The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-13
The Death of Gen. TayIor.

1t Is with sincere sorrow that we record
the fact that Gen. RICHARD TAYLOR died In
this city yesterday morning at the house
OF his intimate friend, Mr. S. l.. NJ. BAR
Low. His age was but little over SO,
and the disease which so suddenly put
an end to his life was cancer In the
stomach. The only son OF Gen. ZACHARY
TAYLOR, he graduated at Yale College in
1916, served In the Mexican war as q mem
Der OF his fathers stan, being present at the
battles OF Palo Alto ncsaca de la Palma, and
Monterey During his fathers brio. neriod
OF service as PRESIDENT, the son remained
with him in Washington, and thence
forward, until tho breaking out OF the
civil war in 1861, he lived as sugar
planter in Louisiana, devotng himself to
the care Of his estate and to the acquisition
OF those extraordinary stores OF historical
and general knowledge, the possession Of
which rendered him one OF the most in
structive and most fascinating converse
tionalists whom it has ever been our fortune
TO encounter. Originally a Wing and q
Union man. he formed no exception to that
almost unanimous adherence to the Sc
cesslon cause which swept away the gen.
tlemen Of the South at the approach OF
the civil war. As Colonel OF Louisiana
volunteers, he arrived in Virginia with his
regiment in June, 1861, and not long after
ward was made BrigadieHGeneral In the
Confederate forces He served under STONE
WALL JACKSON in Virginia, and after the
seven days battles around Richmond be-
came Maior-General, and was sent to COM
mand In Louisiana, where he remained In
active service until the end OF the war He
was made Northumberland In 1864, and
on the final collapse OF the Confederate cause
surrendered to Gen. CANDY at Mobile.
AS military commander Gen. TAYLOR
was bold, iudicious, and successful; and
those who have perused the striking volume
Of his "Reminiscences" which has lately
been published. will easily understand that
the eminence he attained in the civil war
was due alike to the originality and dash OF
his character and the soundness Of his
Judgment. Since the war he has continued
to reside in New Orleans though much OF
his time has been spent in this city and in
London, where he has repeatedly been
called by important business missions.
Though entirely transformations in politics,
rs in everything else, Gen. TAYLOR has al
ways exerted an influence as powerful as it
was unseliish Seeking nothing for himself,
his advice has been welcomed and appre-
ciated by wide circle Of politicians in the
North as well as in the South. 1t was in
great measure due to his exertions that the
Southern delegates at the st. Louis Conven-
ton so unitedly gave their support 10 Mr..
TILDEN-a fact which the latter alIectingly
acknowledged at their parting interview
not long before Gen. TAYLOR died.
The decease Of such a man seems an ire
parable loss. So wise a head SO true a
heart, character so solid aud so far re-
moved from everything petty or narrow,
wit so keen, mind so fruitful and stored
with such treasures Of information, and all
Inspired and directed toward generous and
noble objects,
take him for all all
We shan not look upon his like again"