CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  All Entitlled to be Officers

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
6 June 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, page 307 

ALL ENTITLED TO BE OFFICERS.

Gen. H. W. Wood, G. A. R., Madison, Wis., writes:

"When we read a story of the South in which there is a sol­dier or a 
dozen of them, the page is set full of capital 'G's' and 'C's' and 
'M's,' meaning 'Generals,' 'Colonels,' or 'Ma­jors.'" And then he 
wonders just why that is so! Dr. D. H. Grant, son of a Confederate, 
at Palestine, Texas, replies:

"All the home Southern people have such love and respect and 
veneration for their old heroes, and they feel now that so few of 
them are left to tell the story, that they by virtue of their valor 
and true heroism ought to be generals, colo­nels, and majors.  If 
not for that reason, we aIl think that they are now entitled to 
promotion by reason of succession to the titles."