Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-31

surrendered. and his WIFE Ihey were
there informed that Mr. Davis and Mr..
Clay would be sent on to Washington City;
! and that Mr.. 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
i much worn down and in feeble health, and
that he, Reagan, being the only member of
bis 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 Mr.. Davis from the be-
ginning of the struggle and wished to end
it with him. And he appealed to Gen. Will
son as man and as soldier to have the
order changed. Gen. Wilson agreed % ask
the change, but suggested its danger 10 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. Ga, Vice-Pres-
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
Vice-President Stephens and Mr. Reagan
were transferred to the United States ves-
sci of war Tuskarora, and sent to Fort
Warren, in Boston harbor, where they re-
manned as prisoners until released and pa
rolled by order of President johnson in Oc-
tober, 1863.
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
90 1866. Finding his home in town wrecked
and untenantable, he went 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 in the hour of peril caused him to
accept poverty and toll and disfranchise-
ment without q murmCr or complaint.
While thus engaged Gen. Griffin, in COM
mand in the department of Texas, sent his
messenger 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 governor
except by the choice of the people of
Texas
Mr. Reagan having resumed the practice
of low foil
his farm, and at the same time was bur-
dencd with a heavy private, political and
business correspondence. In the latter 1
part of the year 1914 his political disabili-
ties were removed by congress In the
same year he was nominated by the Demo-
cratic convention of his district for seat
in the Forty-fourth congress aud was
elected. In 1875 he was elected to seat in
the state constitutional convention and
served during its session, between the
time he was elected to congress in 1874 and
the taking of his seat as q member in De-
cember 1875.
Mr. Reagan was afterwards nominated
and elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, F'orty-eighth, Forty-ninth
and Fiftieth congresses, but being elected
to the United States senate did not serve
in the house of representatives of the Fiji
tieth congress. In 1887 he was elected to
the United States senate for six years. In
1901 nc ICSABuGO LIS Scdb III Jllo SCudue W
accept the craftsmanship of the railroad
commission of Texas, thus surrendering an
Office of greater dignity and emoluments
This, as he explained at the tire, he did
because of the opinion of others that he
could render more important service to the
state in this latter capacity than in any
other and because he felt that the people of
Texas had honored and trusted him so long
and so often thai it was his duty to serve
them in any capacity in which it was
thought he might be most useful to them.
Mr.. Reagan was a member of the first
Democratic state convention ever held in
Texas, which was held in the old state capt.
tai in the spring of 1S4S, the year Gen. Cass
was nominated for president by the Democ-
racy. He was president of the state
Democratic convention of 1872. which nomi-
mated Judge James Willie and the Hon. R /
O. Mills for congress for the state at large.
Mr. Reagan was nominated by Democratic
conventions and elected to the house of
representatives of the Federal congress
nine times On two occasions his nomina-
ton was contested. Seven times he was
admitted without opposition by acclama-
ton.