National Honors to Rebel Dead
Summary
The Maryland State Legislature is poised to appropriate $5,000 to bury both the Union and Confederate dead at Antietam Cemetery. The Herald and Torch Light prints a letter from Hon. John Covode strongly objecting to this which will be of interest to the widows and orphans of 400,000 men who are buried between the Potomac and the Rio Grande. Covode's letter makes a strong case for honoring the victorious dead, but not for burying the rebels in the same cemetery. He says to Gov. Fenton of New York who suggested this, "I should regard your entrance into a National Republican Convention, a candidate for office, as an intrusion to which the survivors of the Union Army, and the relatives of the dead and wounded, should surely object."
Article Source
Newspaper: The Herald and Torch Light
Publication Date: March 11th, 1868
Page/Column: 2A
Town: Hagerstown, MD
County: Washington
Subjects
- Battles / Military
- Other
- Aftermath of War / Reconstruction
