Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-07-06
TRIBUTE TO z. s. MILLER,
Capt. s. K. Mckinnis Writes Of the
Late General e. s. Miller A
Tribute.

Tribute.
Capt. S. X. McGinnis: I came out
to Bismarck to attend the funeral of
Adjutant General II. s. Miller. A
large number of his old neighbors and
friends and all his old comrades in
jamestown would like to have had
him buried there, where he had lived
so long-since 1880, if I am not mis-
taken. Col. Miller was known to us as
warm hearted and generous man.
He had his faults Of course so have
we all. In the early days when we
all had to struggle he was one of us.
At the end of many year, after start
ing in the spring with a hope that the
coming season would not be a repeti-
ton of the past, found ourselves again
disappointed. The following lines of
Dryden comes to my mind:
when consider life, tits all a cheat.
Yet fool'd with hope, men favor the
deceit;
Trust on and think tomorrow will
repay.
Tomorrow's falser than the former
day;
Lies worse, and while it says we
shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we
possest.
Strange cozenage! none would live
past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet re-
MAIN
In such years E. S. Miller was our
neighbor and our friend. Many of us
did not know that he and Mrs. Miller
had bought and established a home in
Bismarck and therefore your city has
the honor of giving him final resting
place.
He had a remarkable memory of
times and places in the stirring times
of the civil war. I am told by one of
the family, that even in closing days
when weak and worn his mind would
revert to days when he was marching
and fighting. He went into the army
a mere boy for at his death he was
only SO years of age. Just 43
years ago to the very hour when the
casket was being lowered into his
narrow home in the cemetery and
Rev. o. F. Jones was so impressively
reading the beautiful Masonic service
and his brother Masons were dropping
the sprigs of evergreen, he was en-
gagged in the memorable fight at Mel
vern Hill, Va.-July 1, 1862.
This was the second funeral of an
adjutant general that have attended.
The other was that of my old comrade
and friend of Cooper's Battery Of
Penn, Capt. VIM. McClelland. In the
early sos Capt. McClelland made his
headquarters in Jamestown. being
agent of the Thaw estate who had a
large quantity of land in North Da-
kota. In 1884 VIM. H. Seward Post
G. A. R. was organized in jamestown.
Capt. McClelland and F., s Miller were
both charter members of the post and
together marched At the encampment
at Minneapolis in July of that year.
Capt. McClelland@ was appoi1 ted
adjutant general of Pennsylvania by
Gov. Robert E. Pattison in January
1891. While at, all times very
popular in Pennsylvania, so efficient
and well did the captain discharge lis
duties in the trying, lines of the 1iots
in the coal regi,as of western
Pennsylvania which occurred shortly
after his appointment, tina. he added
to his popularity, at the same time
having the respect Of the !aborers in
the mines and the stat, officials. Capt.
McClelland was stricken by disease
and died at Harrisburg, February z,
1892. The funeral was Geld at Pitts
burg. It was the largest funeral ever
held in that city. All the state
militia in western Pennsylvania were
in attendance which included both
infantry and artillery, several :egi-
ments under command of General
Willy, Gov. Pattison ami I'll his official
family were in attendance. The
crowd on the streets extends! from
the church to the cemetery as much as
two miles. -.
Only few months since Gov.
Pattison too was called !y death after
having served the state OF Pennsyl-
vania faithfully eight years as COVER
nor.
There has been regret expressed by
some that the time was not sufficient
to have had more of the state militia
and state officers in attendance at the
funeral Of Adjutant General Miller,
but perhaps it was his request to have
a plain and unostentacious service.
"They sleep beneath the shadows #
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