The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-06-03
THE EX-CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
Whnt the Surviving Chieftans of the South arc
Engaged I'm Now.

Washington Dispatch to Cincinnati Bnquirer)
Gen. Marcus j. Wright, an ex-Confed-
crate officer, who has charge of the.pub-
hcation of the rebellion records under
tho auspices of the war department., gives
the following as to the whereabouts and
occupations of the more prominent gem
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. Il.
Beauegard, adiutant- general Of Louisi-
ana and manager Of tho 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. III. 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
a canal near New Orleans Stephen d,
Lee is farmer and president of the
State Agricultural College of Mississippi.
Jnbal 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 II professor at the time of his
election to the United States Senate.
Wade Hampton is in the Senate. Joseph
Wheeler is i'll Congress. He is very
wealthy and one of the largest planters
i'll Alabama. John B. Gordon is @ mil
lionaire railroad man and figured con-
spicuously at the Montgomery celebra-
ton. Gen. Loring, of Florida, was
engineering i'll Egypt until few years
ago, when he came to New York to work
ut the same profession. b. r. Cheatham
was recently appointed postmaster at
Nashville, Tenn, by President Cleve-
land. Sam Jones, of Virginia, is in the
Judge advocate generals office. Lafay-
cite McLaws is postmaster at Savannah,
Ga. l.. B. Buckncr lives in Louisville.
Ky, where he own great deal of real
estate, the revenue of which supports
him. l.. B. French earns q scanty sub
sistence by engineering in Georgia. g.
Il. Stephenson is in fredericksburg, Va,
John II. Forney, brother of Congress-
man Forney, is in an insane asylum at
Selma, Ala. Abney Fl. Maury is in
Washington, agent for a Now 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 whiskcy. Gen. Heth is en-
ployed by the Government to do en-
glneering on some Southern rivers.
Cadmus Wilcox was formerly employed
about the Senate Chamber, but is now
IN retirement, writing history Of the
Mexican war. Fitzhugh Lee is Gov
ernor of Virginia. Extra Billy Smith
practices law at Warrenton, Va. Charles
w. Field, once doorkeeper of the House,
IS superintendent of the Hot Springs
Reservation. William B. Bate is Gov
ernor Of Tennessee. w. II. f. Lee is O
Fairfax county farmer. j. PoGgnac,
who came over from France to espouge
the Confederate cause, is back in Prris.
busted with immense railroad operations.
j. +. Pagan was marshal of Arkansas
under Grant. He is now at Little Rock.
William Malone is in the Senate, as ia
Il. q. Walthall, of Mississippi. John s.
Marmaduke is Governor of Missouri and
an aspirant for Senator CockrelPs seat.
Pierce NJ. B. Young has gone TO Russia,
az United States consul general aS Sc.
Petersburg. M. @. Butler is a Senalor
OF the United States. Thomas T.. Rus
sell, after making fortune as attorney
for the Northern Pacific Railroad has
settled down at his old home, Char
lottesyille, Va, g, w. Curtis Lee =
president of Washington and Zee TIM,
yersity at Lexington, w,
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