Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-04 | Page 12 | Would Repay Old Kindness

REPAY REPAY OLD KINDNESS WASHINGTON May My 4 4 Touched Touched 1 by y an unusual or orto andea to show gratitude President Hard Hard- HardIng Harding Hard ing Ing has directed the war depart depart- department department department ment to ascertain tho the burial burtal place ot of General Edward nd R S Canby an au officer In the Union army dur dur- dur- dur durIng during during ing the Civil war ear who was killed In 1873 during some Indian trou- trou troubles troubles trou troubles bles In northern California The president acted upon receipt ot of a letter letl r from Charles Hall hail an aged attorney of Bay Ala who w ho wrote that he wanted to place a a on the grave gra o 0 of General LUST JoT General Canby was WM In com om commend com command mend mand of ot the tho federal armat army arm at Fort Blakely Blakel In Baldwin counts counti count Ala Ala- Alabama Alabama Alabama bama the Alabam Alabaman n rote th the president The Confederate sol sol- soldier eol dier a at Port Fort Blakely to him on April 9 8 1866 On the morning of ot April 15 1865 1866 General Canby was In Port rort Blakely and oa that day my father Cather and I went ent to Blakely to see General Canby to ask him for tor something to eat as cr N er thing my father Il ned at that time was destroyed destro ed by the federal soldiers We e went rent into Inlo Blakely In a one-horse one wagon agon and General had the wagon filled with Ith the best kind of ot food foon I I am now in my sixty ninth sixty year ear and I want nant ant to place a reath reathon on his gra e before I pus piss away General Canby gave us food lood when e were ere hungry GR C LOC INDIANAPOLIS Ind May 4 4 The grave of ot General Eduard Ed Richard Canby sought l by y Charles Hall lIall ot of Gay Day Minnett lInnett All Ala who wishes to pay tribute ute o othe 0 the officers memory Is here In I Cro Crown Cron n Hill cemetery General Canby was the son of ot I T who ho was nas as a candidate for tor or governor of Indiana In 1828 and he spent his boyhood in this state moo 00