The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-15
PHIL KEARNEYS MEN.
Veterans of the First Brigade
Meet Together Once More.

The Veterans of General Phil Kearn-
ey's brigade held their eighth annual re-
union yesterday afternoon at the Soldiers
Home, Kearney. The brigade was known
during the war as the First New Jersey
Brigade, and was composed of the First,
Second, Third. Fourth, Tenth Fifteenth,
Thirty-third and Fortieth regiments, and
Battery A.
The reunion was held at Kearney this
year on the invitation of General j..
Watts Kearney, the gallant commanders
son.
General Kearney at first proposed to
have the meeting on his grounds, but
owing to the late stormy weather his
park was in no condition to accommodate
the large crowd which was expected to be
present, and the place was changed to the
Soldiers Home.
A delegation of the Newark veterans
met their comrades at each of the rail
road stations at Newark and escorted
them to the place of the reunion in
stages.
A business meeting was held at. one
o'clock in the assembly room of the home.
A large bust of the dashing commander
rested upon pedestal draped with the
national colors at the right of the plat
form.
The proceedings began with prayer by
the Rev. Isaac Tuthill, chaplain of the
Home General e. Burd Grub, the
president of the Brigade Association, pre-
sided, and General Kearney was invited
to seat on the platform.
Resolutions of coincidence with the
family of Samuel w. Oakley, member
of the brigade, who has died since the
last reunion, were passed, and these Off
GERS for the ensuing year were elected
President, DIR. James d. Osborn, of New
ark, Fourth Regiment; vice presidents,
Captain Thomas Cunningham, First
Regiment; George Roden, Second Regi-
field, Third Regiment; Robert Ryan,
warden of Hudson County Almshouse,
Fourth Regiment; w. A. Wheeden, of
Mattewan, Fifth Regiment; E. A. Doty,
of Morristown, Fifteenth Regiment; E.
A. Kirkbride, of Medford, Twenty-third
Regiment; J. A. Fay, of Elizabeth, For
tieth Regiment, and Comrade Pollock, of
Battery A; treasurer, Colonel George G.
Brown; recording secretary, Joseph G.
Ogden, and corresponding secretary, d.
A. Bill. The three latter were reelected
After the election, on invitation of Gen
eral Kearney. the veterans repaired to the
dining hall and partook of collation..
a short address, eulogistic of Generals
Kearney, Talbot and Taylor. Among
other things he said;--'fAllow me to
thank you most heartily for this hospitable
reception. What other place could there
be for Kearney's men to meet than
Kearney's home? Whose heart in all the
world should beat with warmer affec-
ton for Kearney's soldiers than Kearney's
son?
"This place that bears the name of your
great father is the Mecca of the First
Brigade, and what more fitting monument
to hero could there be than these halls
filed, as they always are, with the soldiers
of the Union who bravely fought that
good fight, and are now waiting for their
final muster out?"
General Kearney and Dr. Osborn also
spoke, and the old brigade band and the
brigade glee club played and sang the
old camp songs.
At the conclusion of the meeting the
veterans proceeded in body to Military
Park, Newark, where they gathered
about the statue of General Phil Kearney
there, and saluted the bronze counterfeit
of their old commander while the band
played appropriate music
Jersey City was represented at the re-
union by Police Captain Farrier. William
w Farrier, of the Tenth Regiment, and
Comrade Browning, of the First.