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Show FAMOUS CIVIL WAR COMMANDER DIES ' BALTIMORE, Md.. Dec. 2C General j David L. Stanton, aged eighty years, a j famous commander of Union forces in i the Civil war. died today. He came ! from a long line of fighting stock. His grandfather, Elijah Stanton, was a colonel colo-nel in the revolutionary army. General ' Stanton was bre vetted brigadier general for gallantry in the battle of Five Forks, Ya. He was for many years a cons pic- ; uous figure at all grand army reunions. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hodson Stanton, two sons, , Harold Stanton of Los Angeles, Cab, and j Andrew Denison Stanton of Ridley, Md.; two daughters, Mrs. C. Lee Sward of 1 Wilmington, Del., and Mrs. Paul C. Som- j merwell of this citv. ! |