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Show ' PEKL KEARNEY'S GRAVE. The Boston Transcript says: "The only thing that marks the spot where General Phil -Kearney fell in the battle of Chantilly. Va., is a rough cross or pine, and that was placed there by an old Johnny Reb Captain J. N. Ballard. General Lee's old chief of scouts, Cap- tain Stringfellow, has told the story of how the tears came into the eyes of Lee and Stonewall Jackson when they heard of Kearney's death. He had been with .them In the Mexican campaign, and they loved him:" The simplicity of the "rough cross of pine" bespeaks with tremendous force the personality, bravery and leadership ot him who became one of the small group of men that achieved the .successes of the country's .armies in the civil war. In the cities and towns wnere they were born or' reared into manhood, in' the state capitals, in legislative chambers and on the battlefields, the people were erecting stately monuments . marking ! the memory of .our country's heroes. Would it not be well apd a fitting rec-I rec-I ognition of the services rendered to the I nation by the men of the same blood , as Kearney to erect a monument be . side, the "rough cross of pine?" And this reminds us that from all sections ' of the country members of the A. Q. H. I are requesting congress to do justice to the memory of Commodore John Barry, one of the founders ofHhe Amer- ican navy, by placing a statue of him j in the rotunda of the capitol building , at Washington. Congress should not delay longer, and our representatives in congress should take, up the matter and oblige congress to decide, definitely, what it proposes to do. Boston Republic. |