The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-07
A GREAT MAN GONE.
General Philip Sidney Post Dies Az
ter an Illness of But One Dry.


Washington, jan 6.-General Philip
Sidney Post. member of Congress from
the Tenth district of Illinois died at the
Hamilton hotel in this city, this morning.
after an illness of but one day. His
oedun was from heart failure resulting
from acute gastritis
: or some time he has been suffering at
Intervals With attacks, which physicians
pronounced dyspepsia, but he attended to
ms duties unremittingly He passed the
noAdays at his home in Illinois and
reached Washington Wednesday. Early
saturday mcfning he was seized with an
attack OF MS old trouble, which did not.
however, assume serious form until eve
ninS. During the night heart failure set
IN, and for some hours before his death,
Which occurred at 4:30 O'Clock this morn
ing, the physicians could detect hardly
any pulse beat.
Mrs; Post and son, W. S. Post were
WITH him. There is another son, Philip
D. Fosl, lawyer. in Chicago.
Inc Illinois delegation in Congress will
mold meeting at IL o'clock tomorrow
the House will adjourn after the reading
OF the Journal. The usual committees
from the House and Senate will be APP
polnIed 70 act as an escort to the body
to Illinois. The funeral party will leave
Washington at o'clock tomorrow night,
VIII arrive an Chicago Tuesday night. and
[he funeral service will be held In Gales
burg, H., probably Wednesday after
noon. There viii be no service in this
city. General Post was we'll known
through his brilliant military services in
the rebellion. where he won high rank
and distinction with great ability. When
the war began he was appointed second
lieutenant of the Fifth Illinois infantry.
After the first Missouri campaign he be
came cams. major. and eight months after his
enlistment was made colonel of the Fifty
nlnth Illinois for gallantry at the battle
OF Pea Ridge, in which he was badly
wounded, Before he was able to mount
-ir-, -f,,-1
the troops, then hurrying forward to
Corinth, and was at once assigned to the
command of a. brigade. From May, 1862.
10 the close of the war, he was constant
~ at the front. In the army of the Cum
perlano, as first organized, he command
ed the First division of the Twenti-
eth army corps from its formation to the
dissolution of the corps, and a brigade
conspicuous in all the engagements of
that army under General Rosenc7-ans
With it he commenced the battle OF Stone
R4ver, drove the enemy back several
miles. and captured LeetoWn. During the
Atlanta campaign he was transferred to
General Woods division of the Fourth
CORPS, and when the latter was wounded
command and returned with it to Ten
nesSee to oppose the progress of the enc
my north. On December Is. 1864. in the
Nashville fighting, he carried Montgom-
cry hill ait the point of the bayonet and
IN the next days fighting fell dangerous
~ wounded while leading an assault on
OVerton Hill. In July, 1865, he was given
command of the western district of Tex
as and remained until the withdrawal of
the French from Mexico removed the
dangers Of military complications.
General Posts civil career has been an
eyentful one. He was born March Is,
1888, in Florida, Orange county. n Y,
was graduated from Union college in
1855; practiced law in Kansas. where he
also edited a newspaper, and in Illinois
After the war, in 1896, he was appointed
consul TO Vienna; was promoted CONSUL
general for Austria-Huneary in 1874, re-
signed in 1873; was commander of the
department of Illinois c. A R. in 1866
and was a Republican member of Con-
gress for four terms, beginning with the
Ffftieth Congress.