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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
as; but the vice-president of the Confederacy four years ago terminated his active and useful career. Of those who held the portfolio of State, Robert Toombs, R. M. T. Hunter, and Judah P. Benjamin, all are dead. Of the four attorney-generals, only two, ex-Governor Thomas H. Watts, and the Honorable George Davis, survive. Mr. Memminger, of the Treasury Department, still lives. Hon. Charles G. Memminger died March 7, 1888, in Charleston, S. C. The other secretary, the gifted George A. Trenholm, has, for years, been sleeping that sleep which knows no waking. Of the five Secretaries of War, Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James A. Seddon, and John C. Breckinridge, not one is alive. The accomplished Adjutant-General, Samuel Cooper, A. C. Myers, Quartermaster-General, L. B. Northrup, Commissary-General, General I. M. St. John, Chief of the Bureau of Subsistence, General Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, General J. F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer, Genera