Medical Director Foard, serving there with General Bragg, was absent at the time. His attention being, on his return, called to Private Hawthorne's case, he was so pleased with the evidences of the skill of the operator that he at once applied to the Surgeon General to commission private Hawthorne full surgeon. This request was complied with at once. Surgeon Hawthorne's skill, devotion to duty in every stage of his official career, was ever conspicuous. In having private Hawthorne commissioned, Medical Director Foard demonstrated his disinterestedness and capacity to justly judge of and decide upon the merits of medical men, even if strangers to him. These characteristics earned for him the reputation of being an efficient and successful medical director, and won for him the admiration and love of all who served under his direction.

Surgeon Hawthorne served in the hospitals in the rear of Shiloh, and went with Dr. Foard on Bragg's campaign into Kentucky. He was at the battle of Perryville, and was left with others after that battle to care for the wounded. On his return within the Confederate lines he was ordered August 23d, 1862, to report to Dr. Stout, then Superintendent of Hospitals of the District of Tennessee, and by him assigned to the charge of she Academy Hospital. This charge he retained to the final surrender.

The following is copied from my official records :

"Surgeon Frank Hawthorne is ordered to report to Dr. Stout September 14th, 1863, and assigned to the charge of the Academy Hospital, Chattanooga. Ordered to Marietta, Ga., September 1st, 1863, with the organization, officers, stewards, nurses, matrons and property of the Academy Hospital, where it was reopened and made ready for patients September 1st, 1863, prior to the battle of Chickamauga. The exigencies of the service requiring it, the hospital was removed, its organization unbroken, successively to Atlanta, and to Auburn, Ala. It was en route to Tennessee in the rear of Hood's army. The defeat of that army at Nashville necessitated the return and reopening of the hospital at Auburn, Ala. The officers, employes and property of the hospital organizations ordered by the Surgeon General to report to him at Charlotte, N. C., among which was the Academy Hospital, was surrendered to General Wilson at Atlanta in May, 1863.

Surgeon Hawthorne at the surrender was under treatment in Southeastern Georgia. His arduous and continuous labors caused a general breakdown of his system. A letter addressed to me while he was under treatment in hospital, is full of patriotic expressions of regret, chiefly because of his inability to perform his duty as an officer.

But this number of the "Narrative" has now reached a greater in length than that usually allotted.

[N. B.-Ere this number appears in print, I will have removed from Dallas and settled in Clarendon, Donly County, Texas, I hope permanently. After the 18th of June, correspondents are requested to address me at my proposed new home.-S. H. S.]

OUR REUNION.*

BY D. H. KEY, M.D., OF MONROE, LA.,

First Vice-President of the Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy.

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Comrades:

The purposes of the cause represented by the delegates assembled on this occasion is not to perpetuate sectional animosity, or political strife. It is to "render unto Cæsar things that are Cæsar's;" to keep alive in the great heart of the South the reverence due the brave defenders of a loved and lost cause; to keep in all the years to come the fires of patriotism brightly burning on the Southern hearthstone. In the response to the late call To Arms' issued by our honored President, William McKinley, the question of North or South was unknown, the response came alike from the great lakes on the North to the Gulf of Mexico on the South, from the rugged coast of the Atlantic to the peaceful slopes of the Pacific. The Maine went down. America was aggrieved, between the North and South

* Delivered at the Anuual Meeting at New Orleans, May 21, 1903.

the hatchet buried, and smoke curled from the pipe of peace.'

"Beneath Cuban skies they both did meet,

The boys of Blue and Gray,
Together on a field of blood,

They fought and won the day."

It was not the rash impetuosity peculiar to Southern manhood that called from the peaceful abode of home and companionship of loved one's Confederate soldiers. It was the love of State sovereignty, a sentiment that arouses to its deepest intensity the soul of every free-born American. Under the Stars and Stripes the purpose to change the conditions of those of might to those of right, that with the trophied drapery of our national banner might be wreathed the emblem of State's rights, that in all of the essential relations and moral obligations between nation and State, the sovereignty of each might be sustained in perfect harmony with the supremacy of the whole, failed, and the idea evolved separation.

Though nearly forty years have passed away, with the changes that the years ever bring as they come and go, the talismanic influence of the vows of allegiance to the Stars and Bars are a felt influence in the life of to-day, keeping us true and loyal in allegiance to the brave defenders of Southern homes. To-day "Dixie" and the "Bonnie Blue Flag" awaken mem. ories that have slumbered long, and Southern manhood is loved and honored more, through the holy influence of hallowed memories.

Fully indorsing the sentiment of an honored statesman, that intelligent patriotism is as necessary to the enduring strength of the body politic as the free circulation of blood to the natural body; we would, through the young of to-day, transmit to future generationз a just appreciation of the sacrifice made by Southern soldiers, that their heroic daring and unselfish devotion may not be lost in the sad buried past, but live in the hearts of this people till time is over, and worlds have passed away, though the arm that wielded the munitions of war is pulseless, and the voice that sounded the rebel yell is still in death. Not as 'man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, this is my own my native land,' should our heroes brave 'go down to the dust from whence they sprung, unwept, unhonored and unsung.'

We should sing their praises down the corridor of time, where valor marches, where heroes and martyrs are enshrined. We would teach our young that the South has her Leonidas and Miltiades, her Marathon and Thermopyla, that the tide of triumph rolls back upon them, that in honoring their lost heroes the mantle may fall upon them.'

In the development of heroic character, there is not a more potent factor than the example of heroic daring and unselfish devotion found in the military career of such noble manhood as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Corsica gave to the world a Napoleon Bonaparte, the South a Stonewall Jackson, one with whom humanity was not swallowed up in man, one who died as he had lived, his last words not those of the military despot Tete d'arme,' but of the Christian gentleman :-'Let us pass over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.' The faith inspired by the life of such exalted characters, develops the noblest impulse of the subordinate, the impulse that it is not to make reply, it is not to reason why, it is but to do or die,' when the command is given.

A true history of the civil war tells that the South has given to the world soldiers unsurpassed as champions of a noble cause. Without faltering they bore hardships unsurpassed in the record of war, and by prodigies of valor defeated forces numerically superior, and when the smoke of battle had cleared away they stood outnumbered, but unconquered.

The bravest scene of the war was enacted at its close, when Southern soldiers worn and weary from the over exactions of soldiers' life, with physical beings shattered and financial resources bankrupt, stacked their arms to the tune of 'Dixie,' and bravely took up the dropped threads in the warp of life, as they turned their faces toward homes dismantled, bereft of all that makes home desirable, save the true and loyal-hearted women who bravely kept the watch fires burning awaiting their return. Though one day's setting sun shone on our banner furled, on the soldier cheek was seen that glow humbled; not by defeat, but as on the grave of buried hopes our battle-scarred heroes wept.

Editorial.

MEDICAL ORGANIZATION.

The good resulting from medical organization cannot be over esti. mated. The method of organization adopted by the American Medical Association can hardly be improved. This plan makes the County Medical Society the unit not only of the State Association, but of the American Medical Association as well. No physician can become a member of either the State Association or the American Medical Association without first becoming a member of the County Society. This gives an importance and dignity to the county organizations that never before attached. Medical matters pertaining both to medical legislation and scientific advancement are unquestionably greatly advanced under the new order of things. That there should be a State organization in every State will not be controverted by any one. Since there cannot be a State organization without County organizations, it is self-evident that no county should be without its medical society. The physicians of all the counties should be so anxious to fall in line as not to wait for a medical organizer to be sent either by the American Medical Association or by the State Association, but they should get together at the earliest possible moment, and adopt the model Constitution for County Societies. Copies of this constitution can be furnished the profession of any county in Tennessee on application to Dr. G. C. Savage, Chairman of the Committee on County Societies; or to either of the following members of the committee: Dr. D. E. Nelson, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Dr. S. R. Miller, Knoxville, Tenn.; Dr. G. M. Bazemore, Cleveland, Tenn.; Dr. C. J. Broyles, Johnson City, Tenn.; Dr. O. J. Porter, Columbia, Tenn.; Dr. O. A. Eskew, Lebanon, Tenn.; Dr. E. W. Ridings, Dixon, Tenn.; Dr. J. H. McSwain, Paris, Tenn.; Dr. E. C. Ellett, Memphis, Tenn.; Dr. Carl Finch, Dresden, Tenn. The physicians of any county desiring the personal aid of a member of this committee most conveniently located, should feel free to call on such member to come over and help them. Let every physician in every unorganized county feel that he will be personally responsible for the presence or absence of the County Society, and let him induce others to join him in effecting the organization, The State Association should have 1,800 members by the time of the Chattanooga meeting in 1904. That this may be attained, new organizations must be effected, and those now in existence must add largely to their membership.