Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-21
NOT MANY LEFT.
Surviving Generals of the Late
War Fast Diminishing
But Fourteen of the Army Com
manders Still Live,

| federate - A Rapid Thinning in the
Ranks of Others Who Held High Rank
In the RebelliOn-The Greatest Heroes,
tho Privates, Have Died by Thousands.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The death of
Gen. Sherman Ienews interest in the
diminishing list of those still living who
held high rank in the late civil war,
OF army commanders there are Gen.
Rosecrans and Gen, Buell., Army of the
Cumberland; Gen. Schofeld, Army Of
the Ohio Gen. Butler, Army of the
James; Gen. Pope, Army of Virginia;
Gen. John G. Parke. Army of the Poto-
mac; Gen Banks, the Army of the Gulf
and in the Shenandoah Gen, Howard,
the Army of the Tennessee, and Gen.
Slocum, the Army of Georgia.
OF these Gen. Schotield is in command
of the army, Gen. Rosecrans is register
of the treasury, Gen. Buell. resides in
list and resides in St Louis, Gen. Parke
is on the retired list hale and hearty.
He commanded the Army of the Poto-
mac temporarily and the Ninth corps.
both at the east and the west Gen.
Gen. Howard is stationed in New York,
and Gen. Slocum resides in Brooklyn.
Among the corps commanders yet
alive are these: Gen. A. Doubleday,
temporarily, First; Gen. John Newton,
First: Gen. Sickles, Third; Gen. Il. ID.
Keys, Fourth, east Gen d. S. Stanley,
west; Gen. Eitziohn Porter, Fifth; Gen.
w b. Franklin, Gen. H. q, Wright,
Sixth; Gen. John T.. Parke, Ninth; Gen.
John Ctibbon, Tenth Gen. Carl Schurz,
Gen. j. A. McClernand, Thirteenth
Gen John M, Palmer, Fourteenth; Gen.
Granville M. Dodge SiXteenth Gen.
w. +. (''Baldy') Smith, Eighteenth; Gen.
A. Med. McCook Twentieth: Gen. T.
L. Crittenden, Twenty first; Gen. j. ID.
Cox. Twenty-third Of the distinguished
cavalry corps commanders there are
living Pleasanton, James II, Wilson
and W. w, Averell Ed. Nj. McCook
also had high command,
OF these, Gems Newton, Sickles,
Porter, Dodge and Crittenden reside in
New York Gems, Stanley and McCook
are in the army Gems. Wright and
Parke reside in Washington, and Frank
lin in Hartford.
Below is list of officers now living
who commanded departments Gems.
Banks, Buell., Butler Rosecrans, Sigel,
Lew Wallace, d. N. Couch, G. 9. Augur,
j. M Palmer, N. j. r. Dana, j. j. Rey-
nolds, II. G. Wright, G. M. Dodge, Scho-
field and B. f, Kelley.
Gen. Sherman is the last of the army
commanders Grant, Thomas and
Hooker-at Chattanooga. Gen. Sher-
mans corps commanders there are also
dead and most If not all, of his division
commanders.
Hookers corps commanders, Howard
and Slocum, are alive. OF Thomas
corps commanders Gordon Granger is
dead and Palmer alive
The above is not complete list of liv-
ing army and corps commanders, and 1t
may be incorrect in placing two or three
names among the living. These cannot
be verified with any records at hand
On the Confederate side there are 1iv-
ing of army commanders Gems. Joseph
Il. Johnston, Beauregard, Gustavus w.
Smith, Kirby Smith and S, B. Buckner.
Gen Gustavus Smith, now living in
New York, commanded the Army of
Northern Virginia ON the second day at
Seven Fines, or one of the great battles
in that vicinity.
CT Confederate corps commanders
there are Longstreet, A. L. Stewart,
Early, Wheeler, Forrest, Wade Hamp-
ton. Martin X. H. Anderson--Long-
streets corps and Stephen d. Lee
Hoods corps Death seems to have
been buster among the noted Confed-
crate generals than among the Union
commanders.
The death roll of Ohio alone since the
war will serve to show how fast the list
of general officers is diminishing. 1t Is
in part as follows: Mcclellan, Sher-'
man, Sheridan, Mitchell, Gilmore, Nc
Dowel. Schenck, Garfield, Hazen, Gus
ter, Steedman, WeitZel, Crook Ban
ming, Opdycke, Which Kilby. Smith.
And when it comes to the private sol
dicr3 the eIcatest heroes OF the war,
4j g5J Of lh.m that is, four armies of
them, each more numerous than Sher-
mans combined armies on the Atlanta
campaign have crossed over to the
camping grounds Of our immortals