Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-27

followed by the issuing of blank forms
through the qusrtermaster's depr tment
10 hospital surgeons and all others who
could use them. On the battle-helds
when the Federal troops were victo-
rious great care was taken to bury the
dead in such way that each grave
could be marked, and headboards pro-
yided by the general Quartermaster
were set up. Only on fields where the
C3nfederates won were the dead buried
without marking the graves. Soldiers
vEo survived the southern prisons In
many instances marked the graves OF
their comrades who died. and records
were kept everywhere IL was possible
TO do so, so that the mortuary records
of the great civil contest exceed any
thing else of the same nature in the
world.
Ii was in the second year Of the war
that congress authorized the president
to purchase grounds and have them
prepared for soldiers cemeteries. The
next year such graveyards were dedica-
ted at Chattsnoogs, Stone River and
Gettysburg. 1t was at the dedication
of the last named OF these three that
President Lincoln delivered that ad-
dress which. spoken mod estly as it was.
did pot then attract the attention OF It's
hearers as anything greatly out OF the
ordinary, but which, when it was tel
egraphed over the land and read In the
newspapers, speedily took high rank
among notable spoken passages and has
since been accorded a place among
classic orations. The national cemetery
at Airing ton was laid out In 1864, that
at Antietam In 1865.
In pursuance of the general plan OF
1865, II cemeteries were established In
Virginia. in Tennessee in Kentucky.
4 in North Carolina, in Louisiana, 3
10 Mississippi, 5 in Maryland, in South
Carolina, 2 in Georgia and 2 In the
District Of Columbia. In the north and
west were established In Illinois, in
Missouri, in Indiana, IN Iowa, 2 in
Pennsylvania, 9 in New York and in
New Jersey. In many places besides
| these the government has purchased
small plots Of ground where few sold
iers lie, and several cemeteries contain
government plots wherein ths bodies
| of Confederates who died in Federal
prisons are buried. Less than one-ffth
OF the entire number whose graves are
now marked and tenderly cared for lie
where they were first inferred.
Five OF the national cemeteries con-
tain the bodies OF United States soldiers
who fell in other wars than the struggle
for the Union. One Of the most nota-
Bile is near the City Of Mexico. Another
is in Montana. In the latter lie the
bodies OF 91S regulars, including the
300 brave men who were mastered with
Custer by the redskins.
1t isa thing that every American
may be proud Of that all these cemeter-
les are kept in superb condition. The
cemetery at Arlington heights, near
Washington, is the most beautiful and
contains the largess number OF graves
of identified dead. The total number
OF interments there is 16, 535, Of which
but 4,349 are Of unidentified soldiers.
The first soldier buried there was Con-
federate, on May 10, 1864.
TIE grave Of Sheridan Is q striking
feature of the Arlington cemetery,
where have also been gathered the
bodies of most OF those who fell at Bull
Run, Chsntilly and other bsttlefelds In
the vicinity. A massive monument OF
sarcophagus form, marking the bodies
OF 2,1l1 unknown soldiers, attracts
much attention, as does also the Tenn