Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-16


 have their day:
 The greatest can but blaze and pass s away
 x. Of which of all the generals, Con- federate and Federal, can it be said: "Nothins can cover his high fame a but heaven:
 No periods set off his memories, But the ternal substance of his
 greatness?
 On the one side were Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston, Beau regard, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall' Jackson Longstreet, EWell Early, the two Hills, Hardee, Polk, Hood, Kirby Smith, Dick Taylor, Bragg, Forest. Wheeler, Stuart. Magruder, John B. Gordon and a hundred or more others. On the other side were Scott, Halleck, Mcclellan, Pope. Burnside, Hooker, Meade, Thomas, Banks, Sedgwick, Hancock, Rosecranz, Franklin, Sumner Beast Bntler, Schofield, McPherson, Grant, sherman, Sherid and others too nu merous to mention. All have passed to that bourne whence no traveler ever returns, and had they been mere lv private citizens might invoke the rule de mortuis nil nsi bonum. Having been leaders, though, through troublous times, they must pay the nenalty of their prominence and be forever the subject of comment. Albert Sidney Johnston was killed at Shiloh in 1862, and so had but ! scant opportunity to display the gen. eralship attributed to him by Presi- dent Davis. Joseph E. Johnston and Beauregard figured prominently at kFirat Manassas but to which of them is due the credit of the victory won there by Southern arms it is hard to say. Shortly afterWard they fell un 10 tier the ban of President Davis dis Aa$asure or want of confidence, and during the balance of the war remain ed Practically on the shelf. Beaure- F&rd, however, had a chance at Shi- ioh. after tn edeath of Alfred Sidney J0hnst0n, and at the moment when NSneeded but continued advance to Nn%tEe battle, to gain renoWn: but fther because he did not care to 10 n a battle planned by Johnston he He'd to grasp the opportunity and emained during the rest of the war Ea discount Whatever claim he Shay had to be remembered he cast hisWay after the close of hostiities by lking part in the Lounisiana lottery cheme Joseph E. Johnston was iyen an even better chance to come III -, the front again when he succeed Bragg in command of the western my. But he labored under the .ysadvantage of having an unfriendly mmander-n-c in the person of 'A aGonfederate president, who. with 0An Johnston had superseded as nA6Siser, deemed himself more com mt A1k than the general actually in
 nd of an army to say when
 here it should give battle. q street was made the scapegoat ,... 1rly and Ewell's incompetency ,, Mneral Lees mistake at Getty -,c Not. however, while the war ,-,v HMgprogress, but after it had end
 
 his family, had accepted office c Al @er President Grant and because used At fact was ostracized by the o,d 4 Of public opinion in the South ond fced, nolens volens, into the mont can party Ewell won no dis
 during the war and died un-
 Early joined Beauregard e s' Louisiana lottery scheme and d first got black eye from the reate;. compatriots, who at every
 z34 or the United Confederate accord honor to another gen. naaa pse name is signed to every
 ticket sold by a Honduras
 The two Hills, Hardee, Polk Dst Of other Confederate brig
 Psion and corps commanders, Qluff, pm mentioned except as mere
 and as owners of the names le U '" by the United Confederate pers'' and United Daughters of the
 ac} camps and chapters nth was in 1902, relegated to yondg| s-MIssissippi department, and ,urp0ss' Is n,ostrsr sfneraisnlp p,o5 only ra by -, oths the same department and oi1' that l. Ia el