The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-06-02
THE EX-CONFEDERaTE GENERALS.
What the Surviving Chieftains of the South are
Engaged in Now.

(WaShInSton DiSpatch 10 C1cclnnal 6nquHef.)
Gen. Marcus J. Wright, an ex-Confed-
crate officer, who has charge of the pub
ication 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-
federate Congress only two survive
Joseph E. Johnston, now United States
commissioner Of railroads, and G.. 7.
Beauregard, acknowledgement of Louisi-
ana and manager of the Louisiana Lot
terry drawings. Of the twenty lieutenant
generals appointed to the provisional
army several are living. E. Kirby Smith
is professor of mathematics in the Uni
versity of the South, Tennessee, which
is an Episcopal institution. James
Longstreet is keeping hotel down in
Georgia, after serving term there as
United States marshal under President
Hayes. D. H. Hill, Of North Carolina,
was till recently president of the Agri-
cultural School of the State of Arkansas
and now earns living chiefly by maga-
zine writing. Richard Taylor, son of
President Taylor, is engaged in building
canal near New Orleans. Stephen D.
Lee is a farmer and president Of the
State Agricultural College of Mississippi.
Jubal a. Farley practices law at Lynch
burg, although his chief support is de-
rived from his connection with the
Louisiana Lottery Company.
Of the major generals, a. 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 in the Senate. Joseph
Wheeler is in Congress. He is very
wealthy and one of the largest planters
in Alabama. John B. Gordon is a MIL
ionaire railroad man and figured con-
spicuously at the Montgomery celebra-
ton. Gen. Loring, of Florida, was
engineering in Egypt until few years
ago, when he came, to New York to work
at the same profession. B. F. Cheatham
was recently appointed postmaster at
Nashville, Tenn, by President Cle7e-
land. Sam Jones, of Virginia, is in the
judge advocate generals Office. Lafay-
cite McLaws is postmaster at Savannah,
Ga. L. B. Buckner lives in Louisville,
KY, where he own great deal of real
estate, the revenue of which supports
him. L. B. French earns a scanty sub
sistence by engineering in Georgia. c.
L. Stephenson is in Fredericksburg, Va.
John H. Forney, brother of Congress
man Forney, is in an insane asylum at
Selma, Ala. Abney H. Maury is in
Washington, agent for a New York life
insurance company. John G. Walker is
also in the insurance business here.
Isaac R. Trimble lives in retirement in
Baltimore on fortune derived from the
Trimble whiskey. Gen. Heth is en-
ployed by the Government to do en-
gineering on some Southern rivers.
Cadmus Wilcox was formerly employed
about the Senate Chamber, but is now
in retirement, writing a history of the
Mexican war Fitzhugh Lee is Gov
ernor of Virginia. Extra Billy Smith
practices law at WaTenton, Va. Charles
W. Field, once doorkeeper Of the House,
is superintendent Of the Hot Springs
Reservation. William B. Bate is Gov
err OF of Tennessee. ". H. F. Lee is a
Fairfax county farmer. c. J. Polgnac,
who came over from France to espouse
the Confederate cause, is back in Prris,
busted with immense railroad operations.
J. T. Pagan was marshal of Arkansas
under Grant. He is now at Little Rock.
William Malone is in the Senate, as is
Z. C. Walthall, Of Mississippi. John S.
Marmadukc is Governor Of Missouri and
an aspirant for Senator Cockrell's seat.
Pierce NJ. 3. Young has gone to Russia
as United States consul general at St.
Petersburg. N. c. Butler is a Senator
of the United States. Thomas L. Rus
sell, after makinga a fortune as attorney
for the Northern Pacific Railroad, has
settled down at his old home, Char
lottesville, Va. G. ". Curtis Lee Is
president OF Washington and Lee Uni
versity ut Lexington, Va.
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