Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — The Nation's Dead. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Nation's Dead.

The nation's dead are buried in seven-ty-three national cemeteries, only twelve of which are in the Northern States. Tho principal ones in tho North are Cypress Hill, with its 3,78(3 dead; Finn’s Point, N. J., with 2,(544 unknown dead; Gettysburg, Pa., with 1,967 % kn0wn and 17(308 unknown dead; Mound City, 111., with 2,505 known and 2,721 unknown graves; .and 'Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y., with its 3,900 dead. In'the South, near the scenes of the fearful conflicts, are located the largest resting places of the nation's heroic dead. Arlington, Va., 1(3,264, of which 4,311) are unknown; Chalmette, La., 12:511, of'twhich 5,674 are unknown ; Chattanooga, Tcnn., 12,982, of which 4,963 are unknown; Fredericksburg, Va., 15,257. oi which 12,770 are unknown; Jefferson Barracks, Mo, 11,490, of which 2,900 are unknown; Little Rock, Ark., 5,602, of which 2,317 are unknown; City Point, Va., 5,122, of which 1,374 are unknown;

Marietta, Ga., 10,151, of which 2,693 are unknown; Memphis. Tenn., 13,997, of which 8,817 are unknown; Nashville, Tenn., 16,526, of whlch p 4,700 are unknown; Poplar Grove, Va., 6,190, of which 4,031 are unknown; Richmond, Va., 6,542, of which 5,700 are unknown; Salisbury, N. C., of which 12,032 are unknown; Stone River, Tenn., 5,602, of which 288 are unknown; Vicksburg, Miss., 16,600, of which 12,704 are unknown; Antietam, Md., 4,671, of which 1,818 are unknown; Winchester, Va., 4,559, of which 3,365 are unknown. The dust of 300.000 men who iought for the Union find guarded graves in our national cemeteries. Two cemeteries* are devoted to the heroic souls who passed’ away in the prison pens, those festering fields of death of the same name. Andersonville, Ga , harbors 13,741, and Salisbury, N. C., 12,126. Of the Grand Army whoso legions are dust 275,000 slfcep in the blood-stained ground of the sunny South, and 145,000 of them fill unknown graves. The total Confederate loss will never be known," but estimates place it at 220,003, out of the 1,000,000 men enlisted in the Southern service. They fought the war on the defensive" plan, and were acclimated, which gave enormous advantages.