. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. May 29-31. iSgj. See F0LL0WIN1-. P», 2 19 City attornev of Alton, 111. iS46-4S. Attorney and president ()hio\ Mississippirailroad, 1854-61 and 1S77-7S. Commissioned in the United States army: Captain of volunteers. October ji. iSGi:colonel and A. D. C. to Halleck. April 4. 1862: brigadier-general. May 11,1S65. by autographic order ot President , for special services rendered; brevet-major-general, April 30. 1866 He had charge ot rail and river transportation of the .\rmies of tl
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. May 29-31. iSgj. See F0LL0WIN1-. P», 2 19 City attornev of Alton, 111. iS46-4S. Attorney and president ()hio\ Mississippirailroad, 1854-61 and 1S77-7S. Commissioned in the United States army: Captain of volunteers. October ji. iSGi:colonel and A. D. C. to Halleck. April 4. 1862: brigadier-general. May 11,1S65. by autographic order ot President , for special services rendered; brevet-major-general, April 30. 1866 He had charge ot rail and river transportation of the .\rmies of tlie United States;and his successful movement of large bodies was pronounced by Secretary ol WarStanton, without a parallel Member of G- A. R and companion of Lo),il Legion. His whole character isbroad, liberal and elevated. INTERESTING INCIDENTS. Some ten years after the final interment of the Camp Douglas prisonConfederate dead in the government plot of Oakwoods cemetery,Chicago, a thicket of saplings and sprouts had grown so entirel) overthe three acres as to hide the mounds of the grave-trenches and makea forest-wild nook in the limits of that silent city of the dead. On the 30ih of May, 1S76, Decoration Day, Whittier Post, No. 10,G. A. R. of Chicago,Capt. Charles R. E. Koch, commanding, and MilliardPost, No. 34, G. A. R. of Englewood, Capt. J. T. Foster, command-ing, joined in decorating the graves of Union soldiers buried in Oak-woods, and, after such ceremonies were completed, the united bodies ofGrand Army veterans under the command of Capt. Koch (seniorofficer), marched to the ??Confederate thicket and, trampling the under-brush, pushed through the rank growths of young trees, briars andweeds and strewed northern flowers over the .graves of the southernsoldiers there buried; antl Comrade DeWo
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