The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1893-12-19
The CAREERS
Of Generals Who Wore the Cray.

Only those who have undertaken such
task can appreciate its immensity
and trouble, but if it serves its pur-
pose / shall be content.
| To begin with those of the highest
rank, of the five full Generals of the
Confederate Army none survive.
There were Il Lieutenant Generals in
the Confederate Army from first to
last, and of these all were from the
United States Army but, four, namely,
Richard Taylor, N, B. Forrest, Wade
Hampton and John B. Gordon. OF
them the following are living James
Longstreet, Stephen Lee, Early, Buck
ner, Wheeler and A. p. Stuart, be-
sides two of those not from the United
States Army mentioned above.
Gustavus w, Smith is the ranking
Major General living and makes his
home in New York City. w. w.
Martin lives at Natchez, and is rail-
road President. Z. l. Lomax makes
his home in Virginia, but is in the
War Records Bureau here in Wash
ington, says writer In the Washing
ton Post. Frank G. Armstrong, the
best United States Indian Inspector
the Government ever had, for he was
born in the Choctaw Nation, is now
Assistant Commissioner of Indian AT
fairs. Hume lives la Memphis, Tenn.
Churchill has been Governor of Ar
kansas and lives at Little Rock. COL
quit was Governor Of Georgia, and is
United States Senator from that
State. Dibrell for long time was
member Of Congress from Tennessee.
Lyon, who commanded one of For
rests divisions for awhile, resides at
Eddyville, Ky.
| Mackall, who was Brigadier Gem
eral and chief of General Bragg's staff,
who lived over in Fairfax county,
! Va, not far from Washington, for
nsny years, died about lS months
ago. MCGOWAN is member of the
Supreme Court of South Carolina
/ w. r. Miles is c0tton-planting mag
nate on the Yazoo river in Mississippi.
Roger A. Pryoris a prosperous law
yer in New York. John G. Walker,
who was down in Central America as
Secretary of Legation under Dabney
Maury, died last summer.
Holmes is in Mexico mining, and, !
hear, making money. Of the three
Lees who were Generals, Custis-who
was Mr.. Davis Chief of Staff--is the
President of the Washington and Lee
College in Virginia. William Henry
Fitzhugh Lee, generally called "Run-
n.y. who was planter and member
of Congress from the Eighth Virginia
District, died three years ago. Fitz-
hugh Lee, cousin of the others and a
famous cavalry officer, owns the Sra
vensworth" estate, on the Potomac,
about 80 miles below Washington.
Robert Lee, the Generals youngest
son, who served in the ranks of the
Rockbridge Artillery greater part of
the war, lived until recently on the
James River, where he o:--as a hand
some estate. He is more like his
great father in appearance and man
ner than is any other Lee. He is now
a resident of Washington. l have
heArd--though do not know how
true it is--that II is in contemplation
by the Lees to remove the dust of their
grandfather (''Light Horse Harry
Lee" as General Washington always
4 called him. from Cumberland,
and bury it by the side of General
Robert Lee.
Turning from the Lees to General
Longstreet, the ranking Lieutenant
General Of the Contederacy, the world
viii bo sorry to know he lie getting on
badly. He lives at Gainsuille, Ga,
aud his house there was burned re-
gently with all that was in it. GEN
eral Early another of Lees corps
commanders, lives at Lynchburg, is in
the practice of law and is well-to-do.
/ Everybody knows what General
Hampton, who once commanded all
the cavalry Of the Army of Northern
Virginia, is doing, and that Major
General M. G. Butler was once his col
league In the United States Senate
from South Carolina.
OF the officers In General Johnston's
Army of rhe Tennessee r. II. and Pat
ton Anderson are dead. General
Bate is United Stares Senator from
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