Southern Graves

The following was published in the  Columbus Sunday Enquirer  (Georgia) on 11 July 1875, one day after the death of Gen. Henry Lewis Benning, namesake of Fort Benning ( now known as Fort Moore ). GENERAL HENRY L. BENNING. HE DIES AT 3 A.M. YESTERDAY -- JURIST, SOLDIER, GENTLEMAN -- BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. After our paragraph of yesterday morning it was a matter of no surprise for our people to hear that Gen. Benning was dead. He breathed his last about three o'clock Saturday morning. The day before he had been on the streets, but he never rallied from the fai[n]ting fit in F. L. Brook's drug-store. He was not even conscious after 4 P.M. Friday. Drs. Colzey and Stanford were with him constantly. The cause seemed to be a sudden giving away of the entire system. Several days before he seemed to be improving rapidly. The General was a tall, powerful man, with white beard and hair, and a true Southerner, every inch of him. Old Billie, the colored man who was in headquarter mess...

In Memory Of Eighteen German Sailors Who Died In The United States Army Hospital At Asheville 1918-1919 Nicht grossern Vorteil wusst'ich zu nennen Als des'Feindes Verdienst erkennen. No greater gain for the human spirit Than a sense of our foeman's merit. Karl Von Aspern Karl Bening Adam Biffar Wilhelm Denecke Karl Flum Fritz Hoffman Hans Jakobi Karl Kilper Emil Kobe Karl Koschmieder Heinrich Lochow Hermann Menzel Johann Wilhelm Meyer Johann Meyerhoff Viktor Wilhelm Rieke Richard Paul Schlause Wilhelm Stockhausen Fritz Hermann Wahnschaffe Erected By Kiffin Rockwell Post American Legion The memorial transcribed above is located at Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina. Text from the Riverside Cemetery Walking Tour : "Riverside Cemetery is the final resting place for World War I German Prisoners of War. Several thousand sailors were first transferred from Ellis Island to a detention center in Hot Springs, North Carolina. A typho...