Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-03
THE TWENTIETH C. V.

Their Reunion Yesterday at SaV1n
 Rock-A Large Gathering of the Old
 Veterans and Friends
 The Twentieth Connecticut Volunteers held their annual reunion at Savin Rock yester- day. A large number of the members at tended together with their families. The old Twentieth regiment was made up princl- pally of companies from Cheshire, Hamden, Southington, New Britain, Portland and New Haven There are nearly three hun dred survivors of the regiment. The busi- ness of the meeting was held at Howes' rink by Captain w. w Smith of Seymour, presl- dent of the association. Sergeant H. A. Cornwall of Portland, was elected chairman, and R. E. Smith, of Cheshire, secretary. Captain Sanford E. Chaffee was appointed committee to select the time and place of the | next reunion.
 The death roll has been increased since the | last reunion by the decease of the following l members: Delevan Bradley, Middlebury, and l J. Iverson, Seymour, Co. B.; E. w. Benham. l Florida I. G. Farrell, Prospect, and Edward | Wiley, Nebraska, of Company A; H. s. Hill,
 Hamden, Company G; John Ryan, Seymour, | Company H. William Young, Bridgeport, | Company l.
 | An invitation was read by the secretary
 from William Berry, the chairman of the committee on invitation, to attend the dedi- | cation of the soldiers memorial in Hartford
 the 17th of September. It was voted to at | tend the dedication as G. A. R. posts instead of as regimental organizations.
 D The secretary read resolutions of regreI at M n Woossble to attend from N. B. Abbott
 Arthur Boat Worth G. Ross of the United
 wall were passed.er service ana IlG:,,son o.nere
 A fine shore dinner rGRSlonel Rl.c Willlam nsanobt b n rink and it was one of those , Leu'en@r' Gnrn H old soldiers so well enjoy.
 uI ID 1 All aong those present were: Colonel
 D. " poster, Birmingham; Lieutenant Colo
 P. B. Buckingham; County Commissio oOau onau
 A. Burleigh, Mt. Carmel; Burton R Rradi
 NeW Haven; A. H. Buckingham New Hay. :, Captain Guilford, Cheshire; Georpe Warn op New Haven; Captain Bradley, B the pea9f m,ngna%; Aleutenent F Caldwell and S re- lieutenant Charles Clark, southinpto
 Tax Collector Latham, New R. las an; Andrew Barnes, uthington: Char ny Trench, Ansonia; Charles Hitchcock Nano ,ef t9 tuck; Frank Tolles, Huntsville; Aionzo iSE b1 Smith. Cheshire; Lieutenant Paddock Rr;5o y, port; Hobert Doolittle, Woodbridoe Cbarf Db,u Ils bs Larkins, Unionville. L. J. Beebe, Ne ts Haven; B. F. Ives, Mt. Carmel. I $, Weeks, Bristol; George Smith Derb us us Gaarles Starkey and Horace Parker. Ease; ed LleuIenant George Sherman, Danbury: Iie1 li- tenant John H. Platt, of the firm of Patt le Thompson, New Haven; James Fotberoil is Far1nlngton; Watson Hitchcock. Prosnsc d Gharles L. Russell, Cheshire; George Kee1e, ,e James Rice, Henry Higgins, George Grifi n ana George Bradley, Cheshire. F. +. Smitf 3. Merr1tt Hotchkiss and Lewis Dunn New Rr;t 2 an; J. 5. Johnson, c. H. Johnson, A K i. barnes James Atwater, Southington: H. M
 Allng, Hamden; Charles Carter, IJniIford l 6eorge N Griffin, w. Ames, Southinoton '- samuel Morse, Cheshire; Samuel Bailey t Woicott; George Wier, Naugatuck; CharIe
 Sutlln, James Noonan and F. O. Tawis F Southlngton; W. J. Stewart, Portland p f W: Charles, Plantsville; James Slate Nan
 Britain; James McGinn, Bethany: R. G1ed
 win, Higganum. 1'' oiau
 One of the principal events of this renn;o,
 was in relation to the history of the reeiment
 by John W. Storrs, of Birmingham. which ;s
 completed and published, and copies ot
 which were being eagerly bought by the
 members yesterday, of MT. Storrs, at Howesi
 rink, where the books were on sale, price s2
 per copy. The work has 300 pages and is
 handsomely bound in cloth, and has two fine pictures, representing two sides of the Twen- tleth c. V. monument at Gettysburg. It l contains full and complete directory as to the members living and dead, and an ably written sketch of the regiments career Copies can be had in this city of l.. J. .Beebe, 359- -361 west Water street. One of the most grati- fylng things of the reunion was the pres ence ot Lieutenant Colonel Buckingham of thls city, who, seated in chair at Howes' rink with his crutches by his side, was most warmly greeted by veterans who reioiced. one ana ana all' that his state of health, though pre- cearlous, e permitted him to be present amonp '"em' It was equally pleasant to the colo