Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-07
THREE FAMOUS GENERALS
Placing Under One Table Six Legs Tha
Never Ran from a Foe.

Placing Under One Table Six Legs That
Never Ran from a Foe.
AT leading hotel the other evening.
says a Washington letter to the St. Louis
Post Dispatch, three of the most distiu-
guished cavalry officers of the late war
met and took a social drink. Thev were
Gems. Alfred b. PleasOnton. William II
Averill and Thomas L. Rosser. The lat
ter is an eX-Confederate and is worth
probably half million dollars. The other
two were on the other side and are both
poor. Ihey are now here asking to be
put on the retired list. None of them have
seen service since the war. AyeriiI and
PleasOnton resigned soon after peace was
declared and Rosser's term of service ex-
pred when he was captured near Rich
mond shortly after the surrender of zee
and Johnston.
The meeting between the three was
rather an interesting one. Ii is not often
that three such dashing cavalry COM
manders of a war that closed nearly
twenty years ago come together now in
social intercourse. All held the rank of
Major General, and all fought many i'm
portant engagements, and all were brave
and skillful soldiers, and all. | believe.
were seriously wounded. ROsser carries
aboGt with him nine scars-one sabre-cut
over tue right eye, one bayOnet-gash on
the forehead, a shot in the foot one IN the
knee, one IN the left arm, one in the left
mp and others Of less Importance Aver
Ill was shot through the thigh. which has
made him confirmed sufferer from rheu-
matlsm, and he got a scalp-wOund that
every now and then becomes headquar-
ters for painful attack of neuralgia. All
of them graduated at West Point.
Pleasonton is the Oldest of the three.
Ihere is no mistaking the education and
tralhlng ne has had. They are shown in
every look and motion. Though not large
nor tall, he is so erect and precise that he
would be taken anywhere for a soldier
and commander. The General tells me
ne has lost some Of his faith in his blue
glass theory, but believes it will vet be
adopted by the scientific world. He is II
years old and has always been a sort Of a
bOOkwOrm, though he held some sort of a
command in the Pennsylvania militia at
one time during the war. AYerill looks
almost as old as PleasOntOn, having suf
tered good deal from his wounds He is
heavy, chunky-lOoking man with a
soldlerly moustache, and goes about very
unpretentlously. His military record is
very familiar to everybody. Averil and
Rosser are now very fond of each other.
and 1t is feast to hear them tell stories of
tne war from their respective points of
view.
Rosser has really romantic history.
lie is a romantic looking man, to begin
with. over six feet tall, and of giant-like
frame, he towers over all the ordinary
run Of men. He probably weighs 275
pounds, and there is not a bit Of waste
nesh about him-all solid bone and mus
Gle. His money has been made in rail-
rOading in the Northwest.
Fortune takes strange turns, and here
is one of them. What a welcome thing
weeks salary of Averill or Pleasanton
would nave been to Rosser in 1865. To-
day they are knocking at the door of Con
gress, asking to be given the retired list
pay Of about $4,000 year, while Rosser
is prospective millionaire.