WBDNESLAY, MAY 6, 1891. Honoring General Hampton. The' remuai OD of the old Hampton Brigade, which took place io connection with the Memorial Day celebration at Augusta, Ga., Monday, April 27tb, was a grand occasion, and Gen. Wade Karn pto a was tbs central figure of all. Tba old hero was present by invitation to receive bonor from -the two States of South Carolina aad Georgia combined, and never waa an American citisen nore tboron?hly crowned witb glory. Cok C. C. Jone?, president of the Sur? vivors' Association of Angosta, Ga ? used the following eloquent terms in tho opening remarks to introducing Generar Bampton, who bsd been in? vited' to ddiver the annual address : ..Honored as we are by the presence of ooo who. ar master of horse of the Army of Northern Virginia, as Gov? ernor, Senator, Southern gentleman and deliverer of bb people from the domin? ion of the ignorant, the alien, and the tree voter challenges and receives oar highest respect, oar sincerest esteem, unstinted gratitude and warmest admi? ration ; and anticipating from him the compliment of an ovation upon the occasion of ibis happy re-union, I am relieved, my comrades, from the obliga? tion which has for so many years de? volved apon me, of delivering the annual address before this association. The hoar is at band when with satis? faction analioy ed, we will oarken onto the eloquent otterance of this distin? guished Confederate chieftain, enlight? ened statesman, .genuine patriot and chiavlrous son of the South." GB2?. HAMPTON'S ADDRESS. Mir. President, Comrades, Friends, and seo of my old Brigade : My first duty, as it is my greatest pleasure, is to make my ack rledgement to this grand organisation of yours-the Sur? vivors' Association of Georgia. In no State, in no Southern State, bas any as-Clarion of that sort been so success fully kept alive, and I trust that the resolution adopted by the association to-day will be the sense of tbe mee who fought in the Army of Virginia and of Tennessee, and tbat our children, tie children of the survivors of the old soldiers who have crossed the river will take the plaee of us who are here to-day. That when that is done that the stories of the old soldiers of the mee who followed Lee and Jackson and Johnston may go sounding down the ages to the last syllable of recorded time. When I received the invitation, my fsaaoda, to join in this re-cnion, my espectaiioa waa that I was simply to give s! welcome to that old brigade as mee whom you have loved to bonor. I had no ?lea that 1 was expected to make an address, and after the one I have listened to to-day I am afraid to attempt it But ? do want to say to . these meo that I wanted to look in the faces once more that I bad so often seen; to see them kindling with tbe fire of battle ; to grasp their bands and to feel that we belong to a common country sod that they belong to a command that I honored more than life itself, and that it wostd have been to me the greatest possible honor to have oom m anded the - old first brigade. - For I believe that thra was the best brigade in the whole army. (Applause.) At any rate I thought so, and a good many of our friends on the other side seemed to tfa^aJC-so, too. I wanted to come and see- you, my men, again. When I parted from you in Virginia there are perhaps, some of yon present who re? that wben I returned to my irs at ll o'clock at night on y icu Johnston surrendered!, I : ton ad that thai part of the old brigade. Hart's battery, said that they would '.."not surrenderard had taken up their . tc arch to seek fields of action elsewhere, even if across the Mississippi. I sent a courier ai once, telling him to overtake them and step them until I could see but ia au hour I was on my >. andas the first rays of the morn sao lighted the forests of North ii, breached the spot where they b?3^siopp?d I found the men, some . of them lying down, tired by their night's ride, but holding the bridles of their, horses and some of them asleep ~ stretched out oo the grass. When I reached them I told Them that they ? woaleVoave to remain and surrender ; asd telling them that I held an order . from Mr. Davis and assuring them that I knew they were willing to go ? With oe anywhere as they bad always . dene ; that if they went otherwise they : weald go as outlaws, which [ could not t>ear io see, and I told them that I wanted them as good soldiers to remain there and be surrendered ; that their commander in chief had surrendered them and I begged them as the good soldiers they bad always been, to obey that order, even though against their witt. And, ob men, do you remem? ber? do you remember how those men crowded around me, caught the rein of my horse, caught my stirrup leathers and ia whose eyes I saw the tears from eyes una ed to weeping-uh, men, wheo I recall that scene, even now, whee I recall that scene, tears unbid deo force themselves to my eyes. I bate sever fur got ten that scene, and it is the last one I shall remember upon this earth. (Applause and cheers, and a voice **I remember it too-good for the old Governor.") Bot it was not only the old brigade tbat I was proud of, for it was my good fortune to have cavarly from all over the Sooth, and among their command? ers I can name my old friend Gen. Wheeler. (Applause ) I wish that y >a would remember that when I speak f?rtfce ca fairy i speak for ail the cav? alry T "bad the honor to command. I kftpw ibat oor good friends of the in? fantry used to chaff us a good deal. r-They-"used to say they never saw a dead utan with spurs on, but in that grejtf fight at Trevilyan Station, fought by the cavalry against overwhelming numbers of infaut.y there were 710 killed and wounded in Butler's division, an-* in the 6th regiment there were lost *_i killed and wounded (applause ) And I will say that in the great cam? paign of Gettysburg where the despe? rate fighting was by that invincible infanfry of ours, the cavalry corps lost m>re in killed and wounded than any other division in Gen. L?e's army. Now we, the cavalry did do some fighting, and while I do not intend to detain you by telling you what I think of the cavalry, I want to show you what Geo Lee s; id : Just after the war G< o. L?e wrote to me and requested that I would give bi II a connect'd narrative of the opera- j tiona of the cava'ry corps of be last j jaaiopa??u in 7.r?iiu. Lie was, ts you know, about to write a history of war, aod it was a great misfortune the Sooth that he was not at that t prepared to finish it. In this he i the following language : "After coo veo ti OD of 1787,'7 speaking on subject be went on to say that tl differences culminated io 1861 blood, but not in treason.7' Those vt his words, and I want every caral man and every infantryman, every o who followed the Southern Cross, to his children and them to tell their cl dren (applause) to the remotest ge ration that they were neither trait nor rebels. (Applause and cheei Toa fought for what we believed w our rights. We believed it as c scienitoasly as any man could bei; anything on the face of the earth. ' believed that we were fighting for < God and our fatherland. (lienev cheering ) The man who would ought lo be damned. (Applaus Now while I Bay that we were neill traitors nor rebels, I do not say that should not recognize our allegiance the general government. It is oi one country that we have now, and is our duty and the duty of every m io the South to try and make tl country the field for freemen for time to come. (Applause ) I am loyal citizen, but I maintain that I c at all times express my opinion wbetl in Northern presence or in Southe presence, and never will I say that i dead brothers were traitors to tb cause. May my tongue cleave to t roof of my mouth before I ever ntl a sentence that will betray the thous that me and mine were rebels. Y were doing your duty as you thought to the country, but God has ordered otherwise and I acquiesced in the resu I am a citizen of the United State and I propose to obey its laws, but will never forget the solemn duty th I then owed and that I still owe to t soldiers who, with me, believed tb our canse of battle was just, and those soldiers who I have seen go dov to the dost in battle, (faking a larj book) I have simply marked a few of tl references to the cavalry corps durit that campaign. I will read first a fe words which will show how and why happened to recommend the report which L refer. The first is address? to Geo. Robert Lee and begins: General-In accordance with yoi request that I should give you a coi nected narrative of the operation of tb cavalry corps of the army of Norther Virginia. I have the honor to subm the following report : I regret that have not the data from whioh to mab it as full and complete as you desire but when my bouse was robbed an barned by Sherman's troops all nt papers shared the same fate. Frot copies, however, which escaped I cc deavor to comply with your request The work you asked me to peform give me a double gratification ; for while i affords me the opportunity of obligin the great captain who so often led th heroic army of Northern Virginia t victory, it gives me at the same tim the pleasant but sad duty of paying th only tribute in my power to the noble brave men who clung to their colors an sause to the la*t. The men who thu nobly discharged the highest duties c patriots and soldiers, deserve tb thanks, not ooly of the officers, but c 3 very true-hearted Southerner. G rat i tude on the part of their countrymen fo their services, and a conciousness oi their own part of a duty performed ar* the only rewards they can ever receive The country for which they fought si heroically, has uo recognized existence the nationality they sought to establisl is extinct and the government whicl should have awarded them is like thei hopes, dead. It is therefore eminently due to them, that their heroic deed" their sufferings and their sacrifices sh o old 'be recorded, so that in aftei years their children may be proud tc claim their descent from men who an now denounced as rebels. Let 4th< truth, the whole truth and nothing bul the truth' be placed upon the record, we may then confidently commit oui cause to the impartial judgment oj posterity n As I said, I propose to read only s few of the congratulatory orders issued by General Lee to the cavalry corps. I turo now to one order of the 21 ol June, 1861, to the major general com? manding. You will see that it is tc General Rosser, who bas distinguished himself in every brilliant fight almost io Virginia, and here is the dispatch I Bent to him : **Tbe major general commanding directs me to express the pleasure he feels tn communicating to you the fol? lowing extract from a note received last night from Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, Acting Adjutant General Army N. V.: 'General Lee directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your note of 5:30, and to express his gratification at the handsome conduct of Rosse r's command and his tbauks for his having so gallantly de? feated the enemy. The ni apr general commanding desires me to add his thanks for your valuable assistance, and to say that he deems the successes of yesterday mainly due to your skill and gallantry and the services of your com? mand.'" The next extract in my report relates to the fight at Trevilyan Station. 1 will not read the whole record, but a letter from Gen. Lee, dated June 28, is as follows : "Your uote ol' to-day from Col Phil? lips has just been received. I am re? joiced at your success, and thank the officers and men of your command for the gallantry with whioh you assaulted (he enemy, and which euded in his de? feat. (Signed) Rog ?CRT E. LEK " Apropos of that fight, I would like to mention a circumstance which ? did not remember at the time We moved out with 4,71)0 men to intercept Sheridan. ? have seen from the recent reports at Washington that in that fight he had 10.000 men. Well, he says that he hal lost from SOU to 400, but in bi* re? ports to the war department, which are now there on file, he admits that in the ti^bt and in the subsequent movement he lost iu the total as many as 4 Su? men, so that we find ?hat compared with them they lost one man to each one of ours eng g d in the operation, because, as I R> d. we hid about 4 70U men, and he admits a loss of 4 832 by bis own report. The next letter to Gen Lee is in refereuce to rl e same fight under date of August 19, 1801. It is directed to me and says : "I de? sire to express the gratification I have derived from the c< nduct of the cavalry during its late operations north of James River, The next is a record of August 26 h. being a dispatch of Gen. Lee to the Secretary of War referring to thcgallaut. conduct of A. 1\ HUI ; "At the second assault be carried the entire line. Gook's and McRae's North Carolina brigades in Wilcox's division under Conner, with Pegram's j artillery, composed the assaulting col I umn. One line of breastworks was car ; ried by the cavalry under Hampton with great gallantry, who contributed largely to the success. Seven stand of colors, 2,000 prisoners and nine pieces of artillery are in our possession. The lost of the enemy in killed and wounded ia reported heavy ; oars relatively small. Our profound gratitude is due to the Giver of all victory and our thanks to the brave men and officers engaged. li. E. LEE, General." Now, my friends, I think by these I can show that Lee thought tbat the cavalry was of some good in the army, and we saved your lives once, you Will remember, by the number of cattle we brought to you from one of our raids. Bat I will not detaio you by reading any more of this, only referring you to one fact that is worth recording. Io looking over my records (and they are embodied here in the reports of the pro* vost marshal for the cavalry corps of the Army of Northern Virginia), I find that in the last six months of the war we had turned io between 18.000 and 20,000 prisoners. Well I think that this was doing very well for an army of 5,000 or 6.000. Wheeler said that we whipped them, but it bas been said that the infantry whipped them and we cap? tured them while they were running. I do not mean to depreciate the infan? try at all, bnt I remember an ioctdect of an infantryman who I thought was from Mississippi. As I was passing along on horseback be said : "I'll be damned if ? ever go into the war again, I will go on the hurricane deck of a horse," and I inferred from that that be bad been used to a Mis? sissippi River steamer. But as you know, I would rather fight than speak, but I do want to tell you of the last communication I re* ceived from Lee, as it was particularly complimentary to the army of North? ern Virginia. I would say that if I had to go through my privation, my sufferings, and could have foreseen the result of the war, I, even then, would have been willing to encounter its re? sults. After the war Geo. Lee wrote to me and said : "You cannot regret aa mach as I do that yon were not present at the final struggle, for had you been present with all your cavalry, the disaster would not have happened." (Applause and cheering ) He did not say "I think it would not have happen? ed," or "I believe it would not have happened." And every member of that corps should nuw feel that he has a declaration worth more to him than the decoration of the Legion of Honor or the Iron Crown of Germany. Well, then, my comrades. I did not expect wheo I left you in North Caro? lina ever to see you again, or tbat in the course of natural events I could again have had this pleasure. It is a beautiful but very apt thought in the creed of Swedenborg, that every sol? dier fighting for his coQDtry and killed in battle is immediately translated to the realms of everlasting bliss. Whether this is so or not I would fain believe it, and I trust if we are not to meet on earth again, when we pass across the river and are at rest, and even though we did not fall, on the battle field, we may meet our old com? rades who, shoulder to shoulder gave up their lives for this dear Southern laud of ours. I may never Bee you again but I never will forget you, and those who nursed me in my desperate illoess tell me that in my deli ium I talked about the men cf my old brigade, .that I talked of cavalry, that I planned fights, that I gave orders to Maj Rosser to charge, and that ? said "now boys it is time for old Hampton to go in/' I say that I may not see you again my old men, but believe me I will not for? get you. My prayers will go to beaveo always fo.r you, God bless you my old comrades. (Applause.) Gen. M. C. Butler, G*n. Joe Wheel? er, aod Gen. P M. B. Young followed Gen. Hampton with short speeches. Gen. P. M. B. Young, whose Hog? ing utterances were enthusiastically received, said be was a South Carolin? ian and would not criticise ber too severely ; but some things had happened across the river which would not have happened in Georgia. The audience knows to what ? refer. I know one thing-and you know it, and the peo? ple of the whole South know it-and that is, it' the voice of the people of South Carolina could have been heard at the ballot box, it would have said io thunder tones that Wade Hampton -Fuaost be returned to the Uuited States Senate I speak thus feelingly because Wade Hampton belongs not alone to South Carolina, but to the whole South." (Applause and prolonged cheering, which was increased when a man in the crowd cried, *'I Dominate Wade Hamp? ton for governor of South Carolina in 1892 ) A GLORIOUS RE UNION. At the conclusion of the speaking the crowd surged up to the stage and vete? rans climbed over each other in their anxiety to meet their loved commander. General Hampton, extending both hands, grasped affectionately those out? stretched towards bim. War time incidents were recited by many to recall themselves to bis memory, and the General's eye kindled and his cheeks flushed as the stirring scenes were recalled. 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