The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-12-08
Nisren!'nes.
Our War Generals.

, closed, said an old army officer to me the
other dav, "but the Generals ri the war
are fast going out Of sight" Then he
i went on to say: Meade. Thomas, Hook
er, Garfield. Fitzpatrick. Burnside and Hal.
leck are dead. The next few wears will
see the lis, heightened. General Grant is
we'll on toward seventy. lie comes to
Was, n.ton often, and walks quietly abou,
| the streets. with his cigar in his mouth.
better dressed than when he was Pr.>i.
dent. and looking as il life agreed with him.
| Sherman 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
army leaders is Sheridan. nov to com.
| 'nand the army, and he is but fifty Lone.
She' idan was Major. General at thirty.
Fhz John Porter appears here every win
ter, white haired and broken in frame-a
little old gentleman, who looks back to
twenty years OF disgrace. His old com.
mahdcr, Mcclellan, now rotund man
with bending shoulders, has not changed
much OF late. He is rich and cn.er,ain>
we'll in his New York home bu, the activ,.
tv Of his life i, over. lie likes still to tel!
Of his camp sns. Pea>anton, III. hero Of
"A hundred cavalry fights, lives quietly here
and can BE- seen any day reading the pa
pers in one ct the Offices OF Newspaper
Row. His hair and ,noustache are " hite
and his voice as gentle as IL wonan's. You
can say the same OF Ro>ecrans, the idol OF
the army Of the Cumberland. He and his
wife live, almost unnoticrd, on Capitol Hill,
during the time he spends in performing
his duties as a California Congressman.
His complexion is like Youths and his
hair with military cut, as white as snow.
The man who commanded ioo,otx, men
at Chickamauga seems abashed at the con.
fusion in Congress and seldom rises to
speak. Generals Hawley and Logan are
the two other most distinguished Generals
in Congress. Both are ffty.seven years
old, 5ut neither has gray hair. General
Rosecrans will b. reinforced this winter BY
an old companion in the Western armies,
General Slocu,n, OF Brooklyn. He has
been in Congress before. He served, BIZ.
lieve, four years soon after the close Of the
war. General Sickles is practising 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; white
Humphreys, Hunter and Crittenden may
he seen any day about this city, where
they own fine houses and live Handsomely
on the retired list Fremont is no longer
rich. tie and his wife, Jessie Benton Ere.
mont, are forgotten in crowded New York.
The General whom the Vermont troops
worshipped. George J. Stennard. with one
arm gone and a half dczer 70, nds. sits at
the Capitol during tile session, tending the
door Of the members gallery of the House.
The Democrats promise that he shall not
be di.turbcd. He is SO inotfcnsive that the
pushing women almost overpower him on
days when crowd visit the Capitol, and
yet he saved the dav a. Getty burg, and
fell with three wounds while leading lo,
iorn hope at Petersburg. Mcdowell is on
the retired list; Don Carlos Bucl runs an
iron furnace in Kentucky; Banks is a Uni.
ted States Marshall; Hancock. Schotield
and Pope are still Major. Generals, but the
last Of them will retire in three years Gem
eral Howard is at Omaha, a Briyadier.
General Terry is the Youngest Of the Brig
adiers who won fame during the war.
With good luck he will succeed Sheridan
in command Of the army. Gen. Wright,
with benevol, mt face and patriarchal beard,
has turned from war to projects Of river
and harbor improvement. Gilmore, Parke
and Weitzei, once commanding corps and
armies, are now in charge Of lighthouses
and Notifications. Grierson, the famous
cavalry General Of the Western armies, is
brniling II: Texas, with the mounted color.
ed regiment which he commands. They
are all getting well on toward the down
ward track. In ten wears there will not be
a general officer OF the war in active lite"
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