The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-11-24
OUR WAR GgNERALs

Washington Cor. Boston Adyertiser.I
"Only eighteen years ago that the re.
bellion closed, said an old army officer
to me the other day, "but the Generals
OF the war are fast going ont of sight"
Then he went on to say, Meade, Gar.
field, Thomas, Hooker, Fitzpatrick, Hal
leck and Burnside are dead. The next
few years will see that list heightened.
Gen. Grant is well on towards seventy.
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 looking as If
life agreed with him. Sherman is sixty.
four, and he looks older, but the family
is hardy, and he is likely to see 1900.
The youngest OF all the great leaders is
Sheridan, now to command the army,
and he is but fifty-one. Sheridan was
Maior-General at thirty. Fitz John Por.
ter appears here every winter, white
haired and broken in frame little old
gentleman who looks back to twenty
years OF disgrace. His old commander,
Mcclellan, now rotund man with bend.
ing 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. Pleasanton, the hero
of a 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 moustache are
white. and his voice gentle as woman's.
You can say the same of Rosecrans, the
ide! of the army of the Cumberland. He
and his wife live, almost unnoticed, on
Capitol Hill during the time he spends
here performing his duties as California
Congressman. His complexion is like a
youths, and his hair, with a military
cut, white as snow. The man who com.
manded 100000 men at Chicamauga
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 fifty-seven years old,
but neither has gray hair. Rosecrans
will be reinforced this winter by an old
companion in the Western armies, Gen.
eral Slocum of Brooklyn. He has been
in Congress before. He served, believe,
four years soon after the close of the war.
General Sickles is practicing law in New
York, and Stoneman is Governor of CAL
ifornia. Doubleday, who was in Fort
Sumter when it was fred upon, lives in
New York, and is writing book; while
Humphreys, Hunter and Critsenden may
be seen almost any day about this city,
where they own fine houses and live
handsomely on the retired list. Fremont
is no longer rich. He and his wife, Jes
sic Benton Fremont, are forgotten il
crowded New York. The General whom
the Vermont troops worshipped, Georg'
J. Stennard, with one arm gone and hal
dozen wounds, sits up at the Capito
during the session, tending the door o
the members gallery of the House. Th
Democrats promise that he shall not b.
disturbed. He is 80 inoffensive that tn
Eushing women almost overpower him Of
days when crowd visits the Capitol
and yet he saved the day at Gettysburg
and fell with three wounds while leadin
forlorn hope at Petersburg. McDowe
is on the retired list; Don Carlos Bue
runs an iron furnace in Kentucky; Bank
isa United States Marshal. HANCOCK
Schofeld and Pope are still Major. Ger
erals, but the last of them will retire i
three years. General Howard is at ON,
ha, a Brigadier. General Terry is Il
youngest of the Brigadiers who won fan
in the war. With good luck he will SUI
ceed Sheridan in the command of Il
army. General Wright, with benevole,
face and patriarchal beard, has turne
from war to projects Of river and hsrb,
Improvement. Gilmore, Parke m
Weitzel, once commanding corps an
armies, are now in charge Of lighthous
and Notifications. Grierson, the famo,
Cavalry General of the Western armie
is broiling in Texas with the mount,
colored regiment which he command
They are all getting we'll on toward Il
downward track. In ten years the
will not be q general officer of the war
active life."