Show CONFEDERATE BRIGADIERS From tho Arena Passing Sliey Arc Rapidly of National Politics in The men who enjoyed prominence the military and civil service of the confederacy are rapidly passing from the arena of national politics Below is a record of such as aro still in active life in Washington The senior United States senator from Alabama John T Morgan was a brigadier briga-dier general in the Confederate army and her other senator James L Pugh was a member of the Confederate con Wheeler who attained gress Hon Joseph I tamed the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate service has for 12 years been there preseptative in congress from the Eighth Alabama district The senior senator from Georgia John I lieutenant B Gordon was likewise a general in the army of the confederacy The Hon Edward CWalthall of Mis sisippi a major general in the Confederate Confed-erate service and of late the junioi United States senator from his native state while not in active politics haying hay-ing resigned for tho balance of his present pres-ent term in the upper house has been elected for and is confidently expected to take his seat in that honorable body in March 1895 The senior United States senator from Missouri Francis M Cockrell was a brigadier general in the Confederate army and the other senator from that commonwealth George G Test held positions in both houses of the Confederate Confed-erate congress The present senior United States senators sen-ators from both North and South Carolina Caro-lina Matt W Ransom and M C Butler But-ler were major generals in tho Confederate Confed-erate service The representatives from Tennessee in the nppcr house pf congress ae Isharn G Harris the senior and William B Bate who is the junior senator from that commonwealth The first mentioned 1 men-tioned was a war governor of his native state and the last named was a majoi general in the Confederate army And lastly Eppa Hunton who saw service as brigadier general in the Confederate army at presepfc occupies the position of junior senat JC rom Virginia Vir-ginia in the congress of f United States H Id Thus do we perceive that h multitude multi-tude of those who distingr themselves them-selves in the military andf annals of the confederacy only 11 in iq national halls upholding in the present as they strove to do in the past the rights and interest of the section of which they are the honored representatives representa-tives Augusta Chronicle |