Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-09

Tbe Fate % the Confederate Leaders.
boston Adyerfiser

Boston Advertiser.
twenty years ago the North kept
IN mind the leading Generals on the
rebel side and discussed their merits
with as much interest "a was shown
in the leaders of lie own armies.
Many of them had been prominent
in the regular army before the war
Some were connected with Northern
families. What has become OF
these men = | asked an old West
Pointer and brilliant officer the other
day. He thought minute. W hy,
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 sEd in Indian wars
without number. " Yes, the greater
part of these men are dead, much
larger proportion than 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 aud were more disposed
10 disease than our men. Lee, An
dersou, Bragg. Magruder. Breckiu-
ridge, Hood, Pickett, Forrest. Piice'
Pemberton, Dick Taylor, Pillow,
| FLOYD, Hardee and Eweli were among
them.
PRIDE CONQUERED.
The majority had been in the
regular army They went with the
south from State pride and IN part
because they were frozen out. shall
not forget Anderson. lie was Cap
| tain in the dragons out IN Utah
| When his resignation was accepted
and ne went away from the rest OF
US the tears were IT, his eyes. am
roing back to South Carolina to raise
hogs and hominy until the war Is
over he said. | 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 ar
nv. He died Of broken heart right
after the war. Lee never waited TO
| resign, but, lik. Johnston, he was
made to feel that the Northern Off
GERS distrusted him. II was so with
Johnston. In 1861 he was Quarter
master General, but old Simon Cam
eron transacted all his business with
subordinate officers. At last John
ston went 10 him. Mr., Secretary.
he said. you pay no attention To me.
NO was the reply. you are Nir
ginan and sympathize with the reb
els. i do not answered Johnston,
but | shall resign rather than be ig
nored. II is not because | have any
desire to Join the South Yet in
three months he had drifted into a
Generals commission in Dixie. John
ston is an old man now-not less
than IS.
A BRAVE MAN.
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 he
was a matiEet and his men hated him.
At Monterey some of them had IA
lighted six-ounce shell under his bed.
The explosion blew Bragg 100 feet
and wrecked the tent, but he was not
hurt. And they had a sort Of pride
in him During the whole war his
old battery carried Bragg Artillery
on its guldoDs. Some OF the volun-
teers were mad about it, but in vain.
Magruder died about ten years ago.
Forrest, the murderer of negro pris-
oners at Fort Pillow, lived only a
little while after the surrender. So
it was with Ewell, Lees bravest Lieu
tenant, who rode strapped TO his sad
die in every campaign after the first
Bull Run, where he lost II leg. He
was breveted for bravery at Cheru-
busco There was uardee. He was
II Lieutenant Colonel Of dragons at
80. but he went South with the rest
After the war he started the first
orange plantation in Florida and died
there three or four years ago. Price
is dead; so is Dick Taylor. Taylor
was Jefferson Davis brother in-iaw
and was made Lieutenant-General on
that account. Pemberton lived out
the remnant of his days at Philadel-
phia. He never recovered from his
surrender to Grant at Nicksburg.
NoRrHERNERs IN THE SOUTH.
"Of the few No thern 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 aud defended il bravely.
am told that he and Quincy A. Gil.
more were boys together in the same
neighborhood in Ohio. u that is 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 10 the surface after his midnight
desertion of Fort Doneison. Pillow,
| his comrade in that trip. lived on his
plantation in Tennessee few years
after hostilities ceased. He had been
u Major, GeneIal In the Mexican war
and did creditable service there.
believe he WAS President Folks law
partner, and got the appointment in
that way. The pluckiest man in the
war was George Pickett. He was a
young Second Lieutenant just from
the academy in lS46, and was assigned
To a department in Washington Ter
ritory, of which old General Harvey
was In command. We were quarrel
ing then over the boundary. Harvey
put Pickett on San Juan Island. which
commands Puget Sound He held ii
against an English squadron, and il
has never been lost. Pickett com.
manded division at Gettysburg un
der Longstrect His assault of the
third day was the greatest charge Of
that fight. Hisme fought with mine
about on. guns. We drove them back
but Pickett came nearer winning that
fight than it is pleasant To think of.
Yes, he is dead.
IN THE DAYS or PEACE.
"Of these who are alive, Beaure
gard and Jubai Early are managers
of the Louisiana lottery. They get