The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-06-02

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serlpti0n on the stone is as follows
DICK
Son OF
Moses and L. Bennett
Died ON Rock Island, A Prisoner OF War Fes'y
9Th, l'Gi ia the sSth wear OF hi- age.
Fathers Love erects this. with d sigh
\ Fathers Hope still follows thee On hi-h.
The next grave we came to which was
marked had a similar white marble head
stone on which was the following,
MILTON H. LOWE.
Died March 10, 1854. Aged -
Dearest husband thou hast left u
For the milliOnaof the dead.
But It's God that has bereft Us.
Tie can all our sorrows heal.
The next marked grave had a little piece
Of rough Joliet stone at the head on which
was the following
No, 11is ". W. JACKSON. 20. A 3sth Alabama.
Died May 10, a, D, 1864
1t will thus be seen that from the first
corner, where we commenced, to this grave
lis persons had been buried, This was
near the center Of the grounds. Further
along we came to a white marble slab, with
the following:
ABRAM T
SON Of
Fielding and Lucinda NcDali.l
Died Dec %, isB4
aged - years, month and o day.
Farther along, and in the last line Of
trenches. is another white marble slab. up
on which is the following
JAMES II.
son at
Fielding and LuCinda Mcdaniel
Died March 2lsl. 1865.
I aged y year,, months and dave
And near the end of this last trench. is
another white slab with the following:
JOHN "
Fielding and Lucinda Mcdaniel
Died May 7th, 1865.
Aged 10 years, month and 30 days
Here were three brothers, the last and
youngest OF whom died but little while be
fore the prisoners were paroled. The
Rock Island military prison was open
ed here in November 1868. The first prs
oners Of war arrived here on Dec 3. 1868,
and the last prisoner left the prison june
%, 1853. The total number confined here
was l2,2lj. The number Of deaths was
1860.
Nearly 2OOO Confederate dead sleep
there, in grounds badly neglected. And
as if to add insult to the bones of the ,
sleepers, at each corner is a large Confed- /
crate brass gun, with muzzle in the ground, /
as a post the guns being captured from
the Conlederates. They are each marked /
Rebel Cemetery on the top or but. The
people who attempted to set up govern
ment Of their own in the South styled their
government the Confederate States of
America, and as such it will be known in
history. 1t is unbecoming for the United
Statest to engrave over their dead a desig-
nation which they would, if living, have
resented with indignation. The first cor
ner we visited, the gun was marked
Rebel cemetery, 1872, n. L. Cor" On
one trunnion of this gun is marked mo.
9 F. c. II. G. s. Arsenal, Columbus, Ga.
1863, W.T. 1851"
The next one is marked on the but:
Rebel Cemetery, 1873, S. L. Cor" On
one trunnion; mo 5, f. C. Ii. C.S.
Arsenal, Columbus, Geo, 1868, VT II9I.b
The next corner, on the but, is-''Rebel
Cemetery, 1872, s. w. Cor" And on one
trunnion Covert Foundry and Machine
Works, Augusta, Ga, and on the other
1868, VT 1900, No. 81. A.
F. G. W. r.
AT the next and last corner, on the but :
II the gun is-'Rebel Cemetery, 1872, N. t
". Cor On one trunnion: Macon ;
ARSENAL, Geo, 1864, No. Al, VT 1164 !
:. T., and on the side of this gun the :
etters &C. s." q
All lettering on the trunnions or sides :
# these guns was done by the Confeder- I
ties, at the foundry where cast. The let o
ering on the top or but was done at Rock !
sland Arsenal.
A gravel walk has been made around p
he outside of the grounds, and row of C
mall shade trees planted outside the walk '
-but there seems to be no way to get to D