The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-06
tosrEDEn.TE DAYS.
The Officers OF JET Davis Cabinet md
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Wuhing.on C0rrruEOadtn. Baltimore american.
The %Berious Illness Of Congressman
Reagan, OF Texas, who was Postmaster
General Of the Confederate Government,
suggeuts some inquiriea regarding the
whereabouts Of other numbers Of that or.
gnniza,ion. Although the Confederate
Government waA but five years in exist.
ence, it had numerous cabinets. There
were no less than three Secretaries Of State,
five Secretaries Of War, two Secretaries Of
tho Treasury, md a third, who was Acting
Secretary, and three Attorney Generals. OF
the SeCretaticg OF State, Judah p. Benjamin
WINS, OF course, tho most celebrated. lie 10
living, as Ii well known, abroad. Bob
Toombs, who WAS another Secretary oil
State, lives in Georgia, his old homo. He
Is n wealthy old man, as full OF ecccntrici.
ties M when, years ago, he announced that
he expected 10 call his roll OF alayes on
Bunker Hill. lie has retired from tho
active pursuits Of lie, having an ample
fortune. r. NJ. I. Hunter, Of Virginia, was
another Secretary Of State In tho Conied.
eracy. He, too, IL still living In his old
State. lie Is in bad health, and an old and
broken nun.
The Secretaries Of War have not escaped
the scythe OF the grim reaper as success.
fully as have tho Secretaries OF State, three
out OF four OF them being dead. George
W. Randolph, Of Virginia, who was Secre.
tAry OF Warm 1862; J. A. Sedden, also OF
Virginia. who was Secretary OF War in
1868, and ]. S. Breckenridge, who sue.
ceeded him in 1866, are oil dead. l.. Pope
Walker, Of Alabama, the first Secretary oil
War, Is still living in bis old State, where
he practices his professionalism OF a law
yer-very successfully. John A. Camp.
bell, who was for q considerable timo Act.
ing Secretary OF War, is now n resident Of
Baltimore. uo represented the Conied-
oraCy a! the noted conference between
President Lincoln and tho members OF the
Confederate Government ut Fortress Mon.
roe during the war, and was active as an
official aud M adviser Of that Government
during the entire period Of its existence.
Though in his seventy.third year, he ia
still al active citizen, and highly honoied
for bis integrity.
} There were but two secretaries OF the
| treasury-C. G.. Memminger, OF South
. Carolina, and George A. Trenholm. Mr..
Memmirger still lives in his old state, and
practices law at his home in Charleston,
! &. A. Trenholm, who succeeded Mem.
mipger in 1854. ia dead. Judge Reagan
| was also acting secretary oil war for a short
T., time. Though the C%ontederacy had not
much OF O navy, it had a navy depart
ment. s.. r. Mallory, OF Florida, was the
} secretary Of the navy. lie died several
, yearN
The law department OF the Confederacy,
or the Attorney Generals Office, had three
incumbents during the existence OF that
, organization-Thomss Bragg, Of North
Carolins Thomas II. Watts, Of Alabama,
and George L. Davis, OF North Carolina.
Mr.. Watts still lives in his old State, hold.
ing his residence at Montgomery, and is Il
successful and prominent lawyer Of that
city. Mr.. Davis continues a resident OF hia
own State-North Carolina-liying at Viii
mington, where he practices law and talks
about the old war times with his old friends,
who gather about him. The Postoilice Do
partlnent was presided over by one man
from the beginning to the end OF the Con-
federacy, and that was John II. Reagan,
who is now, perhaps, on his deathbed.-Oi
the Confederate Congress, five members
are now in the Congress Of the United
States. Vest, Of Missouri, who was a Sena,
tor in the C%oniederacy, is in the Senate
Pugh, OF Alabama, and Garland, OF ar.
kansas, also in the Senate, and Singleton
and Barksdale, Of Miesigsippi, who were
both members Of the Confederate House,
are in the House.