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SIDNEY HERBERT’S LETTER.
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE 35TH GEN
ERAL ARMY ENCAMPMENT.
I FCTT of the Questions Which Will
Come Up tor Discussion—An Old
Subject That Has Bean Often Con
sidered—A Reference to Dr. Mary
Walker—Men Who Became Presi
dents Under Names Other Than
Their Own—A Mad Grand Army
Man—A Printer Responsible for
His Mental Condition—Confederate
Generals in Virginia—Deserving
Confederate Olßcers Who Were
Overlooked In the Wind Up of Af
fairs—The Case of Gen. Bartow.
Other Matters of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla.,
Sept. 7.— To-day, from Maine to Cali
fornia, the old “Boys in Blue" are mov
ing in the direction of Cleveland, 0.,
ivhere the thirty-fifth annual national
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic is to be held. Sunday will
be devoted to religious services and
Monday given tip to the reception of
the big delegations and their assign
ment to quarters. Tuesday is to be
made attractive by the naval parade
and Wednesday by the regular G. A.
r. parade, and this promises to eclipse
the great Chicago parade of last year.
Thursday and Friday will be the days
devoted to business sessions of the G.
A. R., the Mexican War Veterans, the
Women’s Relif Corps, the Ladles of
the G. A. R. and other organizations,
the headquarters of which will be at
the Hollenden Hotel, the leading hotel
of the city. Ample accommodations
have been arranged for all in attend
ance, and veterans short of funds will
have excellent free quarters given
them in the public school buildings.
The contest for commander-in-chief
lies between Gen. Thomas J. Stewart,
the accomplished adjutant general of
the state of Pennsylvania, and a for
mer G. A. R. adjutant general of high
character, and rare ability, and Gen.
Dan Sickles, U. 8. A. (retired) of New
York, with, chances in favor of Stew
art, who has the unanimous indorse
ment of the Florida department. • • *
Efforts have been made in the past
to elect Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and
Gen. Joe Wheeler, old Confederates,
"honorary members” of G. A. R.
posts in New Jersey and Massachu
setts, but there was no such member
ship in the organization. Some posts
have “Social Members,” and on this
account the Department of Michigan
proposes to create an "Associate So
ciety,” the object being to Interest out
siders in the work and support of the
G. A. R. But one clause in the first
section will create lively discussion,
as it excludes from membership all
who "have ever borne arms against
the United States.” Now, with a
reunited people, anew National Sol
diers' Home, where this rule does not
apply, and with Gen. Joe Wheeler and
Gen. Fitz Lee in the United States
Army, such a rule is simply preposter
ous.
Another matter for lively discussion,
will come from the Department of
Arkansas, but it is an old subject that
has been discussed almost every year
for nearly twenty years. It proposes to
let into the G. A. R. all the Southern
men who were “forced” by “public
opinion” or otherwise, into the Confed
eiate army, but deserted at the first
opportunity and joined the Union
army. Now they are barred by the
rule that makes any person who at any
time bore arms against the United
States ineligible to membership. It is
proposed to change this rule so it will
not apply to any who "involuntarily”
here arms against the United States. I
cannot imagine any new argument that
can be used at Cleveland in favor of
this change. If the G. A. R. had the
power of a genuine mind reader, and
could test each case separately, it is
possible that a portion of these North
Georgians and East Tennesseeans and
others might "pass muster,” but here
tofore all efforts, however, praise
worthy, in their behalf have failed to
open to them the “inner door,” so care
fully guarded, of the G. A. R.
Florida will not be largely represent
ed this year, yet a good delegation is
anticipated. Commander F. G. Par
cell and party go from Tampa on the
Seaboard Air Line, via Washington
and New York; Senior Vice Comman
der S. Herbert Lancey and party go
from Sanford on the Plant System, via
Montgomery, the Louisville and Nash
ville and the “Big Four.” Another par
ty goes via the Southern Railway to
Join the Georgia "headquarters train”
from Fitzgerald. All parties expect to
reach Cleveland on Monday afternoon.
The Florida headquarters will be at
the Lincoln Hotel, No. 6258 Ontario
street, but Gen. Lancey, being special
aide to the commander-ln-chlef, will
be at National Headquarters at the
Hollenden Hotel. Gen. T. S.
Wilmarth of Jacksonville, past
department commander, is a mem
ber of the National Council of
Administration, which Is the gov
erning power of the organization. Com
rade J. A. Commerford of Marietta Is
the member for the Department of
Georgia and South Carolina.
I noticed in the "Woman’s World”
department of the Morning News of
last Sunday that the notorious and
never-dying Dr. Mary Walker recently
in Chicago, had herself photographed
as she would appear “laid out” for
burial. This grim idea reminds me
that 1 was one of many Union officers
in the Civil War who would then have
been glad to have seen her “laid out”
for actual burial. A bigger nuisance
never infested an army. * * • A
writer In the Septepiber Ladies' Home
Journal revives the old story, often
given by me in these letters, that Gen.
Grant was not Ulysses Simpson Grant,
but he errs in saying it was “Hiram.
Ulysses Grant.” It was Ulysses Hi
ram Grant, and the congressman who
appointed him a cadet could not think
of his middle name—Hiram—so put In
his mother’s name—Simpson. Young
Grant registered at Roe’s Hotel at
West Point as "U. H. Grant.” This
writer says “not many Americans
know that Hiram U. Grant was the
eighteenth President of the United
States. Yet it is true.” I can assure
the writer, who Is Franklin B. Wiley,
♦ hat It is not true, for Grant’s name
never was "Hiram U. Grant.” Sup
pose, however, that his name was nev
er “legally” changed from U. H. to U.
S. Grant, he was not the first nor the
last President to use an illegal name.
In that sense. Gen, Zachariah Taylor
became President as Zachary Taylor
and Stephen Grover Cleveland became
President as Grover Cleveland.
There is one Grand Army man In
Georgia as “mad as a March hare,"
and It is the late assistant adjutant
general of the department, genial Har
ry Burns, passenger agent of the Geor
gia, and Florida Railroad.
The Bnmander-in-chief has honored
him a place as aide on his staff,
hut the general order names him
"Harry Bums." Now the printer who
puts him with the "bums" Is In dan
ger of getting the "Old Harry" after
him. •• • While It is true that Vir
ginia has furnished more Republican
Confederate generals than any other
state, It is not true that “four out of
her five surviving generals” were In
attendance uoon the recent Republi
can State Convention. Walker and
Rosser j,a new convert) .were there,
but I doubt if Grouer or Balling were
generals. Mahone, Wickham.
Walker and Rosser became Republi
cans- But Fltz Lee, G. C. Wharton,
W. H. Payne, G. W. C. Lee, T. T.
Munford and Eppa Hunter are still
alive and don’t attend Republican con
ventions. . The Richmond Dispatch,
however, claims Bradley T. Johnson
and L. L. Lomax, but they belong to
Maryland rather than Virginia. Lomax
was born in Rhode Island, but his
father was Maj. Mann P. Lomax, U.
S. A., of Virginia, a distinguished of
ncer of the ordnance department, who
died in 1842. For several years Gen.
L. L. Lomax was president of the
Maryland Agricultural College, but
now resides in Washington, D. C.
The Washington, D. C., Star pays a
deserved tribute to the late Brig. Gen.
William Ludlow, U. S. A., but errs in
calling him “a star graduate of West
Point,” as he stood !fJo. 8 in the class
of 1864. Savannah furnished one of the
star graduates (No. 4) of that class,
the late Maj. James W. Cuyler of the
engineer corps, son of the late Brig.
Gen. John M. Cuyler, medical director
on Gen. Hancock’s staff. The other star
cadets were Garrett J. Lydecker (1);
Arthur H. Burnham (2); Amos Stick
ney (3), and Alexander MacKenzte (6).
The fact that Gen. Ludlow was not a
star gradute did not prevent him from
winning In active service the highest
honor, being the first member of his
class to become a brigadier general.
Lydecker, Stickney and MacKenzle are
now colonels In the engineer corps.
Burnham died In 1877 a captain and
brevet major of engineers, and both he
and Cuyler were engineer officers of
rare promise when death cut short their
army careers. Gen. Ludlow was not
only a most accomplished officer, but a
gentleman of the finest character, and
the nation may well mourn his loss
with deepest grief. His father went
into the Civil War from New York as
a major of volunteers in 1861 and came
out In 1866 a brevet brigadier and ma
jor general.
I was gratified to see the very manly
and prompt response of Col. McGlash
an in Monday’s Morning News, in re
gard to his Confederate %rmy rank. It
shows him to have been a brave, faith
ful and patriotic soldier, and also con
firms my statement that there is no
official record of his deserved promo
tion to the rank of brigadier general.
He, like hundreds of other brave colo
nels, was overlooked In the final wind
up of official control of the armies from
the Richmond war department. I might
mention Col. John S. Prather of Atlan
ta, the late Col. (Dr.) Vol. H. Taliaferro
of Columbus, the late Col. Isaac W.
Avery of Savannah, and Col. Chas. T.
Zachary of McDonough, known to me
personally, who also failed of deserved
promotion, although commanding brig
ades. And yet. Col. G. J. Wright
(Judge “Gib.” Wright) of Cobb’s Le
gion, has always been recorded as a
brigadier general. He told me, how
ever, before his death, that he was
never promoted, and not to put his
name In my list of Confederate gen
erals.
A recommendation, however strong,
and from the most distinguished gen
eral in the field, does not always ac
complish its object. Hundreds of such
failures in the Union army were
smoothed over at the close of the war
with brevets of various kinds. But in
the Confederate army, when the col
lapse came, there was nobody thought
ful enough to adopt this plan before it
was too late. Ex-President Jefferson
Davis, in revising my list of Confeder
ate generals, when I presented the case
of Gen. Francis S. Bartow, said: “In
the case presented, that of a colonel
who had been promoted to be a briga
dier general, but was killed before the
commission reached him, I would say.
certainly, he Is to be placed among the
brigadier generals. I would make no
distinction between those who had been
appointed in recess of the Senate, and
who consequently had not been con
firmed at the time of their death, for
their commission was valid when they
died, and the presumption was cer
tainly In favor of their confirmation.”
In this opinion Gen. Leroy Pope
Walker, ex-Secretary of War, fully
concurred. It applies not only to Gen.
Bartow, but to all other colonels killed
while commanding brigades of their
own, and which had no other com
mander.
Of another class of generals ex-
Presldent Davis ruled as follows, and
Gen. Walker concurred: “Where a
nomination was submitted to the Sen
ate and rejected, or by the adjourn
ment of the Senate without action, be
came a dead letter, in either of those
cases I would say the rank was never
attained.” This is the same iron-clad
rule that prevails in the United States
army. I remember that when Gen.
Ruger was in command of the Depart
ment of the South, with headquarters
in Atlanta, his chief paymaster was
Col. Daniel McClure. Now, the Colonel
had been promoted to be a brigadier
general, but the Senate for some rea
son failed to confirm his appointment.
Mrs. McClure, whenever she talked
with me about her husband, always
called him “Gen.” McClure, but Gen.
Ruger and all his officers Invariably
referred/to him as “Col.” McClure. One
of the Confederate heads of the War
Department, I think It was Secretary
Benjamin, went so far as to decide that
certain brigadier generals ceased to be
such when their brigades were dis
solved and they became "floaters,” as
it were.
Of still another class, and perhaps
Col. McGlashan may have been in it,
ex-President Davis said: "There were
probably colonels commanding brig
ades at the close of the war, but to
whom commissions had never been is
sued, and could not be, because the
brigadier general was absent, perhaps
wounded, or a prisoner, or sick, yet in
each event entitled to resume the com
mand of his brigade whenever he
could Join it; such temporary com
manders could not be classed as brig
adier generals under any circum
stances.” Gen. Walker also took the
same view of the matter. But where a
colonel commanded a brigade of his
own, with no absent commander, as
above stated by Mr. Davis, and sur
rendered as such commander, he was
and is entitled to the rank of briga
dier general, uncommissioned. If Col.
McGlashan was In this class of colo
nels he is justly entitled to be called
a Confederate brigadier general. Col.
Avery assumed this title, just as did
Col M. J. Bulger of Alabama and oth
er colonels who failed to get their
commissions before the surrender.
I was deeply interested in the ease
of Gen. Bartow, and for that reason
called in the assistance of ex-President
Davis and Gen. Walker, the then only
surviving Secretary of War, to settle
the question of his real rank. In my
roster I have classified the generals
according to their sphere of duty, C.
S A., or P. C. S. A., or state service,
claiming that any general of state
troops in actual service was a Con
federate general In that class. Also,
that all colonels killed in battle com
manding their own brigades, and ail
colonels holding similar position at the
surrender, were Confederate {generals
In their class. But my purpose was
to follow official record and not here
say evidence. Of my purpose, ex-
Prestdent Davis said: “I concur in the
feeling you express” (the Bartow case)
"in favor of giving a colonel who fell
at the head of a brigade a rank in
history commensurate with the com
mand in which he died, but also ap
prove of your decision to follow fact
rather than feeling. It is obvious that
to indulge that sentiment would pro
duce confusion in any complete roster,
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by giving two or more brigadier gen
erals to one brigade.
And it was this sense of justice that
led Col. G. J- Wright of the Cobb Le
gion, to decline to be longer recorded
as a brigadier general of a brigade
that had an absent commander.
Sidney Herbert.
KNOWS TALMUD BY HEAHT.
Itavld Rouen laid Knmed in Europe
,nr Marvelous Memory.
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
David Rosenfeld is his name, though,
like Dicken’s Capt. Bunsby, with a
head such as he is possessed of, it
doesn’t really make much difference
what kind of a name he goes by. He
came to Chicago a few days ago from
the town of Minsk, in Southwestern
Russia, on his way to Seattle, In the
Ttate of Washington, with his two
da M? ht ßosenfeld has been famous all
over ‘Europe for the last twenty years
for the possession of a marvelous mem
ory and his perfect knowledge of the
Talmud Prince Bismarck and Glad
stone. both of whom knew him well,
wrote their estimate of him in scien
tific journals of England and Germany,
and famous phrenologists of the Old
World have gone into raptures over
the wonderful development of his fron
tal bone. It may be said in passing
that this portion of bis bead is pf sucb
abnormal growth that Mr. Rosenfeld
could hang his hat on it if he desired
to.
He gave an exhibition of his powers
in the Ghetto in the presence of sev
eral prominent Jewish rabbis and cit
izens who have known him by reputa
tion for several years, and succeeded
in astounding everybody who watched
him. They brought out the thirty-six
volumes of the Talmud, opened pages
at random and stuck pins into the
paper. Without faltering for a sec
ond or making a single error he called
off the word that would be found
-pierced by a pin at the tenth, fifteenth
or any other page, called for below
where it had been inserted.
They took the books and read off
three words of sentences selected at
random. He not only concluded every
sentence so started, but went on to
give the rest of the context, quoting
all the commentaries in the margin
and explaining the meaning of the
text.
He was shown the bottom line of a
page and Immediately called off the
number that would be found at the
top of the page, the first word of the
Talmud appearing on that page, and
a 160 the first word of the marginal
rules. Every conceivable test of this
character was made and successfully
met, and after it was all over the
scholar was taken out to see the
sights.
Rosenfeld Is fifty years old, a little
shabbily dressed man, stoop-shoulder-
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memory creates and shows his con
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the clothes he wears. He was born in
Minsk, and before he was six years old
was placed under the care of the fa
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on his Talmudical studies. Up to the
time he was forty years old he lived,
moved and breathed In the atmosphere
placing his studies above everything
else and maturing himself In the wis
dom of the wonderful work that he
gradually came to know by heart from
beginning to end.
For the last ten years he has been
alternately traveling In European
countries, delivering lectures on the
Talmud and teaching something of its
meaning to students in his own home
town, earning in thia way the equiva
lent of a little under $8 a week in
American money.
Eight years ago a young man left
Minsk for America, and when he reach
ed hero settled In Seattle, where he
soon established a clothing business.
He was a "likely” fellow, and had for
years ket company with Rosenfeld’s
oldest daughter. The mother, a born
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old friends at home that he offered
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“That is why I’m hera now,” Rosen
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with the kinder,’ so I was dragged
from my books. I am waiting here
now till the son-in-law sends the tick
ets for the rest of the journey.”
After he reaches Seattle and sees the
couple made man and wife Rosenfeld
will make his way back to the middle
of Russia and his Talmud classes. He
was given a whirl around the circle
here that took his breath away. He
went to a vaudeville performance that
he insisted on calling an opera, view
ed the city from the top of the Ma
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on the elevated roads, used a telephone
for the first time In his life, and Mulsh
ed up at a soda fountain, where he
nearly drove the expert mixer ti to
hysterics by asking him in Yiddish if
the ice cream was "kosher."
A Bear in n Trap.
From Scribner’s Magazine.
There were days at a time when
there was nothing doing in bear-traps.
The real rushing business did not be
gin until about the first of June, when
the moose calves had got big enough
to run fast. Then Henry discovered
to his great Joy that the bears had be
gun marking anew their striking trees.
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The trapper who takes possession of a
stream by blazing trees with his ax
is only'lmitating a custom that was
old before Elisha studied bear culture.
The big bears stand up as high as they
can by certain trees and mark therr*
with their teeth. Each year they bite
them anew, at the beginning of sum
mer, and Henry showed me several
freshly struck trees one day. "That
bear is an old settler," said Henry, as
we looked at the bites on the tree,
higher than a tall man's head. So he
rebaited the nearest traps, and burnt
the feathers of a loon which had come
too close to catnp. “I think he will
smell those burnt feathers a mile,’’
said Henry. Also he toasted cheese
and stuck bits of It in cleft sticks about
the neighborhood, to get the bear in
terested.
This diabolism worked its spell, for
on approaching the trap, three days
later, he heard roars and howls a
quarter of a mile away. The bear had
become entangled In a snarl of blow
downs, and having fouught the trap
und bushes for hours, lay flat on his
back as we aproaehed, walling his des
pair. Henry said he never heard a
bear make so much noise.
There was a great difference in tha
way the bears acted. Some of them
tried to get away, some became furious
at our coming. But all of them took
the final blow quietly, and died ta
il tartly.
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