New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1926, Page 10

ROBERTSON AND McCAUSLAND LAST SURVIVING COI?FEDERATF. LEADERS Though These Two Old Generals’ Ebbing, Their Memories Remain Keen—Interest- ing Reminiscences of War Days. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3—Infirmities of age have weakened the fle not the mind of the last two ing generals who held com in the Confe Sixty-one years ago a b ofticer rode up to the he of General Kilpatrick, Union com- mander at Macon, Ga., A group of young Union army officers obser with some astonishment the figure in gra Robertson’s Last Stand “It's Felix,” exclaimed one. There was a rush toward Contederate, with much handshaking and warm greetings. He was General Huston Robertson. s the end of the Civil war. d ed his to sur- A fallen into the hands West Point classmates. les of school days made 4 of $180 in gold for the er, who possessed nothing 3 ot worthless v, and with th is way. quarters up a fun vhere they g who evaded surrend- John McCausland. s are spend with 10 beg ertson, Waco, Te land, 80 years old, on a W. Va. still Undaunted by Blue A few days ago in Dall rtson was hobbl the street when he was Smpm’ll by a traffic policeman, who told him he would have to turn back as the signal was against him. “Young fellow,” said the old one, “I never surrendered to a blue uniform but once, and I've never turned backed in the middle of the battle.” The policeman recognized a tamiliar face, saw the Confedcrate veteran’s button, and let him p: Occasior y General Robertson dips into the modern whirl when he visits his son, Judge Felix D. Robertson in Dallas. He two daughters, Mrs. Julia Clev a of n Antonio and Mrs. John E. Smith of North Manchester, In- diana. Born the son of a soldier, March 9, 1840, at Washington, the old capital of Texas, Robertson was appointed to West Point by Gen Sam Houston fn 1 s a classmate of General r. He would have graduated in June, 1561, but the incident at Fort Sumter in April, 1861, intervened. Young Robertson, was a friend of d at once, as appointed of ’H’['l' ry, and as- General Beauregard's went to a leutenant signed to army ‘Was Obstacle to Sherman The battle of Shiloh found Albert him Sid- ney Johnston and from then on he was in every great battle fou 3 the Army of T ssee. He rose until he b dier general When Sherman m 2 he found a t every foot of General Robertsc before t weelis der to General K McCansland broad 40 m or C was set to C 1864, w to a demand Letters from Ger fied General after th two yea Canada, Eng | Strength Is| | co, virtually an exile. Sought Reprisal for Fire. For the confederate leader the drive into Pennsylvania was a fight for his alma mater, Virginia Military | Institute, where after graduating in 11857 he was assistant professor of mathematics at the outbreak of the war. The institute was partly wreck- ed by fire in the Hunter raid, as recompense for which the tribute ‘\\;\s demanded of Chamhcrsburg CHARLOTTE MILLS WITHOUT MALICE (Continued From First Page) s I walked slowly over to the rt—it is just across the street om the hotel where I am staying | thoughts e still with me aps for that reason, the sight of hundreds of people lined up in front of the building trying to! get in, scores of reporters and nesses and lawyers, and county offi- cials hustling and bustling about, the shouting and the general excite- ment filled me with a feeling of de- pression and I have been unable to | shake it off as I write this. Prays For Justice And Wisdom Yesterday befor I left our little Now Brunswick home for Somerville, | nelt in my mother's bedroom and ed God to bring justice and wis- dom to the court where three people o on trial. I fingered again some 1gs mother had left behind . From its hiding place I took precious little antique jewel case Hall had given her. It is broken , just as their love was broken but T love it still. It is hat passed between them. it together and it back memories of their the house | kitchen where used to make delicious “kuchen” for my brother | Danny and me, and where she used to make dishes Dr. Hall was 8o | He always liked to eat at through nto the en 1 went into the living room | here mother and Dr. Hall and we | dren used to have such good | mes si 1d playing together. | We appy then. He was so | jolly r's eves were 80| were o and mo nt. Sometimes in those happy days | used to wish that Dr. Hall had n father, he was so kind and| \derstanding. { ies those. Steels Herself Against Ordeal Then these other memories, bit- ter memories. That awful death. | Sometimes I think T could have borne mother's death a little more calmly it it hadn't been for her love for Dr. Mall. It was so hard to see their beautiful love stilled. But perhaps they are now where they can love in peace. That is my | sreat comfort. And now the trial s to begin, I have steeled mysclf as much as I can against the or- cal. During all these days to come 1 shall do my best to think only of the sweet memories of my mother. I shall feel sorry for Mrs. Hall and her two brothers when I see them facing the court shortly. It will be an ordeal for them, too They will suffer and I cannot help but be sorry for them for I don't like to see anyone suffer. But I do want to see justice done. I will bear them no ill will until it is proven without a question of doubt that they were responsible for the hs of my mother and Dr. Hall. in the twelve men who will d to sit in judgment on v a few more minutes now | and the trial will be under way.‘! People are rushing here and there | cager to bre to the court room, sce it it all, to be nl:le} tell other folks about it, as if were a first night at a new play, | 1d of a trial of three people wccused of killing a man and a the woman, my mother. Dazed, Not Thrilled 1' is hard to describa n') fmlm ing clse. from everything, t can't articipating in ve that I s trial murder suspeets test their Hardened Then ever hap- | | first rezula NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDXESDAY, MIN W. ALLING NEVY GENERAL pen to me.” That's the way I was | before the murder of my mother | and Dr. Hall. Then, it happened. And it has taken all the courage I | could command te go through those trying months and years and still | be myself. Now this—. The whole story ail over again. Those memories—sweet memories of my mother—horrible | memories of the days after the bodies were discovered—how people treated me! But soon it will be over. forget. I can live my own again. I even felt a little sorry for Mrs. Hall, Willie Stevens, and their brother Henry Stevens when the in- dictments were read. It is strange that I should have much sympathy for those accused of my mother's murder, but I don't like to see any- one suffer. I must control my feel- ings. Justice must be done, and I am willing to be satisfied with the decision of the jury. BERLIN NEW (Continued from Page Saven) I can life visited by him. Rev. Mr. Fiske has | been in great demand for lecturing on his trip and it was due to R. | 0. Clark that he has been securcd | for the evening. It is expected that there will be a large attendance. Several matters of importance will be brought up at the business ses- sion. The final report of the fair committee will be read. The Pythian Sisters held their meeting last evening at Community hall. Three new candi- dates e initiated temple. Those taking last evening were Mrs. Harold R. Clark, Mrs. Frank Cobey d Miss Dorothy Sugenhime. The meeting was well attended, there being abonut 75 present. Mrs. Charles Nelson {s entertain- g relatives from their degree v York for 2 1 Briggs of Cromwell, for- into the local | Heart church social rooms to which the public has been invited. Coal—T. C. Smith Sons. Tel. 1799. —advt, MID-WEST G. 0. P. STATES ARE S0LID Brookhart Retnrned fo Senate— | Republican Leads in Mich, Chicago, Nov. 3 (A—Republican | candidates for state offices made virtually a clean sweep in the nom- inally republican states of the middle west in yesterday's clection. In Iowa, old timo republican ma- Joritles were rolled up for all can- | didates In a demonstration of party | |unity that carried Smith W. Brook- | {hart, once a republican outcast into a senato victory. The full slate vic- | {tory was hailed by republican chief- | 'Ic\ms as the end of strife that open- ed the way,_two years ago for the !seating of an Iowa democrat in the !senate for the first time in more than |half a century. i | The state ticket was headed by | Governor John Hammill, | | North Dakota | ‘The entire republican ticket head- | ed by Governor A. G. Sorlie, non- partisan-republican, wa victorio in North Dakota. In the sister state | |of South Dakota the ent @ 0. P |state line-up, wi cption of Governor Ca rl came through have a democrat for governor for the first tim. in a quarter of a cen- tury, if " 7. J. Bulow maintains his big lead ov rnor Carl Gunder- son, reput umbent. | Headed by Governor Theodore Christianson, t! entire repuk state ticket was elected overw ingly over farmcr-labor and demo- cratic candidates in 1 pitcher for the Community ' team, has been signed by George Weiss of the Ne Haven Fastern league team and will ae- tram sonth in the His many friends here are ensed to learn of his success. ¢ that AN ted to be prese and v [s ing for Provi 1 the week- . They will ki Werd tion. Tt fs t} ce to be erected Northrup has had the Queen Est friends met last reh Yo dist be held in parlors tfo- 730 o'clock ATl nterested ttend The lbrary rooms wil open Fri- 1@ afternoon and evening for the xchange of books. There will he a whist party Fri- day evening at 8 o'clock In Sacred have been invited to | In lilinois the highest state of- fice voted s treasurer, all turned winner: of rcpublican d in Wiscon- wte Fred aine pro- | majori | state victor P sin, where Secrctary of St nerman, Antiba Bla »d up a I s democratic and i oppositi In Net £ surcd that the repy a clean sweep of the independen lon of go , in which the vet MeMullen, Ality over Charles W, ormer democratic governor, but indi- | > would be ing a come-back, cations were thagthe r very elos Michigan Republican 1 W. Green, mayor had a ¢ race for governor o ed candidate, early d to win out. gubernatorial race was in | <5 in Ohio, with Governor Vic | democrat, secking a third | 1ding Myers Y. Coope damocrat, with dry or i7ation support. was leading James 0. Mills, republican, ter licutenant governor, but all other republican sfate eandlidates apparently had! been elect tod was expret | A clos | tional amendment to grant women |in tr ‘STVERAL UNSETILED | scats in the next congress were held | in the m | from republican to democratic by a Iowa voters approved a constitu- the right to sit in the state house of representatives. In Ohio a consti- tutional amendment to repeal the di- rect primary system was defeated almost 2 to 1. A wet referendum won in Illinois and Wistconsin, while latter state a proposed con- stitutional amendment for the re- call of electiv officials and lcgisla- ive authorization for increasing the governor's salary was running on an even footing. FIGHTS IN SOUTHLAND Kentucky and Tennessee Both Have Some Doubt as to Election Results. 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