Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-17
The OLD GENERALS.
x,,,, Rse,ms Of Them After the w.r-oe
esD,,ions Of the suri'o"-Rs"'"'''
eeoess of a West Pointer
us.l;nnton Co,respondenoe.

r,ro,,v wears ago the North Kept 10
mind the leading Generals on the isoe,
tide aud discussed their merits WIN -
n'ucb interest rs was shown In the teau'
- NJ ;,sowu armies. Many OF tnen
hsd been prominent in the regular
INV before the war. Some were con.
n, cted with Northern families. "Wna'
has taoome of these menu" asked an
IA w,st Pointer and brilliant general
e;.,, the other day. He thought d
minute. "why, the majority OF them
.,e dead" was the reply. Then lie
went ON to take up some of those MS
,n,ic names. With many OF their own
ON he had served in Mexico and IN In
dian WAITS without numbers. yes
the greater part Of these men are DEAD
a much larger proportion than OF our
Nor,hern Generals. After the war
mcs. of them broke down. The fact
uas. the rebels suffered more than We
did. They had q harder time In the
field, lived poorly and were more dis'
nosed to disease than our men. Lee,
Anderson, Bragg, Magruder, Breckln-
ridge, Hood, Pickett, Forrest, pfice'
p.mbe rton, Dick Taylor, Pillow,
FlnI d, Hsrdee and Ewell were among
hem. The majority had been In the
r.rnIar army. They went with the
south for State pride, and in part be.
-, trn,an ont / shAll not
fn,ret Anderson. He was Q captain In
the dragons out In Utah. Wheh nus
resignation was accepted anu ne Weus
away from the rest OF US, the tears were
in his eyes. Il an going BACK tocoutn
Carolina to raise hogs and homihy un'
III The war is over, he said, i Will nsver
fight Che old flag But In month tue
tide was too strong for him. fney
made him Military Governor OF Charles.
ton and a corps commander III Lee
army. He died OF q broken heart right
after the war. Lee never waited to re-
sign. but, like Johnston, he was made
10 feel that the Northern officers dis
trusted him. 1t was so with
johnston,
In 1861 he was Quartermsster- General,
tut old Simon Cameron transacted all
his business with subordinate officers.
At last johnson went to him. 'Mr.
Secretary, he said, you pay no atten-
ton to me- No. was the reply, you
are VIrginian, and sympathize with
the rebels Il do not answered john
ston. but / shall resign, rather than be
ignored. 1t Is not because | have any
dt sire to join the South Yet In three
m, ntbs lie had drifted into a Generals
commission In Dixie. Johnston Is al
old man now, not less than seventy
five. Brogg died several years ago az
his home in North Carolina. / knew
him in the Mexican war. He was
captain of artillery 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 o six
ounce lighted shell under his bed. The
explosion blew Bragg one hundred feet
and wrecked the tent, but he was not
hurt. And yet they had sort OF pride
in him. During the whole war his old
battery carried 'Bragg's Artillery on
its guidons. Some OF tho volunteers
were mad about 1t, but In vain. Ma
gruder died ten years ago. Forrest, the
low, lived only q little while after the
surrender. SO 1t was with Ewell' Lees
bravest lieutenant, who rode strapped
to his saddle in every campaign after
the first Bull Run, where he lost q ley.
He was breveted for bravery at Cher
rubusco. There WAS Hardee. He was
Lieutenant. Colonel OF Dragons at
80, but be went South with the rest.
After the war he started the first orange
plantation in Florida, and died there
three or four years ago. Prince Is dead.
So is Dick Taylor. Taylor was Jeffer-
son Davis's brother-in-law, and made
Lieutenant General on that account.
Pemberton lived out the remnant Of
his days at Philadelphia. Henever re-
covered from his surrender to Grant ut
Nicksburg. fthe few Northern mon
who Joined the rebels he was one, but
his wife was Southern and carried him
over. Another case was Roswell Rip
ley OF Ohio. He was West Point
graduate, and did we'll In Mexico. His
wife was q South Carolina woman.
That was the secret Of his choice. Dur.
ing the war he commanded Fort Sum-
ter, and defended II bravely. am told
that be and Quincy A. Gilmore were
boys together In the same neighb0r
hood in Ohio. II that was 80 they
must have thought OF 1t when Gilmore
Eat down on Morris Island to shell Rip.
ley out Of Sumter. Floyd, Buchanan's
Secretary Of War, never came to the
surface after his midnight desertIon OF
Fort Donaldson. Pillow, his comrade
in that trip, lived on his plantation in
Tennessee few years after hOsSilities
ceased. He had been MsjOr.General
IN the Mexican war, and did creditsble
service there. ! believe he was Presi.
dent Folks Law partner, and got the ap.
pointment that way.
The PIuckiess Aaa In the War
was George Picket. He was q young
second Lieutenant, just from the acad.
envy In 1916, and was assigned to de-
partment In Washington Territory, Of
which old General Harvey was In com.
maEd. We were then quarrelling over
the boundary. Harvey put Pickett on
San Juan Island, which commands
Puget Sound. He held 1t against su
English squadron, and 1t has never
been lost. Pickett commanded divis-
ion at Gettysburg under Longstreet.
His assault Of the third day was the
bhNo"oe va Sbob hHhbs Ilio u1Cu
fought with mine about our guns. We
drove them back, but Pickett came
near winning that fight than II Is pleas.
ant to think Of. Yes, he B dead. or
tbOse who are alive. BeauregArd and
Jubal Early are managers Of the Louisi.
ana Lottery. They get $4,000, and 70
great Is the feeling still existing I'm the
South over their generals that one OF
the lottery managers told me the other
day that their names were worth to
the company more than their salaries.
Both Of them were West Pointers and
artillery officers, but Besurgard never
was q soldier. He is . dspper Creole
gentleman, and the Louislanians swear
by him. Early fought well. Long.
street comes to Washington occasional.
Iy. He Is United States Marshal In
Georgia, but his magnificent physique
IL showing the effects Of his wounds. In
Mexico he and Grant were lieutenants
In the same regiment. After the war
Grant induced him TO Join the Repub.
lican party. He has been under ban