FIRST VICTIM OF CIVIL WAR.
Body of C.A. Taylor, Killed in Baltimore Riot, Found at Last.
BALTIMORE, June 19.—After a search covering many years, the resting place of the bones of Charles A. Taylor, a soldier of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, reputed to have been the first killed in the civil war, has been definitely located, and on Tuesday the remains will be sent to Binghamton, N. Y., to be later taken to Lowell, Mass., and interred beneath the monument erected to the memory of Taylor and the three others who fell with him during the riot which marked the passage of their regiment along Pratt Street, this city, on April 19, 1861. After the riot Taylor's body was completely lost track of by his friends. A monument having been erected in Boston to his memory and that of the others who were killed at the time, repeated efforts were made by Col. Edward F. Jones, now of Birmingham, who was in command of the regiment when the riot occurred, to find Taylor's burial place. Some time ago, as a last resort, advertisements were inserted in local papers, one of which was seen by Samuel F. Glenn of this city, who pointed out Taylor's grave in the old Methodist Cemetery at Fayette Street and Loney's Lane, this city. A board at the head of the grave bears the time-dimmed inscription: “A soldier of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment killed in riot.” This inscription is considered ample Identification, as the bodies of all three of the others killed at the time have long since been identified and finally interred at Lowell.