The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-08
Retired Ex- -Confederates.

LOngstreet IS III comfortable position
at New Orleans
Jake Thompson is living in moderate
circumstances at Memphis.
Beaureguard is superintendent Of street
railways in New Orleansr
Joe johnson is thriving as a leading life
insurance man at Savannah.
JEFF Davis is president of the Carolina
Insurance Company at Memphis
Gen. Polly Robinson formerly of Hoods
division is planter in Texas.
Gen. Albert Pike, brigadier from Ar
kansas, is practicing law at Washington
City
Gen. Braxton Bragg lives at Mobile,
and Is superintendent Of street railways,
with fair salary
Col Garter, II the rebel army, is nov
acting with Pinchback, and like Long
street, has been on all sides.
Gen. kersaw, of South Carolina, is a
lawyer III the quite town If Camden, and
is making a livelihood.
Gen. Hood has been a cotton factor and
insurance agent al New Orleans, and
makes out but tolerably we'll.
Ex-senator Robert NJ I'll Hunter has A
farm Oh the Rappahanuock river IN the
Underwater part oi Virginia.
Gen Cheatham, having made an unsuc-
cessful run for Congress, against Horace
Maynard, has returned 70 private life.
Gen Harry Hayes, TX Colonel " the
Texas Rangers, has married lady Of
means, ANA has been once Sheriff w New
Orleans
Judah r. Benjamin has a good law
practice in London. England but his ch-
ents are nearly AL Americans from the
southern States.
Cen John Breckenridge lives At Lex
ngton. Ky, and was given an important
place at one time by the Chesapeake ana
Ohio railroad.
Herschel ". johnson. who ran On the
ticket with Stephen A. Douglass for the
Vice Presidency, IL a planter ia Jefferson
county, Georgia
Gen. ID. II. Hill keeps a school at the
town Of Hilsborough, and meantime edits
periodical published once month, called
The LD,d We lore.
Admiral Raphvl Semmes IL practising
law IN Mobile, and seems to be- IN good
circumstances, which leads gossiping folks
TO imagine that lac must have saved some
prze money.
Robert Tyler, ex-clerk Of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, and son III Presi-
dent Tyler, is the editor of the Adrertiser,
the Democratic State organ At Montgum-
cry, Ala.
Fen Hill, e1-coufederate, il practicing
law at Atlanta, and is sand to be the best
lawyer III the State He was a Senator of
the Confederate States and had personal
collision with Yancey.
Enrresr tho trraat ray-o ~ man anI av
negro trader, has been a railroad president
and livery stable keeper at Memphis, and
sometimes appears to be doing tolerably,
thank you.
Gen. Pickett, who obtained S7J, 900 for
the smallpox documents which were pur-
chased by the war department during the
last political campaign, huctuates between
Washington and Canada.
Alexander II. Stephens lives near Craw-
fUrdsvIlle, Georgia, i'll small and not very
comfortable house, which he digniiies with
the name VI Liberty Hall His forte
Is editorials Of liberal linear dimensions
Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, commander
Of Nheelers celebrated Confederate clval-
ry, and West Pointer has married a rich
lady III Northern Alabama, and lives at
his ease, unwilling to call King George his
uncle
Gen. Wm. Malone il at Lynchburg. Va /:
is President Of the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad, and endeavuring to
save it from the Jaws Of Tom Scott. who
has hanked him BY the Danville road, and
muoted connections of the same
Joe Brown is ifty-tive years If age. and
is the Bismarck Of Georgia lie is pretty
rich-is worth anywhere between 500,
0OO and $500. 900 and is President of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad His State
road connection IS thought ~ bc the
strongest III the South, and Simon Gamer
on Is said To We interested in it
Gen. Sibley, the inventor ~ the Sibley
tent, and the opponent ~ Candy % the
plains az New Mexico, during the rebel
/ lion. j. nov a hrIgadIer general under the
khediye of Egypt, in company with his
son, who is also an officer, and with Gen
erals Rhett, Stone Mott, and others
These officers ret about -, ,OUO a year
/ Positions all filled