Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-12

nave Siuuleu HISTORY enough so Lilat
they will be interested in this resume
showing what the descendants of some
of our great soldiers are doing 1t is
reprinted from the Philadelphia Rec
ord:
The millions who on Decoration day
pay tribute to the great generals and
admirals of the Civil War will be in
terested to learn how fate is dealing
with the children and grandchildren of
those heroes. Many of their offspring
have chosen for their profession the
science of war and the most thorough
realization of the now complete re-
union of our country is enjoyed by
those who in the drawing rooms of
the national capital have seen a Grant
and a Lee, a Sheridan and a Beaure-
gard, Porter and Longstreet touch
ing elbows incased in the same uni
form.
Other descendants CT these immortals
of 1S61-65 are attaining success of one
kind or another in purely peaceful pur-
suits. Some have noble titles and
some vast wealth.
Grants eldest son, Major General
Frederick Dent Grant, was the other
day put in command of the military
department of the east, with head
quarters at Governors island, New
York. Had not DR.. Leonard Wood
been allowed to organize the Rough
Riders and thereby make his splash
in the war with Spain General Grant
would now be the ranking officer of
the army and. very probably, chief of
staff AS 1t is, he must retire on Dec
Grafton day four years hence, whereas
General Wood will remain at the head
of the army for fourteen years. or until
1924. May 80, 1t happens, is the BIRTH
day of little Fred" who was IL years
old when the war opened. He is go
years old. He was graduated from
West Point in 1871, while his father
was president, and resigned twenty
years later at the close of eight years
service on the frontier. Then, after
esrving as minister to Austria and as
police commissioner of New York he
got back into the reguar army by en-
tering the war with Spain as a volun-
teer colonel. All of President Grants
other children are also living. Jesse
r., the youngest son, is in New York,
where he is interested in mining en-
terprises. He Is So years old and has
deserted the party of his father to be-
come Democrat. His brother, Ulys-
ses S. Grant jr., is q Republican. He
is a lawyer and lives in San Diego,
Cal. His wife is the daughter of for
mer United States Senator Chaffee of
Colorado, and their son is an officer
in the regular army.
This is Ulysses S. Grant, III, who
graduated from the Military academy
in 1903 He was lately appointed super
intendent of the State, War and Navy
building in Washington. He is 28 years
old, having been born on independence
day, 1881. Algernon Sartoris, jr., son
of the generals daughter, Nellie, after
serving in the Spanish war as first
lieutenant of engineers and a captain ,
of infantry, received commission as ,
lieutenant of regulars. but resigned
after serving one year. More recently
he received an appointment as seere- ,
tary of legation TO one of the Latin ,
American republics, but resigned after !
serving but few months. His mother !
was not the only descendant of Gen.
Grant to marry a foreigner. His ]
Julia Dent Grant, a few years :
cuzene of the Russian imperial guards. Z
Two of Gen. Robert E. Lees sons :
are still living. George Washington {
Curtis Lee, the eldest, who will be n
next September, lives at Burke, Va, {
and since 1897 has been president em- \
eritus of Washington and Lee Uni
versity He has never married. He g
was graduated at the Military acad- : :
amy, at the head of his class, in 1854, E
and was a lieutenant of engineers at :
tached to the war department in :
when he and his father .
their commissions at the out i
break of the war. In that struggle he +
built the fortifications around Rich
nond. and was aid-de-camp to JEFF i
'erson Davis, and finally major gem :
sral of the Confederacy. In 1871 he :
succeeded his father as president of
and Lee university.
Robert E. Lee, III, another son of
he Confederate commander in chief,
s living upon his plantation at West
Point, Va He was born fifty-six
years ago at Arlington house. that
stately Colonial mansion which now
stands in the Arlington National GEM
,tery opposite Washington. and which
vas then the property of his mother,
Nary Randolph Curtis Lee. He left
he University of Virginia in 1862 to
inter- the Confederate army where he
Won q captains spurs. Since the war
lie has devoted his life to agriculture
md the writing of the "Recollections
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