The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-04-07
'HER0DEAD LAID FOREST
Victims of the War With Spain
Inferred at Arlington.
FAREWELL voLLEYs AT GRAVES.

Bodfss of 1886 Who Died at Call of Coun.
try Consigned to Their Last Resting
Place With Full Military Honors In
Presence of President aud Vast Com
course of People.
WASHINGTON. April with full
honors Of war. upon the crest Of the
southern slope of Arlington cemetery.
yesterday the nation, represented by
President Mckinley, his cabinet and
other high dignitaries of the govern
ment. the commanding general of the
army and other distinguished officers,
all the regular and militia organizations
OF the district and a vast concourse of
$4,000 people, paid the last tender trib-
ute OF honor and respect to the bodies of
1886 officers and men who gave their
lives on distant battlefields for their
country during the Spanish American
war and who were mustered into the
silent army that sleeps in the last
bivouac Of the brave. The spot selected
is in the new addition to the cemetery,
looking out upon the broad sweeping
Potomac and across to where the glisten-
ing Washington monument rears it's
dizzy shaft and beyond to the classic
outlines of the capitol and the FURNISHED
dome of the new library build
ing. To the right rise the ramparts
of old Fort Mcpherson, to the left the
countless graves of heroes of the civil
war, sprinkled with imposing monu-
ments to distinguished generals, and to
the rear the stately old Lee mansion
and Fort Myer. In this burial lot,
which covers two acres in extent, in
parallel rows, the wooden boxes con-
tanning the caskets were ranged, sepa-
rated ty great mounds of earth. Over
each bt,x an American flag was draped.
There was no particular order in the
disposition Of the remains, though an
exception was made in the case of the
officers. The boxes containing the
bodies Of Captain Egbert of the Eighth
infantry, Lieutenant L. I. Barnett,
Ninth infantry; Lieutenant William
Wood, Twelfth infantry; Lieutenant
R. s. Turman, Sixth infantry, and
Lieutenant Francis Creighton, volun-
teer signal corps. were placed at the
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the eye of the presidential party OF
the others fully 10 per cent are identi-
fed. About 30 per cent are wholly un-
known, or known only by the regi-
ment to which they belonged.
The funeral services were simple, but
very impressive. Rev. Freeland read
the military conmittal service of the
Episcopal church. The Rev. Father
MCGEE then consecrated with the
churchly power vested in him the earth
into which the bodies of the Catholic
soldiers were placed. AS, soon as the
religious services had been concluded.
fdanking detachments of the Fourth and
Fifth artillery fired three ear smashing,
soul. ul.uplifting volleys and in the solemn
hush that followed the salute the bugle
sounded ''taps." The last religious and
military rites to the dead heroes were
over and the presidential party and the
military departed, leaving the work of
actual interment to follow. AS each of
the caskets weighs almost 500 poundsand
requires eight men to handleit, it will be
two or three days before all the bodies
are in their graves. In order to permit
all the government employees to attend
thes services, all the departments and
federal courts were closed by an execu-
tive order Of the president, and all the
flags in the city were half-masted