The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-15
Ex-ooNFEDERATE GENERALS
where They Are and what Thag Ars
Doinr-racts and Ealsenootis from
the New York Herald.

the New YOrk Herald
General Kershaw, of South Caroline. ia
lawyer in the quiet town Of Camden, and /
making livelihood. Ex-senator Chestnu
is also lawyer IN tho town OF Camden. S. c.
and makes fair living. General D. II. Hill
keeps school ut the town OF Hi|lsborougb
and mean time edits periodical, published
once n month, called The Land We Lone
Makes living. Ex-senator Yulee, of Flor
ida, has been connected with some railroad
affairs in that State, and is in moderate con
dtion of prosperity. General William Ma
hone is at Lynchburg, Va, president Of tn.
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio nilroad, an(
endcavoring TO save it from the jaws Of Ton
Scott, who has fankcd him by the Danyillt
road and mooted connection of the same
Malone was one of the first rebel officers tt
get on his feet, and he Is a combination Of
Ancient Pistol and CGur de Lion, mighty
in words and energies. His road is in 8
much improved condition. Herschel v
Johnson, who ran on the ticket with Stephen
A. Douglas for the Vice-PreSidcncy, is Q
planter in Jefferson county, Ga, and was q
| candidate for the United States Senate. He
is said to he somewhat moody and down
hearted. Forrest, the great cavaryman and
cX-negro trader. has been railroad presi
dent and livery stabic-kccper at Memphis
and sometimes appears to be
on A PERMANENT BASIS"
J.E. Bryant edits newspaper ut Savannah
aud acts with the Republican party. Joe
Brown is tiity-tive years old, and is the Bis.
marck Of Georgia. He Is pretty rich-is
worth anywhere between 100000 and
-. 0.o00-and is president of the Western
and Atlanta railroad. His State road con.
rection is thought to be the strongest in the
south, and Simon Cameron is said to he In
tcrested in it. Brown is an indefatigable
worker, good writer, fond of notoriety, and
plain i'll his ideas. General P. Nj. B. Young
n leading cavalry officer in the rebel army, is
a planter at Gainesville, Ga, in moderate
circumstances, and he has Just been re.
elected to Congress. Joe Johnston is thriving
rs u leading life insurance man at Savannah.
He is growing old with composure. Gene,
raj Lafayette McLaws, who was cutie cele-
! bratcd during the war on the Confederate
! side, is the president Of Confederate mont1.
ment association, and resides ut Augusta,
where he is a lawyer of moderate practice
The sons of Howell Cobb are farming, and
get along tolerably since the decease of their
father. Ben. Hill (eX-Confederate) is prac-
ticing law at Atlanta, and is said to be the
best lawyer in the State. He was q senator
of the Confederate States, and had a personal
collision with Iancey. Alexander II. Stephens
lives near Charlottesville. Ga, in a small and
not very comfortable house, which he digni-
, fics with the lame of ''Liberty Hail." He is
charitable, and gives away all the excess he
makes after providing for himself; and he
writes long and abstract books showing how
nothing ought to be rs it is and what might
have been the case had something else hap
pencd twelve years before. He is anxious
to rcIppear in public life, and his recent
visit to Atlanta was interpreted by Governor
Smiths friends to be an elcctonecring cam
paign for the United States Senate. As
rode past Charlottesville a fat Georgian boy
who looked rs if he had been eating chicken
all his life. pointed out the direction Of
Stcphcns's house and said, "Thc greatest
man in the United States lives yer" Gene.
raj Sibley, the inventor Of the Siblcy tent
and the opponent of Canhy on the plains Of
New Mexico during the rebellion, is now O
bIigadier-gencltl under the khedivc OF
Egypt, in company with his son, who is
also an officer, and with General Rhctt
stone. Mott, and others. These officers get
about six thousand dollars a year. General
Sibey's wife and married daughter reside
ut Atlanta, where his son-in-law, John
Stokes. Is supervisor Of pensions under the
United States Government. Brigadier.
t General }. II. Clanton, Of Alabama, was the
{ Leading Conservative in the State up to the
, time of his unfortunate rencontre with Mel
son ut Knoxville, Tenn, where Clanton was
! killed. He resided at Montgomery, and wa:
by many thought to be the head of the XII
klux. General c.. Ii. Battle is an insurance
agent at Tuskecgce, Ala, and is doing ONLY
, moderately well. General L. NJ. Law, wht
is the best fighter Alabama produced, is pre-
, sidcnt of a military institute ut Yorkville, S
c., where he is snugly fixed. General L. M
PcttuS. Of Selma, is Il lawyer in good prac
tice, and was prominent Democratic candi
date for Governor for Alabama last year
. General Grant, who was one Of the half
, dozen hrigadicrS in the Confederate arm,
originally appointed from Arkansas, hcclm
Republican before the close of the war
and he now holds an Office under
THE CLAYTON GOVERNMENT AT LITTLE ROCK.
General Albert Pike, brigadier from Ar
+, kansas, is practicing law at Washington cit,
i with ex-senator johnson, of Arkansas, an(
. has Just republshed his delicate poems
- General Pickett, who obtained $4,000 for tn,
smallpox documents which We're purchased
! by the War Department during the last pc
= ington city and Canada, and in the latter Do
:. minion he is said to have advertised for more
:, documents, and to have undertaken to re
# cover the great number of State papers which
, | were secretcd there during and alter the war
, This is about rs queer business as any Con
y federate officer has assumed. ['rhis is false
:, General Pickett is an insurance agent il
. Richmond, and never sold any archives t
- the Federal Government.-Eps.D Is.] Ger
- eral Dick Taylor is probably the richest G
y the Confederate generals, and is engaged il
: banking and other large operations in Ne,
;. Orleans, abetting Warnloth.
JAMES IoNGSTREET
\, has public position which suffices to mair
:. tain him aud his numerous family. Beaurt
|, gard is superintendent of street railways i
- New Orleans, with a good salary. Gencrt
y Hood has been 4 cotton factor and insuranc
, agent at New Orleans, and makes out br
, tolernbly well. Colonel Carter. Of the rcb,
= army, is now acting with Pinchback, ant
like Longstreet, has been on all sides.
: JEFF DAVIS
e Is president Of the Carolina Insurance Con
Il panv ut Memphis, under the patronage Of
Mfr. Wick, whose bank recently went u
I when the Southern Security Company dre'
Y n check upon it for an unforeseen amour
Davis long resided at the Peabody Hotel, bl
B has now moved into private quarters. II
\ makes respectable support. Simon i. Bucl
u ner is said to be in thriving mercantile bus
:, ness. and to stand much better than the bul
C of his associates. General John c. Breckii
: ridge lives at Lexington, Ky, and was give
rt y,1oa at ono hogs