The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-01-10
CONGRESSMAN POST DEAD.
The Representative of the Tenth Illinois
District Dies in Washington.

The Representative of the Tenth Illinois
District Dies in Washington.
Washington, Jan. 6.-GCn. Phillip sgd
ney Post, member of congress from the
Tenth district of Illinois, died at the
Hamilton hotel here this morning, after
an illness of but one day. Ills death was
from heart failure, resulting from gas
tritis. For some time he has been suffer
ing at intervals with attacks which his
physicians pronounced dyspepsia, but has
attended to his congressional duties un-
remittingly. He passed the holidays at
his home in Illinois and reached Wash
ington Wednesday. Early Saturday he
was seized with an attack of his old
trouble, which did not assume serious
form until evening. During the night
heart failure set in and for some time
before his death, which occurred at 4:3o
this morning, the physicians could hardly
detect any pulse at all.
Mrs. Post and son, W. S. Post, were
with him. There is another son, Philip
s. Post, lawyer, in Chicago.
The Illinois delegation in congress will
hold meeting tomorrow morning 10 take
appropriate action and the house will adj
journ after the reading of the journal.
The United States commissioner will be
appointed to act as escort to Illinois. The
funeral train will leave here at 3 O'Clock
Tuesday morning.
RECORD AS A SOLDIER.
General Post was best known through
his brilliant military services in the civil
war, where he won high rank and dis
tinction with great rapidity. When the
war began he was appointed second lieu
tenant of the Fifth Illinois infantry.
After the Missouri campaign he became
major and eight months after his enlist
ment was made colonel of the Fifty-ninth
Illinois for gallantry at the battle of Pea
Ridge, in which he was desperately
wounded. Before he was able to mount
his horse without assistance, he rejOned
the troops, then hurrying forward to
COrinth, and was at once assigned to the
command of brigade. From May. 1862,
to the close Of the war he was constantly
at the front. In the army of the Cumber-
land, as first organized, he commanded
First brigade, First division of the Twen-
tieth army corps, brigade conspicuous
in all the engagements of that army under
General ROsecrans from its formation to
the dissolution of the company. With it
commenced the battle of Stone river. He
drove the enemy back several miles and
captured Lee Town. During the Atlanta
campaign he was transferred to General
NOOO DIVISION OF the fOurtn corps, and
when the latter was wounded ut the bat
tie of Lovejoy station. took command
and returned with it to the Tennessee
river, to oppose the progress of the enemy
of the North.
On Dec. Is, 1864. in the Nashville fight
ing, he carried Montgomery Hill at the
| point of the bayonet and in the next DAYS
| fight fell dangerously wounded while
leading an assault on Overton Hill.
| In July, 1865, he was given command
of the western district of Texas and re-
manned until the withdrawal of the
French from Mexico removed the danger
of military complications.
| General Posts civil career has been n
varied one. He was born March 10,
| 1888, in FLORIDA, Orange county. New
York, Was graduated from Union col.
lege in 1855, practiced law in Kansas
where he was alsd appointed consul tr
| Vienna, was promoted to consul general
| for Austria-Hungary in 1874, resigned in
1879, was commander of the District of
Illinois Grand Army of the Republic, 1GG
and was Republican member of con
gress for four terms, beginning with tn,
Fiftieth congress,