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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
lately enshrined the noble spirit. Then mournfully the parting bugle bade Its farewell o'er the grave. California claimed her hero and statesman, and his ashes now repose on the calm shore of that ocean which washes the western base of the empire for whose glory he lived and died. His body lies in Lone Mountain Cemetery, near the city of San Francisco, and over it should have risen one of the most superb monuments which the genius of Art has erected to human greatness. On the 27th of March (1874), I wrote to Hon. A. A. Sargent, Senator from California, to learn the present condition of Col. Baker's grave; and in reply, I received the following interesting information from Mr. Robert J. Stevens, son-in-law of Col. Baker: Washington, D. C., March 31st, 1874. my Dear Sir,—I hasten to reply to your note of this morning, enclosing letter of Mr. C. Edwards Lester, inquiring about Baker monument. The plans for such monument, very magnificent, and studiously elaborated—the
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xviii. (search)
lately enshrined the noble spirit. Then mournfully the parting bugle bade Its farewell o'er the grave. California claimed her hero and statesman, and his ashes now repose on the calm shore of that ocean which washes the western base of the empire for whose glory he lived and died. His body lies in Lone Mountain Cemetery, near the city of San Francisco, and over it should have risen one of the most superb monuments which the genius of Art has erected to human greatness. On the 27th of March (1874), I wrote to Hon. A. A. Sargent, Senator from California, to learn the present condition of Col. Baker's grave; and in reply, I received the following interesting information from Mr. Robert J. Stevens, son-in-law of Col. Baker: Washington, D. C., March 31st, 1874. my Dear Sir,—I hasten to reply to your note of this morning, enclosing letter of Mr. C. Edwards Lester, inquiring about Baker monument. The plans for such monument, very magnificent, and studiously elaborated—the