Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-26
THE Rx-CONFEDRRATES.
Some OF the Leaders OF the Lost Cause
--Where they Are and What they are
Doing.

| "HHtEe tubg AEe duu WHAT llltg hIt
/ Doing.
Jake Thompson is living in mode
rate circumstances at Memphis.
Beauregard is superintendent OF
street railways, at New Orleans. with
good salary.
The sons Of Howell Cobb are farm
ing, and get along tolerably since the
death 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 law
yer in the town of Camden, s. c., and
makes a fair living.
Gen. d. 2. ROddy, who had a cav
airy brigade, is banker in New York,
in good circumstances.
Joe Johnston is thriving as lead
ing life insurance man at Savannah.
He is growing old with compOsure.
Gen. Kershaw, of South Carolina,
is a lawyer in the quiet town Of Cam
den, and is making a livelihood.
Gen. D. II. Hill keeps a school at
meantime edits periodical, published
once a month, called The Land We
Lore.
Gen. Dick Taylor is probably the
richest of the Confederate Generals,
and is engaged in banking and other
large operations in New Orleans, and
abetting Warmoth.
Governor Isham G.. Harris resides at
Memphis, where he would have a very
good worldly condition if he were not
annoyed by some old lawsuits grow
ing out of the war.
Gen. p. NJ. B. Young, a leading cav
airy officer in the rebel army, is
planter at Gainesville. Ga, in mode
rate circumstances, and he has Just
been reelected to Congress.
Gen. Albert Pike, brigadier from
Arkansas, is practicing law at Wash
ington city with ex-senator johnson,
of Arkansas, and has just republished
his delicate poems.
Ben. Hill, ex-Confederate, is prae-
tieing law at Atlanta, and is said to
be the best lawyer in the State. He
was a Senator Of the Confederate Con-
gress, and had a personal collision
with Yaneey.
Joe Brown is fifty-five years old,
and is the Bismarck of Georgia. He
is pretty rish-is worth anywhere be-
tween 500, 900 and $4,000, ,OO0-and is
President of the Western and Atlanta
railroad.
Gen. Cheatham, having made an
unsuccessful run for Congress, against
Horace Maynard, has retired to pri-
Yate life, breathing seOrn upon An
drew Johnson, who divided the Dem
ocratic vote with him.
Ex-senator Robert NJ. T. Hunter
has poor farm on the Rappahannock
river. in the tide water part of Vir-
ginia, and is said to be dispirited, al
though his counsel is cheerful at all
times, and his intelligent mind 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 COmpa-
ny drew a check upon it for an un-
foreseen amount.
The family of William II. Yancey
resides on a farm near Montgomery,
<AAd.f anu hAC III A4O1NAAtC
stances. Yancey's tomb is a small af
fair. 1t is said that two of his sons
are in Brazil, whittier they emigrated
at the close of the war.
Gen. John c. Breckenridge lives in
Lexington, KY, and was given an
important place at one time by the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad He
shows good nature and quiet dispO-
sitiOn, but no great bounce in these
piping tines of peace.
Alexander n. Stevens lives near
CraYfordsville, Ga. in a small and
not very comfortable house, which he
dignlfies with the name of Liberty
Hall" He is charitable, and gives
away all the excess he makes after
providing for himself; and he writes
long and abstract books, showing how
nothing ought to be as it is, and what
might have been had something else
happened twelve years before.-Phit-
ddeLphid Free Press.