New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19
RIVERSIDE OR ARLINGTON {?
URGING THE REMOVAL OF GRANTS TOMB.
q MOVEMENT TO BURY ALL THE GENERALS IN
THE NATIONAL CEMETERY.
fBr rELEGRAru TO THE rRIBUNE.l

IBY TELEGRAPH THE rRIBUNE1
Washington, Nov. 1S.-The effort to remove the body
Of General Grant from Riverside to Arlington Naioha
Cemetery will be renewed at the coming session OF
Congress- Ever since the failure OF the attempt IN
the last Congress- the friends OF the removal have been
quietly but actively and zcalously at work some VI
ihe objections then raised have been overcome anu
considerable confidence is expressed That the ate"p
this winter will be crowned with success Thst 'hefe
Is strong sentiment in favor of the movement among
the veterans OF the Union armies as well as ahons
the officers of the regular army who served IN the "a
OF the Rebellion is manifest. This sentiment Is
bounded by sectional lines. but II is espe0'"n'
strong among the survivors Of the western "''ne,
which Grant led victory. aud at whose he'u III l"
the groundwork of his fame and won glorious Vic,o
ries. The Of those armies, as wen q, W ~,
Confederate armies of the South, must ieci INA, NJ
body ougbt TO repose in Arlington Cemetery WHICH,
SO long as the Republic shall exist, VIII DC osle" o
and beautifed by the Government anu 'hs Twins
is shared by the survivors of the Army OF uie io'o
whose later triumphs and grandest acmeVeheh's m0'o
won under his personal direction and leadership i'
urge that Grant Of the Nation ana th'C inc ''o
has q paramouut right as well duty, to possesi anu
care for his tomb and build worthy monument W
his memory. o,
INT the advocates of the removal OF Generai
Grants tomb to Arlington are not dlsposeu W ih'i'
there they maintain that all the great mlhtary cei
s-,ns and lenders of the Union armies-Sherh''"
Thomas Meade Mcclellan. Mcpherson. Logan ana
ALI the rest-Should like bSheridan, be iaa oeheah to
towering oaks end green sod OF Arlington "'hh VIC"
M .be Captol OF the Nation which they sought to save
and perpetuatc.
II is understood that movement is on fcot among
the survivors OF the Army Of the Cumberland to nave
The body OF George II. Thomas removed from Troy
~ w. where 1t rests beside that OF his wife, to AIRING
ton General Thomas was one Of the few ofhcers OF
the regular Army of Virginia BIRTH who renamed true
70 the Union and resisted the arguments ana oahas
nens OF the rebel leaders at the outbreak OF the war;
and the men who marched with him to victory urge mat
II would be peculiarly appropriate to remove MS 'ono
IN Arlington in his native State. handsome mohu-
ment has been raised TO General Thomas at Troy and
permanent fand was apart by his widow the income
OF which IS 10 be for the and preservation OF he
tomb The only survivor OF General Ihomass H'ihS
Is said to be a sister who lives in southeastern virginia
The burial places of the heroes OF the Union army
and navy arc widely scattered, and some OF them are
already forgotten II not neglected Tribune CORES
ncnoent who applied at the office Of the Aduant-Gen-
er,l and Ouartcrmaste General Of the Army to-day
for the information did not succeed In nnong out "'
certainty where General Iialleck is b'ricd Inc sae
ainty was found exist there In regard 10 lhe
burel places of Hancock. Reynolds, keany hi pa'rch'
Hunter Ord Sumner, o. II. MITCHELL Mansheid' isaac
stevens Steele F. P. Blair, schenck Dix, Terry ana
many other distinguished general officers of the war.
f,,neral sherman was buried at St. Louis; Mcdowell
nj San Francisco; Hooker Mt Cincinnati; Garhem a'
Cleveland Ohio: Mcpherson ut Clyde ONO custer
near Ypsilanti, Mich: Mcclellan at Orange, ~ d.
Meade al Philadelphia Burnside and Warren ut Prov
dence II. l.. Candy AT Indianapolis. ma FREMONT a'
Brooklyn: Sedgwick at Cornwall Hollow, Conn., Raw
Inns at Galcna Ill Wadsworth ut Geneseo, n y ana
& G. Washburn at La Crosse, Wis. Among the 'nioh
generals buried In the District of Columbia were Logan
Emory Humphreys. Griffin and Reno, while oheridan'
Crook and Baird repose In Arlington cemetery
In Washington public statues OF SIN oil 'he
herois of the war besides General scott. TO whom TWO
have been raised: they are Thomas, McPhersol'
Garfield and Rawlns OF the Army and FaragIt ana
DupOnt OF the Nav, The statutes oil lhohlaN anu
Garfield were raised through the efforts Oh inc
Society of the Army OF the Cumberland, ana thOse Oh
Mcpherson and hawlInS by the efforts OF the SkieH
~ the Army OF the Tennessee. 1t has been ediJTt
az comment mat the society OF thc Army VI 'c
Potomac has never taken steps 10 hOnof tle memory
Of Mcclellan M,aCc Hooker on any 81 lts Cllrr
commanders by erectng statue az TIC Nauo'"i
Capita. , -, ,,,o ,or,hs -, Grant
and Thoma, Arlington also strJHgty uesht '"u
urpe that all TIE OF heroes ana leaels OF the IHJ
Army and Navy ought 10 be moved Ia the same sp,
which Is easy o! and Is visited by nearly ever
6ody who visits the National Capital. and which VIII
he forever cared for and maintained by the Natl0la
Government. In TIL, behalf il is itongly urged tGt
uroper res pect and honor wOIlt thus DO sl0wh u s
memory OF the Nations dead heroes, ana tie IOVe OF
country and devotion her cause wO,.d ne constantly
ouickened and Strengthened in the hearts Ol tle
people.