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Merritt shows one of eight boards holding his choice enlarged photographs

inding the Lost Cause ,

For 10} years past/Lanier Merritt has Spent
his spare time assembling a .photo gallery
of Confederate generals, nearly completed

By Josephine Murphey

IN SPITE of several ancestors who followed
the Bonnie Blue Flag, and the patriotic
devotion of hismother, who has been heard
to» say, “I‘d tie up my head in rags .if it would
help the Confederacy,” Lanier Merritt grew
up, like many a latter-day Southerner, with
_ only a perfunctory interest in the War Be-
‘ tween the States; His knowledge of the prin-
cipal participants in that conflict was so
sketchy that he probably couldn’t have, dis-
tinguished Jubal Early from Tubal Cain 10
years ago, when he first became’interested in
what the Yankees used to call “The War of
the Rebellion."

It was the late Margaret Mitchell who was
responsible for Merritt’s finding the Lost
Cause. Kindled by. the reading of her classic,
“Gone With the \Vind," his enthusiasm for
things Confederate flamed like a brush fire
in August. Before you could say “Pierre
Gustave Toutant Beauregard," he was collect-
ing Confederate memorabilia with all the gusto
of a U.D.C. historian.

In the succeeding decade, he has amassed-
a remarkable number of books and sentimental
oddments connected with the war, but his
masterpiece is a monumental collection \of

,. photographs of Confederate generals, full, lieu-i

tenant, major and brigadier. g” . ., .

The walls of the apartment he ‘Shares with
his mother, Mrs. Harriette J. Johnsoh:'at 1519
Gale lane are almost covered .with framed
likenesses of most of the 460 generals who
served in the Confederate army, Merritt has
pictures of all the full, lieutenant and major
generals who wore the gray, and lacks only
25 or. 30 lowly brigadier generals of having
the entire galaxy of commanding officers.

He also has more than a dozen old-fashioned
albums, padded and covered in tooled leather
or velvet after the fashion of their day, which
are appropriate repositories for hundreds more
of his generals. The pictures in the albums
are not identified, except on the back, but

Merritt can reel off name, rank, outfit and
biographical highlights for each, without a
moment’s pause.

This familiarity with the departed gentle-
men to whom he devotes much (if his Spare
time caused a recent visitor to remark, “You’re
going to have an easy time of it in Heaven."

“Yes, I‘m- going to have a kit of friends
there,” the collector replied.

CERTAINLY it will be a happy day, for
Merritt if he encounters John Hunt Mor-
gan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Wade Hampton

, or Jeb Stuart, since those stalwart cavalry-

men are his top-ranking favorites.

After the adventures of Scarlett O’Hara
got Merritt interested in the war, he began
reading everything he could find on the sub-
ject. “I started on John Morgan,” he said
recently, “and then I soon switched off to
Forrest.” Forrest probably heads the list of
his pet generals, and he once prepared a wiri-
dow display for a local bookstore employing
six different photographs of the Wizard of
the Saddle, in addition to various examples of
Confederate arms, ammunition and flags.

The fact that Merritt’s likenesses, which in‘
clude a fine set of 108 steel engravings and
etchings of all the full generals, lieutenant gen-
erals and major generals in the Confederate
army, contain numerous duplicates accounts
for the total of better than 1000 pictures in his
collection.

Among the more interesting photographic
items are the old-fashioned caries de visite,
many of which contain several tiny, thumb-
nail-sized pictures on a single card the size of
a playing card, and a collection of slightly
larger photographs, each accompanied by the
autograph of the man represented. Merritt
obtained the latter from a Baptist preacher in
Tulsa, Okla. to whom he was referred by a

Nashville minister who had fallen into con-

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All six pictures are of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Merritt’s favorite

versation with him on a bus after he observed
the big, old-fashioned album on the collector’s
lap.

He had been reading about the Confederacy
and collecting in desultory fashion for a couple
of years before he decided to channel his ef-
forts toward the writing of a book incorporat-
ing the pictures of all of the Confederate gen-
erals and a sketch of the life of each. For
about eight years now he has been working
with that in mind, keeping a set of scrapbooks
with a page for each general and noting facts
on the appropriate pages as he reads.

Since the amount of reading he can do is
‘ curtailed by the eyestrain involved in his job
as artist for the Werthan Bag corporation, Mrs.
Johnson often reads aloud to her son in the
evenings. “We sometimes spend three or four
nights a week that way," she said recently.

Merritt has been a godsend to the \Villiam
B. Bate Chapter of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, to which his mother belongs.
When they need a bit of research into the life
and times of any Confederate soldier, Merritt
is the logical candidate for the job, since his
knowledge extends considerably beyond the gen-
erals in which he has specialized.

He has not. however, been nearly so popu-
lar with the editors of Life magazine, whom he
has forced to admit the inaccuracy of several
published statements about the war. When
they stated that Jo Johnston‘s was the last
command to surrender, for example, it was
Merritt who pointed out that that honor right-
fully belonged to Edmund Kirby—Smith, in com-
mand of the Trans-Mississippi forces.

INDING house room for the sizeable library

of books dealing with the Confederacy, and

for the odds and ends of sentimental value (such
as a lock of Wade Hampton's hair, a large col.
lection of Confederate reunion badges, a Pal-

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metto musket dated 1852, a $50 bill said to have
belonged to Forrest which was given Merritt
by the general's granddaughter, and others).has
been a considerable problem, but nothing com-
pared to that posed by the eight hinged boards,
a little more than five feet square each, on
which he has mounted enlarged photographs
of the generals comprising various units of the
Army of Tennessee and the Army of Northern
Virginia.

William J. Hardee’s corps, Leonidas Polk’s
corps, Stephen G. Lee’s corps and Forrest’s cav-
alry of the Army of Tennessee; the first, sec-
ond and third corps, commanded respectively
by James Longstreet, “Stonewall" Jackson, and
A. P. Hill, and Jeb Stuart’s cavalry of the Army
of Northern Virginia comprise the eight di-
visions. Each board is arranged with the com-
manding general in the center of the top row,
with his three division commanders directly
beneath him and brigade commanders on either
side.

All of the pictures used on the boards are
8x10 enlargements of smaller pictures in Mer-
ritt's collection, and all are framed in steel gray
frames, with the oval pictures posed against
mats of pale lavender. Red stars are pasted on
the glass covering pictures of generals killed
in action, each star indicating the place and
date of death. Beneath almost all of the gen-
erals are brief typewritten biographies.

Merritt's interest in the Lost Cause has
brought him a measure of fame as a collector,
but there are probably those ardent Confed-
erates who would say that he has even gone
a little too far. Carefully segregated from the
Southerners, but nevertheless present, are pic-
tures of some 50 Yankee generals which Mer-
ritt acquired from the war department. Some-
times he takes them out and eyes them a bit
doubtfully.

"I just don’t know why I got those things,"
he said the other day. t t t

J HQ son, as he takes notes

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The seventh annual meet
of the National Foxhunt-
ers’ Association took place
at Estill Springs, Ky., No—

vember 12—20, and notwith-.

standing the dry weather
it was a grand success.
, This club is not com-
Y posed of pink-coated, top-
booted. riding-school products, accustomed to chasing

bag foxes and anise-seed trails, but hardy, old foxhunt--

I ers,'\ who have spent all their lives

the spnrt, and, as
it were, raised in the saddle. Many of the members
have passed the threescore-and-ten milepost, and are the
substantial and political and business men of their com-
munities. But to see them up in‘the saddle an hour
before daylight, and taking fences and ditches in their
mad runs across dangerous ground, one Wouldl think '
them but boys in their teens.

, A score or more ladies were present and always well
up in the ﬁrst ﬂight on their thoroughbreds. -

The majority of the men were over six feet, several " '

being from six feet two inches to six feet ﬁve inches, and

not a few, including the Walkers, Wills, Graddy, Col. _'

NATIONAL FOXHUNTEKS"ANNUAL MEET AT ESTILL SPRINGS. KY.

(‘01. Roger Williams on his hunter, Nettle.
Cincinnati riders who took part in the hum.
Miss Carrie Hathaway, of Winchester, K). ., to whom the
brush was presented.

On a had hit of riding ground.
Col. Williams and Miss Hathaway.

Jack Chinn and Col. Roger Williams, weighed from 210
to 260 pounds. As all of these gentlemen were strictly
“in” each and every chase, and took every fence and
ditch, some idea of the strength, stamina, activity and
endurance of their mounts can be estimated. Foxes were
plentiful. The cast—off was made each day just at day—
break, and the .runs varied from one anda half to three
hours, longer runs being impossible owing to the sun
and wind dissipating the moisture necessary for trailing.
j" The only kill was made on the last day. It was a fast
' and furious, though short, chase, and the honor of being
I “ﬁrst in at the death” was won by Col. Roger \Villiams
of Lexington, Ky., though at the sacriﬁce of his favorite J
hunter, Nettle, she being badly damaged. He presented;
the brush to Miss Hathaway of \Vinchester, Ky., who has 1

never missed a meet of this association in years and is\
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one of the hardiest, as well as one of the best, horse-
\\'omen of the South. ‘__/—\-.~.~ ' f...._

Col. Jack Chinn rode his celebrated hunter, “Bill,” of
which the following story may be told: Colonel Chinn
was starting a hurdle race at Latonia a few years ago,
and none of the jockeys succeeded in piloting their
mounts over the jumps. 'Colonel Chinn, who weighs
250 pounds, mounted old “Bill” and rode the entire
course, never missing a jump.

Daniel Combs was on “Gad—a-bout,” a daughter of
Cassatt’s “Cadet.” Miss Marie Redd of Lexington was
on “Artillery,” a thoroughbred. Mr. Suydam Scott was
011 “Moose,” the hero of many a hunt.’ Col. Roge_r)\'ill-
iams alternated between “Nettle” and “Friar Luck.”
Samuel Redd rode _his hunter, “Blackbird.” \V. L.
Graddy was on “Black Bess,” a three—quarter thorough-
bred. Miss Anna Johnston rode the gelding, “SYD.”1

Captain and Miss Hathaway were on their pair of hunt—l
ing mares, saddle—bred. The Vt'alk'ers rode their strain

of hunters, that they have been breeding for a quarter
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of a century.

The membership of the Louisville Horse Show Asso—
ciation has been increased to 125 members, the largest
in its history. Fifteen members have been added since
the ﬁrst show was given, and at the next meeting of the
members a resolution will be introduced to increase the
membership to 150. A change in'the constitution will
be necessary, which can only be obtained through a ma-
joritv vote, but it is believed there will be no opposition

t0 lllC alllClldIllCllt.

The absence of the late Charles F. Bates, better known
as “Fatty” Dates, from the New York Horse Show was
observed by many of the old-time exhibitors, and much
regret was expressed. One man passed the remark that
the Garden show without “Fatty” Bates was a great deal
“Hamlet” without Hamlet in the cast.

COACH 'AND SADDLE

STORY OF HOWLETT'S TRIUMPH.

The test of skill
four-in-hand driving at
the Madison Square Gar-
den show was held at
noon, and it was the mag-
net to attract an unusually
large early attendance.
There was a gathering of
noted whips along the rails and in the boxes. The pres- '
ence of Morris E. Howlett, of the noted family of Paris
whips, gave the contest an international air. Old-timers
recalled that it was the second international affair of the
sort, although the other, held at the 1893 show, was for
amateurs only. Then the feat was to cut ﬁgures of
eight between posts set about the ring, each driving his
own and another team in turn. This time the conditions
were quite different. Style in handling the reins, hold-
ing and using the whip, position of the hands and body
and similar details were what counted, as well as the
skill in driving. A hurdle was placed on each side of
the judges stand, leaving a gap of ten feet, through
which. after showing their skill in general evolutions,
the whips had to drive their team. The leeway was less
than two feet on each side of the wheels if the coach
went through in the exact center of the gap. This was
not muclrmore difﬁcult than to turn from a road into
an ordinary carriage gate, but the way it was done was
what told. Three of the aspirants, Howlett, Sheldon
and Pellew, wore frock coats and silk hats; the others,
cutaways and derby hats. Only Carman, who had a small
boutonniere of violets; Sheldon, who carried a red Chrys—
anthemum, and Howlett, who had a white carnation,
sported ﬂowers.

MAKES A GOOD APPEARANCE.

Morris E. Howlett won the $500 presented by James
E. Hyde for the best showing; in black. only brightened
by a white ﬂower, and the shiniest of silk hats, Howlett
stepped from the stand, whip in hand, as jauntily as a
belle at her ﬁrst ball. He is a short, active person, with
a round,~bright'face. First he laid his whip over the
backs of the wheelers, and then looked over the team to
see if the harness suited him. Howlett changed the bib
ting of the wheelers slightly, and then lifted the reins
from under the tug buckle and adjusted them so that
they would be of the right length when he got on the
box.

All ready, Howlett held the reins in his right hand,
took up the whip in the same hand and then mounted.
These details had all been carefully noted by the judges,
and as a good driver can always be told by the way he
ascends, they now watched Howlett get up. His method
was the same as the others, but with more case. It was