Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — THE NATION’S DEAD. [ARTICLE]

THE NATION’S DEAD.

They Lie Burled In Eighty-three National Cemeteries. The nation's dead are buried in eighty-three national cemeteries, only twelve of which are in the Northern States. The principal ones in the North are Cypress Hill, with its 3,786 dead; Finn’s Point, N. J., with 2,644 unknown dead; Gettysburg, Pa., with 1,967 known ani l,6oßunknowndead; Mound City, 111., with 2,5C5 nown and 2,721 unknown graves; and Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y., With its 3,900 dead. In the South, near thq scenes of the fearful c inflicts, are located the largest resting places of the nation’s heroic dead. Arlington, Va., 16,1:64, of which 4,319 are unknown; Chalmette, La., 12,511, of which 5,674 are unknown; Chattanooga, Tenn., 12,962, of which of which 4,963 are unknown; Fredericksburg, Va., 15,257, of which 12,770 ai;e 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 which 4,700 are unknown; POplar Grove? Va., 6,190, of which 4,001 are unknown; Richmond, Va., 6,542, of which 5,700 are unknown; Salisbury, N. C., 12,126, 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 118IB’ire' unknown; Winchester, Va., 4,559, off >hich 3,365-are unknown. The dust of 300,000 men who fought forthe Un'on find guarded graves in our national cemeteries. Two 'cemeteries are devoted to the heroic souls who oatsedjaway in the, prison pans, those festering fields of death of the

same name. Andersonville, Ga, harbors 13,741, and Salisbury, N.C., 12,126. Of the Grand Army whose legions are dust, 275,000 sleep 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 220,000 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.