Part I: Meet General Barstow
by Steve French
His Death and Burial
On the afternoon of July 24, 1882, retired U.S. Army Bvt. Brig. Gen. Simon Forrester Barstow, his wife Maria and two servants arrived at the Oakland, Md. train station. Not long afterward, the party checked into the B&O Railroad’s luxurious Oakland Hotel.
For the last three weeks, the general had been suffering from a number of serious complaints. Thinking that western Maryland’s cool…
