The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-03-25
OHIO SOLDIERS, REUNION,


At Columbus, August 10, IL and 10.
We have received the following
communication from Mr.. S. B. Port
er, city editor of the Columbus Eve
ming Dispatch, and publish it with
pleasure, for the benefit of our ex-
soldier readers in this county and
elsewhere
COLUMBUS, March 18, 1880.
Mr.. EDITOR The ex-soldiers of your
county, who contemplate attending the
Columbus Reunion, will be interested in
general outline of the preparations, and in
some Of the reasons why the programme
will be attractive.
1t will be held regardless of geographic
al lines, and will include a Reunion of all
/ Ohio Regiments. The date is August 10th,
llth and 18th. Gen. Grant was invited
upon his arrival in San Francisco. Presi-
dent Hayes and comrades were invited at
youngstown, Steubenville, Toledo and
/ Marietta general reunions, and many regi
mental reunions were invited in 1879.
Others are being invited. The invitation
is general, including all who cannot be
reached Tor want of information as to ad-
dress. The early Ohio regiments will meet,
as a whole, for the first time in II years.
The movement is under the auspices Of
| the eX-Soldiers' and Sailors Association of
/ Franklin County, Ohio, of which Col
| W. Neil DennisOn is President, and Capt.
J. w. Myers is Secretary. It has 528
members, representing Is States, and over
/ 100 Ohio regiments.
! Quarters in wooden buildings and tents
will be furnished free of charge, and sub
sistence will be furnished at net cost, or
gratuitOusly. 1t will be substantial, and
in convenient form. In addition TO that
which the Association may control, and of
which there will be abundance, the resOur-
ces of a city are ineXhaustible. The Associa-
ton, if it concludes to charge for subsist-
ence, will not set the price above exact cost,
say from 20 to 25 cents per day. The
spirit is to give gratuitoasly, rather than
realize a cent of profit. 1t shall not be
said that the humblest soldier went away
hungry.
If the weather is unfavorable for camp
ing, the meetings will be held in halls, opera
houses, public buildings, churches, and in
numerous small public assembly rooms
with which the city is abundantly sup
piled.
Tuesday will be devoted to arrivals
Wednesday to a grand programme, and
Thursday morning, early, before the heat
of the day, to a procession, the like Oi
which has not occurred since the war, and
which may never occur again. Led by
ex-soldiers of the wars of 1872 and oi
Mexico, and by the veterans Of the late
war who served in regiments of other
States, the Ohio regiments of all arms oi
the service will move in numerical order
each carrying the old flag it carried from
1861 to 1865.
Responsible railway men have promised
rates as low as ever granted. They do thii
on account of the novelty of the Reunion
desiring to do their share in making it {
grand success. A large and very genera
attendance is beyond peradventure, for th'
reason that 81 counties in Ohio are pene
trated by roads managed, or having termi
nal facilities, in Columbus. Of the 81 re
naming counties, % are off but from 10 t
80 miles-on good leading lines that ruI
excursions to Columbus every year.
Some ten of the IL Columbus roads ruI
by difernt routes to sixteen places, anC
touch or cross the State border at 6fteel
we'll known points. Sixty cities and town
are within 100 miles, and los cities anC
towns are within $50 miles. The distance
to Detroit Is 1856 miles; Indianapolis 1873
Pittsburg 1893; Lexington and Louisvill
= 200.