The news & observer., 1898-05-27
HONORS ENSIGN BAGLEY
THE G. A. r., OF Pennsylvania, SENDS
ITS TRIBUTE.
Wreath Of ImmorteIes Expresses Their
Sentiments Of Generosity and
Admiration.

Admiration.
The people of all sections and of all
States, though claim a part i'll 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 25th
inst, says:
George c. Meade Post, No. 1, of
this city. will send handsome floral
design to the North Carolina home of
Ensign Worth Bagley, with the re-
quest that the flowers be placed on the
grave of the hero of Cardenas, on Dee
Grafton day Significant of the place he
will ever hold in the hearts of his coun-
trymen, this tribute to the valor of the
gallant Southerner will be wreath of
immorteles.
"The shot that snuffed out the life of
Worth Bagley rumbled from shore to
shore of 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 a formal recognition of the first
sacrifice in the war with Spain.
1t is a pretty tale of chivalry that
typifies the growing obliteration of
long-nursed sectional hatred, and gives
living proof that the hopes of reunited
country are not mere dreams.
NORTH'S TRJRTTTE no SOUTH.
On the new-made grave of Ensign
Worth Bagley, the first American Off
Ger killed in the war with Spain, a
Southern boy who died while fighting
for the Union, gray veterans of the
North will lay memorial tribute.
Members of the George &. 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 war they should be the first
society Of Northern soldiers to formal
ly recognize the gallantry of son of
the South, who lost his life while fight
ing in defense of 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 A. j. Sellers, Gen. Henry II.
Bingham. Col John \. Weidersheim.
Robert NJ Green, Colonel Wendell =.
Bowman, Mai. r. S. Collum. Gen III. s.
Huidekoper, Col Benjamin Brooke, Col.
Theodore T. Weidersheim, G. Stuart
Patterson. II. G. Harper George Il.
Paul. Col. Lewis W. Moore. Louis =.
Langer. Alexander Appel, Maj. Il. A.
Hancock, Capt William Hardness, Jr.,
Alexander Harding, Leon A. Canter,
John G. Johnson. COL John w. Moore.
George Pierre, Colin Nj. Beale, John
Blair. Penn Fighter, Henry G. Sinex,
Col. G. G. Knight, II. /. McCarter and
Maj. Harry w. Hewes, chairman.
WILL FORWARD WREATH FRI
DAY.
''In 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 letter expressing
the sympathy of the post and it's pride
in the gallantry of the Southern hero.
1--WE send the wreath as an express
sion of the pride of Northern veterans in
Worth Bagley's brave deed" said Maj.
Hewes. ''and mean it to typify the sym
pathy of the North with the South
The manner of the death of Ensign
Bagley is fresh in the public mind He
was engineer officer on board the little
torpedo boat Winslow, which entered
Cardenas harbor on May 18th, in com
pany with the gunboats Hudson and
Wilmington, to engage the Spanish
gunboats in hiding under the protection
oe choro hottariac
A Spanish shot crippled the engines of
the Winslow, and before the Hudson
could tow her out of danger the terri
Bile Spanish fire, concentrated on the dis
abled torpedo-boat, riddled her super
structure and killed five of her group of
the crew on her deck, when a shell burst
in 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.