The National tribune., 1901-06-20
GRAVES OF HEROES.
Where Sleep Many of the Nations Honored
Dead.

Gen. Grant sleeps in the imposing tomb
at Riverside, on the banks of the Hudson.
Mcclellan in River View Cemetery, Tren-
ton, n. ]. Burnside, who commanded the
Ninth Corps, is buried at Swamp Point
Cemetery, Il. l. Fighting joe Hooker
is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Gin
cinnati Gen. George Gordon Meade, who
was the last commander of the Army of
| the Potomac, leading it from Gettysburg
to AppomattoX, is buried in Laurel Hill
Cemetery.
Gen. John A. Logan rests in n noble
mausoleum in the grounds of the Soldiers
Home, Washington, and a snort distance
away, under a modest headstone, is the
grave of Gen. Henry ]. Hunt, Chief of
Artillery of the Army of the Potomac,
and who was Governor of the Soldiers
Home at the time of his death. Gen.
Samuel Z. HciniZclman, the first com
mardcr of the Third Corps, is buried in
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. y. Y.
Not stones throw from his grave sleeps
Gen. William f. Barry, who was Chief
of Artillery with Gen. Sherman through
ont the Atlanta campaign and on the
marcn to the sea. In the same beautiful
cemetery is the grave of Gen. Daniel ID.
Bidwcll, who was killed at Cedar Creek
and that of Gen. Bennett Riley, II veteran
of tine Mexican war and the hero Of Con
treraS, where he won his star.
Gen. Benz. +. Buffers grave is at
| Lowell, Mass. On the banks of the Hud-
son sleep Gen. John 4. Dix and Gen. John
| c. Fremont; the former in Trinity Gene
terry, on Washington Hights, and the lat
ter in ROckland Cemetery. Gen. George
II. Thomas, the Rock of Chicamauga,
rests in Oakwood Cemetery. Troy, y. Y.
| Admiral David Glasgow Farragut is
buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.
Con NpfhpninI vi " killed
| Wilson's Greek i'll the first year of the
war, is buried at EastfOrd, Conn; the
gifteu Elmer T.. Ellsworth ut Mechanics
vile, Saratoga County, n. Y, and Maj.
Theodore Winthrop, who was killed at
Great Bethel, lies at New Haven. Conn.
The intrepid Commander CuShing-bet-
ter known as Albemarle Cushing
in the Naval Cemetery at Annapolis. Gen.
VIM. II. Sherman'S grave is i'll Calvary
Cemetery, st. Louis, and Gen. John g.
Parke is buried in the cemetery of the
Church of st. John the Less, in PhiIadel-
phia. The impetuous Phil kearny lies
in Trinity Church-yaTd, New York City.
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry sleeps
at Newport, Il. l., and Gen. VIM. J..
Worth, conspicuous figure in the war
with Mexico, rests in a vault under the
imposing monument erected to his memory
on Madison Square, New York City. Gen
Don Carlos Buell. is buried i'll Bellefon-
tam Cemetery. st. LOUIS; OOl. tnarieS a.
Wikoff, who fell at San Juan, at EastOn,
Pa, and Gen. VIM. II. Lytle, who fell at
Chickamauga, and who was the author of
the thrilling poem, Il Am Dying, Egypt,
Dying" is buried in Spring Grove Gem
etery, Cincinnati. Gen. Fitz John Porter
lies in Greenwood Cemetery; Gen. John
Sedgwick, who fell at SpOttsylyania,
while in command of the Sixth Corps, at
Cornwall, Conn, and Gen. James Il. Nc
phersOn, who fell before Atlanta, is buried
in his mothers orchard, at Clyde, Ohio,
amid the scenes of his boyhoOd
At West Point are buried Lieat.-Gen.
Winfield Scott, and Gems. George Sykes,
T.. ID. Keyes, Robert Anderson, of Fort
Sumter fame; Judson Fitzpatrick, the fa-
nous cavalry leader: J. NJ. Brannan, Geo.
l.. Hartsuff, Ronald Mackenzie, and others
equally well known.
At Arlington are the graves Of Gems.
Philip II. Sheridan. John A. Rollins. Low
ell II. Rousseau, John Gibbon. Guy V.
Henry, A. V. Kautz. Joseph \. Mower
Rufus Ingalls,, George Crook, Abner
Doubleday. T.. o. c. Ord and his gallant
son, Jules Garesche Ord, who fell at San
Juan: James b. Ricketts,, Montgomery G..
Meigs, Joseph J. Burthett, Daniel Mac
auley, VIM. b. Hazen, Stewart Van Vliet
Admiral Daria ID. Porter, Col. Berdan, of
sharpshOOter fame, and q host of others
whose honored names are inSeparably in
terwoyen with their cOuntrys history.
Here. too. sleep the fearless LawtOn,
killed in the fur-off Philippines the vet
eran Liscum, killed at Tien Tsin, and the
Gallant Reilly, who fell at Pekin.