The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-14

spondent; Gen. Lafayette McLaws, exc
postmaster of Savannah, Ga, still resides
ison's home. is near Ocala, Fla, and al
though quite old he is the com
mander of the United Confederate
veterans of that state; Gen Matt w Ran
som is United States minister to Mexico;
Gen Dabney II. Maury is also doing sim
liar service somewhere, think; Gen. p.
r. Roddy became developer" and was
last heard of in England; Gen. T.. N.
Wand may be living in Texas, and Gen.
James A. Walker, ex-governor, in Vir-
GINA; Gen. W. S. Walker is a resident
of Atlanta, Ga; Gen. William r. Boggs,
formerly of Augusta, is alive, l think, but
residence unknown; Gen. Frank T. Nichols
has been governor of Louisiana and held
other important public positions; Gen.
George c.. Divreu, eX-congressman, of Ten
nessee, may be alive; Gen. Alfred Iver-
son is living in retirement at Kissimmee,
Fla.; Gen. George ID. Johnson of Alabama,
] think, is connected with a South Caro-
lima college; Gen Rufus Barringer was
practicing law at Charlotte, N. C.; Gen.
WIN. Il. Cabell may be residing in Texas,
and is quite prominent in the United Con-
federate Veterans organizations; Gen.
James X. Chalmers, ex-congressman, may
stu be living in Mississippi Gen. T. j.
churchill, ex-governor, etc, of Arkansas,
may also be alive; with perhaps a dozen
or more whose recent history is unknown
to me.
While it has been the good fortune of
the majority of the surviving confederate
generals to be given high official positions
equations, not few have had a hard
row to hoe" using a familiar expression.
Several died in poverty, and to-day the
venerable Gen. Thomas l. Clngman, be-
fore the war a United States senator, is
spending his last days in the Soldiers
Home of North Carolina. Some years ago
he became convinced that tobacco was a
cure-all for disease and put his means
into making and advertising extensively
his Tobacco Cure" The failure of the
enterprise left him bankrupt, hence his
The reported death of Gen. Edward L.
Thomas of Georgia, who is a United States
Indian agent in the west. proves to be
untounded. 1t recalls the fact, however,
tnat Gen. Thomas was one of the bravest
Of the volunteer officers from his state
in the Mexican war, although he was the
son of Methodist preacher His Valor
was duly recognized by the Georgia leg
islature in very complimentary vote of
thanks.
At the north, during the late war. some
of the noted war governors" were COM
mssioned major generals. If such had
been the case in the south, then United
nessee would to-day be the sole survivor
of the war governor generals of the
confederacy And yet, If he is lying at
deaths door, as reported, he may not be
a Survivor" when this article appears
in print. Alas, even esole survivors" are
becoming so rare that sober-minded people
are startled at deaths mighty inroads
Postmaster General John H. Reagan,
now in i'll health at his Texas home, is the
sole survivor of the civil heads of the
confederate states government; Gen. Ga
briel J. Rains of Augusta. Ga. if alive
is the sole survivor of the heads OF the
military bureaus; Senator Harris the sole
survivor of the war governors" of the
confederacy. The recent death of Hon. A.
Dudley Mann in France leaves no sur
Vivor of the distinguished commissioners
etc, who represented the confederacy at
home and abroad For the fun generals
OF the confederate army there is no sur
Vivor. or the torty-nine delegates who
signed the confederate states constitution
Is IS probable that Hon. j. l.. MeCurry and
John H. Reagan are sole survivors, unless
Gen. Thomas n. Waul of Texas Is alive
Col. Burton n. Harrison / suppose Is the
sole survivor of President Jefferson Da-
Wis confidential household, in which he
was private secretary.
Sidney Herbert