Evening star., 1902-02-05
COL. HOSMERS FUNERAL
SIMPLE But IMPRESSIVE SERVICES
HELD THIS MORNING.
Interment With Military Honors at
ArIingtOn-His Long and Active
Military Career.

The funeral of the late Col. Addison A
Hosmer, who was for many years a pictur-
esque figure about Washington and who
was well known to a former generation
was held at II o'clock today from the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church. De-
spite the intense cold there were present
at the services, which were brief and sim
pie, many of Col. Hosmers old friends and
companions of the Loyal Legion, of which
order he was member. The Rev. DR..
Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of the church,
conducted the services. There We're many
floral pieces from friends in the war and
navy. The casket, about which was en-
twined an American flag, was transported
to Arlington on caisson draped in black
and escorted by detachment of battery
of field artillery and detachment of nom
commissioned officers of the I'd Cavalry.
stationed at Fort Myer. The body bearers
were six troopers of the I'd Cavalry.
The honorary pallbearers were Mr.. Archi-
bold Hopkins, Chief Justice Mott of the
United States Court of Claims, Senator
Joseph R. Hawley of Connecticut, Major
General o. b. Wilcox, L. S. A; Gen. John
NJ. Wilson, L. S. A; Col George A. Wood
ward, L. S "A; Gen. Davis judge advocate
general, L. S. A, and Capt. Lemly, judge
advocate general, L. S. N. The funeral
train was met a Arlington by a firing party
composed of infantrymen from Fort Myer.
Following the lowering of the casket to the
grave the Rev. DR.. Radcliffe offered prayer.
A parting salute was fired over the grave
and the bugler sounded taps.
Col. Hosmer's Career.
Col. Addison A. Hosmer, son of Gen. f.
NJ. and Mary Cheny Hosmer. was born at
Oakdale. Mass, on February IS, 1893. He
prepared for Union College, which he en-
tered in the autumn of 1858. After a three
years course he left college to take up the
study of law. He read for time in North
Carolina, but, in 1860, returned north and
went to Boston, where he was living at
the breaking out of the civil war. He was
commissioned by Gov. Andrew first lieu
tenant and regimental quartermaster of
tn: 18th Massachusetts Volunteers, then
stationed at Camp Cameron, near Boston.
Early in January, 1862, he was trans
ferred to the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Ar
tllery serving at Fort Albany, being pro-
NOTED to a captaincy. At the second bat
tie of Bull Run he was aid-de-camp to
Gen. Samuel d. Sturgis and continued on
his staff during the Maryland campaign.
being present at the battles of South Noun
tain and Antietam. He was then detailed
to act as judge advocate at what became
the very famous court-martial of Major
Mckinstry at st. Louis. The trial lasted
mere than three months and resulted in
complete exposure of the quartermaster' 9
large embezzlements.
Ordered back to his regiment. he served
with it in the defenses around Washington
at the time when the confederate army
was attacking the capital.
Appointed Judge Advocate.
Late in 1868 President Lincoln appointed
him judge advocate with the rank of ma
jor, and after that he labored assiduously
in the bureau Of military justice. In fact,
his ill-health during all the latter years of
his life was directly attributable to his ex-
posure in the field and his severe labors as
judge advocate. In August, 1864, during
the absence of General Holt, he was act
ing judge advocate general He was judge
advocate of the military commission that
tried and convicted Major Wirz of the con-
fedefate army, who had been in command
of the military prison at Andersonville dur
ing the war and who had boasted that he
was killing more men in prison than Cen
eral Mcclellan in the field.
Colonel Hosmer assisted also In the trial
Of the accomplices in the assassinati ton of
President Lincoln. He was one Of the first
to reach the White House on that sad occa-
sion and took the Presidents son to his
fathers bedside. His duties brought him
into daily contact with President Lincoln
and they became warm personal friends.
Late in 1865 he resigned from the army
but not before he was brevetted colonel for
his distinguished services.
Colonel Hosmer commenced the practice
of law in Washington having aSsocia ted
himself with N. P. Chapman, afterward
delegate to Congress from the District, but
in 1877 ill-health compelled him to abandon
active practice. He always took great in
terest in military affairs and was one of
the organizers and a vice president of the
Army and Navy Club and vice COM
mander in the District commandery Of the
Loyal Legion.
A widow and three children survive him,
Mrs. Rollin Norris Of Philadelphia and Ed
ward S. Hosmer and Louis H. Hosmer of
New York. They were present at the fu-
neral.
Recruits to Go to Manila.