Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-18
14th Q. V. Reunion.
Large Gathering of the Old Veterans
 Notably Interesting Occasion.

A Large Gathering of the Old Veterans
 A Notably Interesting Occasion.
 There were nearly hundred members of the old Fourteenth regiment, Connecticut vol unteers, at the reunion held in this city yes terday. A business meeting was held in the morning in Admiral Foote Post Hall, at which President w. L. Pritchard occupied the chair. Chaplain Stevens of Washington offered prayer. The committee on a monu- ment to commemorate the battle of Gettys- burg reported. The secretary of the com mittee said that the work was undertaken for the purpose of erecting 8 memorial of the fight made by the regiment on the very spot at Gettysburg where the comrades had fallen. To this time there was pledged $526. 50, con- sidcred as positive; collected $412. 50; ex- pended for circulars $31. .85. The committee recommended that the monument be dedi. cated July 3, 1884, on the spot of the bat ties of the 2d, 3rd and 4th of that month, 1868, instead of the regular reunion. The recommendation of the committee was adopted. It was also recommended that the arrangements for the excursion to Gettys burg be left to the memorial committee. This was also adopted.
 motion was made that the reunion be held earlier than the 17th of September. The secretary said the time could only be changed by altering the constitution. The committee on membership report ed, recommending a plan for the admission to honorary member ship. Lemuel Colt of Norwich, the chairman of the committee, said it had oc- cured to the committee that no one should be an honorary member from this State who had not done service with the regiment in the field. Honorably discharged officers and soldiers of other States nonresident in this State, might be admitted, if they had served in the war from '61 to '65. After some de- bate the question was put and there was honorary members
 The neurological committee reported the dead of the year as follows: William J. Post, Company G; George A. Pierce, Company D.;
 Edward KillduF, Company 0; Theodore l G. Ellis, colonel, etc, who died
 E. Stannard, Company G; Horace T. Brown, | Company H; Philip c. Heartie, Company B; | Abner s. Bowers, Company D; William Pat ! rick, Company 0; Nelson J. Bement, Com
 pany K; James Dugan, Company K. The chairman of the committee presented | sketch of the late Colonel Ellis by Captain ii. D. Goddard, which was read. brief sketch of Benjamin E. Stannard,
 of Fair Haven, was read by 8 comrade, as ] was letter from Hobart B. Bigelow. Charles E. Smith of Madison, John Lines ! of Waterbury and A. F. Hall of Meriden
 were appointed committee to arrange for
 the next reunion. It was subsequently, voted | to hold it in Clinton.
 Later these officers were elected: President, Samuel A. Moore of New Bri- tain; vice presidents,- J. E. Durand of Meri- den, Charles Smith, Madison; recording secretary, J. W. Knowlton, Bridgeport cor responding secretary, Frederick A. Chase, New Haven; treasurer, George N Brigham, Rockville; chaplain, Henry s. Stevens, Wash ington D. 0.
 Neurological committee-Henry $. Stevens, s. H. Steward of Putnam, and E. P. Bond of Wethersield.
 Before adjourniug for dinner a number letters were read from guests who could not be present, among them being Major General Hancock, Frank M. Clark of the Tenth, and Comrade Charles Lyman, chief examiner of the civil service commission.
 Dinner was eaten at the Grand Union Hotel and was followed by toasts, speeches, etc., and very social time