St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-25
WEALTHY Ex-CoNFEbnRATEs.
How Some Prominent SOutherners
Have PrOspered Since the War.

Have Prospered Since the War.
Philadelphia Times.
Gen. Marcus j. Wright, chief of the
Confederate records Office, is preparing &
biographical work in W hich the fortunes Of
the ex-Confederate generals will be traced
up to date. According to the information
collected by HIM, 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 millionares. Gen.
Malone, of Virginia, is the richest of them.
After the surrender at AppOmattox he
owned a horse, some war trappings and his
box of surveying instruments which he had
before the war used as civil engineer. In
less than week after the last gun had
been fired he was employed by the Orange
81 Alexandria railroad at civil engineering.
He bought stock with the savings of his
salary, 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 Dan
vile road. From that position he gradu-
ated to the presidency of the Norfolk ~
Tennessee road. After ten years had
passed he was the railroad prince of Vir-
ginia, and is now a millionaire. His for
tune is estimated at SIS, 900, 900, and he is
adding to it daily by shrewd investings
Senator 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.
The two senators from Louisiana. Gibson
and Eustis rank next to Malone in wealth.
Gibson was a Confederate general and
served throughout the war. At its close
he had several hundred acres of land which
had not been titled for four years, and had
a 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 practice 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 consider
ably over half million of dollars. This
will be increased eventually to million or
more, as his wife will come into large for
tune at the death of her mother, Mrs. Mont-
gomery.
Nearly as wealthy as the foregoing is
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 railrOading 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 $50, 900 year and has his headquarters
at Dallas. AS result of his railroad adj
ventures he is worth hearty S1,000,0 900 and
is increasing his fortune yearly. After the
surrender he was as penniless as Gen. Ma
hone, but, unlike Malone, he did not lie
back and complain. His first surveying
Job brought him SIS week, but in year
thereafter he was receiving S., 600 a year as
president of the Nashville railroad. Gen.
ROSser, of the Northern Virginia cavalry,
now living in retirement at Charlottesville,
has an estate valued at S700, 600. He
made it all since the war and at railroad
ing. After surveying for several years in
Western states, he became connected with
the Northern Pacific railroad and was
elected its vlce-president eight years ago.
His estate is almost adjoining the old home
stead of Thomas jefferson, at Monticello,
and is generally conceded to be the finest in
Virginia.
Gen. Polgnac, who served in the West
ern Tennessee army, is worth not far from
a Million He is the French soldier who.
at the outbreak of the war, came to this
country and offered his sword to the Con-
federate cause. Though he gained no
especial distinction i'll the field, he fought
bravely till 1868.
Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, made for
tune since the war. but lost it recently
through injudiciOus speculation. Five
years ago he was millionaire; to-day he is
literally not worth dollar. Gen. John
ston, United States railroad commissioner,
has a snug fortune, and a few other ex-
Confederate generals are worth hundred
or mOre-all made after laying
down their arms.