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Show i GEN. EWING ANSWERED LAST CALL. Slowly the ranks of the nation's soldier- and i -roes who served so bravely during the civil war ,i ... being deserted as, one by one. they anwer rh- ; gle's call-on the other side; and before many , ,.: . their names and deeds will be but memories : -cious, indeed, and always to be cherished but only memories to a generation wine idea!- !,,.-. no affinity with the past, says the Catholic .j.;-bifin. .j.;-bifin. Xo braver soldier ever answered the ;;s. call than he whose death occurred the r.,. day at Lancaster General Hugh I'.o.vl.- i ing-, one of Ohio's famous sons, whose la.-' y. -were passed in the retirement of private life : removed from the martial stir and glory young days. He was the lat survivor of a f anion- tri.. , ' which the other two were General Ko-ecran- a- i General Sheridan, the Catholic 'major genera i- , ' the eivil war," and among the bravest of ail -wore the blue. General Ewing was the son of the late S. n, Thomas Ewing, and was born in Lancaster in . He grew up in the companionship of Jame- (,. Blaine and William Teetimseh Sherman, boih !;'. men. He was graduated from West Point at 0, age of 20, but left the service to study law. practicing prac-ticing in St. Louis and Leavenworth. Kan. i j . gold fever of '-I'.) overtook the young lawyer and :,m went to California, where he acquired rr.in-h experience ex-perience but no money. lie was a member of ti,.-first ti,.-first jury to sit in the state of California. At the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed appoint-ed major of Ohio volunteers and was promoted t , colonel in command of tho Thirteenth Ohio regiment. regi-ment. In X'ovember, 1;2, he was appointed brigadier briga-dier general and took part in the operation- ...f Sherman against Yieksburg. Like his famous father. General Ewing wa- ; devout Catholic, and until age prevented was wont to attend mass every day. He was a familiar figure fig-ure in the fir.t pew at St. Mary's church. Lam-a-i-ter. In that church he was baptized, and there Iim funeral took place on Monday morning in the pn -once of a congregation that filled every seat. |