The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-29
SOLDIERS BUDGET.
The Confederate Generals.

The Washington Post has under
taken what proved to be an arduous
task --ascertaiuing the whereabouts OF
the genera who led the Confederate
army in the DAYS OF lS6l-65. As may
be supposed, Death has claimed most
cf them for bis own. TIE Posts arti
Gle, greatly abridged, is rs follows
To begin with those of the highest
rank OF the five full generals, none sur.
vive. There were twenty. ne lit utter ant
generals, from fret To last, and Of these
all were from the United States army
but four-R!chard Taylor, N. b. For
rest, Wade Hampton and John B. Cor
don. OF them the following are living:
Lon gstreet, Stephen Lee, Early, Buck
ner, Wheel and \ p. Stewart, besides
two not from the old United S oies
army, mention, d above. Gustavus w.
Smith is the ranking ma or general liv.
ing, and makes his home in NV York
city. w. w. Martin lives at Natchez,
and is a railroad president. l.. L.
Lomax axes his home in Virginia, but
is in the war records bureau in Wash.
ington. Frank G. Armstrong, born in
the ChCc.aw Nation, is assis tant com.
missioner of Indian affairs. Hume
lives in Memphis, Tenn. Churchill
has been governor of Arkansas, and
lives at Little Rock. Colquitt was v
ernor of Georgia and is now United
States senator. Dibrell was for long
time member of congress from Ten.
nessee. Lyon, one of Forests divi-
sion commanders, resides at EGdyville,
Ky. Mackall is dead. MCGOWAN is a
member of the supreme court of South
Carolina. w. r. Miles is a cotton
planting magnate on the Yazoo river,
in Mississippi. Roger A. Pryor is
prosperous lawyer in New York. John
g. Walker died last summer. Holmes
is in Mexico, and is making money.
Of the three Lees who were generals,
Custis-Davis' chief of staff--is pres-
dent of Washington ard Lee College,
in Virginia. William II. f. Lee, who
was planter and member of congress
from Virginia, died three years ago.
Fiizhugh Lee, cousin of The others,
and the famous cavalry officer, owns
the Ravenswolth" estate, on the
Potomac, about fifty miles below Wash
ington. He has been governor of Vir-
States senator. Robert Lee, youngest
son of the general, lived until recently
on the James river, where he owns
handsome estate.
Turning from the Lees to Longstreet,
the ranking lieutenant-ge neral of the
Confederacy, the world will be sorry to
know he is getting on badly. He lives
at Gainesville, Ga, and his house there
was burned recently, with all that was
in it. Longstreet had the confidence
of General Lee to greater degree tt an
any of his officers, for, barring Gettys-
burgh, about which there is wide d.
versiiy of opinion, Longstreet never
made Q mistake. General Early, an
other Of Lee S corps commanders, lives
at Lynchburg, is in The practice Of law
and is we'll to do. OF Gordon / have
spoken before. Everybody knows
what General Hampton, who once COM
manded all the cavalry of the Army of
Northern Virginia, is doing, and that
Majol-General M. G. Butler was once
his colleague in the United Safes sem
ate from South Carolina. OF the Off
GERS in General Johnston's Army of
the Tennessee, X. III. and Patton An
derson are dead. General Bate is
United States senator from Tennessee
and W. Ii. or cred " Jackson, one Of
Forests division commanders, is liv-
ing near Nashville on magnificent
plantation. General Wheeler, who
command d all of General Johnston's
cavalry when he was only twenty-eight
years old, is a planter in north Ala
bama, was member of the last and is
member of The present congress.
General Lawton, of the quarlermaster
generals Of the COnfederacy, is a lead
ing member of the Savannah (Ga.) bar,
and General Gorgas, the Confederate
chief of ordnance, died in Alabama a
few years ago. His son is promising
young surgeon in the United States
army General Cockrell, the ranking
Confederate general from Missouri
now living, is the senior United States
senator from that state. +. G. Wal
thall of Mississippi, senior major gen.
eral from that state, who was seriously
considered as the commander of the
Army of the Tennessee in 1864 by Mr..
Davis and his cabinet, is a United
States senator from Mississippi, and
was, as long as he cared to be, the at
torney for the Illinois Central southern
connecting lines at salary of S12 900
year. Just after the war he was
law partner of Judge Lamar al Oxford.
Three West Point governors and ex-
Confederate generals r. de at the head
of the troops from their respective
states in the New York centennial pa
rade. They were Fitzhugh Lee of
Virginia, Buckner of Kentucky and
Nichols of Louisiana. Nichols, who
was terribly wounded, losing an arm
and leg, was elected governor for the
second lime in 1887 Robert Lowry,
who was brigadier general in the
army of Northern Virginia, has twice
been goverro or # Mississippi. Sully
Ross, who commanded Texas brigade
in Forests corps, was governor of the
great state of Texas three terms. Ste
phen d. Lee is at the head of the Mis-
sissippl Agricultural College, at Stark
vile, while Lieute nant General A. p.
Stewart, once president of The Unver-
sity of Mississippi, at Oxford, is now in
Washington in the war records bureau.
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