yards
away. His plan of action was not to
shoot until they were immediately
opposite, and then to discbarge his
whole battery at the gunboat. This
was done successfully; her boilers
were exploded, and together with hun
dreds of soldiers, she sank to the spot
where she now rosts. Many died
from tho steam that scalded them,
moro from tho water that engulfed
them.
Loading his guns, ho sank the next
vessel with the same disastrous result
to the enemy, and, loading, yet again,
he turned his guns on the transport
following, with a thousand men aboard
of her. She, in response, ran up a
white flag. The rest of the fleet turn
ed and sailed away, loaving the dead
bodies of the drowned soldiers and
the sunken vessels. Dowling, in s
dugout (this is a hollowed log or a
canoe, as it is variously called,) pad
dled himself out to receive the sur
render of this transport with a thous
and men. Tho commander of the ves
sel expressed his surprise at such a
reception of his \?hito-fkg token, and
asked why the commander cf the fort
didn't oome in parson to receivo his
surrender. Dowling replied, "I am
the commander and have come in per
son, to whioh the oaptain said:
"Well, what do you mean by coming
this way, in a oanoe by yourself ?"
Dowling answered: "I have no other
way of getting here, and henoe I came
in my dugout." He received the
surrondor, paroled the prisoners, for
he could not take them in charge, and
went baok to bis eomrades. Of these
forty, only one had received a wound
at all, though the gunboats had shell
ed the little mud earthwork diligently.
In the history of tho world nothing
similar, unless it be tho battle of Now
Orleans, has over happened, and yet,
such is the largo carelessness of the
southern character in recording its
wonderful and nnmeroua deeds of
heroism, that but little notice has
ever been taken of this extraordinary
battle.-Nashville, Tenn., Tribune.
An Englishman's Prophecy.
The late Sir Walter Bosanc, in his
history of London, quotes the fol
lowing remarkable prophecy m ado by
an Englishman, Col. George Hanger,
in 1798: "Should I live," he wrote,
"to a good old ago I am confident
that I shall hear of the Northern and
Southern powers of America waging
war with eaoh other, when ono party
will solicit assistance from FranoO
the other from Great Britain.
"It will then depend on the judg
ment of those men who at that period
may be at the head of the French
and British councils whother or not
they will interfere in American dis
putes. In my humblo opinion it
would be better for both countries to
let them settle the matter among
themselves. /
"I will bo so bold as to offer an
other- opinion: We should give up
Canada and Nova Scotia to the Amer
icans, provided we could make this
saoniico the foundation of an allianoe
offensive, and defensive with the
United States. Then we never
should bo obliged to send the prime
of the British army to die in the
West India Islands.
"I anxiously hope and trust that I
j shall live to seo the day when an al
lianoe,. offensive and defensive, will
! be formed between the two countries,
as Great Bxit?'u. and AGIST?G? ???y to
?other defy the united Powers ?r all
?urope/'-Youtb'BCompsttion.
The Losses of Hums lu War.
Deathb due to wounds reeeived in
battle constitute but an insignificant
part of the losses of cavalry horses in
war. It was only af ter a war expe
rience of two years that a cavalry bu
reau was established in 1863. This
resulted in economy and increased
efficiency, for an enormous number of
horses, temporarily disabled through
excessive marohing and lack of forage, 1
were turned in at the general depots
and recuperated sufficiently to be
sgain issued. The number turned in
was but a fraction of the whole num
ber issued, owing to the difficulty of
returning worn-out horses from dis
tant and isolated points.
Some idea of the dimensions of the
remount business may be bad from the
statement that 188,718 horses were
purchased during tho fisoal year end
ing June 30, 1864. During the first
eight months of that year the oavalry
of the Army of the Potomao was sup
plied with two complete remounts,
whioh required 40,000 horses. The
total number of mules and horses re
quired to keep up the supply for all
the armies was 500 eaoh day, and the
data collected showed that for every
two men of the whole force employed
one animal was required* in the ranks
or trains. Tho recant experience of
the British army in South Africa in
dicates that the loss cf animals in thc
civil war was not exceptional and that
whenever campaigns are undertaken in
a sparsely settled country history will
repeat itself.-United Sj?at?a Service
Review. *.- .
Eastern Forest Fires Caused Carolina
y, Flood.
Columbia, S. C., June 13-Fol- *
lowing the reoent floods whioh cost
so many lives and resulted in such
an enormous loss to property in Kan
sas and South Carolina, a scientific
statement as to the probable cause of
such conditions whioh make such
floods possible is not untimely. Sec
tion Director J. TV. Bauer, of the Co
lumbia weather bureau, in an inter
view yesterday said the great forest
fires whioh have raged throughout
New York and New England for the
past few weeks are tho primary causes
is both interesting and instructive.
Tho causes that produce ordinary
rain are fairly well understood in re
oent years, or, to state it in different
words, meteorologists agree that be
fore condensation, of the vapor of. the
atmosphere is possible to produce even
the smallest drop of rain there must
bo a nucleus .of du&t cr some foreign
mailer on whioh the condensation
takes place ; thc drop then enlarges by
additional or aooretional condensation
until its weight is enough to oause it
to fall to the ground.
It is possible .Cor a drop to grow
until the very instant it touohes the
ground. To produce so heavy a rain
fall there must, of course, be a nearly
saturated atmosphere and a plentiful
supply of dust parti?les to furnish the
nuolei. Ic this oonneotioa permit me
to oiler a theory that may explain the
heavy rains of the past week in this
vicinity, and at the same time show
the oorelation of the vast expanse bf
atmosphere, and how a condition of
drouth at one place may cause floods
at another.
For the past three or four weekB
there have been extensive forest fires
throughout New York and New Eng
land, and as the prevailing winds
during this time have been from the
northeast, much cf this smoko arid
dust or ashes havo been drifting in
this direction in a so finely divided
oondition that it was not perceptible to
the unaided eyesight. It will also be
reoalled that during one week, end
ing May 26y the winds were westerly
to southerly and that that week was
particularly cloudless, but' as soon as
the easterly to northerly winds again
set in tho sky was overcast nearly the
whole time. These forest fires, near
ly . 2,000 miles away, furnished the
nuolei for the disaster at Paoolet,
made tho cloudburst possible, in con
nection with the high relative humid
ity of the air, tho barometric pressure
favorable for thunderstorms and tho
topographical features of tho country
where it ooourred.
It will, perhaps, never be known
what the heaviest fall of rain waa at
any point, for tho government rain
gauges are at comparatively wide dis
tances apart. Thero is one at York
villo, at Gaffney, at Spartanburg, at
Greenville and at Walhalla add Liber
ty. Tho only readinga available1 at
this time aro those at Greenville and
Spartanburg. The first reported near- \
ly four, the second over five inches on
Saturday morning. These amounts
indicate excessively heavy rains, but
not us heavy as heretofore been noted
at various points in this State in the
past.
It is probable that somewhere' with?
in the drainage basin of the two forks
of +he Paoolot river and its Bmaller
tributaries, the rainfall in exceedingly
heavy, but if it was only five inches
in so short a time as the three or four
hours that the reports say the rain
lasted, it is enough to explain the sud
den rise of the river from a compara
tively narrow stream to a raging , ex
panse of water that, to quote one re
port, "looked like an ocean."
A fitudy of the map of Spartanburg
and Cherokee oouuties indicates that
the lower Paoolet river drains about
two-thirds of the former and one-third
of tho latter oouoty, ss well as a large
part of Polk and Cleveland counties,
North Carolina. Tho portions of
Spartanburg and Cherokee counties
would comprise approximately 400
square miles, and the North Carolina
area probably 200 square miles br, to
gether, 600 square miles. Now one inch
of rain on one square' mile is equal to
86,044 cubic yards of water; over the
whole of the 600 miles7it would amount
to 51,626,400 oubio yards, and this
multiplied, by the depth, in inches,
that actually fell, estimating that it
was five inches, ead this estimate is
within reason, the total would amount
to the enormous volume of 408,132,000
oubio yards of water that was hurled
in the short space of three or four
hours, by rivulets that beoame creeks,
by creeks that were swollen to rivers,
and by rivers that resembled floods,
into the narrow valley of the Paeolet.
Is it any wonder that the waters rose,
first slowly, then faster and faster,
until there seemed a wall of rushing,
foaming, angry and. irresistible force
and that the mills, houses, bridges,
trees and everything else in its path
way were swept away like Lilliputian
playthings by the ruthless feet of a
giant?-Atlanta Constitution.
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system."'
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of Proverbs: 'A soft answer threeth
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