The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-07-10
CONFEDERATE CHIEFS.
Washington letter.

disappeared. But those OF nlgnef
rank who survive are getting along
well. OF the five field generals of the
Confederate. army, ]. E. johnson and
Beauregard survive. General John
ston is the general agent of promi-
nent New York insurance company,
and General Beauregard is the adju-
tant general Of the Stats Of Louisiana
(where he has created the finest body
of militia for its numbers in Ameri-
cay. He is also one of the commits
sioners for the liquidation of one of
the old Louisiana state banks, be-
sides which he has other business
connections. There were twenty
one lieutenant generals in the Con-
federate army from first to last, and
all of these were from the U. s.,
armybut four, viz: Richard Taylor,
N. B. Forrest, Wade Hampton, and
Jno b. Gordon. Ofthem the follow
ing are living: II. II. Hill, who is
in North Carolina; Stephen Lee,
Early, Buckner, Wheeler and A. p.
Stewart, besides the two not from
the old United States army men
toned above. Gustavus W. Smith is
the ranking major general llving,and
was State Commissioner of insur-
ancc in Kentucky. W. T. Martin
lives in Natchez, and is railroad
president. e. C. Field and L. l.. Lo-
max are in Florida, and both are in
the employ of United States corps of
engineers. Marmaduke johnson is
in st. Louis, and is wealthy. Will
liam Preston lives in Kentucky, and
has fortune he inherited. lIumes
lives in Memphis, Tenn. Writ Adj
ans is an agent for Mississippi, and
lives at jackson. Frank Armstrong
lives here and in st. Louis, and is
connected with the Gould system of
railroads in the southwest. Church.
hill was governor of Arkansas, and
lives at Little Rock. Colquitt was
governor of Georgia, and is United
States senator-elect from that State.
Colston has returned from Egypt, and
is living somewhere in Virginia.
Dibrell is a member of Congress
from Tennessee. Lyon, who COM
manded one of Forests, divisions a
while, lives in Eddyville, Ky. / do
not know what Mackall, who was a
brigadier- general and, chief of Gen.
Bragg's staff, is doing, but l believe
he lives in Georgia. MCGOWAN is u
member of the supreme court OF
South Carolina. Miles, W. r. is a
cotton planting magnate on the va
ZOO river in Mississippi X. A. Pryor
is a prosperous lawyer in New York,
and mirabile dictu, l hear he is an
enthusiastic advocate Of Governor ID.
f. Butlerfor the presidency. Ripley,
aOld Rip as he was called, was in
London, the agent of an American
rifle company, and Roddy is there
with him. John G. Walker is in
Mexico and is getting rich in silver
mining, and Holmes is his partner.
VIM. G. Wickham is n prominent
railroad man and Republican in Vir'
ginia. OF the three Lees who Were
generals, Custis-who was Mr.. Davis
chief of staff-is the president Of the
Washington and Lee college in Vir'
ginia: VIM. Henry Fitzhugh Lee
generally called "Rvney,n is a planter
and is prosperous on a fine estate
| Fitzhugh Lee, cousin of the Others
and a famous calvary officer, own
the "Ravenswoods' estate, on the Po
tomac. about fifty miles below Wash
Ting, where he is living like a fin
Virginia planter of the olden time
Robert Lee the generals younges
; son, who served in. the rank
] a greater part of the war, live
on the James river, and owns hand
some estate there. Longsireet live
at Gainesville, Ga, and is United
States marshal. General Earl
! practices law at Lynchburg. Leiuten
ant-General A. P. Stewart is presi
dent of the University of Mississippi
at Oxford, and Leiutenant-Generi
T S. d. Lee is president of another Mis-
sissippi institution of learning. II. 1
and Patterson Anderson are dead
, General b. Frank Cheatham is tn
: experimenting commissioner OF IN
: Tennessee penitentiary. rGeneal Bat
is governor at Tennessee, and W. ii
or 'Red" jackson one Of Forrest
l division commanders, is living nes
!, Nashville on a magnificent plant'
7 tion. General Wheeler, who con
3 manded all of General Johnson's cay
y elry, is planter in North Alabam
a General Lawton, the Quartemastel
General of she Confederacy, is leat
y ing member of the Savannah, Ca, ba
t and General Gorgas, the Confedera
I chief of ordinance, died in Alabam
$ the other day. Cockrell, the rankir
J, Confederate general from Missoul
Q is a United States senator.
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