Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
EwELL.
Death Of a Great Confederate
Commander.
ParticslarE OF his Illness and Last
Hours.
No EcFd Rejecting Puon the Cow
ernmeIf to be engraved on his
Tomb.
His vIiitary Career Under Both
Flags.

were deeply pained, though not sur
/ prised, to hear that Lieutenant Gen
eral II. 5. Ewell had brcathed his
last early yesterday morning, at his
residenee near Spring Hili, Maury
CcuntT The intelligence which
had bes Received during the previ-
Gus - 81 thIeet etdays, a. To his con-
ditiOu, nd pre- th-red us all TO expect
the worst. Following close. upon
the decease of his wife, the sad
event created feeling Of depression
which was visible on every cOunte-
nance.
General Ewell was sick only fif-
teen DAYS. On the sixth day of his
illness he had grown to he much
better, and was in such good spirits,
that he desired the windows of his
room to be raised for the admission
of the cool, invigsrating air But
the effect was too severe for his
weakened system, and he sank into
a relapse and never rallied. For the
eight or nine days which followed
he was alternately better or worse
hanging all the time between life
and death. His noble, warm-heart-
ed wife, who had anXiously and Wig
ilantly watched beside his sick bed,
through WEAKNESS and want of rest
succumbed TO the same fatal disease.
Though no one had announced to
him her death, he said that he guess
ed the terrible truth, because he saw
that a pail had fallen upon the
house." His senses had become so
keenly susceptible to every thing
transpiring around him that even
the thoughts of his attendants SEEM
ed laid bare to his perception.
After he had made his win and
other arrangements for the DISPOSE
ton of his property, and after he
had been informed that his race was
almost run, he remarked, with the
calm simplicity characteristic of
him, al don't want any monument
raised over me; only a plain head
stone and foOt-stOne, like those over
the graves of my father and mother
in Virginia. My rank while in the
Confederate service might De in
scribed upon one of the stones, but
I wish nothing in the inscription
which will cast any reflection upon
the Government of the United
States"
il of wearing a pair OF blue infantry
pantaloons, which he had purchased
subsequent to the war. Upon one
occasion, not long before his death,
and when he could speak only with
the greatest difficulty, he said of
them, "after all my fighting against
the United States so long, it is
strange that an old pair of infantry
pantaloons should Kill me at last"
He attributed his death to having
put them on during the cold wealth
er after having worn much thicker
pair.
AS to his funeral, he said that he
wanted no display, no pomp, no pa
rsEie over his remains, but simply
wished that his comrades and friends
if they desired, might show their
respect in a plain and unostenta-
tious way.
When the corpse of his wife,
shrouded and in the coffin, was ta-
ken into his room, just previous to
their being sent to Nashville, We'd
nesday morning, he was raised up
from his pillow that he might look
upon her face for the last time. He
was too weak to show any emotion,
but whispered q wish that her fune-
raj might be delayed, so that both
might take place at the same time
and both be laid in the same grave.
" They were beautiful in their lives
and in death they were not divided" !"
Last Wednesday night respiration
became so difficult-that General Ew-
ell could not speak That evening,
as well as during three or four days
previous, very few of his friends
/ were admitted to his chamber, as it
was absolutely necessary that he
should not be disturbed. Though
/ denied the power of speech, he re-
/ tanned his mental faculties until the
! last, and indicated his wants by
signs. He died at half-past two
/ O'Clock yesterday morning, calmly,
peacefully, without a single strug-
| gle. His countenance wore a look
OF placid resignation, and was more
life-like in expression after than a
short time before his death.
Col. Thos. Claiborne, who was
one of General Ewell's most inti-
mate friends, telegraphed yesterday
to General B. f. Cheatham, whom
General EWell held in the highest es-
TEEN, to come Immediately to Nash
vile to attend the funeral, as he was
one of the pall-bearers.
The following gentlemen have
i-Oeen requested to act as bail-bear-
ers:
Col. Thomas Claiborne, and Gems
John c. Brown, VIM. II. Jackson
5. II. Anderson, w. B. Bate. Geo
Nancy, B. F. Cheatham, Bushrod
johnson, +. Kirby Smith, aud Bev.
erly II. Robertson. -r
The funeral services will take
place at Christ Church at 1880 A. NJ
to-day, and will be conducted BY
Bishop Quintard and the Rector o.
that church, Rev. VIM. Graham.
General EwelPs remains viii bt
inferred in the City Cemetery, by
the side of the wife whom he loved
4 so well.
1t was at Richmond, during the
latter part of the war, that the union
between General Ewell and Mrs
LaZinka Brown, daughter of the late
Judge Campbell, one of Tennessee:
most distinguished public men, wa:
cOnsumated. The marriage proved
an eminently happy one. Immedi
ately after his release from prison
they came to Tennessee. He found
ample and congenial occupation in
experimenting the farm near Spring
Hill upon which they resided. Hi
neighbors often remarked that hC
was not less successful as a stock
raiser than as a General. No mar
in Tennessee ever exhibited more
interest in improving the breeds O.
cattle and sheep.
Lieutenant General Richard Stod
dard Ewell was the son ofDr. Thos
EweH, OF Prince William county
Virginia, and was born in that coun
ty in the year 1916. In 1886 he en-
tered the Military Academy of Wes'
Point, graduated the 3Oth of June
/ 1910, and was appointed brevet sec
ond lieutenant in the FIRST Dragons
He was made a first lieutenant the
10th of September, 1S45, and viii
that rank went into the Mexican
war, serving in Colonel Mason:
First Dragons. His promotion al
captain was won in the field bv gal
liant and meTitorious conduct at Con
treras and Cherubusco, and h- par
ticipated in all the actions OF scott:
line
" u4ic On uutl III new Me3lcO, II
June, 1857, he greatly distinguished
himself against the Indians, and il
the following year commanded the
troops that garrisoned Fort Buchan
an, in that Territory That his ser,
vices were highly appreciated BY the
Government, is shown by the fac
that he was kept on the frontier fol
thirteen successive years.
When mis- native State seceeded
Captain Ewell was stationed at Tue
sou, IN Arizona. He at once resign,
ed his commission and hastened
home. The first time, we believe