Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-02
WEALTHY EX-CONFEDERATEs.

Prespered Since III War.
Philadelphia Times.
Gen. Marcus ]. Wright, chief OF the Con,
federate records Office, is preparing a bio.
graphical work in which the fortunes OF thu
ex-C%onfederare generals will be traced up to
date. According to the information col
lected by him, a good many Of them,
Southern leaders who found themselves
penniless after the war, have carved out
new fortunes for themselves, some of them
even ranking among the m~illionaires. Gen
Malone, OF Virginia, is the richest of them.
After the surrender Of Appamattox he
his box OF surveying instruments which he
had before the war as a civil engineer. In
less than a week after the last gun had
been fired he was employed by the Orange
d Alexandria railroad at civil engineering.
He bought stock with the savings Of his
salary, sold it opportunity, invested in
other Virginia railroads, and in a few years
retired from the civil engineering to take
the position of vice-president of the Dan.
vile road. From hat position he gradu.
ated to the presidency of the Norfolk &
Tennessee road. After ten years had pass
ed he was the railroad prince of Virginia,
and is now a millionaire. Hi, fortune'is
estimated at SIS, OOO. 600. and he is adding
to it daily by shrewd investings. Senator
Malone is one Of the very few men who
taking. Whatever he touches seems to
turn to gold. He is sometimes called the
Virginia ED Stokes for this reason.
The two Senators from Louisiana, Glib
son and Eustis, rank next to Malone in
wealth. Gibson was a Confederate general
and served throughout the war. At its
close he n several hundred acres Of land
which had not been titled for four years,
and had a musty law office in New Orleans
which be had not entered since his brigade
was ordered to the front. With borrowed
money be set to work planting, and at the
same time began once more the work OF
his profession. Now. after the lapse Of
twenty years. he ranks among the wealth.
lest planters in Louisiana, is at the head Of
the bar in New Orleans. and is worth con-
siderably ovet a half million OF dollars
This will be Increased eventually to a mil
lion or more, as his wife will come into a
large fortune at the death of her mother,
Mrs. Montgomery. ,
Nearly as wealthy as the foregoing s Gen.
Brown, of Tennessee, twice Governor OF
that State since the war and now the Re-
ceiver OF the Texas Pacific Railroad. Gen.
BrOwn. like So many Of his associates, took
to civil engineering and r%ailroading when
he laid down his arms. After. constructing
several small roadsin Tennessee he entered
the service Of the Texas Pacific at a salary
$4,000 Il year and has his headquar-
tiers at Dallas. As a result Of his railroad
adventures he is y. nth nearly 81, ZOO, 600
is increasing his fortune yearly. After
the surrender he was as ~penniless as Gen.
Malone, but, unlike Malone, he did not lie
back and complain. His first surveying
Job brought him SIS a week, but in a year
he was receiving So, 1000 a year
as President Of the Nashville Railroad.
Gen. Rosser, OF the Northern Virginia cav.
airy, uOw living in retirement at Charlottes.
vile, has an estate valued at $780, 600.
made it all since the war and at rail-
roajing. After surveying for several years
in Western States, he became connected
with the Northern Pacific Railroad and
vas elected its vice-president eight years
His estate is almost adjoining the old
Of Thomas Jefferson, at Month
:ello, and is generally conceded to be the
inest in Virginia. !
Gen. Polignac, who served in the West
I'm Tennessee army, is worth not far from
million. He is the French soldier who,
the outbreak of the war, came to this
and offered his sword to the Con-
cause. Though he gained no
distinction in the iield, he fought
till lSeE.
ovn. Uordon, of Georgia, made a for
:une since the war, but lost it recently
iDjudicious speculation. Five
ears ago he was a millionaire; to-day he
8 literally not worth a dollar. Gen. John
ton, United States Railroad Commits.
has a snug fortune, and a few other
x-Confederate generals are worth a hun.
lred thousand or more-all made after
ayipg down their arms.