The Osceola times., 1884-02-09
The Fate Of the Leaders Of the South.
ern Armies.
What Became OF Them After the War-0ccu.
pations al ihe ors-Rsmiriscences
OF a West. Pointer.
washington Cor. Boston Advertiser.

had been prominent In the regular army
before lhe war. Some were connected
with northern families.
"What has become of these men ?'
asked an old West Pointer and brilliant
general officer, the other day.
He thought minute.
"Why, the majority of them are dead,
was the reply.
Then he went on to take up some OF
those historic names. With many OF
their owners he had served in Mexico
and in Indian wars without number.
YES the greater part Of them are dead
"a much larger proportion of them 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 in the field,
lived poorly, and were more disposed to
disease than our men. Lee, Anderson,
Bragg, Magluder, Breckinridge, Pickett,
Hood, Forrest, Price, Pemberton, Dick
Tayler, Pillow, Floyd, Hardee and Ewell
were among them.
WHY THEY WENT.
"The majority Of them had been in
the regular army. They went with the
South Tor state pride, and in part because
they were frozen out.
81 shall not forget Anderson. He was
a captain in the dragons out in Utah.
When his resignation was accepted and
he went away from the rear Of us, the
tears were in his eyes. 4 am going back
to South Carolina to raise hogs and hom-
my until the war is over he said 4
will never fight the old flag. But in a
month the tide was too strong for him.
They made him military governor of
Charleston, and a corps commander in
Lees army lie died Of broken heart
right after the war.
lee never waited to resign, hut, like
Johnston, he was made to feel that the
northern officers distrusted him.
at was so with Johnston IN 1861 he
was Qua tarmaster General, but old 81
mon Cameron transacted all his business
with subordinate officers, At last John
ston went to him. 'Mr. Secretary he
said, you pay no attention to me- NO.
was the reply, you are Virginian, and
sympathize with the rebels Il 90 not,
answered Johnston, but shall resign
sooner than be ignored. II snot because
| have any desire to join the South Yet
in three months he had drfted into a
Generals commission in Dixie. John
ston is an old man now, not less than Is
years.
BRAGG AND HIS GUNS.
Bragg died several years ago at 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 hr was a mar
tinet and his men hated him At Mon
terey some of them hid lighted six
ounce shell under his bed. The cxplo-
sion blew Bragg 100 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 the volunteers were mad about it, but
il was in vain.
"Magrlder died ten years ago. For
rest, the murderer OF negro prisoners at
Fort Pillow, lived only litlIe while af-
ter the surrender so it was with Ewcll,
Lees bravest lieutenant, who rode strap
ped to his saddle in every campaign af.
ter the first Bull Run, where he lost a
leg. He was hrevcted for bravery at
Cheubusco.
ant colonel of Dragons at 80, but he
went South with the rest. After the war
he started the first orange pla ltation in
Florida, and died there three or four
years ago. Price is dead. So is Dick
Taylor. Taylor was Jefferson Davis's
brother-n-law, and was made Lieutenant
general on that account.
WITH SOUTHERN WIVES.
"Pcmberton lived ont the remnant of
his days at Philadelphia. He never re-
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 well in Mexico His wife was
South Carolina woman. That was the
secret Of his choice. During the war he
commanded Fort Sumter and defended
it bravely. ] am told that he and Quincy
A. Gilmore were boys together in the
same neighborhood in Ohio. Ifthat 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 mid
night desertion of Fort Donelson. Pill
low, his comrade in that trip, lived on
his plantation in Tennessee few years
after hostlities ceased. He had been a
major gene raj in the Mexican war, and
did credtable service there. | believe
he was President Polk's law partner, AM
got the appointment that way.
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