The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-07

mand was brewing coffee. 1t took Custer
twenty-four hours TO gatherehis men after
this dash. Rosser Is now a rich man,
and il Is interesting TO record that it was
his old chum Custer who helped to make
him one. The surrender of Lee left Ros-
ser penniless. and. with a wife and chill
dren to support, he was glad to accept an
humble place In the construction corps
of the Northern Pacific road. There Gus
ter ran across him, quite by accident, and
seeking out the chief engineer of that
road, said;
There is a man named Rosser under
you as a construction boss?'
Yes was the engineers reply, and
one of the best men l ever had. Anything
wrong about him?"
NO" replied Custer. "but he was at
West Point with me, and afterward
major general in the Confederate army.
Can't you give him something better than
the work he Is doing2"
why l have been looking for just such
a man." said the engineer.
And SO Rosser, through Gen. Clusters
kindly offices. was made second In COM
mand OF the engineer corps. When, a
few months later, he became its chief, he
made such shrewd use of the opportunity
the position afforded him for speculation
and investment that to-day he is worth
100000. Custer, on the other hand, died
poor man.
membered by his old comrades in arms as
a dashing cavalry officer, and as brave
and light-hearted a trooper as ever led
men into battle. When the war began he
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 lieu
tenant in the Old army. After the war
he became a farmer in Virginia. Il nad
been accustomed all my life,' he said not
long ago, ITO draw corn from the quar-
termaster, and l found 1t hard 10. draw
1t from an obstinate soil; but l did it
In 1884 Gen. Lee was made Governor OF
Virginia, and in the spring of 1896 Presi-
dent Cleveland appointed him consul gem
eral at Havana. a post In which he was
continued by President Mckinley
The surviving Confederate brgadier gen.
erals still number upward of four score,
a few of whom call for individual mention.
Francis NJ. Cockrel and John T. Morgan
are members of the United States Senate;
William r. Cox is sergeaut-at-arms of the
same body and E. y. Alexander, Lees old
chief-of-stan, president of the Central
Railroad of Georgia. Bradley Il. johnson
is a lawyer in Baltimore; Basil w. Duke
follows the same vocation in Louisville,
and James A. Walker is a member Of Con-
gress from Virginia. Monkey Sorel Is SUI
perintendent Of the Savannah Steamship
Company and Henry H. Walker, a 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 fact accomplished. and touching
token of the new order is the dearly priced
memento which Gen. Buckner displays to
most visitors to his Kentucky home-the
note penciled by Gen. Grant when Buck
ner visited him at Mount McGregor. Il
nave witnessed since my sickness" wrote
the dying and speechless captain to his Old
friend and comrade, Just what l have
wished to see ever since the war; har-
mony and good feeling between the Sec
TONS The war was worth all It
cost us, fearful as that was. Since il
was over / have visited every state in Eu-
rope and a number In the East. I know
as / did not before the value Of our IN
heritance r. II. Wilson.