The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-30
FIGHTERS in LEES
CLASS AT ACADEMY
Forty,hve Out Of Forty-ninel
Took Part in Civil 4
War.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent


5yyAsHINGTON. D. c., April os.-Thers
were forty-nine members OF the class class
with which General Fitzhugh Lee WIS
graduated from, West Point in 1885, twas
q vigorous class. history soon showing
that they were young men Of conviet tons.
or the forty-nineE there were forty-fye
who fought on one side or the 8otbcrj9n
the Civil War. OF this Sfcrty-hre there
were Just thirty-flve Northerners ana
Union men and ten southerners and Con. i
fcderates All OF the young men APP
pointed from the North went 70 past ne
for the Union except one-L. L. Iona & -
who cast his fortunes with the South. All
OF those appointed from the South joined
tho Confederacy except one-Edmnnd b.
Bainbrldge. All but eight Of the forty
nine are now dead, according 20 the !a.sss
data. The first star member OF the class
OF rs was George w Snyder. appointed :
from New York. whose initial war SER
vice was with Major Anderson In defense
/. OF Fort Sumter. and who afterwards d;s-5
tinguished himself at the first battle OF
Manassas. lie died in the ,! autumn lI.l,l
or ~. The next members in rank
were two New Yorkers-David G..
Houston and Miles p. McAlestsr&
both OF whom served in the civil
war with horror. The fourth was Charles
u. Lee, from South Carolina. who, while I
colonel Of the Thirty seventh North Car
oiinn Infantry. was killed at the battle
OF Glendale, Va, in 1862. The nth star
me.1,bcr-Henry v. Dehart, OF Ohio died
OF wounds received at the battle OF
Gaines's Mills. Va, while captain in
the Fifth Artillery. Among the distin..
gnished members OK the class was Gene i,
Orlando NJ Poe. OF Ohio. He served With
the Union army In The far South with
distinction, and was for a long time an
uide-de-camp on the staff OF General w.
T. Sherman. George .. Bayard. nppoint'
ed from New York. became q dashlns
cavalry officer as commander OF tho FIRST
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was a brigaI
5dier-general when he was killed at the
battle OF fredericksburg, Va. Hylan 3
Lyon, appointed from Kentucky. went
South and became by merit and bravery
one OF the most reliable brigad.ers VINO
followed the Western wizard OF the sad.
die, Nathan Bedford Forrest. General
Lyon is one Of the few survivors OF the 3
class, and is now living in retirement on I
n stock farm In Kentucky.
4 Another Confederate survivor OF the
ella IS Is General I.unsford l.. Iomax, VINO
was appointed at large. though from
Rhode Island, Genera Lon,ax is now the
ranking living cavalry oi!cer OF the army
OF. Northern Virginia. lie won his way
by brilliant merit under such leaders as
j. e. b. Stuart and Fitzhugh Lee. Gems
eral Lomax has for sonic years Lived IN \
Washington, engaged with General Mar
Gus j.. Wright in the compilation Of the
Confederate side OF the records OF the
rebellion. a s4sIlt5 Il Z, 4
General William II. Jackson OF Tennes,
see. Is another member OF the class who
won stinctton as q cavalry officer lnder
General Forrest who would have none
about him but men of dauntless COURAGE.
General jackson was familiar to the army
as Red Jackson, :" because Of his ruddy
complex on and auburn hair. He ded
not many months ago, near NASHVILLE,
the proprietor OF the famous Tennessee
stock farm. Bello Meade;
from, Ohio and retired since the war witt 4
Spain, was conspicuous fighter for the
Union. and after the Civil War dstin-
gu.shed himself greatly as commander OF
tile famous Seve'.th Cavalry, Seven OF
the class were killed In battle. The n.y. (
ing members, 30 far as known, are the
following; s #
Thomas G. Sullivan, Ohio who served
lii the comn,issary and subsistence branch
during tho Civil War; John w. Rarriger.
OF Kentucky. who attained at the end
OF the war the rank of adler-general
Shinn, of New Jersey, who served DUR Il
Ing the civil 'yar In New Mexico and
wns at his own request discharged In
1870; HylpH y. Lyon. exc Confederate gem 4
eral now living In Kentucky; 4, Lunsford
r., I.omax, ex,Confedefnte major-general.
now living In Washington; Richard I4odcr.
of New Jersey, In the Western army dur-
ing the Civil War and retired as n hrlg-
adler-general; Jere Gilman. of connectl-
cut, In the commissary branch. and re-
tired as colonel; John B. Stiyers. OF Ken-
lucky retired after brief service as a
captain In 1854, and James Mcmillan, OF
New York, retired as "a lieutenant-colonel
Oh account OF disa bilitie incurred ~ the
line OF duty. 855