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Page 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, March 16, 1967
Rutledge book
is reviewed
The Calvin Crozier Chapter
of the UDC met at 4 p.m. on
Tuesday, March 7, in the home
of Mrs. Phill Brooks. Associ
ate hostesses were Mrs. H. M.
Bryson, Mrs. W. W. Parr, Mrs.
F. Scott Elliott, Mrs. Butler
Holmes and Mrs. Seth Meek.
Upon arrival the members
enjoyed a brief social period,
during which the hostess serv
ed delicious refreshments.
The meeting was opened with
prayer by the President, Mrs.
C. S. Owens, after which the
Chaplain, Miss Dorothy Buz-
hardt, led the opening ritual.
Mrs. Owens presented Mrs.
Seth Meek, who reviewed the
story, “A Civil War Romance”
written by Archibald Rutledge,
Poet Laureat of South Caroli
na, who was born in 1883 at
McClellanville, S. C. HT? began
his education in Charleston and
was graduated from Union Col
lege in 1904. For many years
he was head of the English de
partment in the Mercersburg
Academy. Since 1937 he has
made his home at “Hampton,”
his ancestral plantation near
McClellanville. It has been in
the Rutledge family since 1086.
He inherited it in 1923 when
his father died. In 1958 he
was asked by the Library of
Congress to make, for the
National Archives, tape rec
ordings of seventy-five of his
poems. He is one of five Am
erican poets so honored. He is
interested in the cultivation
and conservation of old roses
and his garden of 25 acres
contains many fine ones. He
is the author of 75 to 100
books. His latest one, “Willie
Was a Lady” is now running
in serial form in the South
Carolina Magazine.
Mrs. Meek began her review
of the story by vividly des
cribing the background of the
romance. Many tragic stories
could be told of broken friend
ships, romances and business
associations of that period.
This one, “A Civil War Ro
mance.” concerns a fine young
Union General, James B. Mc
Pherson and Emily Hoffman, a
Southern Belle of -Baltimore.
They met in San Francisco in
1859, when Emily was visiting
her sister, Sophia McLane. She
Pictured above are members of the Whitener family.
The eldest, Mrs. M. L. Whitener, a resident of Newberry
for the past 25 years, lives on College street extension.
Seated next to her is Mrs. Katheryn W. Dwyer, formerly
of Newberry and now of Ridgeland, S. C. She is the
daughter of Mr. Guy V. Whitener, who is standing be
hind his mother. Mr. Whitener, a resident of Newberry
for the past 44 years, is a successful lumberman and is
well known throughout the lumber circles in the South
east. Next to him is his grandson, Michael G. Dwyer,
who has just returned from Viet Nam and is now com
pleting his enlistment term at Shaw Air Force Base
in Sumter, S. C. He is holding the youngest member of
the family, Michael G. Dwyer, Jr., who is eight months
old.
and her husband were friends
of McPherson, who was then
a Lieutenant in the Engineers.
They became engaged but the
match was opposed by her
family. McPherson was called
to active duty and elevated in
rank. Their love grew stronger
with the passing years and her
mother finally gave her con
sent to their marriage and
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they planned for a wedding
when he could get a furlough.
This was finally granted on
March 26, 1864, and he began
a long journey from Vicks
burg. However a dark hinge
of fate turned against him and
at Cairo, 111., he received a
message from General Sher
man revoking his furlough and
he was ordered to report at
once for duty in Atlanta. There
he was put in command of the
army and was in the midst
of the fighting, where he was
shot by a Confederate sharp
shooter, and fell dead from
his horse. When Emily receiv
ed word of his death she col
lapsed and remained in her
darkened room a full year.. It
is said that even Sherman and
Grant shed tears. He was eu
logized by Confederate General
Hood, whose army had killed
him. A monument was erected
to honor him in Washington
and Emily visited it every
year. She died in June, 1891
at the age of 59.
At Appomattox, Southern
arms were laid down, but the
vanquished were sustained by
their pride and gallantry. It
has been said “To accept defeat
with high spirit is a kind of
victory.” As a fitting climax
of the recounting of tragic
incidents of the war, Mrs.
Meek read Dr. Rutledge’s
poem, “Song of Hope.”
“Oh Gallant Heart, defeated,
Now gazing toward the West,
Where this day’s splendor
crumbles
Disastrous and unblest,
Look till the leathlike darkness
By stars be glorified,
Until you see another dream
Beyond the dream that died.
After the reading of the min
utes, committee reports were
heard, and it was decided to
present Dr. Rutledge’s book,
“Willie Was a Lady,” to the
Public Library.
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