Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — WITH MILITARY HONOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WITH MILITARY HONOR.

Secretary Gresham's Remains Teas* porarily Deposited in s Vault. Without ostentation, ah befitted his Ufa among bis people, but with the military and civic accompaniments which ran even foot with his achievements as soldier, jurist and statesman, the remains of Walter Q. Gresham, general in the Union armies, the judge of the Federal courts and Secretary of State of the United States, were temporarily laid to rest in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, Thursday afternoon amid the flower-strewn graves of his comrades in arms—graves decorated by the hands of men who had fought them on many a bloody field—and in the

shadow of the monument just dedicated in honor of the valor of those who had given their lives for the Confederate cause. It was a most remarkable juxtaposition. In the early hours of the day Federals and Confederates had joined in the unveiling of a monument to the 5,000 Confederates who had died in the military prison at Camp Douglas; the ex-Confederate Association had strewn on the graves of the Union soldiers buried there a mass of flowers brought from the ground over which they had fought less than a generation ago, and the Union veterans had placed upon the graVes of their fallen comrades in the other cemeteries about the city the flowers which grow in our own latitude. Almost the echoes of the volley fired over the Confederate burying ground by the first regiment of State militia and of bugle blare could be heard and “taps” were still sounding, and the smoke from their rifles was still floating over the

field of peace, as the cortege of the dead Secretary of State filed in through the gates into the cemetery. It was a remarkably fitting climax to the remarkable ceremonies which had just closed that the remains of the man who claimed the allegiance of both the North and the South should be deposited there, the keystone to the arch of re-ce-mented friendship whose visible sign had just been unveiled there. For as a soldier he had won the respect of those who fought him; as a jurist he had gained the love of the common people, and as Secretary of State in a Democratic administration ho had commanded the support of tire people of the South as well as of the North. The special funeral train arrived from Washington in the afternoon. The procession was formed, headed by the escort of honor, consisting of the troops of all arms from Fort Sheridan. These were followed by the honorary pall-bearers, and next came the funeral ear with the active pallbearers walking on either side. Next rode the members of the late Secretary’s family and the Presidential party, and in the rear of the cortege brought up the members of the Loyal Legion, G. A. R. veterans, judges of the courts. State and municipal officers, civic societies and citizens. The entire line of march was crowded with people who respectfully bared their heads as the cortege passed. Arriving at the cemetery chapel, the casket was removed from the funeral car and borne within by eight sergeants of marines. The services conducted by the Rev. S. J. McPherson, of the Second Presbyterian Church, were impressive but simple, consisting merely of scriptural readings. There was a hymn by the choir and prayer. Tho remains were temporarily deposited in the receiving vault of the cemetery. No salute was fired, the ceremonies concluded with “taps.” The train had been held and the Presidential party returned to it and at once started on the return trip to Washington.

LEAVING THE STATION.

THE VAULT AT OAKWOODS.