The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-27
ECHOES OF THE REUNION.
Interesting Incidents Not Hitherto Re-
ported.

NOW tnaG tne smoke OF the mimic battle has
blown away, the veterans returned to their
homes, and Portland resumed its wonted
quiet, it is possible to give to our readers some
matters that we were unable to publish during
the reunion for lack of space
While all of the Executive Committee of
the Soldiers and Sailors Association perform
ed herculean labors in carrying out the re-
union, and making it the most successful
affair that ever took place in the State, we
wish to tender our thanks to Mr.. George NJ
Seiders, the cretary, who, in addition to all
his other work found tine to make reports of
meetings of the Associst ton for the press and
to afford all information in his power in re-
gard to such matters as came within his line
of duties. OF course in a matter of such
magnitude assistance of this kind must be
prompt and accurate and Mr.. Soldiers did not
fail to furnish it.
We learn that Mr.. William Fogg of this
city was also badly burned in the powder ex.
plosion on the battlefield Thursday.
Mr.. Potter, private of Co. A. 18th Maine
Infantry, walked from Litchfeld, 45 miles, to
attend the reunion
In the sham fight Thursday when it became
time for the 18th Maine, as part of the Amer
lean force, to drive back the British to their
redoubt, after they~the Americans-had
been forced into their intrenchment by the
British, one of the companies of the I'd Maine
Militia, representing the English, didn't fall
back as quick as the excited veter ans of the
9th thought the company ought, and, with
yell, the aroused veterans, thinking they were
"Johnnies," charged them SO fiercely that, for
moment it looked as if serious trouble might
ensue, one veteran actually wrestling militia
mans musket from his grasp, but the GOODNESS
of the officers luckily averted a calamity.
The pulling down of the English flag in the
redoubt, before the final charge Of the French
and Americans, was due to the disobedience
OF orders by the man in charge. He was
ordered to watch Gen. O'Hara, aud when that
officer waved his handkerchief on the point of
his sword, then to lower the colors. Instead
OF that he pulled down the flag on his own
responsibility.
Mr.. Alfred Haskell, who was hurt in the
fight, was member of the Maine 9TH Battery,
not the Brown Light Artillery
The flags carried by the 18th Regiment in
the procession on Thursday were originally
presented to the regiment by the merchants of
Portland and were borne through many of the
battles in which the regiment participated by
Sergeants Samuel Bishop and Cyrus Wardwell
who carried them again on Thursday.
AS the procession passed Hon. Bion Brad
bury's house on Park street, Col. A. W. Brad
bury's mother was on the balcony waving the
worn, tattered and torn battlef1ag of his bat
terry, which was responded to by all the vete-
rams dipping their flags and vociferous cheers
from the ranks.
1t was G. L. Pease, not G. l.. Pierce, who
was veteran of the Black Hawk war;
similar case to that mentioned above-be-
tween the 18th Maine and the militia company
from the I'd Acknowledgement between the
Auburn Light Infantry and Montgomery
Guards.
1t is said that $500 day during the re-
union was taken over the counter of the
restaurant under the charge of Mr.. Lang.
Three hundred and twenty-one members of
the l-lO-29th Maine regiment were present at
the reunion and wrote their names and post
office address on the regimental register Thi S
is the largest number that any one organiza-
ton turned out, and is the largest number
ever present at reunion of this famous
regiment. 1t is furthermore precisely a hum
dred more than were mustered out at the final
discharge of the regiment, June %, 1866. The
historian of the regiment is endeavoring to
learn how many members are living and how
many have died since the war.
Yesterday morning large force of men and
truck teams began the work of taking up the
tents and clearing the camp ground of the
debris. Major Bradley, United States Army,
a government quartermaster, was present to
superintend the shipping of the government
tents back to Philadelphia. At 9 O'Clock all
the veterans who had not left the night pre-
vious bad abandoned the grounds.
A meeting II members of the 9th regiment
was held on Wednesday evening, and COM
mittee chosen to make arrangements for
regimental reunion and formation of regimen
tai association next year. In accordance with
suggestions made at the meeting the commit
tee will probably arrange for the reunion to
take place at Old Orchard some time next
August.
The committee consists of Sergt. Cyrus G.
Mari of Cornish, Capt. H. II. Burbank of
Saco and Lieut.. Moses S. Hunt of North Ber-
wick.
The following lines written in 1865 were
read at the soc ial reunions of the 18th and Goth
Regiments respectively on Wednesday evening
last
THE FLAGS
Thoughts suggested by the torn flags of the
18th and 10th Regiments, as they were borne
through the city on the eveaing of June s,
1865.
BY MRS. E. II. BARsTOw
Oh. say did you see by the days waning light
When thvse weary ones came from the toll and the
fight
How proudly they bore as trust from the dead.
In3se OLD lattered banners, for which they had
Oh, scared must that heart be- and stony that eve.
mat could pass those torn flags without tribute or
sigh,
Those stained tattered banners, oh! l,np NAV thew
Wave, 10y
10 tell OF the deeds of the true and the brave.
No shout of the victor, no Changing of steel
Could make the heart thrill, like the silent appeal
VI those dear battered banners; they have waved
DER our dead
Unturled where the death balls few thick round
each head O'-N
Where the bayonets cleaned and the battle smoke
rose,
With the war-cry and death-shriek of brothers and
foes "-'D
Yes, dear tattered banners, wherever We wave,
Shall tell Of the Deeds of the true and the brave
crave sons OF the State stout hearted and true,
we would kneel, to receive these worn relics from
you,
thank God! that as victors we welcome you home
rhank Con! for those flags ye SO nobly have borne
Ihey tell the sad story of strife and of pain
.hey bear the rich record of freedoms proud gain;
auu as ages Toll when these torn StrjDes shall
wave
They shalltell the proud tales Of the true and the
brave.
Miss Sargent's School
Misses Sargent and Bradbury have lust