The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-15
Interesting Exercises Dedicat-
ing Monument to Unknown
Dead at National
Cemetery.
TENDER AND ELOQUENT
Governor Carroll, Chief Execu
tive of Iowa, Delivers the
Principal Address
Other Remarks.

Otl1SI IGEllldI hS.
The skies were flecked with clouds
In the early morning to look down up
on the Keokuk National cemetery
where In the afternoon was to occur
one of the most interesting and not
able events that ever took place in
this silent bivouac of the dead. In
this sacred spot lie buried over
thousand veterans, a full regiment of
the dead Among these known heroes
of the civil war are number of
graves marked unknown and eight
confederate soldiers. On Memorial
Day each mound has its quota OF
springs choicest flowers. They sleep
sweetly and quietly side by side, here
federal and there confederate,
without discrimination. Alabama
sleeps by Iowa and Mississippi beside
Illinois:
NO more shall the war cry sever
Or the winding rivers be red;
They Danish our angers forever,
When they laurel the graves of our
dead.
Under the sod and the dew;
Waiting the Judgment day;
Love and tears for the blue
Tears and love for the gray
And the memories come back to US
"as sad as earth, as sweet as heaven"
The old soldiers, the gray-haired vet
them in their minds today as they
stand around the beautiful and touch
Ing monument to the unknown dead,
1t was women's prayers, devotion
and tears that inspired the courage
and heroism on the battlefields of the
civil war, and it was women's patti
ence, untiring work and loyalty TIC
country and duty that placed this
monument in the National cemetery
today. The Woman's Relief Corps, in
season and out of season, bent their
energies to the accomplishment OF a
tender and patriotic object, the perpe.
tuation of the memory of the loved
unknown who fell on the field of car
mage and left nothing behind which
would identify them to the world OF
the loved ones at home. Many q
Somebody's Darling" lies sleeping
beneath these hero mounds whose
grave stones bear only the pitiful le-
gend, UNKNOWN
"In the ward of the white washed
walls,
Where the dead and dying lay,
Wounded by bayonets, shell and balls
Somebody's darling was borne to
day
Somebody's darling, SO young and SC
brave,
Wearing yet on his pale sweet face
Soon to be hid by the dust of the
grave,
The lingering light of his boyhood' s
grace.
Somebody's waiting and watching
for him
Yearning TO hold him again to the
heart;
And there he lies with his blue eyes
dim,
And the smiling childlike lips apart
Tenderly bury the fair young dead,
Pausing to drop on his grave q tear;
Carve on the wooden slab at his head
Somebody's darling slumbers
here"
There is large number present Il
witness this important ceremony. in
Guiding Gov. B. F. Carroll chief execu
tive of Iowa and his company, Capt
j. p. Brown of Leon, commander o
the Grand Army Of the Re
public of Iowa, the survivin
members of the Thirtieth low
civil war regiment, here in reunion o
their golden anniversary, and nun
Der of out of town veterans and cit
bens who all seem to take much il
terest. and appreciate the greatness
the occasion-the dedication of
splendid piece of art to stand forevt
looking down upon the bivouac
dead comrades, perpetuating til
memory of those who are unknown
here. but will be recognized on tn;
grand day around the great viii
throne.