The age-herald., 1898-09-09

brewing coffee. It took Custer twenty four hours to gather his men after this dash. Rosser is now rich man, and It is interesting to record that il was his old chum Custer who helped to make him one. The surrender of Lee left RoSSer pennteSS, and with wife and chlIdren to support he was glad to accept an humble place in the construction corps of the Northern Pacific road There Custer ran across him, quite by accident, and Seeking out the chief en- gineer of that road, said:
 There is a man naned Rosser under you as a construction bossT''
 "Yes," was the engineer reply, "and one of the best men I over had. Anything wrong about him?"
 ''No," replied Custer, but lie was at West Point with me, and afterwards a major general in the confederate army. Can't you give him something better than the work he is doing?"
 WI hy, have been looking for just such a man. said the engineer.
 And so Rosser, through General Custer 8 kindly offices, was made second in com niand of the engineer corps When, a few months later, he became it's chief, he made such shrewd use of the opportu- nity the position afforded him for spec ulation and investment that today he IS worth $5O0.C00. Custer, on the other hand, died poor man.
 Like Rosser, F'itzhugh Lee is best re- membered by his old comrades in drIhs as ,iashing cavalry officer, and as brave and light-hearted trooper as ever lea men into battle. When the war began ne was a lieutenant colonel under 'Jeb' Stuart; when it ended he was commander of the cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia. Before that he had been neii- tenant in the oid army After the war ne became a farmer in Virginia T had been accustomed all my llfe,'' he said, not long ago, ito draw corn from the quar- termaster. and I found it hard 10 draw it from an obstinate soil; but did il. In 1881 General Lee was made governor of Virginia, and in the spring of 1896 Presi- dent Cleveland appointed him consul gen. eral at Havana, a post in which he was continued by President Mckinley.
 The surviving confederae br'gad.er gen. erals sill number upward of four score, a few of whom call tor individual mention. Francis M Cockrell and John T. Morgan are members of the United States senate; William R. Cox is sergeant-at-arms of tho same body, and E. F. Alexander, Lees old chief -of-staff, president of the Central Railroad of Georgia Bradley T. Johnson is a lawyer in Baltimore; Basil w. Duke follows the same vocation in Louisville, and James A. Walker is member of con- gress from Virginia. Moxley Sorel is su- perintendent of the Savannah Steamship company and Henry H. Walker, pros- porous banker in New York city, where Roger A. Pryor is serving as judge on the local bench.
 All these men long since accepted the war as a 1act accompllSneu, anu d toucilihts token of the new order is the dearly prized memento which General Buckner displays to most visitors to his Kentucky home-the note penciled by General Grant when Buckner visited him at Mount McGregor. q have witnessed since my sickness" wrote the dying and speeches. captain to his old friend and comrade, just what have wished to see ever since the war; har- mony and good feeling between the sec ton. The war was worth all it rl Since if over I have visited every state in Europe and a number in the east I know as did not before the value of our inherit ance.'