Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-27
CATER BULL RUM
Whataboufs and Whereabouts OF the
Heroes of Manassas.

From the New York Post, July a.
Nine wears ago to-day was fought the
battle Of Bull Run, and in recalling the
fact and the great changes that have
since occurred in the condition OF the
country. Il IS singular 10 note that OF all
the conspicuous men on both sides who
figured on that field but two or three that
survived it now take any part IN public
affairs.
General Irwin Mcdowell, who com
manded the Union forces, remains still
in the army of the United States. Gen.
Sherman, who led brigade of Iylers
division, is Commander-in-Chiefa at Wash
ington: and General Burnside, who in
the earlier part Of the engagement was
in the van, is now Governor of Rhode
Island. aa
General Tyler, commander of the first
division, whose baptismal name, strange
ly enough, is given as Daniel by one
historian Of the war, and as Robert o.
by another, lives in Connecticut, in the
prosecution of private business enter
prises.
Gen David Hunter, who commanded
the second division, and who never sus-
tanned himself more CALAMITY than on
that day, lives in retirement in Wash
ington.
Gen S. p. Heintzelman, the third d.
vision commander, after forty-four years
service, is president of New York in
surance company, and lives at Engle-
wood in New Jersey.
Eu.o-o1 TIo,l,.n Duuro. aO..r,avd =
ing the fourth division, is out Of service,
and lives in Newark
Col d. S. Miles, who led the Fifth Di-
vision, it viii be recollected, underwent
the humiliation of surrendering Harper S
Ferry, and was killed upon the spot
OF General Sherman's comrades as
brigade commanders in Tyler's Division,
General Reyes is now Colonel in the
regular army, General Schenck is in
Congress, and Richardson was subse-
quently killed in battle
OF the brigade commanders of Heint-
zelman, General Franklin is now super
intendent of Colts rihe-works at Hart
ford, General Howard became the head
OF the Freedmen's Bureau, and General
Wilcox, after serving to the end Of the
war, and participating in the assault on
Petersburg, was killed, if we are not mis-
taken, in the recent distressing casualty
of the fall of the courtroom in the capi-
tol at Richmond.
General Patterson, of Pennsylvania,
from whom the rebel General Joseph f.
Johnston slipped away to join Beaure-
gard is prosperous cotton manufactur-
CT in his native State.
Generals Johnston and Beauregard, of
the rebel army, are now railroad presi-
dents, and Jefferson DAVIS, who rode
over the field after the battle had been
won, IS the president, not of a republic,
but Of an insurance company at Mem
phis. General ID. r. Jones. of South
Carolina, who bore a conspicuous part in
the fight, died of consumption during
the war in Richmond. General Ewell,
who afterwards lost a leg. is now
in private life, and Ionestreet
is Surveyor of Customs at New
Orleans. Wade Hampton is planting
cotton. Bee and johnson, Of South
Carolina, and Barlow, of Georgia (the
last named one of the best soldiers and
one Of the truest gentlemen ofthe South,
eminent at the bar and wise in councill.
we're killed on the field. Stonewan Jack
son and Jeb Stuart the strength Of the
Southern army IN the two arms Of the