Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-22

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Washington. General Rosser was
one of the most daring of the Con.
federate cavalry leaders. In a great
degree he resembled Custer, whose
classmate he was at West Point
Once at Buckland Mills; in Virgin
ia, as he was driven out, he left n
message with some ladies at q
farmhouse for the gallant leader
who died on the Big Horn. 1t read
"You have disturbed me at my
breakfast. i owe you one and I'll
get even with you"
He was as good as his word. He
allowed Custer to cross the creek,
then swooped down upon him while
his command was brewing coffee. 1t
took Custer twenty-four hours to
gather his men after this dash.
Rosser is now rich man, and it is
interesting to record that it was bis
old friend Custer who helped to
make him one. The surrender of
Lee left Rosser penniless, and, with
a wife and children to support, he
was glad to accept an humble place
in the construction corps of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. There
Custer ran across him quite by ac-
cident, and seeking out the chief
engineer of that road said.
"There is a man named Resser
under you as a construction boss?''
"Yes," was the engineers reply,
"and one of the best men 1 ever
had. Anything wrong about him?"
NO." replied Custer, "but he was
at West Point with me and after
ward a Major General in the Con-
federate army. Can't you give him
something better than the work he
is doingi"
"Why, have been looking for
just such man," said the engineer.
And so Rosser, through General
Clusters kindly offices, was made
second in command 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 specula-
ton and investment that today he
is worth half a million dollars.
Custer, on the other hand, died a
poor man.
Like Rosser, Fitzhugh Lee is best
remembered 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 Lieu
tenant Colonel under "Jeb" Stuart !;
when it ended he was commander
of the cavalry of the Army of Nor
thern Virginia. Before that he had
been a Lieutenant in the old army.
After the war he became farmer
in Virginia. 81 had been accus-
toned all my life," he said, not long
ago, "to draw corn from the Quar-
termaster, and found it hard to
draw it from an obstinate soil; but
l did it, In 1884 General Lee was
made Governor of Virginia, and in
the spring of 1896 President Cleve-
land appointed him Consul General
at Havana, a post in which he was
continued by President Mckinley.
The surviving Confederate Brig
adler Generals still number upward
of four score, a few of whom call
for individual mention. Francis M.
Cockerel and John L. Morgan are
members of the United States Sen
ate; William r. Cox is Sergeant
alarms of the same body, and K.
p. Alexander, Lees old Chief of
Staff. President of the Central Rail-
road of Georgia. Bradley 7. john
son is a lawyer in Baltimore; Basil
W. Duke follows the same vocation
in Louisville, and James A. Walker
is a member of Congress from Vir-
ginia. Moxley Sorel is Superin-
tendent of the Savannah Steamship
Company, and Henry H. Walker
banker of New York
City, where Roger A. Pryor is serv-
ing as Judge on the local bench.
All these men long since acccep-
ted the war as fact accomplished,
and touching token of the new Or
der of things is the dearly priced
which General Buckner
displays to most visitors to his
Kentucky home-the note penciled
by General Grant when Buckner
him at Mount McGregor.
81 have witnessed since my sick
ness" wrote the dying and speech
less Captain to his old friend and
"just what have wished
to see ever since the war; harmony
and good feeling between the two
sections. The war was
worth all 1t cost us, fearful as that
was. Since it was over l have Wis
tied every state in Europe and a
number in the East. ! know as /
did not before tbe value of our in
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