The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-25


Z Some time after the war Ieaghel was
drowned from a vessel in ne Missouri
river, Montana, ami his body could
never be recovered The body {. the
gallant Custer was removed from the
scene of the horrible massacre on the
Little Big Horn, and huriei at West
Point. The remains of CAPTAIN Miles
/ w. Keogh, the brave war veteran, who
/ died by the side Of Custer were also
identified and brought to Auburn, y.
J Y, for burial in Fort Hin cemetery.
( Fighting Phil Kearney. The one
armed devil" was Killed within 1he
/ Confederate lines. where he had ven
tured alone with his usual rashness.
I His body was recognized by Stenewall
Jackson, who had served vith him in
( Mexico, and sent TO his friends under 4
flag of truce, accompanied by touch
/ ing message of tribute, To, the saHaniFy
of an old comrade. keagney lies in
Trinity churchyard, on broadway, at
the head of Wall street There is no
monument. The brave Mcpherson who.
! like kearney, was shot down within the
( enemy's lines in front Of Atlanta, was
/ also recognized by the enemy. The re-
/ mains were carefully guarded and sent
into the Federal camp. They were
/ brought north for burial in the family
plot, in his old home, Clyde, o.
Four of the distinguished leaders.
who met with a fate similar TO that of
| Kearney and Mcpherson, falling under
/ the Ditiless sharDShooter's bullet, on
/ the very front line where the ground
4 was held alternately by friend and foe,
/ lived long enough to be borne by their
I friends to places of safety. General
/ Jesse l.. Reno was shot almost at the
crest of South mountain, while recon-
noitering the ground for advance of
the Ninth army CORPS. He was buried
at Oak Hill cemetery, Washington, and
monument marks the spot where he
fell. Three days later General James K.
Mansfield, a hero with white hair was
killed in a similar manner in front of
the Twelfth corps at Antietam. He
. died while being borne to the rear in
the arms of couple of his soldiers and
was buried at Middleton, Conn Get
tySburg's foremost hero, General j. F.
Reynolds, was shot through the head
by a sharDshoOter, while plotting his
( troops to the scene of the first encoun-
ter on that decisive field. He died af-
ter being placed in an ambulance, and
the remains were slowly borne to the
rear past the advancing columns
which the news of his initial battle
stroke and tragic death summoned to
the front at double quick. he is buried
at Lancaster City cemetery, Lancaster
Penn. General Wadsworth, another
hero with gray hairs. fell with the enc
my's lines at the Wilderness. His body
was secured when his troops rushed
forward, and brought north for inter
ment in Temple Hill cemetery, Genesee,
n. V
Mcclellan, Grant, Sherman and Sher-
idan were followed to the grave by
others, who, like themselves, after
brilliant army careers, had distin-
tinguished themselves in civil affairs
Logan is buried in the National ceme-
terry at the soldiers home, Washington,
d. c. His tomb is in a memorial chanel
erected by Mrs. Logan. Slocum is bur
led at Greenwood. near the tomb of
Henry Ward Beecher. in vault es-
pecially prepared for him. Buffers re-
mains lie in private grounds belonging
to the family, a plot annexed to Hill
dreth cemetery at Lowell Mass.
Banks grave is at Grove Hill ceme-
terry, Waltham, Mass.
The National cemetery at Arlington.
Va, is destined 10 become hallowed
with the ashes of the distinguished SOL
diers and sailors of the civil war. 1t
is already celebrated by reason of its
romantic history and its beautiful loca-
ton near the national capital. Many
noted leaders have been buried there, in
Difference to their special requests, and
the remains of others have been trans
ferred TO that classic ground by their
are household words because of their
daring deeds in battle now rest at Ar
lingtOn, among them Crook. the cav
airyman and Indian fighter; the gal
ant western soldier, Lowell H ROuS-
seau, also Hazen and Mower, who bat
tied in The armies of Sherman and
Grant; Old General Harvey, of the reg
ulars, noted before the war as a fighter
of the border: Doubleday, Gibbon and
many others. besides Sheridan. who has
already been mentioned. The heroes of
the deck buried at Arlington thus far
are Admirals Porter and Jenkins and
Rear Admirals Queen. Johnson and
Shufeldt
There is a touch of the pathetic in
the history of the grave of General
Israel B. Richardson at Pontiac, Mich
General Richardson was a West Point
soldier. and in the Mexican war earned
three brevets for gallantry in battle
He was civilian when the war broke
out in 1861, but offered his sword to his
adopted state, and led the Second Mich
iSan regiment to Washington, to sup
port his old Mexican commander, the
veteran Scott. Scott welcomed him
with the greeting: I am glad to have
with me my old Fighting Dick re-
calling the suggestive nickname earned
by Richardson in Mexico. He was true
TO his reputation in the civil war. and
was promoted to brigadier general
then to major general for gallantry on
the battlefield. and was killed at An
tietam. His remains were taken to
Pontiac. and neither the national gov
eminent, his native state of Vermont.
nor Michigan. made any attempt to
fifty honor him, even so much as the
placing OF A headstone. At last his
two sisters, weary of waiting for some
expression of gratitude of the republic.
out of slender earnings gained by daily
labor. erected a simple monument,
which now marks his grave.
The gallant Kentuckian who. in the
battles Of the west. shed new glory
upon a name already celebrated in
American annals. General Thomas
LeOnidas Crittendon, sleeps in the "Bi-
vouac of the Dead" on tn ebanks of the
Kentucky river close to the spot where
Colonel O'Hara penned the celebrated
lines beginning:
On flames eternal camping grounds,
Their silent tents are spread
The section of the burial ground at
Frankfort where General Crittenden
lies is devoted TO the remains of distin-
guished kentuckians, governors, states
men and warriors. There are buried
The heroes of Buena Vista, whose en-
tombment inspired the pen of Colonel
O'Hara. Beside the grave of General
Crittenden stands a shaft erected to
the memory of a Kentucky boy hero.
his only son. Lieutenant Crittenden.
one of the victims of the Custer mas
Sacre.
The war belongs TO past so remote
that il is necessary to recall some of
the incidents which for a time lent
briIiiancy TO names since forgotten. IN
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