. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. Girard, of the medical depart-ment are both officers who have faced the perils of plagues as wellas shot and shell on foreign fields in Cuban and Philippinecampaigns and served efficiently in averting and lessening 160 Co:mbats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes disease in the Texan territory. They both should be given,but may not get stars at or prior to retirement. The present commander at San Antonio, Albert Myer,is a brigadier who has had an eventful career. He was a success-ful Indian fighter and captured the infamous savages Santantaand Big Tree
. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. Girard, of the medical depart-ment are both officers who have faced the perils of plagues as wellas shot and shell on foreign fields in Cuban and Philippinecampaigns and served efficiently in averting and lessening 160 Co:mbats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes disease in the Texan territory. They both should be given,but may not get stars at or prior to retirement. The present commander at San Antonio, Albert Myer,is a brigadier who has had an eventful career. He was a success-ful Indian fighter and captured the infamous savages Santantaand Big Tree not far from the Concho and delivered theiTiover to merited punishment. General Myer was also presenttogether with General U. S. Grant, General Tecumseh Sherman,General Dodge and other distuinguished characters at thecompletion of the Union Pacific Railway. Since his adventto Texas and his command of this department he has success-fully directed its affairs. During his regime many of theimprovements have been made and numerous structures. MISS ADINA DE ZAVALA. erected at the new post. He has had charge of and personallyconducted the maneuvers at the new grounds at Leon Springs,that have been instructive alike to the regular and volunteersoldiers. But while brave soldiers have battled around and aboutSan Antonio, poets, scholars, statesmen and jurists have dwelt,sung, studied and compiled, literary, legal and statecraft gemsand scattered them about the globe. Of the poets first to be named is Sydney Lanier, who;swanlike sang his dying song there. Mollie E. Moore Davis, whowas born on the bank of the San Marcos river, dwelt and wrotesome of her sweetest songs and gave forth her best lyrics fromSan Antonio. vShe died in my old home. New Orleans, not Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes 161 long since. Augusta Evans lived and wrote her first novelto bring her fame when in San Antonio. This was Inez, or theChild of the Alamo. Her sister, Mrs. Leo Tarleton, herselfa writer and a
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