The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-01
GEN. STEWART
DIED SUNDAY
One of the Last of Confeder-
ate Generals Dies in
Biloxi, Miss.
GEN. STEWARDS DEATH CAME
SUDDENLY AND AS A DISTINCT
SURPRISE TO HIS RELATIVES
AND FRIENDSHIPS LONG CA
REER.
By Associates Press.

| Biloxi, Miss, Aug. 3I-Gen, Alex
ander P. Stewart, one of the last two
surviving ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the
| Confederate States army, died at his
home here Sunday. Although in his
| S7th year, and suffering from the in
| fiTmities of old age, General Stewards
death was sudden and came as a dis
tinct shock and surprise TO his rela-
| tiveS, comrades and friends.
| General Stewart had been in failing
| health here at the home of his son,
| DR.. A P Stewart, Jr-, for a year or
| more. Death was due to heart dis
ease.
General Stewart was a native of
| Tennessee and lived the greater part
of his life in that state, but of late
had been making his home in Biloxi.
where he found the salt air and pine
woods of great benefit to his health.
| General Stewart was born at Rog-
-TSville, Hawkins county, Tenn, on
| October >, 1921, and received his ear
| ly education in that state Later he
was appointed to the United States
military academy at West Point, and
graduated with honors from that in
| stitUtion in June, 1912.
Following his graduation at West
! Point, he was made a second lieuten-
lery and later transferred to West
Point, where he served as one of the
assistants to the professor of mathe-
matics-
Resigning from the army in 1915,
General Stewart accepted the chair
of mathematics and natural philoso-
ply at mberIand University, Ten
nessee- Besides attending to his du-
ties as a professor General Stewart
neld a commission in the Tennessee
state militia and served as an in
structor in artillery
At the outbreak of the civil war he
was commissioned as a brigadier-
general in the Confederate States
army, made a majorgeneral in 1863,
and received his commission as
lieutenant general one year later. The
close. of the war found him in COM
mand of the Army of Tennessee.
Followed Lees Example.
Like the Lees, General Stewart, af-
ter the close of hostiities between
the states, gave himself lkp TO the in
ed from 1874 to 1886 as chancellor
of the University of Mississippi. In
1890 he was appointed one of the
commissioners of the Chickamauga
national park, and from that time I'M
til he moved to Biloxi he made his
home at Chattanooga, Tenn
General Stewart spent the last
years of his life devoting himself
largely to literary work. He was re-
garded as an authority upon the
many stirring events which mad mark
ed the country during his lifetime.
and several high hOnors were confer
red upon him In connection with this
work, among them a fellowship In the
Royal Historical society.
General Stewart married at War
rem, Ohio, in 1915. Miss Harriet By
ron Chase. She died in 1898.
Only three months ago Gen. Step1-
en- d. Lee, COmmandeT-iD-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 LETT
only two officers Of the ConfederaCv
of equal rank. These were General
Stewart and Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck
ner of Kentucky. General Stewards
death Sunday, therefore. leaves Gen
ersl BUckner as the only surviving
heUten ant-genera1 of the Confederate
States army
The body was shipped shortly be- |
fore midnight to ST Louis, Mo, where
General Stewart lived for number of |
years The funeral will probably be |
held in St Louis next "Wednesday. I
Confederate veterans have been so |
notified at Mobile, Montgomery, Bir-
mingham. Chattanooga. Louisville and |
other cities through which the train |
bearing the casket will pass.
When Louisville and Nashville pas |
senger train NO. So arrived in Mo- 1
bile last night the train crew report |
ed having a body on board. but no /
delegation of local Confederate Vet
Grams appeared at the station. If is \
presumed that the body was that of /
General Stewart. and that the notf-l
fcation 10 Mobile veterans was not /
received in time to meet the train.
St Louis, Mo. Aug. 2O.-Lieuten-
ant General A. P Stewart. oldest and |
one OF the two surviving officers of |
the highest rank in the Confederate !
army, who died Sunday morning at
biloxi, Miss, at $50 O'Clock. at the
nome Of his youngest son, DR.. 4. p
stewart, Jr-, will be buried in St.
Louis
General Stewart was the father of
Col A c. Stewart. OF this city. who
was recently president of the ST.
Louis police board. and one of the
most prominent Free Masons in the
United States
The generals body will be brought
10 St Louis Tuesday morning. but
the time of burial has not been de-
lernlned upon The interment viii
be In Belle Fontaine cemetery here