Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-18
NORTHERN ESTIMATES
OF the Late General " Dick" Taylor
AS Soldier of Two Wars
His Death Declared to be
an Irreparable Loss.

New York Sun, April 18th: cit is with
sincere sorrow that We record the fact that
General Richard Taylor died in this city yes
terdaY morning at the house of his intimate
friend, Mr.. s. l., M. Barlow. His age was
but little over 6fty-three, and the disease
which so suddenly put an end to his life was
cancer in the stomach. The only son of Gen
eral Zachary Taylor, he graduated at Yale
college In lS45, served In the Mexican war as
a member of his fathers staff, being present
ma and Monterey. During his father s brief
period of service as President the son re-
manned with him in Washington, and thence
prward, until the breaking out of the civil
war In 1861, he lived as saGaF-planter in
Louisiana, deyoting himself TO the care of his
estate and to the acquisition of those extraor-
binary stores of historical and general knowl-
edge, the possession of which rendered him
one of the most instructive and most fasclnat-
ing conversatonalists whom it has ever been
our fortune to encounter. Originally Wing
and Union man, ne formed no exception to
that almost unanimous adherence to the
secession cause which swept away the gentle
men of Che south at the approach of the civil
war. As a colonel of louisiana volunteers,
he arrived in Virginia with his regiment IN
June, 1861, aad not long afterward was
made brigadier general in the Confederate
forces. He served under Stonewall Jackson
in Virginia, and after the seven days battles
around Richmond became maJor- genera,
and was sent to command in Louisiana,
where he remained in active service until the
end of the war. He was made a lieutenant
general in 1864. and, on TIE Gnsl collapse of
the Confederate cause, surrendered to General
Candy at Mobile. As military commander,
General Taylor was bold, judicious and sue-
cessful; and thoss who have peruaea the
striking volume of his "reminiscences, which
has lately been published, will easily under
, stand that the eminence which he attained
in the civil war was due alike to
the originality and dash of his char
acter and the soundness of his Judgment.
Since the war he has continued to reside in
New Orleans though nueh of his time has
been spent in this ei Y and in London, where
| he has repeatedly been called by important
| business missions. Though entirely unos
tentatious in politics, as IN everything else,
| General Taylor has always exerted an iDflu-
| ence as powerful as 1T was unsel6sh. Seek
ing nothing for himself, his advice has been
welcomed and appreciated by q 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 convention so unitedly gave their
support to Mr. Tilden-a fact which the lat
| ter atfectipgly acknowle lged at their parting
| interview not long before General Taylor
| died. The decease of such man seems an
| irreparable l-ss. So WISE head, 50 true a
heart, chara cter so solid and so far re
moved from everything petty or narrow, wit
so keen, mind so fruitful and stored with
such treasures of information, and all in
spired and directed toward generous and no.
BILE objects,