Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-15
THE REBEL NERALS.

], The Great Majority or the Leaders or
the Southern Armies Dead-Pr
ent Occupations Of the Remainder
"reminiscences OF a West Pointer.
! FROM the Boston Advertiser.
| Washington, Dec. 8. Twenty years
ago the north kept in mind the leading
generals Of the rebel side, and discussed
their merits with as much interest as
was shown with the leaders of it's own
armies. Many Of them had been prom
inent in the regular army before the
war. Some were connected with north
ern families. "What has become of
these menu" I asked of an old West
Pointer and brilliant general officer
the Other day. He thought a
minute. "Why, the majority
Of them are dead, ;" was the reply:
Then he went on to take I'D sonle of
of those historic names. With many of
their owners he, had served in Mexico
and in India wars without number.
Eyes, the greater part of these m are
dead, muth larger proportion than of
our northern Generals. After the
war most of them broke down. The
fact was the rebels suffered more than
we did. They had harder time i'll the
to disease than our men Lee, Anderson,
Bragg, Magruder, Brock nridge, Hood,
| Forest, Price. Penn berton, Dick Taylor,
Pillow, Floyd, Hardee and EwelI we re
among them. The majority had been
in the regular army. They went,
| with the South for State pride
and in part because they were
frozen out. I shall not for
get Anderson. He was captain in the
! dragons out in Utah. When his resig-
nation was accepted and he went away
! from the rest of us, the tears were III
his eyes. II am going back to South
Carolina to raise hogs and hominy until
the war IS over" he said, Il will never
| fight the old flag" But in month tn.
tide was too strong for him. They made
him Military Governor Of Charleston
| and Corps commander in Lees army.
He died of a broken heart right after
the war. Lee never waited to resign,
but, like Johnston, he was made to feel
that the Northern officers distrustec
him. It was so with Johnston. In 1851
he was Qua1termaster General, bat old
Simon Cameron transacted all his bus
mess with subordinate officers. At last
Johnston went to him. "Mr Secretary"
he said, "you pay 10 attention to nue."
mo-" was the reply; ''you are a Vir-
glnian, and sympathizo with
the rebels Il do not answered John
ston, sbut shall resign, rather than be
ignored. 1t is not because | have any
desire to join the SOUTH Yet III three
commission in Dixie. Johnston is an
old MON ror NOT loco thoy, * Rrouv
died several years ago, at his home in
North Carolina. I knew him in the
Mexican war. He was captain of Artil-
lery then, and one Of the bravest men
in the army. But he was martinez,
and his men hated him. At Monterey
some of them hid 6 lighted six-ounce
she'll under his bed. The explosion
blew Bragg 10O feet and wrecked the
tent, but he was not hurt. And yetthey
had sort of pride. During the whole
war his old battery carried Bragg's Artil-
lery, on its guilons. Some Of the volun-
teers were mad about it, but in vain.
Magruder died ten years ago.
Forrest, the murderer OF negro
prisoners at Fort Pillow, lived only a
little while alter the surrender. So it
was with Ewell, Lees bravest lieu:en-
ant, who rode strapped to his saddle in
every compajgn after the first Bull Run,
where he lost leg. He was breveted
for bravery at Cherubusco, There was
Hardee tie was Lieutenant Colonel of
Dragons at 80, but he went south with
the rest. After the war he started the
first orange plantation in Florida, and
died there three or four years ago. Price
is dead. So is Dick Taylor. Taylor was
Jefferson Davis brother.in-law. and
+kuf
count. Pemberton lived out the remains
covered from his surrender to Grant at
Vicksburg. Of the few Northern men
who joined the rebels, he was one, but
his wife was Southern, and
carried him over. Another case was
Roswell Ripley, of Ohio. He was West
Point graduate, and did we'll in Mexico.
His wife was South Carolina woman,
That was the secret Of his choice. Dur.
ing the war he commanded Fort Sumter
and defended it bravely. I am told that
he and Quincy A. Gilmore were boys
together in the same neighborhoo1 IN
Ohio. If that was so, they must have
thought of it when Gilmore sat down on
Morris Island to shell Ripley out of
Sumter. Floyd, Buchanan's secretary
of war never CAME to the surface after
his midnight desertion # Fort Donel-
son. Pillow, his comrade in that trip,
lived on his plantation in Ten: essee
few years after hostilities ceased. He
had been a major general in the Next
can War, and did creditable service
there. believe lie was President
Folks law partner, and got the appoint
ment that way. The Quickest man in
the war was George Pickett
He was young Second Lieutenant just
from the adademy in 1846, and was as
signed to department IN Washington
Territory of which old Gen. Harvey. was
in command. We were Quarreiing then
over the boundary. Harvey put Pickett
On San Juan Island, which connects Pu-
get Sound. He cid it against an Eng
!ish squadron, and it has never been
lost. Pickett commanded a division at
Gettysburg under Longstreet. His as
eault of the third day was the greatest
charge of the fight. His men fought
with mine about our guns We drove
them back. but Pickett came ne'rer WIN
ming that fight than it is pleasant to
think of. Yes, he is dead.
Z "Of those who are alive, Beauregard
and Jubal Early are managers of the
Louisiana lottery. They get $4,000
each, and so great is the feeling still ex-
ietingsin the South over their generals,
that one of the lottery managers told
me the other day that their names were
worth more to the company than their
salaries. Both of them were West
Pointers and artillery officers, but Beau
regars1 never was q soldier. He is a
dapper Creole gentleman, and the
Louisianians swear by him. Early
| fought well. Longstreet comes to Wash
ington occasionally. rio is United
States Marshal in Georgia, but his mag
nifcent physique is showing, the effects
a his wounds. In Mexico he and Grant
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