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there was no cheering by the Federal troops. My _ recollection Is that on our M right a hearty cheer was ll' given by one Federal dl- I vision 'for the gallant de- ] fenders of Vlcksburg.'" Now It la a curious co incidence that It Is In the case of this same Colonel Lockett, constructor of the defenses of Vlcksburg, which for more than a year held out against Far- I ragut and Grant, that the Federal government 1B commemorating (by the first portrait tablet to the memory of a Confederate officer erected by order of the war department In one « of the national military parks) the gallantry and ■kill which characterised that resistance to its ar tnles. In exactly the same ■plrlt of admiration for a good fight and for a worthy foe which animated the victorious army at Vlcks burg the government to day endeavors to com- memorate with similar tionors the feats of the engineers who defended ftnd those who successfully besieged the city of Vlcksburg. For, on the recommendation of Major William T. Rlgby, chairman of the Vlcksburg National Military Park Commission, the war department has recently given orders to have erected In that park bronie portrait tablets to the three chief engineers of the siege of Vlcksburg—Generals Prime and Comstock, U. S. A., Grant's engineers, who constructed the Investment lino, and Colonel —or, as he then was—Major C. 8. A., Pemberton's engineer, who constructed the lino of defense. Thus, In a prominent position, near the Missis sippi State Memorial, and on that "Confederate Avenue" which follows the line of defense which his engineering skill drew around the city, there will be a bronze tnblet bearing the likeness of the brave and able Confederate engineer, and the In scription: Samuel H. Lockett, Major of C. 9. Engineers, Chief Engineer Army of Vickßburg, March 29 July 4, 1863. This honor to a Confederate engineer officer has a special Interest for us here, Most of the troops who held Vlcksburg so long and so valiant ly were Louisiana men. Doubtless there are many In the state who recall vividly the small, blue eyed iran on the little white pony who contlnu ftlly rode on his rounds of the defensive works, ftctlve, alert and fearless, so that, as he himself tells In his account of the selge, after the sur render one of the Federal sharpshooters called out to him: "See here, Mister!—you man on the little white horse! Danged If you ain't the hard est feller to hit 1 ever saw, I've shot at you more'n a hundred times!" Nor Is this all. After the war Colonel Ix>ckett was for several years professor of mechanics and engineering at the Louisiana State University, during the early years of Its struggles under Radi cal rule, and commandant of cadets, In which capacity he came In contact with every boy In college. Though a very strict disciplinarian, after the West Point ttpe, he won, by his unvarying Justice and kindness and his genial disposition, the friendship and affection of all his pupils. As Major Frank M Kerr, now at the head of the stale board of engineers, who was one of his boys, expresses It: "His discipline was exceedingly strict, yet he had a way of correcting that, even while he rep rimanded, made a friend of a boy for life. 1 can remember him, with that old cane of his, which fee always carried, and used to gesticulate with, to emphasize his remarks and to demonstrate with the blackboard. We were all devoted to film, and the boys loved to go to his house." That cano of Colonel Lockett's Is one of the traditions of the university. It was never certain In the minds of the cadets whether his habit of tapping with it on each step, as he went the rounds of the barracks on Inspection, was deliber ate or unconscious; but it undoubtedly served to warn many a skylarking party In time to present a decorous appearance- when the commandant ap peared, and saved him the need of too frequent demerits. You see, he had been a West Pointer himself, and doubtless knew the ways of cadets, and when not to see Innocent Infractions of dis cipline. But the boys of that day also remember how his gentle blue eyes could blaze with wrath If anyone disobeyed orders, or was Impertinent; and dishonesty and lying were to him unforgiv able sins. His unswerving rectitude made It hard (or him to show any mercy for those particular frailties. He simply could never understftnd how anybody could help telllng the truth, how anybody could take what belonged to another. General "Joe" Wheeler, who was with htm ftt West Point, •aid of him that even when ft cadet "be meaaured - I—l right and wrong, honor and dishonor, by so strict a standard as to give his views a distinctive In dividuality." Samuel Henry Lockett was born in Mecklen burg county, Virginia, July 7, 1837, the son of Napoleon and Mary Clay Ix>ckett, who, while he was still a baby, moved to Marion, Ala., where he gTew up, the second In a family of twelve. He was graduated from Howard college. In Marlon, when he was 16, and obtaining an appointment to West Point, ho wns graduated from the United States Military Academy with the second highest rank in the class of 1859. You see, the United, States has a right to be proud of his engineering work at Vlcksburg, for It was at West Point that ho learned the science and art of fortifying His high rank entitling him to an appointment In the engineer corps, he was made a second lieutenant in that body, and assigned to duty as assistant professor of Spanish at West Point. Here he married Cornelia Clarke, a very young and lovely girl who had grown up there at Wost Point, but who, In spite of her youth, followed her soldier husband fenrlessly and devotedly through war and Blege and foreign lands. Her own people fought on the Union side. It was In JB6O th«t the young lieutenant and his bride came South, to Fernandlna, Fla. But they had not been there many months be fore Alabama seceded, Jan. 11. 1861, and of course Lleutennnt Lockett resigned and entered the ser vice of the Confederacy, He was appointed major of engineers by Gov ernor Andrew Moore of Alabama, who sent him to take poesegslon of the Important defenses of Mobile Bay and Pensacola Harbor—a moat auda cious act on the part of Governor Moore, for which he was, after the close of the war, Impris oned for atvhlle by the Federal government, which was annoyed by the wise but unconstitutional precautions which he had taken to prevent It from making effective use of these footholds In Ala bama and Florida. - • On March 7, 1861, Young Lockett was commis sioned captain of engineers In the Confederate States Army, and ordered to report to General Braxton Bragg, as chief engineer of the District of the Gulf. "In that capacity his services were very valuable," says General Joseph Wheeler In bis biographical sketch published by the Alumni Association of the Military Academy. "Though almost without material or resources, Captain Lockett laid out a plan of defense, and partly constructed the military works at both Mobile and Pensacola. When the southward march of Buell and Grant made a concentration of troops neces sary In north 'Mtsslsslppl, General Dragg took Cap tain Lockett with him to the new seat of war, and In March, 1862, he laid out and constructed the defenses of Corinth, Miss." \ He entered the Shlloh campaign as chief engi neer of Bragg's corps, and performed most gallant and efficient service In reconnolterlng the enemy's position and assisting his general In conducting the columns to the field and the arrangement of the line of battle. The chief engineer of the army, major, afterward Major General Gilmer, was wounded early In the action, and Oaptftln Lockett became the chief engineer of the army upon thf staff of General Albert Sidney Johnston until that distinguished commander fell mortslly wounded. In the series of war papers published by the Century Magatlne—"Battles and Leaden of the Civil War" —Lockett himself- wrote a vivid ac count of the "Surprise and Withdrawal at Bhlloh. M Two passages from this are of special Interest to ns tn Louisiana: "1 witnessed," he says, "the various bloody and unsuccessful attacks on the 'Hornet's Neet' Dur ing one of the dreadful repulses of our forcee General Bract directed me to ride forward to the central regiment of ft brigade of troops that wai recoiling across an open field, to take Its colors and carry them forward. " 'The flag must not go back again,' he said. "Obeying the order, I dashed through the line of battle, seized the colors from the color-bearer and said to him: "General Bragg says these colors must not go to the rear.' "Whllo I was talking to him the color sergeant was ■hot down. A moment or two afterward I was al most alone on horseback In tho open field between* the lines of battle. An officer came up to me with a bullet hole In cheek, the blood streaming from his mouth, and asked: " 'What are you doing with my colors, sir?' " 'I am obeying General I Bragg's orders, sir, to hold | them where they are,' was my reply, " 'Let me have them,' he said. 'lf any man but my color-bearer carries these colors, lam the man. Tell General Bragg I will see that these colors are In the right place. But be must attack this position In flank; we can never carry It slone from the front.' It was Colonel H. W. Allen, afterward Governor Al len of Ixmlsiana " "I returned, miraculously preserved, to General Bragg and reported Colonel Allen's words. I then carried an order to the same troops, giving the or der, 1 think, to General Gibson, to fall back to the fence In the rear and reorganize. This was done, and then General Bragg dispatched me to the right and Colonel Frank Gardner (afterward major gen eral) to the left to Inform the brigade and division commanders on either side that a combined move ment would be made on the front and flanks of that position. The movements wore made, and Prentiss was captured. • "As Colonel William Preston Johnston says, that capture was a dear triumph to us—dear for the many soldiers we had lost In the first fruitless at tacks, but still dearer on account of the valuable time It cost us. But after awhile the Confederates were gotten Into ranks and a perfect line of battle was formed, our left wing resting on Owl Creek and our right on the Tennessee River. General Polk was on the left, then Bragg, then Hardee, then Breckinridge. In our front only one single point was shoeing, a hill crowned with artillery. I was with General Bragg, and rode with him along the front of his corps. I heard htm say over and over again: " 'One more charge, my men, and we shall capture them all.' While this was going on a atafT officer (or rather. I think It was one of the detailed clerks of General Meauregard's headquarters, for he wore no uniform) came up to General Bragg and said: " 'The general directs that the pursuit be stopped; the victory Is sufficiently complete; It is needless to expose our men to the Are of the gunboats.' "In regard to the second day's flght," he goes on, "I. as a great many other staff officers, wss princi pally occupied in the early hours of the second day in gathering together our scattered men and getting them into some sort of manageable organization. "When 1 reported to General Beauregard that I had the troops divided into companies, had assigned a captain to duty as lieutenant colonel and a first lieutenant as major, he himself put me in command of them as colonel. "Not long after my regiment thus officered and christened a message came from General Breck inridge, on our extreme right, that ho was hard pressed, and needed re-elnforcements. My regiment, »hlch was. at -the time Just behind' General Beaure gard. held In reserve by his orders, was sent by him to General Breckinridge's assistance. We marched down the line of battle to the extreme right, passed beyond General Breckinridge's right, wheeled by companies Into line of battle, and went in with the 'rebel yell.' The men on the left took up the yell and the charge, and we gained several hundred yards of ground. From this point wo fought back slowly and steadily for several hours, until word came that tho army was ordered to retreat; that the commands would fall back in succession from the left, and that the right wing would bo the rear guard. This order was carried dut, and when night came the right wing waa slowly falling back, with face to face. • To continue General Wheeler's account of Colonel Lockett's army career: "He conducted all the engineering operations ta and, around Corinth, Miss., until the place was abandoned by the Confederate forces in 1863. For these services he was promoted to the rank of major of engineers. On June 20, 1863, he was or dered to report to General M. L. Smith, commander at Vlcksburg, Miss. As his chief engineer Major Loekett designed and constructed the defenses of Vlcksburg and the adjacent strategic points of Chickasaw Bluff, Halne's Bluff and Yasoo City, oa the north, sad Warren town, on the south of Vlcks burg." 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