Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-22
JEFF DAVIS CABINET.
The Survivors, Their Homes and Occupa-
tions-BeBjamin, TOOmbs, Reagan, and
Others.

acknowledgements, TOOmbs, Reagan, and
Others.
A correspondent of the st. Louis Post
Dispatch writes: The serious illness Of
Congressman Reagan, who was Post
master General of the Confederate Gov
eminent, suggests some inquiries regard
ing the Whereab bouts of other members of
that organization Although the Conied-
crate Government was but five years in
existence, it had numerous cabinets.
There were no less than three Secretaries
of State, five Secretaries of War, two Sec
retaries of the Treasury, and one
Acting Secretary, and three Attorneys
General OF the Secretaries of State Ju-
dab P. Benjamin was, ofcourSe, the most
celebrated. He is still living, as is well
known, abroad. He has made his for
tune in the practice of law in London,
and large one it is, too. The stories
which have reached here of his success
in law in the greatest city IN the world
are wonderful, and the fortune which he
has accumulated. in the twenty years
since the war is very large one. He
has closed up his law business, however,
having made money enough, and news
lust now comes that he has gone to Par
is to live permanently.
Bob Toombs, who was another Secre-
tary of State, still lives in Georgia, his
old home. He is a wealthy old man,
still as full of eccentricities as when
years ago he announced that he expect
ed to call his roll of slaves on Bunker
Hill. He has retired from the active
pursuits of life, having an ample fortune,
and has, as recently announced, been
baptized and become a member of the
Methodist church, of which his wife,
now deceased, was for years an honored
member. His beautiful southern home
is surrounded by every comfort and lux
ury which wealth and long and varied
experience could supply.
r. NJ. Z. Hunter, of Virginia, was an
other Secretary of State of the Confeder-
acy. He, too, is still living in his old
State, Virginia. His postoffice address
is LlOyds, Essex county, Va. He is an
old and very broken man.
The Secretaries of War have not es-
capped the scythe Of the grim reaper as
successfully as have the Secretaries of
State, for all of the latter are still living.
OF the Secretaries of War, however,
three out of four are dead. Geo. w.
Randolph, of Virginia, who was Secre-
tary of War in 1862, J. A. Seldom, also
of Virginia, who was Secretary of War
in 1862, and ]. G. Breckenridge, who sue
ceeded him in 1865, are all dead.
L. Pope Walker, of Alabama, the first
Secretary of War, is still living in his old
State. His home is at Huntsville, where
he practices his profession, that of law
yer, very successfully. He has just come
to the surface in the trial of the Frank
James case in that State, and is very
prominent in Alabama as a lawyer and
an hOnOred citizen. John A. Campbell,
who was for a considerable time acting
Secretary of War, is now resident of
Baltimore. Mr.. Campbell was a Judge
IN the Supreme court at the breaking out
of the war, and resigned because of his
sympathy with the Rebellion, and con-
nected himself actively with the cause.
He represented the Confederacy at the
noted conference between President
Lincoln and the members of the Confed-
crate Government at Fortress Monroe
during the war, and was active as an Off
cial and adviser Ofthat Government dur
ing the entire period of its existence.
Though in his 73d year, he is still an act
i've citizen and highly honOred.
There were but two Secretaries of the
Treasury, G. @. Memminger of South Car
DINA, and Geo. A. Trenholm. Mr.. Mem
minger still lives in his old State and
practices law at his home in Charleston.
q. A. Trenholm, who succeeded Mem
minger in 1864, is dead. Judge Reagan
was also acting Secretary of War for a
had not much of a navy it had a Navy
Department. S. R. Mallory, of Florida,
was the Secretary Of the Navy. He died
several years ago.
The law department of the Confed-
eracy, or the Attorney Generals Office,
had three incumbents during the. exist
ence Of that OrganiZation-Thoma
Bragg, of North Carolina, Thomas III.
Watts, of Alabama, and George E. Davis,
of North Carolina. Mr. Watts, of Ala
bama, still lives in his old StateAwith his
residence at Montgomery, and is a sue
cessful and prominent lawyer in that
city. Mr.. Davis continues as a resident
of his own State-North Carolina-living
at Wilmington, where he practices law
and talks about the old war times with
his old friends who gather about him He
was great admirer of Gen. Lee, and en-
tertained that gentleman on his last visit
to North Carolina.
The Postofice Department was presid-
ed over by one man from the beginning
to the end of the Confederacy-John 81.
Reagan. He retired from Congress at
the beginning of the war, having already
served two terms in that body, and was
elected with others to the Secession Con-
vention of Texas. By that convention
he was elected deputy to the Provisional
Congress of the COnfederacy. In March
of that year he was appointed Postmas-
ter General of the Provisional Govern
ment of the Confederacy, and was reap
pointed on the permanent organization
Of the Confederate Government in 1852
and occupied that position to the close
of the war. Of the Confederate Con-
gress five members are now in the Con-
gress of the United States. Vest of Mis-
souri,, who was a Senator in the Confed-
eracy, is now in the United States SEN
ate; Pugh, of Arkansas, who was mem
Der Of the Confederate House, is now in
the Senate; Garland, of Arkansas, who
was a member of both House and SEN
ate in the Confederacy, is now in the
Senate, while Singleton and Barksdale, of
Mississippi, who were members of the