Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-24

| heroes are widely scattered. Grant sleeps
by the Hudson, Sherman on the banks OF
| the Mississippi and Sheridan at AIRING
| ton across the Potomac from Washing
| ton With the exception of West PolLt
| and Arlington there is no burial place es-
| pecially set apart for soldiers and sailors,
| which contain the remains of any number
| Of noted leaders. A number are buried
| in the civic cemeteries, Laurel Hill, Phlla-
| delphia and Spring Grove, Cincinnati.
| Sumters war hero, Gen. Robert An
| derson lies at West Point. In the same
cemetery are the graves of Gems. Kilpat-
| rick. the dashing cavalryman; j. Nj. Bran
non, Grover, Hartsaff, William Hays,
| Mackenzie; also a distinguished cavalry
| man, Charles p Stone; Sykes, leader of
| Fifth corps, ard the veteran Keyes, who
died in Switzerland in 1895, and was
| brought to West Point for burial.
The author Of that phrase which in
| 1861 thrilled the Northern heart, eff any
man attempts to haul down the American
! flag, shoot him on the spot" Gen. John
A. Dix, found his last resting place in
| Trinity Cemetery on Washington
Heights. Fremont, f"fhe Pathfinder"
is buried in Rockland Cemetery, on the
Hudson, above New York. Far up the
| Hudson, and quite beyond the classic re-
gion of the Highlands, sleeps the "Rock
of Chickamauga." Gen. Thomas. His
grave is in Oak Wood Cemetery, Troy.
The grave of Ger. Sherman in Cal
vary Cemetery, St. Louis, is marked with
a monument Mcclellan lies in River
View Cemetery at Trenton. Burnside
sleeps in the soil of his adopted State,
Rhode Island His grave in Swamp Point
| Cemetery, Providence, is kept in good Or
der, permanent fund having beer estab-
lished for that purpose. Gen. Joseph
Hooker, Fighting Joe," the third COM
mander of the army Of the Potomac,
| sleeps in Cincinnati. Meade, fourth and
| last commander of that army, is buried
in Philadelphia.
| Col Ellsworth, the Zouave, known as
the flag martyr of Alexandria, is buried
in the little village cemetery at Mechan-
| icsville, N. Y. Nathaniel Lyon, also a
hero Of the first months of the war, is
buried at Eastford Conn. Maj. Theodore
Winthrop, another of the martyrs Of
1861, and who was shot through the heart
while leading a forlorn hope at Big Beth
ell, is buried at New Haven, Conn. "Hold
| the Fort Corse, who survived his war
wounds, and died a couple of years ago
in Boston, is buried at Burlington, Iowa.
! Gushing, the hero Of Albemarle sound,
and who also survived his war injuries
for some years. but at last succumbed to
them, is buried at the naval cemetery at
| Annapolis.
Hancock, "the superb who led innum-
| cradle battle charges famous in history,
| is buried at Norristown, Pa, in a vault
| constructed under his own supervision
1 IT, ho h. g.
| steam ram feet. and died Of wound re-
J ceived in the desperate naval battle at
Memphis, sleeps at Laurel Hill Gene
terry, Philadelphia. Farragut, the bold
| fighter and brilliant feet commander, is
buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, New
York. Gen. Stannard, whose brigade Of
"Green Mountain" militia turned the tide
at Gettysburg, ir, repulsing Pickett's
charge, is buried at Burlington, vt.
Col Robert G. Shaw, whose regiment
of black soldiers, ''Their line of eyeballs
cleaning white" had the place of honor
in the storming of Fort Wagner, was kill
ed on the parapet, and the southerners,
| who held the field, placed him in trench
| scooped out of the sand between the fort
| ard the sea. In the course Of time the
| action Of the waves destroyed the surface
| of the beach to considerable depth and
scattered the bones of Wagner's heroes
beyond recovery.
Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher was
drowned from a vessel in the Missouri
river, Montana, and his body could never
be recovered. The body Of the gallant
| Custer was removed from the scene Of
| the horrible massacre on the Little Big
Horn, and buried at West Point.
| Logan is buried in the National Gene
terry at the Soldiers Home, Washington.
| D. G. Slocum is buried at Greenwood
near the tomb OF Henry Ward Beecher
Buffers remains lie in private grounds
| belonging to the family, plot annexed to
| Hildreth Cemetery at Lowell Banks,
| grave is at Grove Hill Cemetery.
The National Cemetery at Arlington.
Va. is destined to become hallowed with
| the ashes Of many Of the distinguished
| soldiers and sailors Of the civil war
! Nearly two score whose names are house
| hold words because of their daring deeds
in battle now rest at Arlington, among
! them Sheridan, who has already been
i mentioned. The heroes Of the deck buried
at Arlington thus far are Admirals Por-
ter and Jenkins and Rear Admirala
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