The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-22
THE REBEL GENERALS.
The Great Majority orthe Leaders Of

The Great Majority orthe Leaders of
tho Southern Armies Dead-Pras-
emit Occupations of the Remainder
"Reminiscences of a West Pointer.
From the Boston Advertiser.
Washington, Dec. S.-Twenty years
ago the north kept in mind the leading
generals of the rebel side, and discussed
their merits with as much interest as
was shown with the leaders OF its own
armies. Many of them had been prom
inent in the regular army before the
war. Some we're connected with north
ern families. "What has become of
these menu" l asked of an old West
Pointer and brilliant general officer
the other day. He thought a
Of them are dead" was the reply.
Then he went on to take up sonac of
of those historic names. With many of
their owners he had served in Mexico
and in India wars without number.
"Yes, the greater part of these m n are
dead, a muGH larger proportion 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 a harder time in the
field, lived poorly, and We're disposed
to disease than Il men, Lee, Anderson,
Bragg, Magruder, Brock ,nridg4, Hood,
Forest, Price. ~Pemherton, sDieh' TAYLOR,
Pillow, Floyd, Hardee and Ewell were
among them.. The majority had been
in the regular army. They went,
with the South for State pride
and in part because they were
frozen out. l shall not for
get Anderson. He was u captain in the
dragons out in Utah. When his resig-
nation was accepted and he went away
from the rest of us, the tears we're in
his eyes. II am going back to South
Carolina to raise hogs and hominy until
the war is over" he said, ri will never
fight the old flag" But in a month tn.
tide was too strong for him. They mnde
him Military Governor Of Charleston
and a Corps commander in Lees army.
He died of a broken heart right after
the wal. Lee never waited to resign,
but, like Johnston, he WAS made to feel
that the Northern officers d~istrustet!
him. 1t was SO with Johnston. In 1861
he was Quartermaster General, bat old
Simon Cameron transacted all his bus
mess with subordinate officers. at last
Johnston went to him. "Mr. Secretary"
he said, you pay no attention to ne"
NO." was the reply;''you are a Vir-
ginian, and ~eympathiza with
the rebels Il do not answered john
ston, but l shall resign, rather than be
ignored. 1T is not because | have any
desire to join the SOUTH Yet in three
months he had drifted into a general 8
commission in Dixie. Johnston is an
old man now. not less than 70. Bragg
died several years ago. at his home in
North Carolina, ! knew him in the
Mexican war. He was captain OF Artil-
lery then, and II OF the bravest men
and his men hated him. AT Monterey
some of them hid Il lighted s~ix.ounce
shell under his bed. The explosion
blew Bragg 100 feet and wrecked the
tent, but he was not hurt. Andyettbey
a a sort of pride. During the whole
war his old battery carried Bragg's Artil-
Lefty, on its guldons. Some of the votun-
teers were mad about it, but in vain.
Magrudef died ten years ago.
Forrest, the murderer of negro
prisoners at Fort Pillow, lived only a
little while alter the surrender. So it
WIS with Ewell, Lees bravest lieu.en-
ant, who rode strapped to his saddle in
every compaign after the first Bull Run,
where he lost q leg He was breveted
for bravery at Chernbusco. There waa
Hardee lie vas Il Lieutenant Coioneiof
Dragons at SO, but he went south with
fist orange plantation in Florida, and
died there three or four yearsago. Price
Is dead. SO is Dick TAYLOR. Taylor was
Jefferson Davis brother-in-lav. and
made Lieutenant-G General on that ac-
count. Pemperton lived out the remains
of his days at Phi adeiphia. He r4-
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 a West
Point graduate, and did we'll in Mexico.
His wife was a South Carolina woman,
That was the secret of his choice. Dur.
ing the war he commanded Fort Sumter
and defended it bravely. l am told that
together III the satne neighborhoo IN
Ohio. If that 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. wal never came to the surface after
his midnight desertion If Fort Donel-
son. Pillow, his comrade in that trip,
lived on his plantation in Ten essee q
few years after hostilities ceased. He
had been a maior-general in the Mexi.
can War, and did creditable service
there. l believe he was President
Folks law partner, aud got the appoint
ment that way. The plnckiest man in
the war was George Pickett
from the ACADEMY in 1S4G, and was as
signed to department III Washington
Territory of which old Gen. Harvey was
in command. We were ouarreling then
over the boundary. Harvey put Pickett
IN San Juan Island, which connects Pu-
get Sound. He cid it against an Eng
lish squadron, and it has never beer
lost. Pickett commanded a division at
Gettysburg under Longstreet. His as
sault OF the third day was the greatest
charge of the fight. His men fought
with mine about III guns. We drove
them back. but Pickett came ne arer w,n-
ming that fight than it is pleasant to
think of. Yes, lie is dead
Ofthose who are alive. Beauregard
and Jubal Early are managers of the
Louisiana lottery. They get $4,000
each, and go great is the feeling still ex.
listing in the South over their generals, /
that mi of the lottery managers told
me the other day that their names were
worth more to the company than their
salaries. Both of them were West
Pointers and artillery officers, but Beau |
regari never was q soldier. He is a
dapper Creole gentleman, and the
Loulsianians uwear by him. EARLY
fought we'll. Long-treet comes to Wash
ington occasionally. lie is United
States Marshal in Georgia, but his mag
niticent physique is showing the effects |
n his wounds. In Mexico heand Grant
were Lieutenants in the SAINT reyi- |
ments. Alter the war Grant induced
him 10 hin the Republican party. He
las been under a ban in the South ever