Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1917 — WHERE TARLETON IS BURIED. [ARTICLE]

WHERE TARLETON IS BURIED.

American Tourist Discovers Tomb of Dashing Officer Who Won Fame in Revolution. What became of Major Tarleton after the Battle of Yorktown? Except for a very few people, says A. G. Bradley in the Nation, everyone in England has forgotten the very name of the young cavalry leader. But many persons in America must have wondered what became of the dashing soldier, and how It happened that In the long years of war that shook England and Europe his name never once appeared. When Mr. Bradley, in a leisure hour, entered the fine old fourteenth century village church at Leintwardlne, In Herefordshire, he did not think that the bare, unseated chapel promised much of Interest; indeed, he was just turning away when in a far corner and partly concealed by ladders, buckets, planks and other articles necessary to the cleaning of the church, he caught sight of a lofty mural monument. The lettering on It ran as follows: “Near this place are deposited the mortal remains of Sir Banastre Tarleton —Baronet General in the Army— Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Governor of Berwick-on-Tweed, Colonel of the Gallant Bth Hussars —He represented his native town of Liverpool for seven Sessions and closed his distinguished career In this place Jan. 25, 1833.” In 1798 Tarleton was sent to Portugal, but was very soon recalled at his own request; and with that exception he never saw a shot fired after Yorktown or served anywhere abroad, although England was constantly fighting until Waterloo. He got promoted regularly, however, for he stood well at court and was a ' member of the prince of Wales’ circle. Tarleton belonged neither to the nobility nor to the landed gentry. He was the son of a Liverpool merchant, an unusual origin at that time for a dashing cavalry officer and the best horseman, according to good authority, in the British army. He had entered Oxford and had studied to become a barrister, but gave up classics and the law for soldiering and a commission at twenty-one years of age. He had a genius for the training of men and officers and for rapid and successful strokes.

On returning from America, however, he turned from soldiering to politics; he lost no time in entering the house of commons, and sat for his native city of Liverpool for 20 years. He became a major general In 1794, a lieutenant general in 1801, a full general tn 1812, a baronet In 1815 and a G. C. B. in 1820. He also held the full colonelcy of several cavalry regiments in succession and was for some years governor of Berwick. He apparently retired ■with his wife to Lelntwardone for the last years of his life, lived there quietly and did not mix with the neighboring county families. The seclusion of his gorgeous tomb, behind the cobwebs of. a disused aisle, gives a final touch of mystery to the romance that early associations with Virginia have connected with Tarleton’s name. —Youth’s Gompanion.