The Republican journal., 1898-07-14
Died for his Country.
Private Arthur Howard Packard Law
Down his Life at Santiapo.

In the roll of heroic dead of the I'd
Massachusetts, regiment at Santiago de
Cuba appears the name of Private Ar
thur Howard Packard of Company G.
The Springfield Daily News of July 5th,
says:
Arthur Howard Packard was the son of
Mrs. Helen n. Packard, widow of the late
Lieutenant John A. Packard veteran of
the civil war. Arthur was Is years old on
November 18th of last year. With his
brother Walter, two years older, he en-
listed in Company G, and the brothers
made the trip south together, and fought
side by side in the battle of Santiago. Ar
thur was born in this city and attended
the public schools until three years ago,
when he entered the employ Of the Phelps
Publishing Company, remaining there I'M
til he marched away from this city with his
regiment on May Sd. He was bright.
loTable boy, always good tempered and
general favorite with his associates in the
office Of the Phelps Publishing Company.
His employers speak highly of him. and
his death, noble though it was, is sincere
~ mourned to-day by everybody in the
establishment.
~ SoiiiS VI Sooou SllluS STOCK, LulS
beardless boy who went SO brayely to the
front at the countrys first call for volun-
teers His father Lieutenant John A.
Packard, was one of the first to enlist in
the Fifth Maine regiment in 1861 He
went IN as private, and fought at Bull
Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettys-
burg, the Wilderness, and in all the bat
ties in which the Army of the Potomac
took part, until he was shot through the
body at Hagarstown on July II, 1868. He
was in the hospital II months with this
wound, and on recovering was discharged
from the service. He was second lieuten-
ant of Company | of the 9TH Maine at the
time he was wounded, and was acting as
captain of the company. Immediately
afterward he was promoted to the first
lleutenancy of the company. Lieutenant
Packard died in this city May |, 1898
Mrs. Packard's grandfather and great
grandfather fought in the revolution. Her
great uncle was General John Crosby. a
distinguished officer Of the revolution.
Her great grandfather was commission
ed officer OF the king in the colonial wars,
and when the revolution was declared he
took up arms against England. Two
brothers Of Mrs. Packard fought in the
civil war. One lost his life at Antetam,
and the other had two horses shot under
him at Fredericksburg. 1t was from this
stock that young Arthur descended.
Mrs. Packard was overwhelmed with
grief when the news of her sons death
reached her this morning. Many good
friends called to sympathize with and try
to console her, among them, Rev. Bradley
Gilman, Col. John L. Rice and Herbert
L. Myrick, president of the Phelps Pub
fishing Company, where the young hero
had been employed, She tries to bear her
loss with fortitude, but her sorrow is aug
mented by the fact that nothing has been
heard from her other son Walter, 20 years
OF age, who was also in Co. G. It is
hoped, however, that her burden of grief
will not be increased by bad news from
him. Mrs. Packard is one of the most
prominent members of Z. K Wilcox re-
lief corps, and there is no woman in the
city who has done more for the old sol
diers of the civil war than She. Besides
Walter, who is believed to be safe, she has
son Ray, II, who is at home with her.