Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1898 — WAR MAJOR GENERALS. [ARTICLE]

WAR MAJOR GENERALS.

The Roll of Those Now.Uvlnqf Ntxmbers Thirty^even. When the war clgzed there ,were at least 175 major generals. Now the roll of the living numbers only thirty-seven. Most of the great figures of the war are gone. Grant, McClellan, Sherman, Thomas, Meade, Sheridan and the rest are gone. But these thirty-seven old major generals, whose names have been taken from the records in the War Department at Washington, are a wonderfully interesting lot. Not a few of them will be gone before the next Memorial Day. Hers are the living war major generals: Augur, C. C., Osterhaus, P. J., Buell, D. C., Palmer, J. M., Butterfield, D., Parke, J. G., CMay, C. M., Porter, F. J., Cox, J. D., Prentiss, B. M., Dana, N. J. T., Reynolds, J. J., Dodge, G. M„ * Schofield, J. M., Fessenden, Francis, Schurs, Carl, Franklin, W. 8., Sickles, D. E., Grierson, B. H., Slgel, Frans, Hamilton, Schuyler, Smith, W. F., Herron, F. J., Stahel, Julius, Howard, O. 0., Stanley, D, S., McClernand, J. A., Swayne, Wager, McCook, A. McD., Wallace, Lew, Merritt, Wesley, Wilson, J. H. f Miles, N. A., Wood, T. J., Negley, J. S., Wright, H. O. Oglesby, R. J.,