Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03
SOME EX-CONFEDERATES.
Whereabouts and Occupations of Leading
Southern Generals
Boston Globe

| Boston Globe
| The recent meeting of ex-confederate
generals at Montgomery, Ala, leads a
! Washington correspondent of the Louis
vile Post to look up the present wherea-
bouts and occupations of some of the
principal survivors among the leaders of
the confederacy. OF the six full gener-
ais appointed by the confederate congress
only two survive Joseph E. Johnston
now United States commissioner of rail
| roads, and G. t. Beauregard, adjutant
general of Louisiana, and manager of the
| Louisiana lottery drawings.
Of the twenty lieutenant generals ap-
| pointed to the provisional army several
are living. E. Kirby Smith is professor
| OF mathematics IN the university of the
South IN Tennessee. James Longstreet is
keeping hotel down in Georgia D. II.
Hill, Of North Carolina, was till recently
president of the agricultural school of
| the state of Arkansas, and now earns a
living chiefly as a magazine writer Rich
ard Taylor, son of President TAYLOR, is
| engaged IN building canal near New
Orleans. Stephen B. Lee is farmer, and
| president of the State Agricultural society
| OF Mississippi. Jubal A. Early practices
law at Lynchburg, although his chief sup
| port is derived from his connection with
| lottery company.
Of the major generals, A. p. Stewart is
| now president of the university of Miss
| lssIppl at Oxford. Jos. Wheeler is in con-
gress, Is very wealthy and is one of the
| largest planters in Alabama.
John B. Gordon is a millionaire railroad
man. General Loring, of Florida, was en-
cheering 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 Nash
| vile, Tenn. Sam Jones, of Virginia, is
in the judge advocate generals Office. La
fayetts McLaws is postmaster at Savan-
nah, Ga. S. B. Buckner, lives in Louis
vile, KY, where he owns a great deal of
real estate. S. B. French earns a scanty
subsistence by engineering in Georgia
G. l.. Stevenson is in Fredericksburg, Va
John 81. Forney, brother of Congressman
FOrney, is in an insane asylum at Salem
Ala. Abney H. Mauray is a Washington
agent of a New York life insurance com
pany. John G. Walker is also in the in
surance business. Isaac A. Trimble is in
retirement in Baltimore on a fortune
General Heah is employed by the govern
ment on some southern rivers. Cadmus
Wilcox is writing a history of the Mexi-
can war. Fitzhugh Lee is governor of
Virginia. extra Bill'' Smith practices
law at Warrenton, Va. Charles W. Field
once doorkeeper of the house, is super
intendent of the Hot Springs reservation:
William B. Bate is governor of Tennessee
W. II. F. Lee is Fairfax county farmer
G. J. Polignac, who came over from
France to espouse the confederate cause
is back in Paris busted with railroad op-
erations. William Malone is in the sen
ate, as is E. G. Whitehall, of Mississippi
John S. Marmaduke is governor of Mis-
souri. Pierce M. B. Young is United
States consul general at ST. Petersburg
M. G. Butler is a senator of the United
States. G. W. Curtis Lee is president of
Washington and Lee university at Lex
ington, Va.