The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-15
CONFEDERATE RELICS.
Where the Surviving Officers of the Lost
Cause \ re TO be Found


Cause are to be Found.
A writer in the Washington Herald says:
OF the five field generals OF the Confederate
army. ]. Z. Johnston and Beauregard sur
vive. General Johnston is the general
agent of a prominent New York insurance
company, and General Beauregard is the
adjutant- general of the state Of Louisiana
where he has created the finest body OF
militia for its number in America. He is
also one of the commissioners OF one of the
old Louisiana state banks. besides which he
has other important business connections.
There were twenty-one heutenant.gener
in the Confederate army from first to last,
and all of these were from the United
States army but four. viz: Richard Taylor,
n. b. Forrest, Wade Hampton and John Il.
ordon. OF them the following are living;
d. II. Hill. who is in North Carolina;
Stephen Lee, Early, Buckner, Wheeler and
A. p. Stewart, besides the two not from the
old United States army mentioned above.
Gustavus w. Smith is the ranking major
general living, and is state commissioner of
insurance in Kentucky. w. L. Martin
lives at Natchez, and is q railroad presi-
dent. @. W. Field and l.. l.. Lomax are in
Florida, and both are in the employ of the
United States corps of engineers. Marina
duke johnson is in st. Louis, and is
wealthy. William Preston lives in Ken
lucky. and has a fortune he inherited.
Adams is an agent for Mississippi,
and lives at Jackson. Frank Arm-
strong lives here and in st. Louis, and is
connected with the Gould system Of rail-
roads in the southwest. Churchill was
Governor of Arkansas and lives at Little
Rick. Colquitt 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 commanded
one of Forests divisions awhile, lives at
Eddyyille, Kentucky. | do not know
what Mackall, who was brigadier- general
and chief of General Bragg's staff is doing,
but | believe he lives in Georgia. Nc
Gowan is member of the supreme court
of South Carolina. Miles, w. R., is u
accomplishing magnate on the Yazoo
river in Mississippi. r. A. Pryor is q pros
porous lawyer IN New York, and mirabie
dictu, hear he is an enthusiastic adj
vocate of Governor B. II. Butler for the
presidency. Ripley, "Old Rip" as he was
called, is in London, the agent of an Amer
lean 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, William G. Wick
nam il a prominent railroad man, and re-
publican in Virginia. OF the tAree Lees
who were generals, Gusts, who was Davis
chief of staff, is the president of the Wash
ington and Lee College in Virginia; William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee. generally called "Ru-
ney," is planter and is prosperous on fine
estate. FilZhugh Lee, a cousin of the others,
and a famous cavalry officer, owns the IRA
venswCod' 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 generals
youngest son, who served in the ranks
greater part Of the war, lives on the James
river, and owns handsome estate there.
Longstreet lives at Gainesville, Georgia,
and is United States marshal. General
Early practices law at Lynchburg. Lieu.
tenant General A. p Stewart is president
of the University of Mississippi at Oxford,
and Lieutenant General s. u. Lee is presi-
dent Of another Mississippi institu.
ton of learning. r. II. and
Patterson Anderson are dead. General
b. Frank Cheatham is the superin-
tending commissioner of the Tennessee
penitentiary. General Bate is governor of
Tennessee, and W. H., or Red" Jackson,
one OF Forests division commanders, is
living near Nashville on magnificent plan
tation. General Wheeler, who commanded
all OF General Johnston's cavalry, is a
planter in North Alabama. General Law
ton, the quartermaster general of Confed-
eracy, is leading member Of the Savannah
(Ga.) bar, and General Gorgas, the Confed-
era chief of ordnance, died in Alabama
the other day. Cockrell the ranking Con-
federate general from Missouri, is United
States senator.