The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-06-27

crate Generals?" is a question very
often asked, but not so easily answer
ed, andit is the Lounger's purpose to
try to reply to this question in the
presently coming column. Only those
who have undertaken such task can
appreciate its immensity and trouble
but if it serves its purpose l shall be
content. To begin with those Of the
highest rank of the five full Generals
of the Confederate army, Johnston, j
E., and Beauregard survive. Gen.
Johnston is United States Commis.
sioner of Railroads, and Gen. Beaure-
gard lives in Louisiana, where he has
created the finest body of militia for
its numbers in America, He is also
one of the commissioners for the liqui-
dation of one of the old Louisiana
State banks, besides which he has
other important business connections.
There were twenty-one Lieutenant
Generals in the Confederate army
from first to last, and of these all were
from the United States Army but
four, viz: Richard Taylor, N. B. For
rest, Wade Hampton and John B.
Gordon. OF them, the following are
living: D. H. Hill, who is in North
Carolina; Stephen Lee, Early, Buck
ner, Wheeler and A. P. Stewart, be-
sides two not from the old United
States Army, mentioned above. Gus
tavus w. Smith is the ranking Major
General living, and makes his home
in New York City. w. T. Marlin
lives at Natchez, and is a railroad
president. G. w. Field lives at Hot
Springs, Ark. L. L. Lomax is super
intendent of prosperous school in
Virginia. Frank Armstrong is the
best United States Indian Inspector
under the Government, for he was born
in the Choctow nation. Humse lives
in Memphis, Tenn. Churchill was
Governor of Arkansas and lives at
Little Rock. Colquitt was Governor
of Georgia and is United States Sena-
tor elect from that State. Col. Stone
has returned from Egypt and is living
here in Washington. and is chief of a
division in the Surgeon Generals of
flee. Dibrell is member of Congress
from Tennessee. Lyon, who COM
manded one of Forests divisions
awhile, lives at Eddyville, KY. Mack
all, who was Brigadier General and
Chief of Gen. Bragg's staff, lives over
in Fairfax county, Va, not far from
Washington. He is in wretched
health. MCGOWAN is member of the
Supreme Court of South Carolina.
w. r. Miles is cotton planting mag
nate on the Yazoo river, in Mississip-
pi. Roger A. Pryor is prosperous
lawyer In New York. John G. Walk
er is down in Central America, as
Secretary of Legation under Dabney
Maurey, who is our Minister there.
Lord, how the world changes! Holmes
is in Mexico mining, and hear, max
ing money.
Of the three Lees who were gener-
ais, Custis-who was Mr.. Davis Chief
of Staff-is the President of the Wash.
ington and Lee College in Virginia.
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, gener-
ally called "Runy," is a planter and
member OF Congress from the Eighth
Virginia district. Fitzhugh Lee, a
cousin of the others, and famous
cavalry officer, owns the Ravens
wood" estate, on the Potomac fifty
miles below Washington, and is Gov
ernor Of the State of Virginia. Robert
E. Lee the Generals youngest son,
who served in the ranks greater part
of the war, lives on the james river
and owns a handsome estate there
He is more like his great father in ap-
pearance and manner than any of the
Lees. l have heard, though l do not
know how true it is, that it is in con
temptation by the Lees to remove the
dust of their grandfather ("Light-hors.
Harry Lee,S as Gen. Washington al
ways called him) from Cumberland
Island, Ga, and bury it by the side O
Gen. Robert E. Lee. If I had to sc
lect the man who should represen
mentally and physically the highes
type of the younger Southern gentle
man should choose Custis Lee. III
is a man of strikingly handsome ant
well-bred appearance, and of perfec
manners. and is the only one Of th
Lees who is unmarried.
| Turning from the Lees, Gen. Long
street, the ranking Lieut.. General G
the Confederacy, 1 am sorry to know
is getting on badly. He lives q
Gainesville, Ga, and his house ther
burned recently with all that was j
it.
Everybody knows what Gen. HamT
ton, who once commanded all the ca,
airy of the army of Northern Wi
ginia, is doing, and that Maj. Gen. n
G. Butler is his colleague in th
United States Senate from South Ca
olina.
Turning to the officers in Gel
Johnston's Army of the Tennesse
Lieut.. Gen. A. P. Stewart is Presidel
1 of the University of Mississippi at O,
ford, and Lieut.. Gen. Stephen d. L,
is President of another Mississippi il
stitution of lesrning. R. 81. and Pa
ton Anderson are dead. Gen. Bate
United States Senator from Tennesse
and w. H, or "Red, jackson, one
Forrest's division commanders. is Ii
ing near Nashville on magnf6cel