Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-30
+" THE LAST OF EARTH"
Funeral Of Major General Jas.
B. Mcpherson.
ARRIVAL OF TIE BODY AT CLYDE
Immense COneOurse Of Citizens.
ri,sFRu oR6Tloa BY The REV. 7 +. RILBRErH.
ARRIVAL OF TILE BODY AT CLYDE
immense COncOurse Of CitiseRs'
riIsEBsL GRAFTON BY The REV. t E RItBRfTH
A SAD AND SOLEMN PAGEANT

AsAD AND SOLEMN PAGEANT
The burial dav Of man and a soldier
such as Muior General James B. Mcpherson
is an occasion not merely Of individual ana |
local hut Of national sorrow and mourning
The man whose death our Commander-in-
Chief lamented with tears, declaring that
in it the country had lost its best General
and he his best friend, deserves
that the regrets of the whole ma
ton should follow him to his grave. And
so the burial rites of yesterday,
celebrated in the little town Of
CLYDE, were shared in bythesymPathy and
sorrow Of a nation.
GENERAL McPHERsoN's DEATH.
1roior General james B. Mcpherson fell
n the second battle of Atlanta, on Friday
rn,v 2and. about one o'clock P. II. He was
twentv-six years Of age. The IN
c;dents of his death-his falling In the
-front Of the conflict, shot through the
lunos-his lying for few minutes IN the
hands of the rebels,in that brief time Oelng
robbed of clothes and money,-the wlld'
heroic charge his men made to carry oil ms
III -tbe eonAict.-the triumPh,-there
is NO need of reeounting here. They are
all q part of history; and almost every
1oval heart, from the Atlantic TO
the Rocky Mountains, has been
,,,-,,,,y with sorrow and thrilled with admi-
rations at the sad yet glorious recital. 1t
: oonailv needless to recount the story ol
his life. from the time Of his first entering
West Point, up to that sad day on which h'
e.u That history has already been given
10 the public. 1t remains for us only u
o,ronicle the last and solemn act OF the
scene which has engrossed national atten
tion-tbe commitment to the grave oil al
tbat was mortal Of the gallant otfieer an'
noble gentleman.
THE HoNEwARD JOURNEY
The body of General Mcpherson arrived
IN cincinnati on Wednesday ymorning- /
no. accompanied by his personal staff, un'
also bv an escort, consisting OF company
from the 18th L. 5. a., under command 0
Captain Van Rensselaer, and Lleuten
ant Novel;. tlay in state in Cincinnati oi
Wednesday and was sent northwaru L
Cyda bv a speeial train ria the Dayton an'
Mad River road. arriving in Clyde at iou
O'Clock Thursday morning. It was ther
suitably received by committee OF ell'zens
and borne to the Mcpherson homestead
where the gallant General had been born
and near which his remains were 10 be iaI'
in their final resting place.
the BURIAL DAY.
The pleasant little village OF Clyde
which lies in the centre of one orthe mos
pleasant and fertile regions Of Noru
Western Ohio, seyenty-ive. miles west
Cleveland, and seventeen south OF sandus
Nv. at the junction OF the Cleveland an
Tolsdo and the sandusky and Mad Rive
roads was the scene, on Friday, July 18th
OF perhaps the saddest and most solemn
funeral rites ever celebrated III our State
Far the first time, if our memory does no
d.ceive Ms. the remains Of an OHIO Mao
General. born in cur own State and apPoin
- and commissioned II ON II, we're born
fron the Dloody field on which he had iall
on. to Le laid IN the peaceful soil OF his ow
native state. The occasion had a iHr'he
and more peculiar significance for 'hi
lille town was at once the birth place an
the burial place of the gallant General
From his brilliant career, from the ield
o,.rv in which he ian with the nation
',aze concentrated upon him, he was porn
I.ck 10 the humble roof where lac was Oofi
and was laid, by gathered friends benea'
the shade Of the orchard trees under "hlc
in his days of childhood he had played
The sun rose brilliantly upon Clyde u
morning of the burial day. 1t looked dow DO"
upon village dressed in mourning, an
civen up, as with one mind, to the solem
o.oo.ion which WIS hencefoFth 10 bea
anniversary in local chronicles Aero
every street, in front of every dwelling
aoated the banner of beauty, draped
the emblems of woe. The whole town woI
an aspect Of mourning.
THE CROWD.