Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . eldest son died childless. Harold, the second,lives in Baltimore, being askilled and popular mu-sician and composer andlong the musical directorof the Peabody. The eldestdaughter, Clare, marriedThomas, son of MajorStuart Symington, andthey have two children,Thomas and are the only directdescendants of the other daughter, MissMaude Randolph, is un-married and lives with hermother in Baltimore. Very lately a story has gone the rounds of the press, whicha la Buttercup, has mixed them children up. It statedthat General Felix Agnus
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . eldest son died childless. Harold, the second,lives in Baltimore, being askilled and popular mu-sician and composer andlong the musical directorof the Peabody. The eldestdaughter, Clare, marriedThomas, son of MajorStuart Symington, andthey have two children,Thomas and are the only directdescendants of the other daughter, MissMaude Randolph, is un-married and lives with hermother in Baltimore. Very lately a story has gone the rounds of the press, whicha la Buttercup, has mixed them children up. It statedthat General Felix Agnus, of the Baltimore American, whena dashing captain of volunteers, was desperately wounded inthe Seven Days battles before Richmond. Waking from hisfaint, he felt something heavy lying on him, which proved tobe a badly wounded Confederate, moaning for water. Agnusrecalled a canteen of cold coffee, reached for it and handedit to the man on him. The latter drank thirstily, sighed andreturned it with the words: Thank you, Yank—damn you!. CAPTAIN INNES EANDOLPH 260 BELVES, BEAUX AND BEAWS OE THE SIXTIES Years later, the story goes, General Agnus was telling thefacts at a press convention in Philadelphia, when a fine look-ing delegate stepped fonvard and said he was the Confederateand his name was Major Innes Randolph. The story is agood one; would be great, indeed, were it correct. In truth,Innes Randolph was never a major, never was on Jacksonsstaff and never was wounded before Richmond. He was acaptain on engineer duty under Stuart. John Randolphwas in the battles of the Seven Days, and was badly woundedin the thigh at Cold Harbor, though no one recalls his havingrelated the story, which such a joker would have done inconvalescence or later. In a late letter to me. General Agnus vouches for the factsof the story, but Innes Randolphs family confirm my viewthat it must have been John Randolph, his next brother, asthe latter only was shot before Richmond. Further con-firmation of t
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