Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-26
THE UNION DEAD.
THE NATIONAL CEMETERIES
Adjutant General Thomas ReDOrt.

Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas has fin
ished his report detailing the result Of his visit
TO, and inspection OF, all the cemeteries, from
Maine to California, that contain the remains of
Union soldiers who fell during the late war.
Gen. Thomas reports the Military Asylum Gem
etery, in this District, well taken care of, and
in good condition. Here there are Inferred %
oneers, las soldiers, sailors and l3i employees,
making total of 5,3o4; 1875 colored soldiers are
also buried here. AT the Congressional Bury
ing Ground there are 70 soldiers buried. At the
Union Cemetery there are 40, making a total of
5iZj white ana 1876 cOored soldiers buried in the
District. He recommends that the mansion at
Arlington he repaired and improved, and that
lighthouses and a conservatory be built there,
and that flowers and plants be raised for ge1r-
eral distribution throughout the land, etc. or
1000 buried at Arlington, nearly 1000
known.
There are but 1s officers and jGj white soldiers
known, II unknown, and 10 colored soldiers. un-
known, buried in the whole of New England
Soldiers are buried i'm twenty-three different
places in New York, and the total number i
1851. There are four burial places i'm New Jer-
sey with 293 in all for the State. In Pennsyl-
valia there are IS burial places of soldiers, in-
eludng Gettysburg, which he recommends the
Government to purchase and take possession Of
The grand total OF the State is 6,313. Delaware
has - soldiers burial places and total of 36S
interments. The grand total in Maryland in
cluding Antietam, Is s,995 white and S72 colored.
In the Seventeen Virginia cemeteries-Arlnp-
ton, Alexandria. Balls Bluff, Winchester
Stannton, Culpeper, Danville, Fredericksburg,
Richmond, Cold HarbOr, Seven Pines, Fort
Harrison, Glendale, Poplar Grove, City Point,
Hampton and YOrkt0wn-a total of 6S,7l3 Union
officers and soldiers, black and white. are buried
The total white officers and soldiers inferred in
North Carolina is II $40; total colored 649 South
Carolina, total interments IL ,S7. The grand
total buried i'm Georgia is 23,102. Mississippi
25II, in three cemeteries. Lousiana-The
total OF white soldiers inferred i'm this st ate is
1859, andof cOlored 3, POI, making grand total
OF ls $40. There are six cemeteries in Florida,
and / 1921 soldiers and sailors buried, white and
black. In Alabama there is but one national
cemetery, and that is at Mobile. There are
inferred here 13 officers, $50 soldiers 81 sailors
81 employees and % colored soldiers
The total interments in the State are 1854.
In Texas there are three cemeteries ,O03 white
and 1,55S colOred soldiers; total, $3.50. Total
interments in Tennessee, 56,S9l. Kentucky
l9,4N. Missouri has four cemeteries, and i'm
these are inferred 1858 white and 1, ,O67 cOlored
soldiers, of which number 3 500 are unknown
Seven cemeteries i'm Ohio, with a total of LES
lnterments. In Michigan there are interments
IN s,x cemeteries, and a total of 1s2 bodies Wis
eonsin, Az interments in fourteen different
cemeteries. Iowa, $50 interments. Illinois, 2fI
white and 39i colOred soldiers. Indiana 3,420
white and 1874 colored soldiers, i'm five ceme-
teries. Minnesota, 116 soldiers, in three ceme-
teries. Nebraska, 394. Nevada, "A. California.
loI known, and unknown. Oregon, 8. The
following is summary of the reports of the Ter
rltOries Montana 81, Idaho II, Washington 50
New Mexico 5H Indian Territory 2,117, Dakota
l35, Utah "a, Colorado LOG, Arizona l05, wyo-
ming 39l.
The total number of white officers and sol
diers. known and unknown, buried, as detailed
above, is nearly SOC, 900. The number of colored
soldiers nearly $1,000, two-thirds of whom are
not known by name. Gen. Thomas states that
the expense attending the burial or reinterment
OF their bodies, and the laying out and improv-
ing the national cemeteries, has reached sf,OOo,-
600, and he estimates that il will cost % 900 OO
more to complete the work and keep the national
cemeteries (Of which there are thirty-fiye i'm
number) in good order. At all these natiopaI
cemeteries there Is keeper and assistants, and
the expense attending the care of each cemetery
will range from 81 500 to 81 900 per annum for
salaries alone, while the other expenses will
reach $50 900 per annum. He makes statements
10 Congress, and gives data why various appro-
priatiOns should be at once made.
If the cemetery at Mound City, illinois, Is not
repaired, and the levee strengthened, there is
danger Of q general washing out of the bodies
buried there. The iron or stone enclosures for
the national cemeteries las ordered by Congress)
cannot be erected on account Of the failure OF an
appropriation for the same. ~