The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-06-02
riE EN-C0NFEDEH ,TE GENERALS.
Ni"t th" surviving Ehicc,ainS Of the south are
Engaged in Now.

Ni"t th" surviving Chici,ain> Of the south are
Engaged in Now.
Washington Dispatch to Cnoinua.i l:nauirer)
Gen. Marcus J. Wright, an cx-Confed-
crate officer. who has charge of the pub
hcation of the rebellion records under
the auspices of the war department, gives
the following as to the whereabouts and
occupations Of the more prominent gen
erals of the Confederate army. Of the
six full generals appointed by the Con
fedcratc Congress only two survive
Joseph +. Johnston, now United States
commissioner of railroads, and CT. II.
Beaurcgard, adjutant- general of Louisi-
ana and manager of the Louisiana Lot
terry drawings. OF the twenty lieutenant
generals appointed to the provisional
army several are living. T.. Kirby Smith
is professor OF mathematics in the Uni
rcrslty OF the South, Tennessee, which
Is an Episcopal institution. James
longstrcct is keeping a hotel down in
Georgia, after serving term there as
! United States marshal under President
Hayes. ID. II. Hill, of North Carolina,
was till recently president of the lAeri-
cultural School OF the State of Arkansas
and now earns II living chiefly by maga-
zine writing, Richard Taylor, son of
| President Taylor, is engaged in building
a canal near New Orleans. Stephen D.
Lee is II farmer and president of the
State Agricultural College Of Mississippi.
Jubal a. Farley practices law Mt Lynch
burg, although his chief support is de-
rived from his connection with the
Louisiana Lottery Company.
OF the major generals \. p. Stewart
is now president OF the University of
Mississippi at Oxford where Secretary
Lamar was professor at the time of his
election to the United States Senate
Wade Hampton is i'll the Senate. Joseph
Wheeler is i'll Congress. He is very
wealthy and one OF the largest planters
| III Alabama. John b. Gordon is q mil
lionaire railroad man and figured con
spicuously at the Montgomery celebra-
tion. Gen. Loring, of Florida, was
engineering in Egypt until few years
ago, when he came to New York to work
ut the same profession. B. f. Cheatham
was recently appointed postmaster at
Nashville, Tenn, by President Cleye-
land. Sam Jones, of Virginia, is in the
judge advocate generals Office. Lafay-
| cite McLawS is postmaster ut Savannah
Ga. l.. b. Buclmcr lives in Louisville,
| Ky, where he own great deal of real
estate, the revenue OF which supports
him. l.. b. French earns scanty sub
sistence by engineering in Georgia. C.
l.. Stephenson is i'll fredericksburg, Va,
John H. Fomcy, brother Of Congress-
man Foncy, is i'll an insane asylum at
Selma, Ala. Abncy H. Mauy is in
! Washington, agent for New York life
insurance company. John q. Walker is
also III the insurance business here.
Isaac r. Trmblc lives in retirement in
Baltimore on Il fortune derived from the
| Trimble whiskcy. Gen. Heth is en-
ploycd by the Government to do en-
gincering on some Southern rivers.
Cadmus Wilcox was formerly employed
about the Senate Chamber, but is now
i'll retirement, writing II history of the
/ Mexican way Eitzhugh Lee is Gov
ernor of Virginia. Extra Billy Smith
practices law at Wamcnton, Va. Charles
| w. Field, once doorkecpcr of the House,
is superintendent of the Hot Springs
Reservation, William b. Bate is Gov
ernor of Tennessee. w. H. L. Lee is o
Fairfax county farmer. c. j. Polignac,
who came over from France to espouse
the Confederate cause, is back in Prris,
busted with immense railroad operations.
j. f. Pagan was ma rshal of Arkansas
under Grant He is now at Little Rock
William Malone is in the Senate, as is
j.. G. Walthall, OF Mississippi. John s.
Marmaduke is Governor Of Missouri and
an aspirant for Senator CocBuell's seat.
Pierce M. b. Young has gone to Russia
as United States consul general at st.
Petersburg, M. G. Butler is Senator
of the United States. Thomas Il. Rus
sell, aftel making fortune as attorngf
for the Northern Pacific Railroad,
settled down at his old home,
lottesville, Va. G. w. CurH
president of Washington aDT
versity at Lexington, Va.
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