Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-28

sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volun-
teers' Association will be held next Friday at
u. " L. Hall, n Sixth avenue.
CoMRApE AsKIN, treasurer OF Post l57, De-
troit Excursion Association reports that re-
cruits are coming in lively and the indications
are that he will soon have lOO on the rolls.
CoMRADE W. o. RUSSELL, OF Post l5l, has
charge of the glass plant at the Exposition and
in consequence he is obliged to forcgo the
pleasure of his post meetings for while.
ApJUrANr JAMES MATHEWS states that
the challenge OF Post 230 to Post Isl still holds
good for that game OF baseball until Christmas,
even TO be played az that date, otherwise
stands void.
THE Drummer Boy of Shiloh" is being pre-
sented to the veterans of Homestead under the
direction of Comrade Frank Nail, OF Mans
field, with the popular ]. Milton Hays, OF this
city, in the role Of Mart RoUdrd.
AT the meeting of Post ZS6 on Friday evening
q great deal of merriment was INDUCED in
over the presenting Of silver spoon to Com
rade Kaufman on the occasion OF his becoming
grandfather for the first time. 1t is boS
THE Fourth Pennsylvania Veteran Cavalry
Association will hold its annual reunion and
banquet at the Seventh Avenue Hotel next
W Wednesday, The business meeting will be held
at P. n and the banquet will commence at
Pm.
CoMRADE BOYLE ]. MCCLURE, of Post 259,
is engaged in getting up party to visit the
battlefields of the late war sometime in Octo-
Der. Several have decided to go. There will
likely be a meeting of those who are going
soon.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER DENNIsToN
on next Wednesday will attend campfire,
bean bake. reunion, open meeting ETC., to be
given under the auspices of Post 645 of Mill
vale. The affair will be held at Evergreen
Hamlet, about four miles from Bennett station.
Some of the Pittsburg comrades will likely ac-
company the Major.
a BILL has been passed by Congress and
signed by the President. making an appropria-
tion and providing for the appointment Of a
commission for placing markers of granite on
the battlefield of Gettysburg, indicating the
position of the lines of the Confederate army.
On the markers are to be inscribed simple facts
without condemnation or praise.
ADJUTANT W. HARRY LAMBERT. Of Post s,
last week received a letter from a comrade who
wrote from 'Crothers, Allegheny county, Pa.,"
asking If there would be a Grand Army parade
of course. wrote and. told him all about the
glorious day at Rock Point. Wonder how long
that comrade has been asleepi
W. J. SHELTON, of Wichita, Kan, writes to
this city, asking for information of John Cra-
mer. He is believed to have entered the army
from here some time in '6S or "a and TO have
been discharged in '65 or '66. 1t is not known
who is destitute, remembers that he served
with two men named Stackhouse and John
Nevens. Does anyone know anything about
him?
CoMRADE W. W. ELLIS, late captain Of
Company B, SIxty-first Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, arrived from Villica, Iowa, yesterday
and is quartered at the Hotel Duquesne. He
will be here for a couple Of days and would like
so see his old comrades of his regiment and
any of the Twenty third. This is the first time
he has been this way for ~ years. ana it may be
his last chance to talk over old times with his
comrades. Colonel o. b. Rppey, of the Sixty
first Regiment, died in Captain Ellis arms az
Fair Oaks.
THE twenty-ninth anniversary and annual
reunion of Hampton's Pennsylvania Battery
Association will be held next Saturday at old
headquarters, Hampton's law building, No.
4OS Grant street. Every member is earnestly
requested to be present at the business meet
ing at o'clock p NJ. Matters of interest in re-
lation to the new monument to be erected in
brought up, with other business of importance
to every member Supper will be served at
"Goodwin's," No. lis Fourth avenue.
IT is reported that George 6. Meade Post, of
Washington, D. c., adopted a resolution con-
demning new organization formed IN that
city of men who fought on different sides dur
ing the war. In speaking of the matter. De-
partment Commander Denniston said: THE
Grand Army cheriShes no feeling of animoSity
toward its late opponents. The action of the
post, if such action there were was doubtless
hasty. ] cannot see how the new organization
is an insult to the Grand Army. If it amuses
the members of the post TO pass such resolu-
tion and hurts no one, let them 60 ahead"
COMMANDER THOMAS G. JONES, of Post
2S6, will take pleasure in mastering in a certain
old soldier next meeting night This certain
is Richard Jones. He and the COM
mauder were actual comrades in the Fifth
Maine battery, being side by side and sleeping
in the same tent. They were together in the
battles Of Fredericksburg. Charlottesville and
others almost as hot. The commander will
take more than usual pleasure in
welcoming this comrade in. Another recruit
also Jones. None of those Jones are related to
each other.
ROBERT BELL, late Major of the Twenty
first Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment and
others, have sent out notice of reunion of
that regiment to take place at Gettysburg on
October g. The request that the
reunion be held is made at the solicitation of a
number of comrades of the old regiment At
ter lapse of 25 years since the regiment was
out they think that it will do the |
members good TO meet once more and fight
their battles over. 1t is also proposed to form |
a regimental association to meet annually at |
snch times and places as may be determined |
on by the association. Headquarters will be |
established at the Mcclellan House, where |
special rate has been secured for members and |
their families. All survivors are requested to |
notify any members whose addresses they may |
have.
AT A MEETING of Colonel John w. Patter. |
son Woman's Relief Corps, No. /, last We'd |
nesday evening. resolutions were adopted ex- |
tending thanks to all comrades of the G. A. R.,
Hays Camp, Sons of Veterans. and sister men, |
bers of other corps who rendered such valuable |
on G. A. K. Day at Roch Point, and |
to all citizens who contributed provisions etc.
for that occasion, and to the newspapers of the |
city for kindly mention. The report of Mrs. |
Wilhelm, Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee gave evidence that the serving of re-
freshments at the picnic proved great financial
success, and the Brookville Home TREASURY
will be increased several hundred dollars in |
The Regimental Association of the Sixty.
seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran
Volunteers, will hold their reunion at Cedar
Creek, on October l9 The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad will sell excursion tickets on the 10th |
and 18th, good for ten days. at rate of one fare
for the round trip. The members of the regi-
ment residing west OF Johnstown, Pa, who de- /
sire to attend the reunion, for further informa- |
ton will please communicate with the Presi- |
dent, Captain W. B. Keller, Johnstown, Pa: |
and those living east of Harrisburg, will COM
municate with the Secretary w. ii. Woodward,
II. & 6. K. r, Carlisle, Pa |
will be afforded to stop off at
Winchester and Harper's Ferry 1t is hoped |
that many of the survivors of the regiment will |
embrace this opportunity to again visit the |
scenes of their heroic exploits.