Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-09-25

General MARCUS j. Wright, chief Of
the confederate records Office is prepar-
ing biographical work, In which the
fortunes Of the ex-cOnfederats generals
VIII be traced up TO date, writes a Wash
mgtOn correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times. According to the information
collected by him, a good many Of the
southern leaders who found themselves
pennileEs after the war, have carved out
new fortunes for themselves, some Of
them even ranking smOng the million
aires. General Malone, Of Virginia, Is
the richest Of them. After the surrender
at APPROXIMATION he owned a horse, some
war trappings and his box OF surveying
Instruments, which he had before the
war used as a civil engineer. In less than
week after the last gun had been fired
he was employed by the Orange & Alex
ander railroad at civil engineering. He
bought stock Widh his savings, sold it
OPPORTUNITY, invested In other Virginia
railroads, and IN few years retired from
the civil engineering to take the position
OF vice president of the Danville road.
From that position Re graduated to the
presidency Of the Norfolk & Tennessee
road. After ten years had passed he was
the railroad prince OF Virginia, and Is
now a millionaire. His fortune is esti-
mated at SO, 600, 900, and he is adding
to it daily by shreWd Investments. SEN
atOr Malone is one Of the very few men
who have never lost in any enterprise
undertaken. Whatever he touches seems
to turn to gold. He is sometimes called
the Virginia ed Stokes for this reason.
Thetw senators from Louisiana, Glib
son and Eustis, rank next to Malone in
wealth. Gibson was a confederate gen
eral and served through the war. At its
close he had several hundred acres Of
land, which had not been titled for four
years and had musty law Office in New
| Orleans which he had not entered since
his brigade was ordered to the front
! With borrowed money he set to work
planting, and at the same time began
once more the pr actce Of his profession.
Now, after the lapse Of twenty years, he
ranks among the wealthiest planters In
Louisiana, is at the head of the bar In
New Orleans, and is worth considerably
over half a million dollars. This viii be
increased eventually to a million or more,
as his wife viii come into a large fortune
at the death Of her mother, Mrs. Mont
gOmery. His colleague, EUstis, after
fighting under Johnston until the close
of the war, turned his attention to law
and sugar, and between them has eked
out several hundred thousand dollars.
He is regarded as the shrewdst man In
the New Orleans sugar exchange, and,
although not a broker, always has the
"tiPs." He was the candidate Of the
sugar men for the United States senate,
and, it is said, has a hand in the Louis
lana Lottery company.
Nearly as wealthy as the foregoing is
Gen. Brown, Of Tennessee, twice gov
ernOr Of that state since the war and now
the receiver of the Texas Pacific railroad.
Gen. Brown, ike SO many Of his. associ-
ates, took to civil engineering and rail
reading when he laid down his arms.
After constructing several small roads In
Tennessee he entered the service Of the
Texas Pacific at a salary of S2O,OO0 a
year and has his headquarters at Dallas.
As a result of his railroad adventures he
is worth nearly 100000 and is in
creasing his fortune yearly. After the
surrender he was as pennileEs as Gen.
Malone, but unlike Malone. he did not lie
back and complain. His first surveying
Job brought him SIS a week, but in
year thereafter he was receiving So, 600
a year as president Of the Nashville rail
road. Gen. RCsser, Of the Northern Vir-
ginia cavalry, now living in retirement
at Charlottesville, has an estate valued at
over 100000. He made it all since
the war and at railrOading. After sur
Eeying for several years in western
states, he became connected with the
Northern Pacific railroad and was elect
ed its vice president eight years ago. !
His estate is almost adjoining the old
homestead Of Thomas Jefferson, at
Monticello, and is generally conceded to |
be the finest In Virginia. He has a hob |
by which is laughed at throughout the /
state. While in California he took much !
interest in the grape culture there, so /
when he settled IN Charlottesville a few /
years since he planted an extensive vine !
yard and was always Boosting Of his |
knowledge Of the vine. 1t turned out /
that the knowledge was like Greeley's /
In the farming line. The vines grew not, /
neither did they bear fruit, except the /
fruit Of expense. Still the old gentleman /
rides his hobby and is determined to /
make California vines grow luLuriantly /
ia Virginia. He has lost many thou 1
sands Of dollars In his vine venture, yet /
he cannot be said to be poor with $780,, /
600.
General POlignac, who served in the
Western Tennessee army, is worth not /
far from 2 million dollars. He is the /
French soldier who, at the outbreak Of
the war, came to this country and offered
his sword to the confederate cause.
Though he gained no especial distinc-
lion he fought bravely in the field till
1865. Finding that soldering did not
pay, he thereafter devoted his energies
to civil engineering, and soon gained
In the profession. Several
times he was sent by the French govern
ment on surveying expeditions into Arr
ca and proved that his daring was equal
10 his skill. He received several decOra-
lions from the government and, what was
better still, some large government con
tracts, out OF which he extracted snug
.ortune. He is still employed in govern
nent work, and It is said, cOntemPlates a
7isit to this country to see once more his
I'D companions in arms.
General TrimbIe, who lives in Balti-
more, found a fortune In liquor after tie
war. The whisky which bears his name
ound its way into popularity at once,
md has so far yielded the general more
han a half million. He owns extensive
iistilIeries near Baltimore, and although
7ery old he still suPerintends then Oper-
iions.
General Wheeler, of Alabama, now
congressman from the Eighth district,
after gaining the reputation Of being the