The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-09-17

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Gen. Marcus J. Wright, Chief of the
Confederate records Office, is preparing
a biographical work in which the Tor
tunes of the x-Confederate Generals
will be traced up TO date. According 10
the information collected by him. good
many of the Southern leaders who found
themselves penniIes5 after the war, have
carved out new fortunes for themselves,
some of them even ranking among the
millionaires. Gen. Malone, OF Virgin
ia. is the richest of them. After the
/ surrender at AppomattOx he owned
/ horse, some war tTappings and his oox
/ Of surveying Instruments Whlch, before
the war, he had used as civil engineer
. In less shan a week after the last gun
/ had been fired, he was employed by the
I Orange and Alexandria Railroad at CIV
/ il engineering. He bought stock with
. the savings from his salary, sold 1t OPP
/ pOrtuuely, invested IN other Virginia
railroads, and in a few years retlTed
from the civil engineering to take the
position of Vice President of the Dan
! willie road. From that position he grad
uated to the Presidency of the Norfolk
and Tennessee road. After ten years
. had passed he was the railroad prince OF
Virginia, and is now a millionaire. HIS
he is adding TO it daily by shrewd invest
ments. Senator Malone is one OF the
very few men VINO have never lost IN al
enterprise undertaken. Whatever ne
touches seems to turn to gold. lie is
sometimes called the Virginia I'D
Stokes for this reason.
The two Senators from Louisiana.
Gibson and Eustis, rank next to Malone
in wealth. Gibson was Confederate
General aud served throughout the war.
At It's close he had several hundred res
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 practice of bis pro-
fessiOn. Now, afteI the lapse of twenty
years. he ranks among the weaIthiest
planters in Louisiana, is at tie head OF
the bar in New Orleans, and is worth
considerably over half a million dollars.
This will be increased eventually to q
million OF more. as his wife will come
into a large fortune at the death of hel
mother, Mrs Montgomery.
Nearly as wealthy as the foregoing il
Gen. Brown, of Tennessee, twice Cover
T nor of that State since the war, and nov
the receiver of the Texas Pacific Rail
road. Gen. Brown, like so many of hi
associates, took to civil engineering anC
- TailrOading when he laid down his arms
2 After constructing several small road
s in Tennessee he entered the service o
G the Texas Pacific at a salary of $40 0O
a year and has his headquarters at Dal
{ las. AS a result of his railroad adven.
= lures he is worth nearly 81 600, 900. an
Z &c fDpraocirr his fort uun yparlv ftp
4 the surrender he was as penniless a
Gen. Malone, but, like Malone. he di
not lie back and complain. His frs
j surveying job brought him Sl5 a week
q but in a year thereafter he was receivin
7 s.. 600 a year as President of the Nash
vile Railroad.
Gen. R0sser. of the Northern Nirgini
! cavalry, now living in retirement Z
Il Charlottesville, has an estate valued q
e over 500. 900. He made it all since th
war and IN raiITOading. After suTveyin
for several years in Western States,
u became connected with the NOrther
" Pacific Railroad and was elected il
Is Vice President eight years ago. II
is estate is almost adjoining the old hOmt
a stead of Thomas jefferson, at MOntice
y 10. and is generally conceded to be u
y finest in Virginia.
ir Gen. POlignac, who served in II
Q Western Tennessee army, is worth nt
10 far from "A million He is the FrenC
-. soldier who. at the out break Of the wa
- came to this country and offered b
T, sword to the Confederate cause. Tht
j he gained no especial distinction in II
n field, he fought bTavely until 1865.
Gen. Gordon ot Georgia, made 70
tune since the war. but lost it recent
through iniudici0us speculation. FIJI
years ago he was a m lliOnaire to d.
OF he is literally not worth dollar.
he Gen. Johnson. United States RailrOS
> Commissioner. has a snug fortune, al
49, few other eX-COUfeGerate generals p
y wOr. n hundred thousand or more-a
ID made after laying down their arms.
eT PhJlu. Tunes.