The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07
GEN. P. S. POST DEAD
MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM THE
TENTH ILLINOIS DISTRICT,
And One of the Bravest Commanders
of the Northern Army in the War
of the Rebellion.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Gen Philip Sid
ney Post, member of Congress from the
Tenth district of Illinois, died at the Ham
ilton Hotel, in this city, this morning, after
an illness of one day. His death was from
heart failure, resulting from acute gastritis.
For some time he has been suffering at
intervals with attacks which physicians
pronounced dyspepsia, but had attended
to his congressional duties unremittingly.
He passed the holidays at his home in
Illinois and reached Washington Wednes-
day. EARLY Saturday morning he was
seized with an attack of his old trouble
which did not, however, assume serious
form until evening. during the night heart
failure set in and for some hours before
his death, which occurred at 4:30 o'clock
this morning, the physicians could detect
hardly any pulse beat. Mrs. Post and a
son, w. S. Post, were with him. There
Is another son, Philip S. Post, a lawyer
In Chicago.
The Illinois delegation in Congress will
hold a meeting at II o'clock tomorrow
morning to take appropriate action, and
the House will adjourn after the reading
of the journal. The usual committees from
the House and Senate will be appointed to
act as an escort to the body to Illinois.
The funeral party will leave Washington
at o'clock tomorrow night, will arrive
in Chicago Tuesday night and the funeral
services will be held in Gaesburg Ill.,,
probably Wednesday afternoon. There will
be no services in this city.
General Post was best known through
his brilliant military services in the re-
bellion, where he won high rank and dis
tinction with great rapidity. When the
war began he was appointed second lieu
tenant of the Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry.
After the first Missouri campaign he be-
came major and eight months after his
enlistment was made colonel for gallantry
at the battle of Pea Ridge in which he
was desperately wounded. Before he was
able to mount his horse without assistance
ward to Corinth, and was at once assigned
to the command of a brigade. From May,
stantly at the front In the Army of the
Cumberland. as first organized, he COM
the twentieth army corps. a brigade con-
spicuous IN al the engagements of that
formation to the dissolution of the corps
With 1t he commenced the battle of Stone
river, drove the enemy back several miles
eampagn he was transfered % 1as to Genera arsi
Woods's division of the Fourth corps and
tie of Lovejoy Station, took command and
returned with 1t to Tennessee to oppose
ihe & re tsa of sh Sh On Dec
ried Montgomery Hill at the point of the
bayonet and in the, next days, fight fell.
saule on Overton Hill. In July, 1866 he
was given command of the Western dis
trict of Texas and remained until the
withdrawal of the French from Mexico
removed the danger of military complica-
tionS.
General Posts civil career has been
varied one. He was born MARCH 10. 1888
was graduated from Union College in
1855. practiced law in Kansas. where he
also edited a Democratic paper, and in
Illinois: After the war in 1856 he ap-
pointed consul to Vienna, promoted
to consul general for Autria- Hungary
in 1874 resigned in 1873. was commander
of the Department of Illinois G. A. r.,
in 1866 and was Republican member of
Congress for four terms beginning with the
Fifteth Congress.
GALESBURG. H.. Jan. 6.-The news of
the death of Congressman p. S. Post, pro-
foundly shocked this community. with
been identified. He was very popular in
Galesburg and on all sides are heard ex-
pressions OF sorrow. When he left here last
Tuesday morning he said to his physician
that he never felt better. II was not known