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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNA L Friday, February 10, 1933 Sally Sez Utah Legislature eu Y o u e an Custev, 1 "The Bo!:j Gene(a\ ' • By ELMO SCOTT WATSON , . . -.... T WAS just 100 year• ago, on Februnry 6, 1833, that James Ewell Brown Stuart was born in Patrick county, - - l VIrginia. 1 t Taken alone, that statement is a mere biographical detuU with llttle specln.l But for the name 1'Jaruea meaning. IDwell Brown Stuart" substitute "Gen. Jeb Stuart ot the Confederate army," nnd what pictures ot one ot the most t .i' I } ..__... romantic flgures in American history are conjured up bY that name I Consider, for instance, these words by a re- -cent biographer-cap t. John W. Thomason, Jr., ot the United States marine corps in his "Jeb • • • Stuart." published by Scribners: ...Teb Stuart filled the eye. He was strong and ruddy, and in late 1862, commissioned major genera] to the Confederate army wtth a year and a few months left to live, he was just under thJrty. He had a dark brown flaring beard and wlde mustaches that showed bron1.e Lights In the sun. He wns 5 teet 11 Inches tall and be rode at 175 pounds. "He was large boned, long to the nrms and the legs and short In the body, and he looked best on a horse. He had a blue and merry eye, which turned dnrk and piercing when battle warned him or his temper tlnmed. His nose was chiseled and adventurous, the klnd of nose Napoleon admired In generals. 4 'Also, there was an elegance about blm. He wore gauntlets ot white buckskin, and rode In a gray shell jackE-t, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. Bfs sword, a light French saber-for he never carried, In the Confederate army, the United States officers' sword of the old servtce--wns belted over a cavalry sash or golden sllk with tasseled ends. ..His gray horseman's clonk was lined w1th scarlet; his wife wade tt. General Lee, he wrote her, admired it; and he 1leplored to her the bul· let which whipped awn.v its fur co1lnr at Fredericksburg. His horse furniture and equipment were polished leather and bright metal, and he liked to wear a red rose in his jacket when the roses bloomed, and a toveknot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. "Bis soft, fawn-colored bat was looped op on the right with a gold star. and adorned with a curling ostrtcb feather. His boots sported little knightly spurs of gold-ndmtrlng lallles, e~en those who never sn w him ln their lives, sent him such things. lle- went conspicuous, all gold and glitter, to the front of great bottles and in a hundred little co \1Blry fights which killed men just as dend as Gettysburg. "He wore out tJIR horses and he wore out his men. He rode big Hnlmals or the hunter type, blood bays with blAck polnts for choice, and his brother, Wllllam AIPxnnder, was kept on the lookout for such mounts. Admirers gave him horses, splendid bloncJNI cren tures like Star of thP ERst from Fnr(juiPr, Rnd Skylark from Marylnud; none of them la~terl long under the service hP exacted. "He wu!'l a social type, loving people, taughtng much and IPHdlng ont tn song; for he bad o rich and goJ(lf'n volce. lle was rand or charades and wrote exf'f'rl'l hie f)nf~try and n fTectPJJ ana· grams. There wns neyer any sndness where he was. .. 'Yessir, Ah'll tell you one t'lng,' says General Lee's old camp servant after the war. 'lt mek no ditt"ence how quiet our beadquartehs wuz'-and I think GenE'ral Lee's headquartE'rs were usually qulet-'wlcl'ln ten minutes uv de tlme Olneral Stua't ride up to visit as everybody would be a-laffln I And Ah'll tell you another thing, sah, Gln<'rul Stua't wuz de only one of dE'm blg gineruls whut ne,eh did tech a t1.rap!' "And Lee says, coming out of his tent to the campfire whe-re the young officers of his staft, and some or the old ones, too, sat singing with Stunrt, and a large stone jug, sucb as nppl~ jack, sat on a stone: •tJentlemen. am 1 to thnnk General Stuart or tl'>!: jug for tbts Hoe musJc'l' Tbe remark is clo'le to the point, like every· tblng Lee snys; ~unrt was a strong stimulant to all who tn~ted of his qunllty, and not n stlmu. lus that died out and let you drm-'11. ''He ~thered to him~elf a trnln of oddities. When the cavalry eornmnnds were forming Into res:lmPnts at the op£>n1ng or the war, he ctune upon Joseph sw~eny, a fellow apt upon the banjo, furnished with all the tunes, who spranR to arms from a minstrel trnupe, elecUng to serve mounted. Sweeny was at once detailed to the C u stev Stettue n New Rumley, 0 io escort, and where Stuart went, he went, wtth his banjo and hls ditties. "'l'he by-wllys ot VIrginia heard old joyous snatches ringing above the thudding of the horses' hoofs. Small country towns awoke nt night, and the girls turned out In their stored finery for impromptu dances, where Sweeny's banjo pitched the measure and Jeb Stuart led the rout But lr It chanced to be Saturday nJght, everything stopped at 12 o'clock. Jeb Stuart bad serious Ideas about Sunday." Theatrical as Jeb Stunrt was, he was much more. Be was a truly great cavalryman_ Of him General Lee once saJd, ''Be never sent me a ptece or false information," and In Civil war days mllltnry leaders had to depend upon their cavalry tor Information nod accurate informs· tlon was aU-Important. As an adored commander of the horsemen In gray ("Jeb, he never says "Go on." He says "Come on I'' they used to re· mark,) be led them In some of the wildest cavalry escapades or the war. Of hls rlgllt to a place among the great AmerIcan cavn.lry leaders another historian, Joseph Bergeshelmer. in "Swords and Roses," has said: "Be was a born, an ldeal, leader o! cavalry. His perceptions there were faultless: he was never known to make n tactical error. His plans were formed instantly with no more than a single sweeping view of a complicated battle. field_ At times, however, nothing but his unconquerable resolution, a cold desperation, saved hlm from destruction. General Stuart was often forced to depend upon sharpshooting, but he enormously preferred pure cavalry fighting; but when hie men were dismounted to skirmishes he rernnlned stubbornly beside them, buoyant wtth encouragement and songs. "His great ability was tn raiding, in rapid flank movements, charging and falling back with horse. Bls extraordinary energy was practically tnexhnustlble; Stuart almost never slept. He needed. It seemed, little If any rest. On the night or the second battle ot Manassas he gave comprehensible orders when be was asleep. After days and nights without Interruption In the saddle, be would stop by any roadside and tle down, sn.re or In the enemy's country, without pickets or videttes. lle did this at Carlisle, Pa.; wrap[)ed in his cloak he rested tor an bour against a tree, and then be remounted, complefE'!Jy refreshed. 1'hrougb moments of extreme peril he sat with a leg thrown over the pommel of b.ls saddle, drmnmlng with his fingers on a knee. Be was often begged not to expose himself so recklessly; he must, it was pointed out, be kllled, but his lnvttrlnble response was that be reckonei'J not. His life did appear to be cbnrmM; be Uved untouched In a rain of shell. canf~ter, round shot and bullets ontll be was bit fatally at Yel· low Tavern. "Be died, happily, at the moment of his great· est glory, at the last glorious moment of the ConfedPracy; he sufTered none of the l~nomlny, tbe poverty nod sadness, or defeaL For that rea· son he was the most Slttlsractory, tlle most wholly romantic soldier or the Ctvll war. Nothing about him, nothing In his career, wn~ rtlsappolntlng; it \\"as nil hanrlsome, all ingrnttntlng, like hts yellow sa.sh with Its graceful, fringed ends." No more appropriate "Tnps" could be sounded for this RE>nu Snhreur of the Gray than by a fellow fighting man, Captain Thomason, who writes: "All bls life be was fortunate. It was given blru to tot! groently, and to enjoy greatly, to taste no little fame trow the wnrlts or b.ls bands, Colonel Cavall"u, OR.A,W\HG ~ JOH'A Vit'ginia 861 "THOMASON, JR. and to drink the best of the cup or living. Ba died while there was still a thread of hope for victory. Be was spared the grinding agony of the nine months' siege, the bleak months that brought culminating disasters and the laytng down of the swords at Appomattox. He took his death wound in the front or battle, as he want· ed It, and he was granted some brief hours to press the hands or men who loved bJm, and to arrange hlmselt ln order to report before the God or Battles, Whom he served." Almost as romantic and exotic a figure as "Beauty" Stuart was another young cavalry general on the other side of the Unes--Gen. George Armstrong Custer. the Beau Sabreur of the Blue. There was a striking similiartty between the per· sonaUUes o! the two men and tbe paralleHsm persists down to their similar manner of dying. The recent unveliJng of a monument to Ouster ln his home town in Ohio hns served to recall the picturesque flgure whose career ln the Civil war would have been enough to win btm enduring tame even If his tragic death 1n the most widely known Indian battle In American history had not lmperishabiy preserYed his name In the minds of bls countrymen. Stuart was not quite thirty when he became a major-general. Custer was a brlgadler-genera l at twenty·three and a mnjor-general at twenty· tour, hence the sobriquet ot "The Boy General" attached to him. But to his men he was "Old Curly'' because he let hls ye1low, curly hair grow long and sweep his shoulders. Of the achievements of Custer and his caYalrymen during the Civil war, his farewell address to the TWrd division tells the story: ..The record establlshed by your indomitable courage ls unparalleled 1n the annals ot war. Your prowess bas won for you even the respect and admlrs.tlon of your enemies. During the past ai:J: months, although 1n most cases confronted by superior numbers, you have captured from the enemy In open battle, 111 pieces or field artillery, 65 bat• or war, tle flags and upwards ot 10,000 prisoners pat~t the Within officers. general seven Including have yon above, the In ten days, and Included captured 46 fteld pieces of artlllery and 37 battle flags. t'You have never lost a gun, never lost a color. and you have never been defeated i and notwithstanding the numerous engagements In wblcb you have borne a prominent part. Including thos• memorable battles or the Shenandoah, you havft captured every piece of artl11ery which the e.INemy has dared to open upon you. _ .. "And now, speaking for mysel! alone. when the war Is ended and the task of the historian begins, when these deeds o! daring, which have rendered the narue and tame or the Third cavalry division Imperishable, are Inscribed upon the bright pages of our country's history, 1 only ask that my name be written as that or the commander of the Third Cavalry di-vision.•• But bow dU'f'ereutly his name was to be written! lf'or as Frazier Hunt In his biography "Custer, the Last of the Cavaliers,'' has said: "To tbe millions or plain Americans, be Is remembered not as the commander of a dashing and victorious division of cavalry that captured 10,000 prisoners and 65 bnttle Oags from a gallant and stubborn foe, but as an indian fighter who with a handful of troopers, 11 years later. galloped to a tragic death. He had fought Lee and Stonewall .Tarkson, Jeb Stuart and 'the gallant Pelbam'but It was the naked Sioux warriors ot tW plains who sent him to his deathless fame. Th• gods of battle have thelr own Inscrutable waJ of making heroes." (C by Weater:tl Newap&paor Ub..lon.) The Utah legislature with practically hntt or: the 1033 session over bas reached the potnt or taking up general legifl:lo.tion atter the heavy labor or considering the proposed' CO<!e o! Utah. The 1933 revised code or Utah was pnssed by the state senate last week and was £lent to the printer1 Clyde A. Epperson, head of the In· land Printing company, wbo has the printing contract. It is planned to make the cocle effective on approval. 'l"he code bas been adopted by both houses. offered few amend· Senator£~ mente and these were quickly con· curred in by th& bouse. ·work of engine-ering the code In the senate was 1n charge or Senator D. B. Shields. The only voice in oppo~ftlon to the code was that of Sen. Geo. Jefferson of Beave-r, who declnred the code was a $120,000 mistake and that It "·ould cost the people of tbe state more than a mlUion dollars. most or which would be spent with attorneys. The legislature now has the prot.. Iem of bow to reduce tnxation and increase revenue; revamp the ff. nances ot the state; relle>e unem· ployruent and finally, to give the wets ttnd drys In ws that wlll be satisfactory to both aides. The fina.neffl of the state nre In an unravorable condition and to re· lle-ve the immediate stnin, a btU was passed by both bouse!' to authorize a two mil1ton dollar bond is<me. Rep_ Wayman of Carbon county introduced a bill in the house to create the Gre-nt Snit Lllke Improvement assocla tion to uudertn ke the '.ake diking project. The association would be empowoered to incorporate, elect directors and officers nncl negotiate loans tram the R. F. C., or nny other pub· lie or private corporation, suftirlent to finance the projpct. l){>UtUs lmve been worked out for the project, whic'Pl would dike- off n. lnrge are-..a in the southeast portion of Great Salt Lake and conve1·t it into ft. !resh wa tcr reservoJ r tor the n.se of tndustrtal concerns nnd for the nse of proposed steam-eledric plants. The plan has the genernl approYal of engineering and industrial groups, and several con~tructlon propor-:als l1ave been submitted. The bill would transfer to the associn tion a11 the necessary state titles to land nnd water which wou1rl he necessary to carry out the projt'Ct. Dh•crsion ot' the Weber ri~er, by means of n canal, to vro"lde n. lnrge supply or fre!'lll wut('r, would be permitted by enactment of the m~n!'lurc. t:'nder a resolution ncloptPd hy the senate formPr governor G. H. Dern is indorsed for tbc serrctnry ot interior post Jn the cabinet of Presldent·c1ect Roosevelt, The !ormer governor has tlte united support of both houses of the Utah legIslature. The vote was unanimous. You may obtain complete copies ot the following bills from your leglsln Uve rcpresentatlves 1t you so desire. B. B. 41-Crentlng small claims court. H. B. 42-Re~ulation, manu:taeture and distribution of frozen desserts. If_ B. 43--Establlshlog branch offices o! banks. H. n. 44-Decreasing mtle.nge allowances of state automobiles. H. B. 45-Duties of superintendent of public instructlnn nnd apportionment of school funds. H. B. 46-Appoin tments and r~ moval or members ot state board of henlth. H. J. R. 4--Relatlog to state board or education. If. J. R 5-Relatlog to state executl>e department. II. J. R. 6--Relnting to governor's appointive powers. H. J. R. 7-Compensntlon of state officers. H. J. R. 8--Unlfocm assessment and taxation ot tangible property. H. B. 48-.Turisdietfon of courts sitting In equity. H. B. 4~Free education ot children. H. B. 50-Enumerators ot school dlstTlcts. U. B. 51-Tax lien on personal property. B. B. 52-Granting discounts on t=es paid. II. B. 53-State agrlcultnra1 col· lege os power distributor. B. B. 54--IncrPnRing the income tax nnd eliminating tlllng fee. H. J. R. 3--State control o! liquor traffic. H. C. M. 4--Crentlng a national pnrk in 'Wnyne county. H. B. 31-Regulatlon ot freight tratntt. H. B. 38--Stnte lnnd t'ontracts. H. B. 39--State bounty fund. H. B. 40--Relating to crops and pests. H. B. 34-Retund ot motor fuel tax. .H. B. 35--Election ballot rullnm!. H. B. 3G--Inspection ot meat anlmn1s. H. B. 26-LiceMing o( stores. H. B. 27-Rel:ltln~ to sale of -propprty sollt to the county, IT. B. 28-RPlattng to fish n.nd game laws of arrest, search nnd seizure. H. B. 31-Reducing legal rate nff werebo.n.clU.. 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