Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-09-30
Conrederate Reunion.-Tbe tbirteent


annual reunion of the survivors of the Firs
Maryland Battalion, G. S. A., was celebrate,
at the Summit Point Hotel, Gaithersburg
on Thursday the 22d instant, and was par
ticipated in by the following gentlemen:
Col. Frank A. Bond, Capt. Thomas Grit
fifth, Lieut.. Frank Griffith, Thos. Hunter
Elger Tschiffely, Sprigg s. Cockey, Fiede
Slingluff, John II. Heigh, Reuben Riggs
John o. Clark, Geo. r. Rice, John w. Clag
EFT, David Griffith and Spencer c. JONES'
In addition to the members of the company
were Hon. George Peter and Rudolph Wat
kins, Esq, guests of the association.
After pleasant forenoon passed in the
recall of "reminiscences and associations Of
the war, organization was effected about
midday by the election of Col. Bond as
chairman and the call of the roll of surviv.
ors, of whom there are about seventy five,
and noting the death of others who were
known to be alive at the last reunion of the
command.
Upon taking the chair, Col. Bond made q
most eloquent and polished address, which
was highly appreciated. In the course Of
his remarks he said that he felt that his COM
rades could bear testimony that the hottest
sentiment of his heart and the most earnest
faith in the justice of the Southern cause
were involved in his connection with the
war, and that during all their severest trials
and privations he was sustained by the be-
lief that just God, recognizing the justice
of their cause, would ultimately crown their
struggles with success. But God in His in
scrutable wisdom had decreed otherwise
and he felt now that it were best, and he
believed that in acknowledging the wlsdam
of this decree his comrades would join him
and share with him the pride he felt now in
being citizen of the American Union.
At the conclusion of Col. Bonds address
a committee was appointed and resolutions
drafted and adopted appropriate to the &C.
casion and with proper reference to the
mournful sentiment of the nation in its great
affiction, after which an adjournment was
taken for dinner.
Upon filing into the spacious dining room
of the summit" a most attractive spectacle
met the view. The table was arranged in
the most exquisite style and reflected the
greatest credit upon Mr.. Boyle for his lib
erality and elegant taste. We refrain from
a description of the table, but will mention
that it was Respondent with dazzling cloth,
cutlery and tableware and bearing stands
filled with flowers and fruits, among them
iuchsias, lilies and ferns, and peaches, pears,
grapes bananas and oranges.
The dinner was peerless and consisted OF
LIST course, gumbo soup; I'd, boiled rock and
sherry wine; Sd, baked fowl 4th, roast beef
and port wine 9th, oysters and pastry roast
ed with punch priIlci .jOrdm; 9th, veal cro-
QUOTES and chicken salad 9TH, plum pud
ding and wine sauce; 8:h ice cream and
cake-the whole interspersed with all the
vegetables of the season and the condiments
and sauces appropriate to u dinner of this
character The dinner was pronounced a
complete success.
At the conclusion of the meal the com,
mand adjourned to the grove just opposite the
hotel and there under the shade of the oaks
they reviewed the hallowed scenes and as
sociations of campaign life and life in camp.
One of the features of the occasion was Il
game of quoits between Heigh, Clark, Sling
huff and Cockey, with TschifIely keeping
game. This was appreciated by all hands,
as it had the effect of bringing up old times
with vivid force
Later in the afternoon the organization
was resumed for the purpose of completing
routine business, when by vote it Was de-
cided to hold the next reunion at the Sum
nit Hotel, the date 10 be named by the Sec
rotary, Mr.. Rice
After the meeting the gentlemen were in
troduced to the lady guests of the hotel, and
it was soon manifest that they were knights
of the paror MS well as the saddle and sabre
1t was intended by the programme for the
occasion to have had songs and other gaye-
ties, but this, of course, in good taste, was
abandoned, and the main pleasure of the re-
union was afforded by the interchange of
recollections Of the war, the pleasure of
again meeting old friends and the discussion
Of Il very satisfactory dinner.
After dinner very agreeable addition was
made to the assembly by the presence Of
Col. James b. Gather, OF Gaithersburg, and
delegation from Rockville, as follows: DR.
A. H. Somers, John f. Byers, J. A. Carter
and Cushman BrlddOck.
The approach of the 6;26 train East was
general signal for departure, and soon after
wards the thirteenth reunion of Company
A was numbered with the things OF the
past