South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-08-23

l. Lomax 10 president Of prosper.
Gus school 10 Viz GINA. Fsank Arm.
strong il the beat u. 8. Indian In
spector under The government, for he
vas born ia the Choc.aw natioa.
Humes lives in Memphis, Tennesse
Churchill was Governor OF Afkansas
and lives in Little Rock. Colooitt
was Govsrnor Of Gsorxia and is Cci.
ted States Senator from that
State. Col. Stone has returned from
Egypt. and Is nov . chief Of division
10 the Surgeon. Gesersrs Office. Di.
biell - . member OF Congress from
Tennessee. Lyon. who commanded
one Of Forest's divisions for awhile.
lives at Eidyvil:e. Ky. Mackall,
Who was Brigadier-G eneral and
chief OF Gen. BraSg's staff. lives over
in Fairfax county, Virginia, not far
from Washington. He is in wretch
ed health. MCGOWAN is member
OF the supreme court OF South Caro-
lima. w. r. S:ilss II cotton plant.
log mognase on the Yazoo rlyor, In
Miss:ssirpi. Roger A. Pryor lie q
prosperous lawyer iu New York.
John G.. Walker u down In Central
America ~ secretary OF Legation uu-
der DaSney Maury. who il our min.
isier there. Holmes 10 ia Mexico
mining, aud making money.
Or the three Lees who we're Geuer-
ale, Gusts. who vas Mr. Davis chief
Of Staff. IL the president Of Washing.
ton and Lee University. in Virginia.
VIM. Henry Fiixhugh Lee, generally
called 'Runy, Is planter aud mem
Der OF Congress from The eighth VIr.
ginia d istrict. Fitzhugh Lee. . cous-
in Of the others, and q famous cavalry
officer, Owns the 'Ravenswood' estate
on the Potomac river, fifty miles be.
low Washington, and is Governor of
the State Of Virginia. Robert e.
Lee. the Gen erals youngest son. who
lserved iu the ranke the greater por.
ton Of the war, lives on the James
river, and owns handsome estate
there. He Is more like his greet IA.
Their in appear ance and manners thsn
any of the Lees. have heard,
though do not know how true it is,
that it is in contemplation by the
Lees to remove the dust OF their
grandfather ('Ligbt- Horse Harry as
Washington always called him J
from Cumberland Island, Ca. aud
bury 1t by the side of General Robert
K. Lee. IF had to select the man
who should represent mentally and
physically the highest type of tie
younger Sou:harn gentlemen,
should CHOOSE Gusts Lee. lie is q
man OF sirikiagiy handsome an, We i
bred appearance. aud OF perfect man
ners. and is the ouly one Of the Fees
who Is unmarried.
Turning from tho Lees, Gen. Long
street, the ranking lieutenant genor--
al of the Confedcracy, GIN sorry TO
know. is getting on badly. lie lives
AT Gainesville. Ga. and his house
there burned recently viii all that
was in 1t. Longstreet had tue conf :
dence of Gen. Lee 70 greater degree
than any of his officers. for barring
Gettysburg, about which there is q
wide diversity OF opinion, Longstreet
never made mistake. Gen. Enrly,
another OF Lees corps commanders,
lives at Lynchburg and is ia the
practice of law. file is fairly we'll TO
do. " Gordon ! have spoken be-
| fore.
Everybody knows what Gen.
Hampton, who once com mandea ell
| the cavalry in the amy of the
Northern Virginia, 10 doing, and that
Maj. Gen. NJ. g. Butler is lis COL
league In the United States Senate
from South Carolios.
Turning TO the officers In Gen.
Johnstou's Army OF the Tennessee,
Lieut.. Gen. A. +. Steward is presi-
dent Of the University of Mississippi,
at Oxford, AMI Lieut.. Gen. Stephen
d. Lee Is president of another Miss
issippi institution OF learning. r. n.
fatton anderson are dead. General
Bate lie u. 8. Senator from Tennes-
see, and X. II. or REQ jackson
one Of the Forrest division command.
ers and is living near Nashville. Ten.
nessee. on q magnificent plantation.
Gen. Wheeler, who commanded all
of General Johns.on's cavalry when
he was only twenty.nine years old,
Is planter In North Alabama, was
member OF the last, aud u member
elect Of the next Congress. General
LAYTON, the Qusrtermaster Gen. Of
the Confederacy is q leading mem
Der of the Savannah. Ga, bar, and
General Gorgas, Of the Confederate
Chief of Ordinance, died in Alabama
the other dsy, CockrelI, the rpnk-
Ing Confederate general from Miss
souri,, is the Senior United States
Senator from that state. 4. @.
Wslthall, Of Mississippi, who was ser-
iously considered as possible ccm.
mander Of the Army OF the Tennes.
see in 1864 by SIR. Davis and LIS cab.
met, Is United States Senator from
Mississippi, and the attorney FOR the
Illinois Central connecting lines, a.
q salary $4,000 year. just sftor
the war be was q Law partner OF
Judge Lamar at Oxford.
Three West Point Governors and
ex-Copfederate Generals rode ct the |
head or the troops frLm their rcspec
tive States In the New York Centen. |
They were Fitzhugh Lee, |
Of Virginle, Buckner, Of kealucky, /
and Nichols, Of Louisiana. Nichols, /
who was tatfihly Wounded irc{,r 1