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

Buckner himself-surrendere theil
armies to Grant, who, in 1861, had
fallen so completely out of sight
that his old classmate did not know
whether he was dead or alive
General Buckner, who is u veteran
of two wars, was elected Governor
of Kentucky in 1887. Since his
retirement from that Office he has
lived a quiet life, with his family
and servants about him. His home
is in the mountains of Kentucky
and is only to be reached by water
on his private steamer, and, al
though only hundred miles from
Louisville, it requires an entire day
to make the trip. He keeps large
retinue of ante bellum dependents,
and probably is as near a feudal
lord as can be found in America.
Than Wade Hampton no braver
man served In the Confederate ar
mics. Among the earliest in the
field, he led the Hampton Legion
at the first Bull Run, in which bat
tie he was wounded, but as soon as
possible resumed service in the ar
my. and was wounded for the sec
ond time in the battle of Seven
Pines, where he commanded the
cavalry of the Army of Northern
Virginia. Later he commanded the
cavalry operating in Virginia, was
wounded the third time at Gettys-
burg, and was leader of the rear
guard which fell back before the
victorious advance of General
Sherman. When the army in which
General Hampton was serving sur
rendered to the Union forces his
military experiences were ended.
His public career since then is a
familiar story.
General S. d. Lee, another civ
llian General conspicuous for skill
and bravery, is now farmer and
President of the State Agricultural
College of Mississippi; General A.
p. Stewart is member of the
Chickamauga State Commission !;
General Joseph Wheeler, before the
opening of the present war, was for
several years member of Congress
from Alabama, and General James
S. Longstreet has lately been ap-
pointed Railroad Commissioner
by President Mckinley. General
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 Con-
federate Captains. Cautious, clear
headed and master of military
science, no soubriquet fits him so
well as the "Thomas of the Lost
Cause"
John b. Gordon was its Murat.
The son of Baptist minister, Gen.
eral Gordon, when the war broke
out, was trying to develop a coal
mine in Northwest Georgia. Down
there in the mountains he raised a
regiment of natives and reached
Virginia in time to take part in the
opening of the war. In the first
engagement of his hardy noun
taiS stIirds of them were
eeiircu or wounded. Every officer
except Gordon was slain, and his
escape was a miracle, his clothing
being riddled with bullets. {.
The mark of minie- ball in Gen.
eral Gordon's cheek is reminder
of the bloody and wrathful day
when the battle of Seven Pines was
fought. The Sixth Alabama, CON-
manded by Gordon, was at the
front of the fight. Suddenly there
came an order, from whom was
never discovered, directing the reg
iment to charge across an open
field and capture a battery that
was stationed in a thicket, and
pouring terrible fire into the Con-
federate ranks. 1t was like the
charge of the Six Hundred. Some
one had blundered. But. at the
head of that yelling and racing
thousand of men and in the face Of
that murderous fire, Gordon sprang
to obey the fatal command. When
the shattered remnants of the reg
iment were hurled back across that
death-strewn field, its Colonel,
bleeding and wounded in five pla-
ces, was carried to the hospital
tent, where for weeks his life was
despaired of. Nevertheless, he re-
covered, and within two years rose,
by hard fighting and merit as
commander, to the rank of Lieu
tenant General. As commander
of the Confederate Second Army
Corps he was the first to attack at
Gettysburg, and he held the last
line at Petersburg, fighting with
stubborn valor for every inch of
space. Yet General Gordon had
not had particle of military
training. and when the war closed
was only 80 years of age. Since
then he has been twice Governor of
his State and twice a member of
the Federal Senate.
Among the surviving Confederate
veterans who held the rank of Major
General are John HI. Forney, who
is living in retirement at Jenifer,
Ala; Samuel e. French, now a
planter in Florida; William L. Ca
bell, a merchant in Dallas, Tex. |;
James r. Chalmers Of Fort Pillow
memory, at present a leading mem
Der of the Nashville bar; G. w. C.
Lee, until lately President of Wash
ington and Lee University, at Lex
ington, Va, a post his father, Rob-
ert E. Lee, held before him; Matt
Ransom, long United States Sem
ator and Minister to Mexico under
Cleveland; Matthew c. Butler, who
lost leg at Brandy Station, and
who, after three terms in the Federal
Senate. is ending his career as a