Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-10
GRAVES OF the WAR LEADERS

, Grant sleeps by the Hudson, Sher
{ man on the banks of the Mississip
pi, and Sheridan at Arlington
, across the Potomac from Washing
: ton With the exception Of wes
/ Point and Arlington, there is n,
, burial place especially 80. apart TO
soldiers and sailors which contain,
the bodies Of any number OF notes
leaders. A1fdmbsr sSe Cured II
the civic cemeteries. Laurel Hill
Philadelphia and Spring Grove
Cincinnati. Sumpter's war nero
General Robert Anderson lies a,
West Point. In the same cemeter,
are the graves of Generals kilpat.
rick, the dashing cavalryman j.
NJ. Brannah, Grover, Haftsuff,
William Hays, Mackenzie, also a
distinguished cavalryman Chas. p.
Stone, Sykes, leader of the Fifth
Corps, and the veteran Keyes. who
died in Switzerland in 1895. and
was brought to West Point for bur-
ial.
On the banks Of the Hudson, al
so, the author of the phrase, "If
any man attempts 10 haul down the
American flag shoot him on the
spot" General John A. Dix, found
ms last resting place. His grave
in Trinity Cemetery on Washing
ton Heights is marked by simple
headstone.
Fremont, 1.-the Pathfinder" is
buried in Rockland Cemetery on
the Hudson. General Thomas
grave is IN Oakwood Cemetery,
Troy.
The grave of General Sherman in
Calvary Cemetery, st. Louis, is
marked by monument. McClel-
Ian lies in River View Cemetery at
Trenton. Burnside sleeps in the
soil of his adopted State, Rhode Is
land, at Swamp Point Cemetery.
Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe, -
the third commander OF the Army
OF the Potomac, sleeps in Cincin-
natl. Meade, the fourth and last
Commander of that army, is buried
in Philadelphia.
Colonel Ellsworth, the zouaye,
known as the flag martyr of Alex
ander. who fell in the second month
of the war, is buried in the village
cemetery at Mechanicsville, n. Y.
Nathaniel Lyon, also hero of the
first month of the war. is buried at
Eastford, Conn.
Major Theodore Winthrop is bur-
led at New Haven, Conn. "Hold
the Fort" Corse, who survived his
war wounds and died a couple of
years ago in Boston, is buried at
Burlington, 10. Cushing, the he
70 of Albemarle Sound. and who
also survived his war injuries for
some years. is buried in the Naval
Cemetery at Annapolis.
Hancock is buried at Norristewn,
Pa, in vault constructed under
his own supervision. General Hen
ry A. Barnum is buried in Oakwood
Cemetery, Syracuse, \. Y. Cen
eral Hiram Burnham, the hero of
the capture of Fort Harrison, lies
in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cherry
field, Me. Charles Ellet, DR., who
organized the first steam ram feet
and died of wound received in
desperate naval battle a: Memphis,
sleeps at Laurel Hill Cemetery,
Philadelphia. Farragut is buried
at Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.
General Stannard. whose brigade of
"Green Mountain" militia turned
the tide at Gettysburg in repulsing
Pickett's charge, is buried at Bur
lington, VT.
General Joseph Hooker rests in
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincin-
natl. In the same cemetery lie the
remains of General William III.
Lytle, the gallant Ohio leader and
author of the .hrilling poem, 81 Am
Dying, Egypt, Dying 20
With scarcely an exception, the
bodies of heroic soldiers who fell in
battle were recovered from the field
or afterward taken from the battle
field cemeteries for reinterment at
the North, says the New York
Evening Sun. One such exception
was IN the case of Colonel Robert
G. Shaw, whose regiment of ne
groes, had the advance place in the
storming of Fort Wagner. Shaw
was killed on the parapet, and the
4 Snu tne~ua~s wha hal1 sho Gofs