The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-10
|GEN. GORDON
 PASSED AWAY
cCMMANDERANNcHlEF oF CON- FEEDRATE VETERANS ANS
 WERS LAST ROLL.
Victim of Illness Which Dates From The Last Strenuous Campaign
 for Congressional Honors k In His State.

Memphis, Tenn, Aug. 9.-Georgs w. Gordon. sooIer, lawyer and statesman, died at D. m. Worn oui by an illness dating from his last pol itical campaign when he was reelect
 ed to the National House of Repre- lsenatives, the last general of the Con- federacy to serve in that body, ans wered the summons to join the invis' ibie majority. Funeral arrangements have not been announced but the ob sequies 1t is said, will be- of a mill ltary character and the body will be laid to rest in this city probably Sun- day.
 Weakened by the heat of the past PA hours and first taken i'll at the reunion in Little Rock, he succumb- cd to the ravages of a slow illness and the light grew dinner hourly of the general today. When follow. ing a restless night he woke from fitful slep in the early morning hours the loving watchers at his side saw that the end was but question oi hours. perhaps minutes. ana his fondest desire to attend tho Macon reunion disappeared. Al the end neared peace spread over his face. He smiIod as with comnorting wordi
 he bade relatives goodbye. At tns
 bedside of General Gordon when ne
 expired were his wife and other rel latives.
 George Washington Gordon was born in Giles County, Tenn, Oct. b 1856. In his early boyhood his par ents removed to Texas and later to
 Mississippi, but as youth he re- turned to Tennessee and entered the
 Western Military Academy from which ne was graduated in 1850. His first activity was as a civil engineer.
 At the outbreak of the civil war General Gordon enlisted on the Ninth sheet manifesto as drill master of the Tenth infantry of the Confederate States. Within a few weeks he was made captain and later was pro- noted to lieutenant colonency. About la year later he was commissioned colonel, In 1864 he was named briga- dier general.
 General Gordon participated with distinction in number of engage. ments and ats one time was taken prisoner but was exchanged in ten days.
 At the close of the war General Gordon studied law and was admit ted to the bar. He became attorney general of Shelby county. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the Tennessee railroad commission and in 1885 he was made an attache of the Federal Department of the Inter Fior. In this capacity he served four years. At the end of Grover Cleve- lands first presidential term he re- turned to Memphis and resumed the practice of law. In 1892 General Gordon was elected superintendent of the city public schoos. He was ilKe- wise elected member of the Sixtleth Congress from the Tenth Tennessee district and reelected to the Sixty first and Sixty-second Congresses.
 General Gordon was the only Con. federate General numbered in the present Congress. He was chosen commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans in Mobile and subsequently reelected last May at the next reunion. He was credited with having been one of the organ izers of the Ku Klux Clan in Tennes. see. Immediately following the close of his last political campaign Gen. eral Gordon's health began to fail. Asthma in aggravated form develop, ed. Notwithstanding the poor state |of his health he attended the ses sions of Congress and his vigor was partially restored. Just before the last reunion ne suffered an attack of ptomaine poisoning and against the advice of physicians and wishes |of relatives insisted on attending the reunion. At the reunion he became very weak and took only small part in the affairs of the reunion.
 Several weeks ago General uordon
 went to Northern health resort put
 failed to benefit and returned to ma home. ffs spent several days in the