The National tribune., 1882-11-09

and Surgeon Jacob Coble, who entered the SER
vice as a musician in company D, Eightieth Ohio
infantry. Comrade Robert Mcknight, Junior
Vice Commander, and Comrade q. w. Edwards,
the Quartermaster, sits as the Blind Goddess,
administering justice. Louis Dresher, Com
pany G, Forty-eighth Illinois; Harvey c. Bla-
den, Company i, Twenty-irst Indiana; J. b.
Carncs, first lieutenant Company T, Thirty-frst
Indiana; James Secrest, Captain Company q,
Thirty eighth Indiana; William C. Gentry,
Company c, One Hundred and Fifteenth lndi-
ana; Lieutenant Harvey Ditmore, and Harvey
Stoneman, both Of Company II, Fourteenth In
diana, are comrades whose bravery was attested
on many a hard-fought battlefield. Richard
T. Hardin, of Company F, Thirty-first Indiana,
can be classed with the above Thus stands
No 3d. Post that Will in works be peer with
any in this Department.
Spencer is the capital of Owen county, and
is a city of 1000 inhabitants on the indianapolis
and Vincennes railroad. fifty-two miles from
the State capital, named in honor of David
Dale Owen, father of the late Robert Dale
Owen. As proof of her loyalty and patriot
ism, she contributed over 900 troops for the
war under different calls, five full companies of
infantry, that were assigned to the Fourteenth,
Nineteenth, Thirty-irst, Fifty-ninth and One
Hundred and Forty ninth Indiana. Over 100
comrades are buried in the grave-yards; head
stones viii be procured from the General Gov
eminent for the unmarked ones. Decoration
Day hereafter will be relgiously and appro-
priately observed The Post has appointed a
committee, consisting of Commander David E.
BEEN, General Mcknight and Major Boswell,
to raise $4,000 for soldiers monument in
memory of the Owen county dead, which will
be responded to literally by the Post and the
citizens, who take pride in honoring those
comrades that freely gave their lives for the
country they loved so well.
When the political excitment now raging in
this State has cleared away, the comrades ex-
pect to get down to solid work, for the Post
expects to increase its numbers and bring one
hundred more recruits during the winter
large club-list is being made up by them for
The TRIBUNE. Several comrades say they
must have it if it costs them s. per annum.
Since the above was written, see that the
Commander and comrades of Alois p. Bach
man Post, No. %, of Madison, Indiana, have
organized John A. Hendricks Post, No. 107,
located at jamestown, Indiana, on the goth
nit. This Post has also organized No. 9S, at
Versailles, Indiana, and installed J. o. Cravens
as Commander; s. Y. c., Capt. S. n. Jones;
J. V. c., P. P. Selinger; Surg, Capt. Bryant;
o. D., Conrad Hitz; Q. NJ, Thomas Day; o. Co.
Thomas Laswell; Chap, J. B. Pickets; Adjt
A. G. Hunter; S. NJ, \. G. Hunter; Q. NJ S,
J. A. New. Name selected, Chas C. Wheeler
but it is supposed that it viii be changed.
The jamestown Post selected a name familiar
to all Observation-Disclosures of the most
noted in the State, in honor of Lieut.-Colonel
John A. Hendricks. of the Twenty-sccond In
diana, killed at the battle of Pea Ridge; son of
Governor William Hendricks, one of the early
governors; & cousin Of Indiana's favorite son,
Thomas A. Hendricks, and brother of the
distinguished comrade, Paul C. Hendricks, of
Bachman Post, who was the Quartermaster of
the Twenty-second Indiana General jeff c.
Daviss regiment, and brought his brothers
remains home. The following named were
made officers: Commander, Earl T. Rector; S.
V. c., John II. Rodgers; ]. V. c., Walter w.
Jines; Chap, Geo. Ralston; Surg, Ira Cham
bers; Adit, W. T. Rector; o. D., Henry Iines;
O. e., r. T. Williams; Q. NJ, Morgan Jordan.
On both occasions the mastering Post was
most Hospitality entertained.
As Alois 0. Bachman Post is fine one,
of class of men who, like No. 90,
are of considerable brain power, they have
noted record, which I shall one day lay before
your myriad of readers.
Application has been made for a charter for
a new Post at Warsaw, Ind, and a new military
raised at Valparaiso, Ind. Morton
Post, No. II, Terre Haute, Ind, now numbers
159 comrades, and has recently moved into
new Grand Army Hail. dedicated November
1st, built expressly for them. They netted
$685. 50 at their Reunion, and laid by on inter-
est 5000 as a surplus fund. Comrade c. S.
Darnall, late of Co. A, One Hundred and Fifty
sixth Indiana, Quartermaster, has done fine
work for the Post
This is all | shall say now.
Yours, in F., C. and L.,
Sou. L."