Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-28
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
A Murderer Is Arrested for Crime
Committcd In Sixty-Four.
The Annual Reunion Of Hoods Texas
Brigade.
List Of Those Presewt and of Those Who
Have Passed Over the River.
Mrs. Flppen Removed to Bryan in a-Orit-
ioal Condition Base Ball.


of Ellis county passed through to-day
having in charge VIM. Penland, whom
he arrested on June 81 In McCullpch
county. Penland Is wanted in Ellis
county for the murder of Lieut.. Saff,ell
of the United States army in 1864. SAT-
fell came home on furlough and
found Penland had sold his horse dur
ing his absence and appropriated
the money. A quarrel arose
which resulted in Saffell shooting
Penland, infiicting scalp wound on
the back of the mead. Penland re-
covered from the wound and about q
month from the time he was shot
armed himself, waited for Safiell and
shot him down by the side of his wife,
who was walking with him. Penland
was arrested Mt the time but effected
his escape aud remained at large
twenty years until arrested as above
stated.
The surviving members of Hoods
brigade met in reunion at the opera
house this morning. The meeting was
for the transaction of important bust
ness connected with the organization
which has now been in existence fif-
teen years. There were perhaps only
one hundred members present-one
hundred, and that represents at least
one-half of those who survive to tell
of the hard fights, the hard times
which repeated now sound more
of romance than of facts. OF
these, not one but whose flesh has been
cut by ball or bayonet, and the armless
sleeves tell more than words, where
Hoods brigade was during the war
A f..xtr of l.a ole 81.
which went out with the leader. SUI
vive. 1t was the Fourth Texas
regiment, composed of companies
from Leon, Henderson, Travis.
Bexar, Guadalupe and Ma
varro. 1t numbered about thir-
teen hundred men and fired its first
volley in Virginia. From the time
that first volley was fired, it may be
said, the guns never again were
cooled, till of the thirteen hundred,
forty or fifty walked out, furlei their
colors and turned their faces home
ward. Forty alone, single, each man
broken in spirit over the cause that
was lost and orphaned, almost
by the death which had
cut so cruelty among those
who had dared that death with them.
Hood was their colonel. On the points
of their bayonets, on the wave of their
charges, they had carried him forward.
made him name great as the land
was great, till he had reached a point
where the highest ambitions of SOL
der could be but satisfied.
They were here to-day
scared, manned, but proud. The
play of the cannon smoke upon
their faces has made them old before
their time, but the knowledge of the
past, its fights. its dangers and how the
name of Hoods brigade remain now,
and will forever remain remembered
by those who loved the cause, makes
amends for every scared feature and
beauties every ruggedness. The Off
GERS OF the association are: President,
W. II. Martin, Fourth regiment;
vice-president, Val c. Giles
Fourth regiment; secretary Rob.
ert Burns, Fifth regiment
treasurer, J. g. Naele. Mr.. Martin i,
aresident of Athens, Mr.. Giles of Aus.
tin, Mr.. Burns of Houston, ant
Mr.. Maggie of Austin. Mein,
Bros. band at 8 o'clock, with music be
fore the Windsor hotel, notified tn,
veterans that the time OF convention a
the opera.house had arrived. At tn,
opera-house the Rev. Mr.. Smitl
opened the proceedings with prayer
An invitation to all Union soldier
and soldiers of the Mexica,
war were invited to occupy l.eat
on the platform. Mrs. Winkler, tn
wife of the late Judge Winkler, VIII
was arevered officer of the command
was invited to a seat on the platforr
and was escorted thereto by ex-Go,
Lubbock. The secretary then read I'll
minutes of the fourteenth reunion la
year at Crockett. A motion to SUI
pend the reading of the minutes W,
unanimously carried. The presider
then introduced the mayor who we
coined the visitors.
Mr.. w. G. Veal of Parsons bripat
lnvited the members of Hoods brigat
10 meet with the Parsons men at the
reunion at Hillsboro which was a
cepted. Hon. j. NJ Riggs of Cor.
cana was unanimously elected an no
orary member of the associatio
Capt. Laughridge of Corsicana plac,
the name in nomination. He stat,
that Mr.. Riggs boy lobe had been sh
within fifteen feet of him at Chick
manga. AS he fell he cried, Capital
am killed; what shall / do?'i "
were in the midst of the enemy. |
membered how his father and moth
had told me to care for him. / d
what l thought they would have dor
| said, "Put your faith in Christ. i
loves the brave and the man who do
his duty" He Is dead. His faith
lives. Let us make him, for his DO
'our coinrade."
Inquiry was then made as to Il
whereabouts and condition OF h
children of Gen. Hood. 1t was stat
that the two Oldest were going
school in Germany. A discussi,
arose as to bringing them to Texas
beeducated and raised, but 1t was 81
gested that they have been adopted
those who had them In charge al
this could not be done. 1t was tn
agreed that efforts should be made
hade them attend the next Ireunio
The place OF the next meeting, Ju
q, 1885, was voted on and Gamer
was the point selected. Afser d
transaction of other business the me,
ing adjourned to meet at Shadyvis
park.
The following survivors of Hoo
Texas brigade are attending the I
teenth annual reunion:
=. A. wynne. Comp any II, Fourth Texa,
y. Q. Grifns, Company. Eighteenth Ge
Il. 8. Nislett, Company T.. Fifth Texas.
I'D Rsck. Company b, First Texas.
]. w. Taylor, Co pany A, Fourth Aiabai
John y. Stone. Company A, Fourth A
Il. .. Turniam. Company q, Filth Texa,
~ = CASTOR. captain Company n, VI
John stevenson, lieutenant, Company
FIRST TexNs.
4 = Erwin, Company Il. First Texas
y; Newsoma, Company q. First Texas.
W.J. y ats, Company q, First Texas.