The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-01-14
GEN. GORDON DEAD
Confederate Hero of Many Battles is
Now at Rest
HE EXPIRED ON SATURDAY NIGHT
Much of His Life Since the Surren.
der Has Been Spent Trying to Heal
the Old Breach.

Atlanta. Ca. Special.-Lieutenant
General John B. Gordon died at his
winter home near Miami, Fla, at 1910
o'clock Saturday night His fatal i'll
Eess, which overlook him last Wednes-
day, was congestion Of the stomach and
liver, following an acute attack OF in
digestion, TO which he was subjected.
General Gordon was born in Upson
county, Georgia, July 6, 1892, Of Scotch
ancestry, which had a prominent part
In the Revolutionary war.
Young Gordon graduated from the
Georgia State University in 1852 and
few months later was admitted to the
practice OF law. Early in 1861 he en-
listed in the volunteer Confederate ser
vice and was elected captain Of his
company. He rose rapidly by promo
ton to lieutenant colonel of the Sixth
Alabama Infantry in December, 1861.
He participated in the struggle on the
peninsula, and took part in the battle
at Malvern Hill, and was commission
&c brigadier general, November 1862.
He was in command at ChancellOrs-
Vile and in the Pennsylvania cam
| raign. In an official report to General
d. H. Hill, General Gordon was char
acterized as 1.-The Chevalier Bayard of
| the Confederacy."
When hostilities we're ended, he
| called his men about him and advised
| them to bear the trial of defeat, to go
| home in peace, obey the laws and re-
| tuild the wasted country. He has taken
| a prominent part in the councils of his
| Iarty since 1866. He was a defeated
| candidate for Governor of Georgia in
1868, and in 1873 and 1879 was elected
| to the United States Senate, resign
| ing that position in 1880, he participant
ed actively in building the Georgia Pa
| cific Railroad. In 1886 and 1873 he was
| elected Governor of Georgia and in 1896
| entered again into the United States
| Senate for the full term. Since his re-
| tirement from political activity he has
| devoted much of his time in lecturlne
| presenting the North as we'll as the
South in his lecture upon The Las
Days of the Confederacy."
Since the organization OF the unltef
| Confederate veterans he has held the
| position of its chief commander, ant
his frequet reelection to that posi-
ton have testified to the warmth O
affection in which he has been held II
the South.
General Gordon had been uncon
scious nearly all day. The beglnnln.
of the end occurred this afternoon, Sc
rious complications setting in, and D!
night his physicians had abandoned al
hope, as his kidneys refused to secre
and uraemic poison was very DECIDED
His death was quite. He fell peaceIul
l - oil
General Gordon Lecame i'll Wednes
day Afternoon with acute indigestion
He had suffered from the same troubl
in Mississippi many months ago. At 1
o'clock Thursday morning consultation
| of physicians was held and 1t wa
found that he was seriously and crit
| ically ill. His son, Major Hugh Gol
don. who resides at Biscapne, was VIII
him. A telegram was sent to mis- daugn
ter, Mrs. Burton Smith, of Atlant'
calling her to his bedside.
She was with him when he died. Ger
| eral Gordon grew steadily worse un
til today when he was uncosclou
most of the time.
General and Mrs. Gordon had been
Florida this winter only three week
before his death. His health had bee
unusually good prior to his fatal al
. tack. He had bought a winter hom
at Biscayne three years ago, and ma
II since been spending a portion OF III
) winters there.
General Gordon's body will be shlI
red to his home at Kirkwood, nea
Atlanta. tomorrow night, leaving the1
, at o'clock 1t will reach Atlanta MOI
t day afternoon. ~,
5 The remains of Gen. Gordon VIII
5 laid in State in Atlanta and VIII
viewed by his numerous trlends ah
Il odmirorS