The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-08
EFFECT ON THE MUSIC TRADE.
REBEL GENERALS.
What Has Become of the Southern Leaders
and How the Living Ones Fare.

and How the Living Ones Fare.
Washington Letter in Boston Advertiser
OF those who are alive Beauregard and
Jubal Early are managers of the Louisiana
lottery. They get $100 900 EACH and so great
is the feeling still existing in the South over
their generals that one of the lottery manag-
ers 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 dapper creole gentle
man, and the Louislanans swear by him.
Early fought we'll. Longstreet comes to
Washington occasionally. He is United
States marshal in Georgia. but his magni6-
cent physique is showing the effects of his
wounds. In Mexico he and Grant were lieu
tenants in the same regiment. After the
war Grant induced him 10 join the Re
publican party. He has been under a
ban in the South ever since, but
never without the consolation of a good
office. l only remember one other prominent
rebel who is a Republican. McLaws was re-
constructed, and is postmaster at Savannah.
Lee used to say of McLaws's division that it
was always ready for a fight A good many
of them have drifted into politics on the
other side. Joseph Wheeler weight 107
pounds and the best cavalry officer next to
Stuart in rebeldom, is member of Congress
from Alabama. NJ. G. Butler and Wade
Hampton represent South Carolina in the
Senate. Butler lost his right leg at Brandy
Station in 1863 when Wade Hampton's son
vas 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 artil-
lery. 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 brigadier.general. In fact, of the ten
n, HI
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 Cad
mus Wilcox, one of the best heterogeneous
of Lees second corps
General Lees son, William H., succeeded
his father as president of the Washington
and Lee University in Virginia. His nephew,
Fitzhugh. 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 among the
best in Virginia. For Arlington, last winter,
Congress voted them $3.50 600, although it was
confiscated while Lee was in arms against the
flag. Another son, G. w. Gusts Lee, lives in
Virginia. All of these young men were cav
airy officers in the ) rmY of Virginia. r. II.
Hill lives somewhel IA Tlr.init hut no one
seems to know whore Ruct ncr. who was
man enough to STAY in Furi donaldson and
surrender with his men, is in Kentucky.
Last year he came near being nominated Tor
Governor over Proctor Knott. His wife in
herited a large estate in Chicago. At West
Point he and Rosecrans were close friends.
During the whole war the latter managed his
friends property and returned it to him af-
terward.
My friend took up the West Point Register,
and pointed out that of those of whom he
had spoken, all but Breckenridge, Forrest,
Price Taylor, Floyd, Pillow, Butler, Hamp-
ton, Malone and Cockrel were West Point
graduates and regular army men. I'VE had
perfect hegira of Southern officers in the
early days OF 1861" he added but the peo
pie at Washington did not seem anxious to
keep them and their designations were &C
cepted as fast as they were sent in. Not one
had to leave without his discharge. l only
know Que man among all those who joined
the rebels who laid himself open to the
charge of desertion. And with him it was
only a technical offence. Bee Robinson was
a captain in the dragons. He was Vir-
ginian and full of secession. HIS station was
out in Utah somewhere, and he sent in his
resignation, At the same time he started
east himself In some way they heard OF it
at headquarters and his application was re-
jected. He knew nothing of this and went
South. Not appearing. he was dismissed as
deserter; when hostilities finished he was
confederate brigadier, Since then he has
been an insurance agent; but when he sent
up his application for an amnesty it was re-
turned from the War Department because he
had not been discharged from the army. He
Davis and Toombs are the three who have
not been restored to their civil rights of all
those who went into the war for slavery and
secession"