The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-07-25
NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON g. THURSDAY JULY 25 1852

flag, and are paid from sos to 800 year for
their services. Rock Island is looked after by
the Commandaut Of the Arsenal at that place.
Custer Battlefield, in which are buried those
who were killed by the Indians Mt the Custer
massacre in 1876, requires no supervision. while
ST. Augustine is in charge of the Quartermas-
ter stationed at Atlanta, Ga.
The following is list of soldiers lots, which
are located in private and village cemeteries in
different parts of the country, with the inter
ments in each:
Rural. Albany. N. Y, 1873 interments.
City Cemetery, Alton. H.. 163 interments
Village. Baxter Springs, Kan, 12i intcrments.
Prospect Hill Bratteboro, VT. IL iutermeuts.
Ashland, Carlisle, Pa, 35 interments.
lakewood, Chicago, Ill.,, 405l intcrments; IL
Union. 4,03g Confederate.
Woodland, Cleveland, o., 145 interments
Greenlawn, Columbus. o.. 492 intcrments.
Comp Chase, Columbus. o., 2,i3l interments all
Coiffederntes.
Spring Grove. Cincinnati, O., os4 interments.
Oak Hill, Evansville, Ind 596 intermcnts
Greenlawn, indianapolis, Ind, 500 interments
all Confederates.
Forest Ill., Madison wis, 2i9 intorments.
Forest Home, Milwaukee, Wis, "a interments.
Greenmount, Montpelier, VI, four interments
Fairmoupt, Newark n. j., $50 intermcnts.
Allegheny Pittsburg, Pa, 207 intornients.
Lake Side, Port Huron, Mich, lS6 iuteTments.
City Cemetery, Prairie-du- Chien, Wis, II inter
ments.
Mound. Racine Wis. 10 interments
Prospect Hill, York, Pa, l53 interments.
4Nthlig All lub sblulefS IOIS arc CilfGu lOT NY
the custodans of the cemeteries in which they
are situated without charge 10 the Govern
ment, the only exceptions being Mt Bratteboro
VT; Carlisle, Pa; Albany n. Y, and Baxter
Springs. Kan. For the first two $50 each Is
annually allotted, aud for the last two $25
each. Congress has lately appropriated $1,000
for a monument to be erected at Baxter
Springs, which is now in process Of construc-
tion at Quincy, Mnss.
The National Cemeteries are in charge of an
officer OF the Quartermaster's Department, who
since 1877 has been the Depot Quartetmastcr
at Washington. Prior TO that they were in tho
care OF some officer on duty in the Quarter
master-General's Office. who gave them his sole
attention. The present Depot Quartermastcr
at Washington is Gen. George Il. Dandy, who
has had charge of cemeterial affairs since the
Summer of 1856. His predecessors in this work
were Gen. B, G. Card, Col. A. r. Rockwell, Col
A. j. McGonigle, Gen. ]. ID. Bingham, Gen. A.
J. Perry. Col. Chas. w. Folsom and Gen. X. N.
Batchelder.
IT IS DIFFICULT To ASCERTAIN THE EXACT
COST
of the cemeteries, for, in the irst instance, no
separate accounts of the expenditures were
kept by the disbursing officers of the Quarter
masters Department. Material already pur-
chased was used, and other expenditures Gu
tered into the general accounts of these officers
Later, they were required to keep a distinct
account against each cemetery. The estimate
previously given of over $6,000000 is however,
not far from correct. No other Nation has
ever taken such care TO collect the remains Of
its dead soldiers and bring them into Govern
ment cemeteries. It has been n work conduct
ed so nnostentatiously as scarcely to OCCASION
remark, and yet so thoroughly and systemat-
ically executed as TO merit the hcartiest COM
mendation. These cemeteries tell more ef.
fcctivc story Of the sacrifices and snfferings Of
the war than any pen or picture can portray.
Their conception was worthy Of the men who
stood by Abraham Lincoln in the hour OF the
country's peril. They are a lasting record Of
the price Of freedom TO the slave. They mark
the beginning Of a new era in the eounlry's
history, when liberty became n reality TO all
its citizens. They will link the future 10 the
past and keep fresh in recollection the lessons
of that period when the Republic was endan.
gercd They are now the pride Of the Nation,
and the patriotism of the American people will
never suffer them TO become neglected.