Blucher's forces or was hotly pursuing them, did not recall him to the
main army, and the decisive battle was lost. Grouchy was summoned before
a council of war, but the court declared itself incompetent to decide
his case, and nothing further came of it.


OUR NATIONAL CEMETERIES.--National Cemeteries for soldiers and sailors
may be said to have originated in 1850, the army appropriation bill of
that year appropriating money for a cemetery near the City of Mexico,
for the interment of the remains of soldiers who fell in the Mexican
War. The remains of Federal soldiers and sailors who fell in the war
for the Union have been buried in seventy-eight cemeteries exclusive
of those interred elsewhere, a far greater number.

In the subjoined list are given the names and locations of the
National Cemeteries with the number therein buried, known and unknown.
We have no means of knowing what cemeteries also contain the bodies of
Southern soldiers:

(Location): Known; Unknown

Cypress Hill, N. Y.: 3,675; 70
Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y.: 3,096; ----
Beverly, N. J.: 142; 7
Finn's Point, N.J.: ----; 2,644
Gettysburg, Pa.: 1,967; 1,608
Philadelphia, Pa.: 1,880; 28
Annapolis, Md.: 2,289; 197
Antietam, Md.: 2,853; 1,811
London Park, Baltimore, Md.: 1,627; 168