The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-18
RESTS IN ARLINGTON
BODY OF GEN.w. s. RosECRANs RE-
INFERRED TIER.
PRES. RooSEVELT,S ADDRESS.
HE EMPHASIZES THE REUNION OF
THE SECTIONS.

Gen. LOngstreet and other Con-
federate Veterans Present-While
Paying Tribute to ROsecrans
and the Federal Soldiers the
President Spoke in Highest Terms
of the Men who Wore the Gray,
Referring to the "SeIf Devotion
and the FeaIty to Right of Our
Fellow Americans Against Whom
You Fought"
Washington, May 17.-With imposing
ceremonies the remains of Maj. Gen.
William Starke Rosecrans were rein
tered to-day in Arlington Cemetery,
under the direction of the Society of
the Army of the Cumberland. The SER
vices were presided over by Gen. David
B. Henderson. Speaker of the House
of Representatives, President ROose-
welt, members of his cabinet, senators
and representatives and host of
friends, including many of his old army
associates were present to pay their
last tribute to the noted soldier. Cen
James Longstreet, a classmate of Rose
Grams at West Point, was also present.
Full military honors. were accorded
the remains, which were borne to the
grave on a caisson with military es-
cort.
The remains were taken to the pa
vilion at Arlington, where the exercises
were held. Gen. Henderson delivered a
eulogy after which brief addresses
We're made by President Roosevelt
Senator Foraker and Representatives
hepburn, Grosvenor and Gardner.
The President said in part:
1T is no chance that has made Mount
Vernon and Arlington here in the
neighborhood of Washington the two
greatest memorials of a nations past
because one commentaries the found
ing and the other the saving of the
nation. If it were not for what Ar
lington symbolizes, Mount Vernon
would be little or nothing; If it were
not for what was done by Rosecrans
and his fellows; If it were not for
what they did, then the work of Wash
ington would have crumbled into
bloody chaos and the deeds of the
founders of this republic would be re-
membered only because they had been
another of the many failures of the
spirit of liberty in this country. With
out the work that you did, the work
of the men who fought to a successful
close, the Revolution would have
meant nothing. And you left us a re-
united country and, therefore the right,
with all pride in the gallantry and self
devotion of those who wore the gray
and were pitted against you in the
great struggle. The very fact that we
appreciate more and more as the years
go on the all Importance of this coun-
try and to mankind of your victory
make sit more and more possible for
us to recognize in the heartiest and
the frankest manner the sincerity, the
lf-devotion and the fealty to the right
as it was given to them to sc the right,
of our fellow Americans against whom
you fought. And now the reunion is
so complete that it is useless to allude
to the fact that it is complete. Gap
plause)
I'm any audience of this kind one
sees in the highest official and social
position men who fought as enlisted
men in the armies of the Union, in the
armies of the Copfederacy, and all we
ask is, did they prove their truth by
their endeavor? If they did, honor to
them. l should not try to eulogize the
dead general in the presence of his
comrades, in the presence of his fellow
countrymen who have come to honor
the memory of the men against whom
they were pitted in the past and who
come here, because they now, like u.s.
are Americans and nothing else, de-
voted to the Union and to one coun-
try" (Applause)
The exercises at the pavilion over,
the cortege moved slowly to the grave,
where the commitment service was
read Taps was sounded, followed by a
salvo of artillery.