The Opelousas courier., 1883-08-11
CONFEDERATE GENERALS
Where the Prominent SURVIVING s..A
ern Officers are to he Fo,nS saA

ern Officers are to he Found.
a writer in the Washington Snndo..
Herald says: Of the five field general,
OF the Confederate army J. E. John.
son and Beauregard survive. Genera,
Johnson is the general agent of a nro.
minent New York insurance comnanv
and General Beauregard is the admit,
ant-general of the State of Louisian,
(where he has created the finest hodv
of military for its numbers in Ama,i
car. He is also Il of the commis-
sioners of n of the old Louisian.
State banks, besides which he b..
other important business connections.
There were tWenty-one lieutenant.
generals in the Confederate army. from
first to last, and all of these were from
the United States army but four. viz
Richard Taylor, n. 3. Forrest, Wade
Hampton and John B. Gordon. or
them the following are living: D. D.
Hill, who is in North Carolina.
Stephen Lee, Early, Buckner, Wheeler
and A. ?. Stewart, besides the two NOT
from the old United States army mem
toned above. Gustavus w. Smith il
the ranking major-general living, and
is state commissioner of insurance in
Kentucky. W. t. Martin lives at
Natchez, and is a railroad president.
c.. W. Field and L. L. Lomax are in
Florida, and both are in the employ Of
the United States corps of engineers,
Marmaduke johnson is in st. Louis
and is wealthy. William Preston lives
in Kentucky, and has afortune he inner.
tied. Humes lives in Memphis, Tenn.
Writ Adams is an agent for Mississip.
ri, and lives at Jackson. Frank Adams
lives in st. Louis, and is con.
nected with the Gould system Of rail.
roads in the southwest. Churchill was
governor of Arkansas, and lives at
Little Rock. Colquitt was governor
of Georgia, and is United States Sena-
tor-elect from that state. Colston has
returned from Egypt, and is living
somewhere in Virginia. Dibrell is 4
member of Congress from Tennessee.
Lyon, who commanded one of Forrests
divisions a while, lives at Eddyville.
XIV. [ do not know what Maekal,
who was a brigadier-general and chief
of General Bragg's staff, is doing, bit
1 believe he lives in Georgia. Nc
Gowan is a member of the supreme
court of South Carolina. Miles, W.
R., is a cotton-planting magnate, on
the Yazoo river, in Mississippi. R. 4.
Pryor, is a prosperous lawyer in New
York. Ripley, cold Rip" as he was
called, is in London, the agent of an
American rife company, and Roddy is
there with him. John G. Walker ism
Mexico, and is getting rich in silver
mining, and Holmes is his partner
William G. Wickham is a prominent
railroad man in Virginia. OF the
three Lees who were generals, Gusts,
who was Mr.. Davis's chief-of-staff, Z
president of the Washington and Les
College, in Virginia; William Henry
Fitzhugh Lee, generally called sRun-
ey," is a planter, and is prosperous On
a fine estate, and Fitzhugh Lee
cousin of the others, and a famous
calvary officer, owns the Ravens
wood" 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 n
the ranks agreater part of the war, lives
| on the James river, and owns a hand.
| some estate there. Longstreet lives az
Gainesville, Ga, and he is United
| States marshal. General Early prac-
tices law at Lynchburg. Lieutenant.
General A. P. Stewart is president q
the University of Mississippi, at Ok
ford, and Lieutenant-Genera D. =
Lee is president Of another institution
of Learning. r. III. and Patterson an.
derson are dead. General B. Frank
Cheatham is the experimenting com
missioner of the Tennessee penltehn-
airy. General Bate is governor @
Tennessee, and w. H. or "Red lack
SON, M of Forests division com
manders, is living near Nashville, oa
a magnificent plantation. Genera
Wheeler who commanded all OF ten
eral Johnson's calvary, is a planter Y
North Alabama. General LaWton, sas
,ouartermaster Of the Confederacy. =
a leading member of the SAVANNA
Ga. bar, and General Gorgas' ths
Confederate chief of ordnance, diea
recently in Alabama. Cockren, ths
ranking Confederate genera li0l'
Missouri, is a United States Senator