The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
OF THE HEROES
SCATTERED RESTING PLACEs OF
THE NOTED VAR LEADERS.
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
The homes of our martial leaders and he
roes are widely scattered. Grant sleeps by
the HUDSON, Sherman on the banks of the
Mississippi and Sheridan at Arlington.
across the Potomac from Washington.
With the exception Of West Point and
Arlington, there is no burial place especially
set apart for soldiers and sailors which
contains the bodies of any number Of noted
leaders. A number are buried in the civic
cemeteries. Laurel Hill, Philadelphia, and
Spring Grove, Cincinnati. Sumter's war
hero. Gen. Robert Anderson, lies at West
Point. In the same cemetery are the
graves OF Generals Fitzpatrick. the dashing
cavaIryman, j. M. Brannan, Grover, Hart
suff, William Hays. Mackenzie, also a dis
tinguished cavairyman, Charles r. Stone,
Sykes, leader of the Fifth Corps, and the
veteran Keyes. who died in Switzerland IN
1895, and was brought to West Point for
burial
on the banks of the Hudson. also, the
author Of the phrase, IF any man attempts
to haul down the American flag, shoot him
on the spot Ger. John A. Dix, found his
last resting place. His grave in Trinity
Cemetery, on Washington Heights, is
marked by a simple headstone.
Fremont, The Pathfinder" is buried IN
Rockland Cemetery, on the Hudson. Gen.
Thomas's grave is in lakewood Cemetery,
Troy.
The grave of General Sherman, in Cal
vary Cemetery, st. Louis, is marked by a
monument. Mcclellan lies in Riverview
Cemetery, at Trenton. Burnside sleeps in
the soil of his adopted State, Rhode Island,
at Swamp Point Cemetery.
Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe" the third
commander of the army of the Potomac,
sleeps in Cincinnati. Meade. fourth and
last commander of that army, is buried in
Philadelphia.
Colonel Ellsworth. the zouave, known as
the flag martyraof Alexandria, who fell in
the second month Of the war, is buried in
the villa cemetery at Mechanicsville, N.
r.. Nattaniel Lyon, also a hero OF the flrst
month CT he wal, is buried at EastIord,
Maj. Theodore Winthrop is buried 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 Bur
lington, la. Cushing. the hero OF Abe
war injuries for some years., is buried in
the Naval Cemetery at Annapolis.
Hancock Is buried at NorristoWn. Pa, in
q vault constructed under his own super
vision. Gen. Henry A. Barnum is buried in
lakewood Cemetery, Syracuse, y. I. Gen.
Hiram Burnham, the hero of the capture
of Fort Harrison, lies in Pine Grove Gene
terry, Cherrydeld. Me. Charles Ellet, jr,
who organized the first steam ram fleet,
sad died of a wound received in the des-
perate naval battle at Memphis, sleeps at
Laurel Hill Cemetery. Philadelphia. Far
ragut is buried at WoodlaWn Cemetery,
New York. General Stannard, whose bril-
gade of Green Mountain militia turned
the tide at Gettysburg, in repuising Pick
ett's charge, is buried at burlington, Vt.
Gen. Joseph Hooker rests in Spring Grove
Cemetery. Cincinnati. In the same ceme-
terry lie the remains Of Gen. William H.
l.Wf1e the gallant Ohio Lender author of
The thrilling poem, Il Am Dying, Egypt,
WERE TAKEN HOME.
With scarcely an exception, the bodies of
heroic soldiers who fell in battle were re-
covered from the field or afterward taken
from the battlefield cemeteries for RENTER
ment at the North. One such exception
was in the case Of the gallant Col. Robert
C. Shaw, whose regiment Of black soldiers,
their line of eyeballs cleaning white"
had the place of honor in the storming of
Fort Wagner. Shaw was killed on the
parapet. and the Southerners, who held the
field, placed him in a trench scooped out
of the sand between the fort and the sea.
In the course of time the action of the
raves destroyed the surface of the beach
to a considerable depth, and scattered the
bones of Wagner's heroes beyond recovery.
Another noted war hero. whose last resting
place can never fifty be honored, is that
of the first leader of the Irish Brigade, Gen.
Thomas Francis Meagher. Some time after
the war Meagher was drowned from a YES
sci in the Missouri river, Montana, and his
body was not recovered. The body of the
gallant Custer was removed from the scene
or the massacre on the Little Big Horn,
and buried at West Point. The remains of
Capt. Miles W. Keogh, who died by the
side of Custer, were also identified and
brought to Auburn, n. Y, for burial in
Fort Hill Cemetery. Fighting Phil Kear-
ney the one-armed devil" was killed
within tho IGnfa1aTatn 1in1C His Hn1N uFn
recognized by Stonewall Jackson, who had
served with him in Mexico. and sent to his
friends under a flag of truce. accompanied
by a touching message Of tribute to the
gallantry OF an old comrade. Kearney lies
in Trinity churchyard, on Broadway, at the
head of Wall street. There is no fnonu-
ment. The brave Mcpherson, who, like,
kearney. was shot down within the en-
recognized by the enemy. The remains
were carefully guarded and sent into the
Federal camp. They were brought North
for burial in the family plot, in his old
Gen. Jesse L. Reno was shot almost at the
crest OF South mountain while r~econnoiter-
Ing the ground for the advance of the Ninth
Army Corps. He was buried at Oak Hill
Cemetery, Washington. Three days later
Gen. James Ii Mansfield, a hero with white
hairs. 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 a couple of his soldiers, and
was buried at Middletown, Conn. Gen. j.
It. Reynolds was shot through. the head by
a SldEDSlOOlCI WllllG pliOlillS Ills tTOOIS TO
the scene of the FIRST encounter on the
Gettysburg field. He died after being
placeddn an ambulance. He was buried at
Lancaster City Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.
General Wadsworth fell Within the eneiny's
lines at the Wilderness. His body was Sc
cured when his troops rushed forward, and
brought North for interment in Temple Hill
Cemetery. Geneseo, N. Y.
Logan is buried in the National Cemetery,
at the Soldiers Home. Washington, d. G.
Slocum is buried at Greenwood. Buffers
remains lie in private grounds belonging to
the family. a plot annexed to Hildreth Gem
etery, at Lowell, Mass. Banks's grave is
at Grove Hill Cemetery. Waltham. Mass.
MANY AT ARLINGTON.
Nearly two score whose names are house
hold words because Of their daring deeds
in battle now rest at Arlington. among
them Crook, the cavalryman and Indian
fighter; Lowell II. Rousseau, also Hazen
and Mower. who battled in tho armies of
Sheridan and Grant; old General Harvey.
of the regulars; Doubleday. Gibbon and
many others, besides Sheridan. who has al
ready been mentioned. The heroes of the
deck buried at Arlington thps far are Adj
miralsY Porter and jenkins and Rear Adj
mirals Queen, Johnson and Shufeldt.
Gen. Israel i. Richardson lies at Pontiac.
Mich.
Gen. Thomas Leonidas Crittenden sleeps
In the "Bivouac of the Dead, on the banks
of the Kentucky river. close to the SPOT
where Colonel O'Hara penned the cele-
brated lines beginning:
on flames eternal camping grounds
Their silent tents are spread"
Beside the grave of General Crittenden
stands a shaft erected to the memory of a