| Show LOSSES IN THE LATE WAR II II I I I ARLINGTON TELLS ELOQUENT STORY OF THEM Monuments Somo of tho 1 Bravest I Officers of tho Army Grouped Together I 1 To-gether There Names of Heroes < I Correspondence Tribune Washington May 2A little plat of ground embracing but a few liunclred l I I square feet of tho National cemetery t Arlington tells an eloquent and pathetic story of our war with Spain and Its legacy leg-acy I ho war Jn the Philippines Grouped together In this plot aro tile monuments lo sonic of the bravest ofllccrs oC thIn th-In UlY who In those two short wars Imvo given up their lives In their countrys ser vlec the srroifp of graves Jb of peculiar lutuiest to Wester for ninny of them arc of olhccrs who served in Western Indian In-dian campaigns or were stationed at Western military post prior to the Spanish Span-ish war Several typical Western heroes arc among those lo whose memory monuments mon-uments Bland In thIs most beautiful qlty of tho silont One of those monument 1 a square block of gray granite marks tho llnal rcrfllnpr place of Capt William ONeill of the First United Slates volunteer volun-teer cavalry tho famous Budcy ONeill once Mayor of Prescott Ariz who mot death on San Juan hill Nearby Is the monument of Col Harry Q Egbert killed while at tho head nf his regiment Mauslmas the Philippines Phil-ippines Col Egbert was for several years stationed at Cheyenne Wyo Others Oth-ers burled In this little corner ot Arlington Arling-ton are LIeu Louis H Towls Ninth Infantry In-fantry killed at San Juan MaJ Albert Forsc First cavalry killed at San Juan Capt Waller Dickinson Twentysecond Infantry killed at El fancy Mai Alex M Wolhorlll Sixth inlanlry Iciuied at San Juan Capt Allyn K Capron First United States volunteer cavalry killed at La Guaslma Talent William IF Osborne First cavalry kllle at Santiago Cipl Edger Hubert died In Porto Rico Capt Charles Dodge lwcllt fourth infantry killed at Silmnoy Across llio path but a short dislancn away fs the grave of Gen Lawton and on thc hillside beyond are burled hundreds of private soldiers each grave markfd with a plain whlto board which eventually will Hu replacpd by a marble headstone II |
