Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-05
THE OLD WAR GENERALS.
Those Now Living, and Their Present
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Correspo ndence Of the Boston Advertiser.
Only eighteen years ago that the re-
benion closed said an old army officer
70 me, the other day, "but the generals
Of the war are fast going out Of sight"
Ihen he went on to say: Meade,
Thomas, Hooker, Garfield, Fitzpatrick,
Burnside and Halleck are dead. The
next few years win see that list length.
ened. General Grant is we'll on towards
10 He comes to Washington often, and
walks quietly about the streets, with his
cigar IN his mouth, better dressed than
when he was president, and looks as if
life agreed with him. Sherman is 81,
and he looks older, but the family IS
hardy, and he is likely to see 1900. The
youngest of all the great leaders Is sher-
!dan, now to command the army, and
he is but ST.. Sheridan was major gem
eral at TBO. Fitz John Porter appears
here every winter, white-haired and
broken in frame-a little old gentleman,
who looks back ON twenty. years of dis
grace. His old com mander, McClel.
tan, now round man, with bending
shoulders, has not changed much Of late.
He is rich, and entertains well in his
New York City home, but the activity of
his life is over He likes still to tell of
his campaigns. Pleasonton, the hero Of
q hundred cavalry fights, lives quietly
here. and can be found any day reading
the papers in one Of the offices on news
paper row. His hair and mustache are
white, and his voice as gentle as wo.
mans. You can say the same of
Roseczans, the idol of the army of the
Cumberland. He and his wife live, al.
most unnoticed, on Capitol Hill during
the time he spends here performing his
duties as d California congressman. His
complexion is like youths and his
hair, with military cut, white as snow.
The man who commanded 1907 men
at Chickamauga seems abashed at the
confusion in congress, and seldom rises
to speak. Generals Hawley and Logan
are the two other most distinguished
generals in congress. Both are 81 years
old, but neither has 9 gray hair. Cen
eral Rosecrans will be reinforced this
winter by an old companion in the Wes-
tern armies, General Slocum. of Brook
lyn. He has been in congress before.
He served, I believe, four
years soon after the close
of the war. General Sckles is practic-
ing law in New York, and Stoneman is
governor of California. Doubleday.
who was in Fort Sumpter when it was
fired upon, lives in New York and is
writing book; Humphreys, Hunter
and Crittenden may be seen almost any
day about this city, they own fine
houses and live handsomely, on the re-
tired list. Fremont is no longer rich
He and his wife, Jessie Benton Fremont,
are forgotten in crowded New York.
The general whom the Vermont troops
worshiped, George J. Stannard, with
one arm gone and a half a dozen wounds.
sits up at the capitol during the sessions,
tending the door of the members gal.
lery OF the house. The democrats prom
Use that he shall not be disturbed He
is so inofansive that the pushing WON
IN almost overpower him on days when
/ crowd visits the capitol, and yet he
Mved the day at Gettysburg, and fell
with three wounds while leading a for
lorn hope at Petersburg. Mcdowell is
on the retired list; Don Charles Buell. runs
an iron furnace in Kentucky; Banks is O.
United States Marshall" Hancock, Scho-
field and Pope are still Major Generals,
but the last Of them will retire in three
years. General Terry is the youngest
Of the Brigadiers who won fame in the
war. i With good luck, he will succeed
Sheridan in command of the army. GEN
eral Wright, with benevolent face and
patriarchal beard, has turned from war
to projects of river and harbor improve
ments. Gilmore, Parks and Weitzel,
once commanding corps and armies, are
now in charge of lighthouses and FORTH
cations. Grierson, the famous cavalry
general of the Western armies, is broil-
ing in Texas with the mounted colored
rpOlitipnt
are all getting on toward the downward
track. In ten years there will not be a
general officer nf the war in active life."