The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-21

rs the report of big piece of artillery.
Again and again did the battalion
| tireis salute, and when the third vol.
| ley had been discharged Trumpeter
Berry of the sixth cavalry stepped to
the grave side and blew that sadly
beautiful call.-"taps."
Two colored men rapidly shOYeled
| the earth in on the coffin and covered
up until the resurrection day the
mortal fragments of one of the BRAY
est soldiers the country ever had a
man whose name will be more bright
in the history Of the frontier than
that Of any ether of the thousands
who battled for civilization and
! American supremacy.
Nearly all of those who went to
Arlington with the remains were on
terms of especial intimacy with Gen.
Crook. The attendance would have
doubtless been much larger had ii
been generally known that the REIN
terment would take place to-day, but
the fact failed to wide circulation,
and this must account for the absence
OF so many associates.
One who came from Omaha to pay
| the last hOnors was there. 1t was
Col. Stanton, known among army
men in the west as 1.-The fighting pay.
master" When the Sioux troubles
opened in the Black Hills, Col. Stan
ton volunteered to enter active ser.
vice. He was temporarily detached
from the pnymaster's department
and proceeded 10 make himself most
useful. He commanded the half
breed and Indian scouts ana in the
course of that and subsequent cam
paignS mad more tnan fair share of
dangers and hartiShipS. He WAS as.
! Sociated in the fioId principally with
Major George NJ. RiEdaiI OF the
twenty.thirI infantry. who was ex-
Dected Ia he present to-day, Col.
Stanton was conspicunuSly brave in
the ST. Patrirk'S day fight with Crazy
Horse or the Powder river, Mont ,
and again at Slim Buttes, Dakota.
He suffered with the others of the
command on that awful march from
the Yellowstone river to DeadWOOd,
when for ten days the soldiers sub.
sisted entirely on the flesh of broken
down horses.
A bosom friend of General Crook :
Was Capt. G. Bourkp. who was with
the general from 1871 to 1886, and
was his chief of staff during the
greater portion of those fifteen event
full years. He was with Crook in
every fight he fought, in every mile
he marched, running the gauntlet of
the Apache, Sioux. Cheyenne, Ban
mack, Nrz Perez, Ute and Chiricahue
campaigns, and .c0mpanying the
general in that famous expedition to
the Sierra Madre mountains after
Geronimo. No man mnurns the de
parture of Crook with more sincerity
than does Captain Burke.
Gen. Schoticld was also warm
friend of Gen. Crooks. and Gen.
Crook was an ardent ad'nlrer Of Gen.
Sch0tieid. When Crook was in com.
mand of the department of Arizona
and was making things warm for the
| ApacheS, he was enthusiastically
supported by Gen. SchOieId, then
commandin. the division of the Pa.
ctic.
Webb Hayes, son of ex President
Hayes, was beloved by Gen. Crook
from his childhood. Therp was init
macy between The general and the
Hayes family, and Webb was always
the warriors fav0rite. Every year
for some time Dast, with one or two
exceptions. has seen General Crook
and Webb Hayes out in the far west
! on a bear hunt.
During the war of the rebellion Il
friendship sprang up between Gen.
Crook and Cot. II. c. Cnrbin, the lat
ter commanding regiment in Gen.
Crooks brigade in the Army of the
Cumberland.
Lieut.. KEENAN, Was also favnrite
with Gen. Crook. and the great atftc-
tion manifested by the Old warrior
Was heartily reciprocated.
After the parties returned from
Arlington they were entertained at
luncheon by Capt. John G. and Mrs.
BGurke at their hnme. 1882 Jefferson
Place. Washington Star of Friday.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.