Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-31

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| Mcclellan, Grant, Sherman and Sher-
idan were followed to the grave by
others, who like themselves, after bril-
J liant army careers, had distinguished
! themselves in civil affairs. Logan is
buried in the National cemetery at the
| Soldiers Home, Washington, D. G. His
| toLlb is in a memorial chapel erected
| by Mrs. Logan. Slocum is buried at
Greenwood, near the tomb of Henry
Ward Beecher, in vault especially
prepared for him. Buffers remains lie
| in private grounds belonging to the
! family, plot annexed to Hildreth GEM
etery at Lowell Mass. Banks grave is
at Grove Hill cemetery, Waltham,
Mass.
| The National cemetery at Arlington,
| Va, is destined to become hailowed
with the ashes of many Of the dis
! tinguished soldiers and sailors of the
civil war. 1t is already celebrated by
reason of its romantic history and its
| beautiful location near the National
! Capital Many noted leaders have been
buried there, in Difference to their spe-
cial requests, and the remains of others
have been transferred to that classic
ground by their friends. Nearly two
score whose names are household
words because of their daring deeds in
! battle. now rest at Arlington, among
them Crook the cavalryman and In
dian fighter; the gallant Western SOL
| der. Lowell H. Rousseau, also Hazen
and Mower, who batrled in the armies
| of Sherman and Grant; cid Gen. Har-
nev. of the regulars, noted before the
war as fighter of the border; Double
dav. Gibbon and many others, besides
| Sheridan, who has already been men
toned. The heroes of the deck buried
at Arlington thus far are Admirals
Porter and Jenkins and Rear Ad-
mirals Queen, Johnson and Shufeldt
There is a touch of the pathetic in
the history of the grave of Gen. Israel
B. Richardson, at Pontiac, Mich. Gen.
Richardson was a West Point soldier,
and in the Mexican war earned three
brevets for gallantry in battle. He was
a civilian when the war broke out in
! 1861. but offered his sword to his
! adopted State, and led the Second
| Michigan regiment to Washington, TO
support his old Mexican commander,
! the veteran Scott. Scott welcomed him
with the greeting: Il am glad to have
with me my old Fighting Dick re-
calling the suggestive nickname earn
ed by Richardson in Mexico. He was
true to his reputation in the civil war,
and was promoted to Brigadier Gen
eral then to Major General for gal
| lantry on the battle field, and was kill
ed at Antietam His remains were
taken to Pontiac, and neither the Ma
tional government, his native State
of Vermont, nor Michigan, made any
attempt to fifty honor him, even so
much as the placing Of headstone
| At last his two sisters, weary Of wait
! ing for some expression of gratitude
| Of the republic, out OF slender earn
I ings by daily labor, erected simple
! monument, which now marks his grave.
! The gallant Kentuckian. who IN the
! battles Of the West, shed new glory
upon a name already celebrated in
/ American annals, Gen. Thomas Leoni-
1 das Crittenden, sleeps in the "Bivouac
/ of the Dead" On the banks of the Ken
! lucky river close to the spot where Col.
! O'Hara penned the celebrated lines be-
! ginning:
On fame's eternal camping grounds,
Their silent tents are spread.
The section of the burial ground at
| Frankfort where Gen. Crittenden lies
| is devoted to the remains of distin-
| guished Kentuckians, Governors,
statesmen and warriors. There are
i buried the heroes of Buena Vista,
whose entombment inspired the pen of
| Col O'Hara Beside the grave of Gen.
| Crittenden stands a shaft erected to
| the memory Of a Kentucky boy here,
his only sen, Lieut.. Crlttenden, one of
the victims of the Custer massacre.
The war belongs to past so remote
| that it is necessary to recall some of
| the incidents which for a time lent
! brilliancy to names since forgotten.
| In Woodlawn cemetery, near New York
| city, is buried Gen. Robert B. Potter,
a brother of Bishop Potter, of the New
| York diocese. Gen. Potter died in the
service, but not until he had made a
| gallant record as a soldier He led his
regiment, the Fifty-first New York, in
| the charge across Burnsides bridge at
Antietam Later he commanded a d.
vision in the Ninth Corps, and led it
into the smoking pit of the celebrated
crater" after the explosion of the
mine at Petersburg. Gen. William F.
Bartlett, another hero Of the crater
battle, is buried at Pittsfield, Mass.
| l'di liCtt 1CO q III iSdtiS iulO Tic VI obCi
| and one of his companions, hearing the
| thud of a bullet striking him in the leg,
offered to assist him to place of safe
! ty 80, never mind" said Bartlett, cit
was only my wooden leg" Bartlett had
! lost his leg two years before at York
town, but kept on fighting, and came
out of the war literally shot to pieces"
| Owing to his wooden leg he always
went into battle mounted, and was
| wounded. again and again, although the
| Confederate officers, who learned to
| know him, out of admiration for his
| bravery, tried to prevent their men
/ from aiming at him. Another Massa-
| chusetts hero, whose fame rests upon
single incident, one which, however,
| will never be lost tC history, is the
sailor who sent the notorious cruiser
| Alabama to Davy Jones locker, Ad-
miral James A. Winslow. Winslow's
grave is in Forest Hills cemetery, Bos-
| ton, and is cared for by the Kearsage
| Association OF naval veterans, who
gather annually to sing over the re-
mains of their old commander, the cell
ebrated Kearsage Song of Victory"
The little town of Lexington, Va,
holds the ashes of Robert E. Lee and
Stcnewall jackson. The chieftain is
! entombed in the chapel of Washington
and Lee University, and his great Field
Marshal sleeps in the town cemetery