The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-02-13

by rebel hands--has p1ade US knit the
teeth more firmly, and vow more deeply,
to put down this rebel ion.
6 Now, bear all this in mind. and you
eau imagite how we felt yesterday and to
dav, when our Division was paying fune.
raj ovatiobs to the bodies Of the retel ,rai.
tor Zollicoifer and his Aid.
il was courteous, soldierly and chris.
tian 10 send 10 their friends these bodies
OF men prominent in the bad cause. But
neither courtesy, nor military etiquette,
nor Christianity demanded any ytbing more
Had we in an honorable war slain brave
general, arecognized belIigerent." moth.
ing more than this could have been ex
pected. Rarely in the history Of war have
higher honors than this been paid to the
most noble, manly and bonorabls of Ialen
foes.
Bearing this in mind. think OF the ca
reer of Felix X. Zollicoffer. He had time
and again sworn to dsfeAd and cherish the
Union and pleaded for its preservation, a,
gainst the traitors--till the mob became
strong-and then, when he should have
shown manhood-then when the memory
of what the Union had been 10 him pei
sonally, should have risen superior TO
fcar-then when his oaths should have
bound him-he threw himself at the head
of the insurgents and hunted into their
mountain Businesses. the very men ol his
own State, who believing he would be
with them and no, against them, had ia
ken arms for Tie defense Of the Union he
had so praised!
A double traitorl to the Union and him :
self! Nay his last words were words Of
deceit, designed to inve;gle Col. Fry into
laying aside his arms that be might he
shot like q Cog. So Zolliccffer lived snd
died. A public traitor living. his soul
went from him burdcned with the mean
ness Of trescherous trick to au individu
al. For the body of such man there
was but one treatment; that dignifed cour.
tesy which neither insults fallen bad
nan, nor honors him.
What was the treatment oil ZollIcofferi
I ou shall hear.
AT Louisville, the bodies OF himself and
Aid we're place. in elegant and expensive
burial cases, by the muni6cence Of the
Government lie had fallen in endeavoring
TO overthrow. They were sent here, me-
at the cars bya Guard of Honor from one
of our Ohio regiments, and thus escorted
TO the Headquarters of the Division
where another Guard of Honor, taker
from the Regulars received them will
presented arms"
Check for moment, your idigna;ion a
, the thought that Guards Of Honor sho'
have been appointed for this purpose.an
that one of these guards should com
from the traitor hating State of Ohio
while the other came from the Regulars
r supposed (by polite fction) to be tn
D especial guardians Of the honor and intel
ests of the nation Zollicofer had enIeav
$ ored so persistently to render no nation
: and that this guard, so chosen, shoul
e have paid the highest of military compl
e ments, to the body Of a dead traitor
}. Check, say. for a moment, your indig
n nation at this, and pass to the next scene
s To Division Headquarters, as to a Gu
: riosity shop, flock to do honor to the bod
il les, Generals. Colones and epaulette
t gentlemen generally, eIbowing their wa
= through the Guard Of Honor. posted s
If tbicky about the house that their bea
II are not five PAGES long. ThenIin fear til
s. the bodies may no, keep long enough
reach their rebel abiding places, save
such bad odor physically as they are M
: rally, the medical director OF the Divisic
Is and several other doctors proceed to 'en
balm them, assisted in their work
handling The traito,s bodies by a Brig
: dier General with upturned sleeves
'e Then the bodies lie there in state throul
r the night, while in the law air outside Il
" Guard Of Honor tramp through the mu
Il thinking, perhaps. as simple soldie
n might while the chill! air gave them twi
ges in their joints, whether traitors q
=. served such honoIs.
is IN the morning the Guard of Honor
Nc II. sent home, and the party that is to escc
~ the bodies out Of the lines moves 0
: =, And this escort There were two Brig
~ der Generals, two Colonels, two Ass
:: tant Adjntam Generals, the Medical l
:, rector of the Division and two or lhr
= other Surgeons, an ex.Sutlcr, the CORE
"s pondent Of a Louisville Journal, a Coz
u a. missary's Clerk-whp, in his eagerness
~ go, dressed himself up as an "Orderl
=! the chief Of Artillery for this Divisit
:. New York journalist. detachment
~ cavalry, aud Two four horse ambulance
w containing cath a body, go escort
these bodies of traitors left our lines
-, venture to say that in the history of
"u ~" The wars Of Europe you will nowhere
'Io to the record of such an escort to any ial
~ ~ enemy, no matter how noble, how tru
u" ful, how brave he was.
]id And yet all this for traitor!
her As if to bring home to us the sense
var this !ndignily. but a few hours after
nit rebel bodies, with all this superfuity
honor had gone toward the rebels. So
ear Union soldiers bore to his grave p
to private that had died in camp. Thou
eir the Regulations" prescribe that ev
IN. private's body shall have an escort on
nit last journey; though the "RegulatioI
ere prescribe that that escort shall "reve
in arms" and move to the solemn music
the band, or the stifed notes Of the m
yht fed drum; though the "Regulations' ?
Two scribe that whoever attends his funt
ing shall wear side arms, this poor fellow \
nan carried 70 his grave without escort or .