The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-05-15
THE CONFEDERATE CABINET.
WHERE TEE SOUTHERN PRESIDENTS
COUNsELORs ARE NOW. e..

| So'he VI Auem serving the Federal Gov
ernment, Some In Private Life, and
Some Conc to their Last Account.
WASHINGTON, May 8.-The recent
illness OF Congressman Reagan, of
Texas, who was Postmaster General
of the Confederate government, sug-
gests soTte inquiries. regarding the
whereabouts of other members of the
organization. Although the Confed-
crate government was but five years
in existence, it had numeroug cabi-
nets. There were no less that three
Secretaries of State, five Secretaries
OF War, two Secretaries of the Treas
ury, and third, who was acting
Secretary and three Attorneys General
Or tho Secretaries of State, Judah p.
Benjamin was, of course, the most
celebrated. He became widely known
In Europe. He made his fortune in
the practice of law in London. The
stories which have reached hero of his
success in law in the greatest city in
tho world are something wonderful,
and the fortune which he accumulated
in the twenty years since the war is q
largo one. lie closed up his law busi-
ness, however, having made money
enough, and news just now comes that
nc died in Paris on the 9TH inst, in
the sevcnty-third year of his age.
| Gen. Robt. Toombs, who was am
other Secretary of State, still lives in
Georgia, his old home. He is q wealthy
old man, still rs full of eccentricities
rs when, years ago, he announced that
| he expected to call his roll of slaves on
Bunker Hill. He has retired from
active pursuits of life, having all ample
fortune, and has, as recently an
nounccd, been baptized and become a
member OF the Methodist church, Of
which his wife, now deceased, was for
years an honored member. His beau
tlful Southern homo is surrounded by
| every comfort and luxury which
wealth and long and varied cxperi-
cnce could supply. II. Nj. r.. Hunter,
OF Virginia, was another Secretary Of
State of the Confederacy. lie, too, is
still living in his old State. Ills post
office address is Lloyd's, Essex county,
Virginia. He is in bad health, and an
old and very broken man.
The Secretaries of War have not
escaped the scythe of the grim rcapcr
rs successfully as have the Secretaries
of State, three out Of four of them
being dead. George w. Rudolph, of
Virginia, who was Secretary of War
in 1862; j. a. Seldom, also of Vir-
ginia, who was Secretary of War in
1868, and j. S. breckenridge, who sue
cccdcd him in 1865, all are dead.
l.. Pope Walker, of Alabama, the first
Secretary of War, is still living in his
OLD State. His home is at Huntsville,
where hc practices his profession
that OF a lawycr--very successfully,
lie has just become prominently be-
fore the public in the trial of the Jesse
James cases in that State; but he has
always been prominent in Alabama as
lawyer and an honorcd citizen. John
a. Campbell, who was for consider
able 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,
but resigned because of his sympathy
with the rebellion and connected him
self actively with that cause. He
represented the Confedcracy at the
noted conference between President
Lincoln and the members of the Con-
1edcratc government at Fortress Mon
roc during the war, and was active as
an official and an adviser of that gov
crnmcnt during the entire period Of its
existence. Though in his seventy
third year, he is still an active citizen,
and highly honorcd for his integrity.
There were but two Secretaries of
the Trcasury--C. G. Mcmminecr. of
South Carolina, and George A. Trcn-
holm. Mr.. Memminger still lives in
his old State, and practices law at his
home in Charleston. G.. A. Trenholm.
who succeeded Mcmminger in 1864, is
dead. Judge Reagan was also acting
Secretary of the Treasury for short
Though the Confcdcracy had not
much OF navy, it had navy DEPART
ment. S. II. 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 incumbcnts during the cx-
isiencc ot that organization: Thomas
bragg, or North Carolina; Thomas III.
Watts, of Alabama; and George e.
Davis, of North Carolina. Mr.. Watts
still lives in his old State, holding his
residence at Montgomery, and is q
successful and prominent lawyer OF
that city. Mr.. Davis continues a resi-
dent of his own State-North Carolina
Living at Wilmington, where he prac-
ticcs law and talks about old war times
with his friends, who gather about
him. lie was n great admirer of Gen.
Lee, and entertained that gentleman
on his last visit to North Carolina.
The postOfiicc department was pre-
sided over by one man from tho begin
ming to the end Of the Confederacv,
and that man was John II. Reagan.
lie retired from Congress at the begin
ming of the war, having already served
TWO terms in that body, and was elect
ed, with others, to the secession con-
Tyention of Texas. BY that convention
nc was elected deputy t, the Provi-
Slonal Congress Of the Confcdcracy.
IN March, Of the same year, Inc was
appointea Postmastcr-Gencral of tic
1cdcracy, was rcaDpOintcd unon tbo