The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-31
GEN. STEWART DIES SUDDENL End Came at Biloxi. Miss. IA SHOCK 10 HIS RELA1IvES Served as Commander of Army q
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Biloxi. Miss. Aug. General AL exander P. stewart. one of tho last two surviving lieutenant generals of the confederate states Army. died at his homo hexp today.
 Although in his eighty seventh year and suffering from the infirnitiea of old age. General stewart's desth wAn sudden and came as distinot shock and surprise to his relatives. comrades and friends.
 General Stewart was nazive of Ttn-| ntssee. and lived the greatsr part of his life in that state. but of late had been making his home h Biloxi. where he found the salt air and pine WoodS of great benefit to his health. He was born at Roversvilie. HaMkins county. Tennessees October 9. 1621, and reoeip~ cd his early education in that state. Later he was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point. and graduated with honora rom that institution In June. fS42.
 Following his graduation at West Point. he was made second lieuten- ant in the Third United states artii- lery, and later transferred to West Point. where he served as one Of the aaaistanta to the Professor of Mathe-
 natics.
 Rssigning from the army in 1s4s, General stewart accepted the chais of Mathematics and natural philosophy af Cumberland University. Tennessee. Besides attending to his duties as a professor. General Stewart hail conn mission in the TennesBee State asiiitia and served as an instructor in artll- lery.
 At the outbreak of the civil war. ha was commissioned as a nrfGaaiar gem eral in the Ccnfederate States army made q major general in 1889 and re- ceixed his commiasion eA A lieutenant general one year later Tho close ofs the war found h1pl 10 eosnnhAnd Of the ayny of Tennessee
 A Pronnlnenk 1saeeAfaF. Like the Lees General Stewart nfs ter the close Of localities between &lsa states gave himself up to the instruct ion of Southern youth and sorved from 1874 to IsS6 as chancellor of the Unit versity of Mississippi Tn 1890 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the Chickamauga National Park and from there he moved to Biloxi making his home at Chattanooga. Tenn. Gen. eral Stewart spent the last years of hiA life devoting himself largely to liter- ary work. He was regarded as an aus thority upon many of the stirring events which had marked the countT1 during his life. and several high hon ors were conferred upon him In con- nection with this work. among them a fellowship in the Royal Historical So- ciety.
 General Stewart married at Warren. Ohio. in ls45. Miss Harriet Byron Chase. She died in 1898.
 Only three months ago. General Sta- phen D. Lee. commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, who held the commission Of a lieutenant general in the Confederacy. answered the last roll call, and his death left only two officers of the Confederacy of equal rank. These were General Stewart and General simon Boliver Buckner of Kentucky General Stew arts death today. therefore. leaves General Buckner as the only surviving lieutenant general to the Confedsrata States army.
 The body was shipped shortly before midnight to St. Louis. Mo, where Gen eral Stewart lived for a number Of years Tue funeral will probably be held in St. Louis next Wednesday.
 Confederate Veterans have been 50 notified at Mobile. Montgomery Birni- ingham. Chattanooga, Louisville and other cities through which the train bss ring the casket will pass.