The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-06-19
What the EX-COnfederates are
Doing.

Jeff Thompson is living in moderate
circumstances at Memphis.
Beauregard is Superintendent OF
railway at New Orleans, with q good
salary, ~.
Joe johnson is thriving as a lead
inc life insurance man at Savannah.
lie is grwoing old with co mposure.
Gen, Kershaw of South Carolina is
a lawyer in the quiet town Of Camden,
and is making q livelihood.
Ex-senator Chesnut Is also a lawyer
in the town of Camden, South Carroll
ma, and making @ fair living.
Gen, ID. p. Roddy, who had a cav
airy brigade, isl banker in n. Y, in
good circumstances, Now in England,
James Longstreet has Radical po-
sition, which sufices to maintain him
and his numerous family in New Or
leans.
The sons of Howell Cobb are farm
ing, and and are getting along tolerably
since the decease of their father.
Governor Isham G, Harris is living
at Memphis where he would oe in a
very good worldly condition, if he
were not annoyed by some old law
suits, growing out OF the war.
Gen. p. NJ. b. Young, a leading
cavalry officer in the confederate army,
is q printer at Gainesville, Ga, in
moderate circumstances, and he has
just been re. elected to Congress.
Gen. d. II. Hill keeps q school at the
town Of Hillsboro, N. c., and mean.
time edits q periodical, published once
q month, called The Land we Love.
Joe Brown is IS years old. and is
the Bismarck of Georgia. He is pref
ty rich-is worth anywhere between
100000 and $4,000, 000--and is Pres
ident of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad.
Gen. Dick Taylor is probably the
richest of the Confederate Generals
and is engaged in banking, and Other
large operations, in New Orleans, abet.
ting Warmoth.
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 a
check upon it for an unforeseen amount
Ben Hill, Ex-Confederate, is prac.
ticing law in Atlanta, and is said TO BIZ
the best lawyer in the State. He wa:
q Senator of the Confederate States,
and had a personal collision with Yam.
cy.
Ex-senator Robert M. T. Huntc
has a poor farm on the R%appahannocl
river, in the tidewater part of Virginia
and IS said to be displrited, although
his counsel is cheerful at all times ant
his intellect retains its full vigor.
Gen. John c. Breckenridge lives a
Lexington KY, and was given an i'm
portant place, at n time, by tn
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. II
shows u good nature and q quiet dis
position, but no great bounce in thes
piping times of peace.
The family of VIM. L. Yancy resid
on a farm near Montgomery Ala.
and are in only moderate circum
stances. Yansey's tomb is Il small al
fair. 1t is said that two of his son
have returned from Brazil, whittier the,
emigrated at the close of the
Samuel Cooper, Confederate Adju
tant General, is living in great power
ty on q little farm in Virginia. II
makes his daily bread by the sweat o
his brow-labors hard az the plo,
handle tor the support Of himself ant
wife. He was born in New York, an
resigned the highest position in tn,
United States Army to join the Con
fcderacy. Is now a very old man
The Southern people should aid him
in gratitude tor the sacrifices he ha
made.