580 (onfederatq Veteran.

CAPT. WILLIAM T. CHASE.

[Written by Warner Ball, Esq., and read by F. G. Newbill

at the unveiling of Captain Chase’s portrait September 20,

1910, at Lancaster Courthouse, Va.]

Sometimes there is a joy in sadness. While we miss Capt.

William T. Chase and his friendly greeting, it is a pleasure

to pay a tribute to the memory of one of our best, noblest, and

bravest. And while his children can rejoice in the love of an

honored father, Lancaster is proud of his record as soldier

and citizen.

William Tell Chase enlisted from Lancaster County, Va.,

April 3, 1861, and was mustered into the Confederate States'

service at White Marsh, Va., as first lieutenant of Company

C, 40th Regiment Virginia Infantry, under Capt. William

Henderson and Col. John M. Brockenbrough, to serve during

the war. The regiment was assigned to Field’s Brigade, A.

P. Hill’s division, Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Vir

ginia. and participated in many battles. He was promoted to

captain May 22, 1862, and was wounded at Cold Harbor July

27, 1862, and at Gettysburg July 3, 1863. He was retired on

April 25, 1864, on account of wounds received in battles. He

was ever ready and among the first to answer the call of

Virginia (his native State) and the Southern Confederacy.

After the war he proved himself to be a successful business

man and worthy citizen. He was married twice, each of his

wives in her day presiding with queenly grace in his hospitable

home.

JOHN WESLEY COLYER.

John \Vesley Colyer, a veteran of Morgan’s Cavalry, was

born near Somerset, Ky., in 1834; and died recently at his

home, in Perry, Ga. His father was a Virginian of Revolu~

tibnary ancestry, and his mother was Lydia Purvis, of South

Carolina, also of Revolutionary stock. When the war began,

John Colyer was a merchant in Kentucky; but he joined

Morgan when in command of a squadron in 1861, and served

with him for nearly a year, participating in the daring ex

ploits in Tennessee that first made the name of Morgan fa

miliar throughout the country. In 1862 he was on Morgan's

famous Kentucky raid, and was in the battles at Tompkins

ville, Lebanon, and at Cynthiana, where he was wounded July

17, 1862. After Kentucky was occupied by the armies of

Bragg and Kirby Smith, Comrade Colyer organized a company

of cavalry, of which he was elected first lieutenant and M. B.

Perkins captain. This was made Company C of the 6th Ken

tucky Cavalry, under command of Col. J. Warren Grigsby.

On the return to Kentucky he served about Murfreesboro

under General Buford, and took part in that battle and the

raid to Lavergne. He joined Morgan again, and was in the

battles of Milton, Snow’s Hill, and other places early in 1863,

and in June set out on the memorable raid through Ohio. He

was wounded in the fight near Buffington’s Island and made

prisoner. After being in the hospital at Covington for three

months, he was sent to Camp Chase and thence to Johnson's

Island, and kept there until June, 1865.

Lieutenant Colyer went to Georgia in December, 1865, and

made his home at Fort Valley, farming and merchandising.

In 1883 he was elected sheriff of Houston County, and served

for six years. He then made his home in Perry, Ga., and en

gaged in farming. He was twice married, his first wife dying

in February, 1861. Two daughters survive that marriage,

Mrs. E. M. Staley, of Dade City, Fla., and Mrs. R. H. Hart

ley, of Fort Valley. His second wife, who was Miss Mary E.

Lowman, of Crawford County, Ga., survives him with one son,

W. L. Colyer, of Fitzgerald, Ga.

MARVEL HOLBERT.

Marvel Holbert was born in Rutherford County, N. C.,

February, 1834; and died at Mount Vernon, Tex., July 25,

1910. He was one of the pioneers of Texas, going to Titus

County in 185I. He enlisted as a Confederate soldier in Com

pany D, 11th Texas Cavalry, served nine months, and was dis

charged at Tupelo, Miss. Regaining his health, he reénlistel

in the 7th Texas Infantry. On account of wounds received he

was discharged in April. 1865. Comrade Holbert was a true

Confederate soldier, and was proud to bear that name. He

was in the battles of Raymond, Miss., Missionary Ridge, Jones

boro, Ga., and Franklin, Tenn. He was one of the most

punctual members of Ben McCulloch Camp, U. C. V., and

fellow-members officiated at his burial. He leaves a wife,

four children, two step-children, and many relatives to mourn

their loss. He became a Church member in 1853, so that he

was a “soldier of the cross" for fifty-seven years.

Comrade P. A. Blakey, who sent this notice, writes: "When

attending the Reunion last at Nashville, we passed through

Franklin, Tenn. \Vhen the train stopped, Comrade Holbert

called me to the window and, pointing to a spot on the little

rivulct, said: ‘Captain. on the ninth day after I was wounded

I crawled out there, pulled off my bloody shirt, and washed it.’

So he was with you in that bloody conflict at Franklin."

COL. M. C. SAUFLEY.

With the stars and bars of the Southland enfolded about

him, all that was mortal of Judge M. C. Saufley, of Stanford,

Ky., was laid to rest. Death came very suddenly to him on

the morning of August 12, and life for him, which had been

full of honors and rich in the respect and esteem of his

fellow-men. closed in his sixty-eighth year. He was born in

Monticello, Vi/ayne County, Ky., and was the son of Henry

Rinehart Saufiey, who had come with his father and three

brothers from \Vythe County, Va., to Kentucky early in the

history of the State. Judge Saufley was one of a large family

of children, but the only survivor now is his sister, Mrs. C.

A. Cox, of Jonesboro, Tenn.

When the war broke out, Comrade Saufiey was a lad of

nineteen, and with several brothers immediately entered the

Southern army. He first enlisted as a private in Breckinridge's

Brigade of Kentucky Infantry, but showed such aptitude for

military affairs and such bravery that he was promoted to a

first lieutenancy in Morgan‘s command, with whom he served

throughout the war. He was captured on the celebrated Ohio

raid, and experienced prison life at Allegheny City, Pa,

Point Lookout, and Fort Delaware.

Soon after the war Judge Saufley was married to Miss

Sallie Rowan, of McMinnville, Tenn., whom he had met dur

ing the war. She was a daughter of a distinguished Tennessee

lawyer, S. D. Rowan, and a great-granddaughter of Governor

Caswell, the first Governor of North Carolina.

Judge Saufiey prepared for his life work at the Louisville

Law School, and quickly forged to the front in his profession.

He was elected County Judge of Lincoln County in 1870, serv

ing until 1874. In 1888 he was appointed by President Cleve

land as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the terri

tory of Wyoming, remaining in the West until it was admitted

to Statehood. Returning to his home in Kentucky, he was

soon elevated to the circuit bench in 1892, and during his long

career since on the bench he had won the reputation of being

the best circuit judge in Kentucky. His third term had just

begun when death cut his career short. The death of a favor

ite son last March doubtless hastened the end. Six of the

eight children survive him, with the loved wife and mother.

-___- __-_; i i JMRS. VIRGINIA FAULKNER McSHERRY, PRESIDENT GENERAL U. D. C.

Mrs. McSherry is an eminent representative of Southern womanhood. Richly

gifted. by education at home and abroad, she is well equipped for her exalted po

sition in the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mrs. McSherry is the (laugh

ter of Charles J. Faulkner, Member of Cong-e55 and Minister to France in the six

ties. He was arrested on his return—snspectpd oi’ “disloyalty.” Her brother is

U. 8. Senator Faulkner, of. Martinsburg, W. WE‘Bhe is the wife of Doctor McSher

ry. a successful physician of Martinsburg.

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LEADING ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE.

General Evans’s Appeal to Sons of Veterans . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

Arlington and Shiloh Monuments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

Points in General Reunion Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

Jefferson Davis Home Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6

Gen. J. F. Shipp’s Imprisonment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7

Judge H. H. Lurton and Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7

Editorial—Georgia Division, U. D. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8

Georgia Daughters' Annual Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9

Arkansas Veterans in Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12

Florida Veterans in Annual Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13

Nashville Battlefield Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. r4

Forty-Fifth Anniversary Battle of Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 15

Franklin, Tcnn., \Vants National Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 16

Battle at Champion Hill, Miss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 21

Georgia’s \Var Governor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 23

Assault on Fort Sanders, Tenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 24

Veterans at Vicksburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25

Battle of Reams Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26

Escape of Breckinridgc and Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26

Daring Exploit of a Confederate Ram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 27

Last Battle of the \Var . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 27

Battle of Galveston—The Harriet Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 29

“The Wonderful Catostomus of Kentucky.” . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 30

The Wythcville Raid—Another Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 31

Alabama Veterans in Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 31

Sherman at Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 32

Tennessee Division, U. D. C.—Crosses of Honor . . . . . . .. 33

The Buckingham (Va) Monument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 33

Last Roll, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 34

Review of Many Books for Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 42

GENERAL EVANS TO SONS AND GXflNDSONS.

Gen. Clement A. Evans, Commander in Chief U. C. V.,

makes a worthy appeal to the sons and grandsons of Confed

erate soldiers to active cooperation in the cause for which

they should ever be on the alert. He says to them:

“You are now in your active manhood, more numerous

than all the young soldiers of the Confederate armies, and

by your intelligence, energy, and patriotism as well as by

lineage you have come into the possession and use of all

the great civil rights and advantages in our present prosper

Ous country for which your fathers fought and your mothers

suffered. All their lives your fathers stood firme by their

views and did not falter because of war, poverty, or delayed

restoration. They have been faithful to the end, and now in

the last decades they are made happy by your possession of

our Southern land in the full glory of its restored prosperity.

Under these circumstances I am sure you will respond to the

earnest wish of the soldiers of the magnificent armies of the

Confederacy that you sustain with enthusiasm the organiza

tion of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans and im

mediately establish a Camp in every county of the South.

“This appeal is urged through me by the Daughters of

the Confederacy, whose fidelity to all sentiments and prin

ciples we hold dear has never been surpassed. What a glori

ous tribute to manhood has all their inflexible faith in the

Confederate soldier displayed! How indestructible the glory

with which they have crowned the lofty chivalry of their

fathers! How irresistible is the invitation they make that

the sons of the South join them in the patriotic work they

are doing! How deserving is Southern womanhood of a

bronze monument in every State which shall signify to all

ages what the Southern women were and what they are l"

GROUP OF SONS AT MONTGOMERY COUNCIL

The above engraving is that of the group of Sons in council

as reported on the first page of December. The central figure

in the lower line is that of Commander in Chief Clarence M,

Owen, of Abbevillc, Ala.

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