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HISTORIC TALE OF CANDLER AND DOW
find How the Latter Game To Be
a Confederate Prisoner.
hs exchanged fob general lee.
Colonel MacKowen Made the Capture and
the Brilliant Louisianian Writes Enter
tainingly of His Experience.
From The Atlanta Constitution.
Some weeks ago there began to
appear in the newspapers an irre
-Bh.tiblf> publication purporting to
be no interview with Colonel All
en D. Caix'ler on war experiences
and containing a declaration from
Col. Candler that he had captured
( tn. Neal Dow the famous com
nnind- r of the Thirteenth Maine
regiment during the operations of
the confederate army in Mississip
pi in the summer of 18G3 . Colonel
Chi<Her never said it or thought
it -.r dreamed it but the article
wii.j o wu.elv c >pied ihat it finally
r> nchrd the eye of the man who
redly ni<i captu p e General Dow
and in a natural spirit of resent
ment he has caused to bo printed
k warm repudiation of all
that Col. Candler did not say in
the interview attributed to him.
Tin- acknowledged captor of
the great warrior from Maine is
Dr. .John C. MacKowen, one of
the bravest men who ever went
to the war from Louisiana, and
who now resides on his big plan,
tation in peace and plenty at
Jackson, in East Feliciana par
ish. that state. He was at one
time captain of the famous Mac-
Kowen’s Scouts, and later be
came liuetenant colonel of Pow
ers's regiment, in the confeder
ate cavalry, lu the quiet of h s
home circle lie found in his
newspaper, the other day, the
falsehood above referred to, and
he wrote a prompt and emphatic
denial, sent it to The New Or
leans Times Democrat, and had
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it conspicuously printed in the
issue of that excellent newspa
per on February 27th.
Outside of tha fact that in
siin. le jus'ico to Col. Candler he
should be set right in the matter,
there is so much of interest iu
Colonel MacKowen’s story that it
is well worth reprinting. In de
scribing iho capture of General
Dow he says:
“When the signs of war were
unmistakable my father and fam
ily returned to his p'antation in
Feliciana parish from Paris,F a c
where no had deen living tor
some years and bre light with him
a valuable I-ible set vice of silver
and some of those costly ornaments
which travelers pick up abroad. In
addition to these hig plantation
stores w ire tilled with valuable
goods which any enterprising gen
eral like Dow backed up by a large
arinv could easily pack up and
*-end north I knew that the fall
of Port Hudson was only a que. -
lion of time —that no confederate
troops would remain in the Flor
ida pansnes to protect them that
Dow won d soon have an oppo’tu
nity to exercise unlimited power
.■ver the poperty liberty and
lives of east Louisianians and that
my father won d be his first
victim .
“Now, my father was a chol
eric Presbyteri in elder, from
County Tyrone, in Ireland with
very fixed notions about his
rights to his possessions, and if
Dow tried to interfere with those
rights he would certainly get
collared and cowhided, even
though he brought with him a
division of troops, and it was
equally certain that Dow would
have my father shot on the spot;
his town and country residences
and stores would be burned to
the ground after they had been
sacked, and to prevent all these
disasters lilial piety demanded
that Dow and all his philan
thropic tendencies should be re
moved from the Felicianas and
be locked up m some safe place.
“I can remember how my
heart beat v. ith pleasure at the
notion of indulging in the school
boy lark of pulling the coininan
dei-in-chief of an army of some
30,000 troops out of his head
quarters and galloping him into
the confederate lines, for at one
time I passed within a mile of
Banks’s headquarters, and I was
>orely tempted to bag the bigger
game, but with a feeling of re
gret that my father was so head
strong and peppery in spite of
his being an elder and the best
of men, and that Dow would
steal every thing but a red hot
stove in spile of the immense
amount of professional philan
anthropy permeating his heart
and brain.
ROME GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 13. 1898.
| “I gave up Banks and pushed
on two miles farther into the fed
eral lines to hag Dow. It was a
sacrifice amply compensated when
General Dick Taylor thanked me
on he race track at the derby
races in England for leaving
Banks to han. General Taylor
seemed very gratetul to Banks for
the assiseance rendered at Mans
fi Id and some other points by
this federal commander, who
sacrificed bis blue coats to cotton
bales and gave Taylor every op
portunity to defeat the
federal army and drive it out of
north Louisana.
‘YVhen I rode up to Dow’s
headquarters the first thing was
to capture the sentry pacing up
and down with loaded gun before
the Cage house. This was done
without creating any a'arm. Then
the sergeant and the rest of the
guard were waked up one at a
time and taken in charge Mv
men found horses for them in
Dow’s s'able, and they were al!
excellent horses, stolen from the
best studs in Louisianna, »ud es
pecially Dow’s mount a B ick
Hawk, I think, stolen from 1 un
can F. Kenner. When I entered
was not there. It
was the brightest of inooi.d
nights, and I took possession of
his paper and magnificent pres
entation sword without lighting a
lamp.
“I found out from an Irishman
among the captured that Dow had
ridden over to the house of Dr. B.
B. Barnett, a half mile distant,
and in plain view of the Cage
house, where two federal colonels
were under arrest for dissuading
their men from re-enlisting, as
their term of service was about
to expire and Dow thought he
could persuade these conels en
coi.r.ge r< • ilistment: Tie c< tt >n
fields near the the Cage house
and toward the Barnett house
were whith with the tents of fed
eral soldiers, who we could hear
as they sang and talked.
“I waited an hour more or less
it seemed a week—until the gen
eral galloped up. A cocked navy
six jammed into his abdomen
after I had asked him if he was
General Dow, surprised him and
before he had recovered from his
surprise he was disarmed his
borse with him on it was led ar
ound to the Cage house where
my men and prisoner already
mounted awaited us.
“We started at a walk, which
we kept upas long as we were
in the lines, so as not to attract
attention ; then once east of the
Baton Rouge and B.<jou Saw
road, we gave our horses their
heads and a fifty mile gallop
over roads running through per
fumed woods with great masses
of silver light dashed in and out
of them by the full moon on the
most delicious of balmy summer
nights brought us to camp, near
Centreville, Miss., the next
morning Dow was sent under
regular guard from camp to the
Jackson and Great Northern
railroad (now Illinois Central,)
where he was consigned to the
provost marshal, and continued
his journey to Mobile. From
Mobile he was sent to the Libby,
where, after nine months, more
or less he was exchanged for
General Fitzhugh Lee, the pres
ent consul general in Cuba.”
The provost marshal to whom
Colonel MacKowen says he de
livered his distinguished prison-1
er at Jackson was Colonel Alien
ATLANTA CHOSEN
fts Heaiiqifarters For Gills
Department
OF the FEDERAL ARMY
I
Big Changes Made In Army
Posts Yesterday.
Washington, March I’2. —The
secretary of ‘war issued an order
creating a new military department
with headquarters at Atlanta, this
morning.
General Alger came to that
decision yesterday afternoon and
before the information had been
given out telegraphic instructions
were sent to Brigadier General
William M. c.rahtnj), commander
of the department of Texas at San
Antonio, to proceed at to
Atlanta with two of bis rtaff
officers, the others to remain to
attend the detail of the removal
of the troops.
The same order which establish
is t' e new department to be known
as the department of the south
abolishes the department of Texas,
which has been inexistence many
years.
The removal of the headquarters
from San Antonio is not without
a heavy loss to the government on
account of the fact that the head
quarters buildings in San Antonio
will have to be abandoned at least
temporarily.
There are no government build
ings in Atlanta for the accommoda
tion of the headquarters and for
the present available buildings
will have to be hired.
The new departments wil’ con
sist of the states of Georgia,South
Carolina, Texas. Louisiana. Ala
bama. Florida and Mississippi.
THE ORDER MAKING CHANGES.
That portion of the formal order
issued by the war department
covering the creation of this new
department reads as follows :
“A department is hereby estab
lished to be known as the depart
ment of the gu f. to consist of
the states of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas,
with headquarters at Atlanta,
Georgia.
“The records of the department
of the Missouri will be transferred
to the department of the lakes
and those of the department of
Texas to the department of the
gulf.
“Major General John R.
Brooke is assigned to the depart
ment of the lakes, and Brigadier |
General John 11. Brooke is assign
ed to the department of the lakes
and Brgadier General William
M. vraham to the command of
(he department of the gulf.
“The officers of the several staff
departments now on duty in the
department of the Missouri and
the department of Texas are as
signed to like duties in the depart
ment of the lakes and of the gulf
respectively.”
This is based on an entire
rearrangement of the several de
part iient. By this the department
of the Missouri and the the de
partment of the Texas are dore
away with.
The department of the east is
curtailed by the loss of all of
the states that go to make up
this new department of the gu'f
except Texas has been under the
old arrangement a department in
itself.
It is now added to the other
six which are taken from
the department of the east to
form the new department whose
headquarters will be in Atlanta.
SONS OF VETERANS
Meet at Coilrt House and Or
ganize Permanently.
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN,
To be Known as Floyd County
Camp of S. of G. Vs.
An enthusiastic and interest
ing meeting of the Sons of Floyd
County Confederate Veterans
was held at the courthouse yes
terday morning, with the tem
porary officers presiding.
The purpose of the meeting
was to permanently organize a
camp of Sons of Veterans in
Floyd county, which was done
most successfully. There was no
Uck of enthusiasm and the
charter members of the Floyd
county camp will number at
least two hundred, the majority
of who were present.
Temporary commandant Jno.
C. I‘rintup, to whom most of
the credit for the success of the
organization goes, presided and
received the reports of the dif
ferent committees appointed at
the last meeting.
The committee appointed to
enroll new members were very
successful; their report showing
that several hundred new names
had been added to the member
ship. The efficient work of the
committee was highly compli
mented. They were also in
structed not to cease in their ef
forts until every eligible young
. man in this county had been
enrolled as a member of the or
ganization.
The work of the coinmitte on
constitution and by laws was
unanimously adopted.
By a unanimous vote the
name of the organization was
changed from Win. Gardner
Gamp of Sons of Confederate
Veterans, to the Floyd County
Camp of the Sons of Confeder
ate Veterans. The latter name
was thought to be more appro
priate, and when a name for the
permanent organization had to
be selected it was chosen and
adopted.
The meeting es the Sous of
Veterans will be held on the
fourth Saturday of every month
at 11 o’clock, at the court house.
On the fourth Saturday of this
month a meeting will be held
and special officers chosen for
the ensuing year. All officers
will be elected annually.
This new organization will
carry a large delegation to the
rand reunion to be held in
Atlanta next July. Active prep
arations for this will begfn im
mediately.
The department of the Missouri
loses some of its western posts |
which go to the department of'
the Platte, and the states about
the great lakes are formed into a
department with headquarters at
Chicago.
Hjw commanders are located.
This leaves the departments of
the army: Department of the!
East with headquarters at Gov
ernor’s island, New' York.
Department ot the Lakes with
headqarters at Chicago.
Department of Dakota, with
headquarters at St. Paul.
Department of the Colorado,
with headquarters at Denver.
Department of the Platte, with
headquarters at Omaha.
Department of California with I
beadquarters at San Franc sco. |
Department of the Columbia, j
with headqarters at Vancouver
barracks.
Department of Guff, with head
quarters at Atlanta.
These orde’S have been tele
graphed to ail post and headquar
ters affected.
10 CENTS A WEEP
"NOTums."
“We Do Not Care To Make
Any Alliances.”
ANSWER OF SENATORS
“We Do Not Need Any Aid,”
Said Senator Cullom.
Washington, March 12. —Re
ports of a possible alliance with
England are received with no fa
vor in congressional circles.
“Such an alliance,” said Sen
ator Davis, “would he unwise,
and a departure from the policy
we have ebserved from the day of
Washington.”
“If we can help England,”
Senator Chandler said, “in secur
ing open ports in China without,
gettii g into a quarrel with our
traditional friends, Franco and
Russia, we might do so. In trou
ble with Spain we would not
need her help.”
Senator Lodge said: “We can
not fight with her or for her hut
there are many ways m which our
moral support and influence could
be exercised in an effective man
ner. I doubt whether anything
will ever come of the proposition.
Senator Cullom: “While we
would be glad if England gave us
her sympathy, we do not need
her aid.”
INJUNCTION SUIT. x
Gordon Lee Files Bill Against
H F- Stone of New Jersey.
Gordon Lee, through hfs at
torneys, Glenn & Roundtree, to
day filed a bill in the United
States court against Henry Fred
erick Stone, of New Jersey, to
enjoin an ejectment suit which
was instituted in December.
The original suit was for the
purpose of ejecting Lee from
1,000 acres of land in Dade and
Walker counties, of which it
was alleged he was wrongfully
in possession.
I nder an order of Judge New
man the ejectment proceedings
have been held up pending the
hearing, which is set for March
26.—Atlanta Journal.
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