The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-05-31
4ONORS ENSIGN BAGLEY
THE G. A. r., OF PENNSYLVANIA, SENDS
IT'S TRIBUTE.
A Wreath Of lmmorteIIes Expresses lhtir
Sentiments Of Generosity and
Admiration.

mum dtiOH'
The people Of all sections and Of al
States, though claim Il part in the life and
deeds of Ensign Bagley. The National
decoration day of next Monday will wit
ness a manifestation of that interest from
Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia Press of the 2:,th
inst, says:
George G.. Meade Post. No. I. of
this city, Will send a handsome floral
design to the North Carolina home Of
Ensign Worth Bagley, with the re
grave Of the hero of C~ardenas, on Dee
GRAFTON day. Significant Of the place he
Will ever hold in the hearts of his coun-
trymen, this ribute to the vaIor of the
gallant Southcrner will be a wreath of
immortellcs.
The shot that snuffed out the life Of
Worth Bagley rumbled from shore to
shore of a reunited nation. 1t pierced
the great heart of the American peo-
pie This is the generous sentiment
of one Of the veteran boys in blue. and
it fifty expresses the emotion that in
spires a Grand Army Post of this city
to Il formal recognition of the first
sacrifice in the war with Spain.
1t is Il pretty tale of chivalry that
typities the growing obliteration Of
~long-nursed sectional hatred. and gives
living proof that the hopes of a reunited
country are not mere dreams.
NORTH'S TRIBUTE TO SOUTH.
On the new-made grave of Ensign
Worth Bagley, the first American Off
Ger killed in the war with Spain. Il
Southern boy who died while fighting
for the Union, gray veterans of the
North will lay a memorial tribute.
Members of the George c.. Meade Post
take pride in being the Oldest Grand Ar
my organization in the country. and
think it appropriate that as survivors
of the civil wal they should be the first
society Of Northern soldiers to formal
ly recognize the gallantry of Il son of
the South, who lost his life while fight
ing in defense of Il common flag.
The memorial committee of the post
Is completing arrangements. This com
mittee is composed Of prominent Phila-
~delphians, nearly all of whom were Off
GERS in the Union army. Here is its ros-
ter: Col. ~. j. Sellers. Gen. Henry Ii.
Bingham. Col. John \. WeiderSheim.
Robert NJ. Green, Colonel Wendell +.
Bowman. Maj. X. 5. Collum. Gen. II. s.
Huidekoper, Col. Benjamin Brooke, Col.
Theodore +. W~eidersheim, G. Stuart
Patterson, II. C. Harper. George f.
Paul. Col. Lewis w. Moore. Louis p.
LANCER. Alexander Appel, Maj. f. A.
Hancock, Capt. William Hardness. Jr..
Alexander Harding, Leon A. Canter,
John G. johnson, Col. .Iohn w. Moore.
George Pierre. Colin NJ. Beale, John
Blair. Pen RICHTER, Henry c.. Sinex.
c. c. Knight, r. II. McCartcr and
Maj. Harry w. HeWes, chairman.
WILL FORWARD WREATH FRI
DAY.
I'm the name of the post the commit
tee Will forward the floral tribute to
the mayor of Raleigh Friday afternoon
and with it Will go IL letter expressing
the sympathy of the post and its pride
in the gallantry of the Southern hero.
w send the wreath us an express
sion of the pride Of Northern veterans in
Worth Baglcy's brave decd" said Maj.
IIewes. and mean it to typify the sym
pathy of the North with the South"
The manner of the death of Ensign
Raglcy is fresh in the public mind. He
was engineer officer on board the little
i'l I'c'o b'"' NilHioN' winch tli'clch
CardCnaS harbOr on May 18th, in com
pany with the gunboats Hudson and
Wilmington, to engage the Spanish
gunboats in hiding under the protection
Of shore batteries.
\ Spanish shot crippled the engines of
the Winslow, and before the Hudson
could tow her out of danger the terri
bic Spanish fire, concentrated III the dis
abled torpedo-boat, riddled her super
structure and killed five of her group of
the crew on her deck, when Il shell burst
i'll their midst. Bagley was killed in
~stantly, the first American officer to fall
in the war with Spain.
a telegram has been received here by
Sherwood Higgs & Co., announcing that
the wreath would be received here to
day.