Bvt. Brig. Gen. Spurling
Bvt. Brig. Gen. Andrew Barclay Spurling is one of a handful of Civil War Medal of Honor winners interred at Rosehill. Bvt. Brig. Gen. Spurling died in 1906 and is buried near the G.A.R. monuments. His grave is marked by a simple, flat metal marker. The marker provides biographical information and features the Medal of Honor symbol.
Bvt. Brig. Gen. Andrew Barclay Spurling is representative of the officers and soldiers that because they outlived many other veterans or lacked funds near the end of their lives were not memorialized in accordance with the standards set during the war and immediately following.
Chicago Tribune, August 23, 1906
Gen. Andrew B. Spurling.
Gen. Andrew B. Spurling, 77 Maple street, a veteran of the civil war and prominent in Grand Army circles, died at 6 o’clock last night at the Chicago Homeopathic hospital. Gen. Spurling was stricken on Saturday with an attack of heart trouble.
Gen. Spurling distinguished himself many time during the war and was awarded a medal for bravery. The incident which brought him this renown occurred at Evergreen, Ala., in 1865. Gen. Spurling was in command of a company of scouts at the time and captured single handed three confederates who were riding for reinforcements. These, it is related in history, would probably have wiped out the federal command.
Many other feats of daring gained for him a wide reputation for bravery. He was wounded nearly a dozen times, but seemed to bear a charmed life.