Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-12-24
WARRIORS AT WORK.
SURVIVING CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
Leaders OF the Lost Cause Now Prominent
Business sfen--Most Of Them
Arc Prosperous.


generalsT' Is a question very often asked.
but not 30 easily answered. Only those
who have undertaken such task, says
writer in the Washington Post. can
appreciate It's immensely and trouble,
but II II serves its purpose. shalt be
content.
To begin with those OF highest rank,
of the five full generals OF the Confede-
rate army none survive There were
twenty-one Acknowledgements in the
Confederate army from first to last, and
of these all were from the United States
army but four-namely, Richard Taylor,
N. Il. Forrest, Wade Hampton. and John
d. Gordon. OF them the following are
living: James Longstreet. Stephen Lee,
Early, Bucl<ner, Wheeler, and Alp. Stew
art, besides two Of those not from the
old United States army mentioned above.
Gustavus w. Smith Is the ranking
major-seneral living. and makes his
home in New York city. w. w. Martin
lives at Natchez. and is a railroad presi-
dent. L. l.. Lomax makes his home Ia
Virginia, but Is IN the War Records
Bureau here IN Washington. Franz Z.
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
Affairs. IIume lives In Memphis. Tenn.
Churchill has been Governor of Arkan-
sas and lives at Little Rock. Colluitt
was Governor Of Georgia, and Is United
Z toN kA- fr1. ghnf Gtat
for long time was member or Con-
gress from Tennessee. Lyon, who COM
manded one OF Forests divisions
awhile, resides at Eddyville. Ky. Mac
kali, who was brigadier-general and
chief OF General Braggs staff. who lived
over in Fairfax county. Va, not far
from Washington, for many years, died
about eighteen months ago. MCGOWAN Is
member Of the Supreme Court Of South
Carolina. w. r. Miles Is a cotton-plant-
ing magnate on the YaZoo river. In Mis-
sissppi. Roger A. Pryor is O prosperous
lawyer in New York. John G.. WalkN.
who was down in Central America W
Secretary of Legation under Dabney
Maury, died last summer.
THE LEES.
Holmes is in Mexico mining. and.
hear, making money. OF the three Lees
who were generals-Custis, who was Mr..
Davis's cher OF STAFF, IL the president
Of the Washington and Lee College. In
Virginia. William Henry Fttzhugh Lee,
generally called "Runy." who was a
planter and member OF Congress from
the Eighth Virginia District, died three
years ago. FitZhugh Lee, a cousin OF
the others, and a famous cavalry officer,
owns the "Ravensworth" estate, on the
Potomac about nifty miles below Wash
2 Ia A r.
ginia. Robert Lee, the Generals youngest
son, who served in the ranks OF the
Rockbridge Artillery a greater part OF
/ the war. lived until recently on the
James river. where he owns "A
handsome estate. He is more like
his great father in appearance and
manner than any OF the Lees. He IS
now resident OF Washington. l have
heard-though l do not know how true
1t is--that it is in contemplation by the
Lees to remove the dust Of their grand
father ("Light-Horse Harry Lee" as
General Washington always called him.
from Cumberland Island, Ga, and bury
it by the side of General Robert u. Lee.
II had to select the man who should
represent mentally and physically the
highest type OF the southern gentleman, L
should choose Gusts Lee. He - man
strikingly handsome, and well bred.
WIN cndIMlHb IldIiuClSp anu 10 hhS ohiS
one Of the Lees who Is unmarried.
LCNGSTREET. EARLY, AND OTHERS.
Turning from the Lees to General Long
street, the ranking Acknowledgement OF
the Confederacy, the world will be sorry
TO know that he Is getting on badly. He
lives at Gainesville, Ca, and his house
there was burned recently with all that
was I'm It. Longstreet had the confidence
Of General Lee to a greater degree than
any of his officers. for. barring Gettysburg,
about which there Is a wide diversity or
opinion, Longstreet never made mistake.
General Early. another Of Lees corps
commanders. lives at Lynchburg, Is IN
tho practice Of law, and Is well-to-do. or
Gordon have spoken before. Everybody
knows that General Hampton. who
Cnce commanded all the cavalry of
the Army Of Northern Virginia, is
doing, and that Major-General N. C.
Butler was once his colleague In
the United States Senate from South |
Carolina. or the soldiers in General John !
ston's army OF the Tennessee. II. III. and
Patton Anderson are dead. General Bates !
is United States Senator from Tennessee, !
and w. H., or Red" Jackson, one OF For |
rests division commanders. Is living near |
Nashville on a magnificent plantation. |
General Wheeler. who commanded all OF
only Is years OF age, IS a planter In North |
Alabama, was a member Of the last and |
is a member Of the present Congress Cen |
eraI Lawton. one Of the quartermaster- |
generals OF the COnfederacy, Is leading |
member OF the Savannah (Ga) bar. and
General Gorgas, the Confederate Chief-of- {
Ordnance, died in Alabama a few years
ago. His son is a promising young sur
geon In the United States Army. General
Cockrell. the ranking Confederate general
from Missouri, now living, is the senior
United States Senator from that State.
r c. Walthall. OF Missouri, senior major
general from that State, who was serious
~ considered as the Commander OF the
Army of the Tennessee In 1854 by Mr..
Davis and his cabinet, IS United States
Senator from Mississippi, and was, as long
as he cared TO be. the attorney for the IL
linols Central Southern connecting lines.
at a salary OF $4,000 year. Just after the
war he was a law-partner OF Judge Lamar
at Oxford.
A HOST OF HEROES.
Three West Point governors and ex-
Confederate generals rode at the head br
the troops from their respective States In
the New York Centennial parade. They
were Fitzhugh Lee. of Virginia; Buckner,
of Kentucky. and Nichols. OF louisiana
NICHOLS, VINO was Terribly WOuuucu' ioSihb
an arm and a leg was elected Governor
for the second time in 1887. Robert Lowry'
who was a brigadier-general in the Army
OF Northern Virginia, has twice been Gov
ernor OF Mississippi. Sully Ross, who COM
manded Texas brigade in Forests corps,
was Governor Of the great State OF Texas
three terms. Stephen D. Lee Is az the head
OF the Mississippi Agricultural College. at
Starkvile, while Lieutenant-GeneralA A. Z.
Stewart. once president OF the University
Of Mississippi. at oxford. Is now In Wash
iDgton, In the War-Records Bureau. Gen
eral Pagan lives In Arkansas. as does Go
van, and Louis Herbert lone OF the last
mathematicians that ever left West POINT,
who was colonel Of the Third Louisiana
Infantry and a brlgadier-general In the
Confederate army. lives up In bis native
Attakappas, IN Louisiana. Rosser lives
near Charlottesville. and Is rich. u. ii.
Robertson. the courtly, gracious gentle
man, resides In Washington. George
Steuart Is a resident OF Baltimore, as also
is Bradley Johnson. William II Payne
has a residence here In Washington. and
at Warrenton. Va, and Is the attorney for
the virginia Midland. Thomas NJ. Logan.
the youngest brlgadier-general the Con-
federacy ever made. being just Il when
commissioned. is at the head OF the great