Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 11, 1914, Page 10

l{ DU PORT o Delawar. Only Three Union Survivors of Civil War in the House, and They Are All Demo- crats — A Condition Unparalleled in Half a Century—Ten Con- federate and Nine Union Veterans in Both Houses Make Up the Surviving Strength >, sentative; “your voice seems familiar to me. Were vou at Corinth “Yes; that is where I lost my arm and leg.” Do you recall the second day's fight- ing—October 3, 18627 “Of course I do; that is the d wounded."” “Do you recall a Yank who fovnd you on the fleld, bleeding in the thickest of y I was 4 ] the fight?” > e . ) E s Capt. Hickey began to grow excited: his of Blue and Gray. SEnATOR eyes sparkied: ha looked closely Into the JoWN H. . withered, scarred face before him. WENTY years ago “Are you that Yank? Are you the boy nearly 40 per cent DANKHEAD ZAla. who gave me a drink from his canteen, 7/ 3 patched up my wounds and dragged me of the membership ) 5 =—d>odutde FRANCIS E.WARREN 3 to safety?” e bt oy of ClUnEd st Phote Clinedinst PROTS ) 3 His surmise was correct. After that many former Confederates hunted up Mr. Kirkpatrick: they had him deliver a Confederate Memorial day speech at Arlington, and they have made much of him since. Congress was made up of men who had served in the oVl war; to-|..h o force small by comparison with |of his class at West Point i May, 1861: day less than 4| the armies of '61-65 was used, is rising |gave up the commission in the Engineer fighting regiment, all of the time as a per cent have any |up in Congress. Twegty-two Span Corps to which his class standing en- | private and non-commissioned officer. A Rl g e sud ican war veterans are In Congr titled him, after only one week's Serv- |score or more of engagements and bat- served through the war with that hard- - * * Gen. Sherwood In the House ranks a3 §' to their credit. five in the Senate and seventeen in thelice, and accepted the higher rank of |tles stand to his credit. For gallantry the old soldier of longest congressional The ©Old Guard is ng‘!.('. Hell‘e is the 4Sg,m\ie Jr\l} Py first lieutenant in the artillery, going at jon th# fleld in the siege of Port Hud- service there. His labors in behalf of passing. enator William: Hheghes of New Jor: | Snec io iake his part in the defenses at Hson he received his medal @fshenor Gl == pension legisiation have made his name B e s of Ne - | Washington. No medal of honor, bu# just as much P CK (Riewr! UNio : g 5 By the time another Memorial day rolis | 57 el L . AEning et Srnatar Nathan God | REPRESENTATIVE" SANFORD K:’R‘x&glll 4 “A b a familiar all over the country. But his around chances are that the percentage | jngje O Soes Hamilton Lewis of 11- Botn 2 In the political division of the times| VETERAN,AND CAPT.JOHN HIC QErFT) N RAT war—record, among veterans, is equally of survivors will be even less than it| Senmator J. K. Vardaman of Mississippl.| He Is one of those few regular army | 1o hiS part of what was then Virginia,| VETERANSHAKING HANDS IN WASHINGTON . well known. 1s now. | Senator John W. Weeks of Massachu-|officers who never took volunteer ad- |Gl FO O €CR AT €N, fed in Enlisting in April, 1861, in an Ohio regi- For the first three decades following | Setts. vanced rank; always he was with the | June, 1861, as a private in_the Uafon ey e o ;‘:: r"‘fi";':n:“l:":i“; the war the majority of men elected - regulars. And during the four years he | regiment known as the 3d Virginia In- 3 s s e 8! to public office, both in northern and = * had almest continuous fighting, mostly in | fantry. Meritorious services advanced|them in the clash of shot and shell at|and the five Confederate veterans |COUTse of a few months and a brigadier 2 | The seventeen representatives in Con-|<yrirei i 4 " Marylang, | Bim o the rank of first lieutenant and | Port Hudson. Opposed now only in|fraternize on numerous occasions. The |Seneral by the time he was thirty. Par- 4 Southerh stxtes, Were api o hed war e served. n the war of 1908 are | irsinia, West Virginia and Marvland. | rcgimental adjutant. He finished the|politics, these old “Rebs” and “Yanks”|bond between the Confederates and |ticipation in forty-two battles stands to records. Ten years ago such men be-|87eSS Who served in the war of 1808 are|pyunter's Lynchburg campaign, Sigel's | war as major of the 4th Virginta|in social intercourse are the best of | Representative Sanford Kirkpatrick of | the credit of Gen. Sherwood. He com- gan to fall into the background. Today |2$ follows: 7 campaign in the valley of Virginia, Sheri- | Volunteer Cavalry. friends. That masculine characteristic|lowa has grown particularly strong in |manded his regiment in all of the en: few are left. Wyatt Alken, third district of South|aan's campaign in the Shepandoah—all - of respect and admiration for those|the last year or so. gagements of the Atianta campaign, an . Carolina. L Siii oe & DALY S ariE * [iho fought them bravely and stubborn-| 3Mr. Kirkpatrick, who served four and a|after Franklin and Nashville he was Tn mo branch of the public service | Minnesota. In September, 1864, he was brevetted | Nelson was in the desperate fighting a > with another. blind by reason of numerous wounds.|lantry at the battles of Resaca, Atianta, is this change so marked as in Con-; Samuel B. Avis, third district of West | Major in e ff~‘}‘j§’|;j"l"‘_‘l“; o Faifils | Port Hudson, La. There he was des-| Senator Bankhe served four fight-|Nevertheless, his other faculties are ex- | Franklin and Nashville.” gress. Virginia. , A omenaan C(Winohester) and Fishers | perately wounded and taken prisoner. |ing Years in the Conf te army, and | tremely keen, notably his memory. This| Representative J. A. Goulden ma was wounded three times. memory is _largs Only three Union veterans are now! L. C. Dyer, twelfth district of Missouri. [Hi]l, Va.” A month later he was breve serving in the House of Represent-' Ausustus P. Gardner, sixth district of [ted l'entenant colonel for “distinguished atives, which House contains a total | Massachusetts. services :at the battle of Cedar Creek’ membership of 435. And all these three |, Frank L. Greene, first district of Ver- lang was awarded the consressional medal | et tise < ST i the result of cultiva-ino mention of his war service in Coming to this country in 1549, at the enator Thomas S. Martin was one|tion, for Mr. Kirkpatrick spent many | Congressional Directory biography. but of six. from his native Norway,|of those arrayed against the batteries|years in the internal revenue serive run- | yet he served two hard years and wears or Nelson was one of the first to|of Senator du Pont at the battle of!ning down moonshiners after the war and | with pride the little bronze button of in the services of his adopted | Newmarket and at other Virginia en-iachieved great reputation as a brilliant {the G. A. R. Mr. Goulden enlisted in . o - : of honor for “most distinguished 1- agements. nator Martin, a lad of sctive Tnited Stal are democrats. They are Gen. Isaac| Richmond P. Hobson, sixth district of |jantry and voluntary exposure to the|country in 1861 He joined the 4th|Sagements. enator Seartin. a tad of | detective. Mr. Kifkps . i [ RNSYC AN L SO~ Dmitad. Bentes R. Sherwood of the ninth Ohio district, | Alabama enemy’s fire at a critical moment” dur- | Wisconsin Infantry, a famous regiment. | ginia Military Institute Quring the war. | thrman The Honme o o o | Y 66, i that time he rose o Sanford Kirkpatrick of the sixth Iowa, William Schley Howard, fifth district of this latter battle. and served therein as a private and|and the service of the institute's bat-| $40.000 to take the Chion ;,’.',’f;"vf-',}ivx:',f be", petty officer. 5 district and Joseph A. Goulden of the|Georgia. . 4 ator du Pont remained in the army | non-commissioned officer. talion of cadets at Newmarket and else- | ate veterans of the District of Columbia| All of Mr. Goulde servi were on twenty-third New York district. FEHBE Ol nes hmentyotl dis-|until 1875, when he resigned to enter | Senator John D. Works, much younger | where in the Confederate army is his- | to the memorial celebration at Gettyer | the U. S. §. Don and the U. §. §. Con- Not an old Union soldier on the re- | T Cararll Sl tomrin district of Tennes- | SLlife as a rallroad executive = | than’ his fellow-veterans, was only_six- | tors burg. One day. while the bill was pend- | stitution—Old Ironsides—on ihe Po- publican side of the House! It is & T by SR i The gallant, ever-youthful carriage and | teen vears old when he enlisted eizhteen Senator Thornton Was a student at [ ing, Capt. John Hickey. Confederate | tomac, James and Rappabannock riv- :m£|!'|rg,, that “has not existed befors | M;}nj«mm SeTa i ‘N“_ml_;i_nwm‘;: ;}nmv\u,\\“ur:‘nsm;rm-wm“:.;‘nn:;nr ‘lnn‘nzl\s before _the (|‘n:u; ‘n‘r ‘e’;,"r“ar;i the university nl(r his native state, yeteran, (-,A.nm to see the man who, he | ers, much :r the work being 1"v l!:nu‘g;'z n_half a century. : = phreys, third dis i Francls Emroy Warren of Wyoming. are | but, nevertheless, he had his share ouisiana, when the war was on. In | had heard, was responsible for the bill he | parties, and on coast service off the Vii- e TR SR TR T e i e e sl St e e i R LSt e B B L LS R e o Tuntaeral o Aves e s [T Aed; e rewor At B P e ot Caraline coasts. Mr. guard in the upper house of the nation- | noncS C- McLaughlin, ninth district of | the school of war. In 1862, at eighteen | Across the aisle in the Senate. Sen-|privat the Confederate army to the He began stating his er-and when Mr, | Goulden was a member of the commis- SF laginintiire, sod 1 o s pation-|afichizen: | years ze, he enlisted in ators Warren and Nelson may gaze at|sur r Kirkpatrick suddenly interrupted him. |sion which erected the Soldiers’ and du Pont of Delaware and Senator War | nar oo JEL Murtay, tenth iaistrice ‘of etts Volunteer Infantr Senator John H. Bankhead, who met| Over in the House the three Union | “Hold on a minute, the repre- | Sailors’ monument on Riverside drive, ren of Wyoming, wear the congressional | asSachusetis. v | in New York city Gen. Albert Estopinal of New Orleans is a distinguished figure in the Con- federate Old Guard in the House. Tall, erect, with military mustache, he looks the soldier. He left school at seve teen in January, 1562, to enlist in a Louisiana regiment. and he served with s | medal of honor for gallantry in action. | ¢ iuCoe on yoEesby, twenty-fourth dis- Nine men. out of a combined mem.- | tFict of New Yok e bership of hoth houses of 531 then, are -10l00aIN,, secand i distxict oo the sole survivors of the Union army Tho retain places in the country’s law- making body. & 7 Here is the roll of the Senate old guara | Claudius U. Stone, sixteenth atstfet of R. Sells, first district of Ten- that wore théd blue: Tilinots. distinction as a commissioned officer— Senator W. O'C. Bradley of Kentucky.| TWenty vears ago the Fifty-third Con- winning his commission from the ranks Senator H. A. du Pont of Delaware. gress was in existence. Like the present, —until his command finally surrendered Senator Nathan Goff of West Virginia. | the Sixty-third, Congress, it was predom- to Gen. Canby at Meridian, Miss., in Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota. |inantly democratic. Cor the Con- May, 18! Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyom- | &ressional Directory is: T > 1ng. | 1898, with the current : 1 DI Pagh how Senator John D. Works of California. | rectory, and vou will note gnifi- Dwindling just as fast is the roll of | cant is the change that has come to the men who wore the gray Five of these | Personnel of House and Senate. Representative Joshua Frederick C. Talbott was a dashing cavalryman dur- The congres! ‘The continued slt in the Senate and five in the House.| In the 1893 directory, of the total Sen- | el - versa- bold punip- | ING. the WaL.. Mariknd. 18 ows.Of ihe Ten Confedates and nine Yankees in ali| ate membership of eishtv-oignt eightern | b DRl e “,,T_ ::”}, 2> | border states that had both Union and Congress alone have that personal ex-|Were veterans of the [nion army and | tlity . eastly falls us attitude that | . onfederate regiments in the civil war. perfence that is necessary to a geep and| twentv-four veterans of the Confederate | to Representative jome Of these fel- |1, the statehouse at Annapolis the profound appreciation of the signifi-|army. To put it otherwi nearly 48 Allan B. Walsh of lows south of the et . battle flags of these regiments have United States take | been collected, Union on one side of the toward Uncle|room and Confederate on the other. Did It, Anyway. Shown Up. the Admirable cance of Memorial day and its observ-| Pe” cent of the Senate was made up of ance next Saturday. old soldiers. The southern deleg To balance, in part, the three Union |Were predominantly old solc tions | ch of | Arkan- | i | R epresentative R e pr e sentative n T . e Sants valiont e Mr. Talbott took the southern side soldlers who sit as democrats in the| the two senators 1 Ala Crichton of the Michael Donohoe Otis Wingo of of the controversy, and enlisted as he House, there s one Confederate soldier | 583, Florida, Georgla. Kehtucky. Louis- House. Sclentist of Phila delphia, sty 3 might]reached maturity in a Maryland cav sitting in the Senate as a republican. He | 1ana, Mississippi, North Carofina, Ten- politician, reform- rkansas ooks It a valuable | alry regiment that did notable service who, his friends see, Texas and Vi is Thomas Denton Catron of New Mexi- | 1€ rgin more a man like the tat lesson from thie ex- |in the Shenandogh. in northern Virginia 06 RO WHRE, T e iR e 5 s aprved tha. Tou canee it nan er, inven boast and his ene- | southern congress- st cer.|and in Maryland till the close of . Missourd, into the thick of the civil war. |1antry and distinction. nan, no pent-up mies admit, won o g ey perfexice of B cex: | ins = Most of these have passed away. Two | Utica of a Con- his selection eIt Ay e tain bad man down | “Representative William A. Jones, like o remain still in public life. Edward Doug- gress can contract popular mind in my state,” re-| Semator Martin, was a cadet student at less upon political | issues than his at- | lass White, who was a His fellow-Confederates in the Senate | Louisiana, is now Ch s ot f Justice of the | any man in the his powers. In th marked Represent- | the Virginia Military Institute and fought capital's public life. | ‘Engle | for the Contederacy mb are as follows: United States Supreme Court, and Jo- beginning an elec- tractive personal- 1,‘1;»,1“:: Albert Stlun L Tama, :“ o irnes e pamm battation ot eciies Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama. ;!]—xm C. 8. Blackburn is a member of the | ] trician, he later ity, (takes but a .‘, Biack aImth‘F!on‘k" who edits newspapers for the| 0, W o0 taelf a notable record Senator Thomas B. Martin of Virginia, | 1'C0In Memorial cammission. ) went to the v Jersey legislature, where | sadaripart W :vmn 41 iack | sheer joy there is in it " : "wmn the war broke out in 1861, Charles i o he worked many T Arriving in 1 itics ARS 5 “This bad man from back in the| Manly Stedman, now representative from Senator J. R. Thornton of Louisiana. orked many reforms Arriving tical politics. e ing s r » 4 Carolina. ship of 325 In the | reform that body—or impossible, perhaps b e game The > E into_the quiet hamlet of—well. call it|ember of the grajuating case of the House in 1893 sixty-three were men who ng a heavy cargo of bad had worn -the blue and fift e et ] “he | een scheduled to deliver the salutatory & himsell to the hitch | address at commencement. Thoush he expanse of white | peaceville—carr shirt tront, as he|whisky. Ancho: 1t is true that Senator Tillman did not —bhe Improved its processes, inventing a declares (a good color for a native- even men who had worn the mray. To put it in voting machine that saves time in whole- | have much active service: nelther did | b5 ¢ post in front of the hotel. he fixed 5 " e, o) 3 shio " swhick | walks seda‘sly gdownr th corridor, he |ing post b &~ 21 e had prepared his address, he would not Senator Bradley, on the other aide. for | 710 had worn (he mray. To put it in| sale fasnion. Eon Ty the. way), -which |walks seduly down the corridor. he | RUR [ I0 Gug eungiing person | hed Prepared his address, he that matter; but their intentions to heg ¥ . \| Literary? Yes, indeed! More'n that, & uhining mark |Seems to have steppe ¥ otled up W a chair tip-tiited againat the . o - merve were of the best. Senator Tillman, | House was made up of Union veterans'| pemmon it 134 | makes me somewhat of a & Y i colled up T A O D eliminary . war.| This brought him into the engagement in his Congressional Directory biograghy. |and mearly 1S per cent of Confederate | wion ho ootcrg oot Js a poet: "““-i in some respects. The morning after my |Pages of softe BOUCCCUTONET |\ yo 4y | Yhoop. he Procveeded to descant upon | 3t Bethel at the very start of the war. sets forth that he quit school in 1804, |veterans, a total of about 57 per cent of | Shums wabiiatys 1oy e fotus last election there brecued into my office | And Mr. Winko knows I: WO M SN %0 oclous nature—plainly to impress | Statistics show that only twelve Con when he was a month short of seven-|olq golgiers. Today the combined old | to publish the folwing it mim a fellow, large and pleasant. He effusive- | Proud of jt. ¥ self it was |the sansling one. o survived finally to surrender with Les at diens do Stk f,"’h“";“fd’{“,'fi army, Pitlsoldier membership of tifp House is only Observe, he Is & pect of the people—l1ly congratulated me with both hands and | following little story on mfl(n;_ avas] ™ fcn lick any man In Peaceville!” he | RrEved Pually o oo e one. of PR e tiress vt caned | 1 ; Tk e critics PSerue 4 o only upon the solemn oath of his aud VoA x. ) vhat the critics call a ‘“‘genre’ arti zing upon the small boy, unkempt, St L G T e " that not a word of it shouid appear in | """The iong ane paid no heed. “‘1 ¢'n lick any man in the state! no b5 stricken with the filness which caused |3% per cent of the total membership. him the loss of his left eve and kept him| Of the civil war veterans serving in the twelve. During the war Mr. Stedman rose from private to be major. He was overcharged—and assured me of the s: r 2 inspiring, out-at-elbows and elsewher jsfaction it had given him to vote for me. | print. three times wounded. e ordley, in 1881, when four. |SorErese In 1893 only three remain there. | to fliuminate and glorify him with thé | Thanking him, I asked g It seems that Mr. Wingo, having in|T8Ped the bad man Representative George W. Taylor was 59““"." $r) Rdint chn o ay to join|All were Confederates. John H. Bank- | divine fire of his genius. And it takes) * ‘What part of the district do you live g lattinig - constitnent . WRAR He - i e B not. tn the aited | 1i0le more. thay an mntant when the war oo Y army, and each time he was|Dead represented the sixth district of | genius to find any poetrs in a small boy. | in? |tow a visiting c'n lick any man in the broke out. Net untll he was fiftees, $h & s 2press w political mag- | States!’ roared the swamp terror. 4 - Sots Si'm from over th' bridge,’ he re-|wished to impress with his a _| November, 1864, would the military au- e 'sung, exalting the bud bursting | plied in rich County Carlow brogue! (Mr. | nitude, was standing waiting at the door m;x!u :‘m; gl:nsl:nf ne:r:un remained In-| iy rities accept him for enlistment, gladsome | Donohoe doesn’t have to make any effort| ¢ an elevator in the House office bulld- erent to the statement. though he tried as early as thirteen. Alabama in the Fifty-third, Congress; he | —Still, argues Mr. Walsh, other followed and e e« ‘says. 1t 1s gl NOW a senator from his state. Rep- | ha H d; Fall” between Senators Bradley and | Tesentative J. F. C. Talbott then as now | forth from the earth in 4 T represented the second district of Mary- | springtime; then, forsooth, why not the zet that brogue.) A Lo r i 1 ¢'n lick any man in the whole|Then he left the academy at Columbia, VR, e et O T e Y iC® ne|1and In the House, and Represcntative | small boy peeping forth from his pants? | his meant nothing to me, lgnorant |InE. Mr. Wingo rang the bell; but to his | garned yearth!” bellowed the menace. gl i o o House are: William A. Jones then as now repre-| ‘“Ay, marry, why not!” exclalms MTr. | of political metes and bounds, so 1 again |disgust the descending elevator swep ‘The eloncated mdlbvldull. l'yho "‘,"‘; joined the South Carolina troops on the e e stopinal, first district of |Sented the first district of Virginia. Walsii—so here's the pome: asked: airily by without even hesitating. This |pened to be the constable, slowly uncoiled | coant. ~ © 1 T T B0 Virginia. Toktepake fales 0L MKl aduadtare Gn) Sn b itk Aeiha e cehas og ‘What ward do you live in?" hurt. / e e STy Ut o e | BT ther he bad trouble belagen- Willlam A. Jones, first district of | Elorions Ashting written In the lives of e B " whowe foms mere | iAnd Ofm in Keliy's ward, to be sure, | .why dian't you stop for me on your | Giofic ger of ‘the st South Carolina Cavairy and ~ | They laughed and ‘joshed’ the kid aboy ; r honor,’ he replied. iy s ey g & hall 5 5 e t LoWMANe |\ Ceaman, eth astrict or | Dined Biue and Gray Ol Guird mow i | T2 Jueied SnY Joshedt the Kid about the way | ¥'% Bomior, Be TeRUeG | oo ror 1 gia|way down just now?" queried Jr. Wingo|“ Stranger, he murmured, ‘I reckon | Gerved unul Appomatiox as @ mounted North Carolina. Congress. They are stories of hot-blooded | “You pates Jants with brown, you do. Why | know enough to identify a well known |sourly as they were descending on the|y'are takin In too much territoryll ~— |courler for Gen Harrison and was in of Maryland. i > : e small “hoy Uerimed, and toucho ot | o e at ally i o R you,” repited ¢ 3 i a : k, he 1 e « 5 S or *ont | 4 e Pt daimed y rogue, w e c o881 n_boar 2 4 3 = A S00 Mousait of -war vatérahi, | of Delawhire, It g e N e St T voted for yon. Misther | And this efculated Mr Wingo, us Im"Isl!'\‘llrel)"'lmm"hed back o his seat, ‘2::“-;"-‘:“‘;:!; gupcemacy hslx.; ntry’ st | gallant you! rtillerym: "61-65. - ' 1 1 Mr. Walsh gveys, e c] = he story, “before that constitu- | colles mself up in a har - | o . her decade &nd survivors of the reunited country's first g young artilleryman of '61-65. Sen- | The plot of this pome, Mr. Walsh gves, he added with a chuckle—|he told t Y colled himself up in a contury ‘war, the struggle with Spain of 1898, inlator du Pont was graduated at the head ! is founded on facts—bare facts. ent!” v