Show SAD STORY OF CIVIL WAR brought out by death of a confederate general who became a GS new york dec 12 the body of the confederate brigadier general herman bins has been found in black swamp four miles from morristown N J he was known as the hermit of ganong mountain vor thirty five years bins had lived a solitary life on the side of mountain he had little to do with any one and his retreat was tar removed from the nearest house his cabin was found in ashes by those who went to it after the body had been identified bins made his appearance on the mountain in 1865 when lie first came ho wore a grey uniform and on it were the stars of a brigadier general ten years after bins settled on the mountain his life story came out through no fault of his william a veteran of the union army who had occasion to visit atlanta in 1875 commenced an investigation and found from the confederate reports that herman bins bad enlisted as a minor officer soon after sumter was fired upon he rose rapidly and at the close of the war had the rank of brigadier at the outbreak of the war bins was a well to do planter in middle georgia while he was in the army his two children died when sherman marched to the sea cutting a gap through georgia and leaving desolation behind bins home was one of the places of which but ashes mrs bins had fled before the arrival of sherman and joined the refugees exposure and hardship brought her to her death when he returned to hla plantation he found the ashes of his home tho graves of bis children and near them the grave of his wife whom faithful slaves had carried to the plantation and burled general bins at once left and until mr informed them ate friends did not know what had become of him no one knows how the old man came co his death |