The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-06
COL. SEXTON'S DEATH
DEPLORED IN OFFICIAL AND
GRAND ARMY CIRCLES AT
THE CAPITAL
FINAL SERVICES AT CHICAGO
G.. A. r.. VIII Be Taken to His
Home-NO Funeral at Washing
tOn-An Expression of Sympathy
From the President-A Special
Guard of Honor.

WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-The body
Of Col. James A. Sexton, commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic. and a member of the war
investigating commission, who died at
$40 o'clock this morning at Garfield
hospital, from complications arising
primarily from an attack Of the grip,
was tonight put aboard the 1880 train
on the Pennsylvania railroad and will
be taken to Chicago. There will be no
funeral services in this city, but six
members of the Grand Army acted as
pallbearers, both when the body was
removed from the hospital and when
put aboard the train. At Chicago, F.
W. Spenk, quartermaster of the G. A.
R.; H. P. Thompson, assistant adju-
tant general, and F. w. Smith, of the
Loyal Legion, will have charge of the
military funeral arrangements.
Commander Arthur Hendricks, of the
department Of the Potomac, G. A R.,
today issued a special order comment
orative of Col. Sexton. Many floral
tributes We're received by the family,
including tributes from the war inves-
tigating commission and President Nc
Kinley.
Mrs. Sexton and her son, William,
were with the colonel at the time of
his DEATH
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Col James A.
Sexton was born in Chicago. Jan. 5,
1874. He enlisted as a private in the
Nineteenth Illinois April 10, 1861, and,
after three months service re-enlisted
in the Sixty-seventh Illinois volunteers,
being commissioned as first lieutenant
of Company E. He was subsequently
transferred to the Seventy Hi
nois and was made captain of Com
pany D. He served in Ransome's bril-
gade. McArthurs division of the Sew
enteenth army corps, Army of the
Tennessee. and participated in nearly
all its campaigns, sieges and battles.
He was commander of the regiment
Ell, Spring Hill. Franklin and Nash
vile. and throughout the Nashville
campaign. In 1855 he was assigned to
duty on the staff of Maj. Gen. A. J.
Smith, commander of the Sixteenth
army corps, and remained With Smith
until the close of the war, being hon.
orably discharged in August, 1865. At
the capture Of the Spanish fort, at Mo-
bile, Ala. April 8, 1865, Col. Sexton had
a piece of shell. He was also slightly
wounded at the battle of Franklin, and
painfully wounded at the battle of
Nashville. He remained two years in
Alabama after the war, working a
plantation which he had purchased
near Montgomery. In 1867 he return
ed to Chicago and entered into busi-
ness. founding the firm of J. A. and
T. S. Sexton. He was appointed post
master of Chicago by President Har-
rison in $780, and was retained by
President Cleveland until he resigned
Jan. 1, 1895.
Col. Sexton was an active worker
IN the Grand Army Of the Republic, the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion and
other soldier and army societies. He
was past commander of the department
Of Illinois. G. A. R.. and had been
presidential elector. park commissioner
and colonel in the Illinois national
guard: At the last meeting of the
Grand Army of the Republic he was
elected communicated chief, and held
this position at the time of his death.
as well as that of a member of the
BOARD OF commissioners appointed by
the president to investigate the con-
duct of the Spanish war.