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and tnat ne was a cousm of the noted
hunter and explorer, Sir Samuel Baker
and of. Col. Valentine Baker, once the
commander of the Tenth Hussars, the
"Prince of Wales' Own," one of the crack
commands in the British army; that
early in the Civil War he had obtained
leave of aosence to go beyond sea and
had gone to Massachusetts and offered
his services to Governor Andrew, who
had commissioned him colonel of cavalry
in the Massachusetts troops ; that he had
organized a very fine regiment and had
participated in much of the fighting in
Virginia. Baker's inseparable companion
was a noble Newfoundland dog, and one
day, after he had been here several years,
he went into an insurance office to see the
general agent, Francis H. Cameron,
native of Wilmington, who had before
the Civil War been a lieutenant in the
United States Marine Corps and who had
served in the Confederate States marines,
attaining the rank of major. When Baker
entered Cameron's office he found the
latter smoking a meerschaum pipe of
very odd design and shape, and gave a
start when he saw this. Then he intro
duced himself and said : "Pray do not
tninK me ruae, Dut surely l have seen
that pipe and you before. Where was
it? Am I right?"
The two gentlemen shook hands and
then history began to unfold itself.
Baker said that he had seen that pipe or
its duplicate in Virginia in the spring of
18G5, directly after the battle of Sailor's
Creek, at which time his regiment had
taken part in the capture of a large num
ber of Confederates, after a very sharp
and bloody combat. He said that after
the battle he and some of his brother
officers had gone over to a building in
which were a number of Confederate of
ficers who had just been taken prisoners
and had offered these officers something
to drink and to smoke, and that then one
or the uonieaerates was smoKing a
pipe like the one Cameron had. At these
words Cameron gave Baker a warm hand
shake and said : "You are right ; I was
that officer. My battalion was serving as
infantry at Sailor's Creek and practically
all of them were killed or taken prison
ers. I remember distinctly our being
taken to a wooden building in the vicinity
and held there and I was smoking and
wondering to what prison I would be
sent when a handsome officer in a colo
nel's uniform, accompanied by other
officers, came in and gave us some of the
best brandy I ever tasted and some cigars.
I remember that both of us expressed the
hope that the acquaintance begun under
such bloody and distressing circum
stances might be renewed."
It is needless to say that Baker and
Cameron from that moment were friends
and that the two had supper together
that very evening at Cameron's home,
with many a reminiscence of the war and
not a few about England, Scotland and
the Continent, since Cameron, like Baker
had been over much of the world. Time
passed, the friendship of these gentlemen
deepening, and Cameron invited several
officers who had been of the party so
hospitably treated by Baker to come here
and see the latter, and Baker also visited
Wilmington, N. C, where he met Col.
John Wilder Atkinson, who commanded
a regiment of Confederate artillery act
ing as infantry, at Sailor's Creek, Atkin
son's command being nearly all taken
prisoners after fighting hard and close.
Baker's health gave way and it was soon
seen that death was not far ahead. He
was gallant and courteous to the last ; a
pathetic figure, in a land far away from
his own, among men who had been his
enemies but weie now his friends. He
was attended always by his ever faithful
dog. One night this dog, which in his
last days was by his bedside, howled
most mournfully and when his friends
went in the dog had his own cheek laid
against that of the master whom he so
dearly loved. Such was the devotion of
the poor beast that he soon followed his
master.
A military funeral for Col. Baker was
arranged, and the services were held from
Christ Church, upon the casket being
laid the flags of his old country and his
new, England and the United States,
his pall-bearers being members of the
National Guard, and the Governor and
other state officers, United States regu
lars, National Guardsmen, Federal and
Confederate veterans attended, and the
body was borne to Oakwood Cemetery
upon a caisson and there the soldier of
two continents was laid in his final rest
in a grave beside that of the wife of Maj.
Cameron, in the latter's family burial
place. The troops fired the three vol
leys, the bugler blew taps and the Blue
and the Gray dropped a tear to the
memory of a friend, a gentleman and a
soldier. There today, on a gentle slope,
quite near the Confederate Cemetery and
almost under the shadow of a monument
to Brigadier General George Burgwyn
Anderson, Baker lies at rest, awaiting
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Professional Starters Neceasarj
As the game of golf increases in pop
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it is found necessary to adopt different
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that vicinity would be run off that way
this season.
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