Doyle,
This is part of an article about what happened to the "old Generals" of the Southern Armies from a Boston newspaper, reprinted in the Quincy Daily Whig, Jan. 1884. The person who knew these Generals is not named--only that he was a West Pointer, and a brilliant general officer.

"The majority had been in the regular army. They went with the south for state pride, and in part because they were frozen out. I shall not forget Anderson. He was a captain in the dragoons out in Utah. When his resignation was accepted and he went away from the rear of us, the tears were in his eyes. 'I am going back to South Carolina to raise hogs and hominy until the war is over, he said, I will never fight the old flag.' But in a month the tide was too strong for him. They made him military governor of Charleston, and a corps commander in Lee's army. He died of a broken heart right after the war. Lee never wanted to resign, but, like Johnston, he was made to feel that the northern officers distrusted him. It was so with Johnston. In 1861 he was quartermaster general, but old Simon Cameron transacted all his business with subordinate officers. At last Johnston went to him. 'Mr. Secretary,' he said, 'you pay no attention to me.' "No" was the reply, 'you are a Virginian, and sympathize with the rebels.' "I do not," answered Johnston, 'but I shall resign, rather than be ignored. It is not because I have any desire to join the south.' Yet in three months he had drifted into a general's commission in Dixie. Johnston is an old man now, not less than 75.

Doyle, there must have been some kind of conspiracy going on there--and also with many of the northern Democrats.
Ann