Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-28
Mustered OFT.
Ihe Heroes or the War Fast Fad.
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on to say Meade, Thomas, Hooker
Garheid. fitzpatrick. Burnside and Hal
Ieck are dead. The next few years vii
see that list Ter g;hened General Gran
IS well on toward 20. He comes I.
Washington often, and walks quietl,
about the streets with his cigar IN hi.
mouth, better dressed than when b.
was President, and looking As If IF.
agreed with him. Sherman is 81, anC
De looks older. but the family IS hardy
and he l. likely to- see 1879. The yoUua,.
est of all tue great leaders is Sheridan
uow To command the army. and he il
but 81. Sheridan was a Major-Genera
At ~. tltz John Porter appears her.
every winter, white b tired aud broken
IN t'ame-a little old gentleman. who
LOOKS back TO twenty years of disgrace
bis old commander, Mcclellan. now a
roiund man, with bending shoulders.
has not changed much of late He is
rlch. and entertains well in his New
York City home, but the activity of his
life is over. He likes still 10 tell of his
| campaigns. Pieasanton, the hero of a
hundred cavalry fights. lives quietly
| here and can be found anv day reading
the papers IN one OF the offices in News
paper Row. His hair and mustache
are white and his voice gentle AS a
womans. You can say the same of
| Rosecrans, 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 per
forming his duties as California Con
gresham. HIS complexion is like A
youth 3, and his hair, with military
cut, white as snow. The man. that
commanded 10000 men AT ChicaliYauga
seems abashed at the confusion in Con
gress and seldom rises to speak Gen
erals Hawley and Logan are the two
other most distinguished Generals in
Congress. Both are - years old. bat
neither has gray hair. Gent raj Rose
Grams Will be reinforced this winter bv
an old companion in the Western ar
mies--General Slocum of BROOKLYN
de has been in Congress be fore. He
served, believe, four wears soon after
the close of the war. General Sickles
Is practising law III New York. and
Stoneman is Governor of California
Doubleday, who was in Fort Sumpter
when 1t was fired upon. lives in New
\ ork, and Is writing book while
Humphreys, Hunter and Crittenden
city, where they own fine houses aud
live handsomely on the retired list.
Fremont is no longer rich. He
and his wife, Jessie Benton Ere
mont, are forgotten in crowded
New York. The General whom the
Vermont troops wGRshipped, George J.
Stannard one arm gone and half
dozen wounds-sits up at the Capitol
during the session, tending the door of
the members gallery Of the House. The
Democrats promise that he shall not he
disturbed. He is SO inotfensive that tn. |
pushing women almost Overpower him
on days when a crowd visits the Capt. |
toll, and yet he saved the day at Gettvs- |
burg, and fell with three wounds while |
leading forlorn hope at Petersburg |
Mcdowell Is on the retired list Don |
Carlos Buell. runs an iron furnace in |
kentucky; Banks Is a United States |
Marshal: Hancock, SchOfield and Pope
are still Major Generals, but the last of
them will retire i'll three years. General
Howard is at Omaha, a Brigadier Gen
eral Terry Is the youngest of the Briga
diers who Won fame in the war. With
good luck he will succeed Sheridan in
command of fhe army.
GENERAL WRIGHT,
With benevolent face and patriarchal
beard, has turned from war to projects
of river and harbor improvement. Gil
more, Parke and Weitzel, once com
manding corps and armies, are now in
charge OF lighthouses and Notifications.
Grlerson. the famous cavalry General of
the Western armies, is brOiling in Texas
with the mounted colOred regiment
III bio R,,f, nd Ih..,r oil
getting we'll on toward the downward
track. In ten years there will not be Il
general officer of the war in active lif -
Looking over some old papers in the
Pension Office, the other day, the diff
ference between the old time and
present methods of granting aid to
soldiers became very noticeable. Now,
almost any old soldier easily obtains re-
lief; then it was matter involving the
clearest proofs. In some cases even
abject poverty seemed necessary be
fore the Government interposed to
give relief. One case, from the long
correspondence and the interesting
character of the claimant, is a sample
of many. The papers i'll 1t are very
voluminous. They begin back in 1919.
when Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent of
Sullivan, Maine, asked for pension.
His memorial showed that in l772 he
lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where
he organized n body of ininutemen
From his forwardnesS i'll the independ
ent cause he was black listed aud com
PEELED to flee to Amherst, New Hainp-
shire. Here he organized regiment
of militia, and so ready was he that.
before daylight on April 10. l775. he was
ON bis way to Concord with his COM
mand. which afterward became part
of Washinoton's army, and WAS the
first body of troops to enter Boston
after the evacuation the next
March. Here he fitted out the
first prIvateer of the Revolu
ton. 1t carried nine guns and took
several prizes, with the proceeds of
which Sargent paid his troops cut Of his
own pocket. In June he marched to
New York. and was i'll all the battles
there. so that his regiment was re-
duced from 721 men to 1871. He TOOK
part III the battle Of Trenton, and
soon after resigned his commits
sion for i'll health, but kept Oh fit
ting out privateers, of which he sent
FoRTY-sEvEN SAIL To SEA.
In later years his property was lost
by misfortunes. and at the time spoken
of he was reduced TO poverty. living
upon the scant proceeds of ferry at
Sullivan, the sole use of which had been
granted by the county. Tue pension
was granted at first. but soon taken
away, on the score that he was rich.
He made an indignant protest, and filed
An inventory At the War Department,
by which ii appeared that he was worth
$l270, every little item of household
furniture appearing scrupulously in the
schedule. The pension was refused.
although ample testimony was shown
that the old veteran, now &c years old.
owed about 5000. la 1873 be made an
other effort. His ferry had been super
seeded By a bridge. his occupation was
gone. and the schedules annexed to
his inventory showed that the
scanty property had diminished
to $50, of which 800 repre-
sented in the tumble down house in
g.