Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-04
CONFEDERATE OFFICIALS.
The Whereabouts of the Cabinet officers
of the Late Seceders.

Inc w nGIeaOOuAs OA the OhNCAS
of the Late Seceders.
The serious illness of Congressman
Reagan, who was Postmaster General of
the Confederate Government, says a
Washington letter of the Goth inst, to the
Cincinnati IiDaes-Stdr, suggests some in
quiries regarding the whereabouts of
other members of that organization. AL
though the Confederate Government was
but five years in existence it had numer-
Gus Cabinets. There were no less than
three Secretaries of State, five Secretaries
of War, two Secretaries of the Treasury,
and a third who was acting Secretary, and
three Attorney Generals.
OF the Secretaries Of State Judah p.
Benjamin was, of course, the most cele-
brated. He is still living, as is well
known, abroad. He has made his fortune
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
something wonderful, and the fortune
which he has accumulated in the twenty
years since the war is a very large one.
He has closed up his law business, how
ever, having made money enough and
news just now comes that he has gone to
Paris to live permanently.
Bob ToOmbs, who was another Secretary
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home. He is a wealthy old man, still as
full Of eccentricities as when years agohe
announced that he expected to call his
roll Of slaves ON Bunker Hill. He has re-
tired from the active pursuits of life, hav-
ing an ample fortune, and, as has recent
" been announced, been baptized and be-
come 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 luxury which wealth and
long and varied experience could supply.
Il. NJ. Il. Hunter, of Virginia, was an
other Secretary of State Of the COnfeder-
acy. He tools still living in his old State,
Virginia. His post office address is
Lloyds, Essex county, Va. He is in bad
health and 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. George w.
Randolph, of Virginia, who was Secretary
of War in 1862; j. A. Sedden, also of Xir-
ginia, who was Secretary of War
in 1862, and j. 5. Breckenridge,
who succeeded 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 Jesse
James cases in that State, and is very
prominent in Alabama as lawyer and
an hOnored citizen.
John A. Campbell, who was for con-
siderable time Acting Secretary of War,
is now aresident Of Baltimore. Mr.. Camp
bell was Judge in the Supreme Court at
the breaking out of the war, and resigned
because of his sympathy with the rebel
lion and connected himself actively with
the cause. He represented the Confeder-
acy at the national conference between
President Lincoln and the members of the
Confederate Government at Fortress Mon
roe during the war, and was active as an
official and an adviser of that government
during the entire period of its existence
Though in his 73d year, he is still an active
citizen and highly honOred.
There were but two Secretaries of the
Treasury, 9. G. Memminger, of South
Carolina, and George A. Trenholm. Mr.
Memminger still lives in his old State, and
practices law at his home in Charleston.
G.. A. Trenholm, who succeeded Mem
minger in 1864, is dead. Judge Reagan was
also Acting Secretary of War for a short
time.
Though the Confederacy had not much
OF a navy, it had Navy Department. S.
r. Mallory, of Florida, was the Secretary
Of the Navy. He died several years ago.
The law department of the Confederacy,
or the Attorney Generals office, had three
incumbents during the existence of that
organization: Thomas Bragg, of North
Carolina; Thomas III. Watts, of Alabama,
and George +. Davis, of North Carolina.
Mr.. Watts still lives in his old State. with
his residence at Montgomery, and is
successful 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 q great admirer of Gen. Lee, and
entertained that gentleman on his last
visit to North Carolina.
The Post Office Department was pre-
sided over by one man from the beginning
to the end of the Confederacy, John II.
Reagan. He retired from Congress at the
beginning of the war, having already
served two terms in that body, and was
elected with others in 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 Postmaster
General Of the Provisional Government of
the Confederacy and was reappOinted on
the permanent organization of the
Confederate Government in 1862,
and occupied that position to
the close Of the war. OF the Confederate
Congress five members are now in the
Congress of the United States. Vest, OF
Missouri, who was a Senator in the Con-
federacy, is in the United States Senate.
Pugh, of Alabama, who was a member Of
the Confederate House, is now in the
Senate. Garland, of Arkansas, who was
a member of both House and Senate in
the Confederacy, is now in the Senate,
while Singleton and Barksdale, Of Missis-
sippi, who were members of the Confede-
rate House, are now in the House of the
Forty-eighth Congress.