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THE MORNING OREQONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1G, 1900.
ENGLAND'S GREAT
(Copyright, 1S09.
THE OREGONIAN'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE:
THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTISTS
Contributors to this course: Dr. John C Van
Djke, Dr. Russell Sturgla. Dr. A. I. Frothlng
tiaxn, jr., Arthur Hoeber, Frank Fowler and
others.
JXII. SIR, EDWUf fcAXDSEER.
BT JOHN JEEENEZER BRYANT. M. A.
Edwin Henry Xrandseer, known to fame
as Edwin Landseer, or Sir Edwin Land
eeer, lor he was knighted In 1S50, was
born In London in 1802, and lived until he
was in his 72d year. But his last years
were mentally clouded. His was the ar
tistic temperament and he was constitu
tionally prone to attacks of nervous de
pression. These became more frequent
And Increased in Intensity as he grew m
age; and In theend they darkened his mind
almost wholly. Dying In 1873. he was
buried In St. Paul's cathedral, with the
fullest honors.
Jandseer was of a family of artists. His
father was an eminent engraver and
etcher and a well-known writer upon art. j
His brother was an H. A., and for many
years was keeper of the Hoyal academy.
His brother was one of the most eminent
engravers England has ever had. An
uncle of his, for whom he was named,
was also an artist of considerable reputa
tion. And other members of his family
were artists. His mother was a beautiful
woman, and In her maiden days had sat
as a subject for Sir Joshua Reynolds in
some of his allegorical pictures.
"When Landseer was a youth facilities
for the study of art were few. Land
eear, however, needed such facilities but
little. His instinct and genius for art
were dominant and unmistakable from tho
first. Landseer was perhaps as precocious
an artist as ever lived. When scarcely
more than -an infant he drew animals
from life. At 5 years of age ho drew ani
mals from life well. At S years of age he
drew them so well that Iris drawings -were
encraved and etched, and are now de
scribed in the catalogues of his works. At
12 years of age he was an exhibitor In the
Soyal academy, the youngest exhibitor
that Institution has ever had. At 13 years
of age he drew pictures whldh oven his
maturist powers scarcely surpassed, One
of these pictures, a. dog, "Old Brutus,"
it was called, in 1S74 sold, for 630 ($3150).
At 16 years of age a work of his was sold
so weU and to such an eminent connois
seur, of the time, that at once he became
famous. His paintings exhibited In that
year (1818) were critically examined by tho
most eminent artists of the day and criti
cally described by the most eminent art
writers. He became the fashion; almost
the rage. At 22 he was awarded a prem
ium of 150 (J750) by 4he British institu
tion for the encouragement of artists. At
24 he was an A. JR. A., and at 25 an JR. A.,
the very earliest dates, we believe, that no
could be admitted to tiiese honors.
Landseer's astonishing success was not
due to instinct and genfcis alone. In his
early years, especially, he was such a
conscientious and painstaking student as
few artists have been. His one great
source of instruction was nature. His
studio "was the open fields, jthe paddocks,
the parks, the stables, the courtyarfls,
where horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys, dogs
and other animals were besc to be founa.
He faithfully modeled upon and copied na
ture in everything he did. Every pose
he gave to an animal, every expression of
passion or of action, every detail of hide
and fur, of skin, hair ani wool, of eyes
and teeth, of hoof and daw was care
fully studied from the life. Actlnjr upon
the suggestion of the arUst Haydon, he
also studied anatomy and dissected. Act
ing also upon the suggestion and advice of
Haydon, he made a special study of the
Elgin marbles, those woiderful relics of
the sculptured life of Greece, when the
great Phidias was In his prime. Landseer
thus became, with the exception of Ho
garth, the lirst English artist of outdoor
life who based his art upon fidelity to
reality. And he realized this fidelity by
study at first hand. As Ruskln said: "It
was not by the study of Raphael that
Landseer attained his eminent success,
but by a healthy love of Scotch terriers."
Sir Edwir Landseer's name is so inti
mately associated with the portraiture of
animals that it is scarcely necessary to
say that he was the most eminent painter
of animal life that England has known,
and one of the most famous the whole
world has known. There are some Tea
sons for this pre-eminence apart from the
artist's surpassing fidelity to nature.
Liandseer, like JHorarth, was a humorist.
XJke Hogarth, also, he was a story-teller,
a dramatist in art. His pictures, almost
all. except his very earliest ones, always
had some sentiment to express, some Inci
dent of humor or pathos, to narrate. Like
Hogarth, too, but in a very minor degree,
Landseer was a natirist. It thus happens
that liRndseer's pictures appeal to the pop
ular taste. The public can appreciate them
CDsxt from their merit as works of art.
His dogs, his horses, his deer, his sheep,
his donkeys, his monkeys, are almost hu
man in their dramatic characterization
and expressiveness. He thus read Into their
portraitures the proclivities and preju
dices, tho humors and passions, of every
day humanity. And the artist intends
that we shall do this, and by his inimit
able art enables us to do so.
There is another element in the parallel
ism of Hogarth and Landseer, Landseer,
like Hogarth, was largely assisted in his
fame by tho fact that the great public had
opportunity of learning of his art from en
gravings and etchings. His father, as we
have said, was an eminent engraver; his
brother, Thomas, was one of the most emi
nent engravers and etchers of his age.
.Both of these notable artists spent much
of their time in etching and engraving for
the public copies of their famous relative's
works. Other engravers and etchers or
great reputation were also proud to bear
a part in the reproduction of his pictures.
It thus turned out that of all the great
artists of his day, Landseer was the one
whom people laiew "most about, and were
most able to appreciate and enjoy. And
as a consequence of his popularity, Land
seer was prosperous. His pictures sold
well, and in addition, he received hand
some royalties from the sale of the etch
ing and engravings made of them. At
his oeath his estate was that of a man of
ample fortune.
Landseer's life was wholly that of an
artist. He was not a man of business, or
of interest in anything besides his art.
"When a boy and young man his father
looked after all his affairs. Although
he earned handsome sums of money from
the time he was 16, it was not until he was
23 years of age that he relieved his father
of his care of him. Even after he set up
an establishment on his own account, his
pecuniary affairs were managed for him
by others.
In all his life Landseer lived in only two
houses. The first was that of his father.
The other was his own. In St. John's
Wood road, where he resided nearly 50
years. Such was the hospitality, the bon
homie, the entertaining and enjoyable
character of its owner, this St. John's
"Wood house became the most famous cen
ter of art and artists and artlovers in
Englaitd.
Landseer's ability was very great apart
from -his special genius as an artist He
perhaps of all artists in his time was un
excelled for his manual dexterity his fa
cility of execution. He was 'without
doubt the most rapid craftsman in art
of his age. He turned out finished pic
tures in the same space of time that other
artists would have taken for merely
sketching them. He accomplished wltn
slncle strokes of a broad brush effects of
detail which other artists would have had
laboriously to work in, as it were, in pen
cil strokes. Nor was there. In this facil
ity of execution, which Increased with
his years, that deterioration of exactness
in drawing and accuracy in finish which
might have been expected, although there
was some deterioration. Besides ho nos-
gessed ope faculty which was absolutely 1
ANIMAL PAINTER
by Seymour Eaton.)
DIRECTED BY PROF. SEYMOUR EATON
unique. He could draw two different pic
tures, with his right -aird left .hands, at
orjee, not altering the strokes, but making
them with each, hand, naturally in order,
as If the hands belonged to different per
song. This faculty, so far as we know,
h-is never been equaled.
In social life Landseer was a great fa
vorite. He was always the lion of the
prtrty he happened to be in. His powers
oil mimicry were very great and nothing
ever gave an assembled company more
amusement than when Landseer could ba
got to imitate the voice and gestures of
scene brother artist.
Landseer was not ambitious in the ordl-nta-y
sense of the word. Once when beggea
by his fellow-artists to stand for the pres
idttney of the Royal academy, the high
est honor in his profession, he declined
acceptance fcf the dignity, although hJs
election would have been certain. But
he was without doubt the most popular
and the most famous British artist of hl3
day, and at the Paris exposition of 1855
was honored by a jury of experts with the
great gold medal of the exposition, being
the only British artist that was so hon
ored. Landseer has been galled the artist dis
coverer of the Scottish highlands. A very
Silt EDWIN
great many of his themes are founded on
Scottish Incidents and scenes. "When he
was a young man. Sir Walter Scott was
one of his most ardent admlrerfa, and it
no doubt Is due to Scott that Landseer's
interest In Scottish life and character was
first awakened. In 1824, when he was In
his 22d year, Scott carried him off to Ab
botsford, where, as the painter Leslie haa
told us. "he made himself very popular,
both with the master and mistress, by
painting their doggies for them." After
ward' Scott sent him off -with Leslie on a
tour of the Highlands, and from that time
forward the Highlands were Landseer's
favorite recreation ground and field of
work.
Unlike Scolt, however, Landseer was
not a sportsman. This seemed very
strange to those who knew Landseer only
from his works, for a veTy great many
of his pictures are concerned with sport
ing themes. His interest in the life of
the moors and mountains was wholly that
of an artist Once when a fine stag came
bounding his -nay, he astonished his gillies
by excitedly handing them his gun and
saying: "Here, take this quick!" Insteau
of killing the noble animal, he made a
sketch o it. It was just this dominant
passion or his aTt that made Landseer
the great artist he was.
Toronto, Canada.
DR. BLACKBURN AGAIN.
He Attempts to Explain "What He
aieant and "What He Didn't Mciin.
PORTLAND, Jan. 15. (To the Editor.)
I cannot let pass your editorial notice of
my humble communication on the subject
of pensions without a personal expla
nation. I made no charge that the "man
who suppl'ed the government with money
for the prosecution of the war was a
robber." He took as his right what the
law of the land gave him. My conten
tion is that the man who gave his life is
not to be called a "fraud" for doing the
same thing. The little pension I draw
is under the old law that was on the
statute books when I enlisted, and was
as much a part' of the contract of en
listment as the promise to pay the bonds
was a part of the contract with the man
who furnished the money.
There Is no 1
more charity In receiving the one than
the other. We" take young men from
their homes and educate them at West
Point and Anroipolis, then provide them
with lucrative positions the rest of their
lives, or until 63 years old, then we put
them on the "retired (pension) list" with
two-thirds' pay. We do not ask them
whether they have a competence or not.
It is simply a matter of public justice.
This is my whole contention, and for j
this I stand with thousands of comrades
and tens of thousands more good Amer
ican citizens, who are not comrades, but
have a snse of patriotic righteousness
that Is as deep as their pockets The In
sinuation in the words "professes to have
been a soldier." "uncovers moral naked
ness," "unscrupulous persons," "de
bauched moral sense," etc., are simply
unworthy tho supposed dignity of a great
newspaper. The whole question of pen
sions, as treated by the United States,
is one on which we may honestly differ.
But so long as the vast majority of the
people believe it to be right, and the laws
of the land declare it to be right I
submit that those who abide by the law
are entitled to decent treatment.
As to the remark In my letter- that the
"money paid for pensions Is a benefit,"
nobody could possibly read Into that any
thing more than the mention of an Inci
dental benefit. I certa'nly did not give
that as a reason for granting pensions. I
stand for granting pensions according to
the letter and spirit of tho law, nothing
more, nothing less.
Again you charge "abuses that are very
great" I will sentf to the pension office
In Washington the report of any abuse
that The Oregonlan will point out, and
will guarantee that the cose will be
promptly Investigated by an agent of the
government, who will be both thorough
and impartial. Yea more, In the name of
thousands of men whose wounds and
sicknesses hurt more than any pension
can heal, of widows whose tears the years
have not dried, and of orphans whose
fathers' have succumbed to. the old in-
Muyf-
juries, i demand that you either present
tho cases Of fraud or cease your charges
which scandalize those whose sacrificed
preserved the integrity of the American
Union. 'Sours truly,
ALEXANDER BLACKBURN
Th6 Oregonlan has not expected Dr.
Blackburn to see, still less to acknowl
edge, the distinctions, presented by it be
tween those who ought to have pensions
and thede who ought not to have them.
Ho takes ho note of the violation of the
spirit and plain Intent of the law by many
Who plead Inability to support themselves
by "manual labor," yet have Incomes
without manual labor; he talks of "wid
ows whoso tears the years have not drled"
but has nothing to say of the thousands
of widows born since tho war, to -nhem
the country owes nothing, yet who re
ceive pensions. There are widows on the
pension roll not 25, or even 20, years of
age widows of soldiers of the civil war,
which ended 35 years ago; and rhl3 "young
widow" abuse is Increasing every, year.
He denies that he called the man who
supplied the government with money for
prosecution of the war a Tobber; yet that
was the whole tendency of his remarks
and the necessary inference from them.
This part of his letter was precisely the
same in substance and quality as the
regulation populist political speech.
He says: "As to the remark in my let-
IiAXDSEER.
ter that 'the money paid for pensions Is
a benefit,' nobody could possibly read into
that anything more than the merftlon of
an Incidental benefit." This Is disin
genuous. Here Is what he wrote:
TIm irorey paid every three months for pen
sion's 1q scattered over the whole land, and no
body feels It except ns a benefit. Our financiers
say that one of the evils from uhlch we Are
mifferlrg- Is the heaping up of money In the
United States trcceury. I know of no more
honest and practical way of getting it out than
la the payment of Just and liberal pensions.
Here Is a lamentably erroneous econom
ic view. We are not suffering from the
heaping up of money In the treasury to
an extent that prevents steady Increase
of the national debt. As to getting rid of
the money in the treasury, there are pen
sions which Dr. Blackburn might not
deem "liberal," but It is not conceivable
there could be one which he would not
regard as "Just" It Is not necessary to
read anything Into the remark that "no
body feels It except as a benefit.1 TJne
sense of it Is that the money In the treas
ury .costs nobody anything, and the great
er the expenditures the greater the bene
fits. The regrettable thing in Dr. Blackburn's
remarks is his inability or refusal to see
moral distinctions In this business. The
statements in his original letter might pass
for a compound of the arguments of
Thwackum, the divine, and Square, the
philosopher. In speaking of the "abuses"
cf the pension system, The Oregonlan does
not aesert, nor does it suppose, that any
considerable number of pensioners could
be found who cannot plead the letter of
the law. It Is the practice of forcing the
letter of the law that The Oregonlan has
criticised, and It was Dr. Blackburn's
failure to discriminate that caused it to
tay that he takes an Immoral view of the
subject
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PICTURE WILL SUFFICE.
One Man Who Will Use a Fhoto
grnplilc Christmas Tree Hereafter.
"No more fir Christmas trees in my
house; we'll just content ourselves with
hanging up a photograph of one on
Christmas eve, hereafter," said George L
Thompson, the genial chief clerk of the
Hotel Perkins yesterday. It was his first
appearance In public since his battle with
a Christmas tree fire at his residence in
Irvlngton, and he has started a set of
Lord Dundreary whiskers because his face
was too badly burned to permit the ap
plication of a razor, while, his hands are
both done up In bandages, and have to be
dressed twice a day, by a physician.
Mr. Thompson was in the basement of
his dwelling,, showing a visitor the mod
ern system of. heating, when his wife
ocrfamed, and a huge fir tree In the
pairlor was found to be blazing with all
the enthusiasm of which Its resln-cov-ercd
branches were capable. He instant
ly set about ejecting the tree, while the
rest of the household carried water and
extinguished the blazing curtains, and al
though the house was saved, George was
laid up for nearly three weeks. A loss
of $350 on tho furniture and 5150 on tho
house, were promptly adjusted, but, as he
had forgotten to take out an accident pol
icy for himself, he will have to bear tho
doctor's bill alone. Lighted candles In
the tree had caused all the trouble.
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Specific evidence Wanted.
PORTLAND, Jan. 15. (To the Editor.)
In Monday's issue of your paper is a
report of a sermon by the Rev. W. S.
Gilbert, preached at the Calvary Pres
byterian church, on Sunday last, In which
the reverend gentleman, speaking of
Christ, Is reported to have said: "He
teaches us of Immortality; Socrates only
guessed at It." . ,
I do not know of a ?ingle statement mr
the teachings of Christ, nor even in the
New Testament, which gives so clear an
Idea of the doctrine of Immortality ag now
taught by the orthodox Christians as that
found In the teachings of Socrates four
centuries before Christ
If Mr. Gilbert can point out any such
statement, even In the Christian Bible, I,
with many others, should like toliavehlrt)
do so.
IN FRONT OF THE LINES
HEROIC AMERICAN GENERALS WHO
t KEVER SHIRKED DANGER.
'Commanders ' of Regiments, Bri
gades, Divisions, Corps and Arm
ies Who "Were Killed or Hurt.
By Major. J. A. Watrous, TJ. S. A
"Why, I supposed the generals and oth
er officers always remained at a safe dis
tance, in the background, and pushed the
private soldiers into the places of dan
ger." This remark was made upon the receipt
of the news that Major-General Henry W.
Lawton had bean killed while in advance
of his troops at Sau Mateo, and by one
ot that shallow, envious or ignorant class
which over finds pleasure in sneering at
and ridiculing officers, and all others. In
every walk of life, who are above them,
and have distanced them in life's suc
cesses. Not so much to reply to the fellow and
his kind as from a desire to condense
some facts of history, do I write." May
the facts given refresh the memories of
the old, and at the same time rightly
Impress the minds of the young, so that
they will be les3 liable to deception by the
shallow, envious, Ignorant, or "smart"
class referred to.
Now, let us .see how the generals and
other officers do not avoid danger In bat
tle, confining the survey to the later
American wars.
Fifty-seven officers, of various ranks,
including Major-General H. W. Lawton,
Colonels Wykoff, Egbert and Smith,
Majors Howard and Logan, Captains Eld
redge, Warwick, McGrath, and Lieuten
ants Smith, Boutelle, Ledyard and Taylor,
have been killed in battle since the fir3t
of June, 189S, not to mention the wounding
of more than 100.
Thousands of officers, from second lieu
tenants to lieutenant-generals, on both
sides, were killed or wounded In the civil
war.
At the battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo., In
1S61, the Union army lost a general who
gave promise of great usefulness Na
thaniel P. Lyon who fellNwhlle heroically
rallying and leading his troops In tho
hottest part of the line. Lyon was a
captain of regulars in charge of a few
soldiers at St Louis, In April, 1861. His
duties included the guarding of the ar
senal. At Camp Jackson there had as
sembled a body of Missouri militia. Gov
ernor Claib Jackson wanted his militia,
in tho Interest of the Confederacy, to
seize the arsenal. Captain Lyon lost no
time In making the best possible dispo
sition of his troops, and telegraphed the
secretary of war asking for Instructions
and Immediate reinforcements. The lines
were down between Harrlsburg and
Washington, hence his dispatch did not
reach its destination. Fortunately, a rep
resentative of the adjutant-general's of
fice, Captain Fltzjohn Porter, was at Har
rlsburg. Porter was shown Lyon's tele
gram. Realizing the gravity of the situ
ation, Porter assumed to speak Tor the
secretary of war and directed Lyon to
hold the arsenal at all hazards. Knowing
that he could not do so with the small
force, he called In a large number of
Union men and armed them. Seeing the
many men ready for a fight, the Camp
Jackson militia abandoned their plan to
capture the arsenal.
At the battle of Shlloh, when there was
Imminent danger of disaster to his army,
General Albert Sidney Johnson, chief in
command of the Confederate forces, rode
to the front to lead one of. his divisions
in a charge, and was mortally wounded.
Major-General John F. Reynolds, a
Lawton of the army in those days, was
killed at Gettysburg, on the skirmish lino,
while gathering Information as to tho
position and strength of the Confederates
information which, without doubt, mado
possible the Union victory at Gettysburg.
Reynolds was commanding the right wing
of the Army of the Potomac at that time.
On the same day, Major-General Frank
Barlow, commanding a division In tho
Eleventh corps, was frightfully wounded
and left on tho field for dead. But for
the care given him by the Confederate
general, John B. Gordon, of Georgia, later
governor ana senator. General Barlow
would doubtless have died. On July 2,
In the same great battle, Major-General
Daniel E. Sickles, a corps commander,
while on the firing line, was wounded,
losing a leg. On Round Top, that day.
General Weed, Colonel O'Rourke and
Lieutenant Hazlett were killed when the
fighting was hand to hand.
In Pickett's never - to - be - forgotten
charge, on the third day of the contest,
nearly all of his brigade and regimental
commanders were killed or wounded, not
to mention half of the other officers. It
was the gallant General Armist'ead, of the
old army, who broke through the Union
line and fell mortally wounded. In that
charge two Union army corps command
ers, Major-Generals W. S. Hancock and
Abner Doubleday, were wounded, Han
cock seriously. General John Gibbon, a
division commander, was also badly
wounded.
Senator E. D. Baker, of Oregon, one
of the most brilliant men of the Pacific
coast, while fighting as a colonel at Ball's
Bluff, Ta.. was killed. General Zolllcoffer,
the Nashville editor, a gallant Confed
erate, was killed In one of General Thom
as' battles, early In 1862.
Generals Isaac I. Stevens and Phil Kear
ney, both division commanders, were In
trusted with the task of protecting the
left "flank of the Army of the Potomac
after the second Bull Run disaster. So
zealous were they at Chantllly, that they
lost their lives, Stevens on the firing line,
and Kearney In advance of the skirmish
ers, in search of all-Important informa
tion. Both had served in the Mexican
war.
Lieut,enant-General John B. Gordon.-Con-federate,
was wounded six or seven times
while In command of a regiment, brigade,
division, or corps.
Major-General Reno was killed at the
battle of South Mountain, while right up
with his troops, and at about the same
time that Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherfdrd
B, Hayes, late president, was wounded.
The venerable, white-haired, Major-General
Mansfield, while placing his command
In line of battle at Antletam, was killed.
Colonel Samuel Mansfield, chief of engi
neers, department of California, is his son.
In tho same battle Major-General Joe
Hooker, "Fighting Joe" Hooker, was bad
ly wounded. General Richardson, a divi
sion commander, was mortally wounded
at Antietarr. Hundreds of commissioned
officersr ranking- from lieutenant to malor
peneral, were- killed or wounded on that,
the "bloodiest day" of the entire war, as
General Longstreet calls it.
Major-General McPherson. commander
of the Army of the Tennessee, was killed
In front of Atlanta, while looking for the
best possible point at which to form hl3
troops for the impending battle.
In the battlp of Bald Hill, near Atlanta,
Major-General Walker, while loading his
Confederate division, was killed. It was
in this fight that Lieutenant-Colonel
Thomas Reynolds of n Wisconsin regi
ment, was shot. The surgeons were ready
to amputate tho brave old Irishman's leg.
Said Colonel Tom. "Docthor. yez mustn't
cut that off." "Why not. colonel?" "Be
cause It Is an Imported lee." The "Im
ported" leg wns saved. The colonel of
the samp regiment, Cassius Fairchild,
brother of-thflfie governor and ex-mjn-j
istex to Sp'ain,. Genprn I Lucius Fnlrchl'd.'l
wa-s so badly woundea that he never re
covered. At the battle of Baton Rouge. whfre
ex-Vlcc-President Jphn C. Brefkinridgp
cmmandPd the Confederates and General
Thomos Williams thf Union forces. Gon
eral William? wns killed. One of his
sons is thp Episcopal bishop of the Mar-
quotte (Mich-. diocese, and another Jsj
Captain John R. Williams, of the Sev
enth United States artillery.
General Lucius Fairchild lost an arm
while advancing with his troops the first
day at Gettysburg; the lieutenant-colonel
of his regiment. George Stevens, was
killed, and the major, J H- Mansfield,
later lieutenant-governor of California,
was seriously wounded. Major Mansfield
was fastidious in the matter of dress.
Tho surgeon placed a mirror before him
when the wound had been dressed. The
major saw his wilted collar and blood
stained cuffs, and cried out, "For heav
en's sake, doctor, get me some clean cuffs
and a collar."
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General W. R. Sill, of Illinois, was rid
ing along his brigade line of battle at
Stone river, setting a needed example,
when he was killed.
General W. H. Lytle, of Ohio, author of
"I'm Dying, Egypt, Dying," while trying
to rally his brigade at Chlckamauga, was
slain.
Major-General James A Garfield, later
president, dashed through a Confederate
line to reach General Thomas with the In
formation that the safety of the army de
pended upon his holding his position, and
dear old "Pap" Thomas held it, thus
winning the title, "The Rock of Chlcka
mauga," At Laurel Hill, near Spottsylvanla, Va.,
soon after Grant began the campaign in
the Wilderness, which ended at Appo
mattox, Major-General John Sedgwick
was killed while examining the ground in
front of the Sixth corps, of which he was
the commander.
The second day In the Wjlderness, May
6, 1864, General James Wadsworth, the
famous Genessee (N. T.) farmer, after
his line had broken, gathered a few offi
cers and men about him and charged right
Into the victorious Confederate line and
was shot from his horse. As In the case
of General Kearney at Chantllly, the Con
federates conveyed the body of General
Wadsworth to the Union line, under flag
of truce, with a message expressing sor
row that so brave a man should have
fallen. In that same day's fight Lleuten-
ant-General James Longstreet. the present
United States railroad commissioner, Gen
eral Lee's "Bad Old Man," was so seri
ously wounded that he retired for six
months. A colonel on his staff was killed
at about the same time.
The Confederate army suffered its great
est loss in officers when Stonewall Jack
son was mortally wounded at Chancellors
ville. That wonderfully successful com
mander of men and fighter of battles, had,
a few hours before, struck the Union
army a blow which compelled It to get
back across the Rappahannock river, and
after dark went out In search of a good
position from which to attack Hooker's
army the next morning. He went be
tween the two armies and was shot at by
both sides, receiving the fatal wound from
his own men. I well remember that both
armies mourned when Stonewall Jackson
died. There was but one Stonewall Jack
son, as there was but one Washington,
one Wellington, one Napoleon, one Grant,
one Robert E. Lee, one Sheridan, one Jeb
Stuart, one Uncle Billy Sherman.
At the battle of Franklin, Tenn., 13 Con
federate generals were killed or wounded.
Among them was that gallant Irishman,
Major-General Pat Cleburne, the South's
rhil Sheridan: Lleutenant-General J. B.
Hood, who commanded tho Confederates
at Franklin, had lo3t a leg In one of the
Eastern battles. When General Hood died
of yellow fever at New Orleans, over 20
years ago, millions, North and South,
mourned. He left a number of young
children without - resources. The South
and North joined In doing for the Hoed
children what the nation has done for
General Lawton's widow and children,
placed them beyond want One of Gen
eral Hood's sons Was colonel of a regi
ment which went to Cuba last year, and
he acquitted himself as we might expect
a son of so gallant a soldier to do.
General David A. Russell, who led the
memorable charge at Rappahannock Sta
tion. Va., the fall of 1863, was killed while
leading one of Sheridan's divisions in a
Shenandoah valley battle.
Major-General Joseph J. Reynolds, who
died at Washington last winter, lost a leg
in one of the Western battles.
General Halbert E. Paine, while leading
tho charge bn Port Hudson, lost a leg, and
Colonel C. S. Bean, of the Fourth Wis
consin, who wrote a note to his brother
just before he led his regiment in the at
tack, saying, "Geod-bye, Dick. I shall die
today." was, within 20 minutes, shot from
his horse and died.
The South received another great shock
In May, 1864, when Sheridan and Lleuten
ant-General J. E. B. Stuart, the Confed
eracy's greatest cavalry leader, clashed,
near Richmond. At a desperate point In
the battle, General Stuart headed a
charge at Sheridan's force and was killed.
Sheridan said, "God knows I wanted to
whip Jeb Stuart, but I didn't want to kill
him." He fell as the Confederate General
Bee did. at first Bull Run, making a des
perate effort for his cause.
General G. R. Paul received a wound at
Gettysburg which caused his death, and
General A. E. Ride, while at an outpost,
close to the enemy, at Laurel Hill, fell
mortally wounded. General Hays was
killed a few days later, also with the
front line.
The wounding of Lleutenant-General Joo
Johnston, In the McClellan campaign be
fore Richmond, resulted in placing Gen
eral Robert E. Lee in command of the
Army of Northern Virginia, which he held
until April 9, 1865.
Though I have mentioned only a few
of the officers killed or wounded In the
civil, Spanish and Philippine wars, I have
named a sufficient number to make any
genuine American blush whenever he
hears an Ignorant, "smart." or envious
person speak as the one did whose senti
ment is quoted.
A, certain class of ex-soldlers never
weary of telling how the officers stay out
of danger, when the battle rages. I have
heard a good many such fellows tell such
stories, but I never found a real soldier
in the entire collection. Invariably they
were either substitutes who did not leave
their states, drafted men who had to be
lifted into a fight by a free use of bayo
nets In the hands of the file-closers, or
chronic coffeo-coolers.
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too. the highest compliment that can bo
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CAUKIJN. G. E.. District Asnt Traveler
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FEXTON. J. D., Physletan and Surgeon 309 3 3
FENJON. DR. HICKS C. Eye and Ear ZA
FENTON, MATTHEW K. Dentist Cu
FIDELITY MUTUAL LtFE ASS'N. E. C.
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- 1 I.RVVK S. Attorney-at-Law .. ...C 7
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HAMMOND. A. R . 3:3
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HOLLISTER, DR. O C. Ph?. & Surg- . 3U 3 J
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MACRUM. W. S.. Sec. Oregon Camera Clu " V
MACKAY. DR. A, E.. Phys. and Surg... .711 "
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