The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-02-26

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spectators. 1t seemed ss though
twice the entire population of
the city were on the streets; yet
at no point was there either disorder
or unseeming levity. Every thing was
in keeping with the solemnity of the
occasion. Minute guns were fred by
the battery, church bells were tolled as
the caisson passed by and the bands al
ternated the Dead March in Saul
with other dirges and the old familiar
marching Through Georgia" to slow
time.
1t was nearly o'clock when the head
of the column reached Calvary. An i'm
mense crowd had I, already passed
through. but large force of police
had kept open the route to the
grave and prevented intrusion upon
the space required by the family.
Outside the gates the cavalry and
artillery deployed to the right and left
Gently the old veterans of the Thir-
teenth lifted the caslSet from the Gals
son and tenderly, with slow and meas
ured tread, they bore it up the way Of
the First Dolor, through the Way of
Bethany and to its crossing with
the Holy Rosary. Here they laid it
down upon a bier. Father, mother, son
and babe were united in death. The
bier had been placed directly in front
of the grave of little Willie, who died
at the age of 9 years, In 1868. To the
right was the grave Of Mrs. Sherman,
surmounted by a handsome monument;
to the left that of baby Charles, who
tod IN, H. H., haf
his first year Of life had. passed.
The wind whistled through the life
less branches of the trees, but every
head was barred and bowed as Father
Sherman stepped to the head of the
casket. The fortitude of his sisters de-
serted them at this trying juncture,
and they gave way feebly to their grief
in sobs and means.
JOURNEY OF THE FUNERAL TRAIN.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 21.-The
train bearing the body of General Sher-
man reached here at 10 o'clock Friday
night. At all the stations along the
line of its journey through Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana Grand Army
posts were drawn up in line on the plat
forms, salutes were fired and church
bells tolled as the train swept by.
The reception at Richmond, the In
diana State line, was the finest that had
been seen during the day. Under
the roof of the great railroad station
nealy 10000 people were in waiting. As
the train moved up the track the band
played a dirge and the veterans, with
uncovered heads, saluted. Behind them
were rangedt the Sons of Veterans and
the Womans Relief Corps. Alvin P.
Hovey, Governor of Indiana, and
Department Commander Stormcut,
G. A. R., boarded the train at
Richmond. They had come from
Indianapolis to meet the funeral cor
tege at the border line of the State.
They were welcomed by General Scho-
field. Three volleys of musketry were
fred as the train left the depot. All
along the platform outside the covered
station stood dense crowd Of people in
the pouring rain. Thousands stood
without umbrellas under the dripping
skies, hat in land, to see the funeral
cortege pass.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 2l.-At In
dianapolis delegation from Ransom
Post, &. A. R., of st. Louis, the post of
which General Sherman was a member
at the time of his death, boarded the
train. 1t was composed Of the four
past senior commanders of the post.
The train made no stop between Indian
apolis and Greencastle where it arrived
shortly after midnight. At Brazil as
the train passed through a volley Of
musketry was fred by q line Of vet
Grams. In spite of the lateness of the
hour of arrival the station here was
well filed. Most of the cars were dark,
as their occupants had retired to rest
The train stopped here only few min
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