Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-12-06
The Rebel Generals.
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE CONFEDERATE
LEADERS IN me FIELD.

Washington Cor. Boston Advertiser
What has become Of The rebel generals:
asked m Old West Pointer. and brilliant gen
eral officer tn. other day. H. thought min
ute. why. the majority Il them arr dead"
was the reply. Then M wen, on to take up
some ~ those historical uanir+ With many
Of their owners he had served in Mexico and
in Indian wars without number. YES. the
greater part uf these men are dead. i much
larger proportion than 81 our Northern gen
erals. Afirr tho war most Of them broke
down. The fact wa. the rebels suffered more
than We lid. They had harder time in the
field. lived poorly. and were more disposed TO
disease than our men. lee. anderson. Bragg.
Ma-rulcr. Breckenridge. Hood Pickett For
rest. Price. Pombcr,on. Dick Taylor. Pillow.
Floyd. liarlor and Ewcil wcr' anon. them.
Johnston /, an old man muw. not To-, than
>cycnty-fiye. Bragg died several year, ago.
AT his HON" in North Carolina. Ma.rulcr
died ten wears a-p. Forrest. the murderer nf
negro prisoners ai Fort Pillow. lived only
little Will, after lii, ~urr, ndrr. - il Wa
with Ewcli, Lee, brave>t lieutenant. who rode
strapped 10 hi saGdr in every campaign after
III lAl~A nun iNNlli " utIf' ilt Ib~l lt--. lie
WAS brevr;ed for bravery At chercbusco.
Their was IIard... lie wa- licu;rnani-col-
onel Of dragons at thir;y-ninc. but h. went
South with the rest. After the war he started
TIL first orange plantation in Florida. and
died there three or four year, ago. Price i
dead. 50 j. Dick TAYLOR. TAYLOR was JEFF
fer>on Davis hrother-in-law and made lieut.
enantseneral that account. Pemberton
lived out the remnant Of hi, day. At Phila-
delphia. lie never recovered from his -urrcn-
der 10 Grant Mt Nicksburg. OF the few North
ern men who joined the rrbel> he wa. one. but
his wife was Southern and carried him over.
Another ease was Roswell Ripley of Ohio.
He was a West Point graduate, and did well
in Mexico. Hi, wife wa. = South Carolina
woman. That was the secret OF his choicc.
"Floyd. Buchanan's See rctary Of War never
came 10 the surface after his dc.crtion OF
Fort Donelson. Pillow. hi comradr in that
trip, lived on hi, plantation in Tennessee a
few wears after ho-tilitic. ceased. He had been
a major-general in the Mexican war. and
did creditable service there. believe he was
President Polk. law partner, and got the APP
pointment that way. The pluckie,t man in
the war was George Pickett. He was Young
second lieutenant iu>t from the academy in
1876. and wa, assigned 10 department in
Washington Territory. Of which old General
Harvey was in command. We were quar-
relling then over the boundary. Harvey put
Pickett on san Juan Island. which commands
Puget Sound He held il against an English
squadron. and it has never been lost. Pickett
commanded division al Gettysburg under
Long-trcet. His assault OF the third day was
the greatest charge OF that fight. Iii. men
fought with mine about our guns. We drove
them back. but Pickett came nearer winning
that fight than it is pleasant to think OF. Yes.
he is dead.
..Of those who are alive. Beauregard and
Jubal Early are managers Of the Louisiana
lottery. They get 10000 each. and 50 great
is the feeling still existing in the South over
their generals, that one OF the lottery mana
gers told me the other day that their names
were worth to the company more than their
salaries. Both Of them were West Pointers
and artillery officers, but Beauregard never
was soldier. He is a dapper Creole gentle
man, and the Louisianian- swear BY him.
Early fought well. Longstreet comes 10 wash
ington occasionally. He is United States
physique is showing the effects Of his wounds.
In Mexico he and Grant were lieutenant- in the
same regiment. After the war Grant induced
him TO join the republican party. He has been
under ban in the South ever since. but
never without the consolation OF a good office.
| only remember one other prominent rebel
who is republican. McLaws was recon-
structed. and is postmaster at Savannah. Lee
used TO say OF McLaws's division that il was
always ready for a fight.
"A good MANY of them have drifted into
politics on the other side. Joseph Wheeler,
weight l01 pounds, and the best cavalry officer
next to Stuart in rebeldom, is 4 member OF
Congress from Alabama: VI. {. Butler and
W AIDE Hampton represent south Carolina in
the Senate. Butler lost his right leg at Brandy
station in 1868. when Wade Hampton's son
was killed. Hampton was one Of the richest
men in the State He raised. armed and
equipped. at his own expense. the Hampton
Legion, and regiment Of cavalry and ar
tillery; Malone came to the front in the last
campaign about Richmond. and is senator;
Johnston has been in Congress; Senator
Morgan Of Alabama rose from the ranks TO
be brgadler-2enera;i in fact of the ten Congress-
men from that State nine were in the rebel
army; so with all but one Of the Arkansas
delegation: Senators Cockrell, MaXey and
Ransom were major-generals. One OF the
dOor-keepers of the senate is Cadmus Wilcox,
one Of the best major-generals Of Lees second
corps.
''Gen. Lees son, William H., succeeded his
father as president Of the Washington and Lee
University in Virginia. His nephew, Fitz-
hugh, lives on one Of the family estates at West
Point, which Mcclellan made his base depot,
before the famous change Of base to Harrison's
Landing. Both Of them are rich. for the family
estates are smong the best in Virginia For
Arlington last winter Congress voted them
$4,000 although it was confscated while Lee
was in arms against the flag. Another son, G..
W. Gusts Lee, lives in Virginia. All Of these
Young men were CAVALRY officers In the ARMY