The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-16
WEST ylRaISIA soLplERs
At the Grand Army Reunion at Leaver
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Correspondence oitae IateRiCeae1.
GAL1ATIN, Mo, October 1S.-Among tht
10000 boys in blue in attendance at th'
Grand Army Of the Republic Reunion, a
Leavenworth, Kansas, were twenty-five
men who served in West Virginia regi
ments during the war. The Reunion closed
last night and the boysof twenty year.
years ago never bad a grander time.
We slept in tents, ate beans, fitch and
hard tack, drank strong, black coffee from
tin cups; sat round smoky camp fires,
smoked our pipes, sang war songs, told
tales Of march and picket and camp and
field, and so revived holy memories Of the
past, memories that had s!umbered for
years and years.
We are growing old and bald. wrinkled
and grey-marching on to the bivouac Of
the dead. But around the camp fire, in the
midst OF the smoke OF the sham battle, our
ears greeted with the old familiar music Of
fife and drum, OF bugle and band, our souls
cheered by the old songs, the old stories,
the old flag, our waning infirmities were
forgotten.
THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT TO MEMORY DEAR.
We remembered only the bright side Of
the long ago, and were boys again. Our
ranks were thinning. 1t will be but few
short years until the soldier Of 1861 can
call the roll and count the survivors Of his
old company on his fingers Time and
change but bind us the closer together.
The West Virginia soldiers present met
and discussed the past In talking over
the tronblous times in our native State
(West Virginia) from 1861 to 1866, the en-
listment, the long, weary march, the com.
rades who went down In battle and those
who died oil sickness or wounds, hundreds OF
questions were asked about comrades who,
at the close OF the war, settled down to the
pursuit Of peace in the dear old mountain
home. God bless the old boys, wherever
their lot may be cast to.dayl We whose
homes are in the West have not forgotten
them, nor will We while life lasts.
Knowing that hundreds and hundreds OF
the old comrades read your paper, and that
they will be glad to know our whereabouts,
1 took from the West Virginia register, and
have arranged in proper form the following
list, which gives the name, company and
regiment, and present postofiice address of
the twenty-five West Virginia soldiers at
the Leavenworth reunion.
THE VETERAN SOLDIERS.
Joshua Greer, Company E, First Regi
ment, Infantry, Gsrnett, Kan.
A. W. Kuhn, Company X, First Regi-
ment, Infantry, Ottawa, Kan.
Thomas F. Carroll, Company F, First
Reeiment, Cavalry, Paola, Kan.
Joseph Greer, Company G, First Regi-
ment, Cavalry, Garnett, Kan.
A. g. Beles, Company B, First Regiment,
Artillery, Wathena, Kan.
John Cook, Company B, First Regiment,
Artillery, Scranton, Kan.
John Sutherin. Company G, First Regi.
ment, Artillery, Topeka, Kau.
Simpson Hollister, Company E, Second
Regiment, Infantry, Lawrence, Kan.
Andrew ]. Hamilton, Company C,second
Cavalry, williamsburg, kan.
james B. Mitchell, Company :, Second
Regiment Cavalry, Sedgwick, Kan.
w. NJ. Fortescue, Company F, Second
Cavalry, Leavenwortb, Kan.
Thomas Misel, Company B, Fourth Reei.
ment, Infantry, Glasco, Kan.
Henry G, Mel Dougal; Company A, Sixth
Regiment, Infantry, Gallatin. Mo.
Z. NJ. Gribble, Company d, Sixth Regi-
ment, Infantry, Sodies City, Kan.
Amos Kendall, Company +. Sixth Regi-
ment, Infantry, 'Tonganoxie, Kan.
R. F. Lindsey, Company O, Sixth Regi.
ment, Cavalry. Atchison, Kan.
F. L. Davis, Company E,sixth Regiment,
Cavalry. Topeka, Kan.
P. F. Yoho, Company G, Seventh Regi.
ment, Infantry, Spring Hill, Kan.
John M. Randall, Company X, Tenth
Regiment, Infantry, Savonburg, Kan.
John A. Briggs, Company X, Twelfth
Regiment, Infantry, Leavenwort6, Kan.
Zachariah Priestley, Company @, Thir-
teenth Regiment, Infantry, Hillslale Kan.
John F. McGnire, Company X, Thir-
teenth Regiment, Infantry, Nsnia, Kan.
We all send kindly greeting to old
comrades In the Mountain State, and hope
some day to attend reunion Of the Army
Of West Virginia. q. @. McD.