Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-22
What the ExRebeIs are Doing.

Jake Thompson Is living in moder-
ate circumstances at Memphis.
Clement c. Clay is buried at Hunts.
vile, where his property was pretty
much torn up by Sherman.
Beaureguard is superintendent of
street raiIw avs at New Orleans, with a
good salary.
Joe Johnston is thriving as leading
life insurance maa at Savannah. He
is growing old with composure.
General Kershaw, of South Carolina
is lawyer in the quiet town of Camden
and is making livelihood.
Elk. Senator Chestnut is also a law
yer in the town of Camden, South Car
DINA, and makes fair living.
General P. D. Roddy, who had a
calvalry brigade, is a banker in New
York, in good circumstances.
james Longstreet has public posi-
ton which sufices to maintain him and
his numerous family.
Tie sons Of Howell Cobb are farm.
ing, and get along tolerably since the
decease of their father.
Governor Isham G.. Harris resides
at Memphis, where he would have a
very good worldly condition if he were
not annoyed by some lawsuits growing
out of the war.
General P. NJ. B: Young, leading
cavalry officer in the rebel army, is a
planter at Gainesville. Ca, in moderate
circumstances, and has Just been elect
ed to Congress.
General Albert Pike, a brigadier
from Arkansas, is practicing law at
Washington city. with ex-senator
johnson, of Arkansas, and has just
published his delicate poems.
General Dick Taylor is probably the
richest of the confederate Generals,
and is engaged in banking aud other
large operations in New Orleans, abet-
ting Yarmouth.
General D. Fl. Hill keeps school
at the town of Hillsborough, and
meantime edits periodical, published
once q month, called the Land we
Love.
Joe Brown is IS years old and is the
Bismarck of Georgia. He is pretty
rich is worth anywhere between
100000 and 2,000,OOO-and is presi
dent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad.
Ben Hill, Confederate, is practic-
ing law at Atlanta, and is said to be
the best lawyer in the state. He was
a Senator Of the Confederate States
aud had personal collision with Yam
cey.
Ex-senator Robert M. T. Hunter
has a poor farm on the Rappahanock
River in::the tidewater part Of Virginia
and is said to be dispirited. although
his counsel is cheerful at all times, and
his intellect retains its full vlgor
General Cheatham, having made an
unsuccessful run for Congress against
Horace Maynard, has retired to private
life, breathing scorn upon Andrew
johnson, who divided the Democratic
vote with him
General John G. Breckenridge lives
at Lexington, Kentucky 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 times of peace.
The family of William Fl. Yancey
resides near Montgomery, Ala, and
are in only moderate circumstances.
Yancy's tomb is small affair. 1t i:
said that two of his sons are in Brazil
whittier they emigrated at the close of
the war;
JEFF. Davis is president of the Caro-
lima Insurance Company at Memphis
under the Patronage of Mr.. Wick,
whose bank recently went up when the
Southern Security company drew {
check upon it for and unforeseen
amount.
Alexander H. Stephens lives neal
Charlottesville, Ca, IN small anc
not very comfortable house, which hi
dignifes with the name OF Liberty
Hall" He is charitable and gives
away all the excess he makes aftel
providing for himself, and he writes
| long and distracted books showing how
nothing ought to be as it is, and wha
might have been the case had some
thing else happened twelve years be
fore.