The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

THE OLD WAR GENERALS.
Those Now Living, and Their Present
Pursuits.
Correspondence of the Boston Advertiser.
"Only eighteen years ago that the re-
beliion closed" said an old army officer
to me, the other day, "but the generals
ofthe war are fast going out of sight"
Then he went on to say: "Meade,
Thomas, Hooker, Garfield, Fitzpatrick,
Burnside and Halleck are dead. The
hext few years will see that list length.
ened. General Grant is we'll ontowards
W 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 GA.
and he looks older, but the family Is
hardy, and he is likely to zee 1900. The
youngest of all the great leaders is Sher-
ldan, now to command the army, and
be is but 81. Sheridan was a major gem
eral at 80. 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 commander, McClel-
Ian, now a rotund man. with bending
shoulders, has not changed much of late
He is rich, and entertains we'll 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
tile papers in one of the Offices on news.
paper row. His hair and mustache are
white. and his voice as gentle as a wo.
mans. 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 performing his
duties as d California congressman. His
complexion is like a youths and his
hair, with a military cut, white as snow.
!he man who commanded 1OO, 900 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 a gray hair. Cen
eral Rosecrans will be reinforced this
winter by al old companion in the Wes-
SAA III AAtAV6S 0O4kCldt SlOCuLus Vi DEOOk.
Ign. He has been in congress before.
He served, I believe, four
years soon after the close
Of the war, General Sickles is p~ractic-
ing law inNew 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 a book; Humphreys, Hunter
and Crittenden may be seen almost n
day about this city, they own fine
houses and live handsomely on the re-
tired list. Fremont is ne longer rich.
He and his wife, Jessie Benton Fremont,
are forgotten in crowded New York.
The general whom the Vermont troops
worshiped, George ]. 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 i%nofansive that the pushing WON
en- almost overpower him on days when
a crowd visits the capitol, and yet he
saved the day at Gettysburg. and fell
lorn hope at Petersburg. Mcdowell is
on the retired list; Don Charles Buell. runs
an iron furnace in Kentucky; Banks is a
United States Marshal; Hancock, Scho-
field and Pope are still Major Generals,
but the last If them will retire in three
years. General Terry is the youngest
of the Brigadiers who won fame in the
war. 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
t projects of river and. harbor improve
ments. Gilmore, Parks and Weitzel,
now in charge of lighthouses and fortif-
cations. Grierson, the famous cavalry
general of the Western armies, is broiI-
ling in Texas with the mounted colored
regiment which he commands. They
kasre all getting on toward the downward
track. In ten years there will not be a
I general officer Of the war in active life."