Title
Description of Unknown Soldier Graves in Soldiers' Lot
Description
Excerpt from Chicago Tribune with information on unknown soldier graves.
Source
"Our Dead Heroes," Chicago Tribune, May 30, 1869.
Date
May 30, 1869
Original Format
Newspaper
Text
Each of these billowy mounds has its history, of battle, of strife, of breaking hearts and bitter tears. But saddest of all the sad are the unknown dead. Their history is summed up in the one word PATRIOTS. Far away, perhaps anxious hearts still mourn for those who will never return, all that is known of these is that they went to the war and were never heard of more. A lady wandered with mournful tread among the unknown bullocks yesterday, for under one of them, she could not tell which, was her brother. A Revolutionary soldier who fought at the birth of liberty, slept among those who died to preserve it. The remainder of the decoration will be told of tomorrow.