Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — THE CONFEDERATE GENERALS. [ARTICLE]

THE CONFEDERATE GENERALS.

The Occupation* at Which Thoae Who Survira Are Eagafad. "~~* m Gen. Marcus J. Wright, an ex-Con-federate officer, who has charge of the. publication of the rebellion records under the auspices of the war department, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, gives the following as the whereabouts and occupations of the more prominent Generals of the Confederate army: Of the six full Generals appointed by the Confederate Congress only two survive —Joseph E. Johnson, now United States Commissioner of Railroads, and G. T. Beauregard, Adjutant General of • Louisiana, and Manager of the Louisiana Lottery Drawings. Of the twenty Lieutenant Generals appointed to the provisiohal army, several are living. E. Kirby Smith is Professor of Mathamatics in the University of the South, Tennessee, which is an Episcopal institution; James Longstreet is keeping a hotel down in Georgia, after serving a term there as United States Marshal under President Hayes; D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, was, till recently, President of the Agricultural School of the State of Arkansas, and now earns a living chiefly by magazinewriting. Richard Taylor, son of President Taylor, is engaged in building a canal near New Orleans. Stephen B. Lee is a farmer, and President of the State Agricultural College of Mississippi. Jubal A. Early practices law law at Lynchburg. Of the Major Generals, A. P. Stewart is now President of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where Secretary Lamar was a Professor at the time of his election to the United States Senate. Wade Hamptom is in the Senate. Joseph Wheeler is in Congress; he is very wealthy and one of largest planters in Alabama. John B. Gordon is a millionaire railroad man. Gen. Loring, of Florida, was engineering in Egypt until a few years -ago, when he came to New York to work at the same profession. B. F. Creatham, Postmaster at Nashville, Tenn. Sam Jones, of Virginia, is in the Judge Advocate General’s office. Lafayette Mc- ’ Laws is Postmaster at Savannah, Ga. S. B. Buckner lives in Louisville, Ky., where he owns a great deal of real estate, the revenue of which supports him. L. B. French earns a scanty subsistence by engineering in Georgia. C; L. Stephenson is in Fredericksburg, Va. John H. Forney, brother to Congressman Forney, is in an Insane Asylum at Selma, Ala. Abney H. Maury is Washington agent for a New York life insurance company. John G. Walker is also in the insurance business here. Isaac R, Trimble lives in retirement in Baltimore on a fortune derived from the Trimble whisky. Gen. Heath is employed by the government to do engineering on some southern rivers. Cadmus Wilcox was formerly employed about the Senate chamber, but is now in retirement writing a history ofthe Mexican war. Fitzhugh Lee is Governor of Virginia. Extra Billy Smith practices law at Warren ton, Va. Charles W. Field, once doorkeeper of the House, is Superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation. William B. Bate is Governor of Tennessee. W. H. F. Lee is a Fairfax County farmer. C. J. Polignac, who came over from France, to espouse the Confederate cause, is back in Paris, busied with immense railroad operations. J. F. Fagan was Marshal of Arkansas under Grant. He is now at Little Rock. William Mahone is in the Senate, as is E. C. Walthall of Mississippi. John S. Marmaduke is Governor of Missouri. Pierce M. B. Young has gone to Russia as United States Counsul General at St. Petersburg. M. C. Butler is a Senator of the United States. Thomas L. Russell, after making a fortune as attorney for the Northern Pacific Railroad, has settled down at his old home, Charlottesville, Va. G. W. Curtis Lee is President of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Va.