Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-18


rades and warm personal friends. His
friend, Frank 4. Burr, has often told the
story Of the attachment between the Cen
eTal and General Grant which. dating
back TO those famous Mexican battle
fields, rccurred TO Grants memory shortly
before Appomattox, and lod to an inter
change OF invitations with the humane
object Of avoiding further bloodshed.
And when at last. in the hour Of the Con-
tederate chieftai3's bitter humiliation,
after the fOrm8htios of the capituatiOn
were settled. Longstreet tells how Grant
linked arms with him. and as they walked
away together recalled thor boylsh friend
shin bv saving in the old way:
Pete, let's go back to the good old times
and play game of bTag as we used to-"
Memories Of the first battle Of Bull Run
which won for him q -geueralship n
the Confederate army, or the campaign of
the Peninsula. Of almost every battle from
Yorktown TO Malvern Hill. Of Williams
burg and Antietam, of Fredericksburg,
Gettys burg, and Chickamaugn, and on
down q the battle OF the Wilderness where
ne was wounded almost TO death, the old
General has m lneXhaus'ible store, M
mute and accurate in details, after ali the
years Of peace. Foremost. from the he
ginning. among the brilliant captains who
supported General Leo, he was one OF the
last 20 give up hope and yle.d % the lneyi-
table. Yet with all his ardCr and per
Sistence he has the greatness Of magma
n1mitv. for IN one Of his latest public utter
anCe- he said,
THE greatest man OF war-times, the
one matchless among 100000 for the pc
culiar difficulties Of the period was Atra-
ham Lincoln
Few men after such m experience as his
would have paid so graceful q tribute TO
an enemy, and no man would have paid 1t
aftrI4t aI
ness.
An officer whose name was less proml-
nent in the records Of the war but whose
services to tho CoDfederacy were eXcep-
tionallv valuable a. thcy supplied it, most
pressing need. is General Edmund Kirby
Smith. who Is now professor OF mathe-
matics in the University of the South. at
Sewanee, Tenn. Tie rs a man of profound
learning, whose slngular.v modest, quiet
manner gives no suggestion Of the dash
ing cavalry officer who won hs spurs IN
1859 in conflict with the COmanches on the
border under the Stars and Stripes, and
led the advance under the Stars and Bars
with BraXton Bragg in the Kentucky
campaign of 1852. He comes Of a
having fought an the Revolutionary
war and his father having distinguished
himself in the second war with Eng
land. His brother Ephraim was a soldier,
too. Tie fell IL leading a desperate assault
on a Mexican battery at Molino del hey.
Bv one Of the painful condolences OF the
war q son of tins brother Ephraun was
colonel in the Federal army, who might
any dac have met hIs uncle in deadly COM
bat. He fell at Cornth in 1852. Edmund
Kirby Smith is now GS years Old. and
served fifteen years IN the United states
army before entering the service OF the
Confedcracv. HIS rank, when he resigned
l. hot of
and he entered the Confederate army "a
Heutcnant-colouel Of cavalry. lie was
severely wounded in the battle OF Bull
Run. but 10 the 1862 campaign he was
aoain at the front and did brilliant service
in East Tennessee and Kentucky, Ills
most valuable work, however, was done
while he was commander OF the Trans
mississippi depaTtmeut, to winch he was
appointed III February, 1863. The depart
ment comprised Texas, Louisiana. Ar
kansas and tho Indian Territory.
There he organized q vigorous govern
ment and established q number OF enter,
prises, the profits on which replenlshed
the Confederacy's treasury at time OF
terrible depletlOu. Not only did he sue
coed in getting cotton abroad in spite OF
the blockade. but be set up factories ana
furnaces, opened mines, made powder ana
castings aud other stores, OF when there
was NJ the time pressing ueed. TeHntal
Smith was the last general 20 surrender ms
forces After the war closed he became
Droeident OF the Atlantic and Pacific Iele-
cvaph Colnpauv, but in 1870 he found more
conremal occupation rs chancellor OF the
Tuiyersitv of Nashville which five wears
later he resigned for the protessorsmp he
Associated with General Beauregard of
late wears IN the management o, the LOUIS
lana Lottery is that other prominent SOL
der OF the South, General Jubal A. Early.
The two men are coneenial associates
having many characteristics IN common.
THO same dash and lmpetuOslty. tho same
impatience of contradiction orcontrol as
tincuish Early as they do Beauregard', ana
the same effects are seen IN Doth
their lives IN numerous ana Olt-
tfr enemies. General Early, VINO IS
~ vears old has been a soldier since boy
hood. though moro than once he mas
abandoned amartial career for law or busl,
moss He had a West Point training ana
frat smelled powder in the FLORIDA war ot
1897. He Quilted the army et the close Oh
that war and commenced the practice OF
law: subsequently he sat m the NiIglh'a
iaoislature for two years. Ihe outbreak
of tbe Mexican war lured him from the
pursuits Of peace he served as q MAJOR
of volunteers aud acted as Governor OF
Monterey for td8 last two months OF
occunatiou. He returned 70 the
uractlce Of the law Wheh ~
army was disbanded and served Tor
len wears "a Attorney of the Common
wealth. He was appointed colonel on the
outbreak of the war and took part IN the
battles Of Bull Run, fredericksburg, ana ana
Gettysburg. In 1854 he was sent TO the
valley of the Shenandoah. There after
few minor successes he fought the dlSaS-
tTous battle of Cedar Creek, that famous
battle IN which sheridan arrived IN tlhe
10 change the fortunes Of the DAY and turn
an ipnoininious defeat into q brilliant We
tory. Early's forces suffered heayiY .i,
that day, rand tho loss IN artillery
and baggage was as serious rs 'ns
loss in men. Six, mon hs latef' IN
October. 1861, still more severe as
aster befel hlm at Waynesboro'. Eheie
General Custer almost annlmlate4 ms
command. Lee, who still retained ms
fsith in Early's capacity. was unable 20 re-
sist the popular feeling IN the army agalnS,ss
the defeated General, and ieit hlLlse'
Obliged TO remove him from his c0mm9nd'
In his letter relieving hun from duty Lee
with the delicacy of the true gentleman;
snftened the blow by assuring larry Vl
-, 80, re0ar1 but reminded him thaS the