Identifier: someeventsofbost00stat (find matches)
Title: Some events of Boston and its neighbors
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) Walton Advertising and Printing Company
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Printed for the State Street Trust Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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cted over the graves of Ward and his wife, who diedseveral months after her husband. The temple was dedicated onMarch 10, 1877 amid most impressive ceremonies. The processionmoved off towards the tomb amid the banging of fire-crackers andbombs. There were sacrifices of goats, pigs, ducks, etc. then made,and at the end of the dedication there were more fireworks and gongs.Inside the temple is a shrine upon which burnt-offerings are laid inFebruary of every New Year to the Manes of General Ward, andto which official prayers are offered every month in the year byofficials of the Chinese Government. The inscription at the entranceof the shrine reads, A wonderful hero from beyond the seas, thefame of whose deserving loyalty reaches round the world, has sprinkledChina with his azure blood. Monuments were also placed on thescenes of his victories. The mausoleum soon became a shrine sup-posed to be invested with miraculous power, and some years after 60 SOME EVENTS OF BOSTON AND ITS NEIGHBORS
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From a photograph. Collection of Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. SHRINE ERECTED IN SUNG-KIANG, CHINA, TOTHE MEMORY OF GENERAL WARD. his death he was declared to be a Joss, or God, and a manuscript tothis effect can be seen in the Essex Institute in his native city, Salem.Such honors have rarely fallen to the lot of any native and neverbefore to a man of a western nation. The command of his Ever Victorious Army, as it was called, laterfell to General Gordon, to whom has been given much credit thatwas really due his predecessor. A small book printed in Shanghaiin 1863 records that Not one in ten thousand . . . could at all ap-proach him in military genius, in courage and in resources, or doanything like what he did. He has been criticised for being away from America during theCivil War, but it was fortune that carried him to China. He offered,however, $10,000 to the American cause, but died before the Govern-ment accepted his offer. 61 SOME EVENTS OF BOSTON AND ITS NEIGHBORS The Essex Inst

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