St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-01
THE GRAY AND BLUE.
Veterans of the War United Through
the IA. of T..

A meeting of ex-soldiers of the Confeder-
ate and Union armies, who were delegates
to the General Assembly K. of l.. was held
in the parlor of the st. Nicholas hotel in
Hamilton, Ont, on the evening Of Oct. TO-,
aud formed themselves into an organization
to be known as the Gray and Blue of the K.
OF L., and adopted the following motto:
Capital Divided, Labor Unites Us. Their
objects are to promote peace instead of war
and to establish sentiment among the
toiling masses who furnished the rank and
file of all armies in all ages that peace and
not war is the toiler'S emancipation. Those
present represented regiments from Arkan-
sas, New York, Missouri, Illinois, Louis
lana, Pennsylvania, Connecticut Indiana.
Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.
The permanent officers elected were
Thomas Green, late member of Sec
Ond Arkansas cavalry and Sixth in
fantry, Confederate service, as chairman,
and Henry G. Taylor of the Fifth New
York Volunteers, Duryee Zouaves, and the
146th New York Volunteers Fifth Oneida)
as secretary. A preamble was adopted as
declaration of their principles, to-wit:
The impressions of the past have taught
us that wars have been injurious in the
main to those who toll. and that the work.
ers of the world have been the instrument
whereby governments have been set up and
overthrown, and believing that the principles
of our order, if properly understood and
carried out, will prevent all struggles be-
tween communities and individuals where
human life may be sacrificed; and through
the teachings of these principles and their
fraternal objects we have organized this as
ISOLATION to reunite those who were arrayed
against each other on the field of battle, but
now enrolled in the great army OF peace,
whose mission is to abolish poverty and eS-
tabIish the universal brotherhood of men.
The association request all who are MEM
bers of the Knights of Labor and who were
soldiers in either army, to forward their
name and address. with regiment to which
they belonged with rank, to the secretary,
Henry G. Taylor, box 834, Philadelphia,
Pa, when all information connected there
with will be forwarded to them.
Among those present at the organization
were the following: Thomas Green, Sec
ond Arkansas cavalry and Sixth infantry;
Henry Mente Twenty-ninth New York,
q, Fourth United States artillery, Sixty
eighth New York, Forty-second colored;
W. H. Blake, First and Eleventh cavalry,
lieutenant and captain, lieutenant colonel
Second Arkansas cavalry; Robert III. Allison,
Eighty-third Pennsylvania; William Ty-
Their, Second Connecticut and Company B
Twentieth; j. NJ. Bannan, Fourth Iowa;
Homer l.. McGaw, One Hundred and
Ninety-third Pennsylvania; b. II. Low,
Fifty-siXth Pennsylvania; j. FL. Shay,
Twenty-third and One Hundred and Fourth
Illinois; Thomas Meyers, Eleventh Missouri;
L. H. Patterson, One Hundred and Twenty
seventh and Ore Hundred and Ninety-sec-
ond Pennsylvania; J. L. Evans, Fourteenth
and xty-third Pennsylvania; Anthony
Sennigen, One Hundred and Eighty-third
Pennsylvania; Charles L. Dodd, Eighteenth
Pennsylvania and Fifty-second Pennsylva-
mia; F. J. Reilly, Thirteenth Virginia;
Owen Quigley, Fourth West Virginia; A.
A. Carlton, Fourth Massachusetts Heavy
artillery; Samuel l.. Leffingwell. Thirty
first Ohio and Eighty-seventh Ohio cavalry;
w. II. Carpenter, Battery A, First New
York Light artillery; William H. Black
shaw, Seventh Louisiana; S. S. Patten.
Seventeenth, Iowa: H. G. Taylor. Fifth
New York volunteers. Duryee Zouaves,
and One Hundred and Forty-sixth New
York volunteers; Ralph Robb, Twenty
third New York.