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At going to press time, report comes of an interesting and profitable meeting of the United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, held in the Capital building at Little Rock. An account of it is secured for the next issue. The VETERAN was adopted as their official organ.

A correspondent in Alabama criticises the VETERAN for mentioning the "Battle of Pittsburg Landing." Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh, Manassas and Bul! Run, Antietam and Sharpsburg are confusing terms. to young people, and the VETERAN suggests the propriety of the reconciliation of these and many other confusing names of battles. Of course it is something that will require concession from both sides. Who will submit a remedy?

Hon. S. D. McCormick, of Henderson, Ky., whose article on the "War of Secession" was in November VETERAN, replies to editorial note at the bottom of article, and says: "I cannot accept your suggestion, War Against Secession. From the standpoint of the Union the Civil War was a 'War Against Secession,' while from the Southern standpoint it was a 'War for Secession;' but from the standpoint of North and

South it was a 'War of Secession.' You will observe that 'War of Secession' is broader and fills the full measure of a descriptive title."

By a constitutional amendment the State of Texas may expend as much as $100,000 annually for Confederate soldiers and sailors who were injured in the war. It may be assumed that the Commissioners in charge will not allow imposition.

W. M. McAlister, of Warm Springs, Va., on a recent visit to the VETERAN reported new Camps:

In August, 1894, he helped to organize Bath Camp of Confederate Veterans with an enrollment of nearly two hundred members. Mr. McAlister was elected Commander, and Mr. Geo. Mustoe, Adjutant. Then in October he assisted in organizing a Camp in Pocahontas County, W. Va., with a membership, of about 150. Col. A. C. L. Gatewood was elected Commander. He reported an arrangement to organize another Camp at Covington, Alleghany County, Va., on the 8th of January, County Court day.

The Edgefield, S. C., Chronicle reports the largest and most enthusiastic meeting ever held by the Abner Perrin Camp, and the annual election of officers, in which Capt. Geo. B. Lake was chosen Commander, S. L. Ready, W. S. Allen, and M. Lott, were made Lieut. Commanders, and R. S. Anderson, Adjutant.

Provision was made for sons to become members of that Camp, until they could organize for themselves. Capt. Lake in responding to the honor conferred upon being elected chief officer, said: "I deem it greater honor to be chosen Commander of this Camp of old soldiers, than to be elected Governor of South Carolina." Severe condemnation was expressed of a published suggestion that decrepid Confederate soldiers might be provided for in the county poorhouse.

In a communication from Levi Perryman, Forestburg, Texas, in the October VETERAN, a correction is due as to name of Regiment, which should be Hawpes' instead of Hipp's.

The National Tribune at Washington, D. C., states that Geo. H. Stone. Co. K. 8th, Iowa Cav. Marion, Iowa, has a large Silver Medal, found in the State of Alabama during the war which the owner can have on satisfactory proof. The medal bears the name of Charles E. Galliher of Palmetto Regiment, S. C., on reverse side, several Mexican war Battles.

COL. WM. LOGAN CLARKE.

Confederate Comradeship sustained sad loss in the death of Col. William Logan Clarke. It occurred at Nashville, January 19th. Col. Clark was widely known and popular. A native Kentuckian, he served in the Orphan brigade, and commanded, much of the time, the Sixth Regiment. He distinguished himself at Shiloh, at Vicksburg and at Baton Rouge. In the latter he was severely wounded. He left a sick bed to make the fight at Murfreesboro, and was complimented in orders by Colonels Lewis, Cofer, and Gen. Gibson. At "Rocky Face," at Dalton, and at Resaca, he was a hero with his men. On the morn

ing of day that the Dallas battle took place, while lying down, after a nights command of Brigade skirmishers, his left arm was shattered.

Col. Clarke was of the best families in Kentucky, and was closely intimate with Gen. Ben Hardin Helm. He married a daughter of Maj. Thomas Helm of Glasgow, Ky. His wife and six children survive him.

The funeral was conducted by Rev. R. C. Reed, pastor of the Woodland Street Presbyterian Church, of which he was an efficient member, by Elder R. Lin Cave who was a many times wounded comrade, and Rev. J. H. McNeilly, whose experience as a Confederate has had prominence in the VETERAN. The services were pathetic and worthy the occasion.

At the burial, Gen. W. H. Jackson read the service after a brief, appropriate mention that after the last burial by the Bivouac, that of comrade Dr. N. D. Richardson a few weeks before, Colonel Clarke read parts of the service to his son Walter, as he wanted to impress him with its beauty and appropriateness. Rev.

Dr. Blair, Chaplain, concluded the service with prayer. Col. Clark and Mr. Isaac Litton, whose death was reported in the last VETERAN, were the First and Second Vice Presidents respectively of the Frank Cheatham Bivouac.

Col. Clarke as a business man was hardly second to his career as a soldier. For some years after the war he was associated with the venerable J. S. Lithgow in Louisville, and subsequently took an important place with the largest manufacturing establishment in Tennessee, if not in the South. He procured and held the ardent devotion of his business associates. His patriotic zeal for the great cause of the VETERAN was unceasing. The first speech ever reported in it was by him. It was to his old Brigade, at Hansons, and this is the concluding sentence.. "If I had nothing else to bequath my children, my service and connection with this old brigade would be a sufficient heritage."

In one of the darkest days of the VETERAN at a reunion of Kentuckians in Versailles, Col. Clark and Rev. Jno. R. Deering were of its most heroic advocates, and it will honor both to the Judgment Day. HOW A VIRGINIA GIRL SAVED LEE'S ARMY.

The following remarkable sketch is by a gentleman whose statements on any subject are believed implicitly, and hence this sketch should be preserved as one of the most remarkable events of the war. The author deplores that he can't recall the name of the family whose daughter was such a heroine :

In front of Petersburg, in the early spring of 1865, every soldier of average intelligence knew that Gen. Lee was only waiting for the end to come, and wondering how the new born Confederacy was to die. But we were certain that it would "die game."

One evening late in March, Gen. A. P. Hill ɛent for me and said his impressions were that Grant was preparing for a general forward movement, and that Gen. Lee should have accurate information as to his movement. He desired me to take as many men as I thought I would need, and get inside the enemy's lines as soon as we could, obtain all possible information, returning one man at a time as we gained it, and that I must get information regardless of danger. Early next morning, with three companions, I had reached a point in rear of Grant's vast army where we could conceal ourselves during the day. My hope was that the next night we could reach a place near Cabin Point where we thought we could certainly get in through the enemy's picket lines.

During frequent scouts in that direction I had become acquainted with a family (the head of which was in the army), consisting of mother, two daughters aged about twenty and eighteen, and a son about twelve years. They were poor but intensely Southern. Their humble log cabin was always open with genuine Virginia hospitality, and especially to a soldier in gray. We had often used the boy, by sending him inside the Federal lines with a basket of pies, for which he would ask a dollar each. We priced them high to prevent his selling out too soon. He was a very remarkable boy, and soon "caught on" so he could go all through the army. Those old-fashioned,