The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-04

graves 10000 feet of pine lumber
were used in making the tablets alone.
The grounds are laid out in beautiful
walks and drives, and decorated with
luxuriant plants and thrifty trees.
Over the entrance gate, ON an arch
are these words, IN ,tional Cemetery:
Andersonville, Georgia" The stars
and stripes are always floating above
the lonely graves, and truly may it be
said of them: "After life's fitful feve-
they sleep well; nothing can harm
them further"
AT Vicksburg, Miss. is located an
other national cemetery of great his
torical interest. 1t occupies forty
acres on the side of the hill. a short
distance above the city, and where
now lie the bodies of 1919 Union
soldiers, the Confederate batteries
once dealt out their destructive fire,
affording effectual resistance to the
passing of gunboats on the Mississippi
river. Of those buried at Vicksburg,
over ten thousand are colOred troops,
and three-fourtbs of the whole number
are unknown. The bodies were gath
cred up throughout the entire region
of Grants campaign against Vicks-
burg. and so long was the search con-
Iinued that time had completed lis ef-
facing work, and it was NO longer pos
sible TO tel a soldiers remains from
those of civilian. The location of
this
TERRACED CITY OF THE DEAD
makes it naturally most beautiful
spot, and art has been lavish in the
effort to make it still more lovely.
In the national cemetery at Albany,
Ind, are buried 1929 white soldiers
and 500 colored ones. The location
Is fine and the spot has been beautifed
in every way. Two mounted siege
guns stand in the center and the stars
and stripes guard the entrance.
Three-quarters Of mile from Beau
fort, 5. T.. is an enclosure OF thirty
one acres of high rolling ground, con-
tainng the graves of, 9,072 Union
soldiers. Over three thousand are uu-
known. The grounds are ornamcnted
with shrubs and forrest trees and
there are lovely drives and walks
winding through them. The FIRST in
terments were made in 1868 and the
last taken from the battle field in that
vicinity were inferred in 1868. One
thousand six hundred and forty-two o:
these bodies were removed from the
cemetery at MiIlen, Ga, which was
situated close by the stockade, inside
of which the brave boys perishe!.
Not one of their graves is identified las
the records of the pen were carried
away by order of Gen. Winters.
Four cannon monuments ARE erected
there aud the stars and stripes are
to the breeze.
To guard their name and shield
Their fame forever and forever.
The most beautiful of all 10 Miss
issippi is that at Natchez. 1t stands
on the e1ge of a high bluff overlook.
ing the father of waters ON two sides.
1t is laid out in irregular curved
walks and drives, and graced with
beautiful trees and towering
shrubs. From high grassy mound
in the center floats the national en-
blem, keeping watch over 8, 073 graves,
2,771 of which bear the sad word sun
known"
At Danville, Va, only about half
a mile from the prison pen, where
their suffering terminated, are the re-
mains of l 1923 soldiers, most of them
died in the tobacco warehouse. where
they were held prisoners. Nature has
been kind to them in this their last
resting place, and they sleep in one of
their most favored spots. 14S of the
number are unknown.
On high rolling piece of ground,
eight acres in extent, near the Darby
and Williamsburg roads, and overlook
ing the James River, lies Richmond
National cemetery. 1t too, is historic
ground, for it lies just within The in
ner lines Of the Notifications thrown
up by the confederates. The 6,276
bodies that lie here were taken from
the POor-house cemetery in Richmond,
and removed from Belle Isle, Holly
wood, lakewood, Hanover courthouse,
Cold Harbor and Gaines Mills. Of
the number here inferred. 5,466 are
Unknown soldiers of the Union mus
tered out"
Salisbury, n. c., the scene of I'M
told suffering by Union soldiers, pris-
oners confined there, low contains a
national cemetery in which over 5000