quently asserted that this marshal was bribed, but
there seems to be no real foundation for so base a charge. The trouble
was that he had been ordered by Napoleon to follow the Prussians toward
Wavre and thought it necessary to follow the strict letter of his
instructions. Before he reached the village the main body of the
Prussian force was on its way to Waterloo, but one division had been
left there to occupy his attention. Engaged in skirmishing with this, he
paid no attention to the advice of his subordinate generals who, hearing
the terrible cannonading at Waterloo, besought him to go to the aid of
the army there. Napoleon believing that he was either holding back
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
Laurel, Baltimore, Md.: 232; 6
Soldiers' Home, D. C.: 5,313; 288
Battle, D. C.: 13; ----
Grafton, W. Va.: 634; 620
Arlington, Va.: 11,911; 4,349
Alexandria, Va.: 3,434; 124
Ball's Bluff, Va.: 1; 24
Cold Harbor, Va.: 672; 1,281
City Point, Va.: 3,779; 1,374
Culpepper, Va.: 454; 910
Danville, Va.: 1,171; 155
Fredericksburg, Va.: 2,487; 12,770
Fort Harrison, Va.: 239; 575