St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

Potomac had no drawer or better General
than George Sykes. Close by are the graves
of General Sherman's favorite staff officer
General Joseph G. Audenried, and Of
General Joseph B. Kiddoo. Several distin-
guished ordnance officers have been gathered
in one section. General James Gillespie Ben
ton, who died August %, 1881; Colonel t.
T. S. Laidley, April 4, 1886, and Colonel
Julian McAllister, January 8, 1887. Near
them is all that remains of two eminent en-
gineers-General Quincy A. Gilmore, who
died in Brooklyn, April Z, 1888. and General
Nathaniel Michler, who died at Saratoga,
July II, 1881. Sedgwick and Mcpherson are
also buried at West Point.
In Greenwood Cemetery. Brooklyn, lies all
that is mortal of Henry Wager Haleck. He
died in Louisville, in 1872, while in command
of the Department of the South, but was
brought East for burial. General Henry
Weaver Slocum also sleeps in Greenwood,
Another grave that hides hero's clay is
that of General George Gordon Meade, in
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. No
stranger visiting the cemetery at Norris
town, Pa, would seek the retired spot at the
east corner of the enclosure where is the
tomb of General Winfield Scott Hancock.
Having stroned there aimlessly and sought
rest beneath the branches of weeping
willow tree that stands as sentinel over the
body of Montgomery county's favorite son,
the visitor would see nothing about him to
indicate that the remains of great general
rests there.
General Ambrose E. Burnside rests at
Swan Point, R. l., in the simple privacy
which BELTS the citizen. General Joseph
Hooker is buried in the beautiful cemetery
OF Spring Cove, near Cincinnati. The gem
erals grave is kept in excellent condition.
and attracts the attention of many visitors
to the cemetery. The sarcophagus Of General
George 81. Thomas occupies a beautiful lot at
the junction of Long Drive and Albany
avenue, in lakewood Cemetery, Troy, N. Y.
The lot is kept in excellent condition and the
tomb has not the slightest sign of wear. The
remains of General Irwin Mcdowell are
Inferred in the National Cemetery at the
Preside, San Francisco. The grave is stu
ated in the centre of the cemetery and is
surrounded on ali sides by grass plots. The
corners at one end have been considerably
Clipped by relic hunters, and, in conse-
quence present rough and irregular ap-
pearance. In modest relief across the centre
is the single word Mcdowell"
In beautiful, level, grassy plot in Ian
caster (Pa.) Cemetery lies the dust of Gen
eral John +. Reynolds. The sod is neatly
trimmed in the plot and is surrounded by
low blocks of granite. Lancaster is justly
proud of Reynolds grave, and no patriotic
occasion passes without the famous generals
distressing place being visited. The ashes of
General George B. Mcclellan lie in an ordi-
nary tomb at Riverview Cemetery, Trenton,
NJ. 1t is not marked by a monument, nor
even headstone. A shaft costing several
thousand dollars will soon be raised over the
grave. Near by rest the remains of General
Gershon Mott, over whose grave is reared
handsome tombstone. General Henry A.
Barnum sleeps in beautiful cemetery at
Syracuse, N. Y, and General William II,
Lyle, whose last words were 1--WE can die but
once in Cincinnati. The same city tenderly
guards all that is mortal of General Ormsby7,
NJ. Mitchell. General John Pope sleeps in
Bellefontaine Cemetery, at St. Louis. In the
Congressional Cemetery at Washington rests
the body of General John A. Rawlins. the
friend and confidant of Grant The simple
inscription is as follows: "Maior-General
John A. Rawlins, born February 10, 1884,
died September 6, 1869. Chief OF Staff to
General q. S. Grant from 1851 to 1859. At
the time of his death Secretary of War;"