New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-26
NEW ULM'S DEFENDERS,

They Hold a. Re- Union and
Celebrate the Battle Of
TtUe1aty-I2s2.ee Years
Ago.
The city Dressed tn Holt
day Atti,'e.
OWs People Keep Open House
GRd Entertain the Heroes
Ssa Grand Style.
The battle of tWenty-three years ago,
when the savage Sioux Indians made
merciless war upon the then all but de-
fenseless people of New Ulm, only to-
be finally repulsed and driven back by
q brave and determined people, was
made the occasion for grand demon
stration last Saturday Despite the We
~ short time for preparation, the
dawn of day found our city
dressed in holiday attire and every de-
tail perfected for the reception and en-
tertainment of the brave defenders of
New Ulm against the Sioux Indians in
August 1862. Never before in our
recollection was such display of flags
made in this city. Many of the flags
were new and it could be seen alta glance
that they had been made for the ooca-
sion. Besides the numerous flags that
waved welcome to the defenders, ma
ny houses were decorated with wreaths
of flow ers, garlaads of oak leaves, and
bunting. Mine host Setter of the Dako-
ia house. who is always at the fore on
such occasions, had huge garland
hung across Minnesota street
from the Dakota House to the
City Drug Store, FROM the centre of
which was suspended the motto, 1852
1895. Welcome Defenders. J" A
motto over the main entrance of the
Dakota House Informed the casual OBJ
server that that Building was used as
hospital during the siege of New Ulm
in l862. Nearly every house in the CT
ty displayed some token Of welcome,
while during Friday night trees had
sprung up in front of the sidewalks all
along Minnesota street as if by magic.
1t took but Qne leek over the city to
convince the most skeptical that the
hearts Of the entire populace were in
the celebration.
The following officers and commit
tees had the celebration in charge:
Qficerof-the-Day-Col. VIM. Pfaen-
der.
Marshals- Capt. Jacob Nix, Col. F.
Baasen, Mr.. M. Lauterbach.
Executive and Finance Committee
Col. JOS BObleter, Geo. Jacobs, C. w.
H. Heidemann.
Reception Committee Col. Pfaender,
Hon. C. Weschcke, 3. Pfeferle, Geo.
Jacobs, Capt. Jos. A. E;ckstein, F. J..
Randall, A, blanchard, Hon. s. d.. Pc
terson, Judge B. F. Webber, John Neu.
man.
Committee on Quarters Adolph Sci
ter, Anton zieher, John Neumann, F.
L. Randall, Capts. Nix and Eckstein.
Committee on observation-disclosures
uel Schn0brich, Theo. Kobarsch, Jos.
Stutz, John Hauenstein.
Committee on Printing-Hon. Peter
Scherer.
Committee ON. Decoration-J. Berndt.
The city was astir early and when at
5 o'clock the train drew up at the de-
pot platform, the reception committee,
the silver >cOrnet band and quite q
crowd 0f.non-committeemen were in
readiness to receive and escort the de-
fenders and their ladies to Turner Hall.
While the defenders stepped from the
train to the depot platform Capt.
Burg's battery, stationed on German
str eet near Doehne's residence, belehed
forth a welcoming salute. Thos. Null
verhill and Chas. Rosskopf had each
placed three carriages at the disposal
of the reception committee, which
were IN waiting at the depot, and into
these the ladies were soon placed. The
gentlemen formed in Line and the xisi-
tors were escorted to Turner Hall ,by
the reception committee, preceded by
the Silver >Cornet Band. The boom of
Capt. Rurg's battery had awoke the en-
tire town, and when the procession
passed Minnesota street it was viewed
by q large crowd Of people. Arriving
at Turner Hall, Col. Bobleter, chair
man of the executive committee, called
the assemhlage to order and announced
the order ,af exercises for the day. The
committee ,on quarters then took
charge of the visitors and soon had
them comfortably auartared among
our hospitable people. The following
IS as near a complete list of those pres
ent fEom ahread as we were able to OBJ
tain:
ST: PETER Capt P. S. Grander, wife
and two daughters, DR.. A. w. Daniels,
Ernst Meyer and daug liter, Joseph Ma
son, wife and daughter, William Law.
ler and wife, C. Nv. ,Steinke and wife,
William Lawner and daughter, Mai.
Randall and wife, August Bitner, wife
and son, S. B. Miner, wife and son, G.
W.. Babcock, A. l. Woodward, C. Babe
rick, George Rasenmeyer. Edward Har-
ty, y. E. Anderson, G. G.. Wall, K.
Thomas Montgomery, T.. w. Carpen-
ter,gl P. Buerr, John Picker, F.. C.
Lyons, John Miller, John Tolan, Jacob
Steker, Charles Woods, Jacob Bauer,
GustaYe Stempel, John Doran, Stephen
Briggs, Malvin Tyler, w. s. Davis,
NJ. Woodward, S. B. Carpenter, Ed
ward Eelan. A. II. McGill. j. ii. SnH.