Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-21
CONGRESS STILLS
CIVIL WAR ECHO
Protest Against Inscription
on Joe Wheeler MOnu-
ment Ignored

lime auO attention was called 20 "a
bin introduced IN the senate pro-
Tor payment hy The Govern
ment 20 certain Officers OF he Com
ied"ratc service who had suffered, u
was said. many hardships while pris-
oners. and had suffered them con-
trary "a the lsagos Of warfare II
was also said that Ii a bin OF this
kind had been introduced wears ago
@ would have been made the suhIect
of long and heated debates ON the
floor of Congress. The war. how
ever. seems 10 be- a long time in the
past.
II was only recently. however. that
objection was raised by a few subor'
dinate officials In the war department
10 cutting into the monument over he
grave OF Gen. Joe Wheeler In Airing
ton words which would show that he
had been a major general In the
armed forces OF the C%onfederacy. II
these officials hoped to have their way
they soon found out that II was to be
denied them. for many federal sol
dlers. and all the high officials OF gov
eminent protested against the obioe-
ton. The inscription showing that
Wheeler was a major general OF the
C~onfoderacy already had been cut into
the granite and tho hone OF the sane
ones Is that q win remain there as
long as the granite endures.
vent 20 Arlington and read the
Confederate service inscription. II
leads the rest - the record OF Wheel
er's soldier service. Below II appears
the statement OF tho fact that Wheel
or was a major general In the Federal
army at the time Of his death. lie
rests under the blue Of the sky and
the gray Of the clouds and he rests In
good company.
Oak 10 S~ehoheld's Monument
Wheeler. the Confederate veteran,
and Schoncld. the Union veteran. died
about the same time and the bodies
OF both were buried In Arlington They
sleep practically side by side. A tall
shaft marks the southerncr's grave
over the northerner no monument
save the small government marker as
yet has been placed.
There is a noble natural monument
however. whore Schoneld lies. II Il
an oak. stately, towering and sturdy
an oak that was not young wher
George Washington's stopson chose
Arlington for his dwelling place. and
an oak that was old when Robert +
Lee stood on the porch Of the house
still standing. not a stone throw
distance from Schoneld's grave. and
looked across the Potomac 40 Wash
ingion. then 90 urn away and 20 leave
Tor Richmond 10 take q commission
IN the Confederate army
Near Sehoheld's grave Is The grav'
OF Gen. Samuel SurgIs. who for year
commanded the seventh cavalry on,
OF General Sturris sons graduate,
from West Point 60 1875 and was i'm
mcdiat,ly assigned 20 his fathers regi
mcnt He was made a second lieu
tenant Of the troop that rode will
Custer on Co fhc Little big Horn bat
tie field Within a year Of his gradu
alton youug Surg.s was killed wit
the rest OF Clusters command by m
SIOuN Indians urdCr CmTv Wolf VII.
was 90 actual command during N.
fight. while Sitting Bull remained a
= distance The body Of Lieutcnan
Surris never was found Not Ion.
after bis death on The battle field hi
father sent his other son into m,
army De is now O. member OF IN
general sfJf and recently was ORDERS
20 Washington