Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-28

the reunIon- held at or near them sf1oiIfgf
notify the Chairman Of the Committee,
W. b. ShOckley, their Mayor or other re-
spOnslbIe party at once, setting forth
what Accommodations they can offer in
the way Of wood, straw, hay, tents. &c.
Accommodation should be furnished for
at least $4,000. The committee Will open
all communications at the palors of the
Union Depot Hotel in Kansas Civ. on
Saturday evening, August Both, at s p. m,
and is confidently predicted that this
viii be the largest reunion ever held in
the West.
Seneca Tribune Sam Campbell tells
Us that while he was at the soldiers re-
union at PaWnee City last week, he saw
four brothers who served together du-
ring the war in the same company in
the Seventh III. Cavalry. They all went
through the service without receiving a
scratch, and are now all four of them
living on farms in Nebraska, about TWEEN
ty-fVe miles north Of PaWnee CITY.
There is something singular about this,
and we doubt if there Is another case
where four soldiers went out from the
same household, participating in many
| bloody battles and returning without a
wound. We do not wonder that army
! litO made fstaliats of so many men.
Some men seemed to be destined to be
mangled or killed, while the next man
/ to him, exposed apparently to equal
/ danger, came through unhurt We re-
member an instance of a soldier who
| died in prison at Macon, Georgia, because
| he thought his time had come. Charlie
! Webster enlisted at Fort Madison. He
was robust, rosy checked, cheerful and
/ bOuyant In spirits. He was in the front
Of the charge at Belmont, was captured
] al 70 RI Tonv ~
Macon, Georgia. Many of the prisoners
were sick unto death, but Charlie was
well. But he said he was doomed to die
| there. There was no hope for him. He
felt that he was doomed that his hour
had come. Men who were just able to
i crawl eXpOstulated with him, reminded
him that he was the only robust man in
the party, but Charley saw his doom
written on a page no other human eye
| could read. Apparently the strongest
man in that prison pen, he sought his
! spot upon the ground, refused to- rise and
in tWenty-four hours was dead The
! boys said Charley died of "a broken heart.
/ He saw his fate and surrendered to it.
! Another case. Vim. TannahIlI, a mem
/ Der OF the same regiment, often said
/ 1--WE shall never see home again" He
! had several close calls on the battle field.
His chin Whiskers were shot away and
/ ms clothes torn by bullets, but he es-
capped the leaden hail to be starved to
| the verge Of death. He was paroled at
/ Libby prison and while on the steamer
! bound for Annapolis, while others were
filed with Joy at thought of seeing
friends once more after a year of horror
in Southern prison pens, poor Tannahiu
! seemed more deeply impressed with the
! thought that he should never reach
! home to see his wife and children. He
was able to walk about the boat while
many others could not move. At last
| Annapolis was reached. The living
/ skeletons were taken ashore. The rem
nants of clothes were sunk in the bay.
The vervin was drowned, and for the
first time in horribly long year the boys
/ were clothed in clean garments. The
next morning poor Tannahil died. He
knew that he could never reach home.
He looked in the eyes of fate and read
/ his doom.