1964–65 Volume 89 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for MAY, 1965 341A lieutenant during the Mexican War, he re-enteredthe Army in 1861, was colonel ot the 24th Ohio Volunteersthat same year, and was a brigadier-general duringthe march into Alabama in 1862. He was in commandof various Army districts, 1863 to 1865. He wascited for "gallant conduct" at Pittsburgh Landing.ELI LONG (Indiana 1855)—General Long was alsoelected by Indiana Alpha as an honorary member; hismembership was carried as No. 24 on the Bond. Longbegan his engineering course at Kentucky Military Institute,and then attended Indiana, and became a cavalryofficer on a campaign against the Cheyenne Indians in1856-57. He was three times cited for valor during theCivil War, each time with a simultaneous promotion inrank, and was wounded three or four times, losing anarm in the Atlanta campaign. He retired from theregular army because of his wounds as a brevet-majorgeneral in 1867, and was accorded the permanent rankof brigadier-general in 1875. He was an instructor inmilitary science at Indiana University, 1868-69, graduatedin law at Cincinnati Law College, and became anattorney in New York City.CHARLES H. GROSVENOR (Ohio 1870)-In 1870,when admission of honorary members was still an occasionalmatter. Gen. Grosvenor, a citizen of Athens,Ohio, very close to the administration and student bodyand a participant in Ohio University activities, was invitedto join Ohio Gamma. Grosvenor, grandson ot acolonel on George Washington's staff, accepted, but wascalled away on the Commencement Week date that hadbeen chosen in 1870. Twenty-five years later, minutes otthe Ohio Gamma chapter were brought forward and theGeneral Council made a special ruling to permit Grosyenor'sdelayed initiation by the chapter in 1895 asNo. 4-A on the Bond.Grosvenor's Civil War record was one ot gallantry anddistinction and he was brevetted as brigadier general.Upon leaving the military service he entered Ohio politicsas a legislator. Republican congressman for repeatedterms, was several times a presidential elector, and managedWilliam McKinley's successful campaign as governorof Ohio which was the threshold ot McKinley's step tothe presidency.Besides the ten Phis ot general's rank who have beenmentioned, there were two Union Army officers fromIllinois Alpha: Henry M. Kidder (Northwestern 1859)and William Alexander Lord (Northwestem 1860), whos'emilitary activity in the Civil War brought references totheir brevetting as brigadier generals at the close of thewar.Lord is so mentioned in the Fraternity's Catalog of1926. The Catalog ot 1883 says ot H. M. Kidder: "Armyprivate to lieutenant-colonel, 5th U.S. Cavalry, 1861-66.Brevet brigadier general in charge ot district from Ohioto Kentucky River, 1865." Other references indicate thiswas a courtesy rank and a temporary one, with Kidder'smustering out status as that of colonel.Generals on the Confederate SideALEXANDER P. STEWART, carried on Ohio Alpharolls through 1883 on the strength ot information in theMiami chapter's original minutes regarding RobertMorrison's commission to offer him membership whileStewart was a young faculty man at Cumberland University.Morrison reported Stewart's reading of the Bondand his acceptance of its principles and membership inthe Fraternity, but the chapter at Cumberland was notconsummated. Stewart's name was put back on the$ A e membership list of the past, in an action in 1959.He was a West Pointer, class of 1842, who taughtmathematics and military science at Cumberland, enlistedin the "protective" state army ot his native Tennesseewhen the Civil War began, and thus entered the Confederacy.Stewart rose to lieutenant general and was oneot the artillery specialists of the Southern armies, servingin their corps directly under Gens. Leonidas Polk,Albert Sidney Johnston, John B. Hood, and Joseph E.Johnston. After the Civil War he spent twelve years,1874 to 1886, as chancellor of University of Mississippi,and engaged in some helpful correspondence preliminaryto establishment of Mississippi Alpha at Oxford, Miss.,in 1877, although there is no record of his participationin * A 9 affairs at that time on the strength ot his tieswith Robert Morrison 24 years before.FRANCIS A. SHOUP (Sewanee 1855), initiated as No.27 on the Bond at Univ. of the South as a faculty memberin 1884. Enlisting in Southern Army as lieutenantin 1861, Gen. Shoup was senior artillery officer underGen. A. S. Johnston at Shiloh and subsequently servedas artillery commander with Gen. Joe Johnston and aschief ot staff to Lt. Gen. J. B. Hood. He became anEpiscopal churchman, a doctor of divinity and an educatorafter the war, took divinity instruction as a studentwhile also an instructor at Sewanee, and became anactive sharer in the chapter's programs.WILLIAM MONTAGUE BROWN, Univ. of Georgiafaculty member who became No. 9 on the Georgia AlphaBond after one of the most distinguished careers in theSouth. Born abroad and originally winner ot a degree atUniv. ot Dublin in 1843, he was an educator in Georgiabefore the Civil War, became assistant Secretary of Statetor the Confederate States, was a colonel and aide-decampto Jefferson Davis, and commanded a brigade asbrigadier general in W. J. Hardee's Corps, 1864-65. Afterthe war he returned to the Univ. of Georgia faculty, wasvoted into Georgia Alpha following its founding in 1871,and was mourned by the chapter at Athens and in thecolumns of THE SCROLL upon his death in 1883.JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE (Centre—Honorary)—Thisfighting vice-president ot the United States, 1857-61, andlosing Southem Democratic candidate tor the presidencyin 1860, was evidently voted into honorary membershipin Kentucky Alpha at some time around 1859-60, butthere are no minutes ot the Centre chapter now extantto provide details, which consist chiefly ot later referencesto such action having been taken.Breckinridge was one ot the great men of the South,fighting first in the Mexican War and returning to acareer in the Kentucky state legislature. In the turmoilpreceding the Civil War he declared he did not advocatesecession, and was chosen to the U.S. Senate from Kentuckyat the same time his bid for the presidency failed.As senator, he opposed Lincoln's policies, and when thewar came, chose the Southern side, becoming first a brigadiergeneral in the 1st Kentucky Brigade, and then a majorgeneral in 1862. He commanded the left wing alChiekamauga, fought at Stone River, Lookout Mountairand Missionary Ridge; then was shitted to the pivotalbatUefields in Virginia where he was the same kind olinspiring leader.Breckinridge served as Confederate Secretary of Waiin 1865, and when the surrender came, he was moresuccessful in getting away than his chief, Jefferson Davis,making his way to Cuba and then to England. He returnedin 1868 without molestation, refused all offers tcre-engage in public life, and was buried with a funera]encomium from U.S. Senator J. C. S. Blackburn (Centn1857), * A 9's great orator of his generation, and witla funeral report being published in THE SCROLL of March,1888. There were other allusions to Breckinridge's reported (honorary) membership in SCROLL issues of Juni1876, October 1883, October 1884, February 1893, and ir(Continued on page 343)