The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-29
About Our National Cemeteries

noImv days of democratic Athens
ID ~e ~ every citizen who had per-
,n ,hs service OF his country were
s.n, home to be buried in the cerami-
cDsn. dow was appointed In winter.
-m,ary operations were suspended,
|1ep ,'.,oral One of the noblest ora
p0 ,ntiouity-tfat attributed by
<~ydldes to Pericles-"as delivered on
a an OCCASION ~
,a~ nations build stately mauso-
~ ,hoir great generals, but are
.,tent 10 allot only the hasty
p or ditch TO the common soldier.
~ os Of British soldiers, for cX-
arc scattered The world around
|rs Kipilng'
/ -da. a the Widow at Windsor.
tslk ~ creation she owns:
|foT u" boucht 'er the same with the
asuord an the lame,
smnyr've saltcd II down with our
bonSS; nSSSc;prars.-Its blue with our
4 boncs'l
\ ,h,s rule Of indifference as to the
|Io in,s, in',,r nIacc OF obscure heroes the
~ siafes forms u shining and hon
.leu S,'ceniion, There are today eighty
[plt .,HfonaI cemeteries. which contained
ia.h 10Th of June, 1909. the graves OF
w American soldiers and sailors,
-, CEMETERIES are among the grand
|pesss iovnlIest OF God : acres in the
s''u abey arc laVishly adorned by ma
nd art and guarded by the starry
Agp T,easurc has been expended upon
q .i,hou stint They are lovingly
,or by a large corps of supcrintend-
nverseers and gardeners.
4 n,,,onal cemeteries are mainly
4. ~ the civil war. in September,
,hc secretary OF war, by general
directed accurate and permanent
Sds 10 be kept OF deceased soldiers
,hsir placcs of burial The work
.ssicned 10 the Guartermaster gen.
4 5oonrtment. That department al
ned charge OF the burial OF officers
i5iers. but its care had ordinarily
wIfh the drifting smoke of the
,bat were discharged over their
sct Of July Il. 1862, congress en-
q the president TO purchase ceue-
rrounds. To be used for the
~ soldiers who shall die in the
n thcir country" Such was the
.,rv of the great war that for some
nj action was taken under the law.
Cemetery at Gettysburg.
uou,rr the battle OF Gettysburg.
ror Curtin OF Pennsylvania lnaug-
"a movement whereby several
purchased seventeen acres Of
Embracing the center OF the union
"a caused to be diSluterred and
II there the bodies OF the soldiers
"A been buried outside this area.
,meferv was dedicated by Lincoln,
ber 10. 1868. In that perfect trib-
tho ''hnnored dead who there
Ibs last full measure of DEVOTION"
fenctcry was subsequently taken
fr the nation.
rpmeterles at Antietam. Murfrees-
chattanooga and other places were
Is begun bv states or by federal
acting under orders of their COM
h.. That al Chattanooga WAS
n The result of the activity OF Gen,
- X. Thomas, in charge Of the de-
enL II IS related that when the
D, reiuterring the dead was pro-
q a question arose as 10 whether
.houId he buried together accord
The states from which they came.
1 have heard enough about states
lzles' rights lately" said Thomas.
. II hough a VjrginIan. had remained
b the union. Let us mix thcm
ID nationallze them a little"
Andersonville Prison.
3 Cemeteries sprang up by mere
Riatlon nj lnterments about MILL
dnters, hospitals. prisons. etc. At
pnyille, for example. the dead
f1ucd by parties Of their comrades.
Notwithstanding the horrors OF their
h. took pious care to keep accurate
3 and even erected many rude
5lrds. From first TO last about
men were confined AT Anderson
In August. 1864. there were 81 1913
Xsz penned in that dread area, the
~ number al any one time. The
I1ssih occurred February 2I, 1864:
si. April IS. 1865. In that short
here was n total Of l2,9l2-a NOR
d Is per cent.
% summer OF 1865, force Of men
clpt. James Moore were sent TO
/cuyille 10 iuclose tho grounds and
headcards for each grave. They
te 10 Identify 12.461 Of the graves.
only 451 Unknown" The world
# nurse. Miss Clara Barton. ac-
ped this expedition, and wrote
% vivid that the reader cannot
& 4e Impression that he Is viewing
'fes she describes.
y 1latcly after the war the work Of