Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-05-30

equipment. When go into the field OF active
service each about his neck "a piece of
tape, and hung upon that tape there IL a metal
tag which contains his name. the branch Of the
service 10 which he belongs aud HIS particular
regiment and company This tag is made OF
aluminium and the lettering is stamped into t.
1t is practically indestructlbe. II n man Is killed
in battle he may always be identified
When the identity OF the individual has boon
established the department viii communicate
with his relatives. If they desire his remains.
these will be prepared for transportation to the
old home. They will be brought back To his own
people to be buried they wish An expenses
will be borne by the federal government II the
relatives OF the dead soldier sailor prefer
that he be buried in national cemetery they
may so order, and the orders will be carried out
to the letter
There the men who have died in the Philip.
pines, for instance. None OF these left to rest
in this foreign. tropic land. All are eventually
sent back to the states Relatives informed
Of their coming. They may order the disposition
Of the remains they Mt. In case there IL
no call for the remains OF the Philippine vet
eran, his body is Inferred In the national GENE
terry at San Francisco and duly marked.
During the Civil there great numbers
of Confederate soldiers taken prisoners and held
in northern prisons Many OF these died In these
prisons. and many others, suffering from wounds
and disease died In the hospitals OF the Union
forces Two years ago the federal government
appropriated 900 TO mark the graves OF
these Confederate soldiers. That money IL now
being expended. The task Is practically com
pleted The Confederate dead are thus being
honored In the land from which came their enc.
mics n the monster conflict
At many on the prisons the dead Confederates
were buried separately. and their graves we're
marked with their names In these the
graves being permanently marked with head
stones of a design different from those used for
the Union troops. but In way less imposing
There is the cemetay at Eimira N. Y. for
instance. The resting place of the Confederate
dead at that point Is no less beautiful nor well
cared for than any OF the national GENE
teries.
But In most instances II was found that the
dead had been buried In trenches an were most
of the dead on both sides in that Here II
Is impossible TO identify the individual remains
but the Of all the buried In given
trenches are 70 be found In the records Of the
prison. In such imposing monument
~ erected over the spot and the names of all the
dead resting there are inscribed upon II Such
monument has been erected at Camp Douglas
Chicago. and upon IL names OF ATE Confed.
crates. At Point Lookout are the remains Of
1900 prisoners who died and their resting place
has been marked by a similar monument The
same course il being followed at Sinna Point
N. j.; at Alton, Ill: At Camp Morton. Ind aud AZ
Camp Chase. Columbus. D. All such buying
grounds we're marked by Jan. l. 1912 and the
commission appointed for that purpose disbanded
The federal government has taken action
toward marking the graves OF Confederate sol
ders other than those who died IN northern priE
ons and teanitals But throughout the south the
various organizations such as the United Con
federate Veterans and the Daughters ~ the Con
federaey have given ample recognition 10 the
men who died for the southern cause Their
bodies have been gathered IN special cemeteries
monuments have been buft in their honor and
their graves have been appropriately marked
In the south on Memorial day sheTs often
enacted scenes that even more tDWc.hg than
those in other sections. for there the Of
both causes. those Who wore the blue and those
who wore the gray. ioln hands IN honoriBg The
military dead Oftentimes the uniforms Of ths
two causes. worn b. In the very eyentide
of life. In evidence and old anirnoeltI.s are
buried In realization Of the Yaer ~ both com
batsnts and the fact that each fought for cause
he deemed the right