The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
CEN. STEWART
 DIES SUDDENLY Confederate Leader Answers the
 Last Roll CaII BRILLIANT CAREER IN WAR General Stewart Devoted Himself to Teaching for Several Years After the War and Spent His Last
 Days In Biloxi.
BRILLIANT CAREER IN WAR

Biloxi Miss. August 30-Gen. AleXan- der P. Stewart, one of the last two sur viving lieutenant generals of the Con federate States army. died at his home here today Although in his S7th year and suffering from the infirmities of old age. General Stewards death was sud- den and came as distinct shock and surnrse to his relatives, comrades and friends.
 General Stewart had been in failing health here at the home of his son, pr. A. P. Stewart Jr., for year or more. Death was due to heart disease.
 General Stewart was native of Ten nessee 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 or great benefit to his health. He was born at Rogersville, Hawkins county, Tennes- see, October ?. 1921. and received his early education in that state. Later he was appointed to the United States Military academy at West Point and graduated with honors from that institution in June, 1S42.
 Following his graduation at West Point he was made second lieutenant in the Third United States artillery, and later transferred to West Point, where he served as one of the assistants to the professor of mathematics.
 Resigning from the army in 1s45 Gen eral Stewart accepted the chair of math- ematics and natural philosophy at Cum har nj sit attending to his duties as a professor. General Stewart held a commission in the Tennessee State militia, and served as an instructor in artillery
 At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned as brigadier gen. eral in the Confederate States army, made a major general in 1863, and re- |sceiyed- his commission as a-aeutenant general one year later. The close of the war found him in command of the Army of the Tennessee.
 Like the Lees, General Stewart after the close of hostilities between the states gave himself up to the instruction of southern youth and served 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 until he moved to Biloxi he made his home at
 
 spent the last years of his life devot- ing himself largely to literary work. He was regarded as an authority upon the many stirring events which had marked the country during his lifetime and sev- eral high honors were conferred upon him in connection with this work, among them fellowship in the Royal Historical society.
 General Stewart married at Warren O., in 1S45, Miss Harriet Byron Chase. She died In 1898.
 Only three months ago Gen. Stephen D. Lee commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, who held the com mission of a lieutenant general in the Confectionery, answered the last roll call, and his death left only two officers of the Confectionery of equal rank These were General Stewart and Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky. General Stewards death today, therefore, leaves General Buckner as the only surviving lieutenant general in the Confederate States army.
 The body was shipped shortly before midnight to St. Louis, Mo-, where Gen. eral Stewart lived for a number of years. The funeral will probably be held in St. Louis next Wednesday, Confederate veterans have been so notified at Mobile, Montgomery, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Louisville and other cities through which the train bearing the casket will pass