The Burial of Luther C Ladd

Editor National Tribune: In regard to the Baltimore riot one comrade says another is all right as far as he goes but doesn’t go far enough. Permit me to say the statement from A. L. Smith Co H 4th N. H. does not go far enough I was born in Bridgewater near the town of Alexandria and understand that Luther C Ladd having had employment at Lowell Mass enlisted in the Lowell City Guards 6th Mass. His body was brought home to Bristol with the Stars and Stripes spread over the box containing the casket. I was at the depot when it arrived. The remains were taken to Alexandria by wagon. I attended the funeral. There were many there for so small a town High on the wall above the platform were placed in large letters these words “All Hail the Stars and Stripes” which were said to be the last used by the patriotic young man after he was mortally wounded. I was one of the 24 men who marched quite a distance and fired a salute over the grave. But the people of Lowell desired his body to be placed beside the others from their city and the young man’s friends consenting it was soon taken up and returned to Lowell where it rests beside the comrades who fell with him The city also erected a monument over the grave. Permit me also to remark I was at the Bristol depot when the remains were placed on the train to be taken back to Lowell and also that my wife’s first husband was in the same company Warren S. Brown Co B N. H. H. A. Ashland N. H.