The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
LOUISIANA VETERANS.
Personal Notes of Delegates to the Con-
vention.

the various camps OF nlteu confederate
Veterans will assemble at Memorial Hall
to elect Maj 'r-General to command the
Louisiana Division for the ensuing year.
The rumored candidates are the incum-
be (who has served bnt the third OF
null term). Maior-General w. j. Behan
OF the Army of Northern Virginia; Cen
eral John tflvnn, Jr., Army Of Tennes-
see; Colonel J. z. Richardson, Wash
ington Artillery, and Colonel George
Norman of the cavalry. There may be,
however, some dark horses " from the
country.
SKETCHES OF COMRADES.
Below will be found such personal |
notes concerning delegates as The Item |
reporters have been abe to pick up, a
number who promised memoranda not |
having sent it in and others not being |
found.
Colonel B. F. Eshleman, the present
chief of the veteran corps, Washington
Artillery Camp, went out with the fa-
nous battalion in 1861 as Captain Of the
fourth company. He was the first officer
wounded at the battle of Bull Run.
After serving CALAMITY in several en-
gagements he was promoted to Major
ship of the battalion, and was in COM
msnd at the surrender at Appomattox.
Paul Conrad.-A true representative
of "le uieNG Temps is found In Paul
Conrad, delegate from Camp Henry,
st. Paul. He is purely typical Louisi-
anian. With an ancestry as old as the
country, he combines in himself every
essential feature of the old-time Creole,
with the progressive characteristics OF
the present age.
Born in this city on December 81, 1910,
of native parentage, he, with many
whose names will ever live IN the his
tory of the State, attended the public
school of this city.
At an early age the death OF his father
left him to buffet the world with but lit
tie help, save the encouraging and wise
counsels of brave mother, and deter
, mined his early embarkation in the va
rying and stern actualities OF life.
He began a commercial career when
barely Is years of age in the wholesale
grocery business, and afterwards engaged
: in the cotton business
The war breaking out when he was
about 20 years of age, he joined the
I, Chasseurs a Pied, one of the first COM
? mands to leave this city for the then seat
OF war, Pensacola, in April, 1851.
: His career as a soldier was conspicuous
for his personal daring and bravery, not
. and paving the penalty of his venture
: some spirit, he was three times badly
!, wounded, once in front of Richmond al
the battle of Frazier Farm, June 80
1861, where he was appointed color
bearer Of his battalion on the field by
the Colonel commanding. The flag thus
entrusted to him, which he carried K
the end of the war, is the same battle
flag which was presented to st. Paul
Battalion by General Longstreet to com
memorate their desperate charge a
Seven Pines, and which was after tn
surrender at Appomattox taken to
place of safety in Richmond.
About 1879 meeting OF the veteran
Of the old command delegated Mr.. Con
rad to 90 to Richmond and secure tn
battered war emblem, which he did, an
after reporting to his old comrades j
arms he delivered the flag into the Gus
tody of the Association of the Army {
Northern Virginia, which has unfurle
it in Memorial Hall, where it now hangs
silent and eloquent reminder of thos
troublous times which brought it into ez
istence.
At Sharpsburg Cor Antietam) Septen
Der 10, 1861, he was a second tim
wounded, and fell into the hands of tn
Federals. After being exchanged an
before thoroughly recuperated from HI
Z disabling wounds, we find him again
the field of active duty with his con
mand in and about the historical Blacl
water, Southampton county, Va, and ;
the battle of Bellefeld he was agai
wounded.
Surrendering with the last forlor
hope, after four years and several month
of actual active service, he resumed h
duties of citizenship to his native Stat
i! relapsing into those peaceful pursuits
n which he could serve his people mo
benefcially. In 1867 he was elected A
sistant Secretary of the Finance Cor
mittee of the City Council, where h
intelligent administration of the Off
soon promoted him to the Secretaryshi
With varying successes to himst
financially he thereafter engaged in V
rious commercial enterprises, until
late years he acquired home in Il
town Of Waveland, adjoining Bay s
Louis, Miss, where his progressive spin
:. and enlightened enterprise were sot
e recognized, and he was elected and
Il still serving as a Councilman of that &C
- poration. His suggestions of progre
were soon adopted by his new constit
IN ents, and some time ago he was called u
on to serve as President of the Gulf Cos
Ice and Manufacturing Company, viii
is now affording such material comfol
to the denizens OF that lively little tow
-, Many years ago he accepted ID
''' tern position with the louisiana Sta
- Company, where his worth "
% soon recogniz d, and his promotion
- the internal direction of his office alta
~, Uu gradually followed, and which upon t
~ death of their late President. DIR. NJ.