Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-12

only nineteen years ago that the rebellion
closed, said an old army officer To me the
other day, 'but the generals OF the war are
fast going out OF sight. Then he went on to
say, "Meade, Thomas, Hooker Garfield, Kill
patrick, Burnside and IIalecl are dead. The
next few years will see that list heightened.
General Grant is well on towards seventy. He
comes to Washington often, and walks quietly
about the streets, with his cigar in his mouth,
better dressed than when he was president. and
looking as if lie agreed with him. Sherman
Is sixty -four. ami he looks older, bu, the family
is hard, and he is likely to see 1900. The
youngest OF all the great leaders is Sheridan.
now commanding the army and he is but fifty
one. Sheridan was a major-genera at thirty,
Fiu John Porter appears here every winter.
white haired and broken in frame-a little old
gentleman who looks back 10 twenty years oi
disgrace. His old commander. Mcclellan,
now rotund man with bending shoulders. has
not changed much Of late. He is rich, and
entertains well in his New York city home,
but the activity Of his life is over. lie likes
still To tell Of his campaigns. Pieasanton, the
hero of 4 hundred cavalry fights, lives qutely
here, and can be found any day reading the
papers in one of the offices on Newspaper Row
His hair and moustache are white and his voice
gentle as woman's. You can say the same
of Rosecrans, the idol OF the Army of the
Cumberland. He and his wife live, almost
unnoticed, on Capitol HILL during the time he
spends here performing his duties as Cali.
fornia congressman. His complexion is like a
youths, and his hair, with military cut, white
as snow. The man who commanded one hun.
dred thousand men at Chicamauga seems abash-
ed at the confusion in congress, and seldom
rises to speak. Generals IIawley and Logan
are the two other most distinguished Generals
in congress. Both are ifty.scven years old
but neither has a gray hair.
General Rosecrans has been reinforced this
season by an old companion in the Western
armies, General Slocum of Brooklyn. He has
been once in congress before. lie served,
believe, four years soon after the close of the
war. General Sickles is practicing 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 wr.
ting book; while Humphreys, Hunter and
Crittenden may be seen any day about this city,
where they own fine houses and livchandsomc.
y on the retired list Fremont is no cngcr
rich. He and his wife, Jessie Ben "a FIRE.
mont, are forgotten in crowded New York
The general whom the Vermont troops wor-
shipped, George ]. Stennard, with on, 1.m
gone, and a half dozen wounds, sits up
the capitol during the session, tending
door of the members gallery Of the house.
The Democrats promise that he shall not be
disturbed. He is so inofensive that the push
ing women almost overpowcr him on day
when a crowd visits the capitol; yet he
saved the day al Gettysburg, and fell with
three wounds while leading forlorn hope at
Petersbugh. Mcdowell is on the retired list /;
Don Carlos Buell. runs an iron furnace in Ken
lucky; Banks is United-States marshal. Han
cock, Schofeld and Pope are still najor-gen-
erals, but the last OF then will retire in three
years. General Howard is at Omaha, brig
adler. General Terry is the youngest of the
brigadiers who won the fame in war Gen.
eral Wright, with benevolent face and patriar.
chal beard, has turned from war to projects of
river and ialborimprovement Gilmore, Parke
and Weitzel, once commanding corps and ar
mics, are now in charge Of lighthouses and for
tihcations. Grierson, the famous cavalry gen.
eral Of the Western armies, is broiling in Texas
with the mounted colored regiment which he
commands. They are all getting well on to-
ward the downward track In ten years there
wllnot be general officer OF the war in active
life. - Washington Correspondence Boston At
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