Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-06
THE EX.CONFEDERATES.
Some of the Leaders of the Lost Cause
What They Are and What They ar,
Doing.


Some of the Leaders of the Lost Cause--
What They Are and What They are
Doing.
Jake Thompson is living in moderate
circumstances at Memphis.
Beauregard is Superintendent of Street
Railways at New Orleans, with a good
salary. e =
The sons of Howell Cobb are farming,
and get along tolerably since the decease
of their father.
James Longstreet has public posi-
ton which suffices to maintain him and
his numerous family.
Clement G. Clay is buried at Hunts
vile, where his property was pretty
much torn up by Sherman
Ex-senator Chestnut is also lawyer
IN the town of Camden, S. c., and makes
a fair living.
Gen. P. d. Roddy, who had cavalry
brigade, is a banker in New York, in
good circumstances.
Joe Johnston is thriving as a lesding
life insurance man at Savannah. He is
growing old with composure.
Gen. KenshaV', of South Carolina, is
a lawyer in the quiet town of Camden,
and is making livelihood.
Gen. d. Fl. Hill keeps a school at the
town of Hillsborough, and meantime
edits a periodical, published once
month, called The Land We Love.
Gen. Dick Taylor is probably the rich
est Of the Confederate Generals, and is
engaged in banking and other large
operations in New Orleans, abetting
Warmoth
Gov. Isham G. Harris resides at Mem
phis, where he would have a very good
worldly condition if he were not annoyed
by some old lawsuits growing out of the
war.
Gen. P. NJ. B. Young, leading cav
airy officer in the rebel army, is a planter
at Gainesville, Ga, in moderate circum-
stances, and he has just been reelected
to Congress.
Gen. Albert Pike, a Brigadier from
Arkansas, is practcing law at Washing
ton city with ex-senator johnson, of
Arkansas, and has just republished his
delicate poems.
Ben Hill, Confederate, is practicing
law at Atlanta, and is said to be the best
lawyer in the State. He was a Senator
of the Confederate States, and had
personal collision with Yancey.
Joe Brown is So years old and is the
Bismarck of Georgia. He is pretty rich
is worth anywhere between 100000
and 50, 900, O00-and is President of the
Western and Atlanta railroad
Gen. Cheatham, having made an I'M
successful run for Congress against Hor-
ace Maynard, has retired to private life,
breathing scorn upon Andrew johnson,
who divided the Democratic vote with
him.
Ex-senator Robert M. 7. Hunter has
poor farm ON the Rappahannock river,
in the tide-water part of Virginia, and is
said to be dispirited, although his coun-
sci is cheerful at all times, and his intel
hgent retains its full vigor.
JEFF. Davis is President of the South
Carolina INSURANCE Company in Mem
phis, under the patronage of Mr.
Wick, whose bank recently went up
when the Southern Security Company
drew check upon it for an unforeseen
amount.
The family of William H. Yancey re-
sides on farm near Montgomery, Ala,
and are in only moderate circumstances.
Yanceys tomb is small affair. 1t is
said that two of his sons are in Brazil,
whittier they emigrated at the close of
the war
Gen. John G. Breckenridge lives in
Lexington, KY, and was given an i'm
portant place at one time by the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad. He shows
good nature and quiet disposition, but
no great bounce in these piping times of
peace.
Alexander Fl. Stephens lives near
Charlottesville, Ga, in small and not
very comfortable house, which he digni-
fies with the name of Liberty Hall. !"
He is charitable, and gives away all the
excess he makes after providing for him
self, and he writes long and abstract
books, showing how nothing ought to be
as it is, and what might have been the
case had something else happened twelve
years before.-Philadelohia Free Press.