Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-23
REUNION At ST. JAMES.
The First Minnesota Veterans in
Camp.
GRAND PARADE AND REVIEW.
Salvos of Artillery, Music and Speech
Making.
GRAFTON BY GEN GiBB0N.
Letters From Gen. Hancock and
Others-A Royal Welcome Given,
A SAD AND FATAL ACCIDENT.
A SAD AND FATAL ACCIDENT
The Sixteenth Re Union to be Held at
AnOka.
Sc 0nd Fay.

muddy and preventing the assembling OF tn
vast concor~se of people from the countr.
which would otherwise have been present
The weather, however, became more pro
pitious, and at 9 a. IN. the roll was called
when thirty-three memt}rs answered to theli
names, aud the regular business Of The organi
zltion was transacted. L etters from severa
comrades who were unable to h present, aDC
also from Gen. Hancock and Bishop Whipple
expressing regrets, were re d, also one from
Capt. g. A. Mccarthy, asking that the two
pieces of ordnance (12-pound riled ST eel guns
be placed In charge of the Enmet Light arti[
leIy, NJ. S. N.G., as they would be much better
in service than out, aud his company would
hold themselves at the service of the First
regiment organization. On motion, however
the request was refused, and q resolution
committing the guns 10 the care of the gov
erAor, 20 be kept in the state arsenal, subject
- the orders of the association, was adopteS
and the guns ordered to be shipped TO Capt
Berger, state ordnance officer, at st. Paul.
The letters were ordered placed on file and
the secretary directed To answer such as
demanded it.
The comrades then paid their annual dues
OF 81 each, after which Anoka was unaDi-
mously chosen as the place of the next an
nual reunion.
OFFICERS.
John w. Pride, of Anoka, was elected piesi-
dent; NJ. F. Taylor, vice president; James Can
non, treasurer, and G. F. Hausdorf, secretary.
DEATHS.
Lester F, Wells, Company I, at Buford; w.
n. Worthipgton, Company c, lieutenant
colonel, at Waukesha; Stephen A. Miller, at
Worthington; w. II. Church, i'll at Winons,
Company X; e. Bresette, at st. Paul, Com
pany G, were reported as deceased since the
last reunion, and committee appointed to
draft appropriate resolutions.
The thanks OF the association were then eX-
dent Shutz and an adjournment had, when the
association "fell n"te receive
GENERAL GIBBoN.
At the head of the line the old corps flag,
which formerly iloated over General Gibbons
headquarters, Second division, Second corps,
and which was carried through Gettysburg,
where five color bearers were killed, was dis
PLAYED, while further down the line We're five
stands of colors, which were borne during the
service by the First regiment. Worn and
torn TO shreds, they attracted general atten-
ton.
At 1O:45 General Gibbons aud staff
and Adjutant General Hawley, in
full uniform, passed in review
before the veterans and took position on the
grand stand where j. J. Thornton of ST.
James, delivered spirited address of well
come.
AsAD ACCIDENT.
At this juncture as the second round of the
national salute in honor of Gen. Gibbons was
fired, most distressing and unfortunate acct
l.xr thn 1Nrn-
mature discharge of the gun which
Peabody, Of St. James, was very Sc
riously and perhaps fatally injured. He was
acting as No. /, and while ramming cart.
ridge with swab stick in hand the accident &C.
CURED. He was blown some little distance
from the gun, his left arm badly shattered,
the flesh being torn from the right, his
face filled with powder, and his
system badly shocked. He was tendCrly
cared for and carried to his home near at
hand, where at present writing he is under
medical treatment, and though unconscious
hope is entertained that he may recover. He
has wife and one child, and is man in poor
circumstances. 1t is but simple justice to
those who had matters in charge, to say that
an experienced gunner had been procured
from Mankato, by the name Of Owen Ro-
berts, who at the time of the discharge was
thumbng the vent, and loses a part of one
finger. 1t is supposed by the gunner that the
gun was improperly swabbed, though he was
directed to take his time and do it thoroughly.
The gun was brass FOUNDER from the
state arsenal
or course, the balance of the salute was
dispensed with, and as soon as the injured
mon were cared for, Gen. John Gibbon was
formally received by the veterans, enthusias
ticalIy cheered and escorted to the grand
stand, from which he delivered the following
spirited and patriotic
ADDRESS:
AS time rolls on and, year by year, grey
hairs are sprinkled more thickly over The
heads of those who fought the battles of oul
great civil war, the number who, from time
To time, assemble to renew the associations
formed upon the battlefield becomes less an(
less. Already have we begun to speak to
new generation of men, sprung up since thu
close of the great rebellion. AS our number!
decrease, the numbers OF our audiences in
crease, and the interest with which we are lis
tened to as we fight our battles over again ii
enhanced many fold. For this new generation
listens to us as to men who, twenty years ago
were engaged in making the most renowned o
histories, who can now speak as witnesses o
the events they describe, and all of whom
will, in few years, have disappeared from thu
face of the earth. 1t will not be long now ere
q few old battered forms will be all that re
mains of the vast multitude who q few years age
battled shoulder to shoulder for maintaining
the unity and integrity of this great country
But, whilst the new generotion listens to u.
as we recount the stories OF the great struggle
the most touching feature of these reunions o
the soldiers of the war is that presented whel
they meet each other, often for the first time
once, when on the field of battle, the tie
which bind men together with hooks of stee
in the presence of common danger were frs
found. Mark the firm grasp OF the han
with which these old fellow
meet each other. Note how th
ewes grow bright and moist, and how th
tongue ready enough, after while, to wa
over accounts of by-gone days, refuses for
minute or two to perform its office, and ho1
men will stand, and hand in hand, look at eac
other, without uttering word, like two lover
whose hearts are too full for speech. Loo
in upon them half an hour after the first NEE
ing is over and mark the CHATTER of tongues
not unlike the rattle of musketry from
strong skirmish line as men tell over the ol
camp stories or recite the incidents OF the ba
tic field, the recollections of which, strange
say, seem all the fresher st each succeedin
meeting.
All organizations in human society forI
instructive lessons for the study of men an
there is none more interesting than the mil
tary organizations in a great country lii
ours, where in q great war such organization
are SO varied in character and dependent fC
their successful operations upon so man
different elements. These organizations r
semble individuals in this respect that the
have their youth, their manhood's prin
when they are most efficient, and, under oil
system, their old and decrepid age. Like Il
Individual the character of the manhood o
ganization depends in great measure upC
the character and method OF education adopts
during its youthful period. If the principle
which govern its early education have be,
sound and in consonance with the prime o
ject of the organic ition, the results will sure
show in strong colors when the time of tri
comes, just as an individual will show for
amongst his fellow mea the effect of the ear
training of his youth. We can all pick out