Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-31
The Blue and the Gray
Heroic Dead
Rest In Isolated Graves.

nd
H Isans by the Hudson, Sherman on the
s si1 of the Mississippi, and Sheridan
:. ellington, across the Potomac from
%Tryasbineton. AS with these three, so
.'aselv associated in war, so it is with
o'oT ALI of the gallant soldiers and
tIore who stood shoulder to shoulder
- hott,e With the exception of West
- ,-,,r and Arlington, there is no burial
alaca especially set apart for soldiers
IA sailors which contain the remains
-f anv number of noted leaders. A
0,mber are buried in the civic ceme-
A l1"ics Laurel Hill, Philadelphia, and
enrIn7 Grove, Cincinnati. Sumters
SP or nero Gen. Robert Anderson, lies
West Point. IN the same cemetery
"r the graves of Generals Fitzpatrick,
'ho dashing cavalryman, j. M. Bran
~. Grover. Harstuff, Williams, Hays,
11anrenziel also a distinguished caval-
man Chas. P. Stone, Sykes, leader OF
40 Fifth Corps, and the veteran Keys,
n-bo died in Switzerland in 1895, and
1 ws' brought to West Point for burial.
IN the banks of the Hudson, also,
.bo autbor of that phrase which in 1861
.briIled the Northern heart, IF any
nan attempts to haul down the Amer
;son flag shoot him on the spot, Gen.
1obn a Dix, found his last resting
Mace His grave in Trinity cemetery
p IN washington Heights is marked by
a simple maidstone.
fremont. The Path Finder is
hurled in Rockland cemetery, on the
hudson. above New York. Far up the
Hudson and quite beyond the classic
region of the Highlands, sleeps the
DRock of Chickamauga. General
Tbomass grave is in Oak Wood ceme-
tery Troy. 1t is kept in the best Of or
der nv a committee of several G. A. r..
posts
vary cemetery, ST. Louis, is marked
with monument. Mcclellan lies IN
piyeryiew cemetery, at Trenton. There
is a monument on his grave erected
bv his family; also one in front Of the
gateway of the cemetery, placed there
hv the generals friends and admirers,
and an equestrian statue on the North
Plaza of the municipal square, Phila-
delphia. Burnside sleeps in the soil OF
bis adopted State, Rhode Island. His
grave in Swamp Point cemetery, Provi-
dence. is kept in good order, a per-
manent fund having been established
for that purpose. Gen. 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. Hold the Fort!' Corse,
who survived his war wounds, and
died a couple of years ago in Boston,
is buried at Burlington, Iowa. Cush-
ion. the hero of Albermarle sound, and
who also survived his war injuries for
some years, but at last succumbed to
them. is buried in the Naval Gene
terry at Annapolis.
There was a galaxy Of brilliant
names borne by heroes of many hard
fight AT the head stands that of Han
cock ,'the superb" who led innumer-
able battle charges famous in history.
He is buried at Norristown, Pa, in a
vault constructed under his own super
vision. Gen. Henry A. Barnum, who
suffered until the day of his death, in
1894, from a wound received in 1862, is
buried in Oak Wood cemetery, SYRIA
cuse N. Y. Gen. Hiram Durham, the
hero of the capture of Fort Harrison,
also Of the successful charge of Marye's
Heights, lies in Pine Grove cemetery,
Cheprytield Me Charles Ellet, Jr.,
who organized the steam ram fleet, and
died of wound received in the des-
pelate naval battle at Memphis, sleeps
at Laurel Hill, Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Fafragut, the bold fighter and brilliant
heet commander, is buried at Wood
lawn cemetery, New York, in a plot
BEAUTIFULLY situated on Aurora HILL
Ten Stannard, whose brigade of Green
mountain militia turned the tide at
gettysburg, in repulsing Pickett's
charge, is buried at Burlington, VT
Gen, Joseph Hooker, whose reputa-
'lon as fighting soldier needs no am
pIlhcation here, has already been men
uoned in connection with the COM
manders Of the army of the Potomac.
lie rests in beautiful and prominent
pot IN Spring Grove cemetery, Cincin-
lau In the same cemetery lie the
remains of Generals Robert and Dan
McCook' members of the Fighting
accook' family, and also those of
Gen. William H. Lyle, the gallant
onlo leader, author of the thrilling
poem i Am Dying, Egypt, Dying"
WIN scarcely an exception the
poales of heroic soldiers who fell in
palue were recovered from the field, or
autfWard taken from the battlefield
,,snlelerieS for refinement at the
Nollh One such exception was in the
Vase OIL the gallant Col. Robert G. Shaw,
~nose regiment of black soldiers,
taelr line of eye-balls cleaning
@lUe' had the place of honor in the
I%,o9Iiang of Fort Wagner. Shaw was
"A'5o On the parapet and the Southern
r. VINO held the field, placed him in
y "ench scooped out of sand between
tt LOTT and the sea. In the course of
~, 'tI'7 the action of the waves destroyed
vi. .L5 surface of the beach to a consider
nv ", uepth and scattered the bones of
,asuef heroes beyond recovery.
, ro1 noted war hero whose last
o.s, us place can never be fifty hon.
Ir,.'' Is mat of the first leader of the
NoaI, brigade Gen. Thomas Francis
N"saer Some time after the war
tbo 'S 81. was drowned from a vessel in
boa,. Missouri river, Montana, and his
boa, could never be recovered. The
mo' ol the gallant Custer was re-
nass ou from the scene of the horrible
hrioSs' on the Little Big Horn, and
Can, Vu "a, az West Point. The remains of
yet Fr Niles W. Keogh, the brave war
ve,, an VINO died by the side of Custer,
A,S,,n a'So identified and brought to
A--u-A y. Y. for burial in Fort Hill