Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-16
GENERAL ROSECRANS DEAD
GRADUAL AND QUIET DECLINE.
The Old Warriors Last Days Were
Spent at His Home in southern
California Amid Peace and Plenty
Stricken With No Particular
Disease.

Los Angeles, Cal, March l2.-General
W. S. Rosecrans died yesterday at his
home near Rendondo. The old warrier's
death was peaceful in the extreme. For
several days he has been between life and
death, at times unconscious, and again in
comatose state. His splendid vitality
kept him alive for days. At his bedside
when the end came were the son and
daughter of the general, Carl and Anna
ROsecrans, and a number of immediate
friends of the family, besides the attending
physician, Dr.. Haynes of this city.
General Rosecrans was stricken with no
particular disease and the end came
through general weakening of the sys-
TEN. When he was first stricken more
than two weeks ago, it was not supposed
the case was more than an attack OF
grippe.
A daughter of General Rosecrans, Mrs
Toole, is now at Helena, Mont, where her
husband resides Rosecmns was possessed
of fine property and his last days were
spent in peace and plenty
William Stark Rosecrans was born in
Kingston, Delaware county, o., Septem-
Der Is. 1919. His parents were of old
Dutch stock. He was raised on farm
and educated in the public schools. He
clerked in a country store and in 1887 ap.
piled to the secretary of war for appoint
ment to West Point military academy
He was appointed and graduated in ls42.
He entered the engineer corps as second
lieutenant and reported for duty at For
tress Monroe. In lS43 he went to West
Point as assistant professor in the engin
eering department. Lieutenant Rose
Grams resigned from the army in April.
engaged in the coal mining business.
At the beginning of the war Rosecrans
was private. When it became evident
that military operations must become nee
essary to crush the rebellion he offered his
services to Governor Dennison of Ohio and
he was requested to act as engineer and
lay out Fort Dennison. He went to
Washington later and was given the posi-
ton of chief engineer of Ohio with the
rank of colonel. He was commissioned
colonel of the Twenty third Ohio regiment
later and entered the field and within
three days was commissioned brigadier
general He took the field in West Vir
ginia at once. His first important action
was at Rich Mountain, which he won.
General Rosecrans succeeded General
Mcclellan in the department Of Ohio. He
had command of the national forces and
defca ted General John B. Floyd at Cani
fax Ferry, September 10, 1851, thwartina
Lees attempt to gain a footing in West
Virginia. He participated in the battle
of Corinth and afterward took command
Of the army of the Mississippi. He de-
feated General Sterling Price and pursued
him for 40 miles. He was made COM
mander Of the department of the Cumbcr
land, which position he held from October
p, 1862, to October 10. 1868. lie com
manded in the battle about Murfreesbor-
ough, one of the bloodiest and most decis,
i've OF the war. He drove Bragg out OF
middle Tennessee in Is days.
General Rosecrans commanded at the
great battle around Chattanooga and held
Chattanooga, the objective point The
battle was victory for the confederates
General ROsecrans was relieved in Octo-
Der, 1864, and assigned to the department
of the Missouri. He was mustered out
of the volunteer service in January, 1866,
and resigned from the army in March
1867. He had been hreveted major gen.
eral.