The Surviving Generals

The only two great oommanders now living w ho faced eaoh other in making the thrilling and orimsoned annals of the late civil war are Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Grant met Lee, Joseph and Sidney JohnBton, BeHureaard, Buckner, Bragg and Jfemberton in battle, au ohief oommanders, and of them Joseph E. Johuston, Beaurgard and Buckner mirvive. Meade, who met the terrible shock of battle at Gettysburg, was borne to the City of the Silent wihin a short time of the imposing southern pageant that oommitted the dust of Lee to mother dimt ; and Thomas and Hood, who fought the last great battle of the war at Nashville, both sleep the dreamless sleep of the dead. Sherman and Johnston alone remain of the great commaders who locked horns with each other in the fíame of battle. Their campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to the sea, was the most brilliant of the war, and they are the only two great commandere who 8re left to sit down and talk their battles over, as they often do in the heartlest good fellowship. Of the many commanders of the heroio Army of the Potomac, none remain, with the single exception of Gen. MoClellan. Scott, MoDowell, Burnide, Hooker Meade and Grant, wlio in turrn cnmmanded that magniflcent army, have all gone to join the great majority, and Longstreet is the only one of Lee's great lieutenants who lingers with the living. Jackson, Hill, Ewell and Staart, who were in every great conflict of the Army of Virginia, rest with their great chieftain of Arlingtou. Joseph E. Johnston and G. T. Beuuregard are the only surviving confedérate commanders who led great armies to battle, and they are whitened by frosts of time. Johnston has been in Congress, and now is at the head of the National railroad bureau. -