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brigade, when, upon all three occasions, the ragged heroes shouted, them back if General Lee will go to the rear !"
 * General Lee to the rear ! General Lee to the rear ! ! We will drive

Indeed, the pleasant incident which President Davis told of how he met General Lee at the front during the Seven Days* battles, and while they were gently chiding each other for being out of place, " gallant little A. P. Hill " dashed up and ordered them both to the rear, but illustrates the point that all of our Confederate leaders, from our chivalric, heroic President, down to the subordinates, were accus- tomed to say to their men not " Go on ! " but ** Come on ! *'

Thus it came to pass that the list of our dead Generals were fear- fully large, and that of those who survive, the large majority of them carry "badges of honor" in wounds received during the war.

IN PEACE.

And since the war numbers of them have "crossed the river" — Lee. Cooper, Bragg, D. H. Hill, Forrest, Cheatham, Pendleton, Chilton, Hood, Wise, William Smith — and scores of others went be- fore, and but a few months ago our grand old Chief and only Presi- dent followed after.

Thank God ! many of them yet survive, and scores of them come to-day to pay tribute to their loved and honored old Chief, while many others though "absent m body are present in spirit."

We have been at some pains to compile an accurate list of sur- viving Confederate generals with their present residence, and we give it below. There may be a few omissions or inaccuracies (and we would esteem it a favor to have any needed corrections), but we believe it will be found in the main accurate and complete.

LIST OF SURVIVING CONFEDERATE GENERALS AND THEIR PRESENT

RESIDENCE.

Joseph E. Johnston, Washington, D. C. Gustave P. T. Beauregard, New Orleans.

GENERAL WITH TEMPORARY RANK.

Edmund Kirby Smith, Sewanee, Tenn.

LIEUTENANT-GENERALS.

Stephen D. Lee, Starkeville, Miss.