Society of the Army of the Cumberland Burial of General Rosecrans Arlington National Cemetery === May 17, 1902 =^= CINCINNATI THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY 1903 p. Author. l7Je'03 February, 1903. The Committee on Publication present this volume, con- taining a full account of the preparations for and the ceremonies attending the burial of our Commander, General Rosecrans, at Arlington National Cemetery, under the auspices of the So- ,ciety. It was the most imposing event of the kind since the great dead of our armies began to be gathered in this national burying ground. Your committee has taken pleasure in giving permanent form to this record of the tribute paid by the Army of the Cumherland to the memory and the fame of General EOSECRANS. H. V. BOYNTON, Gates P. Thruston, W. J. COLBURN^ J. W. Steele, Committee on Publication. Note. — Two days after the distribution of the annual volume l)egan, those not mailed were burned in the fire wliich destroyed the establishment of our publishers. The Bobert Clarke Company. Our Executive Committee ordered a reprint. This will account to our members for the delay in receiving the volume. CONTENTS. Burial of General R(isecrans — Ceremonies at Arlington 28 Wasliingtoa Evening Star's Account 28 Speaker Henderson presides 31 Action of Congress 5-9 Addresses — Senator J. B. Foraker 37 Representative Washington Gardner 50 Representative C. H. Grosvenor 45 Speaker I). B. Henderson 31 Representative W. P. Hepburn 41 President Roosevelt 34 Circular to the Society 10 Classmates of General Rosecrans 25 Committees of Congress 8-9 Commitment Service, Rev. J. D. Stafford, D, D 53 Constitution and By-Laws 129-132 Escort of Regulars and Marines 19, 30 Funeral Party 24-27 General Correspondence — From General Rosecrans' Family 54, 55 With Secretary Cortelyou 17, 18 With Cabinet Officers 14 With Members of the Society 59-83 With Military Societies 66-75 Historical Paper, Tlie Relief of Rosecrans 84 Honorary Pall-bearers 21, 24 In Memoriam jiages 113-125 Letters — To Honorary Pall-bearers 13 Of Invitation 11, 15 Letters of Thanks — To Colonel George Andrews 20 To Colonel E. D. Dimmick 57 To Colonel A. B. Drum 58 Major Richard Sylvester 20 Major T. E. True 57 List of Members — Deceased Members • 133 Active Members 145 Lieutenant-General Miles' Order 19 Burial of General Rosecrans. Memorial Papers — General D. S. Stanley 103 General W. A. Robinson 109 Officers of the Society, 1901-1902 143 Organizations Represented 22, 25 Preparations for the Ceremonies 5 President Roosevelt's Order 18 Programme of Exercises 21 Quartette Choir, St. Patrick's Church 31 Relief of General Rosecrans (Historical) 84 ILLUSTRATIONS. General Rosecrans Frontispiece General Rosecrans (War-time Porti*ait) Facing page 5 Speaker D. B.Henderson " 31 President Roosevelt " 34 Senator J. B. Foraker " 37 Representative W. P. Hepburn " 41 Representative C. H. Grosvenor " 45 Representative Washington Gardner " 50 Rev. D. J. Stafford, D. D " 53 General D. S. Stanley " 103 General W. A. Robinson " 109 The Burial of Major-General Rosecrans, Arlington National Cemetery, May 17, 1902. The burial of the remains of Major-General Rose- crans at Arlington, nnder the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Cumherland, was one of the most imposing events of that character which "Washington has witnessed. The active participants were: President Roosevelt and his Cabinet, especially the Secretaries of War and of the E'avy, both Senate and Ilonse of Representatives, the Adju- tant-General and his assistants, the army officers at Fort Myer, the Artillery and Engineer Battalions, the Battalion of Marines, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Union Veteran Legion, the Union Veteran Union, the l^ational Guard of the Dis- trict of Columbia, and a large delegation of visiting veterans and of the Society of the Army of the CumherJancl. The first step in the preparations was to secure the par- ticipation of Congress. The following communications w^ere addressed to the President j^ro tern, of the Senate and the Speaker of the House: The Society of the Akmy or the Cumberland, WashincxTON, D. C, March 31, 1902. Sir: The Society of tlie Army of tlie Cumberland at its last Annual Meeting resolved to transfer the remains of the Ijte Major-Gexeral William S. Eosecraxs, long the Commander (5) Burial of General Rosecrans. of the Army of the Cumberland, and subsequently a member of the House of Representatives, from the receiving vault in Los AngeleS;, California, where they were deposited, to Arlington Cemetery. The burial will take place alwut the middle of May, the exact day to be hereafter announced. The officers of the Society respectfully ask that the Senate :nay be represented at the burial by committee or otherwise. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. V. BOYXTOX, Corresponding Secretary. To THE President of the Senate, Washington, D. C. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, APRIL 4, 1902. Transfer of Remains of Major-General Rosecrans. The Speaker: Without objection, the Chair will lay be- fore the House a statement from the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. The Clerk read as follows: The Society of the Arjmy of the Cumberland^ Washington, D. C, March 31, 1902. Sir: The Society of the Army of the Cumberland at its last Annual Meeting resohed to transfer the remains of the late Major-General William S. Rosecrans, long the Commander of the Army of tJie Cumberland, and subsequently a member of the House of Representatives, from the receiving vault at Los Angeles, California, where they were deposited, to Arlington Burial of General Rosecrans. Cemetery. The burial will take place about the middle of May,, the exact day to be hereafter announced. The officers of the Society respectfully ask that the House of Eepresentatives may be represented at the Inirial by com- mittee or otherwise. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. V. BoYNTOJ«r, Corresponding Secretary. To THE Speaker of the House of Rephesentatives, Wash- IXGTOX. Mr. CIrosvexor: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolution, wliich I send to the •Clerk's desk. The Clerk read as follows: [HorsE CoxcuRREXT Resolttiox No. 46.] Resolved, by the House of Eepresentatives of the United States (the Senate concurring), That there be appointed a com- mittee by the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to attend the ceremonies incident to the transfer of the remains of General William S. Rosecraxs from Cali- fornia to the Cemetery at i\rlington, A-'a., said connnittee to be a joint committee of the tAvo Houses. The Speaker: Is there objection? [After a pause.] The 'Chair hears none. The resolution was considered and agreed to. Burial of General liosccrans. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, APRIL ii, 1902. Committee to Attend the Funeral of W. S. Rosecrans. The SpI':aker : The Chair makes the following announce- ment : The Clerk read as follows: / Committee to attend the funeral exercises of the late W. S. EosECRANs: W. P. Hepburn, C. H. Grosvenor, Eugene F. Loud, George W. Steele, Washington Gardner, Montague Lessler, William Elliott, Champ Clark, Amos J. Cummings, George W. Taylor, of Alabama. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, APRIL 4, 1902. [Extract from Coxgressioxal Record.] Transfer of the Remains of General William S. Rosecrans. The President fro tempore: The Chair lays before the Senate a concurrent resolution from the House of Kepresenta- tives, which will be read. The Secretary read as follows: Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate con- curring)^ That there be appointed a committee by the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to at- tend the ceremonies incident to the transfer of the remains of General William S. Rosecrans from California to the Ceme- tery at Arlington, Va., said committee to be a joint committee of the two Houses. Mr. Foraker : I ask unanimous consent that the resolu- tion mav be now considered. Burial of General Eosecrans. The President pro tempore: The Senator from Ohio asks unanimous consent for the present consideration of the concur- rent resohition of the House of Eepresentatives. Is there ob- jection? The Cliair hears none, and the concurrent resolution is before the Senate. j\Tr. For.4_ker: ] now move that the Senate concur in the resohition. The motion was agreed to. Tile President pro tempore: The resolution does not fix the number of the committee to be appointed. Mr. Foraker : The resolution provides for a committee, but not for the numlier. I move that the number be five. The President pro tempore: The Senator from Ohio moves that the committee on the part of the Senate consist of five members. The motion was agreed to. By unanimous consent, the President pro tempore was authorized to appoint the committee on the part of the Sen- ate, and Mr. Foraker, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Proctor, Mr. Bate and Mr. Pettus were appointed. The members of the Society were notified by the following circular of the date and order of exercises : 10 Burial of Genera] Fiosecrans. Society of the Army of the Cumberland. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIE'IY. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 1901-1902. Gen. James Barnett, Chairman. Gen. H V. Bo^ nton, Corresponding Sec'y. C.M'T. J. W. Foley. M.\j. John Tweedale, U. S. A., Treasurer. Gen. W. A. Robinson. Col. J. W Steele, Recording Sec'y- Gen. P.\ul A. Oliver. Maj. Chas. E. Belknap, Historian. M.^J. W. F. Goodspeed. Gen. J. G. Parkhurst. Ol-KICERS OF THE SOCTETV, EX OFKICIO. Washington, D. C, April, 30, 1902. Dear Sir: At its last Annual Meeting the Society of the' Army of the Cumberland agreed to bring the remains of Major- General William S. Eosecrans from Los Angeles, California, to Washington, for burial at Arlington. The ceremonies will take place at the Pavilion on the Ceme- tery Grounds, Saturday forenoon. May the I'^th proximo. President Roosevelt will attend, with the members of his Cabinet. Congress has a])pointed the following Joint Committee to participate : On the part of the Senate : Joseph B. Foraker, Chairman. Redfield Proctor. John C. Spooner. William B. Bate. Edmund W. Pettus. On the part of the House of Representatives : William P. Hepburn, Chairman. Montague Lessler. Charles H. Grosvenor. William Elliott. Eugene F. Loud. Champ Clark. George W. Steele. Amos J. Cummincis. Washington Gardner. George W. Taylor. Such troops as are available in t-he vicinity of Washington will form the escort of honor, and all military organizations and societies in the District will be invited to take part. Burial of General Bosierntns. 11 The funeral cortege will move from Speahk's Undertaking- chapel, 940 F Street N. W., at 10 o'clock a. m.. May 17th. CoLOXEL David B. Henderson. Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives. who served with General Eosecrans in the battle of Corinth, and who is the only Honorary Member of the Society of llie Ariiiij of the Cuinherland, will preside at the Arlington Pavilion. Senator J. B. Foiiaker and General Cjtarles H. Gros- VENOR, representing the Society, and Senator Srooner, of the Senate Committee,- and Hon. William P. Hepburn and Hon. Washington Gardner, of the House Committee, who served under General Rosecrans, C^olonel Hepburn having been long a member of his stall', will make l)rief addresses. The commitment service will l)e by Eev. Dr. D. J. Stae- rORD, of St. Patrick's ChurelL It is to be hoped that there will be a full attendance of our members. Those members expecting to attend should ]n-omi)tly notify the Corresponding Secretary, that proper arrangements may be made for them at the ceremonies. By order of the Executive Committee. H. V. Boynton, Cor res pond in (J Secretarij. May 2, 1902. Dear Sir: The enclosed circular will inform you in regard to the progrannue which the Society of the Army of the Ciunher- land will follow in the re-burial of General Kosecrans^ remains at Arlington. If your organization will do us the honor to a])point a dele- gation of four members to represent you on that occasion, a 12 Burial of General Bosecrans. carriage will be at your service, and seats will be reserved upon the platform at the Pavilion at Arlington. Cordially yours, H. V. BOYNTON, Corresponding Secretary. Major W. P. Huxford, U. S. A., Becorder, Commandery of ilia District of Columbia, M. 0. L. L. U. S. Similar invitations were addressed to the Fifteenth Penn- sylvania Cavalry Association ; Union Veteran Legion ; Union Veteran Union ; Department of the Potomac, G. A. R. ; and the National Guard, District of Columbia. May 2. 1902. My Dear Sir: The enclosed circular will inform you in regard to the programme for the re-burial of General liosi-:- CRANS^ remains at Arlington. Undoubtedly the members of General Rosecrans' family will esteem it a mark of very high respect if the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, so long attached to his headquarters, should be rei)resented at the funeral. I am sure that the jjresence of any of your members will give great satisfaction to those of our Society wlio may be present. Cordially yours, H. V. BOYNTON, Corresponding Secretary. T. H. Smith^ Treasurer, Society of the Fifteenth Fennsylvania Cavalry, 170S Mt. Vernon St., Fhiladelphia, Fa. May 12, 1902. Dear General: The enclosed cireuhir will give you the general features of the programme for the burial of General RosECRANS^ remains at Arlington on the ITth of May next. Understanding that you were a member of his class at West Burial of General Rosccmns. IS Point, the Society will be glad if you can make it convenient to attend the exercises, and will provide a carriage for you upon 3^our signification of your intention to be present. We understand that there are two otlier members of your class in the city, namely, Gi-nekal K. J. T. Dana and Colonel Jo I IX S. McCalmont, whom we have also invited. Very respectfully, II. V. BorxTON, Corresponding Secretary. General James Longstkeet, The Normaadic, Washington, D. C. A letter identical with the following to Lieutenant- General Miles was addressed to each of the Honorary Fall- bearers: May 13, 1902. General: The ceremonies attending the burial of the re- inains of Major-General William S. Rosecrans will take place, under the auspices of the Societi/ of the Arniij of the Camher- land, at the Pavilion at Arlington Gemetery, May 17th. at 11 A. M. The family of the General will be gratified if you will serve as an honorary pall-bearer on that occasion, and the So- ciety of the Army of the Ciunherland will feel honored by your presence. The funeral cortege will assemble at the Arlington Hotel at 9.30 on the morning of May 17th, and move from there promptly for the cemetery at 10 o'clock. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. V. BOYNTON^ Corresponding Secretary. Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, IJ. S. A., Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. C. IJf Burial of Geneim Eosecrans. A letter identical Avith the following to Secretary Hay was addressed to each Cabinet officer: .¥«?/ 13, 1902. The Honorable the Secretary of State. Sir : The ceremonies attending the interment of the re- mains of Genekal Eosecrans. under tlie auspices of the SocicUj of the ArDiji of the Cumhcrland. will take place at tlie Pavilion ar Arlington Cemetery on Saturday morning. May 17th. The funeral cortege will start from the Arlington Hotel at 10 o'clock in the morning. The veterans of the Amnj of ilie Cinnhcrland will esteem it a high honor if you can he present on that occasion. H. in the pressure of tlie daily duties devolving upon you, it is pos- sihle for you to attend, upon receiving notification to that efl'ect, a carriage will he provided for you at the Arlington Hotel. The President will attend, and will drive direct to Arling- ton, and it may he that course would be preferable to you, as it would probably save you much time. In that case you could' start after the column and reach tlie Pavilion in time for the ceremonies. The enclosed circular will give you tlie general outline of the ceremonies, and a programme more in detail will be here- nfter issued. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. V. BOYNTON, Corresponding Secretary. Burial of General Rosecrans. 15 May H, 1902. The Hozstorable the Commissioi^ers of the District of Columbia. Gentlemen : The burial of the remains of Major-Gen- ERAL William S. Kosecrans^ long the commander of the Army of the Cumberland^ will take place at Arlington Cemetery under the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Cumherland, on May 17th instant. The funeral cortege will leave the Arlington Hotel at 10 o'clock on the morning of tliat day. The family of General Eosecrans and the Society of the Army of the Cumherland would consider it an honor if the Com- missioners of the District could attend these ceremonies. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. V. Boynton, Corresponding Secretary. Each member of the Reception Committee was addressed as follows: 3Iay 13, 1902. General : The ceremonies attending the burial of the remains of Major-General William S. Eosecrans will take place, under the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Cum- herland, at the Pavilion at Arlington Cemetery, May 17th, at 11 A. M. You are respectfully requested to act with General John P. Weston^ General E. A. Carman^ Colonel G. C. Kniffin and Major John Tweedale^ as a Committee to precede the funeral cortege to Arlington, and there receive the President of the United States and his Cabinet, and conduct them to their seats upon the platform. The funeral cortege will leave the Arlington Hotel promptly 16 Burial of General Rosecmns. at 10 o'clock. It is the intention of the President and his Cabinet to drive directs to the cemetery in advance of the arrival of the column. A carriage will be at the Arlington Hotel for your Committee at 9 :30 a. m.^ May 17th. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. V. BOYNTON, Corresponding Secretary. General J. C. Breckixkidge, IT. S. A.. ITVn- Department, ^Yasl^- ington, D. C. In accordance with the following requests, the Assistant Secretary of the i^avy courteously furnished the Marine Band, and secured the attendance of the Battalion of Marines: May 13, 1902. Hon. Charles H. Darling^ Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C. Sir: The burial of the remains of General Eosecrans "will take place, under the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, at Arlington Cemetery, next Saturday, May 17th. It Avill be a military funeral, and the War Department will fur- nish for the escort four troops of Cavalry, a Battery of Artillery and the Engineer Battalion. If the Navy Department could be represented by the pres- ence of the Marine Cor})s, the friends of General Eosecrans and the Society of the Army of the Cu.ntherland would esteem it a great honor. The column will be formed in the vicinity of the i\.rlington Hotel in time to leave promptly for the cemetery at 10 o'clock. "Jlie foot troops will ])e dismissed at the aqueduct bridge, so as Burial of General Rosecrans. 17 not to impose the march from that point to the cemetery u-pon them. A programme in detail will be sent you by Thursday. Ver}^ respectfully, / Your obedient servant, H. V. BOYNTON, Corresponding Secretary. Through the courtesy of Mr. T. E. Roessle, proprietor of the Arlington, the spacious parlors of that hotel were placed at the service of the Society for the assembling of the funeral party. This also gave the troops the advantage of the wide plaza in front for their formation. White House, Washington, Maij IJ^, 1902. Dear General Boynton : In reply to your letter of the lotli instant, I have pleasure in saying that an Order has already been issued in regard to the matter to which you refer. Enclosed I send you a copy of the Order. Very sincerely yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President. General H. V. Boynton, Corresponding Secretary^ etc., Wash- ington, D. C. President Koosevelt, without waiting for a request, had ordered that all veterans of the civil war in the service of the government in Washington should be allowed to par- ticipate in the ceremonies. IS Burial of General Rosecrans. BY THE PRESIDEA^T OF THE UNITED STATES. EXECUTIVE ORDER, It is hereby ordered that such employes of the Executive Departments, the Government Printing Office, and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, D. C, as served in the mili- tary or naval service of the United States in the late Civil War sliall be excused from duty on Saturday, the 17th instant, to enable them to attend the ceremonies incident to the re-burial of the late Major-General W. S. Eosecrans. (Signed,) Theodore Eoosevelt. White House, May 12, 1902. May 15, 1902. Dear Mr. Cortelyou: Many thanks for your courtesy in forwarding a copy of the order of the President. If it can be done without interrupting him, will you please express my per- sonal thanks, and assure him that the family of General Rose- crans and the veterans of the Army of the Cumberland will always hold in lasting remembrance his attention to this occasion which touches them all so deejDly. You will notice that in the enclosed circular we have in- cluded the President among those who will make brief remarks- While I clearly remember his statement that he did not de- sire to make an address, since he was so soon to appear as the chief speaker on Memorial day, still it did not seem just the thing to me to leave him out entirely, and simply mention him as one attending. Of course, the matter will be wholly within his wishes, but as none are to do more than make a few re- marks, if he will simply take part in a few sentences, it would not only gratify all present, but our friends throughout the country. Cordially yours, H. V. BOYNTON. Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the President, Wasli- ington, D. C. Burial of General Rosecrans. 19 Lieutenant-Genekal Miles, commanding the army, is- sued the order for the formation of the escort: War Department^ Adjutant-General^s Office^ Washington, May 13, 1902. Commanding Officer, Fort Myer, Virginia. Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Lieutenant- General commanding the army directs that a funeral escort consisting of the Third Battalion of Engineers, Second Squad- ron, Second Cavalry, and the Fourth Field Battery, is desig- nated for the funeral of the late General William S. Eose- CRANs, and will form near the Arlington Hotel in time to leave there at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, May 17th. The escort will conduct the remains to Arlington Cemetery, where funeral services, with military honors, will be held. One troop of cavalry, with funeral caisson, mounted bearers and flags, will report at Speare's undertaking rooms, 940 F Street, North- west, receiving remains at 9 :30 a. m., and accompany them to the escort at the i\.rlington Hotel, where the honorary pall-bearers and other persons attending the funeral will join the column in carriages. The Engineer Battalion v>'ill be accompanied by its band, and upon arrival at the Aqueduct Bridge the battalion and band will form in line, saluting the remains as they pass, and then be dismissed. The battalion commander will report to Lieu- tenant-Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick, Second Cavalry, for fur- ther instructions. The Second Cavalry band will place itself at the head of the column as the latter enters Fort Myer, and will furnish music for the remainder of the ceremony. The Field Battery will fire the salvos, or the Cavalry, dismounted, fire volleys as may be desired. Should the Battalion of Marines form part of the escort, it will be dismissed at the Aqueduct Bridge, as directed for the Engineer Battalion. 20 Burial of General Rosecrans. Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick, Second Cav- alry, is designated to command the escort, and will confer for further particulars with General H. V. Boynton. Very respectfully, Geo. Andrews^ Assistant Adjutant-General. Washington, May 20, 1902. My Dear Major : ^Yhat would official pageants in Wash- ington be but for you? I never have anything to do with one that I do not at once find myself under the deepest obligations to you, to your assistants and your men. Let me thank you most earnestly for your attention on Saturday at the re-burial of General Eosecrans. The work of your force was perfect in giving the great column free space for movement, and everybody interested appreciated it very highly — but no one more than, Your friend, H. V. Boynton. Major Richard Sylvester, Chief of Metropolitan Police. May 22, 1902. My Dear Colonel: Will you please accept for the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and for myself personally, this expression of the gratitude we feel for the attention which you gave to the preparations connected with the ceremonies of Saturday last. It was a matter of common remark on all sides that no great occasion has passed off in Washington with greater smoothness and success than that which you were so largely instrumental in organizing. Cordially yours, H. V. Boynton, Corresponding Secretary, Colonel George Andrews, U. S. A., War Department, Wash- ington, D. C. Burial of General Rosecrans. . 21 PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES. The Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Washington, D. C, May 15, 1902. BURIAL OF MAJOE-GENEEAL WILLIAM STAEKE EOSECEANS, At Arlington National Cemetery, May 17, 1902. The funeral cortege will leave the Arlington Hotel (Ver- mont Avenue and I Streets N. W.) promptly at 10 o'clock a. m. The assignment to carriages will begin at 9 :30 o'clock. The escort will consist of the following Eegular troops, Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick, Second U. S. Cav- alry, commanding, preceded by a platoon of Metropolitan Police : Band of the Corps of Engineers. Third Battalion Corps of Engineers. The Battalion Marine Corps. Fourth Battery Field Artillery. Four Troops of the Second Cavalry. Rev. D. J. Stafford, D. D. Caisson. Honorary Pall-bearers. Lieutenant-General John M. Schofield, U. S. A. Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A. Major-General H. C. Corbin, U. S. A. Brevet Major-General A. Baird, U. S. A. Brigadier-General John M. Wilson, U. S. A. Brigadier-General George L. Gillespie, U. S. A. Brevet Brigadier-General Thomas M. Vincent, U. S. A. Colonel Frank G. Smith, U. S. A. Burial of General Rosecrans. Colonel Green Clay Goodloe, U. S. M. C. Brevet Major William P. Huxpord, U. S. A. Major John M. Farquhar, U. S. V. Colonel Henry May, D. C. N. G. Hon. George W. Steele, M. C. H. Clay Evans, Quartermaster's Sergeant. U. S. V. Family. President and Cabinet. Joint Committee of Congress: From the Senate: Hon. Joseph B. Foraker. Hon. Redfield Proctor. Hon. John C. Spooner. Hon. William B. Bate. Hon. Edmund W. Pettus. Colonel Daniel M. Ransdell, Sergeant-at-Arms. From the House : Hon. William P. Hepburn. Hon. Montague Lessler. Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor. Hon. William Elliott. Hon. Eugene F. Loud. Hon. Champ Clark. Hon. George W. Steele. Hon. George W. Taylor. Hon. Washington Gardner. Colonel Henry Casson, Sergeant-at-Arms. Classmates of General Rosecrans at West Point: General N. J. T. Dana. General James Longstreet. Colonel John S. McCalmont. Representaiives of the following Organizations in Carriages: District of Columbia Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Union Veteran Legion. Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic. Union Veteran Union. Commander, National Guard, District of Columbia and Staff. Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, U. S. V. The Society of the Armi/ of the Cumberland, and other attending veterans. Burial of General Eosecrans. Committee to receive the President and Cabinet at the Cemetery: Brigadier-General J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A. Brigadier-General John F. Weston, U. S. A. Major John Tweedale, U. S. A. Brigadier-General E. A. Carman, U. S. V. Colonel G. C. Knipfin, U. S. V. At the Pavilion at Arlington, Hon. David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives, will preside, and make opening remarks. The Quartette Choir of St. Patrick's Church will render ^'Lead, Kindly Light." Brief remarks will follow from President Eoosevelt, Senator J. B. Foraker, Eepresentatives W. P. Hepburn, C. H. Grosvenor, and Washington Gardner. At the close of these exercises at the Pavilion, the cortege will move to the grave. Commitment service by Eev. D. J. Stafford, D. D., clos- ing with "Nearer, My God, to Thee," by the Quartette. Taps. Salvo of artillery. By direction of the Executive Committee. H. V. BOYNTON, Corresponding Secretary. Note. — It will be observed that the place of assembly lias been changed from 940 F Street N. W. to the Arlington Hotel. 2Jf. Burial of General Bosecrans. The funeral coliunn moved pvomptly from the Arling- ton at the hour named. The carriages were occupied, as indicated below. The President, Secretaries Root and Haj, and the Postmaster-General drove direct from the White House to Arlington. Eeverexd T>. J. Stafford. LL. D. Honorary Pall-Bearers : Lieutenant General John M. Schofield, U. S. A. General H. C. Corbin^ U. S. A. General Thos. M. Vincent, U. S. A. General Geo. L. Gillespie, U. S. A. General Absalom Baird and party. General John M. Wilson, U. S. A. Colonel Frank G. Smith, U. S. A. Colonel Green Clay Goodloe, U. S. M. C. Honorable H. Clay Evans. Major W. P. Huxford, U. S. A. Major John M. Farquhar, U. S. Y. Colonel Henry May, D. C. N. G. Governor and Mrs. James K. Toole. Mrs. H. V. Boynton. Edwin Warren Toole. Honorable Chauncey M. Depew and Mrs. Depew Carl F. Eosecrans. Miss Anita D. Rosecrans. General H. V. Boynton. Joseph Porter Toole. Burial of General Rosecrans. 25 Five Congressional Carriages: (From the Senate.) Honorable Joseph B. Foraker. Honorable John C. Spooner. Honorable Eedfteld Proctor. Honorable William B. Bate. Honorable Edmund W. Pettus. Colonel Daniel M. Ransdell, Sergeant-at-Arms. (From the House.) Speaker D. B. Henderson. Honorable William P. Hepburn. Honorable Charles H. Grosvenor. Honorable Eugene F. Loud. Honorable George W. Steele. Honorable Washington Gardner. Honorable Montague Lessler. Honorable William Elliott. Honorable Champ Clark. Honorable George W. Taylor. Colonel Henry Casson, Sergeant-at-Arms. Classmates of General Eosecrans at West Point : General N. J. T. Dana. General James Longstreet. Colonel John S. McCalmont. Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Union Veteran Legion. Encampment No. 23, Union Veteran Legion. Department of the Potomac, G. A. E. 2Q Burial of General Bosecrans. Union Veteran Union. National Guard, D. C. 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, U. S. Y. (Twenty-two in carriages.) General Chas. F. Mandeeson. General James Barnett. Colonel J. W. Steele. Justice John M. Harlan, U. S. Supreme Court. Colonel John P. Nicholson. Major Wm. H. Lambert. Colonel Archibald Blakeley. Colonel R. H. Pratt, U. S. A. Mrs. G. C. Kniffin and party. Mrs. John Tweedale. Captain Prank G. Bourn. Mrs. Mary B. Newcombee. Miss Marguerite B. Newcomber. Mrs. E. S. Sturgess. Miss Marie Boynton. Miss Meta Boynton. Miss Alma Truax. General John Eaton. Colonel Henry S. Cohn. Captain John Speed. Major William R. Lowe. Burial of General Baser rans. 27 Colonel John Clem, U. S. A. Honorable Edgar Weeks. General E. P. Ewers, U. S. A. Honorable Eobert J. Wynne, First Assistant Postmaster General. Major J. T. Woods. Major W. H. Pugh. Mr. J. T. Cannon. Captain T. W. Talmadge. Two carriages for the Press. Two carriages to precede cortege containing Committee to receive the President and Cabinet at the Arlington Pavilion : Brigadier-General J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A. Brigadier-General John P. Weston, U. S. A. Major John Tweedale, U. S. A. Brigadier-General E. A. Carman, U. S. V. Colonel G. C. Kniffin, U. S. Y. The quartette of St. Patrick's Church. There was an immense attendance at the cemetery, the spacious Pavilion was crowded, a mass of veterans pressed about it to be within hearing of the speakers, and besides these there were several thousand in the grounds who had taken advantage of President Eoosevelt's thoughtful order allowing all veterans to attend. The imposing military column was perfect in organiza- tion and ''movement. It was composed exclusively of Keg- ulars and Marines. Major Kichakd Sylvester, Chief of Metropolitan Police, rendered most effective service in keep- Burial of General Rosccrans. ing the points of formation and the line of march entirely clear. Upon" arriving at Arlington, General J. C. Breck- inridge, Chairman of the Committee to receive the Presi- dent and his Cabinet, with his Associate Committeemen, General Weston, General Carman, Colonel Kniffin and Major Tweedale, recei-^-ed and condncted the distingnished participants to their seats. The following from the Evening Star of May 17th will show the impression which the event made upon Washing- ton: TRIBUTE TO A SOLDIER. Great Men at the Grave of General Rosecrans. — Roosevelt Speaks.— Eulogies by Henderson, Foraker and Others. — Great Military Demon- stration at Arlington. — Many Public Men Present. The President of the United States, members of bis Cabinet and men well known in public life and in the army, gathered to-day to pay the last honors to .General William S. Rosecrans. Members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland paid a loving final tribute to their dead Commander. The services at Arlington, where lie so many of the loved Union dead, were simple and impressive. There was an absence of ostentation. It was a gathering of men, many of them veterans of the Civil War, who shed tears at the grave of the man they loved as a soldier leader. The man who was such a conspicuous figure in the war for the preservation of the Union was consigned to the earth of the old home of the leader of the" "lost cause," against whom he fought. It was an occasion replete with pathos and with patriotism. The morning was misty, and from the lowering clouds there came at times spirts of rain. As the procession reached the historic place of the dead the sun burst through the clouds as if nature were anxious to i^articipate in the exercises and had BuruiJ of General Rosecrans. 29 taken this means of expressing her feelings for the man whose memory was to be honored. President Eoosevelt made a speech tliat will stamp him for all time to come as a man wlio can rise to an occasion of the kind, and who has the ability to express himself in the interest of furthering the patriotism that animates the peo])Io over which he rules. On tlie stage were three venerable soldiers of the government, men Avho were classmates of General Rosecrans. Towering above all was the commanding form of General James Long- street, Avho fought valiantly in the Confederate cause. Beside him were General X. J. T. Dana and Colonel John S. Mc- Calmont. On the stage there were also representatives of the Union Veteran Legion, the Union Veteran Union, the Grand Army of the Eepul)lic, the National Guard of the District of Columbia, and members of the Society of the Army of the Gum- he rland. After the services, which included the addresses by the President and other distinguished personages, the body was lowered to the grave in a foremost place in the home of the Union dead. Throughout the services there was a feeling of awe and reverence on the part of the assemblage. Only once or twice did applause follow the words of the speakers, and then it was when a patriotic sentence or inspiration made it al- most incumbent upon the listeners to attest their appreciation. General Schofield, who fought throughout the Civil War, sat with bowed head as he listened to the speeches. Brought back to him forcibly was the history of the great struggle. At his side were others of the honorary pall-bearers, all of whom had seen service in the great war. The body of General Rosecrans was brought to this city for reinterment from Los Angeles, California. His death oc- curred about four years ago. The funeral cortege formed in front of the Arlington Hotel Burial of General Rosecrans. at 9 :30 o'clock. Many persons distinguished in official life and in the army of the United States gathered there an hour before. Strapped to a caisson was the casket containing the body of the dead warrior. Members of the Loyal Legion and other military organizations mingled in the crowd in front of the hotel. The sound of a trumpet brought the soldiery into place in the procession. The escort consisted of the following regular troops : Lieu- tenant-Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick^ Second United States Cavalry, commanding, preceded by a platoon of the Metropolitan Police; band of the Corps of Engineers; Third Battalion, Corps of Engineers; the Battalion Marine Corps; the Fourth Battery Field Artillery, and four troops of the Second Cavalry. The pro- cession moved promptly at 10 o'clock. General H. V. Boynton, who was a lifelong friend of General Eosecrans^ having served with him during the Civil War, and who is Corresponding Secretary of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, under whose auspices the services were held, had charge of the arrangements. An hour before the cortege arrived at Arlington a large crowd was gathered within the Pavilion. Grand Army of the Eepublic veterans, men who had fought with ''Old Eosy" in the fierce campaigns for the j)reservation of the L^nion, were much in evidence. Tears welled to their eyes as they recalled the days of camp and field. There were many women in the audience. A number of the forward rows of seats were reserved for the distinguished guests of the Army of the Cumberland. The President arrived shortly in advance of the funeral procession. In the President's carriage were Postmaster Gen- eral Payne and Secretary of War Eoot. The President and party were met at the entrance of the Pavilion l)y the reception committee. General Breckinridge^ chairman of the com- mittee, grasped the President's hand cordially. President EoosEVELT wore a long frock coat of black. He raised his ( I Burial of General Eosecrans. 31 high silk liat. a word was exchanged with the nienil)ers of the committee, and he took his place on the stand. Secretary ("ORTELYOU accompanied the President's party, and occupied a seat next to Secretary liooT. The audience arose as tlie Presi- dent came in view. The sound of a dirge by tlie Second Cavalry Band announced the approach of the funeral party. The head of the column passed the Pavilion and around to the Xorth. where it came to a stop, when eight Sergeants of the Second Cavalry carried the casket to the Pavilion and placed it upon the dais in front of the platform. The casket was draped with the American flag. A bouquet of La France roses tied with ril)bon of purple and a sheath of ferns and innnortelles were on the casket. P^ollowing the casket were Governor and Mrs. Toole, of Montana, and Miss Eosecrans. Mrs. Toole was a daughter of General Kosecrans. A son and grandson of General Rosecrans came next. Senator DePew, General Boynton and others of the distinguished party followed. The members of the family took seats next to the casket. Speaker Henderson, of the House of Representatives, who later delivered an oration, called the assemblage to order. After the noted Quartette Choir of St. Patrick's Church had rendered ''Lead, Ki)idlij Light,'" General Henderson spoke as follows: Members oe the Society of the Army of the Cumberland: You have assigned to me the sacred duty of presiding to-day M'hen you, are about to lay away to his final rest your old Com- mander, Major-General William Starke Eosecrans. Few generals of the Civil War had a stronger hold upon the officers and men who fought under their command. They respected, they loved him, and that love is attested by this act of yours in bringing the body of your old Commander from the Golden Gate to lay him away in your midst in this sacred and historic City of the Dead. 32 ' Burial of General liosi'rrans. While the liistory of Carnifex Ferry, luka, Corinth, Stone's Eiver and Chickanianga will be his great monuments as a soldier, his grave at Arlington Heights will be a sacred spot visited by you and your descendants and the lovers of liberty throughout the coming centuries. I am not a soldier worshiper, if the only claims of the soldier are marked by human graves or great victories to command the devotion, respect and love of the country. The soldier's aims must be analyzed and understood, and these must show that he comprehended that for which he fought, and that love of country rose above the amljition to ])e a great fighter. The plow is better than the sword ; the school-book is a better guide than the work on military tactics; the builder is better than the destroyer ; the maker of homes is better than the maker of graves, and yet if the work of the soldier is to protect the Plow, the School and the Home, he is entitled to the respect accorded to the valor of his heart and arm. Following the life of General Eosecrans^ from his birth- place in Kingston Tow^nship, Ohio, to his resting place here, the faithful student of his life must credit his acts with the loftiest motives of a soldier. Educated at the Military Academy and graduating as an engineer, he soon resigned his commission to enter upon the struggles of a business life, and undoubtedly would never have been heard of as a soldier but for the Civil War and the call of his country to resume his sword. In every position held by General Rosecrans his noble character was manifest. As a soldier; as a Member of Congress; as Minister to Mexico; as Register of the Treasury; as an engineer and business man, he showed al)ility, integrity and an aljsolute devotion to the noblest ambitions of the American citizen. I had the pleasure of serving under his command at the battle of Corinth, and also served with him in the House of Representatives where our relations Ijecame intimate and most Biin'itJ of General Rosecrans. S3 friendly. He was one of the most fearless officers that I ever saw in battle. He seemed to be unconscious of danger. On the fourth of October, 1862, when the armies of Price and Van Dorn were pressing our lines and symptoms of our falling l)aek were mani- fest, he suddenly dashed between the Federal and Confederate lines like the very spirit of war. He passed but a few steps in front of where I was. I can feel his presence yet. His hat had blown off. His firmly set face seemed as though he was made for a god of battle. Swinging his sword he called out to us: "Stand by your flag and country, my men !" How he escaped. God only knows. It seemed as though the very air was full of lead, and death was holding high carnival along his pathway, and yet fearless he rode into the very teeth of death, rallying successfully his men for the mighty struggle before them. That splendid, fearless, heroic dash was the death- knell to the armies of Price and Van Dorn. At the battle of Stone's Eiver, history tells us that his jjersonal efforts saved the day. He was not found in the rear beyond the reach of bullets, but in the very front of the danger where shot and shell were making death's music. All about him men and horses were shot down in his immediate presence, and the reeling columns of the Federal Army were re-united by his fierce and fearless leadership. No detail escaped his eagle eye. Commands out of ammunition were directed by him to the spot where ammunition could be found. He did not wait for aides-de-camp to convey his orders, but would dash up and direct commanders of brigades and indicate the points in the field where ammunition was to be found, and ordered brigades to points of the field in order to strengthen the shattered lines. No more fearless man ever faced death than this dear com- rade who sleeps in our midst this morning. General Eosecrans, sleep peacefully in the bosom of the country you fought to save. You have earned a rest in her bosom; but, General Rosecrans, no single grave can hold you. SJf Burial of General "Rosecrans. for you will be buried in the hearts of all the soldiers who fought under your command, and in the hearts of an apprecia- tive, grateful, loving country. General Henderson then introduced President Roose- velt. The President had not expected to speak at anv lengtli, as he was to be the orator on Decoration Day in the same place. He, however, yielded, just before starting for Arlington, and agreed to speak for a few minutes. His stir- ring memorial address was therefore extemporaneous. He said: Speaker Henderson ; and you the Comrades of the Great Chief wpiose re-burial in the National Cemetery here at Arlington we have met together to com- memorate : The Speaker in his address has well said that the l)uilder rather than the destroyer is the man most entitled to tlie honor among us; that the man who builds up is greater than he who tears down; and that our homage should be for the fighting man who not only fought worthily but fought in a worthy cause. Therefore for all time, not merely the people of this great re- united country, l)ut the nations of numkind who see the hope for ordered liberty in what this country has done, will forever hold you, the men of the great Civil War, and the leaders like him whose mortal remains are to be put to-day in their final resting place, in peculiar honor, because you were soldiers who fought to build; you were upbuilders; you were the men to whose lot it fell to save, to perpetuate, to make stronger the great national fabric, the foundations of which had been laid by the men who fought under him whose home at Mount Vernon stands as an equally prized memorial of the jjast with Arlington. It is no chance that has made Mount Vernon and Arlington here in the neiohborhood of Washington, the Burial of General Rosecrans. tAvo groat memorials of the nation's past. One commemorates the founding and the other the saving of the nation. If it were not for what Arlington symbolizes. Mount Vernon would mean little or nothing. If it were not for what was done b}' Rosk- CRANS and his fellows, the work of Washington would have, crumbled into bloody chaos and the deeds of the founders of this Eepublic be remembered only because they had begun another of the many failures of the spirit of liberty in this world. Without the work you did, the work of the men who fought to a successful close the Eevolution would have meant nothing. To you it was given to do the one great work which it! left undone would have meant that all else done by our people Avould have counted for nothing. And you left us a re-united country, and therefore the right of brotherhood with and of ]iride in the gallantry and self devotion of those who wore the gray, who were pitted against you in the great struggle. The very fact that we appreciate more and more as the years go on, the ill! importance to this country and to mankind of your victory — that very fact makes it more and more possible for us to recognize in the heartiest and frankest manner the sincerity, the self- devotion, the fealty to the right as it was given to them to see the right, of our fellow Americans against whom you fought — and now the reunion is so complete that it is useless to allude to the fact that it is complete. (Applause.) And you left us another lesson in brotherhood. To-day you come here, comrades of the Armij of the Civmherlatid, the man who had a commission and the man wlio fought in the ranks, brothers, because each did what there was in him to do for the right. Each did what he could and all alike shared ecpially in the glory of the deed that was done. (3fficer and enlisted man stand at the bar of history to be judged not by the difference of rank, but by whether they did their duties in their respective ranks. (Applause.) And oh, of how little count, looking back, the difference of rank compared with the doing of the duty! What was true then is 36 Burial of General nosecmns. true now. Doing the dnty Avell is what counts. In any audience of this kind one sees in the highest official and social position men who fought as enlisted men in the armies of the Union or in the armies of the Confederacy. All we ask is, did they do their duty? If they did. honor to them! Little we care what particular position they held, save in so far as the holding of exalted position gave the man a chance to do great and peculiar service. I shall not try to eulogize the dead General in the presence of his comrades, in the presence of his fellow countrymen who have come to honor the memory of the man against whom they were pitted in the past — who come here because they now. like us, are Americans and nothing else, devoted to the I^nion and to one flag. (Applause.) I shall not try to sjieak of his services in the presence of those who fought through the Civil War, who risked the loss of life, who endured the loss of liml), who I'ought as enlisted men or came out boys not yet ready to enter college, but able to bear commissions in the army of the United States as the result of three or four years of service with the colors. There are those of each class of whom I have spoken who have addressed or will address you to-day. They are entitled to speak as comrades of the great dead. But the younger among us are only entitl('(l to pay to the great dead the homage of those to Avhom ordered liberty has been handed down as a heritage because of the blood, and of the sweat, and of the toil of the men who fought to a finish the great Civil War. Great were the lessons you taught us in war. Great have been the lessons you have taught us in peace since the war. Sincerely and humbly the men who came after you hasten to acknowledge the debt that is owing to you. You were the men of the mighty days who showed yourselves equal to the days. We have to-day lesser tasks; but shame to us if we flinch from doing or fail to do well these lesser tasks, when you carried to triumphant victory a task as difficult as that which was set you ! Here, in the presence of one of the Burial of General Rosecrans. 37 illustrious dead whose names will remain forever on the honor ndl of the greatest Eepul)lic upon which the sun has ever shone, lu re in the presence of the dead, it behooves all of us, young and old, solemnly and reverently to pledge ourselves to continue un- dimmed the traditions you have left us; to do the work, what- ever that work may be, necessary to make good the work that you did; to acknowledge the inspiration of your careers in war and in peace; and to remind ourselves once for all that lip loyalty is not the loyalty that counts. The loyalty that counts is the loyalty which shows itself in deeds rather than in words ; and therefore we pledge ourselves to make good by our lives what you risked your li\es to gain and keep for the nation as a whole. (Prolonged applause.) General Henderson next introduced Senator Foraker, who served under General Roscrans, and represented the Senate: Mr. Speaker, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: I had only a slight personal acquaintance with ClENEiiAL EosECRANSj and yet my relations to him were such that I had occasion to study him, and to know him tolerably well in all the characters in which he appeared before the American people. He was born in Ohio ; he was educated there, and was sent from there to the Military Academy at West Point. Later, when he resigned from the Eegular Army, he returned to Ohio, and established his legal residence there, and continued a citizen of that State until the beginning of the Civil War. when he re- entered the military service as Colonel of the "^od Ohio Regi- ment. In that organization there was a most remarkable collection of great men, who were destined to rendt'r distinguished |)ublic services. With Eosecrans as Colonel, were associated E. P. ScAMMON, who afterwards became a prominent General in the 38 Burial of General Bosecraiis. Union Army; Stanley Matthews, who subsequently became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; EuTHERFORD B. Hayes, who made a splendid record as a soldier, attaining the rank of Major-General of Volunteers, and who afterwards became President of the United States; and also William McKinley, who rose from the rank of pri\ate in Com- pany E of that Regiment to be its Major, and whose name as President of the United States has become familiar to the whole world. These associations made General Eosecrans endeared to all Ohioans. But there was more still to attach the people of that State to him. His first service was in West Virginia. He there com- manded a numl)er of Ohio Eegiments, among them the 12th. which Avas recruited in that part of the country where I lived, and the Colonel of which was killed in the battle of Carnifex Ferry Avhere General Eosecrans commanded. If I had had no other relation than these to Genehal Eosecrans, they would have been sufiicient to have interested me in his character, and to have led me to study his qualities and appreciate his s])lendid services; l)ut it was my fortune to serve for a time in a humble capacity in the Arnn/ of the Cam- he rland while he was its Commanding General. There is no impression made on the mind of a young volunteer that is dee])er or more lasting than that which he acquires of his Connnander. General Eosecrans came to the Army of the Cumherland a growing man. His successes in West Virginia, and at luka and Corinth, had given the country and the Army a constantly in- creasing confidence in his ability to handle troops, plan cam- paigns and successfully fight l)attles. At Stone's Elver, his first battle after he took his new com- mand, he more than vindicated all expectations. Hi no contest Biifuil of General Bosecrans. 39 of the war was tlie Commanding Officer i)ut to a more severe test than he was on that field. He had carefully and skillfully planned the disposition of his troops and the part assigned to each wing and division of his army, but at the very outset of the first day's battle his right wing was overwhelmed, and his whole army put in jeopardy. In the midst of a most furious storm of battle he calmly, yet quickly, energetically, and with splendid executive ability, hurried re-enforcements from tlic left to the right, formed a new line, most advantageously placed his batteries and sup))orts of infantry, and made ready for the successful resistance and re[)ulse of an on- slaught that seemed almost irresistil)le. In the accomplisl)ment of this re-foi-iiiation of lines and splen- did result he sliowed not only his capacity for command, luit also a bravery and heroism that excited the admiration of all his troops. There was no firr* of musketry or artillery too severe for him to ride into tlie midst of it to give his commands, and to personally superin- tend their execution. Wlien officers al)out him suggested the pos- sibility of defeat his answer was, "We will win this battle or die here." It Avas his sound judgment, undismayed bearing, incom])a- rable courag':> and fearless exposure of his own life that inspired his troops, and gave them the renewed courage and hope that finally won the victory. I speak of his conduct in this battle because it was on that bloody field that General Rosecrans gained the confidence and admiration of every man in the Army of tlie Cuinbcrland down to the humblest jjrivate in the ranks. From that time forward that firmy was literally "his to command." There is no time on this occasion to speak of other cam}wigns or other battles. It is enough to say that although after Cliicka- manga he was relieved of the command of the Armij of Hie Cuinbcr- land, yet his cami)aigns and movements had been so brilliant that -fO Burial of General Rosecrans. his reputation as a soldier will stand the scrutiny of history and forever excite the admiration of the students of military character and military men. Others may speak of his public services in civil life. The honors thus conferred upon him were but an expression of the grati- tude of his countrymen for his great contribution to the preservation of the Union, and the perfection of the Constitution. In view of considerations such as have l)een named I felt it a duty to come here to-day, and say, as a representative of the State of his lurth, and the State to which he always looked as his home, and also as a humble representative of the army he commanded when he rendered his most conspicious service, that his comrades regarded him as a man of lovable character, of sterling |)atriotism. of inflex- ible pur|)ose, and as a soldier of uncommon ability, distinguished for his bravery, his daring and his heroism, and as a comuumding general, who in the direst stress of hottest battle, ever showed him- self cool, calm, collected, yet quick, energetic and resolute to execute his concei)tions. He was an extraordinary man. He belonged to a class of great men, who seemed to have been j^repared for the great emergency he helped his country to meet. He was cotemporary in Ohio with such brilliant minds and capable soldiers as General 0. M. Mitcuel, the great astronomer, the first commander of what afterwards hecaniiitheArmyofthci'mii- herland. General William H. Lytle, the soldier, lawyer and poet, and General Joshua W. Sill, in many respects the gentlest and most lovable sacrifice Ohio laid upon the country's altar in that great struggle. They were all men of much the same general char- acter, they were all cultured, refined gentlemen, fit representatives of the highest and best types of American citizenship. Sill and Lytle had very similiar soldier experiences. They were both young, both commanded brigades under Kosecrans. and 1ioth were killed in battle — Sill while oallantlv leading a charge at fHM^cyvi, Burial of General Rosecrans. J/I Stone's River, and Lytle while gallantly leading a charge at Chickamauga. It is most fitting that he whom we to-day lay at rest should have a place in this beautiful spot with these sleeping heroes of the Na- tion. He well earned the great honor. Soon the last of these distinguished commanders will have been laid to rest. As time passes these occasions become more and more solemn and impressive. They all have lessons for the living. If there is one feature of this occasion more to be appreciated than another it is that as we meet here to })ay final tribute to General Rosecuans, we see gathered with us among the mourners at his grave distinguished soldiers against whom he fought, no one of them regretting the result of that great struggle, l)ut all rejoic- ing in the fact that the Nation's victory was their victory as well, and that our union of States has been preserved for a common heri- tage, and a common blessing, to all our people, and that we are to go forward shoulder to shoulder, the Blue and the Gray alike, through the years of the future, to a common destiny greater and grander than any language has yet described. Colonel William P. Hepburn, Chairman of the House Committee, who served on General Rosecrans' staff, fol- lowed Senator Foraker. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It was my good fortune at a time when General Rosecrans was in command of the Army of the Mississippi and the Army of the Cumberland to be a member of his military family. I had an op- portunity to know him and to observe his military conduct, and with the enthusiasm of youth, I formed the highest estimate of his per- sonal and professional worth. The reflections of forty years, and the experience that comes with age, have only strengthened the firm conviction that I then had. that General Rosecrans was one of the great military personages of his time. Jf.S lUiriid of General Bosecrans. In the opinion of many prominent military critics the strategy involved in his campaigns compares most favorably with that of any of the commanders on either side in the War of the Kebellion. The movements of his troops in the campaigns of luka, Corinth, Mnrfreesboro, Tullahoma and Chattanooga, so far as they were de- pended upon, or could be controlled by General Eoseceans, were beyond reasonable criticism, and it is a safe declaration that his move- ments, when not interfered with by others, were invariably crowned with success. The critics of General Eosecrans point to operations in the vicinity of Chattanooga as furnishing contradiction of the statement that has just been made. They point to the battle of Chickamauga as a disaster, failing to remember that the battle of Chickamauga was only one of the incidents of the Chattanooga campaign, which was undertaken for the purpose of securing Chattanooga to the Federal troops as the base of future operations ; and it will be re- membered that having secured that great prize of most successful strategy, the check his army received at Chickamauga did not re- sult in the loss of the objective of the campaign. There are other circumstances and other considerations to be thought of in connection with the battle of Chickamauga. entirely relieving General Eosecrans from the responsii)ility for whatever disaster occur^-ed to Federal arms on that l)attlefield. It must be remembered that advices from Washington to General Eosecrans persistently informed him that the Confeder- ate troops were endeavoring to escape him. He was constantly urged to greater activity, lest Bragg would escai)e — advices making necessary the dispersion of his troops to such points as, when the real facts were known, made concentration dilficult and dangerous. No word of suggestion came to him that Longstreet and his vet- erans were being transferred from the Eapijahannoek to the Ten- nessee, and that the forces of Bragg were augmented by twenty thousand troops that were the equals of any troops on earth. Burial of General Rosecrans. JfS In this battle occurs one of those curious instances, apparently trival in tliemselves, yet working results of most important charac- ter. One of the divisions was in the line of battle, but in eelielon of brigades. A staff officer approaching from the refused Hank got the impression that the division was not in line and so reported. To remedy the supposed evil, an order was given that did, in fact, make an interval in the line equal to a division front. This error was made fatal by the time of its occurrence. It was at the mo- ment when LoNGSTKEET was delivering his impetuous attack, and it became possible for a portion of his advancing column to rush through this interval in the Federal line, cutting it in two, and mak- ing it possible to secure a flanking position on each fragment of the line. Surely no fair critic could impose responsil)ility upon the General commanding for a disaster of this character. At the time of its occurrence General Eosecrans was on the right, and was on that portion of his line that was permanently separated from the balance of the army. General Eosecrans was a careful student of the great cam- paigns. He was very familiar with them. He loved to talk about them. There were few military students more thoroughly familiar with this l)ranch of his professional learning. While to most persons the General would seem to be of nervous temperament, prone to excitability, yet, as a matter of fact, in great emergencies, he was the personification of coolness. Xo emergency, no excite- ment, no approaching disaster deprived him of his capacity for thought, for concentration, for the use of tluit that he knew ; and while it is true that he loved the higher studies of the art of war. yet he was never negligent of the minor affairs incident to the etli- ciency of an army. Clothing, rations, ordnance, transportation, ajn- munition. hospital su])i)lies. all received the careful attention of tlie General commanding, and he was ever alert looking to the discipline^ and efficiency of his army. -^-4 Burial of General Rosecrans. New troops were not fond of the General. He made them work. He believed that drill was essential to discipline. The new i?oldier under such a commander rarely felt kindly to him, but later on, when he learned the value of discipline and of obedience, when he learned of the new power that came to him from these sources, his early impressions changed to those of admiration and affection. And there were few, if any, of our commanders that were more popular with the troops that had been for long time under his com- mand than was General Rosecrans. He was a lovable man and all those who knew him well did love him. Kind, considerate, amiable and usually gentle to his in- feriors and his equals, they gave him unstintedly of their regard. But those who knew General Rosecrans best recognized in him a defect that militated greatly against his success as a commander of armies. While he was considerate and regardful of his inferiors and his equals, there was something in his temperament that put discord and sometimes enmity between him and his superiors in rank. When in A'irginia there was disagreement between him and McClellan, as there was between him and Grant, when he was in command of the Army of the Mississippi and Grant was his im- mediate superior. After his promotion to the command of the Army of the Cum- herland we find the same character of disagreement between the General and Halleck and the War Department. I am not cap- able of determining who, if either party in these controversies, was to blame. I simply speak of their existence and suggest the prob- al)le effect they may have had upon grave interests. It is scarcely fair, in determining the merits of the general officers of the Federal Army evolved during the War of the Rebel- lion, to compare those who wrought in the earlier periods of the war with those who secured their greatest distinction towards its close, for the policy of the government was markedly different in those '[/nSv Burial of General Rosecraus. J.i5 two periods. In the earlier one, the interference of the Washington autliorities with the plans of campaigns and the purposes of distant commanders is known. In the latter part of the war, yielding to the pressure of a wise public opinion, the Washington authorities were compelled to desist from such interference and to permit the plans of generals to be unthwarted by either advice or command. So, too, in the early days of the war, dispersion was the rule with the Washington authorities, and many inefficient armies and many mimic theaters of war existed. Later on, the wisdom of concen- tration of force was manifest. Army and army corps were brought together. A campaign involving the whole country was inaugu- rated under the direction of one man, the beneficent effects of which were seen in the capture of Atlanta and the surrender at A])pomattox. If this policy of non-intervention on the part of the Washington authorities, this policy of concentration — the later policy of giving active, earnest support and co-operation to the two Generals com- manding great armies had been inaugurated in Eosecrans' time, and he could have had that same measure of co-operation and sup- port that was later given to Sherman and Grant, who can tell what would have been the measure of his success? Who can say that he would not have been the great central figure of his time ? General Charles H. Geosvenor, of the House Com- mittee, who also served with distinction in the Army of the Vumherland, was next on the programme. He said: 'Mn. CiiAnaiAN, Comrades of the Army of the Cumberland, Ladies and Gentlemen : I esteem it a high honor to be present to-day in the capacity which has l)een assigned to me. I deem it a much higher honor to have served in the War of the Ivel^ellion in tlie old Army of the Cuinherland under the chieftains who made that armv immortal. JfO Burial of General nosecrans. I had the honor to serve under General Eosecrans from the time he appeared at the head of the Fourteenth Army Corps in the fall of 18()3. until his retirement from that army after the camiiaion of Chickanuiuoa. so that I had al)undant ojjportunity to know some- thing of his character and achievements. He came to us Avith a good reputation already estahlished. My distinguished friend, CoLOXEL Hepburn, has well described the characteristics of his achievements in Mississippi, and no man can do it l)etter. for he was of the very operations which he has described. As I have said, General Rosecrans came to us with a reputation already estab- lished, and he found an army of no mean character and no poor record. It was an army which had already served under Sherman and BuELL and had achieved at least a character for endurance and pertinacity if it had not already achieved a record of great vic- tories. It had the material of the military artisan ready to com- mand, and it was molded into the magnificent Ixxly that achieved immortality in its later career. Xo man was ever better calculated to organize an army and fit it for service than was Eosecrans, and he took the material that assembled at N^ashville. coming as it did from various directions and imorganized, so far as former organiza- tion was concerned, and molded it into a column of fighting men, not yet quite prepared for Stone's Eiver. l)ut which marched from Murfreesboro on the 24th day of June, 18G3, an incomparalile army. The Battle of Stone's Eiver, fought under the immediate eye of Rosecrans, was his greatest achievement up to thfit day. It was fought under many disadvantages, the enemy being upon its own heath, as it were, and our arnw exposed to a long march in the most inclement of weather, and yet it was in this battle that Eosecrans demonstrated his own personal fitness for leadership and won un- dying glory. When a portion of his army faltered and seemed to be going into confusion, it was the personal interference of Rosecrans, his personal dash and aplomb, his personal appearance in the very acme of personal danger that made him afterwards and from that Burial of General Rosecrans. ^7 moment the idol of the Army of the Ciimherland. Xo man would hesitate to go where Eoseckans led. We remained six months at Murfreesboro. We had no fighting that we called fighting. We had no battles that we called battles. We had some affairs that in early days would have been described as great battles, but we did not so look upon them, and especially we did not so look upon them after the achievements of later days. Of all the results of the war nothing more grandly marked the true characteristics of Eoseckans as a soldier and his fitness for com- mand than his organization of the army at Murfreesboro, the plan of his TuUahoma campaign and the results thereof. Bragg^ securely lodged in the mountains on this side of the Tennessee, with his base at Chattanooga and his plans being perfected for aggress- ive movement, with his line of communication held securely in his own hands, and his operations among his own friends, found himself enmeshed in a series of strategical movements upon his right, upon his left and upon liis center, that resulted in landing him upon the south side of the Tennessee Eiver, hanging on by a tenacious but uncertain grip upon the mountains of Georgia. No army ever marched and fought in a more unpropitious condition of weather and roads than this army, and no army ever encountered greater obstacles piled in its pathway by nature than we did, and yet, as I have said, the middle of July found Bragg holding on by the willows, as it were, on the other side of the Tennessee. It was a brilliant campaign, grandly planned and successfully executed. Of Chickamauga little can be said that is not a matter of public history. Bragg^ finding himself maneuvered out of Tennessee,' came back re-enforced by the splendid column of Longstreet^ and assayed to revenge his disappointments and recover his lost ground. It was unfortunate, doubtless, that Eoseckaxs^ army was divided and its constituent parts extended so widely, l)ut the change of purpose on the part of Bragg undid to some extent the plans and purposes of Eosecrans, and made it necessary for the latter to move 4 45 Burial of General Rosecrans. his great army by the left flank in order to consolidate it into one body and present an inibroken front to the aggressive purposes of Beagg. That movement was done with a skill and power of mob- ilization never exhibited by Napoleon or Julius Caesar, and it has long ago become a settled fact that rapidity of movement from point to point is the great assurance of military success. McCook, from his position on the extreme right many miles away from the center, was suddenly brought to the center and the center had been changed from Davis Cross Roads to Crawfish Springs. Of the battle I will not speak except to say that it was one of the bloodiest battles of modern times. Nearly twenty-five thousand men were killed and wounded, and the result was an advantage of position to the army of Rosecrans, for when it was all over and we were safely behind our suddenly improvised works at Chattanooga, Rosecrans' army was in a safe position, early preparing for an aggressive movement, while Bragg's army become powerless from that mo- ment for ever assuming a successful movement again. The student of great battlefields and great battle operations will not fail to recognize the disparity of the position occupied by Rosecrans on the 18th of September and that occupied by Bragg. Rosecrans on the north side of Chickamauga River was concentrating Ms army to meet the apparent change of purpose of Bragg, and was moving a great army by the left flank. He was suddently confronted by the perpendicular columns of Bragg's forces crossing the Chickamauga at three different jjoints and suddenly striking him. So far as Bragg's army was concerned, I mean his original army, we would have had no trouble, for we would have gathered at Crawfish and Lee and Gordon Mills and success- fully defeated his movement, Init there came like a scourge upon a battlefield a great bod}- of tried soldiere from the Army of North Virginia under the command of the intrepid Longstreet, who sits here upon this platform. He says in his report that he made twenty-five distinct assaults upon Snodgrass Hill. It seems to Burial of General Rosecrans. Jf.9 me that he only made one, and that began somewhere in the neighbor- hood of from twelve to one o'clock and lasted until dark. It was the flower of the great Army of North Virginia. It was handled by officers of long experience and great efficiency and it came like a thunder bolt. It struck the battlefield at the river, coming from iJalton, and it crossed the battlefield, assailing at every point our lines, imtil its right was at Dry Valley Eoad, and wherever Union forces were found it struck wifh the mailed hand of a trained soldier, and it is due to history to say that the greatest achievement of that day on the Union side was the response to such a force as Long- street brought and sujjcradded to the army of Bragg and cast with such Avonderful power against our columns. I do not forget the intrepidity of the men who commanded our corps. I do not forget the magnificent old "Rock of Chick- amauga,"' George H. Thomas, who stood amid the billows of ap- parent defeat and made it possible to extricate that army and bring it into Chattanooga in apparent good order. I do not forget any of these circumstances, but I give to Eosecrans, notwithstanding any criticism that may have been made of him. high commendation for the work he did. He is dead. It was well and timely that his comrades brought his remains and deposited them in this grand place. It was well that he should occupy the position of highest honor in the burying ground of the great men who fought in the war. It is meet and proper that in this Parthenon of American glory Rosecrans should occupy a niche. He will not be forgotten. As the- music of the seasons chants above his resting place, as the foliage of spring gives place to the seared and yellow leaf of autumn, as the birds sing in the morning light, there will come to this resting place of the hero thousands and tens of thousands who will in their hearts do honor and bestow gratefiil remembrance upon William S. Rosecrans, the gifted soldier, the trained and splendid citi/en, the true patriot, the heroic dead. 50 Burial of General Rosecrans. Honorable Washington Gardner, of Micliigan, a pri- vate soldier under General Kosecrans, a member of the House Committee, was the last speaker. He represented the Rank and File of the Army of the Cumberland. Following is his address: An army like that of the Civil War period, made up as that one was, almost wholly of volunteers, is but the incarnation of the national spirit of patriotism and the visible manifestation of the national determination as set forth by the President and the Congress. In actual war the common soldier soon learns that the distinguishing features between him and the officers over him are of degree and not of kind. He finds, for example, that the differ- ence between his uniform and that of his Captain, or Colonel, or General, is chiefly in the texture and the tailor, and not in the essential color ; in the quantity, and not in the quality of the rations issued; in the number, and not in the intrinsic value of the dollars in which payment is made; in the measure of responsibility which each assumes, and not in the purpose for which it is exercised. The soldier gradually awakens to the fact that his interests and those of the officers are one and the same, and that all are mutually de- pendent. EosECRANs' conduct and bearing toward the rank and file of his army was such that he gained and held their respect, their good will and their confidence. He was constantly solicitous for the material comfort and welfare of his mea. He believed that soldiers well fed and well clothed were better fitted to endure and to fight than the ill clad and poorly fed. His men knew and appreciated their general's care for them and when, as during the siege of Chat- tanooga, they were reduced to scant rations, there was no murmur of complaint. It is due to Eosecrans to say that they were his well matured plans carried out immediately after he was relieved of the command at Chattanoosra that resulted in breakino: the force of the Burial of General Rosecrans. 51 siege by replenishing the commissary stores of the well-nigh starving garrison. General Roseckans possessed that quality of personal courage which always commands the admiration of the common soldier. Those who saw his splendid bearing nnder fire on the extreme left at Stone's River in the early morning of December 31st, or near the im- periled center a few hours later, when blood from the severed head of Garache bespattered his clothing, or when in the deepening twilight of the same day he rode his lines in close proximity to the enemy, or on that ill-starred Sunday at Chickamauga, when in the earlier part of the day he stood unmoved before the storm of lead and iron which rained with relentless fury upon him and his army, felt that here was a soldier true to the loftiest ideals of battle heroism. If any criticism is due from this standpoint of view, it is that, as commander of an army, he took too many risks upon his life. But Rosecrans was more than a provident care-taker of his men, and more than a soldier of unquestioned physical courage. As a general he brought things to pass. He had the ability to i^lan and to successfully execute campaigns. When in the midst of current controversy, born of the rivalries, jealousies and misunderstandings, in a measure inseparable from attending conditions, have cleared away, and the steady light of impartial investigation and analytical examination is turned upon the great campaigns of the Civil War and men come to know better the obstacles met and overcome, as well as the results accomplished, William Starke Rosecrans will then take his rightful place as one of the greatest in the secondary group of military chief- tains who made possible the final and complete triumph of the Federal arms. The strategy displayed in the campaign from Murfreesboro to Chickamauga Creek, in which Rosecrans successively and suc- cessfully maneuvered his adversary out of the fortified strongholds about Tullahom^, across the Cumberland Mountains, over the Ten- 5S Burial of General Rosecratis. nessee EiA'er, and out of Chattanooga, without a serious engagement, with the loss of very few men and no equipment, will challenge com- parsion with any other like operation on either side during that gigantic struggle which called into requisition the best military talent of the Civil War generation. EosECRANS never fought a losing battle, unless Chickamauga be so regarded. On that sanguinary field the contest was waged for Chattanooga as the stake. It is true the field was lost, but the town was held, and no ilag but the Stars and Stripes ever floated above it from the day the Union army under Eosecrans entered. Tliere never was a time from that day, in June. 18G3, when the Arntij of the Cumberland broke camp at Murfreesboro in Middle Tennessee to the set of sun on September 20th, succeeding, in ISTorthern Georgia, that it would not have been willing to give Chickamauga for the perma- nent possession of Chattanooga, which became the impregnable fortress protecting the new base of supplies and the mountain gate- way through which the armies of Sherman and Thomas moved to Atlanta and that of the former from Atlanta to the sea. The his- torian of the future will give Eosecrans more credit than he has yet received for the brilliant coneejjtion and masterful execution of the campaign which resulted in the capture and permanent possession of Chattanooga, ''the heart of the Confederacy." The nameless survivors of that mighty host, the men of the rank and file, whom he marshaled in battle array, whether in West Vir- ginia or JSTorthern Mississippi, in Central Tennessee or Northern . Georgia, cherish his memory as that of the loved and trusted com- mander at whose summons they were ready to do, to sufl:er and to die, if need be, to consummate the most glorious civic and moral triumph of the 19th century, the preservation of the American Union by which government of the people Was conserved, and the lib- eration of a race of immortal God created, God endowed beings from bondage, that theXation might enter upon a new and nobler destiny. Ilurial of General Rosecrans. At the close of the last address the funeral party re- entered the carriages, and with the cavalry and artillery escort proceeded to the burial lot. This is in the new southern addition to the cemetery, and is destined to be one of its most beautiful sections. The lot assigned through the interest of General Ludington, the Quartermaster-General, is a large one, and is in a commanding place. It overlooks the whole of Washington and the Potomac for miles. The arrangements at the grave were perfect, owing to the attention and deep interest of Colonel A. B. Drum, the Superintendent. He had erected a canvas covering for those in attendance. Reverend Dr. Stafford read the impressive commitment service. The Quartette Choir rendered '■''Nearer, My God, to Thee." The bugle sounded taps. The Nation, through its representatives in all its depart- ments, and the veterans of all its armies, had laid its great soldier and our beloved commander, in his final resting place. The remains of General Rosecrans were brought from Los Angeles, California, without expense to the Society by Senator Chauncey Depew, avIio is a relative of the family. The General's only son, Carl F. Rosecrans, accompanied the casket. Upon the arrival of the remains they were taken in charge by Mr. W. R. Speare, and cared for without charge. His services throughout were of the most painstaking and successful character,, and his bill included only his actual out- lay for carriages. Governor and Mrs. Toole, and their children, and Miss Anita D. Rosecrans came on from Helena, Montana, to attend the ceremonies. Mrs. Toole is the General's eldest daughter. 5Jf Burial of General Rosecrans. CORRESPONDENCE. Executive Office. Helena, Montana, May '21 , 1902. General H. V. Boynton, Secretary, Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Wasliington. D. C. My Dear Geneeal : I write these few lines at tlie request of my family in the hope of conveying to you and to the Society of the Army of the Cumber- land, some idea, at leasts of the profound appreciation we feel for the noble and generous tribute to our father. We realize how feeble words are to portray such emotions as fill our hearts^ but we want you to know, if only from our assurances, that we are deeply grateful for everything that was done to prepare for the occasion. It was a memorable day for each one of us, and also for those who witnessed the ceremonies. Nothing was left undone that might add to their harmony and beauty, and it must have, certainly, been very gratifying to you to see how perfectly all details were carried into execution. We hope you will accept tliis simple expression from the fullness of our hearts of our gratitude and admiration for this superb proof of friendship for one who ever held you in loving memory. To bury the dead is a noble work, but when in doing so the wish of an old friend and comrade is carried out, what could be more gratifying ? During the years of his life, it was my privilege to hear my father speak of things nearest his heart, and I can assure you that he never mentioned your name, or that of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, without quick tears flooding his eyes. He felt the separation from you all in his far ofi: home, and Burial of General Rosecrans. 55 although he Avas happily surroimded by his family, his spirit often 5'earned for the old friends and the days so full of memory to you and to his comrades in the Society. Hoping that some day, and in some way, we may give you proof of our gratitude, , Believe me, Yours respectfully, Anita D. Eosecrans. Los Angeles, Cal., June 1, 1902. General H. Y. Boynton, Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Washington, D. C. My Dear General : I will ask 3^our kindness in expressing to all the dear members of the Society our deep gratitude for the grand tribute paid by his beloved comrades to our loved and honored dead — our father and friend, General William Starke Eosecrans, commander of that gallant band of national defenders, the grand Army of the Ciim- herland. Xoble deeds well done live with, and after, those who performed them, and as long as life shall last the family of General Eose- crans will hold in tender regard their touching devotion to their dead commander, who in his life loved them in every beat of his great, noble heart. Words are but weak and poor expressions of the heart, but, my dear General, you know how deeply we appreciate your beautiful devotion to our dear one in Arlington — you, true and noble com- rades, who followed him unto the end ! May God bless you one and all, prolong your noble lives of sac- rifice and fraternal love, and when life is over bring you to Him who is the "Eesurrection and the Life." I am. Yours, sincerly, Carl F. Eosecrans. 56 Burial of General Rosecrans. War Department, Quartermaster General's Office, Washington, April 23, 1902. Mr. H. y, BoYNTON, Corresponding Secretary, Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Washington, D. C. Sir: In compliance with yonr reqnest of the 2 2d instant that burial lots numbered 1858, 1859, 1862 and 1863, in the Southern Di- vision, Officer's Section, in Arlington, Va., National Cemetery, be assigned for re-interment of the remains of the late Major-General William S. Eosecrans, U. S. A., and for the erection of a monu- ment thereon ; you are resjiectfully informed that the lots alwve noted have been assigned and will be noted on the records of the cemetery and of this office. These burial lots are not designed for general family use, but there is no objection to the interment therein of the wife of the officer, if so desired. Eespectfully, M. I. LUDINGTON, Quartermaster 'General, U. S. Army. Depot Quartermaster's Office, Washington, D. C, A^ml SO, 1902. General H. V. Boynton, Corresponding Secretary, Society of the Army of the Cuuiherland, Washingtou . I). C. Dear General : Eeplying to your favor of this date, requesting that the Society have the use of the pavilion at Arlington for the ceremonies attend- ing the funeral of General Eosecrans, which I understand are to be held on the 17th proximo, I have to say that it will give me very Burial of General Rosecrans. 57 great pleasure to have the pavilion prepared for your use, as re- quested. Very truly yours, T. E. True, Major and Quartermaster, U. S. Army, Depot Quartermaster. May 22, 1902. My Dear Major : I wish to express to you, not only for myself personally, hut for the family of General Eosecrans and the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, our earnest and most sincere thanks for the atten- tion which you bestowed upon the preparations for the ceremonies at Arlington. I have never knoT\Ti arrangements so perfect as those completed under your direction, and everybody concerned feels imder the deepest obligations to you and your associates. Cordially yours, H. V. BoYNTON", Corresponding Secretary, Major T. E. True, U. S. A., Washington, D. C. May 22, 1902. Colonel : I desire to express to you in most emphatic terms the thanks which we all feel for the perfect arrangements supervised by you in the organization and movement of the escort, and for the measures taken by you for the preservation of order throughout the ceremonies at Arlington on Satur;coln, under date of August 21, 1880, wrote General Kosecrans as follows: "My recollection is that I heard that the removal of Eose- CEAFS was contemplated on the charges freely made through the newspapers at the time, and I went to Lincoln to remonstrate against it, saying that I did not believe the charges implying misbehavior to Eosecrans, and that Lincoln silenced me by saying, that he did not propose to act on such rumors; but that the charges against Eosecrans had been substantiated by General Garfield, the Chief of Staff of General Eosecrans. My im- pression is also that General Garfield's statements were made to Lincoln in person, and not by letter, and that he came here (Washington) to make them after meeting Stanton at Louis- ville." Mr. Blah;, in answer to this paragraph : "General Gar- field's letters stated that General Eosecrans had fled from the field during the battle of Chickaniauga, and that the con- fidence of the army in him had been broken, if not destroyed/' says: "This was the purport of the statement on which Eosecrans, was removed — which was combated hy me and Chase — and which Lincoln told me had been verified by Garfield. "Garfield was one of a large dinner party given by my father, subsequent to the ^emo^■al of Eosecrans, at winch Governor Dennison and my brother General Blair were present. There may have been another member of the Cabinet present beside myself, but I do not recollect the fact. Dennison, I recollect, condemned strongly the removal of Eosecrans, and there was a general concurrence of all present in his views, and I recollect that Garfield especially was loud and pronounced in condemn- ing the act. I was of course very much astonished at his duplicit}'." Burial of General Rosecranfi. 97 Honorable Chas. A. Daxa wrote General Rosecrans as follows: "The fact that it was Garfield's letter to Chase which finally broke the camel's back and made even Chase consent to Eosecrans' removal, I had from Mr. Stanton. All I know of Garfield's letter is what Mr. Stanton told me ; 1 never saw it — do not know where it is, and suppose it to have been destroyed by Mr. Chase^ to wlioni it was privately written. Of its con- tents I have never known anytliing, except as I have stated. But my impression has always been, that without suggesting or urging the removal of Eosecrans, the letter sliowed a state of facts at Chattanooga, which in the opinion of Mh. Lincoln and all the rest, including Mr. Chase^ the special support of Eose- CRANS^ made it desirable to have Grant there. In that way, as I suppose, Garfield brought about the removal of his chief. T know from Mk. Stanton, and I tliink from Mr. Chase too, that it was a private letter of Garfield's to Chase that determined the removal of Eoseckans. Of course it was never filed in the War Department." Mr. James II. Ctil:more, who was at Rosecrans' head- quarters throughout May, 1803, and who was present at the conference of corps and division commanders a short time previous to the movement on Tullahoma, dined with Secre- tary Chase on Cliristnias day, ISGo, and closed a long ac- count of the conversation about (General Rosecrans and the circumstances attending the removal, as follows: "At this point in our conversation. Mr. Chase asked what I thought of EosECRANs" personality. I answered that he was one of the ablest of organizers and executors. The old adage was that, 'a workman was known by his chips.' Every one of Eosecrans' battles had been fought against superior forces, and been won solely 9S Burial of General nose crans. by his personal bravery and efficiency. I was not a military critic, but a score of experienced military men — among them Quincy GiLMORE — liad told me that Eosecrans was the most tenacious fighter and the ablest strategist in our army. "Mr. Chase then remarked that I must have expressed these same opinions to Mr. Ltn'coln'^ for he had used very nearly the same language when Stanton proposed the removal of KosECRANS, merely adding that he was the only one of our Generals who had thus far shown the ability to cope with Lee^ and that his flanking of Bragg out of Shelbyville, Tullahoma and Chattanooga was the most splendid piece of strategy that he knew of. " 'Then,' I asked, Svhy did he consent to his removal ?' "Chase answered by inquiring if I had not asked that question of General Garfield. "1 replied that I had l)een witli Garfield the larger part of the previous day, and having in mind wliat he (Chase) had said to me of Eosecrans having lost his head at Chickamauga, I had questioned him particularly as to the bearing of the General during the battle, and he had answered : " 'You know there never was a commander so cool in battle as old Eosecrans. You've told me that you once asked him what his sensations were while he was for two days so constantly under fire at Stone's Eiver, and he answered you that he had no sensa- tions — that he was absorbed in planning how to beat them. Gar- field said that he was just as cool and collected at Chickamauga — expressed a little surprise, nothing more, when he saw McCook was broken; but at once prepared to meet the emergency by send- ing him, with orders, on to Thomas and going himself to Chat- tanooga to rally there our men and hold tlie place, for that was the objective of the campaign, and so long as we held it we could not be defeated.'" "When I asked Garfield why the government had removed Eosecrans, he said that he did not know; that the deed was Burial of General Bosecrans. 99 done sometime before his arrival in Washington, and he found it would be a waste of words to attempt to stem the opposition against the General — that every one seemed to hold him respon- sible for the disaster to Mc Cook's corps, when he had no more to do with it than the Czar of Eussia and did all that he could to meet the emergency. "Mr. Chase seemed to hesitate for a moment, then said, 'General Garfield has not been entirely frank with you. I will be, and tell you all that I know about Rosecrans' removal.' He then went on to say that I must know that there had been for a long time a mutual dissatisfaction between Stanton and Eosecrans; that in this his (Chase's) sympathies had been with the General, and he had done all he could to promote harmony between them. Finally, soon after Chickamauga, he received a letter from an officer high in rank under Eosecrans, and in whom he had great confidence, which said that after the breaking of our lines in the second day's battle, the General was demoralized, panic-stricken and totally unfitted to command; in fact, that nothing but the unmoval)le firmness of General Thomas had saved the army. Mr. Chase had carried this letter for several days before he concluded that he ought to show it to Mr. Lincoln. This he did in a private interview, and Mr. Lincoln expressed both surprise and incredulity, but said that things out there were in a critical condition, and we could not afford to take any chances. We had already ordered Sherman to the support of Eosecrans, but he thought we had better do even more — merge the departments of tlie Oliio. Cuml)erlan(l and Tennessee, each with its present commander ; but all three under Grant, who should proceed at once to Cliattanooga. This plan struck Mr. Chase favorably, and it was brought at once before a Cabinet meeting, to which, at Mn. Lincoln's request, Mr. Chase read the Chickamauga letter. At once Mr. Stanton suggested the nioval of Eosecrans and tlie sul)stitution of General Thomas in the command of the army at Chattanooga, and the entire L.ofC. 100 Burial of General Koseeruns. Cabinet approved of the suggestion. To this Mr. Lincoln objected, sa^ying that he could not believe the statement of the letter, and that he Avas unwilling to do an injustice to Koseckaxs. He finally agreed that the superseding of Eosecraxs by Thomas should l^e left optional with General Ghant^ and it w^as so expressed in the dispatch of the War Department, which, inasmuch as it was borne to Grant lij Stanton himself, secured the removal of Kose- CRANS." Honorable Montgomery Blair was further responsible for the following statement concerning General Garfield's interview with President Lincoln: "General Garfield called on the Tresident and said he had come on to look over the ground with a view of deciding the question of accei)ting his election to the House of Eepresenta- tives. He said he was not inclined to leave the army; he had become thoroughly identified w-ith the Army ejf the Cuinherland, and believed that as a commander of troops he would be a success. Mr. Lincoln saw through that statement, and replied that the Administration wanted a soldier from the field who knew the w^ants of the armies from practical knowledge, and he hoped that the General would not hesitate about accepting his election; and as to commanding troops, they had more generals around loose than they knew what t(^ do with." It is also true that General Garfield, in the House of Representatives, February 17, 1S(.U, delivered a glowing and truthful eulogy on General Kosecrans, setting forth the brilliancy of liis various campaigns, and especially empha- sizing his distinguished ability in the campaign which secured Chattanooga. A resolution had been introduced thanking General Thomas and the officers and men under his command for Burial of General Rosecrans. 101 Chickamaiiga, but niakinii- no mention of General Rosecrans: Therenpon General Garfield said: "This, resolution proposes to thank Major-Gexeral Thomas and the officers and men under his command for gaUant services in the battle of Ghickamauga. It meets my hearty approval for what it contains, but my protest for what it does not con- tain. I should be recreant to my own sense of justice did I allow this omission to pass without notice, ^o man here is ready to say — and if there be such a man, I am ready to meet him — that the thanks of this Congress are not due to Major- General W. S. Kosecrans, for the campaign which culminated in the battle of Ghickamauga. It is not uncommon through- out the press of the country, and among many people, to speak of that battle as a disaster to the Army of the United States, and to treat of it as a defeat. If that battle was a defeat we may welcome a hundred such defeats. I would be glad if each of our armies would repeat Ghickamauga. Twenty such would destroy the reliel army and the Gonfederacy, utterly and forever. "What was that battle, terminating as it did a great cam- paign, whose object it was to drive the rebel army beyond the Tennessee, and to obtain a foothold on the south bank of that river which should form the basis of future operations in the Gulf States? We had never yet crossed that river, except far below in the neighborhood of Gorinth. Ghattanooga was the gateway of the Cumberland Mountains, and until we crossed the river and held the gateway we could not commence operations in Georgia. The army was ordered to cross the river, to grasp and hold the key of the Cumberland Mountains. It did cross, in the face of superior numbers; and after two days of fighting, more terrible, I believe, than any since this war began, the Arniij of the Cum- berland, hurled back, discomfited and repulsed, the combined 102 Burial of General Eosecrans. power of three rebel armies, gained the key to the Cumberland Mountains, gained Chattanooga and held it against every assault. If there has been a more substantial success against overwhelming odds since this war began. I have not heard of it. "We have had victories — God be thanked — all along the line, but in the history of this war I know of no such battle against such numbers; forty thousand against an army of not less by a man than seventy-five thousand. After the disaster to the right wing in the last bloody afternoon, of September 20th, twenty-five thousand men of the Army of the Gumherland stood and met seventy-five thousand hurled against them ; and they stood in their bloody tracks, immovable and victorious, when night threw its mantle around them. They had repelled the last assault of the rebel army. Who commanded the Army of the Cumberland? W^io organized, disciplined and led it? Wlio planned its campaigns? The General whose name is omitted in this resolution, Major-General W. S. Eosecrans." / c* — ^ In Memoriam — General Stanley. 103 ^n ^txnoxuxnx. MAJOR-GENERAL DAVID S. STANLEY. It seems fitting that this vohime should contain memo- rials of the President of our Society, and of General Rob- inson of its Executive Committee, both of whom were •enthusiasticallv favoring the move for the re-burial of Gen- eral KosECRANS at Arlington. General Stanley, residing in Washington, wliere the preparations were in progress, was •especially desirous of living to take j)art in the last honors to be paid his chief. General Stanley died March 18, 1902, before the ceremonies at Arlington, and General Kobinson's failing health prevented his attendance. No members of the Society had a deeper interest in its welfare, or greater pride in the history of the Army of the Cumherland and the fame of its great leaders, or a higher appreciation of the soldiers who won its victories. The following memorial paper from Honorable White- law Retd's "Ohio in the TFar" reproduced with the permis- sion of The Robert Clarke Comtany, gives an excellent sketch of General Stanley's life : He was born in "Wayne County. Oliio. on the 1st of June, 1828. His father was a farmer. In 1818 he was appointed a cadet at West Point; and in 1852 he graduated, with a standing •sufficiently higli to warrant his assignment as Second Lieutenant to the Second Dragoons, afterwards the Second Cavalry. The next year he was employed as assistant on the survey of the Pacific Eailroad route, under Lieutenant, since General, Whipple^ and iO^ Burial of General Eosecrans. in this service lie remained for two years. In 1855 he was transferred to the First C'avalrv, a new regiment, of which Sum- ner was Colonel. Jop: Johxstox, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Sedg- wick, Major. ]\1cClellax and Jiianv others who subsequently held imjjortant positions, were subordinate in this regiment. He was engaged in maintaining the peace in Kansas until the spring of 1857, and during the summer of that year he accom- panied Colonel Sumner on an expedition against the Cheyenne Indians. He was engaged in a sharp fight on Solomon's Fork of the Kansas, in which the Indians were defeated and com- pelled to beg for peace. In 1858 he was engaged in the Utah expedition, and in the same year he crossed the plains to the northern boundary of Texas. In March, 1858, he had a success- ful fight with the Comanche Indians, for which he received the complimentary orders of Lieutenant-General Scott. He was stationed at Fort Smith, Arkansas, at the opening of the rebellion. He was ai)pointed Captain in the Fourth United States Cavalry in March, 18()1. and soon after that the troops at Fort Smith and neighboring posts were compelled to evacuate. They united in one column and marched through the buffalo country to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. On the 8th of May they captured and paroled a force of rebels sent in pur- suit of them. Kansas City was occupied June 15th, and on the same, day Captain Stanley was fired upon by rebels near Inde- pendence, Missouri, while carrying a flag of truce. He moved on the expedition to Springfield, and joined General Lyon at Grand Eiver. Springfield was occupied July 12th. He was en- gaged in the capture of Forsythe, in the defeat of the rebels at Dry Spring, and in guarding the train at the battle of Wilson's Creek. On the retreat to Eolla he was in cliarge of the rear guard. He participated in a skirmish, in which the rebels were defeated, near Salem, Missouri, and in September, com- manding his regiment, he joined General Fremont, at St. Louis. He marched in pursuit of Price, from Syracuse, and in In Meinorinni — General Stdiileij. 105 November moved against Springfield. Captain Stanley was appointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers in November, 1861. He was ordered to St. Louis, and during tbe winter of 1861-62 was a meml^er of a military commission. He moved with PoPE^=l army down the Mississippi, March, 1863, and commanded the Second Division of that army at New Madrid, and Island No. 10. He participated in the Fort Pillow expedition, and on the 22d of April joined General Halleck's army before Corinth. He was engaged in a skirmish at ]VIonterey. in the l^attle of Farm- ington, and in the repulse of the rebels before Corinth, May 28th. The rebels evacuated Corinth on the 29th and General Stanley was engaged in the pursuit to Booneville. During the months of June, July and August he was in command of the troops on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. In the battle of luka he commanded one of Rosecrans' two divisions, and was specially commended in the official report. In the battle of Corinth, Octol)er 4tb, his division lost many valuable officers and men. It sustained the terriljle attack of the enemy on bat- teries Williams and Robinett. General Stanley joined the army of the Tennessee, under General Grant^ at Grand Junction, in October; but in Novem- ber, he was relieved from duty there, and was ordered to report to General Rosecrans, commanding the Army of tlic Cumber- land, who assigned him to the command of the cavalry of that army. On the 21st of November he was made Major-General of Volunteers. On the 15th of Decem])er he skirmished with and defeated the rebels at Franklin, Tennessee. He skirmished again at Nolinsville, and commanded the cavalry in the battle of Stone's River. In this engagement the duty of the cavalry was very arduous. From the 26th of December until the 4th of January. lS(i3, the saddles were only removed to groom the horses, and then they were immediately replaced. The cavalry pursued the rebels, and skirmished with the rear guard. Gen- eral Stanley^s command was again engaged at Bradyville, 106 Burial of General Kosecrans. March 1st; at Snow Hill, April 2d; at Franklin, April 10th; and at Middleton, May 21st. In tlie Tiillahoma campaign General Stanley was engaged at Shelbyville and Elk River. He moved on an expedition to Hnntsville in July. He crossed the Tennessee River in command of all the cavalry, on an ex- pedition into Georgia, and on the 9th of September he skir- mished at Alpine. General Stanley was absent on sick-leave after the battle of Chickamauga, for two months ; and upon returning he was assigned to the command of the First Division, Fourth Army Corps. He was stationed at Bridgeport, Alabama, until De- cember, 1863, and then at Blue Springs, East Tennessee, until May, 1864. General Stanley was on the Atlanta campaign under Sherman, from May 2d until August 25th, and was en- gaged at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kene- saw, Jonesboro' and Lovejoy Station. He commanded the Fourth Corps, by appointment of the President, from July, 1864, until the close of the war; and during Hood^s raid upon Sher- man's communications, in October, he commanded two corps of the Army of the Cumherland. On the 27th of October he sep- arated from Sherman's army, and camped in Coosa Valley, Alabama. He marched the Fourth Corps to Chattanooga, and thence to Pulaski, confronting Hood's army, which was then threatening ISTashville and Middle Tennessee. He fell back through Columl^ia, and at Spring Hill was engaged with two corps of Hood's army. At the battle of Franklin, General Stanley came upon the field just as a portion of the National line was captured by the rebels. His timely arrival averted disaster; and placing himself at the head of a brigade, he led a charge which re-established the line. The soldiers followed him with enthusiasm calling out "Come on men; we can go wherever the General can." Just after re-taking the line, and while passing toward the left, the General's horse was killed; and no sooner did the General regain his feet than he was In Memorium — General SlunJeij. 107 struck by a musket-ball in the back of the neck. But he still remained on the field. The wound disabled him from further service imtil January 24, 18G5, when he was placed on duty in East Tennessee. In July he moved with the Fourth Corps to Texas. He commanded the corps and the Middle District of Texas, until mustered out, February 1, 1866. General Stanley enjoyed to the fullest extent the confi- dence of his superior officers, and General Thomas^ in recom- mending him for promotion, says : "A more and cool and brave commander, it would be a difficult task to find, and though he has been a participant in many of the most sanguinary engage- ments of the war, his conduct has. on all occasions, been so gal- lant and marked that it would almost be an injustice to him to refer to any isolated battle-field. I refer, therefore, only to the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864, because it is the more recent, and one in which his gallantry was so marked as to merit the admiration of all who saw him. It was here that his personal bravery was more decidedly brought out, perhaps, than on any other field; and the terrible destruction and defeat which disheartened and checked the fierce assaults of the enemy were due more to his heroism and gallantry than to that of any other officer on the field." Generals Sherman and Grant most cordially indorsed General Thomas^ recommenda- tion, and General Sheridan also added his testimony in favor of General Stanley. The authorities at Washington acted upon these testimonials, and rewarded General Stanley with the Colonelcy of the Twenty-second United States Infantry, and a Brevet-Major Generalship in the United States Army. In March, 1884, he was made a Brigadier-General in the Eegular establishment. He was given a military funeral. The services were held in St. Matthew's Church. The great building was croAvded with representatives of the various patriotic so- lOS Buruil of CicnPniJ 'liosccrans. cieties of Washington, and prominent representatives of every branch of the government. The military escort was composed of tiie regnh^rs sta- tioned in Washington, and was of the most imposing char- acter. The bnrial was at the Sokliers' Home where the Gen- eral had been Governor. One of the most tonching features of the funeral was the lining up of the thousand inmates of the Home to receive the funeral party. The official life of Washington, and the veterans of the Capital united to do honor to one of the Xation's worthiest soldiers. In Memoriam — General Robinson. 100 BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL WILLIAM ANDREW ROBINSON. General Robinson was born June 19, 1830, in North-east Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He was a descendant of one of the Scotch-Irish families of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, who became the first settlers of Erie County at the close of the eighteenth century. He received his education in the common schools of that day and at an academy in Ashtabula, Ohio. He remained for a time on the ancestral farm at Xorth-east, then removed to Pittsburgh, which became his home for the rest of his life. While serving his earliest clerkship in Pittsburgh, the War of the Rebellion came and he was one of the first to answer President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand volunteers. April 17, 1861, four days after the fall of Fort Sumter, he enlisted in the Pittsburgh Rifles which became Company A in the Ninth Pennslyvania Reserves. He entered as a private and was promoted successively to Corporal and Sergeant in his Company, to Captain in the Seventy-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and to Captain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel in the Seventy-seventh Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and to Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13. 1865. His first service was under General McCall in the Eastern Army on the Potomac and around Washington. His second service was under Generals Buell, Rosecrans and Thomas in the armies of the OJiio and the Cumberland, 110 Burial of Generdi Rosecrans. operating in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. His third service was nnder General Sheridan in Texas. From Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, to Washington, to the Potomac, to Lonisville, Kentucky, to Nashville, to Columbia, to Shiloh, to Corinth ; thence through . luka, Florence, Athens and Bridgeport, to the Cumberland Mountains; thence north to Nashville, to Bowling Green, to Louisville; then about face to Perryville, to Lawrenceburg, to Nashville, to Triune, to Lavergne, to Stone's Eiver and Murfreesboro, to Lafayette, to Liberty Gap, to Tullahoma, to, and across the Cumberland Mountains, the Tennessee Eiver and the Sand Mountains, of Alabama, the Lookout Eange, of Georgia, to Chickamauga ; thence, as a prisoner of war, to Atlanta, to Libby Prison. Eichmond, Virginia, to the prison at Salisbury, North Caro- lina, to the prison at Macon, Georgia, to the prisons at Columbus and Charleston, South Carolina, to the stockade at Columbus, exchanged there; thence to his regiment in southfern Tennessee, to Pranklin, to Nashville, to the Tennessee Eiver again, to New Orleans, to Indianola, Green Lake, Victoria and the Gaudaloupe Eiver, Texas; thence to Camp Cadwalader, Philadel- phia, for muster out, and home to Pittsburgh — constituted his principle military itinerary. His leading engagement and battles were Shiloh, Corinth. Perryville, Lawrenceburg, Triune, Lavergne, Stone's Eiver, La- fayette, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Franklin and Nashville. He was wounded in the head and taken prisoner in the Saturday night fight, September 19, 1863, Chickamauga, Georgia. He was released after having been a prisoner of war fourteen months. At Charleston, South Carolina, he was placed under the fire of the Union Artillery. While our army lay at Murfreesboro, GENEf?AL Eosecrans prepared a Eoll of Honor out of which he proposed to organize In Memoriani — General Robinson. Ill a regiment for special service. General Eobiksox Avas on this roll but the plan was never carried out. General Robinson was a brave, skillful, intelligent soldier, conscientiously discharging all duties devolving upon him in the ranks or in command. Distinguished and honored as a soldier he was equally so in social, business and private life. Returning from the service he was for a time engaged in manufacturing, but leaving it he entered into a copartnership with four of his brothers as bankers and brokers under the name of Robinson Brothers, in which firm he remained until his death, October 4, 1902, then being its senior member. The house of Robinson Brothers was one of the most successful private banking establishments in the city of Pitts- burgh. In addition to the onerous duties of General Robinson as a business man he found much time to devote to his church and her educational, benevolent and charitable institutions. In these matters his head was clear, his counsel safe, always sought, and generally adopted. In addition to all other duties he kept in touch with his comrades, was a member and officer in the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and usually attended its meetings, was also a member of the Union A'eteran Legion, the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Loyal Legion. He was a born financier, and wherever he moved, if there was a financial question, he was the leader. He was a meml)er and Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Com- mission for the erection of monuments on the battle lines of the Pennsylvania organizations, in the battles of Chickamauga, Wauhatchie, Brown's Ferry, Orchard Knob, Lookovit Mountain and Missionary Ridge. In this work General Robinson took great interest and designed the monument for liis own regiment, but gave strict attention to all, and the Pennsylvania monuments stand out in bold relief amongst the many monuments on those historic fields. 112 Burial of Generah Eosecrans. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Commission for the erection of a monument to his regiment on the l)attle-field of Shiloh, that being the only Pennsylvania regiment in that battle. After the war he married Miss Alice Blaixe, daughter of the Honorable Alexander T. Blaixe, of Xorth-east. Pennsyl- vania, who survives him, with their children. Miss Alice Blaine^ Alexaxder Blaix^e and Willia:\i A., Jr. In 1897, with his daugliter and a niece he attended the Queen's Jubilee in London, and made an extensive tour of the old world. For several years before the General's death he was not in good health and with ]\Iits. Robix'sox traveled much, seeking help and rest, but tlie decline Avas gradual and sure. When the end came he laid down his life as calmly as lie would have met one of its ordinary transactions. He died at Walther's Park Sanitarium, near Reading. Pennsylvania. His faith in the doctrines and promises of Christianity was sublime and never wavered. At his funeral services, his com- modious residence and its surrounding grounds at Irwin and Wightman Avenues, Pittsl)urgh, were crowded with sorrowing relatives, friends, neighbors and old army comrades, assembled to do honor to him who had lived a good and a great life. His body was laid to rest in the family burying-ground at Korth-east, Pennsylvania, on the sliore of the lake where he was born and spent the da3's of boyhood and early manhood. A large concourse of old friends, neighbors, comrades of the Civil War and acquaintances attended the services in the cemetery chapel, conducted by the Reverexd Doctor Christie, and then, surrounding the grave, silently and gently, with tears and sobs, loving hands with sad hearts laid him to rest. Jtt ^emotiatn ROBERT ANDERSON 23orn jftme 14, 1805 Dicb October 26, 1871 Ctacb 66 years, 4 months, i 2 <^/<^jk^ Itt ^cmoxiam WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN 3orn Febritary 8, 1820 Dic6 FebrtLary 14, 1891 7 1 years, 6 ^^^^jj/i* In "^iinmm. GEORGE HENRY THOIVIAS 23orn Jtily 31,1816 1 Dicb 1 March 28, 1870 1 Ctcjcb S 3 years. 7 months, 28 days Jit ^moxiam WILLIAM STARKE ROSECRANS Born September 6, i 8 1 9 Dic6 Marcli II, 1898 ageb ^% years, 5 niontlis, 5 <^&/i/i- in ^moxiam DON CARLOS BUELL 3orn Marcli 23, 18 18 Dicb November 19, 1898 Clgcb 8oj>'^<^ri', 7 months, 28 <^<^jyi" Jtt ^moxiam PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN 3orn March 6, 183 I Dic6 Aiigitst 5, 1 888 5 7 years, 4 mo7ttks, 2 9 <^/<:ZjKi' In fUmox'mx DAVID SLOAN STANLEY 3oru y^ime I, 1828 March 13, 1902 Ctaob 7 3 years, 9 niontlis, i 2 <'&/Ki' Constitution and By-Laws -AND- List of Members -OF THE— Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 121 Constitution. 129 CONSTITUTION. AKTICLE I. The name antl title of this association shall he the ''Society OF THE Army of the Cumberland/'' and said Society shall include ever^^ officer and soldier who has at any time served with honor in that army. Honorar}^ memhers may be elected from those officers who have become distinguished in any of the armies of the United States. ARTICLE II. The object of the Society shall be to perpetuate the memory of the fortunes and achievements of the Army of the Cuniher- land; to preserve that unanimity of loyal sentiment, and that kind and cordial feeling wliich has been an eminent character- istic of this army, and the main element of the power and success of its efforts in behalf of the cause of the Union. The history and glory of the officers and soldiers belonging to this army, who have fallen either on the field of battle or otherwise in the line of their duty, shall be a permanent and sacred trust to this Society, and every effort shall be made to collect and preserve the projjer memorials of their services, to inscribe their names upon the roll of honor, and transmit their fame to posterity. It shall also l)e the object and bounden duty of this Society to relieve, as far as possible, the families of such deceased officers and soldiers, when in indigent circumstances, either by the voluntary contribution of the members, or in such other manner as they may determine, when the cases are brought to their attention. This provision shall also hereafter apply to 130 Burial of General Hosecrans. the suffering families of those members of tlie Society who may. in the future, be called hence, and the welfare of the soldier's widow and orphan shall forever be a holy trust in the hands of his surviving comrades. ARTICLE III. For the purpose of effecting these objects, the Society shall be organized by the annual election of a President, and a Vice- President from each state having soldiers in the Army of the Cumberland (to be nominated by members from the several states), a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer. The Society shall meet once in every year; the time and place of the next meeting to be selected by ballot at each meet- ing. All meml)ers of the Society who are prevented, by any cause, from personally attending are expected to notify the Corresponding Secretary, and to impart such information in re- gard to themselves as they may think proper, and as may be of interest to their brethren of the Society. Having a fraternal feeling for, and honoring the glorious efforts of our brothers in arms belonging to other armies, who have shared with us the service of saving our Government, the President and either of the Vice-Presidents shall be authorized to invite the attendance of any officer of the United States armies at anv of our annual meetings. By-Laws. 131 BY-LAWS. I. All meetings of this Society shall be opened by prayer to Almighty God by a former Chaplain of the army, or by a minister of the Gospel, to be selected for the occasion by the President of the Society. II. Every othcer and soldier desiring to liecome a member of this Society shall, npon signing the Constitution, pay to the Treasurer the sum of five dollars as an initiation fee, and there- after the like sum of five dollars per annum, as yearly dues; and shall thereupon be entitled to a copy of the proceedings of the Society, when published, free of charge. [Subsequently amended so that the initiation fee also covers the first years dues.] III. Any member Avho shall be in arrears for dues for a period of two years shall have his name dropped from the rolls. IV. x\ll moneys |)aid out liy the Treasurer shall be upon the written order of the Recording Secretary, approved by the written consent of the President; and at each annual meeting of the Society, the Treasurer shall make a full report of his receipts and disbursements. V. When the place of the next annual meeting of this Society shall be decided upon, the President shall appoint an Executive Committee of three (3) members, resident at such place, or contiguous thereto, whose duty it shall be to make all need- ful preparations and arrangements for such meeting. YI. That prior to the final adjournment of the Society, at such annual meeting thereof, the President shall appoint a committee of three meml)ers, residents of the city in whieli 132 Burial of General Rosecrans. such meeting shall he. and not officers of the Society, as a committee on bills and claims, and to such committee all claims against the Society, of ■\vhatl. inf.. Pliila- . delphia. Pa. Goodspeed. W. F., Maj. 1st Ohio \'ol. Light Arty., Columbus, 0. Green, Pobert P.. Private Co. F. ISth U. S. Inf., Columbus. 0. Greene, John P.. Capt. and A. A. G. U. S. Y.. Philadelphia. Pa. Grosvenor. Charles H.. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Athens. 0. Act! re Members. 151 Haffner. Christ., Private, Co. I, Otli Ohio Yol. Tnf.. Cincinnati, Oliio. Haight, Edward, Bvt. CoL 16th U. S. Inf., New York, N. Y. Hale, John H., Capt. 13th Mich. Yoh Inf., AVankon, Iowa. Hall, Eohert H., Brig. G«i. IT. S. A., retired. Hallenhiirg, C, Lieut. 1st Ohio Yol. Inf., Louisville, Ky. Hancock, E. A., Maj. 9th Pennsylvania Yol. Cav., Philadel- phia, Pa. Hapeman, Douglas, Col. 104th Illinois Yol. Inf., Ottawa, 111. Harlan, John M., Col. lOtli Kentucky Yol. Inf., Washington, D. C. Harnian, P. M.. Capt. 93d Ohio Yol. Inf., Dayton, 0. Harrison, C. E., Capt. 89t]i Ohio Yol. Inf., Colmnhiis, 0. Heard, J. Theo., Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. Y., Medical Director, itli Army Corps, Boston, Mass. Hedges, J. S., Bvt. Maj. 4th I'. S. Cav., Mansfield, 0. Hessler. E. M.. Hospital Steward, 1st Ohio Yol. Art., Cleve- land, Ohio. Hiuioc. Stejihen 0., Surgeon l.")tli Wisconsin Yol. Inf., Kansas City, Mo. Hinkley. L. D., 1st Lieut. lOtli Wisconsin Yol. Inf., Waupun, Wis. Hohson. E. H., Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Greenburg, Ky. Hodges, Henry C, Col. U. S. A., retired, Buffalo, X. Y. Hodgkins, Wni. H., Bvt. Maj. 3Gth Massacliusetts Yol. Inf., Boston. ]\Iass. Holmes, J. T., Bvt. Lieut. Col. .V3d Ohio Yol. Inf., Columbus. Ohio. Hood, Calvin, Maj. 11th Michigan Yol. Inf., Emporia, Kansas. Hopkins. George H., Sergeant 17th Alichigan Yol. Inf.. Detroit. Mich. Hougli, Alfred L., Col. V. S. A., retired, Xew York, X. Y. Ho\\('. Silas, 1st Lieut. ISth Kentucky \"ol. Inf. and Maj. -loth Kentuckv Yol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 152 Burial of General Bosecrans. Hiiggins, E. L.. Col. 3d U. S. Cav. Hummell, Joseph, Surgeon's Steward IT. S. X.. Cincinnati. 0. Hunt, P. B., Lieut. Col. 4th Kentucky Vol. Cav., Dallas, Tex. Irwin, B. J. D., Col. and Asst. Surg. Gen. V. S. A., retired^ Chicago, 111. Jacob, R. T., Col. 9th Kentucky Yol. Inf.. Louisville. Ky. James, F. B., Maj. 55th Ohio Yol. Inf., Cincinnati, 0. Jocel}Ti, Stephen P., Colonel 14th U. S. Inf. Jones, Prank J., Bvt. Maj. and Aid-de-Camp. L. S. \., Cincin- nati, 0. Jones, James Kilbourne, Lieut. 24th Ohio Inf., Columl^us, 0. Jones, Sidney B., Lieut. Col. 42d Kentucky Yol. Inf., Chicago^ 111. Keen, Joseph S., Co. D, 13th ]\Iichigan Yol. Inf., Detroit, Mich. Kell, Wm. H., Maj. U. S. A., retired, ^Yashington, D. C. Kellogg, S: C, Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. A., retired, Washington, D. C. Kelly, H. A., Lieut. 8th Tennessee Yol. Cav., Washington, D. C. Kelly, R. M., Col. 4th Kentucky Yol. Inf.. Louisville, Ky. Kimball, Nelson P., Sergeant 125th Illinois Yol. Inf., Weiser,. Idaho. Kitchen, Samuel, Asst. Surgeon U. S. Y., East Saginaw, Mich. Kniffin, G. C, Lieut. Col. and Commissary of Subsistence, TJ. S. Y.,. Tacoma Park, D. C. Kutzleb, Anton, Bugler Co. B., 9th Ohio A'ol. Inf.. Louisville,. Lafferty, Nelson B., Sergeant 1st Ohio Yol. Heavy Artillery^ Hillsboro, 0. Active Memhers. 153 Lambert, Wm. H., Bvt. Maj. 33d New Jersey Vol. Inf., Phila- delphia, Pa. Lang, John C, Private 100th Illinois Vol. Inf., Joliet, 111. Lawler, Thomas G., Col. 3d Illinois Vol. Inf., Eockford, 111. Leeson, Eichard L., Capt. 68th Indiana \o\. Inf., Bvt. Col. U. S. v., Elwood, Ind. Liddell, Oliver B., 1st Lieut. 68th Indiana Vol. Inf., Denver, Colorado. Lincoln, Charles P., Capt. 19th Michigan Vol. Inf., Washington, D. C. Lockman, John T., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. \., New York, N. Y. Lybrand, Archibald, Capt. T3d Indiana Vol. Inf., Delaware, 0. McAdams, AYra., Lieut. 59th Illinois A"ol. Inf., Kansas, Edgar Co., 111. McCaskey, William S., Col. 20th U. S. Inf. McCook, Anson G., Bvt., Brig. Gen. U. S. V., New York, N. Y. McCook, John J., Bvt. Col. U. S. V., New York, N. Y. McKibbin, Chambers, Co. D, 73d Pennsylvania Vol. Inf., Pitts- burgh, Pa. Mr-Kinney, Bernard, Private Co. D., 10th Olno \'ol. Inf., Arthur, Tenn. McMahon, Wm. E., 1st Lieut., Co. E., 58t]i Indiana Vol. Inf., Huntingburg, Ind. MacKenzie, AVm. A., Co. B., T8th Illinois Vol. Inf., Brooklyn, N. Y. Manderson, Charles F., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Omaha, Neb. Mansfield, I. Franc, Bvt. Capt. and A. A. Q. M. U. S. V., Cannelton, Pa. Mauzy. James H.. Capt. 68th Indiana Vol. Inf., Eushville, Ind. ]\layberry, W. W., Lieut., loth Pennsylvania Vol. Cav., Charles- ton, S. C. Mover, E. S., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Cleveland, 0. 15Jf Burial of General Rosecrans. Mills, Anson, Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired, Washington, D. C. Milward, Will E., Col. 21st Kentucky Vol. Inf., Lexington, Ky. Mitchell. John L.. 1st Lieut. 24th Wisconsin A^ol. Inf., Mil- waukee, Wis. Mizner, Henry K., Col. IT. S. A., retired, and Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. v., Detroit, Mich. Morey, J. E., Co. H., 93d Ohio Vol. Inf.. Hamilton. 0. Morgan, 0. H., Capt. Tth Indiana Vol. Batt'y. Chicago, 111. Morgan, W. A., Lieut. 23d Kentucky Vol. Int.. Cottonwood Falls, Kan. Morgan, W. J., Capt. 41st Ohio Vol. Inf., Cleveland, 0. Morrison, A. M., Surgeon 23d Kentucky Vol. Inf., Goshen, Ky., Mott, George M., Corporal Co. E.. 9th Michigan Vol. Inf., Sacra- mento, Cal. Muller, Charles F., Capt. 29th reunsylvania Vol. Inf., Phila- delj)hia. Pa. Murphy, Wm. J., Lieut. 1st Illinois Vol. Light Art., Phoenix, Ariz. ]\runger, Wm. A.. Capt. Co. G., 100th Illinois A'ol. Inf., Hanni- hal. Mo. Morgan, John Caleh, Capt. Co. B., 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery, Washington, D. C. Xelson, W. H., Capt. Sth Tennessee Vol. Cav., Backwoods, Tenn. Neville, Eichard, Corporal Co. E., 41st 0. V. I., Cleveland, 0. Nicholas, Wm., Capt. 51st Ohio Vol. Inf., Columbus, 0. Nicholson, John P., Bvt. Lieut. Col. 2Sth Pennsylvania Vol. Inf., Philadelj^hia, Pa. Noljle, S. C, Private 11th :?klichigan Vol. Inf.. Columbus, 0. Norrjngton, Henry H., Serg. Batt'y A, 1st ^lichigan Vol. Light Arty., West Bay City, Mich. Norwood, C. W., Q. M. Serg. 21st Kentucky \o\. Inf.. Chatta- noooa, Tenn. Actirc Mriiibrr-'i. loo Xoiirse, Benjaiiiiii F.. rvivato C'liica.uo Board of Trade Battery, Chicago, 111. Oliver, Paul A., Bvt. Brig. Gen. V. S. A\. Oliver's Mills, Pa. Osborn, HartAvell, C^apt. Tiotli Ohio Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111. Otto, John, 1st Lieut. 11th Indiana A'ol. Art., Anburn, Ind. Palmer. Lowell Mason. 1st Lieut. Ohio A'ol. Light Arty., Kew York, N. Y. Palmer. Wm. J.. B\t. Brig. Gen. IT. S. Y., New York, N. Y. Parkhurst. J. G., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Coldwater, Mich. Patten, George W., (*apt. 7od Illinois Vol. Inf., St. Elmo, Tenn. Patten, Z. C., Lieut. UOth New York A'ol. Inf., Chattanooga, Tenn. Peckham, Silas C, Privat(> Cliieago Board of Trade Batt'y, Pe- tersburg, N. Y. Perkins, Geo. T., Lieut. Col. 105th Ohio Y(^l. Inf.. Akron, 0. Perry, Henry F., Capt. 3Sth Indiana A^ol. Inf., Bloomington, Ind. Peters, Matthew, H., Bvt. Maj. Uth Ohio A^)l. Inf., Watseka, 111. Pettit, W. H.. Lieut. 4th Indiana Yol. Battery, Atlanta, Idaho. Phillips, A. W.. Asst. Surgeon 149th New York Am:,1. Inf., Bir- mingham, Conn. Phisterer, Frederick, Lieut. 18th V. S. Inf.. Albany, N. Y. Pierson, Stephen, Adj. 33d New Jersey Vol. Inf., Norristown, N. J. Pittman, Samuel E., Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. V., Detroit, Mich. Porter, Horace, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A., Paris, France. Pratt, R. H., Lieut. Col. 15th U. S. Cavalry. Price, S. W., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Louisville, Ky. Pugh, Wm. H., Lieut. 17 th Ohio Vol. Inf., Washington, D. C. Putman, David, Col. 152d Ohio Vol. Inf., Greenville, 0. Putnam, Douglas, Lieut. Col. 92d Ohio Vol. Inf., Ashland, Ky. 156 Burial of General Bosecrans. Eanney, George E., Surgeon 2d Michigan Vol. Cav., Lansing, Mich. Eandall, Charles H., Lieut. 1st Ohio Light Arty., Cleveland, 0. Beed, A. H., Lieut. 2d Minnesota Yol. Inf., Glencoe, Minn. Eeed, Henry A., Major IT. S. Artillery Corps. Eeimers, August, 1st Lieut. 15th Missouri Yol. Inf.. Davenport, Iowa. Eeppert, W. E., Corp. 15th Pennsylvania Yol. Cav.. Columbus, 0. Eichard, E. S., Bvt. Lieut. Col. and A. A. G.. U. 8. Y., Chicago, 111. Eitchey, Wm. H., Capt. Co. ]\I., 11th Ky. Yol. Cav., Shelbyville, Eobbins, E. B., Bvt. Lieut. Col. 4th IMiehigan Yol. Cav., Adrian, Mich. Eobinson, George I., Capt. Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Mil- waukee, Wis. Eobinson, G. S., Private 115t]i Illinois Yol. Inf.. Sioux City, la. Eockwell, Alnion F., Lieut. Col. U. S. A., retired. Eothenbush, Philip, Capt. 35th 0. Y. I., Hamilton, 0. Euhm, John, Lieut. 14tli U. S. C. Inf., A^ashville, Tenn. Eust, H. A., Maj. 27th Illinois Yol. Inf.. Chicago, 111. Schenck, Alexander D., Major of Artillery. I'. S. A. Schneider, George A., 1st Sergeant Co. C, 9th Ohio Yol. Inf., Cincinnati, 0. Schofield, John M,, Lieut. Gen. U. S. A., retired. Scott, Launeelot L., Sergeant 18th Oliio Yol. Inf., iS"elson- ville, 0. Scott, Thomas W., Bvt. Maj. 9Sth Illinois Yol. Inf., Fairfield, 111. Sliafter, W. E., Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired, and Maj. Gen. F. S. Y., San Francisco, Cal. Active Memhers. 151 Sharpe, David N"., Adjt. loth Kentucky Vol. Inf., Shelby- ville, Ivy. Shellenberger, James E., Musician Co. B.^ 94tli Ohio Voh Inf., Fort Ringgold, Texas. Sherman. Frank T., Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Waukegan, 111. Sherratt, John H., Capt. i2d U. S. C. Inf., Eockford, 111. Sheridan, M. Y.. Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired. Siebert, John, Capt. 13th Ohio Yol. Inf., Columbus, 0. Silliman. E. C, Lieut. 86th Illinois Yol. Inf., Chenoa, 111. Simpson, John H., Capt. 4th Michigan Yol. Cav., San Fran- cisco, Cal. Skinner, George W., Capt. TTth Pennsylvania Yol. Inf., Pitts- burgh, Pa. Slade, Samuel. Capt. 51st Ohio Yol. Inf., Port Washing- ton, 0. Slocum, J. J., Col. U. S. Y., New York, N. Y. Smith, Charles 0.. Private Co. G., 102d Ohio Yol. Inf., Lan- caster, 0. Smith. Frank G.. Colonel of Artillery, U. S. A. Smith, Ira E., Corp. 3d Wisconsin Yol. Light Artillery, Dart- ford, Wis. SmiCh, J. C, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Chicago, 111. Smith, Orland, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Chicago, 111. Smith, W. J.. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Memphis, Tenn. Somers. Orlando A., Private 39th Indiana Yol. Inf., Kokomo. Ind. Spalding, E. G., Lieut, ^^d Michigan Yol. Inf., Port Huron, Mich. Speed, John, Capt. and A. A. G., 3d Division, 30th Corps. Taylorsville, Ky. Speer, Alex. J\L. Bvt. Lieut. Col. and Surgeon, U, S. Y., Pitts- burgh, Pa. Stanton. Campbell, Sergeant Co. D., 77th Pennsylvania Yol. Inf.. Sharpsburg, Pa. loS Burial of Gcnrral Eosecrans. Starkweather, Perrv. Pri\ate !)tli Miehi.uan Yo]. Inf., Minne- apolis, Minn. Steele, John W., Bvt. Lieut. Col. and Aide-de-Camp U. S. Y.. Oberlin. 0. Stevenson, Alex. F., Bvt. Col. 42d 111. Vol. Inf., Chicago. 111. Stewart, M. X. U., Capt. lOOth Illinois A'ol. Inf., Wilming- ton, 111. Sullivant, Lyne Starling, Maj. 113th Ohio Vol. Inf., Colum- bns, 0. Swain, Edgar D.. Bvt. Col. 4:2d Illinois Vol. Inf., Seneca Falls, N. Y. Swaine, Peter T., Col. U. S. A., retired, Los Xietos, Cal. Swigert, Charles P., Private Co. H. -12d Illinois Vol. Inf.. Chicago, 111. Taggart, Emmet F., Private Co. I, 19-^d Oiiio Vol. Inf., Akron, 0. Tannehill, C. 0., Capt. Goth Ohio Vol. Inf.. Englewood, Kan. Tarwater, James F., Private Co. E, Uth Tennessee A"ol. Cav., Rockwood, Tenn. Taylor, J. G., Capt. and Aide-de-Camp U. S. V., Cincinnati, 0. Thruston. G. P., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., XashviUe, Tenn. Town, F. L., Col. Medical Department V. S. A., retired. Townsend, E. F., Col. U. S. A., retired, Washington, ' D. C. Trowbridge, L. S., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V., Detroit, Mich. Tattle, Russell. M., Bvt. Capt. lOTth New York Vol. Inf., Hor- nellsville, N. Y. Tweedale, John, Maj. U. S. A., Washington. D. C. Ullum, Andrew W., Corporal Co. B, iSth Ohio Vol. Inf., Athens, 0. Waite, Norman, jMaj. isitth Ohio Vol. Inf., Boston, Mass. Walton, Thomas J., Q. M. 19th Ohio Vol. Inf., Salem, 0. Active Members. 159 Ward. J. H., Lieut. Col. 27th Kentucky Vol. Inf., Louis- ville. Ky. Warner, D. B., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V.. St. John, New Bruns- wick. Warner, Willard, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V., Chattanoooa, Tenn. Warnoek, W. R., Maj. 95th Ohio Vol. Inf., Urbana, 0. Warren, W. R., Serg. Maj. 6th Indiana Vol. Inf., Forbush, la. Warren, Charles S., Private 132d Illinois Vol. Inf., Butte, Mont. Welch, Geo. W., Lieut. 90th Ohio Vol. Inf., Lancaster, 0. Welch, Johnson M., Maj. 18th Ohio Vol. Inf., Athens, 0. Welton, Frank G., Co. B, 42d Illinois Vol. Inf., Cambridge, 111. Whitehall, A. L., Private 9th Indiana Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111. Wickersham, M. D., Col. and Q. M. U. S. V., Mobile, Ala. Wilder, John T., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Knoxville, Tenn. Wilbur, Almerick W., Capt. Battery A, 1st Michigan Light Art., Rochester, N. Y. Wilkin, Eli, Bvt. Maj. 31st Ohio Vol. Inf., Purity. 0. Williams, Henry M., 11th Indiana Vol. Battery, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Wills, A. W., Bvt. Lieut. Col. and A. Q. M. U. S. V., Nash- ville, Tenn. Wilson. James A., Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired; Maj. Gen. V. S. v., Wilmington, Del. Wilson, Wm., Jr., Capt. 33d New Jersey Vol. Inf., Mount A^er- non, N. Y. Wing, Lucien M., Capt. 19th Michigan Vol. Inf., Cold Water, Mich. Winkler, F. C, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Milwaukee, Wis. Wolcott, H. K., Maj. 42d Illinois Vol. Inf., Batavia, 111. Wood, Bradford R., Capt. 44th New York Vol. Inf., Bvt. Maj. U. S. v., Albany, N. Y. Wood, Thomas J., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A., retired, Dayton, 0. Woods, J. T., Surgeon 99th Ohio Vol. Inf., Washington, D. C. Wormer, G. S., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Detroit, Mich.