The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

recent times have notably lived so quiz
city that now, when several of them
are widows, comparatively few persons
know where or how the years of their
retirement are passed. Some widows
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 hus-
bands with young families on their
hands, and these naturally occupied
all their attention. When an American
officer of high rank dies leaving a son
yet a minor the youths mother is rath
err apt to get her boy appointed to the
Military academy at West Point, to
follow his fathers profession. Little
Manley Lawton, only thirteen years old
when his father, General Lawton, was
killed in the Philippines, Dec. 10, 1885,
was already a captain in the volunteer
army there, having received a COM
mission from General Fred Grant him
self the son of a great American gen.
eral.
1t was the hope and ambition of that
brave feminine soldier in civil life and
army circles, Mrs. John A. Logan,
that her son, John A. Junior, should
follow his father in the United States
army. John A. Junior was indeed a
born soldier and entered West Point,
but after two years of the course was
obliged to leave on account of i'll
health. Nevertheless when war with
Spain was declared handsome. dash
ing John A. Logan, Jr., entered into it
for fight, first in Cuba, then in the
Philippines, where he, a major, was
shot dead leading his men in charge
at San Jacinto. Across sea and CONT
nent his body was brought home
wrapped in the American 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
congratulation rather than otherwise.
George Brinton Mcclellan, Jr., to his
| credit be it recorded, 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 member of con-
gress all Americans know. His mother
meantime just kept quiet and was
proud of him, as she had been of his
| illustrious father, General George B.
| of the civil war.
The widow of General Mcclellan is
still a notably handsome woman, her
serene face looking not at all like that
| of one who lived through the stirring
scenes of the civil war, which closed
thirty-eig years ago. She resides
most of the time in a family hotel in
New York city. Before 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 woman of
| high bred manner, at the same time
noted for a rarely gentle disposition
| OF widows of famous northern gen.
erals there are living four-Mrs. John
A. Logan, Mrs. Mcclellan, Mrs. Philip
Sheridan and Mrs. Henry w. Lawton.
| ALI these generals 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 widow. when