Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20
OLD WAR GENERALS.
Those That are Now Living ana Their Present
Pursuits,

"Only eighteen years ago that the re-
bclion closed, said an old army officer
to me the other day, s.but the generals
of the war are fast going out of sight.
Then he went on to say. Mead, Thomas
Hooker, Garfield, Fitzpatrick, Burnside
and Hallock are dead. The next few
years will see that list heightened.
General Grant is we'll gu toward seV-
enty. He comes to Washington and
walks quietly about the. streets. with
his cigar in his mouth, better dressed
than when he was President and look
ing as if life agreed with him. Sher
man 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 COM
mand the ARMY, and he Is but fifty-one.
Sheridan was a ,najor-general at thirty.
Fitz-John Porter appears here. every
winter, white-haired ana broken II
frame-a little old gentleman who
looks back to twenty years of disgrace.
His old commander, Mcclellan, now a
rotund man with bending 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. Pleasohtoh, the hero of a
hundred cavalry fights, lives quietly
here; and can be found any day read
Ing the papers in one of the Offices on
Newspaper row. His hair and rloiis-
tache' are white and his voice gentle as
{ Worian's. Yot can Say the same Of
Rosecrans, the idol of the army CT the
Cumberland He and his wife live, al
most unnotieed, on Capitol Hill during
the time he spends here performing
his duties as California Congress-
man. His complexion is like youths,
and his hair, with a military cut, white
as snow. The man who commanded
10000 men at Chicamauga seems
ahashed at the confusion in Congress,
and seldom rises to speak. Generals
Hawley and Logan are the two other
most distinguished generals in Con-
gress Both are tifty-seven years old,
but neither has gray hair. General
Rosecrans will be REINFORCED this win
ter by an old companion in the Western
armies. General 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 California.
Doubleday, who was in Fort Sumter
when it was fired upon, lives in New
York and is writing book, while
Humphreys, Hunter and Crittenden
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. Jessie Benton Fremont. are for
general whom the Vermont troops wor-
shipped, George j. Stannard, with one
arm gone and half dozen wounds,
sits up at the Capitol during the ses-
sion, tending the door of the members
gallery of the House. The democrats
promise that he shall not be disturbed.
He is SO inoffensive that the pushing
women almost overpower him on days
when crowd visits 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 Buell.,
l uiIS all NON III ItCubuChl
Banker is a United States Marshall;
Hancock, Schoheld and Pope are still
major generals, but the last of them
will retire in three years; General How
ard is at Omaha, a brigadier; General
Terry is the youngest of the brigadiers
who won fame in the war. With good
luck he will succeed Sheridan in COM
mand of the army. General Wright,
with benevolent face and patriarchal
beard, has turned from war to projects
of river and harbor improvement. Gill
more, Parke and Weitzel, once COM
corps and armies, are now in
charge Of lighthouses and fortifica-
tions. Grierson, the famous cavalry
general of the Western armies, is broil- !
ing in Texas with the mounted colored |
regiment which he commands. They |
are all getting well on toward the down
ward track. In ten years there will not
be general officer of the war in active |
life. = Washington Correspondence Bos-
ton IdrertjSer.