When the great soldier died he owned no uniform in which he could be
suitably attired for the grave, no sword to be laid on his coffin. His
body lies in the magnificent tomb, erected by the voluntary
contributions of admiring citizens, the commanding attraction of a
beautiful park overlooking the broad Hudson as it sweeps past the
nation's chief city. Already this resting place has become a veritable
shrine of patriotism. Military and naval pageants make it their proper
goal, as when, after Santiago, the returning battleships moved in
stately procession up the Hudson to the tomb of our national military
hero, there to thunder forth the triumphant salute, like a summons to
his spirit to bestow an approval.
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The Riverside Press
_Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
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