The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-02-15
Whereabouts Of Prominent Con-
federateS.

Whereabouts Of Prominent Con-
fedeIates.
Jake Thompson i'd living in moder-
ate circumstances at Memphis.
Clement G. Clay is buried at Hunts
vile, where his property was pretty
much torn up by Sherman.
Beauregard is superintendent of
street railways at New Orleans, with
good salary.
Joe johnson is thriving as a leading
life insurance man at Savannah. He
is growing old with cemposure.
Gen. Kersaw of South Carolina is
a lawyer in the quiet town of Camden,
and is making a livelihood.
Ex-Governor Chestnutis also law
yer in the town Of Camden, South
Carolina, and makes fair living.
General P. D. Roddy, who had a
cavalry brigade; is q banker in New
York, i'll good circumstances.
James Longstreet has a public posi-
ton whichsuffices to maintain him and
his numerous family.
The sons of Howell Cobb are farm
ing, and get along tolerably, since the
decease OF their father. @ s
Governor Isham G.. Harris resides
at Memphis, where he would have good
worldly condition were he not annoyed
by some old lawsuits growing out of
the war.
General P. NJ. B. Young, leading.
cavalry officer in the rebel army, is u
planter at Gainesville, Georgia, in
moderate circumstances, and he has
just been elected to Congress.
General Albert Pike Il brigadier
from Arkansas, is pracsicing law at
Washington City, with ex-senator
johnson of Arkansas, and has just
republished his delicate poems.
General Dick Taylor is probably
the richest of the Confederate Gen
erals, and is engaged in banking and
other large operations in New Orleans,
abetting Warmotb.
General d. H. Hill keeps school
at the town Of Hillsborongh, and in
the meantime edits q periodical, pub
lished once month.
Joe Brown is fifty-five ysars old and.
is the Bismarck of Georgia. He is
pretty rich-is worth anywhere be-
tween $780, 900 and 81, ,OOO, ,OO0-and is,
President of the Western and Atlanta
Railroad.
Ben. Hill, ex-Confederate, is ,prac-
ticing law at Atlanta, and Is said to be
the best lawyer in the Stats. He was
IL Senator of the Confederate States,
and had a personal collision.with Yan--
cey.
Ex-senator r. NJ. 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 tilnss and his
intellect retains it's full vigos.
General Cheatham, having made an
unsuccessful run for Congress, against
Horace Maynard, hasretired to private
life, breathing scorn upon Andrew
johnson, who divided the Democratic
vote with him.
General John C. Breckenridge lives
at Lexington, Kentucky, AID was
given All important place at one time
by the Chesa beake and Ohio RailroadL
He shows good nature and qusst dis
position, but no great bounce iDthese
piping times of peace.
The family of. William II. Yancey
resides on a farm near Montgomery
Alabama, and are in only moderate
circumstances. Yancey's tomb il u
small affair. 1t is said that two Of his
sons are in Brazil, whittier they erai-
grated 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 whels
the Southern Security Company drew
a check upon it for an unforeseen
amount.
Alexander H. Stephens lives near
Charlottesville, Ga, in u small and
not very comfortable house, which he
dignities by the name Of Liberty
HAIL. He is charitable, and gives
away all the excess he makes after
providing for himself, and he writes
long abstract books, showing that
nothing ought to be as it IS aud what
might have been the case had some-
thing else happened twelve years be-
fore.