The critic., 1891-02-24

Highest Of all in Leaveing U S Govt Report
Re-! e! BBssiss Bsxtisss
ABSOLUTELY PURE
SURVIVING GENERALS.
Some of Those Remaining ON the
Diminishing List.

Come of Those Remaining on the
Diminishing List.
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merciai gazette.
The death of General Sherman rcncws
interest in the diminishing list of those
still living who held high rank in the war
for the Union.
OF army commanders there are General
Rosecrans and General Buell., Army of the
Cumberland General Schofield, Army OF
the Ohio; General Butler, Army OF the
Ohio; General Butler, Army Of the James;
General Pope, Army Of Virginia; General
John G. Parke, Army of the Potomac;
General Banks, Army of the Gulf and in
the Shenandoah; General Howard, Army
of the Tennessee, and General Slocum,
Army Of Georgia.
OF these General Scholleld is in COM
mand of the Army, General Rosecrans IS
Register of the Treasury, General Buell.
resides in Kentucky, General Pope Is on
the retired list and resides in st. Louis,
and General Parkc IL on the retired list
bale and hearty. He commanded the
Army of the Potomac temporarily and
the Ninth Corps both at the East and the
West. General Banks is Representative
In Congress, General Howard Is stationed
in New York, and General Slocum resides
in Brooklyn.
Among the corps commanders yet alive
are these; General A. Doubleday, First;
General John Newton, First; General
sickles, Third; General Il. d. Keys,
Fourth, East; General ID. s. Stanley,
Vest General Fitz John Porter, Fifth;
General w. II. Franklin, General II. G..
Wright, Sixth; General John G. Parke,
Ninth; General John Gibbon, Tenth;
General Carl Schurz, General. j. A. Nc
Clernand. Thirteenth; General John NJ.
Palmer; Fourteenth; General Granville
(Baldy) Smith, Eighteenth General A.
McD. McCook Twentieth; General L. l..
Crittenden, Twenty-first; General J. ID.
Cox, Twenty-third. OF the distinguished
cavalry corps commanders there are living
Pleasanton, James ii. Wilson and Cen
eral w. w. Averell. Ed. NJ. McCook had
also high command.
OF these Generals Newton, Sickles,
Porter, Dodge and Crttenden reside in
New York, Generals Stanley and McCook
are in the Army, Generals Wright and
Parhe reside in Washington, and Franklin
in Hartford
Below is a list of officers now living
who commanded departments; Generals
Banks Buell., Butler, Rosecrans, Sigel,
Lew Wallace, d. n. Couch, G. G. Augur,
j. NJ. Palmer, n. j. Il. Dana, j. j. Rey.
nolds, II. g. Wright, G.. NJ. Dodge, Scho-
field and B. II. Kelley.
General Sherman is the last of the
Army commanders at Chattanooga. Gen
eral Sherman's corps commanders there
are also dead, and most, il not all, of his
division commanders.
liooker's corps commanders, Howard
and Slocum, are alive. OF Thomas corp'
commanders Gordon Granger is dead ant
Palmer alive.
The above is not a complete list of liyin,
army and corps commanders, and 1t ma.
be incorrect in placing two or three name
among the living.
On the Confederate side there are livinl
of army commanders Joseph Il. Johnston
1ieauregard, General Gristavus w. Smith
| Kirby Smith and S. B. Buckner. Genera
Gustavus Smith, now living in New Yorl;
commanded the Army of Northern Vii
ginia on the second day at Seven Pines o
one of the great battles in that vicinity.
OF Confederate corps commanders ther
are Longstreet A. p. Stewart, Early
Wheeler, Forrest. Wade Hampton, Martin
II. ii. Acknowledgements Corps an
Stephen ID. Lee Hoods Corps. Deaf
seems to have been buster among tn
noted Confederate generals than anon
the Union commanders.