Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-20
FROM RIVERSIDE TO ARLINGTON.
Strong Effort to Secure the Removal OF
Gen. Grants Remains to This City.

| A Strong Effort to Secure the Removal Of
| Gen. Granite Remains to This City.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune says, The effort to remove the
body OF Gen. Grant from Riverside TO Airing
ton National 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 zealously at work; some Of the
| objections then raised have been overcome
and considerable confidence IL expressed that
the attempt this winter will be crowned with
success. That there is strong sentiment in
| favor of the movement among the veterans
| Of the Union armies as well as among the OFF,
GERS of the regular army who served in the war
| of the rebellion is manifest. This sentiment is
| bounded by no sectional lines butitis especially
strong among the survivors OF tho western
armies which Grant led to victory, and at whose
head he laid the groundwork OF his fame and
| won glorious victories The veterans OF those
| armies. as well of the confederate armies of
the south, must feel that his body ought to
| repose in Arlington cemetery, which. 80 long rs
| the republic shall exist. will be cared for and
| beautified by the government; and this feeling
| is shared by the survivors Of the army Of the
Potomac. whose later triumphs and grandest
rection and leadership. They urge that Grant
was of the nation and that the nation has par
| amount right. well duty, to possess and
care for his tomb and build q worthy monu-
ment to his memory.
But the advocates Of the removal of Gen.
Grants tomb to Arlington are not disposed to
halt there; they maintain that all the great mill
itary chieftains and leaders Of the Union
armies-Sherman, Thomas Meade, Mcclellan.
Mcpherson, Logan and all the rest-should,
like Sheridan, be laid beneath the towering
oaks and green sod of Arlington within view of
the capital Of the nation which they sought to
save and perpetuate.
1t is understood that movement IL on foot
among the survivors of the army of the Cum
berland to have the body Of George H. Thomas
| removed from Troy, NY, where it rests beside
that of his wife. tic Arlington. Gen. Thomas
was one Of the few officers of the regular army
of Virginia birth who remained true to the
Union and resisted the arguments and bland
ishnlents Of the rebel leaders at the outbreak
| of the war; and the men who marched with him
| to victory urge that it would be peculiarly APP
! Propriate to remove his tomb to Arlington in
his native state. A handsome monument has
| been raised to Gen. Thomas at Troy and per-
manent fund was set apart by his widow, the
income of which is to be used 70 the care and
| preservation of the tomb. The only survivor
| OF Gen. Thomas family is said to be q sister
| who lives in southeastern Virginia
Tho burial places of the heroes Of the Union
army and navy are widely scattered, and some
| OF them are already forgotten if not neglected.
Tribune correspondent who applied at the
| office OF the adjutant general and quartermas-
| ter general of the army today for the informa-
ton did not succeed in finding out with GER
| tainty where Gen. Halleck il buried. The
| same uncertainty was found to exist there in
regard to the burial places Of Hancock, Rey-
nolds. Kearny, Fitzpatrick. Hunter, Ord, Sum-
Steele, +. p. Blair, Schenck, Dix. Terry and
many other distinguished general officers Of
| the Gen. Sherman was buried at st.
Louis; Mcdowell at San Francisco; Hooker at
Cincinnati; Garfield at Cleveland, Ohio Nc
Pherson at Clyde, Ohio; Custer near Ypsilanti.
Mich; Mcclellan at Orange. n. j.; Meade at
Philadelphia; Burnside and Warren at Provi-
dence, r. l.; Candy at Indianapolis, Ind;
Fremont at Brooklyn; Sedgwick at Cornwall
Hollow, Conn; Kawlins at Galena, ILL.,; Wads-
| worth at Geneseo, n. Y, and c. G. Washburn
| at La Crosse. Wis Among the Union generals
buried in the District of Columbia were Logan.
Emory, Humphreys, Griffin and Reno, while
| Sheridan, Crook and Baird repose in Arlington
| cemetery.
In Washington are public statues Of six of
| the heroes of the war besides Gen. Scott, to
whom two have been raised they are Thomas
Mcpherson, Garfield and Rawlins Of the army
| and Farragut and Dupont Of the navy. The
| statues of Thomas and Garfield were raised
through the efforts of the Society of the Army
| of the Cumberland, and those Of Mcpherson
| and Rawlins by the efforts of the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee. 1t has been a subject
Of comment that the Society of the Army of the
otohudc Hds never uhtu steps 10 nOnOr the
memory Of Mcclellan. Meade, Hooker or any
OF its other commanders by erecting statue at
the national capital.
The advocates of the removal of the tombs of
Grant and Thomas to Arlington also strongly
desire and urge that all the other heroes and
leaders OF the Union army and navy ought to
be removed to the same spot, which is easy of
access and is visited by nearly everybody who
visits the national capital, and which will be
forever cared for and maintained by the ma
| tional government In this behalf 1t is strongly
urged that proper respect and honor would
dead heroes. and the love Of country and de-
votion to her cause would be constantly quick
ened and strengthened in the hearts OF the
people.