The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 15, 1913, Image 5
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FOURTH CLASS POSTOFFICES
THROWN OPEN
MUST MEET ALL COMERS
Aboat Hfty Thousand Incumbents
Will Have to Take Their Cliances
in a Competitive Examination Ttiat
Will be Open to Any Wlio Wish to
Try for Places.
All fourth clasB pcstmasterships,
except those paying less than $180 a
year, were thrown open to competitive
examinations by an order issued
Wednesday by President Wilson.
These positions are retained 111 the
classified service, but about 50,000
incumbents who were "covered" in
the classified service by executive orders
of previous Administrations,
will have to meet all comers in competitive
examination to hold their
positions with civil service protection.
In a statement making this order
public, Postmaster General Burleson
announced that it was the purpose of
President Wilson and himself t? extend
the classified service to include
Presidential postmasters of the second
and third class, probably within
a year. This may require legislation
by Congress, he said. His plain, which
will be laid before the President, will
provide for a qualflcation test for Incumbents
and applicants "in keeping
with the importance of the offices."
Under President Taft's order of
October 13, 1912, fourth class postmasters
were divided Into two classes,
class "A," those drawing more
than $500, and class "B", those
drawing less than $500. Competitive
examinations were prescribed for
future applications for class "A" appointments,
while the class "IV' positions
were to be filled upon recommpndnt
Inno r?f r?rxuf "Cm" 4
ut [/wv UIIH.U IllOJJt'Cli/IS.
Wednesday's order leaves only the
offices paying $180 or less to bo fillod
upon inspectors' recommenda?v
fl tions. Rules and regulations to govJrern
the administration of the new
* order will bo worked out and announced
by the civil service commission
as soon as possible.
In his statement the Postmaster
General said: "I feel that President
Taft's tordor of October 15, last, did
not go far enough in that it failed to
apply a merit system to the entiro
se-vice it was aimed to cover. It had
the effect of placing within the classified
service a large number of postmasters
who have not been required
to demonstrate their fitness for such
appointments. Fundamentally a reform
movement has for its purpose
the righting of an existing wrong.
Therefore, if the application of the
merit system to the postal service
was needed in order to correct an existing
evil, then the scope of the order
affecting the change should have
corrected as far as possible the condition
then existing as a result of the
former system as well as to accomplish
the desired resultB in the future.
TPolltioal considerations in the
past very largely controlled the selection
of fourth class postmasters,
and under this order Democrats must
do neki responsible for the wiso and |
safe administration of these oflices.
Under the circumstances the Taft
order violated at le.ast the fundamental
purpose of the civil law, because
it placed permanently in oilice without
examination or other test as to
merit or efficiency a great horde oi
persons. If left in this condition and
permitted to operate without proper
examination into its workings, the
order would make honest civil service
a farce and prove a setback to its
proper administration and future
progress. My effort is to correct the
evil and save the merit of the order
and duly safeguard civil service and
efficiency."
Children Are Uetrothed.
Clara Carter Mallett and Mallett j
Carter, born in the same ilat at East
St. Louis Thursday, are engaged to
marry. The children are each
five days old and the wedding is
scheduled to take place many years
hence. It seemed so remarkable to
the parents of the children that the
stork should visit both homes within
four hours, that they agreed to
bring up the childern in the knowledge
th?t they were betrothed.
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Pied From His Wounds.
Dr. S. C. 'Moore, who was wounded
by Richard Austin, the negro desperado,
in a running fight in Hampton
County last Wednesday after
uuuu, uieu at a uoiumbia hospital
early Sunday morning, making tho
third victim of the negro who is
now being hunted. The others killed
by the negro were J. Frank Rowers
ad Magistrate Edenfield.
Mule Died With Rabies.
A mule belonging * Mr. L. C.
Tisdale, of the Brick CI <rch section
of Sumter county, belov Mayesville,
died of hydrophobia Monday. The
animal began to act queerly Sunday,
biting a calf, and biting at everything
near it. The calf has been shut up
| for observation.
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TARIFF BILL PASSES
GIVEN LARGE MAJORITY IN Till
LOWER HOUSE.
Five Democrats Vote Against the
Measure and Two Republicans Voted
for It.
The Underwood tariff bill, proclaimed
by the Democratic party as
the answer to its platform pledge tc
revise the tariff downward, was pass
ed by the House late Thursday. Tlu
vote was 281 to 13 9, five Democrat!
voting against the bill and two Re
publicans voting for it. Four Pro
gressivos supported the bill and H
opposed it, while one independent
Progressive joined with the majority
When Speaker Clark announce!
the vote in loud tones that revealec
his satisfaction in the arrival of "tin
day he long had sought," exuberan
Democrats hoisted a stuffed Demo
cratlc donkey over the heads of theii
colleagues in the rear of the chain
her, a faint ripple of applause fol
lowed and the gavel fell on the firs
chapter in the history of President
Wilson's extra session of Congress.
With the bill, after a month's con
sideration, on its way to the Senate
there was a rush or Representative!
for their homes Thursday night. Ir
the House adjournment will ho taker
three days at a time beginning next
week until June 1. In the meantime
the Senate finance committeo wil
study the bill while the House waye
and means committee will organize
committees preparatory to the transaction
of business next month.
Republicans and Progressives, loc'
respectively by Representatives Mann
and Murdock, protested to the lasl
against the measure, the lowest tarifl
ill ever written, and proclaimed at
the Democratic avalanche howled
them over, the virtues of different
tariff commission plans. Republicans
who voted for the bill were Cary and
Stafford of Wisconsin.
uvu n uu u^liuncil II WUI'B.
Broussard, Dupre, Lazara and Morgan,
of Louisiana, on account of the
schedule reducing sugar 2 5 per cent.,
and sending it to the free list in three
years, and C. B. Smith, of New York
Progressives who vo'eu for tl e bill
were Kelley and Rupley, of Pennsyl
vania; Nolan, of California, and Bryan,
of Washington, Kent, of California,
formerly a Republican, hut now
an independent Progressi\c. also voted
for the bill. Progressive Leader
Murdock and thif.oo.i of his Progressive
followers vo .e I with the minority.
Representee3 Copley, a Progressive,
did not vote, answering
"present" to his name.
In the final consideration of the
measure Minority Leader Mann made
a lengthy speech 011 a point of order
by Mr. Underwood to rule out provision
for a tariff board in the motion
by Representative Payne, of New
York, to recommit the bill. Speaker
Clark sustained the point of order.
Mann appealed from the chair and a
roll call was taken on Mr. Underwood's
motion to table the appeal,
the Democrats winning, 27 4 to 113.
Progressive Leader Murdock also
moved to recommit with instructions
to provide for a non-partisan tariff
commission, but he failed to get a
roll call and then the Payne motion
to recommit, minus the tariff board
provision, was lost, 123 to 2 9 0.
Not Like the Oh! Way.
i Representative Underwood, in tlie
I eyes of Republican leaders of the
House and Senate, cai never be a fit
person to bo intrusted with the handling
of a tariff bill. When it was
thrown in his face that he was interested
in the pig-iron business in
Alabama, he showed that in the Underwood
bill the duty on pig-iron had
been cut 50 per cent. "The time has
passed," he said, "when the laws of
this country shall be written for special
interests, when men may come to
this Congress and ask for legislation
that shall convert the dollar from the
pockets of the American peoplo into
their own pockets." Such talk as
that proved conclusively to the Republicans,
who believes that certain
interests have a perfect right to rob
the masses, that Underwood would
not do. That was not the way when
the Payne Tariff bill was before Congress;
when Senator Warren
of Wyoming, "the greatest shepherd
since Abraham," for personal
reasons fought to prevent any change
in the forty-year-old duties on wool,
or when Senator Scott of West Virginhi
exhibited glassware from his
own factory in the Senate chamber
and demanded that high duties bo retained
for his own special protection,
or when Senator Guggenheim of Colorado
in the metals schedule voted
for his own pocket all the time, or
when Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island,
a cotton manufacturer, opposed
reduction of cotton goods duties,
or when Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania
inditrnantlv rknlnd nnv
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upon any honoraible Senator to
alt there like "a Stoughton bottle"
because his private Interests were affected
by a tariff bill, says The New
York World. The Republicans can't
understand how Underwood can favor
a tariff that cuts down his own
profits from iron.
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Senator Tillman is right about the
election In the First District. Something
must .be done to make the primary
election fair and square.
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1 <X)L. WILIilA
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t Chief sanitary officer of the Panam
5 whose methods of sanitation the di
I possible, has been given permission
i the Republic of Ecuador. The city
; ed up first, as this port will beco
ing of the canal.
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1 SENATOR SMITH DISCUSSES ANTITRUST
ACT
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RELATION TO FARMERS
* Tlio South Carolina Senator Declares
[ That the Statute is Aimed Only at
Combinations of Capital and Not at
Duller on the Farm or in the
Shop.
Discussing the Sherman anti-trust
law and its relation to the farmers of
the country, Senator E. I). Smith, of
South Carolina Wednesday made
what is considered by many one of
the best speeches yet delivered in the
Senate on this subject. He said in
part:
"I do not think there is any doubt
that, viewing it from an abstract
standpoint, there is room for argument
on both sides of this question,
but there is not a senator on the floor
of the Senate who is not perfectly
cognizant of the fact that the Sher
man anti-trust law was never conceived
of as a restriction against Labor
or against the agricultural interests.
The whole agitation {is is set
forth in the debates on anti-trust legislation
during the passage of the
legislation indicates this fact, and
around that one fact circle all the
arguments In favor of anti-trust law,
that it was aimed at the unrestricted
and unrestrained power that accompanied
great aggregations of actual
wealth. It was directed airainHt a
system under which a few individuals
having in their possession great financial
resources, holding in their
hands, as it were, the very life blood
of commerce, could at their sweet
will cut the wages of those who converted
the raw material into the finished
product on the one side, and
dictate the price to those who produced
the raw material on the other
side. There is not a farmer in the
senate, and I suppose there are a
few here, who has labored with his
own hands, who has toiled to produce
that which would minister to the
needs and the comforts of the people
of this country of ours, who has been
engaged in producing our staple products,
but has felt the power of aggregate
capital overriding and subverting
the law of supply and demand,
and reducing it not to the law
of supply and demand, but to the law
of money supply and 'the man.'
"There is not a man who does not
understand that this legislation was
aimed at these aggregations of capital
which under the peculiar genius
of our government were left until the
anti-trust law was passed practically
unrestricted.
"Wealth in the form of capital is
actual. Wealth in the form of muscle I
and effort, wealth In the form of field,
forest and factory, is potential. The
object of our government, as I understand
it, is to encourage a diffusion
of wealth that will make every man
a patriotic citizen, ralizing that under
the law, no matter what subterfuge
may be resorted to, it will be impossible
for him to get a just return for
the labor expended. There is not a
man on this floor who will dare stand
up and declare that he believes the
farmers of this country and tho laborers
of this country under tho actual,
practical operation of our law
have got their just return for the
vast wealth produced in this country.
"Speaking about class legislation,
a majority of the people in this
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>1 C. GORGAS,
a Canal Commission, and the man by
gging of the "big ditch" was made
by the Senate to enter the service of
of Guayaquil will probably be cleanmo
an important point with the openA
FT 10 It Til 10 BLIND TICKKS.
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Shorilf of Callioun County Keeps
Tlieni on tlie Move.
A dispatch to The State from St.
Matthews says Sheriff Mill is far from
being a blind tiger, hut ho is running
them just the same. The way the
sheriff runs them (they are plural in
number), he keeps the tiger on the
go and gives them a warm chase either
until he captures the tiger or his
precious liquor, or the tiger quits
business.
Early in the yoar Sheriff Mill served
notice upon evildoers in the liquor
business that he was no friend to
whiskey. Since then ho has made a
number of seizures and arrests. Shipments
began to come heavily under
fictitious names. The sheriff told railway
and express agents that the delivery
of such packages would bring
1 them trouble. Consequently a great
deal of it has been returned for lack
j of proper identification.
j Wednesday word came that the depot
at Creston wan being imposed upI
on by fictitious persons, Sheriff Hill
I went down, and after satisfying him,
solf that no such persons as the ones
addressed would be found he lay
seige and captured 100 pints of various
brands, kinds and colors. If no
one establishes a proper ownership,
"pour out day" will be observed in
St. .Matthews with all its tempting
and regretful ceremonies.
country are engaged in doing the labor
in both field and factory. It has
been said here this afternoon wo are
catering to those engaged in labor
and in agricultural pursuits on account
of their numbers rather than
on account of the equity involved.
"The whole thing resolves itself
back into this: We as legislators,
should see to it that labor, the actual
force that converts capital into that
which we need shall not be oppressed
by capital in its aggregate form;
that the farmers of this country have
a right to combine for the purpose of
diffusing wealth and not for the purpose
of concentrating it.
"It is absurd and idle to stand on
tbis floor and argue that if the hundreds
and thousands of laborers employed
in a steel factory were to '
strike and secure a raise in their
wages the result of that would be as
disastrous to the people at large as
for* the capitalists engaged in this
industry to combine and put an unholy
price upon that which labor has
produced and concentrate that
wealth in the pockets of the few and
menace this very government, as was
done in 1 907.
"I, for one, shall vote to retain in
this bill this provision just as it Is
for the reason that I believn dio m?_
thor of it meant to say, even if it is a '
little awkwardly expressed, that the 1
farmers and laborers of this country 1
shall not in the process of organiza- '
tion be considered subject to the op- 1
eration of the anti-trust law, but
shall be subject to the operation of
other laws that pertain to violence
and bloodshed and whatever else may f
be incident to their actions but for {
which nothing can be visited upon *
the organization. (
"This provlson serves notice on
the courts that wo do mean to elim- 1
frtrUe agricultural and labor organiza- *
tions from the operation of the Sher- *
man anti-trust law, and therefore I s
am going to vote for it until such
time as I shall have the privilego of
voting for an amendment to the original
law." (
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We have heard it asserted that it n
cJbst Mr. Whaley and his friends ?
over forty thousand dollars to get I
him elected to Congress. If it is i
true, that is a big price to pay for a 1
flfteen-thousand-dollar job. But, Is i
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THE ANTI-TRUST LAW
WILL NOT APPLY TO FARMERS
AND WORKING MEN.
The Republicans Wanted the? Uw to
Apply to Farmers Organizations
Also.
Ry a vote of 4 1 to 3 2 the Senate
Wednesday refu?od to accept an
amendment to tho sundry civil bill
by Senator Gallinger striking out a
clause exempting lal>or and farmers'
organizations from prosecution under
tho anti-trust law with funds appropriated
by the bill.
Three Republican Senators, Jonee,
LaFolletto, and Morris, voted with
tuu uciuocrais against itio trttllingor |
amendment and two Democrats, I
Pomereno and Thomas, joined the
Republicans in supporting it.
The bill itself, carrying about
$1 17,000,000 finally, was passed by
a viva voce vote with only one minor
committee amendment. It will be
sent to conference probably on Friday
and should be ready for President
Wilson's consideration next
week. Friends of the President believe
he will sign it.
During the debate Wednesday Senator
Cummins made an effort to have
Congress take up the question of exempting
labor and farmers' organizations
from the Sherman Act, directly
and not by legislation in an appropriation
bill.
He moved that consideration of
the sundry civil bill be suspended until
May 17; that the Senate interstate
commerce committee be directed
to report on the advisability of
such exemptions and that if found
advisable it should accompany its report
with a bill for that purpose.
On motion of Senator Martin the
Cummins proposal was laid on the
table and several minor amendments
proposed were beaten by a loud chorus
of "noes" and without requiring
record votes.
Perore the tinai vote wan lunen
the Senate spent throe days in debate
on the lahor clause and scores of Senators
spoke on the subject. An extract
from Senator Smith's speech is
published elsewhere.
Speeches on the Republican side
indicating an apparent willingness
to see the Sherman law amended and
made more specific may lessen the
difficulties of President Wilson in
putting through his reported plan for
changes in this law.
SOME NOMINATIONS MARK.
South Carolina OITlces Filled by President
Wilson.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says President
Wilson, after his visit to
the Senate wing of the Capitol Wednesday,
sent in a large batch of nominations,
among which were the following
for South Carolina:
Collectors of customs, Frederick C.
Peters, for the district of Charleston;
and J. O. Oongdon, for the district
of Georgetown.
Postmasters: E. I). Ilaney, Beaufort;
W. Clarence Clinksoales, Helton;
Leila J. Huntley, Clieraw; Francis
13. Gaftney, Gaffney; Jas. F. Hunter,
Lancaster; Rachel M. Mlnshnll,
Abbev'lle; Arthur C. King, Easley;
John T. I>awrence, Seneca.
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
was consulted by the President at the
Capitol about the names of Messrs.
Peters and Congdon and found that
they were both satisfactory. When
Congressman-elect Whaley was asked
by The News and Courier correspondent
al>out the nomination of Mr.
Peters, he said that it was acceptable
to him. The name of W. J.
Storer was withdrawn by Sermtor
Tillman several days ago, and that of
F. C. Peters was substituted.
McMANIGAL TO ALTER FACE.
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* oiim-ns?mi iiynamiter Hopes to Avoid
Recognition When Liberated.
Ortio B. McManigal, confessed dynamiter,
plans to have his appearance
altered by surgery when ho is set
free. It is reported his release from
the county Jail in Los Angeles, Cal.,
may he granted at any time, and McManigal
hopes to so change himself i
that no one will know him as the
man whose testimony sent the McNa- i
mara brothers and more than a scoro
3f labor union ofllcials to prison. Detectives
say his release will bo kept
secret to aid him.
Several Children Drown. ,
When an overloaded rowboat l
sprang a leak in the Charles river l
md sank, six of its eight occupants, t
luce girls and three boys, all of j
Cambridge, Mass., were drowned. (
The other boys, the only ones in the j
)arty able to swim, were saved. The
>oys hired a boat made to hold only
our or live, crowded into it and then j <
iuirt??a uown tne river. !
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Ciirl tiets $15,000 for Tin's, i
Wheeled into court in an arm *
:hair, Miss Warina Starck, a school r
eachor of Hollywood, Cal., heard the *
rerdict awarding her $15,000 in her
lult against the Pacific Electric com)any
for the loss of two toes. She t
vas injured In a car crash a year ago. t
Witnesses testified her chances of J
narriage were lessened by the acci- I
lent. ?
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WANT THEM DROPED
GEN. MOORE WANTS TEN COMPANIES
DISBANDED =
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THE GOVERNOR REFUSES
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(ion. Mooro (TuIiun Tliat Home of
Companies Did Not Coiivply With
IiHW.?Itleasc Writ*** Captains ol * *
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Companies to firing Commands up lac
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to lt<s|uir<sl Standards.
The governor and the adjutant
SO
general clashed Tuosday over the
question of mustering out ten com- ? ?
a u
panleB of the National G uard of
South Carolina. Adjutant General ^
Moore in a letter several days ago to
the chief executive recommended ^ j
that the companies he mustered out qvj
bocauso they had failed to comply in
with the military law of the State. 3<1
Tuesday the governor sent the adju- on
taut general a copy of a letter he had id
addressed to the company command- , it
ers in question, in which he refused ?mi
to comply with the request to (lis- in I
band the companies. The governor
stated In his letter that, while ho
knew he was not complying strictly
with the law that the "hoys" ought
to get together and bring about order.
The governor stated that ho ?y
had fought the Dick law as a mem- an
her of the Senate. He said that tho ,up
requirements of the Dick law were * 1
too stringent.
"There are many sides to this el
question," said Adjutant General ^
Moore. "Why burden 21 companies
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that are keeping within the law with "
ten companies who are not complying
with the law?" The adjutant general
said that he had taken the step P01
after thvee years of careful invosti- ^
gation and that the companies In .
question had failed to comply with ?
the absolute requirement of the mill- V
tary code. ^
The following letter was address- )oi
ed to the governor by Adjutant Gen- J
oral Moore: "Having completed the
annual inspection of the several or- 0
ganizations of tho National Guard of ch
this State and the military property,
in their possession, as required by f??
the provisions of Section lf>, Military Jn
('ode, 1 have the honor to report that
the following companies had less e
than the 75 per cent, of their oflicers
and enlisted men at such inspection,
and that the said companies are not ai
in good condition for service, via: m(
"Company B, 2nd infantry, Colum- . c
bia. 3|
"Company E, 2nd infantry, Ben- f {
nettsville.
"Company G, 2nd infantry, Hartevllle.
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"Company C, 3rd infantry, Charleston.
"Company E, 3rd infantry, Barn- (
well. '
"Company O, 3rd infantry, Elloree. ^
"Company II, 3rd infantry, Con- ,
way. |h(
"Company I, 3rd infantry, Bam- e9
berg. R
"Company K, 3rd infantry, Wal- sa
terboro. ==E
"I also report th&t the following
company has no armory suitable for
the safe keeping of arm?, uniforms
and equipments?in fact, has no armory
at all, worthy of the name?<ae
required by Section 25, Military
Code, viz: Company B, 1st infantry,
Liberty Hill.
"Since the language of the sections
of the Military Code, quoted
above, Is mandatory aa regards organizations
failing to comply with
the requirements named, providing
for thoir disbandmont, I have tho j
honor to recommend that you exor- [ft
rise the authority given you by Section
18, Military Code, and disband #
and muster out of service the com- ^
panios that I have named."
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niumi niu-ro Jnil Was Handy. Cl
A now reason for living In a big Tli
city was given by Violet I'iotrowski, ?
of Detroit, Mich., who appeared
against her father, who was charged
with drunkenness. Until recently the >t
family lived in a small town in Ohio
but moved to Detroit in order that
her father might be Jailed for his
sprees, the police facilities of minor
municipalities not being sufficient to
nccoinplish his correction. The court
issued a warrant for non-support. *
Reckless Driver Killed.
Blinded by a dust storm Edward
Rellefeldts, who was making his first
trip in a new aivtomobile, dashed
headlong into a machine driven by P.
if. Wilson, 24 7 East Twenty-seventh
streot. Chicago, near Oh ester ton,
(nd., Monday and was instantly killxl.
Wilson escaped with minor injuries.
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Is it not surprising that the flood
jf telegrams that have been sont 3"
nto Washington pleading for pro-4 Or
ection for cotton should all read as
f written by the wimo pen though
signed by many different name*? *
They all emlnate from the same
source. de
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exchange referred to May 2 as ?
he hottest May 2 in history. "If
he editor had been with this scribe
tt ChanceUorsville on the same date
n 1863 he would revise the record," S3
eplies The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
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