Show id R grave a gen zachary laylar isto he returned I 1 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HE BE united states start 1 IB about to a take mk over r the care 11 of if athe the burial ground of gm gen zachary tylo taylor twelfth president he died in the rho watt house a j july ft 9 ism after it giving ing his country more the than forty years of service ato if it be admitted th that at it Is IB the duty of the nation to see am that the burial places place of if it iab pr preal I seats deals are am rated cared for e congre mile fla be haa long neglected this duty I 1 in the me cage of if old rough and ad deady upon the tha death of 0 president taylor his remain em tax were well interred la schrill the 4 con grese local burial bula I 1 ground christ rill church leare cemetery tery washington in ID re ac corrance cor dance darce with th his bis wt webb a they were 1 I transferred to the old T taylor clr h home tend tead near louisville ky the state at of kentusky eky erected ted Y years l ago a a band handsome me memorial met near the 1 burial vault suit but no provision has ever been made for the adequate mad and permanent tore care of the grounds long bega ago the homestead passed from the hands I 1 an oi a of the taylor gamily family the state of ken me tuckey ky now w holds till title with kith some same arl private 1 interest t in five 11 acres about ev ItrI the M burial vault t T the he gro brounda I 1 ads lie ile near the browns below boro bore road ad an important thoroughfare of Jef jefferson felen county A halt half mile road we way leada lead to them it has haa been re bontly improved by the county the louisville outdoor leml leacue purposes to plant this roadway and make it a Zac harv talor mm memorial lind in lane the tb last congress passed a armola U licit on appropriating for the elm care maintenance and improvement of the burial grounds and directing the secretary of war to establish therm thereon I 1 a national cemetery lampere tampere the prec adent fur for the latter la is the and andrew raw johnson national cemetery of fifteen arm acres established by cong congress aar in IWO 1906 so bo we shall mall have the zachary taylor national cemetery maintained by the united star states government zachary taylor deger deserved ved well 11 of his country he was bore bom in orange curty cur ty V va father won was col rich ard taelor an aft officer in the R berglu ador in III alon he elm we was a descendant 0 of I 1 elder william brewster of mayflower r and plymouth fame the favl taylora calad moved to kentucky in 1785 in I 1 1808 at t the sure age of twenty four zachary we wag corn a that lieutenant in the seventh infantry a new regiment in 1812 1 as major be defended fort Harr harrison imen near terre haute ind I 1 against indiana mad and we was breveted major in 1815 1915 when ben the army was reduced to 10 men he resigned maimed major T taylor was am however induced to return to to the army as it lieutenant colonel in command d of fort snelling th the black hawk milan indian war of 1832 found A him tn in command in mand of full fort L craw 1 I ford at al prairie du do ch achlen m win inel dental dentally Y it was to colonel tell horlor that black hawk surrendered after the second campa campaign chawk ge the black hawk war was ont only a iny O called war but it tom ha an interest relent it 11 it its own men la that it brought ageth er r historic id 1 mrie PH personages moora gen winfield scott took command at fort crew craw ford with colon colonel taylor was limit Jet jeff ferson econs davis and la in col samuel I 1 thompson Thomp sons regiment of minot vol term we was capt abraham lincoln jefferson davis 1808 88 was waa a west point glad graduate am of 1828 after the close class of the black hawk hostila ties he eloped from poll fort crawford Craw tord with S sarah a rah the ideal daughter of colonel colon tallor A little later be as an 11 engineer made a R survey of the chic chicago a go and calumet rivers river the fed oral mi government having decided to establish a harbor on an the west wear shore bore I 1 for r ih the fast growing schooner traffic of L lake michigan davis recommend ed calumet his him chief reason being that lake calum calumet or could be made a laud land locked harbor barbor tor for the maint nance 1 of a fleet fact to be used canada no vou von will not find thle this in the histories and the trick by which chic chicago go finally won over calumet Is still another at story dails D evil left the army in 1835 1915 to be come a rattan cotton planter in MInN mississippi sippi in 1845 he was elected to e egri congress gri but resigned to get into the mexican war as an colonel of a mississippi regi ment he fought under ruder general TO lor or at monterey Monte rev rt at buena vista in the latter battle he displayed great reliant gallantry rod and was wounded lerom from 1847 to 1851 daila was in ID the 0 senate it then he served re as leeret serre tarr of war proter president pierce the vear mt 1857 found him back in the senate eto e to and in 1881 1861 he resigned to go a with the south and to become president of the confederacy abraham was waff I 1 twenty three when hen the black war broke oat it re he responded to the call for 1 l teen by tte its governor of illinois th the have insisted upon electing him captain and away he marched you yon have of 0 conaw read land of f his him amusing using experiences but did yon know knew that once one he be was waa under arrest for firing filing off ff his pistol contrary to regulations A and d did yon yen know that he be had to w wear r a wooden word sword for two me days while under ruder arrest arreg below became 1 borne I of his him men stole state whisky and mt got drunk and did you yon know knew that he be saved the life of a an old indian india who be burren doled dered fro from a crowd of bin bloodthirsty madr idiom eraT and did you kow know that he demanded the same food for hla his men meb that the regulars regu lari got and bluffed the army officers into giving it and here beres a another thing that van TOO will not and in all the hierl histories a after captain lincoln Lincol ns company had bad been disbanded at ottawa ni ill lin coin in enlisted as an a private in the in deper ile pendent ent spy company just what merken he rendered as n a spy apy la nn labow known to this writer he wait waa how M er at white water IN is A thief tale stole hla his horse home he had I 1 in make in an inglorious return to new by foot feet by c canoe acaby and by the her left cori co ri taylor after the th black hall ar was took command d of our mr forces in florida where the send seminol to war was wac on he wound would up that war by defeating the in indian d ano at the tb battle of okeechobee lo in 1840 he we put in command of the bouthern aou them thern division of the army and ad in moved ed till him horn home to baton bato rouge range la in IM 1846 upon the breaking out oat ot of the mexican war brigadier gme general I 1 T taylor clr vai oas ordered to the me rio ade brande on OB two successive day he ha fought and woo the battles of palo alto and amaca do de in palma palm and ad cleared the lower valley of the rio grande next he marched to nuevo nueve leon and fought a series men of ct battles battle ending 1 in the bame I 1 year with the capture of monterey lag ing the tact fee that under ordera ardem from hla his government he be had mat bent hla him best bear troops troop to reinforce general scott who was I 1 invading ding mexico by the way ot of vera claim anus he pursued santa ana and ana with a much inferior form force defeated that mexican man commander nander at the but bat tle its of buena vista may 23 28 1847 this important victory was followed owed by the mexican carmal of general densest scott which ended with the capture of the city of mexico september 14 1847 which virtually ended the war peace between the two countr il ill lea was waa del declared arld february 2 1848 this war confirmed i it t the annexation of texas and else also into the united states stated california rod and nevada moat net of all arizona new mexico and utah and HC a part of colorado 1 d general war of tm atin em m rough h and ad him bla neBa to buat M the mexicans under any and ad all con dillons earned him the title of old rough rod and randy beady hla him brilliant vic vl torlea made him a popular he hero the there was vm on an insistent demand for him for I 1 th the m presidency tayl taylor r him won wit elf was not b he be said amid it if the people want we me to be prell dent deat I 1 shall hall serve but I 1 shall do nothing to get the offles office he was elected by the vor over the do demo crat mt lewis casa calm of michigan taylor married margaret smith in when he wait waa a young captain she was waa ever his him companion and helpmeet wherever reler he was stationed when he be was we elected president the he said old it was a plot to deprive her of her husband s society and ad 1 to shuttle his him life by unnecessary necessary nn car cam she had no social aspirations she reft refused ed to take mite my any part 1 in the social 11 life of at the aba V bile house boom and turned the duties delta of hostess over to her est daughter the wife of 0 mel W W S alle mile betty we was the young est bosteen the white house eve ever saw A As for mn mm taylor she put gas gaa in the white house and kept everything spirit pick and span P she reserved for her self few rooms jamr out of the way troy I 1 where she could knit and smoaks bolc hot hei 1 corncob comma pipe in peace and think up nc things thing for the comfort of her husband |