Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-02-04
THE RECONSTRUCTED.
What the Prominent Bx Rebels are Bsins


Jake Thompson is living in mod
crate circumstances at Memphis.
Clement c. Clay is buried at
Huntsville 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 lead
ing insurance man at Savannah. He
is growing old with composure.
General Kersbaw, of South Caro-.
lima, is lawyer in the quiet town of
Camden, and is making a livelihood.
Elk Senator Chestnutis also law
yer in the town of Camden, South
Carolina and making a fair living.
General p ID Roddy, who had
cavalry brigade, is banker in New
York, in good circumstances.
James Longstreet has public po-
siton which sutfices 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.
Governor Isham G.. Harris resides
at Memphis, where be would have
very good worldly condition if he
were not ammo yed by some old law
suits growing out of the war
General P. NJ B Young, a leading
cavalry officer in the rebel army. ia
planter at Gainesville, Ga, 10 mod
crate circu instances, and he has just
been reelected to Congress.
General Albert Pike, a brigadier
from Arkansas, is practicing law at
Washington City, which ex-senator
Johnson of Arkansas, and has Just
republished bis delicate poems.
General Dick Taylor is probably
the richest of the Confederate Gem
erals, and is engaged in banking aud
other large operations in New Or.
leans, abeting Yarmouth.
General ID I'll Hill keeps q school
at the town of Ailsborough and
meanwhile edits a periodical, pub>
lished once month called The Land
We LoUe.
joe Brown is 50 years old and is
the Bis marck of Georgia. He is
pretty rich worth anywhere be-
tween $1,000 and 1000 000-and
is president of the Western and At
lantic Railroad
Ben Hill, ex-COnfederate, is prac-
ticing law at Atlanta, end is said to
be the best lawyer in the state. He
was a Senator of the Confederate
States and had personal collision
with Yancey.
Ex-senator Robert NJ L Hunter,
has poor farm on the Rsppahan-
mock River. 10 the tidewater part OF
Virginia, and said cheerful at all
times. and his intellect retains its
full vigor
General Choatham, having made
an unsuccessful run for Congress
against Maynard, has retired to pri-
vate life, breathing scorn upon An
drew Johnson, who divided the Dem.
ocratic vote with him.
General John G. Breckinridge
lives at Lexington, Kentucky, aud
was given an important place at one
time by the Chesapeake and Ohio
r lilroad Ho shows good nature
and quiet disposition, but no great
bounce in these piping times of
pt ace.
The family of William Il. Yancy
resides on a farm of Montgomery,
Ala, and are in only moderate Cir
cumstances Yancy's tomb is small
affair. 1t is said that two of bis
sons are in Brazil, whittier they emil
grated at the close of the war
jeff Davis is president CT the Caro-
lima Insurance Company st Memphis,
under the patronage of Mr.. Wick 1,
whose bank recently went up when
the Southern Security Company
drew check upon it for an uufore-
seen amount.
Alexander II. Stephens lives near
Ora wfordsville, Ga, in a small and
not very comfortable house. which
be dignifies with the name of "Liber-
ty Hall He is charitable, and gives
away all the excess be makes after
providing for himself, and be writes
long and abstract books, showing
how nothing ought to be as it is, and
what might hsve been the case had
something else happened twelve
wears before.