The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17
Widow.r of Famou.r
 American Ceneral.c

|, The history of an army officers wife is that of her hmsband More than any oth- CT woman's- lfe,i hers must .perforce be merged into his. Tent life and camp life are hers, likewise march and counter march. She looks after the ways of her household and is kept busy moving. pack ing and unpacking.f Famous American generals wives of recent times have not ably lived so quietly that now when sev- eral of them are widows, compa rativeIy few persons know where or how the years of their retirement are passed. Some wid- ows of civil war generals were many years younger than their husbands, so bid fair to live yet long.
 Several of these estimable ladies were left by the death of their husbands with young families on their hands. and these naturally occupied all their attention When an American officer of high rank dies leaving son yet minor the youths mother is rather apt to get her boy ap- pointed to the Military. academy at West Point. to follow his fathers profession Little Manley Lawton, only thirteen years old when his father General Law ton was killed in the Philippines. Dec. 19. 1899. was already. a captain in the volun- teer army there. having received a com mission from General Fred Grant, himself the son of a great American general.
 l. was the hope and ambition of that brave feminine soldier in civil life and army circles. Mrs. John A. Logan. that her son, John \. junior should follow his father in the United States army John A. junior was indeed born soldier and entered West Point. but after two years of the course was obliged to leave on ac- count of i'll health. Nevertheless when war with Spain was declared, handsome dashing John A. Logan, Jr.. entered into it for fight, first in Cuba, then in the Phil ippines, where he. a major, was shot dead leading his men in a charge at San Jacin- to. Across sea and continent his body was brought home wrapped in the Amer ican flag to his mother at Washington.
 Philip Sheridan. Jr., is now a cadet at West Point. The son of Mrs. George B. Mcclellan did not go to West Point but he has distinguished himself so greatly in civil life that the lack of the military education seems matter for congratula- ton rather than otherwise George Brin- ton Mcclellan. Jr., to his credit be 1t re- corded, went to work early for his living, first as a plain newspaper reporter, then at other things. While he earned his living he studied law and next went to congress. How he was elected mayor of New York city while yet a member of congress all Americans know. His moth CT AhCdhtiiC JdSt hOPL QulSt etIlu was proud of him. as she had been of his illus trious father, General George B. of the civil war
 The widow of General Mcclellan is still a notably handsome woman, Ter serene face looking not at all like that of one who lived through the stirring scenes of the civil war. which closed thirty-eight years ago. She resides most of the time in family hotel in New York city. Be- fore her marriage she was Miss Ellen Mary Marcy. Her distinguished husband died in 1885. During the civil war when she was not in camp with him she wrote | letter to him every day. She is a wo- man of high bred manner, at the same l time noted for a rarely gentle dispoei- | tion.
 Of widows of famous northern generals | there are living four-Mrs. John A. Logan
 Mrs. Mcclellan, Mrs. Philip Sheridan and Mrs. Henry W. Lawton. All these gen.
 erals began their upward careers in the
 civil war except John A. Logan, who
 served in the Mexican war, then came
 back and married Mary Cunningham. his present wife. when she was only sixteen
 years old. To the list might be added tho
 widow of President James A. Garfield l who always regretted that resigned iron the army to become a congressman soor | after he had attained the rank of brig
 adler general. If he had stayed in the
 army he would no doubt have become 6
 major general. and a distinguished one | for his military career so far as he had
 made it was a brilliant one Still he
 would not in that case have been pres ident.
 | Mrs. Garfield lives in the greatest quiet
 at her home in Mentor. O. She is well
 to do. The American Union is a grate-
 ful nation. To the widows of It's ex-