Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-29
CONFEDERATE GENERALS.

military records Tor Virginia, has com
piled list of the surviving Confederate
generals, giving their seniority as far as
possible.
There are ffty-seven generals living
today, while during the war not less than
500 were commissioned This includes
lieutenant generals, major generals and
brigadier generals. Interest in the ques-
ton has been awakened by the death OF
Gen. Fitz Lee.
Mai. Hunter spent some time in go
ing over the records, visiting Washington
in order that he might have access to
the records in the office of Gen. Mar
Gus j. Wright. The list, with rank,
place from which appointment was made
and place of residence at this time, are
as follows
Lieutenant generals-SimOn B. Buck
ner, Rio, Hart county, KY; Stephen ID.
Lee, Columbus, Miss; Alexander p.
Stewart, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Major generals-Samuel G. French
(Florida), New Jersey; Joseph Wheeler,
Wheeler, Ala; Camillus j. Polignac
| (France), Paris, France; Matthew G. But
Ter, South Augusta, s So w. G. Lee,
Burke's station, Va. /; Lunsford L. Lomsx
| (Virgiuia), Gettysburg, Pa; ThomasS.
Rosser, Charlottesville, Va. w. I. Mar
tin, Natchez, Miss; Robert +. Hoke,
Raleigh, n. c.
Brigadier generals. Roger A Pryor
(virginia), New York; Beverley H..
Robertson (yirginia), Washington, d. c.
Evander McLaw, Alabama; Francis l..
Nichols, Louisiana; James II. Lane,
North Carolina; Jerome B. Robertson,
Texas; James q. Tappan, Helena, Ark.
Marcus ]. Wright (Teunessee), Washing
ton, d. c.; George r. Cosby (Kentucky).
Sacramento, CAL. Marcellus A. Stovall,
Georgia; Frank G. Armstrong, (rennes-
see), Washington, ID. c.; William L..
Cabell (Arkansas), Dallas, Tex. John W..
Frazier (MississippD, Richlsnd Springs.
n Y;..John T. Morgan, Alabama, United
States Senate, Washington, ID. c.. Fran
cis NJ. COckrell (Miss0urD. Washington,
ID. IS. w. Ferguson, Mississippi; Eppa
Hunton, Richmond, Va; Benjamin IL.
Humphreys, Mississippi; William w.
Kirkland, North Carolina; f. w. Pettus
0.ouisiana), Unite1 States Senate, Wash
ington, y. c.; Basil w. Duke, Louis
vile, Ky; James f. Harrison, Texas;
William McComb (rennessee), Louisa,
Va. Robert owry, Mississippi; James
P. Simms, Georgia; Thomas M. Logau
South Carolina), Richmond, Va; Will.
liam p. Roberts, North Carolina; Eli
son Capers, Columbia. S. c. (bishop of
South Carolina); Young Y. Moody, Ala
bama; Walter 7. Lane, Texas; Richard
Waterhouse, Texas; Richard NJ. Gano,
Texas; Bryan NJ. Thomas, Rome, Ga
F.. p. Alexander, Georgia; William r.
Cox, Raleigh, N. C; Jacob II. Sharp,
Columbus, Miss. George ID. Johnson,
Tuscaloosa. Ala; Thomas B. Smith,
Nashville, Tenn; William Miller,
Point Washington, Fla; George W..
Gordon, Memphis. Tenn. Charles M.
Shelby, Birmingham, Ala; Robert Bull
| lock, FLORIDA,
In connection with the foregoing some
reference to the work now being done by
Mai. Hunter will be of interest. He is
collecting an immense amount OF data
connected with the civil Wallpapers,
documents, orders, muster rolls, dis
charges, transfers, details for duty and
much else that will go to make up his
tory. 1t may be that some of the rec
ords will conflict with the titles oi
the "colonels' and others who have
figured since the war, and the service
rendered by some--as claimed-rnay re-
ceive a shock, but all the same, the work
is of incalculable value.
Mai. Hunter spends a considerable
part OF his time in correspondence with
parties who have knowledge of the
existence Of old muster rolls aud often
much time is consumed in getting into
communication with the owners OF these
| naDers