In the last post, I wrote about five of Galena, Illinois' nine Union generals being buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Galena.
Well, what about the other four?
** U.S. GRANT
Buried at Grant's Tomb in New York City.
** JOHN OLIVER DUER
Buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Monticello, Iowa.
** ELY S. PARKER
Buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.
** JOHN AARON RAWLINS
Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb. --Old Secesh
Ely Parker got a job as an engineer on John Smith's staff. Grant needed an engineer and got Parker who served in that capacity on Grant's staff for the remainder of the war.
Smith's division was the first to enter Vicksburg after its surrender on July 4, 1863.
Then the division went to Chattanooga. After Chattanooga, Smith was in charge of the task of keeping Union railroads open during the Atlanta Campaign. His troops were at Altoona Pass, but he wasn't there.
Smith went with Sherman in his March to the Sea and during the Carolina's Campaign, Smith said that the water was "not deep enough for navigation, but too deep to say we came by land."
He was still with Sherman when Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered at Bennett Place.
He didn't go to the Grand Review in Washington, D.C., and was sent to Memphis to serve as military governor of Western Tennessee.
John Smith mustered out in 1866 as commander in the volunteer service, but chose to remain in the regular Army and was made colonel of the 27th U.S. Infantry.
--Old Secesh
