St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01


Sheridan in the closing battles of the war.
He was for a time our consul at Montreal
but for years has been engaged in the manu-
facture of steel. He is very popular socially,
and still looks the cavalryman in every move
ment.
Many southern soldiers have won position
and wealth in New York since the war, and
among these is General Thomas Jordan, who
was born in Virginia in 1919, and graduated
with honor at West Point. He distinguished
himself in the Seminole and Mexican wars,
but had retired to civil life when secession
came. He served with credit on the stats of
Beauregard and Bragg. After the war he be-
came noted for his efforts to free Cuba from
the yoke of Spain, in which attempts he came
near losing his own head. He is at present
the editor of the Mining Record" He has
written a life of General Forrest, and con-
tributes brilliant articles to cur leading peri
odicals. Naturally, he is a great favorite of
the local Confederate camp and of the South
ern society," but all who know him like him.
General Daniel Edgar Sickles is New
Yorker of the New Workers. He does not
look to be II, and though the loss of leg at
at Gettysburg, where he commanded the
Third corps, compels him to go on clutches,
he is still a remarkably vigorous-looking
man. He is very wealthy and has many adj
mirers, and good many who do not admire
him so much. He began life as a printers
devil, and has won by sheer force of will and
despite inadequate training. He is a retired
maior-general in the United States army, and
is also at this time member of congress-in
To ha oIo;p
The American sailor has always been Justly
popular, but not since Farraguts death has
there been any man who so won his way into
the hearts of the people of New York, as Ad-
miral Gherardi, now in command of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was born in Louis
lana in 1882, and entered the navy as mid
shipman from Massachusetts. During the
war he distinguished himself in the Gulf
Squadron, and in particular in the Mobile
Bay fight. 1t is said he receives on an aver
age twenty invitations day, during the win
ter, to private and public dinners.
General Joseph B. Carr, born in Albany in
1928, is one of the most distinguished of our
surviving volunteer officers. He went into
the war as Colonel of the Second n. Y. Volun-
teers, fought through all the battles, of the
general In politics he is Republican, snd
was twice elected secretary of state. One Of
the Oldest West Point men now living in New
York City is General Thomas A. DANES who
was born in 1909. He has been q merchant
and an engineer. During the war he won
brilliant name in the West. He is a writer on
religious and scientific subjects, and is q
charming man socially. e. -
Then there is General Schuyler Hamilton
of illustrious family, born on the Hudson in
20, and educated at West Point. Hehonored
his name in the Mexican war. In the midst
OF a brilliant career in the West he was forced
onaccount of ill-health is resign in '63. He is
interested in photographic engineering, and
to him more than any other man, New York
City is indebted for her water works. -
General Granville Mellen Dodge, although
not West Pointer, was one of the foremost
soldiers of the war. He not only rose as a.
soldier, but he achieved fame as statesman
and an engineer. Born in New York So years
ago, much OF his life has been spent in the
West, where the Union Pacific Railroad, of
which he was chief engineer, must ever
stand a monument of his ability He is still
interested in railroads, and can do more
work than a dozen ordinary men, and then
have time to see his friends.
We have gallant General 90 Tom Ewing, of
Ohio, vigorous youth of Go, and one of the
leading members of our bar. General Daniel
Butterfeld would take page to him justice
He was one OF our ablest soldiers and most
faithful public officials. He, too, looks like a
young man, despite his IS years.
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serves more notice. But the space is ex-
hausted, I find, at the beginning of the SUBJ
ject. STANTON EDWARDS.