Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1895 — Page 5

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1896.

mum IN THE RIGGING

rr«RY or thk: man who pastI KNSD UIM ON THK ••HARTFOKD

t*v*nU ctalamats Por the Honor— D»onm*nta That Settle the Rueotlon Pnrever—Details of Battle Not Before Known.

Cbprrtfht, tIMi by S. S. MoHuro. I.lmltMl. It Is & fsmrtlnr, but always tbrtlllntf story, how Admiral Wrrairut, in carryIn* bU Into Mobile bay, on August ^ 1M4, posted himself up In the rigging of his flag-*hip, the Harttonl, and directed the satllnfr ahd fighting from that exposed elevation. He had to sail between two formidable forts—Oaines on the one hand, Morgan on the other—over a line of hidden ptles and a line of torpedoes, and then, when he had got over these Strong and complicated defenses and was Within the bay, he had to engage a strong Confederate squadron. The brilliancy and bravery with which the ente rise

ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. was carried through, to the complete defeat of the Confederates, can never be forgotten.To give him a stay, while posted in the rigging of the Hartford, the Admiral, as everybody remembers, was bound to the rigging by a rope. For many years I had been exceedingly anxious to learn the name the man who bound him. After (considerable 'search and inquiry, I discovered there were several claimants for the honor, aniong whom was an did sailor, living at Annapolis, and still in active service. I rasblved at once to enter Ihto correspondence with him, hear Wfs own story, and then find out If it could be substantiated. It appeared to me of considerable historical Importance that the matter should be definitely cleared up, And absolute and positive proof be

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burled with naval arid mllltdry ceremonies In the naval cemetery at Annapolis.

REAR ADMIRAL L. A. KIMBERLY,

Lieutenant Commander UnRed States

Flagship “Hartford."

—.1 I I .y.n ! I I ...— N - — — brought to,bear to determine what particular man had been the hero of the occaThe kind and brave old quartermaster died on the #th of April last, and was

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ined, as he climbed the rigle whistle and shriek and hail-storm of shot and shell, and

mighty roar of the heavy guns, to secure the wifoty of his fearless commander. that he was writing,.his name upon the p:ig»* of history and making himself famous for all time to come. “Honor to whom honor is due," say I. He served his country loyally and faithfully upon the sea for forty years in the Brooklyn, the Donegal, the constellation and on thf Phlox, and on the Hartford through The entire war and In all her engagements. And now we will let him tell

He little Imagir ging, amid the perfect hatl-eto

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Pr-Youm of the 10th Inst, ha* been IPcelved, artd in reply to the Information

to do my best. The happened on the eth

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O’clock in tfc* warning. Lieutenant Watson (Captain now) asked Ueutenant Kimberly tAdn*ral^ow> If it would not be ■m Mak in >Va« a rope around the

•«- v«.tinberly) asked the _jrton, and he #ald yes. And k flfatson gave me the orviral was then about half nain rigging. I was chief and near Mr. Watson.

Ha told me to go up and pa** a rope around the Admiral. I picked up a piece of lead line and ran up the main rigging after the Admiral. By the time I got to him, he was close up under the top, back to me. and 1 made one end of the rope fast to the buttrick shroud and around the Admiral, and made It fast on the other side. He said to me: 'What are you doing?" I *aid I was making a rope fast aiound him, and he said: "Oh, nonsense." 1 stayed there with him about five minutes^ Then 1 came down and left him. He must have cast himself loose, fur he got down again all right. He must have been up there full twenty minutes. He was not in full uniform. It was a place of danger. In fact, any place was that. It took about two minutes to make him fast. All of this happened in the hottest of the battle. You can be sure of the right man. I am the boy. A number claim to be the man that lashed the Admiral to the mast, but they are all fabulous. I have Admiral Kimberly and ("apt. J. O. Watson to prove U. I will send you a picture of myself; look out for it; 1 was chief quartermaster at the time. Hoping this will suit you, 1 will stop. JOHN H. KNOWLES. Chief Quartermaster Flagship Hartford. August 5, 1x64, 10 o'clock In the morn-

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Corroboration From Admiral Kimberly. ■: • In corroboration of this statement I received the following document from Admiral L. A. Kimberly, and also letters from Capt. J. C. Watson and Ja>yall Farragut, the son of the Admiral, from which I quote quite fully: May 16, 1894. Dear Sir—Your letter of April 2f>. I have just received, as it was misdirected, having been sent to the Ebbitt House, Washington, D. C. I regret not being able to co'mply with your request to send you a photograph, as I have none of the size you desire. The man who lashed Admiral Farragut to the rigging was the signal quartermaster, John H. Knowles. The lashing was made fast to the main shrouds. Just below the buttrick shrouds, on the port side, and the Admiral stood on the ratlines, within Uie bigth of this lashing, and It was not made fast to him in any way, but If he had slipped or fallen it would have supported him, and prevented him from falling either overboard or onto the deck. His object in going aloft was to get above the smoke, and to con the ship up the channel through the lines of torpedoes and Into the Confederate squadron, which he did, defeating and capturing it. Trusting this reply to your questions w)H prove satisfactory, I remain respectfully yours, Lj A. KIMBERLY Reaf Admiral U. S. N., Retired. And Lieutenant-Commander and Executive Officer of the U. 8. flagship Hartford at the battle of Mobile bay, August 6,

1864.

To Robert Coster. No. 25 East Thirtieth

•treet. New York, N. Y-

In hts letter to me of November A. 1894. Capt. J. C. Watson says: "I am thoroughly satisfied there Is no question or doubt of John H. Knowles (who was then signal or Chief Quartermaster United States navy on hoard the Lnited States flagship Hartford) being the man who lashed kear Admiral Farragut in the port main rigging of iheLnitedStates flagship Hartford during the P^xage of the forts into Mobile Bay. August 5, ISM "Knowles has been continuously -n the navy ever since the bay light, and Is a most deserving man. ^^ m r rf ‘^TSON’ “Captain United States Navy and Flag Lieutenant to Rear Admiral Farragut, on board.United State flagship Hartford, at the battle o* Mobile Bay, August o,

1864 ” •

In Mr. Farragut’s letter of the date of June II, 1894. I And these words, which seem In concluelon to settle the question forever: . . _ "The name of the sailor who went up the rigging and pissed th* rope around Admiral Farragut Is John Knowles. He is living at Annapolis, Md.. and is connected with the Naval Academy. V ery

truly yours,

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Knowle* - — relating to h!s re-enlUtment, he

i*et-n discharged, up to which time he had received nineteen good conduct discharges (ten three years’ discharges and nine cnevear discharges^ After ne re-enlisted he

died, leaving a vme and one son.

ROBERT COSTER.

—1 WANTED THE NEAVS IN A HURRY. Tbt* New Yorker Had Fallen Behind

the Time*.

New York Sun. A New Yorker who had Just arrived at this port after a short European tour walked down the gank-plank from the steamship to the pier, where he was welcomed by a friend. "I. can stop here but a few mlnut^a," said the New Yorker, "as I want to catch a train which, as 1 see by the time-table, leaves the Grand Central station in a half hour; but I wish you would tell me about the latest action of the Supreme Court upon the Income tax, and about the beef combine, and the Buchanan murder case, and the rise In the price of oil, and the plays that are running, and the condition of stocks in Wall street, and the new developments In the Jap war, and the mug■wump fight for office, and Mr. Cleveland's policy, and the boom in Chicago, and the state of Dr. Parkhnrst’8 mind, and this advance in cotton, ana ” "Hold on!" cried his friend. “I'm In a hurry,” continued the returned New Yorker, "but I’d like to know something about the sports of the week, and the new census of the city, and the sale of 'Trilby,' and the uproar in the Legislature at Albany, and the Cuban insurrection. and the progress of Recorder Goff, and the Nicaragua question, and the outlook for the crops, and the run of shad, and the names Of ovr friends who have gone to the bourne within a month, and Bill Cook’s arrest—I mean that Western fellow—and the silver question as It now stands, and " "Hold up, till I can take* a breath!" shouted the bewildered friend. “And I’d also like to know," rattled out the New Yorker upon the pier, near the foot of-the gang-plank, "something about the gold finds in Colorado, and the reorkanlzatlon qf Tammany, and (he state of business, ana the program of I^exow, and Harrison's chances of a lenominatlon, and the prospects of rapid transit, a^l the chances of the Greater New York blfi at Albany, and the high-life weddings since I left, and-—’ The.speaker saw that hts friend had rammed a finger In each of his ears. "You must tell me quick, for I'm In a hurry,” proceeded the New YOrker, "about the state of your health and your family’s, and the hopes of police reform, and what Godkin has been saying, and the West Side firebugs, and your new girl baby's measles, and the rheumatism of Mayor Strong, and the oyster supply Just now, and the bi-partisan bill, and the frauds or fakes of the week, and the news of the social world, and the fall In (the horse market, and the ball of our regiment, and-—" "I'm going crasy!" shrieked his shiver-

ing friend.

“Oh, no matter for that,” nut In the breathless New Yorker, Just back from Europe, as he held out his hand for a shake. "I see by my watch the time Is up, and that 1 must run to catch my «rain. Just as I was beginning to think of things. I’ll see you again." The Phantom Army. And I mw a phantom army cotne. With never a sound of fife or drum. But keeping step to a muffled hum Of wailing lamentation: The martyred heroes of Malvern Hlli, ' Of Gettysburg and ('hancellorsvitle— The men whose wasted bodies All The patriot grave* at the nation. ‘ And there came the unknown dead, the men Who died In fev*r*ireainp and fen. ** • The slowly atarved of prison pen; And, marching braid- the others. Came the dusky martyrs of Pillow’s light. With limbs enfranchised and bearing bright. I thought—'twaa the pais moonlight— They looked as whits as their brothers. And so ail night marched the nation's dead. With never a banner above them spread. No sign save the bare, uncovered head Of their silent, grim R*vl«w*r; With never an arch but the vaulted sky. With not a flower, save those which lie On distant grsvss, for love could hoy No gift that was purer or truer.

WOMEN WHOWERE SOLDIERS

ONE GIRL SERVED FOLK YEARS DIKING THE CI\ 1L W AR.

"LOYALL FARRAGUT." just received another commu-

„„ from Admiral Kimberly, under He of May S, 1895, wherein he states illows: “I received A letter from leg dated the SHh of last March, *' ' J having

he had

With a reverent aw* and wonder; TUI a blue sap waved in the lengthening l-rs. Till t knew ( b*t one who was kin of min# Had eetne, end I epoke—end o, that «gn Wakened me from my slumber —Bret Hart.

»nvr Hard Service in the RanksMuny Times In Peril — Forced By Fear of Detection To DesertOther Similar Case*.

Many stories are told of women who served aa soldiers during the civil war— j but records of the department at Waah- ! ington are silent concerning most of | them. There tire two cases well authentii eated, and only_ two, of women commis- ! slotted by the Government who served dis- ! gmsed as men. In "Michigan in the War,” a historical j sketch of the Michigan regiments which | served, carefully compiled by the Adjuj tant-Genenl, there is an allusion to Frank | Thompson, which says: “In Company F, Second Michigan, there enlisted, at Flint, j Franklin Thompson (or Frank, as usually | called), age twenty, ascertained afterward

SUCOORING THE WOUNDED.

and about the time he left the regiment to have been a female, and a good looking one at that. She succeeded in concealing her sex most admirably, serving fh various campaigns and battles of the regiment as a soldier. She remained with her command until April, 1863, when, it is supj#>sed, she apprehended a disclosure of her sex and deserted." Such in brief is the history which it attached to the record of Sarah E. E. Seelye, bern Edmonds, In the War Department. She was able to serve two years as a man before she was forced to desert in order to conceal her sex. But she found her way back into the service in another capacity and served through the entire war. She shared all the trials and privations which befell her regiment; part!c:pated .n the first battle of Bull Run; followed McClellan through the Peninsular campaign, and was never absent from duty while

CARRYING THE MAIL.

w earing the blue. Her captain said years after the war that she was driven from home by a step-mother when only isixteen years old, and that she adopted male attire and was a publishing house canvasser. He also says she made a tour of Canada, reaching Flint, Mich., in time to enlist.

Her sex was never suspected, and her de-

of 4v«ry camp ftra,

for Franklin was a great favorite. This

sertlon was the topic

an awful moment.

desertion was never satisfactorily accounted for. She claims she was constrained to dress as a man and become a soldier through a strong impulse which she could not resist. She says of that period: "I had no other motiveJn enlisting than love to God and love for suffering humanity. I felt called to go and do what I could for the defense of the right, if I could not fight I could take the place of some one who could, and thus add one more soldier to the rankh. I had no desire to be promoted to any office; I went with no other ambition than to nurse t!ie sick and care for the wounded. I had inherited from my mother a rare gift of nmsing, and when not too weary and exhausted. there was a magnetic power in my hands to soothe delirium,”

A Good Name.

Actuated only by such motives she enlisted under the name of Franklin Thompson, as a private soldier in Company F, Second Michigan Infantry Volunteers, about the 25th of May. 1861, and was mustered into the service by Lieutenant-Colo-

nel J. R. Smith, IT. S. A. At first she •nlioted for three months and afterward

for three years, or during the war. Her first duty was at Ft. Wayne, Deteoit, Mich., (Where she drilled, did fatigue duty and performed all the necessary duties of a soldier in camp. When off duty she assisted In caring for the eick, and she did this so well that she was often detailed for hospital service after-

ward. She came with her regiment to igton, stood guard and picket duty and drilled with her company until the

regimental hospital became filled with caTes from sunstroke and other causes, when she was detailed for hospital work. She found, though, she could fight, and when the sick were tent to city hospitals aud preparations made for the march to Bull Run she Joined her company and

went along.

AU during ths fight she remained with

her comrades, and did her duty like the man she was supposed to be. When the Union army retreated to Centerville Heights, stacked arms, and threw Itself on the ground, us she supposed for the rdght, she went Into the stone church, which wa« used as a hospital at Centerville, and became so much engaged in doing what she could for the wounded and dying, that she forgot everything outside the hospital. Before she knew it the entire armyhad retreated to Washington. She escaped under cover of the darkness and made her way alone to Washington, reaching camp twenty-four hours after hrr company. Her coolness on this occasion and her general good conduct as a soldier, led to her de-tail shortly after as mail carrier to the Second Michigan, and subsequently postmaster and mailcarrier for the brigade to which the Second Michigan was attached. In this eapaeitv she went to the Peninsula with General McClellan's army, and remained there as postmaster and mall-carrier all through that campaign. Sharing the Perils of War. During this disastrous campaign she bore herself bravely and well. While Yorktown was besieged she carried the mail on horseback for the brigade, from Fortress Monroe — letters, papers and packages averaging from two to three bushels each trip—the distance being about twenty-five or thirty miles. Owdng to the condition of the roads, she was often compelled to spend the nights along the roadside. When she first began her trips it was reported that the bushwhackers had murdered a mail-carrier on that road shortly before, and robb?d the mall. The report seemed to have some foundation, for in the most lonely part she found the ground still strewn w-ith fragments of letters and papers. She was at the battle of Williamsburg, but was sick when the battle of Fair Oaks occurred, with the chills and fever. While the army was in front Of Richmond. the floods frequently carried away the bridges over the Chickahomlny, and the young mail-carrier was more than once obliged to swim her horse across, the swift, rushing stream. Often she sat in the saddle, drenched, for hours, sometimes remaining all night by the roadside, watching for daylight to pick her way through the dangerous mudholes through which the mule teams had wallowed. She was In the seven days’ fight crossing the Peninsula to the Jame.-l wiver, and more than once barely escaped With her life. At one place she was ordered to secure seme stores from a farm-house, and while there was caught between two fires, the enemy opening up and her comrades responding. She secured the provisions, though, and returned unhurt. After the army went into camp at Harrison's Landing she resumed her old duties of postmaster. and when the army left the Peninsula, came to Alexandria with her company. The company was sent up the Shenandoah vallev and she went to a hospital. She rejoined her command, though, in time to tike part In the second battle of Bull Run. She was at Fredericksburg, and at the battle acted as orderly for Gen. O. M. Pee. About the middle of March, 1863, she accompanied her company tc Kentucky, Here she was debilitated by the chills and fever. She applied for a furlough, but it was refused, and, fearing that her sex might he discovered, she deserted. She reached Oberlin, O., some time in April, and for feur weeks wort- the costume of r t private soldier. Then she Went back to petticoats again, and has never been in disguise since. Civil life had too few attractions for her, and soon after she returned to hospital duty once more under the auspices of the Christian Commission at Harper’s Ferry. She remained in the Department of the Cumberland during tho remainder of the war. That she was abtb to so lorg hide tne secret of her sex has been to soldiers a great wonder. The Other Woman. The second authentic case on the records is not so interesting. The heroine was only able to remain in the service sixteen weeks. Her sex was then discovered, sho r/as sent to the hospital, and as soon as cured sent home. She enlisted undsr the name of Charles Freeman. When discovered she refused to give her correct name,i and she left the hospital a mystery.Charles Freeman was. a member of the Fifty-second Ohio, and was sent to the general hospital, at Louisville, Ky., November 10, 1862. The diagnosis set against his name was “remittent fever." December 13, 1832 Charles Freeman was discharged "as a woman in disguise aa a soldier.” In the Wtfr Department, this diagnosis is regarded as the gem of the hospital records. These two are the only cases of women, disguised as men. entering the army that are known on tho records. There may be more, but, if so^ the department knows them not. w Dr. Mary Walker, who created such an excitement a few years ago by her peculiar dress, and who is wdeiy known, possesses a medal of honor for servees rendered during the war. The records show that the medal was presented to her June 13, 1872, but, at the War Department, the clerks hold that the records In this case are wrong. They say Secretary Stanton himself gave it to her, and one of them says he saw the presentation. She served as a surgeon during the war, but had no commission. " Col. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the Record and Pension Office, where all the war records are kept, believes but few of the stories which come to him. now and then, of women as soldiers. “You have mentioned all the authentic cases on our records,” he said. "Of course, there might be others, but we have never come across them, and I have given strict orders that careful search must be ihade. Governors of States may have given commissions to certain women: they could do as they pleased, but no Woman, as a woman, was ever mustered into the service of the Government.” JOHN L. STEELE. WHITE RIVER IXTF.RCEP TOR.

WOMEN IN ARLINGTON.

AUUl'l THiHTt LIE AMONG THE iU,OOO VETERANS.

Eminent 9 oldlers Who Have Been Burled There In Order That Their Wtvaa Might Finally Rest Beside Them.

The Hoard's. Plan For a Reduction of AsMessnients. The Board of Public Works Is considering with favor a plan to compromise the difficulty growing out of assessments against property through which the White river interceptor runs at its lower end. The property is to pay the usual district assessments. The assessments as abutting property, however, are to be reduced to 5 per cent, of the amount originally levied from the river to Wisconsin street, 10 per cent, from Wisconsin to Morris street and 15 per cent, from Morris to Missouri atreet. This is the low ground said to have been assessed beyond its value. The contractors will be asked to reduce their charges 10 per cent, and the Council will be asked to appropriate enough to complete the settlementU-abOUL ?6,000. _____ Suit* Filed. Suit has been filed by Margaret F. Peelle against the Provident Fund Company and the New England Mutual Accident Association. In the complaint she avers that her husband had a policy calling for 15,000 in case of his death by accident; that he was accidentally dtowned and that the policy is still unpaid. She demands If.500. Hehry King filed suit against the Cumbeland Chair Company for a bill of $184 for work performed. He avers that the firm is insolvent, and demands the appointment of a receiver. Insarance CompniileH Blacklisted. State Auditor Daily has blacklisted the following Insurance companies, which have not compiled with the laws of Indiana: Millers' and Manufacture re' Insurance Company, of Minneapolis; Merchants’ Fire, Lloyds. Brewers’ and Mahers’ Underwriters. Columbian Lloyd*. New York and Boston Lloyds. Commercial Lloyds. Buffalo Fire and Marine Underwriters, of Buffalo. Girls’ Industrial School Picnic. A picnic for the eight hundred pupils of the Girls’ Industrial School has le*en arranged, to be held at Armstrong’s Park, next Saturday afternoon. This Is the school which has been meeting on Saturdays at Tomlinron Hall, where sewing has been taught by 150 teachers. The little girls, arrayed in dresses made by themselves during the winter, will march to the Union station, where free street cars will be

waiting.

Debs Getting; Ready For Jail. J. B. Maynard, who went to Terre Haute Tuesday to see Eugene V. Debs, says the labor leader expects to go back to jail In about ten days. "Mr. Debs la making preparations to serve out the remainder of the sentenco,” he said. "He will probably take a trip to |8t. Paul on business before the Federal authorities are ready to order his return to jail." Snnday-Seliuol Convention. The Marlon County Sunday-tk-hool Association will hold Its annual convention at th* First Baptist church this week. There will be sessions Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday morning and afternoon, to discuss Sun-day-school work. W. C. Hall Is president, Charles F. Coffin vice-president and J. B. MeNeely secretary and treasurer.

Copyright, 1885, by S. S. McClure, Limited. Very f»w people know that about thirty women and several children He among the ISaXIO veterans whose ashes rest under the beautiful oake at Arlington Nor is It generally known that the law permits the wife of any officer in the regular or volunteer army or navy to be buried there. The same privilege pertains to all of the eighty nationa: cemeteries in which the veterans of the war are buried, with the exception of that attached to the 8oidiers’ Home in Washington The latter 'belongs to the regular army, and it is not maintained by a congressional appropriation. bnt by a tax of 13 cents a month upon all the officers and soldiers in the regular service, the Paymaster-General being authorized to transfer that amount ifroVn the appropriation for the pay of the army rd the credit of the commissioners of the Soldiers' Home, who are the general of the army and the heads of the quartermaster’s and commissary departments. It was originally proposed lo bury Gen. Sheridan at the top of one of the shady knolls In the park that surround the Soldiers’ Home, but his widow would not permit it because she could not He there by his Side. The same is true of General Logan. Mrs. Logan selected a site for his tomb on the grounds of the Soldiers Home, and orders were Issued by the commissioners for the preparation of a vault to receive his casket, but when she was confronted with the Inexorable rule prohibiting the burial of a woman there, she selected a lot in Rock Creek Cemetery, which lies just across the highway, w here she has since erected an elaborate mortuary chapel large enough to eon lain the bodies of her children and grandchildren for several generations. » . General Sheridan’s body lies on the grassy Slope in front of the old mansion at Arlington, with a dignified and ■•opposing mohument. and his widow wtli be burled there also. At the other end of tho lawn. In a corresponding position, lies Admiral Porter, of the widow will have a place at h-s side. I 1 r o-P-their tombs Is offered one of the beautiful prospects In the world, across the Potomac, including the whole city of Washington, from the Naval Observatory to the Arsenal, with the Capitol in the' center and a clear open vis a the dome, whirl! is J h * ‘Jf’.L 1 noble amf impressive example of modern "architecture. Others Who Will Lie There. Other women who will some time have conspicuous burial places at Arlington are tho widow of the late General Rlcke.ts, who commanded a brigade or division or a corps in twenty-seven battles, and in five of them was wounded so * ev ® r ^ y that he had to be carried off the Held_ H* served a year in Libby prison, and when exchanged went down ^e Shenandoeh valley in command of the Sixth Army Corps, and fought with Sheridan until he received the wounds which caused his death. Mrs. Paul, the widow of a gallant soldier who lost hts eyes by the explosion of a shell, and for many years was wandering blind around Ihe streets of Washington, will find her final home there also; and Mrs. Helnzelman. whose husband was a hero of two wars. They wanted to bury General Crook in Omaha, as they wanted to bury Sheridan jmd Logan in-Chicago, but the widow of the gfeat Indian fighter agreed to let his body* rest at Arlington, provided she might He by his side , . The first woman hdried at Arlington after It became a mitit-ary cemetery was Louisa Rogers Meigs, the daughter of the famous Commodore John Rogers, a no the wife of Montgomery Meigs?, who was quartflrmaster-general of the Federal armies throughout the war. and whose responsibilities In supplying the needs of two iflilllons of soldiers '-’ere as arduous and important as thost jf the generals who commanded them in the field. The bodtea.of Mrs. Meigs and her daughter lie ffi*a beautiful marble sarcophagus. On one aide Is the body of the GeneraTs father, Joslah Meigs, who was the first commissioner of the United States land office, and on the other Side - Is the grave of hie son, Meigs, who was Sherineers in the. Shenanuu«Mi> aim. was* iidled at the battle of winchester. His grave Is marked by a block of beautiful marble, upon which rets a life-sized figure of the young soldier In the posture in which his boot’ lay when ft was found upon the battle-field. General Meigs may be regarded as the founder of,the Arlington cemetery, and 'it was therefore appropriate that he and his family should lie there. The Hlatory of Arlington. The Arlington estate, which is our national necropolis, stretches along the Potoftiac river for a considerable distance, With the old National pike, between Georgetown and Alexandria marking Its southern boundary. The place was part of a grant made by Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, to Robert Howson, In 1669, and was named in honor of the Eari/of Arlington. - The property was first sold to the Alexander family, from whom Alexandria took its name, and then passed Into the hands of John Parke Custis, the Son, by her first marriage, of Martha Dandridge, who was afterward the wife of George Washington. From him it passed to his son, George Washington Parke Custis, Whose daughter was married to Lieut. Robert E. Lee. of the United States army, June 30, 1831, oy the Rev. W’illiam Meade, afterward Bishop of Virginia, in the drawing-room of the old mansion where visitors are now. requested to register their names. She inherited the property from her father, and Arlington was the home of the great chieftain of the Confederacy when Ft. Sumter was fired

upon.

Down in the corner toward Alexandria where several hundred Confederate dead are buried, are two simple tablets that mark the graves of George Washington Parke Custis. and Mary Lee Custis, his wife. They were erected by their daughter, Mrs. Robert E. J-ee, ahd have no inscription except the names and dates and the words, “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy." On the hillside north of the mansion in an old tomb that contains the body of Mrs. Mary Randolph, a relative of Mrs. Custis, which bears this stately inscrip-

tion;

"Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Mary Randolph. Her Intrinsic Worth needs no Euloglum. The deceased was born the 9th of August. 1?62, at Ampthill, near Richmond, Virginia, and died the 23d of January, 1828, in Washington City. A Victim to Maternal Love and Duty. Aa a Tribute of filial gratitude this monument is Dedicated to her Exalted Virtues by her youngest Son. Roquiescat In pace.” Near by Is the grave of "Virginia, wife of George Mason, of Hallin Hall," who died in 1838. and was probably la some way connected with the Custta or Lee famines. NeVer To Retnrn. The letter tn which General Lee resigned his commission in the army was written at Arlington on Saturday, April 3U, 1861, and was brought oveir to Washington by himself and handed to Gen. Winfield Scott on the morning of Monday, April 22, That afternoon Colonel Lee, with his wife and children. left Arlington for Richmond, never to return, and on the day

following he accepted the command of the Confederate forces. Three days after the Lee family deserted its home, the first battalion of the great army of the North marched through the city of Washington, and across the aqueduct bridge Into Virginia; and the first camp-fire* of the rebellion were lighted that night under the great oaks of Arlington. The venerable steward of the Lee estate remained In possession of the property until shortly after the battle of Bull Run, when the Government took possession of the fine old - mansion for a hospital, and it was used for that purpose until the close of the war. But it was not until the Uth of May, 1884. that the body of a soldier was buried within its gates. General Meigs gave the order and personally superintended the burial of the first body, which was that of a Confederate, who died in the hospital, and whose name was L. Reinhardt, of the Twenty-third North Carolina Infantry. The second burial was that of Edward S. Fisher, a sergeant in Company D. Fortieth New York Infantry, who also died in the old mansion. During the two months following, 2,619 Federal soldiers were buried there, including 231 colored.men and about forty Confederates. The roster of the silent army that tamps there now embraces more than sixteen thousand names. Long rows of long white headstone* mark the graves of the privates, and Imposing shafts of marble and granite that gleam through the foliage, sho<v where the officers rest. The Government furnishes only simple white marble head-stones and foot-stonea with onlv a reference number corresponding to the record books, but the friends of those who are buried there may erect any monument tHat may suit their taste. Government Pnya g150.000. A few months before the first burial, I think it was January, 1864, the property was sold at auction under the direct tax law, ’and was purchased by Quartermas-ter-General Meigs for the use of the Government. Neither General Lee nor his wife ever made any attempt to recover it, but. in 1377, their son, George Washington Custis Lee, brought a suit in the United States Circuit Court at Alexandria. for the ejectment of Frederick Kauffmann. the superintendent of the cemetery, and Col. R. P. Strong, the commanding officer at Ft. 'Whipple, the military post adjoining, now called Ft. Myer, which Was also upon the Lee estate. The lower court rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, but in 1882 if was reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States, on the ground that a sovereign can not be sued without it* own consent, and the lower court hud no power to render Judgment where it could not enforce execution. Justice Miller, who rendered the decision. however, admitted the equity of the Lee claim, and, in consequence, the

purchase of the title, which was transferred to him in 1883 for the sum of $lo0.000, about double what the property would have been worth had the soldiers of the Union army not been burled there. Who May Re Burled There. The bodies of thousands of the dead were brought from the battle-fields taround Richmond, and from the valley of the Rappahatnock, and the landscape wab plotted and beautified under the direction of General Meigs like any other cejnetery. Thefe are reservations of lawns and g.*oves for ornamentatal purposes, but the greater part of the estate is laid out In small lots, generally twelve^et square, as a permanent burial place for the officers of the Army and Navy, and while there is no law or regulation on the subject, it is understood that the wives of those to whom lots are assigned may be buried wtih them. Any officer in the regular army and navy or on the retired list, or who has been in the volunteer service during the late war, may have a lot assigned to him by making application to the quar-termaster-general; and although a paragraph in the formal assignment Informs him that the cemetery p not Intended for family burial purposes, no Objection is made to the burial of the wife, or even the child. In the lot of an officer, even while he is still living. In fact, the quartermaster-general, In the absence of fixed regulations, has given officers to whom lots are assigned the privilege of burying within their limits any member of their family, although some years ago a famous general construed this permission so liberally as to Include a colored woman who had for many years been his servant. No formal objection was made to her burial, but applications for permits have been scrutinized more closely since. The following list includes the names of all the women who are buried at Arlington: COMPLETE LIST OF THE WOMEN NOW BURIED THERE. The wife and daughter of General ]^ e ig S . The daughter of Lleut.-Qol. H. C. Hodges, assistant quartermaster-general. Mrs. Julia A. Hopkins, the mother of Mrs. Col. R. B. Ayers of the Third Artillery. * Miss Maud G. Andrews, daughter of Captain Powell, of the Fourth Infantry. Mrs. Jennie 11. Lowell, wife of Lieut. Charles Lowell, of the Seventh Maine Volunteers. Mrs. Isabel H. Urell. wife of Lieut. M. Everett Urell, Eighty-second New York Volunteers. Mrs. Martha Irving, wife of Lieut -Col. ■William Irving, Fifty-eighth Ohio Volunteers. * Mrs. Hannah Fletcher, wife of Lieut. Robert H. Fletcher. U. S. A. Mrs. Cornelia Smith Baird, wife of In-spector-General Absalom Baird. Mrs. Jane Boyd Smith, colored servant of General Baird. Mrs. Maria Hudson, the mother, and Mrs. Emelia R. Hudson, the wife of Maj. Edward McK. Hudson, U. S. A. Mrs. Mary Dana, wife of Lleut.-Col. James J. Dana, U. S. A. Mrs. Catherine E. Barber, wife of Lleut.Col. Merrett Barber, assistant adjutantgeneral, U. S. A. The wife of Capt. Lyman H. Moore, U. S. A. The wife of Past Assistant Engineer William S. Moore, U. S. N. Mrs. Mary D. Young, the wife of Capt. D. J. Young, U. S. A. The wife of Charles D. Maxwell, medical director, U. S. N. Mrs, Anna B. Lancaster, mother of Albert C. Vincent, lieutenant-colonel U. S. A. Mrs. Mary K. Hayden. Mrs. Jenette Van Dqsen, wife of Capt. A. H. Van Dusen, Ninety-seventh New York Volunteers. Mrs. Harriet K. Bane, wife of Colonel Bane, Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer*. The wife of Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens, U. S. N. Mrs. Henrietta Myers, wife of Major Myers, Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry. Mrs. Margaret Cassln, wife of Commodore Stephen Cassln, U. 8. N. The wife and daughter and three grandchildren of Gen. Alexander McComb, U. S. A., who died as lone ago as 18%). The Infant child of Lieut. J. H. Moore, V. S. N. Alice H. Jones, the wife of Capt. Frank C. Jones, Sixty-fourth New York Volunteers. Mrs. L. D. Watkins, the wife of Col. Watkins. U. S. A., and Miss Mollie Watkins. his daughter. Mrs. Eliza E. Cutter, wife of Capt. L. B. Cutter, Illinois Volunteers. BEVERLY CRUMP.

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Before the close of the Civil War, Southern women had inaugurated the custom of decorating the grave* of their dead soldiers. Each year In early spring they placed flowers on the graves, and from this beginning there grew, by degrees, the custom which was fully established by the time the war closed. By an unwritten law. May 90 was set apart as the day, and the occasion was designated as Memorial Day. At the North, while similar services had been Inaugurated, no unanimity developed until 1868, when, for the first time, the tame day was adopted. The newspapers <of that year contain the earliest general Indications of a popular movement. The day became known at the North as Decoration Day. When It is remembered that hardly a family. North of South, was wholly exempt from the casualties of war, it may readily be understood how strongly the day and Us associations appealed at first to the popular heart And, once begun, the custom has been followed faithfully. The official history of the day may be read in the proceedings of the G. A. R. Commander-In-Chief John A. Logan formally established the day in a general order, issued in 1868. He appointed May 30 a memorial day for the de&4 soldiers in that year, and closed hts order to that effect with these words: "It is the purpose of the commander-in-chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that It will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the wad remains to honor the memory ,of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to call attention to this order, and lend Its friendly aid in bringing it to the notice of comrades in all parts of the qountry In time for simultaneous compliance therewith." At the National Encampment held at Providence in 1877 a resolution wa* passed directing attention anew to the rules which had already been adopted setting apart Decoration Day. It concluded with the words: "The Grand Army of the Republic seeks thus to preserve the memory of thog* only who fought In defense of national unity." In June, 1878, at the Encampment held at Springfield, Mass., it was resolved; "That all flags hoisted on Memorial Day be at half-mast." The following is Article 14, Chapter 6, of the constitution of the Grand Army of the Republic, and It ha* several times been referred to and, by resolution and otherwise, been reaffirmed: . "The National Encampment hereby establishes a Memorial Day, to be observed by the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, on the 30th day of May, annually, in commemoration of the deeds of our fallen comrades. When .such day occurs on Sunday, the succeeding day shall be observed, except where, by legal enactment, the preceding day Is made a legal holiday, when such day shall be observed." It Is belieVed that the veterans of New Jersey were the first to make an effort to have the day set apart as a legal holiday. The State department of the G. A. R. in that State appointed a committee in 1874 # to bring the matter to the attention of the Legislature. A bill was introduced providing for the institution of the holiday, but it failed. - Traces of early celebrations are to be found In the archives of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. December, 1870, a resolution was introduced providing that proceedings of different ©(ties, towns, etc., held on the 29th and 30\h days of May, 1869 and 1870, "In commemoration of the gallant heroes who sacrificed their lives in defense of the Republic, and the re cord of the ceremonies at the honored tombs of the departed shall be collected, printed, and bound, under the direction of such person as the Speaker Shall designate, for the use of Congress.” This resolution was never reported. In February, 1871. the United States Senate committee on military affairs reported adversely on a Joint resolution introduced In the House by Robert C. Schenck, 9t Ohio, "to establish the 80th day of May in eajh year a public holiday." The following year a similar resolution was sent to a committee in the house, but it never reappeared. This was the last effort made to make the day a national holiday, although sinup the efforts already referred to, the G. A. R. has petitiohed for such congressional action. In many of the States, including Indiana, It is a legal holiday as to commercial paper. "

DR. BROWN, OF DAVID CITY, NEB., FINDS A MEDICINE OF - RARE VIRTUE. Be First Cares HUneetf with It, 0*4 then Preecrlbca It for Hie Fetleats will* Gratifying Keeolte. (From th* Lincoln, XtL, Call.) Dr. SamueLL. Brown is a pioneer rwi. Sent of David Citr, having lived there for twenty years. He is well known all over Butler County, having ^roetieed medicine in every part. It is nu recovery from a very serious disease that is looked upon se • miracle. When visited by a Call reporter Dr. Brown gladly related the history of his sickness and his final care. “ This will be my first step iato ths field of a personal interview, but I am soenthws^ sstic over my recovery that I feel Uks cow. ducting a regular experience meeting. "Six or seven years ago partial paralytic set in upon my left side, and I soon became affected by kindred ailments. The pension board found mv trouble to be “partial paralysis of left side, varicose veins of both legs and left varicocele." ’ I was also troubled With Diabetes. I became unable to perform manual labor, having to give up the larger part of my practice. I could hobble around by the use of crutches and cane. I tried every medicine that I ever heard of in ondesvoring to relieve my suffering. “ About a year ago I read of a medicine called Dr. Williams’ Rink Pill*, that seemed to fit my cose, so I sent for samples. I was so well satisfied with tit# samples that I sent for more, as they acted directly in harmony with nature. Those arc the things I look for in treating diseases. I used a nuuber of boxes of the pills, and I • m uow entirely relieved of all my several ailments, and am able to move about once mure, without being hampered with crippling diseases. 1 n ray practice I always asa Pink Pills where the diagnosis of the case

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