The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-22
Rich Ex-Confederatcs.

Washington Letter to Philadelphia Times.
General Marcus j. Wright, Chief OF
the Confederate Records office, is pre-
pairing a biographical work in which
the fortunes of the ex-Confederate
Generals will be traced up to date.
According to the information collected
by him, good many OF them, South
ern leaders who found themselves pen.
niless after the war, have carved out
new fortunes for themselves, some OF
them even ranking anon, the million.
aires. General Malone of Virginia is
the richest OF them. Alter the sur
render at Appomatix he owned a
horse, some war trappings and his
box of surveying instruments which
he had before war used as a civil
engineer.
In less than week after the last
gun had been fired he was employed
by the Orange & Alexandria Railroad
at civil engineering. He bought stock
with the savings from his salary, sold
it opportunely, invested in other Nir-
ginia railroads, and in a few years re-
tired from the civil engineering to take
the position of Vice President on the
Danville Road. From that position
he graduated to the Presidency OF the
Norfolk & Ten3essee Road. After ten
years had passed he was the railroad
prince OF Virginia, and is now a mil
lionaire. His fortune Is estimated at
SIS, 10000 and he is adding to it
daily by shrewd investments.
The two senators from Louisiana,
Gibson and Eustis, rank next to Ma
hone in wealth. Gibson was Il confed-
crate general and served throughout
the war. At it's close he had several
hundred acres Of land which had not
been titled for four years. and had n
musty law office in New Orleans which
he had not entered since his brigade
was ordered to the front. With bor-
rowed 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 con-
siderably over q half million OF dol
lars. This will be increased eventual
will come into q large fortune at the
death of her mother. Mrs. Montgome-
ry. His colleague, Eustis, alter fight.
ing under Johnston till the close OF the
war, turned his attention to law and
sugar, and between them had eked out
several hundred thousand dollars.
He is regarded as the shrewdest man
in the New Orleans Sugar Exchange,
and although not broker, always
has the tips" ade was the candidate
of tile sugar men for the United States
Senate, and, it is said has a hand in
the Louisiana Lottery Company.
Nearly as wealthy as the foregoing
isGeneral Brown OF Tennessee, twice
Governor of that State since the wal
and now the receiver OF the Texas
Pacific Railroad. General Brown
like so many of his associates, took
to civil engineering and railroadine
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 100000
q wear, and has his headquarters at
Dallas. AS a result OF his rail
road adventures he is worth near
ly $l,OOO,OOO, and is increasin.
his fortune yearly. General Rossel
OF the Northern Virginia cavalry, now
living in retirement ut Charlottesville
has an estate valued at over STG9
600. He made it all since the wal
and at railroadng. After surveying
for severalyear in the Western States
hebecame connected with the Northern
Pacific Railroad and was elected it:
Vice-President eight years ago. Hi!
estate is almost adjoining the ole
homestead of Thomas Jefferson al
Monticello, and is generally conceded
to be the finest in Virginia.
| General Trimble, who lives in Balti
more, found fortune in liquor afte
the war The whiskey which bears
his name found it's way into popular
ity at once, and has so far yielded
the General more than a half million
He owns extensive distilleries nea
Baltimore, and although very old IL
superintends their operation.
| General Wheeler of Alabama, nov
Congressman from tiae Eighth District
after gaining the reputation of bein
the most daring cavalry leader OF th
South after j. Il. B. Stuart, stepped
from the saddle into the cotton ticlt
4 and from poverty has risen to be th
1 richest man in his StaSe. His estat
\ is valued at nearly million.
/ General Gordon of Georgia made
! fortune since the war, bmt lost it re
Gently through iniudiclous specula
tkon. Five years ago he vas million
aire, to-day heas literally not wortl
dollar. General Johnston, Unitet
States Railroad Commissioner, has
snug fortune. and few other exC Con
federate Generals are worth S1OO,OO'
or more-all made after laying dow
their arms.
At the Merchernich works in Ger