Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-23

MILITARY REuNIoN.-Thc 18th regiment as
ISOLATION held its annual meeting at Honicultu-
raj hall, in this city, on Saturday, at 10 a NJ.
SeyeuU-fvc members were present. Gen.
Devcns called the meeting to order, and after
the hearing of reports from the various officers
Of the association, an election of officers for the
ensuing year was held, resulting in the choicc
of Gen. Charles Dcyens, Jr., president; Col
John NJ. Studley, vice presidents; Walter A.
Eames, secretary and treasurer; Daniel NJ.
Earle, 7. }. Hastings, b. B. Vassal, Geo. H.
Smith, and l.. II. Comings, directors.
1t was voted unanimously to pay the fund
subscribed $4,000 Tor painting OF Col. Ward
to the Mechanics association, provided said asso-
citation would procure and place the portrait in
Mechanics hall; and committee, consisting of
McSsrs. Murray, Fairbanks aud Hastings was
appointed to make such arrangements with the
proper authority as the vote requires. After
the business was transacted the meeting adj
iourned to Lincoln hall, where bountirul din
ner was prepared by Ncssrs. Wall and Williams.
Dinner concluded, the remainder of the after
noon was spent in speeches by members of the
regiment, the first Of which was by the president,
in which most appropriate allusion was made
to our late lamentcd chaplain, VIM. G, Scand-
lin. As usual, upon such occasions, each COM
pany was called upon in order and most happy
responses were made, "reminiscences of the battle
of Gettysburg being the order Of the day. Coils.
Josln and Studley and Caps. Earle, Bartlett
and Hastings being among the speakers The
following song, written by member of the reg
iment and sung by Lieut.. Doane, the meeting
joining in the chorus, was among the many
things to give zest to the occasions:
Once more we meet, my comrades, to celebrate the
daV,
On which, outuumbered by the foe, our wearied
ranks gave way,
But, though repulsed, no prOuder name our war
stained flag can show,
Than that we earned that fatal day neariConrad's
Near Conrad's Ferry o.
Near COnrad'S Ferry o.
That day we crossed Potomac's food near Con-
RAIDS Ferry o.
And though BalPs Bluff is not a name to grace the
And though score of battle fields we've seen and
since then,
Yet, of them all, the one that brings our heart its
warmest glow,
Is that first field on which we fought near Conrads
Near Conrad's Ferry o, &c.
That field where first our blood was shed, near
Conrad's Ferry O.
Fresh were we from the bench and plow the count
ing room and farm,
Our hearts aame with patriot zeal, but all unused
to arms,
Behind Us the Potomac rolled; before us stood the
foe
wefought 'gaiust fearful odds that day near Con-
Near Conrad's Ferry o. &c.
From dawn till dark we fought that day near
Conrad'S Ferry o.
We fought till ofthc thousand we took into the
FRAY,
Scarce three in five survived to tell the horrors of
Aud then, by numbers overpowered, with saddened
We turned us to the rivers brink near Conrads
Ferry Q,
We turned and plunged into the flood near Con-
RAIDS Ferry o.
It's not by victory alone the soldiers worth is tried
Defeat Is oft stronger test and harder to abide,
lis easy to be brave in fight against weaker foe:
Not such the hopeless fight we fought near Conrad's
Near Conrad's Ferry o, sc.
Not such the fight we fought that day near Con-
RAIDS Ferry o.
But comrades, ere we part tonight one moment
To those who fought with that day and died that
we might live
The record they have left behind no blot or stain can
show,
They never knew defeat that day near Conrad's
Ferry O.,
Near Conrad's Ferry o, &C.
They fell while marching on the foe, near Conrads
Ferry o.
Isaiah, the faithful friend and servant Lieut..
Spur, was provilentialy present, and added
not little to the interest OF the meeting by his
quaint account of escape from slavery from Lees
burg to Pooesville, and subsequent service as a
soldier in Texas. After a complimentary allu-
sion to the dinner prepared by the proprietors of
the Lincoln house, the singing of "Auld Lang
Syne," and vote to meet in Worcester, Oct 20,
1872, the meeting adjourned, upon the whole
the most satisfactory meeting yet held