Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-17
RESTING PLACE OF THE UNION
DEAD.


DEAD.
The Qnartermaster General of tn,
army has Just published No. II of the
Roll of Honor, giving the names of
soldiers "who died in defence of the
American Union, inferred in the nation
al and public cemeteries in Ker lucky.
and at New Albany, Jacksonville aud
Madison, Ind; Lawton (Millen) and
Andersonville, Ga, supplementary"
The list gives 1858 names of Union
soldiers in those localities. The report
Gays the manner in which the graves
were widely scattered throughout the
entire State of Kentucky is noticea.
BILE feature. On some of the army
routes they averaged as high as two to
Che mile. This is accounted for by the
aact that many of the troops in their
advance through Kentucky to the front
were raw recruits, unaccustomed to the
3lardships and exposure of ~ campaign.
In many instances they gave out
through fatigue, whiting and dropping
of the ranks at the very outset of the
march, to be picked up by some kind
Samaritan or to die alone and uncared
for by the roadside. In addition to
deaths from this cause it was often the
case when the hospitals at the front
were crowded that those least sick, call
ed " convalescents. (often misnomer)
we're sent to the rear. compelled to
travel in army wagons and at times
times over almost impossible roads.
Exposure to cold and wet caused them
TO die by scores. In many cases they
sroze and died in the wagons, and
sometimes they were left at cherries
cabins by the waysides to experience
more lingering tate, and at length to be
buried by stranger hands in door yards
or inside family burying grounds. On
one occasion no less than nineteen
deaths occurred in company of conva-
tescents sent from Cumberland Gap.
before they reached Loudon, distance
of fifty miles. On the more important
battletields of Kentucky the search for
che dead proved remarkably successful,
chiefly from the fact that the battles
were fought in the settled neighbor-
hoods and upon cultivated farms. In
such cases the inhabitants themselves
assisted frequently at the burials or
marked the graves carefully soon after
The volume comprises the names Of
those who died as prisoners of war in
she hands of the rebels during the
snonths of October and November.
1864, at the prison commonly known as
the Millen Prison. Tie cemetery to
which these bodies have been transfer
Eed together with others from General
Thomas army, who fell in the Skin
Anishes near this place. is located abont
one mile west of the Savannah and Au-
;gusta Railroad, about half mile from
che stockade. 1t is securely enclosed |
'ghe graves are tastefully arranged in
sections and marked by head-boards.
The most interesting feature of the
prison las being in marked contrast
with that of Andersonville) is the
abundant supply of pure cold water
Early in the Fall of 1864 the rebel au-
Shorities had commenced the removal
Of the Andersonyille prisoners to this
place. About 1000 had been thus re-
moved at the time of the approach of
Sherman's army. During the two
snonths that this prison was occupied
4here had occurred 725 deaths, of which
aumber 491 bodies were buriedin three
trenches near the railroad and 234 in
she trenches near the hospitals.