The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-29
By Paul Leland Haworth

could scarcely be imagined. Magnificent
old oaks shade its glndes and knolls, and
art has perfected what nature left un-
done.
The cemetery contains the tornbs of
Logan, Sheridan. Lawton, and other
noted generals. but the most famous mon
gathered from the fields Of Bull Run and
the route to the Rappalannock: AS the
inscription states, their remains could
not bo identified. but their names and
deaths are recorded in the archives OF
their country. and its grateful citizens
honor them as OF their noble army OF
martyrs.
ION famc's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac OF the dead
1t is only when one stands before this
monument and looks about at the thou
sands Of little headstones cleaning white
| against the greensward that he realizes
| 10 the full the price that some men have
paid for their country
Custer Cemetery.
One Of the most Interesting national
cemeteries is that on Clusters battlefield
! I'm Montana. The story OF how the DASH
ing, yellow haired young major general
and every man OF five companies OF the
| tie with the Sioux. June 20. 1876, Is
known TO everyone. The 2Ge dead. In
Bentecn. were buried where they fell the
bodies in most Instances being found
naked and shoclslngly mutilated Sub
seGuently tho bodies were taken mp and
reburied In q hollow square 10 the east
OF the present monument Near by are
also buried the men who fell at the Fort
Kearney massacre in 1866 and those
killed by the Sioux at old Fort Smith
a year or two later Several soldiers
who died in the Philippines and deceased
veterans of the Civil war have likewise
| found IL last resting place there. so that
the interments In the cemetery now total
upward OF 1900.
Smallest National Cemetery.
The smallest national cemetery Is that
at Balls Bluff Va, 1t Is on the site
OF the battlefield OF that name. fought
i'm 1861. II is only fifty feet square. and
Is situated on "A large bluff overlooking
the upper Potomac 1t contains the
The only national cemetery outside the
limits of the United States is that in the
City Of Mexico. 1t was established In
1851, three years after the close of the
Mexican war, and contains the remains
Of $40 known and $50 unknown dead
men who lost their lives In carrying the
Stars and Stripes TO the halls of tho
Montezumas. IL has an area OF Two
llshed prior TO tho civil war
or the 5000 soldiers and sailors In
TERED in the ma national cemeteries a.. the
newn nev9a over erCSy 5000 Of the iu total are tho
bodies of confederates, and who can say
that they do not sleep peacefully beside
their former foes?
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the roses. the Blue,
Under the lilies. the Gray.
Soldiers Of the revolution. OF the war
OF 1872 OF the Mexican war, Of the civil
war. OF the war with Spain, and OF many
minor conficts-all have found a final
resting place in the national cemeteries,
| A special disinterring corps has been
maintained by the government for bring
| Ing home tho remains OF soldiers who
died In Cuba and the Philippines. In
1908 for example 1$T bodies were
brought home from the Philippines, or
which number nlnety-three were deliy-
cred TO friends or relatives, while the
rest were reinterred IN national cenle-
teTies
For every soldier or sailor buried In
| such n cemetery the government which
he served furnishes a headstone AMI
footstone. unless relatives or friends
erect something more elaborate.