The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-10
Where they Now Are.
[Spartanburg Herald.l

bachelors have remained so ever since,
among them General Custis Lee,
the handsome and popular son of the
Confederate Chicftain, and General
Jubal Ecarly, who is now seventy
odd s.%
Whenever he appears to speak in the
Virginia campaign Fitzhush Lee is
received with enthusiasm and bodies of
mounted men ride out from every
town TO meet him and escort him to the
| hotel.
Most Of the ex-Confcderate Generals
who are not in politics are interested in
some way with railroads.
General Longstree will, next month,
open a winter hotel in Georgia, near
the gulf coast.
Fitzliush Lee is short and stout, with
grayish chin whiskers, and looks like a
| farmer.
Great has been the fall Of Malone.
Once he was the idol of the people of
Virginia and carried the political vote
Of that State in his pocket. Now he is
reviled and abused from every stump
and cross s-road.
AS when he ''did NIL the swearing
for Stoncwall Jackson," Gen. Jubal
Early continues to enjoy the distinc-
tinction Of being the "tallest swearcr in
Virginia.
Age has made many inroads upon
Gen. Joseph +. Johnson, now United
States Railroad Commissioner. He
hns gotten over the nervous trouble
from which he suffered for so many
years. He is married but has no chill
dren.
The commander Of the troops in the
Shenandoah Valley for long time was
General John Echols, who is now a
director in the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad and president Of the Lexington
ton and Big Sandy road.
Although IN the convention that met
before the war, General w. G. Wick
ham now vice president Of Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, voted against seces-
sion, he galloped the first troop Of horse
into Capitol Square and rendered his
sword to. the State and Confederacy. He
commanded brigade through the war
although his home was within the lines
he did not cross its theshold but twice
and was each time carried in wounded.
When he surrendered with Lee at Ap-
pomattox he disowned the Confederate
leaders and returning home built
the first schoolhouse for colored chill
dren in the South. He became the
leader Of the Republican party in Vir-
ginia and did much to make it respect
able. He was driven out of the party
by Malone and is now supporting Fitz-
hugh Lee for Governor.
Mahone's bitter enemy. General Brad :.
ley Il. johnson, is now prncticing law
in Baltimore and is one of the counsel
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. He is q brilliant and
handsome looking man of about
fifty.
Dark as an Indian and straight rs an
arrow. standing over six feet four
inches. Genl. r. Lindsay Walker has
not changed much. He has recently
gone to Texas, as superintendent
Of the construction Of the State House
at Austin.
General Talifero, who commanded
the militia at the time Of the John
Brown trouble. is still an active man,
over six feet high and attends to his
large estate near Gloucester Point, Va.
bordering on the Chesapeake Bay.
One Of Mahone's fast friends is Gen.
V. D. Groner, now living at Norfolk
and occupying the position Of presi-
dent Of the National Compress Com
pany.
I Physically Malone weighs less than
ninety pounds. He was an engineer
when the war broke ont and rapidly
rose to position. He had command, Of
the defence of Petersburg and d,stin-
gnished himself in the, battle Of the
Crater. Lee singled him out of all the
generals to accompany and stand by him
at the time Of surrender. ).
General Beauregard continues to act
as counsel and promoter of the Louis