The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-09-21
CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
sDising guished Survivors Still Accounted for.
NesDs and Cossrse,..

In the volunteer army has served to
call attention again to the surviving
Confederate commanders, OF ma
jority Of whom little has been heard
in recent years.
Beauregard, who died several years
ago, was the last full general, butiof
( the lieutenant generals, seven sur
viive Simon B. Buckner, Wade
Hampton, Stephen D. Lee, Joseph
Wheeler, Alexander F Stewart, James
IS. Eongstreet and John B. Gordon.
OF these all but Hampton, Lee and
Gordon are graduates Of West Point.
Buckner and Grant we're classmates
sat that institution, and in this CON
neetien an interesting and little known
story is told. a few weeks before
!: the 6rst Bull Run, several Confeder-
3 ate officers were dining together in
Richmond. The talk at table turned
upon the merits Of the men who then
Held high command IN the Union
Army, and it was the opinion OF the
majority that tbe ablest soldiers OF
J the old army had cast their fortunes
wish the South. Buckner was the
! on lvs one present who failed to agree
with this belief.
Gentlemen, he said, there was
man in my class at West Point
whom you must not omit from your
calculations. He left the army years
|aeo, and i don I know whether he is
) still alive or not, but if he is and
turns up on the N Northern side, he will
cause us trouble. Perhaps some of
you remember him. His name is
Grant.
Buckrer proved 9 true prophet.
During the following four years three
off the men at the Richmond dinner
table Zee, Pemberton and Buckner
himsel surrendered their armies to.
Grant, who, in 1861, had fallen 50.
completely out Of sight that his old
sclassmate did not know whether he
wss dead or alive. Gen. Buckner,i
who; is veteran Of two wars, was
elected Governor Of Kentucky in
1851. Since his retirement from that
Office he has lived quiet life. with
his family and servants about him.
His home is in the mountains Of Ken
tucky and is only to be reached BY
water on his private steamer, and,
although only q hundred miles from
Louisville, it requires an entire day
to make the trip. he keeps q large
setinne Of ante-belIum dependants,'
and probably is as nearly aEfeudal
lord as can be found in America.
Than Wade Hampton no brayer
man served in the Confederate Ar
mics. Among the earliest in the
Geld; he led Che Hampton Legion"
at the first Bull Run, in which battle
she was wounded. but as soon as pos
sibIe resumed service in the army, and
was wounded for the second time in
the battle Of Seven Pines, where he
commanded the cavalry Of the Army
Of \ Northern Virginia. Later he com
manded the cavalry operating In Viz
giinia, was wounded che third time at
Gettysburg, and was leader of the
rear guard which fell back before the
victorious advance Of Gen. Sherman.
When the army in which Gen. Hamp-
ton was serving surrendered to the
Union forces, his military experiences
we're ended. His public career since
chen is similar story.
Gen. S. D. Lee, Of South Carolina,
another civilian general conspicuous
for skill and bravery, is now farmer
and president Of the State Agr cul-
tural College Of Mississippi; Gen. ..
r. Stewart is member Of the Chicka-
manga State commission; Gen. Joseph
Wheeler, before the opening of the
present war, was for several years q
member Of Congress from Alabama,
and Gen. James A. Longstreet has
lately been appointed a railroad COM
missioner by President Mckinley.
Gen. Longstreet, or "Old Peter" as
he was called by his men, is counted
By many careful students Of the civil
war the ablest Of all the Confederate
captains. Cautious, clear-headed, and
master Of military science, no sobri-
quet fits him SO well as the aThomas
Of the Lost Cause" I"
John B. Gordon was its Murat.
The SON Of Baptist minister, Gen.
Gordon, when the war broke out, was
trying to develop coal mine in
Northwest Georgia. Down there in
the mountains he raised a regiment Of
,,,t;ras sad reached virginia in time