The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-29
South Has Honored More
Of Its Defenders Since
the War Than North.
SOME VETERANS
AS CONGRESSME
Generals Who Have Served i
Senate and House, and Ex-
Soldiers Now Serving in
Either Branch-Ages
OF Members Of
Congress.
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Veterans OF the armies OF the Civil
War in the public service are growing
steadily fewer. Nearly ali Of the Union
veterans OF tile Civil War have been
retired from the active list OF the
regular army. while the number OF
Civil War veterans in Congress has not
been less since the first Congress after 1
the war.
Looking over the list OF Congress
men who have served in either house /
since the war. 1t is seen that the South
ern States more frequently than the
Northern honored their defenders by
eIectlng them to Congress.
Twenty years ago the Union veterans
In the Senate numbered seven, against /
stwenty-one Confederate veterans. mi
the House OF the same Congress-the
Eiftleth-there were sixty-fiye Confed- /
crate and forty-nine Union veterans.
In the present Congress there are ten
Senators and nine Representatives who i
were Confedarates and eight Senator'S
and twenty-one Representatives who
were Union soldiers.
Since the Civil War very distinguish
ed soldiers have served in Congress, I
among them being. on the Union side.
Mator-Generals John A. Logan, VIII
liam s. Rosccrans, Nathaniel p. Banks. |
Benjamin +. Butler. William j. Sewell, |
Ambrose p. Burnside. j. B. Hawley.
Carl Schurz j. w. Keifer, Russell A. |
Alger. Brigadier-G Generals Charles Fl.
Grosvanor. Henry B. Banning. Henry |
H. Bingham. james a. Garfield. Ruth |
erford b. Hayes. Benjamin Harrison,
Edward s. Bragg. Arson G. McCook,
Newton NJ. Curtis John C. Black. John
H. Ketchum, J.. r. West, Adelbert I
p nd
Warner. Thomas w. Bennett. Thomas
n. Bowen.
Confederate Generals.
confederates who served in Congress
General Joseph E Johnston. Lieu
tenant Generals Wade Hampton and
John 3. Gordon; AIajor-Genera1s VIII
liam II. r. Lee. Matthew G. Butler, Ni.-
liam B. Bate Joseph Wheeler. e. Q.
walthall. William Malone, Brigadier-
Generals John II. Morgan. Edmund W.
pettus. Francis NJ. Cockrell. Pierce N:
3. Young, John S. Williams. Randall
Nj. Gibson, Matthew w. Ransom. ROD
ert B. Vance, William r. Cox Eppa
Hunton. Charles NJ. Shelley. lanes "A.
Walker, James q. George, James u
Alcorn. william II. Forney. Washing
ton c. Whitthorne, George ". Diopiei''
George w. Gordon.
The death OF Senator Mallory VINO
,,as midsh,pman as a boy in the
Confederate Navy, reduces by one tns
Confederate veterans In congress-. -
ia somewhat remarkable that at SO - iuee
a period after the Civil War Two Se on
federate veterans who represented the
same State should die and be succeeded
an the Senate by two Confederate
veterans. as in the case of the iate
Senators Morgan and Pettus and thei.
successors, Messrs. Bankhead ana
Johnston.
senators who were Confedsrates
serv v,u ~ Il the present Congress are
Messrs. Bankhead and Johnston, OF
Alabama; Taliaferro. of Florida; NC
Emery. OF Louisiana; Money and NC
Iaurin. of Mississippi; Daniel and MAJ
tin OF Virginia The Union veterans
are Buckley, of Connecticut. Du Pon.,
of Delaware; Burrows, OF Mlcnlg s,. Z
Eelson of Minnesota; Warner. OF MIS-
aonri: Foraker, of Ohio; Proctor, OF
Vermont; Warren, of Wyoming.
Gordon Only Brisadier.
The Confederate veteran In Congress
~ highest rank is George w. Gordon,
representative from the Tenth Tennes-
ace District, who was brigadier-gen-
eral Joseph Warren keifer, OF ONO,
was a maior-general on the Union
side. and is the highest ranking veteran
In Congress.
in many years the only general officer
on the Confederate side In Congress.
In the Fiftieth Congress-twenty years
4 aro-there were fifteen Confederate
general officers in the two houses.
The veterans of the war in the pres
Ont House are:
Union-Knopf, Illinois; Holiday, In
diana; Howell, New Jersey; Keifer and
sherwood, Ohio: Bingham. Beale,
Rrumm. Barclay, Graham, Pennsyl-
yrnia; Goulden. Bradley Alexander.
New York ! Capron. Rhode Island; Par
ler, South Dakota; Hubbard. West
Virginia: jenkins, Wisconsin.
.on, Alabama Livingston, Georgia;
Never Louisiana. spight, Mississippi;
Gordon, Tennessee: Jones and Lamb.
STha earliest age at which any Con-
gresham Joined the army on either
s6 the the birth-year 1s47. Of the ninety
Senators, there being two vacancies.
s,xty-one were not old enough to serve
q In the army. OF the $50 members, of
the House, there being one vacancy.
only sixty were old enough. a NJ
sentatiyes In the Sixtleth Congress
were born after Fort Sumter was fired
4 upon. Four Senators and Lightweight
Repres entatives were, born after the
I surrender at Appomattox. N i
Ages of Congressman.
# The average age of members Of hoti
houses have been reduced. the aver.
age for Senators being tfty-eight, ant
for the House, forty-seyen.
Senator Whyte is the only octogena
rlan Senator, his age being eighty
three years and four months. Mex
ss Oldest are-in the order named-Alli
son Of Iowa, Stephenson of Wisconsin
Cullom Of Illinois, rs; Teller o & Colo
ls RADIO, n; Proctor of Vermont, Frye so
Maine, 10; Platt Of New York, IA
III, Depew Of New York, "a; Burrows a
Michigan, Gallinger Of New Hampshire
81 Mcanery Of Louisiana, 70s Rulkele.
W OF Connecticut. NIcCreary Of Il Is IS Ky
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