Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27

| surrendered. and his wife. They were
| there informed that Mr.. Davis and Mr.
| Clay would be sent on to Washington City;
/ and that MIR. Reagan and the other pris-
oners, with Mrs. Davis and her children
and Mrs. Clay were to remain at Macon.
| On the receipt of this information MIR.
| Reagan went to Gen. Wilson and asked that
| this order be so modified as to order him
| sent on with President Davis, basing his
request on the ground that Mr.. Davis was
much worn down and in feeble health and
| that he, Reagan, being the only member of
hls political family present, and being able
| IN case OF need to render Mr.. Davis
some assistance, desired to be with
him. Gen. Wilson asked Mr. Rea-
gan if he was aware that a
compliance with his request would involve
him In some danger, and advised him not to
make It. To this MIR. Reagan replied that
he had fully considered that and added that
he had been with MIR. Davis from the be-
ginning of the struggle and wished to end
1t with him. And he appealed to Gen. Will
son as man and as soldier to have the
order changed. Gen. Wilson agreed to ask
the change, but suggested its danger to Mr.
Reagan. In two or three hours an answer
was received by Gen. Wilson by telegraph
directing him to send all the prisoners, in
Guiding the ladies and children, to Hampton
Roads, fortress Monroe,) instead of to
Washington. At Augusta, Ca, Vice-Pres-
ident Stephens and Maj.-Gen. Wheeler of
the Confederate cavalry were added to the
company OF prisoners. And they were all
sent via Savannah and Virginia and the sea
to Hampton Roads, Va From that place
Vtce-President Stephens and Mr.. Reagan
were transferred to the United States yes
sci OF war Tuskarora, and sent to Fort
Warren, in Boston harbor, where they re-
NAMED as prisoners until released and pa
rolled by order of President johnson in Oc-
tober, 1865.
Mr.. Reagan, after some delay in Boston,
New York Richmond, Columbia, Augusta
and New Orleans, arrived at his home.
Palestine, Tex, on the night of December
70, 1865. Finding his home in town wrecked
and untenantable, he vent to his farm, his
present home, two miles west of that town.
Broken up himself, and his neighbors in the
same condition, he could not hope with
matters in that condition to support his
family by the practice of law, and he hired
some hands and worked on the farm with
them for two or three years, until the i'm
proved condition of the country enabled him
to resume the practice of the law. But he
has ever since continued his farming opera
tons.
The courage and constancy which |
prompted Mr.. Reagan to request that he |
might share sucn fate as might await his |
chief II the hour Of peril caused him to |
accept poverty and toll and disfranchise- |
ment without a murmCr or complaint |
While thus engaged Gen. Griffin, in COM
nand IN the department of Texas, sent his .
to inquire of Mr.. Reagan if he
would accept the appointment as military
governor of Texas. Mr.. Reagan's answer
was, Thanks to the general for the con-
templated honor, with the statement that
he could not accept the Office of governoESb
except by the choice of the people 81
Texas" TT
Mr.. Reagan having resumed the practice
of law, continued TO successfully manage
MS farm. and at the same time was bur 7
1encd with heavy private, political anad
business correspondence. In the later |,
part OF the year 1919 his political disallilissf
les were removed by congress. In the
'ame year he was nominated by the Demo-
ratio convention of his district for a seat
n the Forty-fourth congress and was
elected. In 1875 he was elected to seat in
he state constitutional convention and
erved during its session, between the
ime ne was elected to congress in 1874 and
he taking of his seat as a member in De-
ember, 1915.
MIR. Reagan was afterwards nominated
nd elected to the Forty-ffth, Forty-sixth,
Forty -seventh, Forty-eighth, Foriy-ninth
nd tifueth congresses, but being elected |
o the United States senate did not serve
n the house of representatives of the Fiji
leth congress. In 1887 he was elected to
he United States senate for six years In
o9l he resigned his seat in the senate to
ccept the craftsmanship of the railroad
commission of Texas, thus surrendering an
flee of greater dignity and emoluments.
his, as he explained at the tine, he did
ecause of the opinion of others that he
Ould render more important service to the
tate in this latter capacity than in any
Their and because he felt that the people Of
exas had honored and trusted him SO long
nd so often that it was his duty to serve
lem in any capacity in which it was
fought he might be most useful to them
Mr.. Reagan was q member of the first
emocratic state convention ever held in ,
exas, which was held in the old state capt. :
Il in the spring Of 1913, the year Gen. Cass
as nominated for president by the Democ-
ICY. He was president of the state
emocratic convention of 1872. which nomi-
ated Judge James Willie and the Hon. r. !
Mills for congress for the state at large.
Mr.. Reagan was nominated by Democratic
inventions and elected to the house of !
representatives. Of the Federal congress
ne times. On two occasions his nominal
on was contested. Seven times he was
limited without opposition by acc1ama-
on. q