. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. 8, and other bodies of the United ConfederateVeteran Federation: the Sons of Veterans U. C. V.: various committees and ladies ofthe south that s-cured flowers; the Chicago Citizens committee of 130; the First regi-ment infantry, D Batt ry I-ight Artillry, Chicago City Troop C, 1 X, G : theBlack Hussars, independent cavalry; Columbia Fost No. 706, G. A. R.; associated pressof the general country; D. W. Flagl .-r, chief of ordnance, U. S. A ; Gn. J D. Bing-ham, Col M I Ludington and Maj. F. I-I. H
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. 8, and other bodies of the United ConfederateVeteran Federation: the Sons of Veterans U. C. V.: various committees and ladies ofthe south that s-cured flowers; the Chicago Citizens committee of 130; the First regi-ment infantry, D Batt ry I-ight Artillry, Chicago City Troop C, 1 X, G : theBlack Hussars, independent cavalry; Columbia Fost No. 706, G. A. R.; associated pressof the general country; D. W. Flagl .-r, chief of ordnance, U. S. A ; Gn. J D. Bing-ham, Col M I Ludington and Maj. F. I-I. Hathaway, quartermaster department, U. S. .\.:the Chicago Ijoard of Trade, various clubs and theaters of Chicago, the Chamberof Com-merce and Queen City club of Cincinnati; the commandant and officers at Fort Thomas,Ky., and all others not specially thanked, for support and assistance, incidental to theconstruction and dedication of the Confederate monument at Chicago, and the rec;ptionand entertainment of the guests on the great occasion of the .^^^ -, -VI. OFIICIAL COMMUNICATIONS. COXFKDKKATl: CEMETERY AT RUCK ISLANU Office of the Chief of Ordnance, iUnited States Army,Washington, D. C . February 26, 1895. \a,,r John C. ^.I, U. C. ]. ,/<-.,? Mv Dear General—In compliance with your request that I give you a sliort<lescription of my work in grading and litting up the Confederate Soldiers cemetery atRock Island arsenal while that arsenal was under my command, I take pleasure instating as follows: This cemetery consists of a plot of ground 263 feet 7 inches by 266 feet 7 inches,as shown on accompanying map, and the burials in it were the bodies of soldiers whodied from sickness and wounds from the hospital attached to the military prison on theisland of Rock Island during our civil war. There were 1,960 buried there Many ofthese burials were made during the extreme cold of winter, when the ground was fro/ento a depth of from three
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