Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-09
DEATH or GENERAL WARREN.
Tho Old Commander Of tho Fifth Corps Said
to Have Died of . Broken Heart.

to Have Died of . Broken Heart.
Gen. G. K. Warren died at his residence
in Newport at o'clock Tuesday night.
He had been confined to his bed less than
one week, but for a long time, especially
since the close of the recent court of in
quiry relative to his conduct at tho battle
of Five Forks, he had shown signs of
great mental depression, and he actually
died of q broken heart, although he had a
disease which in time might have caused
death. He leaves widow and three
small children. He resided there since
the close of the war, and had been in
charge of the United States engineer de-
partment fer the New England district,
his principal works being the building Of
the breakwater at Block Island and the
building of the Notifications at Dutch
Island. He had been great worker.
Gen Gouverneur Kemble Warren was
born in Cold Spring, N. Y, in 1880. He
entered West Point in 1850, and graduated
near the head of his class and was made
first lieutenant of the typographical en-
gineers on July 1, 1856. At the outbreak
of the war he was the first West Point Of
ficer assigned to q volunteer regiment. He
accepted the lieutenant -col0nelcy of Dur
yeas zouaves. On the occupation of Balti-
moro he SISTED in constructing fCrt on
Federal Hill. In August, 1861, Col. Dur.
yea was promoted and Warren succeeded
in command of the regiment at the same
time he was made captain of engineers in
the regular army. Before the war he had
been engaged in the survey of the West
ern territories. In 1859 he was assistant
professor of mathematics at West Point
Gen. Warren took an active part in the
siege of Yorktown, and after the battle Of
Williamsburg was placed in command Of
q brigade. He participated in the seven
days fight, winning laurels at Hanover
Court House, Gaines Hill and Malvern
Hill. At Gaines Mill he was wounded.
On tho transfer of McC Clellan's army from
the peninsula to tho defences at Washing
ton, Warren was among the troops in the
advance. He was engaged at the second
battle of Bull Run, and assisted in
driving Leo out Of Maryland, taking an
active part in the battlo of An
tietam, and commanding q division at
Fredericksburg. He was made chief tOpc-
graphical engineer of the Army of tho P0-
tomac on Feb. 4, 1868, and held his posi-
ton at tue time of Burnside's mud march.
When Hooker was made commander of the
Army of the Potomac Warren accompa.
MED him, and did good service at tho
battle of Charlottesville. Meantime he
had been made brigadicr general. He was
unteers two days before the capture of the
heights of fredericksburg. Ho was a
prominent figure in the battle Of Gettys-
burg, where he was wounded. Ho was
promoted to brevet colonelcy in the
,n,r,1o, ,r,,,1, ~, tho Iou tl,ot Too rof root
cd from Gettysburg. During tho pull
suit Of Leo he was placed in tho tempo
rary command of the second corps. He
held this command in tho fights at Au-
burn and BristOe Station That winter he
under Gen. Meade. On Grants assumption
Potomac, Warren was placed in COM
mand of the Fifth corps. He won wide
fame in the battles of tho Wilderness,
gaining a reputation fully equal to those
of Hancock and Sedgwick. He was en-
gagged III the battles of spottsylvania.
North Anna, Bethesda Church and Cold
Harbor. Sedgwick was called Grants
joker, Hancock Grants right bower, and
Warren his left bower.
Gen. Warren was an active participant
IN the siege OF feCerSDurg, leaOlng ire
quent advances Oh the Jerusalem plank
road and on tho Weldon railroad. When
Lees's lines were crushed like an egg shell
and Sheridan swept around to Five Forks
to head him of, Warren's corps was sent
to sustain him. In the action at Five Forks
Gen. Sheridan, incensed at what no was
pleased to term Warren's inactivity,
removed him from the command. This
action cast cloud upon Gen. Warren's
fame. He insisted that no implicitly
obeyed instructions, and that Sheridan
acted too hastily and under misappre-
hension. He repeatedly asked for court
of inquiry, and got one less than a year
ago. The evidence taken turned the feel
ing in Gen. Warren's favor. The result
Of the court of inquiry has not yet been
made public.