The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-12-19
Our War Generals.

closed" said an old army officer to me
the other day, but the Generals Of the
war are fast going out of sight" Then
he went on to say: Meade, Thomas,
Hooker, Garfield, Fitzpatrick, Burnside
and Halleck are dead. The next few
years will see the list heightened. Cen
eral Grant is well on toward 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
and he looks older, but the family is
hardy and he is likely to see 1900. The
youngest of all the great army leaders is
Sheridan, now to command the army,
and he is but fitty-one. Sheridan was
Major-General at thirty. Fitz John Por-
ter appears here every winter, white
haired and broken in frame-a little old
gentleman, who looks back to twenty
years of disgrace. His old commander,
Mcclellan, now round man with bend
ing shoulders, has not changed much of
late. He is rich and entertains well in
his New York 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 seen any day reading
the papers in one of the offices of News
paper Row. His hair and mustache are
white and his voice as gentle as a
woman's. You can say the same of Rose
Grams, the idol Of the army of the Cum
berland. He and his wife live, almost
unnoticed, no Capitol Hill, during the
time he spends in performing his duties
as California Congressman. His COM
plexion is like a youths and his hair
with a military cut, as white as snow.
The man who commanded 100000 men
at Chickamauga seems abashed at the
confession in Congress ana seldom rises
to speak. Generals Hawley and Logan are
the two other most distinguished Cen
erals in Congress. Both are fiity-seven
years DID, but neither has gray hair.
General Rosecrans will be reinforced this
winter by an old companion in the West
ern armies, General Slocun, of Brooklyn.
He has been in Congress before. He
served, believe, four years soon after
the close of the war. General Sickles is
practising law in New York, Md Stone
man is Governor of California. Double
day, who was in Fort Snnter when it
was fired upon lives in New York and is
writing ok; while Humphreys, Hun
ter and Crittendrn may be seen any day
about this city, where they own fine
houses and live handsomely ON the re-
tired list Fremont is 10 longer rich.
He and his wife, Jessie Benton Fremont
are forgotten in crowded New York. The
General whom the Vermont troops wor-
shipped, George J. Stennard, with one
arm gone and half dozen wounds, sits
at the Capitol during the session, tend
ing the door of the members gallery of
the House. The Democrats promise that
he shall MT be disturbed He is SO in
offensive that the pushing women almost
overpower him on days when a crowd
visit the Capitol, and yet he saved the
day at Gettysburg, and fell with three
wounds while leading forlorn hope at
Petersburg Mcdowell is on the retired
list; Don Carlos Buel runs an iron fur
mace in Kentucky; Banks is United
States Marshal; Hancock, Schofeld and
Pope are still Major-Generals, but the
last of them will retire in three years.
General Howard is at Omaha, Brigadier
General Terry is the youngest Of the
Brigadiers who won fame during the war.
With good luck he will succeed Sheridan
in command of the army Gen. Wright,
with benevolent face and patriarchal
beard, has turned from war to projects of
river and harborimprovement. Gilmore,
Parke and Weitzel, once commanding
corps and armies, are now in charge of
lighthouses and Notifications. Grierson,
the famous cavalry General Of the West
ern armies, is broiling in Texas, with the
mounted colored regiment which he
commands. They are all getting we'll on
toward the downward track. In ten
years there will not be General officer
of the war in active life.'-Udsh Corr.
Boston Adsrt;ser.