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Confederate Relics.

Confederate Relics.
NJ the five field Generals of the Con-
tederate army. j. E. Johnston and
Beauregard survive. General Johnston
;s the general agent Of a prominent New
York Insurance company, and General
R%eauregard is the Adjutant-G General of
tho State of Louisiana (where he has
created the finest body of militia in
America.) He is also one of the Com
missioners of one of the old Louisiana
State banks, besides which he has other
;mportant business connections. There
we're twenty-one Lieutenant-G Generals in
the Confederate army from first to last,
and all of these were from the United
state army but four, viz: Richard
TAYLOR, N. B. Forrest, Wade Hampton
and John B. Gordon. OF them the fol-
lowing are living: D. H. Hill, who is
in North Carolina; Stephen Lee, Early,
Ruckner, Wheeler and A. P. Stewart,
besides the two not from the old United
States army mentioned above. Gusta-
yus w. Smith is the ranking Major
General living and is State Commits
sioner of Insurance in Kentucky. w.
T. Martin lives at Natchez and is q rail-
road president. G. w. Field and L. L.
Lomax are in Florida, and both are in
the employ Of the United States corps of
Engineers. Marmaduke johnson is in
St. Louis and is wealthy. William
Preston lives in Kentucky and has a for
tune he inherited. Humes lives in
Memphis. Tenn. Writ Adams is an
agent for Mississippi and lives at Jack
son. Frank Armstrong lives here and
in St. Louis, and is connected with the
Gould system of railroads in the South
west. Churchill was Governor of Ar
kansas, and lives at Little Rock. Col
quit was Governor of Georgia, and is
United States Senator-elect from that
State. Colston has returned from
Egypt, and is living somewhere in vir-
ginia. Dibrell is member of Congress
from Tennessee. Lyon, who COM
manded one of Forrest s divisions awhile,
lives at Eddyville, Ky. do not know
what Mackall, who was a Brigadier-
General and Chief of General Bragg's
staff, is doing, but I believe he lives in
Georgia. MCGOWAN is a member of the
Supreme Court of South Carolina.
Miles. w. R., is a cotton-planting mag
nate on the Yazoo River in Mississippi.
R. A. Pryor is a prosperous lawyer in
New York, and nair0btle dictu, 1 hear
he is an enthusiastic advocate of Gov
ernor B. F. Butler for the Presidency.
Ripley. "Old Rip" az he was called, is
in London, the agent of IN American
rifle company, and Roddy is there with
him. John G. Walker is in Mexico and
is getting rich in silver mining. and
Holmes is his partner. VIM. C. Wick
ham is a prominent railroad man and
Republican in Virginia. OF the three
Lees who were Generals, Custis, who
was Mr.. Davis's Chief of Staff, is the
President Of the Washington and Lee
College in Virginia; VIM. Henry Fitz-
hugh Lee, a cousin of the others, and
a famous cavalry officer, owns the era
venwood" estate. on the Potomac. about
fifty miles below Washington, where he
is living like a fine Virginia planter of
the olden time. Robert Lee, the Cen
erals youngest son, who served in the
ranks a greater part of the war, lives
on the James River and owns q hand
some estate there. Longstreet' lives at
Gainesville, Ca, and is United States
Marshal. General Early practices law
at Lynchburg. Northumberland A.
P. Stewart is President of the University
Of Mississippi at Oxford, and Lieutenant
General S. D. Lee is President of an
other Mississippi institution of learning.
R. H. and Patterson Anderson are dead.
General B. Frank Cheatham is the SUI
~perintending Commissioner of the Ten
nessee P%enitentiary. General Bate is
Governor of Tennessee, and W. H., OF
"Red," jackson, one of Forests divi-
sion commanders, is living near Nash
vile on a magnificent plantation. Gen.
eral Wheeler, who commanded all OF
General Johnston's cavalry, is aplante1
in North Alabama. General Lawton,
the General of the Con
federacy, is a leading member Of the
Savannah (Ga.) bar, and General Cor
gas. the Confederate Chief of Ordnance
died in Alabama the other day. Cock
rell, the ranking Confederate Genera
from Missouri, is a United States Sena
tor.-UushSnQtOu Herald. p