The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21


 Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi, who ! is ten years the junior of the Kentucl<ian ! Thus General Stewart is the senior officer | by years well as date of his commits | sion as a lieutenant general. | General stewart was born in Rogers | vile, Hawkins county, Tenn, on October | ?, 1S21 His parents were William and | Elizabeth CDecherd) Stewart. The general | is loyal to his east Tennessee home and | never fails to declare himself of that | sturdy race. the East Tennessee Scotch | Irish people; although he differed during | the war between the states from the
 great majority of the citizens of the com
 munity and fought with the south in de- | fense of the southern flag.
 | His family removed from Rogersyille | to Winchester. In Franklin county, mid
 dle Tennessee, during Stewards youth ! and from there he was appointed to the United States Military academy by the Hon. Hopkins l.. Turney.
 Alexander P. Stewart received his early education in Tennessee. He entered the United States Military academy at West
 Point and granduated from that institution in 1S42, before he was 2i years old. Rank ing third in his class, he was at once appointed a second lieutenant in the United States artillery. He served but one year in the artillery when he was recalled to the Point to be assistant pro- | lessor of mathematics.
 Many of young Stewards classmates were destined to occupy distinguished po- sltons in the coming struggle between | the north and south and it is now q great l pleasure given old friends of the general | to hear the boyhood, college pranks of
 such men as Pope and Longstreet Will | liam s. Rosecrans. John Newton, Beaure- | gard, George H. Thomas, Halleck Buell., ! George B. Mcclellan, U. s. Grant, w. B. | Franklin and Stonewall Jackson, though | the last named had not then obtained | his famous sobriquet.
 | In 1S45 Lieutenant Stewart married Miss | Harriet Chase of Ohio.
 | He resigned his position as instructor | at West Point on account of delicate 1 health and returned to his native Ten | nessee home assuming the duties of q | professorship in the Cumberland univer- sity at Lebanon, Tenn. and also in the | Nashville university. It was at this pe- | riod of his life that the civil war broke | out. Stewart was one of the earliest vol- | unteers in the Confederate army. He off, | fered his service to Isham G. Harris. l then governor of the state, who placed | him on detail work. Later Governor Har- | ris made Stewart a major in the Artil- | lery corps.
 | He was ordered to Memphis, to Fort | Pillow and to Columbus, Ky. At the lat | ter place on November | 1861, he par l ticipated in the famous battle of Bel | mont.
 Tennessee had voted for secession dur ! ing the summer of 1861 and the state | army was turned over to the Confectionery, | Stewart retaining his rank of major of | artillery.
 | On the Eth of November, 1861, he partic- | ipated in the battle of Belmont. few | days later upon the recommendation of | Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Alexander l P. Stewart was appointed brigadier 1 general in the Confederate army. In | the spring of 1862 he was ordered to | Corinth, Miss, and assigned to the com mand of the brigade in the division Of | Folks corps which had formerly been | commanded by Gen. Charles Clark of ! Mississippi General Stewart was desper- | ately engaged in the famous battle ot | Shiloh and commanded the division after | General Clark was wounded.
 With the Army of Tennessee. | General Stewart remained with the army of Tennessee and accompanied it in | the Kentucky campaign At the battle of | Perryville he commanded a brigade in 1 General Cheatham's division. Also in the | battle of Murfreesboro he commanded a | brigade in the same brave division of | Frank Cheatham
 A Major General.
 In the year 1863 Alexander P. Stewart | was made a major general, his brilliant | achievements at last attaining deserved ] recognition. He commanded division in 1 Hardees corps throughout the opera 1 tions in middle Tennessee and during the | retreat to Chattanooga In September, 1 1863, in the bloody battle of Chicka- 1 mauga General Stewards division was l distinguished by conspicuous service. His l division served in Hoods corps and on | Saturday, the first day of the battle, !! pierced the center of the Federal army. | An amusing story is told by Capt, B. l.. !, Bromheld of Memphis in regard to the 1 engagement of this first morning, Captain | Bromfield was a member of General i Stewards staff and his account of a most 1 unexpected attack on the general and | his aides.
 When Stewart's division says Captain l Bromield," went into battle Saturday